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FOUB--MEDFORD (OREGON) Medford&Tribune Tvrrrone to Southern Oregon Beads The Mail Tribune" Pubiunea Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North fir St Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL B ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.N Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soort Editor OIJVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSO-N Circulation Mgr. An Independent! Newspaper Entered as second claaa matter at Medord Oregon under Act ot March 3 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three moa 4.25 Sundav Only One vear $4 20 By Carrier In Advance - Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. 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Both the pedagogues and their pupils rejoice. 20 YEARS AGO May 24, 1937 (Monday) With the frost season ending officially June 1, Roy J. Rogers, frost forecaster, prepares to re turn to Pomona, Calif. Work of eradicating diseased orchards that had been abandoned or Condemned is completed for the season. 30 YEARS AGO May 24, 1927 (Tuesday) California Oregon Power com pany ( plans expenditure of $5 millidn on development in southern Oregon. Ernest E. Scott elected presi dent of Medford Lions club. 40 YEARS AGO May 24, 1917 (Thursday) The quarantine against Cali fornia potatoes is still in effect, according to A. C. Allen, com missioner for the third district of the state board of horticul ture, Medford. From Local and Personal column: L. L. Wendt of Medford is spending several days in Eu gene on business. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. New York, Jan. 23, 1867: East River bridged over with ice: Were persons able to pass over it entirely from shore to shore? 2. What is CARE? 3. Bible: Did Nebuchadnezzar or Nebuzaradan set Jeremiah free? 4. Omega is the first, second, or last letter in the Greek alpha bet? 5. Name the strings on a vio lin. 6. Is asphalt insoluble in wa ter, or gasoline? 7. Rabbits belong to the rodent family; true or false? 8. Genuine Roquefort cheese Is made principally from the milk of cows, ewes, or goats? ' 9. Matricide means the murder of a mother by her son or daugh ter. Does parricide (or patricide) mean the murder only of a fath er by a son or daughter? ' 10. "He that rides behind another must not think to guide." T. Fuller. Is this a ref erence to a "back-seat driver" in an auto? Answers: 1. Yes. 5.000 did. 2. Co-operative for American Re mittances to Europe, Inc. 3. Neb uzaradan. 4. Last. 5. E, A. D, C. 6. Water. 7. True. 8. Ewes. 9. : No. Any near relative, ruler, or venerated person. 10. No. Horse. Champlin Vice-President Of Prison Association Portland H Robert B. Mockford of Oregon City has been elected president of the Oregon Prison Association at its 54th annual meeting here, suc ceding William Jones of Mc Minnville. Four vice presidents were named. They included Paul B. Bender, Beaverton; Judge D. R. Cook, Pendleton: George E. Wann, Portland, and Charles P. Champlin, Medford. MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence ... New York City, N. Y.: "Pancho Villa, the gorilla," in the. zoo, fs getting more human every day. This afternoon, for example, he peeked through the key hole of the dcor of his compartment to observe the antics of the two chimpanzees. One of the latter was sleeping on his back twiddling his toes aloft, the other was snoozing on the wall shelf. There seemed to be nothing worthy of Pancho's time but he kept one eye glued to that for as long as we observed him; which must have been 10 or 15 minutes. The attendant asked if we had ever seen the old boy light a cigar and smoke it? We admitted we never had but would like to and asked what time the "smoker" might be expected. "Only when Pancho asks for it," he replied. "Is his English good?" we asked. The attendant quite solemnly said he couldn't talk but was fairly eloquent in the "sign language." "We don't try to force him," he concluded, "he resents com pulsion but he seldom wants a smoke except after he has eaten end it is hot outside, then he sometimes goes through the motions of puffing a cigar and we give him a stogy and a match and away he goas." "Where does he scratch the match?" we asked. "On the floor," was the reply still, without a smile. "Does he turn his back on the audience?" we inquired. "Usually. He is not very social, he doesn't like crowds watch ing him, but he does like a good two-bit cigar." On one of our former visits-to New York we mentioned the fact that certain strange individuals make their living by polling coins through the sidewalk gratings via long magnetized cords. We found few of our family who believed this but thought it a good bit of "MANUFACTURED" Americana. Believe it or ,not we met our old friend down on Lexington Avenue this morning behind the Waldorf Astoria. He was attired in a faded old over coat and a shabbier hat and needed a shave, but while we were there he snagged two dimes and a nickel and put them carefully in a dirty cloth bag. There were several other witnesses a'nd we asked the old boy his name, but he shook his head and started up town. Probably like Pancho Villa, he doesn't like crowds. . We envied the old boy his eye sight. Those grating areas are desp and dark but he spotted the loose change immediately and it didn't take him any time at all to make contact and pull up the coin-line hand over hand, like Old Dave fishing through the ice. According to one member of the small crowd he makes an average of ten dollars a day again nice work if you LIKE it! No rain thus far today and a glimpse of the sun from time to time, but the same cold wind. Our guess is the weather is a big factor in the -decline in baseball batting averages as well as gate raceipts. The L. Carpenters left today for Carmel via Boston, Chicago, Medford, "u.s.w.," to their ocean-beach home in Carmel. Sorry to see them go. Also sorry Paul Shearer, formerly of Medford, now of Washington, D. C, could not stay longer. New York City is a fabulous place and extremely exciting, but in spite of the 8 millions here perhaps because of them it is lonely at times. From a newspaper angle, there is nothing in the world to approach it so many unbelievable things happen, not now and then, but ALL the time. Only yesterday, across the park from this hotel, around nine a.m., for example, a teenage girl, only 14, went to the top-floor of the hotel in which she lived with an aunt, and after police and firemen had spent half an hour trying to prevent her, she jumped 11 stories to her death. IMAGINE a little girl, with all her life before her, being so desperate and so upset emotionally, as to end it all like that. If that incident were put in a novel, the universal verdict would be "absurd, contrived, utterly untrue to life as it is. Little girls just don't do such things." But Alga Casanova, of the Hotel Walton, DID! R.W.R. Opportunities Eyed By Roger W. Babson BY ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. During the past winter I have used my spare time trying to decide what i n d u s t ries have the best o pportunities. Among these, the following seem the lead ers. The oil in dustry, repre sented by any of the large c o m p a n i es. Roger w Baisn The chemical industry, in which I consider the American Agricultural Chemical Co. of Florida one of the best. Household Heating by uranium, with American Radiator & Stan dard Sanitary the most conserv ative and National U.S. Radiator perhaps the best- speculation. Electronics and Thermodynam ics, with Westinghouse Air Brake perhaps the best specula t i o n. Earthmoving Machinery, with Caterpillar Tractor the most speculative and Interna tional Harvester perhaps the most conservative purchase. The Microwave Industry, of which Hughes Products of Los Angeles and the Motorola Co. of Chicago are among the leaders. Greeting Cards., with a Gibson, Hallmark, or Norcross trademark. The Broadcasting of Power for small kitchen utensils may be devel oped by the Radio Corporation of America. Reasons Cited There are four basic factors which I am considering jn select ing these industries: (1) Labor Shortage. This will continue due to the desire for four more years of education and for retirement at 65, and to other factors which will offset the population gr jwth. This will further strengir.en the power of Labor Unions. (2) Automation. At first glance this should cause unemployment, but automation will be so ex pensive that it will come about only slowly. Furthermore, al though automation reduces greatly the number of employees needed, yet the quality of the employees needed will be con siderably upgraded. Automation for many years will barely off set the possible shortage of labor under present conditions. (3) Inflation. We ought to fight inflation in any form, but it will slowly creep up on us, re sulting in a gradual increase in the cost of living. Of course, if World War III should come, the value of the dollar will drop 'from 50 cents to 25 cents, but I am not looking for anything like this now. Government Expenses, barring Friday. May 24, 1957 World War III, should hold fair ly steady. The development of missiles should reduce defense expenses in both the Navy and Army. This should offset any in crease arising from the growth of bureaucratic government. Trends To Watch (1) Higher Education will be considered a necessity. Not only will teachers receive higher sal aries," but they must work hard er to earn the same by having double sessions,. by the further use of television, and by prop er grading. Anytime there may be discovered a completely new revolutionary system of educa tion. Colleges will cease as res idence schools and become day schools with elaborate parking facilities. (2) Automobiles and Parking. Unlej the trend for larger cars and automobile accidents soon turn downward, with greatly in creasing "4 lane" highways, the automobile industry will be leveling off. There will be more money in providing parking fa cilities than in the sale of auto mobiles. (3) Community Churches. The Church is the hope of America, but young people are giving less attention to formal creeds and the old religious dogmas. Denom inations are meaning less to the coming generation. I forecast a great growth in community churches attended by a large number of people of different denominations. Churches will be a located adjacent to municipal playgrounds, lakes, rivers, etc. (4) Shopping Centers for re tail stores will be followed by brain centers for insurance com panies, legal firms, architects, etc. The suburban population definitely will increase, attract ing churches, YMCA's, and other organizations, as well as retail stores. As the working popula tion grows and working hours lessen, the time given to sports will increase; in fact, the sale of sporting goods will increase. Stores in the downtown metro politan cities will gradually ap peal more to men who have not the time to visit shopping cent ers. With self-service specialty stores, variety stores, and the up-to-date "dime store" in the dense downtown districts of all cities. Customer Hospitalized After Hot Soup Spilled New York m Carl Hansen, 32, went to a hospital Thursday night with second degree burns of the neck and back after a waiter spilled a plate of soup on him in a hotel dining room, police said. in hk mJC iasr. uss flu, mwcm, ec. 'kl,NM Vol) KNOW THAT DRAWBR YOU COUlBtiT GET OPEN?' Today and By Walter THE PRESIDENT'S PLEA FOR FOREIGN AID The President was in good form on Tuesday. The message to Congress on foreign aid, and the shortened version of it which he b r o a dcast in the evening, were clear and full of convic tion. They were well designed to win the ar- 0 li mpnt with Walter Lippmann f indeed to si lence, those who do not like anything about foreign aid and would like to see the end of it all. The question which remains is whether in addressing him self to the extreme opponents, the President did not fail to come to grips with the practical problem, which is the desire of Senators to cut these appropria tions so they are not opposed to the policy. For there is missing in the message and in the speech any reference to the real issue be--fore Congress. That is not wheth er the policy of foreign aid is a good one but whether Con gress should accept the Admin istration's estimate of what is needed to carry out the policy. The President's argument on Tuesday came down to saying: "If you believe in the purposes of foreing aid, you will support my estimate of how much money I need." Yet, in fact, it is not the policy nor its purposes which are seriously attacked. It is the estimates which are under criti cal scrutiny. The President does not have to worry about an extremist like Sen. Goldwater, but about Sens. Knowland, Bridges, and Lyndon Johnson who support the policy but dis agree with the estimates. THE fact is that in a matter of this kind there can be no such Future of Stassen In GOP Doubtful, But Possibilities Seen By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent' Washington (IP) The move ment of Harold E. Stassen to ward a new and important posi tion within the Republican Party seems now to be an e s t a b 1 ished fact. He has not reached it yet, but Stas sen is mov ing. The cur rent issue of Newsweek re- Lyle C. Wilson lates that President Eisenhower's appointments secretary, Bernard M. Shanley, recently was dis cussing privately some of the Republican presidential possi bilities for 1980. He mentioned several and added: "You would make a big mis take to underestimate Stassen's ability as a campaigner." Political writers who buried Stassen last year after his flukey effort to prevent renomination of Vice President Richard M. Nixon now are taking another look. Stassen still is a long way from a position which would en able him to make a substantial challenge for the 1960 Republi can presidential nomination. He has powerful political enemies including most conservatice Re publicans and, especially, the partisans of Vice President Nixon. Present Job Helpful Stassen's return from politi cal obscurity, of course, must come about wholly from his job as United States disarmament negotiator. For some weeks now he has been receiving headline credit for some of the progress toward an armaments agree ment with the Kremlin. There has not been much progress, but even a little has been enough Tomorrow Lippmann thing as an exact estimates of how much money is needed. The President now believes that $3.8 billion is the right figure, and that to cut below it would be to descend from a safe bet to a reckless gamble. Sen. Bridges believes that $3.4 billion rather than $3.8 billion is the right figure, and who can prove that 10 per cent more or less is the difference between prudence and recklessness? The moral, it seems to me, is that as between varying esti mates, none of them precise or certain,- the country cannot de cide which estimate is the right one. It must decide whose judg ment it will trust. It is not possible for the pub lic to make its own estimates of what is necessary. On the whole, the President, under whom the policy is being made and ad ministered, is entitled to the benefit of the doubt. He cannot hope to be exactly right even perhaps within a margin of error of 10 per cent. But his chances of being very wrong are con siderably less than are those of any one private citizen or even Senator who is not at the cen ter of these complex operations. THE President has himself re duced by over 10 per cent the estimates he offered in Janu ary, and a certain reduction of his present estimate now seems probable. Sen. Bridges would like to cut another 10 per cent of the reduced estimate, and it will not be easy for the Admin istration to prove that he is gam bling recklessly. But there is. a line, though no one can say exactly where it is, below which to cut more is to risk a failure somewhere of the policy. That line, we might say, is this side of what Sen. Bridges proposes. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. to give Stassen much urgently needed good publicity. Stassen suddenly has what the public relations experts call a good press. The New York rack ets investigation of the mid 19303 created Thomas E. Dewey as a political figure. Television and an expose of links between local governments and gamblers lifted out of the crowd Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. Disarmament is pie in the sky, rich, flaky and far out of reach. Any American whose name was substantially associat ed with bringing that pie with in reach of the voters would become a great political figure in the United States. He would be hard to beat in a national convention or in an election. Could Be Staisen Stassen could be that Ameri can. The odds are against" him, if for no other reason than that he is dealing with the Russians. He may not bring it off, prob ably won't. But these thoughts surely are running through Stas sen's mind. He is a politician and he is ambitious, twice an agres sive candidate for the Republi can presidential nomi nation, three times elected governor of Minnesota. He is now 50 years old. The word in mid-winter was that Stassen hoped to run next year for governor of Pennsyl vania. It was not possible at that time to detect much or any Republican enthusiasm in Penn sylvania for Stassen's project. If Stassen appeared next year, however, in the role of the archi tect of substantial world dis armament the . enthusiasm . of Pennsylvania Republicans might be considerable. A Republican governor of Pennsylvania of course, would have a respectable claim on the 1960 Republican presidential Disarmament Optimism, Crises In France, Italy Mark Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad newt on the international bal lance sheet: Cautiously, but with evident ly increasing optimism, Ameri can and other officials spoke of the possibility that the first step toward a disarmament agree Editorial Comment EVANGELISTS Madison Square Garden, which has been the scene of ex hibitions and performances in wide variety prize fights, bas ketball games, horse shows, poli tical rallies, etc. is now host for a religious revival led by Evan gelist Billy Graham. Long plan ned, the services are designed as a major onslaught against the forces of Satan in the nation's metropolis. Billy Graham him self stands as a David attacking Goliath, one man against the host of evil entrenched. He has as sponsors of his campaign many, but by no means all, of the Protestant clergy of the city. Graham is the modern version of the old-time evangelist. A vertiable Apollo for good looks, he preaches with the fervor and intensity characteristic of South ern orators'. His is the old-time gospel, preached with all the conviction of a believer in the assurances of Heaven for the saved and eternal damnation for ttie sinners. This old-style evangelism has been pretty well out of style for a good many years. "Protracted meetings" or "revivals" which used to be very common with in dividual churches and at occa sional intervals with Whole towns are rare. Most of the tent meeting type are left to the sects which have proliferated in great numbers in recent years. The fame of many of the old time evangelists lingers. The Wesleys, John and Charles, were great evangelists, preaching an intensely personal religion which called for giving of testi mony and made the Anen corn er an outlet for lay enthusiasm. George Whitfield, their associ ate, made seven trips to America on evangelistic missions. Ben jamin Franklin used to go to hear him preach, but Ben never became a convert. Jonathan Ed wards was a powerful preacher in colonial times so powerful, it is reported, that when he preached on Hell some of his auditors became so frightened they seized the posts of the church for support. Famous in the latter half of the 19th century was Dwight L. Moody, a sweet-spirited . soul, who teamed with song leader Ira D. Sankey in evangelistic campaigns in this country and in England. Then there was Bil ly Sunday, the ex-big-league ball player, dramatic, intense,, who made soul saving a mass opera tion. Conservatives scorned his methods, but he drew the crowds and recorded impressive figur es of conversions. Another revi valists who flourished a third of a century ago was Biederwolf who had Homer Rodheaver for his song leader. A Southern evangelist who chased the devil around the stumps and out of the hearts of as many sinners as he could was Sam Jones. His fame as preacher and story-teller was so great he would draw the unwashed as well as the unsav ed to his meetings. They seemed to enjoy the experience of being flayed for their sins, even through, after sitting - for two hours on the plain plank seats they sought refreshments at the nearest beer keg when it was over. Billy Graham, not as dramatic as Billy Sunday, has had the un usual success of drawing support from the "upper levels" of so ciety, and ample attention from the Hearst and the Luce-ite press Sharpley critical "Chris tian Century" regards Graham as a sinister and strange "new junction of Madison avenue and the Bible Belt." On the eve of his Madison Square Garden op ening a Roman Catholic cleric advised Catholics not to attend the Graham services. But 1500 New York churches are sponsor ing the Graham meetings, in cluding some of the biggest and most famous in Manhattan. nomination. Considering his rec ord, that seems to be what Stas sen wants. Stranger things have happen ed, although not often. LKCITC'NARK North Hiway 99 OPEN UNTIL PICNIC SUPPLIES ment with Soviet Russia may be taken soon. The hope was based, largely on the belief that the Soviet gov ernment is about ready at last to agree to a system of inspec tion that would guard the West ern Allies against cheating. For one thing, Russian econ omy is suffering from the cost Commitments the first nights were reported as over 700 one night and 500 another night. One might figure from this how long it will take Graham to evangelize the city of near eight million population. But at least he will stir the Gothamites, and while he will not put the Devil down for the final count he may salvage some souls for Christian dedication. Charles A. Sprague is Oregon Statesman, Salem. Communications Letter, to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use oi 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 licatlon must not exceed 400 words Seeks Bird Data To the Editor: A group of bird watchers in Jackson county are attempting to make an all day bird count on Memorial Day cov ering various areas in the county. There are some birds that are probably resident in the area that we don't know where to find, so we thought possibly some of your readers could help us. Does -anyone know a barn or other place where bam owls are nesting or roosting in the day time? How about great horned owls, or other owls? We are familiar with the place where black crowned night he rons roost near the high school in the winter time, but we do not know whether they have a nesting colony anywhere in our valley. Does anyone else know? Someone mentioned to me once seeing pine grosbeaks in the mountains somewhere in this area. Does anyone know where they might be found now? Thomas McCamant -300 Oakwood dr. " Medford, Ore. WHAT DID HE SAY? Hartford, Conn.' HP) "Su perior Court Judge Raymond J. Devlin chided doctors as poor witnesses. He said physicians should "streamline their tech nical language" because "nine times out of 10 the juror doesn't understand and neither does the judge." , red? Pink refrigerators, purple cars, blue stoves, houses of every color. You name it, you can have it. That's the modern touch. How modern will your insurance be if a fire swallows up everything you own in its big red flames? Insure to the present value of ell your current pos sessions and you'll be financially in the black. Rtmember, if you're not fully insured, WsnotenoughJ Half Way Between Medford and Central Point 10 P.M. INCLUDING SUNDAYS -WEEK END SPECIALS- ICE COLD Beverages oi maintaining an enormous arms budget. For another, con viction is growing that Russian leaders realize the catastrophe which would hit the Soviet Un ion as well as Western countries in an atomic war. Presidept Eisenhower said at his press conference in Wash ington Thursday: "There has got to be progress in some kind of disarmament or there is going to be no reduction in world tensions." But Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, voiced the pessimism of a strong group of officials in the armed forces and the State De partment over the possibility of reaching any agreement which the Russians could not violate. "We cannot trust the Russians on this or anything," Radford said. "The Communists have broken their word with every country with which they have made an agreement." Guy Mollet, France's 22nd post-war premier, resigned after being defeated by a vote of 250 213 in the National Assembly, the dominating house of Par liament. As the result, France seemed faced by a long period of ex treme political confusion and in stability. Mollet's defeat came techni cally on an austerity tax pro gram. Actually it was a vote against his whole program, in cluding means of ending the nationalist revolt in Algeria. There appeared to be no pros pect that any successor to Mol let could form a government which would hold a safe ma jority in Parliament. Mollet, a Socialist, fell on the 34th vote of confidence he had been compelled to seek in his nearly 16 months in office as head of a coalition cabinet. His term had been longer than that of any French premier since the war had enjoyed if enjoyed is the right word. In Italy, too, months of In stability seemed likely. Adone Zoli, a 69-year-old lawyer, form ed a cabinet consisting entirely of members of the Christian Democratic Party. It will be in a minority in the' Chamber of Deputies, and must depend on other parties for support. Zoli succeeded Antonio Segni, who resigned because the right Wing Socialists withdrew from his cabinet coalition. Former Premier Giuseppe Pel la was named foreign minister in the new cabinet in place of Gaetano Martino. One reason for Segni's fall was the criticism of Martino by Christian Democrats as well as members of other parties. It was complained that Martino was not sufficiently as sertive in Western Allied coun cils with the result, that Italy was playing only a minor part. '.tf DON STATINS, INSUROR Professional Insurance Protection 220 South Central, Medford PHONE SP 2-2677 All Sizes FILM
