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,1 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) -Xveryone In SouUiem Oregon Read The Mali Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturday trf MEDFORD PRINTING CO X7-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor HF-KH GRXY Advertiune Manager GERALD LATHAM Buiinesa Manager ERIC ALXEN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHAPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETf Soortl Editor OIJVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mca 4.25 Sunday Only One vear 14.20 fly Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Cold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent end on motor routes Daily and Sunday One year f 18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per cony Ail Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER SOF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY CMC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Hants Vancouver B C NATION Al JDlTOIlAi A$$0CrAl4N W.nnnia u ma NEWSFAPEg PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 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 Aug. 4, 1947 (Monday) Donald Y. Beeman, experi enced commercial beekeeper, is appointed Jackson, Klamath and Lake counties' apiary in spector. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The horti culturists are all on the balls of their feet, as the plucking and packing of the Bartletts has started. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 4, 1337 (Wednesday) Week-old pig is brought into the Mail-Tribune office having two tails. Fistic activities occur in the town of Rogue River involving Townsend club finances. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 4. 1927 (Thursday) Committees picked to handle the prosperity celebration in Medford late in September. . People of Central Point Chris tian church put new roof on building and paint the structure. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 4. 1917 (Saturday) Victory must be so complete that our national liberty never again shall be challenged, David Lloyd George, British premier. says in London. The battle flag that flew on the bridge of the Olympia in the battle of Manila bay will be shown at the Knights of Pythias conclave at Crater Lake Aug. 14. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent: five or six la good 1. On which continent was the first appearance of smallpox re corded? 2. Is a merganser a duck, measuring device, or kitchen utensil? 3. Bible: Publications: The "Finger Prayerbook" (1889), weight 3,4 of an ounce; "A Finger New Testament" (1880). Was "The Smallest Bible" (in the world) published before 1880 or between 1880 and 1889? 4. Does Lent begin' on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, or Palm Sunday? 5. Which State has the great est annual rainfall? 6. Name a former U. S. Presi dent who led the famous charge up San Juan Hill, rear Santiago, Cuba. 7. Do drone bees have grand fathers, but no fathers? 8. Which is the highest rank ing position in the President's Cabinet? 9. In which word is the "t" pronounced: croquet, or crotch et? 10. "Give My Regards to Broadway." Is this the title or refrain of George M. Cohan's song? Answers: 1. Asia. 2. Duck. 3. Before- 1875. 4. Ash Wednes day. 5. Louisiana (55 inches). . 6. Theodore Roosevelt, 7. Yes. 8. Secretary of State. 9. Crotch et. 10. Both. Snapping Turtle May Be 100 Years Old North Stonington, R. I. KPI Ronald Greene, 14, found a 30 pound snapping turtle in Wyas sup Lake which experts believe may be more than 100 years old The oldest known turtle is said to live on St. Helena Island, where Napoleon was exiled in 1815, and is believed to be more than 180 years old- ' MAIL TRIBUNE What Is a That excellent newspaper the Astorian Budget brings up the time-honored political question as to what is the difference between a Liberal, and a Con servative. It finds the traditional definition that a Liberal stresses human values over property values, while the Conservative does the reverse, a superficial judgment and a "vast oversimplification." To prove its point it maintains: Human values are intertwined with property values. The latter, after all, were conceived by human beings. They relate closely to important rights cherished by the human individual the right of privacy and with it no small measure of human dignity, the right to hold and use, material possessions as one chooses, the right to accumulate the fruits of one's labor. A "liberal" who does not respect these rights is prob ably not as concerned for human advancement as he imag ines! And a conservative who respects them is for human welfare whether he likes that term or not. All of which is interesting but hardly convincing. Human values are intertwined with property values, and the latter of course were conceived by human be ings. .. The point is their conceptions differ, and it is that difference that distinguishes the Liberal from the Conservative. TAKE the so-called "fast tax write-offs" for exam- pie. These "write-offs" were designed for one principal purpose and only in war-time. The purpose was to encourage and hasten large industry to enter production of implements of war, and by tax write-offs compensate them for increased expense necessarily involved. Whether such a procedure was justified even as a war measure or not is debatable, but after'all that is not the question. The question is whether the present administra tion WAS justified as in the case of the. Idaho Power company continuing such "write-offs" during the boom times of PEACE. Here, we believe, is a clear cut distinction between the average American Liberal and the average Ameri can Conservative. That difference is well described by noting that when the issue is between private profit and the pub lic welfare the typical Liberal supports the latter and th$ typical Conservative the former. IT is true that the Idaho Power company belatedly 1 refused to accept this $80,000,000 gift, at th.e ex pense of the American tax payers, but it is significant that only when public exposure was threatened, was what adds up to "a confession of guilt," presented. THE "Oil Depletion allowance" is another example. This has literally put hundreds of millions of dol lars into the treasuries of the already prosperous oil combines, and again at the expense of the American tax payers. We have yet to note any Conservative leader in the country who has aiy criticism to make of any such "give-away" and those who have objected could all be classified as "Liberals." f N short we see no reason what distinguishes the vative is primarily a matter of emphasis. The Liberal emphasizes the human values, the Conservative, the property values. THE mistake we believe inTieiflrinn' Vi a rll cf in san political field only. From such a standpoint,- like all generalities, there are exceptions to the rule, and to claim all. Re publicans are pseudo-conservatives, and all Democrats are dedicated Liberals, is to be guilty, not only of over-simplification but ef There are thousands of Democratic party look at ers and there are some not so many members of the "Grand Old Party" who could qualify as "liber als." But taking the two parties as a WHOLE and their records in RECENT years, and we feel no impartial and informed observer wquW deny that the G.O.P. is usually on the side of property rights, and the Democratic party and its dominant leadership is con ditioned just the other way. e e e A s to the granting of rights of personal PRIVACY, human dignity, the right to hold and use material possessions as one chooses, and the right to, accumu late the fruits of one's labor, are concerned; assuming that this is not a veiled attack against the income tax, state and federal, the inheritance tax etc., etc., then we can imagine no right thinking citizen, Liberal or Conservative, who would raise the slightest objection. R.W.R. Warren for President? As an example of a conservative leader in the Democratic party, Senator Russell of Georgia is a per fect example, being as rock-bound a conservative as Senator Saltonstall, Republican of Massachusetts. As an example of a genuine Liberal in the G.O.P., the obvious stand-out in that category is Chief Justice Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court. Warren has not only been forward-looking and "liberal" in all his decisions, but as Governor of Cal ifornia and recognized national leader of his party, he has a long and distinguished record of enlightened and progressive statesmanship. In fact because of this record there is a movement on foot by certain members of the Democratic party, to follow the Charles Evans Hughes precedent and draft Justice Warren for their party's presidential Sunday, August 4. 1957 "Liberal? to reject the claim that typical American Conser the "Budget" makes is in irn rr mnli in f n a T5iifl. what is obviously untrue. ultra-conservatives in the the Black-Belt southern Who needs a salao ? Time For Unity Nears On Rogue Basin Plan, Courier Editor Warns (Editor's note: The follow ing editorial, written by Edi tor Ken Hicks of the Grants Pass Courier, comments on the Rogue River Basin devel opment bill, introduced into congress last week by Con gressman Charles O. Porter.) The Rogue basin flood control and reclamation bill , promised by Rep. Charles O. Porter will be introduced in congress to morrow. Its provisions follow the general outline advanced by Rep. Porter, in his spring ap pearances at Grants Pass and Medford. ... Specifically listed is a high dam on the Rogue river at Lewis creek, with a power plant, and the Ruch dam, both to be built by Army engineers. Other proj ects embodied include the Cas cade Gorge dam and power plant; Trail diversion dam and power plant and the Deer creek dam and reservoir, to be con structed unedr jurisdiction of the Interior Department. The bill, Rep. Porter states definitely in his letter announc ing the introduction date, will be subject to amendment when the report of Army engineers on their current flood control sur vey is submitted. The represent ative made this pledge both at Grants Pass and Medford, after he had been asked to delay in troduction of the bill unUl Army engineers had completed their work. Filing the bill now will have the "advantage of putting the legislative wheels in motion," Rep. Porter explains, and "might result in a gain of as much as two years on eventual construc tion." The biU provides for an appropriation o f $66,000,000, "plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be required by rea son of ehanges in the costs of construction," for the over-all project. In conclusion, Rep. Porter states that he will not attempt to follow through on the bill un. less it has the "overwhelming support of Rogue valley resi dents." That puts a major issue squarely in the lap of Rogue val ley people, who already have .fought one major engagement over the Plan A program of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Any hope that Army engi neers would not favor a high dam on the main stream of the Rogue, as 'essential to any real flood control program, was dis sipated .this spring when Ross Hatch, U.S. Army engineer in charge of the Rogue basin sur vey, declared at a meeting in Grants Pass that low dams on tributaries never would accom plish a real job of flood control. Thus, - aside from reclamation features, of the Porter bill, it would appear fairly obvious that present provisions will not be greatly different from ultimate recommendations by Army. en gineers. Under these circumstances one can agree with Rep. Porter's contention that introduction of the bill now subject to subse quent amendment is sound strategy and could speed ulti mate enactment. That presup poses, of course, that the Rogue basin really wants flood control even though the program em bodies a high dam. The Army engineers also have candidate" in IQfiO In the judgment of this mane a verier ur snrewaer cnoice. AS 01 touay 10 one man in the countiy, we believe, who would have a chance three years hence of leading the Democratic party to victory. But it is one thing to want him and quite another to get him. After all that Hughes precedent of defeat, is not one a man as wise as the" Chief Justice and as conscientious would be disposed to follow. But he is far more in harmony with the liberalism of the Democratic party than the conservatism of the Republican party, as the outstanding issues are crys talizing today R.W.R. warned that when they will make their report, probably next year, they will not press for ac tion on it unless the people" of this area really want flood con trol on the only basis that can be effective. Thus the time for ultimate de cision, is nearer than many of us realize. We probably have un til the latter part of 1958 to rec oncile our differences and make up our collective minds whether we want flood control at the ex pense of an admittedly impor- tant spawning area for steelhead and salmon. A lot may hinge on the deci sion. 1A high dam at Lewis creek, for example, ' probably could store sufficient surplus water for the' pulp industry that will lo cate somewhere in this area, if present pla.ns materialize. Such a dam, by storing winter run-off and releasing the cool water dur ing the summer months, could actually improve fishing along the middle river, in the opinion of many persons. They cite what has happened on the Sacramento river as a result of the Shasta dam, by way of illustration. The entire project, as outlined in the Porter bill,- also would mean additional water for irriga tion of. more land in the Rogue basin. This may not seem impor tant now, in view of farm sur pluses, but the time wUl come when our rapidly expanding population will require much more food than now is produced. Against all these advantages, plus the tremendous recreation al value of a big reservoir and the excellent trout fishing that would be available there, we have but one major liability. This is the inundation of one spawning area. A great many other such areas will remain along the Rogue and its tributaries, and we just can't accept the claim that "irrepar able" damage will be done to Rogue river fishing by a high dam. Salmon and steelhead runs have been "transplanted" be fore, by releasing fingerlings in different tributaries of a water shed. Somehow we have the feeling that the disastrous flood of "1955 changed a lot of minds about the need for flood control. It just could be that, aside from a few diehards, the Rogue valley this time can unite on a project that will mean much to all of south ern Oregon. Holmes Reelected By Pear Shippers Harold Holmes, manager of Rogue River Orchards, was re elected president of the Medford Pear Shippers association at a special election meeting Thurs day at the Rogue Valley Coun try club. Also reelected was Ralph Cook, owner of the Cook or chards, tn a second one-year term as vice president. Fred Morlan remains as secretary- treasurer for the association. ed office im mediately and announced plans to continue the programs oi me near inrincw arnnn in the fields of production, merchandising and freight traffic worK. department they could not Editorial Comment WHAT m HELL DID WE DO? The omnibus Lousing legisla tion recenUy signed by the Pres ident is about as helpful to the housing industry as a bucket of bolts, or a tossed concrete bllck would be to a drowning man. While the rest of the nation's economy goes bubbling merrily along, and bankers doodle dol lar signs at directors' meetings, noting gravely that their coffers are almost bursting, lumbermen and the thousands of others de pendent upon housing for a liv ing, are hopefully looking around the house for a needle with which to sew up a rip in last year's trousers. The question in most lumber men's minds, but often un spoken, generally runs along the "What in hel did we do, that the housing industry should end up with all this egg on its face?" We're not an actual enemy of our country, naturally. But to the g i m 1 e t-eyed economists we're almost that, and they say the clamp-down had to be en forced to keep . inflation from roaring through the economy like a Pine forest crown fire. Did" it really? In a fervent plea for help, the National Lumber Manufac turers Association clobbered top White House officials with pro-1 testing wires last week, as the Administration smugly stated that because oi fear of adding inflationary measures they would delay a cut in the so- necessary down payment stand ards. The association stated: "The housing industry and in dustries dependent on housing as a market for their products have been seriously affected by the shortage of mortgage credit while practically all other seg ments of our economy are boom ing. We don't believe the reason able down payment relaxations permitted in the bill will be recognized by workers and oth ers dependent upon housing for their livielihood as seriously in flationary when comparable re straints are not being imposed upon other segments of the econ omy and when federal expendi tures are being maintained at the highest peacetime level in history." What has really happened is that they've haltered housing with a sawtooth bit, and given other industries, such as the automobile empire, a rap on the unsaddled rump and headed them toward golden pastures. When the housing industry Matter of LAST SHANCE? London The basic confusion hag-riding the disarmament talks has only been underlined by Secretary o f Foster Dulles' hasty trip to London. The confusion comes - f r o m talking about three differ ent subjects at once. The first of Joseph Aisop . these subjects, actual disarmament, gives the London negotiations their title A wholly unilateral, entirely budget-motivated and probably extremely dangerous disarma ment program is now being car ried out by the British and American governments. But that is the only kind of serious dis armament that is now in pros pect. The second of these 'subjects, aerial inspection, provided the main motive of the Dulles jour ney. This was because the idea of an aerial inspection was Pres ident Eisenhower's personal ba by. The President's first bold proposal has now shrunk to a plan for air inspection of a zone in Europe:, on either side of the line dividing the NATO forces from the armies under Soviet control. , This both sides inspec tion may give some warning against surprise attack. But both the French and the Germans deeply fear that the es tablishment of such an air in spection zone will cause "Eur ope to be neutralized." The NATO staff is decidedly hostile. Thus Secretary Dulles had to hurry to London to see that the President's personal baby got the tender care that any Eisen hower baby, however, deformed, naturally deserves in an Eisen hower administration. GIVEN the circumstances, it still seems highly unlikely that an aerial Inspection system will in fact be set up. And that leaves the third subject of these London talks, which is the only subject offering much immedi ate hone of practical agreement. This is the subject of eventual cessation of nuciear and thermo nuclear bomb tests. The "disarmament" negotia tions have been wildly confused by triple-talk. So too the subject of the cessation of nuclear tests has been wildly confused by double-talk.. In particular, the cessation of bomb tests has al ways been publicly advocated on the sole ground that continu ing tests will be dangerous, be cause of the menace of nuclear fallout. , But in fact what all the nego tiators in London have in mind POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contribution) We like the name Medford, and we like the name Ashland, too, but we've never been under any illusion that either one was particularly original. We found we're right about that impression, for the Postal Guide lists 12 Medfords and 24 Ashlands scattered throughout the United States. It is interesting to note, too. that there are two Applegates In the United States; four Table Rocks, ten Oak Groves, two Brownsboros, two Central Points and, surprisingly to us, eight Prospects. But there's one town here abouts that is originally named, and that is Talent. Ours is the only one listed. Our Flight O' Time editor ran across an ad for cactus candy in a 1927 issue of the M-T, and decided that it prob- tries to make a point and relieve this unhappy situation, the econ omist drags out charts and hap pily point out that this situation is only temporary. Every eight seconds a baby is born in Amer ica. The millions born during! World War II are in high school, and in another five or six years, they'll all be marrying and hav ing babies of their own. In the 1970's the population will have zoomed to some 200,000,000, naturally creating staggering new markets for homes. In the 1970s. We needed help yesterday . . . and the day before that! So the question is not so much, "What the hell did we do, since we didn't do . anything different from other industries, but what the hell can we do?" Not one thing, every lumber producer and .wholesaler can follow the NOMA'S lead, and saturate congressmen and higher-up? with wires and correspon dence endeavoring to get a fair shake, and get housing off its tail. One still hears snorts of "We don't need government help . we're an industry that stands cn its own feet and slugs it out. . . Soon they may be screams. Bob Smith in Crow's Lumber Digest. More than 500 courses of in struction in commercial and op erative subjects are available for the employees of British rail ways, e Fact by joePh msoP is not the danger of nuclear fall out. It is, rather, the simple fact that if all nuclear tests are halt ed now, the membership list of the atomic weapons club will be effectively closed. Equally, an agreement on ces sation of tests is a practical pos sibility, not because everyone is fearful of the fallout danger. It is a practical possibility, rather, because everyone realizes that a kind of world nightmare will be gan when atomic weapons are available to any nation on earth, however small, obsessed and ir responsible. fPHE Soviets are behind the United States in nuclear weapons testing and develop ment. Yet they want" to keep Germany and other powers out of the atomic club at all costs. Thus Valerian Zorin's main pur pose in London has been to se cure a cessation of tests as soon as possible. That leaves the next move up to the United States, where pol icy making has been sadly mud dled by the delusion of atomic monopoly of such men as Adiri. Lewis Strauss. As the United States development program is in the lead, there can be no ques tion about the American interest in stopping tests now. But the American negotiators cannot exploit this lonely iden tity of interest between the So viets and ourselves until we se cure the agreement of our al lies. The British, although they have atomic weapons, are un comfortably far behind in devel opment.. The other allies have not yet tested any atomic weap ons. Yet tney win nuv acccpi open relegation to the status oi second class powers. e THAT means the administra tion must not just muse in public about the desirability oi the President and Secretary amending the Macmahon Act, as Dulles have already done. Bold measures to amend the Macma hon Act are needed, so that NATO at least can share our nu clear plenty. Furthermore, this is a "going, going, gone" situa tion. One can almost hear the auctioner's chant. As the other Western allies get nearer and nearer to actual possession of atomic weapons, they grow more and more reluctant to ac cept being barred from full membership in the atomic club. These 12 months, quite prob ably, are the last period of the last chance. Fortunately Secre tary Dulles' visit to London has also produced signs that the American delegation may be in troduced to try for the last chance in the next round of dis armament talks. ably was a good way to tickle your palate and scratch your stomach at the same time. In our younger days we knew a plumber named Godlove who drove -to 'business in a truclc with a big sign which said "God love the Plumber." ; Ever since then we've been fascinated by people with names particularly suited to their jobs. We were, therefore, pleased when a colleague handed us a list of such she'd compiled, on which was recorded the fact that Mr. Plumb works for the water department; Mr. Waters works for the plumbing depart ment (maybe they should trade jobs), and Mr. Fish works for the sewage treatment depart ment. And, for whatever it's worth, the nice young lady who is re ceptionist at the city haU is named Wilder. A reporter dropped Into book store the other day and spotted a book entitled "Learn to Live, You're Half Deadr "Can you imagine facing such a book title after a hard Mon day at the office?" he asked plaintively. ' e A group of young people, one of whom was a female, gather ed at a local refreshment parlor recently, and after a period of time the young woman rose to leave. "Well, now that I'm going, you can talk man-talk," she said. "You may call it man-talk, but it's usually mostly about women," came the reply from one of her worldly-wise friends. e That same plaintive report er mentioned above has an other plaint namely the "awful dinners they often have to eat at public gather ings." But the compensating factor, he declares, particular ly if one happens to be cover ing farm news, are the big. wholesome and delicious meals served at Granges and ether farm gatherings. e e A member of our staff, cur rently on vacation, worked hard the night before he left to get caught up. The next day the Potluck editor found the follow ing note on his desk: "I lead a life of frustration. Worked down here until about 2 am. No sooner had I got home and crawled in bed than a roost er crowed." ' Speaking of singularly ap propriate names, we are pleas ed to note that the Oregon State Women's Softball tour nament, to be held in Eugene Aug. 8 to 11. will tbe at Amaion park. e e A group of young business people recently devised a way to prod themselves into getting up bright and early each day, and. to eat a nourishing breakfast.- They formed a breakfast club, and took turns having the group at each other's homes at 7 a.m.' Once, however, the group met for dinner, too, and then those attvding, late in the evening, were reminded to come back for breakfast at . 7 a.m. The : only stipulation to the invitation was that the visitors agree to rattle the garbage cans on the ' way out so the neighbors wouldn't think they had stayed all night. The following quotation, unabridged, comes from the youngest member of our staff: We called Sacred Heart hospital very routinely the other day, and the operator there said ' they had nothing for us. We asked if there were any babies born, and she switched us to the nursery. We asked if any babies had been born. The nursery lady said she didn't know, that we would have to talk to the delivery room, which she would get for us. Then she jiggled the receiv er. A lady answered. A fac simile of the conversation en suing between the two follows: "Hello. Can you switch this call to the delivery room?" 'Hello?" "Yes, can you switch the call? They want to get the babies?" "Hello, Mail Tribune." "Yes, they're on the phone. This is the nursery and they want the babies at the de livery room." ' ''Did you want me? This is the Mail Tribune." "But ..." Here we interrupted and announced that probably the Sacred Heart lady, by jig gling, had gotten our own M-T operator downstairs in our building. This the latter quickly acknowledged, and everybody laughed. We then -told our operator to keep out of it. She did, after mistak enly answering a couple more Sacred Heart switching tries, and we finally got the two babies that had - happened. . One of them weighed 10 pounds, and we sincerely hope he turns into a football tackle instead of newspaper . reporter. I
