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FOUR- MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Medfordtribune Everyone in Southern Ore f on ncaaiino iaii iriDune Published Daily except Saturday by Trncron ddtvttv ; 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor - fERB GREY. Advertising Mansgi IERALD LATHAM. Business Nf . RIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor . PADT TJ AniU0 f -' cjTa : JARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor II CHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor I JLIVE ST ARCHER, Society Editor - 3 ALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Zntered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES t ly Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday I year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 423 Sunday Only One year $420 . By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle . Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. - Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv- . er. Talent, and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 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NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL asocItJtQn 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. 30. 1948 (Friday) : Delegates from Oregon, California and Washington councils of the international association of machinists meet !at the Medford Labor Temple. ; With but 70 votes cast, Gold Hill school patrons ap tprove the school budget for :the coming year. 20 YEARS AGO :jan. 30, 1938 (Sunday) A new President's Ball at tendance record was expected :to be set when final account ling is made of last night's dance here. : From Arthur Perry's Ye :Smudge Pot column: "The Indians after a week of court have returned to their tepees on tne luamam reservauuii : V 80 YEARS AGO ijan. 30. 1928 (Monday) : After having been off the air since Friday because of 'Via death of W. J. Virgin, KMED, the Mail Tribune .Virgin radio station, will be "on the air again tomorrow night with news items from the Mail Tribune. : From Local and Personal column: "Due to rains and 'warm weather snow on the -summit of the Siskiyou moun tains was practically all gone yesterday." :40 YEARS AGO 'Jan. 30. 1918 (Wednesday) ; From Local and Personal "column: "A letter cancellation stamp which will include the words Crater Lake, will De prepared by the postmaster teeneral's office." Every hotel and restaurant in Medford on Feb. 1 win inaugurate radical reforms which will help conserve Tmpat sugar, wheat, bread -and butter. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or -six is good. : 1. Is the Papham Interna '.tonal Trothy awarded in sports, opera, or science? I 2. Bible: "Go to the :thou sluggard; consider her Jways, and be wise." ; 3. What constitutes the in tsignia of the Infantry in the :U.S. Army? 4. Iron is an element or an Talloy? ' 5. In what month will the ?next U.S. Congressional elec tions take place? I 6. What university athletic ' teams are nicknamed "Tar Heels"? ; 7. The'sun is about 40, 400 Tor 4,000 times longer than the Cmoon? 8. Can an addressee be : compelled to accept and sign for a registered letter? 9. How many in a "baker's dozen"? ' 10. In what profession was Clarence S. Darrow eminent? : Answers: 1. Sports. Squash I rackets. 2. Ant. 3. Crossed Trifles. 4. Element. 5. Novem ber. 6. North Carolina. 7. About 400. 8. No. 9. Thirteen. 20. Lawyer. , "The Public Be Damned" We knew it all along. And often have said so. But we never expected the "Friendly S.P." and of all things its President, .to admit it. But he has. And in cold type directly from the Southern Pacific Public Relations department. Yes there it all is for those who run because they can't take a train may read, in cold, hard and unanswerable type. What is? Well a number of things. But we would place first the verification of the claim often made in this department that the motivating force in this billion-dollar corporation is GREED (plain unadulterated greed) and that the only thing the "Friendly Southern Pa cific" really is friendly to is the EXTRA buck. And there its friendship mounts to a consum ing, completely possessing passion. IT HAS certainly never been friendly to the peo- pie of Southern Oregon where in violation of its original franchise, it abandoned all passenger service in one of the most productive and rapidly- growing sections of the Because it maintained it could not afford to lose $250,000 a year in passenger service between Eugene, Oregon, and Dunsmuir, California. Were any figures claim of loss which was with no operative evidence to sustain it? No. Was the request that the billion dollar cor poration make the record of its net profits in this 300 mile area, freight AND passenger, public ever complied with? No. And here, in the official report of the rail road's 1957 earnings, is the answer. FOR what were the net profits of the SP last irn9 Tt,A,' 1 tCA OCA COC f( That is approximately $4,500,000 a month, or over a million dollars a week. And yet in spite of their friendly feelings, and what their President calls ly "progressive" policies, they could not afford to meet their obligations as a public utility even as a two year experiment or satisfy the demands of approximately 250,000 people m this area, because by their own figures their total net m come, after overhead and taxes, would then only be the sum of $54,257,686.00 or approximately only $4,230,000 a month! IT IS plain to see from to the eyes of the SP's highly regarded President, and presumably reproach, if not censure, from his Board of Directors. For as before stated that the "Friendly "S.P." pie of this area or any other, who pay out millions to the SP every year in high freight charges and profits, don t like it well they can lump it and jump m the lake as far as this mighty and multi million dollar public utility is concerned. ' This, of course, is nothing new. It has always been theSP's basic policy and promises so to continue as long as the present management endures at least. Let the dogs bark and howl the 100-car and on ! And the SP stock, unlike most railroad stocks in the present market, stands firm or as it did yesterday, goes up steadily. OK, IT'S nice work if you can get it. But don't rest under the delusion the SP President is satisfied with such profit. Far from it. We quote : "The railroad made substantial savings during 1957 but not enough . . . the return c4i the railroad's net in vestment less than 3 per cent is INADEQUATE." Well lets see 3 per cent net on say a billion dollars (the SP valuation) is $30,000,000. An annual income of that stature may be peanuts to the "largest railroad in the United States," but it would appear we should say quite a substantial nest egg to most of the railroad's patrons. DUT President Russell says it all only shows the crying need for higher freight and passenger rates the "rate increases granted in 1957" he says "were too little and too late." He wants the abolishment of all regulatory bodies including the I.C.C. and the Oregon Public Utility Com mission, we assume for they are "out of date", and finally any present laws which "keep any transportation agency from moving into another field" such as trucks, busses, air, pipelines (oil), etc., etc. Once more it is nice work if you can get it. And for reasons not entirely clear to this depart ment the "Friendly S.P." not only has it, has had it for years but as far as we largely because of public apathy to continue to have it indefinitely unless the people wake up and do something about it. But even with all this executive is not content. more he wants. Even with a financial report that surpasses anything in the countiy for a railroad in its class in times like this, Mr. Russell deplores the fact that the 1957 net income was only-ONE-CENT per share GREATER that year than the year before. As he points year, and $6.01 the year before. WE TRUST we will be pardoned if we do not Thursday. January 30, 1958 state. Why? maintaining the minimum presented to sustain this only a claim a guess Not gross, that is NET. their modern and high the 1957 report, however, it is that EXTRA buck is after, and if the peo freight trains move on can make out promises prosperity the SP s chief The more he gets the out it was $6.02 the past 5 3 J ' 0ONT SCOLD MB IN FRDMT OF Jog, rig THINKS JM A QJG SHOT. ' Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann HALF WAY TO THE SUMMIT We are now engaged, as all the world knows, in negotiat ing with the Russians on the q;u e s tion of how we can negotiate with the Russians This is a ques tion which lends itself to a certain con fusion, and to that confusion Walter LlDomann "6M TWV IT-, bo,t in some re marks on the television pro gram "Face the Nation" has now made a contribution. Until Mr. Hagerty spoke it had been generally taken for granted that the President's position, as established by Sec retary Dulles, is that he will not meet Mr. Khruschev at the summit until Mr. Dulles has negotiated agreements which can be approved. The idea was supposed to be that the President and Mr. Khrush chev would meet at the sum mit not to negotiate the big issues but to approve agree ments on some of them which had already been negotiated. But if Mr. Hagerty on Sun day was not talking out of turn, this is not the Presi dent's position. For if what Mr. Hagerty said is what the President means, he is ready to meet in a summit meeting if Mr. Dulles and the other foreign ministers cen "agree on what we can discuss." And Mr. Hagerty went on .to say. according to the newspaper reports, that "they do not have to reach agreement even, it appears on the areas of discussion as the Presi dent said, we would merely like to know what we would like to discuss." rHIS sounds as if the Presi dent was ready to go to the summit with nothing more agreed upon than a list of topics that the Russians and we ourselves would like to discuss. Mr. Hagerty cannot have meant that, or if he did mean it, he will soon be hear ing from Mr. Dulles. For Mr. Dulles, quite rightly in my view, is not likely to let the President go to a meeting with Mr. Khruschev until it has become certain that they can reach an acceptable agree ment on something that has substance and significance. Mr. Hagerty's off-hand re marks on the television pro gram are not a state document for which he can be held strictly accountable. But there is a certain plausibility in thinking that he has here re wall. After all One cent betterment, per se but on over 9,000,000 shares it comes close to $100,000. And that is profit INCREASE over a year that came close to a new record for the period. In.f act if it should be the increase would practically pay for giving the people of Southern Oregon the passenger serv ice to which they are The S.P. claims there there is good reason to believe that if decent and convenient passenger service not the "Night Crawler" type of old would be none and including good will and better public relations (which have a monetary value) here would surely be a DUT as always the mighty SP lacks the vision to see it, and lacks the enterprise and cour age to "take a chance". With over a million prefers to sit back and Robert Young, tell the people of Southern Ore gon: Sure we will transport a hog by rail north, south or east as far as it wishes to go but we won't trans port YOU!" R.W.R. flected, perhaps inadvertent ly, something like the spirit of the President's personal at titude as distinguished from the letter of " the Dulles of ficial line. THE basic issue is whether to negotiate down below and then to meet at the sum mit, or to meet at the summit and then negotiate down be low. On this issue there are two schools of thought. There is what we may call the ortho dox school which is represent ed not only by Mr. Dulles but also by Mr. Kennan, by Presi dent Heuss of Germany and by the great majority of pro fessional diplomats and exper ienced observers in foreign affairs. They distrust and dis like, spectacular meeting at the summit except to cele brate agreements reached quietly down below. But there is another school, which may conceivably be the modern school, who are entitled to great respect even if one does not follow them. They hold that the only way to promote fruitful and ser ious negotiations down below is to give them a push from the summit. They would like, therefore, to have a meeting at the summit in the hope that it will cause substantial negotiations to begin down below. THEIR argument, which was new to me, until I heard it recently, is that in dealing with a dictatorship like that in the Soviet Union, nothing can be initiated and nothing can be decided except by the small oligarchy at the top. Until the leading members of this ruling oligarchy can make personal contact with the men at the top with wnom xney have to negotiate, they must depend on their complicated and rather wooden bureauc racy not merely for their in formation on the outside world but for their under standing of what the informa tion means. They are not sat isfied with this. Therefore, thev want to hear in a face to face meeting from Eisen hower personally wnat tne American policy really is, and not to be dependent upon reports of ambassadors writ ten, presumably, in tne du- reaucratic jargon and with the stereotypes of the party line. ON THIS ground there is a case to be made for what might be described as a brief, preliminary and exploratory we grant, isn't much only two cents next year, entitled. would be a loss. Hut were provided mere substantial profit. dollars a week proiit, it to paraphrase the late Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address 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 eve to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. S. P. Parking Moratorium To the Editor: Several weeks ago (the precise date can be traced by the police department, because from all indications, they must have had an enormous turn - over in parking violations), my wife came to town to drive me home, and parked her car on Sixth st. between Fir and Grape. . - She placed enough money in the meter to allow her ample time to walk to the First National bank and re turn before the meter ran out. Her crossing the tracks was halted by an S.P. freight. It was a long string of cars, and slowly-maneuvered and ex asperating, not only for her but for a string of traffic back three or four blocks west of the tracks. I failed to count how many cars were in that jam, but I did see two police cars in the same plight. Meanwhile, the "eager bea vers" who guard the meters had a Roman holiday and parking tickets were dis pensed with the compli ments of the "Friendly South ern Pacific," et al. I know that we need an ef ficient city government and an alert police force, and a united front against traffic violations, but how about pro claiming a moratorium on parking violations during such acts of "Southern Pacif icisms" as we often experience in Medford? G. D. (Name on file) Medford The Gold Hill Rhymer To the Editor: Fear ha! four letters, same as love, but does not mean the same but ruins life and fame, and around the world creates war in many ways a great uproar. Today we have too much fear both near and far. Fear keeps us worried someone may destroy us some day, but as I have always lived the next few lines I write will explain my way. There are three words that to me have always been in their meaning a great char acter builder and my guide and they are Truth, Love and Honesty. To live that way there is no fear. But with some that meaning does not abound. But as I have been told the world is round, but sometimes I think it may be square. Because for you and I so may we find little bumps we get from corners here and there, but there is Truth, Honesty and Love I have found while I 'have roamed this land from east to west, and some of those we .really hurt and wound are many of those we may love the best And we praise many we do not know, we may try and please the fleeting guest and at any time hi,t many a sense less blow to many we should love the very best. The three words' meanings do not always abound and sometimes in this great land I wonder if we do not forget to use the meaning of these three great words we always have at hand. When I was young and had sweethearts by the score would in love letters rhyme about all the places that we had been and what a fine time we had of yore. But now my age has come to fourscore and the old man lives alone and I do not do that anymore. The meaning is in these lines as composed by: William Ross Sham The Roamer and Rhymer Gold Hill, Gen. Del. meeting at the summit for the purpose of initiating seri ous diplomatiq negotiations down below. It seems to me a strong case but not a conclusive one For there may be ways of dealing with the central point of this argument, which has very considerable force, with out the risks and disadvan tages of an improvised meet ing at the summit. One of these ways might be to have Vice President Nixon visit Moscow during his promised trip to Europe this summer. That might be taken by Mr. Khrushchev as evi dence that the President was willing to begin by meeting him half-way. And the Vice President might bring back with him some fresh impres sions of what the Russians in tend. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. HACKIES ISSUE RECEIPTS New York (IP) Taxicab riders who need evidence to prove their income tax pur poses must receive fare re ceipts promptly on request, the police department has re minded New York cab driv ers. The department is provid ing special receipt forms to be used by hackies. Today is 25th Anniversary of Hitler's Assumption By DONALD R. SHANOR United Press Correspondent Frankfurt, Germany (IP) Twenty-five years ago today dying President Paul von Hindenburg signed a procla mation appointing a new pre mier and condemning five million Germans to death. It was thus legally and bloodlessly that Adolf Hit ler took over the chancellor ship and embarked on a de cade of gangsterism which drenched Europe in blood. Hitler and his lieutenants ended their rule 12 years lat er in the only way they ad mitted it could end, as cor pses. The Germans who survived crawled from the rubble in 1945 and slowly established in the western half of their coun try a new constitution with built-in safe-guards against an other democratic suicide. But even today they uneasi ly recalled- the fateful pro clamation a quarter of a cen tury ago. Didn't Trust Hitler Hindenburg disliked and distrusted Hitler and only four days earlier had de clared he would never ap point "the little Austrian corporal" as chancellor. But by Jan. 30, 1933, the 85 -year -old President, ap parently alarmed by rumors of a violent government coup in the making, finally agreed to accept Hitler as chancellor. Hindenburg's advisers, led by Franz von Papen, assured him that once Hitler was in office, they could control and manipulate him. Less than two months later, on March 23, a Nazi-packed parliament voted Hitler dic tatorial powers. Six months later, all other parties had been dissolved or banned and Germany became a totalitarian Nazi state. Hindenburg appointed Hit ler under the emergency clause of the constitution which did not require parlia ment's approval. Majority Impossible The country had been run by this clause since 1930, when continued squabbling in parliament made it impossible to form any kind of majority. But Hindenburg's choice was a popular one. More than 17 million Germans of 39 mil lion voted Nazi in the relative ly free elections Hitler called two months later. He then banned the Communists to give his party a majority. The "legal revolution" was com plete. Hitler launched a vigorous program of fulfilling his elec tion promises. He created jobs for- the country's nearly six million jobless. He began rais ing an army to "right the wrongs" of the Versailles Treaty. His savage persecu tion of the Jews was another thing he had promised the voters. Goebbels Made Boast If it was a long-term gov ernment Hindenburg wanted when he accepted Hitler, he certainly got it. Goebbels wrote in 1932 that "Once we have power, we never will give it up. They would have to carry our bodies out." - Winds Threaten Further Delay for Jupiter C. Cape Canaveral. Fla. OP) Winds ud to 210 miles an hour in the upper air threatened to- J J. J--I . . a uay io aeiay iurtner any et forts to launch the Armv's Jupiter C satellite missile. No other major missile launchings would be feasible, either, if the hieh air currents continued, and forecasters ex pected them to last well into Friday morning. When You Need Extra Chairs . . . We have 25 folding chairs we will be glad to loan for any occasion. There is no charge, and we ask only that you pick them up and return them. DAY OR NIGHT - PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass . FUNERAL DIRECTORS Exactly 12 years and 3 months after Hitler was sworn in, he was carried out as a corpse along with Goeb bels. By then, the man who "saved" Germany from Com munism had heard Soviet army gunfire in Berlin. The industry his regime had re vived lay in bombed ruins Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop ADENAUER ON NEGOTIATIONS Bonn In the era of the wishful-thinkers, Konf ad Ade nauer is the great surviving realist. Physi cally, he more and more re- J sembles a dow- toric creature, obstinately liv ing on into an age that is not his own. His views on-'nego- josepn aisod .tiating with the Soviets strike the same note as his appearance. "As I made clear at the NATp meeting in Paris," he told me, "I believe in East West negotiations.. Some day there must be a world settle ment, and it must be reached by negotiation. But I do not believe that the Western na tions can negotiate success fully with the Soviets unless three essential conditions have been fully met." Speaking with a grim final ity that admitted no argu ment, raising a bony fore finger to emphasize each suc cessive point, the Chancellor ticked off his three conditions. First, the "West must be abso lutely united, and I do not think full Western unity has yet .been restored." Second, "The Western pow ers must be strong, for the So viets only respect strength and hold weakness in perfect contempt." And third and finally and at this point in the list there was a flash of the amusement of a wise old man at the habitual follies of hu manity "There is no use ne gotiating for the mere sake of hearing yourself talk. We must first agree very clearly about the practical objectives of our negotiations. Obvious ly, the most important of aU objectives is controlled .dis armament. . ""OUT controlled disarma- ment can only come by stages, and we must also agree among ourselves about the character of the stages. Fur thermore, we must accept no false substitutes for real con trolled disarmament, such as the so-called Rapacki Plan The Plan would do no good, and it will do no good to talk about it, either." It is always a curious ex perience to be received by Adenauer. His office is huge, airy, heavily humidified (to prevent bronchial attacks) and so full of flowers that it smells like a greenhouse. But this enormous, sunny space always seems to be entirely filled, as it were, by the single figure of the still-erect old man saying his say with mingled scorn and firmness. In the present instance, he had sat through a long, suc cessful foreign affairs debate in the Bundestag until two in the morning. But an experi ence that would have exhaust ed many younger men only seemed to have made Ade nauer rather more firm and considerably more scornful. He was quite openly scorn ful, in particular, of the fol lies of the last few years that have led to the present diffi cult pass in the affairs of the Western Alliance. Again he ticked them off, one by one, beginning with "disarma ment" which gave the Soviets '""ft I A t of Power throughout the country, th territory he had conquered for "Lebensraum" was re captured, and occupation armies held the nation. Today, 25 years after Hit ler began to shape Germany's policies, the country is split three ways, with two eastern sections under Communist German and Polish control. the impression "that even th United States might be seek ing appeasement real music in the Kremlin's ears." TNCREDIBLE disregard of the intelligence concerning Soviet rocket developments; decreasing unity among the NATO nations; mistakes in last year's disarmament nego tiations all the obvious items were listed. The overall re sult, remarked the Chancellor, was something very like gen eral demoralization of the Western Allies. But now, i? added, in the era of the post Sputnik awakening, efforts were being made to correct the worst of these follies of omission 'and commission. "Therefore," he added, "we may again hope that the con ditions of successful negotia tion will eventually be ful filled. But there is much yet to be done." The first thing to be done, according to the Chancellor, is to complete the restoration of Western unity and here ha had much to say about many currently controversial points, such as the British attempt to reduce their ground forces in NATO. Unity was indeed the leitmotiv of the whole conver sation, reappearing again and again as "the key require ment." T?OR instance, the idea of a bi-lateral dialogue be tween the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. did not evoke much enthusiasm from the Chancel lor. He admitted that Nikita Khrushchev's repeated invi tations to such a dialogue might betoken a desire to talk serious business. "But it would disunite the West." All the easy ways out were ruth lessly rejected, in fact, and the absolute importance of Western unity, strength and clear-headedness was ruth lessly insisted upon. "The West must put its own house in order," the Chancellor summed up. "Then and only then can we carry on these negotiations every one desires with the Soviets, whose house is not altogether in order either." Here, embedded in this sternly un-wishful analysis, is the grain of hope offered for the future. Great forces of change were more and more visibly at work in Soviet so ciety. So if the Western na tions maintained their com mon front and did not slacken their efforts, they would be rewarded in the end "with the true settlement, just to all, that we all desire." And so it ended, this ex perience which was not only curious but also highly tonic;, for it is highly tonic now adays to hear a Western lead er talking no nonsense, mak ing no cheap promises, and insisting that great efforts are the price that must be paid for any great success. (Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) HELP US! We Need Clothing, Shoes, Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring 2-4230 t
