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Newspaper Page TextFOUR "MEDFORD (OREGON) - "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mai Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W SUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC A1XEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAM3 City Editor BARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Edits RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year 113.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mot. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Roeue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-30 Carrier and Dealers 10c per cony AH 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 OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C (Tif NEWSPAPER PUBHSHEtt ASSOCIATION NATION AH IDITOIIA Flight of Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 15. 1947 (Monday) Pickets of International Asso ciation of Machinists withdrawn from Medford auto dealer estab lishments. Water Superintendent Issac Coffman of Jacksonville asks residents to use city water for household purposes only. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 15. 1937 (Wednesday) Six special trains carrying CCC men to homes in other corps areas for discharge will leave the Medford district in the next few days. Loyal Order of Moose will hold its 1938 state convention here. Dr. George S. Jennings, dictator of Medford lodge, an nounces. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 15, 1927 (Thursday) According to present plans, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh will leave Portland about 9 a.m. Fri day and arrive in Medford about 11 a.m. .1 "The Legend of Sparkling Wa ter," a booklet put out by the Medford city water commission, is ready for distribution. 40 YEARS "AGO XSept. 15. 1917 (Saturday) The Utah-Idaho Sugar com pany submits proposition to Medford Commercial club for establishment of sugar factory in the Medford-Central Point section to replace the present Grants Pass factory. A barbecue will be held at noon Wednesday as part of the county fair, directors announce. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six is good 1. Is the Grand Coulee Dam higher or lower than Niagara Falls? 2. Which prominent Ameri can actress is a member of a family of Alabama statesmen? 3. Bible: The "Sermon on the Mount" is to the New Testament as what is to the Old Testa ment? 4. Name the daily publication that contains the proceedings of the Congress. 5. Which State of the U. S. touches only one other State? 6. In which city is the famous Cafe de la Paix? 7. How many of the four U.S. Presidents sculptured at Mount Rushmore, N. D., can you name? 8. Independence Day in the United States is celebrated on what date? 9. Does "luxurious" imply a profuse growth of foliage, flow ers, or whiskers? 10: "All I know is what I read in the papers." Which beloved person popularized this phrase? Answers: 1. Higher, more than twice as high. 2 Tallulah Bankhead. 3. "The Ten Com mandments". 4. Congressional Record. . 5. . Maine. . 6. Paris. France. 7. George Washington. Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lin coln and Theadore Roosevelt. 8. July 4. 9. No. It implies luxury. "Luxuriant" implies a profuse Srowlh. 10. Will Rogers. MAIL TRIBUNE Slow But Sure The railroad problem and the segregation prob lem have one thing in common. A satisfactory solution, for the country as a whole, is going to take time. "The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders." Just as there are Southerners who, as long as they live, will never accept the constitutional principle of race-equality; so there are railroad leaders who will, as long as they hold office, never admit that in the public-utility field, there are other obligations than making money the obligation of rendering proper public service for just one example. AS HAS often been pointed out, however, in spite of the deplorable doings at Nashville and Little Rock, there is a change, slow but sure, in the direction of a better relationship between the whites. and the blacks south of the Mason and Dixon Line. This is particularly true among the former, realizing it is as true today as it was two thousand years ago that "if a house be divided against itself it cannot stand." In other words eventually there must be one law for all the citizens of this country, regardless of 'race, color or creed", if the democracy we claim is to en dure and it is as much to the ultimate self-interest of the South as to the North, that this goal be reached as soon as circumstances, tolerance and human nature permit. THE situation is not as grave, of course, in the rail- road field but there is a certain similarity. As remarked there are railroad leaders who will never abandon the assumption that rail transporta tion in the utility field is their exclusive property, to do with as they please, and as far as public conveni ence and necessity are concerned, the "public can be damned." But their number, slowly, but we believe surely, are decreasing. Not that all the R.R. "rof-alty" have, suddenly become social-workers and started to sprout wings. But more and more of them have, we believe, begun to WONDER to follow their trade slogan and to hesitate as they "stop, look and listen." WE HAVE in mind, particularly, the recent action of President DeButts of the Southern (NOT Southern Pacific) railroad. As generally known the Interstate Commerce Commission, as usual whenever a group of important railroads make a request, recently granted them a generous increase in rates. We are indebted to the Oregon Journal for the following explanation of the action the Southern Railway President took and why, quote : The 4 per cent increase in rates which the interstate commerce commission recently authorized for the country's railroads is in effect, but the Southern Railroad company will have no part of it. i So significant are the grounds upon which Harry A. DeButts, president of Southern Railway, refrained from putting into effect the higher rates that it seems surprising no other railroad shared his views. His railroad's cargo, service and territory are similar to that of railroads "in our region. ' "The Southern did not ask for the rate increase," De Butts explained, "and does not intend to raise any rate where it would result in pricing us out of the market and thereby reduce our net income." Like railroads of this region, the Southern has put mil lions of dollars in better service, but its president unfor tunately is alone in his resolve to protect that investment by not raising freight rates. He has explained that his company is testing its "theory that the service potential we have built into our system by the expenditure of hundreds of millions in recent years will enable us to handle volume at existing rate levels and still result in a satisfactory net return on the money invested in our properties." Pres. DeButts sounds convincing in his conclusion, "We feel that the constant upward spiral of freight rates is pric ing out of the market. Careful analysis of our traffic records in recent years supports us in this belief ... If we are on the right track, and we are sure we are, our low rates will regain freight traffic from other modes of transportation which got it from us with low rates at a time when ours couldn't be lowered to meet competition." IN SHORT, just as it is to the self-interest of the South as well as the North that the gospel of race discrimination and 'hatred be abandoned, so it is to the self-interest of the American railroads that the gospel of greed and "the public be damned" be abandoned. As the Journal remarks, the only regret is there are not more railroad heads like President DeButts, who have the same enlightened view as to the best way to "protect their INVESTMENTS." R.W.R. Who Said "Propaganda We stressed the fact in a recent editorial that this defiance of federal authority by Governor Faubus of Arkansas over school integration, might well prove to be "another shot heard around the world" only it would be fired against American democracy not to uphold it. We received a complaint from one subscriber that this was mere "Yankee propagandas-unsupported by any evidence or facts. If this be true, then we can only say the American press north and south, must be controlled by the most amazing conglomeration of misguided, misinformed and prejudiced nit-wits, with which the profession of journalism has ever been burdened. "COR as far as our observation goes there has not been ONE important newspaper in the country that has failed to call attention to this deplorable phase of the Little Rock incident, while a poll of the press from England to Russia and on to Australia, is an unbroken chorus of amazement, indignation and anti-American sentiment. In fact the reaction abroad has been more imme- Sunday, September 15, 1957 99' A'MWnoMe!? Whbrs vabs gohna kbbp ail MR COm M UORSBe AN' STUFF?' Today and By Walter DRIFT INTO DISORDER Something in the nature of a tacit understanding seems to have been reached between.Gov. Faubus and the Administration. It is that the issue between them is to be resolved by ju dicial proceed ings carried on slowly and with great delibera: tion. The De pa r t m e nt of Walter Lippmann Justice is avoiding any move which would soon precipitate a showdown between the Gover nor and the Federal power. It Is no doubt hoping that this will bring about a cooling-off period, during which something will somehow be arranged to make a showdown unnecessary. The Governor, for his part, has declared in the statement he published on Monday that he does not in principle oppose and mean to resist integration in the public schools of Arkan sas. Moreover, he has said that he will accept the results of the final judicial ruling. It Is understood that in the mean time he can use the National Guard to keep the Central High school segregated. . TN THE whole field of the Negro's advance to civic equal ity, it is a wise general rule to avoid letting issues reach a point where there has to be a show down. But unhappily, in the Little Rock case, the Governor himself has acted to force a showdown between himself and the law of the land. We are in a situation where, if we avoid a showdown with the Governor, we have in fact given in to him and condoned a violation of the law. The nation through its Fed eral Government is placed in a position by the Governor where it must choose between upholding and surrendering its authority, he having left open no middle ground of compro mise. It is a most unhappy affair, diate and 100 per cent denunciatory than this depart' ment expected. While here at home even as well informed and responsible a news commentator as Marquis Childs has this to say about the destructive impact of the little war m Little Kock , quote : Some estimate of the damage done to America's position in the world, by Arkansas' Governor Orval E. Faubus is evident in reports now coming in to various government agencies of the way in which the governor's rebellion has made page one news in Europe, Asia and Africa. The propa ganda advantage the governor has given the Communists by throwing troops around the Little Rock high school to keep out Negro students is immeasurable. It could not possibly be bought with money, in the view of officials who are appraising these reports, no matter how much gold was circulated through the Communist apparatus in North America. There is an awareness here in America of the contrast ' between Faubus' irresponsibility and the way in which integration is quietly taking place in many areas of the South and in the border states. But this corrective is miss ing in the reports that appear abroad. . In Europe and Asia particularly, the impact of a photo graph of armed troops holding back a handful of young Negroes from entering a public high school simply cannot be exaggerated. The explanation that this is the reckless act of one ambitious official in a community that had been ready and willing to accept integration never catches up with the drama recorded by the camera. What so many Americans have apparently begun to for get is that in the struggle between East and West everything that happens inside the United States is of immediate inter est all over the world. We are not alone, and the meanest action of a few irresponsible fanatics in Alabama is page one news in Asia. The tragedy of Arkansas coincides with the special meeting of the United States general assembly to consider the action of Soviet troops last November in brutally des troying the free government in Hungary. While it is altogether irrelevant, the distraction provided by Governor Faubus is convenient for the Communist bloc at this moment. Faubus will pass into oblivion and the union will stand. But the consequences abroad will be felt for a long time to come. We wish our anti-Yankee" subscriber would please cut out that quotation and put it in his scrap-book for future reference! R.W.R. Tomorrow Lippmann and it will be a miracle if it does not mean a great set-back in the improvement of relations between the races in the South and between the Southern states and the Northern states. It seems to me that Mr. Roscoe Drum mond must be right when he said this week that the Southern Senators who refrained from a filibuster against the civil rights bill are under severe attack in their own states. The showdown which Governor Faubus has forced in Arkansas will almost certainly incite and embitter the extreme segregationist factions all over the South. IT WILL, therefore, jeopardize the political future of the lib eral Southern politician. This would be a tragedy. For in the liberal political leaders of the South lies this country's only hope of domestic peace through an accommodation. Were the lib erals to be overwhelmed, and the prospects of a gradual settle ment destroyed, the conflict would become an ugly one. This is the second half of the twentieth century, a ' turning point, as the Southern liberals realize, all over the world in the relations between the white and the colored peoples. With out the Southern liberals to as suage the issue, the outlook will be for very serious trouble. rpHE situation is one in which -- the whole climate could be changed by a President who took command, who spoke clear ly, In no uncertain terms, to the patriotism, the common sense, and the good will of the people. There ought to be some body around whom the nation can rally with confidence, rising above the passion of this en venomed struggle. But at present there is nobody who is unmistakably In com mand, nobody who is speaking clearly, nobody who is really working seriously to bring order, plan, purpose, and control into what is in fact a drift into dis order. Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Matter of Fact v auoP YOU CAN'T FORCE FARMERS Brzeg, Poland In this little Silesian town with a name half way between a sneeze and a curse, the oia German popu lation was driv en out, Poles poured in only 12 years ago. The transfor mation has been radical; and it is nowhere more apparent than in the faU- Joseph Alsop en house of the town's rich man of the German times. The ornate, hideous stucco is cracked and peeling. The once - manicured lawns are shaggy. The grand drawing room has become a meeting place for farm manag ers. For this is now the Head- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Another Ho! Hum! day in the news. Ike and Governor Faubus are to meet in Newport, R.I. (Ike's vacation headquarters) to talk over the integration crisis in Arkansas. Presumably they will explore the possibilities of "implement ing" (if one may be permitted to use an upper bracket word) the supreme court's integration dictum without precipitating re bellion and bloodshed. I think all reasonable, toler ant, far-seeing citizens will wish them luck in their quest. NO SHOOTING in Syria yet . . . Russia hasn't fired any missiles at us yet . . . The stock market stays in the doldrums, but there is no frantic rush to SELL . . . The much-discussed "recession" appears increasing ly to -be a slowing down of the economy in order to CATCH UP after a burst of speed . . . The opinion is prevalent that the slow-down will be good for us in the long run. It seems to be a time for sitting on our hands and not worrying too much. SPEAKING of worry, Dr. Keith Fischer of Temple University medical center in Philadelphia tells a group of his professional associates that the scientific, commonsense way for a doctor to dose an anxious patient with "tranquilizing" drugs is to hold down the doses enough for him to RETAIN SOME OF HIS ANXIETY. He adds: "This amount of anxiety Is compatible with efficient intel lectual and physical work, ac ceptable social activities and good physical health." H m-m-m-m-m-m. This, I think, is what he is trying to say: "If you want to enjoy life and get ahead in the world, you need to do a reasonable amount of INTELLIGENT, CONSTRUC TIVE WORRYING." Otherwise, you'll go fat and flabby and get NOWHERE. D1 ID you ever sit on a rail fence and watch a big, fat hog in a mud wallow? It has NO worries. It is COMPLETELY con tented. IT WINDS UP IN THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE. Editorial Comment TAX DOLLAR IN GOOD HANDS What must be considered the ultimate tribute to bureaucratic economy came the other day from Senator Harry F. Byrd. On a visit to Yellowstone National Park, the Virginia senator said, I have never found a non-essen tial expenditure in a National Park Service budget." High praise that, coming from one who has made a career of bird-dogging federal budgets. But it is no more than is due the corps of dedicated men and women who are the custodians of our national parks. A visit to Oregon's only national park, Crater Lake, will convince any taxpayer that his dollar goes . a long way in their care. There are bright little signs announcing that picnic and camping areas in the making are a part of "Mis sion 66." the service's program to refurbish tourist facilities by 1966. But austerity is the rule. Park employees, including the superintendent, drive old-model cars, and aU equipment and ac commodations are strictly utili tarian. The entire NPS will sub sist this year on a budget ($15,- 000,000) about the size of the item some governmental depart ments assign to the purchase of mimeograph paper. Many Americans have only recently discovered the wonders in their national parks. Park vis itations have multiplied in the post-war years. It would be well if some of these bneficiaries were to let Mr. Byrd and his col leagues know of their satisfac tion. A few more millions an nually would be well placed in an investment that pays such rich and steady dividends. Portand Oregonian. quarters of the Brzeg Union of State Farms. This reporter and his inter ureter were led to the State Farm Headquarters by tourist happenstance, as a result of a casual roadside meeting with a band of peasants who were lift ing a poorish potato crop. But Poles, apparently, would not be surprised or discommoded by the arrival of visitors from the other side of the moon with a lunatic interest in the state of Polish agriculture. AT ANY rate, the burly, intelli gent young Director of the State Farm Union, Fryderyk Lyczak, greeted us like long-lost brothers. So . we spent a long, happy day among manure piles, in cow barns and in piggeries, learning what has happened to farming in the county of Brzeg. A lot has happened, and almost all of it has been good since Wladyslaw Gomulka set Polish farming free in October a year ago. The 10,000 acres of Director Lyczak's State Farm Union are of course state-owned and state managed to this day. But the great change in Poland has meant almost as much to this state enterprise as to the thou sands of Brzeg County peasants who have got their own land back from the detested collec tives. It did not matter whether one talked to Director Lyczak, who is a Communist and certainly owes his first appointment to the Party; or to his agronomist, Jerze Ochman, a serious, older man with a deep love of the land and no love for politics; or to the farm managers who are also Party members or to those who were not. The story was always the same. "Now that we've got rid of the damn crazy system before October," Lyczak burst out, "we . . " can do the .kind of job our land deserves. And it is 'wonderful land, I tell you that." "We don't have to grow any more damned corn because it's the line to grow corn; only corn for silage now is our system!" "By . next year we won't be using the best wheat land in Poland to grow potatoes for pig- feed because it s the line to in crease pig production!" "No more destroying the land with foolish planting programs; bet ter crop rotation and more cat tle to meet our country's need for milk and our land's need for manure; that's where we'rt heading new! CJO THEY exulted, even in this state enterprise, because Go mulka's decentralization has set them free to do a good, sensible job of work. To be sure, the eight farms of the Brzeg Union range from big, prosperous old manors to insane patchworks of unrelated bits of land put to gether by the bureaucrats of the past. The' worst of the farms is so unsuited to large-scale mechan ized production that Lyczak is boldly planning to return the land to peasant ownership. The best farm is primitive by Ameri can standards. With 34 tractors in his machinery sheds alto gether. Lyczak still needs no less than 56o regular farm la borers and 300 season workers at seed time and harvest on his 10,000 total acres. But you could almost see Lyczak, Och man and the others rolling up their sleeves for the great task of bringing up their farming operation to the most modern Western level. "In the German times," said Ochman, "our land produced 45 quintals of wheat per hec- tare. We'll do two-thirds of that this year, which is a lot better than last year. But if we don't get up to 45 quintals again, when we have fertilizer enough, I m going to be a very disap pointed man." piURTHERMORE, these men of - the state farms were also unanimous about the results of the other, far more important aspect of Wladyslaw Gomulka's land reform. These have been dramatic. With 10,000 acres in the Star State Farm Union, crzeg county used to have 30, 000 acres in collective farms and only 25,000 acres in pri vate piots. Today, only a single small collective of about 400 acres survives the holocaust of last October. Since October, the animal pop ulation of the county has al ready increased by at least 50 per cent. The area plowed has sviic up Dy a prooabie 20 per. cent, ine milk-collecting station in Brzeg town, which could never collect anything like its planned capacity in the past. is now desneratelv strucrfflinff with an actual glut of milk which it cannot handle. And so it goes. I here is nothing like the Polish peasants' passion for the land," said Ochman over a final cup of coffee in his simple apartment. "Just set a Polish peasant free to farm and he'll farm 'til he drops. If we do a good job with our state farms, I think our peasants will enter voluntary cooperatives later on, because this Silesian land really repays large-scale mechanized agriculture. But you can't force farmers; you can't force farm ers." Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribuna Inc. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) We have referred here upon occasion to the blue-doored law yer's office which is occasionally mistaken for a lounge. WelL sir, the top dog in the office called in some elation the other day to keep the record straight. A lady had wandered in, he claimed, under the mistaken im pression that the blue door was that of the First National bank. ' A local police lieutenant escorted his 6-year-old son to the registration day for first graders last week, and re ported that the lad's teacher is a recent college graduate, unmarried and . very good looking. The lieutenant said that when he found he couldn't fit behind the desks, he went back to work. The planning commission the other night was discussine whether or not lights should be allowed to illuminate certain signs. Commissioner Don Root, a father, interjected that . "the two spotlights I'd like to see put out are those darn carnival lights. Every time my kids see those . . ." What is a revue and what is a review? Consultation with a dictionary indicates the Jackson County 4-H clubs may be running a sort of burlesque show. Official 4-H publications use the word "revue" in "style revue." to designate a review of clothing creations made by members. Municipal Judge Noreen Kelly ,!5 T mo"uns If!? of houS?. after f i iiiiii ii i r 1 s- rPTrPsnpnPr t npn cnn. denly dashing back to pay for it. One of our colleagues was led to inquire, "What is the penalty, judge, for forgetting to pay entirely?" "They should know better" department: Two people who were seen recently walking along a main highway with their back to oncoming traffic. You can get killed that way, friends. .." Capt. Carl Cover, USNR, has been a friend of Cmdr. Rodney Keating, USNR, for some years. So when Cover, here with the governor recently, was intro duced as "Colonel Cover," the judge, sure he'd caught Emcee Jennings Pierce in an obvious error, corrected him: "Captain Cover," he said loudly. What he didn't know was that Gov ernor Holmes wanted Cover for a military aide, found that some obscure law prevented the gov ernor from having a naval aide, and so commissioned him a colonel (the equivalent rank) in the Oregon National Guard. Rod's face still gets a little red when he's reminded of it. . Speaking of Judge Keat ing, he reports that on several occasions gasoline had been stolen from supplies from his ranch on Valley View drive. So he obtained a small drum. filled it with gasoline, added some sugar, and left it near the rest of the gasoline. He said he's heard since, via grapevine, that a distant neigh bor has been, complaining of tractor trouble because some blankety-blank so-and-so had put sugar in his gas. An anonymous friend reports that she paused last week to let a funeral procession pass. Following closely behind, she says, so close as to look like the last vehicle in the proces sion, was a truck carrying away dead animals. v On the desk of one of our co-workers rests the office's community coffee pot. The oc , cupant of the desk, who usual ly presides over the coffee , making, burned the tips of her fingers on it slightly last week. She obtained some burn ointment from the first aid kit, and rather than mess her fingers all up, applied small amounts of it to the keys of her typewriter used by the burned fingers. , Another burn victim came to the office last week a woman who is especially safety-conscious, who has worked for many years for the rtea cross, ana who can recite safety maxims at the drop of a matchbook cover labeled "close cover before striking." It seems she had been lighting candles on a birthday cake with paper matches, and did NOT "close cover before striking." One young man who works here sometimes occupies a desk chair which faces a win dow, and sometimes he gazes out the window, through the Venetian blind slats, while waiting for inspiration to strike. After such a contem plative pause the other day he reported soberly that air liners coming in for a landing at the Medford airport de scend two Venetian blind slats between the First National bank and Acme Hardware store.