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FOUR MEBFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MedfordTribune "Iveryone In Southern Oregon tteaas 1 tie Mall Tribune Publlihed Daily except Saturday by MtU( (JKU fKJJVlljNCi CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HZRB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Busineis Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor , HARRY CH1PMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLTVE 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 mos. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 - Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Odd Hill, I. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: " Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 ., Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford A 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. Cr NEWS PA PER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL association 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 ! Feb. 2. 1948 (Monday) : State Representative O. H. ! Benetson of Medford is in I Washington, D. C, in an ef- ? fort to save the Camp White hospital. The hamburger price war S5J in Central Point is continuing J today according . to reports 1 this morning from owners of t Paulsen's and Fabers mark- ets 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 2, 1938 (Wednesday) It will be possible to ac eomodate only 250 persons at the banquet to be given in honor of the United States Senator A. Evan Reames by the Jackson county chamber of commerce. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Ken Denman is the bouncing fa ther of a proud OSC co-ed, In about 18 years." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 2. 1928 (Thursday) Failure of the Overbeck and Cooke, brokerage firm in Portland involved a number of Southern Oregon people including several in this city and in Ashland. The annual conclave of the United Artisans will be held in Medford Aug. 10, 11, and 12. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 2, 1918 (Saturday) A meeting of representative women from nearly every community in Jackson coun ty was held Friday in the of fice of the home demonstra tion agent to lay out plans for war emergency work. From local , and personal column: Members of the Jack son county draft registration or selective service board are now wearing neat little bronze badges which they re ceived recently from the gov ernment. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; seven er eight is excellent; five er six is good. 1. What do these have in common: ageratum, alyssum, amaranth? , 2. Bible: Pentateuch con tains how many books? 3. Are persons with large heads more intelligent than others? 4. Did the North American Indian aborigines eat oysters? 6. A mid-west city has the letter K as the middle letter of its name, and the first three and last three letters identical; what is its name? 6. Who is the patron Saint of the family? 7. On what island did Napo leon Bonaparte aie? 8. In Jewish and medieval popular belief, who was Lilith held to be? 9. In what Eastern State is the so-called "Underground Pentagon?" 10. For what sport were the Marquis of Queensbury rules divised? Answers: 1. They f are flower-bearing plants. 2. Five. 3. No. 4. Yes. 5. Oshkosh. 6. St. Joseph. 7. St Helena. 8. The first wife of Adam. 9. Maryland; (at Raven Rock Mountain. 65 miles away from tzr.cMnerton. B.C.). 10. BOX- Ing. " " . Can Democracy Survive? We have been looking over an article on American Civilization new idea. At least it is The author claims the major threat to this country and the survival of free democracy does not come from outside our borders, but m side. It does not come from Soviet imperialism, but from national inertia. this claim, attention is for the sinking: of the Lusitania by Imperial Ger many, the United States ened to the "Germany today the Kaiser or control the world at least the western world. A GAIN when "Madman Hitler" rose to power the American people failed to realize their peril, and had Japan not staged her "Pearl Har bor" Hitler would today have supplanted tne House of Hohenzollern as monarch, of all he surveved. Now the country and western civilization are threatened by the greatest peril in history, but had "Sputnik" never been iired into orbit, tne people of this country fused to have recognized the challenge and met it. As it is only a few . - tists" are aware of the gravity ol the situation, and in lieu of another "Lusitania" or "Pearl Har bor" the writer fears the "noble experiment of a free democracy will end in defeat and disaster. WELL, as observed, nndoroi'miorl unrJ But as we view it, piece of Swiss cheese full of holes. In the first place it is entirely speculative. The author doesn't know no one CAN know what would have happened in 1914 and 1939, IF what did happen had NOT happened. For, the sake of argument let it be assumed that the Lusitania had never been'sunk, and von Tirpitz had agreed to Woodrow . Wilson's ulti matum and in good faith discontinued unlimited U-boat warfare. Without that warfare and the U.S.A. could Germany have brought France .and England to their knees? We don't believe so. was winning .the war, waffe" or shock-troops. But that, too, is plain this argument or any other on what CAN'T be known, when there is so "The Kaiser was beaten, Hitler was beaten, the United States played haps a decisive, role in take some time for Uncle reality of his peril. But he did awaken, in time to do the job, and for that let us all be duly thank ful. - ' i THIS is not to maintain there is no validity to the claim that old' General Apathy is one of he maior threats to tb.e of American democracy. is particularly serious today m view of the Rus sian challenge for the control of the world and some claim the control of DUT the point is at least as we see it that you can't have your cake and eat it too, in this field anymore than m any other. As has often been pointed out in this depart ment, on the basis solely properly and in the shortest possible time, a strong and ruthless dictatorship such as communist Rus sia's, is clearly superior to a "government of by and for the people such By the nature of things a democracy has to go slowly. Also by the nature of things, a dictator ship with absolute control of the police, the army the navy and the air force at any time does not have to. Soviet Russia could Khrushchev and his pals this country were attacked, President Eisenhower could no more declare war, than he could fly to the moon and in view of recent scientific claims, the latter would be easy in comparison. DUT what does Communist Russia pay for that advantage? The answer in a word is SLAVERY the people of Russia completely regimented and ab solutely ruled, down to the smallest detail of their lives, by "One Man," aided and abetted by a se lect group of ideological gangsters all respon sible to no one. However, if that form to be more efficient than free democracy, won't it, in the raging competition between nations, eventually triumph? There, brethern, IS the question ! Khrushchev says it will. Uncle Sam shaking his head vigorously says "by cracky it won't!" And naturally all Americans or almost all agree with Uncle. - CO DO WE. It is with us, however, not a matter of any knowledge but' of faith faith that there is so deeply imbedded in the human race,- regardless of color, creed or previous condition of servitude a passion so strong for freedom, liberty and the dignity of the individual, -ment denying these things can long endure. In J Sunday, February 2, 1958 recently which presents a new to us. To support and document called to the fact that but would never have awak Uber Alles" danger ana his descendants would would have absolutely re mainly "egg-head scien- . J . 1 I I it is a new idea to the vutriiar all lnfprPSt.inO" (TP P. it is, like the proverbial It was the U Boat that not the Kaiser's "Luft conjecture. So why base much that CAN be? an important, and per both victories. Also it did Sam to awaken to the efficiency and success Nor deny that this threat outer space. of getting things done, as we m America have. declare war tomorrow, if so decided. But unless of government proves that no form of govern- ibu told mio ee Nice to zoey, didn't yoo ? Wu? DIDN'T Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann MR. K AND THE APPETIZERS What has been coming out of Russia recently makes me wonder whether Mr. Krush- c h e v and the other ruling men have had any c 1 e a rer idea than we have had in the West about what business might be done at the Walter Lippmann Summit. The Kremlin, to be sure, has published a list of proposals it would like us to accept. And we, in turn, have put out a list of proposals which we say that the Soviet Union ought to accept. But the common characteristic of the two lists, if each is regard ed as a whole, is that both are based on the idea of un conditional surrender the Russian on the surrender of the West, and our list on the surrender of the Russians. This must be known to Mr. Khrushchev and his col leagues, and therefore the question is why he keeps on calling for a meeting at the summit when on the face of the public record there can be no agreement reached when we get there. The answer to this question may be that as long as the West stood opposed to a meeting, as long as Mr. Dulles just didn't want to negotiate with the Russians, the Kremlin had a free ride for its propaganda. The Soviet Union wanted to negotiate for peace. Mr. Dulles did not want to negotiate for peace. Who, then, was the hope of the world? Could any thing have been easier? But, once the Western posi tion began to unfreeze, as it has been doing since the NATO meeting in Paris in December, the Kremlin has been having to face the prac tical problems of a meeting at the summit. I am inclined to wonder whether this does not account for what Mr. Khrushchev said to the NATO Ambassadors at the cocktail porty in Moscow on Monday. H E SAID, in his off-hand that negotiations should start with the simple issues before Editorial Comment DEPLORES SOUTHERN PACIFIC NEGLIGENCE The SP president, In a state ment commenting on the sys tem's earnings and problems says, "Frequently local groups oppose attempts to modernize our operations and necessary approvals of state regulatory commissions are often difficult to obtain, but it is unrealistic to keep running empty trains which serve no public need." That's an interesting state ment, especially in view of efforts in . Southern Oregon to have the SP resume pass enger train service over Siski you line. We believe every one wants the railroad to en joy a profitable operation, but also they want it to fulfill its public service obligations. In the case of Southern Ore gon, where the railroad en joys a complete monopoly on other .words in spite of terially of the "police state" it has within itself, as has often been said, truction. THAT we believe. But we also believe accompanied by "works" by deeds by throw ing General Apathy overboard and realizing the free world is in a battle for its life for survival and we can't muddle along under the good old baner of "Business'As battle, automatically or they came to the more dif ficult ones. "It is like a meal, First, you have appetizers Then soup and fish. Then, the main course. We should do the same. Let us agree on simple things first." What makes this so interest ing, and it may be so signifi cant, is that it differs so radi cally from the idea of a grand meeting at the summit for the pretended purpose of deal ing with all the great issues in one over-all package settle ment. In the big ponderous letters which the heads of the governments have been writ ing to each other, there is a pretense on each side that it wishes, while the other side does not wish, to settle every thing at once. At the cocktail party on Monday, Mr. Khrushchev dis owned the over-all approach, which can be nothing but propaganda, and recommend ed the kind of approach from the smaller to the larger issues which alone could mean a serious and sincere negotia tion. I F THIS is correct, then It meeting of. the summit be comes a practical possibility the Kremlin is concerned, as we in our own way are con cerned, that it should not end in a disastrous disagreement, If such a disagreement is to be avoided, the meeting must be given business to do which is small enough to be manage able, like the Lacy-Zaroubin business about cultural ex changes, and is yet appetizing enough to lead on to more business. If what Mr. Khrushchev means is that he wants a big meeting with a small and very limited agenda, he is likely to be listened to carefully. But hs must realize that even a small and limited agenda will have to be negoti ated carefully. One might hope it would be negotiated m the spirit and with the competence of the Lacy-Zaro- ubin negotiations. For Mr. Khrushchev, as an old habi- tute of cocktail parties, should know that what some people treat .as a mere appetizer, others would regard as a whole meal. ran transportation, it sum marily discontinued its Ash land-Portland passenger trains on the Siskiyou line. The schedule was slow, the equip ment old and outmoded. The railroad refused to seriously consider the use of modern equipment and improved schedules. The i n a d e q uate Oregon statutes on the regulatory powers of the public service commissioner left this area almost helpless to oppose the railroad's discontinuance of the passenger trains. While we are pleased that SP continues to be one of the prosperous railroads of the nation, we remain distinctly uphappy over its failure to make a reasonable attempt to provide this area with a pas senger train service. Ash land Tidings. the high efficiency ma the seeds of its own des that such faith must be Usual" and expect that easily, to be wron. K.W.R. Matter of Fact by joh THINGS TO COME Bonn, Germany Germany, France and Italy joined to gether in a single, supra-na- ti o nal major power, and fully equip- Ded with the J whole pano ply of modern war-including nuclear wea pons that is beginning to be dis c e r n i- Joseph Alsop ble here in Bonn. None of the three govern ments concerned has made a clear decision to take this new direction whi;h can so radically alter the whole power-map of Europe and the Western world. Even in the German government, where the impulse originates, there is quite extensive disagree ment about the desirability of the new direction. Yet the German, French and Italian governments, al most unnoticed, have set their feet upon the road. With no fanfare, with no public dis cussion, they are marching down the road together. For several highly practical rea sons, one suspects they will not find it easy to turn back later on. THE obscure organization that marlrs flip npnr direc tion is called the German-French-Italian ' Military-Technical Committee. It appears to be the brainchild of Ger man Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, a singularly tough and brilliant butcher's son with a singularly sharp perception of modern power- realities. Its ostensible pur pose is to cooramate ana "standardize" weapons de sign and production in Italy, France and Germany. Unlike the other numorous bodies that are supposed to coordinate and standardize the weapons of the NATO forces, the new Franco-Italo-German committee really seems to be doing its job. At a recent Bonn meeting Strauss, French De fense Minister Chabsn Del- mas and Italian Defense Min ister Paolo Tavianl reached agreement in principle on a new, very fast, lightly arm ored, heavily armed tank which they think will be greatly superior to any cur rent American tank design. Germany will manufacture the engine and chassis. France will provide the armor and armament and complete tne assembly. The engine and chassis are also designed for use in weapons carriers, spec ial command cars, mobile light rocket-launchers, and so on. Parts of some of these other vehicles will be pro duced in Italy. The result, if. all goes well will be a whole family of tanks and other military vehicles produced by the combined efforts of France, Italy and Germany, and used as standard equip ment in all three national armies. Other, similar results are expected with other wea pons types. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the although under certain circumstances the use of a Den name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Thank God for R. R. V. To the Editor: In answer to B. P. (name on file): Somehow, I feel you have misconstrued the phrase "write em and invite 'em At least, that's the impres sion I have from your very irate letter of Jan. 29. What "those guys" on TV mean is that we should all invite our rich friends and re lative from other parts of the country. I mean the ones who are living in the "lands of plenty" like California, Wash ington and all points East. They make terrific wages in those places, I understand, and everybody is simply rolling in foldin' money. It should be no problem at all for them to afford to visit our "p o o r, down - trodden" valley and drop some of their extra wealth to us "peasants." Don't .you agree? As for the furniture and other factories, they also are loaded with those. In fact, the whole country is positive ly f'polluted" with ttte darn things. It's really a crying shame that Medford has such nasty, clean air. Having just returnea irom '.visit in Mexico City, Calif- , ; T ornia ana vanuus yi, have but one sentiment to offer at this point. Rich or Door, what ever I may be, thank God I live in the Rogue River Valley and the U.S. A.! G, Farfan 723 South Newtown Medford. Trust In God To the Editor: It seems odd to me for a nation to stamp Pray for peace" on our mail, and state "in God we trust on our coins, and then spend S30 billion for the upkeep of our nation, and $40 billion Alsop TUT this part of the Mili tary - Technical Commit teee's work is, so to speak. only the bit of the iceberg that shows above the surface. The indicator of the future is the authoritatively reported decision of the three Defense Ministers to examine the pos sibilities of collaboration in the crucial nuclear area, in cluding eventual production of nuclear weapons. The French are of course al ready at work on their, first A and H bomb designs. They have therefore been charged with drawing up proposals for tri-national collaboration in the nuclear area. These pro posals will no doubt be ex amined at another meeting of the three Defense Ministers and their Military-Technical Committee which is scheduled to be held in Rome in early spring. The French proposals will necessarily include the shares of the bill for this hideously expensive development effort that the French Defense Mini stry would like to have paid by its partners and of course Germany above all. Here is one of the major hurdles on the new road; for German Finance Minister Etzel will! certainly oppose any addi tional defense outlays with all his might. As Etzel is now severely straining NATO by his obstin ate refusal to go on paying the "support costs" of the British divisions in Germany, his arguments will have much force. By the same token, the Germany Foreign Ministry is far from enthusiastic about the new road, partly because of a marked lack of enthusi asm for Defense Minister Strauss, and partly because the diplomats have doubts about isolating Britain by forming a purely continental Franco-Italo - German group ing, There are the same un certainties in the French and Italian governments. IF ONE takes a long view, however, it is pretty ob vious that the march down the new road is likely, to con tinue. On the one hand, the French are determined to be come a nuclear power, . yet they lack the resources to do the job alone. On the other hand, despite the deep doubts everywhere felt in this coun try, Germany will not long be content to be the only major Western nation without nu clear weapons. The Franco-Italo - German power-merger loresnaaowea by the Military - Technical Committee is the obvious solu tion. It may be a bit stagger ing to find France consider ing this kind of collaboration with Germany,, after all the water that has flowed under the bridges of history. But the stream of history ' has many unexpected turnings. And there are other, even deeper reasons for eventual Franco - German nuclear col laboration, which must be ex amined In a further report. name and address of the writer. for military arms and per and sonnel. It appears to me that there is more trust in the money, and little . if any in the Lord. But after this war is over, which will surely come, then we will know where our trust ought to have been. Consider the condition of the world today, if the United States and England hadn't shut the doors on immigra tion we would both be pov erty-stricken by now, ana things are not getting better but worse. I read in the paper a while back an article by a leading scientist that people would have to pass laws to prevent h a b v murders would have to take place, and these things are already under serifcus consideration in some nations today. And the end is not near? But for those of you who do trust in God and believe in him, he foretells of the things that will be in the last genera tion (a period of about 20 years or a little more). Read Matthew, chapters 24 and 25, begin at verse 3 of chapter 24, note verse 34 of chapter 24. Also chapter- 23 : refers these days, or I should say to the leaders, judges, preach ers, and those who are elected and appointed over the peo ple, i T. M. S. (Name on file) -' Empire, Ore. ' Thank You, Nice People" To The Editor: Having de termined to start the New Year by' being kind and neighborly, and noticing that we are nearly to February, we thought we had better be gin. Do you suppose you could (By M-T Staff We've been reading a neighboring daily newspaper with more - than - usual dili gency recently, since they took a smugly superior crack at the M-T for a couple of typographical errors that crept in. We acknowledge the errors (remember those "lVi-year-old boys" we reported as being arrested for illegal dis charge of firearms?), but are confident that sooner or later we'll catch the teasing paper in something just as silly. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The latest scare: Brigadier General Homer Boushey, deputy director of Air Force research and de velopment, tells a luncheon group in Washington . the moon will inevitably become a military base for launching space attacks on the earth. He says a base on the moon could be used to rain massive destruction on the nations of this terrestrial globe. He thinks we'd better beat the Russkies to it or ELSE. ABIT of advice: Don't jump in the lake yet. So many, many people know so many things that ain't so. This may be one of 'em. TELETYPE chatter: Authorities are in sharp disagreement over what to do about the current wave of juvenile delinquency. One expert says commut ting fathers (who live in the country and work in the Big Town) should spend- more time at home. Another expert advises "psychodrama" in which de linquents act out their "ag gressions" for psychologists to analyze. Others say TEAR DOWN THE SLUMS. TIMELY question: Has anybody given any though to a few old-fashioned sessions in the wood shed? I reckon not. That's too practical for this modern age. ) WALTER Reuther tells a congressional committee in Washington this morning that today's wage levels hav? nothing to do with inflation that the economy is in trou ble only because purchasing rawer hasn't keot up with increased ability to produce His idea is that all we need to do to keep prosperity roll ing in high gear is to raise wages and cut prices. Cynical thought: I wonder if he ever tried to run a hamburger stand and make a living at it. . T ET'S close on a note of common sense. Education Secretary Mari on Folsom says this morning the United States is at a seri ous disadvantage because Dractically all its citizens speak only English. He adds that Americans are weaker in the foreien language field than any other major people in the world. What he means is this: How are we going to run the world if we can't tell the neoDle in foreign countries how we want to run in pet)- print a 'thank you, nice pie in your Communications column? And, seriously, we wouldn't even know where to begin. We do wish to express our deepest appreciation for the snowball of helpfulness your paper began last August. There have always been lots of wonderful people in this weary world, but that article you ran brought to light a whole new crop. By the time you printed that story, we had been charg ing tranquilizers at a local drug' store for months. Even though the money didn't come pouring in, as we had hoped it would, the kind words of encouragement from nearly everyone we met, many of them strangers till that time, gave us the will to continue. Phone calls, letters, suggested solutions and even praise for our services, made us feel that maybe the whole business might be worth while after all. We are especially grateful to the doctors and hospitals for their active support and willingness to help wherever possible. Finally and always, you people out there, we are a public service. WE ion't call you, YOU call us, and we give what assistance we can. We intend to continue to serve you as efficiently as possible, BUT we sincerely hope you won't ever need to call us! Doyle and Carol Waltermire Medford Ambulance Service P. O. Box 1214, Medford. and Contributors) When we do, we'll let you know. A week or so ago Md ford police were called to stand by while a local hotel evicted a tenant for non payment of his bill. He left all right, but failed to take with him the personal be longings tucked away in th drawers of the dresser. Offi cers reported these included 75 neatly stacked empty bottles which once held win and vodka. One of our staff membera orders eggs from a poultry- man in the county, and they are delivered periodically to the office. Our man, whose feats of absent - mindedness i o m e times awe his fellow workers, on occasion forgets to take his eggs home the same day they are delivered, and his colleagues are awaiting the day that some of the eggs hatch out in the well-warmed room, covering us all with baby chicks. In anticipation of that time. one of the gals took down those two little paper birds we mentioned last week, and placed them atop the current egg-crate. This amused HER, even if it didn't amuse HIM. The heavy rains of the last two weeks have brought problems for many people not least of them the employees of a bank and finance company in one of our smaller communi ties. Sewers under the bank backed up. forcing the rela tively numerous bank em ployees needing the use of a restroom to cross the street to the finance, com pany, " where the two or three workers generously shared theirs. Not everything seen in tha sky is a Sputnik, flying sau cer or meteor. Our Illinois Valley correspondent, Helen Bottel, writes that reports of a falling, flaming object re cently near Smith River, Calif., alerted a coast guard cutter, the sheriffs depart ment, and a number of in dividuals to be on the lookout for unidentified flying ob jects. The alert was called off when it was discovered that the bright flashes were caused by a local . chicken fanner who used a flare gun to scare off seagulls. There have been various reactions to the M-T's new column, "Diary of a Bird Watcher." Some poo pie, who are less interested in birds than in other, less ex otic occupations, wonder why we print it. They would understand if they heard the enthusiastic comments of those who ARE inter ested in birds and other beauties of nature. One Saw fan of the column reports that he has sighted what h thinks was a pair of eagles on his property near Phoe nix huge birds with wing- spans of about seven feet. His only doubt was about their beaks. Do eagles have yellow or gray ones, he wanted to know. An almost-6-year-old w a telling her mother about going to the dentist for some tooth work for the first time. "It hurt a little when h put the needle in," she said, but I didn t say ouch. I couldn't!" Telephone operators, like other humans, like to chat with each other during their spare moments. The other day a group of them had a lengthy and serious discus sion. They reached two con clusions regarding their re spective husbands: Their socks seldom matched, and they prefer their eggs soft, boiled. One of the county exten sion agents is still snorting about the remarks made by a r'so-called cowboy" in one of the nationally televised pro grams, who remarked tnai a horse should be rubbed down all over every night with horse linament. The agent curtly remarked that would be one way to make a r. retty lively horse of an old nag. The story's going around the courthouse about the county official who has been muttering to himself about filling out the forms for em ployees' withholding taxes. Some of the employees think this is a form of poetic justice, for the offi cial is one of those .con cerned with handling coun ty tax payments. A recent remark by an ob server of the contemporary scene may not be true, but sometimes it SEEMS true: Every time three Ameri cans get together, they elect officers."
