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Cooler headed Democrats do not believe their party will ever have that much luck. 20 YEARS AGO May 28, 1937 (Friday) Dr. Bruce Baxter, president of Willamette university, will ad dress 176 graduates of Medford High school at 44th annual com mencement exercises. ' Officials of state operating division of WPA meet with Har old Grey, district director, to discuss future plans of operation through summer. 30 YEARS AGO May 28. 1927 (Saturday) Fruit Growers league discuss plans for providing reserve sup ply of smudge oil sufficient to in sure orcharidists against a short age of fuel. George L. Howard, manager of the Diamond lake resort, leaves for Portland to buy car load of pipe for new water system for the resort. 40 YEARS AGO May 28. 1917 (Monday) City council makes inspection trip to the water works intake and the city ranch of 380 acres nearby. From Local and Personal col umn: G. E. Walters of Medford who was in the hospital last week, will return to his home in a few days. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Which peoples were the first known to have worn long trousers. Scythians, American Indians, or Scandinavians? 2. Who wrote the tragedy "Mourning Becomes Electra?" 3. Bible: Which version has been authorized by the Roman Catholic church? 4. Name the capital of Ar gentina. 5. In what noted court pro ceeding was John T. Scopes the defendant, and William Jen nings Bryan a witness? 6. Which U. S. Senator from New York was mainly respon sible for the enactment - of the original Social Security Act? 7. A watt is a unit of steam, man, horse, or electric power? 8. In which state is Kalama zoo? 9. He raised cabbages, car rots and other things "along that line." In the sense applied, is "line" good usage? 10. The monument on the bat tlefield at Saratoga shows a leg wounded there and the epitaph "The leg wounded in his coun try's service should be embalm ed in memory, while the dis honored body rots, forgotten, in the dust," refers to whom? Answers: 1. Scythians. 2. Eu gene O'Neill. 3. "Vulgate" (with some modifications). 4. Buenos Aires. 5. The Evolution Trial at Dayton, Tenn. 6. Sen. Robert F. Wagner. 7. Electric power. 8. Michigan. 9. No. 10. Benedict Arnold. I raa MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence . . . Rice Mountain Inn, Lake get up here from New York and hemlocks. We took the "Empire State" from Grand Central and arrived at Utica, N.Y., -at one-thirty p.m., D.S.T., with 15 minutes to catch the NYC local for Lake Clear. Thanks to a couple of "Red Caps" and a truck we made it with about five seconds to spare. The local took the Barnum railroad which used Motors now stands to what was house. It was called the "Barnum cannonball" and its average speed was about 10 miles per hour. The Lake Clear local did a bit better, than that but it consisted of only an engine, baggage car and one day-coach. It was an uphill climb to around 2,000 feet, and the engine often got winded and had to stop to catch its breath. This country is known as the Adirondacks, not far from Saranac and Lake Placid where go every winter for skating and doesn't ski any yet, the oldest six months or so, but before this to teach them to fish. We have seen lake country before, both in Wisconsin and Minnesota, but from Utica up here the lakes are too numerous to count not very far from here is the St. Lawrence with its thousand islands, this is the land of a thousand lakes. The Adirondack branch have a lake of their own and miles of forest, but the story is the carp have eaten up all the trout. This inn which incidentally is very attractive is the only comfortable place available near to the MacArthurs not the General's branch but son - in - law No. 2. He is an engineer on the St. Lawrence Water Ways, a US-Canadian venture to promote the welfare of both countries but which former Secre tary McKay would no doubt condemn as "creeping socialism." It is a public venture and will provide public power as well as connect Chicago and the Great Lakes with the Atlantic. (If Hells Canyon is wicked then the St. Lawrence waterway is worse!) The season here doesn't start until June. So the fishing is good now and the deer are thick. There were 15 of the latter browsing around the inn yesterday. The season for neither has started but the report is that on your own land or your own lake you can do as you like. (If correct real estate values should be high around here.) After Oregon the trees all the way up from Utica are disappointing. The fact appears to be the land was pretty well denuded shortly after the Civil War, and the trees that remain pine, maple, hemlock, birch, tamarack and what have you are largely of second and third growth. Anything half the size cf the logs one sees on the road to Crater Lake are conspicuous by their absence. Most of the trees remind one of toothpicks but there are plenty of them. And we are told that there are a number of pulp mills operating hereabouts but very little timbering. We enjoyed the "Empire State" which has been the crack train from New York to Buffalo (five hours) ever since "college days." It doesn't seem as "super-super" as it did 40 or 50 years ago but it is still a very good train, with excellent accommoda tions, courteous service and nice speed. Everything but the speed were in sharp contrast to the "Commodore Vanderbilt." We still think Mr. Young should provide life-belts on the latter. The last two days in New York hit the hight spots,' sports ways, for this trip. We not only the "Damned Yankees, but do it twice in succession and de cisively. For once the REAL "champs" were from Chicago, not Greater Manhattan. The "poor old Yankees" misjudged flies, dropped hot grounders and couldn't hit anything above their spiked shoes. Not only did the White Socks (their stockings are black, incidently, and their uniforms grey) hit the ball and fielded brilliantly, but what struck this was their SUPERB base-running. We made no count of the number of second-base steals but they were more numerous than we have seen in many years. In fact we would say base-running was the one chief factor in the Sox double-victory. For getting a man on second is AWAY ahead of getting a man on first. So many times that man on first is a set-up for a "double play" while a man on second is not only proof against it but in case of a hit he can make a run at least the young and speedy and well coached White Sox can. We grant it would be risky to wager anything against the Yankees being in the World Series AS USUAL but after seeing those two defeats, if E.T. will offer his USUALLY generous odds we will take the White Sox. Can't seem to write a letter these days without a weather comment. So here goes we left NYC in a humid, stuffy atmos phere, arrived here in a heavy rain, but this morning the sun is shining in a cloudless sky. a nice breeze is blowing and the mercury is around 65. R.W.R. Radioactive Fallout How dangerous are the tests of nuclear and ther monuclear weapons of destruction? Unhappily, the people best qualified to give the answer are the ones who disagree most widely on it. So a Joint Atomic Energy subcommittee, under Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Calif.), is calling scores of the experts to hearings to see if some consensus of scien tific opinion can be reached on the dangers of atomic fallout. The hearings, to last three weeks, opened in Washington Monday. TTHE PROBLEM has its political as well as its scien- tific impacts. In April 1956 Adlai E. Stevenson proposed that the United tests, then call on other nations to follow suit. Presi dent Eisenhower replied that "research without test is perfectly useless," and several weeks before the 1956 election Mr. Stevenson agreed that a unilateral sus pension might be dangerous to this country. The most recent U.S. nuclear test explosions have been in Nevada. In Great Britain the Labor Party, at first divided on banning H-bomb tests, has made the ban a party measure. The Conservative Government rejected the Labor demand and went ahead with tests at Christmas Island, but felt impelled to propose, on May 6, a multi lateral suspension of future tests under certain con ditions. CUSPENSION has become an international football, too. The Kremlin of course blames U.S. "war-monger-ing' for the continuing Soviet tests, but told Japan, which had demanded an end to the tests at least for a time, that the Soviet Union wouldn't suspend them unilaterally. : Among the world leaders demanding that the tests be suspended are Nehru of India, Adenauer of Germany and Pope Pius XII. E.R.R. Tuesday. May 28. 1957 Clear, N.Y. -A long train ride to and among the murmuring pines us back to the good old days of to run from where Crater Lake then the Jackson County court the other branch of the family skiing. The family branch here is three-plus and the youngest visit is over grandmother expects saw the Chicago White Sox beat sports - editor - emeritus particularly States suspend its H-bombJ ' Pl6AS,GEpfiS! 5H0W Matter of Fact THE PASHA Baghdad Nearly four dec ades have passed since the last Sultan of the r Ottoman Empire officially cre ated the last "bey" or "Pa sha". But the peoples of the Arab lands, boldly" step ping into their vanished rul ers shoes, now award these titles rather Joseph Alsop liberally to those of their fellow citizens who seem worthy enough or powerful enough to deserve them. Here in Iraq, however,-in this strange, rapidly evolving land of the two great Mesopotamian riv ers, there is only one real Pasha. When Iraqis speak of "The Pasha" and most Iraqis are constantly speaking of the Pasha in admiration ' or annoyance or hatred or a mixture of these emotions they mean his ex cellency Nuri Pasha As-Said, 15 times Prime Minister and still undefeated. It is a curious experience for an observer habituated to our modern men of power to pay call on the Pasha. In the first place, he does not look like a man of power, and he does not surround himself with the trap pings one expects in a virtual dictator. You are shown into a small, altogether unpretentious office where sits the Pasha behind a large desk covered with papers. He is rather slow. He is pretty deaf. He is extremely affable but decidedly hard to talk to. rpHESE are the first lmpres sions. But first impressions are, suddenly corrected when you notice the hawk's curve of the nose cutting down, as it were, into the outward amiability of the smile; when you catch the half-mocking note that creeps into the voice as it utters safe political platitudes: and above all, when you briefly catch a direct glance from the hooded old hawk's eyes. The platitudes are hastily dis pensed, with a kind of cagey boredom. The meeting between King Saud and King Faisal has been a great success. Arab unity is most important and much to be desired. Yes, there has been a real im provement in the condition of Jordan. No, the Pasha , does not want to say whether the events in Jordan and the Saud-Faisal meeting will anger Egypt he does not believe in commenting on or interfering in the affairs of brother Arab states, no mat ter what others may do. Yes, the general position in the Mid dle East has grown better in re cent months. But no, there will never be security and stability until the Palestine problem is solved. Except for the reference to Palestine, it all comes out with no inflection of passion or deep feeling. There is no doubt that the Pasha believes all that he says. He simply does not see much point in having to say it. And as one listens, one suddenly realizes why this is. THE Pasha is brave, long-head- ed and. infinitely experi enced. He knows, almost in the dark as it were, the exact loca tion of all the levers of power in his . country. If the peaceful levers' of power fail him - for a while, as they have sometimes done, he is perfectly ready to use his highly efficient Army and police force :to restore tran quility. So why on earth' make speeches or give interviews or offer explanations or appeal to popular emotions or waste time in other such fruitless ways? Such,' very surely, is the Pasha's basic opinion; and this being his opinion, it is not easy to make him come to life for publication. He will come to life off the record,- cannily and frankly discussing the greatly increased American role in .the Middle East, or bitterly, wearily reciting his own feelings and dif ficulties when the British, with whom he. has always been close, delivered their attack on Egypt HOW SOU USED TO PLAY By Joseph Alsop in concealed partnership with the Israelis. But there is only one moment when he is simultaneously vivid, interested and willing to be quoted. It is occasioned by a question about the comparative mildness of the Iraqi reaction to the Suez crisis. It was a very tense time indeed, but the demonstrations and police ac tions were positive picnics com pared to the bloody horrors Iraq has gone through in the past. And why was this? "1IE ACTED promptly to keep " order," the Pasha replies. "But the fact that it was easier to do so was the political first fruit of our development pro gram. Our people have jobs. They live better now. A man making a dinar a day on a steady job does not take' a few cents from an organizer who wants him to join a riot. It is as simple as that." After hearing precisely the same thing from a disappointed opposition leader, one was in clined to believe the Pasha's briskly practical response, with its tincture of real and deep pride. One was also inclined to wonder about the strange double standard of our modern politi cal judgments. Why reserve the name of patriot for the Egyp tian dictator, with his oratory and his bomb plots and his agents and his almost complete carelessness of his people's wel fare and meanwhile why con demn the Pasha, with his much milder government and his great development program intended to give the Iraqi people the means to be truly free? (C) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Field Geologist Talks at Chamber Roundiable Meet "There is no 'geological rea son why uranium should not be discovered in southern Oregon," a government field geologist told members of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Round table yesterday at the Jackson hotel. Len Ramp, field geologist, U.S. department of geology and min eral industry. Grants Pass, dis cussed -uranium and several other southern Oregon minerals during a talk on the "Importance of Minerals to Southern Ore gon." Prospecting Slows Ramp said, "What prospecting there has been in this area for uranium has slowed down be cause the samples mined were not of a high enough commercial grade." . It appears as though Lakeview will be the only Oregon city having an active uranium mill, he said. The mineral expert ad ded, however, that there should be more exploration for uranium in this area. The United States currently is the world's biggest producer of uranium, he noted. Discussing other minerals, Ramp pointed out there were sufficient copper deposits in southern Oregon to justify ex ploration but that "interest in the mineral has dwindled with falling market values" on cop per. ' Market Values He added that market values largely determine development of a mineral. According to Ramp the mineral industry is in "con stant change" and since is find ing uses for minerals that "yest erday were just rocks." The geologist said low grade industrial minerals, among them manganese, have a good future in southern Oregon, but that qualified mining engineers would se required to develop them. ' Noting, sulphur and iron, Ramp said there are some sul phur deposits near Diamond lake but in most areas they -are too small in quantity to be of value. He added there is a de mand for iron here, but its sup plies were insufficient to encour age prospecting. Trouble in Africa Complicates Governmental Crisis in France By CHARLES M. McCANN ' United Press Correspondent Serious new trouble in North Africa is complicating French cabinet crisis. While President Rene Coty is trying to find a premier to suc ceed Guy Mollet, the relations between France and its former protectorate of Tunisia are at the. breaking point. Last Tuesday the day Mol 'Clean Elections1 Bill Still in Committee; Backers Keep Hoping Washington (CQ) The . "clean elections" bill has been trapped in the Congressional starting gate for four months now, but its. backers are not quite ready to declare it out of the race. , "I still hope we can pass a bill this session," says . Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.), "but every day that goes by hurts our chances." Gore headed the Senate Sub committee whose study of 1956 campaign financing reported ex penditures of $33.2million and admitted "the total campaign bill . . . far surpasses that figure." Congressional Quarterly's own survey of House campaign spend ing, not covered by the Sub committee, added $2.9 million to the total. These huge expenditures, caus ed in large part by the increased cost of modern campaigning, led the Subcommittee to conclude that "the need for remedial leg islation in the field of Federal elections is imperative and im mediate." High campaign costs have forc ed candidates to depend a great deal on a few large contributors. This dependence, said the Sub committee, poses a threat to the integrity of the whole American political system. The Subcommittee's survey of the 1956 election convinced it that: The limits on spending in the existing Federal Corrupt Prac tices Act of 1925 "fail miserably . .". and can serve only to de- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot 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 Billy's Message To the Editor: I hope you will allow me space for this special message, written for the DAV on the occasion of Memorial Day, by the Rev. Billy Graham. THE PRICE OF FREEDOM "Most Americans are inclined to take their blood-bought free dom for granted. How lustily, in times of war, we sing songs of patriotism, respect the boys in uniform, and pray for peace, then forget it as soon as we can, when it's . over. True gratitude for . an earned peace should be perpetual. The young men who gave the best years of their lives should always be remembered by the' citizens of our nation. And that memory should not find expression in a shallow sen timentality, but in making ade quate provision for those who have so willingly stood in war's gap and subjected their youthful bodies to the onslaughts of the enemy. . "Freedom of any sort, it seems, never comes cheap. Our spiritual freedom was purchased at terrific cost by the most splen did youth that ever walked the shores of time, Jesus Christ the Son of God. It hardly seemed right that He of all men should die in the very prime of life and at the peak of His usefulness. But, in God's wisdom, only those who are ready, able and willing, are called upon to bring life and liberty to those who are unable to secure it for themselves. In the case of spiritual freedom, there was only One in heaven and earth who was equal to the task, and that was Jesus' Christ. "And when our national free dom was jeopardized, only the young, the strong, the very cream of society, were equal to the task. After World War I, 300,000 men returned disabled, handicapped or ill. World War II counted the disabled in hun dreds of thousands, and Korea added many more. "As a group, they have been self - sacrificing, counting the price they paid as a debt they rightly owed. But we, who prof ited so greaUy by their sacrifices, must not forget the debt we owe these men who bear the wounds and -scars that well might have been ours. - "On this Memorial Day, we should rededicate ourselves to the great principles of freedom for - which thev exposed them selves so willingly; that the war dead shall not have died in vain and that the Disabled war vet erans shall not have been wounded in vain.' Pat Graham, Adjutant and Service Officer, Jackson County Chapter No. 8, DAV, 1515 North Riverside ave., Medford, Ore. (P.S. Pat and Billy are un related.) let was forced to resign after losing a confidence vote in Par liament France suspended the payments on its 35 million dol lar a year aid program to Tun isia. The reason was that the French government believed that the arms which it was sending to Tunisia were being relayed to the rebels in Algeria. Premier Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia responded by announc- moralize the political climate I he limits on contributions are "for all practical purposes mean ingless." The reporting and disclosure requirements "are hopelessly in adequate." On the basis of these findings, Gore introduced a reform meas ure that would: Raise the limits on what can didates can spend, but close the loophole in existing law that en ables them to evade all limits by forming numerous local and tem porary committees beyond the reach of Federal legislation. Put a holeproof ceiling of $1,- 000 a year on an individual's to tal contributions to candidates for Federal office and also re strict interstate shipments of campaign funds. Make the candidate himself responsible for authorizing and reporting all spending on his be half. Gore's bill was sent to the Senate Rules Privileges and Elec tions Subcommittee. Its chair man, Sen. Mike Mansfield (D- Mont.), has called no hearings on the Gore bill or a similar meas ure drafted in 1955 by Sen, Thomas C. Hennings Jr. (D-Mo.), and reintroduced by Hennings at the start of this session, Mansfield told Congressional Quarterly, "I hope to have hear ings at the first available oppor tunity, but' it's hard to know when we'll find time." Gore and Hennings are press ing for action this year in the belief that a start on reform must be made before the 1958 campaign begins, Proponents of the legislation- see three main obstacles to its enactment: 1 Opposition from certain leaders of both parties to any change in the accustomed pat tern of campaign financing. The Gore report viewed "with deep concern" the Republican habit of drawing funds from "persons affiliated with big business" and the Democrats' dependence on the generosity of "organized la bor." The' chairmen of the two parties are opposed to any new limitations on their favorite sources of supply. 2 Opposition from southern Democrats to including primary elections under Federal cam paign spending laws, as recom mended by Gore and Hennings. In 1956, 69 of the 109 southern Democratic Representatives were able to report they spent no money in the general election campaign, because their real challenge, if any, came in the Democratic primary. Rep. Robert T. Ashmore (D S.C.), whose subcommittee has jurisdiction over the clean elec tions bills in the House, says he spent just $100 in the 1956 gen eral election. Ashmore, , too, is opposed to Federal legislation on primary election expenses, but says he will hold hearings on the bills if House sponsors wish. 3 Fear of labor unions and their Congressional friends that the climate of opinion produced by the Senate labor racketeering hearings would encourage re strictions on union political ac tivity if the election laws were changed this year. (Copyright 1957, Congressional Quarterly) Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 - - MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. j ing that he regarded French-Tun- lsian economic agreements as havin'tf hpm nanrolloH Other Aid Plans Sought Bourguiba then started a ser ies of conferences with the dip lomatic envoys of the United States and other countries on the possibility they might give the aid France refused. The United States was brought more directly into the North African situation last Thursday, when the diplomatic representa tives in Washington of 11 Arab countries made a formal request to Secretary of State John Fost er Dulles that American aid to France be suspended. This request was based on the ty of terrorism in its campaign against the nationalist rebels in Algeria. ? The Algerian rebellion lies be- . hind most of France's present troubles. Reluctantly partly due to United States encouragement of "nationalist" movements all over the world France granted in dependence to its protectorates of Tunisia and Morocco in 1955. Algeria, which is the most im portant of France's African pos sessions, remained as it had been a part of France itself politi cally, with representation in the French parliament. Open Rebellion Continues Open rebellion broke out in Algeria on Nov. 1, 1954. This rebellion continues. France is using nearly 500,000 troops in fighting the rebels. It is estimat ed that the campaign will cost France one bUlion dollars this year. Morocco borders Algeria on the west. Tunisia borders Alger ia on the east. Both Morocco and Tunisia are openly on the side of the Algerian rebels. Also, Tunisia lies between Algeria and Arab Libya There is no doubt that the Algerian rebels are get ting arms from Libya through Tunisia. Successive French premiers have vainly sought a solution of the Algerian problem which would give the country a great measure of self-rule but would keep it as a part of France politi- The French cabinet situation is so tangled that Paris dispatch es now suggest the only solution will be to get Mollet back as premier. . Whoever does get the job will inherit the Algerian-Tunisian-Moroccan headache. I Medford Senior High Auditorium Wed., May 29th 7:30 p.m. Admission Free FIRST 3J0U,CHvk FILM in WIDE SCREEN Featuring the BILLY GRAHAM heeding o ALL SCOTTISH CAST Insurance has no sub stitute To guard all things to .completely No other plan Devised by man Protects so much to cheaply. Bill Fish myM?- m imiLimT color Scotland's heroic C'm I freedom of f "rT a TEAM AtJ r
