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History from. the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 30, 1947 (Wednesday)
Name of the Professional En
gineers club of Southern Oregon
is changed to the Professional
Engineers and Architects club of
Southern Oregon during Mon
day night's meeting.
From Arthur, Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Foolish
ness is bound in the heart of a
child, but the rod shall drive it
from him."
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 30. 1937 (Friday)
Value of building permits is
sued by the city for the first
nine months of the year total an
increase of 32.2 per cent.
Up to Sept. 25, a total of 1,-
242, 306 boxes of pears, all va
rieties exclusive of winter nelis
had been packed in the upper
and central Rogue River valley.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 30, 1927 (Friday)
Owing to new families mov
ing into the Provolt district, the
school was closed as precaution
against infantile paralysis.
Friday and Saturday are
clean-up days in Talent. Refuse
is being collected so the mar
shal can haul it away.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 30. 1917 (Saturday)
The Southern Pacific has
found it necessary to keep a
special policeman on No. 13,
southbound passenger train, to
keep order among drunks.
First of many thousand dol
lars will be expended for live
stock for the Klamath reserva
tion. What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six Is good
1. Name the Nobel Prize win
ner who wrote "Main Street"
and "Babbitt."
2. When is Pan American Day
celebrated?
3. Bible: Did the Jews hate,
respect, or highly regard Herod?
4. Are the Philippine Islands
a possession or a territory of the
U.S.?
5. A diplomate is a member of
the foreign service, one who
holds a diploma from an institu
tion of learning, or a pickpock
et? 6. Admiral Kichisaburo No
mura was the Japanese, or the
Chinese, ambassador to Wash
ington at the time of the Pearl
Harbor attack (Dec. 7, 1941)?
7. Which is the leading cotton
growing 'State?
8. When the flag is furled, is
it opened to the breeze or is it
wrapped around its .staff ?
9. What word should be omit
ted: "He was outside of this
group?''
10. "It's goin't f be fun f
watch an' see how long th' meek
kin keep th earth after they in
herit it." Ken Hubbard. Which
Biblical proverb is in question?
Answers: 1. Sinclair Lewis. 2.
April 14. 3. Hate. 4. Neither,
(they acquired independence
July 4, 1946). 5. One who holds
a diploma fropn an institution of
learning. , 6. Japanese Ambas
sador. 7. Texas. 8. Wrapped
around its. staff. 9. "of." 10.
"Blessed be the meek: for they
shall inherit the earth."
River Falls, Wis. (IP) Cki
events at the annual winter'car
nival of River Falls State Col
lege was called off in favor of a
swimming party in the college
pool. The reason no snow.
MAIL TRIBUNE
On the Right Track
After what looked remarkably like a false start,
we believe the county court is now on the right track
in the matter of the proposed subdivision ordinance.
The growth of the county during the past two dec
ades (the population has doubled in 17 years) made
city planning commissions in the larger communities
necessary and accepted things.
Continued growth (and there is no reason to
believe the western tide of population will by-pass
Jackson county) will make similar regulations just as
necessary or even more so in semi-rural and rural
areas.
IN THE first place, the court recognized this fact
when it appointed a planning commission of high
caliber and sincere men. It requested them to begin
working on the problems which increasing rural popu
lations will bring. These include moderate and reason
able regulations of subdivision development, build
ing codes, zoning, and so on.
The planning commission, serving without pay
and purely through a 'desire to be of service to their
community, got to work. With the assistance and
advice of a planning consultant, they came up with
a "first step" in this progress, a subdivision ordinance.
Perhaps the commission, which has had ' little
prior experince in such matters, should have checked
further into other laws of a similar nature ; perhaps
it should have called for more counsel and guidance
from a wider representation in the county; perhaps
it should not have relied quite so heavily on the advice
of an expert not necessarily familiar with problems
in Jackson county.
TIT'HATEVER the reason, the commission came up
with an ordinance which the court found unac
ceptable and unduly restrictive.
Under pressure from all angles, the court made
a mistake not an irretrievable one, but nonetheless
a mistake. They curfly returned the ordinance to the
commission for "further study and revision." They
gave no hint as to how it should be revised, or even
what portions, if any,' they found objectionable.
Members of the commission, understandably, were
irritated. Their long work on the ordinance was
shoved back into their faces without a thank-you or
a word of explanation. Some members reportedly
were on the verge of resigning, and one could hardly
blame them.
'
THE court retrieved itself, belatedly, when it wrote
a conciliatory letter, thanked the commission for
its work, and outlined a few suggestions as to what
lines it would like the commission to follow in further
study of the subdivision problem.
It has suggested that other ordinances be inspected
and the experiences of other localities which have
them should be considered. It also suggested that spe
cific objections to the proposed ordinance be invited,
and that those with an interest m it be consulted.
This, we venture to suggest, is what the court
should have done in the first place.
CO, FOR the time being, the tempest-in-a-teapot
over the ordinance is stilled ; the measure is "on
the table" until the commission has a chance to probe
its implications further. And, we hope, the court and
its commission are on better terms.
Opponents to the ordinance as at first presented
may have valid points in their objections.
But no one who has the future well-being of the
county at heart should back himself into a comer by
saying he is against such things as subdivision regula
tion, county zoning or county building codes, flatly
and without further thought. -
For, unless we are badly mistaken, the realities of
population growth are going to make him look pretty
silly, and before too many years. Rural "slums", and
all that goes with them, are too high a price to pay
for a lack of foresight. E.A;
Breeding
If through cross-breeding and selective breeding
man can develop superior varieties of com, or
chickens, or beef-cattle (as he has done), why can
he not develop a superior variety of tree?
Some foresters are convinced he can.
And if he does so, it would make quite a difference
in this lumber-growing region, which is now rapidly
running out of virgin stands of timber, and increas
ingly will be dependent on second growth and, in the
future, whole new plots of man-sown forests.
. Active experiments are being conducted by a
number of companies and research agencies in
attempts to develop trees of better lumber-producing
characteristics fewer limbs, less taper, straight
leaders, lighter branches and faster growth.
IT HAS long been standard practice in Oregon to
leave "seed sources" when harvesting lumber. But
in the future this may, in itself, not be good enough: If
seed from a superior type tree produces more superior
trees, the reverse likely is also true. And the seed
sources, in too many instances, are chosen just because
they are not superior trees. The good ones have gone
to the mill.
Careful selection of seed from the best trees,
grafting, and other-methods may eventually develop
nursery stocks almost guaranteed to produce high
quality timber in almost any given kind of tree
producing territory. E.A.
Monday. September 30, 1957
Trees
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Matter of Fact
MATTER OF FACT
The Polish Gamble
Warsaw The new Poland of
Vladyslaw Gomulka is intensely
exciting and even inspiring, be
cause the people
are brave and
newly free, be
cause there is a
new ferment of
ideas and cre
ation, because a
wholly new
thing is being
boldly attempt
ed. Joseph Aisnp But it must
also be realized that this new
thing this previously unheard
of combination of a Communist
government and a free people
is necessarily an enormous gam
ble. The first factor in the gamble
is simply the uneasy relationship
between the people and their
government. Almost all Poles
still regard Gomulka as their lib
erator. The Poznan workers
whom I polled also declared that
they were "content for now"
with the government's general
record since the great change in
October. In my judgment, the
Poznan workers spoke for a con
siderable majority of their fel
lows in other cities.
BUT there is danger in the con
trast between the workers
who are only "content for now"
and the peasants who are uncon
ditionally contented to have
their land back. There is danger,
too, in certain depressed areas
like the ancient textile center of
Lodz, where the recent strikes
occurred. Above all, there is
.danger because life, though
somewhat better, still remains
very hard, for Polish workers ev
erywhere.' The danger-is all the greater
because the Polish intellectuals
and young people are not "con
tent for now." They think that
the government should go much
further and faster towards lib
eralization, instead of regressing
slightly as it has been doing.
All the same, I think the Pol
ish masses will continue gener
ally to support their govern
ment, if the next year brings
the kind of modest improvement
in .their lives that will give a
sense of progress. That is a min
imum requirement, however.
Unless the people, feel a sense
of progress, there will be bitter
disappointment. And since the
people are now freed of police
constraints, any such disappoint
ment will be openly expressed,
as happened locally at Lodz.
POLAND'S economic position
is precarious. There is an
alarming shortage of trained, ex
perienced industrial executives
and technicians who can make
fruitful use of the new autonomy
granted to Poland's producing
enterprises. Thus even modest
economic progress will not be
easy. But any failure in this re
spect will be doubly riskv. Dre-
cisely because the Polish gov
ernment is a Communist govern
ment. The Polish Communist nartv
has changed in an extraordinary
manner since the pseudo-religi-
U.P. Correspondents
Eye Future Headlines
United Press correspondents
throughout the world look
ahead at the news that will
make ihe headlines.
Rackets
Look for the Senate Rackets
Committee to dig into the affairs
of labor consultant Nathan Hef
ferman, close friend of Teamster
President David Beck,' in mid
October. Hefferman first bobbed
up in the Beck hearing. He testi
fied he used $85,000 in union
funds to buy personal items for
Beck and his family. The com
mitee is expected to go into
other activities of the gray-haired,
70-year-old Chicagoan, who
has more than 300 management
clients, principally department
stores.
Zhukov
Western European experts
aren't "buying" the official line
minwvvn.
By Joseph Alsop
ous rituals of Communism have
ceased to be compulsory. It has
been like the end of compulsory
chapel in a university. There
are almost no active party mem
bers left, except the orthodox
true believers who man the
party apparatus and control the
public administration, plus the
heretical young intellectuals
who consider themselves Com
munists, but wish to give the
word "Communist" a wholly
new meaning.
For the immediate future, the
orthodox true believers are the
only group that counts. Almost
none of them would like to
abandon Poland's newly-won in
dependence of the Kremlin. But
a very great many of them are
what they call locally "conserva
tive" Communists. This means
that they are extremely nervous
in the presence of freedom. They
have accepted the new Poland's
freedom of the individual, free
dom of religion, freedom of ag
riculture; but even this much
freedom gives them goose-flesh
all the same. Predictably, the
whole government will react
very sharply if the existing mea
sure of freedom later on leads to
widespread movements of pub
lic protests, like the Lodz strike
but on a larger scale.
QUITE visibly, the Communist
"conservatives" are also at
tempting to limit or at least to
slowdown the further extension
of freedom in new "socialist"
forms to the industrial and trad
ing parts of the economy. Some
of them, as I have already sug
gested, would probably like to
bring back through the econom
ic door the same secret police
that were thrown out the po
litical window, "in order to con
trol speculation."
Poland's tough, intelligent
Prime Minister Cryankiewicz
insisted to me that the existing
difference between the Party's
"conservatives" and the original
supporters of Gomulka was
"only a difference about tim
ing." Economic aims and prin
ciples, he declared were now
fully agreed upon. But reshap
ing the whole Polish economy
was bound to be a long, trouble
some, difficult business; and
"naturally some want to go very
fast and some want to go rather
slow."
Like many other foreign ob
servers in Warsaw, I think Pre
mier Cyrankiewicz was giving
a generally accurate summary of
the inner governmental situa
tion. But any differences about
economic policy, even those des
cribed by Premier Cyrankiewicz
must add to the uncertainty of
the situation.
Hence one cannot be sure of
the kind of future economic
progress that will allow this free
people and this Communist gov
ernment to work easily in har
ness, together. This seldom-optimistic
correspondent happens
to be decidely optimistic in the
present case. But this optimism is
wholly conditional, and its con
ditions must be discussed in a
further report.
(C) 1957 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
that the visit of Marshal Georgi
K. Zhukov, Soviet Russian de
fense minister, to Yugoslavia
Oct. 8 will be merely one of
courtesy. The official version is
TWO STICKS TOLD IT
Geo. N. Taylor
One day it was told the boy that God
had a Son who had died for his sins He had
been prayed for; was under conviction and
knew that he was lost. Right there on one
telling the boy knew. So he accepted Christ
as dying for him. Now he must tell God.
God knew all the time but that was a small
boy's reasoning. So he fastened two sticks
together like the cross on which Christ died
and this cross he stuck into the ground
there by the house. Now years later he can
see how from that time he resisted sin and
lived to make God rich.
Thi message by God's people who want
you to know.
Nehru Hopes To Get Rid of One
Difficulty;
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru seems to have hope of
getting rid of one of his many
political aches
and pains.
He has offer
ed home rule,
under the cen
tral Indian
government, to
the N a g a
tribesmen who
have been in
rebellion for
Charles McCanD years.
Nehru made his offer to a de
putation of nine Naga leaders
who visited him in New Delhi.
These leaders have the sup
port of a large proportion of the
tribesmen.
The question is, however,
whether Nehru's offer will be
acceptable to the rebel leader,
a one-time school teacher who
has fought the Indian army for
two years and swears to fight
on until he wins complete in
dependence. The nine leaders
will try to get him to accept.
Concession
- It was quite a concession for
Nehru to make. As Southeast
Asia's No. 1 neutralist leader,
Nehru has been notably generous
in his views on the disposition
of the territory of other coun
tries, especially those which he
criticizes as "colonialist."
He is not so generous in his
views about the territory he
claims, including the state of
Kashmir, which is in dispute be
tween India and Pakistan. He
has defied the attempts of the
Communications
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Walk Those Steps Again
To the Editor: You Negro
boys and girls in the South are
under severe testmg these days,
a trail that will not stop with
measures enforcing federal law
The full impacet of prejudice,
hate, and violence hits you early
in life. Millions of white and
colored people admire you as
you are walking the steps of the
palatial school buildings the
like of which no other country
in the world can afford. White
guardsmen and your white con
temporaries are turning you
away, often with insults and
threats. In Rome one can see the
'scala santa' which Jesus is sup
posed to have climbed to face
Pontius Pilate, and there are
imitations of these steps all over
the world. Whether in Little
Rock, Arkansas or in Johannes
burg, South Africa, the steps of
many a school building are now
assuming some of the character
of these same steps where two
thousand years ago dignity, love,
friendship, and trust were mo
mentarily defeated by injustice
and hate.
You hear it dinned into your
ears, "Go back to Africa!" But
even if you could, you must stay
with us. Africa, Asia, Europe
the whole world is watching
you. History itself is your wit
ness. You are under the watch
ful eyes of love as well as of
hate. And, most of all, the
that Zhukov is returning a visit
which Gen. Ivan Gosnjak, Presi
dent Tito's state secretary for de
fense, recently paid to Moscow.
The experts believe Russia is
trying to bolster up the south
ern end of its Communist bloc
defense line. They expect Zhu
kov to snoop into the arms sup
ply Tito is getting from the
United States and possibly to
offer him some Russian weapons.
Syria
Intelligence agents report that
the Turkish-Syrian frontier is
the real hot spot in the Middle
East now. Turkey is increasingr
ly alarmed over Russia's attempt
to neutralize it as a North At
lantic Treaty Organization out
post by arming its southern
neighbor, Syria. Syria is talking
tough. Turkey wants no trouble.
But it has the toughest fighting
men in the entire Middle East.
Unity, Maybe
On the surface, the visit of
King Saud to Damascus patched
up the Arab world split over
Russian military aid to Syria.
But the patch is thin. Saud
doesn't like the idea of any Com
munist penetration in the Mid
dle East.
Many Others Remain
United Nations to hold a plebi
scite of Kashmir, whose people
are mostly Moslems, because he
knows he would lose it.
The rebel tribesmen live in
the wild Naga hills of northeast
ern India adjoining Burma.
They number, in all, about
1,2000,000, spread over about
3,000 square miles of territory.
Are Christians
Strangely, many if not most
of them are Christians all Bap
tists. The process of conversion
was begun by an American mis
sionary, the Rev. Miles Bronson,
who went to the Naga country
long ago.
Under British rule, until India
attained its independence in
1947, the Naga tribesmen en
joyed a considerable measure of
freedom,.
But Nehru put most of them
under the rule of the state gov
ernment of Assam. The remain
der of those on Indian territory
were put under control of ihe
central government.
The rebel leader is A. Zapu
Fhizo, a well-educated , former
Southern Political
Stability Said Gone;
Negro Vote
Bv LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) Long before
racial integration has been im
posed in the schools of such
states is Vir
ginia and
South Caro
lina by force
or otherwise,
the mirage of
a white man's
Repu b 1 i c a n
party in the
South will
have faded for
xi .
I.yle C Wilson anouier long
span of years.
Presidential elections will be
coming up on schedule, how
ever, compelling white south
erners to consider where to hang
their political hats.
It was only last June that
Chairman Meade Alcorn of the
Republican National Committee
brought to President Eisenhow
er's office I. Lee Porter of Vir
ginia.
Negroes Can Vole
Porter was then the newly
appointed organizational direc-
mantle of divine love covers you
everywhere.
The story is told of two well
dressed little Negro girls who
approached the guard at the Lin
coln Memorial in Washington
with the timid question, "Are
colored people allowed in here?"
Tney asked this question at the
most beautiful altar our nation
has ever erected to the memory
of a martyred President. You
are asking the same question in
various places of the South and
in Africa itself, asking it in
front of the most cherished
buildings any community can
erect for its young citizens.
Our schools are our pride.
They are our hope because here
you are getting ready to build
the United States of tomorrow,
"one nation indivisible."
We must not fail you. You
must not fail us. May God give
you the strength to walk those
steps again and again, whether
in Arkansas or in South Africa.
The doors will open some day;
they must. They will open be
cause the minds and hearts of
the people will open first. And
the portals of your schools will
become like "the gate of the
Lord: the righteous shall enter
through it" (Psalm 118:20).
The foregoing, from the
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appropriately helpful at this
this time.
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school teacher. Phizo organized
a rebel Naga National Council
and a fighting force of some
thousands of tough fighting men.
The rebels attacked police
posts in the wild hill country,
assassinated officials and raided
villages. Provincial authorities
could do nothing with them.
Finally, Nehru moved in a for
midable army. But the rebellion
has continued.
Many Troubles
Some of Nehru's other trou
bles are the election of a Com
munist government in the state
of Kerala, clashes between mem
bers of the Thevar caste and
Cut-caste "untouchables" in the
state of Madras, in which 40
persons have been killed, and a
strike by thousands of bank em
ployees . in West Bengal state.
These have been riotous demon
strations, led by leftists, in West
Bengal in protest against food
shortages.
In addition to this, India is in
serious financial difficulties.
Nehru is seeking $1 billion in"
foreign loans.
is Crucial
tor for the Republican party in
the south. He and Alcorn told
the President about a "dead
earnest drive" to build the Re
publican party in southern
states.
The drive now is dead enough,
except for such opportunity as
may be offered by the improved
opportunity to vote now guar
anteed southern Negroes.
If southern Negroes choose to
enter the Democratic party,
southern whites may be expect
ed to leave it. But for where?
If southern whites are not jost
led out of t.t2 Democratic party
by invading Negroes, they are
likely to leave anyway in pro
test against the presidential can
didate and platform adopted in
1960 by a Democratic National
Convention in which they will
have no more than a small voice.
The political instability of the
so-called solid South in (presi
dential elections has been dem
onstrated repeatedly in recent
years. Herbert Hoover modest
ly cracked the South in 1928
when his opponent was New
York's Alfred E. Smith, a Cath
olic who opposed national pro
hibition of alcoholic beverages.
Voted For Eisenhower
J. Strom Thurmond of South
Carolina headed a state's rights
protest ticket in 1948. He got
39 electoral votes among Ala
bama, Louisiana, , Mississippi,
South Carolina and Tennessee."
Thurmond's objective was to
win sufficient electoral votes to
prevent either major party from
obtaining a majority of the elec
toral college. That would have
placed the election of a presi
dent in the House of Represen
tatives, each state casting one
vote.
Eisenhower carried Florida,
Tennessee, Texas and Virginia
in 1952, repeating in 1956 with
Louisiana added. These break
throughs encouraged Republi
cans to hope for a two-party sys
tem in the South. Southern
strategy got southerners noth
ing more than the satisfaction
of recording a protest statistic
in the final returns.
The time when white south
ern conservatives will have any
substantial influence in making
national political policy or in
choosing a president probably is
far off. They have lacked such
influence now for 20 years.
Their bid for power lies in the
long service of their senators
and congressmen and the com
mittee chairmanships which un
interrupted service earns.
Southern Negro voters might
break that up, maybe beginning
next year.
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