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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Quite a number of speed idiots have started imitating the alleged "flying discs," but staying on the ground to do it. 20 YEARS AGO July 2, 1937 (Friday) Throng of 5,000 persons came into Medford municipal airport to witness sky show of the Ore gon air tour. Nearly 55,000 persons have visited Crater Lake National park so far this year, setting a new early season attendance re cord. 30 YEARS AGO July 2, 1927 (Saturday) C. E. Hougen, post office in spector for seven counties with headquarters in Medford, is pro moted to the Eugene office. Kiwanis and Rotary club mem bers volunteer to help Salvation Army solicit $3,000 for its heart campaign fund. 40 YEARS AGO July 2, 1917 (Monday) New Chautaqua auditorium at Ashland will be formally opened today with a concert by the Portland police band. From Local and Personal col umn: L. K. Brunk and E. W. Anderson of the Blue Ledge mining district are visitors in Medford today. N What's Your I.Q.? Nine or tn correct 1 tuperlor; seven or eUnt U exceUent; five or six Is food. 1. Did Benedict Arnold, the traitor, ever commit widespread ravages against the American patriots while an officer of the British Army? 2. Where is the United States Naval Gun Factory located? 3. Bible: In the time of Jesus women drew water from "Mary's Well." Is it still in existence? 4. What is moonglade? 5. Do all of the States in the U.S. require a blood test as a pre requisite to issuance of a marri age license? 6. At the time of the first census in 1790, did New York or Virginia have the largest pop ulation? 7. Boulder Dam is located on which river? 8. Name the author of "Crime and Punishment." 9. It is proper to use "will" in a sentence with "hope". Is It proper to use "will in a clause with "wish?" 10. 'Without Ceres (bread) and Liber (wine) Venus will starve." Terence. Gramatically, is "will the correct word to use in the sentence? Answerst. 1. Yes. 2. Washing ton, D.C. 3. Yes (Ain Maryan). 4. Reflection of moonlight x on water. 5. No. 6. Virginia. 7. Colo rado. 8. Doito BTsky. 9. No. "Would" should be used. 10. No. "Would" is correct. THE UNSEEN PICASSO Chicago flPi Teen-agers are swinging from Elvis Presley to Pablo Picasso with the help of a jazz musician who carries a copy of the painter's work wherever he goes. Anthony Roma met a group of young fans on the street here recently and they asked to see the copy. He told" them the street was too public his tattoo wasn't on an arm or a leg. MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence . . . New York, N.Y., June 29th: Surprised and delighted to find a charming picture of Alice Bauer on the front page of the Herald Tribune's sports section this morning, clasping her two-and-one-half year old daughter and her pet putter to her breast, the cap tion being, "Smile of Victory. And that is what it was. For one of yie Medford Golf club's old-time favorites, the Bauer sisters are as of now starring in the Women's National Open over at "Winged Foot," both breaking par with 72's the first day but Alice smothering her younger sister yesterday with a 73 to 81. In other words Alice, the elder, is on top. And it is the prayer of this ex-golfer that she stays there. For she deserves it. We don't know all the details but according to what we have heard, Alice has, though the older, always been overshadowed by her younger, more rugged, and more skillful golfing sister. The la'ter not only bested her in golf but took away her husband. That is probably too harsh a term. divorced the man who is now believe it or not they are a happy family at least that is the report in newspaper circles here on and off the golf course that And Papa Bauer, the ex-pro is still on the job, telling his daughters what they do wrong, while Mother Bauer, according to the same source, is also on hand with her gentle and patient solicitude for her two most attractive daughters. In other words here we have the old favorite theatrical "tri angle" situation, but no villain Ex-Mrs. Haggey has her beloved "Heidi" as well as top golfing honors. Marlene has lost her golfing crown for the moment at least but has (again according to newspaper reports) "the man she loves" and is Mrs. Haggey the Here is some material for Hollywood, but they would mess it up and refuse to follow the facts would waste time or money, on a it would to all the Hollywood far fatched." Coming back from Mt. Kisco 125th to save the fetid and poisonous atmosphere of the Grand Central tunnel. Motoring down Park Avenue we were struck with another idea for Hollywood to be called "Park Avenue." Here we have one street in Central Manhattan that is a living drama of economic and human contrasts. beautiful and bountiful avenues of social and financial eminence in the world, to the lowest depths of poverty, congestion, disease and degradation. Here the NY Central trains roar over an "elevated" day and night, it is entirely a colored quarter, mostly Porto Ricans, with stores on the sidewalks and so-called markets in tin can sheds under the railroad tracks. Skinny chickens hang ing on hooks, barrels of feathers nearby and while the fly season has not started for some reason, it soon will and this part of Upper Park Avenue will be alive with them and other insects, human, creeping and otherwise. We are surprised Steinbeclt hasn't discovered this field for one of his shocking sardine-can epics? Here is a perfect cross-section of one of the largest, most exciting and most cosmopolitan cities in America, and one can cover'it on foot in less than an hour. Maybe Edison Marshall will try it. But if he does we would suggest he take his notebook and candid camera, rather than his pith helmet and elephant gun! (Hi there, Edd-is-son.) -R.W.R. Vacationland, U.S.A. Vnn ran talrn it. tYr a truism hv nnw that one thinET Americans will work hard with July ushering in the oflicial vacation period, a lot of industrial plants are making special arrange ments just to keep open while most of the help is away. Some companies, particularly in industries where summer business traditionally is slacK, as in textiles, iiir. chut rlnwn fnr a vnontinn nprinrl for evervbodv. Others insist that employees entitled to three weeks take one of these in the winter. And winter vacations are getting increasingly popular. THE United States is a nation of vacation-takers Tho A V T. -C. T D rennrtorl in Msv 1 95fi that one- third of all bargaining 1 1 ii sizaoie vacauon lmpruveuienus. ine uenu waa iuwam giving vacations after shorter periods of service, adding several days to vacation time, granting up to four weeks after many years of service. Time was, and not so long ago before the mid 1 Q30.'s whpn vacations were afforded onlv salaried employees. Now the man i a j i i. t -a caugnt up wun ms wmie U.S. Department of Labor that. 8? ner cent of office more vacation after one t M I against zi per cent oi piani woraers. rut wait: aiter five vpnrs 99 ner rent of office workers p-et the two- weeks-with-pay and so do ployees. Three weeks or more go frIlar onH m nor ppnt. nt hlne-fo ar workers after 111 years of employment; to 84 tively, aner years, rew in eiiner giuup gei iuur weeks or more 9 per cent of office workers and 4 per cent of shop employees after 20 years ; 28 and 13 per cent, respectively, after 25 years. mm... JJNCLE SAM the U.S. Government gives his em ployees 13 working days of vacation a year for the first three years of service. After that, the federal worker gets a generous 20 days actually four seven day weeks. After 15 years the U.S. job-holder gets 26 days of vacation five weeks and an extra day to go fishin'. The federal system was even more generous until 1951, when economy-minded Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill.) got Congress to make it uniform. Previous vacation leave had been 26 days a year for civil service employees and 15 days annually for postal em ployees. Douglas also got sick leave cut back from 15 davs a year, cumulative to 90 days, or 13 days a year, cumulative without limit. Douglas cited tigures showing maximum vacation in 1951 in 47.8 per cent of all industries studied to be two weeks; in 42.9 per cent, to be three weeks. Only 7 pef cent got as much as four weeks, and a little over 1 per cent more man lour appears now to be in favor of longer periods. Some industries are even going so far as to give periodic leaves with pay in the manner of the academic sab batical. E.R.R. Tuesday. July 2. 1957 But the record shows that Alice her kid sister's husband. And yet and there is plenty of evidence this is true. and stern but devoted parent, visible and no heartbreaks. second. no director in his right mind script in real life; as it stands, experts be so untrue to life and yesterday we stopped off at It goes from one of the most for is a vacation. Indeed, settlements provided for A-- T-1 i J A n.i-n -A in the shop has practically n j .r -1 1 1 . a - cuuaieu ietiuw-wuift.ei. j. study of 1955-1956 showed workers tret two weeks or year of employment as A 1 T" J- 2. J?J- 96 per cent of shop em to 34 per cent of white- and 71 per cent, respec weeks. t,ven so, the trend You PSOPLB PJBK seem TBNVDP TOADS & ONE TIMB ? 1 Matter of Fact by Joseph THE SOVIETOLOGISTS Oxford This reporter has just enjoyed an experience which was not news, quite certainly, TfftW but still seem ed to possess more than enough signifi cance to de serve com- ment. It was a con ference of ex perts on the So viet Union "S o v i et o 1 o- Joieph Alsop gists" now they wrily call them selves held under the auspices of the Congress for Cultural Freedom at Saint Antony's Col lege here in Oxford. The ex perience was odd in more ways than one. More than two score of the leading students of this grim new subject which history has thrust upon the universities of the West, had assembled here from England, America and half of the nations of Europe. The main business of the conference was transacted in English (al though there were also lapses into the distantly related tongue now spoken by American soci ologists, with their strange gab ble about "societal structuring and the like.) A VAST apparatus of learning, a great wealth of detailed knowledge of that other-side-of- the-moon which is the Soviet Union, were displayed at the daily sessions. And sometimes there were less academic and more moving moments, as when a refugee who had taken a lead ing part in the Hungarian rebel lion quietly analyzed the motiva tions of those days of human glory and political tragedy. Maybe it would have seemed less odd if the entire experience had not been enclosed, as it were, in Oxford's mellow beauty and unchanging pride. To sharp en the contrast, the university conferred a batch of honorary degrees in mid-conference. So one went straight from a stern morning of discussion of the So viet future to the fantastic Tu dor splendors of Oxford's aca demic ceremonial, and then to a magnificent luncheon for the degree-getters in the great sun- flooded library at All Souls. Altogether, one could not help reflecting on the opposing val ues and quite opposite strengths of the two different kinds of so ciety the iron Soviet society which was the topic of the So vietologists', conference, and the free Western society of which Oxford is a ripe fruit. Yet it was another contrast, of a different sort, that lent a deeper signifi cance to this occasion. . THE last such Sovietologists' rallv held two vpars a?o at Milan, was first convulsed with controversy and then bitterly cast down by the famous paper of the English economist, Peter Wiles. Wiles then pointed out that the huge Soviet economy, paying low wages to labor and investing an enormous percent age of each year's national in come in new capital develop ments, must be expected to de velop very great power. Wiles suggestion, that the so viet system had its own special, ugly but undeniable brand of "ef ficiency," was at that time al most revolutionary. But today the Soviet Union's vast military-industrial-economic power is taken for granted, at least by the experts. Two years after Milan, the Ox ford conference's theme was, not the power of the Soviet econ omy, but the evolutionary diffi culties of the Soviet system as a whole. By all but one or two. it was accepted that the monolithic pat tern of Soviet society was now being strangely altered by the effects of the Soviet industrial revolution and many other inter acting pressures. The questions chiefly debated were not wheth er the Soviet Union wouia change, but how it would change, and how fast, and how far. INHERE was no such smug, olea ginous false optimism as you can sometimes hear in Washing ton, from those who hope that Alsop the main problems of the West will be obligingly solved by a Soviet collapse. But there was sober, factual debate about the changing role and composition of the ruling Communist party, the straining organization of in dustry and agriculture, the per sistent ferment of the Russian in tellectuals and students and the other grave problems that now confront the Soviet rulers. It was comforting to hear So viet problems being debated in stead of Soviet strengths. The last two years have revealed, be yond doubt, that despite its frowning facade and harsh inner machinery of tyrannical repres sion, the Soviet society has as many problems and just, as real problems, as the Western socie ties. But the comfort was a bit di luted, if one had just come from the troubled Middle East, as this reporter had done. Inconsiderate questions kept popping Into one's mind, such as the question about what wilt happen if the Kremlin chooses to play the card of all- out hostility to Israel, thus caus ing American diplomacy in the Arab lands to fall apart like a house of cards. And to these questions there was only one answer, that the present world drama is like an unearthly race between the developing problems of the Soviet Union and the West. (Copyright, 1957, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial ior publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted tor pub licaUon must not exceed 400 words Trust Busting To the Editor: So-called "trust busting" by the government, which is exemplified by the re cent legal action against the Gen eral Motors-Du Pont combine, will receive, probably, the ap probation of those who have given the subject superficial at tention. Ever since the rise of the trusts in the late nineteenth century, reformers and liberals have belabored the theme that the solution to the problems raised by these huge economic concentrations was to break them up. "Trust-busting" be came the liberal's favorite oc cupation. From the very outset the Soc ialist Labor Party took a thor oughly Marxist stand on trusts and trust-busting. The SLP not ed that the would-be trust-busters lived in a nostalgic dream world in which, history having been turned back, small inde pendent producers would once again rule the economy. The SLP held that such a world was irretrievably gone and any attempt to recall it by interfering with the - evolution ary' processes of history would only postpone a real solution to capitalist monopolist tendencies. The SLP said the solution was not to break up the trusts, but to organize the working class, politically and industrially, to take over the trusts (and all other businesses, too) and operate them on a socialist basis. Henry R. Korman, 2640 Garfield St., Longview, Wash. 111 y PARKER WOODS' la 011 jff f 21 North Centra! s Unrest Said Increasing Soviet Satellites in Europe By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Reports from Eastern Europe indicate that unrest is growing in nearly all ol the Soviet satel lite countries. Czech o s 1 o v a k i a, Bul garia and Al bania are among the countries af fected. In Hungary, pop u 1 a r op position to the puppet regime Charles Mccano of Premier Janos Kr dar is being kept under control by ruthless terrorism. But there is serious dissension inside the Communist Party and a purge is under way to rid the army of disaffected elements. In East Germany, Red leaders are drafting students for forced labor or for army service to keep them under control. It is notable that all of the countries mentioned are being ruled by "Stalinist" leaders who accept Russian domination. Official Visit Postponed A dispatch from Prague re ports that Soviet Premier Nik olai A. Bulganin and Communist Party leader Nikita S. Khrush chev have postponed a scheduled state visit to Czechoslovakia. There is good reason to be lieve that the trip was postponed because of outbreaks of disorder. The Czechoslovak prosecutor- general was quoted as saying in a speech made last month that Communist leaders were the tar gets of "ever-increasing" violent disturbance of public order. The prosecutor-general com plained that prosecutors, judges and attorneys for defendants were showing alarming tenden Editorial Comment BRICKBATS AT THE COURT It was to be expected that cries of fear, outrage and an guish would arise from certain quarters following the Supreme Court's stirring reiteration last week of its determination to up hold the liberties of the indi vidual as guaranteed by the Con stitution of the United States. From no quarter do the cries come more vehemently or less surprisingly than from Louis C. Wyman, president of the Na tional Association of Attorneys General. It so happened that Mr. Wyman is also Attorney General of New Hampshire, whose ques tioning of a university professor Paul M. Sw y about alleg edly subversive political views. activities and associations was slapped down by Chief Justice Warren only last week as "un questionably an invasion of liberties in the areas of academic freedom and politi cal expression areas in which Government should be extreme ly reticent to tread." It is with this background in mind that one should read Mr. Wyman's present strictures against the Supreme Court, which he now accuses of "judi cial undermining of national se curity as well as of the very foundation of a free Amer ica's right to protect itself." New Hampshire's Attorney Gen eral wants all sorts of legisla tion "to undo" the recent decis ions in this field of civil liberties and anti-subversive legislation. He even asks for the states "a greater voice in confirmation of appointments to the Supreme Court" which isn't a reflection of much confidence in the ability of the Senate to pass upon Presi dential nominations. Mr. Wymann is far off base in denouncing the recent decisions as having "set the United States back twenty-five years" in its efforts to control communism. The Supreme Court's scrupulous affirmation and reaffirmation of the Bill of Rights is one of our country's greatest safeguards against communism, as well as one of the most striking points of difference between ours and a Communist society. New York Times. TREADFUL OCCURRENCE Barton, Wis. (W Eugene Buhnke, 13, was run over by a six-ton dump truck Monday and he's got the. tire marks to prove it. Doctors said the marks and minor bruises were his only injuries. cies toward "liberalism" and en couraging offenders by failing to be tough enough with them. A dispatch to the London weekly newspaper Observer re ported on Sunday that Czecho slovak Communist leaders "face a challenge similar to that which started the upheavals last year in Poland and Hungary." It is known that the economic situation in Czechoslovakia is bad. The Prague Radio said re cently that the coal shortage in Czechoslovakia, the most highly industrialized satellite, has be come "catastrophic." Deportations Reported Dispatches from Vienna and Belgrade report that thousands of Bulgarians regarded as "un reliable" are being deported to remote provincial areas. In ad dition, the authorities are re cruiting Bulgarian men and women of from 18 to 30 years In the Day's News By FRANK Western water note: The 159-million-dollar Frying-pan-Arkansas project (in Colo rado) has been passed by the senate and sent to the house of representatives for action there. The dispatches reporting senate approval add that the bill is "expected to run into a lot of opposition in the house." Senate approval came on a voice vote after rejection of two amendments offered by Calif ornia Sen. Thomas Kuchel. The brief fight in the senate was led by Colorado s senators Gor don Allott, a Republican, and John Carroll, a Democrat. Senator Allott said the ECO NOMIC need for the project (which twice previously has been approved by the senate) "remains unaltered." LET'S TAKE A brief look at the economics of this project, which is designed to furnish a PARTIAL supply of water to some 322,000 acres of land and in addition is expected to pro duce about 470 million kilowatt hours of electricity. Let's look at the reclamation side of the picture first. IF THE total estimated cost of $159,000,000 were to be applied against the 322,000 acres to be served with water, ths cost would be a shade under $500 per acre assuming that the final cost turned out to be no higher than the estimate. Note,, please, that only a PAR TIAL supply of water for the land is contemplated. That poses a rather interest ing question: How would YOU feel about taking on say a quarter-section of this land with a cost of $500 an acre chalked up against it to begin with for only a PARTIAL supply of water? REMEMBER, you would be getting only the bare land with facilities such as irrigation and drainage ditches for provid ing it with a . partial supply of water. You would have to put up your own buildings. You would have to buy your own machinery and other incident als. If you were an experienced operator, I'm afraid you would feel that you were Uking on quite a load. ALL OF THIS, of course, is based on the assumption that all the costs and all the bene fits of the Fryingpan-Arkansas project would be applied to reclamation of the 322,000 acres of land. That isn't true. Approximately half a million kilowatt hours of electric energy would be produc ed Presumably income from tlie sale of this power would be ap plied to some extent to reduc tion of the cost of reclamation of the land. In that event, you should dra- Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan i Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. Among for labor- service in Russia be cause they are potential trouble makers. Even in tiny Albania, on the Adriatic coast, there is both pop ular unrest and dissension inside the Communist Party. Maj. Gen. Panajot Pljaku, a veteran Communist, fled to Yugoslavia in May and sought asylum because he feared arrest as one of a group of men who eppose the "Stalinist" leader ship. In none of the satellites is there any indication that a real revolt is likely. For one thing both the people at large and dis sident Communists realize that Russian troops would intervene to crush any outbreak as they did in Hungary. But it is evident that Commu nist leaders throughout Eastern Europe are anxious. Unrest is likely to increase steadily. JENKINS matize yourself as a taxpayer. for the $159,000,000 will be tak en out of the taxpayers' pockets. You may be a dedicated discipla of the doctrine of federal pow er. In that event, you will be happy to contribute your share of the capital cost of the pro ject. But we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that when govern ment spends millions or billions for power projects the money comes out of the taxpayers' pockets. Maybe it will be put back again someday. But for the pres ent money taken out of the tax payer's pocket is no longer there for the taxpayer to spend. SO FAR, THIS discussion hat been purely academic. What ISN'T academic is tna fact that this Fryingpan-Arkan-sas water will be taken from the WEST side of the Continent ental Divide for use on the EAST side of the Continental Divide. Every drop of it that is tunneled under the Rockie to run down the Arkansas WON'T run down the Colorado. It WON'T be surplus water for everyone in the West knows there is NO SURPLUS water in the Colorado basin. EVERY DROP of the Colorado's water will be needed by the states in the Colorado's basin. IlrHAT THAT amounts to is ' taking water away from one region that has it and needs it and giving it to another re gion that doesn't have it but WANTS it. Here in Southern Oregon and Northern California, we are strongly opposed to that practice. The secret of vodka enjoyment Is in Wolfschmidt's $410 45 Qt. Wolfschmidt Ltd., Dundalk, Md. 80 proof. 100 Grain Neutral Spirits Product of U.SA This year's centralized fire works displays eliminates the danger of fires from home-fireworks but ther. ar. many other ways that your horn, might be ser iously damaged by fire. Better take a home inven tory and determine wheth er you hav. ample re placement insurance. We'll be hoppy to assist you. Bill Fish
