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0 3 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UKE -Xveryone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mall inotine Publiihed Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 17-29 North Fir St. Phone 8-C141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 " SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mo 4-25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent end on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Daily and Sunday One month U0 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash la Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United tress Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver BC NEWSPAPER PUSMSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL fDITOllAt ASSOCfA'ieN 1 J fmiiM)H'.H'.mi Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oci. 3, 1947 (Friday) With the theme "The Truth -of Youth" Oregon Gideons open first annual state conclave here with parade on Main st. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "St. Louis took advantage of its 11 hits and nine walks to snore in every in ning." (Sports page) Trying to wake up the umpires. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1937 (Sunday) Farmer attacked and injured by a bull, expected to leave Osteopathic clinic in Medford soon. " Life In Henry street settle ment, New York City, described to Jackson county health work ers by city and county nurses, former workers there. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1927 (Monday) Car of Bartletts sells for $5.10 a box in New York, Bardwell Fruit company announces. County health officer discov ers case of infantile paralysis near the county fair grounds; no more cases reported in city. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 3. 1917 (Wednesday) The matter of Southern Pa cific trains blocking street cross ings discussed by city council; no action taken. Large silver mine is reported to be located in the hills near Jacksonville. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent: five or six Is good 1. Does arid refer to dryness, acidity, or bitterness? 2. Which eastern State is nick named "Garden State?" 3. Bible: Joseph, Mary and Jesus, before crossing into Egypt are said to have found safe ref uge in the famous Jewish bal sam gardens of M a? 4. Is petrel another name for gasoline? 5. The U. S. Weather Bureau reported that weather forecasts average about 65, 75, or 85 per cent correct? 6. A nine-killer is a bird, mam mal, or reptile? 7. Helsinki is the capital of which country? 8. Lard is a product obtained from what animal? 9. What is the singular of axes? 10. "The reason that husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they be long to"- what? Answers: 1. Dryness. 2. New Jersey. 3. Mataria. 4. No, (it is then ame of a seabird). 5. 85 per cent correct. 6. A bird, (the shrike). 7. Finland. 8. The hog. 9. Axe or axis. 10. "Different sexes." Dorothy Dix. SCALES OF JUSTICE Memphis, Tenn. fin Rob ert Lee Park, 432-p o u n d estranged husband of a strip tease artist, was held today on charges of passing three phony checks because "it's just too much exertion to work." Police said Park, 32, of San Antonio, Tex., is wanted in eight other states on bad check charges. Officers said they had to weigh the suspect on cotton scales be cause police scales didn't go high enough. MAIL TRIBUNE Who Reads Editorials? Ever since ex-Governor Sprague, editor and pub lisher of the Salem Statesman, told the Oregon Edi torial conference at Timberline lodge that few people read newspaper editorials, practically every newspaper in the state, except this one, has com mented upon it. As far as we have observed, the reactions varied, all the way from partial agreement to partial dis agreement. This is natural. For no one really KNOWS. At least to our knowledge, there has never been an accurate or responsible survey of the press as a whole and had there been, the margin of error in surveys of any kind, is notoriously large. "THERE is one factor in such a determination which again, as far as our observation goes has not been mentioned, or if mentioned, not adequately emphasized. That is reader-interest in editorials varies greatly with conditions especially political ones. Certainly no newspaper man would deny that editorials are read far more generally during im portant elections, than between them. Our guess would be the variance would add up to at least 25 to 30 perhaps even a greater per cent. "I17E know from experience that during the "Ku ' " Klux Klan" excitement in Southern Oregon in the early 20's, and the "Good Government" uprising in the early 30's, it seemed to this department, that practically EVERYONE read the M.T. editorials. And a great number were in violent disagreement, ranging from cancelling subscriptions, through advertising-boycotts, to anonymous threats of bodily harm. ' . We realize this isn't a reliable index to either determination of the reader-coefficient or reader approval, for it is a known fact in this business, that those who DON'T like editorials are far more dis posed to "take pen in hand" than those who do. DUT even so, there is no reasonable doubt, as far as this department is concerned, that two or three times as many subscribers read this paper's editorials in those hectic days, than read them now. And for a very simple reason. Everyone in the townsite and environs was con cerned and aroused, the community was divided into two hostile camps and what the paper had to say on the situation, interested practically everyone, for the outcome was something that vitally affected them. CO editorials became, in a sense "big news." That condition fortunately does not exist today. We hope it will never return. But if it should, then, as we see it, there would be a marked up-surge in the im portance and the reading of editorials. In other wTords a variable factor that to high without taking into the field concerned, at any given time, is rather a futile business. AND what applies to the editorial department ap plies also to the news department. When a war is on, world or civil, when a new President is to be elected or a local uprising of some sort has broken out, up go the street sales, the sub scription lists, and from the first page to the last, there is sharp surge in reader interest which means the paper is more thoroughly read. But when nothing much is happening politically or otherwise in Little Rock, Big Bend or elsewhere, the graph drops as Wall Street did in 1929, and not only are the editorials read less, but the entire paper except perhaps the front page headlines, and sports when the World Series or a Big Game is on. TTHERE is another factor in the editorial-reading field that should be considered before any sweep ing generalizations are made. Interest in the editorial page varies greatly with different newspapers. Take the New'York Times, for example. We venture to say that a high percentage of its readers seldom miss the editorial page. There are several reasons for this. The Times subscribers as a whole, are in the Upper Brackets educationally, cul turally and financially, the editorials, while lacking usually in humor and color, are extremely fair, intel ligent, and as far as a literate and vigorous editorial page CAN be, non-partisan. In all elections, or on important national issues, it takes a definite stand, but it has no blind loyalty to any party. As a result editorially it enjoys tremendous re spect and prestige, is widely read and often quoted. On the other hand we doubt if the editorial pages of the N.Y. "News" or Mirror are read at all regularly by over 10 of their subscribers and are seldom quoted. CO we might go on and on but enough. The only point we wish to make, as of now, is that there is such a variance in the reading of the edi torial page, depending upon its quality and the sur rounding circumstances, at any given time, that to be definite or dogmatic about its present status, comes, as we see it, under the heading of a "waste of time." We are referring only to how much the editorial page is read, not to the INFLUENCE it has. The question of "influence" is another story, rather a long one, and far easier to determine. R.W.R. Thursday, October 3. 1957 reader-interest in editorials is such declare it too low or too account the conditions in 'I'll TELL VA WW TUB POOR. Kife BATlH' SO MANY H0TDO3S: I HfS F0IK& ARB VG7ABLETAJ2IANSt Today and By Walter THE ARMY AT LITTLE ROCK The situation at Little Rock is one which is not uncommon in human affairs that there is not in sight the prospect of a solution which can win, gener al appr oval. The President cannot hope to be faithful to his commit ments and at the same time Walter Lippmann to satlSly SUCn eminent Southern leaders as Byrd, Byrnes, and Russell not to mention demagogues like Fau bus. There exists a national predic ament, with the President in the middle of it. Since the issue can not be settled by agreement, the first necessity is that the issue should be clearly and precisely defined. Men of honor and good will can live together, though they disagree, if it is quite clear what it is that they differ about. It is of the utmost importance, therefore, that there should come from the White House an exact and authoritative statement as to why the Arkansas National Guard was Federalized, why Federal troops were sent into Little Rock, how those Federal troops can be withdrawn, how the National Guard can be re stored to the control of the state of Arkansas. ON TWO occasions after his conference . with Governor Faubus in Newport and in his broadcast last week the Presi dent did not define the real rea son which justified, and indeed compelled, him to take the mili tary measures. The real reason was that Governor Faubus, by ordering the National Guard to bar the Negro children and then by withdrawing it in the face of a mob, had emasculated the law enforcing power of the state of Arkansas. Taking Governor Fau bus's explanation at its face val ue, it comes down to a plea that the state of Arkansas was unable to preserve order at the school unless he nullified the law. Thus, there existed a vacuum in the law enforcing powers of the sov ereign state of Arkansas and it was this vacuum that the Fed eral government has been com pelled to fill. On Saturday, i his telegram to Senator Russell, the President had been better advised than at the Newport conference and in his broadcast. He arrived at the real issue, which, as he put it, is that "the police" powers of the state of Arkansas" have "been utilized ... to frustrate the or der of the court." This is solid ground for him to stand upon. For men like Byrd, Byrnes, and Russell have not said, and would not say, that a state may use the National Guard to nullify the laws of the United States. THE exact definition of the real issue is of crucial importance in dealing with the question of how the Federal power can be withdrawn from Little Rock. This is the question which the President agreed to discuss with the committee of five governors, headed by Governor Collins of Florida, who represent the Southern Governors' Confer ence. This question has two parts. One is when can the Federal troops from the airborne divi sion be withdrawn? The other is when can the Arkansas National Guard be discharged from the Federal service? The answer to the first ques tion is that the Federal troops can be withdrawn as soon as the Arkansas National Guard, now under Federal orders, is judged to be able and willing to pre serve order and to enforce the law. The answer to the second ques tion is, I submit, that the Na tional Guard cannot be dis charged from the Federal serv ice untir the Governor of Ar M Tomorrow Lippmann kansas reverses his orders to the National Guard, and commits it to enforce the law and to pre serve order. The Federal inter vention can end only when the police powers of the state of Ar kansas have become again agen cies for the enforcement of the law. The President cannot agree to anything less than this condi tion. To do so would be to estab lish an intolerable, and an infi nitely dangerous, precedent that a state may use its troops to nullify the laws of the United States. HAVING settled this, we must remain acutely aware that integration in the public schools nf- thp South cannot be treated solely or mainly as a problem in Federal law enforcement, mat was the vice of Title 3 of the Civil Rights bill that Congress dealt with during the summer. Integration is a problem in per suasion and consent, which can not be solved by injunctions and soldiers. My own view has been that we ought long since have begun "asking ourselves whether the decision of the Supreme Court does not need to be supplement ed" by a national policy and pro gram of guidance and aid as to when, where, how far and how fast, integration should proceed in different school districts, and at the various levels of the ele mentary school, the high school, the college, and the professional schools. "The wisest policy is to pro ceed by stages, beginning as soon as possible with integration in the universities, in the graduate schools of law, medicine, educa tion, engineering, theology and where it can be done without causing social convulsions in the bigger colleges. The object of this would be to train a new gen eration of white and colored men and women who will be the lead ers in their communities." THIS last paragraph was writ ten a year ago. It was writ ten in the conviction that the worst place to begin integration is in co-educational schools for teen-agers, and that' the best place to begin integration is at the level of higher education. I do not believe that it is now wise, or indeed possible, to combine for adolescent school children co-education with integration. It is wise and it is possible to open up higher educationv It is, I think, significant that at the level of higher education Arkansas is a leader in integra tion among the Southern states. 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Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3rd day of October, 1957. Alta Lindsey Notary Public My commission expires Oct. 16, 1957. Generalissimo Franco No Signs of Relinquishing Power By CHARLES M. McCANN Un ited Press Correspondent Generalissimo Francisco Fran co of Spain evidently has decid ed to stay around a while instead of putting Prince Juan Carlos 'on the throne. Just a few months ago there were reports that Franco was getting Charles MeCano ready to retire and restore the monarchy. But now he has made it plain that he still likes his job and that any change in the form of .government is a matter for the indefinite future. Franco celebrated on Tues day the 21st anniversary of the day when, just after the out break of the Spanish Civil war, a conference of Nationalist lead ers fighting against the Repub lican government named him chief of state El Caudillo, the leader. In an interview on the anni versary, Franco said: "Work and difficulties never have tired me. On the contrary they stimulate me. Loves Difficulty "If this post I occupy in the nation's service were easy and simple, I would have retired long ago and would have sought something more difficult. In some ways you might . say that I do not fear but love difficulty." The anniversary finds Franco at 64, in good health, an untir ing hunter and deep sea fisher man, and unchallenged leader ,of his 29 million people. Spain's economy is weak. There are occasional demonstra tions by students who are dis satisfied with political conditions want higher pay to meet rising living costs. Armed Forces Give Salute to Wilson Washington (IF) The armed forces flex their might in a fare well salute today to their boss for the past five years, Defense Kerretarv Chnrlps V.. Wilson. The 67-year-old industrialist who has presided over revolu- tionary new developments in American military power will re view marching troops from all the services while guns boom and jets whoosh overhead in the spe cial afternoon ceremony at near by Ft. Myer, Va. Secretaries of the armed forces and the joint chiefs of staff are staging the mustering out tribute. Wilson leaves man agement of the world's biggest business, the 38-billion-dollar-a-year defense establishment Wed nesday. He will be succeeded by Proctor & Gamble President Neil H. McElroy. President Eisenhower person ally acclaimed Wilson's leader ship. He said under him "the strength of our security forces has not only been maintained but has been significantly in creased." Son's Illness Not To Half Queen's Trip London (IP) Queen Eliza beth will go to the United States and Canada on schedule this month despite the fact her son has flu, informed sources predic ted today. They said 8-year-old Prince Charles, who was put in the infirmary at Cheam School on Wednesday, probably would be well again by the time the Queen and Prince Philip are scheduled to start their trip Oct. 12. Word of Prince Charles' ill ness, was sent to Buckingham Palace Wednesday. It appeared to be a mild form of flu now sweeping Britain The Therapy of "FRIENDS" When the going gets a little rough, how many times have you, yourself, either said or heard, "I just don't know what I'd have done if it hadn't been for my friends. Everyone's been so kind, and it certainly has made things much easier to take." At no time is. this more evident, or expressed offener than in a time of bereavement. That is when friendship has a healing quality that is both needed and appreciated. It is a source of utmost satisfaction to us to know that at such times we have been able to establish lasting friendships with those whom we have served. To make a friend, one has to be a friend. DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS There is some opposition in side the Falange, the sole legal political party, to Franco's plan to put Juan Carlos eventually on the throne which his grand father Alfonso XIII lost in 1931 when Spain became a republic. But there is no real challenge to Franco's rule. Franco certain ly has brought Spain a long way. Bitterness against him con tinued in many countries when the Civil War ended in his vic tory five months before World War II broke out. Boycott Declared In 1946, the United Nations General Assembly declared a diplomatic boycott against Fran co as a fascist dictator. That boycott was called off in 1950. In 1953, Franco enter ed into a treaty conceding the United States facilities for im portant air and naval bases in Matter of Fact by joSePh ais0P POLAND: THE AMERICAN INTEREST Warsaw All free men every where must wish for the success of this curious but exhilarating Polish experi ment in free dom, which is being made behind the famous iron curt ain and under the 1 e adership of a government of indoctrinat ed Communists Joseph Alsop But wishes, as country people say, are not horses. The suc cess of the Polish experiment not only depends on the efforts of the Polish people and the wisdom of the Polish leaders. It not 'only depends on continu ing non-interference by the Sov iet Union. It also depends on the help and sympathy of the free world, and especially on the help and sympathy of the American government. Before very long, Polish rep resentatives will be negotiating for a new American credit, very much larger than the $90,000,000 credit granted last year. In the circumstances, it is urgently im portant to try to dif ine . the precise nature of the American interest in the new Poland. Any such definition must begin with a negative. It will not serve the interests of the United States or of the free world to, disturb or disrupt the peculiar e x i sting relationship between Poland and the Soviet Union. In present circumstances, any such disrup tion or disturbance can only lead to another Hungary, on an inconcievably vaster and more horrible scale. One was enough . "TUT if helping Poland is not a promising "move in the cold war," one can hear the Congressmen asking, 'then why help Poland at all?" The answer is simple. Helping Poland is a good though admittedly spe- , il ; A X I AT- cuiauve investment in ine even tual end of the cold war; and it is the only such investment this reporter can think of. The world today is not danger ously divided by differences be tween economic theories. Brit ish Socialism and American Cap italism have been perfectly able to collaborate. The world today is dangerously divided rather, because of the great gulf that separates the free and the un free. And Poland is the one center of real freedom beyond the grim dividing line that cuts the world in half. There is no likelihood that Po lish freedom will ever include "free enterprise" in any recogni zable form. But personal free dom, religious freedom, and freedom for the peasantry to till their plots in peace, already add up to a lot of freedom. They add up to more than enough free dom, in fact, to make Poland an enormous potential influence in all the part of the world that Showing Spain. In 1955, Spain was ad mitted into the UN. -This year Spain, long plagued by drought, has harvested an excellent cereal crop. Franco has received about 600 million dollars in direct and indirect aid from the United States since the bases agreement was signed. Juan Carlos, now 19, is being groomed by Franco to restore the Bourbon dynasty. He has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the army after two years of study at the Saragossa Military academy. Now he has entered the naval academy for a one-year course. Then he will attend the Air Force academy for another year. Finally, he probably will round out his education at a university unless, of course, Franco changes his mind about retiring, or disability or death ! leaves the leadership vacant. is still unfree. In all this vast region of our globe's surface, the Polish experiment is being watched with desperate interest and widespread envy for the freedom that exists here. I N ALL this same vast region. moreover, the forms of soc iety and the structures of gov ernment are now slowly, un predictably and c o n v u lsively changing and evolving. In the Soviet Union, particularly, the pressure to change and evolve is very great indeed. For the Sov iet Union has now experienced a successful industrial revolution, which always c h a nges every thing in the end. The question, therefore, is not whether changes will come in the unfree part of the world. The question is what kind of changes will come. One can imagine a new Stalinist terror, which will doom the world to war and the new Poland to destruction. One can imagine a gradual, stop again progress in the direction Poland has taken. One can im agine all sorts of in-between re sults. The situation may not seem fluid, any more than a glacier seems fluid. But it is moving all the same, just as a glacier moves. The success or failure of the Polish experiment .is sure to play a big part in determining the direction of the movement. This is all the more true, pre cisely because "Poland belongs to the Socialist camp" as all the Polish leaders insist. Out side "the Socialist camp" Poland would have no influence at all. i Inside "the Socialist camp" Po-' land can have immense influ ence. And if the Polish experi ment truly succeds. then Po land's influence must surely tend to blur the dangerous divid ing line between the free and the unfree. F S THE American interest In Poland? It is vividly clear to anyone who has seen both Poland and the Soviet Union in the short space of the last six months, as this reporter has done. It is the hardest kind of political reality. It will not be cheap to give Poland the needed help. No good will be done by another gesture that is "too little and too late," as Sen. Kennedy r i g h t ly de scribed the last Polish loan. Com modity loans of about $200,000, 000 will be required for next year. Otherwise reserve stocks . will be lacking, and the Gomulka government will be unable to , keep its promise to the peasants to end forced deliveries. If the limping Polish economy is to begin moving forward, industrial credits on a considerable scale will also be essential. But re member that these sums are to Be invested, not in mere passive defense in the cold war, but in the future hope of real peace. Then the sums needed seem small indeed. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
