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rOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) KBDF0Rm5TRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Oailv Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phona 2-0141 ROBERT W RL'HL Editor HERB GREY AdvertuirA Mana-r GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALXE.N JR Managing Editor EARL a ADAMS City Edltnr HARRY CHIPMA-N Telegrafti Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorts Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Eiitered as second class, matter at Mediord Oregon under Act oi Urch 3. 1897 O SUBSCRIPTION RATES .By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily Mil Sunday Three mas 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent nd on motor routes .Daily and Sunday One year f 18 00 wDaiiy and Sunday One month liO Carrier and Dealers 10-Der copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION AdvertKing Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY DC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EOlTOflAi, I ASSOcfA'ICN jrTJiraTWgl-T-II-Il rr" NEWSPAPEt PUBLISHES 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. 29. 1947 (Friday) Jovial Matt Freed, manager of the Robert Lippert theatres, un suspectedly played Cupid Wednesday . night when he awarded a diamond ring to a youth. Plans for a wedding re sulted. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "T h e buckwheat crop is reported larger than last year." 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 29, 1937 (Sunday) State and city police are at tempting to locate the owner of a physicians medicine kit found on the old East Main street in Ashland. ' Cupp's furniture store will re open tomorrow following a fire which partially destroyed the building two months ago. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 29, 1927 (Monday) An enrollment of almost 300 is expected at Southern Oregon Normal school this fall. From Eagle Point correspond ence: Lucius Kincaid has been sworn in as special police and will attempt to keep better order, especially during nights of late dances. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 29. 1917 (Wednesday) The "C" company detail on guard at Wolf Creek fired into the brush upon hearing noise and sound of man running away. Horseracing has been elimin ated from the Jackson county fair this year. . Whal's Ycur I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. Is rice grown in the United States? . 2. Name the early -American who published "Poor Richard's Almanac." 3. Bible: In the New Testa ment, "You cannot serve God and" what? - 4. Which State is nicknamed the Coyote State? 5. Was Mary Pickford, Helen Hayes, or Shirley Temple known as "America's Sweetheart"? 6. Did Chiang Kai-shek once study at ' the Tokyo Military Academy? 7. Is the T. Roosevelt family of German, Dutch, Danish or Swedish descent? 8. During World War IL did Mexico declare war on the Axis nations? 9. Is it proper to use "invite", meaning an . invitation, as a noun? 10. "The bullet that pierced Goebels breastCannot be found in all the West.Good reason: it is speeding here ... on his bier." A. Bierce. Is this a reference to a German, American, or Aus trian? Answers: Yes. it is grown in Arkansas, California, Louisiana and Texas. 2. Benjamin Frank lin. 3. "mammon." 4. South Da kola. 5. Mary Pickford. 6. Yes. 7 Butch 8 Yes. 9. No. It is strict- l - nn.k in Amenran. Presi- 9nt McKinlev's body en route ; to Washington, D.C. ROAD "BLOCK New Haven. Conn. OP) Sleepy-eyed - residents of the .Glen Haven road section set up a 25-car zig-zag road block to stop a daily procession of dump trucks from passing by their homes at 5:30 ajn. MAIL TRIBUNE How Silly Can We Get?' The role of a Democratic office-holder in this normally Republican state is a rough one. As far as the "one-party" (GOP) press is concern ed he is damned if he does He can do nothing of which they approve, un less of course he comes over to their party. -Then everything will be just dandy. THIS blind and stupid partisanship has been par ticularly noticeable as .far as Governor Holmes and his calling of a special "THE Oregon Journal for example once 100 per cent Democratic, now even more Republican than the Oregonian has been complaining for months about the high and inequitable tax system in this state. The highest income tax in the country and the absence of a sales tax, it has claimed, not only puts an unjust and unbearable burden on the hard-pressed taxpayers of Oregon ; but flustries and driving many iomia or some otner mmourger neaven. That refrain, as stated, has been the Journal's No I theme song ever since state at the last election. iAltvN m June btate ireasurer unanaer an V nounced there would be a $37,000,000 surplus and suggested a tax refund, which of course would also have required a special session there were no cries of anguish from the Journal or any other mem ber of the 100 per cent Republican press, coming to this desk at least. But when a few months later Governor Holmes suggested the SAME thing, per proceeded to term it a "fiasco" reminiscent of "World War days," a completely wrong approach to the state's tax problem, a could develop into an expensive "free-for-all" that could go on all winter without producing anything fundamental m the way Oregon. One wonders WOULD the special Treasurer Unander, a Republican, not for any radical reform of the tax system, but for a refund to the over burdened taxpayers have done any better? UOW silly can we get? A One doesn't have to be a lineal descendant of Sherlock Holmes to realize that this blast against Governor Holmes, who happens to wear a Democrat ic label, and either praise or silence for the Republi can State Treasurer when he proposed similar action, adds up to nothing ridiculous form of bigoted sanship. R.W.R. "Q.E.D." As a postscript to the above, we can't refrain from a brief and we hope inoffensive employment of a a somewhat offensive term When former Secretary of the Interior McKay was named chairman of the Commission concerned with U.S.-Canadian border, the Secretary, Mr. McKay did feat federal power development and his selection therefore was "unwise," was met on the part of most of the Oregon Republican press by the assertion that this was all political hocus-pocus for as Chairman, Mr. McKay would have nothing to do with the public versus private power issue, or practically nothing. Now only a few months after this "alibi" was presented, we note, via Mr. A. Robert Smith's column in the Oregonian, that Chairman McKay has been put on the spot by-Idaho and Montana delegations in Washington, D.C., regarding a proper solution of the international Libby Dam project. Congressman Lee Metcalf, of Montana, for ex ample is quoted as follows : "It was McKay as Secretary of the Interior who an nounced in 1954 that Libby should be built. We suspected that was a diversionary tactic by the administration in the Hells Canyon fight. Now we will see if they mean business." Exactly! . Chairman McKay's efforts in advancing this pub lic power project will be watched with interest. But the point of this brief comment of course is not what Mr. McKay will do but the fact that his GOP supporters stoutly maintained when he was ap pointed that in this particular field, there would be nothing he COULD do. R.W.R. Mrs. Neuberger Denies Political Ambitions Mrs. Maurine Neuberger, wife civil rights record. Such mat of Oregon's junior Sen. Richard ters should make no difference. L. Neuberger, this week denied ' Neither Dick nor I ever has any personal political ambitions. I been disturbed over Mrs. Green's In a letter to the editor of the Portland Oregonian, Mrs. Neu berger commented on rumors that she was planning to run against Congresswoman Edith Green (D-3rd Ore.). Her letter follows: To the Editor: Your editorial of August 16 suggested that I might oppose Congresswoman Edith Green for nomination in 1958. This report has appeared before but there is not a word of truth in it. One member of my family in the turmoil of political life is enough for me and oc casionally, I think, too much. The strains and vanity of poli tics are a major reason I feel this way. I regret deeply that Senator Morse felt he had been insulted because Senator Paul Douglas praised my husband's Thursday, August 29, 19S7 and damned if he doesn't. session is concerned. it is keeping away new in established here, to CaH- the Democrats captured the the Portland evening -pa purely political move which of a sound tax system for session proposed by State but the most childish and and short-sighted parti we told you so ! International Joint Water water problems along the criticism that as Interior everything he could to de constant praise of the speeches, statements and votes of Sen ator Mors. We are glad that our own representative in con gress is thrilled with the record of Dick's senior colleague. I regard Mrs.- Green as a capable member of the. house, and I intend to support her election, as I always have done. Pettiness and jealousies are dwarfed by the great issues the need for federal aid to schools, more support for can cer research, grants for helping retarded children, better pro tection of consumers against fraud and impurities, extended social security, fair pay for gov ernment employes. These are the things which count. These are the things in which Im interested, and not I ocw'r know. vmARE you Today and By Walter MR. DULLES AND THE PRESS It may be that Mr. Dulles is as he says, now willing to let a limited group of American correspondents go to Red China' for a trial period of six months Yet, it is fair to say that he would not be inconsol able if they did not go. For in making his Walter Lippmann offer he attached to it the one condition most likely to pro voke Red China into refusing to admit the American corres pondents. He will allow 24 American correspondents ' r e p r e s enting leading newspapers, news maga zines, and broadcasting compan ies to go to Red China. But no Chinese newspapermen are to come to the United States. So, unless Red China swallows her pride and acknowledges to the world that the United States is entitled to preferential treat ment, the American correspond ents will not be able to go to Red China. But then, as Mr, Irulles may conceivably have foreseen, the can argue thai it is the Red Chinese and not he who prevent the American press from gathering news on the Chi nese mainland. He can even be disappointed and indignant at these totalitarians who do not believe in freedom of the press . . llfHETHER or not the Dulles " proposal is actually put into effect, or was meant to be, the statement issued by the Depart ment of State last Thursday must be challenged. The terms of this proposal affirm, and if acquiesced in, would establish as a precedent a new and hith erto entirely un-American con ception of the right and duty of the press. Mr. Dulles is making the claim that outside the three mile limit he may treat the press as an instrument of foreign pol icy, and that the American press in foreign countries is subject to the paramount control of the Secretary of State. This claim to power is con tained in the text of the state ment. Having reminded us that it has been the policy of the Secretary of State not to author ize in fact, not to permit American newspapermen to go, even at their own risk, to the Chinese mainland, Mr. Dulles goes- on to say that he has changed his mind. He now finds it "desirable that additional in formation be made available to the American people respecting current conditions in China." Now, by what right, and on what principle, does he claim to have the power to decide how much information it is "desir able" for the American people to have? We have here the un precedented and impertinent assertion that the right to turn off and the right, to turn on the tap of news is one of the pre rogatives of the Secretary of State. 'THIS is followed by a truly x remarkable declaration, one which will have to be examined thoroughly by all who are con cerned with the security and the integrity of the American press. The Secretary of State has ac cordingly determined' that it may prove consistent with the foreign policy of the United States that there be travel by a limited number of American news reporters to the mainland of China." This is, I submit, a usurpation of power , which has never before been vested in the Secretary of State the power to determine whether, when, in internecine political strife. I intend to work for these as a private citizen and as a coun selor to my husband. I am em phatically and definitely not again a candidate for any elec tive office. I enjoyed my three terms in the Oregon legislature, but that chapter has been closed. Maurine B. Neuberger 1910 S. W. Clifton st. Portland, Ore. It '- i.t i mm A gonna cut aw-hair 1 ' Tomorrow Lippmann where and under what condi- tions, the American press may gather and report news in lor- eign countries. Surely, in the American way of life it is for the editors to determine whether, when and where i news is available that should be reported, and it is en tirely impossible to accept the principle that Mr. Dulles, Mr. Walter Robertson, and Mr. Berd- ing have any right or power to regulate the reporting of news. They can warn newspapermen that it may be dangerous to go to a place like Red China, and that the Department of State cannot help them if they get into trouble. But if the ..editor and the reporter accept the risk, it is not for the Department of State to decide whether it likes or it does not like to have them go. rpHE essential difference be- tween a free press and a to talitarian press lies exactly here: that in a free country the press is not an instrument of the gov ernment's policy. It is an inde pendent instrument to enable the people to understand and to judge policy, to help them make or to help them unmake policy. Last week's declaration from the State Department denies that in foreign affairs there is such a thing as an independent press. It claims a paramount right to decide whether there shall be more or less news re ported from China. It asserts the right to decide what kind of cor respondents may go to China in this case, the correspondents must be "resident," and not spe cial correspondents on special assignments, as, for example, Mr. Joseph Alsop or Mr. Edward Murrow. It asserts the right to judge "experimentally" the news reported from China dur ing the trial period of six months. Thus an American cor respondent who goes to the mainland is to have two bosses his editor and Mr. Dulles. All this, it may be said, dis closes the fact that Mr. Dulles has an imperfect grasp of the principles of a free press in a free society. (Copyright, 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) 1 In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I suppose you've been reading about the "situation" in Syria. The blunt FACT of the situation is that Syria has been taken over by the Communists and is now a Russian outpost in the strate gic Middle East. We free Americans instinctive ly misunderstand what has hap pened there. We think of .the Syrians as having gone Commu nist. The truth is that the people of Syria have had nothing to do with it. Syrian politicians, reach ing for personal power, tied tip with the Communists and TOOK OVER. They hold their power because they have the guns. That's the long and the short of it. HOW did they get the guns? That is the significant part of the story. I N SYRIA, we and the Russians were bidding for. INFLU ENCE. The Russians OUTBID us. They paid off the Syrian. poli ticians with guns. That is to say, they paid in the coin the Syrian traitors understood and wanted. We were talking in terms of roads and irrigation projects and such things that would better the living conditions of the com mon, ordinary, everyday PEO PLE of Syria. THE Syrian ' politicians with whom the Russians worked weren't even vaguely interested in the welfare of the Syrian peo ple. They wanted personal power. To get and hold personal pow er, they needed GUNS. The Russians offered guns. So they got the job. Just as Inflation Seen Ho. 1 Issue in Democratic By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Correspondent Washington TO Democrat ic Party managers interpreted their reports from Wisconsin to- "1 day to mean ' that inflation is their No. 1 is sue for the 1958 congressional campaign. They also listed dissatis faction with Eisenhower ad ministration's Raymond Lahr farm, foreign and budget policies as factors in the upset victory of the Demo cratic nominee in Wisconsin's special Senate election Tuesday. Republicans were inclined to blame their own family strife in Wisconsin as ihe chief reason f or their defeat but many of them admitted that other issues in fluenced the outcome against their candidate. Tight Money Policy .In the Wisconsin vote, Demo crat William Proxmire defeated former GOP Gov. Walter J. Kohler, an Eisenhower Republi can. Compared with the 1956 re-, suits in Wisconsin, a normally Republican state, Proxmire reg istered gains in the Democratic vote across the board in both industrial and farm areas. Democrats in Congress have been yammering all year on the issue of inflation and the rising cost of living. They have linked this to the administration's tight money policy, which the admin istration considers a weapon against inflation while some Democrats argue that it in fact contributes to inflation Another Trouble Spot The farm issue has spelled trouble for Republicans since early in the Eisenhower admin istration. Proxmire-'s sweep of most of the rural counties in Wisconsin indicates that it is still a GOP headache. Sen. Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.) they got the job in Egypt where Nasser needed guns. TF WE will heed it, there is a useful lesson for us in this Syrian mess. The lesson is this: We can't BUY FRIENDS in that part of the world because we can't play the kind of crook ed shell game that is needed to win out there. WE DID very well with our original Marshall plan which was designed to rebuild war-ravaged Western Europe to the point where it would be able to- resist the spread of Russian communism. It WORKED. It worked because in Western Europe we were dealing with our kind of people. The Western Europeans love liberty. . They APPRECIATE liberty. They ap preciate it because over the cen turies they have shed rivers of blood to gain it. One values what one has fought and bled and suffered for. Western Europeans, knowing and valuing liberty, are grateful to us for what we have done to help them KEEP it. A SIA is different. Asia has never known lib erty. So the Asians aro unahlo in understand our efforts to buv liberty for them and give it to mem as a unristmas present. Misunderstanding us. thpv ari SUSPICIOUS of us. I m afraid there isn't much future for us in trvine to BUY FFQENDS in Asian countries. Oregon Exports Show 150 Per Cent Increase Portland (IP) Oregon ex ports ior the first half of this year showed a gain of 150 per cent over the first half of 1956, the U.S. Department of Com merce reported today. Oregon exported goods valued at $198,324,911. "TO THOSE WE SERVE WE PLEDGE: confidential business and pro fessional relationships; co-operation with, the customs of all religions and creeds; observance of all respect due the deceased; high standards of competence and dignity in the conduct of all services; truthful rep resentation of all services and merchandise." DAY OR NIGHT PHONE ,SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Wisconsin said one of the conclusions to be drawn from the Wisconsin re sult was that farmers in the state were 'definitely dissatisfied with the overall federal agricultural program, particularly , as the dairy program has worked out." Rep. Melvin R. Laird (R-Wis.) called the Proxmire victory a Matter of Fact THE GERMAN MIRACLE Bonn, Germany The cur rency crisis in France and Bri tain, wun its resulting pressure on Germans to revalue their mark up wards, is an amazing sign of the times, morever, it is far less fun d a m e n t ally signific ant than the de- JflCnh llcnn . Vplfinmflnl i has dramatized. This development is nothing more nor less than the re-emergence of so-lately ruined Germany as a major Dower in tho ti.m The excessive . strength of the uerman mark on the world markets, the increasing weak ness of British sterling anrf the French franc are symbols of a radical change in all the pow er relationships on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. No adjectives seem adequate to' describe the. chance in flnr. many which has produced this change in power relationships. When this reporter was last here, five years ago, the rubble had been tidied. Production had be gun again. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, had established a re spected government. But the oc cupation had not yet been liqui dated. Defeated Germany was still , in bonds. The High Com missioners of the victorious Al lies were still playing at being viceroys. A HEALTHY, . independent Germany then seemed pos sible and even highly likely. But nothing seemed more ab solutely beyond the bounds of possibility than Germany's re emergence as the real., heavy weight in the world balance of power. The figures tell the story in their blunt, bleak way. Starting with nothing, the Germany Treasury now has total reserves above . five billion, dollars, of which more than 3V billion are in hard currency. Last year Ger many enjoyea a lavorable trade balance of more than one bil lion dollars. This year's outlook is as good or better. Most significant of all, Ger man, steel output has multiplied almost ten times since the post war low. Last year it was more than 23 million tons, and there fore well above the British out put. In total production of all sorts, Germany still lags behind Britain, although the gap is closing fast. But in the classical measure of basic national strength, this new Germany is already ahead of Britain. rpHE first questions one nat- urally asks is simply: How have the Germans done it?" The answer seems to lie in a combination of three factors. There is the government of Konrad Adenauer, . with its toughly conservative economic policies. There is the German trades union leadership, haunted bv the uelv memorv of nast in flations, and aware that living standards must only rise as out Dut rises. And therp arp thp pv- ceptionally able leaders of Ger many's enterprises, like Chan cellor Adenauer's friend, the banker Hermann Abs. thp man ager of the Krupp empire, Ber- tnoia jseits, ana tne extraordin ary head of the Volkswagen factory. Dr. Heinrich Nordhoff. Between these thrpp erouns. plus the habitually industrious German people, the credit must be shared. But there is still From the Code of Ethics of the National Funeral Directors' Association LaSl mrssi Victory protest against President Eisen hower's record peacetime budg et and foreign aid program. Dem ocrats agreed that these were factors, but contended that there was discontent with the admin istration's overall record in for eign affairs, not just with the foreign aid program. By Joseph Alsop another, aeeper question that one must also ask about Ger many's regained weight in the world balance. It is the question: . "How will the Germans use this weight, by throwing it about for their own temporary aggrand izement, or for more permanent, constructive purposes?" With Germany quite likely to supersede Britain as the third power in the world and the sec ond power in the West, this last question has profound import ance. As yet, curiously enough, it is not a question that any but a tiny minority of Germans have asked themselves. They have been absorbed in the reconstruc tion of their own country. They have had no time to think of anything except their own growing prosperity. OUT as the example of Ameri ca plainly proves, national weight and national power can never remain permanently un committed, simply because the nation having weight and power would prefer not to commit it self in the world arena. Even tually weight and power are al ways made to count," somehow or other. But how will the new Ger many's weight and power be made to count? The final an swer, in this reporter's opinion, is the direct responsibility of the United States. The new Germany is Europe - minded, and even minded to form an increasingly intimate partnership with her traditional enemy, France. If the United States takes . the steps that are now needed to streng then and restore the Western Alliance, then this new .Europe minded German power will re main firmly within the Western Alliance. And it will provide a great accession . of Western health and strength. But if the United States flac cidly permits the Western Al liance to become a mere empty facade (and this is why the re sponsibility is almost wholly American) then the new Ger many will join the general game of "Save yourself and the devil take the hindmost," And after that,- almost anything can .hap pen. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Want to Take LION -SIZE VACATION? Borrow The . . . American Way LOANS 25 o 500 AUTO SALARY FURNITURE I For Any Worthwhile Purpose PAYMENTS TO FIT YOUR BUDGET! American Finance Corp. Phona SPring 2-8886 123 W. Main Medford
