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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mall Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO J 7 -29 North Fir St Phone 2-3141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL B ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OLIVE STARCHES Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord 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 mos 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 and on motor routes-. Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County ' United Press FuU Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, ce troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUSMSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL fDITOtlAi ! ASSOCM-feN Flight of Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nor. 28, 1947 (Friday) With the $190,000" J. C. Penney company structure underway Medford was second high city in Oregon . in building volume during October. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Abe Krom ling, 77, who admits 72, Apple gate prospector-trapper, is trap ping mink, lynx, coons, cats, (wild and domestic) also many of his neighbors. 20 YEARS AGO Not. 28, 1937 (Sunday) Annual Jackson county dra matics institue will open Mon day evening, Nov. 29, at the courthouse auditorium, accord ing to Mabel C. Mack, county home demonstration agent. An intensive promotions cam paign to produce the proper mar keting and to stimulate retail sale of winter pears is being conducted at interior markets by the Oregon - Washington pear bureau. 30 YEARS AGO Not. 28. 1927 (Monday) A local attorney announces the opening of the Mountain King quicksilver mine located 12 miles north of Medford. The first commercial pack of domestic rabbit meat is now ready for the market in eight ounce cans with an attractive label. 40 YEARS AGO Not. 28. 1917 (Wednesday) The orders of State Food Ad ministrator Newell restricting the sale of sugar to consumers went into effect last Monday. Under authority of the secre tary of war, a campaign will be begun tomorrow to enlist every loyal member of forest industry In the Pacific Northwest to pro mote airplane and ship construc tion. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Name the 5-letter county seat of Silver Bow county, Mont. 2. Bible: "And he showed me a pure river of water of 1 ," etc.? 3. Bourbon whiskey is named for a royal family, county, or French city? 4. Even numbers only are used to designate U.S. highways? 5. Is Holland or The Nether lands the correct name for the country? 6. How much is 2x2x2x2x2- 7. What quadraped was called "tiger-ass" by the ancients? 8. Who said, "I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever re sign an office? 9. Does the Navy or Army have a goat or elephant for a mascot? 10. Does milk average 67, 77, or 87 per cent water? Answers: 1. Butte; 2. Life; 3. A county (in Kentucky); 4. No; 5. The Netherlands; 6. Thirty two; 7. Zebra; 8. Benjamin Franklin; 9. Navy has a goat; 10, 87. When a king penguin is swim ming, its striking "formal dress" becomes camouflage, says the National Geographic magazine. Seen from above the dark blends with the sea. From below, the light breast seems to merge with the sky. MAIL TRIBUNE "Ike" ' the Indispensible Man? There is a popular saying that no man is indis pensible. Like many other completely true. That is, from the standpoint of the universe and the wrorld revolving in it, the presence or absence of any one individual, of course is "incompetent, irrele vant and immaterial". The gardless, and with it the same. But it is not true today or historically when the welfare of a country is concerned then conditions often arise when one man Not to go back into antiquity which is full of examples but to take a recent incident in history what would have happened to England at the time of Dunkirk, if there had been no Winston Churchill? Would someone have place? We doubt it very of THAT moment, England's "indispensible man". fR HOW about George w his first term? This great country of today was then an infant in swaddling clothes, crawling a bit but practically helpless, surrounded by skeptics and enemies, hopelessly in debt, and its one former ally France, bitter, suspicious ajid estranged. Who was available at that time to take up the reins of government and portant, who was there in to the Presidency, would have had the prestige, the re spect and confidence of the people ALL the people essential to even a minimum degree of success? "WTCE President John Adams, at the time, who had ambitions of his own, and a very low regard for the capabilities of his President once declared George to be the colonial replica of a wooden-head and a stuffed-shirt. But he admitted that under the circumstances EXISTING, the "father of his country" was "the indispensible man". V.P. Adams did not use those exact terms but that was his idea. And it was overwhelmingly the idea of the American people re gardless of party although the USA of course did not have a clear cut two-party system at that time. Commenting later Vice President Adams observed privately that it was not what General Washington really WAS, but what an overwhelming majority of the people of the country and many in Europe be lieved him to be, that rendered the consideration of any other candidate at THAT time "unthinkable". e SO WE come down to the present situation, Presi-An-nt TTiavnltYnrar'a rVlirrl lllnooa GYA What. shnillH be done about it. Well, President Eisenhower successfully survived his first two illnesses both of them according to official, and we believe entirely reliable, medical re ports more serious than this one. We, therefore see no reason to doubt, that in a matter of a few weeks he will be able to resume his duties perhaps slightly restricted as before. . And that of course always assuming there will be no relapse and there will cal approval is what, as we see it, would be best ior this country, the free-nations of the world, and last, but far from least, President Eisenhower himself. POR as we judge the man, nothing would more seri- ously impair his health and outrage his self es teem and high sense of duty, than to quit in the middle of such a crisis as this country and the democratic world now faces, when conditions of health had NOT plainly compelled such action. And as the President has often said when he feels he is. for anv reason no lonsrer capable of doing the job as it should be done, he retire. We believe him. We also believe that he yeiy clear-cut way, that he tint, nnlv in this eountrv but struggle for freedom a symbol of dependability, se- - J, . . 1 I 1 curity because ot trust in nis eventual success. With the world in its present state, such symbols are vitally important. WE DOUBT if the President thinks there is no one in sight that could take his place, and do what he with normal health can do. But as we see it that is the truth. We don't mean General Eisenhower is the "indis pensible man", in the sense there would in case of his incapacity be no one to take his place. Someone would. Rut. vvp dn mean that as of TODAY, no one who did take his place, could do the job, as he could do it, or maintain the confidence of the Democratic world in their cause, as his continuance in office would. Sn with the latest cheerinp- news of the President's rapid recovery from his "slight stroke", and his com plete recovery prospects omcially termed excellent there is the situation as far as this country, the world and President Eisenhower are concerned, as we see it. CO AS Vice President John Adams, the outspoken and crusty Old Curmudgen of post-revolutionary days said of "the father of his country" it wasn't so much what "G.W" to drop into the vernacular really "had on the ball", as what an overwhelming majority of the people of his country and the world THOUGHT he had. It was -that public confidence in those perilous days that, mattered. So there is a "father image" in volved at the present time, and it is not necessarily what the facts are but what the people, as a whole, both here and abroad, believe them to be that is or should be the determining factor, R.W.R. Thursday, November 28, 1957 popular sayings that is not solar system goes on re universe as well, much the IS indispensible. been there to have taken his much. Sir Winston was, as Washington at the end of carry on? Even more im public life who if elected again be unanimous medi will tell the people so and senses, in perhaps not a has become a SYMBOL abroad, of victory in the lla I rlEy. I GOT AN IDEA? WHY VOHT VJB stuff tr with PEANUT BUTTER"? Today and By Walter THE CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE Before his illness, the Presi dent committed himself to go to Paris in December for the pur pose of over coming the crisis of confi d e n c e which now prevails in the NATO alliance. It was a big order. No one suppose that the task can be carried out Walter Lippmann by speeches like the two which he has addressed to the Ameri can people. There is no panacea for the crisis of confidence, but there is a therapy that can begin to cure the trouble. It is a cold realism about the situation we are in. There are, I believe, two para mount reasons why we find our selves in a crisis of confidence. The first is that we have lived since World War II in the belief that we command the air as Britain in the 19th century commanded the sea. Now sur- denly, we and all our allies have realized that we have already lost, or are soon about to lose, the command of the air and that it will not be restored, if it can be restored, for many long years to come. The second great reason for the crisis is that as our military technology has fallen behind, our diplomacy has become fro zen and sterile, and without a vision and a purpose of better things to come. The political dis unity of the NATO alliance re flects the fact that the leaders of the alliance, particularly, our own government, have no cause and no project which enlists the hopes and the enthusiasm of the nation. Unlike Wilson and Churchill and Roosevelt, Eisen hower has no great cause to which the nations can be rallied. So the nations fall back into their miserable quarrels about the remaining fragments of the old empires. . THE central question for the can retain their influence and protect their vital interests dur ing the long years when the Western world is struggling with the task of closing the gap. They cannot do this, we may be sure, by a policy of standing still because that is the only policy that all of them can agree upon. The alliance today is in a pro found deadlock because on all the critical issues one or more of the larger members has a veto. We are all prohibited by Dr. Adenauer from any serious ex ploration of the conditions under which the two Germanys can be reunited, and the European con tinent brought into a security system. We are prohibited by the French government from working for peace in Algeria and for an understanding with the Western Arabs. We are para lyzed in the Middle East by our own dogma that we must not recognize the fact that the So viet Union is a great power in the Middle East. THERE is a widely held view that while we are no longer in a position of strength, no longer in command of the air, the only thing to do is to stand pat, and to prove that if we are not quite so strong as we would like to be, we can at least be stubborn. This is a great fallacy, born of fear and lack of faith and a dull and wooden spirit. ' There is no plausible ground for the fear that we are in dan ger of being destroyed and that we must huddle in our bomb cellars. It is ignoble and mean Florida marsh rabbits are vir tually water animals. Their fur is slick, glossy and water-resistant and they swim as naturally as muskrats, with only the tops of their heads showing. The porpoise looks like a clumsy, fat pig, but it can trav el at speeds up to 50 miles an hour an make right angle turns at high speed. I I yogs Tomorrow Lippmann to lack faith in the power of good ideas like the United Na tions, like the Marshall Plan, like the Point-Four Program, like NATO itself the power of good ideas to rally men and re vive them. It is dull a'nd wooden to make a foreign policy which has no higher and larger pros pect than to stand still where we and our allies happen to be. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas who, along with other jobs, is chairman, of the senate preparedness subcommittee that is investigating the U.S. missile and satellite program says the United States needs a highly trained corps of engineers and scientists if we are to win the race with Russia. He adds "We must match Russian mis sile progress. But that alone is not enough. Our technological skill must be raised to where we can beat the Russians in ANY scientific race." rfiRUE enough. That fact stares us in the face. The problem is HOW TO DO IT. TT CAN'T be done with money alone. We must develop among our people a deep and abiding respect for scientific progress. We must mobilize our scientific brainpower. Not just for today. Not just for tomor row. For a long time to come. It will be quite a job. If we are going to develop among our people the deep and abiding re spect for scientific progress that will be necessary if ou. nation is to remain secure, we must go clear back into our schools and interest our young people in SCIENCE. That is going to mean some revolutionary changes in our educational system. T ITTLE ROCK breaks into the x-i news again. The last 225 U.S. paratroopers left there will be air-lifted out of Arkansas this week. When they leave, 900 Arkansas Na tional Guardsmen, federalized by President Eisenhower, will take over the job of protecting nine Negro students at Little Rock's Central High school. WELL, that's good to that ex tent. If, in order to prevent riots, ANY school in the United States has to be guarded by troops it is better under our sys tem for it to be guarded by LOCAL troops. But It is a shame that any school in the United States has toxbe guarded by troops in order to prevent race riots. It shouldn't have been necessary in Arkan sas. It shouldn't be necessary anywhere in our country. VTHY did it happen? The answer is simple. Somebody or MANY some bodies put politics ahead of patriotism. If the politicians who are counting votes and looking for ward to the next election would keep their hands off the segre gation question the natural de cency of the American people would settle it much sooner than it can be settled with bayonets. 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Th 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 Governor Asks Safely To the Editor: The American press, radio and television, as the greatest news and informa. tion media in the world, have been generous in their contribu tions toward the promotion of traffic safety. Oregon news papers, radio and television sta tions have been among the lead ers in this field. - Once again I am calling upon you to assist in combating the ever-increasmg problem of traf fic accidents and deaths. With the rush of the Christmas season approaching, drivers must be come more than ever aware that they should follow the command ment: Thou shalt not kill." Drinking drivers, the rush of shopping and social activities, and adverse weather conditions all make the Christmas season the worst time of the year for traffic. The season of giving and good will is becoming one of taking the taking of lives and of ill feelings by an increasing number of drivers. On the aver age during the past three years, 43 persons have died in Oregon traffic accidents during Decern ber more than in any other month. I sincerely hope you will find it possible to stress that it is the responsibility of every citizen to be a safe driver and pedestrian. You can be of great help in mak ing the Christmas season one of rejoicing instead of mourning. I have asked the Department of Motor Vehicles to stand ready to assist you in any way. I will continue to do every thing in my power, during the Christmas season and thereafter, to promote safety among the citi zens of Oregon. But I need your help as community leaders and spokesmen to prevent the need less taking of lives that will otherwise sweep the state. I know you will want to help. Robert D. Holmes, Governor. What Are Nudists? To the Editor: We are just like the rest of you people. We work among you, live among you, and go to the same religious gatherings as you, and perhaps your next door neigh bor'might be a nudist. We do not worship any Idols, not even the sun. We are not a cult or religious fanatics, as many think. We disrobe to get the . health- giving rays of the sun. A non nudist has no idea of the benefit received from the sun. There are many ailments of the body that the sun either relieves or cures Nudism binds husband and wife closer. A nudist divorce is a very rare thing. Now what about the children? They are a curious little lot. There is no need to hide out for a free show, which among teen agers often leads to shame for the girl, and the whole family. How about their morals? Since the first camps were organized, more than 20 years ago, there has not been a sexual delin quent in any of our more than 100 camps containing many thousand people. Now stop and really think this over, seriously, then ask yourself, where or how does nudism mar their little minds? We teach our children at an early age the facts of life and what to look out for in the days to come, and this at an age they will fully understand what we are saying. Boys as well as girls have a lot to know about what dangers lie ahead, and many a boy has had his later life ruined by the wrong girl. It is the proper thing, yes, the duty of parents, to teach their children these important things. , Did you see the show at the Star Light Drivein a little while ago starring Joan Blake? If you really love your youngsters, do THANKSGIVING Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and hot we ourselves; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him, and bless his name. - For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. Psalm 100. DAY OR NIGHT - PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse .. Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Bear Market Eyed by Babson; Methods Told By ROGER BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Most readers are anxious to know whether we are now in a bear market. This applies to re tail stores, real estate and c o m m odity prices, as well as to stocks and bonds. Let me first say that every thing point to Eoger w Babson good Christ mas business. Retailers who are at their stores from opening to closing and who attend to busi ness have nothing to worry about, at least this year. During my 50 years of watch ing Wall Street, a part of which time I spent on Wall Street, I hav witnessed five bear mar kets. Naturally they . all follow bull markets such as we have seen in the past decade. In fact, there has been no other bull market during these 30 years as long and as profitable as the one we have experienced since 1942. When bull markets increase and become overextended, that is the first indication of a bear market. Furthermore, such bear markets ultimately include com modity prices and real estate activitiy, as well as stocks and bonds. One type1 of activity, however, may ' anticipate or ex tend beyond another. The bond market may now be at the low point of its cycle, while the stock market is still high. Stocks are usually the first to collapse and the first to come back, whereas real estate is the last. Forecasting Bear Markets When we were on a gold standard, the best sign of the approach of a bear market was very high interest rates. Today, however, we are no longer on the gold standard, but on a po litical standard. The government in Washington cannot forever ex tend prosperity; but they can certainly stretch it out. Another system which has worked fairly well in forecast ing markets is the Dow theory. This was originated many years ago by one of the former owners of the Wall Street Journal. I presume any reader can secure an explanation of it by. writing to the Wall Street Journal in New York City. Just now, how ever, this Dow theory is out of style. not let them blindly make the mistake that Joan Blake did. We keep to ourselves in se cluded places where we offend no one. We only regret having to do so, not by choice. Many people have the impres sion that a nudist camp is an open air "red light" but abso lutely not. We pride ourselves in our moralty. No man or wom an meddles in another's home. We do not disrobe to show our nakedness to others but to get the blessing the sun gives us. The question has been asked, why not wear shorts?" The medi cal profession has stated many times, that the parts covered thusly need the sun even, more than the rest of the body. Many doctors would heartily recom mend nudism to many of their patients, but fear what some would think of them for doing so. Then too, if their ills, in many cases, were cured, they would lose another patient. Read this article again, slow ly this time, and really see what we are, then perhaps you will have a different opinion of us. Another slam sent our way, is that we are not upholding the constitution of the United States. To that I will say it is a dirty and false lie. We love our coun try and all of its leaders. If it comes to defending our free country we will sure do our share. Robert R. Warren, Rt. 1, Box 145, Central Point, Ore. I personally have been guided by the area theory, so-called. Briefly, this means that as long as business remains near its normal line of growth we have nothing to fear, except for some very unexpected eventuality. When, however, business begins to form an area of prosperity above the normal line , larger than previous areas, we must be on our guard. When the area be comes too large, an area of de pression below normal line be gins to develop. Stocks and re tail profits usually begin to de cline in the last part of the prosperity area, and begin - to ' come back in the early part of the depression area. The word "area" is used rather than high or low beause if the area above or below the normal line is deep, then it will last a much shorter length of time than if it is shal low. Contrariwise, a shallow area will tend to last longer. Thus, under the area theory, you cannot make a forecast as to the length of a period of pros perity or of depression until you know its height or depth. Study The Public Pulse During previous periods of prosperity, a very small per centage of the people owned se curities, or even real estate. Today, however, markets can be very much influenced by the thinking of small Investors scat tered throughout the country, that is, "John Q. Public." Futher more, owing to the strict super vision of the Securities & Ex change Commission, the bankers, investment dealers, and large in vestors cannot form pools to in fluence the market as they did before the Roosevelt regime. This was very clearly illustrat ed during the second election of President Eisenhower. Most stock and business analysis felt that the "bloom was off the rose" in 1955 and believed a bear market had started. The tremendous victory of Mr. Eisen hower in 1956 entirely changed the attitude of John Q. Public. This caused another uplift to the market and an extension of the period of prosperity. Therefore, the real criterion now of wheth er , or not we are in a . bear market is how you and. your neighbors feel. If most of you have faith in the present Admin istration, then a real bear market has not yet started. But, if you are fearful and unhappy, my guess is that the Bear market has started in earnest. Reverses Decision Salem (IP) -i The State Su preme Court Wednesday re versed a Multnomah County Cir cuit Court decision which had denied the petition of parents of a child to have Dorothea Lasley removed as a guardian. The parents, Bert M. Fox and Doris Elene Fox, reside in Cali fornia and the court was forced to conclude the Multnomah county court lacked jurisdiction. HELP US! Wt Need Clothing, Shoes, Dishes and Furniture. Ws Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring 2-4230 Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport
