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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) i-ubUsbea Daily fi?,,Jlucr" DT 90 Norm nr St PBone 2-6ii w dtthk Editor zrau r.R EY AdverCJin Manager ??2alD LATHAM Buimm Man.ro gAmS IJS. Mname Editor 9ARL H ADAMS City Editor WTrb Y CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor nTHARD JEWrTt Sport, Editor OUVE STAKCHEK Society Editor yygjgffisON. Circulation Mgr. in IndeDendent Newspaper "Entered aj second clan matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of SUBSCRIPTION RATES ! Bt Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year (IS 00 Dsily and Sunday Sue month 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4.23 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrie In Advance Mad-ford Aihland Central Poult Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Roeue River TaleaW - and on motor routea: Daily and Sunday On year (18 00 Daily and Sunday On month UO Carrier and Dealers loe per cony Biarcn . ibi Ail Terms Cub in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Presa full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertrsins Representative WEST-HOLIDAV COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago d troit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver 8 C N A T I 0 N A . 0 I T 0 I i. x I Ia$TocITaim O" NEWSPAPIK PUtllSHEIS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time x Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April IS. 1947 (Wednesday) Carlos W. Morris, local funer al home owner, is appointed city councilman to succeed Larry J. Schade. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A visitor to the metropolis boasts 162 suits in the teeth of the alleged shortage of men's suits. So what! He can only wear one of them at a time. 20 YEARS AGO April 16. 1937 (Friday) Southern Pacific railroad of ficials in Medford said that the proposed railroad strike would only affect a dozen trainmen at Ashland, southern Oregon divi sion point. Olen Arnspiger reelected pres ident of Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce. 3t YEARS AGO April 16. 1327 (Saturday) About 150 boys participate in bicycle parade in Medford led by traffic officer G. J. Prescott Local residents are urged to clean up yards and burn trash during the present weather, ac cording to Fire Chief Roy El liott. 40 YEARS AGO April 16. 1917 (Monday) In anticipation of a bumper fruit crop of probably 2,000 cars In the valley this season, the Medford Ice and Storage com pany is at work on extensive improvements and alterations at Its Medford plant Medford people who have rel atives and friends in Germany can no longer communicate with them by mail, nor even by cable-telegraph, because .of tlfe censorship exercised by the U. S. government, it is reported. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is snpertor; sev en cr eight ts excellent: five r six Is good. 1. Before 1812 was aathracite or bituminous coal chiefly in use?. 2. When J. Ramsay MacDon ald served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, what party did he represent? 3. Bible: Before the advent of Jesus had Greek dress and the Greek way of life penetrated Into Jewish communities? 4. What research did the Nazi government carry on at Feenemuende? 5. Who wrote "Pippa Passes'" 6. The present calendar was first promulgated by Pope G-y? 7. Cygnet 'is the name for a kind of ring, a young swan, or the seal on a deed to lands? 8. Who was the composer of the song "After the Ball?" 9. "Help but" and "choose but" mean "avoid;" true or false? 10. "Your are welcome as the flowers in May." Scott, in R R ? Answers: 1. Bituminous coal. 2.The Labour party. 3. Yes. 4. V-rocket research. 5. Robert Browning. 6. Gregory. 7. A young swan. 8. Charles K. Har ris. 9. True. 10. "Rob Roy." MAIL TRIBUNE Back to the Indians The Albany Democrat-Herald, is taking a new line on the tax problem. At least it is new to us. COR example, the paper praises the Albany com munity for "coining" the familiar war term "Thou shall not pass" and applying it to a bill providing sewers for the business section of that growing, self respecting and law-abiding town. Using the communal, instead of the editorial "we", it commends such tax resistance as follows : "We indicated we would rather have wet-basements and fouled-up sanitary sewers than pay the taxes." It is rather difficult to understand commendation for such a preference but the "new" Democrat-Herald apparently sees- nothing surprising about it. IT EVEN goes further in its all-out war for more and A more tax reduction. It seems Albany is to get a new hospital and an enlarged sewage disposal plant, aided by a government grant of $18,000 for the latter, and four times that much from Hill-Burton funds for the former or a total of approximately $90,000. Instead of expressing appreciation for such as sistance the Albany paper reminds the people of Al bany that all this "help and planning" comes directly from the Albany taxpayers, each year when they SUBMIT to federal withholding taxes. It then con cludes, quote: "we protect our pocket-books like demons when the neighbor comes around but an arm can reach all the way . from Washington to Albany, dig deep and repeatedly and we don't even squirm." THIS presents such an extraordinary view of taxa- uuu, tiiau uiic OLctiiuo jlii wuoiuci auie awe ctiiu m- comprehension before it. Yet apparently the editor of the Albany paper is deadly serious about it by declaring withholding taxes have the same effect on individual and state economy that narcotics have on the human body, and they are just as "devastatingly habit-forming." .Again we quote: Here is where the narcotics comparison comes in. Be cause the deduction method of tax extraction is advertised as painless it invites increases in dosage just as narcotics do for the human body. An excess of taxation is just as bad for the individual and state economy as is an excess of narcotics for the human body Any increase in withholding taxes authorized by the 1957 legislative session will have as its goal the disguising of individual tax increases" etc., etc. MO ONE LIKES taxes, and everyone is opposed to 1 1 EXCESSIVE taxation, but if the tax philosophy of the Democrat-Herald were followed, one wonders where would we be? No. 1: we would presumably then rather have "wet basements and fouled meet the tax bills necessary to remove them. If to secure modern hospitalization for the community and proper sewage disposal federal aid were offered, then again it would be better to go without than to accept such assistance, which would have to come out of our own pocket books eventually anyway. As for that vicious drug habit, (disguised as a withholding tax), the only way we can imagine com pletely curing it would be to abolish all "social secur ity," old-age assistance, unemployment insurance and the income tax as far as most of the workers are con cerned, and ultimately, of course, as far as Oregon is concerned at least the Albany portion give the state back to the Indians. AND we grant such a transaction would have its advantages. For our aboriginal predecessors lived m A VT 11 r-1 ft T-fc 1 mi 'ili ' j 1 in a lAALiHiSib raraaise. iney never ootnerea witn sewage disposal, wet basements, hospitalization, so cial security or any such "New Deal" egg-head non sense. Their women chopped the wood, and they chopped off the hair-dos of their enemies and brought home the bacon and wild game, to be cooked or cured by the patient and muscular housewife. Paying no taxes they did not have to degrade themselves by devising a painless one, having a painless tax is apparently as despicable and decadent as having a painless leg amputation. Then when their hunting days were over they did not have to worry about an inheritance tax, but only had to orry about getting some sun-cured Virginia tobacc and even tually a proper bow-and-arrow equipment to provide them sustenance in the "Happy Hunting Ground." A WEEK or two ago when the management of the Albany Democrat-Herald changed hands, we pre dicted its readers would suffer no shock editorially speaking, for the paper had always been ultra-conservative, unswervingly G.O.P. and, like so many of its contemporaries mqi'e interested in the business office than any cerebral emanations that might be de livered from its "ivory tower." TT IS too early in the game to apologize and admit A our mistake, but up-to-date we would grant the probability that the regular readers of the Albany daily, will, if they have not already, soon detect a new slant in its editorial department, both in outlook, content, tone and emphasis in brief, this will be not a turn to the left but more to the right, farther to the right in fact of William McKinley, Smoot-Hawley and Louis the XVI, than has ever been the case before in the paper's long and successful history. R.W.R. Tuesday. April 18, 1957 - up sanitary sewers" than, Daddy always smg no at first, but if you kep ASKIN' AHD WHINE A LITTLE BIT, SOM6TAS CUAHG&e U&MHD." Matter of Fact USING THE LIVING DEAD Gaza Under the mild but brilliant sunshine of the balmy southern Mediterranean spring time, the big camp of Palestin ian Arab refu gees a few miles from. Gaza town seems not too bad a place. The town for this is what it really is is well laid out and clean. The m u d h uts are Joseph Alsop solid and well roofed. The lead ers of the camp, Supervisor Mis bah Mekki, Dr. Anwar Anthony and the rest, are all fine, hard working people who obviously do their best for the 20,000 and more souls committed to their care. Outwardly, moreover, the camp almost conveys the impres sion of a town with a life of its own. The women gossip at their work at the little embroidery center. Through the windows of the big school come the sounds of chanting Arab recitation. At the food warehouse, a great crowd of men and women and children are gathered to draw their rations of flour and oil, beans and sugar, and they talk and laugh while they wait for their names to be called. But here, if you pause among the crowd for even a moment a near riot automatically en sues. It is always the same when any foreigner stops among a crowd in one of the refugee camps. THESE people have no past except the memory of their homes long lost; no present pur pose except to rot in the camps; no future except the hope of re- turn and revenge. They exist from day to day on their poor rations,' which have been . in sanely set at a level not quite sufficient to prevent hunger. And so pouring out their griev ances, their well justified griev ances, is to them irresistible. This is the reality. The tidy outward appearance of the camp is an illusion. For in this tidy setting the refugees lead the lives of the living dead, they and their children and their children's children. And these living dead 220,000 of them in the Gaza strip alone are per manent reminders that new Is rael, like Israel of old, was born in blood by driving out the sim ple people of the land. Anyone who is mealy-mouthed on this point is either a self- deceiver or a hypocrite. But it is almost equally wrong to be mealy-mouthed about another point. The leaders of the sur rounding Arab states, and not least the leaders of Egypt, are using the tragic refugees as pawns in their political game. They are such useful pawns that any improvement in their lot is actually resented and op posed. In the Baghdad Pact ri ots last year, for instance, Egyp tian and Communist agents led the attack on the admirable ag- Mild Weather With Clouds, Showers Due By UNITED PRESS Mild weather was in store to day for the opening of the base ball season. Scattered showers occurred, in Chicago, but elsewhere in the eastern half of the nation skies were expected to be clear to partly cloudy. The shower system extended from the Great Lakes south westward through Texas and Oklahoma. Showers also hit southern Missouri and western Tennessee through western Lou isiana. Most of the precipitation was light, although wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour ripped Hou ston, Tex., and 55 m.p.h. gusts hit Shreveport, La., during sud den downpours Monday night Cool Pacific air overspread most of the western half of the nation during the night, al though the only sub-freezing readings reported were in the mountains. By Joseph Alsop ricultural cooperative establish ed near Jerieho by Musa Bey Alami. The reason was that Mu sa Bey Alami had contrived a decent livelihood for too many refugees. , There have been similar epi sodes in Gaza. In sum, every thing is done, by .propaganda and by rules, to make the refu gees and what is worse, the refu gess' children, go on living the lives of living dead, and so to keep them as a political lever. AT THIS moment, Egypt's President Nasser is using the refugees as a lever in the Suez Canal negotiations. He is saying that he will not abandon his "right of belligerency," that he will not permit Israeli ships to pass through the Canal, unless Israel takes satisfactory steps to settle the refugee prob lem. The failure of the Iraelis to offer reasonable compensation to those they have driven out, is a standing reproach to Israel. But almost none would go back you have only to ask them to Israel as Israel exists today, And what President Nasser means by satisfactory steps to settle the refugee 'problem is simply the re-partition of Israel and the liquidation of Israel as a viable state. There are some reasons to be lieve that the U.N. authorities may not press the Israelis to make the kind of territorial concessions that Israel cannot make and stay in business as a nation. By the lunatic logic of our times, Hitler's crime against the Jews was expiated by a crime against the Palestinian Arabs. And now this second crime, so the theory runs, can be expiated by still another crime against all the hundreds of thousands of simple Jewish people who have pulled up their roots and with labor and sacri fice have put down new roots in Israel's soil. TN ACTUAL fact, any such U. N. pressure on Israel like President Nasser's defense of his "right of belligerency," will be mere ritual maneuvering. The Arab nations do not have the strength today to liquidate Israel. The great powers are not going to use force to liquidate Israel. And the Israelis will fight first. So the refugee prob lem is not going to be solved by the liquidation of Israeli. In a more practical, less pas sion ridden world, a plan might well be attempted that would at least compensate the first generation who are determined to go home to an Arab Palestine or die in the camps; and would also save the second and third generations from this life of the living dead. But this, no doubt, is too much to hope for now adays. Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Eden Can Expect Complele Recovery Boston U.R)' Sir Anthony Eden has "reasonable prospects" of a complete recovery from the recurring illness which forced his retirement as British prime minister, his physician said yes terday. . Dr. Richard B. Cittell of the Lahey clinic; Eden's surgeon, said his general condition was satisfactory and that he with stood well surgery - Saturday. Dr. Cattell said Eden suffered a mild fever Sunday, but that it was a normal post-operative condition. Saturday was the fourth time in as many years that the 59-year-old , diplomat had ' under gone major surgery to relieve a bile duct obstruction. Dr. Cat tell said there were "reasonable prospects" of complete recovery after the operation. Washington (U.R) The ' Sen ate passed and returned to the House today, a bill to let the Treasury increase interest on U. S. savings bonds from the present 3 per cent to 3Vi per cent Realization Role Step By CHARLES M. MeCANN United Press Correspondent Realization that Western Eu rope's defense must be based on nuclear weap ons may start the big powers on the way to disarmament at last. Three recent developments have brought acute aware ness in the Charles McCsnn JNOrtll Atlantic Treaty countries of Europe that, as things stand today, the war time use of nuclear weapons is one of the inescapable facts of life. First was Britain's revolution ary new armaments .program, which involves the shifting of that country's defense to a nu clear basis. Russia Issues Threats Secondly was the statement by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer that the new West German Army must have tactical atomic weap ons. Thirdly was the outburst of threats by Soviet Russia, still continuing, that any NATO coun try which permits the establish ment of nuclear weapons bases on its territory faces catastrophe in event of war. Taken together, these develop ments seem to have increased the possibility that the five-nation disarmament subcommittee o f the United Nations, now meeting in London, may take the first step befor long toward a disarm ament agreement. London dispatches suggest that the first step may be an agree ment for a cut in the size of con In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Interesting news: Senator Harry Byrd has promised that a senate investi gation of the nation's financial condition will be what he terms "strictly non-political." The Virginia Democrat is chairman of the senate finance committee which voted unani mously last week to begin a broad scale inquiry into the country's financial status. He says the study will begin as soon as a staff can be as sembled. He explains that it will cover rising interest rates, revenues, credit, taxes and public and pri vate debts. T ET'S put it this way: ' A senate committee has just completed the first round ot what promises to be an exhaust ive and searching investigation of racketeering in the United States. As a result of what has already been disclosed, I'm sure everyone . has a better under standing of a situation that is startling, to say the least. If the investigation is contin ued along the lines that have been followed so far, it seems certain that by the time it is completed the whole country will know better what has been going on that shouldn't "have been going on and what needs to be done to cure what has been wrong. T THINK most thoughtful peo- pie will agree that the time is here when we need a realistic look at the state of our nation's finances. The tax burden is becoming increasingly heavy. Every year, taxes are taking out of our pock ets an increasing percentage of the money that we have there. But even the actual tax dollais that are takenout of our pock ets don't tell the, whole story. Because of the fact that all taxes must be added to the cost of do ing business and therefore must be added to PRICES, we face a steady rise in the cost of every thing we buy. As Jong as taxes go on rising,, it .is certain that prices must go on rising. That keeps us all worrying over where the money is to come from with which to pro vide the THINGS we have to Rave. WHY. are taxes rising? The answer to that is kindergarten stuff. SPENDING GOES ON RIS ING. ' rTHAT raises another auestion: TTritir nan urn i i encnrl. ing? , WELL How do YOU cut spend ing when you find that your ex penses are rising faster than your income and you come to the conclusion that you'll have to do something about it? I have an 'idea you draw up a list of all your expenses and take a good sharp look at all the items and decide which ones you can cut out. THAT'S about what Senator Byrd's committee' is propos ing to do. It will bring out into the white light of publicity all the things our nation is doing that affect interest rates,- rev enues, credit, taxes and public and private debts. If that is done, I have an idea that the picture that will be pre sented wiH be as startling as the picture that has been presented to the nation by Senator McClel lan's committee. of Atomic Toward Disarmament ventional armaments. A Smaller Army It would be only a short step But it would be the first fruit of 11 years of negotiations between the Western powers and Soviet Russia. If that step were taken, negotiations on the eventual abolition of nuclear weapons would have better chance of suc cess. Britain's program, calling for a smaller army, the abolition of the draft and the complete shift ing of defense to the atomic weapons age, came as a shock to Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. A New Orchid To the Editor: ' Swamp Water" is the name of one of U.S.A.'s most unusual newspapers. The current number is on this desk. It boasts it is "Everglades Na tional Park's most complete newspaper." It has no colored comics. It has not even a type setter. It is entirely via mimeo graph. BUT IT CONTAINS NEWS! The current number on this desk tells of the discovery in this, almost the youngest na tional park, of a new orchid. It is more than merely a new spe cies it is a novel genus. It is added to the Everglades flora beside the vanilla orchid. The Glades is the only spot in the U.S.A. where the vanilla orchid grows wild. Vanilla recalls experiences in France. In Bresse, one sees signs "Antiques Made to Order." A French restaurant keeper dares not, however, under penalty of fine and imprisonment, list "Poulet Bresse" on his menu unless he can, on demand, show its metal ring. This is evidence the capon you are enjoying is "veritable Poulet Bresse." So, too, for decades, the test in France of one's ice cream being flavored with "vanilla verita ble" was little black seeds in one's glace. Such wonders as orchids and royal palms, flamingoes and roseate spoonbills, all truly trop ical, are found nowhere else in continental U.S.A. This was the main urge for some of us to want the Everglades as a na tional park. Dad and Mother can sandwich a half dozen kid dies into the Tin Lizzie. On ar rival there is so much good fish ing even food costs are lowered for big-family vacationists.,, C. M. Goethe Seventh and J sts., Sacramento, Calif. Editorial Comment ADMIT RED CHINA I would urge that the state department pull the Red China issue out of deep freeze and turn it over to its most resourceful and expert negotiators. Assistant Secretary of State Walter Rob ertson is son confirmed 'in his opposition to any concession to Red China that he will be of no help. Fresh minds with original ity are required to spell out a constructive U.S. . policy vis-avis Red China. , U. S. policy has succeded in entrenching this country in iso lation from the most populous country on earth, has hurt our allies by insisting on strangling their trade with Red China and has led to a dead end. r Here, it seems to me, is a good place for us to start in re placing tension and hatred with accommodation if not with trust, a step toward freeing ' the world from the doom of nuclear warfare Charles Sprague in Oregon Statesman, Salem. Counsel With ... Mr. InsuranceFred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phon. 2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. Weapons the governments of Western Eu ropean NATO countries. Britain's new arms program, and Adenauer's call for A-weap-ons, constituted nothing more than recognition of a situation which already existed the rec ognition that as things stand now nuclear weapons are sure to be used if a great war breaks out. The one encouraging develop ment, and a big one, is the pos sibility that the London disarm ament conference may now break its long deadlock. Wants a "Pen-Pal" To the Editor: My name is Melinda Hanna. I live on Cover Drive. I am -ten years old. I would like a pen pal. If you would please put my name and address in your newspaper some children could write to me. I know you Editors are busy, but please try. Melinda Hanna, 1978 Cover Drive, Poland 14, Ohio P.S. Please try. I thank you. Police Should Aid Parents To the Editor: I read Mr. A. U.'s letter, but I didn't see any thing to laugh about. The des perate efforts of a mother to save her drowning child may be futile, or even foolish, but cer tainly not funny. It would seem our only con cern when boys and girls go wrong is someone to blame. The parents are the favorite target. Yet some of them are trying to do the very best they can, and making sacrifices to the extent of becoming amusing. There is not much help, or preparation either, for those faced with grave child , prob lems. Often a young mother must face the situation alone be cause she has no husband, or he is too occupied with other matters. 1 When the police and parents learn to work in cooperation a tremendous blow against crime will have been struck. How many times parents long to go to the police with information and ask for help and counsel. But they don't dare. The strength of mother love is still one of the most vital forces in the world. It needs to be trained for the life-saving jobs . so it will hot perish in the struggle. The welfare of children should be the first concern of the police and parents should feel free to work with them in the difficult task of teaching the young to choose the good and refuse the evil. Mrs. L. H. . (Name on File) Tiller, Ore. Danish Navy Vessels Hunt for Motorboats Copenhagen 'fU.R The Dan ish Navy started a search today for three motorboats that failed to' return to their Greenland ports Sunday from a walrus hunt in the Greenland west ice. Two other boats reached safe ty Monday after taking aboard the crew of a sixth boat which was abandoned at sea. Bad weather delayed the start of an air search until today. CASH! bmssw or rsenc fbmmcc PACIFIC , IHDUSTRIAL" 16 S. Central A Phone 3-5301 TAXES HIGH! SO IS THIS! Construction costs on dwellings have increased 1 3 since March 1 954. Even on a depreciation value your net increase in insur able value would be from 9 to 10. BE SURE! INSURE In crease with Current Trends. '. J. Bill Fish km vtJ
