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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFCGIVTRIBimE "Everyone tn Southern Oregon Readt The Mail Tribune" Publistiea Dailv Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W HUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC Al l FN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.N Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OIJVE STARCKER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Hediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year 115 l0 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Paint. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. 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From A r t h lu r Perry's Ye Smudge pot column: "A return ed traveller from the Oregon coast, in search of seafood, re ports he nearly found some. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 1. 1937 (Friday) First annual Jackson county 4-H club baby beef and fat stock sale at the fairgrounds brings more than 20 cents per pound. A new all-time attendance rec ord set at Crater lake with 202, 403 visitors for the 1937 season. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 1. 1927 (Saturday) federal prohibition officer is cleared of charges of killing rancher during a moonshine raid Sept. 28 on ranch in the Med ford area. Orchardists in Sams valley are reported to have harvested all fruit except apples. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 1. 1917 (Monday) Carl A. Noren, entomologist In the county agriculturist's de partment for the past two years, resigns to enlist in the aviation corps of Army. Surplus horses and mules from the area's farms and ranches stream into city to be of fered for sale to the govern ment for military use. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. Is trudgen the name for a fish, an oysterman's tongs, a swimmirg stroke, or a slow pace In walking? 2. Manet and Monet were two famous French ? 3. Bible: TVhich king exchang ed lavish gifts with Solomon? 4. Is the normal temperature of the human body above or be low 100 degrees F.? 5. In the fall of 1944 an im portant conference was held in Quebec between the heads of two Allied nations; who were the conferees? 6. There are five climatic rones on the earth; two are frig id: name the other three. 7. w nat nation was once nown as the Ottoman Empire. 8. In what book by Rudyard Kipling is Mowgli a leading character? 9. "He was an alternative to the delegate elect." Was he? 10. "He has an oar in every boat and fingers in every pie." Cer vantes. Is this a reference to a kibitzer, meddler, or busybody? 1. Swimming stroke. 2. Paint ers. 3. Hiram of Tyre. 4. Below, (98.6 degrees F.) 5. Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Chur chill. 6. Two temperate zones and one torrid zone. 7. Turkey. 8. "The Jungle Book." 9. No, He was an "alternate," not an al ternative. 10. All (but prefer ably to a meddler). NEGRO GIRL TRANSFERS Charlotte, N. C. IP A 15-year-old Negro girl who with drew from a newly-integrated school because of abuse by white classmates is going to attend a private, interracial school in su burban Philadelphia. The Rev. Herman L. Counts declined to identify the school where his daughter, Dorothy, has been enrolled. "Play Yes, Virginia, there is a possibility that the Milwaukee Braves will win the 1957 baseball World Series opening tomorrow. But, my dear, you don't know your baseball his tory if you think the defeat of the New York Yankees is probable rather than possible. Listen to this: The American League pennant has gone to New York in more than half the years since 1920 to be exact, 23 out of 37 times. They won six times under Miller Huggins, eight under Joe McCarthy (the non Wisconsin one), once under Stanley Harris, eight times under Casey Stengel. AND in 22 World Series the last 30 years. The Giants beat them twice, the St. Louis Cardinals twice, and the Dodgers two years ago for the first Dodger world championship. As a further indication of the prowess of the Yan kees, six times they won the World Series in four straight games. Only thrice were they carried to the full seven games in winning. So you see what the Braves are up against. However, maybe in this field "there is a Santa Claus." E.R.R. , Even "Mrs. "Homer Nods In speaking of the decision of President Eisen hower to send U.S. troops to Little Rock, to maintain law and order, Dorothy Thompson, after praising the action concludes as follows: "If the aim is to improve the condition of the Negroes it ' cannot be realized by guiding colored children in and out of school by Federal troops. If a decision engenders hatred it is a bad one and not all the parliaments and courts in the world have been able to legislate righteousness and enforce brotherly love." This is somewhat along the line of President Eisen hower's brief pronouncement after his private meet ing with Governor Faubus that: "You can't legislate morality into people when dealing with the civil rights problem." THE statements in both n A T"T But so what? Because be changed by legislation is no excuse for not con trolling by law, their actions. In fact, the President his own conciliatory observation when the people of Little Rock or at least scores of them insisted upon violating the law, and backing up their violation with mob action. With the Governor of Arkansas using force to support them, and the local police incapable of pre venting such lawlessness, the President only did what he took a solemn oath to do and had to do he called out federal troops to restore law and order. HTHE surprising thing in Miss Thompson's "obiter dictum" is that she praised the President's decisive action and address, comparing them favorably with that of President Lincoln's second inaugural, and then ties everything up with such an implied re traction and obvious untruth, as this: "If a decision engenders hatred it is a bad one." "LJEAVENS ABOVE!" as a member of our staff often remarks has there ever been an import ant decision in history, ancient or modern, that did not offend SOME one, did not cause hatred and re sentment among many? In the field of law when feeling runs high, there are few decisions in fact practically none; where the result is not greeted by the loser with anger and resentment. But in a vast majority of cases, the defeated party, accepts the decision under the law and unless an appeal is indicated, makes the best of it. There may have been instances where the losing litigant, heaved a brick at the judge's head, and called on his pals to stage a mob action, but wre can find at the moment, no record of them. ANYway "THE issue in this Little Rock case is NOT whether the President's action engendered hatred in that city, the state of Arkansas or any other state, but whether it was right or wrong, whether it was m ac cordance with the fundamental law of the land, or in violation? Whether it was the President's unescapa ble duty to do so or not. If the President of the United States, the judges of the federal courts or any courts for that matter have to base their decisions not upon what the law is and the right is but upon what the popular reaction MAY be; then as President Eisenhower indicated there would eventually be no law7, there would be nothing but anarchy and the law and the courts, would rule. All this seems so elementary and obvious that it is difficult to understand how such a veteran and usu ally level-headed news commentator as Miss Thomp son should in such an important issue as school segre gation, directly or by implication, QUESTION it ! R.W.R. County Women Are Flown fo 5F Hospital Two Jackson county women were flown to San Francisco this morning for emergency medical treatment at Stanford Lane hos pital. They were the 719th and 720th patients carried by the air ambulance planes of non-profit Mercy Flights, Inc., of Medford. The patients were Mrs. Dor othy Patter, 1408 Crown ave., Medford, and ITrs. Mary Hop kins, Shady Cove. Tuesday, October 1. 19S7 Ball" a Santa Claus, so there's after 1920 and up to 1957 cases are correct you the natures of people can't gave the perfect answer to confusion. The mob, not The ambulance flights have made eight flights within the last six days, according to officers of the organization. Half of them have been automobile accident victims. Both Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Hopkins were subscribers to the non-profit group's pre-paid sub scription plan, and were not charged for the flight. lfeyf MOM! fflOU CE COMW WHEN SHE COM5 Republican Support For Ike at New Low By Congressional Quarterly Washington Republican sup port of President iEsenhower's legislative program- this year dropped to its lowest level since Mr. Eisenhower took office. The average GOP legislator voted with the President on 56 per cent of the 117 test roll calls during the past session, and against him on 33 per cent. Ab sences accounted for the other 11 per cent of the votes. That 56 per cent support contrasts with a 72 per cent score in election year 1956. Margin Smaller The GOP managed to keep in tact its record of always giving the President more backing than the Democratic opposition. But the margin of difference be tween the parties was smaller in 1957 than it ever before has been. The average Democrat voted with the President 50 per cent of the time in 1957 6 per cent less often than the average Re publican and opposed him 40 per cent of the time. That 50 per cent support fig ure is the se'cond highest Demo crats have turned in since Mr. Eisenhower first was elected to office. One Bight Spot One bright spot for the Presi dent was an increase in Repub lican support for his program as the 1957 session went along. On May 12, when the Battle of the Budget was at its height and Congressional Quarterly first measured the support scores, the average Republican had voted for the President only 44 per cent of the time. - On July 10, the Republican support score had risen to 54 per cent and another 2 per cent was added to that in the last seven weeks of the session. Most of the decline in Repub lican support of the President in 1957 was caused by disputes over his domestic program and its effect on the Federal budget. From 1956 to 1957, GOP support of the President on domestic pol icy roll calls dropped 20 per cent, while onVoreign policy roll calls the decline was only 3 per cent. Democrats, on the other hand, increased their support of the President's domestic policy stands slightly in 1957 but sharp ly lowered their backing of his foreign policy proposals. Their domestic policy support was up 4 per cent from 1956, their for eign policy support down 14 per cent. As a result of these shifts in party positions, the President's won-loss record in the 1957 ses sion of Congress was the worst he has known since he entered the White House. Based on Roll Calls Congressional Quarterly Iden tified 117 roll calls 57 in the Senate and 60 in the House where the President, by message or public statement before the vote, made clear his stand on the issue. Congress endorsed the Presi dent's position on 80 of those 117 roll cails. for an overall winning score of 68 per cent. By contrast, he won 72 per cent of such tests in the Democratic 84th Congress and 83 per cent in the Republi can 83rd Congress. He won 79 per cent of the test votes in the Senate, where Dem ocrats held a two-seat advantage most of the session. In the House where Democrats had a 32-seat advantage most of the time, he won only 58 per cent of his tests. Both Republican and Demo cratic senators had higher aver age support scores than their party counterparts in the House. Foreign Policy The President's position was sustained on 88 per cent of the foreign policy issues and on 58 per cent of the domestic policy questions in 1957. There were 50 tests roll calls that produced party-line votes, and on 31 of them a majority of Republicans backed the Presi 'POUND TVS MOUNTAIN dent's stand. These included the votes against major amend ments to the President's foreign aid and civil rights legislation and an unsuccesful try to in crease the military budget to the level he recommended. Few Demo Majorities The President had only Demo cratic majorities behind him on 19 roll calls, almost all of them involving attempted cuts in do mestic welfare spending. His most consistent supporters were his two Senate leaders, William F. Knowland (R.-Calif.) and Everett McKinley Dirksen (R.-Ill.) with 93 per cent scores. Rep. John W. Heselton (R.Mass.). led House Republicans in back ing Mr. Eisenhower, with 87 per cent support. Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin (R.-Mass.) had a 73 per cent support score. Six Democratic Senators Jo seph S. Clark of Pennsylvania, Carl Hayden of Arizona, Rich ard L. Neuberger of Oreon, Spes sard Holland of Florida, Paul H. Douglas of Illinois and Stuart Symington of Missouri tied for the lead in their party at 70 per cent. Rep. Melvin Price (D.-Ill.) with 80 per cent, topped House Democrats in support of the President. Opposition leaders were Sens. George W. Malone (R.-Nev.) 40 per cent, and Russel B. Long (D.-La.) 54 per cent; Reps. Rus sell W. Keeney (R.-Ill.) 67 per cent, and Robert T. Ashmore (D.-S.C), W. J. Bryan Dorn (D. S.C.), J. T. Rutherford, (D.Tex.) and Arthur Winstead (D.-Miss.), all with 77 per cent opposition. (Copyright 1957, Congressional Quarterly, In.c) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Wants Action on Atom Bomb To the Editor: On July 31, 1957 Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon introduced the following resolution in the U. S. Senate. I reproduce it here with the sena tor's full consent and approval. "Whereas Great Britain, the United States, and Russia have been engaging in extensive tests of nuclear weapons and presumably plan to continue such tests in the future; and "Whereas it is not alone the death and destruction which the bombs themselves can wreak, but also, and perhaps more important, the devastat ing effects upon our own and future generations of the ra dioactive fallout which is the aftermath of such explosions; and "Whereas our eyes have been opened to the dangers from strontium 90, and from the presence to a lesser or greater degree of radioactive particles in the water and air around us, by scientists throughout the world and by such prominent individuals as Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Pope Pius XII, Adlai Stevenson, and many others; and "Whereas millions of peo ple in Japan alone have sign ed petitions against further H bomb tests and thousands in our own and other countries are showing increased concern as to the fate of humanity it self in a world made unfit to sustain life of any kind; and "Whereas it is recognized that excessive radioactivity not only creates a hazard for all, especially for our children who stand to suffer more di rectly and acutely from stran tium 90 than do we who are responsible, but may even, through genetic mutations and other cumulative effects, gradually and inevitably wipe out the human race: Now, M any Visiting Delegations Mark 'Growing Pains' for Red China By CHARLES M. MC CANN United Press Correspondent Communist China is playing host to an unprecedented num ber of official and semi-official visitors from both sides of the Iron Cur. tain. Delegations from eight for eign countries are in China now. Delega tions from 3 others have just left. Charles McCano The reason for the visits is: (1.) Red Chinese leaders Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai are as suming steadily increasing im portance in the Communist World. (2.) Non-Communist coun tries are becoming increasingly interested in trade possibilities. Hungarian puppet Premier Janos Kadar is the most import ant foreign visitor at the mo ment. Next in importance is former Indonesian Vice-President Mo hammed Hatta, who has again become the No. 2 leader in his "neutralist" country. There are two visiting delega tions from Syria, where pro-Russian leaders are now in control of the government. One delega tion consists of journalists, tlie other of students. West Delegations Leave There is a big parliamentary delegation from Soviet Russia and there are delegations from Russian satellites Czechoslovakia and East Germany, semi-independent Communist Yugoslavia. The delegations which have left were from West Germany, France and "neutralist" India. The West German delegation, which enjoyed semi-official sta tus, signed an agreement for an exchange of $54,700,000 worth of goods each way. This represents only a tiny fraction of West Germany's to tal annual exports of 5 billion dollars. But it is an indication of a trend. A similarly semi-official dele gation of French economists also has left after long discussions in the possibility of trade. It was announced on Satur day that the Red Chinese gov ernment will send an official delegation to Great Britain in mid-October to talk trade. Relaxes Trade Restrictions Britain has led the Western world in seeking increased trade with Communist China, and has drastically relaxed its restric tions on types of goods which may be sent there. Britain also led the way among Allied countries in recog nizing Red China. .The recogni tion was accorded by a Labor therefore, be it - . . "Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the President should undertake by all available means to ob tain the prompt and concur rent cessation of further test ing of nuclear bombs by the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, un til an international committee of recognized scientists can at least determine the extent of the danger from radioactive fallout." I feel sure that many people share Senator Morse's concern, and would like to register their opinions in some tangible man ner. Then cut out this letter, sign your name across it, or at the bottom, and mail it to me. If you would rather remain anonymous mail the clipping without the signature and it will register as a vote of approval for the resolution just the same. If enough people make their feelings known some action will be taken. E. Whealdon 804 Cedar st. Medford, Ore Mistake Clarified To the Editor: I have written the following letter to Mr. Art Pullen, U. S. National Bank, Grants Pass, Ore.: Dear Art: Senator Neuberger has called to my attention the fact that Baker Ferguson is associated with the First National Bank of Portland, and has absolutely no affiliation with the United States National Bank. This man's statement that Senators Neuberger and Morse were keeping industry out of Oregon occasioned my protest ing letter to you 6f Sept. 23 which appeared in the Medford Mail Tribune's editorial page. I am requesting the Mail Tri bune to publish this letter also, as I sincerely regret stating that Mr. Ferguson worked for your bank. Both the Oregor.ian and the Medford Mail Tribune pub lished a resume of the speech, stating Mr. Ferguson worked for your bank rather than the First National. I do regret this mistake and am sure the Medford Mail Tri bune joins me in stating we both should have checked his em ployer prior to publishing the letter. Also, Senator Neuberger joins me in expressing this senti ment, although in no way is my criticism of Mr. Ferguson's state ment concerning our Senators activities modified. Dana McBarron Rogue River, Ore. " S3 government, which was then in office. On Jan. 6, 1950. That was immediately after the Commun ists swept the Nationalists off the mainland. The Chinese did not respond. They snubbed the diplomatic en voy whom the Laborites sent to Peiping. The respective embas sies are still headed by charges d'affairies, not ambassadors. But this situation is likely to end soon. Matter of Fact by In the Wake of Little Rock Washington (IP) In terms of internal unity and the political health of the United States, the domestic cri sis which now confronts the country is as dangerous as any in this century. For what it is worth, this is the basic con clusion which this reporter Stewait Alsop has brought back from witness ing the ugly events in Little Rock. The conclusion may sound ex treme, and perhaps it is For it is an unsettling experience to see American soldiers using their bayonets to herd a sullen crowd of American civilians down a pleasant, shady, Ameri can street. It is an unsettling experience also to sense, as it was impossible not to sense in Little Rock, the reason-blinding, glandular passions which sur round the race issue, passions which can so easily be exploited by demagogues to their own ends. The central danger in the present situation is clear. It is that, in the wake of Little Rock, the demagogues and the advo cates of violence will succeed in dominating the southern politi cal scene. TN the South, there are no white integrationists with any political power at all. There are, instead, two kinds of segrega tionist. The first kind, which has been until now generally dominant, says in effect: "We oppose integration, and we fa vor using all means within the law to stop integration, or fail ing that, to slow it down. But we must remain within the law, and we must abhor violence.' The second kind says: "We must use any means, including violence, to prevent integration of the schools, let come what may." The Little Rock tragedy has unquestionably strengthened the hands of this second kind of integrationist, and the result may be, as "The Montgomery Advertiser" has said, "to usher m a new era of violence. Consider, for example, the speech by Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas last Friday night. It has been oddly described as "conciliatory." - In fact, in the context of the political atmos phere in Little Rock and else where- in the South, it was as inflammatory as it could be, short of an open call to insurrec ection. fPHE Faubus rhetoric about fed-- eral troops "bludgeoning in nocent bystanders, with bay onets in the backs of school girls, and the warm red blood of patriotie American citizens staining the cold, unsheathed knives" was an invitation to vio lence. And given the present mood of Little Rock, the invita tion is all too likely to be ac cepted, when the opportunity presents itself. Faubus, as his bitterest critics agree, is a shrewd politician. So are men like James Eastland of Mississippi and Olin Johnston of South Carolina, who have also extended an implied invitation to violence. And the central political fact which must now be iv" Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan 1 fir, vftf Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. Communist China is having its growing pains. Even more than in other Communist coun tries, intellectuals and members of the Communist party are be ginning to question the acts of their leaders and Communist philosophy itself. But Red China's prestige is beginning to rival that of Rus sia's in most of the Communist world. In the Far East, Chinese prestige is higher. Stewart Alsop reckoned with is that the ad vocacy of violence, open or im plied, may now be smart poli tics in the South, as the un doubted present popularity, of Faubus in Arkansas suggests. If the extremists triumph in the South, the voices already being raised in the North for punitive action against the South will become far louder. And this interplay of extremism could quite conceivably lead to genuine national tragedy. . There is only one man who can act effectively to avert the tragedy, and he is the, President of the United States. What the President must do is clear, al though how he is to do it, in the wake of Little Rock, is another matter. He must find ways and means, short of an ignominious surrender on the integration issue, to reassure and strengthen the moderate and reasonable men in the South. For these men may otherwise soon have their backs to the wall in Little Rock today, for example, it takes actual physical courage to take a public stand for modera tion on the race issue. "CWEN after Little Rock, the President is well equipped for this task, not only because he is President, but because he is Dwight D. Eisenhower. He still has an important reservoir of trust and good will in the South, despite Little Rock, and no-one can accuse him of har boring personal political ambi tions. The genius of Eisenhow er, moreover, has always lain in calming passions and in finding common ground between war ring factions. But the President cannot do the job that must' be done sporadically, or between 'golf games. He cannot do it by issu ing occasional statements through press secretaries, or staging an occasional meeting with southerners. He can only do it by devoting ''all his time, all his energy, and all his heart and soul to healing the wrench ing, tearing disunity which threatens the country. 1 For if matters are allowed to drift, and the advocates of vio lence become dominant in the South, the end result may well be to make a Little Rock in many southern towns, and thus, in a time of great danger, to tear the country apart as it has not been torn since reconstruc tion days. (c) 1957. 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