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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORDgTRIBUNr "Iveryone tn Southern Orejoa Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Buiinesi Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor FARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunriav Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phornix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City ofMedford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press FullLeased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO. INC.. Of fices in New York. Chicago, De troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver, B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS - ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL AsTocPjTrgN Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 21. 1948 (Wednesday) Jackson county tax collec tions up to the first of the year on the current tax year ntaW S1 583.3. highest of record, according to Sheriff Howard Gault. Medford citizens cautioned not to give aid to persons without first checking the Salvation Army. with 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 21. 1938 (Friday) Hads of various commit tees for the Northwest Jack son county fair in Gold Hill this fall have been completed by Walter C. McLean, chair man. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The brevity of this column today is due to your correspondent going to Eugene to make a speech. It will be the first time we have ever stood be fore a crowd and looked a water pitcher in the eye." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 21. 1928 (Saturday) Eleven enthusiastic students met Thursday to discuss plans for organizing a pep band for Southern Oregon Normal school. A mass meeting of all ex servicemen is planned under the auspices of the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 21. 1918 (Monday) -J. P. Mead, income tax in spector of the internal reve nue office at Portland, arrives here to open office in council chamber. Class in blight work will be taugh by County Agricul tural Agent Cate now num bers 45 women and five men Whafs Your I.Q.7 Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Correct the following 'They are not going any place." 2. Bible: Who was the fath er of Judas Maccabaeus? 3. Was Belisarius a Roman poet, a historian, a genera, or emperer? 4. In which European city is the famous Quai dOrsey? 5. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 fixed what mini mum wage per hour? 6. Which planet revolves around the sun. between the orbits of Venus and Mars? 7. Did President Buchanan marry once of twice? 8. Name the capital Switzerland? 9. During World War of II, what was tlie WMC? 10. The largest living spe cies of bird is native to what country? 1. "They are not going any where." 2. Matthias. 3. GeneraL 4. Paris. 5. Forty cents per hour (40 -hour week). 6. The earth. 7. Neith er. (He was a bachelor). 8. Bern. 9. War Manpower Com mission. 10.. Africa (the ostrich). 4 Getting What They Deserve It has been many a moon since this depart ment has been so delighted, so amused and so re assured by any news items as by the recent press dispatches from Maxton, North Carolina. Here is the scenario of the year, made to order for Hollywood but we doubt if the top brass down there will be shrewd enough to see the "box-office" in it. It might be called "Justice comes to Maxton" or "Kleagle Klan does the hot-foot" or "the Night-Riders given a ride" though we grant any of the professional gag-men in the Movie Metrop olis could cook up a far more appropriate and snappy title. 17HY reassuring? Well, we have always had a theory that ul timately and generally speaking right prevails and justice again generally speaking is done. Through the years we admit we have had our "dou'ts," but down there at this Carolina village justice WAS done, the right DID prevail, the "biter WAS bit" at long last, and in the most con vincing and fittingly dramatic fashion. JT seems that Maxton is in a county that contains an Indian reservation or community. Reverend Cole did not like this mixture, particularly when there was any disposition shown on the part of the red-skin gentry to enjoy the same constitutional rights as the whites. True to the "KKK" (to which he belonged) he worked up his followers to a high pitch of moral indignation against those local citizens who were given by the Almighty a different skin pigmentation than his. Whereupon he arranged ior a nolv clave and a burning of the Cross (of Christian Brotherhood, of course,) as a preliminary to either driving the red skins out of the commu nity, or forcing them by these "KKK" terrorist methods, to renounce their constitutional rights, and meekly accept a submissive subordinate and second-rate citizenship. UP to this point everything worked according iiujit, a 11 u ah 0wixu avvux uaxitc vvitii uuc Ku Klux Klan ritual. The loyal faithful in return for the regu lar $10 contribution donned their $1.25 night gowns, put on their hoods, mounted their pranc ing steeds or motor cars and with torches and shotguns aloft, while the rebel-yell rang out they proceeded miles an hour to the meeting place where the podium had been prepared and the gas oline soaked cross made ready for the match, as the Reverend Cole cleared his throat, took a nip of "branch-water," ordered one of the "Exalted Roosters" to turn on the Kleig lights, and TABLEAUX! COMETHING happened! From the outer darkness emerged a small In dian boy with a 22 rifle "at ready." He took a quick aim, fired, and presto all the lights went out. Then from the same darkness emerged a band of howling Indians, they not only howled but fired off volley after volley over the heads of those who were dedicated to the denial of consti tutional rights to all citizens, and into the ground. (No one was hurt, of course.) But the Grand Wizard of the Invisible Circle" decided the time had come to become invisible in FACT, and dis carding his shot-gun and his gold embossed "nightie" he proceeded as far as his physical fit ness and the underbrush permitted, to reduce the 100 yard record to 9 seconds flat. His shot gun, his royal regalia and his motor car were recov ered later. So were his loyal but panicky follow ers, in similar agitation and disarray. DUT "Old King Cole" inherited none of the con vival qualities of his famous ancestor. Even though the next day was the Sabbath he was not "merry" but vowing revenge. He would sue the county sheriff, he pro claimed, for denying him the sacred right of free assembly and free speech. As for those blood thirsty aborgines who outnumbering his stalwart band of Christian crusaders two to one, had with out provocation attacked him and them from ambush with shot and shell they should be put in a concentration camp where they belonged with other saboteurs, aliens and outlaws. IN other words, the "Grand Wizard" thinks he is a martyr and has a case. Well, for the sake of right and justice and a better America we hope his case is brought to trial. It will then be brought out for all to see that while the right of free speech and assembly is constitutionally upheld, it does not include, as the late Justice Holmes so clearly brought out the right to yell "fire" in a crowded theatre. Nor does it guarantee the right to incite mob action and violence against citizens of the United States including the First and only 100 gen uine Americans whose only crime is, the skin of their parents did not happen to be white. AS for being "OUTNUMBERED" for the "KKK" to put up that plea IS a joke. What has that organization done, excluding the post Civil War period when, due to the evils of reconstruction, it had SOME excuse for its ex istence. It has done nothing but gang up and pick on, not small groups, nor even individuals armed to defend themselves, but on defenseless people alone, usually in the dead of night, as they did Tuesday, January 21, I9S8 White bupremacy con 'SEE? n'9 JUST LIK f JVflfll HIM Matter of Fact MORE THAN A GIMMICK Washington Is it a mere political-propaganda play? Or is it a matter of serious and secret negoti ations? These are the obvious questions t o ask about the a d m i nistra t i o n ' s an nounced i n- tention to seek agree- Stewart AIsod mem wun uie A A 1 Russians on "control of outer space for peaceful purposes" which means control of the ballistic missiles. As Secre tary of State Dulles made crystal clear in his appear ance before the National Press club, the space-control proposal will form a cardinal point of American policy in the months to come. The answer seems to be that the proposal is both a propaganda move and a mat ter for serious negotiation. Various ways of extracting every possible ounce of prop aganda value from the pro posal are being considered. There has even been tenta tive talk, for example, of con vening a special session of the United Nations General As sembly to be-addressed on the subject by the President. Oth er possibilities are a major speech or series of speeches by the President on outer space control, another letter to Bulganin on this subject alone, letters to all heads of government, and so on. , WHICHEVER way of dram atizing the issue may be chosen, the point is that Dulles and his advisers un questionably see the proposal as a means of seizing that famous initiative, putting the Soviets on the defensive, and ducking out from under the charge of "negativism." It is not unfair to suggest that the domestic political advantages of such "waging of total peace" certainly have also not been overlooked. But the proposal, certainly in the President's mind, and apparently in the mind of Secretary Dulles as well, is more than just another propa ganda gimmick. The evidence that suggests that the pro posal is serious falls into two parts. Like the President's atoms-for-peace plan, the outer space proposal has been something of a cart-before-the-horse proposition. The idea was first suggested by the soon - to - depart Harold Stassen about a year ago, and it has been rather languidly put forward from time to time since. When he was drafting the President's letter to Bulganin, Secretary Dulles, desperate for counter-proposals, seized on the idea and laid great emphasis on it, and he put even greater em phasis on it in his Press club performance. DUT until now the idea has t been just that an idea, rather than a plan. Now seri ous studies are going forward both in the Defense Depart ment and in the State Depart ment's policy planning staff, and. the inevitable planning papers are beginning to pile up. As far as the liquid-fueled here in Jackson County 35 or 40 years ago. They took a Medford citizen up to the top of the Siskiyous and hung him up to a tree. He was given no hearing, no trial, no defense. They hung him up with a jolly heave-ho and executed a war dance, just for a lesson, of course ! Then they cut him down before he choked to death, but the poor guy never recovered from the shock and died a short time 'later. VLTE hope the "Grand Wizard of the Invisible TT Circle" of Maxton, N.C., WILL bring his grievances to court, but while we suspect he is characteristically brutal, bigoted and dumb, we never expect him to be QUITE as dumb as that! R.W.R. I TOLDYA. SMILE." By Stewart Alsop ballistic missiles are concern ed, these studies confirm Dulles' statement that "at the present stage of the art . . . we have something which is readily subject to be con trolled." Given what Dulles called "even the most superficial form of inspection from the air," the ballistic missiles in their present stage of devel opment can be easily detected and thus controlled. But since serious study of the problem began, all sorts of hideously difficult q u'e s t i o n s have emerged. How about the air-breathing missiles, for example, or the solid-fueled missiles, which are much more diffi cult to detect and control? And how about the shorter- range missiles? Short-range air-breathing missiles fired from submarines could de stroy our coastal cities. And how would the International Space Agency, or whatever it is to be called, actually op erate? . a TUT at least these perhaps unanswerable questions are at last being seriously ex ammed. As for the second part of the evidence that the proposal is serious, it consists of the simple fact that Dulles intends to launch private dip lomatic talks with the Sovi ets, probably both in Moscow and Washington, on the American proposal. Indeed, a kind of prelimin ary feeling-out process at sec ond hand has already oc curred. The results are not encouraging. The Russians have asked the obvious ques tions. Are the forward bases of the Strategic Air Com mand also to be inspected and controlled? And why should the Soviet Union abandon a weapon in which it has a com manding lead? Just because these ques tions are so obvious, the odds are probably a hundred to one that the space-control proposal will come to noth ing. But the attempt is worth making all the same. For any one who thinks seriously about the nature of the weap ons must ask himself whether a free society can survive in the era of the ballistic mis siles. The missiles are ideal weapons of surprise attack, requiring an automatic, in stantaneous and totally un democratic response. By their very nature, they thus pre sent the unfree society with a crushing advantage. Which is another reason why the pro posal, however seriously ad vanced, will doubtless come to nothing in the end. (Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Portlander Elected Boilermakers Official Philadelphia (IP) Homer Patton, of Portland, Ore., was elected secretary-treasurer of the International Brother hood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Black smiths, Forgers and Helpers at the union's executive meet ing here Monday. Patton succeeds William J. Buckley, who died last Thurs day. He will serve Buckley's unexpired term, approximate ly three years. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Teletype chatter: A woman in Cantanzaro, Italy, is talking again after being mute for six years. It all came about because she got mad. Back in 1951 she and her sister were having an argument and something the sister said so infuriated her that she became speechless. She remained mute until yesterday, when the same sis ter got her so mad that she burst out with a shout of rage and now she can talk again TJmmmm. There's a thought 11 there. If we could find a way to get our talk-spouting politi cians so mad that for six years tney a go witnout speaking just sawing wood and saying nothing think of all the wonderful things we might accomplish! Think of the worldwide re spect and admiration we could gain! TJERE'S another thought. "Mnt alnnp in Amprira. hilt. throughout the modern world the techniques of disagree ment have reached a high stage of perfection. If we would learn how to bring to the stage of perfection the technique of REACHING AGREEMENT AND THEN GOING AHEAD AND DO ING THINGS, how wonder ful it would be. We have to disagree, of course. Human beings aren't all cast in the same mould. When differences of opinion arise, we have to argue things out. But we could be much more reasonable and effective about it. A SUGGESTION: i- Snm dvpnintf or snnw Sundav when you have noth ing better to do, reach up on your five-foot shell ana taKe down your Ancient History and read un on the golden age of Ancient Greece. The city states of Greece, led by Athens, built up a civ ilization that was more won derful than anything that had ever existed before on earth. But these city states could never learn how to reach and retain a reasonable state of agreement' and cooperation over any considerable peri od of time. They disagreed and argued and fought and scratched and bit each other in the leg from time to time. Eventually the barbarians swept in from the surround ing outer darkness and put an end for good to the golden age of Greece. You'll find the story an interesting one, well worth the time it will take to read up on it. You may be able to draw from it some morals that will be useful. rjNE further, thought while " we're in this philosophical mood: If you'll carry your histori cal resources far enough, you'll learn that the bulk of these barbarians who swept in from the outer darkness and put an end to the glory that was Greece were known broadly and generically as Scythians. These Scythians lived on the treeless plains of AN CIENT RUSSIA, from the Danube river to the Volga, and they spoke a language that was distantly related to modern Russia. History, you see, tends to repeat itself. ONE more thought in clos ing.' If you'll go on with your reading, you'll learn that the Scythians invaded the King dom of Media and occupied it for ten years. The king of Media, a wise . and crafty character who succeeded in escaping liquidation by the invaders, eventually got rid of the Scythians by GETTING ALL THEIR CHIEFS AT A BANQUET and killing them. Kruschev, BEWARE! History might repeat itself again. - Try and -By BENNETT CERF- BEN HECHT, reminiscing about his old friend and collabor ator, the late Charlie MacArthur, writes, "In the grin that slightly turned the edge of his lips, and in the foggy look in his eyes, there lurked always the promise of 'live ly doings." This was a pet phrase of his. He treasured a postal card sent him by Hilda, the cook for the MacArthur household, who had returned in 1938 to her home in Berlin. 'Dear Mr. MacArthur,' wrote the ef fervescent Teuton, 'I am happy to be home. Adolf Hitler is a fine boss and there's lots of lively do A 9-year-old acting prodigy turned up for a TV audition. "What do you do when you're not acting?" asked the casting director. "I watch TV," answered the kid. "And when you're not watching TV?"' "I listen to the radio." "And when you're not listening to the radio?" The kid answered blithely, "My ma sends me to the unem ployment insurance office." 01938. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. . Russia. China Seen Pressure on Poles' By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia and Red China appear to be trying to set Communist leader Wlady- slaw G o mul ka of Poland back on the party line. It w a s an n o unced last Thursday that Soviet Com munist Party Leader Niki ta S. Khrush chev had con Gomulka for Charles M. McCann f erred with . three days at a hunting lodge ECnowland Predicts Stiff Fight Over Aid, Trade PHans Washington OF) Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland said today that foreign aid and reciprocal trade, two of President's key legislative proposals, are in for stiff fights in Congress. But the California senator predicted both will pass in some form although possibly in weaker form than the Pres ident wants. Opposes Tito Aid At the same time Knowland told reporters he Is unswerv ing in his opposition to con tinued military or economic aid to Marshal Tito's Yugo slav Communist government. Knowland left his GOP lead er's chair last year to lead an unsuccessful fight against aid to Tito. Military aid to Yugoslavia has, since been scrapped but economic help apparently will continue The Republican Senate lead er made the statements as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which, he is a member, prepared to question George V. Allen, President Eisenhower's nominee for di rector of the U.S. Information Agency, about his plans for the agency. USIA Funds Asked The President has asked for Consolidated Buys Hunt Transfer Co. Menlo Park, Calif. (IP) Consolidated Freightways Inc. Monday announced it had completed the purchase of Hunt Transfer' Company, of Portland, Ore. The joint announcement said that storage and local moving of household goods within the Oakland. Portland and Los Angeles areas will be conducted under the name of Hunt Transfer and Storage Division of Consolidated Freightways. Over - the - road operations will be conducted under the name of Consoli dated Freightways Van Lines Division. Established in 1908, Hunt operates in California, Ore gon, Washington, Idaho, Utah and Montana. It operates warehouses in Los Angeles, Oakland and Portland. Ellsworth Has No . Desire for Office Portland (IP) Harris Ells worth, chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, said today he had no desire to seek his old office again. He served 14 years as a con gressman from Oregon. Ellsworth, making his first Oregon visit since his appoint ment to the federal job last spring,' was here to speak to the Chamber of Commerce after which he will go to Se attle for another speech Tues day. He plans to visit his moth er, Mrs. Eva Ellsworth, in Eu gene Wednesday. Stop Me near the Russian-Polish bor der. No details of this meeting have been disclosed. But there are indications that Khrushchev may have offered Gomulka some badly needed economic help at a price. The price would be in creased Polish cooperation with the Soviet bloc of coun tries in Communist party af fairs and possibly abandon ment of Gomulka's attempts to get substantial economic help from the United States. Aid Restriction Urged In this connection, reports from Warsaw say that Mao increased funds for the USIA which ran into considerable congressional criticism last year when it was headed by Arthur Larson, so-called phi losopher of "modern Republi canism." Allen's nomination was not expected to have serious trou ble in the Senate. Eisenhower has stressed the need for foreign aid, expan sion of the reciprocal trade program and expansion of the Information Agency as key points in the U.S. counter- offensive to Russia's economic and psychological advances. Labor Party Sees SpOit in Tories London (IP) The British Labor Party began putting heavy pressure on the Con servatives today in hopes of a party split that will bring down the government of Prime Minister Harold Mac millan and set up a Labor victory at the polls. Both parties were paying unusual interest to the new session of Parliament which begins today after a long Christmas recess. A vote of confidence is expected by Thursday and the Laborites believe they have their best chance in months of winning, The government rated the new session so important it sent hurried calls to Con servatives who are out of Brit ain to hurry back. They were ordered to turn up without fail in case they are needed to help out the party. Macmillan was the major exception. He is in New Zea land on an official Common wealth tour and his Conserva tives hope they can stall off anv major showdown until he returns. Multnomah County Workers Get Raise Portland (IP) Two thou sans employees of Multnomah county have received pay boosts with an average in crease of $14 per month, County Commissioner Jack Bain said today. He said the increase was in line with an established pol icy of maintaining salaries of county employees at an ap proximate level with that of others in Portland and in the Northwest. The boosts will cost Mult nomah county about $175,000 for the rest of this fiscal year and about $350,000 during the budget year starting July 1 Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 e MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. Putting Premier Tse-tung, the No. 1 Chinese Communist, has strongly urged Gomulka not to seek aid from the United States but to depend entirely on Communist sources. A Polish delegation is in Moscow now, negotiating a Russian - Polish trade agree ment for 1958. It seem highly probable that these negotia tions entered into the Khrush-chev-Gomulka talks. It happens that a Polish delegation is in Washington, seeking new credits, and probably will get about $95 million soon. It is most unlikely that Go mulka will agree in any cir cumstances to forego Ameri can aid. First, he needs desperately any credits he can get to strengthen Poland's shaky economy and in doing so to strengthen himself in his leadership. Second, Gomulka is too smart to depend entire ly on Russia for aid. Never Forgiven Soviet leaders never have forgiven Gomulka for win ning at least partial independ ence from Russia domination in the Polish revolt of 1956. Gomulka got himself deep er in the bad graces of the Kremlin leaders in Moscow in November by refusing to take part in a new Commu nist propaganda agency. Since then Moscow news papers and magazines have criticized sharply on several occasions the "lack of discip line" in Poland. This, of course, refers to Gomulka's tolerance of criticism of his regime. One lawmaker was called back several thousand miles. Sir Ian Fraser, blind Con servative member for More cambe and Lonsdale, cut short a visit to Southern Rho desia on party orders. Others hurried back from vacations in the sun on continental Europe. Resignation Crisis The crisis in the Conserva tive Party revolved around the resignation of Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thor- neycroft and two of bis treas ury aides the night, before Macmillan left Jan. 7 on his Commonwealth tour. Thorneycroft resigned in protest against government refusal to trim spending, espe cially for Britain's welfare program, despite threatened economic troubles. AFL-CIO Merger in Multnomah Adopted Portland (IP) Merger of the AFL and CIO unions in Multnomah county became a fact Monday night with unan imous adoption of the mer ger agreement and a new constitution. The merger on the local level marked the end of a 20- year history of labor rivalry that began when John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers first split the ranks of organized labor with for mation of his Committee of Industrial Organizations. Glenn Blake, former head of the AFL council and now president of the merged Mult nomah County Labor Council, proclaimed an era of expanded political activity for organized labor here and said "the labor movement is non-partisan from now on. This is the only way we can make progress." DON'T BE A SQUARE! If you're not familiar with the many new types of business insurance recently introduced check with us. Complete planned protection is a good investment for any size busi ness. Bill Fish ... I .,M,f t
