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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Friday is the 13 th.' Don't walk under Rus sia or any black cats. SO YEARS AGO June 10. 1937 (Thursday) In motorcar and house-trailer painted to attract attention to the Rogue river valley, Edward , J.-Taylor, a tailor, begins tour across country. Eve Eenson dance studio to give recital at Craterian theatre. 30 YEARS ACO June II, 1317 (Friday) Medtord armory is rented as temporary courthouse. Alfred Norris purchases two- birv brick building at corner of California and Third sts., the lower floor of which is occupied by the Jacksonville bank. 40 YEARS AGO Juae 10. 1917 (Sunday Jackson county Red Cross is asked to raise $13,000 as part of 8100.000.000 to be raised by Na tional Red Cros for its war fund, requested by President "Wilson Combined choral societies of Ashland and Medford. totaling 150 gingers, give concert at Page theater. tifkal's Your I.Q.? Von Or tea earraet ts superior; anas) or allot la axcalleat; lva or i is food 1. la Oskar Pegchil one of the fathers of modern geography, chemistry, or medicine? 2. Is it harmful to sleep on the left side? 3. Bible: Did any Hebrew king create a cavalry? 4. Clark Griffith was tha own er of which American League baseball club? 5. For what branch of the Army do the initials WAC stand? 6. In what city does the news paper Izvestia have its principal offices" 7. The Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor occurred De cember 7 rf what year? 8. In her campaign against Qaloons many years ago. what weapon ririi Carrie Nation use? 9. "Smart" is a sense of fash ionable or clever is a collo quialism. Is the expression "a right smart" (i.e.. a large amount) a colloquialism, provin cialism, or an ambiguity? 10. "A fly and a flea in a flue Were imprisoned, so what could they do" Said the fly. Met us flee" "Let us fly!" said the flea, So they flew thru a flaw in the" what? Answers: 1. Geography: 2. No: 3. Yes. Solomon. "Twelve thous and horsemen": 4. Washington (D.C.) Senators: 5. Women's Army Corps; S. Moscow; 7. 1941: 8. A hatchet; 9. Provincial ism: 10. "flue." RELATIVELY SPEAKING Deep River. N Y. tf Nancy Jo Moody must have as many ancestors as anyone in the state: probably more. Nancy Jo, born May 5. has four grandparents, four great grandparents, one great-great-grandfather and one great - great - frcat-erandmother E2-year-old Mrs. Etta Scott of Watertown. N.Y. Minnesota has 508 tree farms Covering 439.799 acres. Jj" XmwPAPi I ? KV PUBIISHU j ASSOCIATION I 1 MAIL TRIBUNE Killing By Amendment The House attempt to write into the Civil Rights bill a guaranty of trial by jury may be sincerely aimed at protecting the individual or it may be an attempt to take the teeth out of the measure. The same could not be said for the attempt to throw into the bill in the House as well as in the Senate a "rider" amendment providing a national "right to work" law. - This would outlaw labor contracts which require employees to join labor unions. Sen. John L. McClel lan (D-Ark.) on May 7, in announcing that he would continue his attempt to include a right - to - work amendment in the civil rights bill, admitted that "it w ould be a service to the country if it killed the bill." AcCLELLAN'S strategy is reminiscent of a famous case of the death-by-amendment technique wit nessed in the Senate in 1954. By a vote of 46 to 43 the Senate agreed to tie statehood for Alaska to statehood for Hawaii, which had already been approved by the House. The single-packaged bill was then passed, by a 57 to 28 vote. But when unanimous consent was asked in the House to send the bill to conference, where Alaskan statehood could be dropped by the G.O.P. majority on the conference committee, Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn entered an objection. That means that the only other way to get the bill to conference was by House adoption of a resolution to that end. Such a resolution was duly offered, but it then was bottled up in the House Rules Committee until the session ended, It's interesting to note that 19 Senators two Republicans and 17 Democrats who had voted to combine statehood for the territories turned around three weeks later to vote against the single package bill. "THAT support of a juiy trail guaranty was building up even among liberals was evidenced by the vote by which such a civil rights amendment was approv ed June 3 by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Voting for the amendment were Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.) and Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), usual ly in the front rank of Senate "liberals." For crippling amendments, look at the record on anti-segregation votes. Sen. William Langer (R-N.D.) in 1943 offered a racial segregation ban amendment to a federal aid-to-education bill. It was accepted, 49 to 37, resulting in recommital of the bill. - The House in 1948 turned down amendments by Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-N.Y.) barring segre gation in the Army and the Navy (63 to 12), and in the Air Force (103 to 14); also, rejected a Powell amendment to withhold Foreign Economic Coopera tion contracts from firms refusing employment be cause of color or race. THE Senate in 1948 tabled, 67 to 7, Langer's anti segregation amendment to the draft bill. And in the following year, Northern liberals joined the Southern Democrats to vote down anti-segregation amendments to an aid-to-education bill, 65 to 16, and a long-range housing bill, 49 to 31. Said Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.), "As much as I detest segrega tion, I love education more." President Eisenhower has opposed Powell anti segregation amendments to school construction (1955 and 1956) and military reserves bills (1955) as "ex traneous" and "unnecessary." In his State of the Un ion Message this year he insisted that federal school aid should be provided "on its own merits, uncompli cated by provisions dealing with the complex prob lems of integration." E.R.R. Profitable Investment Some of Oregon's newspapers, calling attention to the need for recreational development in the areas they serve, are pointing to Douglas county s proposed park fund appropriation of $111,790, in the tentative budget and are comparing it with lack of appropria tions in their own counties or with much smaller allot ments. . . . The information previously has been reported, but will bear repeating, that $65,000 of the amount in the budget is proposed as a loan for the purpose of mak ing further improvements at Salmon Harbor, and will supplement one of the county's best investments. Subtracting the $65,000 loan from the amount tentatively budgeted for the county parks department leaves a nominal budget, certainly not too large for the important work being achieved. QOUGLAS County's Park department, first of its kind to be organized in the Pacific Northwest, if not in the United States, is no longer unique. Other counties have followed the pattern. More are being added each year. Douglas county, however, still stands out as the example. Counties without similar programs are envious, judging from expressions in their newspapers. . . . My provincial pride swells when I think of how we have expanded our recreational resource in such a short space of time. I hope each of you who reads this also takes pride in this achievement. I hope you rea lize, too, that we have just barely scratched the sur face and that there is more much more to be done before we begin to reach dous recreational resource. Charles V. Stanton, in the Roseburg News-Review U.S. Rubber Workers Indianapolis w About 1.200 workers are on strike against the United States Rubber com pany here. The walkout began last night in a dispute over working condi tions for production and mainte nance employees. The walkout broke down. Local 110 of the United Rub Monday, June 10, 1957 the potential of our tremen Quit al Indianapolis ber Workers said the issues in elude seniority rights and inequi ties in wage rates on certain jobs. The strike does not involve other plants of the firm. North Dakota has 451.000 acres of commercial forest land within its boundaries. I rif I - i pffr 'A'ifK GOr0ZSMORB GRAY HAIRS THAN YOU, BUT YOii CONTHBAR HEf? BlMVH'MB FOR 'BA ' Matter of Fact THE FLOUNDERING DEMOCRATS Those two able Texans, Sen ate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Tmz'&gri fre, beE,in"i"K lhe commana- $ - -it ers of a large. well - disci plined Army which has no where to go and no-one to fight. Johnson and Stewait Alson R3 y D u ill, III their leadership of the Demo crats, have made two assump tions. First, the conservative Re publicans who are in revolt against the Eisenhower budget are not to be allowed to monopo lize the economy issue. Second, it is more important to hold the Democratic party in a sem blance of tuiity than to stir up trouble or make issues against the Eisenhower administration. These two assumptions have been largely accepted by the bulk" of the Democrats in both Housese. Moreover, they are, on the face of them, logical assump tions. Yet they involve certain risks which may be a lot graver than they appear on the surface. IN THE first place, the only area in which to make a po litically palatable record for "economy" is the area of nation al security defense, and, to a lesser extent, foreign aid. Hence the party-line vote by the House Democrats, engineered by Speaker Rayburn, cutting the President's defense budget by $2.5 billion. Part of the cut may be restor ed in the Senate. But the present best guess is that the increase will be relatively minor per haps as little as a tenth of the total cut. Now consider the price the Democrats are likely to pay for making their economy rec ord. In the first place, it has auto matically transformed President Eisenhower into the last-ditch defender of the security inter ests of the United States. This is a position to which the Presi dent's personal history uniquely suits him, and it is in any case always a strong position for any President. YET the Democrats themselves principally Sen. Stuart Symington in his air power in vestigation last year have con clusively demonstrated that the American security position rela tive to the Soviets has rapidly determined under the Eisen hower presidency. It is true that, in the present national mood of complacency, nobody (except Arthur Godfrey) seems to care very much. Even Symington himself has been talking a lot more about cutting taxes and the budget than about the need to match the Soviet defense advances. But the national mood might very well change, since the world situation has a way of changing suddenly and in such a way as to drive home the reali ties in a most painful way. In that case, the Democrats will have kicked the defense issue which was always potential ly their strongest issue right down the drain. What is more, the Republicans need only cite the roll call vote in the House to shift the whole burden of blame onto the Democrats. And where else are the Demo crats to turn for an issue? The rchool construction bill is dead as a mackerel for this session, and so, in any effective form at least, is civil rights legislation. Both are politically important for Northern Democrats, and yet the Republicans will be able to claim, with some reason, that both bills were killed by the Democrats. Hopes that were entertained until recently in some Demo cratic breasts, that "tight money" could be made the big stick with which to beat the Administration, are flickering out. The issue is complex any way, and difficult to exploit ef fectively. B UT the Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, By Stewart Alsop who had been cast in the role of personal devil by the anti ti"ht money Democrats, leaving the government, the issue will be almost impossible to exploit There is obviously no political profit to be made from belabor ing the departing Humphrey, and his successor, Secretary Designate Robert Anderson, is close to the powerful Johnson. The Democrats, in short, are brilliantly led but have nowhere to go. The semblance of party unity, to be sure, has been main tained, and that has been no easy task. But the Democrats are not going to get a lot of votes by claiming that they have kept their party together. And it seems unlikely that they are really going to make much po litical hay by trying to out-shout the conservative Republicans on the economy issue. Perhaps the Democrats, half- paralyzed oy their internal divi sions and with their favorite domestic issues shrewdly under cut by the Administration, never did have anywhere to go any way, in such times as these. For the Democrats have, after all, generally been identified in the voters' minds as the Liberal party, devoted to experiment and change. And if, as the evi dence suggests, this is now a smugly conservative country, which has had enough of experi ment and change, where are the Democrats to go? Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc Pulp, Paper Mills Reach Agreement Portland flfl A contract agreement, subject to local ref erendum, was reached here Fri day between labor representa tives and 45 Oregon, Washing ton and California pulp and pap er mills. The unions and manufacturers, in a joint announcement, said the terms of the contract re newal would be submitted to 55 union locals for approval and that results would be announced June 24. Terms were not reveal ed. Settlement climaxed a five-day wage conference between the In ternational Brotherhood of Pulp Sulphite and Paper Mill work ers, the United Papermakers and the Pacific Coast Association of Pulp and Paper manufacturers. Some 20,000 employees are af fected. Natural Gas Bill Receives New Chance Washington (IP President Eisenhower has given the natural gas bill a aew chance in Con gress. The legislation had been con sidered out, for this year at least, but the President inform ed Chairman Oren Harris of the House Commerce committee that he would drop his insistence on two road-blocking amend ments. Eisenhower emphasized the importance of enacting natural gas legislation at this session of Congress, with or without the controversial amendments. The bill is designed to ease the price-fixing controls of the Fed eral Power Commission over gas sold by independent producers to gas pipeline companies. Most persons can read unin terruptedly for six hours with out suffering ee strain or fatigue. His Wealth But A Rainbow GEO. N. TAYLOR He paid cash and the merchants loved him. He kept the law of God and the good folks loved him. On a day. he met Christ and asked Him what more he could do. "Give your wealth to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven." said Christ. At that the fellow walked away in sorrow, for he had great wealth and that he wor shiped. And what is the Bible Message for us of this dav? Christ was of the God head and being God, here among men. He died to dear you. 'The blood of Jesus Christ, 1 1 id's Son, cleanses us from all sin. BIBLE. Give God your heart and by daily Bible reading and prayer, grow up. Who To Believe in Controversy Over H -Tests? Views Are Aired By UNITED PRESS atomic testing controversy. No one could blame any Amer- For days, he's been bombard ican who's dewildered over the ed with claims and counter- Test of Eisenhower Republicanism Seen In Wisconsin Meeting By RICHARD SPONG Washington, D C. President Eisenhower's Modern Republi canism is involved, perhaps indi rectly, in the jockeying for the Wisconsin G.O.P. nomination for the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Joseph R. Mc Carthy. If the G.O.P. convention last week end had endorsed a senatorial candidate, its choice would have given an indication of the present attitude of the party organization, though not necessarily of the Wisconsin vo ters. One of the candidates is for mer Rep. Glenn R. Davis. As as sessed by "Congressional Quar terly," Davis established a rec ord of support for the Eisenhow er program in the 83rd Congress higher than the average of G.O. P. Representatives in 1953 and 1954. He maintained a fairly consistent support record in the 8th Congress on domestic poli- cy. but voted against the admin-! istration's foreign policy more j often than not. Specifically, he opposed the administration on foreign aid and extension of the Reciprocal Trade Act. Opposed Wiley More important. Davis was the candidate of the G.O.P. organiza tion which in that year repudi ated Wiley, ranking Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, largely for his internationlist stand in favor of the Eisenhower foreign pol icy. Davis had the endorsement of the state convention and the support of Sen. McCarthy's ad herents. Wiley took his case to the Wis consin voters, managing to pick Courageous Dutch Facing Paradox of People vs. Shortage By UNITED PRESS The courageous Dutch are up against one of the worst para doxes of their history. They have a shortage of labor that is keeping them from ex panding their industry as fast as they should. Yet at the same time they have a serious over population problem. Foreign News Analyst Leroy Pope of United Press says the overpopulation problem is fairly simple the labor shortage somewhat baffling. Holland is tiny and has a high birthrate and one of the lowest death rates in the world. So naturally the population in creases rapidly. It has jumped almost 2,000,000 to 11,000,000 since the war. Army Home Besides that, the Dutch have had to bring their army home from Indonesia and to repatriate more than 250,000 Dutch and Dutch-Eurasian civilians from Indonesia. Before the war, 20,000 young Dutchmen used to emi grate to Indonesia every year. Young Dutchmen are emigrat-. ing in large numbers now. They are going mainly to Australia, but also to the United States, Canada, South Africa and some other countries. And the govern ment is encouraging this emi gration in spite of the labor short age at home because it con siders the long-range prospects for young Dutchmen at home not too good. Right now, Dutch industry is going full blast and everybody is working, but Finance Minister Hendrik Hofstra warned the people recently that things aren't nearly so rosy as they seem. Not Producing Enough Holland is not producing enoueh nor exporting enough, he said. The Dutch managed to make up for the huge exports to Indo nesia they lost when Indonesia became independent. They are selling more to Africa, America and other European countries. But the new markets aren't as profitable as the old colonial markets and now they seem to be falling. For the first two months of this year. Holland had a 552,000,000 trade deficit huge for such a small nation. X". ... a m up considerable support from Democrats, free under state laws to vote in either primary. He defeated Davis by about 10,000 votes, and went on to best the Democratic candidate, Henry W. Maier. by more than 260,000 vot es. Wiley won 58.6 per cent of the popular vote, as against Pres ident Eisenhower's popular total of 61.6 per cent. (McCarthy's percentage in 1952 had been 54.2, as against 61 per cent for Eisenhower.) Others in Race Others seeking the McCarthy seat include Gov. Walter J. Koh ler, who had been considering running against McCarthy in 1958. Kohler is generally labeled an Eisenhower man, though per haps only a moderately modern Republican. Lieut. Gov. Warren P. Knowl es has thrown his hat into the ring. Knowles has wide support in business and industry. Another G.O.P. candidate is Rep. Alvin O'Konski, veteran of 15 years in the House. O'Konski, a free-wheeling Republican, crusaded against Communism with McCarthy. He frequently has opposed the administration on domestic issues. He was one of only 10 House Republicans, for example, who voted for the March 12 resolution "respect fully'' calling upon the President to "indicate the places and amounts in his budget where he thinks substantial reductions may best be made." The two top Democratic pro babilities for candidacy are Rep. Henry S. Reuss and William F. Proxmire, who has lost guberna torial races twice to Kohler and once to present Gov. Vernon W. Thomson. Dutchmen have been selling many of their valuable foreign investments in order to pay for things they must import to keep their businesses going. Back in 1950, the government decided to try to overcome the situation caused by the loss of Indonesia by three methods by encouraging emigration, re claiming more land from the sea and by more intensive industriali zation. All Three Used All three methods have been used with some success, but the Dutch have run into shortages of both capital and labor in their attempts to expand industry. So the government has had to put some curbs on investment and buying abroad. This slows down the industralization and makes the overpopulation problem more dangerous. The labor shortage probably is due to an excessive proportion of the very old and the very young in the population. This in dicates that unless capital can be found for expansion of in dustry, the present shortage of labor may turn into a surplus when the present crop of children reaches working age. EGG PENALTY Marion. 111. OP Six Mar ion teen-agers vow they will let the Easter bunny take care of egg hunts from now in. Police made the boys buy, dye and hide 60 dozen eggs after the teen agers jumped the gun on an egg hunt sponsored by a civic club. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 claims on the issue. He's heard scientists warn that fallout from nuclear tests has already placed its mark on generations yet un born. He's heard other scientists argue that the fallout danger is overrated. On one hand, he's told that we already have plenty of H bombs and A-bombs of varying sizes and types, enough to blow the world apart, so why test any more? On the other hand, he's told that further testing is need ed for our national security. Who's Right? Who's right? Which argument should you believe? United Press Washington com mentator Robert J. Serling has been carefully following the testimony in the congressional hearings on the fallout contro versy. And he reports that both sides agree on one thing there's a certain amount of risk in test ing atomic weapons. Some say a great deal of risk, others say it's going to get very risky if we keep it up, others say the risk is comparatively small. But the third group, represent ing the opinion of our govern ment and our Atomic Energy Commission, add these argu ments to their admission of a certain amount of danger. Risks Compared The A. E C. believes the risk is far less than the risk we'd lake in not testing and perfecting atomic weapons. For example, just exploding an H-bomb doesn't mean you've perfected one that can be used as a weap on. Our first H-bomb was set off in a shack roughly the size of a corner grocery store which meant it was too big to deliver by bomber. Further testing was needed to get the H-bomb down to a deliverable size. The current Nevada tests in volve smaller atomic weapons, presumably for use in guided missiles, small bombers and field artillery. It's true we have enough atomic weapons to blow Russia off the map, but those weapons must be adaptable to all situations, useable against troops in the field as well as against big cities, deliverable by missiles and fighter planes as well as long-range bombers, cap able of use against attacking planes. Without an adaptable atomic arsenal, we could lose a war. Risk Conceded The A.E.C. makes another point in, its conceding the fall out risk. Yes, there's risk. Also, 40,000 Americans are killed by automobiles every year and hun dreds of thousands injured. A lot of people expose themselves to ill heilth by excessive moking. Smoe nd industrial pollution are very unhealthy. Danger in atomic testing? Sure, smys A.I.C. There's also m, certain risk of radiation expoW ure from X-rays, frortP fluoros copa ejtmations, from acquiring a sun tan. The most extensive research project on fallout show ed tht ve get more radiation from our own bodies, from the ever-present cosmic rays, from visits to the dentist and doctor, thin we hve from all the atom ic test put together. Other scientists have a counter-argument on this pointQ . . . they say while all this may be true, why add the radiation frolh tests to what we're already ga ting in normal living? j Said tot The Issue jj But the A.TE.C. the amount tit radiation received from test fatt out isn't really the issue. It be lieves the motives of those ob jecting to nuclear tests are more politicel and sociological than scientific. In other words, those who demand an end to all test ing are actually objecting ni every use of nuclear weapons in war. UP. writer Serling says the government feels the way to keep a nuclear war from hap pening is to make sure no po tential enemy has more and bet ter atomic weapons, and Unit while fallout risk is always pres ent in testing, it's infinitely los than what would bo involved in a global atomic w;ir. a4t PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are In keeping with its means. A selection of services for every price range ii of fered to satisfy individual . preferences and to meet all financial circumstances. Convenient Terms? Certainlyl o 6 o
