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FOUR MEDFOHD (OREGON) UHI "Zvcrron In Southern Orefao Read The Mall Trlburf" FobHIhrfl Dall t Except Saturday by AtEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North rtr St. Phone 2-8H1 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager &ERAJ.D LATHAM. Business Manaex ERIC ALLEN JR. Manamne Editor KARL U AI'AMS City Editor BARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OUVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newipaper Entered aa second claa matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year f IS 00 Daily and Sunday Si month 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mo 4.25 Sundav Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Mediord Ashland Central Point Eaffle Point. Jacksonville. Cold HID Phoenix. Shady Cove Rosrue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year SIB 00 Dally and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealer 10c per cooy All Term Cash In Advance bffvial Paper of the City- of Medford Official Paper of -Jackson County m United PreasFull Leaaed Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COfc'PANT INC Office in New York Chicajro. de trait. Sa n Ft a ncisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver BC NATIONAL IDITOIIAt AISOCk-A'lSN rra Sff NIWSPAPil rUILIIHtll ASSOCIATION High! o' Time' ' Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS ACO July 31. 1947 (Thursday) Capt. Warren B. Smith, for merly of Medford, pilots plane in Inauguration of new Buenos Aires route. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Teenagers of both genders are now at large with shirt-tails unfurled. 20 YEARS AGO July 31. 1937 (Friday) Medford residents requested by Fire Chief Roy Elliott to burn all rubbijh and dry grass withoiS delay. Sale of the Bellview site to gether with a WPA project now pendjng in Washingon will re sult in extensive improvements for the Southern Oregon Normal school, the president says. 30 YEARS AGO July 31. 1927 (Sunday) State highway department ad vises drivers to pry out crushed gravel stiftk beween tire treads after driving over freshly oiled r$ads. Crater National fcrest ranks second of Oregon and Washing ton national forests in timber receipts. 40 YEARS AGO July 31, 1917 (Tuesday) Woman smuggles booze from California while dressed in khaki bloomers and hat to ap pear like soldier. Company C relieves Company I on guard duty in Medford. What's Your I.Q.? Nina m ten eorrnrt ! inperlor even or tHbt U HcaUent; liv or ix U good. 1. When a bride divested her self in church of all her clothes except her smock, under the no tion that her husband would not be responsible for any of her debt, the wedding was called what? 2. What island is known as "Queen of the Antilles?" 3. Bible: What was the trad of "a certain man named Demit rius?" '4. Is Washington, D.C.. north ors outh of the Mason and Dixon line? 5. Which large automobile manufacturing group is known as GM? 6. For what purpose did Ru dolph Hess. Nazi leader, say he made the flight by plane from Germany to Scotland? 7. In what sea are the islands of Coo. Lero and Samos? 8. From what serious disease did Julius Caesar suffer? 9. If you took a dose, such as of liquid medicine, would it be properly classified as a Tor tion"? 10. "I hold it true, whate'er befall: I feet it when I, sorrow most.! 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have what? Answers: 1. A "smock mar xisjte". 2. Cuba. 3. Silversmith. 4. South. 5. Geat-ral Motors Cor poration 6. To induce -Hie Brit ish government to make peace with Nazi Germany. 7. The Aeg ean. 8. Epilepsy. 9. Nc'. Potion. 10. "loved at all." Tennyson. .HARE WARE COSTLY Taunton. England HT Stanley Murrin's rabbits were not born with silver spoons in their 'mouths but they enjoyed the nearest thing to it. A mu seum curator said Tuesday, that the old spoon Murrin used to ladle out food to his rabbits was one of two 17th Century silver relics worth about $700. MAIL TRIBtXHE Only 12 Years On the evening of Aug. 6, 1945, the 10 p.m. news broadcast informed us of President Harry Truman's announcement that the United States had dropped an atomic bomb on Japan. So well had the secret of atomic development been kept that only those with a background of reading "science fiction" were in any way able to absorb the importance of the news, and to realize that a new era in man's development had begun. IT will have been 12 years next week since that announcement. In those 12 years, we have learned to "live with the atom," and to think of it in everyday terms. But 12 years in man's history is a mere blink of an eye, and it is probable that never before have so many changes come about in such a short time. It is too easy to think of these changes chiefly as military .the development of the atomic and hydrogen weapons which are so fearful. But peaceful uses for atomic energy have grown amazingly. e a e IT has caused a revolution in the treatment of cancer and a number of other illnesses, as well as pro viding startling new developments in diagnosis and other phases of medicine. It has caused a revolution In metalurgy and a dozen other crafts and techniques. It is paving the way for vast changes in agri culture even creating new species of plants through the use of radiation. It has provided a new concept of power production, where nuclear fuels will provide tremendous supplies of electricity at relatively low cost. If controlled hydrogen fusion can be developed, this potential will be multiplied many times over. e THESE things are not pipe dreams they are actu . alities of the present and of the immediate future. And yet, because we all live from day to day and from hour to hour, and get used to new things so readily, it is difficult to remember when "the atom" was a little-thought-of physical concept, instead of an important facet of daily life. ( Yet that was only 12 years ago. We see no reason to believe that the next 12 years won't bring other changes, just as important and exciting as those of the past 12 years. E.A. Step Toward U.S.E.? Except for a few years during the Napoleonic empire, Europe has not been a true "community" since the days of Charlemagne. This, too, was a short-lived community, and in truth one would have to go back to the Roman empire to find a Europe which had, in any real sense, a community of interest. This is one of the reasons that the development of the "European Common Market" has special interest and special significance. And it is possible that Americans, across the wide Atlantic, have yet to realize its tremendous potential importance. IT is a dramatic development, as well as an im A portant one. For who would have believed a few. years ago that France and Germany would ever con sent to tie their economic interests together? And what is the European Common Market? Six nations France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg have agreed that, a step at a time, the nationalistic impediments to free trade will be lifted, and that those nation's borders no longer will limit trade among them. It has already been ratified by the West German parliament and, rather to everyone's surprise, by the French National Assembly. Ratification by the others is expected to follow soon, and the first steps to break down tariff and other trade barriers should be placed in effect by the first of the year. A UNITED STATES of Europe has long been a dream and nothing but a dream. The common market is no U.S.E., but it is a movement in the direction of unity. An analogy which comes to mind is that of the articles of confederation, which bound together, but very loosely, the 13 colonies of the United States of America. There was little expectation in those days that the independent colonies would ever become a strong federal union. Europe has been torn by big and little wars for thousands of years. Some of them were the results of religious differences; some of them were caused by the ambitions of kings and princes; but many of them were based on economic rivalries and jealousies. Whole peoples are no longer as prone to go to war over religion as they once were. Kings and princes no longer are much of a factor, and even dictators will think twice before starting a war with today's weapons. And if the common market can eliminate or modify nationalism in economics, it will be a cause for much hope. I ANGUAGE, of course, remains a barrier. But it is not as much of a barrier as Americans, most of whom speak only one language, believe. There are many multi-lingual countries Canada, Switzerland and India come to mind immediately and language is only as much of a barrier as men will let it be. It is impossible to predict that the European Com mon Market will be the forerunner of unification on other levels military or political or cultural. But it is possible to hope that it will be, and that the age old dream of a United States of Europe someday will come into being. E.A. Wednesday. July 31. 1957 That's the way m awm Does things .' iVnei j occf . i SH& PUNISHES THE T0f&CW I' Matter of Fact by Joseph aw HOPE ON ALGERIA Paris The French govern ment is now rather unhappily re-examining its own policy in Algeria. The final result wiU only be known in September, but the two possible outcomes are already quite easily fore seeable. Either the present re-ex-a m i n a t i on will be trans formed into the beginning of a serious attempt to find an agreed solution of the Joseph aisod agonizing Al gerian problem, or the meeting of the United Nations Assembly in September will produce a blow-up inside the Western Al liance almost on the scale of the Suez crisis. The reasons for these alternatives are simple in deed. In brief, in anticipation of the U.N. Assembly session, where Algeria will be tha major item on the agenda, the French have been sounding out the American and British governments on the possibilities of securing their support. The chief sounding-out expedition was the trip to Wash ington of the able permanent under-Secretary of the French Foreign Office, Louis Joxe. Tn a series of long, frank and - friendly conversations, Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles in effect told Joxe that the United States very much wanted to support France once again in the U.N. but Dulles added firm ly that France would have to propose some kind of Algerian solution that the United States could honesUy endorse. The best solution, Dulles in sisted, would be one that Tunis and Morocco would also agree to endorse. This would mean recognizing the aspiration of the native Algerians," tying an at least semi-independent reorgan ized Algeria to Tunis and Moroc co, and finally tying all three countries to France. Secretary Dulles did not in sist, however, that the new French proposals for Algeria should have Tunisian and Mor- Afiorney Named To Represent Kidnaper Pendleton (IP) Circuit Court Judge William W. Wells Tues day appointed William Hansen, Pendleton attorney, to represent a convicted kidnaper of an Ore gon state policeman in 1953. Leonard Ellsworth Miller, 30, has filed a writ in Circuit Court claiming errors were made in his trial proceedings in November of 1953. Miller is serving a 25 year sentence in the Oregon state prison for holding at gunpoint and kidnaping State Policeman Lawrence Kezar, Oct. 23, 1953. Oregon Centennial Coin May Be Minted Portland on The minting of a special Oregon centennial coin in 1959 and the issuing of a special stamp to commemorate Oregon's 100th anniversary will be discussed in Washington next month. Oregon Centennial Com mission Chairman Anthony Bran denthaler said here Tuesday. Brandenthaler, of Baker, told the commission he has appoint ments to see Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield and Secre tary of the Treasury Robert An derson late in August. Accident Prevention Award Presented Firm A special accident prevention award for 1956 has been award ed John B. Robison of the R and M Construction company. Cen tral Point, by The Associated General Contractors of America, Inc. Robison's firm was one of 34 to receive the award this year, and one of ten to receive it for two years, according to M. A. Erland, president. ocean backing. He only insisted that the proposals must be seri ous, in the sense of offering some hope of producing event ual peace. Last year, he pointed out, the United States had backed the plan of former Prime Minister Guy Mollet, for a ceasefire fol lowed by free elections; but this had proved delusive. Now an other plan must be put forward, with better chances of success than the Mollet plan. And this was all the more urgent, he add ed, because the Algerian fight ing was one of the major ob- fstacles to the rather desperate, post Suez-American effort to bring reasonable stability to the troubled Middle East. 9 rrwus far the British govern- ment has taken a line parallel to the Dulles line. On this mat ter, London and Washington seem to be acting in concert, for once in a way. Thug it seems likely that if France does not put forward new Algerian pro posals of a sufficiently hopeful and constructive character, France will not have the support of either of the other major Western allies at the U.N. meet ing. If France goes into the U.N, Assembly with the whole Afro- Asian and Communist blocs against her, and with no sup port from the other great West ern allies, the result must be a truly appalling defeat. The consequences are really incalculable. For how will France, for instance, respond to a ringing U.N. condemnation? Only one consequence, indeed, can be calculated with real as surance. The ensuing recrimina tions inside the Western alliance will be heard around the world. Such being the future pros pect of France does not put for ward constructive Algerian pro posals, the re-examination of the Algerian problem that is being conducted here assumes the widest possible significance. But as yet, it must be said, the re examination has not produced the kind of new proposals Wash ington and London are devoutly playing for. Prime Minister Bourges Maun oury is seeking to draft a law giving the broad framework of a new organization of Algeria, Thus far, however, the frame work law. does not comprise tne minimum recognition of Algeria as a national entity that could conceive'ably satisfy the Tunis ians, the Moroccans or the Al gerian dissidents. Instead, the most favored prosposal at pres- Western Declaration For Konrad Adenauer 'Campaign Document' By CHARLES M. MeCANN United Press Correspondent The Big Three Western Allies have given Chancellor Konrad Adenauer a big boost in his cam paign for the West German p arliamentary election. That seems likely to be the most im portant result of the declara tion on Ger m a n unity which the Britain, France Charles McCana United States, and West Germany issued Mon day. The statement also gave Aden auer personally further assur ance that West Germany's inter ests will not be sacrificed in the attempt to reach a disarmament agreement with Soviet Russia. It would be unfair, perhaps, to call the declaration a campaign document. Nevertheless, it makes a pretty good one. Calls For Election The declaration called on Soviet Russia to agree to a free all-German election to unify the country. It reaffirmed the right of a united Germany to continue the Civil Rights Bill Boils Down To Voting Right Enforcement By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington OP) In its simplest term, the wind-up civil rights controversy now boiling in the Senate adds up to this: Shall the federal gov ernment b e given perfec ted machinery by which to compel south ern states to i i.ri. c. wujob permit Ne groes to register and to vote? The Eisenhower administra tion holds that the machinery available by constitutional guar antees and acts of Congress since reconstruction days is in effective. The 15th Amend ement, which became part of the Constitution in 1870, provides that Congress shall have the power to enforce by legislation the amendment's prohibition against the denial of the right to vote bv the United States or by any state for reasons of race, color or previous condition of servitude. Reasons For Ineffectiveness The enforcement machinery created by Congress made the denial of the right to vote a criminal offense. The Eisen hower administration holds that this machinery has proved faulty for these reasons: Southern juries have re fused or been reluctant to con. vict their local officials on such criminal charges. Such criminal proceedings, by their very nature, have had to take place substantially after the event that is, criminal ac tion could no be obtained in time to assure the vote to a qualified wegro The proposed change consists- in essence of substituting civil for criminal action in the enforcement of the prohibition stated in the 15th amendment. Preventive Action Also Not only that. Under the vot ing right provision of the pend ing civil rights bill, the attorney general could begin civil pro ceedings "whenever . . . there are reasonable grounds to be lieve that any person is about to engage in any act or practice which would deprive another of the right to vote. Moreover: Such proceedings would be a civil action for pre ventive relief which would dis pense with a jury and leave both verdict and the punishment to the federal judge of the ap propriate United States District Court. Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. insisted that the foregoing is a moderation of existing ent is to divide Algeria into three provinces; to give each province a measure of autonomy and an elected provincial as sembly: but to keep in French hands effective control of Al- ceria as a whole. The American and British governments have already let it be known that this plan will not command their active sup port Strong forces are ceramly at work within the French gov ernment to secure much bolder proposals. The Foreign Minister Christian Pineau has even spon sored discreet negotiations with the Algerian rebel leaders. If former Prime Minister Guy Mollet (the real maker of the Bourges Maunoury government) swings over to the side of bold action, this really may prove the beginning of a serious search for an agreed solution. But at rjresent the betting is still against. (c) 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. membership in the North Atlatt tic Treaty Organization which West Germany now holds. It further ruled out as impos sible the Russian demand that West Germany negotiate a uni fication agreement with Com munist East Germany. One significant feature of the declaration was that it was issued in West Berlin instead of in Bonn, the West German capital. This emphasized the fact that Berlin is Germany's real capital. B Si K To Visit East The decision to issue the uni fication declaration at this time undoubtedly was made partly because R u s s ia n Communist Leader Nikita S. Khrushchev and Premier Nikolai A. Bulgan in are to visit East Germany in August. Khrushchev and Bulganin are sure to hit the unification issue hard in their speeches during this visit. They may be expected to call again for direct negotia tions between the two uerman governments and to repeat that West Germany's membership in NATO is a bar to a unification agreement. The four-power declaration seems to pull the rug out from under this Soviet propaganda line. machinery because it would sub stitute civil for criminal action. It is a moderate bill," said Brownell. 'It is not," the southerners replied. They hold that the con Today and By Walter THE PRESIDENT INVOLVED The central issue in the Civil Rights debate now is whether the Federal government shall have more or shall have less power to se cure and pro tect the consti tutional rights of Negroes to vote. The Els en h o w e r ad m i n istration, having put forward the Brownell bill, is asking Con gress to authorize the Depart ment of Justice to ask for in junctions in the Federal court. with no trial by jury in case the injunctions are disobeyed. The theory of the bill is that in regions of the South where the Negroes are a large proportion of tlie citizens, white juries the only juries there are will not convict a white man who prevents a qualified Negro from voting. Therefore, if jury trials are required, the Federal pow er to protect the Negro voting in the deep South wul be nul-i-fied. The President is deeply in volved in the substance of the question. The question is not merely whether he really fav ors the bill his administration has proposed, favors it practic ally; that is to say, in the sense that he will exert his influence with the Republicans in Con gress -to get it passed. He is more deeply involved than that. And he cannot fairly take refuge in the theory he often, though not always, invokes namely, that it is the business of Con gress alone to legislate. This bill does not add to or sub tract from the existing law of the land on the right of citi zens. It is primarily, indeed es sentially, a grant of power to the President and his Attorney General, and therefore, Congress is entitled to a full and reasoned statement by the President as to how he proposes to use this new power. Congress is entitled to a statement of policy, bucn a statement would constitute what is known in politics as "leadership." , THERE is no use pretending that the passage of the biU as it now stands will be follow ed by a general and automatic action in all the Federal courts of the South which will secure the right to vote. What we must expect is that there will be a gradual enfranchisement of the Negroes in more and more elec tion districts, but with a hard core of implacable resistance, Where the resistance Is Im placable to Negro voters, there is almost certain to be implac able resistance, by one device or another, to Federal injunc tions. This will mean that the President and his Attorney Gen eral will be faced not with the sim Die task of enforcing the law but with problems of policy as to where, when, and how, to use the power to enforce the law. There is no evidence, so far as I know, that the President or Mr. Brownell have ever pui their minds on all this, or that they have ever thought to dis cuss the problem thoroughly with the leaders of the various factions in Congress. Yet lead ership of this kind is greatly needed if we are to avoid, or at least to assauge, a struggle. infected with violence, over en forcement and nullification. THOUGH I ' am very much in favor of the biU as it now stands, it seems to me self-evi dent that whether tne diu lurna out to be a good one, a bad one, or iust a deception, will depend on whether the President has a policy for administering the bill which he has persuaded the lib eral South to accept. That is why the President cannot sit back, cannot deal with the is-' f Walter Llppmana A STEADFAST PURPOSE to serve every family accord ing to their dictates, and financial means, has made possible the success of this organization for more than twenty-two years. C M. Litwiller Wedding Chapel at any hour, LITWILLER Funeral " Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close stitutional right of southern whites to a jury trial is being flushed down the drain to guarantee the constitutional rights of southern Negroes to vote. Tomorrow Lippmann sues at arm's length and with his finger-tips, and leave policy to be worked out later on by lawyers of the Department of Justice under the pressure of politicians. The problem of Civil Rights is the problem of guiding with wisdom and magnanimity a great change in the human and social order of many parjs of the Union. The change Is al ready well under way. It is gaining momentum. Federal laws will not make or break the change. Sen. EasUand can not really stop the change and Sen. Douglas cannot very much hasten it. What the Federal government can do is, in some measure, to channel the change and to control its pace. rrHE great task of the Federal government and particu larly of the President and of the Senate is among contending factions to be the mediator and the conciliator, seeking always to insure the greatest possible progress towards civil equality which can be combined with the greatest possible amount of conrent. That ought to be a congenial task for President Eisenhower. It is one which suits his temp erament and fits his concepUon of the presidency. But to per form such a task, it would be necessary to spend much time and energy on the problem, and to care about it seriously. (C) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment NEW LEGISLATION WEEDED The Medford Mail-Tribune proposes reform of the county government in Jackson county, suggesting the establishment of a five-member commission with a paid executive officer or man ager. The Eugene Register - Guard, taking note of the M-T's pro posal, recalls that such a plan, was proposed three times in Lane county, voted down twice, and never even made the bal lot the third time. If memory serves correctly, a similar plan was launched at one time in Clackamas county, but failed to get enough signa tures to get on the ballot. The need for modernization and improvement of the multi headed, archaic system of coun ty government in Oregon has long been felt by many people. Legislation enabling counties to vote in a county manager system of government was en acted in 1947, but in 10 years no county has adopted the sys tem. The closest a county ever came was in Lane where, as the R-G noted, it failed thrice. This newspaper agrees with the Medford and Eugene papers that county government needs modernization and strengthen ing. But we haven't much ex pectation of seeing a "county manager program go into opera tion in any Oregon county in the near future. The fact that no county has adopted such a plan in 10 years w makes it fairly evident that the people in Oregon counties dis trust such a plan. Most counties, like Clatsop, have been fortunate in having dedicated county officers who have been capable and willing ' to serve for low salaries, so that good government has prevailed despite the inefficiency of the system. County officials in virtvally every county will oppose instinc tively a county manager pro gram, since they see it depriv ing them of their power and perhaps even of their jobs. They constitute a potent opposition to change. Astorian Budget. Mrs. Litwiller by appaointment call MU 5-4541 "It is better to know us and not need us. than to need us and not know us." ive
