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40 years ago.
! YEARS AGO
May t. 1947 (Friday)
YMCA board of directors
pledges $14,735 in local cam
paign to construct new Y building-
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The UN
assembly at Lake Success, N.Y.
yielded to the demands of the
Arabs on a phase of the Pales
tine issue. 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
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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,
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has been in part inspired
the Communist menace is
It does not make much
kind of battlefield. Ore
Communications
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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