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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 16, 1947 (Tuesday)
Jackson county drivers re
minded that state police con
ducting closely-spaced checks of
Oregon drivers' licenses.
Bob Clements, west coast rep
resentative of the Brooklyn
Dodgers, which will place a
class D farm club in Medford
next season, will visit Medford
oon.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 16. 1937 (Thursday)
Ten miles of new Pacific
uper-highway construction from
Ashland to near the Siskiyou
summit opens.
Medford's world-traveling Boy
Scouts, Jerry Vawter, Richard
Thierolf and Jack Thompson, ar
rived home last evening after
almost three months traveling
in the United States and Europe
80 YEARS AGO
Sept. 16, 1927 (Friday) ,
Judging of exhibits at Jack-
on county products show starts
expected to be completed to
night.
Arrangements are being made
to hold the 51st annual reunion
cf the Southern Oregon Pioneer
society in Ashland, Sept. 22.
40 YEARS AGO.
Sept. 16, 1917 (Monday)
District irrigation plan in the
Medford area was approved at
election; construction to start
soon.
Company C details 150 men
to guard duty to prevent ex
nected dynamiting of trains
passing through this area.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent: five or
six is good
1. Which is the correct spell
ing: "Porto Rico" or Puerto
Rico"?
2. Name the first President
of the U. S. whose inauguration
ceremonies were held in Wash
ington, D.C.
3. Bible: Which Book follows
Jeremiah?
4. During World War II,
which country built Liberty
ships?
5. In compiling statistics in
the U.S., is an individual count
ed as "illiterate" if he cannot
read or write, or if he has not
completed the fifth grade?
6. Which of Shakespeare's
plays ends with a fourfold wed
ding? 7. Name the capital of Ru
mania. 8. Will food cook more quick
ly in water that is boiling vig
orously, or boiling gently?
9. Which of the three follow
ing nicknamed pals would be
most likely to use the expres
sion "y'all:" "Devoted Rebel,"
-Damn Yankee," "Cornhusker?"
10. " 'May I print a kiss upon
your lips?' " I said . And she
nodded her full permission;
So we went to press and I ra
ther guess We printed a full"
what?
Answers: 1. Puerto Rico. 2.
Thomas Jefferson. 3. Lamenta
tions. 4. United' States of Am
erica. 5. Has not completed the
fifth grade. 6. "As You Like It."
7. Bucharest. 8. So long as the
water is boiling, the cooking
time will be the same. 9. "De
Toted Rebel." (Contraction of
"you all" used in the South).
10 --"edition.'""-' "J. Lillienlhal.
For the "General Welfare"
One of the duties imposed on the federal govern
ment by the Constitution is to '"promote the genera
welfare.
In today's increasingly complex society, one of the
greatest needs for the general welfare of the nation
is a high degree of literacy and education throughout
the population.
It is this phrase in the constitution which provided
the basis for the controversial (and thus-far unsuc
cessful) proposal that the government aid in the fi
nancing of school buildings.
It is the same phrase which provides justification
for the proposal that the government get into the
business of assisting students in meeting the costs
of higher education.
CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY reports that such
. a program may well be in effect by this time
next year. Bills to provide federal aid to college
students have been introduced into Congress, and
will still be alive and ready for consideration when
the second session of the 85th Congress convenes
next January.
CQ points out that considerable encouragement
for this type of legislation was provided by the Presi
dent's Committee on Education Beyond the High
School, which in its report last month declared that
World peace and survival of mankind may wel
depend on the way in which we educate the citizens
and leaders of tomorrow.
It emphasized this by pointing out that each year
some -"200,000 of the ablest young people fail to
cany their education beyond high school, and that
this is partly because they do not have enough money.
THE cost of an education, like virtually everything
else, has gone sKy-nign m recent years, and mis
has been only partly offset by the increased number
of privately-endowed scholarships available to worthy
students.
Many young people, whose parents cannot foot
the entire bill ol college or university training, sup
nlement their income bv nart-time work durinsr the
ir a. o
four or more years they attend. And more power to
tnem I
But these sources nf income are not sufficient
to do the entire job a fact wmich is recognized more
and more both by educators and by the public gen-
eraiiy.
SEN. HUBERT HUMPHREY of Minnesota is one
er.rmcr.vc! r-f nnWacra cpTinlorcVnr To oriel of inn
and he says he will press for its enactment next year.
This bill would authorize a federal scholarship fund
of $160,000,000 per year (that's less than one-190th
of the amount allocated for the armed forces this
year), which would provide $1,000 annual scholar
ships for able students needing them, to be admin
istered through state commissions.
Another bill would provide for long-term, low-
interest loans to students for their education. Others
would provide varying degrees of tax relief for par
ents putting their children through college.
CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY reported that
although federal aid for college educations has
been discussed for more than 10 years, only now
do supporters feel that prospects are bright for en
actment. They strengthen their arguments by point-
lllg OUl. xvuaaia o giuvvmg cuuv.auuuai jjiugitisa, cum uic
ever-rising costs of college educations.
The President's committee added:
"The gap between this nation's educational needs and
its educational effort is widening ominously. America
would be heedless if she closed her eyes to the dramatic
strides being taken by the Soviet Union in post high school
education, particularly in the development of scientists,
" engineers and technicians. She would be inexcusably blind
if she failed to see that the challenge of the next 20 years
will require leaders not only in science and engineering and
in business and industry but in governmnt and politics, in
foreign affairs and diplomacy, in education and civic affairs."
In our view, such a program would go much farther
toward serving the general welfare of the nation
than many of the programs which are now accepted
as a normal part of the business of the federal gov
ernment.
And as a purely practical note, it could be added
that the increased earning power (and tax liability)
of those assisted in obtaining an education, would in
the long ran more than repay the initial cost to the
government. E.A.
Autumnal Equinox
The calendar over our desk labels Sept. 23 the
"1st Day of Autumn."
The calendar must have been printed in the east.
It is correct for the Eastern time zone, when fall
starts at 2:27 a.m., and for the Central and Mountain
time zones, when it is at 1:27 a.m. and 12:27 a.m.
Only in the Pacific time zone is Sept. 22 the first
day of autumn, which starts here at 11 :27 p.m.
As we have noted before, however, Autumn
doesn't start at any one particular second in time.
It sneaks up on one.
WHO could look at the brilliant harvest moon,
r.r.nr woninnr in f Via v i rrl- f cl-ioc o nrl Tint "fppl tVlflt",
fall is rpallv hpre? Anrl thp start nf school inevitably
makes one certain that autumn is here, whether or
not the calendar says so.
SDeakin? of the brie-ht moon of the last week.
we presume it was the harvest moon, which is the
full moon nearest the autumnal equinox. This year,
the World Almanac shows that the equinox is about
half wray between full moons, so early next month we
may again be treated to bright, moonlit nights. E.A.
'if rr wasn't for ketchup there's lots of things
I WOULDN'T LIKE!'
Crackdown on Bankers
In '30s Reminds of
Current Labor Quiz
l.jle C. Wilson
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) Jimmy
Hoffa's reluctance to retreat
from the next presidency of the
teamsters reminds the old timers
around town
of how it was
back there
when Ferdin
and P e c o r a
was investigat
ing the stock
market.
That was In
1930 - 31 dur
ing what we
knew as the
depression. Bad luck, stupidity
and too much love of money
and power had mouse-trapped
many of the country's top
money men into serious trouble.
The public was aroused. A lot
of banks were busted and the
unemployed nearly starved.
Same Stage
The tie ' between Hoffa and
the money bags who answered
up to Pecora's sharp question
ing is that they all acted on the
same stage, although many years
apart. The hot sea.t in the Sen
ate caucus room where Hoffa
and Dave Beck wilted and, like
ly, will wilt again was just
where Pecora placed his bank
er witnesses.
The head men of the nation's
greatest banks took their turn
there, from the late J. P. Morgan
down. Morgan got off almost
free from the Pecora investiga
tion.' The public reviled him for
paying no income tax during
three successive years. His coun
sel replied, simply, that Morgan
did not owe any tax under the
existing revenue act. And, that
was a fact.
Breach of Trust
The general charge to which
the bankers were summoned to
Washington for answer was the
same as the general accusation
against Beck and Hoffa: Breach
of trust. The judgment of the
Senate committeemen who heard
Beck and Hoffa was that they
were guilty of that many times
over.
Committee censure, popular
disapproval and teamsters opin
ion, combined, however, were
not sufficient to blast Beck out
of his plush union presidency
nor yet to persuade Hoffa to
withdraw his candidacy for the
presidency at this month's union
convention. Beck acknowledged
his unfitness for reelection but
clung to the tag end of his term
Beck and some of Hoffa's dis
reputable associates chose
Fifth Amendment defense. No
banker, however much compro
mised by the facts, would dare
do that. None did under Pecora's
merciless grilling.
Two of them, however, mid
way in their ordeal of testimony,
felt compelled to resign their
banking jobs.
French Premier Faces Critical
Tests Over Algeria, Farm Policy
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EDIT PAGE french 3 col head
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Premier Maurice Bourges
Maunoury of France is facing
critical tests of his North Afri
can and domestic policies.
The National
Assembly, the
con trolling
house of the
French Parlia
ment, meets in
Paris Tuesday
in a special
session.
It will take
up the Alger-
charies McCann l a n problem
and Bourges-Maunory's anti-inflationary
system of agricultural
price controls.
Bourges-Maunoury plans to
offer the Assembly a long-considered,
complicated plan to di
vide Algeria into federal areas
in hope that he can end the re
bellion which has been draining
France's treasury for nearly
three years.
Algerians Reject Plan
But the rebels have rejected
the plan in advance as falling
short of the complete independ
ence they demand.
Both the extreme right and
extreme left wings of the Na
tional Assembly are criticizing
it also. The rightists say it would
give too much freedom to Alger
ia. The leftists say it does not
go far enough.
Bourges-Maunoury hopes to
push through his" plan, in hope
he can work out some compro
mise with the Algerian nation
alists. He is trying also to get it ap
proved before the United Nations
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Foreign affairs note in . the
news:
Although diplomats say pri
vately that the Syrian crisis con
tinues grave, the United States
publicly is trying to soft-pedal it
Last week it was different.
U. S. diplomatic officals then
were branding the Syrian pro
Soviet shift as "extremely dan
gerous and a possible threat to
free world security. They were
reminding everybody then that
there is a Big Stick in the Eisen
hower Doctrine that can be
USED if we choose to use it.
This week our state depart
ment has switched to softer
language and has put the Big
Stick behind the door but
within easy reach if it is needed.
Y?
Well, if you can understand
why a poker . player does .what
he does and says what he says
in a poker game you will under
stand Why the diplomats are
doing what they are doing and
saying what they are saying.
In times like these, diplomacy
is the biggest poker game
the world.
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DIPLOMATIC exchanges are a
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campaign. You cant believe
much of what either side says.
And
Like an election campaign
Diplomacy is a struggle for
power.
HERE'S an INTERESTING
Early this year, Secretary of
Defense Charles Wilson (Engine
Charley) swung a verbal hay
maker at his "rich friends"
after the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce had criticized his han
dling of defense spending. He
suggested that his former asso
ciates in the Big Business world
could "well afford the taxes they
were paying.
Last night, at a meeting of the
chamber's national defense com
mittee at which Wilson was
present; U. S. Chamber Presi
dent Philip Talbott said of him:
"What Charley Wilson BE
LIEVED he always SAID and
said it bluntly, with short,
punchy words . that -. may have
stung a few people here and
there but ALWAYS LEFT THE
AIR A LOT CLEARER THAN
IT WAS BEFORE."
"IIEN like that are useful.-
J-'A Pussyfooters are apt to be
dangerous.
THIS is written on Friday the
13th.
If you're superstitious, you'd
better lock yourself up in a dark
room and not stir until tomor
row because THIS YEAR Friday
the 13th of September is the
256th day of the year 1957.
If you'll add up on your fing
ers the figures 2. 5 and 6 you'll
find that THEY TOTAL UP TO
THIRTEEN.
WHY is Friday regarded as un
lucky? Jesus was crucified on Friday.
Friday was long known as Hang
man's Day because for a long
period of time it was the day
chosen for the execution of
criminals.
The books available at the mo
ment are silent on the unlucki
ness of 13. Does anyone know
why? If so, I'd like to hear
about it.
rjNE more before quitting.
Sneezing is widely re
garded as an omen because of
an ancient belief that in a sneeze
a spirit leaves the body. Italians,
to turn a sneeze into a GOOD
omen, say Felicita " (meaning
"blessing"). Germans say "Ges-
uhdheit" (your health). Some
English - speaking peoples say
"God bless you7 when someone
sneezes.
Editorial
Comment
DAVE SHAW
When his many friends look
back on their acquaintance with
him, they will say, "Now Dave
Shaw: THERE was a man." For
Dave Shaw, who died unexpect
edly Friday morning, was an ex
pert in many things. But most
of all he was an expert in that
most difficult pursuit of all in
being primarily a great human
being, a man of great brain,
great heart and great physical
vigor.
When they talk about him in
years to come, these friends of
Dave'e, they will remember
many things:
Dave Shaw the night before
his detfeat for Congress in 1950
addressing a radio audience and
saying, "My name is Dave Shaw
I am seeking your vote for Con
gress and these are the things I
sincerely believe.
Dave Shaw standing around
the piano reciting the words to
a song and he never forgot the
words to a song. He could not
have carried a tune in. a bucket,
but he was a great singing com
panion because he had enthu
siasm.
Dave Shaw introducing Adlai
Stevenson in an introduction
that the presidential candidate
said was "one of the most elo
quent speeches I ever heard."
Dave Shaw lying on his back
on his Gold Beach ranch, look
ing at the stars and discoursing
expertly on astronomy; and the
next afternoon talking about
wild flowers or English history
or what Lincoln said to Edwin
M. Stanton.
Dave Shaw, who loved good
food, out in the kitchen mixing
a tossed green salad seasoned
with is own herbs.
Dave Shaw remembering foot
ball and crew at Harvard.
Dave Shaw looking forward to
teaching constitutional law next
year and declaring that he had
found his career, the way he
wanted to spend the rest of his
life.
Dave Shaw, the civil war ex
pert, fighting Shiloh or Chan
cellorsville on the company
and platoon level with another
fan of our greatest war.
Dave Shaw, a man who had
known personal tragedy, listen
ing sympatheticany to the
smaller problems of another.
Dave Shaw, drinking coffee in
the Faculty Club and telling a
joke a joke at which nobody
laughed harder than Dave Shaw.
Dave Shaw, indignant at what
he felt was an injustice.
He was of a rare breed, Dave
Shaw was, and he will not be
soon forgotten by people who
recognize that great human
beings are all too rare. Eugene
Register-Guard.
takes up the Algerian issue
The General Assembly will
open its regular annual meeting
Tuesday, simultaneously with
the French National Assembly.
On the UN program is a reso
lution, offered by 21 "anti-colonial"
Asian and African countries,
to debate the Algerian issue as
a danger to peace.
Price Controls Issu
As soon as the Algerian de
bate has been finished in the
National Assembly. Bourees-
Maunoury will face a much more
serious debate on his agricultur
al price controls.
That issue could bring about
a vote of no confidence and
thus force Bourges-Maunoury's
resignation as France's 22nd
post-war premier.
French farmers, regarded as
the chief stabilizing force in po
litically - mercurial France
and powerfully represented in
Parliament bitterly oppose the
price controls.
Bourges - Maunoury imposed
the controls last month as part of
his "austerity" program. Under
this plan, ceilings were set on
farm prices.
Farmers threaten nation-wide
strikes if the controls are main
tained.
Pressure by agricultural Inter
ests forced Bourges-Maunoury
to call a special session of Par
liament on that issue. He set it
for Sept. 24. But he advanced
the date to Tuesday in order to
give priority to. Algeria.
Tunisia Aids Rebels
As if Bourges-Maunoury did
not have trouble enough with
Algeria and price controls, he is
involved also in a potentiaUy
dangerous dispute with Presi
dent Habib Bourguiba of Tun
isia, to which France has grant
ed independence.
Tunisia adjoins Algeria on the
northeast. The Algerian rebels
have been getting a constant
supply of weapons through Tun
isia. Rebel bands also make it a
practice to flee into Tunisia to
escape French punitive forces.
France recently started chas
ing the rebels across the border,
pleading the recognized interna
tional right of "hot pursuit."
Bourguiba has proclaimed a
state of emergency along the
border and threatens to use his
armed forces against French
troops.
Matter of Fact
By Stewart Alsop
Stewait Alsop
THE CONSEQUENCES
OF FAUBUS
Washington The tragic epi
sode in Little Rock is dead cer
tain to have decisive political re
sults. One such result is already
clear. The bril
liant strategy
of Senate Ma
jority Leader
Lyndon John
son, which was
designed to
save his party
from being
torn to pieces
by the civil
rights issue.
has been knocked into a cocked
hat by Arkansas' Gov. Orval Fau
bus. .
j.ne Johnson strategy was
essentially simple enough. Again
and again, he pointed out to his
fellow Southerners that, if they
filibustered to prevent any civil
rights legislation at all, the in
evitable result would be
change in the Senate rules to
kill unlimited debate. Then real
ly tough civil rights would in
time become inevitable
The Southerners bowed to
Johnson's logic, and unanimous
ly agreed not to filibuster a bill
limited essentially to voting
rights. With a civil rights bill
"the South could live with'
safely passed, the second part of
Johnson's plan called for a rel
atively mild change in the Sen
ate rules in the next session of
Congress. The rules would be
amended to permit two thirds
of those present and voting to
limit debate.
TiHUS, according to the John-
- son strategy, the two great,
related issues which have threat
ened to destroy the Democratic
party civil rights and the fili
buster would be out of the
way by the time the 1958 and
1960 elections rolled around.
But the "best-laid plans of
mice and men gang aft agley.
Lyndon Johnson's well-laid plans
began to go agley at the very
end of the session, when. Sen.
Throm Thurmond of South Caro
lina broke the Southern agree
ment, and staged his one-man
filibuster. Thurmond's futile
grandstand play, enraged the
other Southerners, since it was
calculated to make them seem
soft" on the civil rights issue.
But the damage to Johnson's
strategy inflicted by Thurmond
was probably not irreparable.
The damage inflicted by Arkan
sas Gov. Orval Faubus almost
certainly is irreparable.
For Faubus' action in calling
out the Arkansas National
Guard to prevent integration of
the Little Rock High schools has
suddenly and dramatically re
vived the whole civil rights is- j
sue. The pictures of white troops!
turning Negro children away
from the Little Rock school
have unquestionably had an en
ormous impact on the Northern
Negro voting blocs, which are
the key to victory in important
industrial states.
IN THIS situation, it is virtually
inevitable that civil rights
legislation, instead of being dis
posed of as envisaged in the
Johnson strategy, will again
dominate the next session of
Congress. Among the strong civ
il rights advocates in the Admin
istration, the Little Rock epi
sode is held to prove the need
for the kind of legislation em
bodied in the defeated section
three of the original Administra
tion bill. Section three would
have permitted the Justice De
partment to take the initiative
in all civil rights matters, in
cluding school desegregation.
It is a good bet that the Ad
ministration, as a result -of the
Little Rock episode, will intro
duce a civil rights bill- in the
session embodying this princi
ple. It is a particularly good bet
because the Northern Democrats
will certainly do so if the Ad
ministration does not. Indeed,
Northerns like Rep. Emmanuel
Cellar of New York and Sen.
Paul Douglas of Illinois have
already drafted bills to that end.
The Little Rock episode, in
short, has made it likely that
Northern Democrats will again
istration Republicans will again
start competitive bidding for
Northern Negro support, pre
cisely what the Johnson strategy
was designed to avoid. Section
three of the Administration civ
il rights bill was, of course, an
athema to the Southerners, and
its elimination was an essential
condition of the Southern agree
ment not to filibuster.
rrWE Southerners will of course
-- threaten to filibuster any
new version of section three.
And this in turn will also raise
the issue of the filibuster, and
in the sharpest form. Thus in
this way also the action of Fau
bus threatens to tear the care
ful and coolly calculated John
son strategy to tatters.
All in all, no man has a better
right than Lyndon Johnson to
be furious with Orval Faubus.
And this is especially so, for
still another reason. If the John
son strategy had worked, if the
civil rights issue had been dis
posed of, once and for all, in
1957, the Democrats might quite
conceivably have nominated a
liberal Southerner in 1960
such a liberal Southerner, for
example, as Lyndon Johnson.
Thanks to Orval Faubus, that
is now almost inconceivable.
(C) 1957 New York Herald
. Tribune Inc.
Presidents of the U.S. have
used armed forces abroad at
least 76 times without congres
sional sanction.
Stephen Stoned To Death
Geo. N. Taylor
Came Stephen, an early Christain who
declared that the blood of Christ blotted
out all our sins. At that, Saul, a non- Chris,
tian set the crowd against Stephen and
Stephen was stoned to death. Saul next set
off for Damascus to head off their taking on
Christian faith. As they journeyed, Christ
Himself came in with "Saul Saul
Why do you persecute Me?" At that Saul
fell to the ground, to be lifted later to his
feet and led on into Damascus. There he
gave himself to much prayer so he did the
right-about face and changed his mind
about Christ. That is conversion.
This message is by God's people who
want you to know. -
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