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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) fclFOBDwgTRIBUire "Everyone to Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Duly Except Saturday bj MEDFORD PRINTING CO 7-29 North Fir St Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W RtTHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERA-LD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL 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 aa second class matter at Medlo'd Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year 115 00 Daily and Sunday Six montha 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4-20 3By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1J0 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Coonty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NEWSFAPEt PUBllSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATION A I I 0 I T O 1 1 A t x I I a$socITai"2n Wmiinig.'.n'ii Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct 20. 1947 (Monday) Explosion, reportedly from a leaking gas water heater, blows glass front of the Silver Dollar Grill, 42 South Central ave., into the street. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Two weeks after special election, there is considerable up-state gloating over the fifth defeat of the sales tax." 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 20, 1937 (Wednesday) Regulation of bicycle traffic brought step nearer when the 20-20 club requested the city council to promulgate a super visory ordinance to curtail acci dents. Fred Foster of Astoria, state president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, pays official visit to the Medford aerie. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 20. 1927 (Thursday) Scott R. Darby, Medford, sells rimless tractor wheel Invention. A. H. Hills, originator and manufacturer of Hills Brothers coffee arrives in Medford to fish on Rogue river. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 20. 1917 (Friday) Unless plans of the Tacoma men at the head of the project go wrong, a fully-equipped man ganese mine will be in operation on the Tri-it ranch, 17 miles from Eagle Point, in the near future. Thirty committees are solicit ing Ashland during the Liberty bond campaign. Whai's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; even or elsht Is excellent: five or six is rood 1. Which State is nicknamed "Buckeye State"? 2. With equal wind velocity, would you say that telegraph wires hum loudest in cold or hot weather? 3. Bible: The principal New Testament teachings center in what doctrine? 4. The French engineer, Ma jor Pierre C. L'Enfant, design ed the original plan of which U.S. city? 5. Is the town of Folkestone on the Channel or the Irish Sea coast of England? 6. Which African country has a green flag with a white cres cent and stars? 7. From which Biblical name is the surname Eliot derived? 8. Are dragonflies harmful to man? 9. "Jim was absolved of guilt." What is wrong with this sen tence? 10. "He has the wrong sow by the ear." Ben Johnson. Does this refer to a mistake, cruelty, or an impish brat? Answers: 1. Ohio. 2. In cold weather (when the wires are stretched tightest). 3. Salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, of whom God is the Father. 4. Washington. D.C. 5. English Channel coast. 6. Egypt. 7. Eli jah. 8. No. 9. "from" should replace "of". 10. Mistake. MAIL TRIBUNE Will There In spite of "Sputnik", and Washington, also the stock market s crash-landing we cling to our conviction, often expressed be fore, that there will be no World War III not in the near future at least. As the United Press well said of Krushchev if he stumbles over his own intemperate propaganda there might be trouble but we feel he is too sure footed and shrewd for that. In other words, we go back to our consoling con clusion of two years ago, that where two nations don't WANT war any more than they want to' end them selves and the world, SOMEhow, SOMEway, they will FIND a way to prevent TT WAS very different in In Europe before nation was pfepanng for it. Everyone you met any where thought it inevitable. Germany was rattling the sabre the hardest, but in both England and France the leaders were resigned to the inevitability of conflict, and felt there could be no PtEAL peace or propserity until the "Huns" and the Kaiser, had been put in their proper place which was "spurlos vesenkt." TPHERE was no such general war-fever in the late " 30's and had a mad-man not gained control of Germany, there would probably have been no war. But Hitler and his Nazis did WANT war, so did the wrar-!ords in Japan, and when the former marched into Poland, and the latter attacked Pearl Harbor, war of course could not be prevented. ITH the perfecting- of sav nothinc of enided - O O A self-interest and self-preservation, no nation is crazy enough to VVAJNT war today, lhere is little reason to doubt that Soviet Russia in spite of its desire to rule the world, can be counted among them. Why should she take the chance when she is making such steady progress without? CO UNLESS the world goes stark mad and in spite of certain evidence to the contrary, we doubt it we believe the present war-talk is talk and little else. The plain truth as we see it is "Old Man Mars", in spite of Sputniks proximity or perhaps because of it has simply priced himself out of the market. R.W.R.' The S.P. Runs True to Form In his "alibi" for depriving all Southern Oregon of any passenger service Vice President C. E. Peter son of the "friendly Southern Pacific" runs true to form. It all adds up again to abject worship of the "Al mighty Dollar." "VP" Peterson claims the "S.P." can't put on even one Budd-car operation between Ashland and Port land, because his study "indicates" it would go into the red in excess of between $100,000 and $200,000 a year. UOW DOES HE know? A Congressman Porter only asked for a year's experiment. Other important railroads have, as a pub lic service, given this type of minimum transportation, and whether they have lost or made money, the fact is they are still operating. None of them is as capable of taking such a 12-month loss if there should be one in stride as the S.P. But the other railroads have some vision. Some sense of their obligations as a public-utility. Some idea of the monetary value of good public relations. The SP, as repeatedly demonstrated all through the years, has NONE. Vice President Peterson even claims that the run ning of such a one-car-once-a-day would so disrupt the company's freight service, that the loss to the shipping public would be far greater than any POS SIBLE benefits a resumption of minimum passenger service could bring. That must be some 300-mile freight OPERATION if one small car once in 24 hours can so seriously "snafu" it! HOW silly and hypocritical CAN we get! Why doesn't the SP "V.P." frankly admit that he -doesn't KNOW whether such a one-car service would lose money or make it. NO railroad COULD KNOW what the natronae-e would be in advance nor the income or the outlay. And as stated, all that was asked was a one-year TRIAL. The "billion dollar SP" true to character simply refuses to take a chance. The truth is the 'SP doesn't care what the people of Southern Oregon want or don't want. True to its time-honored tradition discarded by practically all up to date railroads when there is any threat to get ting an extra buck the SP goes back 100 years and declares "the people can be damned." And as far as Southern Oregon is concerned from Eugene to Ashland "damned" they are. VkTV ARE glad to see that a copy of this letter has been sent to Public Utility Commissioner Morgan at Salem. Commissioner Morgan knows something about railroads and particularly the S.P. We have an idea that estimated loss of $100 to 200 thousand dollars a year will interest him, and be carefully checked. For he knows the estimated value of the SP, its dividend rate, its salary schedule, etc., etc., also its reserve, its gross and net profits. So assuming the loss for the first year would reach Sunday. October 20, 1957 Be War? the tough talk from Moscow it. 1914 and 1939. the first world war, every the atom and H-bomb to missies, as a ulain matter of " I'M WORRIED A60VTMY DAD. fie SAYS THE ENGINE IS MISSNG. AND ITS RIGHT TUE&B IN FR?NT OF HIM Today and By Walter THE COLD WAR IN SYRIA There is no obvious reason why Khrushchev should be con ducting such a big agitation about Turkey and Syria. He cannot really believe that the United States govern ment is inciting the Turks to attack Syria and thus to pre cipitate a nailer Lippmann war which, once started, would involve the whole NATO alliance. Nor can we believe that the Soviet Union is looking for a pretext to at tack Turkey, and thus to precipi tate a world war. There must be something less world-shaking at stake. It seems to be a plausible guess to say that what is at stake is the control of the Syri an government, and more specifi cally whether the military dic tatorship shall be composed of officers and bureaucrats who are dependent on Moscow. If this is correct, then the story began last summer when the former government became infiltrated and then dominated by a group of men who had the support of the Soviet Union and also of Nasser's Egypt. ' TO this successful intrigue Mr. Dulles reacted strongly. As the event has shown, in public at least he over-reacted, and deeply embarrased the Arab governments of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Lebanon, which are in fact anti-Soviet and anti-Nasser. But it is a reasonable guess that among the Syrians who were ousted by the intrigue of last summer, there has been' going on a counter-intrigue aimed at their own return to power. Pre sumably, the center of this in trigue is in Turkey which would, of course, welcome the over throw of the present pro-Soviet government in Damascus. There is some reason for thinking that the intrigue has been making headway and that its agents may have been com ing across the Turkish-Syrian border, that they may have be gun to penetrate successfully the Syrian army on which the gov ernment depends. The best rea son for thinking that this may have happened is Nasser's extra ordinary action in sending a battalion of Egyptian troops into northern Syria. This action would be military absurdity if what Khrushchev talks about Turkish aggression backed by the United States were really in the making. For what on earth could a few hundred sol diers do if it came to war? BUT if we think- of the Egyp- - .LIU V .bug UCCU sent in to watch the Syrian troops and to strengthen the hands of the government in Damascus as against a counter revolutionary plot, Nasser's ac tion in sending them is intelli gible. So also is the pleasure expressed by the Damasucs gov ernment. So also is the loud applause from Moscow. This leads me to guess further that the Soviet warnings and $200,000 which we seriously doubt it" will be easy to figure what percentage of the SP capitaliza tion this would represent. Our guess is it would be less than one-tenth of one per cent. IF SO, how does this compare with the' money loss percentage on passenger traffic on" railroads in other parts of the country, also how many public utilities and corporations in the country to better their service to the people expect such minor losses and are glad to absorb them for the sake of increasing good will? A table showing the facts of this phase of the prob lem would, we believe, be very interesting and en lightening. As for the "FRIENDLY" S.P. "!? !$ &," "we spik no Inglis." R.W.R.- Tomorrow Lippmann menaces about Turkey refer to the fact, or shall we say the probability, that Turkey is har boring and encouraging in trigues by the ousted and refugee Syrians to recover their power in Damascus. The issue in the Syrian chapter of the cold war is the control of the govern ment in Damascus, and the stakes are rather high. But there is as yet no evidence, it seems to me, that " the conflict over Syria is outside the limits of the cold war. "COR Syria, unlike for example " North Korea in 1950, is a negligible military . power. Whereas North Korea . was stronger than South Korea, Syria is no match at all for Turkey or Israel, much less for the two of them combined. On the other hand, the one certain thing about American policy is that the Eisenhower administra tion will not countenance, much less will it approve and support, military action by Turkey or by Israel. All this would add up to the nigh probability that what is going on is not maneuvers be fore a war, but the ups and downs, the plots and the counter plots, in the great name of power politics. Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Matter of Fact "AT THIS DARK TURNING" . Paris The Kremlin's current behavior is deeply alarming over-all, but it still has one reassuring as pect. This is the Soviet leaders' ' extra ordinarily per sistent drive to open a new dialogue with the American leadership. With some Joseph Aisop justice, tne masters of the Kremlin have always held that serious nego tiations were impossible at crowded conference tables. They have always treated big confer ences with numerous partici pants as mere stages for propa ganda exercises. They have al ways thought that real decisions could only be reached face-to-face with the United States speaking for all the West, while they speak for their own half of the divided world. In recent weeks, the Kremlin has seized every conceivable op portunity to press for such talks. To Mrs. Roosevelt, to Aneurin Bevan, to the recent delegation of British Conserva tive Members of Parliament, and to anyone else who has been handy, Nikita Khrushchev and his colleagues have repeatedly sung the same plaintiff song. "Why can't Zhukov have a cozy chat with Eisenhower? Why doesn't Stassen want 1 to come to Moscow? Why won't the Americans get together with us to thrash everything out?" THAT is the burden of the song which is, so to speak, one face of current Soviet be- In Ihe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS On Thursday morning Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip stepped down from President Eisenhower's personal plane, the Columbine, at Na tional airport in the city of Washington. All air traffic was stopped and all engines were silenced as the Columbine touched its wheels down on the runway so that no one of all the massed thousands might miss a word of what was said. In the hush that followed, President Eisenhower said to the queen: "In the warm and strong co operation between your coun try and ours lies THE BEST HOPE FOR THE SECURITY AND PEACE OF THE WORLD." Queen Elizabeth replied: "I bring greetings from my peoples of every race and every creed in the British Common wealth of Nations." TT WAS a solemn moment. And our President's words were heavily weighted with truth. If there is to be security and peace in the world, it must come about through the efforts of the United States of America and the British Commonwealth of Nations. Nowhere else is there integrity enough and fortitude enough to do the job. ITfE HAVE had our spats as all families have. There was a long period when Britain was great and powerful and the U.S.A. was small and weak. In those generations, one of our favorite American sports was twisting the lion's tail. Then the situation changed. Our might GREW and Brit ain's SHRUNK. So, human na ture being human nature, the British became jealous of us, just as we had been jealous of the British in earlier times. TUT always there was the link of a common blood and a common tradition. And alway, as is the case in decent families we have stuck together in the pinches. 11E'D better hang together. " We MUST hang together If we don't, in the words of Benjamin Franklin, we shall as suredly hang separately. If com munist Russia can split us apart, she'll have it made. It's just that serious. Elizabeth and Philip We welcome you. And we TRUST you. You're our kind of people. Joseph Alsop havior. The other face is the menacing over-confidence of the Soviet leaders, induced by their belief that the West is now very weak and the' Soviet Union is now very strong. This somewhat exaggerated but understandable belief is the direct result of the Eisenhower administra t i o n ' s long, complacent neglect of the world balance of power. . Being realists, the Soviets re gard the balance of power as the mainspring of history. Seeing the balance of power tilting in their favor, they plan and expect to make great gains in the Mid dle East and elsewhere. In sum, they are on the march. The balance of power is chief ly tilting because of successful Soviet development of such wea pons as intercontinental missiles and hydrogen warheads, which can literally destroy life on earth. The masters of the Krem lin clearly intend to exploit their possession of these weapons to the full, but only psychologically and politically. They certainly have no hankering to use these weapons in actual war. Hence, their desire for face-to-face talks with te American leadership. SUCH, in brief, is the present situation. It is immeasurably too dangerous for the American government to tide over in the usual manner, with press confer ence statements. The ship of state cannot be floated across the worst reefs in many years by mere outpourings of phony soothing syrup. Positive, clear headed and cold action is urg ently needed in Washington. The first and most essential thing to do, obviously, is to strike at the root of the trouble by an immediate, massive in crease of the American defense effort. It is late now to start ap propriating funds which should have been spent last year or the year before. Yet even, at this late date, a determined attempt to restore the balance of power can be counted on to impress and sober the Kremlin. America's firmness, America's will to survive must be decisive ly ahd promptly proven. Other wise, the present pre-Korean at masphere will thicken and grow worse, until the Soviet policy makers finally commit them selves to some new venture of a really fatal character. BUT att his juncture, even the largest increase of our de fense effort will not suffice. In order to complete the task of impressing and sobering the Kremlin, it is also urgent to re store the vanished unity , of the Western Alliance. The most POTLUCt (By M-T Staff How do you spell fish? Easy. It's G-H-O-T-I. How come? Well, it's GH as in laugh; O as in women, and TI as in nation. This was one of George Ber nard Shaw's illustrations of the crazy nature of the English language and how she is writ and spoke. A staff member made a fast auto trip to Portland recent ly, and returned more safety minded than ever. "Those lights!" he kept muttering to himself. Upon questioning, he declared he was more both ered by lights from cars be hind him than from those approaching in front. Drivers behind seldom dim, he swears Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address ol 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 From the Mouths of Babes To the Editor: Mr. McCabe seems to hold a grudge against all of the people who work for betterment of our state. The way Mr. McCabe speaks against our legislature only proves to point out how seeming ly backward he is. He wants to dispense with all of our so-called "crooked" poli ticians, game wardens, and even our state engineer. Could he ap prove drilling an unregistered well just to spite everyone? If he doesn't know that they do it for our own good, and the good of the people around us then I'm sorry to say that in my opinion he is just a backward person with no desire for pro gress. Virginia Eddy Walker 16 Quince St. Medford, Ore. -. P.S. I am 15 years old. Our Horse and Buggy Court To the Editor: I should like to know why the road department of the county of Jackson persists in wasting the funds allotted to it in costly rehandling? They set up the rock crusher in an area and stockpile the crushed mater ials instead of immediately plac ing it on the road, thus making it necessary to rehandle the mater ial at considerable expense. I should also like to know why the engineers (???) who survey the routes for our roads cannot survey a road where it should go instead of following some cow-trail? If there is a curve in the road which is to be repaired and it is possible or advisable to go In a straight line our road surveys the same old cow-traiL I think it is about time our road department was reorganized for efficient operation. Someone with modern ideas should be placed in charge instead of some one with "Horse and Buggy" ideas. Certain factions are always ad vocating more fancy and more expensive schools. What in Hades was wrong with the one-room school? I spent almost all of my school days in one and generally I have no complaint on the way they were operated. Nowadays the kids get out of school and don't know a darned thing ex cept baseball, football, tennis, rtack running, and other types of miscellaneous nonsense. I note that a number of per sons claim to have seen the Rus sian satellite which has been sent up by rocket. How could they see an object which is only 23 inches in diameter, at a dis tance of over 500 miles? I'm sure not all those persons have an astronomical telescope. I think most of those persons are plain unadulterated liars. Floyd R. McCabe, Mt. Pitt Star Route, Butte Falls, Ore. rock-like Western unity is now politically vital. It is also vital in a purely practical sense. For the strategic striking power of the, United States still almost fully depends on overseas bases belonging, not to us, but to our allies. When the causes of Western disunity are examined, they are seen to range all the way from the sour after-taste of Suez to the tight American grasp on almost the entire Western supply of the absolute weapons. All sorts of specific corrective measures are needed. Some of these measures will not be easy, such as the very badly needed amendment of the MacMahon act to provide NATO with its own nuclear stockpile and to allow closer scientific col laboration with our allies. Yet even such important cor rective measures will not wholly suffice either. The biggest worm in the core of the Western apple is simply the other Western na tions' almost total loss of faith in the wisdom, courage, foresight and disinterestedness of the pres ent American leadership. Unless this condition can also be cor rected, all other efforts and in vestments may well go for noth ing. But this is a separate sub ject needing to be examined in subsequent report. (Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tirbune Inc.) and Contribution) and he added that it seems worse than it is because th reflected light comes from two directions, the rear-view and side-view mirrors. He's still muttering. Kathy Kula. a fifth-eradpr at Lincoln school, writes about sci ence in the first issue of the year of the Lincoln Leeend. that fine publication, as follows: "The fifth grade iust received some new science books and we have enough to go around. They are very pretty blue and have many good pictures for us to look at. This year we are going to learn about Extrtorincr tht Farmer's World, Water and Con servation, and Mineral Treas ure. We will also study about the Weather and a little about electricity. "We are em'ovine doine some experiments. We tested some soil with, litmus rjaner tnfinrl out if it was acid or alkaline. We planted some bird seed to find out if we had the proDer soil for it. "There are many more experi ments coming up and we are looking forward to doing them. "We wish we could have more than two days a week . for science." One of the younger set's football players, on being sent into his first official game, told his father afterward, "I was scared stiff. My thryrox ide gland was beating so hard I could hardly breathe." The life of a police officer is interesting, to say the least. y Lt. Rollie Pean answered the department telephone the other day, and a woman insisted that someone come over to pick up her car for a wash and polish job. Lieutenant Pean says he tried several times to say she proba bly had the wrong number, arid it took several times of repeat ing "But lady, this is the police station," before she caught on, and hung up, somewhat em barrassed. Police perform lots of services for the public, Pean says, but washing and polishing citizens' cars isn't one of them yet,' any way. One of the gals In our office calls at the police station once each week on the regular re porter's day off. A week ago or so, in response to cour tesies from members of the department, she arrived at the stationwith a large chocolate frosted cake, and left it for the men on duty. The icing was 'delicious, according to re liable report, but witnesses' said the cutting scene was one of the funniest they'd ever watched. The "cake" turned out to be a large piece of foam rubber, weighted down by rocks. " The city council was discuss ing illuminated signs the. other day, specifically those which could be placed . on medical clinics. A man representing the sign industry appeared to show the city fathers what kinds of signs were being considered. As an example, to show the size, width, and so on, he had an electric sign, which hap- . pened to say "We Give Green Stamps." Mayor John Snider took one look, and asked the witness, "I'm just interested which doc tor gives Green Stamps?" Bob Stroh, another Lin . coin Legend writer, discusses "Busses, Busses, Busses": "I never saw so many busses! Did you notice all the busses at Lincoln? They come from many different places In and out of town'. They bring chil dren from Table Rock Road and many other places. The children are priyiliged to be able to ride the bus without having to pay for it. The Med ford School District pays for all these rides." 'Mrs. Minnie Bloomihgcamp, Hornbrook, who has been cor respondent for the Siskiyou Daily News for some 20 years, resigned recently, and in doing so she penned a few verses about the tasks of the correspondent. (Incidentally, she is the mother of Mrs. M. F. Cavin, the Mail Tribune's . Hilt correspondent. Seems to run in the family.) Here, in part, is her poem: You can't have a party, a dinner, or tea But what I am sure to find out. If you visit the neighbor who lives next door I'll ask what it's all about. If you have a guest from out of town I'm right at your door . to pry "What is her name? Where is she from? How long will she stay?" : I cry. Says the backshop philoso pher: A misanthropist is a person who is allergic to the milk of human kindness because it is homogenized. - . --
