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o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UKE "Ivtryon in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" PuhlijhM Dally Eept Satur-taT b7 ,Pa2. PMATLNG CO o '-'m fir ai f none Z-C141 BflRruT ut Dint. rrV3'lrilM Business Manager 5viS u-.ea' jr- Managing Editor JARL H ADAMS City Editor LRAY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor CHARD JEWETf Sport. Editor SV,VESTARCHJtR SocietT Editor DALE ERICKSON Circuiatloo Mgr. An independent Newspaper "'rjd as second clan matter at Medford Oregon under Act of MarcB 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year 113 00 Daily a&jl Sunday 6ix month 8 00 Daily aWl Sunday Three moa 4.23 Sunday Only One year X4.2Q By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Hojrue River. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday One year $1S00 pally and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Paper of the City of Medford v" ' i-aper or aacnaon. county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU or CIRCULATION Ariwrflilna Dan . i WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Office In New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITOIIAt I ASSOCfAieN O NEWSPAPER UBIISHEt 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. 20, 1947 (Wednesday) The city council last night postpones action on offers to construct the swimming pool. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "It turned off chilly. Many fear the sum mer that never arrived locally, Is over. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 20, 1937 (Friday) Bobby Jones, famous golfer, eulogizes the late Chandler Egan, designer and founder of Rogue Valley Golf club course. Angling is best in higher lakes, berry crop poor, bulletin from Rogue River national for est headquarters states. - 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 20, 1T27 (Saturday) Soldiers and Sailors reunion association of southern Oregon will hold a three day convention In Lithia Park in Ashland. AJ1 roads in Jackson county damaged by high water last spring will be repaired, Judge Hartzell says. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 20. 1917 (Monday) Company C commander here is opposed to soliders playing Sunday baseball. Local and Personal column: Large forest fire in Elk Creek is brought under control. What's Year I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or (Jits Is good. 1. Which city was nicknamed the Gibraltar of America? 2. Gaol is an English spelling for jail: true or false? 3. Bible: King Cyrus reclaim ed the building of the -Temple: was the proclamation in writ ing, broadcast by town-criers, or by couriers? 4. In area, Argentina is the second largest country in South America; is it approximately one-third, one-half, or two-thirds the size of Brazil? 5. Ninety-six years ago, who was inaugurated a provisional President of the Southern Con federacy? 6. Persons born between Feb ruary 19 and March 21 are born under which zodiacal sign? 7. Which U.S. city is nick named "Quaker City?" 8. A hexagon has six eight, or ten sides? 9. 'He was a bold man who swallowed the first oyster." Did a king, philosopher, or gourmet first make this statement? Answers: 1. Quebec, Canada. 2. True. 3. In writing. 4 One- third. (Argentina, 1,072,745 sq. mi.: Brazil 3.286,169 sq. mi.). 5. Jefferson Davis. 6 Pisces. 7. Philadelphia, Pa. 8. Six 9. King James I of England. Two Youfhs Killed In Car-Truck Crash Hillsboro IW Two teen-age boys were killed Monday when their car crashed into a heavy gravel truck three miles west of Forest Grove. Dead were Bob Lovelady, 19, Mountain dale, driver of the car, and Everett Hart, 15, Galen Creek. Two of Hart's brothers, Don ald, 16, and Richard, 14, were injured and taken to a hospital here. Washington county deputies said Lovelady had been speed ing on a Wilsonville river high way curve and sideswipe the trucks, loaded with crushed lock. . r JT Sl ' aPlsWai MAIL TRIBUNE How About "Capitalism: We had a pleasant surprise the other day. We received a booklet from MEDFORD (Massa chusetts) the title of which (with tall smoke-stacks belching) was "Capitalism (the) way of Freedom." We assumed it was propaganda from the U.S. Manufacturers Association or something similar, until we noticed it was written by Kenneth Sheldon for the Civic Education Center of Tufts University. So we proceeded to read the offering. And as indicated, to our pleasant surprise it stated the basic political philosophy of this paper, better than anything we have read for a long time. ''pAPITALISM the way of Freedom" is the central theme, and we can imagine no thoughtful per son, this side of Moscow, disputing a fact so clearly demonstrated throughout the world day after day, and year after year. And that, of course, is one of its tremendous vir tues. There are laws to obey and controls to recog nize, but all in all, democratic capitalism has given to its citizens a degree of personal freedom and inde pendence not approached by any other political sys tem. IT has also given and no informed person would deny this a higher standard of living than that en joyed by any system anywhere else in the world. But and this is the important point in the booklet from our standpoint because capitalism is the best system thus far devised does NOT mean it is perfect. It does NOT mean it has no defects wdthin it. Which defects if allowed to go unchallenged and uncorrect ed, might well lead eventually to its destruction. FJEARLY half of the booklet is devoted to consid- eration of these defects or weaknesses of capital ism, under the following headings : 1. Waste. 2. Monopoly. 3. Poverty. 4. Depressions. 5. Greed. We would place "greed" first instead of last, but it is doubtful if the author of their importance. At any rate on each and good case, and his final conclusion might be expressed by saying that eternal vigilance, is not ONLY the price of liberty, but the price of preserving a free de mocracy. I TNDER "waste" for example, would be placed the foes of conservation who would place a quick buck above the welfare of this generation and future ones. Under "monopoly" the author draws a distinction between the natural and desirable ones and those which are neither. Among the former would be tele phones and the postoffice, among the latter those large corporations that "cut down the production of goods, buy up and bury inventions" so they may get higher and higher profits. His conclusion is that with out strict federal regulation our free capitalistic sys tem might let monopoly run wild. (And one might add, do more to destroy it than all the infiltrating Red spies and saboteurs.) DOVERTY is, of course, always with us. But as the author declares there is too much of it and every effort should be made to reduce it, by a fairer and better distribution of wealth. We quote : What we want to get rid of is poverty that folks can't help because it is forced on them by the way our system works. Poverty' that is due to laziness can't be blamed on the system nor can changes in the system cure it. If prices were lower or our earnings higher all our difficulties would be so much easier to meet. High prices certainly can't be blamed on ordinary folk who are working hard and doing their best to live on what they get. The greatest breeder of poverty, in other words is "GREED" the passion to do anything or everything for another buck. But, as indicated, this weakness in democracy is treated in conclusion under a special heading. AS to "depressions" the author agrees no one has found a satisfactory answer to them but he de clares, quote: "If we have another depression (like 1929) if ten to 14 million men and women are out of work again there is danger that the merits of our way of life may be for gotten and capitalism the great producer may be traded in for something that will offer steady jobs for all no matter what the cost." But ".Capitalism the way to freedom" concludes, quote : "That day need never come. The evils our system per mits can be banished or greatly lessened, and the good it does, can be kept. But what is going to happen will depend less on laws than it will on US. "Every last one of us must make up his mind never . to sell out on our free system by going after money as his only end and aim." THUS endeth today's "lesson." 1 As remarked at the outset when we received "Capitalism the way to Freedom" we thought it was just some more propaganda from the Manufacturers Association or a similar assembly of what is generally called "Big Business." We were mistaken. But we would like to suggest to the Association of Manufacturers and similar representative industrial organizations that they buy a few thousand copies of this booklet and distribute it carefully to their members ! R.W.R. Tuesday, August 20, 1957 listed the items on the basis every count he makes a Qtyiit-nte Mii-gP'ca.we.TW () Al! rights resertf"!,- I said l WAtmo Viy7HNG OH MY HOT DOG I IVHERE'S THE PEANUT BUTTER? Matter of Fact by joSePh aisOP "Devil Take the Hindmost" Paris Unoticed, undebated, an extremely grave question is beginning to confront the Amer ican policy makers. Is it really safe to let the West ern Alliance, the sole de fense of free dom in the w o rid, decay into a mere loose c o nfed- joiepb aisop e r a ti o n or, worse still, into a transparent false front? The signs of decay are plain to be seen by anyone who spends much time, as this reporter has lately been doing, in England and France. There are plenty of these signs, such as the preval ence of a vague but captious anti Americanism, the specific and widespread distrust of the pre sent American leadership, in cluding President E i s enhower himself, and the almost univer sal, personal detestation of Sec retary of State John Foster Dul les (who is now the most dis liked man in Europe since Jos eph Stalin). The desire to be liked is the worst of all follies in foreign re lations. Hence these surface signs of Western disunity might safely be ignored if it were not for one practical point of high importance. The increasing dis trust of the American leadership is increasingly causing serious policy divergencies among the Western allies. GREAT efforts have been made, notably by Secretary Dul les, to plaster over the under lying disunity with an appear ance of concord. But the policy divergencies are there, none theless. They are getting worse. And it is time to ask the reason for this distrust of the American leadership that is so weakening the West. In the opinion of this reporter, there is one main reason. The American leadership is now dis trusted because the Eisenhower administration has seemed so totally uninterested in the cen t r a 1 problem confronting our British and French allies. This is the problem of their changing power status. These two great nations once led the civilized world. Today, they are more and more reduced to powers of the second rank. They, and we too, have to decide what to do about this decline in their power. The problem comes in two parts. The first and most obvious part is the progressive loss of the British and Fiench imperial and colonial position. Despite the glib slogans so often quoted, empires are s t i 11 possible to maintain intact witness Hung ary. But the British, who very carefully made a Hungary in India just a hundred years ago, when mutiny was drowned in a bath of blood, have now lost the stomach for this sort of thing. And so have the French. A LL the same, neither the Brit ish nor the French like to face these unpleasant facts, though they are always com plaining of "American pressure," or in the case of the French in North Africa, "American plots." We tend to be blamed, in fact, for results that were unavoid able in any case, given modern, civilized Westerners' distaste for making Hungaries, As for the second part of this problem of our allies' changing power status, it goes even deep er. It stems from the simple fact that only a giant national econ omy can afford the gigantic ex penditures needed to maintain a complete panoply of fully modern weapons'. As a case in point, consider the British defense program as elaborated by the new Minister of Defense Duncan Sandys since the end of the Suez crisis. This program is squarely based on dis trust of the United States. Amer ica, Sandys argued, cannot be trusted to stand by her trans Atlantic allies when American cities are directly threatened by Soviet ballistic missiles with H bomb W3rheads, Hence Britain, to defend herself and Europe, must sacrifice everything to pos 7 sess her own thermo-nuclear de terrent. STARTING with this premise, the Sandys program will leave Britain almost fully naked of the conventional armed forces Britain still needs to protect her still-considerable o v e rseas in terests. In this way, too, the program will seriously weaken N.A.T.O. All this will be done in order to make funds available for the British grand deterrent. But in fact, even after these sacrifices, Britian almost certain ly cannot afford to keep the grand deterrent up to date with out a far larger outlay than Sandy contemplates. By the time Britain has long-range aircraft with H-bombs, Britain will act ually need long-range air craft with H-bombs plus air-to-ground missiles to carry the H bombs from the aircraft to their distant targets. The ballistic mis sile state will come after that, and at every stage, the strain of keeping really abreast of these fantastically costly wea pons developments will be too great for the British treasury. In sum, the new British de fense program is an instinctive rather than a national reaction to one part of the problem of Britain's changing power status. By the same token, another part of this same problem provoked and almost wholly instinctive reaction at Suez. "Well, whose fault is that?" would most probablly be the Eisenhower a d m i n i stration's comment. But this is a wholly in sufficient comment from the leading power of the West. Brit ain and France cannot make wise adjustments to their new roles in the world without American wisdom to help them. The United States, above all, has got to make two things clear. IffE HAVE got to make it clear " that we. really are deter mined to safeguard all our al lies' interests which it is human ly possible to safeguard (although not to the extent of trying to maintain unpractical c o 1 o nial situations). More important still, we have got to make it clear that the Western Alliance really is an alliance, a true partnership. And for this such measures are needed as an amendment of the MacMahon Act, to permit a sen sible distribution of the tasks of common defense. If we do not do these things, then, "Save yourselves and the devil take the hindmost," will soon be the watchword inside the Western Alliance. And the United States will then suffer quite as much as all the other allies. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. s Why Not Slop Floods To the Editor: As a former resident of Trail and present home owner along the Rogue I would like to voice an opinion on flood control, high dams, low dams whatever it may be. In your "Communications," D. H. Barber, president of Pre serve the Rogue, asks, "Why are we asked to 'get together' again?" He mentions little or nothing on the '55 flood that did considerable damage to the peo ple that own these motels, gas stations and grocery stores that he calls thriving business! Thriv ing? On flood damage for which there is no insurance? One more flood in this same territory I'm sure would be more than any one person could stand financial ly in business or as a resident. Water can be very damaging and yet it is one of the most im portant matters of today as to how to control it. An agreement once reached does not eliminate facts at present. I agree that people needn't fieht over the matter as no one will get anything but I also think that not only should the Rogue In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Senator Robert Kerr of Okla homa (who is a Democrat) re cently accused the Eisenhower administration of putting into effect " a calculated plan to bring about a recession to check the biggest boonjl in the nation's history." He should have added but DIDN'T, because he was laying the foundation for a "tight money" political campaign issue that if the biggest boom in the nation's history isat checked be fore it goes too far it can end in the BIGGEST BUST in the na tion's history. That's a hard fact that nobody likes to face. Politicians are particularly un willing to face it 1" ET'S -put it this way: Suppose you're letting your car roll free wheeling down a long and pleasant hill. The scen ery flashes by. It's lovely scen ery. And you're moving along with so little effort. No strain or pain. It's wonderful. But You get to going pretty fast. And there might be a turn in the road, with a cliff on one side. What to do? Put on the brakes? It seems a pity. You're moving along so smoothly. It looks so safe. Surely nothing bad could happen. And it's so much fun to GO FAST. So you let 'er roll. You come in time to the turn. But you can't. make it. So you CRASH. TifORAL: It would have been better if you had put on the brakes in time. rpHE Eisenhower administra tion, in its so-called "tight money" policy which consists in refusal to start the?, printing presses and print all the money everybody wants to borrow is trying to PUT ON THE BRAKES IN TIME. rpHE 64 billion dollar question: -- Why is money "tight?" This is the answer: , Because people want to bor row more money than is being saved up. TJEMEMBER this:: Money is a commodity just like hay or grain or po tatoes. Its price is governed by the law of supply and demand- When more saved-up money is available than people are willing to borrow the price of money (that is to say, the interest rate) goes down. When LESS money is being saved up than people want to borrow, " the price GOES UP. OOME THING else to remember: "Tight money (which re sults in higher interest rates) is a two-edged sword. It cuts both ways. It hurts those who borrow. It HELPS those who SAVE. lOR example: If you have a savings ac count, you're getting a better price now for the money you put into it. So your savings BUILD UP FASTER. A NOTHER example: xl- Life insurance is one of our most important froms of saving. If you have what is known as a "participating" pol icy, you'll find that your divi dends are bigger in these "tight" money days. If you leave your dividends on deposit with your life insurance company, you'll get a higher rate of interest on them. If you want to prepay your premiums, you'll get a higher discount on your prepayment. All this tends to reduce the cost of your insurance protec tion. Don't let the politicians kid you about this "tight" money business. Tight money encour ages savings and savings pro vide the capital with which to expand our economy and create more jobs. be preserved but the people also! What are we going to do? Have water over dams or water over the people, property and cattle? I believe the Corps of Engin eer's decisions after they have completed their survey should solve the flood problem on the Rogue once and for all and so why fight such intelligence with a mop bucket! I went up there in '55 to mop up! Rena Kranenburg 9302 Gladys st. Bakersfield, Calif. CATS FIND I Salt Lake City OPI Cats : in Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Hunt's ; neighborhood have made a dis- j turbing discovery. The Hunt's j year-old part-Doberman climbs j trees with the best of them. I Hunt admitted he taught the j dog to climb a ladder but denies he had anything to do with the j tree act. "He wouldn't hurt cats any way," Hunt said. "Sambi just likes to chase them." Lincoln's Statue Attracts Many Washington Visitors Washington HP) A colos sal figure seated in a Parthenon like temple has attracted more visitors than any other monu ment in this city of monument?. Since its completion and dedi cation in 1922, well over 49 mil lion visitors have paid homage before the statue of Abraham Lincoln. And for those millions, the white marble memorial has Owners Offer $500 For Missing Mongrel Arlington, Va. (IP) The re ward for a missing mongrel dog named Irene now stands at $500. The owners, Dr. and Mrs. T. L. Macdonald, "have tried just about everything" in their un successful search started in Oc tober, 1955, when the dog disap peared. In addition to calling on local police for help, they have employed a private detective, advertised in local papers and purchased radio time. The couple also has circulated widely reward posters bearing a photo of Irene. The original reward offer was $50, but it has grown 10-fold with the Mcdon ald's increasing anxiety. The Mcdonald's, who have no children, describe their $500 re ward offer as "a last resort." They said their relationship with Irene is "a personal thing between the dog and ourselves, something many people can't understand.'' "Life hasn't been quite the same" since her disappearance, they said. Their most recent newspaper advertisement described Irene as: "A small, black and white, mixed breed (probably spitz cocker) about seven years old and 16 pounds. She has black ears and eyes, a black spot on her back extending over on the right side and a black ring at the base of her tail; the left side is nearly all white. She has a long, flowing tail and is medi um long-haired." Professor Swims Across Lake Erie Sandusky, Ohio (IP) A tired but happy histroy profes sor, who came all the way from Alaska to be the first man to swim across Lage Eire, said here he today he already was was making plans for next sum mer. Harry W. Briggs Jr.,' 36, a professor at the University of Alaska, said he was consider ing an attempt to swim across Massachusetts Bay from Prov incetown to Plymouth. Another project for next sum mer, he said, will be the return trip across Lake Erie, from Point Pelee, Ont., to Cedar Point, Ohio. Briggs said he swam from Marblehead, Ohio, to Leaming ton, Ont., because he thought that route would be easier. Act ually, he said, it turned out to be more difficult. Starting Sat urday morning, Briggs took 34 hours and 55 minutes for the 32-mile swim. 'Chain Reaction' ToW In Automobile Accident Goshen, Ind. OPI Mrs. Dale Henderson, 21, Goshen, described this "chain reaction," which re sulted in an auto collision, to local police. She was driving along in her car when a dog darted into the vehicle's path. She turned the car to avoid hitting the dog. At the same time, she tried to grab some dishes which were sliding off the car seat. Her car swerved toward the curb and crashed' into a parked car. Maine-born Sir William Phipps was the first American to be knighted by an English king and became the first royal governor of the combined Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies in 1692. Counsel With . . . 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Steven Stonecutters But the men who fashioned he memorial were as dedicat ed as the Civil War leader. Ar chitect Henry Bacon discarded plan after plan until he chose an edifice worthy of the mar tyred president. Then he hand picked a sculptor, Danile Chest er French, to design the statue. In preparation for modeling it. French steeped himself in stor ies and photographs of Lincoln. He decided to picture the man as a seer, "frozen" in thought, with hands gripped around a massive chair. An Italian family of seven stonecutters father and six sons named Piccirilli -2- carved it out of 28 blocks f Georgia white manble. It took them four years to carve and fit together the 19-foot statue. The result was a statue of Lincoln facing the entrance and looking out thfTigh the columns to the Washington Monument and the Capitol. 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