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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Xveryone in Southern Oregon Readm The Maii Tribune" abiirca Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-2ft North Fir St Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W RLHl Editnr HTRB GREY Advert. n Manager GERALD LATHAM Bujmeu Manager ERIC AiO-EN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor ICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OUVE ST ARC HER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSO.N Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Altered aa second claw matter at Mediord Oregftn under Act of March 3 1397 SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Mali In Advance rVr Cmpy tOc Dally and Sunday One ywr $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six wiotha 8 00 Daily and Suday Taree oa 4-25 Smrlav Only One vwv 3 B Carrier In Advance Me4fr! Ashland Central Point Katfie Point. JackPonvilie Gold Hill Phoenix. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The valley pumpkins, watermelons and can taloupes are shaping up fine, but it will take some time for them to gain rotundity. 20 YEARS AGO June 7. 1937 (Monday) Measurement of Jackson coun ty farms listed for benefits un der the soil conservation act is begun today with A. C. Jetley, Eugene, engineer in charge. Forty CCC enrollees of head quarters detachment have been discharged as members to accept new jobs as civilian employees at district headquarters. D YEARS AGO June 7. 1927 (Tuesday) Water users of Hopkins Lat eral, which includes a large area formed by more than 200 ranch ers indicate they will fight pro posal to increase water rates from $2.50 per acre to $6.50. M. L. Ryckman, superintend ent of hatcheries for the state game commission, and manager of Diamond lake resort, reports east entrance road to lake is open. 40 YEARS AGO June 7. 1917 (Thursday) City council favors rock pile for drunks to work out fines who cannot pay them and en forcement of the state bone dry law. Helen Dugan. 10. in fourth grade of Long Mountain school near Eagle Point, wins first place in Jackson county writing con test. Aid's Twr LQ.? or ten correct Is superior; ttvHk or eight Is excellent; five or six is food. 1. Was the trireme, a warship, invented by the ancient Egyp tians. Greeks, or Romans. 2. A Portuguese man-of-war is ,'i iip. sea animal, or bird? 3. Bible: Which character sym bolizes old age? Who was inon a. the '"March King"? 5. Coal oil is extracted from coal; true or false? 6. Coral belongs to the ani mal, vegetable, or mineral king dom? 7. Is pentolite a form of elec tric light, a high explosive, or a structure on top of a tall build ing? 8. The Bohemian pianist and composer of the light operas "The Firefly." "High Jinks." "Katinka." Rose Marie," "The Vagabond King' was R f F 1? 9. What is the correct pronun ciation of Puerto Rico? 10. 'Life is real: Life s ear rest:, And the grave is not its" what? Answers: 1. Egyptians, t. lei animal. 3. Methuselah. 4. John Philip Sousa. 5. False. It is made from petroleum. 6. Anial. f. High explosive. 8. Rudolf Frienl. 9. Pwhere-toe-ree-coe. 1. "Gai" Longfellow. EX-CPERA SINGER DIE New York iW Miss Ella Flesch. 54. dramatic soprano and former member of the Metro politan Opera, died Thursday after a long illness. MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence . . . Rice Mountain Lodge, Paul Smiths, N. Y., June 3rd: Fortu nately for Billy Graham it takes many kinds of people to make a world. If it didn't, and more terrible, if the world were made up of the type of genus homo represented by the undersigned, Billy Graham would be making small wages as a third-rate ham actor in Hollywood, instead of eating caviar and cucumber sandwiches at the Stork club after his daily killing at his Madison Square "Medicine SHOW." We have to admit we did not attend any of Billy's perform ances while in New York but we did read extracts from his exhortations which we record with shame our favorite NY newspaper, the Herald Tribune, printed each issue on the front page, and is still doing so. That was enough for us. We admit a certain prejudice, just as we have admitted a certain prejudice against Richard Nixon, and for essentially the same reason. They are (to us) basically the same type, namely: they haven't a sincere, honest conviction in their heads, they are both phonies and frauds, neither giving a hoot about prin ciple in this world or the next, but their only GENUINE con cern is THEMSELVES, and particularly their place in the upper income brackets. That is this department's judgment of Messrs. Graham and Nixon. We don't expect everyone to share it, but we do find a certain pleasure In expressing it. We don't believe Billy Graham believes in a nether-world Devil and a golden-paved Heaven any more than Richard Nixon believes that T.V.A. is "creeping socialism" or that his S18.000 gift from the L.A. Tycoons was SOLELY for the benefit of hard pressed California taxpayers. In short, they are both essentially fakirs, one pursuing an evangelical career and the other a political career solely for what profit political, financial, social and otherwise they can get out of it. We just don't like fakirs period! see Billy Graham constantly expresses his undying devotion to Christianity, but in reality, Billy is no more CHRIST-like than Buffalo Bill. He is a shrewd promoter of Billy Graham and is adroit in capitalizing on the fears and frailties of mass human nature, not so much fighting the Devil as using him as club a threat of torture and damnation from which"the wrought up auditor can only escape by joining the procession to Billy's double-gilded altar. Again it is nice work if you can get it. And handsome and histrionic Billy Graham HAS it. It is the same with Richard Nixon only in a different field. Nixon talks a great deal about American democracy and his dedication to the public welfare; but he cares no more about either except as they give him votes than he does about spending his remaining days in a monastery cell. Like Billy, Dick is a shrewd promoter of Richard Nixon. And like Billy, he is to date making a great success of it financially and otherwise. m What is the answer? A certain shrewd Yankee who lived in Bridgeport, Connecticut, not far from here, gave the answer many years ago. When asked to explain his great success he answered simply but very much to the point, quote: "A sucker is born every minute.". Speaking of "suckers," the Mohawk Indians who sold the Adirondacks for one fourth of a' cent an acre to the white "invaders" might be so classified. They were excellent fighters. but poor business men. The British crown got a cut to award title which amounted to 2 cents an acre so the early English settlers got their estates at less than 3 "cents an acre. At the close of the French-Indian war the crown lands remaining were given to the veterans of that conflict at the rate of 50,000 acres for each officer, and 5,000 acres for each private. There were not many of them however, for in sides did most of the fighting. In reading over the history of that period it is interesting to note how true to type the upper class Englishmen were. Half a dozen of them, for example, bought up millions of acres in this region, and proceeded to lay out baronial estates. They revived the cherished feudal system, imported slaves from the West Indies, leased small tracts to their white servants and retainers, and with all sorts of wild game abounding, lived the life of a Colonial Colonel Riley. With ten beaver skins buying a cask of rum, and five a muzzle loader, they lived high, wide and handsome until the radicals of that time, sometimes known as "embattled farmers," decided (as the Communist of today) that the existing government should be overthrown, and a new and better one (better particularly for the rank and file) should be established. Naturally these Adirondack "barons" sided with. England, but did everything they could to thwart and defeat the revolutionary Reds," but when the latter won, they not only lost everything they had, but were lucky not to lose their heads . The Rockefeller family now owns a portion of one of those baronial estates, thousands of acres and scores of ponds and lakes, but the present generation for some reason not exdained to the undersigned as yet, seldom visit there. "Sic transit gloria mundi." R.W.R. Graduation - Commencement We have thus far been spared the agonies which must face the man who makes a commencement ad dress. "What," he must ask himself, "what can I say that is new and interesting and vital and important on an occasion which is of such concern to those in volved? Hasn't it all been said before?" Yes, probably it has, one way or another. , But the commencement speaker, despite this han dicap, has an important role to play, for graduation is a high point in the life of most young people, and it is an occasion when a message of inspiration and high idealism, coupled with a warning about practi cal realities, is both necessary and appropriate. IT IS well for us all to be reminded, from time to time, that man cannot live by bread alone, and neither can he live without bread. It is this marriage of the things of the soul, spirit, heart and mind with the things of the body and en vironment which sets man apart from other living creatures. Too much emphasis on one can lead to asceticism or other-worldliness ; too much on the other to exag gerated materialism or hedonism. Only in a healthy balance of the two can most of us, who labor to keep the wheels turning and mankind moving forward, find our success and our reward. TTHE job of finding this happy compromise is a task that no man can perform for another; each must find the way himself. And the occasion which we celebrate for our high school seniors at this time of year is both a gradua tion from one plane of life to another and a com mencement of life in a broader field, where the di rection signs are not so clear, the way not so smooth, the decisions more difficult. Graduation-commencement is a transition between a time when responsibilities are light, and when Friday. June 7. 1957 I the conflict the Indians on both 'llSTttf.gErTr. DMte 1AAC HFff &ps- turn; trwABYw7?ym7VPM,e&rr Basic Changes Seen Result of Program By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Skyrock eting labor costs have forced employers to resort to unprece dented techno- logical re search. This re search is teach ing employers that they can get on without many routine workers. Even with the pres ent high em- Roger w Babson ployment level, this should sound a warning note to high school and college gradu ates. Out of electronics has come the basis for vast new develop ments in automation. A sim ple example of what l means is the "electric eye" which opens doors at the proper mo ment without being actually touched by anybody. Another il lustration is the record-changer and turntable on our phono graphs, including the automatic stopping device. Of a more com plicated nature are guided mis siles that can chase and over take an airplane without any human guidance. This same principle of elec tronics is being applied today to operation of a manufacturing plant by a dozen employees, in contrast to the several hundred formerly needed. And remem ber that these can be women as well as men since their chief duty will be merely to press push buttons. Labor in general is not aware of the vast extent of the changes ahead. Employers, it is true, will always need hu man help, but not for a great many present-day jobs. Their re quirements will turn more and more toward the intelligence and judgment of graduates with a high I.Q. New Approach to Warfare Russia has always thought in terms of massed armies to over run Jturope when the time seemed ripe for an attack. How ever, with the Free Nations of Europe learning to use nuclear weapons, wars are swiftly mov ing onto a push-button basis. The great masses of Russia. China, and the Moslem nations will be only a nuisance to clutter up a battlefield under such con ditions. Premier Nehru recog nizes this, and that is why he is so eager to remain neutral. Elec tronics and the atom will cause tremendous changes not only in warfare but in education! I envy our young people who are to graduate this month. They will have far more opportunities than we oldsters had. I wish the schools and colleges would wake up to these changes. Better pen sion off the professors who can teach only the orthodox old- fashioned courses, instead of forcing these courses on our young people so that they can get a degree. Character Will Tell I predict that the above changes will mean that young graduates will need good char acter more than ever before. Bet ter training in homes, churches, and schools will be absolutely essential in this new electronic push-button age. Wise are the young people who take evening courses now to prepare them for the better jobs ahead. The typical salesgirl is in the process of becoming obsolete. Before long she will be replaced 60 per cent by self-service coun ters, 15 per cent by push-button vending machines, and 25 per cent by highly paid, intelligent salesmen whose job will be to secure new customers . ftew qualifications are a must for the June graduates who hope to get good jobs. The field of adver Ik ... they become heavier; between youth and maturity. It is, naturally enough, a time for celebration and light-heartedness. This is as it should be. But if we had a piece of advice to offer a gradu ate it would be that from now on the stakes are big- rroi- on1 Vin rrnmn ic tnno-TlPr T.l'fp Will ha mftl'O rll'ffi. cult. But the rewards are Ct-i ,-. t5-- A ,J fUrtTr'i-o n-riTfVi require. E.A. RPPnCP TUATM1M ' TT'a tising and selling is still in its infancy, and marvelous oppor tunities exist for those willing to train properly for it. What the Changes Mean (1) Manual and routine labor will graaually become obsolete. (2) Those who cannot readily learn new skills will be kept on at reduced hours, but with the same take-home pay. This will boost the Do-it-yourself indus tries! (3) Only the serious and intel ligent employees will get raises There will be no limit on salaries for those with the necessary character, brains, initiative and loyalty. (4) Our great problem will not be to raise crops, build homes, or manufacture goods but to get people to buy. Hence, instead of subsidizing farmers, we may eventually subsidize merchants and salesmen. (5) I advise young men to be come expert machinists instead of lawyers, trained outside sales men instead of inside pencil- pushers, and after graduation to attend night school to pre pare for the "new age." Lowry on Two Interim Committees Salem State Senator Philip B. Lowry, Medford, has been ap pointed to two legislative in terim committees to conduct studies and report to the 1959 legislative assembly. The ap pointment was made by Senate President Boyd R. Overhulse. Seven other senate interim com mittees also were named. Lowry, a Republican, will serve on the taxation committee, which has been allowed a $25, 000 expense appropriation, and cn a committee to make a spe cial study of the effect of already-enacted legislation. This committee will have no funds. Lowry also was a member of the 1955 taxation interim com ittee. Speaker of the House Pat Dooley said he has not yet de cided on the bulk of his appoint ments, although several repre sentatives have been named to the House highways -and taxa tion interim committees. District Ranger Plans To Attend Jamboree Cave Junction Ray Ellstrom, district ranger at the Illinois Valley Ranger station, and his son Bob will attend the Boy Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge this summer. Ellstrom will go as one of the leaders from Bend, his former home. Others from the valley who will make the cross-country trek are Noel Turner, Carl Hammer Jr., Loren Meredith and Scout master Eugene Pulley. They will attend the pre-Jamboree training camp near Medford June 22-23. American Students Plan Climb in South America Lima, Peru IP) Two visiting American college students said today they will leave next Thursday for Huarez, capital of Ancash. province, to attempt the ascent of the tallest of Peru's White mountains. Tom McCormick, 23, of Stan ford university, and Richard Didrick. 19. of Arizona univer sity, said two other Americans Virgil D. Day and N. B. Clinch ' will arrive in a few days to join them in the climb. Yale University, founded in 1701, was first known as the Collegiate school. It was changed to Yale college is 1718 after Elihu Yale, who gave it $2,000. bigger and more satisfy- tVin DvtrQ e-f-fnv fVliTr H-Test Hazards, Japanese Trial Of U.S. Soldier, Hold By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The possibility that radioac tive fallout resulting from nu clear weapons tests may harm children of fu ture g e nera tions was a ma jor topic for discussion over much of the world this was gree- m e n t among Charles McCano S C ientistS. Some asserted that the danger was sufficiently grave to war rant the suspension of all tests of nuclear weapons. Others, admitting that there must always be some danger, said it was negligible. President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, leaders of the two Western countries which have developed the H-bomb, agreed it would be a good thing if the tests could be "nded. But they agreed also as did many eminent scientists that it would be risking disaster to stop the tests while the danger of an attack by Soviet Russia still existed. As Eisenhower put it, this dan ger can be eliminated only when it is possible to reach an agree ment with Russia, backed by an air-tight system of inspection, for a ban on nuclear weapons. In the United States, the plight of a 21-year-old soldier from Ottawa, 111., became a ma jor issue. Army specialist Third Class William S. Girard was on duty on a firing range near Tokyo last January 30. His orders were to keep off persistent Japanese FW' jj There H'Vifi i-s-Mj sharp disa ortimunications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial tor publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Support of Schools To the Editor: I wish to recog nize the support that the people ot jacKson county have given their schools. This continuing support has been expressed in many ways; in the strong affirmative votes on school budgets, support of de sirable legislation, promotion of youth activities, development of an outstanding health program, establishment of the Child Guid ance Clinic and the Child Deten tion Home, and in the general concern for the betterment of our schools and community. The active participation of in dividuals, press, radio, television and many groups, including the P.T.A., School Boards Associa tion, service clubs, churches, professional and civic organiza tions and other governmental units, has played an important role in providing a better com munity in which to live and work. However, there are still a large number who do not participate in school elections. In this re spect, we have the responsibility of using all the means at our command to furnish information in clear and plain languagfe so that our people can have an un derstanding of our problems and procedures. Some of the pre-school in-serv ice programs for this fall will direct attention to effective means of reporting to parents and the general public. It shall be our purpose to cooperate with the schools to carry out this pro gram during the entire year. It is our desire to merit this continuing support and coopera tion by striving to do the best possible job in our classrooms and in administering our schools. Alf B. Mekvold, County School Superintendent. Portland GSA Office To Be Closed June 30' Portland IW The Portland office of the federal govern ment's General Services Admin istration will be closed June 30, assistant regional GSA Commis sioner Robin L. Small said today. Small said the closure will coincide with his discharge from the position. Notice was sent by William A. Holloway of Seattle who became new GSA commissioner for Oregon, Wash ington, Montana, Idaho and Al aska two months ago. North Hiway 99 Half Way Between Medford and Central Point OPEN UNTIL 10 P.M. INCLUDING SUNDAYS WEEK END SPECIALS Have You Tried Near Beer? Botne civilians who trespassed on the range to salvage empty shell cases for sale as scrap metal. As a warning, Girard fired an empty cartridge case from his grenade launcher. He was mere ly trying to frighten off a group of trespassers. But he fatally wounded a Japanese woman. Under the "status of forces" agreement which covers juris diction over American soldiers stationed in some foreign coun tries. Japanese authorities de manded the right to prosecute Girard. American authorities TV Program Points Out Tax Bite Growth To Average Citizen By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IPI The third birthday of "The $64,000 Ques tion" should not pass without a reminder that thoughtful citi zens have been getting a sugar coated tax les son from the popular TV program. It is a les son in what the income tax at current rates Lyle C. Wilson does to middle and upper brack et taxpayers. "The $64,000 Ques tion" early got a lot of free and interesting advertising on its tax aspects in such unlikely places as the columns of the Wall Street Journal, the editorial pages of The Saturday Evening Post and the monthly letter of New York's First National City Bank. White Cane Sale To the Editor: Recently the Jackson Council of the Blind held its annual souvenir white care sale on the streets of Med ford. We thank everyone who bought the little souvenir canes, or stopped to inquire what they were for. We greatly appreciate the interest shown by the people and also the kindness of the Navy Mothers who stopped the sale of their flowers so that we could go ahead with our sale. We appreciate the news cover age given to our Council by the Mail-Tribune, not only for the sale but also throughout the year. Many people do not know that the White Cane is the "eye" of the blind. When it is held out the law states that the motorist must stop and allow the carrier of the white cane to cross the street in safety. So the purpose of the souvenir white cane sale is -is much to acquaint the public with this law as it is to raise funds to carry on the work of the local and State Councils as well as the National Federation of the Blind. Again, we thank you! Sam Evans, Chairman, Souvenir White Cane Sale. Editorial Comment STEWART REAPPOINTMENT Quite a number of county as sessors were gunning for Sam Stewart, member and chairman i of the State Tax Commission, I whose term was due to expire , June 4th. Stewart has been driv-' ing hard for reappraisal of prop- ; erty over Oregon, and stirred up j opposition from some assessors , who felt he was too aggressive. Jealous of their prerogatives, they felt he was crowding their , preserves. In spite of this open opposi-1 tion, Stewart was reappointed and Governor Holmes deserves credit for resisting the pressures. The reappointment confirms at state levels the policy of reap praisal and equalization of as sessments which the tax commis sion has long favored and which 1 Legislative Assemblies have en dorsed. Oregon Statesman. Sa lem. Watermelons r c CITY lb. Spotlight first agreed to, then refused e.e demand. 0 The State and Defense depart ments, with Eisenhower' at, proval, finally decided that ja pan should try Girard. The decision brought ahUt-f congressional and popular rette tion of American soldiers to tot eign courts. Eisenhower expresses! emfl dcnce that Girard woulsj be treated fairly. If he were 1H, the President said, the Uit4 States would take diplomnO action. The First National had aa em phatic point of view about in come tax rates. It was that th personal rates were confiscatory to the point of discouraging in dividuals from taking risks to make more money. Some Interesting Calculation Back there when the TV pro grams were just beginning, th bank distributed a letter which said, in part: "The program has provided a vivid illustration of the way confiscatory personal income tax rales stack the cards aunst risk taking ventures." The bank calculated that a contestant who was single and had an income of S4.000 annual ly would have to win $448,711.11 to acquire S64.000 of actual, take-home prize money. A single person with $4,000 of annual income would be as sessed $15,400 in taxes if he reached the $32,000 winning lev el. This would reduce his actual prize money to $16,600. If this contestant tool the last, long step, doubling his $32,000 into $64,000 the additional tax biU would be $23,292. The take home prize would be increaassl by only $8,708. "Thus," the banlc conclude!, "he is risking tn assured $1V 000 for a chanc to win an ad ditional $8,708." The banlc argute! that th same tax situation dhich dis courages contestant from reach- ing from $.2,000 to $14,001 at---plies also to businessmen with venture capital who rfuC to risk it by reason of ti; limita tions on their poiibl aiR. The Poet's Commeat The Saturday Ivenin Fact p marked that: "What high taxstian Is ioinf to the free enterprise systeit is a subiect which is about s in teresting to the avTfe mn su a treatise on medieval rieta- physics." The Post contended, ho'ver. that the famous TV show would cause millions of persons to give some thought to the efttft of the tax laws on business." About the time this editorial writer and others were guessing that the TV show would con vince the voters that taxes wer) too high on the well-to-do, ther was a rundown on the tax rec ord of the past 20 years. Th trend was the other way fc-it-. . i : i : . i ' taxes Mtrauuy uuiiuuk uii ine big and little fellow alike. 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