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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone tn Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturday by MZOFQRO PRINTING CO 17-29 North fir St. Phone 2-ll ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB CRZY Advertising Manager GF.RAL.D LATHAM Busmen Manager ERIC ALi-EN JR. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Stiorta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at alediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mali In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year IIS 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mca 4.25. Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year SIS 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1 JO Carrier and Dealers lOo per copy Ail Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official t-aper of Jackson County United Pr. Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Ad vert (sine Representative WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANT. WC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver 8 C NATIONAL IDITOIIA. r r-. ..-7 nth ASSOC ."A IB I6N rrnrcnr Emma NEWS FA P E ft PUtUSHEtS association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History Trom the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 25. 1947 (Monday) Frank N. Belgrano, president of the First National Bank of Portland visits southern Oregon branches. Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column:. "The dollar famine continues In Great Britain and many around here are beginning to run out of same." 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 25. 1937 (Wednesday) a Eleven California and Mid West breweries file suit against Teamsters Union Local in Med ford. District attorney Invited to make arrest to test legality of pin ball machine ban. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 25. 1927 (Thursday) Copco movies of old hat pa rade shown in Boy Scout Court of Honor. City officials decide to enlarge Medford Airport. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 25. 1917 (Saturday) Motor Dealers association of Oregon visits Medford for ban quet and trip to Crater Lake. Candidates for directors nom inated for Medford irrigation district. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eirbt Is excellent; five or six Is good 1. The March of Dimes is an nually collected for helping the victims of which crippling dis ease? 2. A water-filled ditch around a castle is called a m . . t. 3. Bible: The word "canker" is used in the New Testament. Is it in the Old Testament also? If so, has it the same meaning? 4. Name the only U. S. Presi dent who did not actually reside in the White House. 5. February, 1948 marked 80, 90, or 100 years since a treaty ended the Mexican War? 6. How many states must rat ify a constitutional amendment before it becomes a part of the U. S. Contstitution? 7. Which U. S. Government agency operates the "Conscience Fund"? 8. 3.P.O.E. are the initials of which fraternal organization? 9. For what does the abbrevi ation "Ltd" stand? 10. 1901: "Tell me are there any more at home like you?Dis position shady, But best a perfect lady.A beginner but a winner" who? Answers: 1. Infantile paraly sis. 2. Moat, 3. Yes. 4 George Washington 5. 100. 6. Thirty six. 7. U. S. Treasury Depart ment. 8. Benevolent and Pro tective Order of Elks. 9. Limit ed. 10. "Mamie" WiU D. Cobb. t Pittsburgh W Firemen battling flames, smoke and gas - fumes rescued 15 workmen Fri day from a 9.000-foot long sewer project tunnel where they were trapped deep underground for neatly three hours. MAIL TRIBUNE , To Labors Self-Interest As far as this department is concerned we don't need any more evidence or senate investigations to convince us as to what Organized Labor should do with Messers Dave Beck and his "alter ego" James R. Hoffa. They are both tough and smart operators. They have, no'doubt, increased the power and wealth of organized labor, and even more conspiciously the wealth and power of themselves. DUT enough is known and been admitted to demonstrate that Messers Beck and Hoffa repre sent a type of mercenary callousness, ruthless exploi tation, and greed, which American labor can't afford to excuse or sanction. It is also our belief, that when the moral issues involved come to a show down, the Beck-Hoffa type of leadership will be emphatically repudiated by organized labor as a whole. e e VlE very much hope so. " For, as we see it, it is not only in the interest of the national welfare, but decidedly the SELF in terest of organized labor, that a house-cleaning be conducted, which will place the methods employed by the Beck-Hoffa school of thought, at the bottom of the ash-can, where they belong. R.W.R. Nixon Jumps the Gun If Vice President Nixon doesn't get the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1960, it won't be because of any lack of effort. We can't recall in either party, a drive for the head of the ticket, which started so early and gathered so much momentum, so long before the date of the convention. Perhaps the announced retirement of Nixon's Re publican colleague,' Senator Knowland, and the an nouncement of Governor Knight that he will be a can didate for reelection has had something to do with this "jumping the gun." For it is generally agreed, among politicians in the know, that the next Governor of California will have a great deal of influence as to that state's vote in 1960, and there is little doubt the gubernatorial con test "will be between California's present Governor Knight and the retiring senior senator of that politic ally powerful state. fF course, ex-Senator Nixon is not announcing his candidacy as President Eisenhower's "favorite son"-; nothing as crude as that nor is he openly campaigning for "3 years hence" that would be plain dumb and whatever may be said against Nixon, he is NOT that! But as most newspapermen will agree, the marked articles, and laudatory press clippings that are com ing to editorial rooms over the country today build ing up the "New Nixon" can hardly be "purely coin cidental." It is all, we believe, a clever game very clever and, to this column at least often amusing. We were particularly amused by the "Madison Avenue" type of offering that the "New Nixon" demonstrated his courage, high integrity, and indifference to political consequences when he toured the "Deep South" in favor of negro rights and had his picture taken with one of the outstanding negro leaders, the right Rev erend Martin Luther. He also, it seems, invited selected colored gentry to one of Mrs. Nixon's selective cock tail parties. "INDIFFERENCE to political consequences?" That 1 would make even "Ferdinand the bull" emit a horse-laugh. A smarter bid for the negro, vote in the north, which a Republican presidential candidate must have to be elected, could hardly be imagined. However, judging by present indications, that sort of "unadulterated-whang -Doodle" is on the Nixon assembly line, and promises to continue off and on, for the next two or three years, at least. R.W.R. Nice While it Lasted The celebration of the "Hate-Morse brigade" was painfully brief. Only a few days were they able to exult in the fact that Oregon's two senators had come to the parting-of-the-ways, and that while the senior senator wished to smoke "the pipe of peace," Senator Neu berger would have none of it. This was clearly shown, it was claimed, by Sen ator Morse's conciliatory statement, and the stern refusal- of his junior colleague to make one. This, it was added, showed great dignity and smart political acumen. It was also alleged, it put Wayne Morse in a hot-spot behind the 8-ball, where it was unanimous ly agreed he belonged. VES, some of the Morse phobiacs had quite a war- dance but, as stated, it did not last long. ' For, as Robert Smith, our Washington correspond ent, who originated the "end of the honeymoon" story, wired this paper Senator Neuberger did issue a public statement which Smith did not send entire, but enough to show that there is no more ill-will, or likelihood of a political feud, between . Oregon's two Democratic senators now than there was before the "hassle" was first reported. A S our junior Senator points out, he and his team mate did not see eye-to-eye, on President Eisen hower and Dave Beck civil rights and some features of the administration's foreign policy. However, they never pretended to be "carbon-copies of each other," but when the welfare of Oregon is at stake, the record speaks for itself, as to their "teamwork and mutual Sunday, August 25, 1957 I WANMA TALK TO A TBLBBISIOH FK&R'. 1 CANT t EVEN TEU A COWBOY FR3M AN IMJUtii " Matter of Fact WHAT DOES HARLEM THINK? New York This enormous Negro city-within-a-city nis now in the process of making up it collective mind on the follow ing question: Which party, Re publican o r D e m ocratic, deserves most credit or blame for its role in the civil rights fight? This report er, accompan ied by the ex perienced po Stewaif Alsop litical analyst Louis Harris, has spent many footsore hours ring ing doorbells here, trying to find out what Harlem thinks. It has been a fascinating experi ence the more so because the way Harlem, and the many smaller Harlems in the key Northern states, make up their minds, may determine the po litical balance of power for years to come. All Harlem, like all Gaul, is divided into three parts. At the top, there is the small aristo cracy of the prosperous and well-educated, who live in places like the comforable, pri vate Tiverton apartments. These people constitute an impressive ly articulate and knowledge able community. At the bottom are the dwellers in Harlem's rat-infested, festering slum tene ments. And in the middle are the occupants of ' the government-subsidized housing proj ects, like the modest but decent Lincoln apartments. e e Harlem's way of making up its mind works on the Tink-er-t o-E-v e r s-to-Chance double play principle-Tiverton-to-Lin-coln -to-tenements. People like the occupants of the Tiverton are, by and large, the opinion formers, and their policial views seep lown through the Harlem hierarchy. Harris arid this re porter sampled opinions in all three groups, but the Tiverton group provided the most inter esting. The people in the Tiver ton are having a difficult time making up their minds. . When we asked them the question cited in the first para graph, they would pause thoughtfully, and say "That's a very hard question to answer." The reason it is a hard question to answer was sug gested by their answer to an other question in the last 50 years, who had done most for the Negro people? Almost with out exception, the answer was "Franklin D. Roosevelt," and when they pronounced the be loved name, their faces lit up. ewe The people in the Tiverton, in short, are New Deal Demo crats, and by a margin of at least four or five to one. It is thus very hard indeed for them io give credit to the Repub licans, on the civil rights issue. Yet an increasing number of them are doing so. An increasing number, more over, are giving credit specifi cally to Vice President Richard M. Nixon. The new popularity of Nixon among the Harlemites was, indeed, the phenomenon which most impressed both Har ris and this reporter. And this is related to another phenom enon Of all the peiple we talked to, in all our weary hours of door bell pushing.. there was exactly one who had the slightest inter est in, or understanding of, the disputed jury trial amendment, about which so many millions of words have been written. This ignorance of the legislative details of the civil rights battle effectiveness," under the "outstanding and able lead ership of Wayne Morse," etc., etc. . m e SO that should settle the matter, as far as a continu ing feud between the members of the Oregon dele gation in the upper House is concerned. It won't stop the efforts of the "Hate Morsers" to get their man. But it may be some time before they have another opportunity, which appeared so enticing, but lasted so short a time. R.W.R. By Stewart Alsop was as true in the Tiverton as in the tenements. Thus Minority Leader Wil liam Knowland got virtually no credit at all for his stubborn fight for a strong civil rights bill. By the same token. Sen. Jack Kennedy got no blame for his vote for the jury trial amendment no one was aware of it. And yet, somehow, the image of Nixon as a staunch fighter for civil rights has emerged very clearly. e e There is not much mystery about that "somehow," either. People remembered the pictures of Nixon with the Reverend Mar tin Luther King, leader of the with Kwame Nkrumah, Prime Minister of the newly independ ent state of Ghana. In terms of political salesmanship, those pictures were worth more to Nixon than reams of close-typed pages of brilliant and impas sioned oratory in the Congres sional Record. Civil rights is not the only issue which will determine how Harlem makes up its -mind. Es pecially in the tenements, there are many people who hardly bother their heads about civil rights, and who wax passionate instead about such matters as housing, rents, and above all, rising prices. If there is much more inflation, or even a mild depression, the gains the Repub licans have made among North ern Negro voters could vanish like the mist at sunrise. Yet those gains are unques tionably real today. Harlem, which has voted overwhelming ly Democratic for a quarter of a century, willnot vote over whelmingly Republican tomor row. But the Republicans have for the first time a real chance to reduce the Democratic ma jority among Northern Negro voters close to the 50-50 mark. If they do, it will mean a major shift in the whole national poli tical balance of power. And as of today, the major beneficiary of such a shift will unquestion ably be Richard M. Nixon, (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Neuberger's Pro-Ike Votes Seen Basis of Attack by By SEN RICHARD NEUBERGER Washington, D. C. (Special) On August 9 the Oregon State Republican Party chairman, James Short, attacked as "ap palling" my voting record in the United States Senate. Mr. Short based this attack upon a "Con gressional Quarterly" survey which allegedly showed me as voting for economy in govern ment only 4 per cent of the time. This assault upon my record is merely one further demonstra tion that the top leadership of the Republican Party in our state is still basically anti-Eisenhower, so far as policy and pro gram are concerned. If Mr. Short were at all wor ried about the substantive na ture of government, he would realize that my rating in the "Congressional Quarterly" is due almost entirely to the fact that I have tried to rise above narrow partisanship in order to support President Eisenhower on basic issues of foreign policy like mu tual security, U. S. Information Agency and national defense. Basis of Record Following the attack upon me by Mr. Short, I consulted the In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Money talk: Continued heavy investment in Canadian securities has sent Canada's dollar soaring to a new record high. It now takes $1.06 in U.S. money to buy a Canadian dollar. H OW come? It's all quite simple. CANADA is new and raw and rich in natural resources including oil and gold and nickel and uranium. The population of the United States, which is lo cated just across a more or less Imaginary line from Canada, is growing swiftly. There will be 200 million people in the U.S. almost before we can turn around. By 1975, our popula tion is expected to reach 227 millions. This vast population is ex pected to create huge new mar kets for Canada's products. So Americans (hoping to make a quick buck) are rushing in to buy stock in Canadian enter prises. American investment money is pouring into Canada in a steadily swelling stream. WHY does that make a Cana dian dollar worth more than an American dollar? - It works like this: When you buy something in Canada, you must first buy Canadian money to pay for it with. Americans are BUYING HEAVILY in Canada oil wells, uranium mines, stock in Canadian corporations. And so on. This strong demand for Ca nadian money makes- the Ca nadian I illar worth more. THAT is to say: Money is a commodity just like hay, grain and pota toes. Its price is governed by the law of supply and demand. THAT prompts another ques tion: Is this situation good for Canada? Oddly enough, the answer is NO. THIS is how it works out: You take a trip to Van couver, B. C. You buy a Hud son Bay blanket in a Vancouv er store or whatever other merchandise you happen to fancy. In order to pay for it you buy Canadian money and the premium commanded by the Canadian dollar makes the Canadian merchandise cost more. So you are inclined to buy less of it. When Canadians come down to SeatUe or Portland and make purchases they GET MORE AMERICAN DOLLARS for their Canadian dollars, and that makes the merchandise they buy in the United States, COST LESS. So they are inclined to buy more American merchan dise. Communications Thanks From Phoenix To the Editor: We wish to ex press our deepest gratitude for your fine co-operation in our re cent Phoenix Festival. Through participation, such as yours, Phoenix can, year by year, increase the facilities of our Community Club. Again, we thank you. Phoenix Festival Association Joy Fowler, Secretary. GOP Head editors of "Congressional Quar terly." They have told me that their so-called "economy" sur vey is based on 23 Senate roll calls between Jan. 3 and July 28. On these 23 rollcals, the recom mendations of President Eisen hower were made clear 17 times. Out of those 17 roll-calls, I voted with Mr. Eisenhower 13 times and against him only four times. Few Senators in - either party sided with the President on so many occasions. The only possible conclusion to be drawn from Mr. Short's description of my Senate voting record as "appalling" is that he likewise regards as 'appalling" the position of Dwight Eisen hower on those same issues! This is a curious posture, indeed, for the chairman of the Oregon State Republican Party. Other Votes" On those few occasions when I did not vote with the Presi dent on this particular series of roll-calls, I am informed by the "Congressional Quarterly" that it was because I voted to expand the public-housing program and to enlarge appropriations avail a b 1 e for government insured mortgages. With Oregon's cru cial lumber industry in the dol drums because of a sagging mar ket foi- housing, I wonder if the State Republican Party would have been happier if I had tried to diminish new housing starts stUl further? A sample of the unfairness and inaccuracy of Mr Short's attack was his ridicule of me because I have voted quite dif ferently during this session of Congress from my senior col league, Sen. Wayne Morse.; At POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contribution) If you ever want to find out. truly, what kind of people your friends are. way down deep, just start to raise a mustache. Here are some sample com ments: "What are you going to name it when it grows up?" "Cut your lip? "Say, you skipped a spot shav ing this morning." . "My 5-year-old kid has more fuzz than that." "H-mmmm." "Oh, NO!" . Discouraging, that's what it is. . Overheard, one man io an other: "A woman not only wants the last work, she wants the last 100 words." A family was out for a drive rcently, and the conversation turned to the types of govern ment in different countries in the world. "And what kind of govern ment does Ethiopia have?" came the question. ' The 11-year-old pondered a moment, then replied, "Self-service?" If anyone thinks that Shake speare's plays, as presented in Ashland these days, are "high brow,", a friend reminds us, let them realize that not only do they contain some of the bawdiest lines in the English language, but when written were designed for the amuse ment of the "man in the street," who stood on straw to watch the play, spat freely on the ground, and tossed apple cores at the actors. We have been told about the time not long ago, when a cer tain golf professional at a certain country club drove to Dunsmuir to put his wife aboard a train for a visit in the south. He escorted her aboard the train, the story goes, got her settled, and started to stow the baggage away. Suddenly he noticed the land scape moving by the window, Today and By Walter THE COUP IN SYRIA Washington has been reacting calmly to the events in Syria, almost certainly because they have long been foresee able, and are not a surprise. The events stem from the basic situation among '.. the Arab nations in the Middle East: first, Walter Uppmus l e H" powers are rivals competing for their favor; and second, that there is rivalry among the Arab ruling classes, who are compet ing for the support of the great . i , J, . i powers. 1 For these reasons, there has never been any chance that all the Arab countries would line up with us under some sort of pan-Arab Eisenhower Doctrine. As we .have been making our deals with one group of Arab countries, another group as it happens Syria, Egypt, Yemen have been making tentative deals with the Soviet Union. We are involved in a compli cated and tricky game of power politics, and we must expect to have losses as well as gams, we have had gains in Saudi-Arabia, Jordan, and Lebanon. Now we have had a loss in Syria. The one thing that we can be fairly sure of is that the whole region is in flux, and that neither the gains, as in Jordan, ' nor the losses, as in Syria, can be counted on as permanent. For while it may turn out to be the fact that the new mili tary dictatorship in Syria is firmly under Soviet control, there is, I venture to think, bound to be a radical difference between a continguous and a n o n-contiguous satellite be tween one that can be reached over land by the Red Army and one that can be reached only by sea and air. It was possible for the Red Army to march into Hungary, to occupy it and to crush the rebellion. That would not be nearly so easy to do what with the Baghdad allies being interposed if there were a rebellion in Syria. For the So viet Union it can be said that Egypt as well as Syria are rather in the nature of outposts than true satellites. IT IS generally agreed, as the President said at his press conference, that the coup in Syria does not call for any re action under the Eisenhower Doctrine. The Syrian coup is a successful intrigue in which the legal government of Syria has the start of my Senatorial ca reer, I was attacked by Oregon Republicans because they claim ed I would be a "rubber stamp" for Senator Morse. Now they criticize me because I am not always voting the same way as Senator Morse. What a shame that such irresponsibility grips a major political party in our state! Startled, he appealed to one of the train's officials, explaining vehemently that he wasn't a passenger and wanted off. The trainman pulled the emergency cord. , Still the train kept moving, slowly, but surely, along the tracks. The cord was pulled again. Finally, the train pulled to a stop, the door was opened, and, bidding his wife farewell, our man climbed down to walk two full miles back to the sta tion. The Medford r.chool board planned to hold a breakfast meeting last week, and mem bers showed up dutifully early ' at a certain downtown restau rant, only to find it still closed. One of our irreverent col-' leagues suggests that the chair- . man of the board, the ou'.j ' woman member, maybe should cook breakfast for the group, next time. e Members of the "Tribe of Will" who feasted in Lithia park on opening night of, the Shake spearean festival watched with attention and respectful amuse ment as the Life photographer swarmed all over the place tak ing pictures from every possible angle with one or another of three cameras. Each, probably, was wonder ing, which, if any, of the pic- tures would appear in the big magazine, and whether or not they would be depicted in any of them. Their wondering was answered Thursday, when the current is sue of Life arrived, and showed that three pictures have been used two which show two fes tival actors in two poses, and one large color picture of the park banquet. If any of the local citizenry could recognize themselves, it was only because they remem bered where they sat. Most peo ple showed up as tiny figures, with heads about the size of those on a pin. Tomorrow Lippmann acquiesced, at which it has prob ably connived. The basic prin ciple of the Eisenhower Doc trine is that we wiU Intervene only at the request of a legiti mate government, and in the case of Syria the legitimate gov ernment is stridenly hostile to the Eisenhower Doctrine and to the United States.. The right course is the one that the administration appears to be taking to leave the Ini tiative to Syria's neighbors, al lowing them to decide on the only action which is possible whether the new Soviet govern ment should be put In quaran tine. That is the limit of the ac tion. There can be no intrigue under the Eisenhower Doctrine unless Syria first openly makes war on one or more of her neighbors, on Iraq, Jordan, Leb anon, or Israel. Insofar as Syria is under Soviet influence, it will probably not be encouraged, in fact it will probably not be per mitted, to 'do anything which could precipitate in general war. e e IN retrospect, it looks more and more as if Sen. Fulbright is right, and that our crucial mistake in the Middle East has been the abrupt rejection of the Aswan Dam. Not only did this touch off the calamitous series of events which began with Nas ser's seizure of the Suez Canal Co., but it also deprived the Western world of the chance to cooperate with Egypt in a great project which is of vital inter est to the Egyptian people. The fact of our ; withdrawal, com bined with the rude manner in which we . withdrew, has ex cluded us from the chance to exercire a friendly influence. It has left the field open to the Soviet Union, and made it cer tain that Nasser's demagogy would be turned against us a LI over the Arab world. Yet it is probably true that Nasser does not want, and will try his best to avoid, a complete entanglement with the Soviet orbit. The central idea of his foreign policy seems to be that he can profit most by keeping the Soviet Union and the West bidding against each other. To do that he must be independent enough to keep both 'sides guessing, which, we may sup pose, is what he means when he talks about a positive neutrality. (Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Resolution Introduced To Forbid Free Editing ' Washington (IB Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said Thursday the Congressional Record should show what the senators said, not what they would like to have said. Neuberger introduced a reso lution, co-sponsored by Sen. Gordon Allott (R-Coio.) to for bid the free-wheeling editing now permitted of remarks made by senators in debate. It would permit editing to correct errors and grammer, but not to make substantive changes in what "wa said. I
