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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Hbocb1Jtrib UKE "XTryon in Reada Tha Southern Oregon Mall Tribune" PublUhed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 37-29 North Fir St Phone 2-0141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager Kmc ALLN JK. Managing t-oitor KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STAR CHER 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 Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year 115.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.23 Sunday Only One rear 1420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Prospec tor1 have started coming down from the high hills, where they pent all summer, and struck it poor. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 8. 1937 (Wednesday) Sale of five parcels of munici pal real estate approved by the city council. Law enforcement officers par ticipate in demonstration of the new Graham automobile on the North Pacific highway. 80 YEARS AGO Sept. 8, 1927 (Thursday) Good attendance expected for dedication of new pipe organ at Presbyterian church. Box seats for the night show of the Visions Realized celebra tion here go on sale at the chamber of commerce. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 8. 1917 (Saturday) From local and personal col umn: In the fire that destroyed the Chadwick barn on the Sun ny Cliff orchard farm three horses, 30 tons of hay, three wagons and five or six plows and all machinery was burned. Word has been received from the boyi at Ft. Columbia of the receipt of the organ sent recent ly by the local Soldiers' auxil iary. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is snperlor; even or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Can sea water be made potable by distillation? 2. Are punchboards for gift enterprises permitted to be sent through the U. S. mails? 3. Bible: Was Jesus crucified on the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th hour? 4. For what is nickname? 'iron horse" a 5. For what was Diogenes searching with a lantern? 6. The "saliva test" is fre quently used in bowling, cro quet, or horseracing? 7. In a matrilocal arrange ment, a husband would live with is own family or with is wife's family? 8. Which country in the past was often referred to as the "na tion of shopkeepers"? 9. Harrison was nominated for President in 1840. Was he afterwards denominated by his followers? If so, how? 10. "And be you blythe and bonny . . . ' hey nonny, nonny." Is this line from an Elizabethan, ancient, or modern poem? Answers: 1. Yes. 2. No. be cause they are considered lo be a form of lottery. 3. 3rd hour. 4. Railroad locomotive. 5. An hon est man. 6. Horseracing. 7. With his wife's family. 8. England. 9. Yes. "Tippicanoe." 10. Elizabeth an. Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice". MAIL TRIBUNE "Leading From Weakness We find our highly regarded contemporary, the Grants Pass Courier, blaming President Eisenhower or his advisers, which adds up to the same thing for the fix the Republican party is in. We quote: "To our mind the big mistake and we blame Eisenhow er's advisers for this has been an attempt to adopt salient features of the New Deal and proceed on the assumption that this "modern Republicanism" would win votes . . . Actually this had the effect of alienating millions of conservative Re publicans of the Taft and Knowland school. It has also been a sore point with southern Democrats who always before have teamed with conservative GOP solons to maintain a bal ance of power in congress ... as a matter of fact there has been very little basic difference of late on the national level between the political philosophies of the two parties." M MH! We remember onlv "Courier" and other staunchly Republican papers, saw a great DEAL of difference between the philoso phies of the Republican and Democratic parties many of them claimed they saw all the difference between "Creeping Socialism" and the sacred and insmnno- "American wav As for President "liked Ike." a few of nronerlv anointed nolitical save the ship-of-state from internationalism, depression and anarcny. B' UT now, if we interpret trouble with the Republican party is President Eisenhower and his "modern Republicanism" AND his attempt to adopt salient features of the "New Deal , thus swinging away G.O.P. standards set by the Our Grants Pass contemporary even goes further and in answering its own question, "where does this leave Richard Nixon?" expresses the conviction that as heir-apparent to President Eisenhower and his Modern Republicanism, carry on the same heretical principles and thus be sacrificed to "political expediency" and leave the ultra-conservative William Knowland as quote: the "ONLY G.O.P. candidate in sight who would have a chance to win the presidency." TI'ELL,well! Since the Republican defeat in Wisconsin, we have received reports the Grand Old Party, like the Old Grey Mare "ain't what SHE used to be" but we had no idea the situation was as alarming as our con servative contemporary declares it to be. We don't know what the attitude of Southern Democrats in the congress has to do with it; they may vote with the Republicans in congress now and then, but few of them go to the polls and vote that way, but if as stated, Republican unity at the next election, depends upon throwing President Eisenhower and his "Modem Republicanism" to the wolves; dispatching Richard Nixon, the smartest politician of them all, to the salt-mines ; repudiating the New Deal, even though the present administration has not only refused to re peal its basic principles but adopted them; and last but not least can find no one but Bill Knowland of the Oakland Tribune dynasty "who has a chance to win the presidency" well if that diagnosis is COR RECT and the Courier calls in no less of a GOP authority than David Lawrence editor of "US News and World Report" to confirm it, then poor old Jumbo really is in "extremis." A FTER all these years we are inclined to shed a few tears in his behalf. Not that we would advise the Democrats to count any chickens before they are hatched, but if the situation is as stated, and the pro cedure advised is adopted then no crystal ball is need ed to predict with accuracy the outcome to wit: Instead of the GOP going to the polls strong and united in 1960, it will not only be divided, but will suf fer the worst massacre since the "Battle of the Little Big Horn." R.W.R. The TOO Early Bird There is no doubt that Richard Nixon has been maturing. He has been exceedingly circumspect in what he says' and does. His conduct during the illness of President Eisenhower was under close scutiny; but he made no bad moves, always said the right things ... But can Nixon erase the picture widely held that he is pri marily a politician, without much principle beyond party loy alty? Will the people forget his campaigning tactics, his branding of Democrats as coddlers of Communists? Will they accept his political maturing as proof of sincerity? Those are hurdles he must overcome to win the highest office in the land. "At the moment though he clearly is in the most favored spot for the GOP presidential nomination. And that may be another reason why the politicians beat a path to his door: There is nothing like being early on the bandwagon. Salem Statesman. The above, from the pen of former Governor Sprague, one of Oregon's most respected and intelli gent Republican leaders, is a fitting post script to the editorial above, for it shows : The Grants Pass Courier's views regarding Presi dent Eisenhower and his administration, as well as Messrs. Nixon and Knowland, are not shared by all Republican leaders in Oregon and our guess is by not many. Moreover we agree with the "Statesman" that as of today Nixon is far out in front, as far as a successor to President Eisenhower is concerned, but that he isn't a "shoo-in" by any means. And so we come to the item with which we do not agree namely: that to gain the nomination "there is nothing like being early on the band wagon." "I17E DON'T deny that "jumping the gun" has cer- " tain advantages, but with a man like Nixon, the disadvantages we believe are far greater. For as Editor Sprague points out Nixon is far from invulnerable. There are thousands of voters who when the spotlight on Nixon's record is turned on and their memories are refreshed, will make up their minds that Sunday. September . 8, 1957 99 a vear or so aero, both the of life. Eisenhower, they not only them reerarded him as a Moses who alone could crashing on the rocks of the Courier correctly, the from the solid and sacred late Senator Robert Taft. Nixon would presumably iK TM TO AH rights mervtd nuS J "W 'YOU'PB ; 0AD AT IT AN' (Tfe STILL Today and By Walter PUBLIC NEED AND PRIVATE PLEASURE . The true measure of what was and was not done in this session of Congress cannot be found on a score card of the President's recommendations set against the actions of Con gress. We must I think, look for the true measure, not in the text of laws enacted and in money authorized o r appropriated, but in terms of the erpat anH Walter Lippmann continuing issues with which the country must deal. Here one bright and hopeful thing hap pened in the most difficult and politically the most dangerous of our domestic problems that of the rise of the Negro population to civic equality. The civil rights bill which ac tually passed is most significant. This is not 'because it will bring about a sudden enfranchisement of qualified Negroes. It is signif icant because for the first time, and at long last, we have tan gible reason to believe that an accommodation on civil rights can be brought about with South ern leaders participating in it. Until now, all attempts to influ ence race relations from Wash ington have been in substance at tempts to impose always in vain Northern views on the united resistance of the South. The parts played by Sen. Lyn don Johnson and Speaker Ray burn in working out a compro mise bill, the decision not to fil ibuster taken by Sen. Russell and all but one of his Southern colleagues, mark a breakthrough towards cooperation and con sent, the first since the Civil War. Let us hope that the President will take care that the Depart ment of Justice does not, with us eyes on the election of 1958, bulldoze its way forward as" if nothing new had happened. The principle of proceeding with the advice and consent of the liberal South ought to govern the ad ministration both of the voting rights legislation and of the school integration decision. The administration of these laws is not automatic and self-evident. It demands what we do not yet have a wise and considered pol icy; that is to say a policy de signed to accomplish the maxi mum that is possible as rapidly as possible, with the liheral South consenting. It will not be possible to secure and protect voting rights, much less to in tegrate the public schools, against the determined resist ance of whole Southern commun ities. . while the idol of "California Incorporated," may be as smooth, smart and slick as they come, they don't want him, or anyone of his type, to be President of the United States. When that record is brought out, including that radio broadcast and faithful little "Checkers" there will be more thousands in his own party and out of it who will shake their heads and reach a conclusion something like this: "Oh, Nixon may be OK in the diplomatic and promotion field but we don't trust him sufficiently to want him in the White House." THERE is another angle. If as seems likely, Senator Knowland, a man of strong will and unlimited financial resources, has his heart set on the White House, much as Governor Low- den of Illinois did over 3 no stone unturned, to do weaken the chief obstacle ambition. And the stronger Nixon appears the harder will Knowland work. So we come to the weakness of the "early bird" theory. The candidate who gets there first is the "man to beat" and so he faces long before the convention opens a united opposition. The candidate who bides his time, stajs in the background waits for the proper psychological mom ent to strike, suffers no such handicap. R.W.Rt SUB LOOKED RIGHT RUNNlN'1' Tomorrow Lippmann rpHE 1957 session of Congress -- will long be remembered for its having shown the way for ward, how the Federal govern ment can proceed with civil rights. For the rest, both at home and abroad, the country has not only been badly led. It has been misled. It has been mis led by the weakness of the Presi dent and the partisanship of Congress. The country has been left with the impression, which will dom inate almost every great prob lem, that if we could cut expend itures by a few more billion dol lars, it would be possible to re duce the income tax. This is a dangerous untruth to propagate at this time. Yet both parties are propagating it. The Democrats are said to be planning to pass a tax cut in the next session. The President, who knows that it is wrong to cut taxes when there is such a big inflation, has, never theless, encouraged the notion that with a littie more budgetary economy, he too might favor tax reductions. YITHAT the country needs to hear from the President is not softness about private self indulgence but a stern and aus tere reminder that our public responsibilities must come ahead of our private pleasures. There is no prospect now in sight of an agreement to slow down the race of armaments. There is, on the contrary, much evidence that the race is swifter. It is no use, then, to tell our peo ple that we can stabilize the mil itary budget at $38,000,000,000. It is impossible for the country to taper off and to cry quits in providing economic aid to the under - developed countries. We shall not in our time see the end of the need for such aid, and it cannot be the policy of the United States to resign from Asia and Africa. It is no use, then, to go towards the elections of 1958 with a spreading feeling among politicians that if they could abolish foreign aid, there would be a big enough surplus to justify a tax reduction. VTOR CAN we escape the conse- .quences of the fact that our population is increasing at a pro digious rate and that almost every necessary public facility is over-burdened. This is true of the public schools, the colleges and the universities, where as the school population rises, the quality of education is deterio rating. The school problem is all the more poignant because, now that the law of the land calls for integrated schools, money will have to be found to replace the generally inferior Negro schools. In the great urban conglomer- . decades ago, he will leave what he can politically to to the achievement of his Editorial Comment THE MAN EATING SALMON! On the back side of a clipping in a tattered family album the other day, a friend of the Round towner found a strange fish story. The name of the news paper was not on the clipping, but the date was March 16, 1885. We quote: "The recent frightful accident which happened in southern )regon cannot fail, says the lew York Times, to call the ttention of the state authori ies to the necessity of protect .ng settlers against the attacks oi salmon. "The stage in question was crossing Applegate creek when it was suddenly attacked by a drove of salmon. The stage was instantly overturned and the hungry fish swarmed over it while the stage driver, with great presence of mind, cut the traces of his horses and, throw ing himself across the off wheel- horse a powerful animal for merly the property of Dr. Good rich of Olympia managed to escape. "The dispatch which conveys this painful story says nothing of the fate of the stage passen gers, but unfortunately there is every reason to believe that they fell victims to the salmon. "The Oregon salmon has long been regarded by experienced western hunters as the most dangerous animal infesting this continent. It is much larger than the salmon of the Atlantic coast, and unlike the latter, which is a timid and unoffensive fish, it is fearless, aggressive and . . There the clipping ends, but . . . Wow! Bremerton. Wash., Sun. Matter of Fact WITNESSING A MIRACLE Czestochowa, Poland Prop erly speaking, the miracle of Jasna Gora, the great monastery of "The Bright Mountain, took place 301 years ago. On that occa the monks and a few score of Polish men-at-arms" held and hurled back 10,000 Swed- Joseph Aisop ish troops who beseiged the monastery's bas tioned walls through a long, bit ter vinter month. The victory was credited to Jasna Gora's precious Virgin-image, long ago chance-brought out of late By zantium into these wild Polish marches. I do not think there was any higher intervention; but I too witnessed a miracle at Jasna Gora just the other day. It was not easy to define, being the pe culiar combination of a theme. a ceremony, a crowd and a man. Yet it seemed to me decidedly miraculous. Imagine, then, a high hill swelling upwards from the sub urbs of a dreary little industrial town. A broad way leads through trees to the hill's sum mit. And here there is the begin ning of the miracle. THE to iHE summith as been levelled, make a gigantic plaza three times larger than the great plaza of St. Peter's. Only a single column bearing Christ with his thorny crown interrupts this vast, flat expanse. And the full expanse is filled, as though by a fantastic human inundation, by a single continuous sea of people. There they stand in si lent patience, men and women, young people and children, liter ally hundreds of thousands of them. And all gaze toward the towering church, rising in a surge of baroque pinnacles from the same tall bastions that the monks held against the Swedes Suddenly, along the battle ments, the long procession of the Eucharist winds its way, banner after banner, choir after choir. A monk stationed by the high temporary altar, erected on the church-front, gives a signal through a loud-speaker. The crowd burst, full-throated, into the hymn recounting Jasna Gora's miracle, "On the Heights of Czestochowa." TOR a long hour the people stand, singing hymn after hymn and watching the platform round the altar gradually fill with the churchmen of the pro cession. Last come the Bishops of Poland, splendid in their vestments and rich mitres. Alas, a clover view reveals chasubles sadly confected of old lace cur- ation much new public money, not all of it of course Federal money, will have to be spent on parks and recreation facilities, and on hospitals, highways, housing, and communications. We are running counter to the facts of our military and diplo matic position in the world, and of the expansion of our people at home, when we allow poli ticians to beguile us with talk about tax cuts. What we should be hearing from Washington, and talking about ourselves, is not tax cuts, not how to be able to buy on borrowed money more and more longer and wider and faster motor cars, but how to meet our responsibilities and to do our duty. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. POTIUCCC (By M-T Staff and Contribution) The above picture, snapped outside the Pioneer room of the Jackson hotel last Wednesday when the Governor's party was here, provides evidence that it wasn't industrial development they were talking about at all it must have been a high-level military conference. One of tha easiest words to misspell, appropriately enough, is the word misspell, which often comes out mispell. One of the young men in our office a relative newcomer made a hurried trip to Port land a few weeks ago, and over the week end married the young lady to whom he had been en gaged. Jle showed up at work Mon day morning on schedule, and worked his regular shift until the Labor Day week end, when the Mail Tribune did not publish on Monday, giving us all a two day break. It was welcome to him and his bride, obviously. Gave them a chance for a "second honey moon," two days long. Another young man who works here, who tries to hide a sentimental and idealistic streak with a veneer of irony. By Joseph Alsop tains and capes made of the shoddy silk of Communist Pe king. The Church in Poland to day is not rich in this world's goods. Suddenly there is a hush. Ste fan, Cardinal Wyszynski quietly takes his place under the scar let canopy that stands by the al tar's sides. The wise eyes in the pale, ascetic face briefly survey the scene. Music breaks the si lence and Baranjak, Archbishop of Poznan that place name heavy with memories begins the celebration of the mass. The crowd joins the responses as though this were a single Paris church holding hundreds instead of hundreds of thousands; and after consecration of the host the whole multitude sinks to its knees. When the mass is ended, the Cardinal enters the pulpit and again there is a moment of si lence while he stands, vividly outlined against' the white drap eries, a commanding figure in brilliant "scarlet. Then he speaks telling the story of Poland's dedication to the Virgin Mary by King Jan Kazimierz, and say- ing that this is a time to renew the dedication with an oath. And slowly, in a strong mascu line voice, he repeats the oath, IT IS a curious oath, resem bling a set of New Year's reso lutions on a national scale. One catches echoes of certain exhor tations to the people by Poland's Communist government in War saw exhortation against the absenteeism that afflicts indus try, the alcoholism that is a curse in this country, the dis- orderliness and lack of discipline that has appeared here since freedom returned. But whether or no the crowd also catches these echoes, all follow the Car dinal when he,asks them to re peat after him: "We swear to thee, Mary, Queen of Poland, we swear to thee!" Then the slender hand is raised in blessing. At a signal, with a passion that fills the hill top air, the whole multitude breaks into Poland's battle hymn, "Great God Through Ages Protector of This Polish Land." And so the mornine comes to an end; and the sea of people flows away again, to pic nic in the sunshine and queue up by thousands to say their prayers before Jasna Gora's Vir gin image. But in the dusk, when the enormous bulk of the fortress monastery shows black against the evening sky, the sea of peo ple flows back into the plaza, more numerous than ever. Here and there candles shielded by workworn hands made points of winking light. Once again the old hymns sound out while the procession winds along the bat tlements. Once again, when the service begins, all tnese hun dreds of thousands join together in chanting the litany to the Vir gin. And this time, the Cardinal himself preaches to his people. The sermon is not unlike the morning oath, pressing the gov ernment a little on such conten tious points as the difficult situa tion of Poland's Catholic press, but above all exhortinr the peo ple to be good citizens, ever, ex horting the miners to bring up more coal. VOU must understand," the - Cardinal tells the listening thousands, "that what could not be destroyed by erroneous poli tical doctrine can still be ruined by national demoralization. You are a generation of heroes, and to you God has given a serious duty not to lose what was informs ui that the first signs of fall, beside the people who have been "feeling it in the air" since the middle of July, appeared the day after Labor Day; namely, a shiny horse chestnut out of its green horn- . ed shell, a yellow school bus around a downtown street corner, and the smell of pop corn from the matinee of "The Ten Commandments." This same young man marched up to tne Fotiuck editor the other day with a sort of half sheepish grin on his face, and left the following memorandum: - "Feeling slightly exuberant after a pleasant evening with a feminine friend, we put the car in the garage, walked out into the yard, and nonchalantly tossed our key ring into the air. That's about all there is, ex cept to say that we doubt the keys to both cars, our apart-' ment and the office will grow half as well as the jungle of tomatoes, carrots, , radishes, strawberries, arbor vitae and as sorted flowers among which they now reside." We have it on excellent au thority (the horse's mouth, ' practically) that a certain lawyer's office, which is en sconced behind a bright blue door, has on at least one- oc casion been mistaken, by an individual somewhat the worse for wear, for the entrance to a lounge. This story deals with three families, and to make it simpler, we'll use the lawyer's device of calling them A, B and C. When A went on vacation last month, they left their house key with B, in case of emergency. Later, B went on vacation, and in turn left their key with A, and in addition asked A to check on their milk delivery Labor Day morning if they weren't back in time to put it in the refrigerator. But A later decided to leave town over Labor Day. Not want ing to leave B's key with a third party, they: asked C to check on. B's milk, and if necessary, leave it in A's refrigerator. A left THEIR key with C for this purpose. Before leaving A left B a note telling them to get A's key at C's so they could get B's milk from A's refrigerator. It worked out fine, too. Labor Day evening A, B and C met at A's house. C gave A their keys, and A gave B their keys. And B had obtained the milk from A's refrigerator with the key obtained from C. Last . Tuesday, the day be fore the first "official" show ing of the new Edsel car. the new building which houses the dealership was aswarm with activity. Carpenters were putting in last-minute nails; electricians were rigging up last-minute wiring, and paint ers were sloshing around last minute paint. The brand new cars were about to be shown to a few "preview" guests, and excitement mounted as . the deadline neared. One of the painters was busy letter ing a new sign. It said, and " Ve swear it, "USED Edsel CARS." It still does. The following day, one of our sharp-eyed reporters noted some thing which, he said, gratified a little corner of his heart, "to find that, even the Ford Motor company has not conquered mat ter entirely." Bemused by the activity and the bright new cars at the Edsel building across the street, our man was driving up East Main st. about dinner time in his own utilitarian vehicle, and spotted at the side of the road the Edsel dealer's son, in slacks, white shirt and tie, leaning in under the hood of a 1957 Ford, prim ing the carberetor with gasoline from a gallon can. Even 1957 Fords, driven by dealers' sons, can run out of gas. Philosophical observation of the week: It doesn't pay to try to raise a mustache. People tease the victim unmercifully while the scraggly darn thing is growing in, but they don't even notice after it's gone. Oh, well ... saved by the blood of your fathers." So the sermon ends. Once more, with the same strange re sonant passion, the whole multi tude sings Poland's battle hymn. And then all is over and it is time to journey homeward through the night. Such was this modern miracle of Jasna Gora. If you think about it, it says a good deal about this new Po land whose two leaders, linked in unlikely partnership, are the brave veteran Communist. Wladyslaw Gomulka and the- brave Prince of the Church, Stefan, Cardinal Wyszynski. -
