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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone In Southern Orecos Beads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St- Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON CirculatlOl Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance- Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday Sue months 8 00 (J Daily and Sunday Three mos 4-23 S'inday Only One year 14.20 By vrrier In Advance Medford Asnland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gd Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rcijie River. Talent ittl on motor routes-. Daily and Sunday One year SIB 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1 50 t-arrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance pflrlai Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty L'nifsVl Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANTf INC Offices in New York Chicago, de trolt San Francixco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL tDITOIlAi ASSOCfAieN iinrwan.ini Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribajie 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 18. 1947 (Monday) Capt. and Mrs. H. C. F. Beyer of Gold raise worms to help gardeners. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot Column: "The print ers held a picnic on the Rogue Friday evening and everything went off without a typographi cal error. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 18. 1937 (Wednesday) Jackson county peach grow ers decided to organize coopera tive growers' association at a meeting in the courthouse audi torium. Fire did damage estimated at $500 to the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce last night. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 18. 1927 (Thursday) 8ledfo"rd and ajl southern Ore gon and northern CaliArnia are flooded with mail order house catalogues. More new paving, sewer and water mains ajte being laid by the city government this sum mer. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 18 1917 (Saturday) Spraying for the second brood of C01in moths should be fin ished by the first of this month. Ashland hiy crossing is held up by Southern Pacific. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct ts superior; seven or eight ts excellent; flva or six Is aod 1. What word is used to indi cate the moisture content of the atmosphere? 2. Name the two Tudor Queens of England. 3. Bible: WhomJiid Moses ap point Commander-in-chief of his army? 4. Which of these are used by a surgeon: fluoroscope, gyro scope, stethoscope, spectroscope, horoscope? 5. What was the name of the bird that became extinct be cause it was too dumb to live? 6. Whose sweetheart was Ann Rutledge? 7. Indian chief Pontiac organ ized his "conspiracy" in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Ohio? 8. Who is Emperor of Ethi opia? 9. "Allude" refers to an in direct passing reference to some thing. Is "elude" a synonym of it? 10. "Charity to all, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being." Did Lincoln, J. Q. Adams, or Garfield state this? Answers: 1. Humidity. 2. Mary and Elizabeth. 3. Joab. 4. Fluoro scope and stethoscope. 5. Dodo. 6. Abraham Lincoln's sweet heart. 7. Michigan. 8. Haile Selassia. 9. No. (lo escape adroit ly or evade). 10. J. Q. Adams. Graduate Conference Scheduled by Society Dr. R. L. Stephen of Grants Pass, president of the Southern Oregon Optometric society, has announced a graduate confer ence seminar in Medford Tues day, Aug. 20, at the Rogue Val ley Country club. The one day event will be conducted under the chairman ship of Dr. A. M. Skeffington, director of education, optomet ric extension program, Duncan, Okla. J V5-ASSOCIATIOM MAIL TRIBUNE Is the "Honeymoon " Over? Robert Smith, our Washington correspondent, writes very interestingly about the end of the Morse Neuberger "honeymoon." We don't doubt the rift as related is substantially correct, but we do doubt if a marriage ceremony was ever performed. Both being Democrats from a normally Republi can state, they did have a bond in common. And they still have, as we feel sure the future will dem onstrate. But marriage and the blissful wedding trip that usually precedes it, is another matter. We seriously question the records will show any marriage certificate. We even more seriously ques tion that either one desired or considered political matrimony. In short, politically neither of them is the marry ing type. They are both congenital bachelors, inde pendents. They are also both extremely intelligent, and while veiy different temperamentally, they are soul mates as far as having the courage of their convic tions is concerned. TTHAT neither would be a "Yes-Man" to the other, or to anyone else was apparent to their friends at the start. And to make any marriage a success there must be on one side or the other or both a spirit of com promise, flexibility, a -willingness to give, as well as to take. When it comes to a conviction of what is right and what isn't from the standpoint of the public welfare, neither the senior nor junior senator from Oregon is a "compromiser." So that sooner or later they would clash was as certain as sooner or later there will be rain in this sun-kissed and sun-drenched valley. 70R their sakes and the sake of the state we hope their breach will soon be healed, and knowing both men and their agreement on basic political principles believe it will be. Our only objection to the claim the "honeymoon is over" is our belief a marriage never occurred. ' R.W.R. Too Much of a Good Thing We have no particular objection to multi-millionaires in public life assuming they didn't get their pile at the end of a sawed-off shotgun and of course also assuming they are well fitted for the -job to which they aspire. But we don't particularly fancy a multi-millionaire GOVERNMENT where in service only the outstanding Big Business tycoons need apply. The Eisenhower administration, however, is get ting to be more and more that sort of government, the President started out with a cabinet of all million aires except one plumber, and the plumber did not last long! t The President's most recent selection in the pluto cratic field is that of affluent Neil H. McEloy of Ivory Soap fame, who is giving up an annual salary with a bonus of about $300,000 a year to take the place of Charles E. Wilson as. Secretary of Defense who will return to a G.M. salary (and perquisites) of approximately $500,000 annually. A LL of which is ok as far as Big Business salaries are concerned. No doubt both men are extremely able in their special fields, and are worth what they get in the opinion of their respective stockholders aM boards of directors. DUT after all, are the qualities essential to making money a great deal of it qualities that assure similar success in public life. The present administration undoubtedly thinks so. But we are inclined to doubt it. At least we would like to see President Eisen hower before his second term ends, return at least to his original ratio of one plumber to every nine multi-millionaires. We feel no plumbers at ALL are bad. Not that the latter would all necessarily be great successes, or the former all failures, but this being a democracy, not a plutocracy, the government should, we believe, represent the ability of the country as a WHOLE, not just one class. R.W.R. "Money Speaking of money, it is well to remember "money TALKS." It is talking at a great rate in Washington today, not over the loud speaker but quietly all over the offices, corridors and private sanctums where the lobbyists are prone to congre gate and put on the squeeze. . The subject of the conversation is the return of alien property seized during World War H, particu larly from Germany and Japan. Although the money involved, estimated at near ly $600,000,000 is talking, the proponents and op ponents of this "return" are not at least are not talking money and they refuse to listen. It is amusing and quite characteristic of the pre vailing Madison Avenue technique in Washington, that anything as crude and undemocratic as passion for the Almighty Dollar should be thus scrupulously avoided. T OBBYISTS representing Japan and Germany L"1 for example one of them retained, according to "Congressional Quarterly" on a contingent fee of Sunday, August 18. I9S7 both foreign and domestic Talks" . HOW CAN I HAVE A GOOD COUKTMY HOT DOSS? Matter of Fact BOURGES-MAUNOURY'S FRANCE If you travel much between France and England, as this re porter has recently been doing, the contrast between these two Western allies ends by seeming down right mystify ing. In England, the disaster at Suez changed every thing, Joseph aisod leaving behmd an altogether new bitterness and sense of being diminished, bring ing in a new government, caus ing a sharp break with all the recent past. In France, on the contrary, the disaster at Suez changed nothing, leaving the vast majority of people here quite untouched by any sense of defeat and even rather exhila rated. No doubt this is largely to be explained by the difference in the British and French experi ences in the post- war years. Britain ended the second World War in glorious victory. But the effort had been exhausting. For Britain, therefore, the post-war years have been a long struggle against odds to maintain the standards of a first class world power, while satisfying the ma terial aspirations of the British people. And at Suez the odds against Britain as a first class power finally proved to be too heavy. France, In contrast, ended the second World War -with all the sour anger, all the tendency to wards internal incrimination, re crimination, all the flat hope lessness, of a nation that has ex perienced both surrender and oc cupation. In those post-war years in France, it seemed to this reporter, as it seemed to the vast majority of Frenchmen, that France would never live again as a great nation. TT IS hard to decide exactly what brought about the im mense change that has taken place in France since that early period of flat hopelessness. One cause, perhaps, was France's na tural wealth which is greater than Britain's. Another cause, almost certainly, was the pro gram of basic investment drawn up by Jean Monnet and carried through, with Marshall aid, by the French government in the early post-war time. That pro gram was certainly aimed at na tional renovation. The starting point that most people now miss, however, is f Wr LA 4L $400,000 never mention monetary considerations. No, they are engaged in a "holy crusade" to uphold and sustain the "sanctity of property." The fact that such "sanctity" is not upheld in Soviet Russia or-Red China is probably not overlooked. The lobbyists who oppose this return (which in cidently Secretary of State Dulles upholds) never stress the financial loss to their clients if such sub stantial subsidies are given their Japanese and Ger man competitors, but maintain with great solemnity and moral fervor that they are fighting to save the "American Taxpayers" from having to shoulder this "give away" of millions to f ormer alien foes. IN SHORT it is all very American and up-to-date, and could serve as the theme of a modern political musical comedy along the Gilbert and Sullivan line. The conflict isn't nominally at least over those who want to return alien property seized during the war and those who want to keep it, but between those who wish to sustain the Anglo Saxon "sanctity of property" and those who wish to protect the long suffering American taxpayers, from another super Gyp. . . . . . THE outcome we should guess will depend largely upon how susceptible the present congress proves to be to the pleas of the money-changers versus the pleas of post-war forgiveness, fair play and justice. As far as this department is concerned, we go along with Secretary Dulles. But we would not wager too much, that wrhen the plea of keeping over half a billion dollars in America, or sending it abroad to "furriners" really strikes HOME, that Mr. Dulles' proper and statesmanlike attitude will be sustained. R.W.R. , 7W IF YOu'f& 60HH ( By Joe and Stewart Alsop simply that France has now achieved national renovation one is almost tempted to say na tional renaissance. Every prac tical index proves the dramatic rebirth of French national lead ership. The birth rate has risen astonishingly. The rate of indus trial output has risen even more astonishingly. ' Many other signs point in the same direction. This reporter has not spent much time in France in the last five years but expected no great change when he returned here. Hence the experience of return ing and seeing the new self-confidence and new energy of France have been immensely ex citing and impressive. And this new energy and new self-confidence were proof against the set-back at Suez. THE change in France has been masked from the world, meanwhile, for a simple reason. Although the 'country has great ly altered, the government has not altered. The cabinet of Prime Minister Bourges-Maunoury rep resents approximately the same uneasy balance of conflicting in terests and opposed viewpoints that every French cabinet has represented since General Charles de Gaulle left office in a huff shortly after the war. . The natural result of this kind of government was bitterly de scribed to this reporter by a brilliant and cynical young French deputy during a discus sion of the Algerian problem "We cannot make war because it would offend the Left," said the deputy, as though he were stating a Euclidean proposition. "And we cannot make peace be cause it would offend the Right. So we continue to shed blood and pour out treasure with no end in view." This governmental ability to take great decisions is not abso lute, and it does not mean that French governments lack very able and courageous men. One such man is Bourges- Maunou- ry's youthful, astute and tough finance minister, Felix Gaiilard. Gaillard has not exactly checked France's dangerous fiscal drift ing, which has continued for so many years. But he has, so to speak, got the vessel under par tial control, and thus he has roused real hope for the fiscal future. IN SUM, the French outlook would be decidedly promising if it were not for the basic, still unsettled question of France's standing, not as a great nation but as a great world power. In a queer way, France's national Today and By Walter LITTLE LEFT FOR QUARREL The issue on the Senate Civil Rights Bill is now very narrow, except for the Southern politi cians who do not want any bill and for the Northern poli ticians who want to play politics with the bill. Speak er R a y b urn, who will be folio wed by the Democrats in the House, waiter Lippmann is offering an amendment to cure what such a champion of civil rights as Sen. Javits of New York calls "the primary legal defect in the Sen ate biU" namely, "its failure to limit the jury trial amend ment to civil rights cases only." After this, on what principle can Northern Republican poli ticians argue that it would be better to let the bill die than to pass an amended version of the Senate bill? A civil rights bill which can command the sup port of Mr. Rayburn of Texas and of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is almost too good to be true, and it wUl be hard to con done a maneuver to make it fail. AS A MATTER of fact, the Senate bill, even with the provision for jury trials in crim inal contempt cases, is a very Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use oi a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Business License Tax To the Editor: After study ing and digesting the contents of the City Ordinance on Busi ness License Tax and noting the gross discrimination and inequi ties therein contained; and, that the city councilmen approved the Ordinance with a qualified vote respecting the will of the people that no business license revenue would go towards secur ing "off street parking" for the merchant's association; and, that the merchant's association had suggested the increased revenue for off-street parking, I would like to compliment the Mayor in returning the Ordinance un signed to the city, and further, compliment our City Council for letting the Ordinance die a nat ural death by not over-riding the Mayor's veto and keeping faith with their constituents. With the elimination of "off street parking" it is my hum ble opinion that we didn't need a business license tax, which fact tends to encourage business to locate in our fair city. 60 N. Quince st. Dick Schafer Medford Decologue For Teen-agers To the Editor: This is a re print article and- -1 though it well worth passing on. Some of our teens never have a chance. A teenage Texas girl has a code of ethics of conduct for teenagers she says is good for parents to read, work and digest. Her 10. commandments for "teens" follows: 1. Don't let your parents down, they brought you up. 2. Stop and think before you drink 3. Ditch dirty thoughts fast, or they'll ditch you.' 4. Show off driving is juve- nine, don't act your age. 5. Be smart, obey. You'll give orders too some day. 6. Choose your friends care fully, you are what they are. 7. Choose a date fit for a mate. 8. Don't go steady unless you are ready. - 9. Go to church regularly. God gives you a week; give him back one hour. 10. Live carefully, the soul you have may be your own. Mrs.,F. H. Dressier, Medford, Ore. revival has made this an acute question. Few Frenchmen would have bothered to claim standing for France as a world power ten years ago, but most of them do so now. This question, plus, the tortur ing problem of the million and more Frenchmen who make their homes there, are the two real roots of the Algerian diffi culty. Even more than the un easy balance in the government, these are the reasons why in Al geria, France will neither make war nor peace. And once again, as in the case of Britain, the un answered question about France's standing as a world power is a constant threat to the unity of the Western Alliance. Indeed, the outlook now is that the dispute about Algeria will cause a split between France and the other Western allies, at the oncoming session of the United Nations, that will be deeper and worse than any split in the Western Alliance in ail the post-war years. (C) 1957, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. paj LHfi Tomorrow Lippmann big measure. It inaugurates new national policy, that the federal government has the duty to take the initiative in securing and protecting the con stitutional rights of Negroes to vote. It vests in the Executive legal powers to intervene in Southern elections, to go into the federal courts for civil in junctions which, without jury trial, mean that imprisonment or fines can be imposed on those who violate the injunction. Why this should be called a weak bill is more than I can understand. For the procedure under civil contempt, which does not re quire a jury trial, is a very great power. Would it be a "stronger" bill if it promised more, if in addi tion to a promise to protect and secure the vote, the biU proposed to integrate the public schools? Supposing that a wide bill, such as the one which came from the House, could be passed, it would be almost impossible to enforce it. For it would unite the resist ance of the Southern states, and it would place upon the Depart ment of Justice a more impossi ble task than did the old and thoroughly discredited Prohibi tion Amendment. THE TRUE measure of a bill's "strength" is not how much it promises but how much it can be expected to deliver. What we ought to be worrying about is how the Eisenhower administra tion and its successors are to meet the huge responsibility put upon them by the Senate bill, and how they are to exercise the large legal powers with which the bill invests them. I say we ought to be worrying about these questions of policy because not a hint has as yet been given by the administration leaders that they realize what big and diffi cult decisions will confront them when the bill is passed. They talk and act as if any civil rights measure that is 1 passed will then automatically be real ized in practice. Yet the crux of the matter is the enforcibility of any bill that is enacted, and the difference between a politician and a states man is that the politician is in terested in the promises and the statesman is interested in en forcibility. Does not the history of the problem of civil inequal ity m this country prove con clusively that declarations of rights can be nothing but enpty sounds if the resistance is strong enough? ' That is why the Senate bill is so extraordinary. It is the first bill for civil rights which con tains strong powers of enforce ment and is not being resisted irreconcilably by the political leaders of the South. Herald Tribune Inc. Copyright, 1957, New York In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A communist show of force appears to have broken a strike of Polish transport workers in Poland's second largest city. The street car workers had demand ed a stiff increase in wages. The communist government of Po land rejected the demand on ground that the pay increase would strain the inflation plagued economy of the country. - The strikers holed up in the main downtown car station, and for a while it looked like a ruckus similar to that which oc curred in Poznan a year ago (in which much blood was spilled) might be developing. But the workers threw in the sponge and went back on their jobs when Poland's communist government rushed in military reinforcements from Warsaw and surrounded the station with armed troops and police. IVHAT of the strikers' de ' mands? Were they unreasonable? . According to American ideas, it doesn't seem so. They are getting the American equivalent of $35 a MONTH (not a week). Wages, as quoted in money, don't mean much. What counts is WHAT THE WAGES WILL BUY. According to dispatches from responsible correspondents, the Polish equivalent of a monthly spMry of 35 American dollars is just about enough to buy ONE PAIR of medium-priced shoes. QUESTION: Why will men live under regime like that? rpHE answer is quite simple: J- IN COMMUNIST - RULED COUNTRIES THE GOVERN MENT HAS ALL THE GUNS. That's communism for you. ANOTHER question: Can communism endure forever? I think not. The institution of communism is so foul that in time it must fall of the weight of its own foulness. History supports that conclu sion. The big question is HOW LONG can it last? SOMETHING else to remember: Under communism, too much power is held in too few hands. When too much power is held in too' few hands, the PEOPLE suffer. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Each moraine oeorile ar con fronted with the problem of dressing. It is more of a prob lem some mornings than others, and many of the times a person aces not realize the extent of his problem until later in the day. Such was the case of mm nt the men from tjje back shop the oiner aay. rie worked all day not realizins hp Yia nn black shoe an9 one brown shoe. Other people have a prob lem even before ihey wake up in the morning. We understand a man was discharged from his job r xecently because he snored too loud. It seems this hap pened some time ago in a bunk house at a local orchard company. The man was snor ing tc loudly no one else could sleep, When you come right down to it, almost everyone has their little problems. We know a lady who went to Ashland during recent "dollar days" when prices were low and city parking was free. She , came back somewhat frustrated for not being able to find a place to park where there were park ing meters. The weatherman has his troubles, too, as evidenced by a recent prediction. In making his forecast he said: "Low tonight. Oh gee whiz! I guess about 53." e Farmers who have had wire removed from their cows' stom achs shouldn't groan too loudly. One local farmer commented the other day that 240 pieces of wire had been removed from the stomach of one of his cows. He said: "I couldn't figure out what ailed her." ' . - Discussing farmers brings to mind thai the annual 4-H ' and FFA fair starts at the ' fairgrounds next Tuesday... Which in turn brings to mind ; that fall is not loo far off. That fall is fast approach- . Ing is obvious with store window displays of back-to-school items, and football i, hopefuls holding their own drills in shorts and T-shirts. During a recent meeting on possible water shortage sites, one ardent fisherman comment ed that residents in this area did not know how lucky they are. "Too many California streams are b e i n,g rapidly fished out," he noted. One of our staff members had a vacation a couple months ago, and he's still paying for It. Why. just yesterday ha commented that with the most recent paycheck he and his wife will be flying over Denver, as he figured itl Imdgine ,a vacation lasting six months or morel Resolution Passed . By YMCA Directors A resolution to record ffppre ciation of service of the late D. Ford McCormick to the Med ford Young Men's Christian as sociation was passed at a recent meeting of the YMCA board of directors. ,The resolutiom ' states about McCormick that his "tiftless ef ort on behalf of our youth was an inspiration to 11 who knew him." It notes that "primarily through efforts of Ford and others like him, the YCMA has been constructed and maintain ed, and the summer camp at Diamond Lake developed for ther youth of southern Oregon." The resolution records in the association minutes "apprecia tion of the faithful service of Ford McCormick and the deep personal sense of loss experienc ed by each of the members of this board of directors and the staff." 10 Valley Students Attend Institute A group of 10 Rogue valley students attended the Western High School Press Institute at the University of Oron in Eugene Aug. 12 to 16. They were among about 150 students from Oregon, Washing ton, California and Idaho re ceiving training in production of high school newspapers and yearbooks. Classes were held from 9 to 12 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m. each day. Workshopsstressing news writing and yearbook work were also on the schedule. Leverett Richards, aviation editor o The Oregonian, Port land spoke to the group at an evening banquet. - Attending from this area were Joan Laurila and Rose mary Eismann, Medford; Alma Stovall and Nadine Brood, Phoe nix; Linda Warren, Pat Higin botham, and Sandra Guss, Cen tral Point; Gypsy Beams and Nancy Niedermeyer, Jackson ville; and Judy Faber, Ashland.
