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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
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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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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.
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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.
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