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History from the files of The
Mail tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years aco.
10 YEARS AGO
Juno 17, 1947 (Tuesday)
E. Ronald Rice named school
board director for five-year term.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column, "Monster
turnips are pridefully pointed
out in rural gardens. The gar
dener admits he raised them,
but without credit to Old Sol,
Mother Nature, o.- the little wom
an, who did the hoeing."
20 YEARS AGO
Juno 17. 1937 (Thursday)
Medford citizens to vote on
$50,000 bond issue and special
tax levy to repair paved streets.
State police begin installing
short wave radios in all units.
30 YEARS AGO
June 17. 1927 (Friday)
Grasshoppers invade Tule
lake district, strip half mile area
a day of grazing and grain land.
Water carnival scheduled for
Natatorium tonight; contestants
free, children 10 cents, adults
15 cents.
40 YEARS AGO
Juno 17, 1917 (Sunday)
Total of 1.833 new automobiles
registered in Oregon last month,
highest number in history.
Word has been received by
local Marine recruiting office
that the age limit for enlistment
in marine crops has been reduc
ed from 20 to 19 years.
Whal's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten rorreet t superior;
even or el?ht Is excellent; live or
six Is good.
1. Aristotle expressed the
opinion that the earth was a
sphere: Was he the first to do
so?
2. How many arms has an
actopus?
3. Bible: Does to "fear" Cod
mean to be afraid or apprehen
sive of Him?
4. Of which religious denom
ination was Calvin Coolidge an
adherent?
5. Are there any red-haired
races of people?
6. Is Chiang, or Kai-shek, the
surname of China's Generalis
simo? 7. Name the famous novel by
Tolstoy that deals with Napol
eon's invasion of Russia.
8. Are soft shell and hard
shell crabs two separate species
9. 'Delusion " and "illusion"
both involve thinking something
is so when it is not: Which of
the two is the stronger?
10. "Lizzie Borden took an
axeAnd gave hrr mother forty
whacks: When she saw what
she had done. She Rave her
father" how ninny whacks?
Answers: 1. N. Pythagoras);
2. Eight: 3. No. Reverence for
Him and His laws: 4. Congrega
tionalism 5. No: 6. Chiang (Chi
nese surnames always come
first): 7. "War and Peace": 8.
No: 9. Delusion: 10. "Forty
one." Junction City Publisher
Named President of ONP A
Gcarhart If C. I. Mc
Kmiev. publisher of the Junc
tion City Times. Saturday was
elected president of the Ore
gon Newspaper Publishers As
sociation. Other officers include Philip
N. Blsdine. McMinnville Daily
News-Ke.cister. vice president;
Ed Coman. Woodburn Indepen
dent, treasurer, and Carl C.
Webb. University of Oregon,
secretary-manager.
Gov. Robert D. Holmes spoke
at the Saturday night dinner.
MAIL TRIBUNE
s Baseball
The House Judiciary Antitrust subcommittee to
; day opened a two-week series of hearings on monop
oly aspects of baseball. Next Monday is due from fed
eral Judge Sylvester F. Ryan his final decree on the
control of championship boxing matches.
In one breath they (baseball club owners) say that baseball
is a sport, not subject to antitrust regulations. In another
breath they say that they have the right to move franchises in
the interests of dollars, selling to the highest bidder. If that
isn t business, I'd like to know what is.
That was the reaction of Rep. Emanuel Celler (D
X. Y. ) to the sad word to Brooklynite Celler that
the Dodgers and the New York Giants had permission
of the National League to move to Los Angeles and
San Francisco, respectively, next season. Manny Cel
ler's view has special significance here, for he heads
both the House Judiciary Committee and its subcom
mittee inquiring into baseball's antitrust status.
Eut the ranking Republican on the subcommittee
is calling the chairman 'way off base. "If Congress
had not insisted on sticking its nose into baseball's op
erations, New York would probably not now face the
prospect of losing the Giants and Dodgers," Rep. Ken
neth B. Keating (R-N.Y.) countered on June 3.
Of a handful of bills affecting baseball at this
session of Congress Keating is sponsoring one which
would put the business aspects of baseball, basketball,
football, and hockey under the antitrust laws but
would exempt their playing rules and contracts from
antitrust regulation. Celler, on the other hand, is push
ing a bill that would subject baseball to strict en
forcement of antitrust laws in all their aspects.
""THE U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that professional
football and professional boxing come under the
antitrust laws. A federal judge in New York on May
29 tentatively concluded that the boxing "empire" of
the International Boxing Club of New York, the Inter
national Boxing Club of Illinois, and Madison Square
Garden must be broken up.
Is baseball any less a business than football? In
deciding the football case, Feb. 23, 1957, the Supreme
Court virtually invited Congress to overthrow the
1922 Court holding that baseball is exempt from the
Sherman Antitrust Act on the ground that it is intra
state sport, not interstate commerce. "Were we con
sidering the question of baseball for the first time
upon a clean slate we would have no doubts," Justice
Tom Clark wrote for the 1957 majority.
COME aspects of the proposed shift in National
League franchises may carry some weight with the
Celler group, even though legislation at this session
appears unlikely. The Brooklyn Dodgers, after sell
ing Ebbetts Field last October, offered in January to
buy $5 million of the bonds New York City would
have to float to develop a new sports center.
"Since then," said Dodgers President Walter F.
O'Malley on June 4, "we have invested in Los Angeles
real estate, and we no longer have the $5 million."
He was referring to the Feb. 21 swap in which Brook
lyn's Ft. Worth farm club was traded for the Chicago
Cubs' Los Angeles club.
Los Angeles has $3.5 million for a stadium, plus
tax-free admissions, to attract the Dodgers in the pro
posed shift approved by league owners on May 28.
San Francisco is reported offering the Giants a $5
million to $10 million all-purpose stadium. Pacific
Coast League owners are asking $6.7 million in in
demnities if the shift goes through. And a $2 million
pay-as-you-see television deal is reported hanging on
the cross-contient hop. E.R.R.
Trial
Although much English and American law proced
ure derives from Roman jurisprudence, the jury as an
institution seems to have come to England, not from
Rome, but from a stystem arising in medieval France.
A dozen credible members of the community were
called on to verify what was customary practice and
what were the facts of a case.
From being witnesses the twelve developed into a
body that passed judgment on testimony presented.
In an age when sovereigns ruled arbitrarily the jury
became a bulwark of defense against royal oppres
sion. Blackstone called the jury svstem the "glory of
the English law."
AT the time of the Declaration of Independence
over 150 crimes, many quite trivial, were still pun
ishable by death. So it seemed fair enough that the
prosecution should have to convince twelve good men
and tine before one of their neighbors could be sub
jected to harsh penalties.
However, as communities spread into large organ
isms where every man no longer knew every other,
and as problems submitted to juries grew more com
plicated, trial by jury became widely questioned as an
instrument of justice. In Great Britain the problem
was met, at least in part, by giving judges greater
power to guide or even influence juries, but in this
country judge and jury remain almost as disconnected
as when the Constitution was adopted.
Some defendants now waive their rights to a juiy
trial in the belief that they're more likely to get justice
from a judge than from a jury of their peers. And
some states allow certain minor court decisions to be
made by a jury of less than 12 andor decisions less
than unanimous. E.R.R. t
Monday, Jur.e 17, 1957
Business?
by Jury
Weli.csee! the birds aren't usin'it!"
Correspondents Look
Ahead to Week's News
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
United Press correspondents
around the world look ahead at
the news that will make
the headlines.
Syria Seething
Middle East
ern diplomats
predict a reign
of terror in
Syria any day
now Opposi
tion to the pro
R u s sia, pro
Egyptian gov-
Charles Mccano ernment is in
tensifying. The diplomats look
for the kidnaping and possibly
the assassination of some high
conservative leaders.
Dim View
Military chiefs in Washington
take a dim view of the talk
about suspension of nuclear
weapons tests. Inside informants
say they are ready to launch a
high - octane "keep-up-the-tests"
campaign if there is any move
to suspend them for political
reasons without an air-tight in
spection system. Military men
say the tests are urgently needed
to keep nuclear warhead design
abreast of missile developments.
Empty Saddles
It's rumored in London that
Prime Minister Harold Macmil
lan may have to postpone the
big conference of british Com
monwealth premiers set for
June 26. The reason: Half the
premiers may not be able to
attend.
New Envoy
Norwegian sources list For
eign Minister Halvard M. Lange
as a top contender for the post
of Norwegian ambassador to
Washington. He would succeed
Wilhelm Munthe de Morgen
stierne, dean of the diplomatic
corps, who is to retire Nov. 6
on his 70th birthday.
On the Spot
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon may be put on the spot
if any attempt is made to keep
the civil rights bill, which the
House is expected to approve
this evening, from going to the
Senate Judiciary Committee
where it could be bottled up.
The Senate's own version has
been stalled in the committee
for months. With conflicting
precedents to guide him, Nixon
may have to decide whether to
route the bill to committee
the usual procedure or put it
on the Senate calendar for ac
tion. Normally, bills are put on
the calendar after approval by
committees.
Sporli Outlook
Baseball players complain
Money Decline
To Be Investigated
Washington (If) Sen. Harry
F. Byrd (D-Va.) promises a
sweeping investigation into why
the purchasing power of the
dollar has declined to 49.8 cents
compared with its 1940 value.
His promise came as U. S.
Chamber of Commerce officials
made a prediction which, if
borne out, could lead to an even
further shinkage of the dollar's
buying power.
Byrd is chairman of the Sen
ate Finance Committee which
will make a comprehensive
check-up on the state of the na
tion's economic health at hear
ings beginning Tuesday. Secre
tary of the Treasury George M.
Humphrey wiU be the first wit
ness. Byrd said the new investiga
tion will cover "just about every
thing in the way of monetary
questions, both private and pub
lic." But he said it will concen
trate first on "the inflation thai
has occurred since 1940." Infla
tion, he said, has led to a 49.8
cent dollar compared with the
1940 dollar.
Furthermore, he said, there
has been "a loss of two cents in
the purchasing power of the
dollar in the past year, or 4 per
cent of its 50-cent value."
I iffffn i
about the reserve clause which
binds them to their clubs. But
their spokesmen Bob Feller,
Robin Roberts, Eddie Yost and
others will testify in favor of
the clause during the congres
sional anti-monopoly hearings
which begin today in Washing
ton. They agree with the own
ers that the traditional structure
of baseball would be upset if
the clause were abolished.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Let's talk for a moment today
(a little belatedly, perhaps) about
the Canadian election which
has some faintly puzzling over
tones. There is the undeniable fact
that for a decade or more Can
ada has been doing extremely
well in a business way. Her in
dustrial development has been
increasing at what might well
be described as a fabulous rate.
New enterprises have been
springing up all over the place.
As a result of these new en
terprises, jobs have been more
plentiful than ever before. Can
ada's financial affairs have been
so well managed that she has a
treasury surplus in her cash
drawer instead of a deficit. The
Canadian dollar commands a
premium over the American
dollar, which is the standard
unit of monetary value through
out the world.
And so on.
AND
yet
At their election the other
day Canada's voters threw the
Liberal party out on its ear and
gave to the opposing Converva
tive party a plurality of the
seats in the Canadian parlia
ment.
H
OW come?
Maybe, you will be tempted
to say, the Canadians are get
ting tired of liberal government
and find themselves leaning
back toward conservatism.
THAT theory has a plausible
sound, but it doesn't wholly
fit the facts of the situation.
Canada's Liberal party hasn't
been TOO liberal with other
people's money (meaning money
taken out of the taxpayer's
pockets) which is a cynical
but not altogether inaccurate
definition of "liberalism" in
modern politics.
Canada's finances have been
rather conservatively adminis
tered by the Liberals during
their 22-year tenure of power.
AND
In their recent political cam
paign
Canada's Conservatives wob
bled quite a bit from the tradi
tional things, they spoke in the
same, breath of CUTTING taxes
and INCREASING social bene
fits such as old age pensions.
So we can't be too sure that
the voting in Canada indicated
a drift back toward traditional
conservatism.
rpHEN
Of course
There is the historic case of
Aristides, called "The Just." He
had been in office for a long
time. He had done a good job.
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U.S. Reaction to Girard Incident
Points Up
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington fl?i Peace
makes strange bedfellows, too,
just as politics does. Perhaps
that explains
some of the
misunder -
standing and
resentment in
the U n i t ed
States about
the plight of
Specialist 3C
William S. Gi
rard. Lyle C Wilson Jt js pos.
sible, also, that U.S. citizens
have not been able to adjust
themselves to the rapidly shift
ing objectives of American for
eign policy. Most- Americans
now alive adjusted themselves
a very few years ago to foreign
policy objectives which basically
were these:
Kill Germans; destroy their
homes and their industry.
Ditto for the Japanese.
United States foreign policy
now is based on two considera
tions of fact which it would
have been almost treasonable to
suggest during war time. The
facts are these:
Germany now is the free
nations' anchor man in the West
against Communism.
Japan ditto in the East.
Midwest Farm Boy
Such considerations of fact as
these have led to some events
which scarcely could have been
foreseen nor credited if they had
been suggested a few short
years ago. For example:
Girard, a Midwest farm boy,
has been handed over by the
U.S. government to be tried by
Japanese courts on charges of
JENKINS
But the mercurial Greeks
wearied of him and held an elec
tion in which they voted him
out "ostracism," they called
it.
Aristides, strolling the streets
while the balloting was going
on, came upon a citizen who had
just emerged from what passed
in Ancient Greece for the poll
ing place. "How did you vote?
he asked.
"Oh," the citizen replied, "I
voted against this Aristides."
"Why did you do that?" Aris
tides queried. "Is he an evil
man?"
"Oh, no," the citizen ans
wered. "He's a good enough
man. I'm just sick and tired of
hearing him called The Just."
lOTING, you see, is a strange
thing. You can't always tell
why people vote as they vote.
Maybe they don t always know
themselves. For that reason.
analysis of election results can
never be an exact science.
I suspect, however, that in
this case the Canadians were in
fluenced in their balloting by
the fact that the Liberals had
been in power for 22 years. That
is a long time.
No lesson of history is clearer
than this:
TOO MUCH POWER HELD
IN TOO FEW HANDS TOO
LONG IS BAD BUSINESS.
I have an idea the Canadians
just felt in their bones that it
was time for a change.
14 Convicted Reds
Freed in California
Washington (IPl The Su
preme Court today freed five of
14 convicted California Commu
ists and ordered new trials for
the other nine.
All 14 were convicted in 1952
of conspiring to advocate the vio
lent overthrow of this govern
ment.
Justice John M. Harlan spoke
for a 4 to 3 court majority in the
case. Justice Tom Clark dissent
ed. He would have affirmed the
convictions.
Justices Hugo L. Black and
William O. Douglas also dissent
ed, but on grounds that all the
defendants should have been ac
quitted. Justices William J. Brennan
Jr. and Charles E. Whittaker did
not participate.
Clark said "this court should
not acquit any one here."
"In its long history I find no
case in which an acquittal has
been ordered by this court solely
on the facts," he added. "It is
somewhat late to start in now
usurping the function of the :
jury, especially where new trials ;
are to be held covering the same
charges."
1
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BsKbiTiir satis.
Foreign Policy Change
I shooting and killing a Japanese
woman on a U.S. target range in
Japan. This has caused resent-
Iment in the United States.
U.S. officials are aware that
failure to turn Girard over for
Japanese trial would cause even
1 greater resentment in Japan,
This situation caused Sen.
.George Smathers (D-Fla.) to sav
a few days ago that the United
States is proceeding on a course
of "mass appeasement'' of the
Japanese people and others
in making the status of forces
agreements with foreign nations.
These agreements provide for
the trial of American military
personnel by local courts for of
fenses committed while not in
the performance of duty.
The other side of the argu
ment is provided by the For
mosa incident in which Chinese
rioters sacked the U.S. Em
bassy. The riot took place after
a U.S. military court tried an
American soldier on charges of
shooting a Chinese peeping torn.
The soldier was cleared and re
leased. Focuses Attention
However that may be. the Gi
rard incident has focused the
attention of American citizens
Matter of Fact
The Death's Head Symbol
Amman, Jordan The squalid
mud huts climb the scarred
slopes or huddle in the stony
valleys in half
a dozen areas
of this hilly
little desert
city. "Refu
gees from Pal
estine, these
are," says the
taxi driver
p o i n t e dly
when you
pass one of
melancholy settlements.
Here is human habitation re
duced to the neolithic level. The
family housing in the 8,000 year
old fortified village just so
amazingly discovered near Jer
icho was quite as good as this.
Besides, those forerunners of all
civilization that was to come aft-
!er, who had even invented or
ganized warfare, as their strong
town walls testify, at least had
fields to plough and jobs to do.
The Arabs driven out of Israel
have no fields, and very few
have jobs.
Some live in organized camps.
Some, like so many here in Am
man, live in shantytowns of their
own construction. All receive ra
tions from the United Nations.
If it were not for this ration of
a few measures of flour and a
few spoonsful of oil. a large ma
jority would simply starve to
death.
nrtHUS about a million persons
have been living (and of this
million, about half in little Jor
dan) ever since the Palestine war
in 1948. The world has comfort
ably forgotten about them. But
they should not be forgotten, if
only because the refugee prob
lem is like a deep infection of
the blood which inflames every
other problem in the whole Mid
dle East. And this is a good time
to remember them for a partcu
lar reason.
Henry Labouisse, the quiet
spoken but determined American
head of the special U.N. organ
ization that handles the refugee
problem, has recently passed
through here on a fairly desper
ate mission. He was seeking lo
cal support, before going home
to America to defend himself
against threatened cuts in his re
lief budget. The very fact that
Labouisse should have to under
take such a mission seems all
but incrediole, when you consid
er the character of his budget.
In brief, Labouisse has $25
million a year to provide about
a million people with food and
medical care He used to have an
additional $15 million to provide
schooling for the hundreds of
thousands of refugee children, to
purchase clothing and the like
and to help refugees that may
wish to strike out on their own.
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on their changed relations with
the late enemy.
The change is not only in the
East. The Western enemy's role
of friend and ally against the
Kremlin long since w-as formal
ized by admission of West Ger
many to membership in the
North Atlantic Treaty Organi
zation. American officials over
the years had been preparing
public opinion in the United
States for something like that.
President Eisenhower visited
Germany in 1951 as the supreme
commander of Atlantic defenses.
It was a good will visit during
which Eisenhower told the Ger
mans "bygones are bygones" so
far as World War II enmity was
concerned. He said the Germans
could become equal partners
with the West and that he did
not question the "honor" of
most Germans against whom he
fought.
The partnership has become
steadily more secure, so firmly
established by now that the
nomination on Feb. 7 of this
year of German Lt. Gen. Hans
Speidel to be commander of
NATO ground forces in Central
Europe caused hardly a ripple
in the United States.
By Joeoli Alsop
But this $15 million has already
been cut to S12 million.
CONSIDER those charming sta
tistics. Consider that the to
tal outlay for each refugees' food
clothing, health, education, shel
ter and everything else is not
much above forty dollars a year!
Yet there is serious danger that
even the U.N. appropriation for
food and medicai care will be
considerably cut!
Labouisse's problem is gravely
complicated by the fact that his
money comes from a sort of club
of voluntary contributors among
the U.N.'s member nations. The
United States already puts up
about three-quarters of the total.
But it does not matter much
whether the American Treasury
pays the whole bill. It will be
crimanl lunacy to allow Labouis
se's appropriations to cut at
this juncture. One sure result,
for instance, will be such refu
gee riots here in Jordan as may
well overturn the new and bold
ly independent government of
young King Hussein.
But that is not the end of the
story. Nine years htve worn
away the angry obstin.cy with
which the refugees used to re
joice any alternative but a re
turn to their lost homes. "Give
us justice," they still cry; but
especially among th younger
refugees, there are many who
might now accept oth.r alterna
tives besides repatriation.
LABOUISSE hae only bn able
to offer a littl. more than
$400 in aid to any rofutce who
wishes to surrender his ration
ticket and make a nev start on
his own. Yet he notr h.s several
thousand applicants far this not
especially golden opportunity.
This is only one sign tht the
atmosphere has chinjod. The
time is ripe in Labouise'j opin
ion, for a bold ne program
which would not solv this in
soluble problem, but ould at
least reduce its terribl. dimen
sions. Such a program might
comprise an offer of r.pttriation
(which would not be accepted
while Israel endures) or compen
sation (which would be accepted
with ' alacrity); plus better fin
ancing for those oyishing to make
a new start; plus visas, including
American visas, for those wish
ing to emigrate to a net; land.
Such an attacfc on th refuwe
problem would call forth cries
of phoney outrage from the un
scrupulous Arab politicians who
use these pitiful pstopl. as po
litical pawns. But th simple
fact that the rsfuf.es problem
has been neglected for so long.
is the death's head symbol of the
inanity ot Americ.n Middle
Eastern policy. Good conscience
and good policy both call for ac
tion now.
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