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40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 14. 1947 (Wednesday)
Prospective serious shortage of
water will be discussed by land
owners of the Medford and the
Rogue Valley Irrigation districts
at a meeting tonight.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The corn
crop of the valley has been plant
ed. It is ahead of last year, and
should be "shocked," before the
frost gets on the pumpkins.
20 YEARS AGO
May 14. 1937 (Friday)
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce is invited to luncheon
in Grants Pass to honor Gov.
Charles H. Martin.
A warning to use only water
from known pure sources is voic
ed today by Dr. C. I. Drummond,
county health physician.
30 YEARS AGO
May 14, 1927 (Saturday)
About ,$17,000 worth of re
modeling starts on Rialto theat
er by the George A. Hunt com
pany. Art Starbuck, Pacific Air
Transport pilot, makes a trip
to Medford from San Francisco
in three hours and five minutes
for a new record. k
40 YEARS AGO !V
May 14. 1917 (Monday) ' ;V'
Arrangements are completed
for a "Do Our Bit" parade to be
held in Medford this Wednes
day. From Local and Personal col
umn: Emil Britt of Jacksonville
is a visitor in Medford today.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Sept. 5, 1795: "The Boston
Prices-Current and Marine In
telligencer, Commercial and
Mercantile." Was this the name
of the first newspaper in the
U. S., exclusively for commer
cial topics, or a bulletin board?
2. Some years ago, who was
the "It" girl of motion picture
fame?
3. Bible: In what Book is
"Vanity of vanityes sayeth the
Preacher, vanity of vanityes; all
is vanity."?
4. The War of 1812 ended by
what treaty?
5. Who wrote the words to
the song, "Home Sweet Home"?
6. Heroin is the name of a
bird, narcotic or quadruped?
7. Have female deer antlers?
8. The first signature on the
Declaration of Independence is
Thomas Jefferson, John Han
cock, or John Adams?
9. "Advantage" is a condition
favorable to success. Is it proper
to use "benefit" interchangeably
with it?
10. "I honestly believe it iz
better to know nothing than tew
know what ain't so." Josh Bil
lings. Is the dialect, Southern,
Yankee, or Western?
Answers: 1. Newspaper. 2.
Clara Bow. 3. Ecclesiastes (or
the Preacher). 4. Treaty of
Ghent (Dec. 24. 1814). 5. John
Howard Payne. 6. Narcotic. 7.
No. 8. John Hancock. 9. No.
10. Yankee.
Pendleton Justice
Svbmits Resignation
Pendleton (W Justice of the
Peace Ann Crago Monday sub
mitted her resignation to Gov.
Kobert Holmes effective June 30.
She has accepted a position as
executive secretary of the Uma
tilla county Red Cross chapter
and also will serve as Pendleton
Municipal judge, effective July 1.
HAT I
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Miracle at Jamestown
Three hundred and fifty years ago yesterday
on May 13, 1607 Captain Christopher Newport and
slightly more than 100 settlers landed at Jamestown,
Va., to found the first permanent English settlement
in America.
As many as three million visitors are expected to
attend the eight-month festival through the end of
November marking the anniversary. The miracle is
not that the Jamestown colony was the first lasting
Anglo-Saxon settlement in the New World, or that it
contributed so many "firsts" to our national history.
The mystery is that the colony survived at all.
Few adventures ever weathered such vicissitudes.
The original party included only a handful of likely
colonists a few mechanics and 12 laborers, and only
four carpenters. About one-half the company of 120
or so were set down as "gentlemen."
TN CAPTAIN Newport's three ships the "Susan
1 Constant," "Godspeed," and "Discovery" they
were at sea more than four months. On May 13 they
cast anchor at a marshy island 32 miles up the James
River. Not far away, the Spaniard de Allyon's colony
had eked out a brief existence during 1526.
The English colonists built a small fort, surrounded
by rude huts, covered with sedge and earth, on an
enclosure of slightly more than an acre. On higher
ground they sowed some wheat.
Indians attacked almost immediately. They were
beaten off, with a loss to. the colonists of one killed
and 11 wounded.
Newport departed for England with his ships
and a small cargo of clapboard and timber leaving
104 persons in the settlement. Aji Indian siege fol
lowed, and the inhabitants were reduced almost to
starvation. Then malaria and dysentery set in.
MEWPORT returned on Jan. 2, 1608 to find only
some 40 of the settlers alive. Capt. John Smith,
who was to be largely responsible for holding the
company together, was about to be hanged for losing
two of his men on an expedition. Dissension was rank.
Newport restored a measure of harmony, but five
days after he had landed, fire destroyed the settle
ment. That winter the buildings were only partially
replaced, and some persons died from exposure.
In the winter of 1609-10 "the starving time"
famine almost depopulated the colony. Defeated, the
small group remaining were about to start for England
when they met Lord Delaware with a relief expedition.
THE colonists gradually learned to adjust to their
new surroundings, but at a frightful cost. Some
5,650 colonists were sent over in the first 18 years of
the colony; only 1,095 were there at the end of the
period. Some had fled back to England, disillusioned;
most had perished.
About 1614, John Rolf e, best known for marrying
Pocahontas, showed the colonists that tobacco could
be made a profitable crop. From then on the "deceav
able weed" was the making of the settlement. Indian
attacks were repeated, notably in 1622 and 1644; fires
swept the town in 1676 and 1698.
The seat of government was moved to Williams
burg, in 1699, and Jamestown gradually was deserted.
Even so, it had seen established, in 1619, the first
legislative assembly in America. And at Jamestown
the English had set up their first successful colony and
proved that they could colonize the New World.
E.R.R. .
Exemption Hike for Lower Incomes?
,
Much of the talk about lower federal taxes centers
abound raising the personal exemption in the income
tax say from the present $600 to $700 per indi
vidual. The move would be especially popular among
the many small taxpayers who would thereby be re
lieved from paying any federal income tax whatso
ever. (Several years ago it was estimated that a $100
higher exemption would take four million or so in
come tax payers off the rolls.)
However, the point would undoubtedly be made
that on an absolute basis a hike of $100 in the per
sonal exemption would save more dollars for the big
taxpayer than for the small one. That would be be
cause the tax rate on the last $100 of taxable income
is of course higher as the income gets higher.
POR instance, the rate is 20 per cent on the first
$2,000 of income per individual, rises to 43 per
cent on the amount of income between $12,000 and
j $14,000, becomes 65 per cent on the income. between
$32,000 and $38,000. So the saving would be $20 or
less per person covered in the smallest returns, $65
or more in the largest ones.
It might be politically more popular to allow an
exemption rise only on the smaller incomes, not on the
larger. The histoiy of personal income taxation in the
United States affords precedents for any such arrange
ment. IN THE first 20 years of the tax, from 1913 to 1933,
the personal exemption applied only to the normal
tax, could not be claimed in computing the surtaxes.
(Today the distinction between the normal and surtax
has been eliminated.)
And when the revenue act of 1921, applicable to
the calendar years 1921, 1922, and 1923, raised the
normal tax exemption for a married man to $2,500
from $2,000, the $500 increase was restricted to those
with incomes below $5,000, denied to those whose in
comes were over $5,000. E.R.R,
Tuesday, May 14. 19S7
'Weil? toieuvs eom play rhow tkeleaow.orardjV yA?
Matter of Fact by stewed aioP
PRESIDENTS AND BUDGETS
Washington President Eisen
hower's belated last stand
against the fierce attack on his
budget sug
gests a some-
M what s u rpris-
l n g question.
Did Congress
trust Harry S.
T r u man and
Dean G. Ache
son more than
it trusts
Dwight Eisen-
stewait Aisop hower and
John Foster Dulles in the field
of foreign policy?
Consider the contrast. Despite
the President's intention of "go
ing to the people," most observ
ers agree that the chances are
still high that the Congress will
cut the liver and lights out of
the Eisenhower - Dulles foreign
pragram, carving great hunks
out of the foreign aid program,
the foreign information program,
and the State Department budg
et. It will be considered a miracle
if the President holds the for
eign aid program, originally
budgeted at $4.4 billion, at much
over $3 billion. Now look at the
Truman-Acheson record' on for
eign aid.
TN 1948-49 the Truman adminis-
tration asked for $6.8 billion
in foreign aid and got $6.4 bil
lion; in 1950 for $5.5 billion and
got $5.2 billion; in 1951 for $7.8
billion and got $7.4 billion; in
1952 for $7.5 billion and got
$7.3. In short, the Truman-Acheson
programs were cut by the
small, manageable per centage
points around 5 per cent a
budget-maker always allows for,
while the Eisenhower-Dulles pro
gram was cut by almost a quarter
last year, and may be cut by a
third this year. -
The Eisenhower-Dulles for
eign aid program is lower than
the Truman-Acheson programs
by from one to three billion dol
lars. Truman, moreover, was far
from a universally popular Pres
ident in the period of "Korea,
Communism, and corruption."
As for Acheson he was the main"
political target fit the Repub
licans, and he found precious
few defenders among the Dem
ocrats. Dwight D. Eisenhower was re
elected only six months ago by
the second largest majority in
history, and he is still phenomen
ally popular. His Secretary of
State is not universally well
liked, but he has never become a
central political target, and he
has had an infinitely more kind
ly press than his predecessor.
Yet Truman and Acheson al
ways, without exception, got es
sentially what they wanted out
of Congress, in matter affecting
foreign policy, while Eisenhower
and Dulles will be lucky to save
the bare bones of their foreign,
program. Why the contrast?
AS USUAL, there are all sorts
of reasons. There is the new
budget-consciousness among the
voters, which has awed the
whoje Congress. There Is the
growing economic isolationism
of the South, one of the most im
portant political phenomena of
the Eisenhower years. There is
the fact that foreign aid has been
with us for a long time now, and
the save-the-world fervor of the
early Marshall Plan era Is all
gone now.
But it is also true tHat the
President and his Secretary of
State have been hoisted on their
own petards. Petard number one
was the "peace" propaganda of
the 1956 campaign. It was un
doubtedly effective politics. But
it also persuaded a lot of voters
that the time had come to sink
back happily into what Time
magazine has called "the new
normalcy," and stop worrying
about all those bothersome for
eigners. Petard number two is the way
the . foreign aid program was
managed in the first Eisenhower
administration. In early Eisen
hower years the program was
cut way down to close to the $3
billion' mark, in the name of
"economy." But these "savings"
were largely phoney it was a
process of living off fat in the
ft'
7 J3T
form of accumulated previous
appropriations. Where the fat is
almost all gone, the Administra
tion was forced to ask for a sud
den sharp increase in foreign
aid, which was both irritating
and inexplicable to Congress and
the country.
"DUT there is another reason
too. President' Truman's
partisan belligerency often did
harm. But it had its uses. He
defended his budget, for ex
ample, with the instinctive fero
city of a mother bear defending
her cub. But when Secretary of
the Treasury George Humphrey
said that "there are a lot of
places in this budget that can be
cut," President Eisenhower at
first blandly agreed with him.
At that precise moment
(though he did not know it at
the time) the President pulled
the trap door on his foreign aid
program, and other important
items in his program as well.
He is now trying to replace the
trap door. But it will be uphill
work. The betting still is that
Congress will do to the popular
Eisenhower what it never dared
do to the unpopular Truman
hack away at his whole foreign
policy program with a meat-axe
all along the line.
(c) 1957. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Editorial
Comment
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IT'S A LITTLE DIFFICULT
She was avery nice-appearing
girl, and she wanted to know
why the newspapers didn't print
stories about the people from
other planets who have landed
on the earth in space-ships.
We asked if she'd ever seen
one.
"No, but I heard a man lecture
who had. And I read a book on
it."
Well, we asked, did the man
really say h'e had seen them?
"Not actually but he knew
people who did. He says there
are 10,000 creatures from other
planets right here with us."
Some of our reporters would
give anything to uncover a story
like that, we ventured.
"Some ' reporters somewhere
must have seen them. But i;U
bet you wouldn't believe them
even if they wrote about it," she
opined. - ' .
We'd surely have to know a
little about the reporter, we ad
mitted. He'd have to be awake,
sober and immune to a bonus,
book-writing or lecture-touring.
"Of course, I guess it's all sup
posed to be hush-hush, anyway,"
she told us. '
We guesseM she must be right.
It's difficult to argue with a
lady. Oregon Statesman.
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Porter Needs Support
To the Editor: Congressman
Porter thinks it advisable to in
troduce a Rogue River Flood
Control Bill now to gain time. It
would call for a construction
program along the lines of the
Bureau of Reclamation's Plan
A submitted in March 1948. The
Congressman is being opposed
by some who think the current
survey may come up with a
revised plan that would elimin
ate the high dam at Lewis Creek.
The Rogue River system, its
area, its topography, its rain
fall, its tributaries, etc. haven't
changed much in ten years.
Given the same set of conditions
and the same problems it is in
escapable that the new survey
will arrive at about the same
conclusions as the old. If the new
survey doesn't coroborate the
old then the fat will really be
in the fire. Which one are we
going to accept?
Those who repudiated Plan A
with its high dam at Lewis
Creek, but are now reportedly
ready to accept the recommen
dations of the present survey
before they know what they are,
are buying a pig in a poke.
When the bag is opened it can
hardly be other .than the Lewis
Creek Dam.
Flood control will be expen
sive because it involves reser
voirs on either the Rogue or its
tributaries or both. As taxpayers
the method of financing the pro
posed program concerns us.
Flood control can be linked with
revenue producing hydro-electric
power that will reimburse the
government for most of the cost.
The taxpayers needn't be and
shouldn't be saddled with any
such costly thing as flood con
trol divorced from power and
irrigation. Rogue River water
is the greatest asset this region
has. It needs developing. The
public's interest requires that
there be integrated development
of it's several interests. The Old
Plan A assigned 51 per cent of
the cost of the Lewis Creek Dam
to power, 38 per cent to irriga
tion and only 11 per cent to flood
control. There is no disposition
to discount fish and flood con
trol, but in point of people and
values concerned they represent
only minor", interests with no
right to control the river. The fu
ture of this vaUey is tied up
much more with its power, and
irrigation possibilities.
Michael Strauss, a former
Chief of the Bureau of Reclama
tion, says that Rogue River has
the best ratio of benefits to cost
of any river he has checked on.
Congressman Porter is a key
man in any possible develop
ment of the river. He is in a posi
tion to get the best advice on
parliamentary tactics and engi
neering opinion. He represents au
the interests of Rogue River
water. He is showing that he has
a better overaU understanding of
the problem th a n those who
think only in terms of fish and
flood control. He should get bet
ter support for his efforts than
he got when he was last here.
W. E. Davies
Route 1, Box 82
Eagle Point, Ore.
Tax Collector Finds
Reason Mail Ignored
Paris Wt A tax collector dis
covered Monday why plumber
Raymond Guichard, 69, had fail
ed to answer his back tax notices
for more than three years.
The collector entered Gui
chard's apartment and found the
plumber had hanged ' himself
from his dining room chandelier
years ago. All that was left was
his skeleton, still dangling from
the chandelier.
DURLING ON VACATION
E. V. Durling is on vacation.
His "On the Side" column will
be resumed on May 27.
Buying Insurance by mail order
from the parent company rather
thin consulting your local agent
er broker I just like buying
your honey from the bee rather
than the grocer. You might get '.
it choaper but there's also a
chance you might get STUNG.
Bill Fish
'Excesses' in Politics
Discussed by Senator
Richard L
By SEN. RICHARD
NEUBERGER
Washington, D.C. This was
the statement that I issued on
May 3: "A tragic event such as
this wipes out all political dif
ferences. Mrs. Neuberger and I
express to Mrs. McCarthy our
heartfelt sympathy over the un
timely passing of her husband.
The death of Senator McCarthy
takes from the Senate a con
troversial figure who stirred
strong opposition and keen loy
alties. His passing at so early
an age is a shock to all of us."
A short time after this, we:
heard some of our liberal friends
exulting that McCarthy was
dead. Maurine and I were dis
turbed. ,She said this reminded
her of the time she listened to a
leading Portland businessman
express gratification over the
stroke which had claimed the
life of Franklin D. Roosevelt
What Has Happened?
What has happened to us in
America? Politics has taken on
a kind of savagery. Have we
lost the capacity for separating
the man himself from his politi
cal views?
To me, a "person mortally ill
is not a political foe but another
human being who can suffer
pain and agony, who must en-
350th Anniversary
Of Jamestown
Landing Observed
Jamestown, Va. Iff! The roll
of 17th Century drums and the
roar of 20th Century jets com
bined Monday to mark the 350th
anniversary of the landing at
Jamestown.
The English settlers who land
ed May 13, 1607, formed the
first permanent settlement in the
new world.
Some of the nation's top digni
taries were on hand, .including
Vice President Nixon, Assistant
Secretary of State Walter Rob
ertson, Assistant Secretary for
Air Dudley Sharp, TAC (Tacti
cal Air -Command) Commander
uen. O. P. Weyland, Virginia
Gov. Thomas B. Stanley and
U.S. Sen. Harry P. Byrd (D-Va.).
Actors Draw Interest
But despite the great show
of brass, the nearly 3,500 spec
tators who thronged the mall of
the ultra-modern, multi-million
dollar festival park expressed
their greatest interest in actors
dressed in ancient costumes and
the latest in Air Force jets.
The Air Force stole the show.
A public address system was
rigged up so the spectators could
hear first-hand the conversation
between Col. Carlos Talbott,
leader of a jet flight, and a
ground communications crew
here.
The three jets, which less than
eight hours before had taken
off at London airport 4,500 miles
away, swept overhead at nearly
tree-top level.
Weyland said that three other
F100 Supersabres continued on
to Los Angeles, where they set
a new record for non-stop jet
fighter flight by staying in the
air for 6,710 miles. They were
refueled in the air en route.
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Neuberger
dure the sheer terror of ap
proaching death, who faces im
minently the ultimate judgment
which confronts us all. What
does politics have to do with
such an experience as this?
I have tried to analyze why
politics has become so bitter that
partisans can actually derive
satisfaction from the death of a
political rivaL Residents of Ore
gon will remember the episode
of the 1954 Senatorial campaign,
when a prominent speaker in
behalf of my opponent urged
Republicans to get away from
the issues and attack Neuberger
personally. And what of the
1956 insinuations against Sen
ator Morse's' patriotism because
he was not a war veteran?
Lists Three Factors
What lies behind these ex
cesses? I would list three pos
sible factors:
1. Current political campaigns,
built around reaching a mass
audience through television and
radio, are concentrating more
and more on putting across "per
sonalities" rather than real and
complex issues of government,
which take longer to explain.
Borrowing the selling techniques
of the advertising industry, such
campaigns depend on creating
"good" impressions of one can
didate and "bad" impressions
about the other, even to the ex
tent of personal smears which
have nothing to do with any
policy questions at stake.
2. The vast expense of such
modern political campaigns re
quires campaign funds which
have left Democrats increasingly
dependent on funds raised by
labor organizations, to offset the
reliance of the Republican Party
on the much larger benefactions
from big-business- sources. This
tends to create more inflexible
and bitter schisms between the
two parties. 7
Cites Investigations
" 3. Last but not least, there is
the new tendency for the invest
igative function to subordinate
tho legislative nroeess in our
government and for this Sen
ator McCarthy himself must, of
course, share much responsibil-"
ity. In too many instances, the
purpose and nature of legisla
tive investigations seem to. be to
"expose" people, to shred their
reputations, to bring them to
the brink of prosecution if not
for prior misdeeds, then . for
contempt or perjury during the
investigation itself and to end
their public careers, or those
of the man associated with
them. The investigative function
is essential in its proper place.
But when the side show becomes
the- "main tent, and Congress
men cease to be legislators and
assume the roles of policemen
or "private eyes," the result has
a corroding impact upon the
atmosphere of both government
and politics in the United States.
It is my hope that someday,
when the tensions of the recent
years which marked Senator Mc
Carthy's political rise and fall
are . behind - us, we may have
political disagreements and cam
paigns in this country as they
often are in Canada, in Great
Britain and other democracies
based on genuine debate of the
issues of government,- but free
of personal rancor, character as
sassination and enduring bitter
ness. CO'
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