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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Teb. 9. 1948 (Monday)
Medford High school has no
connection with the campaign
inow being carried on by
itinerant magazine salesmen,
'school officials say."
i Tickets are now on sale for
the annual banquet of the
Jackson County Lincoln club
iFeb. 12.
;20 YEARS AGO
;Teb. 9, 1938 (Wednesday)
The Pacific highway south
of Dunsmulr, blocked by the
Castle Crag slide for several
days, was open to traffic about
noon.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The
un shone brightly Tuesday
p.m. The few candidates in
the field all looked like they
were responsible."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 9. 1928 (Thursday)
Not only the sport of game
fishing, but the food fish in
dustry as well, will be de
stroyed in Oregon if certain
"power development permits
are granted, according to state
fish and game officials:
From local and personal
"column: "Work will probably
be underway the first of next
,week on the widening of the
'. Oregon Caves highway, ac
cording to the engineer in
charge of the operation."
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 9, 1918 (Saturday)
A movement is under way
to persuade the city council
to change the ordinance to al
low keeping hogs in the city.
Central Point schools have
organized for a thrift stamp
campaign.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior
seven or eight is excellent; five er
six is good.
1. What is the difference be
tween a jerkin and a gherkin?
2. Bible: In Egypt, how
many "plagues of Egypt" led
to the emancipation of the
Hebrew slaves?
3. Was India, China, or Ja
pan formerly known in Eu
rope as "Cipango"?
4. Correct the following:
"He came at about two
o'clock."
5. Name the most famous
river-crossing operation by
Julius Caesar.
6. Supply the missing word,
"The Lord loveth a giver
7. "Little Mac" the nick
name was applied to General
MacArthur, McClellan, or
McPherson?
8. In what country is Seoul?
9. What does the German
word "verboten" mean?
10. Who was the composer
of the opera "Carmen"?
Answers: 1. A jerkin is a
short coat; a gherkin is a
pickle. 2. "Ten." 3. Japan. 4.
"He cames about two o'clock."
5. Crossing the Rubicon. 6.
Cheerful. 7. McClellan. 8. Ko
rea. 9. Forbidden. 10. Bizet.
PEAT BURNS ON
St. Albans, Vt. OP) Resi
dents are wondering whether
a peat bog fire will set a new
record. All attempts have
failed to quench the fire in
a pit 18 feet long and 10 feet
wide which has been flaming
since last Thanksgiving. Old-
er residents recall a peat bog
'Zfire that burned for one year
: some 25 years ago.
MAIL TRIBUNE
100 UN-American
We again find the political opinions expressed
by the "Oregon Voter's" political spokesman,
Ralph T. Moore, intriguing.
And as usual we disagree with them.
But wre trust the Grants Pass Courier will not
feel compelled again, to
ty" because we disagree
philosophy of one of their leading and most high
ly-respected citizens.
I70R there is nothing
x ment. We have never met Mr. Moore, we
don't deny he has all the virtues ascribed to him
by the sometimes eulogistic brants rass daily,
but we feel we have a perfect right to disagree
with his political views, as expressed each week,
in the Oregon Voter, just
to disagree with ours.
It seems to us rather childish to maintain
otherwise.
A ND we have to admit
an offering in the
ment with which we could completely agree.
But it is a well-written, literate, and depress-
mgly consistent column.
times are asked what is the difference between
Modern and Ancient Republicanism, we ask if
the inquirer ever reads
Voter". If the answer is
usually is we strongly suggest such a reading,
wherein a better answer to the question could be
obtained, than any we might give.
XE KNOW of no more persistent and faithful
' apostle of the "Old Guard's" ancient and
honorable if somewhat nostalgic creed, than
that expressed weekly by "Citizen Moore" in the
"Oregon Voter."
The theme song the central motif has been
from the first that "Old Man Debbil" the late
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his inquitous
"New Deal." All the trouble, it seems to "RTM"
started with "F.D.R." and his recovery program
following the Hoover
Grand Old Party under such a conservative,
popular and business-minded leadership as pro
vided by General Eisenhower, has not been able
to completely bind up and heal the wounds caused
by that unholy Democratic excursion into "creep
ing socialism".
IN SHORT Franklin Roosevelt and his New
along with private enterprise and rugged indi
vidualism. So the only hope of salvation now, is
to "go back to first principles" established by our
founding fathers, and
diligence and a return to
make one supreme effort
reparable damage that has been done.
That is the basic Moore angle. And we don t
mean to say he is alone in it. In fact we would
guess if the "Ancient Republicans" were carefully
polled and were as frank and out spoken as the
Grants Pass "Elder Statesman " they would en
tirely agree with his reminiscent devotion to the
political principles of Mark Hanna, Speaker Can
non and the "good old days.""
BUT to come down to
i una uui
What aroused our interest this time was the
Moore column in the January 25th "Voter" en
titled the "Common Man false doctrine of
politics."
As usual Mr. Moore refused to pull any
punches.
He doesn't think much of the "common man"
or the "common people". What he wants is the
"UNcommon man" and an end to the promotion
of mediocrity, as per the "New Deal concept".
He thinks this concept entails the suppression of
outstanding talent because it raises the possessor
above the ruck.
THERE is more much more along the same
" line. And one is not surprised to find the
Grants Pass Mentor, concluding that the entire
"common man concept is basic in the faceless
society envisaged by the socialists".
Which of course brings the writer back to
where he always comes from, namely, "F.D.R.
and the New Deal".
IF "R.T.M." stopped there we would have no
particular complaint. For this sort of talk has
been going on in the Higher Bracket Circles of
the "Union League club" for over 25 years.
But when Mr. Moore claims this doctrine is
a defense of the "American Way of Life" and a
return to the first principles of our hallowed fore
fathers we feel constrained to disregard the
maledictions of the Grants Pass Courier and
remark that "Citizen Moore" is talking through
his hat !
.
THE political doctrine he advances in fact is
A not new.
It goes back farther than the second battle of
Bull Run, farther than the colonial days of Ben
jamin Franklin, it goes back to the days of an
cient Greece and Rome.
It has been generally known for years as the
ARISTOCRATIC theory of government as op
posed to the democratic.
If Mr. Moore will look up the record he will
find this form of government was debated ex
tensively by our-American forefathers, and was
Sunday, February 9, 1958
accuse us of "lese majes
with the basic political
personal in our disagree-
as he has the same right
we have never yet found
"Voter's" political depart
And when as we some
Mr. Moore m the Oregon
in the negative which it
depression. Even the
by hard work, prudence,
sound economic values,
to repair the almost ir
cases before our space
Like i tod ya:when yoj'pe in a
crowd. mx7outfqrkvzs "
rejected finally and emphatically in favor of a
free Democracy.
The theory that finally prevailed and IS still
the corner stone of our government as well as the
essence of the "American way of life" was not to
discard the "faceless and socialistic concept of the
Common Man" in favor of the "UNcommon
Man", but to accept the former, and make the
government a real "government of the people,
for the people and by the people," as Abraham
Lincoln, the founder of the party which Citizen
Moore claims he is now defending, so clearly
stated when the destruction of this "democratic
experiment" was so gravely threatened.
""HAT is all known or should be to every
' American school boy or school girl. As in
dicated we have no quarrel with the "Voter's"
political commentator if he wishes to turn back
the pages of political history 2000 years though
we don't believe he will
we do have a quarrel with him or any other mem
bers of the G.O.P. "Old
action would be proper
the "American Way of
sound democratic principles of our forefathers.
NONSENSE! That
doctrine ISN'T.
On the contrary it
and it completely repudiates the basic principles
of our forefathers when they accepted the Dec
laration of Independence and wrote the Consti
tution of the United States.
TO FINALLY wrap up this thesis, we would no
" more deny that on the sole basis of efficiency
an argument can be made for the aristocratic
form of government, citing Sparta as an example ;
just as a similar argument can be made for a
Communist form of dictatorship, citing boviet
Russia and its Sputniks as
is: the colonists who founded this democracy,
did not care so much about material efficiency
as they did about freedom, liberty, promotion of
the public welfare and the
They decided, after
ment, that in the long
ALL the people common and uncommon
would be better judges of what would be best for
them, than would any "elite corps", however effi
cient; or any Dictator, however benevolent.
Looking back over
alized the aristocratic form of government had
degenerated into narrow and tyrannical oligar
cies: and benevolent dictatorships into absolute
monarchies of which
sufficiency.
So they formed the United States of America.
The only conclusion we can draw from the
article under consideration is that Mr. Moore of
the "Voter" and other "Ancient Republicans"
sincerely believe that the
by so doing made a most regrettable and costly
mistake ! R.W.R.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
A new Vanguard is wait
ing to be nestled into its firing
pad for another try to launch
an earth satellite. The navy
says the try will be made
as soon as it finds out what
went wrong with yesterday's
rocket.
The navy is following an
old and time-tested maxim: If
at first you don't succeed,
TRY, TRY AGAIN.
A STATEMENT said the big
rocket broke in two pieces
because something made it
tura sharply to the right about
60 seconds after it took off.
These big satellite-launching
rockets aren't toys. They
cost in the broad, general
neighborhood of two million
dollars. They have thousands
of parts. If any essential part
goes wrong, the rocket fiz
zles. Finding out what happen
ed and seeing that it doesn't
happen again take time and
involve disappointments, but
there seems to be no better
road to ultimate success.
THE National Safety Coun
cil has been studying types
get very far with it. But
Guard", who claims such
in the name of preserving
Life" and returning to the
is precisely what such a
is 100 UN-American
examples. But the point
"pursuit of happiness' .
much thought and argu
run the American people
political history they re
they had had a great
founders of this republic
JENKINS
of accidents that took lives
and caused injuries during
1957.
During the year, 9,500,000
persons were injured in the
types of accidents studied.
Total cost involved amounted
to 11 BILLION 500 million
dollars during the year.
ONE'S first inclination is to
say THERE OUGHT TO
BE A LAW or, to be more
exact, more laws and one
supposes that must be true
in the case of traffic laws.
As traffic on our highways
changes and increases, there
must be new laws and new
regulations to meet the chang
ing conditions.
But
There remains the problem
of accidents in the home.
Among these accidents,
slipping in the bathtub looms
rather large.
Suppose there was a law
THE moral is that CAU
. TION helps to prevent ac
cidents fatal and otherwise.
You can't LEGISLATE cau
tion. Caution is an INDI
VIDUAL matter. .
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
THE TALKING WAR
The exchange of letters and
speeches which is now going
on between Moscow and the
Western capi
tals is show
in g, as one
studies it
closely, that
there is a mili
tary and poli
tical stalemate
not likely to
be broken
Walter LlDomann soon r easily.
In the Soviet
statements there is nothing,
so far as I can see, to suggest
that they think they have or
are on the way to having,
decisive military superiority.
There is much to support the
view of Mr. Allen W. Dulles
that, "they recognize that nu
clear war at this time would
result in devastating damage
to them."
No doubt the Soviet utter
ances are mostly propaganda.
But it is pacifist propaganda,
and that is not the kind which
a government, intending to
make war, would dare to use
among its own people. The
Soviet talk about peace is
meant, of course, to soften up
the West. But unlike Hitler's
propaganda, for example, it
it not designed to toughen
up the people at home. Quite
the contrary. It is the kind of
propaganda that must soften
them up too.
The overall effect of the
talking war is to support the
conclusion that there is a
stalemate arising from a bal
ance of terror.
nNMESHED in the military
stalemate there is a politi
cal stalemate. It is at once
accurate and significant, I be
lieve, to say that each side
wants the other side to go
home, that each side wants
disengagement by the other
side without disengagement
for itself. Fundamentally,
what the West wants is that
the Russians and their Chi
nese allies should go home
and renounce ' their present
Lspheres of influence. What
Moscow wants is that the
Americans should go home,
renouncing their sphere of
influence from Japan and
Okinawa to the frontier of
West Germany.
There is a stalemate because
there is not in sight any will
ingness on the momentous is
sue of disengagement to give
as well as to take. That is
why in the existing situation
there is no prospect of a nego
tiated settlement at the sum
mit or anywhere else. . The
situation is likely to last un
til in the course of time it
is eroded by events.
I
N THIS stalemate, the West
ern position is that our ob-
Communications
Pay TV" a Godsend
To the Editor: There seems
to be considerable confusion
regarding "Pay TV," which
if cleared up would make
most people for it.
"Pay TV" is not telecast
"Pay TV" comes to subscrib
ers via telephone and cannot
be seen by non-subscribers.
"Pay TV" sends a list of pro
grams in advance and the sub
scriber picks out the attrac
tions he cares to see and pays
for them only.
"Pay TV" will broadcast
operas, first-run movies, open
ing of Broadway shows in
fact anything of interest to
subscribers.
"Pay TV" will have educa
tional programs for those who
cannot attend school, and all
this will go on while TV sta
tions are sending out their
regular programs through
their channels.
"Pay TV" will carry NO
advertising.
"Pay TV" will be a God
send to those unable to attend
school, shows, athletic games,
operas from Chicago and New
York, in fact a subscriber to
Pay TV picks out what he
wants to see and does not
have to watch the same stuff
night after night as he does
now.
Anyone interested enough
about "Pay TV" and wanting
the facts can get them by
writing Zenith Radio Corpora
tion, 5801 W. Dickens ave.,
Chicago, 111.
George E. White,
131 West Main st.,
Medford
Ever Seen a Cotton Slip?
To the Editor: My morning
paper had the following news:
Pigs Dip, Rabbit Tags Jump,
Wheat Skids, Cotton. Slips,
Stocks Fall and Sputnik
Flops. Have you ever taken
a skid in wheat, or slip in
cotton? I haven't. I bought
banana peels, that's the quick
est way to bust your income
taxes. In 1929 I bought some
pigs. They took a dip every
morning. I even took a dip
with the pigs once. I used to
travel a great deal in France.
The French people put wheels
on their cow barns, put them
on the railroad tracks, and
jectives are the reunification
of Germany and the liberation
of Eastern Europe; these ob
jectives are to be achieved
by the withdrawal of the Red
forces to the Soviet Union
while the NATO forces re
main where they are. No seri
ous person can believe that
this is a negotiating position.
It is in fact a policy of stale
mate in a divided and occu
pied Europe.
The Soviet position is the
same as ours only in reverse.
They want us to evacuate our
armies and dismantle our for
eign bases throughout the
world while they retain their
dominance in Eastern Ger
many and Eastern Europe.
This, obviously enough, is
also a policy of stalemate, and
not in any sense a policy of
negotiation.
THE question, then, is why
each side has a policy that
is not negotiable. The answer
is that both sides prefer the
existing stalemate to the al
ternative, which would be
mutual disengagement.
A reading of Khrushchev's
recent speech at Minsk, and
of many passages in the Bul
ganin letters, makes it plain
that Moscow is very anxious
indeed about the satellite em
pire, and profoundly con
cerned to keep a grip on it.
The satellite empire might
very well blow up if the Red
Army were withdrawn.
On our side of the iron
curtain, there is a correspond
ing anxiety that if the con
tinent were evacuated by the
Russians and by ourselves,
the NATO Alliance would
soon disintegrate. For that
reason, the official view is
better the Red Army on the
Elbe than the American Army
out of Europe.
There is, on both sides, the
unspoken belief that the
threat and pressure of the
other side is necessary to the
morale of its own side.
TN THIS stalemate both alli-
ances are captives, unable
to negotiate on the main is
sue of disengagement. How
long is the stalemate likely
to endure? The question can
not be answered concretely
and definitely. But we can
suppose, I believe, that the
stalemate will last until it is
broken either by a decisive
turn in German interior poli
tics, or by a great upheaval
in Eastern1 Europe, or, what
is not improbablle, by the two
occurring together.
What is sure and clear is
that neither Mr. Khrushchev
in Moscow nor Secretary
Dulles in Washington is likely
to be able to break the stale
mate. Copyright 1958, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
the 65th Artillery rode all
over France in cow barns.
One real dark night I opened
the barn door, and fell into
somebody's pig-pen. I have
never seen Paris, but I have
been in a pig-pen, 27 kilome
ters from the Eiffel tower.
Many people have seen Eu
rope ttirough a port hole. I
never did, I saw Europe
through a crack in the barn
door. !
Everett Acklin,
Box 233, Ashland
Rights of Others
To the Editor: According to
an article in a 1949 magazine,
the personnel director of a
great Chicago store years be
fore that time, declared the
toughest part of his job was
keeping up the morale and ef
ficiency of the sales people.
The big cry was "Customers
had hurt their feelings or en
raged them."
Well, what was the matter
with those of us who spent at
least 30 years in stores and
were almost 100 per cent un
aware of such problems? Were
we abnormal, or overfascinat
ed with our work, adept, or
anxious to hold our jobs? Any
way according to my recollec
tions as an employee (before
coming to Medford) in eight
different millinery establish
ments ( two of the eight were
in big department stores),
there were no problems be
tween sales people and cus
tomers.
To give a personal answer
it would seem that the Chi
cago salespeople in that store
were round pegs in square
holes, misfits to meet the pub
lic. They were doing them
selves an injustice, also the
store and the customers. One
thing we learned pronto was
never to make remarks about
customers to anyone, or about
our employer either. Also not
to talk shop outside the store.
Once my own mother got hurt
because she didn't get to know
what a neighbor paid for her
hat.
Those were days when peo
ple highly respected each
others, rights, and were happy
in doing it.
Emma Lou Carpenter
. . 811 Sherman st.
pTDyCCC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Last week we reported here
that we had been teased about
silly errors in our paper by
a neighboring daily with,
we admitted, good reason.
We try not to harbor grudges,
but we can't help pointing out
that this same neighboring
paper last week, in a story
about Southern Oregon col
lege, referred to an individual
as a "girl."
The individual, it so hap
pens, is a young man and a
teacher in a Jacksonville
school.
The error was made in a
Page 1 headline about a
quarter - inch tall. So that
makes us even for the mo
ment, anyway.
.
Slot machines are, of
course, illegal in Oregon,
but one of our staff mem
bers claims that . it takes
slot machine experience to
deposit a coin in the city's
parking meters and get that
red flag down. He said that
after he kicks the meter a
couple of times, then shakes
it vigorously a couple of
-limes, the coin slides down
the right channel if he's
lucky.
Bird watching, we are re
liably informed, is on the up
grade in this area, thanks
possibly in part to the bird-
watching column in the M-T
written by the Rev. Thomas
McCamant.
Anyway, the staff of the
Medford Public library re
cently had to call Mr. Mc
Camant to identify a bird
with a yellow body, black on
the wings, crown and tail,
and spots of white under the
wings, which they spotted
drinking from a fountain in
the park, and about which
they had been asked. Their
bird books, they said, were all
in use.
Mr. McCamant says his
calls with bird-identification
queries have increased from
others interested, too.
The state civil service
commission is engaged in a
study of jobs of county
workers, and has asked
various job-holders to write
descriptions of their duties
and the qualifications for
holding them. One such
and who should know
and staled thai the job re
quired a "colledge" educa
tion. Well, maybe it does,
maybe it does.
Editorial
Comment
U.P. LOOKS FORWARD
Public relations policies of
the Union Pacific railroad, as
compared with one notable
example with which Southern
Oregon is familiar, are re
freshing.
Recently the Union Pacific
has placed an interesting ad
vertising message in key trade
publications. "Union Pacific
stockholders look forward
not backward," says the mess
age. "They own a railroad
they're proud of . . . proud
of its many fine traditions,
yet but In much greater
measure proud of. what it is
doing today proud of its
forward march; Its front rank
position among all American
railroads."
And then Union Pacific pro
ceeds to tell the public: In
recent years there has been
much said about diminishing
railroad passenger business.
But instead of talking about
it (as you do about the
weather) Union Pacific has
been doing something about
it to the tune of $27,164,675
invested in ultra-modern pass
enger equipment, including
dome coaches, dome lounge
cars, dome dining cars, leg
rest coaches and newly de
signed lightweight Pullman
cars. The result: the most
modern trains you are im
mediately aware of "some
thing" more than luxurious
surroundings and smooth rid
ing . . . you are impressed
with the atmosphere of friend
liness; the courtesy and grac-
iousness of your hosts, the
Union Pacific personnel. To
them, this kind of railroading
is inherent and is the human
ingredient so essential to
building and holding satisfied
patrons."
Wen, there it is, a story of
what one great railroad is do
ing to maintain its reputation
and passenger business. The
UP believes, obviously that
passenger business is an im
portant adjunct to its highly
profitable freight business;
that satisfied passengers can
become important shippers.
We agree with the Union
Pacific statement, "The way
to run a railroad is to be mod
ern!" It's good for, passengers,
it's good for shippers and it's
good for stockholders." Ash
land Tidings,
The National Board of Fire
Underwriters have a stand
ard schedule for grading cities
and towns, which it uses in
setting up insurance ratines.
The book was published in
1930, and is still in use.
One of the requirements is
that fire departments should
have suitable horses for all
apparatus extept automobiles
and it adds that , hand-
drawn equipment is consid
ered on the same basis as
horse-drawn equipment.
One young man with
whom we are acquainted
and who should know
reports that those contem
plating adding to their
families will be interested
in the fact that some Med
ford doctors have switched
from the old policy of cash
and carry lo cash-in-advance
for supervising a
blessed event. "This is per
haps a new approach lo
birth control," he said
glumly.
The following lines are ex
cerpted from some poesy writ-
tten 10 or 12 years ago dur
ing" an election year by a
man who thinks they are
applicable this year. We
agree:
The next few months will
sizzle and fry,
They will chirrup and
crackle and zip
With demagogues' promises
soaring sky-high
While the pros and the
cons crack the whip . . .
And all for your pleasure,
John and Jane Doe,
To hex you to gain extra
votes;
You'll "have the power to
say yes or no.
So start sorting the sheep
from the goats!
Now is the time to go slow
on the draw,
So please study the X
near each name. .
As political hucksters
sharpen each claw
You can smile, 'cause
you're on to their game.
The wife of one of our
staff members dropped Into
the office the other day to
meet her husband, found
him gone temporarily, and
while she waited for his
return, she pored over his
desk calendar. Her husband
discovered later that she
made two clearly legible
notations her birthday
and their wedding anniver
sary. Roy Erickson, a Medford
police officer, says he was al
most the innocent cause of
several accidents on Highway
99 the other day. He had
picked up the new police
three-wheel scooter to be used
for meter patrol, and was
testing it out on the highway.
He said several motorists
were so interested in the
black and white vehicle they
either almost ran into the
ditch or over the center line
while trying to get a better
look.
For whatever it may be
worth (and we suspect that's
not much), the week of Feb.
24 to March 1 is Pencil
Week.
Our courthouse reporter
the other day looked into a
room off the county court
chambers, and saw a long,
low leather couch, and a
Navy commander'j hat on a
nearby desk.
He said those who didn't
know better might conclude
that (1) a Navy court martial
was in progress, or (2) mem
bers of the county court fre
quently consult a psychia
trist.
Or it could" be that Cmdr.
J. Rodney Keating had just
parked his hat in the office of
County Judge Rod Keating.
A prominent Medford
businessman still likes the
reply Thomas A. Edison
made when asked how he
happened lo know so much.
He said, "Son, I don't have
to know the arithmetic I
can hire men to do."
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Gilbert Gutjahr, Medford
city manager's assistant, nerv
ously reports he is thinking of
wearing a helmet to work. He
arrived at his desk one morn
ing to find the newly-replaced
light fixture, which usually
hangs from the ceiling, lying
on his desk.
He's been assured it won't
happen again, but he's still a
little shaky.
. There has been a lot of
noise and fury in the high
school elections for city and
county office for student
government day. In one
school near Medford, ambi
tious campaigners set up a
free bus service to shuttle
voters from the main build
ing lo the cafeteria some
distance away. What with
the recent rains, it proved
exceedingly popular.