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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 25, 1947 (Thursday)
Funds for construction of a
store building in Eagle Point for
a blind youth will be raised at
a dance.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The first
Californian from Lane county
has shown up locally to warn
the people against acceptance of
the sales tax as proposed in this
state."
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 25. 1937 (Sunday)
Ernest W. Winkle, past ex
alted ruler of the Medford Elks
lodge, elected president of the
Oregon State Elks association at
a business session here.
Warrants charging proprietors
of 14 Medford establishments
with "promoting and setting up
a lottery," served by sheriffs
office.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 25, 1927 (Sunday)
According to A. D. Helms,
well-known valley resident, Hol
lywood agents have been dicker
ing with him for the use of his
ranch for studio purposes.
A large Fokker plane, carry
ing both passengers and mail,
flies through Medford on way to
San Francisco.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 25. 1917 (Tuesday)
The Third Oregon infantry,
except C company and several
other companies which remain
on guard duty in the state,
passed through Medford en route
to Camp Green, Charlotte, N. C.
To encourage youth to study
state history, the Oregon Society
of the Sons of The American
Revolution offer prizes for the
best essays on American Revo
lution subjects.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct ts superior;
seven or eisht is excellent: five or
six is good
1. A centimeter is a French
coin, measurement, or small in
sect? 2. Do bananas or avocados
have the higher food value per
pound?
3. Bible: Was Joseph 24, 30,
or 34 years old when he "went
out over all the land of Egypt?"
4. The Roman numerals CCC
indicate what Arabic equiva
lent?
5.. Certain kinds of birds' nest
are an article of food in which
country?
6. Is it true that snow never
falls in Florida?
7. What is the adjective de
rived from the name of a rep
tile, which describes develop
ment of intersecting cracks and
ridges, said of films, paint, var
nish or the like?
8. Name the radio and TV
ventriloquist who uses the
character "Charlie McCarthy?"
Taste and Judgement in Art
Judging by the "letters to the editor" columns of
the Salem and Portland newspapers, the art exhibit
at the State Fair this year created rather more contro
versy than usual.
The bulk of the letters was from advocates of the
more conservative type of art the representational,
or "realistic" as opposed to "modern" or "abstract"
or non-representational art.
They complained that the admissions board chose
too many of the latter type for exhibit, not enough
of the former, and that in the awarding of prizes, the
moderns had all the best of it.
Wf OST of us these days tend to agree with the classic
comment of the man who said "I don't know any
thing about Art, but I know what I like." And what we
like is what we are familiar with, and what we under
stand. Therefore, since most people have had little in the
way of an art education, and do not understand the
methods, or even the approach, of modernistic art,
they are much more apt to appreciate the quickly
recognizable, the familiar, and easily-understood
paintings and sculptures represented by the non-
modern schools.
All this is as it should be. But at the same time, it
should be pointed out that with more time and thought
and study, the moderns, many of them, have some
thing to say, and many are saying it well.
NE of the minority of the letters in defense of the
moderns came from a Salem woman to the Oregon
Statesman. She gives, clearly and concisely, a view
which those interested in the subject could well con
sider. Here are excerpts from her. letter:
"I am not going to try to clarify what the painter is say
ing in a modern abstract painting, but I wonder how many
people who dislike distortion realize that the most conser
vative landscape painting is a distortion . . . This distortion
is accepted by people. They are mostly not even aware that
they are not seeing as realistically as they imagine. If they
will accept the idea then, that ail painting is in a sense a
distortion of reality, perhaps they can begin to see paint
ing as a language, whose symbols are to be learned. The
paint and canvas themselves are a distortion in the sense
that they are not air and light as we know them, and there
fore a distortion of what we think is reality."
The difference, she seems to be saying, is one not
of kind but of degree, with the artist of one school
using his media in a traditional manner, and the artist
of another in an experimental, but equally valid,
manner.
And the point that she makes, that there is room
for both, is a good one.
ART in all its forms, and by its veiy nature, can be
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universally-accepted "rules and regulations" as to
what distinguishes good art from bad.
One man can tell another what he likes, and why
he likes it, but can't make anyone else like it. Only
additional background and knowledge and study can
qualify one person as more competent than another
in judging the value of a painting, or a piece of music,
or a sculpture. "
Tastes in art, as in eating, are acquired. It is no
more reprehensible to be fond of liverwurst or caviar,
which are acquired tastes, than it is to like modern
paintings, which is another taste that is acquired only
by exposure and understanding. h.A.
Pole-Less Neighborhoods
Some of the accouterments of civilization, even
the less lovely ones, come to be so familiar th.at little
thought is given to them in their more objectionable
aspects.
An example is the tall pole, dipped in some sort of
preservative, which carries telephone or power wires.
We are so familiar with them that we hardly see them,
and only when we visit a community which has done
away with them are we almost subconciously aware
that something different and pleasant is going on.
According to the magazine Electrical Construe
tion and Maintenance," an entire new community,
Elk Grove Village, 111., will be the first complete town
in the nation without either utility poles or TV an
tennae.' THERE will be some 6,000 homes in this new 1,500-
1 acre residential suburb of Chicago, and each of
them will be served with telephone and power inlets
underground.
The lower installation and replacement costs, plus
the easier availability, probably mean that utility
wires alwaj-s will be with us, particularly in rural and
industrial areas. But most people would admit that a
pole-less residential neighborhood is a far more at
tractive one than a block where wire-strung poles dot
the landscape.
Trie magazine reports that installation costs are
considerably higher, but that there are compensating
factors to the utilities in lower operating and repair
costs meaning trouble-free distribution without tree
trimming or damage caused by wind, rain or ice
storms. E.A.
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In the Day's News
Polish-Occupied Territory in
East Germany Seen Future Issue
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The future of the East Ger
man territory now occupied by
Poland is likely to become a big
issue before
long.
West Ger
man Chancel
lor K q n r a d
Adenauer i s
expected t o
take the first
step soon to
ward eventual
e s tablishment
of formal dip
lomatic relations with the "in
dependent" Communist Polish
government.
When that time comes, the
status of the 38,900-square-mile
area of Germany east of the Oder
and Neisse rivers will become a
Chailes M. AlcCann
topic for discussion and for ne
gotiation. The territory has been occu
pied by Poland since 1945. Then,
at the Potsdam Conference, the
United States, Great Britain and
Soviet Russia put the rich terri
tory under Polish administration
pending the conclusion of a final
German Peace treaty.
Still No Treaty
Twelve years later, no such
treaty has been signed. But Rus
sia and Poland regard the Oder
Neisse line as the permanent
frontier. The East German Com
munist puppet government has
formally "recognized" the area
as permanently Polish. It lacks
any authority to give such recog
nition, of course. The United
States, Britain and West Ger
many still regard the territory
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, Little Rock,
Ark., holds the center of the
news spotlight. What happened
at the Central High school there
the other morning was unfortu
nate because it involved vio
lence. It was fortunate because
the violence involved was minor
rather than major.
That is to say
It resulted in BRUISES instead
of bloodshed. Bruises are easier
to forget than the spilling of
blood.
A lot of wise and tolerant for
getting is needed at Little Rock.
SOUTHERN governors are
hnlrlinP a rnnfprpnpp nt. Spa
island, in Georgia. Governor
Faubus of Arkansas is there.
Asked by reporters for comment
on the happenings in the capital
of his home state, he said the ra
cial violence in Little Rock was
the thing he acted to prevent
when he called out the National
Guard. He adds that he has no
plans at this time to call out the
Guard again.
That sounds like he is ready
to do some forgetting.
AT the Sea Island conference,
Governor Collins of Florida
says:
"If the South. wraps itself in
a Confederate flag and con
sumes itself in a racial furor, it
will -bury itself politically for
years. '
He was speaking on the sub
ject: "Can a Southerner Be
Elected President?"
He says YES, but the "South
erner must be "a man of compe
tence and achievement whose
alliance to the NATIONAL in
terest must be forceful, absolute
and unquestioned."
AN a
TOTE, please, that at this con-
' ference of Southern gover
nors no bloody shirts have so far
been waved. One reason is that
as yet no blood has been spilled
on any shirts.
Let's hope it steys that way.
less controversial but
still rather interesting sub
ject, we find in the news today
this bit of speculation:
The atomic energy commission
fired the first known under
ground nuclear explosion in Ne
vada last week. THE BLAST
MAY HAVE CREATED A
TREASURE TROVE OF GEMS
FOR SOME FUTURE GENERA
TION.
The heat and fusion of the
underground explosion undoubt
edly produced rubies and
sapphires AND POSSIBLY DIA
MONDS.
H
M-M-M-M-M-M
ANYTHING that modern scien
tific research may not yet be
able to achieve?
9. Does "folk" properly re
fer to relatives, friends, neigh
bors, etc?
10. "How a minority, Reach
ing a majority, Hates a"
what?
Answers: 1. Measurement. 2.
Avocados. 3. 30. 4. 300. 5. China.
&. No. 7. Alligatored. 8. Edgar
Bergen. 9. No. "Folks" refers to
people in the sense of a group.
10. "Minority." L. H. Rob-bins.
Arab Advances To $8,000 Level
New York (1? Kamal
Mansour. a member of the Arab
Druse sect from Isfia, Israel, an
swered correctly the $8,000 ques
tion on a television quiz show
Tuesday night.
In the "Islam, Christianity and
Judaism" category on "The $64,
000 Question" Mansour named
the city where Mohammed was
born (Mecca), the city to which
the prophet fled (Medina), and
identified a "hadj" (a pilgrim
mage to Mecca).
Then Mansour, the son of a
sheik, identified the largest
Christian denomination in the
world (Roman Catholicism); gave
the name of the monk who
sparked the birth of Protestant
ism (Martin Luther); and trans
lated a Jewish prayer.
Michael Smele, 11, Flushing,
N.Y., reached the $1,000 level
on the program before time was
called. His category is baseball.
Market Overselling
Said No Guarantee
Against More Decline
Elmer Vvaizer
By ELMER C. WALZER
United Press Financial Editor
New York (IP) Wall Street
experts say the market has .over
done it again that it's oversold
r""! But that does
not necessarily
mean that
there will be
no further de
cline. There's
an old market
axiom that the
lows seldom
are set on vol
ume and Mon
day's shakeout
was accomplished on the great
est activity of the year.
This building up of a decline
is a matter of public psychology,
according to Mitchell of Canada,
noted for his picturesque phrases
on the ways of Wall Street.
"One of the most amazing
things you can see in the work
ings of the stock market is the
way very intelligent men may
be taken down the line by peo
ple with much lower IQs," he
says.
Try To Keep Calm
"When their stocks start go
ing down, they try to keep calm,
but as they see others frantically
selling on all sides the herd
instinct suddenly takes over and
they panic. It is just like a cattle
stampede.
"Then when they see a stock
that's riding high, an irrestible
urge compels them to do what
everybody else is doing and
climb on the bandwagon.
"Chances are they buy a lot
of shares from the smart op
erators who bought the stock
just after a recent panic at low
prices and thus clean up a tidy
profit.
'Blind emotions as a guide
to picking stocks can onlv lead
to one sure thing a howling
wolf at the door.
Best Way To Profit
"Emotional reactions can
never attain the high degree of
rationality that is vitally neces
sary for successful speculation
in stocks."
Mitchell suggests that in this
market the best way to make
money is to liquidate on rallies
and buy back on reactions.
He believes the market still
is in a bullish long term move
and advises against selling qual
ity stocks because the market
takes an intemperate turn for
the worse.
"Accumulate only the strong
est stocks and short only the
weakest," he says.
"So no matter which way the
market turns you'll continue to
make money."
Little Rock Dispute
Only 'Preliminary'
To Deep South Fight
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) The dis
pute over racial integration of
Little Rock's Central High
school is no
more than a
preliminary in
cident in the
developing
contest over
the educational
comingling of
white and Ne
gro children.
It is not likely
i.yie c wiison to establish a
quickly effective precedent.
The showdown will not take
place in Little Rock, no matter
how- President" Eisenhower ap
plies federal force unless, per
haps he should proclaim martial
law to place a military governor
in charge. Arkansas is a border
state, evidently substantially di
vided on integration of the
schools.
The showdown will come if
at all in a wholly southern
state such as Virginia, South
Carolina, Georgia or Mississippi.
Virginia, for example, has eject
ed a bulwark of state law against
integration. There is no token in
tegration in Virginia as there is
in Arkansas.
Interview With Byrnes
before the Supreme Court.
Thereafter, events in Little Rock,
wherever they may lead, prob
ably would be duplicated in
greater stress in the deep South.
as German, unaer roiish occu
pation. There have been indications
for several months that Aden
auer thought it would be a good
idea to establish relations with
Poland.
Adenauer has said repeatedly
and emphatically that Germany
never will go to war to recover
the territory.
Blow Against Adenauer
But the West German govern
ment was deeply disturbed when
President Tito of Yugoslavia,
welcoming Polish Communist
Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka to
Belgrade for their conference
this month, called for the estab
lishment of the Oder-Neisse line
as the permanent border.
That development might have
ended any prospect of early
establishment of relations be
tween West Germany and Po
land. But Adenauer kept his head,
and even took things a bit
farther in a CBS television-radio
interview in Bonn Sunday. When
he made it known that he in
tended first to seek closer trade
and commercial relations and
then "proceed step by step."
Adenauer did not go into de
tails. But he seemed to imply
plainly that he might not insist
on the unconditional return of
the territory.
bmmurticatiorBs
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not exceed 400 words.
Oregon Senators Praised
io the Editor: Here is a copy
of a letter recently sent to Mr
Art Pullen, U.S. National Bank,
Grants Pass, Oregon
Dear Art:
I must protest the remarks
which a member of your bank
by the name of Baker Ferguson,
made concerning our Senators
Morse and Neuberger driving
new industry away from Ore
gon, when he apparently ad
dressed a Real Estate convention
in his capacity as representing
your bank.
As a lumber salesman, I have
traveled through most of the
States selling lumber, and in so
doing, have talked with a num-
South Carolina law is similar. ber of smaI1 and larSe business-
Multnomah GOP
Elects President
Portland (IP) Alan Green,
local battery manufacturer,
Tuesday night was elected chair-1 which
man of the Multnomah County I transferred and, also, all appro-
U. S. News and World Report re
cently interviewed James F
Byrnes, former associate justice
of the U. S. Supreme Court who
later served as governor of
South Carolina. He was asked if
South Carolina would close its
public schools to frustrate inte
gration.
"It is already the law of the
state," Byrnes replied, "that, if
student be transferred from a
Negro school to a white school
or from a white school to a Ne
gro school, by order of the court,
all appropriations for that school
shall immediately cease,"
The interview continued:
Q: Wouldn't that be a violation
of the Supreme Court order that
no state shall take any action
along the lines of preventing integration?
Both Schools Affected
A: "Well, I should add that
the law says the appropriation
shall cease for the school to
the Negro student is
Republican Central committee
Green received 129 votes to
53 for Mrs. Elizabeth Sailor
who was the only other contest
ant for the position made vacant
when Francis I. Smith, Portland
attorney,, resigned
A resolution passed by the
group approved President Eisen
hower's decision to use federal
troops in the integration con
troversy at Little Rock, Ark.
School Absences
High af Portland
Portland (IP) School ab
sences in three Portland high
schools remained high today but
officials said they still didn't
know if Asian flu was respon
sible. J. W. Edwards, superintendent
of schools, said there were 331
absences at Wilson, 314 at Lin
coln and 238 at Jefferson Tues
day, more than twice the usual
number at this time of year.
There were 45 teachers absent.
Tillamook (IP) About one
fourth of the high school stu
dent body was reported absent
from classes Tuesday and school
officials said they believed Asian
flu was responsible. Some 163
students were absent.
Salem OP) About half the
onion crop of Malheur county
has been moved into storage.
priations shall cease for the
school from which he comes."
Q: Does the federal govern
ment have power to cause South
Carolina to spend money it does
not want to spend?
A: "The administrators would
not be able to spend it."
y: Has the federal govern
ment any power to compel a
state to appropriate money it
does not want to appropriate?"
A: "No, I can see no way by
which a court could order a legis
lator to vote aye' on an appro
priation bill instead of 'no'."
These state laws and any oth
ers, of course, must stand or fall
Sfereofypers Vote
Strike at Portland
Portland (IP) Stereotypers
on the Oregon Journal and the
Oregonian Tuesday night voted
to strike if current contract ne
gotiations are stalemated.
- Jack Danforth, chairman of
the scale committee, said con
tracts have expired. Negotiations
involved wages and working
conditions, he said.
Management and .union repre
sentatives were to mftt today to
continue contract talks.
men, and also people represent
ing corporations and industries
of size.
A year ago, when spending
two weeks in Washington, D.C.,
appearing before the I.C.C. to
obtain better treatment from the
railroads for Oregon Lumber
shippers, also when appealing
our case before the Senate For
eign Relations committee, which
has jurisdiction with the I.C.C, I
found our Senators cooperative
in every way and they left no
stone unturned to aid the Ore
gon Lumber industry. I certain
ly consider their efforts as con
ducive to new industry after
all, over 50c of Oregon's dollar
is from lumber. While talking
with lumbermen there, plus
people in everyday walks of life
in that city, which I may ob
serve, are prone to look upon
Senators with a jaundiced eye, I
can assure you that both of our
Senators from the State of Ore
gon are considered amongst the
foremost as men who have en
couraged progressive legislation
and have the interest of their
constituents and new industry at
heart in their own State.
Throughout the United States
I have further found them to en
joy a good reputation as progres
sive legislators, and they certain
ly do not possess the stigmata in
the eyes of the Arnerican public
as being servants to the 'favored
few'.
Due to knowing you, I thus
protest, as one of your deposi
tors, the remarks oi this man,
and may I inquire, what indus
tries has the U.S. National Bank
brought into the State that our
good Senators haven't? I believe
when he makes this criticism it
should be pointed out what con
structive efforts his organization
has made that they haven't, and
what results they have produced
that our Senators have not.
Dana McBarron
Rogue River, Ore. i
"A Little Old White Church"
To the Editor: While driving
around Sunday, we came upon
the scene described below.
I came home with a much hap
pier feeling, and a prayer of
thankfulness in my heart, be
cause we selected this lovely
valley, as our future home.
Sgt. and Mrs. Owen Williams
Rt. 2, Box 165-B,
Central Point, Ore.
The tall spire of a little old
white church, standing stately
and dignified, among the mighty
oaks, on a quiet street, in a quiet
little city.
I step inside, purple lights
shining down across the pews
and carpets, fine old, yet lovely,
stained glass windows, said to
be shipped laboriously from It
aly by boat, then by oxen, to its
present site, a century ago.
The exquisite beauty, and
silence, broken only by soft
music from an old organ. You
feel God's presence very near.
Outside, in a grove of trees,
in lovely fall colors, tables set
up. .
Proud fathers, mothers, fine
sons and daughters busily pre
paring a banquet, in honor to
the "salt of the earth" founders.
One feels Heaven must be
made up of "things and people"
like this.
I quietly drove away as a
quartet sang "on a hill far
away .'
Fears Pay T.V.
To the Editor: In regards to
your "T.V. and Public Welfare"
in tonight's paper, this pay for
"special" programs for those
who wish may be O.K. But what
guarantee have those who may
not care for it that sporting
events such as Game of the
Week, the World Series and pro
football will not be placed in
closed circuit for the "pay" view
ers, and lost to those not caring
for it?
It would seem that others also
among our most popular might
be lost to us because of this slot
machine T.V.
S. J. Dodge,
504 Austin st.,
Medford, Ore.
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