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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.
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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
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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.