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o 0 k OUR MEDFORD (ORGO) "Everyone in SouUiern Oregcsjl Read! The Mail Tribune" Published Dally Exceot Saturday 6): MEDFORD PRINTING CO 2d North Fir St. Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W HtTHl Editor KRH GREY Advertising Manager GERAi-D LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Manasng Editor EARL H ADAMS City editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Tfjegraph mdlXtt RICHARD J5WETT b'eertl Editor OUVE STABCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter t Medford Oregon undft ct f anarcn a, jtsyi BUBSCatPTlCH RATS B Mail In Jtdvanee: Per Covf 10e Daily and sftindav One year (15 00 Daily and 8unda Six months 8 AO Daily and Sunq(9 Three mos. 4-25 Sunday Only Qpe year hjo Sv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point, ftetfe Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, phoenix. Shady Cove aVffue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The cur rent chilly weather caused both the butcher and the ice cream Salesman to feel like an Es kimo." 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 3. 1937 (Friday) Turkey growers meeting is scheduled at Jackson county courthouse auditorium to dis cuss turkey boycott in San Francisco. Annual meeting of the Ore gon State Horticulture society ends with an exhibit of frozen foods in the Elks temple base ment. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 3. 1927 (Saturday) A county warrant of $5,000 for services rendered in the Oregon - California tax refund matt- issued to William H. fiorf; president of Medford Na tional bink, by county court. Ong feature of last month's 'Sfefcther here, according to the ff ther bureau, is that it was ty4 fittest November of local "record xcept for last year when $.ti inchfc of rain fell.'o o (40(VKARfc AGO Sac. 3. 117 (Monday) reident Villiam T. Foster of Reed college recently re turned ifom a two months in fection of conditions at the front, speaks at the natatorium. Home products week begins; Oregon residents expected to re member home industries in their O buying. o What's Your I.Q.? NlneOor ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent; (lye or tij is good. . 1. What is the slang word for a-faulty unexploded shell? 2.ible: Why is the mention of Passover in the N.T. impor tant? 3. Who was the master of the "Half Moon" when the Hudson river was discovered? 4. Was Sara Delano Roosevelt the mother of Teddy or Eleanor RooseySft? 5. Was the first peacetime mil itary U.S. draft in 1918, 1919, 1940, or 1941? 6. Is ermine a species of lice. muskrat, beaver, weasel or rab bit? 7. For what purpose was the great Spanish Armada assem bled? 8. Are all or som snakes hatched from eggs? 9. Which of thethree names did John Paul Jones add to his name? 10. What part of the world is the common white potato na tive? Answers: 1. Dud- 2. It dates ihe ministry of Jesus and other 3. Henry Hudson. 4. No (She was F. D. Roosevelt's moth- er). 5. 1940. 6. weasi. .icr me invasion of England, b. oome. Jon. 10. South Arnica. MAIL TRIBUN2 Portland's Oh what a difference that old ox makes ! We mean, of course, the MAN whose ox is gored. FOR many years the Mail Tribune, as everyone here abouts knows, has been fighting hard to get the Southern Pacific to live up to the spirit of its original contract and furnish southern Oregon with at least minimum and regular passenger service. During all that time this paper has, with the exception of the Roseburg News-Review and the Ash land Tidings, received no newspaper support what ever. Even the Grants Pass Courier, where the discon tinuance of all passenger service has injured that town and Josephine County, particularly in the tourist busi ness" and public convenience as much as in Douglas and Jackson, has not only refused to criticize that "billion dollar octopus" but has repeatedly gone out of its way to praise it. It has also urged its readers to get down on their marrow-bones and thank the Lord that the mighty and "FRIENDLY Southern Pacific" has condescended to ran freight trains through this part of the state whereby as it enjoys a rail monopoly it has taken out millions annually in net profit from Eugene to Dunsmuir, California. DUT now what do we see? The Portland Traction Company, it seems, re cently announced it would, because of lack of patro nage, abandon all passenger service, and with char acteristic arrogance proclaimed it would do so whether the Public Service Commissioner of Oregon gave his sanction or didn't. Unlike the Grants Pass Courier, neither of the two Portland papers took this ukase lying down. Both of them protested, the Oregon Journal with particular clarity, vision and vigor. The Journal, for example, quoted President Perl man of the New York Central as saying: "We can't take off service just because it isn't paying." Obviously, the Journal continued, this view is not shared by the Portland Traction company, which "refuses to put its cards on the table" and apparently intends "by crippling its service" pricing itself out of the passenger market and thus deprive the people on its lines of passenger service entirely. A CLOSER parallel to imagined. The Journal even quotes Public Utility Commis sioner Morgan to the effect that when the Portland Traction company complains of its unbearable losses its "interstate freight business which represents 96 per cent of all its freight operations" is IGNORED I A similar claim has been made by the Mail Trib une regarding the "SP," namely, that if the "SP" would make public its cash revenues BOTH freight and passenger, from the territory between Eugene and Dunsmuir, the total would undoubtedly show that minimum passenger service could be resumed, and the combined operation continued indefinitely at a rea sonable profit. The "SP" refuses to give missioner such figures. We THE Portland railroad (owned m San Francisco m .irlan ollir'V ic mnvo ovfrom a in its rlpfinrifP nf stnt.P. regulation than this, and as the Journel well says, quote : "The main question 'is whether a company subject to the State Public Utility commission can do as it pleases." Another question is as the Portland paper also declares : Can it refuse to lay all its cards on the table, so the people of the state can know what it, as a public utility, CAN afford to do and what it CAN'T? ' THERE is no question as to the reply both these rail- roads would make. It would be under the general heading of Commodore Vanderbilt's famous retort when told the public wanted certain changes made in the policies of the New York Central. Said he: "The public be damned." His successor now heading the New York Central, Mr. Perlman, throws such a policy in the ash can where it belongs. The Southern Pacific and the Port land Traction company (including the Oregon City Bellrose railroad) do not. THE final point made by the Oregon Journal is par- ticularly interesting to this paper, for it takes a position taken some time ago by the Mail Tribune w7hich at the time was subject to violent criticism by the Southern Pacific and its local "cheering section." We predicted that if the Southern Pacific should persist in its policy of denying all obligations in the realm of public service, and considering only how much money it could take out of a certain area and if this policy should be adopted by the railroad indus try as a whole the only ultimate answer would be public ownership. Well, here is the final word by the Journal re garding' Portland's railroad and interurban problem, quote : "So far as the interurban is concerned it is time we found out whether the Public Utility Commission is a reg ulatory body, or can be forced to be merely a rubber-stamp All indications are that the city must soon face the possibility of municipal ownership." e Aye verily how DIFFERENT it is when the Port land, not the Southern Oregon, ox is gored! R.W.R. Tuesday. December 3. 1S57 Ox Is Gored the railroad situation m the Public Service Com wonder WHY? 6&, it m$T?fAiiy & cowl youRoy Matter of Fact by stewan AiSoP HAS NIXON "MATURED?" 4 Washington Whether by act of God or by election, the most probable next President of the United State is, of course, Rich ard M. Nixon. Even if he never becomes President, Nixon will unquestionably play a decisive ly important role in the three years which remain of the second Eisenhower ad ministration. So this seems a good time for 1 T ! i. Stewan Alsop a good 100K. ai Richard Nixon, plus and minus. Consider the plus first. Every one is repeating hopefully that Nixon has "matured," without exactly spelling out what the word means. The best way to understand what the word means is to examine Nixon's role in the first year of the second Eisen hower administration. For the part Nixon has played in the inner policy debates within the Administration is highly significant for the future. Every one knows that Nixon was the first to recognize the full mean ing of the Sputniks, while lead ing Administration figures were smugly dismissing the first Sput nik as a "neat scientific trick," a "bauble," or a "basketball. Every one knows that since the Sputnik launchings Nixon has repeatedly and fervently de manded an effective response to the Soviet challenge, in the eco nomic as well as the military field. WHAT is not well known is "that this position of Nixon's is not simply a good politician's instinctive response to the drama of the Sputniks. It is, on the con trary, absolutely consistent with the position Nixon consistently took months before the. Sputniks roared into space. A good deal that seems mys terious in retrospect about the Eisenhower administration's backings and fillings in the pre Sputnik era is explained by one the Administration, led by Presi the Administration, led by Presi dential Assistant Sherman Ad ams, was determined to offer the voters a nice big shiny tax cut in the election year of 1958. The target was a tax reduction of at least $5 billion. The dream of a tax cut in turn dictated the defense cutbacks and the arbitrary ceilings on de fense spending, which in the post-Sputnik era have left the Administration wide open to withering criticism. And it is most significant that Nixon's was just about the only influential voice raised in the Administra tion's inner councils, against giv ing a tax cut first priority. Tax - cutting h e repeatedly pointed out, was no political magic formula. To prove his point, he cited the 1954 elections, in which the voters rewarded the Republican administration for the' biggest tax cut in history by electing solid Democratic major ities to both houses. THE real strength of the Eisen hower administration, Nixon consistently argued, lay in the voters' sense of confidence in the President's handling of defense and foreign policy. To give a tax cut priority over defense might destroy that sense of confidence, and thus the greatest Republican asset. " Nixon of course had access to the intelligence reports showing the Soviets far ahead of this country in the missile race. But so did the members of the tax cut brigade. And Nixon seems to have been almost the only high Administration figure who grasped the real meaning of the intelligence. Weeks before the Sputniks, Nixon proposed to the President a series of speeches laying the facts on the line. Nixon was overruled until the Sputniks. But what is inter esting about this episode from the recent past is not so much that Nixon was right although being right about such matters is a useful habit in a potential Pres ident. What is interesting is the political nature of the arguments Nixon advanced against giving a tax cut first priority. ""IXON is a politician to his fingertips which is also a good thing for a potential Presi dent to be, despite the current silly myth that a President should be 'above' politics. But there are .essentially, two kinds of politicians. The first kind of politician sees the purpose of politics as getting elected, by promising the voters anything they seem to want, and by using any means at hand to destroy the opposition. The second kind of politician sees effective government, respon sive to the realities of the domes tic and world situation, as the best kind of politics in the long run. Almost any politician is a mix ture of the two. But in his early years Nixon was certainly pre dominantly the first kind of pol itician. The difference is the dif ference between political imma turity and political maturity. There are big minus signs in the Nixon ledger still, which require further examination. But surely the difference between the old Nixon and the new is a plus sign, and a very big one indeed. dopyright, 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK As this is written, the scien tists are predicting that the rocket that propelled Sputnik I out into space will fall rather shortly. The exact time of its fall, they say, will depend on happenstance. If it hits the earth's atmosphere broadside (it's out in space now, you know) it will come down quicker. If it hits edgewise, it willl stay up longer. How come, you ask? Try swishing a piece of lath through the air. If you swish it broadside, it wil meet strong resistance from the air and will come to a stop sooner. If you swish it edgewise, it will meet less resistance from the air and will keep going longer. It will be the same with the Sputnik rocket. WHEN the rocket hits the air, it will fall to the earth in flames. Why? Out in space, there is no friction. But in the earth's air there IS friction. Move a steel object slowly above a spin ning grindstone and it will stay cool. But hold it against the grindstone and it will become hot. The heat is produced by fric tion. Friction is provided by the air when objects move through it with blinding speed. That's why meteors burn up when they approach the earth. It's why the Sputnik rocket will burn up. Tlf'ORE questions: "A Why will Sputnik's rocket fall if and when it falls? Why hasn't it fallen so far? rpRY this one: - Fill a bucket with water. Whirl it around your head. As long as you keep it whirling fast enough not a drop of water will fall out, even when the bucket is upside down. That is because at a certain speed centrifugal force balances gravity. But when you slow the bucket down, look out! Due to the slow ing of the speed of the whirling bucket, the pull of. gravity will overcome centrifugal force and the water will fall out of the bucket and douse you. It works the same way with the Sputnik rocket. As long as it moved at a certain speed, it stayed up. When its speed slows down, it will fall. WHY are these things interest ing? Well, by experimenting with Sputniks and such and observing the results of the experiments the sicentists, led by the astro physicists who are specialists in that branch of science which deals with celestial bodies, will evenutually learn how man can travel in outer space and per haps visit the celestial bodies Bi-Parfssan Government Being Tried as Experiment in Colombia By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent One of the costilest guerilla wars in recent history seems to have come to its end in the Latin A m e rican re public of Co lombia. In a plebiscite held Sunday, 3,000, 000 men and women vot e d in favor of a remarkable plan under which their Charles M. McCann country would be ruled for the next 12 years by a bi-partisan government. If it works, the plan will end a period of nearly 10 years in Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of 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. She's Not Misunderstood To the Editor: Having read your editorial "Misunderstood Parents" in last evenings paper, I am puzzled. There may have been a reason why its "Letter to a Teen-Age Son" was originally written but I cannot comprehend why anyone would reprint it. It certainly deserved a quiet de cent burial. The author, a parent who has provided everything including 24 hour maid service for her teen-age son, is not allowed to use the telephone, the television or the car and must keep abso lutely quiet in the presence of his friends except for "Hello and Goodby." She pleads that she needs understanding. She's got it. She is a mental case. Fa ther isn't much mentioned but we can safely assume he is out in the garage polishing son's shoes and meditating on he and mother's decision (stated in the opening paragraph) "We stack up as real fine parents." The editorial use of this type of drivel (I can think of no other, nicer word) can hardly be passed off as harmless space filling. It casts a shadow on all teen-agers, leaves the notion they are money-grubbing in grates and once more finds in the high-schooler some good JENKINS that surround us. That's the long and the short of it. riNE more question: u Why should man WANT to travel into outer space? In try ing to find an answer to that one, let's ask another question: Why did Columbus want to sail around the world? I think the answeri s that he wanted to prove it could be done. WE MUST remember that in Columbus' day the idea of ,sailing around the world in volved supernatural terrors akin to those involved in the idea of sailing off into outer space. The world was then generally believed to be FLAT. The pre vailing notion was that some where off in the distance one would come to the EDGE of the world. It was thought at this edge of the world water of the seas poured over like Niagara over its cliff. Where would one go when one got THERE? It was a terrifying thought. But Columbus DARED it. He found men who were willing to share the dare. Man always has been a strange animal. He is a strange animal still. Warming Trend On Weather Scene By UNITED PRESS A mild weather pattern cov ered the nation today with mod erate doses of snow, rain, warm ing and cooling forecast for var ious parts of the country and all four in the Midwest. Early morning reports showed a light band of snow in the east ern Dakotas, and several light flurries in the northern Great Lakes and New England. In the far Northwest, rain dominated the weather map. Most heavily hit area was Ta toosh island off western Wash ington where nearly one-half inch of rain was deposited since Monday night. Temperatures were 10 to 15 degrees cooler early today in the upper and mid-Mississippi valley and the upper Great Lakes. Farther south, in Texas and Oklahoma, a warming trend replaced several days of nippy, cold weather. Generally fair weather was reported from the Rockies to the Pacific ocean, with the ex ception of the rainy Northwest. FINISHED WALKING Milton, Fla. (IP) W. A. Sim-j mons, retiring after more than 33 years as a mail carrier with the Post Office department, re vealed that his first name is Walker. which Colombian fought Colom bian mercilessly in innumerable clashes some of which involved thousands of men on each side. It is estimated that at least 100,000 and possibly as many as 200,000 persons were killed. Liberals Split The Colombian civil war start ed back in 1946. For years, Co lombia had been under the two party political system-Conservatives and Liberals. Then the Lib eral Party split up. The result was that the candidate of the minority Conservative Party was elected president. In April, 1948, a big inter American conference was meet ing in Bogota. Gen. George C. Marshall, then secretary of state, led the United States delegation. commercial material for a mar ketable article. With no proof, no cases quoted, just a few hun dred well chosen words and you can really make them look like a generation of stinkers. You can't sell children. It's against the law but you can get a goodly sum for their reputation. Most of the teen-agers I know are pretty decent human beings. If there is one among them who refuses his parents the car, tele vision, telephone and normal conversation, I haven't met him. If he tried it, most parents I have met would respond with something more solid than a whining, "Understand me, son ny." If you are seriously interest ed in teen-age problems I sug gest you forget the True Con fession type teen-ager and get a copy of the last issue of the Med ford Hi-Times. There is a fine editorial in it asking, not for mother locked in a closet, but permission to use the Medford library for study. Then if we could fix this for them I have one other thought. When the kids get busy let any who are in so terrible a situation as "Misunderstood Mother," the Tribune Editor if he subscribes to her view, and any fathers who are afraid to leave the attic, re tire to our $100,000 juvenile de tention home for a nice rest Jane Gillaspie, 636 West Fourth st., Medford, Ore. Nudism Scored By Bible To the Editor: In the Nov. 28 issue of the Tribune there ap peared an article favoring Nud ism. I was much disaappointed. Certainly the writer showed his ignorance of the Bible in not knowing that God condemns the sin of Nudism in both Old and New Testaments. When God comes in Nudism goes out. In the very beginning of sin in the world, God destroyed Nudism once and for all time by clothing the pair which He had created, and legislated against it throughout all the Bible. Gen. 3:21-22. Another Bible incident is found in the eighth chapter of Luke. Jesus here encounters His first nudist, and describes him as "having the devil for a long time and wearing no clothes." Vs. 27. Jesus never tolerated nudists in His presence without healing them, and so immediate ly He commands the unclean spirit to come out of the man and he was healed and put on clothes. Vs. 29-33. The multitudes were amazed when they saw what was done the unclean spirit gone, the nud ist sitting at the feet of Jesus clothed and in his right mind," and they were afraid. Lk. 8:35. From the above Scripture all nudists should be warned and at once to give up their sin and evil practice and let God heal them. "He is just the same today." W. L. Deming 216 Portland ave. Medford, Ore. 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. On April 9 Jorge Eliecer Gai tan, a Liberal Party leader, was assassinated. Within a few hours riots which turned the capital into a flam- jing battlefield broke out. Mobs murdered, burned, looted. Fight ing flamed around the United States and other embassies in which foreign delegates to the big conference were staying. The government finally quelled the riots. The capital calmed down. But the fighting was simply transferred to the provinces. There, month after month, strong forces of liberal "guerrillas" fought government troops in engagements of all sorts from ambushes to pitched battles. Pinilla Overthrown Last May 10, Gen. Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, who had seized power in 1953, was overthrown by a group of army leaders and sent into exile. The army men a junta, as it is called in Latin America accepted a plan worked out by civilian leaders to bring peace q to the country. Sunday's plebiscite was the result. It called on voters to ap prove a long-range program in volving the amendment of the 1886 constitution. There is to be a bi-partisan congress in which the Liberal and Conservative parties will be equally repre sented. A joint national candi date for president will be chosen by congress and approved by the people in an election to be held next May. The junta will hand over its authority when the new president takes office Aug. 7. Then, if all goes well, Colom bia will be under bi-partisan rule until 1970. California Fire Still Uncontrolled Azusa, Calif. (IP) Flames of a giant 12-day-old brush fire 20 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles still burned out of control today. Foothill commu nity officials worried about pos sible floods. Civil defense officials and civic leaders of communities strung along the base of the San Gabriel Mountains scheduled a meeting in nearby Monrovia to day to discuss the danger of pos sible floods caused by rainy sea son runoffs from the burned over area. Still on the firelines attempt ing to control the blaze were 600 tired firefighters, whose jobs in the rugged mountain country was made even more difficult by high winds which fanned hot spots. By Monday night, the fire had scorched 25,200 acres of brush and timber in the Angeles Na tional Forest, causing an estimat ed $25 million damage to valu able watershed area. Fire crews brought the fire un der control Thanksgiving Day only to have it' race out of con trol again in front of high winds. Rangers. said they didn't know when the fire would be con trolled because it depended on weather conditions. The blaze was started when the outdoor stove of a road crew was overturned by high winds. EMERGENCY NUMBERS FIRE SP 2-2333 POLICE SP 3-3636 MONEY SP 3-5308 A DWUKM Of MCmC PACIFIC 9 yaH4. INDUSTRIAL 16 S. CENTRAL HOW LONG WILL THEY LAST? Your household furnishings we mean! Experts say furniture 20 years; appliance about 12; sheets, pillow cases and dishes around 7 years. BUT, today' high values could be tomor row' ashes. NOW is the time to have us protect you with enough insurance. Bill Fish
