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0 0 O O 0 Q o FOUR MEDflORD (O0W) Tveryone to Southern qtesM Readi The Mall Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 37-29 North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Managar GERALD LATHAM Business Manag ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Sditor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph fcWitor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation M. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clan mattar at Medford Oregon under Act f March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATSS 8y Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday On r S1VQG Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three nr 4-ao Sunday Only One year M20 By Carrier In Aavanoa Medford Ashland Central Point Wa9e Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady- Cove Rogue stiver. Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday One yer Slff OO Daily and SutKay One month 1-50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advanco Official Paper of the City f Matffore' Official Paper of Jackfcg Caonty United Hi Full Leased Wir MEMBER OF AUDIT BURJAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO MP AN"? QTC Offices in New, York Chicago, o troit. San Francisco. Los Amseles Seattle Portland St Louis At!n vsacuuver. da.. NEgSrAPEg rususHEts ASSOCIATION NATIONAL V i3, TUT, Flight o' Time o Medford and Jtcfcflon County History from th tilm of The Mail Tribune 10, BG, CO and 40 years ao. 10 YEAlS AGO Dec. 2, X547 (Tuesday) War with Russia is neither "imminent or inevitable," ac cording to HHjg M. Zcharias, re tired rear gdmirfcl of the navy, who addressed thft Rogue River Valley Knife fcnd Fork, club last night. n From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Four days have passed since Thanksgiving and the turkey has started to taste like hamburgers, epicu reans report." 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 2, 1937 (Thursday) The 52nd annual meeting of the Oregon State Horticultural society was opened in the Elks temple auditorium this morning with 125 present. Granges in Jackson county and in every part of the state will devote a large part of their lecture time to a study of Ore gon's natural resources, accord ing to word received here. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 2, 1927 (Friday) Medford's population is 13, 104, according to the annual public school censfcs just com pleted, instead of 12,215 as shown by the new city directory published several weeks ago. Following several days of moving, the majority of county offices ar becoming fairly well settled in the new courthouse Qjn North Central avenue. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 2, 1917 (Monday) Thrift stamp; and war saving certificates went on sale today at the postoffice in Medford in common with all other pestof fices throughout the country. From local and personal col umn: We take in Victrolas as part payment on the new Edison recreation of music Palmer Piano Place, South Central ave. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct It superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six Ur i no a 1. Do earthquakes occur be neath thqQOcean's deepest floor? As 0 t.. oiuie. is it curreci to Term iithe literature of Genesis as prim itive history? 3. Did Columbus make 3, 4, or 5 voyages to the New World? O T:ul T li . . i G 4. Name which U.S. made. the only place in paper currency is 5. 'Who was the spiritual lead er in India who Sad advocated passive resistance to gain inde pendence? 6. Whom did F. D. Roosevelt succeed as Governor of N.Y.? " 7. Pronounce Carribean cor rectly. 8. Which is the longest bone iiothe human body? 9. What river separates Bess arabia from the Ukraine? 10. What is the title of the Cvife of a Maharajah? Answers: 1. Yes; 2. Yes; 3. Four; l Washington. D.C. at the ' Bureau of Engraving and Print ing; 5. Mohandus K. Gandhi; 6. Alfred E. Smith; 7. Either Kar-i (as in it) be -an, or Ka-rib'-e-an. 8. Femur; 9. Dniester; 10. Ma-fcaxane. JCHTS. TmiBUJTS Misunderstood Parents So much has been said recently about "under standing" young people and their problems, one won ders if the other side of the com isn t worth consider ing, too. ' Aren't parents deserving of some of that "under standing" from their sons and daughters? This question is dealt with in a thought-provoking article in the Public Employees News, in the form of a "Letter to a Teen-Age Son." The author says : "After taking a quick look at the way we members of the parental fraternity operate, I think we stack up pretty well despite advancing years. Through our efforts, your generation has been exposed to dancing lessons, music lessons, regular eye and dental check-ups, immunization shots, a respectable wardrobe, round-the-clock maid serv ice and unlimited affection. There is no charge for these small services nor do we want or expect eternal gratitude or unquestioning obedience. All we ask is tha right to be- hava as human beings as well as parents." "THIS fed-up mother goes on to declare she thinks parents generally are exercising remarkable self control when "confronted with the endless lists of things teenagers wish they out that the feeling is not only mutual, but universal. There's always something that somebody wishes some body else wouldn't do "So why pick on parents?" She also complains about her son's use of the word "logical" which often boils down to the statement, "But all my friends do it." After touching on the automobile problem (higher insurance rates, among other things), she reports on her son's recent "set of instructions restricting my con versations with your friends to 'hello' and 'good-bye'," and adds: "Have you an idea of how discouraging it is to spend a lifetime developing conversational powers and then have to try to fit in with the play pen set? For all your wails of being misunderstood, your generation is far from tongue tied. You are the witty ones, I'll admit, but when your comments become too personal and pointed, I intend to do my part in pinning back teenage ears." A ND then she comes to argument: "I know that it takes a lot of doing to imagine parents as teen-agers but we were. Nor are we so senile that we cannot recall the frustrations of being misunderstood, ordered around, unfairly punished and having our privacy invaded. Strangely enough, we still experience these same frustrations when you re gard us as combination flunkies and keepers of the exchequer. We would like to have a fling at being individuals free to make social engagements, enjoy TV, talk on the telephone and use the car at our own convenience not yours. While you have the problem of fighting for your independence, we're busy strug gling to improve our door-mat status, so who's to say whose battle is more important? " So speaks the rebellious mother of a teen-age son. Maybe she's got a point. Don't parents need "under standing" almost as much as their children? E. A. "Green River" Problem 0 The Grants Pass Courier editorially calls for the enactment of a "Greeli River ordinance" in that com munity, to protect its residents from itinerant and fly-by-night door-to-door salesmen. In some localities, the paper points out, this type of ordinance has worked. It has prevented the bother ation of the magazine crews which so frequently swoop through Oregon towns, and others. But at the same time they have permitted the performance of services by established, and frequently welcome, door-to-door merchants as the Fuller brush, Watkins prod ucts or other dependable representatives. OTILL, a restrictive ordinance of this type is de- batable. Should the city use its police and regula tory power to limit the legitimate business activities of anyone in this way? Some people think it should not. The Medford city council has never seen fit to enact such legislation. Even more of a nuisance, in our book, than the door-to-door salesman, who tramps the streets, is the telephone salesman or woman, who calls at all hours with a so-called "quiz" question, or a sales pitchy for insurance, or dancing lessons, or coupons of question able value, or what have you. And so far as we are informed, no one has yet dis covered any type of regulation to control this nuisance fairly and effectively. pHE Grants Pass paper concluded by saying: "Ways have been found, by other cities, to protect bona fide local business men and women, and still keep out the 'slickers' and 'gimmick artists' who otherwise take thou sands of dollars from a community much of it from per sons who can ill-afford the loss." If something of the sort can be designed, which will on one hand protect residents from unwanted door or telephone solicitation, and on the other hand recognize the rights of legitimate' business operations to publicize and sell their products, it would be greet ed warmly by many people we know. But so far we've never heard of a completely satis factory solution. The best defense still seems to be a firm "no" by the citizen so approached. E.A. Differences In Pay Means Teacher Theft Washington (IP) A confer ence on teachers salaries was told recently that differences in pay among the states results in "stealing of teachers." Finis E. Engleman, executive secretary of the American As sociation of School Administra tors, made the statement before educators from 35 states. "Patterns in the U.S. are shift ing." Engleman said. "There isn't Monday, December 2, 1937 wouldn't do." She points the center of her whole anything local any more. We are one unit as a nation and it doesn't make sense for one state to pay its teachers a third more than another state. Children do not deserve any more or less be cause they live in one state or another." Engleman also said (teachers contracts should be enlarged to include such matters as class size, adequacy of supplies and physical conditions in the school. CAN'T I KEBP 'EM 'TIL rilrv' HAtsC vtMir'l Matter of Fact THE SOVIET TAKE-OVER Damascus, Syria Until this summer, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser called the tune for the left-wing na tionalists who have g a i n ed such a grip on the Arab worldf and the Kremlin sup ported Nasser without much power to con t r o 1 him. To- Joseph Aisop day, t n e Jire mlin can pretty well call the tune, and even Nasser must dance with the rest. That is the real meaning of the left-wing coup d'etat which re cently convulsed this always lovely, immenoailly ancient oasis city. The change in rela tionship between the Soviets and self -proclaimed Arab nationalists may seem to be only a matter of degree and shading. But it is in fact a change of fundamental historic importance, and it is worth recounting the obscure events that produced this great change. The story begins last spring, when Nasser and his movement had reached a grave turning point. The governments of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq and Jor dan had united at last to oppose his interferences in their af fairs. His plot against King Hus sein of Jordon had ignominious ly failed. His attempted inter vention in the Lebanese election had also proved a bust. In sum, the bandwagon seemed to be moving against Nasser; and in Arab politics the apparent dir ection of the bandwagon tends to be decisive. FTHIS situation, noises began to be heard in Cairo about a blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba to prevent further Israeli use of the Negev port of Elath. A great play was made of the transfer to Egypt of three Soviet submarines useful for blockade purposes. Kisselev, the Soviet Ambassador in Cairo, meanwhile hurried off to Moscow for prolonged con sultations. It now seems clear that Nas ser actually wanted to attempt a blockade of the Aqaba Gulf. This would have automatically forced King Saud and King Hussein, the Lebanese and the Iraqis to rally again to Nasser's standard. But in order to blockade the Gulf, Nasser needed an absolute military guarantee from the Sov iet Union, to protect him from the Israeli army that has proven it can drive to Cairo, if need be, in a matter of days. It further seems clear that the risk of giving Nasser such a gua rantee seemed too great to the masters of the Kremlin. Thus Kisselev was sent back to Cairo with a negative answer. And this explains one of the major speech es at the famous and critical June plenum of the Central Com mittee in Moscow, which was a bitter attack by Dimitri Shepilov on the alleged timidity of Nik ita Khrushchev's Middle Eastern policy. HAVING disposed of another squad of his domestic en emies at the June plenum, Khru shchev still had to consider what he was going to do about the un favorable change of political trend in the Arab lands. Hither to, even in Syria, the Soviets had always mainly acted through Nasser and in support of Nasser. But soon Syria offered an ideal opportunity to reverse the gen eral Arab trend, while reducing Soviet dependence on Nasser and increasing direct Soviet influ ence on the Arab nationalists, all in one brilliant operation. The situation was ripe, be cause the taiiure oi tne plot against. King Hussein in Jordon had in turn disturbed the un easy balance in Syria. Both Sy ria's moderates and Syria's left wingers were maneuvering to wards a coup d'etat. In these cir cumstances on June 29, the Kre mlin significantly sent a lead ing economic expert, Nikolai Vassilienko, to Damascus as Councilor of Embassy. Shortly after Vassilienko's ar rival, the astute Soviet Ambas sador to Syria, Sergei Nemt china, was recalled to Moscow for prolonged talks. A little later CHRISTMAS? t rv- life I 'm By Stewart Alsep still, a large Syrian delegation headed by the agile, ambitious and opportunist Defense Minist er, Khaled Al Azm, also took the road to Moscow. THE masters "of the Kremlin offered Azm and his party a long term credit for economic development of Syria reputed ly just under $200,000,000 carry ing only 2V2 per cent interest and with very -easy repayment terms. Azm, who had no doubt been prepared in Damascus, swallowed the bait like a de lighted trout. No delight was felt, however, by the leading moderate mem ber of the delegation to Moscow, the Chief of Staff of the Syrian Army, Gen. Nizam Eddine. He protested that Azm was abandon ing Syria's policy of strict neu trality by accepting the Soviet credit. He left the Moscow talks before they were completed, and flew back to Damascus to try to rally the support of other Sy rian moderates like President Shukry Kuwatly. But most Syrian moderates have the approximate liveliness of dead fish on a marble slab. Gen. Nizam Eddine got less than nowhere. In fact, the immediate riposte to his protests was the "discovery of a plot" in the army by the younger group of left wing oficers headed by the fam ous Chief of Intelligence, Col. Abdel Hamid Serraj. SERRAJ now demanded a purge of the officer corps to remove almost all those who still held the views of Gen. Nizam Eddine. The Chief of Staff re fused to sign the disharges but could get no support in his stand, Therefore Nizam Eddine him self was forced to resign. A new pro-Communist Chief , of Staff, Gen. Afif Al Bizri, was at once appointed; and thus the left wingers at last acquired almost unchallengeable power here in Syria. This left-wing triumph in Sy ria automatically reversed the Arab political trend. But it also resuted from a Soviet initiative, not from an initiative of Gamal Abdel Nasser's. It was thus a radical innovation, establishing a wholly new system of relation ships which was then accepted by Gamal Abdel Nasser, perhaps unhappily but none the less quite meekly, when he sent Gen. Ha kin Amer to Moscow to beg for the kind of economic credit that Syria had been spontaneously of fered. The Soviets seem to have underlined the great change in relationships by somewhat hu miliatingly giving Amer exactly the same deal already given to the Syrians. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Churchill Marks 83rd Birthday London (IP) Sir Winston Churchill celebrated his 83rd birthday Saturday surrounded by his children and grandchil dren and honored by his nation. Churchill held court at Chart well, his country home near Lon don. The guest of honor was Field Marshal Viscount Mont gomery and together they watch ed an hour-lone American trib ute to the World War II prime minister screened by Britain's independent television networK. Montcomerv. himself, filmed an introduction to the show ear lier this week and in it called Churchill "the greatest English man of all time." WHY MANKIND MUST DIE Geo. N. Taylor Satan is the Father of Liars. He said that Adam and Eve would not die if they ate the forbidden fruit. Adam knew better. Yet Adam ate the fruit and sinned and earned death. Wherefore as by one man Adam sin came into the world and by sin came death. So death has fallen upon all man kind in that all have sinned. But God so loved the world that He gave His only born Son, that if you believe on Him, you will not perish but have eternal life. NATO Meeting Without Ike Seen Like 'Hamlet Without Hamlet' By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) There is a pat phrase for what will take place in Paris two weeks from today if the heads of state of the North Atlantic Treaty Organ ization coun tries meet in the absence of President Ei senhower. "TT a m 1 m Lrle C. Wilson . . Tr without Ham let." is the phrase. Producing Shakespeare's "Hamlet" without the prince of Denmark in the title role would, of course, be .just about the ut most in frustrating futility. The phrase "Hamlet without Hamlet" was coined to express a situation in which some great ef fort was made and failed because the basic necessity for its success was not present when the effort was made. That would be a fair description of what awaits the NATO summit meeting if the President is unable to attend. NATO Secretary-General Paul Henri Spaak put it in the fewest words as reported in a dispatch from Paris. The Atlantic pact council of ministers had just vot ed to accept Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon as a substitute for President Eisenhower at the NATO meeting which begins Dec. 16. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Another holiday has passed. And In its wake There comes the next morn ing the aftermath of traffic deaths on our highways on a holiday, when Americans cus marily take to the road to go places and see things and visit people. WHAT of this year's Thanks giving Dav death toll? It appears from the figures available as this is written that from 6 o'clock Wednesday eve ning until about 7 o'clock Fri dav morning some 185 lives were lost on the highways of the United States. HOW does that compare with last year? It's a little larger. The best figures obtainable at the mo ment indicate that in the same period last year about 150 lives were lost in traffic accidents. How about a NORMAL' day? It appears that the traffic toll on a holiday is about DOUBLE the toll on a normal day. ALL that sounds grim. Tt isn't however, auite as grim as it sounds. v There were more deaths this vear than last. But we must re member that this is a GROW ING country. There are MORE AMERICANS this year than last. More Americans own cars this year. More American cars will be owned next year than this. So it is logical that traffic fatali ties increase from year to year. Tt. is shocking that on a noii- riav twine as many people snouia be killed on the roads as on nnrmal davs. but it must not be forgotten that on holidays more cars are on the roads probably twice as many. ONE more question: Whv ham so oersistently on these holiday traffic toll figures? TViprp is this reason: If more people can be brought to realize that POOR DRIVING is the principal cause of high way fatalities, it may be possible to REDUCE highway fatalities. That is the story in a nutshell. If all Americans were as good drivars as they should be or even HALF as good drivers as they should be it would be pos sible to reduce enormously the toll of death and injury on our roads. Economy Discussion Set For Russ Body Moscow OP) Russian sources said the forthcoming session of the Supreme Soviet parliament will discuss the ' current eco nomic plan following the reor ganization of industry in the Soviet Union. Other matters will include the 1958 state budget, basic principles of a projected new criminal code and ratification of decrees passed by the Presid ium, they said. Trie Supreme Soviet is sched uled to meet Dec. 19. President's Prestige "Everyone would be delight ed," Spaak, said, "if the doctors decide that the Pres?dent can come. "After all," and here Spaak put the clincher on it, "the whole cencept originally was to have the President here to lend the weight of his prestige to a new NATO effort." None knows that better than Eisenhower. He is under fire in the United States for complac ency, lack of leadership, failure to direct the nation's affairtP vig orously in the cold war with the Soviet Union. Under such circumstanced the President is facing the gravest kind of decision. Shall he or shall he not answer the NATO plea for his leadership and pres tige? There is not much doubt here that he will answer the NATO call. If he is unable to do so, the President instantly is confronted with nothr rleeis- ion, graver than tht first gfid more personal. Must Be Able to Worg By his own rules, Eisenhower has put it that a president must Communications Letters to the Editor must bear thrame and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. o Helpless Animal To the Editor: The annual dropping of helpless animals has begun. The day before Thanksgiving a homely female puppy of hound descent was left alone in Table Rock. She cried pitifully all afternoon and evening until my family could take it no longer and took her in for a Thanks giving dinner shared with our numerous pets. How can people who do these things thank their maker, for blessings given and have a clear conscience? We hope their turkey choked them when they thought of a hungry, cold puppy that no one wanted. We took her to the dog pound which any one can do rather than not know what becomes of them or the suffering they go through. Mrs. Ray Doran, Table Rock Route 2, Box 257, Central Point, Ore. b Greeting Plans To the Editor: It's really some thing to have a new comer (re ferring to Ann J. Lynch of 1525 Lenora Drive) put beef steak on Medford's black eye, that E.A., Medford Mail Tribune editor and his friend gave our pear city for its being "unfriendly." Nice girl, Ann, it's easy to understand wjjy your neighbors welcomed you in such a friendly manner. Theoretically we could dra matize the recipient (Medford) reciprocating by making the Lynch famine's first Christmas here an unforgettable one. The entire populace of the Rogue River valley could send Christ mas greeting cards, and perhaps Medford's fine business family would initiate Santa Claus just a wee bit. Burdened with extra mail for the Lynches, Uncle Sam would no doubt be glad to sling a bag of mail over Mayor Snider's shoulder, also the Kelly judges, and professional and business men too. Then TV and radio stations, also Chamber of Commerce and of course the per sistent editor of Medford's Mail Tribune, could get behind the publicity of Medford's big greet ing party for the Lynches, coast to coast networks would follow suit, magazines also. Medford's identity would never agein be a black eye of unfriendliness, rather an attractive little city, with a big heart, and an extend ed hand of welcome to new comers. Emma Lou Carpenter, 811 Sherman st., Medford, Ore. FUNERAL SERVICES i In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral ' Home Phone SP 2-6675 be physically up to the "per formance of important duties." The NATO summit meeting with chiefs of state present to com pose a bold, new, Free World front against the Communist menace is important. Few well informed persons in Washington would believe today that the President will not be there. By the same logic, it seems reasonable to believe that he would bench himself if he were unable to perform that import ant duty. " x Someone pushed the panic but ton in the early hours of last week's uncertainty about Eisen hower's health. The White House and State Department said simul taneously it was to be "assumed" he would not attend the NATO meeting in Paris. That led in evitably to speculation that he would retire. The United Press reported over the week end that the White gouse was doing its utmost now to squelch the retirement idea. Squelch it is just what a journey to Paris would do. Nothing less would quite squelch an idea like that. Is Ike Indispensable? To the Editor: In re your edi torial: "Ike the Indispensable Man." If it is true as you say that President Eisenhower is an in dispensable man, then that very fact condemns our educational system, as well as the govern in e n t controls exercised in peace time. In a country of. 170,000,000 free Americans, one man is so important to our safety and well-being that we tremble whenever he catches a slight cold or is temporarily incapaci tated. We have not produced another man capable of taking his place in an emergency. So say you and many others. Every other man, no matter what his station in life, is re placable, but if anything should happen to our president, the calamity would overwhelm us. Yet some of the great news papers are suggesting that Pres ident Eisenhower should resign his office in favor of the vice president, a yonuger, more vig orous man. Don't forget, too, " that millions of Americans vot ed for Adlai Stevenson in the last presidential election. There is no doubt that men in high places do not trust the in telligence of the American peo ple. The Pentagon kept many facts about ballistic missiles, etc., from the people and then suddenly bombarded them with information already known to the Russians. A lot of overhauling is need ed in this country. Washington is a good place to start. David Frisch P.O. Box 292 Camp White, Ore. PARENTS PATROL Chittenango, N. Y. (IF) Mayor Clare Button proposes that other places follow Chitten ango's method of smashing ju venile delinquency. Button has sworn in 17 parents of teenagers as special police officers to pa trol the village at night. He says the parental force has dropped the adolescent crime rate to near zero. Don't Ngl.f Slipping FALSE TEETH Do false teeth drop, dip or wobble when you talk, eat, laugh or sneeze? Don't be annoyed and embarrassed by such handicaps. 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