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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Amid all the human distress prevalent in the world, comes word two New Jersey torn cats, under the terms of a will, are left $1 per day each, as long as they live, for care and catnip." 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 12. 1937 (Friday) Attention will be called in Medford churches Sunday to the national unemployment census to be conducted Nov. 16 to 20. Winter takes possession of higher altitudes and blocks high ways with a deep snow. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 12, 1927 (Saturday) Winter weather arrives at Crater Lake National park; tem perature is 6 degrees above zero; there are 25 inches of snow ajthe rim, and 12 at An nie Springs. Rain Tuesday and Wednesday soaks ground to a depth to per mit plowing any soil in the dis trict. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 12, 1917 (Mondaf) Th Hoover drive reportefl successful in Jackson county, c cording to large number of pledge cards turned in; 4,071 out of 4,253 solicited indicate willingness to aid in conseiya tion of food. At press time today no trace has been found of the man who kidnaped his two-year-old daugh ter last Saturday morning. What's Your !.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or el;bt Is excellent; five or six is good 1. Equinoxes occur how many times in each calendar year? 2. The principal commodities exchange is operated in New York, Chicago, or New Orleans? 3. Bible: Which ruler was in strumental in spreading Greek (Hellenic) power and culture over the Biblical world? 4. Which three nations pro posed the return of Trieste to Italy? 5. What was Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's maiden surname? 6. John Eliot, Puritan clergy man and missionary in colonial times, was known as "the Apos tle to the -"? 7. New South Wales is a part Of which British Common wealth? s$. The city of Rimini is in Libya, Italy, Yugoslavia or Al bania? 9. Is it proper to use a hyphen with adverbs, such as "well-run game? 10. "Might makes right.". "Right makes might." To which proverb did Lincoln refer in his Cooper Union address (I860)? Answers: 1. Twice, spring and fall. 2. Chicago. 3. Alexander lhe Great. 4. U.S., Great Britain and France. 5. Roosevelt. 6. "In dians." 7. Australia. 8. Italy. 9 No. 10. "Right makes might." Portland HP! Sen. Albert Gore, chairman of the roads sub committee of the Senate Public Works committee, has scheduled public hearing in Portland Wed nesday, Dec. 11, on timber access roads, forest highways and re lated matters. Jumbo "Running Scared" Did you ever see an elderly elephant run-scared? If not and you would like to, just cast your eyes over the other side of the Siskiyous. If you can't see the "Grand Old Party" in Califor nia shuffling "in high" for cover, you should have you eyes examined. It was bad enough to have to shove "Goody" Knight off the mainliner without a parachute, so the present pilot of the Oakland Tribune-LA Times ma chine could have a clear field to a primary guberna torial touchdown. But when the returns a week ago of city and state elections came in, then there was a stampede to get out of the path of the jet-propelled donkey and attack from the rear. The spectacle was and still is very funny. And pretty much for the same reason the pompous and portly Mr. "Got-Rocks" chasing his plug-hat across the windy street, is funny. Somehow in neither case can the role of "Sputnik" be attempted without both a "loss of face" and a loss of dignity. MOT that there isn't good reason. A Had the California "Old Guard" not been fear ful of the outcome at the polls next year, they would have never called in White House pressure to make such a monkey out of his Excellency the G.O.P. Gov ernor. 1 For after all, Governor Knight had a perfect right to run for the GOP nomination and reelection as he so frequently and solemnly stated. It was true, as he also stated, that he had some demonstrated qualifications for the gubernatorial job, but none for the position of a Freshman Senator, : moreover he did not want the latter. He even gave his "solemn word of honor" that imdpr NO CIRCUMSTANCES would he be a candi date for the U.S. Senate, and it was because Mayor Christopher of San Francisco believed the Governor to be a man of his word that he (the Mayor) became one. TT IS quite apparent Mayor Christopher did not know " the Governor very well. "Goody" has never been noted. for his stamina, his integrity or his courage. Like his former enemy and, now his bosom-friend, Vice President Nixon, he has always been just another "smoothy politician," only he has lacked Nixon's tact, will and brains. We don't mean to say Gov. Knight can't win Party Leader Knowland's Senate seat. With not only the shrewd and calculating Nixon behind him, but the power, the publicity and the millions of the Know-land-Chandler machine also, it will take, something, not discernible on the horizon as yet, to stop him. But it can be done. And judging by the way "Old Jumbo" is hot-footing it for the "old water-hole" the Democrats are not the only ones who think so. DUT what an unappetizing mess it all is ! It only shows how the spirit of "anything to win" and the haunting fear of defeat can demoralize the leaders of a great party. For if things come out as the G.O.P. "fixers" plan what will we see in our neighbor state, next year? We shall see the Republican party supporting a man for the U.S.'' Senate peatedly admitted he isn t, job, nor does he or did he And we shall see the same party supporting a man for Governor whom the supporters of that same sen atorial candidate declared to be a hopeless reaction ary, an enemy to organized-labor, and a foe of social progress. IN other words in its desperation to avoid defeat and as a by-product to launch either Nixon or Knowland on the road to the presidential nomination in 1960 the Grand Old Party across the line, is play ing both ends against the middle and making no bones about it. "Placing party above principle" is rather a mild term for it. Closer to the target is having no principles whatever. TOR surely, if Senator Knowland is the man to rep- resent the party at Sacramento, "Goody" Knight is NOT the man to represent California and the party in Washington and vice versa. For where political principles are concerned they are as far apart as the poles and one needs only to offer their public statements and their records to prove it. If one is a proper Republican the other isn't and again vice-versa. "But what difference does that make" is probably the rejoinder of the GOP High Command "if we can put it over and WIN?" A fair question. And evidence indicates that to the old "boys in the smoke-filled room" it makes no difference. DUT we are not so sure about old "Pop" pachyderm. He has a reputation to sustain that is never to forget. And if he remembers all the campaigns he has en gaged in since the battle of Bull Run, he may be run ning so scared now in a desperate and we fear fu tile effort to forget. R.W.R. EX-RFC OFFICIAL DIES Washington OP) Thomas A. Wadden, 65, for years an offic ial of the Reconstruction Finance corp., died of a heart attack on Sunday while attending church. Wadden, formerly a banker in Madison, S.D., joined the RFC when it was established in 1932 as a member of its review board and serve as a member of the board until the RFC's abolition. Tuesday, November 12, 1957 who isn't, and who has re fitted in any way for the want it. CANAL SURVEY SCHEDULED Washington API A special technical staff has been appoint ed to advise the House Merchant Marine committee on the ques tion of enlarging the Panama canal or building a second canal in Central America. Committee Chairman Herbert C. Bonner (D.-N.C.) said he appointed the six-man staff because the pres ent canal is "approaching obsolescence." 1 CAHT SLEEP'. K)U KNOW WHEN THOSE LITTLE PIGS SINS 'M(fS AfRAlO OF THE 610. BAD WOLF?'? VJELL, JAW Matter of Fact JOB FOR STEVENSON One result of Secretary of State Dulles' drive to restore bi partisanship in the wake of Sput niks may be to bring Adlai Stevenson into some sort of high foreign policy posi tion. There has been seri ous discussion, for example. of inviting Stewait AIsoo oievenson xo Ci. j. join President Eisenhower as an adviser at the mid-December NATO meeting in Paris. Stevensotn has not yet, as far as can be determined, had any formal Administration offer of an official post, other than the Civil Rights Commission mem bership which he rejected. But he has been subjected to "feel ing out" process, the purpose of which is to determine whether he would take an important foreign-policy position if it were offered. Other leading Democrats have been subjected to the same pro cess. For the Eisenhower admin istration is, for the first time, genuinely eager to bring import ant Democrats into big jobs, like the job of roving ambassador once held by Secretary Dulles himself, or the disarmament negotiator's job soon to be vacat ed by Harold Stassen. rpHE drive to restore bipartisan- - ship is one measure of the anxiety which lay beneath the carefully reassuring words which the President spoke on Thursday night. For despite all the reassurances, the leading policy - makers are perfectly aware, in the wake of the Sput niks, that the United States may be in the worst trouble it has ever been in. President Franklin Roosevelt's action in bringing Frank Knox and William Stimson into his ad ministration before the second World War is significantly cited as a precedent for bringing leading Democrats like Steven son into the Administration councils. And Indeed, in many ways Eisenhower's need is great er than Roosevelt's was. Consider the task which con fronts the President and Secre tary Dulles in Paris. The Euro peans have interpreted the Sput niks correctly as meaing that this country's forward Strategic Air Command bases are already subject to attack by Soviet inter mediate missiles. This was the main-reason why British Prime Minister Harold McMillan came rushing to Washington. rpHE American intermediate missiles are by no means op erational now, but they will be operational long before our I. C. B. Ms. The administration clearly hopes and expects to establish an intermediate missile system on bases abroad as an interim makeweight to the Sov iet missiles. As the President said in his Thursday night speech, "because of our many forward positions, for us an intermediate-range missile is for some purposes as good as an international one." As he also said, "this fact brings home to us the tremendous im portance to this country of our allies . . . they provide the vital bases and areas that permit ef fective deployment of all our forces for defense." What the President said was true, of course. But a couple of things he did not say are also true. First, stationing intermediate-missile bases in foreign coun tries automatically make those bases, and those countries, prime Soviet targets in case of war. This was all very well when our S.A.C. was immensely superior to the Soviet equivalent. But now the tables are turned. Our manned bomber bases are vul nerable to missile attack, and the Soviet missile system is im mensely superior to the fledg ling American system. Moreover, if American mis siles are to be based abroad, someone must have the authority to press the button, since a for ward missile system is only use ful as a deterrent if it can be used immediately. That someone iYni?'Jlfri 'iSMMM must presumably'1 be the Presi By Stewart AIsop dent of the United States or his representative. CONSIDER the miracle of di- plomacy which must now somehow be wrought. We must persuade our NATO allies and other allies to to accept the basing of intermediate mis siles on their territory while reserving to the American Pres ident or the American NATO commander the right to control their use. The miracle is certainly not going to be wrought without a substantial quid pro quo for the allies. At a minimum there must be a revision of the McMahon Act to permit a sort of lend-lease system for missies with atomic warheads. This will, in turn re quire the approval of the Democratic-controlled Congress, where the odd illusions linger that our atomic "secrets" are still secret, and that our allies need us more than ve need them. In this situation, the President is going to need all the help he can get,, from Adlai Stevenson or any other influential Democrat who will agree to help him. He will need that help abroad, where his administration's pres tige has never been lower. And he will need it at home, to per suade an election-year Congress that in our new situation of un precedented peril new policies must be adopted and comfort able old illusions discarded. Copyright, New York Herald -Tribune Inc. Brownell Successor Said Not Likely To Rouse Anger Washington (IP) William P. Rogers, the new attorney gen eral who takes office today, will champion civil rights as staunch ly as his predecessor, Justice de partment sources said. But diplomatic Rogers is not as likely to arouse Southern anger as was his predecessor, Herbert Brownell Jr. Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Fau bus said Monday the change in the top justice office will mean a return to "understanding, pa tience and tolerance" in the gov erment's attitude toward segre gation problems. Justice department sources pointed out Rogers sat in on all the big policy-making meetings during the Little Rock integra tion crisis. They said there was never any friction on this score be tween Rogers, then deputy at torney general, and his boss Brownell. But the sources said pro-seg regationists are going to find it more difficult to cast Rogers in the role of villain than they did Brownell. More flexible, more ready to compromise, Rogers uses the technioue of friendly persuasion with Congress. Popular on Capi tol Hill, he has seldom rubbed the lawmakers the wrong way. Wants to Get Feet Wet Brownell, less outgoing and identified with GOP politics, oft en clashed with congressmen. This inevitably made his task a tqugher one. Since his appointment Rogers has declined to discuss some of the pressing civil rights prob lems. He said it would be "inap propriate" before he got his feet wet in the new job. But in speeches on the ques tion in the past Rogers has tak en a firm stand. He also has praised the Eisenhower adminis tration repeatedly for "progress" and achievements in the field of civil rights in the past four years. Highway 30 Open To One-Way Traffic Portland on A suae hWkprl Hiehwav 30 about 75 miles west of here early today but the route was opened to one-way traffic shortly before daybreak. Debris ud to four feet high covered the road. 1 Nasser Seen Attempting To Cut Economic Dependence on Russia By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent President Gamal Abdel Nas ser of Egypt appears to be mak ing a serious attempt to lessen his country's economic de pendence on Soviet Russia. To do this, Nasser seeks to restore normal trade and fi nancial rela tions with the United States, Charles m. McCaun Great Britain and France. He has just asked Eugene Black, president of the Interna tional Bank for Reconstruction and Development, to act as medi ator in negotiations under which Egypt would pay compensation for the seizure of the Suez Canal. Black said Monday he had ac cepted. Egyptian delegations also are negotiating with Great Britain, in Rome, and France, in Geneva, to restore normal economic and financial relations with those countries. It has been reported off and on for several months that Nas ser is somewhat anxious over Egypt's increasing dependence on Russia. Red Trade Tripled Egypt's trade with Russia and other countries of the Commu nist bloc now totals about 50 per cent of its total foreign trade. Three years ago the total was but 14 per cent. 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 tor publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters witb an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Girl Scouts Thankful To the Editor: As the Thanks giving season draws near all of us could pause and find numer ous things to be thankful for. The Rogue Valley Girl Scout Council is very thankful for the generous support your newspa per gives to our organization as a public service throughout the year with the printing of arti cles, announcements and pic tures that are so necessary to explain the program given to girls seven through seventeen, who wish to belong. May we take this opportunity to thank the citizens of our Val ley, through this column, for their generous support through the United Medford Crusade and the other fund drives in other communities? Being a beneficiary agency of a United Fund is a privilege and a' responsibility. It is with a deep regard for the trust placed in them that the Girl Scout Council continues to succeed in bringing to our girls a program that bene fits them, our community and our nation. The extent of the program I that can be carried out depends upon receiving the amount of the proposed budget each year. The hundreds of volunteers who serve in each community, must have materials to work with and be trained for their specific jobs. This is the agencies' lifeline. We greatly appreciate the time and efforts of the men and wom en who serve on the United Fund planning boards, the solicitors in all the areas and we especially thank the contributors who show their faith by the size of their gifts to all the organizations as well as the Girl Scouts. We are all benefactors and we must work together as a team. All of us want the best for our children in these days of rapid change where they are subject to all kinds of influences. The Girl Scout organization provides a program that gives them a challenge in sound American principles and skills through happy group participation. May we continue to grow through your help and as a com munity interested in working to gether as a vital force, help make and keep good citizens for today and tomorrow. Mrs. Scott V. Davis, Chairman, Public Relations Committee for 1957, Rogue Valley Girl Scout Council, Inc. Gracias Senora To the Editor: We are former Medfordites and still take the Tribune always enjoy it very much. We are very much concerned about the United States' present status in the world and the dang er of war especially so because of Seattle being one of the prob able major targets on the west coast. The night before I read your editorial, my neighbors and I had a heated discussion on the present situation, particularly hitting on the point that most people seem lo be very optimis tic if they think about it at all. I sent the Tribune down to them and you can see the favorable reply that was made. Our hope is that many peo ple read your comments and stop to think about them. Keep up the worth while work! Mrs. Byron Carter, 8429 - 240 S. St. Edmonds, Wash. It is too early to tell whether the various negotiations will suc ceed. Everything depends on whether Nasser really wants to reach a fair settlement with the western countries. He has shown no such desire in the past. The situation is somewhat puz zling because of Nasser's activi ties as an Arab leader. Egyptian radios and newspa pers have started a vicious cam paign against King Hussein of Jordan, who last April threw out his country's leftist government and broke up a plot to overthrew him. The Egyptian government de nies responsibility for the at tacks. But there is no doubt that unless the government approved them they would not be made. Seized Canal in 1S56 When Nasser seized the canal in July, 1956, he said he was In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS Business note: The merger fever has gripped the railroad industry. Missouri Pacific Railroad has announced that it is studying the possibility of a merger with the Texas and Pacific Railway. Last week the New York Cen tral and Pennsylvania railroads (two of the country's biggest rail systems) said they were looking into merger possibilities. W HY the merger fever? The answer is rather sim- pie. In business generally, costs have been rising faster than in come. That promotes the search for ways to SLOW DOWN the cost rise. The hope back of these merger proposals is that ONE OVERHEAD will serve two busi nesses, thus tending to slow the rise of costs. A RE these mergers good? Or are thev bad? In general, we regard them with misgivings. They stir our fears of too much bigness and were afraid of too much hie ness. Our federal government is getting so big that it scares us. We're beginning to wonder if it is getting out of control. But We can't have our cake and eat it too. If profits disappear, awnty to pay good wages will disappear. If profits disaDDear. the American free enterprise system will disappear. fFHAT poses a serious question: -- If the free enterprise system should disappear, what would take its place? Well, there are examoles all over the world of which Rus sia is the most outstanding. Per sonally, I don't want to live under the Russian system. MORE about railroad busi nope President Georee Alnert of tne New Haven Railroad tnlrf the Massachusetts public utili ties commission the other day mat something will have to be done without delay to reduce the road's passenger service defi cits of $15,000,000 annually. He told the Massachusetts commissioners that the New Haven last year used approxi mately 85 per cent OF ITS EARNINGS FROM FREIGHT BUSINESS to meet the deficit arising out of its passenger service. QUESTION: Who pays the bill? rpHE answer is simple: The bill for thejtfew Haven Railroad's losses on its passen ger service is paid by those who pay the FREIGHT bills. The freight rates have to be kept high enough to meet not only the costs of the freight service but the losses on the passenger service also. Freight rates which have been rising rapidly in recent years enter into the cost (and therefore into the price) of near ly everything we all buy. Counsel With . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. willing to Day stockholders com pensation on the basis of Suez Canal stock quotations on the Paris Exchange at that time. The canal company rejected this of fer. It said that the quotations had been forced down previously by uncertainty over Egypt's pol icies. The separate negotiations Egypt is conducting with Brit ain and France concern compen sation for British and French in terests which Nasser seized at the time of the Suez Canal seiz ure, and the release of Egyptian funds which Britain and France seized in retaliation. These negotiations have been going on sporadically since last May. Overall, the big question is whether Nasser is worried enough over Egypt's dependence on Russia to be reasonable. Editorial Comment DOUBTS S.P. FIGURES - Southern Pacific, which in any popularity vote would he at the bottom of the ladder. is apparently in no better favor in Arizona than it is in South ern Oregon. The railroad is enzaeed in its usual project down in Arizona and New Mexico, a nrnpram of curtailing train service. One of, "a jfiuyuaais cans ior consonaa tion of two throughotrains, the Argonaut and the Imperial, for service in the two southwestern states. The railroad contends that it is losing $1.4 million annually on the Argonaut and $2 million annually on the Im perial on the runs between El Paso and Los Angeles. Consoli dation into one train would save $1.5 million a year, claims the SP. The New Mexican corporation commissioner has denied the railroad's application and the Arizona commission has forbid den changes which would deny rail passenger "and mail service to a number of communities on the main line. In another case in Arizona, the state's corporation commis sioner has cited the railroad for failure to maintain full passen ger and mail service between Yuma and Douglas. The SP was running a diesel and one coach between those two Arizona cities and the commission did not feel this came under the category of adequate service. We suspect that the corpora tion commissioner of Arizona and New Mexico doubt that the railroad is losing the sums it claims on its passenger service; certainly the railroad's figures were doubted by Oregonians. Ashland Tidingf) . 86 Proof Schleffelin ACo.NewYork.N.Y. Importers Since 1794 Insurance value must be judged. Like gold and precious stones. But for this plan, No working man, Could safeguard what he owns. Bill Fish don a I Finest g Rum I J
