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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.?
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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. .
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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.
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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.
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been a shrine.
Guards at the memorial say
those who visit usually come in
hushed reverence.
There's no ban on hats or
normal speaking yet people
speak in whispers and men bare
their heads," one guard ex
plained. Although the first drive for
a memorial to the Great Emanci
pator came within two years'
after his death, it wasn't until
1911 that Congress created tho
Lincoln Memorial Commission.
The commission members, un
der the chairmanship of former
President William Howard Taft,
chose a swamp as a site. House
Speaker Joe Gannon "warned
that the "malarial ague from
these mosquitoes will shake it
to pieces."
Other critics looking over
preliminary plans said suclT a
"cold Greek temple" was incon
gruous as a shrine to a man of
Lincoln's warmth and simplicity.
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. The eugy, on
a pedestal 11 feet high, is a mod
el of perfectidft. o
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The memorial building itself
is considered to be one of the
finest works of architecture in
America. Its classical lines sre
based on the Parthenon on the
Acropolis in Athens.
It has 36 Doric columns, one
for each state in existence st
the time of Lincoln's death. The
names of the present 48 states
are inscribed above the columns.
The Gettysburg and the Second
Inaugural Addresses are cut into
the walls at the right and left.
Nearby is the inscription: "In
this temple, as in the hearts of
the people for whom he saved
the Union, the memory of Abra
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