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Newspaper Page Texto FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "lyerront in Southern Oregon B.e T a Mall Tn b une PubUr.-i Dai;y Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO S7-28 North Fir St Hnone 2-I41 ROBERT W RfHL. Elitnx HERB OREV Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Bmmeu Manaftf ERIC ALO-EN JR Manama Editor KARL H ADAMS CitV Editor BARRY CH1PMA.N Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Spirts Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Eocietv Editor DALE EP.1LKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as e"ond claw matter at Metiiord Oregon under Act oi Marcn 3 I?i7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mil In Advance Per Copy lOe Daijy and Sunday One year SI WjO Daily and Sunday S:x months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three nv 4.25 S indav Only One Tear $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford ArWand Central Point Eae Point Jacksonville Oold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Roue River Talent and on motor routea Daily and Sunday One year 118 CO Dally and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy A U Terms Cah in Advance Cfflctal Paprr of the City of Medford Offlf UjPaper of Jackson County V nl ted PreaaF ull " Leased Wi re HZ ME Fit OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative. WEST-HOLIDAY COMFA.W INC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt San Franc wo Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta w Vnronvr B C NATIONAL f 0 I T O 1 1 A i I AJSOcfA'lN S' NEWSPAPE BlISHEIS SOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 24, 1947 (Tuesday) Governor Earl Snell and citi zens of the valley honor Ben Hur Lampman at a Ben Hur Lampman day at Gold Hill. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: An upstate visitor to the Ben Hur Lampman celebration at Gold Hill showed up wearing four (4) "Lifetime" fountain pens none of them working. 20 rthtt SGO June 24. 137 (Thursd?) Antique hand pumper to be used on ral blaze in demonstra tion for fire chief's convention now beitjg held here. Picking aif the 1937 crop of Sogud river cherries gets under way today; bings and Royal Annfif predominatly. 3 ?f 1S3 AGO Jun 4. l$2t (Fiida) Ser.Stor Charles McNary. Frederick Steiwer, and Con-gre.-nan N. J. Sinnot inspect Medford Irrigation district and pledi help in getting bonded in debie4r.j refunded. County court agked for special one mill levy for county fair. 40 yar GO June 24, 191 (Sunday) Red Cross seeks to raise 510, 000 in fund drive for Medford Post office workers pledge one per cent of wages while war lasts. From the Local and Personal column: The wave of patriotism thaj, has swept over the United States for some time is evi denced by the auto tourists pass ing thru Medford from various $rts of the country. On nearly gvgry eg.- is gt least one flag or Ciothigf patriotic emblem. ' Ytir I.Q.T tfc r correct Is superior; ssvt e-r etc be Is excellent; five or ?. Ig W. C. Handy, the Negro fmjSoser. and "Father of the Blue", a, native of Memphis. TCnn .. Florence, Ala. or Hender OfOn S C.? g. Alexander Hamilton died (as) th result of a wound receiv ed in a, duel with whom? 3. Bible: Was Archelus, son successor of Herod, as tyran nical nd as cruel as his father? J Are there two post offices th identical name in any State' 5. If you wore hirsute camou flage, would you wear false Jeeth. false hair, or high heels? 8. & teacher had five apples In i bag. How could she give one to each of five children and still have one of them in a bag? 7. Topeka is the capital of hich State' w 8. Which former heavyweight boxing champion was known as the "Manassa Mauler"? 9. 'a" is the principal vowel of "Sameter". What is the prin cipal vowel of "forbade", and how is it pronounced' 10. "The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republic of let ters." Tom Jones (1749V "Re public of letters" is an apothegm for what? Answers: 1. Florence. Ala. 2. Aaron Hurt. 3. Yes. 4 No. S. False ha;?, Give one of the children the bag with the apple in it. 7. gansas. 8. Jack Demp sey. 9. "a": as in "bad". 10. Field of UtersUure. CHILDREN'S WRITER DIES New York t? Mrs. Mary Sanders. 60. a writer of chil dren's stories, died Sunday of cancer. MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence New York, N.Y., June 20th: The heat-wave broke last night with a strong wind but no thunderstorms as predicted. From 94 to 54 is quite a drop, but that is what happened. It may warm up again before the day is over, but sufficient unto the hour is the coolness thereof. It feels like a new world, and your correspondent feels like a New Man ALMOST. Since our return we have found that the one-car train service, with engine, baggage car and passenger car in one. has been adopted here in the East by some other railroads. So the 'well worn alibi" of the S.P. heads that it is a nice idea but can't be done fails to stand up. It has been done and could be done by the S P. if that billion dollar organization had some sense of obligation other than that of increasing its profits. We haven't figures and facts to sustain our judgement but our guess is that all the railroads that have put on one-car Diesel service, have done so not to make more money, but not to renig on their responsibilities in the realm of public service. Why hasn't the SP the same attitude as the Boston & Maine, the C.P.R., and other important railroad systems in this part of the country'? That is a question we have often asked but that has never been satisfactorily answered. Our conviction is a major factor in this difference, is the difference in the state laws regulating railroads. Imagine what a radical change in the transportation picture in Southern Oregon could be realized if the SP would pay less attention to the cash register and more to living up to its claim of being "friendly" that is having some regard for what the travelling public wants, and less to what the NY bankers want. For example: Such Diesel cars as the CPR and the Boston and Maine run regularly between Boston and Montreal could leave Medford at 8 a.m. and reach San Francisco at 5 p.m., making all important stops. The distance from Boston to Montreal is more than the distance to Portland, and only slightly less than the distance to San Francisco. The one-car train could leave Medford for Port land at the same hour and arrive at approximately 3 p.m. This isn't guess work, it is what is being done in this part of the country every day and by some of the best managed roads in the country. As far as road bed and curves are concerned, the Boston and Maine and SP's Siskiyou Division are approximately on a par. Yet, who expects the present management of the SP to do anything about it? We don't, and we don't know any person informed of the political and financial power and greed of this allegedly "friendly" railroad who expects any radical change in its reactionarly and selfish policy either. As far as the S.P. is concerned this is not a government of, by and for the people but a government "of Big Business, by Big Business and for Big Business." We finally got tickets for "Auntie Mame," one of the three big hits of the season, attending the Wednesday matinee. Rosalind Russell is "Auntie Mame" and does a wonderful job. The only fly in the amber except the packed house and the humidity was our tendency to think of our Aunt Anna and what she would have thought of the goings on. We know perfectly well she would have walked out before ten minutes of the first act had passed, and might very well have asked for her money back, for she managed and owned three farms in Winnebago County, Illinois, never to our knowledge got the worst of it in a business deal, and while in no sense a prude, had definite ideas of decent human behaviour, and never deviated from them. The cocktail Bohemian world in which Auntie Mame held sway would have outraged and sickened her and she would not have suffered the indignity of sitting in her "hot seat" and listening to it. Yet as the theatrical and literary world runs along these days, there was nothing really offensive in this comedy-farce, and there were moments of sanity and true dramatic feelings in these moments in fact, we thought Miss Russell was definitely at her best. And it ALL was MOST of the time EXTREMELY funny. But if Aunt Anna were visiting New York wish she could; and after attending Auntie Mame had been sent a clipping of this favorable comment, she would have cut her nephew off her list for keeps and proclaimed him no better than a "rebel DEMO CRAT." It all adds up to the fact that Aunt Anna lived in one world and Auntie Mame in quite another. Whether the latter dramatical ly is better or not we shall leave up to the Supreme Court, but we have no doubt having experienced something of both that present day comedy is far broader, and drama far more de pressing and realistic, than it was in the world of our beloved aunt. R.W.R. Influenza from the Orient The United States cannot hope to escape, says the U. S. Public Health Service," all impact from the influenza now prevalent in the Far East. The disease has reached epidemic proportions there, and some travelers to this country from the Orient have in evitably been exposed to it. However, this Far East influenza is reported to be of a mild type which runs its course in a few days and has a low mortality rate. Anyhow, influ enza is seldom serious in the United States during the summer. The actual test of whether the Oriental epidemic will have serious repercussions here will come this winter. A REALLY virulent type of influenza can be serious at any time of year. The influenza epidemic dur ing World War I afflicted so many countries in so many parts of the world that it was termed "pan demic'" that is, worldwide. It was generally known here as "Spanish" influenza. Smiting American soldiers first in France, then Fjeading to Army camps in New England and other parts of this country, it caused more fatalities in our armed forces than did actual hostilities. One Army camp alone reported 3,000 cases in eight days. Civil ians also were hard hit, but now antibiotic drugs have robbed all influenza of most of its danger, and in addition the Health Service holds out hopes for a successful anti-influenza vaccine. E.R.R. Editorial Comment I PASSENGER SERVICE j Down in Texas a few days ago, the presidents of two major rail I roads predicted the end of rail ! road service before too many I years. j As might be anticipated, one of the forecasters of doom for passenger trains was D. J. Rus- ! sell of Southern Pacific. The other was William Deramus III, head of the debt-ridden Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad. Mr. Russell is president of one of the most prosperous rail roais in the nation: Mr. Deramus is trying to untangle the prob Monday. June 24. 1937 lems of the "Katy" and get back on a sound financial track. Both railroad executives fore see larger passenger loads for the airlines, with long distance travelers turning to the air. For the short and medium distance, the private car will provide the major transportation. If their predictions are correct, the only passengers railroads would carry would be in the commuter class. From tlje demonstrated policy of Southern Pacific in this area, we know that SP will do noth- I ing to encourage rail passenger I travel, but we suspect that such ; progressive lines as Santa Fe. I Union Pacific and the northern j transcontinental will make a ! real fight before they abandon i the passenger business to the i air line?. Ashland Tidings. 'Howdy, ma'am! This shore ANT IT? Matter of Fact Farewell To George Humphrey Washington To the specta tors in the crowded hearing room of the Senate Finance C o m m ittee, where Secre tary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey has been singing his swan song, only Hum phrey's oddly point- 1 Unl!nn sWL Sir wait AISOD "S head and his powerful shoulders have been visible. The Senators sit in a solemn semi-circle on a raised dais, while Humphrey testifies from a low desk squeez ed up against the dais on the floor below. Thus Humphrey must always raise his head and look upward at a questioning Senator, like a little schoolboy reciting a les son. Yet somehow, from that unpromising position, H u m- phrey has managed, by the mys terious alchemy of personality, to dominate the hearings, so that it has often seemed that he was the teacher, and the Sen ators the schoolboys. No doubt of it, George M. Humphrey is a most remarkable man. He is remarkable for the force of his personality. But he is remarkable too, as a political and social phenomenon.. For the political and economic views he brought to the government were the views of an orthodox, con servative businessman, with every l' dotted and every l crossed. AS. A glance at the other mem bers of thp nrieinal Eisen hower 'team" suggests, the gov ernment has a way of changing the views of the most doctrm naire conservative. How, then, have Humphrey's views changed after 4V2 years in one of the three or four most powerful gov ernment posts? The answer is that they have not changed a bit. Every "T" is still crossed, every "I" still dot ted. Listening to him testify, this reporter kept remembering a long interview with Humphrey in 1953, for the Saturday Eve ning Post. Since that time, Hum phrey has lost the habit of punctuating his sentences for emphasis with the odd little word "bing." But in every other way, the Humphrey of 1957 still stays precisely the same things in precisely the same words as the Humphrey of 1953. He still believes, now as then, that the management of the na tion's finances is precisely ana logous to the management of a business or even a private house hold. He still likes to start a sentence, "Every housewife in America knows." He still re peats, over and over agin, that to avoid disaster "we just have got to get control over our situa tion. " THE FACT is that, by his own special standards, George Humphrey is leaving the gov ernment as something he is not used to being a failure. He says that he is "deeply proud" of his record, and in some ways he has a right to be. But the fact remains that Humphrey has not done what he confidently set out to do. He has not "got control over our situation." There was a big laugh in the hearing room, in which Hum phrey genially joined, when Senator Harry Byrd reminded him of President Eisenhower's 1952 promise to cut the budget to S60 billion, and Humphrey replied, "that was before he was elected." But in those days, I Humphrey certainly regarded the promise as a sacred contract, and he certainly firmely expect ed to cut the budget well below S60 billion. These days, Humphrey must sometimes feel a bit like a boy on the burning deck, whence all but he had fled. How could he have expected that his able protege, Marion Folsom, would end up defending a social wel fare budget to make the fair dealing Oscar Ewing's eyes bug out in envy? How could he have expected that the impeccably conservative Ezra Taft Benson would champion a budget double the size of the biggest agriculture budget in Harry Truman's day? is a zoot qbbr day By Stewart Alsop TJOW COULD he have sup- posed that his old business friend. Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks, would one day denounce "the budget butchers" in straight Truman style? Surely he could not have foreseen a time when his closest friend in the cabinet. Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, would remark that "it gives me a pain to hear my rich friends in the Chamber of Commerce squawking about high defense spending." These people have not really changed, of course, any more than George Humphrey has changed; they have merely re sponded, as any government under any president must re spond, to the unalterable econo mic, political, and above all in ternational pressures of these times. And George Humphrey is not really a failure, even by his own standards, since govern ment spending as a proportion of the national income is much lower now than in Truman's day. Humphrey is a failure only in terms of the dreams which many businessmen shared with him when Dwight Eisenhower was elected a dream of a re turn to the past, with little gov ernment, little budgets, little taxes. That dream is shattered, as one of his colleagues has sad ly remarked, "if George couldn't do it, nobody can." And so fare well to George Humphrey, a very able man, and to a past which no power on earth can recreate. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment ON THOSE SUBPOENAS Those who thought that Mc Carthyism was in the eclipse have been sorely troubled by some of the statements that have come out of Washington in recent days in regard to the scientists who oppose further testing of large nuclear weapons. The inter nal security subcommittee of the U.S. Senate has subpoenaed Dr. Linus Pauling, the Nobel prize winner, for the express purpose, according to the committee chairman, bl determining wheth er "the Communists are behind this." If this committee turns to witch hunting and seeks to tie opposition to H-bomb testing with communism it will have done a great disservice to this democracy. Of this, the Vancouver B.C. Province recently said: "Most of the signers of the Pauling protest are biologists and geneticists and there are those who believe that these men are better qualified to speak about the danger of radiation to mankind than the defenders of the tests, who are principally physicists, more concerned with the working of nuclear weapons than with their effects. "There is no doubt that the 2,000 spoke out sincerely from scientific belief, just as others such as Dr. Albert Schweitzer have spoken out from conscience- "If it is to be inferred in any way that thus speaking out is a crime against the state, then American scientists will be re duced to the level of their col leagues in the Soviet Union at the height of Stalinism, when science had to conform to Marx ist doctrine, or else. "Every witch-hunt is based on what might be called the Mc Carthy syllogism the equiva- HEAVEN NO MORGUE GEO. N. TAYLOR Heaven holds no dead men even if all of them sinned while here on earth. The wages of sin is death but the people of heaven died with no sin charged against them. God had put all their sins on Christ. And more yet the very instant that you accept Christ as having died for your sins, God puts Christ's righteousness on you and also your name in his Book of Life. ' For God so loved you that He gave his only born Son. that if you believe on Him, you should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16. BIBLE. Being saved, then by daily Bible reading and prayer, grow up. Russia Seen Making Strong Bi For Mediterranean Sea Power By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia seems to be making a determined attempt to establish itself as a Medi terranean pow er. Several mo tives have been suggested for the current m o v ement of Russian naval units into the Mediterranean from both the Baltic and m i rc marles McCano OlacK seas, w ficially, three submarines which went into the Mediterranean from the Baltic, after moving In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Washington dispatches tell us that members of Senator Byrd's committee that is investigating the financial structure of the United States are agreed that INFLATION is the No. 2 prob lem of our time topped only by the search for peace. Some of them are said to be lieve it could easily become Problem No. 1. WHAT causes inflation? ' One caiibe is too much money chasing too tew goods. That condition existed during the war, when consumer goods were scarce because we had to devote so much of our produc tive capacity to war materials. There was plenty of money then because there wasn't much to spend money for except taxes and war bonds. So we were inclined to BID UP THE PRICE for things we wanted. That doesn't concern us much right now. For example: More autos are presently being made than can be sold at existing prices. That is true of most other products. As of now, goods are mora abundant than money. B UT Inflation continues. WHY? THE answer to that question is provided by what is known as the wage-price spiral. Wages represent a large part of the cost of production. As wages rise, production costs rise. As production costs rise, prices have to rise or profits will disap pear. If profits disappear, peo ple will quit investing in busi ness enterprises, JOBS WILL DISAPPEAR. So The spiral keeps on spiral ing. AS TO this spiral, there are two schools of thought. One calls it the WAGE-price spiral. The other calls it the price WAGE spiral. Which is right? Which is wrong? If you can answer that, you can solve another ancient puzzle: Which came first the hen or the egg? AT THIS point, you may say: "If all that is true, why not just raise wages, then raise prices, then raise wages, then raise prices" and so on into infinity, which is the point far off in the distance where the rails of the railroad track come together? THAT sounds reasonable until you consider this: Nearly everybody in these days is looking forward to even tual retirement on some kind of pension or on savings invest ed perhaps in bonds. Pensions provide a definite number of DOLLARS at a definite future time. The same thing goes for bonds. That poses this problem: Suppose, when your retire ment time comes, the DOLLARS provided by your pension (or your bonds) have been so depre ciated in their purchasing power by steadily creeping inflation that they won't BUY enough to keep you alive not to mention supporting you in the style to which you have looked forward? It is something that concerns EVERYBODY'S bread and but ter. lent of: "All Patagonians have black hair; therefore all black haired people are Patagonians." "If this is applied in a way that makes honest men afraid to express any belief with which a communist may agree or pre tend to agree then we put the control of our freedom of speech and of consicence right into the hands of the Communists them selves." Pendleton East Ore gonian. 1 it ostentatiously through the nar row English Channel, have been handed over to Egypt. Officially, also, a cruiser, two escort ships and three motor torpedo boats which entered the Mediterranean from the Black Sea are preparing for maneu vers. But two of the three subma rines are big ones which Egypt could not possibly man even if they were suitable for its use, presumably in blockading the Gulf of . Aqaba to Israeli shipping. May Be Spying The two big ones may have been moved in to spy on the powerful United States 6th Fleet which is based in the Mediter ranean. As regards the "maneuvers" explanation for the presence of the surface craft, there is good reason to believe that Russia is making a show of strength for the benefit of the Arab coun tries, to demonstrate that the 6th Fleet has no monopoly in Mediterranean waters. The movement probably is in tended also as an answer to the recent visit of British warships to Turkish ports in the Black Sea, which Russia likes to think of as a private lake. Turkey is somewhat disturbed by the Russian activity. For more than a century, Rus sia has been trying to break Turkeys control of the Dar danelles Straits, which links the Black Sea with the Mediter ranean, in order to gain free access to the Mediterranean. Turkey is acutely aware of its More Attention Being Directed to Inflation As Danger By LYLE C. WILSON United Presi Correspondent Washington IW Young Robert M. White" II took bows today around the square in Mexico, Mo. So did L. M. (Mitch) White. Young Bob and old Mitch are co-editors and co-publishers- of the Mexico, Mo., Ledger, one of the better Lyi. c. wiison small town dailies in the United States, cir culation 7,000 in the lush and bountiful central part of the state. Mitch and Bob are father and son. They had a look last Janu ary at President Eisenhower's big spending budget and they have been noting the creeping inflation currently overrunning the United States. Meeting in Washington today was the National Citizens Com mittee to Curb Inflation which was born of Mitch and Bob's contemplation of what was hap pening to the U.S. economy. The committee will meet here for two days to hear a dis cussion of inflation and what to do about it. The speakers are big name economists, bankers and members of Congress. As sembled for the meeting here are individuals pretty well rep resenting all parts of the United States. Fact of Importance The fact that the committee exists at all and is meeting here with an impressive program of speakers is a political fact of considerable importance. The meeting is further evident that the people of the United States are beginning to get the world on inflation and what it will mean to them if it continues un controlled. Fire and flood together can not match uncontrolled infla tion's ability to kill and to de story. Out of the Whites' convic tion that the inflationary trend had become dangerous came a FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price, Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 delicate strategic position. It is the only North Atlantic Treaty country except Norway which has a frontier facing the Soviet Union, and Norway's is only a few miles wide, far above the Arctic Circle. Turkey Surrounded On its southern frontier, Tur keyx has Syria, which is now ruied by a government even mora pro-Russian than Egypt's. And Bulgaria, a supine Russian satellite, borders on European Turkey. Hence Turkey views any Rus sian move like the present one as part of a design to encircle and isolate it. As regards Russia's ambitions in the Mediterranean, The pres ent bid started when the Soviet government arranged for Com munist Czechoslovakia to supply Egypt with arms. It may be recalled also that when Great Britain and France invaded the Suez Canal Zone last November, Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin wrote Presi dent Eisenhower proposing joint Russian - American intervention 'under the auspices of the Unit ed Nations." O Bulganin said the United States had strong naval forces in the Mediterranean the 6th Fleet. He said Russia also had strong naval and air forces available for intervention at points which he did not specify but which must have been based on the Black Sea. Eisenhower rejected that bjd. But Russia evidently is trying again to elbow its way into the Mediterranean. to Nation letter signed by a score or more citizens of Mexico, Mo., address ed to the two U.S. senators from Missouri and to one or more members of the Missouri dele gation in the House. It may be significant that this substantial letter of protest, out of which grew a national or ganization aimed at curbing in flation arid reducing govern ment spending, came from the heart of an area known as Little Dixie. Audrain county and some adjacent counties in cenral Mis souri are as Democratic as south Boston and almost as Southern in thought as Mississippi. President Harry S. Truman's big spending operations did not turn a hair in Little Dixie nor did FDR's uninterrupted series of federal deficits excite pro test. It is notable now, however, that the challenge to big spend ing comes largely from Demo crats whose party so happily supported the Roosevelt-Truman habit of spending annually more than the Treasury collected in taxes. Blamed On Policies The fact of inflation In the United States is generally, but not wholly accepted. Some con gressional Democrats contend that the steady rise in prices is caused by the administration's high interest-hard money policies. However that may be, prices are going up. Ewan Clague told the United Press that the May figure for the cost of living probably will show anothej rise for the ninth month in a row. Clague is commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics which monthly computes the consumer price index. The May figure will be out Tuesday. Moreover, government econo mists concede that prices will continue to rise moderately through the rest of 1957. The monthly rises have been small, but they add up. 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