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FOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) MhforWTribune ""Zverycra tn SouUiern Orvgoa Read The Mail Tribune" Publisftea Daily Exceot Saturday 'by MZDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDorts Editor , OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act at March S. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Slx months 8.00 Dally and Sunday Three mos 4.23 Sunday Only One year H20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Centra) Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. 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Fears were felt if the Arabs folded their tents the meeting would do the same. 20 YEARS AGO May 9, 1937 (Sunday) The novel, "Gone With the Wind," is listed the most popular work of fiction last month at the Medford public library. C. D. Bean, Medford business man and former chairman of the Retail Merchant's bureau of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, leaves for Portland to enter business. 30 YEARS AGO May 9, 1927 (Monday) Mayor Campbell of Eagle Point proclaims clean-up day there. R. S. Reese, the OAC farm management specialist, studies apple growth in the valley at southern . Oregon branch ex periment "station. 40 YEARS AGO May 9, 1917 (Wednesday) County Pathologist Cate an nounces meeting to plan observ ance of Agricultural Defense Day. Stockholders of Rogue River Fruit and Produce association hold annual meeting. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is food. 1. In the Mexican treaty of 1853 what was the name of the part of New Mexico that was sold to the U. S.? 2. What ranks did Theodore Roosevelt hold during the Spanish-American War? 3. Bible: When crucified Jesus was spared the "crurifragiun," which means what? 4. Name the capital of the Yukon Territory in Canada. 5. The U.S. Constitution was signed in New York City, Phil adelphia, Pa., or Washington, D. C? 6. What were Caesar's dying words, referring to the part played by Brutus in the plot to bertay him? 7. The part of a sentence which makes an assertion about the subject is called what? 8. Percy Bysshe Shelley was a famous English, German, or Swedish poet? 9. Is "nowhere" or "nowheres" correct grammatical usage? 10. Noah Webster in his pref ace to the dictionary said, "Lan guage, as well as the faculty of speech is the gift of" whom? Answers: 1. Arizona. 2. Lieu tenant Colonel and Colonel. 3. His legs were not broken (be low the knees). 4. Dawson. 5. Philadelphia, Pa. 6. "Et tu Brute" ('Thou also Brutus). 7. Predicate. 8. English. 9. No where. 10. God. GROWN-UP DEPUTY Benton Harbor, Mich. (U.R) David Faulkner, 21, Coloman, has been named a Berrien coun ty special deputy sheriff. The Michigan State University sen ior was the first to recerVe a junior deputy's badge 12 years ago from Sheriff Erwin H. Kubath. MAIL TRIBUNE Beck at Dave Beck is giving every evidence of getting ready to fight on the beaches, on the streets, or in the hills to repel any attempt to shear his power in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. But the en emy is converging on him from all directions. Beck in March invoked the Fifth Amendment 117 times to avoid answering questions by the special Senate committee investigating labor and manage ment rackets. Beck, already under tax investigation, said on March 26 that he was resorting to the privilege in part because of "proposed criminal actions against me which I have been advised are arising out of alleged violations and . . . asserted or implied viola tions of federal and state laws." DECK and Teamster Vice President James R. Hoff a had opposed the "Ethical Practices Code" adopted by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. last Jan. 31. The code calls for. the ouster of union officials invoking the Fifth Amendment. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council moved rapid ly. On March 29, Beck was suspended from the Coun cil, and the investigation of the Teamsters by the Ethical Practices Committee was ordered. This was not aimed at Beck alone. After all, Hoff a is under indictment for attempting to obtain informa tion from the files of the special Senate investigating committee ; his trial is set for May 27. And four other high Teamster officials, headed by another vice presi dent also a business partner of Beck Frank W. Brewster, are under indictment for contempt of the Senate. Beck's personal hearing before the A.F.L. C.I.O. Council is slated for May 20. DECK on April 19 sent A.F.L.-C.I.0. President George Meany a letter declaring Beck's suspen sion from the Executive Council 'a '"nullity." He ap pointed a committee of five Teamster officials and asked Meany to appoint his own committee of five to meet and discuss the suspension. In letters to Meany and Albert J. Hayes, chairman of the Ethical Practices Committee of the A.F.L.- C.I.O., Beck challenged them to make specific written charges against the Teamsters, to produce accusers, and to permit cross-examination. Possibly intimating future court action. Beck said that the letters were being sent "without prejudice to our legal rights in LUIS XliatLCl. lT-LCail UU jn.pl 11 Ld xJ UUUIUICU O-FVJi. UICIV the investigation would proceed whether or not Team- siccus uincictis ueienueu uicmoci v eo. WHAT can the A.F.L.-C.I.O. do to Beck? Very lit- tie, except for undercutting his prestige in the labor movement, it would seem. The Executive Coun cil could, of course, order the expulsion of the Team sters, subject to national convention ratification. Three A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions on Feb 5 were ordered to clean out "corrupt influences" within 90 days or face suspensions and eventual expulsions. But kicking out the li-million-member Teamsters would be a painful decision for Meany. A grass-roots revolt within the Teamsters-against the Beck leadership would be difficult to manage be fore the Sept. 30 convention. A high proportion of the locals are in "trusteeship," and convention delegates would be selected or approved by the union heirarchy. E.R.R. Pulling Our Propaganda Punches One must assume that Theodore S. Repplier, presi dent of the Advertising council, a national organiza tion, is a hardheaded businessman. He probably is as much interested in government economy as are the president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the president of the National Association of Manufac turers'. What he has to say about U. S. spending to sell America abroad is, therefore, of special significance. "When it comes to spreading: ideas," he said in a re cent speech, "the Communists believe passionately m advertising; the Americans, very little. ... No group raises a finger to help the U. S. information agency retain even its modest appropriation about 70 per cent of what one American company spends to advertise its products." LIE GOES on to say that advertising us 20 and step up their propaganda men and women a year to be propagandists or agi tators. They have a tremendous propaganda mech anism which includes production of books and films tor world circulation. ' - As conservative a columnist as David Lawrence has criticized the slash in USIA funds by the house of representatives as shortsighted, pointng out that "Soviet Russia spends billions where America spends I a few millions in communicating with other peoples, especially in the areas 01 a THE cut in USIA funds by partisanship, m part by the tremendous pressure from every direction for economy. Most of the members of congress, and most Ameri cans, accept the view that serious enough to justify the spending of $38,000, 000,000 for armament. Yet there is much evidence that the real danger lies more in subversion than overt attack. Here words and ideas, not bullets and A-bombs, are the weapons. sense then further to handicap our already modest effort in this direction. We might find ourselves mili tarily armed to the teeth, yet completely outflanked and outlought on another gon Journal. Thursday. May 9. 1957 Bay the Communists are out- 30 to 1 and they continue to activity. They train 100,000 most strategic importance, - has been in part inspired the Communist menace is It does not make much kind of battlefield. Ore Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ol a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Fears Crossing To the Editor: How much longer must we put up with the. terrible traffic situation which exists at the railroad crossing at Stewart ave. and Riverside in Medford? This morning, Mrs. Donovan and her unborn child were killed in what we believe could have been a preventable accident if a little more caution had been used by the engineer of the train which struck her r. We live less than one-tenth of a mile from where the accident occurred and so can speak with some knowledge of the abuse of speed by trains approaching this intersection. I leave for work at approximately 7:30 every morn ing and cross this intersection. I have observed the train which passes between about 7:20 and 7:35 a.m. use undue speed, de spite the presence of heavy early morning traffic at the crossing. In asking if something can't be done, I have fear for my wife arid family and others using this crossing. Thank you. Francis L. Dressier, Patricia J. Dressier, 15- Stewart ave., Medford, Ore. The Agnostic'. View To the Editor: With your per mission I would like to express my view in regard to the letter of Mr. J. M. Van der Maas, ns well as the answers he received. I disagree with either sido. It is all based solely on blintf belief, not on indisputable facts How in this day and age of modern .science an intelligent person can still accept the ex istence of a devil and eternal damnation is beyond my compre hension. The same applies to the belief in miracles. Ingersol says "Ignorance is the soil in which belief 4n mir acles grows." I too believe in miracles, but only in the mir acles of the intellect and of science. Many people think that re- legion has given us our civiliza tion. The facts of history prove the very contrary. Orthodox re ligion has always been the en emy of science, of investigation and thought. Science is the only redeemer. It has freed the slave, clothed the naked, fed the hun gry, lengthened life, relieve.! much suffering and pain, given us homes, pictures and books, ships, railways and planes, tele graph and cables ' and , much, much more. All the comforts that you and I enjoy today were given us by these men of science, and only to them we owe eternal graditude. Science has founded the only true religion. Science is the omy savior of this world. I hope for no heaven and fear no heU in the hereafter. In all the eternities before my birth I knew nothing and it is my firm belief that T will never know anything in the eternities ahead. Dust I am and to dust I shall return. In the meantime I shall be guided by the light of reaso.i and by the golden rule in rela tion to my fellow men. In the presence of life and thought, of force and substance of growth and decay, of birth and death, of joy and pain, of the suffering of the good, the triumph of wrong, the mtel ligent, honest man is compelled to say: "I do not know." I believe in the natural and ignore the supernatural. I do not know, but I do not believe. William Krauss Route 1, Box 373 Gold Hill, Ore. No Memorials, Please To the Editor: Anent the letter in your communications column suggesting the creation of a memorial to Joe McCarthy. I'll limit my contribution o suggesting a site forthat me morial somewhere in the big empty mouth of the Bonaventuia river in Southern California! In life, Mr. McCarthy did more to vilify innocent people, raise unreasonable alarms, and upset everybody than ever; George III of sacred memory. His sincerity and tireless effort to publicize Joe Mac, and to de prive his fellow Americans of any chance to prove their in nocence will live long in his tory. .-" "Speak only good of the dead" is translated in this case to "let's forgive and above all forget as quickly as possible." .... . No memorials, please. DWR (Name on File) Medford, Ore. BABY TABULATION Detroit (U.R) The treas urer of a suburban Oak Park found himself $97,000 short, ac cording" to the tape " in his cash register at the end of a day's transactions. A young father who had entered the office to pay a $10 traffic fine propped his baby on the counter while he hunted for his wallet. The baby punched a few keys and when the treasurer rang up the fine it registered $97,010. " I SURE FEEL SORRy" hair Rieeoris, dolls . . . Today and By Walter THE INTEGRITY OF THE BUDGET , After the President returned from his Easter holiday in At lanta, the White House made it known'' that he will now cam paign for his budget. It will be hard work. For while many a Pres ident has had to fight for his budget, Presi d ent E i s e n hower is in Walter Lippmann a specially difficult position. He has to defend a budget which his principal financial ad viser and he himself have dis credited. It is this attack by the administration itself on the ad ministration's budget which has unloosed the popular demand for big cuts in the expenditures. The President has now to reverse, or at least to arrest, a very strong tide of public opinion. He will probably consider himself fortunate if he can hold the cut ting below $3,000,000,000. The President's p o s ition is weak because the integrity of the budget which he transmitted to Congress in January has been irreparably damaged by Secre tary Humphrey, by Under Sec retary Burgess, by the Presi dent's own hesitation, by the open opposition of Mr. Know land. Except for a handful of Eisenhower Republicans, all of them uncertain as to whether President Eisenhower is really with them, the President's bud get has no active defenders. TT IS not because the budget is so bad or because it im poses an intolerable burden on the taxpayers. The budget is quite consistent with the pledges in the platform on which the President was re-elected last autumn. The items for foreign aid are no more than a part of the bill for the foreign policy which the country a p p roved when it reelected Eisenhower. But a serious thing has happen ed. It is that the administration has destroyed confidence in the country that the budget has been competently and r e s p o n sibly prepared. The budget law fixes upon the President the ' responsibility for deciding what "estimated ex penditures and proposed appro priations ' are "necessary in his judgment for the support of the government." The principle of the. law lies in the words "neces sary in his judgement." The law assumes, auite correctly, that the Chief Executive is in a bet ter position than is anyone else, anyone in Congress for example, to judge what funds are neces sary for the conduct of the gov ernment and the carrying out of the laws which Congress has en acted. This does not mean that the President's determination of the amount is final. It is not final. The last word is with Congress. But it does mean that in mak ing a final decision, Congress shall have before it so that it can act resnonsibly the best judgment of the Executive branch of the government. IN THE handling of the' budget, the administration has vi olated the spirit and the intent, if not the letter, of the budget law. It has sent to Congress a budget which the Treasury has denounced as too big by several . For Information Leading to Recovery of 12-lb. Cub Bear Stolen Monday Night From Rainbow Motel PHONE TRinity 8-2441 FOR GIRLS I DRESSES. BROTHER! Tomorrow Lippmann billion dollars. Thus Congress and the country have been told by the President's principal fin ancial advisers that they should not trust what is supposed to be the P r e s i d ent's budget that Congress and the country shall not believe that all the funds are "necessary" which the Presi dent's budgett says are neces sary. This has meant a break down of the Presidential budget sys tem, and from this break down stems the rebellion which threat ens not only the President's leg islative program but also his foreign policy. . CJEN, Lyndon Johnson told the J Senate last week that "the American people are giving us a clear and firm mandate to cut the administration's budget. Any one who doubts that statement can have his doubts resolved quickly by travelling through his home state." There is no doubt that the popular mandate to cut the budget is strong. But is it also a clear mandate? How can it be clear when there is no one, literally no one, who is now in a position to explain the budget expertly and responsib ly? The budget, as Sen. Johnson remarked later on in his speech, is 1,125 pages in length. It took a year to prepare it. Four hun dred persons worked on it. It cost, just to prepare the budget document itself, $4,000,000. Hav ing been completed, and as soon as it was transmitted, the docu ment was discredited by the Secretary of the Treasury and irresolutely defended by the President. There can be no clear mandate under these conditions. There is instead the great loss of confidence in the bud get which has encouraged everyone to attack any activity of the gov ernment which for one reason or other he does not approve of. - HOW is confidence in the in tpprifv nf thp hnrlpAt tn hp restored? Not, we may be sure, j by the usual generalities about peace and progress. There is no easy way to restore confidence and at ' bottom everything de pends upon whether the Presi dent has now acquired the con victions about his own budget which he did not have three months ago. For unless the President has convictions that he has a sound budget be it the present bud get or a new one proposed in its place the country will not have condifence in the budget, and every debatable item will be in jeopardy. (c) 1957 New York ' Herald Tribune Inc. It 9. DAY-OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Fra ilc Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Matter of Fact Joseph auoP EGYPT. CLIENT STATE? Beirut Egypt's President Nas ser, who is still for good or ill the biggest figure in the Arab world is plain ly approaching his final choice between East and West.' He will ei ther strength en his anchor to windw a r d the bearable relations with Joseph Aisop . A m e r ica he has always been careful to main tain. Or he will cast off the anchor altogether, rapidly steer ing Egypt towards a new status as an open Soviet client-state. The moment of choice between these alternatives has been greatiy hasteied by the defeat of the Egyptian plot to take over Little Jordan, and perhaps too by the Syrian elections. Some hope for, some fear this moment. King Saud of Saudi Arabia, for instance, is one of those who fear it. He now knows the true, undying loyalty of his old friend, the Egyptian dictator He has just discovered Nasser's military attache in Arabia or ganizing terrorist activities against the Arabian government. But the great flood of oil money has washed away the old Arabian tribal loyalties. It has changed the whole structure of Arabian society. It has made King Saud much more vulner able than most people suppose to the kind of propaganda and underground attack Nasser knows so well how to organize. Hence King Saud is not at all anxious to hear his own name heading the list of villains of Nasser's powerful "Voice of the Arabs." TjVDR these reasons, King Saud has just sent young King Hussein of Jordan home again from Arabia with what Smounts to half a flea in his ear. In par ticular, Saud refused Hussein s urgent invitation to join an active combination against the national ist, pro-Egyptian groups which are now working with the Com munists n all the Arab coun tries. But King Saud is still support ing King Hussein. He is still America's friend. He has not altered his crucial decision, reached last October, to with draw his rich financial support from the Egyptian network of subsidized agents, terrorists and "nationalist" Arab politicians Don Rofcnson Named , To Oregon Emerald Job Eugene Don Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Robinson, 29 Ross court, Medford, has been appointed a night editor of the Oregon Daily Emerald. : Robinson, a sophomore in journalism, began his duties at that post May 6, and will con tinue there through December. from HOPPE'S GREENHOUSE & FLORIST CORSAGES POTTED PLANTS CUT FLOWERS Wo Deliver -Telegraph Delivery Service 305 LOZIER LANE PHONE SP 2-6378 OPEN SUNDAY UNTIL NOON "Her children Blessed." Hence King Saud will hardly escape if Nasser finaUy decides to go all the way with the Kremlin. There are those who argue that Nassr has chosen the Krem lin already but just has not both ered to teU the American Am bassador in Cairo about it. Some signs, such as the renewed pub lication of a Cairo paper by the allegedly suppressed Egyptian Communist Party, certainly hint that Nasser is no longer a free agent. Most serious of all, he is now accepting Soviet rubles instead of Saudi dollars to fi nance his agent and propaganda net in the Arab world. YET there are still several im portant things to be said about Nasser's choice. In the first place, Nasser has a legiti mate complaint against the American policy makers in this matter. American policy has never firmly supported or firmly op posed the Western allies in the Middle East. American dealings with Egypt have alternated ap peasement and humiliation with dizzying frivolity. In the short space of five months, we have gone from Secretary Dulles' ex hibition of brinksmanship in the rejection of the- Aswan Dam scheme, all the way to President Eisenhower's trust in Divine Providence and the U.N. in the climatic stage of the Suez crisis. Until the Jordanian drama,, therefore, Nasser was never plainly notified that the United States, as leader of the West, would not indefinitely stand for his making political capital by the simple method of kicking the West in the belly. On the contrary, Nasser has been aj lowed to suppose, and , he has supposed, that the United States would stand for almost anything if he only refrained from kick ing the Arabian-American oil company in the belly. IF THIS confusion had been early removed from Nasser's mind, he might not have edged so far towards a Soviet choice. To be sure, Nasser gains cheap personal prestige by sponsoring and leading Communist-linked, violently anti-Western move ments in other Arab countries. But the suffering masses of Egypt do not gain a piastre. The position is clearer than ever now, since the Suez crisis has placed so many inflamed is sues on the dust heap of accom plished facts. All Egypt's prac tical national interests are on the side of a truly neutral policy, which include friendship with the West and eventually help from the West. The only obsta cle is Nasser's activity beyond his own borders. The last stage of the Suez crisis was of course the golden opportunity for the American policy makers. But even now it just might not be too late to persuade Nasser to make the wiser choice. Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Mother Loves arise up, and call her Proverbs 31; 28
