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TOUR -MEDFORD (ORE SON) MAIL TRIBUNE MedfobiU,Tkibune "Iveryone In Southern Oregon ' Read! The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by miIdford PRTNTIN'G CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager OiLKALU LAJLitAM. business mgr. ERIC ALLEN". JR. Managing Editor T"EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor - HARRY CHIPMAV. Teleg. Editor I RICHARD JEWETT. Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor ; DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper ' Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mot. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 moi. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4-20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix, Snady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 130 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased 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. NEWSPAPf I PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL assocPat Flight fo Time N Medford ani Jackson County History frgm the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. . 10 YEARS AGO t Jan. 26. 1948 (Monday) An Irish setter, "Charles River Blazes," owned by : John L. Downs. Medford. was ; judged best in Southern Ore- ; gon Kennel club s first sanc- tloned dog show. Four skiers injured over the week end at Crater Lake ; park, according to a report from national park headquar : ters. ; 20 YEARS AGO : Jan- 26. 1938 (Wednesday) :, Nine defendants charged : with selling liquor to Indians sentenced by Judges James Alger Fee in the United : States district court. From Arthur Perry's Ye i Smudge Pot column: "The : valley is experiencing a bit :f bad luck. The loss of two passenger trains is threat ened, and the first uninooK ; salmon has been caught in :the Columbia river." :30 YEARS AGO Ejan. 26. 1928 (Thursday) - Rosenberg brothers, own ers of Bear Creek orchard, .'have initiated a new system of orchard spraying, which 'will be use in their orchard. : "Medford looked good on : paper so I came. After I got :here it looked even better, so :i stayed," is Attorney T. J. Enright's explanation of his : recent move to this city. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 26, 1918 (Saturday) Boy Scouts of Medford, as personal messengers of the nrpsirlent. this week are dis tributing packets of informa tion on the war. One of the three clubs for the care of little French war nmhans formed among the children of Lincoln school last spring by Mrs. Brackm- reed is named for the marsnai of France. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan correct Is superior; sevan or eighf is excellent; five or six is good. 1. PaAmiro Togliatti is a Communist leader in which country? ' 2. Bible: Leah and Rachel, 'sisters, married who? ' 3. Correct the following: -"She will come, providing she can get an American ;visa." : 4. Is Psoriasis a city in Greece or Sicily? ' 5. Honus Wagner, Eddie Collins and Tris Speaker were players in what sport? : 6. Does the Speaker of the House of Representatives cast a vote only in case of a tie? '. 7. Who was the author of j"The Green Pastures"? - 8. What was the middle name of Charles P. Steinmetz, jioted electrical engineer? 9. With, what subject did 'the Bretton Woods Confer ence deal? ! 10. The Japanese islands are subject to frequent earth quakes; true or false? Answers: 1. Italy. 2. Jacob. 3. "She will come, provided ihe can get an American visa." 4. No (it is the name of a skin disease). 5. Baseball players. 6. No. (He may vote on any measure.). 7. Marc Connelly. 8. Proteus. 9. Inter national monetary plans. 10. True. The 1958 The 1958 congressional campaign has started officially, but as things under any head of steam A lucid interval in other words should intervene for which all normal rational citizens should be duly thankful. TlHEN it does get into high-gear we fear the '"3-ring" performance will be more tiresome man usual. r or unless the Kussians should land some para-troopers on the moon or do something equally sensational and dramatic the campaign probably will not go beyond the traditional pat tern of such affairs, which can be readily reduced to "Ins" wanting to STAY in, and the "Outs" wanting to GET there. THE campaign has already started along these familiar and somewhat tiresome lines. Presi dent Eisenhower's opening guns as well as those of his "heir-apparent" Richard Milhous Nixon, can be fairly classified under the general head ing' of "Pointing with Pride." ("God's in his Heaven, all is right with THE Democratic campaign has not really start- ed. Democratic leader Senator Lyndon John son has to date leaned over backward in the state ments he has made to partisanship. But probably when that dinner for former President Truman is held, there will be plenty of steaming and searing oratory all of which can undoubtedly be likewise "Viewing with Alarm." IT IS the old familiar MTTmirm r"f f Ilia s3 r. -r n - 4 vjjjuiiuu ui nno u.cjyeii uncut juas pietty wen iuh its course as far as making any votes is concern ed. But the politicians on neither side of the fence will agree, and of course they 'are in control of such matters,; so just an observer ON the fence can't do much about it. THEREFORE the old time razzle-dazzle-bally-hoo will probably be in full; cry when Labor Day rolls around if not before and normal sanity will not be restored until after the election in November. . In the view of this department, the final re sult nationally in November is going to depend VERY LITTLE upon what the various candidates will claim in the next eight months on their own behalf and a GREAT DEAL upon about what the business conditions are when November rolls around. If by then business is not definitely better, and the future looks no more promising for the USA internationally than it does today, nothing as we can see it can prevent a Democratic land slide and a greatly increased majority for the party in the Congress. If on the other hand, predicts, there is a sharp then, fears of losing the sipated and the future prospects for America re turn to something approaching "the good old days" then the Republicans probably won't lose many seats and may even gain a few. v Yes, in our opinion, the political situation, as of today, is as simple as that. This won't prevent the usual flood of table thumping oratory however, the pointing with pride, the viewing with deeply imbedded in political practice. This is too bad from the standpoint of the national economy, for if such needless "noise and fury" could be prevented, millions and millions of dollars in stead of being wasted, to productive and constructive uses. R. W.K. Is the MT "Democratic"? Every so often we have to announce that the term "an independent newspaper" on the MT's masthead means JUST what it says. The necessity this time was brought about by a phone-call from a local celebrant who said he represented a group of subscribers who wished to know whether "Ye Editor" was registered as a "Republican" or a "Democrat." Not liking the tone or nature of the request we told the "celebrant" to call up or call upon the County Clerk's office where the informa tion he sought, could be secured. This brought a response that indicated the communicant had been on the side of a party argument maintaining the undersigned is regis tered as a Democrat and has been a member of that party even since the first election of Frank lin Delano Roosevelt 25 years ago and the inau guration of the New Deal. "IXELL, as indicated, we did not think the party V registration of "Ye Editor" of any public in terest or importance, and no one's particular busi ness outside of the individual concerned. But the inquiry, and tion, did indicate that once more there are a num ber of readers here in Jackson County who either have overlooked that term "an independent pa per" (which has been unchanged in the mast head for over 50 years), or they have assumed that it did not mean what it said, particularly when the paper has, for so many years, taken Sunday, January 26. 1958 Campaign look now it will not get until about September, the world.") avoid any indication of properly classified as "army game" and in the - - irt nwt 1- n fi mma4-4w t.t 11 ui,m as President Eisenhower business up-turn before race with Russia are dis alarm,; pattern is too could be saved, and put the subsequent conversa clear-cut and definite sides in all local, state and national elections. CO AGAIN, as remarked, we think another clar ification of the Mail Tribune's political policy is called for. We don't object to criticisms of that policy, but we do object to having it misunderstood. THE TRUTH is simply this : The "MT" was es tablished as an independent paper, and has always been "INDEPENDENT." Under its present ownership it has supported more Republican than Democratic candidates, but never on the basis of the party label but be cause at the time the GOP candidate appeared to be better qualified for the job than his opponent. That's all there has been to it. But the suspicion has persisted through the years there was something phoney about this claim, that it was merely a bit of window-dressing, the conclusion apparently being that a news paper truly independent could not take sides for one major party or the other at election time. THIS is not true. We believe the record will show the Mail Tribune has never in 'any' election, ever advised anyone to vote the We have advised them to pick and choose as the paper has done, not on the basis of the party label but on the basis of worth. Nationally of course the choice has been on the basis of what the party as a party at what its record showed - THE record will show we supported Teddy Roosevelt when he ran against the original "Mr. Republican" William Howard Taft. It will show we supported Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he opposed Alf Landon of Kansas. And by the same token we supported Governor Dewey of New York when he ran against President Tru man. We are not saying, of course, we were right or wrong- in our selections. We are onlv savino that each time we made of what we BELIEVED munity, the state and the tirely independent of purely partisan considerations. And that is what we ent newspaper." And that is whv that item has been in the masthead of many years, and will remain there as long as the paper remains under its FROM the first we have 4-. AT. J lu ctn y pax ly anu never intend to De. w e shall be the mouth-piece of none. It was Governor Stevenson of TTK in his welcoming speech uon m iyoz, aiong with the speeches and the general smug and complacent atmosphere at the Republican conclave the same year that con vinced the undersigned, that the Democratic party was the liberal, wide-awake progressive party and the Republican definitely was NOT. ou just as we cnose Teddy Koosevelt's "Pro gressive party" over William Howard Taft's, we chose Adlai Stevenson's party over Senator Rob ert Taft's G.O.P., particularly when General Eis enhower capitulated to the ultra-conservative and isolationist Senator from Ohio. Again we are not claiming our decisions were right or wrong, we are merely saying they were INDEPENDENTLY arrived at. ND finally, if our curious celebrant has not yet ' Consulted the Office of the fnnnfr P.WL- nritr. the above off our editorial chest, and feeling somewhat relaxed and contrite as a result; we s liu ow Proceed to saye him the trouble to-wit: The undersigned is registered not as a Demo crat or a Republican but as a member of the "In dependent" party and has been for quite a few years. R.W.R. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Let's take a look today at Marcos Perez Jiminez. Only a few weeks ago, he was sitting tight as the Big Boss of Venezuela. Caracas, his capital city, was easily the most fabulous city of South America perhaps every thing considered, the most fabulous city of all the Amer icas. Tourists gazed .upon it in utter amazement at the things that had been done in the space of a few short years to make it beautiful and ef ficient and astounding. During the past decade or so the industrial growth of Venezuela has been one of the wonders of the world. The oil, the iron ore, the precious minerals, the raw resources of almost every kind with which nature so liberally en dowed Venezuela but which had been allowed to lie dor ment for centuries, had been developed to an astonishing extent. Money has practical ly flowed along the streets of Caracas and down the roads and highways of Venezuela as a whole. The bulk of this has come about under the rule of Dic tator Jiminez. CO- This nuestion arises: How come that he has been deposed and that the people ticket of any party any given time stood for, and what it believed in. - the selection on the ha sis to be best for the com nation at the time, en mean bv an "indenend- the Mail Tribune so present management. never been committed . . 1 1 i 1 TTT 1 1 at the Chicago conven- of Venezuela are celebrating his downfall in what the dis patches describe as "a wild orgy of joy?" 'THE answer is to be found in this sentence from one of the dispatches describing his flight to the Dominican Republic as a political refu gee: "He left behind him a na tion joyful over its first REAL TASTE OF FREEDOM in years and determined to take revenge against the SECRET POLICE which had held the people in the throes of terror under the ousted dictator." AT ANY rate Jiminez is OUT and the people are happy. T HOPE Nikita Khrushchev reads the story, and pond ers over it as I am sure he will. Khrushchev is a despot. His secret police rule Rus sia. And Khrushchev claims that he is doing GREAT THINGS for Russia and the Russians. He has been boasting loudly of the SCIENTIFIC progress Russia has been making under Communist rule. B UT Russia is a despotism. ! vi GONNA TEACH RUT HOW Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann A BAD BLUNDER By his Minneapolis speech on' Monday, Gov. Sherman Adams has made more dif ficult the del icate .situation in the Presi dent's office. The situation is delicate be cause the di minis hed strength of the President has Is '1 waiter Lippmann made neces sary an unus ual, almost certainly an un precedented, delegation ' of powers to the White House staff of which Gov. Adams is the chief. The flat contradic tion between the Adams speech and the President's own speech that same even ing raises the question of how faithfully the President's will is being carried out by those to whom his powers are delegated. For on an is sue of national importance Gov. Adams was in open con tradiction with the letter and the spirit of the President's speech. If that can happen publicly, what goes on in the privacy of the President's office? This is a fair question, and it is. a necessary one. For the gov ernment, of the United States is today being carried on un der a, special dispensation which can work only if there is a general and complete con fidence in it. There must be confidence that the officials who exercise the President's powers are men wno Know him so well that they can act as he would act if he had the time and the energy to do the whole work of his of fice. Were this complete confi dence seriously broken, there would be a demoralizing po litical uproar about who ex ercises power and who can be hell accountable. rriHE outward evidence of A the country's confidence has been that Congress, the press, and the public have accepted the theory that Gov. Adams and his assistants are confidential agents of the President's who cannot be questioned by committees of Congress or in press confe rences. This immunity rests on the principle that their re lations with the President are confidential, and that their acts are to be treated as be ing his acts. For these acts, the President is accountable to the people. But his agents are accountable only to him. ThL is a complex and sub tle theory which we have de veloped to meet an unusually difficult situation. It is not easy to keep believeing it in the face of the known evi dence about the President's absences from the White House, and the many evi dences that he is not always well informed. Yet we have all wanted to believe in the theory since, given the facts about our constitutional sys tem, we have no better choice thar to believe it. But the country will not go on believeing it if it turns out that the confidential ag ents o the President are play ing politics on their own, and contrary to the President's own political beliefs. The moral of it is that in the po sition he occupies, and with the immunity which he claims, Gov. Adams should not make speeches at all, should nour ish no political ambitions of his own, and should acquire, or at least simulate, what used to be called a passion for anonymity. N THE substance of the 0 question, which is wheth It is ruled by the . secret police. Its people live in terror. What has happened with such startling swiftness in Venezuela CAN happen in Russia. TO PLAY FETCH ' er defense is a legitimate party question, the answer, I believe, is that here honesty will prove to be best policy. Thu-, it is the duty of the Democrats in Congress to ex amine the Administration's defense proposals in the light of the best intelligence, avail able and of the testimony of experts. It is not only their right but their duty to de cide whether the Administra tion's program is adequate and how it could be improved. The Democrats will be ex pected to come forward with their owr program of amend ments which Congress can then debate. It is when we come to the post-mortems for our having fallen behind in the race of armaments that an ugly par tisanship will show itself. The country will do weU to be very skeptical and very suspi cious of all attempts to fix the blame on one party or the other. There have been too many Democrats and Repub licans involved in the com plicated history of the mis siles and other strategic wea pons to justify any verdict that one or the other party is guilty. If there is to be an inquest and there is much to be said for having one, it should not be made by a Congressional committee, composed of men among whom many must run for re-election in the fall. The inquest should be conducted in a judicial ppirit of some kind of panel or commission which inspires general con fidence and is composed of men who personally have nothing to gain and nothing to lose by the outcome of the elections. (Copyright 1958 New York York Herald Tribune Inc.) Communications Letten to the Editor must bear the name and addresa of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Junk Up to the Citixens To the Editor: The Feb.' 4 issue of Look magazine force fully reminds me of our local conditions. We. are a rapidly expanding city; we can de velop into a clean, attractive city, or we can be a conglom eration of slums, junk yards and general- disorganization. It is up to the citizens of this area to see that Medford is developed properly. You say that you elect the council and other officials to do this job for you. This may be so, but sometimes personal inter ests interfere with the proper discharge of duty. Then, it is up to you to register your dissatisfaction. I am referring to the li censing of the Speedway wrecking yard (a junk yard) right in the middle of a resi dential area. This was done over the objection of over 200 residents. This eyesore is clearly visible to every tourist who passes through our city to visit Crater Lake Park. I say visible; I mean, he cannot pos sibly avoid seeing this mess. Carl B. Ekholm, 2189 Corona ave., Medford Tired of Kings To the Editor: Why all this fuss and fury about the Queen of England and her husband taking their son, Prince Charles, out of school because "the boys" wanted to take his picture and write a piece about him? Any American boy whose father might happen to be a mechanic, a farmer or a court stenographer, would take pub licity in his stride, get into T.V., go on to school and pos sibly earn a Ford scholarship. X PTLUCCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) The women's editor the other day obtained (begged? borrowed? stole?) two little Japanese-made birds, created out of paper. They're engag ing little things, and she hung each to a different light pull string in the office. Friday afternoon the author of the M.T.'s new column, "Diary of a Bird Watcher," visited the office. He was ask ed if he could indentify the birds. "Easy." he replied. "One is red, the other's yellow." A couple of Medford police officer spent an in structive half-hour the other day attempting io explain to the records officer (fe male) the difference be tween fender skirts (for a car) and under skirts (for a woman). The minutes of the city council of Medford ordinarily are prepared in the stiff, for mal style common to govern mental documents, and dupli cated in ordinary black and white mimeographed style. Complaints, probably not too serious, have been heard that they ought to be jazzed up a little. Well, the young lady who officiates at the duplicating Editorial Comment STILL MINING TIMBER! The Al Serena mining pat ents get back into the news with report that the patentees have "mined" nearly .three million board feet of timber, but no minerals from their Haims. That doesn't disprove the presence of minerals, but it does show lack of mining values under present condi tions. Regardless of its merits under the law that decision of Solicitor Clarence Davis to grant the patents was a rock around the necks of Republi can candidates in 1954. Ore gon Statesman (Salem). Why not let the pulp publica tions have the story with the pictures and make all the money they can? Their clien tele would soon be tired of hearing about it and demand something newer and more up to date. For my part I've been very tired of hearing about kings, queens, princes and princesses ever since I began to listen with avidity to tales about my highly respected, hard working and patriotic ances tors who not only attended, but staged and passed a cred itable examination at the Bos ton Tea party. Poor little Prince, full school age and has not learned to take it. H. Gore, Jacksonville The Lust for Power To the Editor: Much has been said about peace and liberty in the world since the Sputnik aroused the People and Nations to the fact it could be lost if we are not willing and ready to fight for it. Whether we are religiously inclined or not we must ad mit there are two opposing forces in the Earth of good and evil. Ever since the War in Heaven and later the time of Adam and Eve in the Gar den of Eden. Fundamentally on the one hand there is free agency, lib erty, freedom and love for one another given to us by a supreme intelligence we caU God who has Created ' this Earth and given it the laws it so literally obeys and ful fills from year to year. And on the other hand there is hate, envy, strife, force and lust for power and dominion over one another by the pow er of the adversary. We are also born with more or less intelligence to choose between these opposing forces as long as lustful men rebel against the gospel of PSace and of fend against their fellow men there will be wars. Lasting Peace will cover the Earth only after men and their lead ers cease to lust for power and dominion over one an other. If God had willed it so there would not have been the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden. And Adam and Eve would still be there alone. At any rate we needed to come in contact with Sin and evil and incidentally wars. By the same tokens we will enjoy Peace and love for one another in the Millennium. Then the Lion and the Lamb will lie down together and we will not build and another inhabit nor plant and another eat. Then they shall not hurt nor destroy because the Earth shall be full of Knowledge as the waters cover the deep. Isiah 65:19 John F. Peterson, 1113 South Oakdale ave., i Medford machine in the city hall took a copy of the Jan. 16 min utes and, with the aid of some selected illustrations clipped from here and there, proceed ed to do so. For instance, the item headed "Beverage license," was illustrated with a pic ture of a glass of something stronger than water on one side, and with a slightly be fuddled man on the other. The item, "Bills Allowed," had pictures of a pelican (big bill), woodpecker (tough bill), stork (old biU) and baby chick (little bill). Minutes of the previous meeting were enlivened with a picture of a wrist watch, and there were others appro priate to the subject matter. The one we liked best was of a man (presumably a staid city councilman) taking care ful aim with a rubber band and spitwad, very possibly at the mayor. Maybe this practice (il lustrating the minutes, that Is) should be adopted official ly. As political gossip begins to burble throughout the county, our courthouse re porter tells us that all this fuss about the county judge ship may have something to it. That office is a stepping-stone to the presidency, he claims, and proves it by reminding that a Jackson County Judge once made it. Jackson County,. Mis souri, of course. A woman we know was worried recently about a small mole which had developed on her neck. It had torn and bled, so she went to see a doc tor. He put a Band-Aid on it, and told her to come back in a few days. This she did. The doctor's nurse took off the Band-Aid, swabbed off the remaining adhesive tape stickum with alcohol, and neat as can be off came the mole. Last Tuesday night one of our staff members drove downtown from his home on the east side to get a pack age of cigarettes. On one of the principal east side streets he noted a house which still had its Christ mas decorations up in front. They were all lighted up. loo. he said. Two county officials are beginning to think they must resemble policemen. On a recent trip through an other county, they stopped for a bite to eat, and spotted a gambling device. Curious, they inquired about if of the mana ger, who, white-faced . and trembling, assured them they didn't know it was illegal, honest he didn't. On another occasion they entered a restaurant in an other county, and immediate ly the owner dashed in and ordered the bartender to turn off an electric gambling de vice. Later, when it was dis covered they were not, after all, police officers, the device was turned on again, and one of them proceeded to win enough money to pay for his dinner. Attorneys, by and large, are pillars of the commun ity, salt of the earth, and trusted leaders of men. Why, then, a curious staff member asks, should one of the better-known firms have to be equipped with "swear box?" A Salem columnist was handed a sheet of paper the other day, on which were list ed what the second child born to a family can expect in com parison to the treatment ac corded the first child. Some of them follow: Child No. 1: Buy a beauti ful layette. Child No. 2: Make a trip to the attic . No. 1: Weigh every day. No. 2: Feel leg occasional ly. No. 1: Sneezes: Call the doc- tor. No. 2: Gets pneumonia: Give aspirin. No. 1: Everything steril ized. No. 2: Warned to stop chew ing on the dog's bone. No. 1: "He's 9 months and 11 days old." No. 2: "I think he was born in August." No. 1: "Now don't let him out of your sight." No. 2: "He'll come home when he's hungry." Our farm editor, devoted to the produce of Jackson county, complains that among the refreshments served at a recent meeting of the Fruit Growers League there wasn't a pear in sight. The reason some people get lost in thought is becauss they're in unfamiliar territory.
