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Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
ij YEARS AGO
-Oct. 15, 1947 (Wednesday)
Grass and cereal tests are be
3h conducted at the Southern
regon Experiment station. Su
perintendent Harold H. White
reports.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
gmudge Pot column: "Valley
.apple cider is now on tap. It is
jot in much demand due to Its
low alcoholic discontent."
21 YEARS AGO
Oct. 15. 1937 (Friday)
One of the most favorable fire
records in its history established
this year in Rogue River na
tional forest, headquarters statis
tics show. i
A union school for leadership
training is planned by the Med
ford Ministers' association.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 15. 1927 (Saturday)
Bootleggers attempt to break
out of County jail in Jackson
ville, Sheriff Ralph Jennings dis
closes. Quarantine regulation on in
fantile paralysis continued by
public health authorities.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 15. 1917 (Monday)
Home economics study clubs
to be organized by county ex
tension office.
Company C receives orders to
leave Medford for Clackamas.
What's Your 1,0.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent: five or
six Is good
1. Which are the "ABC" na
tions of South America?
2. A discobolus is a wildflow-
er, discus thrower, or contagious.
germ?
3. Bible: Was the kingdom of
Herod the Great a puppet king
dom? 4. For what word does the ab
breviation "Ste." stand?
5. Name the capital of Egypt.
6. What is mnemonics?
7. In which state is the famous
Snoqualmie waterfall?
8. How many Jacks showing
only one eye are in a standard
deck of 52 playing cards?
9. "He came out from the
house." What is wrong with the
sentence?
10. "Who wishes to travel far
stiares his steel." Racine. Does
this refer to moderation, racing,
or contentment?
Answers: 1. Argentina, Brazil
and Chile. 2. Discus thrower. 3
Yes. 4. For the French word
"Sainte" (feminine). 5. Cairo. 6.
Art of improving the memory,
7. Washington. 8. Two. 9. "Out"
"should always be followed by
"of." 10. Moderation.
Truman Addresses
Future Farmers
Kansas City. Mo. OP Some
10,000 convening Future Farm
ers of America, attending the
farm youth group's 30th annual
convention here, today heard a"n
address by former President
Harry Truman.
The morning talk highlighted
the official opening program
which is scheduled to continue
through Oct. 17. Presentation of
Star American Farmer awards
will be a feature of the evening
program.
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Elephant Forgets
Richard Lucke, vice president of Bulier & Bulier
of Portland, gave the best definition of the funda
mental difference between the Republican and Demo
cratic parties as they exist today, that we have seen
in many a moon.
He was talking to the Bend Chamber of Com
merce & took advantage of the occasion to lambaste
Oregon's two US Senators as "economic LIABILI
TIES of the first order."
LIE FAILED to back up this statement with any
concrete evidence, but contented himself with a
blanket indictment, that Senators Morse and Neu
berger, spend a large share of their time making
insinuating remarks about, quote:
"Lumber barons, business steals, money-lenders, power
pirates, etc., etc."
So HOW, he continued, "could Oregon expect
to build up any confidence with investors and indus
try (because of) the business attitude of this state?"
There is no evidence given of any "insinuating"
remarks about business, big or little, by our two sena
tors, and we believe for a very good reason THERE
IS NONE!
"THIS department has followed the statements of
Senators Morse and Neuberger with considerable
care, ever since they took office.
They have criticized certain business methods and
deals, both within this state and outside, but not with
any insinuations, but with direct and concrete charges
of "give-aways", mercenary and improper exploita
tion of the people's interests, the sacrifice of public
power to private profit, disregard of conservation
principles, and violations of the conflict-of-interest
clause, particularly as far as government contracts
have been concerned.
Mr. Lucke, or any other citizen of the state, can
find complete confirmation of this statement, simply
by going over the records of the two men.
DUT the point we wish to stress, is brought into
even sharper relief by the following final com
ment of the "Bullier & Bullier" vice-president, to wit:
"Both Morse and Neuberger customarily reply to such
charges that they will leave it up to the voters. . . . That is
JUST THE POINT. The fact that voters support men who
are baiting business is indication enough to most companies
that we have an unhealthy attitude toward business and
industry."
TTHERE you have it ! And in very clear and under-
standable English. The more than 200,000 citizens
of Oregon who voted for the reelection of Senator
Morse, last year, and voted for Senator Neuberger
in 1954, are the real cause of Oregon's present "eco
nomic distress," for they are unhealthy economically,
in favor of a policy that drives business and industry
away, and so long as that political climate exists,
there is no hope for economic well-being or words
to that effect.
AXELL we would agree "there is no hope" not
for the state of Oregon however, but for the
Republican "Old Guard," who believe as Mr. Lucke
believes, that the people of Oregon, when they go to
the polls can't be trusted at least a majority of them.
We congratulate the Portland "vice-president"
on his honesty and his frankness.
'll'HEN Senator Morse finishes his present term,
he will have served the people of Oregon nearly
a fifth of a century. He has been elected each time by
large majorities. He has not changed his basic prin
ciples of what is best for his state and his countiy,
during that ENTIRE time.
Sen. Neuberger has not seen eye-to-eye with our
senior Senator ALL the time, but on the fundamental
principle of voting as his conscience dictates, with
the public welfare clause of the Constitution particu
larly in mind, their records have been practically
identical.
CO IF the people of Oregon should vote to reelect
Senator Neuberger as if he runs we believe
they will Mr. Lucke's "Old Guard" will again hold
up their hands in horror, and not blame Neuberger so
much as the poor "boobs" of Oregon who don't know
enough to vote against such an enemy of industrial
progress and economic stabilitiy, as our junior Sena
tor. What nonsense. As indicated above, there is noth
ing very new about this philosophy of democracy but
it is seldom that the absence of faith that this is a
"goverment of, by and for the people," has been so
clearly stated and readily admitted.
The real point is, as Mr. Lucke stressed by clear
implication, that this should be a government of "Big
Business, by Big Business and for Big Business."
There is no treason in that. Thousands of good
Republicans and some Democrats believe it too.
But present Democratic leadership in this state
and the party as a whole does not.
They agree, we believe, with Governor Harriman
of New York when he said :
"Big Business has a perfectly proper place in our demo
cratic economy but it should be kept IN its place."
"THAT is the point exactly.
And it is the point that most strikingly divides the
two major parties today.
All that Oregon's .two senators have done has been
to keep "Big Business" IN its place as far as they
could and prevent it from getting out of its place
and trying to run the whole countiy and ran it, for
the sake, of higher profits and utter disregard of high
er ethics and the promotion of the PEOPLE'S welfare
not a few: but all the people ! R.W.R.
Tuesday, October 13, 1957
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Matter of Fact
THE ROT REVEALED
Only a few days have passed
since the launching of the Soviet
earth satellite. But those few
few days have
been enough
to show that
this is a dis
astrous event.
By itself, of
this Soviet
contribution of
a new member
to the solar
system was
not at all dis
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astrous. But it is an event which
cannot be judged in isolation. It
has to be judged, rather, as a cli-
mmactic episode in a long, com
plex and ominous process.
This is the process of deterior
ation of the Western Alliance
which began when President
Eisenhower first took office.
That may sound a brutal i
ment of the Eisenhower adminis
tration s conduct of our foreign
relations. Certainlv. the Eisen
hower administration has scored
some successes in the foreign
field.
Yet the danger to the West is
now so great that it is needful
to be brutally truthful about the
over-all result of the Eisenhower
years. This result has been pro
duced by two constant, inter
acting influences: Secretary of
Mate John Foster Dulles way
of dealing with America's allies;
and the President's way of deal
ing with America's defenses.
.
"O DOUBT with good inten
tions, our allies have been
progressively alienated. No
doubt for plausible budgetary
reasons, our former position of
predominant military power has
been progressively impaired.
The effect on the Western Alli
ance can best be understood if
you think of a majestic mansion
progressively riddled by dry
rot.
On the surface, for a long
while, all seems well. The facade
is as imposing as ever, the rooms
as handsome. Only the family
pessimists plead for the heavy
outlays needed to stop the rot.
Then one fine evening, grand
mother simply disappears
through the parlor floor. And
thus the rotteness of the struc
ture is at last unmistakably re
vealed; and the once-majestic
mansion is suddenly regarded as
a pitiable ruin.
The launching of the famous
"Sputnik" was a comparable oc
curence, unpleasant in itself but
mainly significant because of
what it revealed. The moment
of revelation had been ideally
prepared, moreover, by the two
previous Soviet successes of far
greater practical importance.
THESE were the pro-Soviet,
pro-Egyptian coup d'etat in
Syria and the successful tests of
the new Soviet intercontinental
ballistic missile. The American
response to the Syrian coup was
a classic exercise in political
maladroitness. The American re
sponse to the - combination of
Syria plus the Soviet ICBM was
plain panicky.
The customary dollops of ar
senical soothing syrup were of
course ladled out to the public
at home. Where the panic
showed was in Secretary of
State Dulles' private talks with
allied representatives, and par
ticularly with the British and
French.
Judging by authoritative re
ports here and in London, the
Secretary was quite astonishing
ly green around the gills. He
spoke of a new hardihood, a
toughness and appetite for risk
in Soviet policy. He warned of
great dangers that might lie
ahead, especially in the Middle
East, whic would be agonizingly
difficult to ward off. With seem
ingly unconscious irony, he even
confessed a nostalgia for the less
alarming years of Stalin, "who
was always so cautious."
America's political leadership
has been held in low esteem
among the Western Allies for a
long time now. President Eisen
hower is still liked for his good
intentions, but he is certainly no
longer respected abroad as a
strong and forceful leader. As
for Secretary Dulles, he has long
been both distrusted and detested.
up tubrb to wjw w.
By Joseph Alsop
A LL the same, it marked a f ur
ther stage of deterioration to
have the word going around the
inner circles of London and
Paris that "Dulles is frightened
to death."
Even so, America still re
tained one great remaining as
set as leader of the West. This
was our allies' conviction that
even if they had a poor opinion
of our political judgment, they
could still put their trust in our
military power and technologi
cal mastery.
For the experts, grave ques
tions about this were raised by
the Soviet ICBM tests. Then
came the launching of the
"Sputnik," which has convinced
both the experts and the fasci
nated general public that the So
viets are technically and mili
tarily ahead of the United
States. Thus, rightly or wrong
ly, the last remaining asset has
been depreciated to the vanish
ing point.
(Copyright 1957, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The department of agriculture
reports this week that the na
tion's farm real estate hit a
RECORD market value of 112
billion 400 million dollars as of
July 1 of this year.
It adds that the value of
America's farms increased eight
per cent during the federal fiscal
(financial) year ending on June
30, 1957. That is the largest in
crease in the capital value of
U.S. farms since the fiscal year
that ended on June 30, 1951
six years ago.
For this achievement officials
of the department credit favor
able crop, prospects (the 1957
crop is expected to be one of
the largest in our history), in
creased demand for farm pro
ducts CONTINUED CONVER
SION OF FARM LAND RESI
DENTIAL SUBURBS.
WHY the capital letters In that
last sentence?
Well, continued conversion of
farm land to residential suburbs
is significant. It is significant
for two reasons:
1. Farm land sold for subur
ban residential purposes bridges
higher prices.
2. Covering up farm land with
residences, factories, freeways,
airports, and so on takes agri
cultural land out of production
and tends to hold down surplus
es.
That helps to bring the supply
of agriculture products back
more nearly into balance with
demand for them.
IT HAS been the custom for
some time to look upon agri
culture's situation as pretty
black. Its present balance sheet,
however, doesn't confirm that
impression.
Farm asserts climbed to near
ly 177 billion dollars at the end
of 1956, an increase of $8.6 bil
lions, or five per cent, over
1955. This reflected a gain of
$6,800,000,000 in the value of
farm real estate anda rise in
the value of livestock and farm
machine inventory.
Farm indebtedness rose three
per cent to a total of 19 billion
dollars. Of this total, real estate
debt was approximately 10 bil
lion dollars. While farm debt
has risen in each postwar year
except 1953, its growth during
the past ten years has been LESS
THAN THE GROWTH IN AS
SETS. As a result, there has been
a steady advance in the farmers'
A Father At One Hundred
GEO. N. TAYLOR, Wheaton, III.
Abraham was one hundred and dead so far
as becoming a father had to do.' Sarah, his
wife, was also far past the age of child
bearing. Yet God had promised that a son
would be born to them. And in due time,
Isaac, the son was born to them as God
had promised. Abraham ever believed that
God would do as he had promised and so
Abraham is called "The Father of the
T-jHhfiil " Nnn: hrirvff it hnmp tn VOlirsplf.
God changes not. To you he will also be faithful. He is to
give you eternal life, if down in your heart, you hold Christ
to be your Lord and Saviour.
This Message is by God's people who want you to know.
East German Currency
Accents Red Satellite
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
East Germany's sudden ex
change of old currency for new
new is a sign of mounting eco
nomic trouble
in the Com
munist world.
Officially, the
exchange was
made neces
sary because
West German
"m o n opolists
and mi 1 i t ar
ists" were us-
Charles McCann in
the East
German mark for speculation in
currency and for espionage.
Actually, the switch is likely
to mean a gigantic repudiation
of the old currency which will
cost East Germans billions of
dollars.
Under the currency switch,
which the East German puppet
government announced without
previous warning, the country's
18 million peoDle were nermitted
to exchange 300 marks in old
currency for 300 marks in the
new currency.
S72 Per Person
Officially, this gives each
person the equivalent of $72 in
ready cash.
All old currency above 300
marks is to be put into bank
accounts which, officially, will
be credited to holders of the old
currency.
But in the first place, the East
German mark is worth only a
fraction of its official value. It is
supposed to be equal in value
to the West German mark,
which is worth 24 cents. Actual
ly, it took four East German
marks to buy one West Ger
man mark.
Communications
Women Without Husbands
To the Editor: Read your
editorial by E.R.R., Re "More
Older Married Women Work"
Thursday Oct. 10.
Thank you so much for throw
ing some light on a situation that
has bothered me for some time.
I have been wondering why
widows and unmarried older
women couldn't get a decent
job at a decent wage.
Now I know that one must
have a husband to keep a roof
over one's head and the utilities
paid, while friend wife goes
out and makes $55 a week to
help out because of the cost of
cost high living. I mean the high
cost of living.
We who don't have husbands
must compete with these work
ing wives in appearance and at
the markets.
I assure you this is quite a
task considering that we have
to pay rent or taxes, utilities
etc. on $37.50 a week.
If you will look at the Wage-
Hour scale for experienced wo
men workers you will see 65c
per hour.
As you explained in your
article. "Jobs are almost for the
asking" if you have a home and
husband.
F. Mooneyham
1005 West Main st.,
Medford, Ore.
equity, or net work, which rose
eight billion dollars last year
to a total of 158 billion dollars.
That is'nt such a bad record,
everything considered.
HERE in Southern Oregon and
Far Northern California, we
are looking forward to a large
expansion of industry. Especially
industry based upon our huge
stands of fiber timber. But we
want a BALANCED economy.
We don't want to get all of our
eggs into one basket. We hope
and believe that our agriculture
will rise long with our industrial
development. ;
There is good reason to believe
that in this Southern Oregon
Far. Northern California area
agriculture has good prospects
for expansion. The huge and
growing California market is
immediately adjacent to us. Al
ready in much of California,
productive farm land is being
covered up by residential areas,
factory sites, airports and high
ways faster than new agricul
tural land is being brought into
production.
Much the same is occurring in
Arizona in the Phoenix and
Tucson areas. At the same time,
the cities of California and Ari
zona, which provide the bulk
of the MARKETS for agricul
tural products, are growing as
tronomically. Southern Oregon and Far
Northern California agriculture
can't help benefiting from this
situation.
It is quite likely to develop
that East Germans never will
get back more than 300 marks
worth of their money. For there
is a little-remembered law in
East Germany forbidding any
person to hold more than 300
marks in currency.
The statement that the change
was made necessary by the spec
ulative and espionage activities
of West Germans is an obvious
fiction. It is estimated that the
total of East German marks held
in West Berlin, the chief ex
change market, was only about
one million dollars.
Troubles Kept Silent
We naturally hear a great
deal about Soviet Russia's suc
cesses the sputnik earth satel
lite, the testing of an intercon
tinental ballistic missile, the
penetration of the Middle East.
We hear little about the trou
Editorial Comment
THEY'RE USING IT AGAIN
As the influence of the late
Sen. Joseph McCarthy faded
away there were encouraging
and widespread signs that the
use of- the "red" smear in poli
tics had been pretty well dis
carded. It was proved quit con
clusively in several 'key elec
tions that it was no longer profit
able to hurl the epithets, "com
munist" or "communist sympa
thizer" at an opponent.
President Eisenhower deserv
ed much of the credit for clean
ing up political warfare. While
he couldn't control all the cam
paign planning that went on in
Republican headquarters he
made it known emphatically that
he did not like campaigning that
was based on the impugning of
a candidate's loyalty.
. Because of this it was more
than a little surprising to see a
member of the Eisenhower ad
ministration bring a tar bucket
loaded with the communist issue
into New Jersey where a guber
natorial campaign is underway.
We are wondering what Mr. Eis
enhower will have to say about
it.
The Milwaukee (Wise.) Jour
nal says this about it:
A disgraceful attempt to In
ject the Communist issue in the
New Jersey governorship cam
paign has just been made.
The perpetrator is right out of
the White House, where such
tactics were son strongly criti
cized in the heyday of the late
Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin.
In a speech in Hoboken, Ber
nard M. Shanley, appointments
secretary to President Eisenhow
er, attacked Gov. Robert B. Mey-
ner, Democrat seeking re-election.
Shanley charged that Mey-
ner- had long been associated
with Americans for Democratic
Action (ADA). He said that ADA
was "strange and devious" and
hinted that it was usually sym-
nathetic to communism and Com
munists. He declared that '"the
only opposition to the FBI has
come from followers of the Com
munists and of the ADA."
This is "guilt by association"
ai its very worst. It is also deceit.
The ADA is a reputable organi
zation of leading liberals with
Democrats and some Republican
members. To charge that it is
sympathetic to communism and
Communists amounts to slander.
It has been no more critical of
the FBI and some of its activities
than many other Americans. Is
Mr. Shanley maintaining that
the FBI is above criticism?
If they will stoop to such tac
tics, one suspects that the Repub
licans must be frantic about
chances of beating Gov. Meyner.
This display of foul play
shouldn't help their cause.
Someone should teU President
Eisenhower about his aide's ac
tivities in New Jersey. Certainly
the President, who has so fre
quently expressed his concern
about the dignity of the White
House, doesn't condone such dis
honest, divisive and unfair cam
paigning. Pendleton East Ore-gonian.
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Troubles
bles of Russia and its satellites
right now.
But Russia had great trouble
with its harvest, due largely to
inefficiency. In July, Russia had
to scrap its current five-year
plan of economic development
in favor of a new seven-year
plan. This was an admission that
the goals for the five-year plan
could not be met. It also was a
tacit admission that the drastic
decentralization of industrial
control, the brain-child of Com
munist leader Nikita S. Khrush
chev, had caused extreme dis
organization. One notable thing about the
currency exchange is that it em
phasizes the complete contrast
in conditions in East and West
Germany.
Free West Germany is about
the most prosperous country in
Europe.
MATERIAL COMFORT
VS. SCIENCE
We have drawn heavily of re
cent years from . the scientific
brains of the Western world. So
has Russia. But Russia has con
centrated on the development of
new scientists for the last dec
ade. It has encouraged them
put them on a par with our base
ball and football stars. This has
paid off and will pay off in the
future.
We, on the other hand, might
as well recognize that we have
put material comfort ahead of
pure science. Who gets the big
salaries the engineers who de
sign a new tail fin for motor car
factories or the astronomer or
physicist delving into the myste
ries of the universe? Make no
mistake about it, that is one of
our problems. Scientists and
their families have to eat too,
they like new cars, and they like
recognition for their efforts.
Russia is developing a large
reservoir of scientific brains and
know-how. That is the long
range challenge to this country.
The satellite and the rockets are
evidence that the program is
paying off. The danger, of course,
is that this scientific knowledge
may be misdirected, just as Hit
ler misdirected the energies and
genius of the German people.
We must match or exceed the
Russians in scientific progress or
live to regret it. The challenge is
real, and it won't be met by cit
ing how many more telephones
or hair driers we have. Oregon
Journal, Portland.
Thomas Midgley Jr. of Ohio
invented ethyl fluid for auto
mobile gasoline.
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