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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 (years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Ocf. 13, 1947 (Friday)
Investigators from the state
fire marshal's office in Salem are
In Medford checking reports of a
possible water failure in con
nection with the blaze that de-
ifrnvpf Fir Vwin 7? Trnrnn's
home at 1913 Hillcrest rd.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column; "Blizzards,
ice and snow slowed down auto
ists in the mountainous area. In
the semi-flat country the same
elements only made them go
faster."
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 13. 1937 (Monday)
Business session of annual dis
trict conference of the American
Legion held at Medford hotel.
Four special trains leave Med
ford district carrying eighth
corps area CCC men to Texas in
a general shift on companies to
replace eighth corps men with
fifth corps area companies.
a vr tip rr
Dec. 13, 1927 (Tuesday)
The state game board recently
shipped 22 wild turkeys to the
Pat Swayne ranch on the Apple
. gate In hopes the birds will
wander into the wilderness.
A committee has made ar
rangements with the forest ser
vice to secure a large fir tree to
transplant in the city for a live
Christmas tree.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 13. 1917 (Thursday)
The rush of young men of
draft age to enlist before the
time limit for voluntary enlist
ment expired is over, local re-
' cruiting sergeants say.
From local and personal col
umn: "The schools of Talent
. have been ordered closed for two
weeks by County Physician T. J.
Malmgren because of an epi
demic of measles m the town
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What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is exceUent: five or
six Is good.
1. Did juvenile delinquency
decrease or increase during
World War II?
2. Bible: Did the betrayal of
Jesus take place before or after
midnight?
3. Correct the following: "Jim
is the best of the two men."
4. In which island group,
madeOfamous in World War II,
is Bougainville?
5. Which two cities are re
ferred to in the "Tale of Two
Cities"?
6. What kind of tree grows
from an acorn?
7. Name the famous Mace
donian King, who was born in
Europe, died in Asia and was
buried in Africa?
8. In what part of England
north, south, east or west is
Cornwall?
9. Sound does or does not
travel through a vacuum?
10. Complete the following
saying: "Many a true word is
spoken in ."
Answers: 1. Increase. 2. After
midnight. 3. "Jim Is the better
of the two men." 4. The Solo
mons. 5. London and Paris.
6. Oak. 7. Alexander the Great.
8. West. 9. Does not.' 10. Jest.
5
Yokota AFB, Japan OP) A
U.S. Air Force C47 transport
crashed and burned near Tokyo
Thursday, killing all five persons
boaxd.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
The "Over
The Eagles Lodge has launched a nation-wide
effort to gather signatures on petitions supporting its
"Jobs After 40" campaign. Several such petitions
are being circulated locally, with considerable success.
The idea behind the Eagles' project is to get at
the waste, the discrimination, and the essential
stupidity of companies which refuse to hire men and
women because they are past 35 or 40 or 45 and for
no other reason.
Specifically, the campaign is to support a pro
posed federal law, prohibiting such discrimination.
"IHETHEPw or not such legislation passes, the atten
tion which will come to the problem is all to the
good. For most of the reasons given by companies
for their failure to hire older workers have, upon
examination, been shown to be fallacies.
For instance :
The National Industrial Council reports that work
ers of 40 or more are equal or superior to younger
workers in many ways. The Bureau of Labor Statis
tics says older workers have better records for
dependability, a lower accident rate, and greater skill.
A survey conducted by the University of Illinois shows
that workers in the older age brackets get along well
with other employees.
"THERE is one aspect to the situation, entirely aside
" from the personal feelings of the unhappy older
workers themselves, and the personal tragedies which
can result. This is the nation's growing need for
skilled manpower.
Despite temporary periods of unemployment, such
as the minor one which the nation is undergoing
today, economists are pretty well in agreement that
before too many more years there will be more jobs
than can be filled with men and women between the
ages of 20 and 40.
One figure quoted recently indicates that in the
next eight years, some seven million more workers
will be needed a total which cannot be supplied by
the high school and college graduates of that period.
As a result, all sources of skilled workers will be
necessary including the handicapped, more women,
and certainly those in the age brackets over 40.
THE movement to have congress enact such legisla-
tion was well summed up recently by Sylvia Porter,
nationally-known writer on business and finance.
She said:
"No law can solve the problem of the over-40 worker
who finds himself back on the job market. But a congres
, sional move of this sort could do an immense amount of
good by compelling firms which do business with the gov
ernment and that includes most of our big ones to re
vise their employment policies. Few, if any, will be able to
justify them.
- "The cruelty, the senselessness, the fantastic waste, the
colossal stupidity of our industry's age barriers defy reason.
This indication that congress is getting ready to tackle the
issue is a bright spot in the grim picture."
E.A.
Notes and Dials
The ubiquitous telephone!
And how dependent we Americans have become
on it, or them.
One is reminded of this by a story from London
that, in England, use of the telephone is decreasing,
and letter writing is increasing.
The story says the average person gets more
than twice as many pieces of mail each day as he
does telephone calls. And his reaction, if and when
the instrument rings, is "There goes that thing again.
If it's for me, tell them to drop me a note."
JMAYBE this is what we need. Maybe it is the tele-
phone which causes Americans generally to rush
around too fast, try to do too many things, get infor
mation too swiftly to be digested. The increased sales
of liquor and tranquilizers may, after all, be tied to
America's dependence on Alexander Graham Bell's
achievement.
But we could not do without it. Or so we tell
ourselves.
It sits on the desk at the office, and the moment
a thought strikes, one picks up the phone and conveys
the thought to the intended victim.
THE reporter, Ernie Hill of the Chicago Daily News,
" says that one reason for the lack of popularity for
the telephone in England is that the proper English
man does not like to be forced to make snap decisions.
"Drop me a note about it," he'll say,, and then
have a chance to think the problem over before com
mitting himself.
This has its advantages. It is surely a more lei
surely pace. And one can think of it wistfully as the
desk telephone continues to jangle out the daily
quota.
But would we like it? Probably not. We'd miss
the knowledge that we can get in touch with any
one of a couple of thousand people at the twist of the
dial. E.A.
Bloodmobile Success
Despite the cold, foggy weather; despite a past
history of frequent failures to meet the quota; and
rather to the happy surprise of everyone involved, the
Red Cross Bloodmobile this week received more blood
than the "quota" called for.
Perhaps it is the Christmas season. Or perhaps
the vital need for adequate supplies of blood is finally
getting home to people. Whatever the reason, those
donors who made the visit a success are to be com
mended, and others who are able to give blood might
well take this example as something to remember the
next time the Red Cross calls for blood. E.A.
Friday, December 13. 1957
40" Problem
'lAfe'RE JUST WLLItf' TIME 'TIL MYM&H
0uVS A NEW PAIR OF SHOES.
Matter of Fact by Joseph aisop
THE UGLIEST CHOICE
Beirut, Lebanon The Krem
lin has already secretly prom
ised to champion the Arab cause
against Israel. If the Soviets
keep this prom
ise, the Amer
ican policy
makers will be
a u t omatically
faced with just
about the ugli
e s t choice in
the history of
American for
eign relations.
Joseph aisod -c or the long
run, there are even graver facts
than the crisis of confidence in
the Western Alliance.
The choice that probably lies
ahead is so ugly because years
of fecklessness and flabbiness
have left the Western powers
squarely over a barrel in the
Middle East. If the Soviets pro
pose the effective destruction of
the state of Israel and we op
pose Israel's destruction, the
main result will almost surely
be the progressive destruction
of every Western vital interest
in the Arab lands.
The trouble is that the Krem
lin's maneuver will catch all the
friendly Arab governments be
tween their own pro-Western
policy and the incandescent anti
Israeli passions of their peoples.
These governments in Jordan,
Iraq, Saudi Arabia and else
where may accept the Kremlin's
championship. Indeed, the Sau
dis are already preparing to do
so. Yet their Western associa
tions will still tend to impair
their positions in a fatal way, if
the West is defending Israel
while the Kremlin attacks it.
"THIS, of course, is the Krem
- lin's real purpose. The prom
ised championship of the Arabs
against Israel is only a lever, as
it were. The lever is not intend
ed to bring down Israel. It is in
tended to bring down the Arab
governments friendly to the
West, and to replace them with
new governments on the Syrian
model.
This crisis that looms ahead
will be all the more dangerous,
moreover, because it will arise
in a way that will enormously
encourage casuistry and self
delusion. To understand why
this is so, past history must be
shortly recapitulated.
In brief, the frontiers laid
down in the United Nations Pal
estine resolution of 1947 seem
to have been traced in a lunatic
asylum. They partitioned pales
tine into little Arab bits and
little Jewish pieces. The Arabs
went to war to prevent parti
tion. They were badly beaten,
and the war ended with the Is
raelis holding most of the bits
of Palestine that the U.N. had
allotted to the Arabs.
Since then, "a return to the
U.N. frontiers of 1947" has be
come the prime Arab demand.
It is just this demand that the
Soviets have promised to sup
port. This may seem legal and
even reasonable, since what ap
pears to be involved is merely
the enforcement of the original
U.N. resolution ' setting up a
Jewish state.
BUT - in the first place, some
thing like a million and a
half Jewish immigrants have
poured into Palestine since 1948.
Every inch of the territory Is
rael now holds is already filled
to overflowing. Thus a return to
the 1947 frontiers will only aid
the million tragic Arab refugees
from Palestine, at the expense
of creating a million or more
equally tragic Jewish refugees.
In the second place, a return to
these lunatic frontiers will
mean the effective end of Israel
as a state. This is really why
the Arabs want it.
In these grim practical cir
cumstances, a very large major
ity of the American diplomats
in Arab lands favor a "compro
mise" policy. They recognize
that an actual return to the 1947
frontiers is not feasible. But
they still would like to pacify
the Arabs by offering them fair
ly large chunks of what is now
Israeli territory.
This is the sort of thing that
Secretary of State Dulles and
Sir Anthony Eden had in mind
a couple of years ago, when they
tried long and fruitlessly to ne
gotiate a settlement of the Pal
estine question with Egypt's
Gamal Abdel Nasser. It did not
work then. It is even less likely
to work now, for a transparent
ly obvious reason.
TF WE offer the Arabs one
- pound of Israeli flesh, the So
viets will offer them two
pounds. If we offer two, the So
viets will offer three. And so it
will go.- Unless we are in fact
prepared to join the Soviets
in advocating the effective elim
ination of the state of Israel
from the world map, we cannot
hope to win this kind of bid
ding competition for Arab favor.
Since we cannot conceivably go
so far, it will be better not to
enter the bidding competition
at all.
This does not mean there are
no measures which can be tak
en and should be taken to soften
the injustice that has been done
to the Palestinian Arabs. There
should be local, piecemeal terri
torial readjustments to reunite
the cruelly divided Arab fron
tier villages. There should be a
bold program for the refugees,
including an offer of repatria
tion, ample compensation and
opportunities to find new
homes. There should be a hard
and fast guarantee to all the
Arabs that the Israelis will not
be permitted to extend their
borders by another inch.
But there is no use supposing
that these things which can be
done and should be done will in
any way satisfy the Arabs.
There is no way to satify the
Arabs except by Israel's effec
tive destruction. So the alterna
tive of "compromise" is ruled
out, and the question still re
mains whether anything can be
done to safeguard Western vital
interests in the Middle East,
(c) 1957
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Good Will
To the Editor: As we contem
plate on Yuletide we invariably
link it with good will. Speaking
of good will in its own rights, it
could be discernible at any time
of the year, but when it's in evi
dence 312 days of the year it
surely deserves a good portion
of credit.
This statement is not exag
gerated one speck. It concerns a
certain Medford Mail Tribune
newspaper boy (Melvin Hunt)
who has given what I'd term ex
treme consideration to his cus
tomers, by making sure their
newspaper can be picked up
right beside their door. Over and
over I've observed he will get
off his bike and walk a good
rfteny steps to be sure the paper
is in easy reach. In my estima
tion that is giving of one's self.
Besides he is always courteous
when spoken to.
I feel confident this could ap
ply to all the M-T newspaper
carriers. It seems safe to say one
could predict the future of boys
of that caliber, as it coincides
with what we read about great
men who started as conscien
tious newspaper boys like Mel
vin Hunt. I sincerely hope they
all have a Happy Christmas.
Emma Lou Carpenter,
811 Sherman st.,
Medford, Ore.
The World Is Mine
To the Editor:
Today upon a bus I saw a lovely
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DAIRY-SMITH
East Main St.
Feel Wet?
Don't Fret
The Village
NATO Meeting Eyed Wfth Sfig
Optimism; Russ Sabotage Fails
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international bal
ance sheet:
The outlook for the big
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion meeting brightened consid-
e r a b 1 y this
week. Heads
of government
oi the 15
NATO coun
tries are to
meet In Paris
Monday to try
to strengthen
their alliance
against Com-
Charles Mccann - munist aggres
sion. Prospect for success had
been growing dimmer for weeks.
Complicated and controversial
political and military problems,
W - r" I
Interest Rates Eyed
As Aid in Bank Loans
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. During
the past two weeks there has
been much in the newspapers
commending the Federal Re
serve for re
ducing its re
discount rate
from 3V6 to 3
per cent. Now
you wonder
how much this
helps your
local bank.
First, let me
explain just
Roger w Babson what this "re
duction" means. Your local bank
may need temporary extra funds
certain times of the year to loan
to some local industries. These
are those which must borrow
seasonally to buy raw materials
or merchandise but which are
out of debt most of the year. To
secure such extra funds your
local bank may borrow of the
nearest big city bank where it
carries its main account.
Upon the same principle, there
are times when this big city
bank may need extra funds. It
then either sells government
bonds or uses such government
bonds as collateral to borrow
from its District Federal Reserve
Bank. There are 12 of these
one for each of the 12 federal
districts into which the U.S. is
divided.
Don't Expect Reduction
If one of the District Federal
Reserve Banks is temporarily
short of funds, it borrows of the
Central "Feds," located at New
York and Chicago. It is the Fed
eral Reserve System which has
lowered the rate fr6m 3VS to 3
per cent on loans made not to
your bank, or to you, but to one
or more of the district banks
mentioned above.
These district banks, In turn,
loan to the big city banks, which
then may loan to your local
bank. So you see it is a long
time before this Vt per cent re
duction filters through to your
local bank, if any of it gets
through. Certainly no reader can
expect a reduction in local in
terest rates on account of this
small reduction by the Central
Federal Reserve.
More Deposits Needed
Every reader of this column
should realize that, in the long
run, a bank can loan to custom
ers only what it receives in de
posits. When next in your local
maid with golden hair;
I envied her she seemed so gay
and wished I were so fair.
When suddenly she rose to leave,
I saw her hobble down the aisle
She had one foot and wore a
crutch, but as she passed,
a smile.
Oh God, forgive me when I
whine, I have two feet, the
world is mine,
And then I stopped to buy some
' sweets. The lad who sold them
had some charm,
I talked with him he said to
me, "It's nice to talk with
folks like you."
You see he said "I'm blind."
Oh God forgive me when I
whine; I have two eyes, the
world is mine.
Then walking down the street, I
saw a child with eyes- of blue.
He stood and watched the others
play; it seemed he knew not
what to do.
I stopped a moment, then I said,
"Why don't you join the
others dear?" 1
He looked ahead without a word
and then I knew, he could
not hear.
Oh God forgive me when I
whine, I have two ears, the
world is mine!
(Author Unknown)
(Name on File),
Medford, Ore.
L
at Genessea
Stay Dry
Just Try . . .
Dairy-Smith
including the establishment and
control of missile bases in con
tinental European countries,
were on the program for solu
tion in a mere three days of
talks.
Such developments as Soviet
Russia's success with its Sput
niks and the abortive test of
the United States Vanguard sat
ellite increased pessimism.
The atmosphere started to
brighten when it was announc
ed that President Eisenhower
would be able to attend despite
his slight stroke.
Then the leaders of the chief
NATO countries decided to go
to Paris well in advance of the
opening, of the conference to
talk over some of the tougher
issues and try to reach agree
ment on them before formal
bank, ask for its last printed
statement. You will quickly see
that the bank's own money
(shown by Capital and Surplus)
is relatively small. The money
which you borrow is not the
bank's money, but it is your
neighbors' money. When too
many "neighbors" reduce their
deposits, then the bank should
reduce its loans.
Banks, therefore, should work
harder for deposits. The simplest
way is to increase the interest
rate on deposits. Another way
is to spend more on advertising.
To benefit from a higher rate
on deposits or to make extra ad
vertising pull, banks should "get
off their high horse." Banks
need lessons in public relations.
Bank employees should be more
courteous and be "salesmen" for
their banks. They may need to
keep their banks open longer
hours and perhaps Friday or
Saturday nights. Depositors
facetiously remark that the bank
charges interest just the same
whether open for business or
not!
Other Sources of Aid
Many investors who read this
column noted how the stock mar
ket jumped up when the Federal
Reserve rate was reduced. When,
however, people began to think
through and see that this reduc
tion would not help their com
munity, the stock market fell off
again. In other words, this re
duction will not cause consum
ers to buy more goods or manu
facturers to employ more help.
Therefore, wise investors are
not buying more stocks now on
the small reduction in interest
rates by the "Fed."'
The U.S. Government could,
however, do three things which
might help the stock market:
(1) Lower the required margin
which brokers are now forced
to demand of speculators; (2) buy
more governments from the
banks, giving them more free
money to loan; and (3) reduce
the reserves which banks are re
quired to carry. In an emergency,
one or more of these could be
done. However, no emergency
now exists which would justify
these steps. Of course, reducing
interest rates has already caused
bonds to go up.
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The atmosphere changed from
pessimism to gumrStA optimism.
Soviet Russit embarked on a
transparent attempt to sabotage
the conference. O
Premier Nikolai Bulganin
sent a series of letters to the
leaders of NUTO countries, in
cluding the Uniteft States, Brit
ain, France, Vest Germany, The
Netherlands and BJgium.
Some of the letters reneated
threats that European countries
would endanger their existence
by permitting the establishment
of missile bases on their terri
tory. Others repeated Russian O
calls for East-West talks on cold
war issues and disarmamentpro
posals which already had been
rejected.
The letters fell flat. Their
motive was so obvious that they
made little impression.
Indonesia steadily intensified
its attempt to make TheOKether
lands give up West New Guinea.
It was indicated tht the gov
ernment was determined to take
over all Dutch interests in Indo
nesia, and to force out most if
not all of the 46,000 Dutch resi
dents in the islands.
In France bickering continued
in Premier Felix Gaillard's coali
tion cabinet over his anti-inflation
program. Gaillard was
forced to give in to Socialist
demands that civil servants be q
given salary increases. But Par
liament approved his request for
authority, to raise $238 million
in new taxes.
Holmes Sees Need
To Change Attitude
New York (IP) Gov. Robert
D. Holmes of Oregon said Thurs
day his state had the job of
changing "wrong attitudes" re
garding racial relations.
Holmes, speaking at a meeting
of northern governors, said "We
must face tip to and immediately
begin to solve our No. 1 problem
which is discrimination in hous
ing." The Oregon governor said "we
have been doing very well and
are doing better all the time, but
we still have the job of chang
ing wrong attitudes, a job not
just for legislation but for edu
cation in its largest sense.".
He called upon chief execu
tives of the 12 northern states
represented "to speak frankly of
failures and to plan programs
that will move us ahead" rather
than "to boast of any success
with which we have eliminated
discrimination in employment,
education and social areas."
For Oregon, he said, "there is
every indication that great popu
lation increase will augment the
number of non-white Americans
in our state. We must find ways
to prevent trouble before it
arises and to heal wounds be
fore they appear. Our schools
are already integrated. Our busi
ness and cultural community is
not."
T.nndrm (tn Moscow radio
said Sputnik I completed its
1,037th circuit of the earth at
10 t.m. Wednesday and that
Sputnik II had made its 545th
revolution. .
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