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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tveryon In Southern1 Orefon Readi The Mail Tribune' Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W. RTJHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper ' Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 rr.os. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 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 118.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 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. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHEIS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL assocJatpun 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. 11. 1948 (Wednesday) "We may yet see the day when riaht will become the true might," Turkish newspa per woman and delegate to the United Nations says wnne visiting here. - Hugh B. Collins, Medford attorney, will head a "Fluh rer for State Senator" com mittee. 20 YEARS AGO Fab. 11, 1938 (Friday) ' R. F. (Rudy) Singler, for mer Medford High school ath letic star, may be the third of a family to serve as Jack son county sheriff. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The sun shone brightly several times the past few days, but too briefly to get a glowing compliment into print before disappearing." 30 YEARS AGO From local and personal column: "Church officials be gan arriving today for the dedication services tomorrow of the new Zion English Lutheran church on West Fourth st." Heavy sale of tickets seems assured for the annual Lin coln banquet in Medford ho tel, a spokesman s.aid. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 11, 1918 (Monday) Salaries of officials and other employees for the cur rent year have been fixed by the Ashland city council; city electrician will get $102 a month. From local and personal column: "Claude Gaines, the Medford boy in the 20th En gineers, is among the survi vors from the transport Tus cania which was sunk last week." What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or snc is good. 1. Is saccharin sweeter than sugar? 2. Bible: Did Paul's Con version to Christianity occur when he was about 25, 30, or 35 years old? 3. Name the cardinal points of the compass. 4. Correct the following: "This is all the further we can go in this direction." 5. In which city was the first U. S. mint established? 6. In classical mythology, how many Muses are there? 7. Is McGill university in the United States, Scotland, or Canada? 8. Piraeus is the port for which European capital city? 9. What is the name for the musical scale that includes half notes? 10. What Arab organization corresponds to the Red. Cross in Christian countries? Answers: 1. Yes. 2. Thirty. 3. North, south, east, west. 4. "This is as far as we can go in this direction." 5. Phila delphia, Pa. (1792). 6. Nine. 7. Canada (Montreal). 8. Ath ens, Greece. ,9. Chromatic tcale. 10. The Red Crescent. HEALTH OFFICIAL DIES Trenton, N.J. OP) Dr. Carl E. Weigele, 65, assistant New Jersey State Commissioner of Health, died Monday after be ing stricken, apparently with a heart attack, at his State House desk. The Elephant Forgets In his last press conference President Eisen hower made what was to this department, a very unexpected and surprising statement. It was particularly surprising in view of what he had said only a few weeks before in his budget message. In that budget message the President empha sized the fact that equally important with keep ing up with Russia in a military sense, was to keep our economy secure and sound. And to do the latter the budget should be kept in balance and he was quite certain would be. However this could only be done by spending less on certain federal developments so as to com pensate for the necessarily greater expenditures on armaments. Well whether one agreed or disagreed with the basic policy that made sense. DRESIDENT Eisenhower then proceeded to name some of the necessary economies in cluding taking approximately $100,000,000 from federal aid to depressed school areas ; turning federal assistance programs back to the states, raising interest rates on College Housing Loans and shifting them to private hands; cutting back the government fight against cancer and heart disease by $20,000,000; reducing federal grants to states for library service by $2,000,000, the US Agricultural conservation program by $119, 000,000, and finally stopping R.E.A. (rural elec tric aid) turning same over to private companies. There were many more economies cited, the total adding up to quite a sizeable sum namely 4.4 billion ($4,400,000,000.) TTHAT made sense, too. For Uncle Sam like anyone else, has to cut his garment according to the cloth and the only alternative to this blanket-slice would be to raise taxes, unless we put the budget out of balance. That would, according to the general tone of the President's message be anathema to every solvent member of his administration and as for raising taxes' in a campaign year secretary Weeks of the Back Bay the only cabinet-member if that were done. CO there we were, and it did make sense ac cording to the letter and the spirit of G.O.P. finance and procedural scriptures. -But to return to that press conference. In answer to a question concerning the 1958 recession President Eisenhower said that he would favor a material reduction in federal in come taxes, if when the seriousness of the aforementioned recession appeared to justify it, but as of today there was no evidence of any such "justification" and he believed there wrould be none. In fact it was his considered judgment that the so-called recession would be over by the mid dle of the year, and we President Harding once THE Mail Tribune along with everyone else right. Just as everyone' hoped, 25 years ago, when President Hoover, equally "business-minded," said he saw "prosperty just around the corner," everyone hoped he did. What he did see has never been clear, but that it wasn't what he SAID it was, has been am ply demonstrated. There was no real prosperity for many years. OOWEVER, to return to the point of this dis sertation and explain what we meant by the "unexpected and surprising" feature of the Presi dent's remark. How can he or anyone else 'dedicated to a balanced budget, economic solvency and finan cial security of the government, even CONSIDER slashing the government's income by hundreds of millions when the inadequacy of that income to meet federal expenses that must be met, is the cause of all the trouble? "IIE ADMIT wre can't qualify as an expert in the complex and baffling realm of monetary economic theory, but we do know something about plain arithmetic. And we simply can't understand, how Uncle Sam of Washington, D.C., can, anymore than Uncle Bill of Asbestos Gulch, deliberately reduce his income while increasing his expenses, and stay out of serious financial difficulty. No less an authority head of General Motors $1,600,000 a year (not says it CAN be done and Well no doubt it can the congress reverse themselves and agree to it. But our question is comes of that detested financing" and even more important, what be comes of the present administration s proud boast that because of cutting over 4 billion from desir able federal works and services, the federal budget is still to be balanced and the G.O.P.'s solemn pledge fulfilled? R.W.R. - Tuesday, February 11. 1958 Weeks would not be to immediately resign, would all return to what called "normalcy." than Harlow Curtice, who gets a salary of including, his bonus) he strongly advises it. be if the President and if this is done, what be and discredited "deficit 'Thanks for the ivatr?, oap! this oC plant was lcokin" k1noa droopy. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen 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. For Filthy Lucre To the Editor: We enjoyed the recent letter in the Trib une on tithing, and would like to add our bit to this let ter too. We agree with the writer that the command to take tithes was according to the law of Moses in Hebrews. 7-5, Numbers 17-1 to 9, ' chapter 18-1 to 8-18 to 25. But that law was changed and that command to take tithes was disannuled in Heb. 7-5-12-18, since John and Christ ended the law, Luke 16-16, Rom, 10-4, chap. 3-20-21-22-27 to end, chap. 6-14-15, Galatians 3-10, chap. 5-1 to 5. Now we are under the kingdom of God which is preached since John, Luke 16-16, Mark 1-1-14-15. The law was very exclu sive and only for the twelve tribes of Israel, for under it we gentiles were Godless, Christless and hopeless, Ephe sians 2-11 to end, Romans 2- 14-15. We are saved by Christ and His Grace, not by Moses' law, St. John 14-6, chap. 1-17, Ephesians 2-11 to end, also verses 8-9, Acts 4-10-11-12. The tithes were more exclu sive than the law since it was only for the tribe of Levi, and never was given to us gentiles. No Gentile minister has a right to collect nor de mand them. In Acts 15-1 to 11-24 to 30 Paul and the Apostles held a conference about that. And they decided that the Gentiles were not to keep Moses' law." And said that the ones who tried to force them to do so were sub verting the disciples and tempting God by trying to force them to keep it. Then in Romans 7-14-15 we find that it is sin, and not God who makes us consent that the law is good now. Why? Because Christ and John ended that law over 1900 years ago, and now the ones who desire to teach it have swerved from the faith of Christ and turned aside to vain jangling, 1-Timothy 1-3 to 11. Not only that but they still have Moses vail upon their hearts and their minds are blinded in the reading of the old testament, 11-Corin-thians 3-12 to 16. They have fallen from the grace of Christ, and made Him of no effect to themselves,. Galatians 5-1 to 5. They prove this to be true since they do not know that law -ended with Christ and John. Why do they still collect tithes? Mainly for they love the money. For some do not care how much they deprive men and their families just so they get the money. And as in Titus 1-10-11 they teach things they ought not for filthy lucre's sake. Grover Cunningham, Box 381, Central Point Second Reading Advised To the Editor: I wonder if Mr. Howell should not have read the entire verse of Luke 16:16. I do not profess to know the English language, but it does seem to me that if one reads the entire verse, he could hardly read out of it what Mr. Howell did, namely, that the law and the prophets came to an abrupt end when John came. The vWse reads 'The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it" The R.V. reads,- "The law and the prophets were until 'John from that time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preach and every man entereth vio lently into it." The R.S.V. reads "The law and the prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and every one en ters it violently." In Matthew 5: 17, 18, Jesus said, 'Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets . . . Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law." At another time He said "Search the scriptures." John 5: 39. Paul writing to Timothy said, 'All scripture is given by inspira tion of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." 2 Tim. 3: 16. (They had none other scrip ture but the O.T.) Peter says "No prophecy of scripture is of any private interpreta tion." 2 Peter 1: 20, 21. The R.S.V. reads "First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one's own interpre tation." , Paul says "Sin is not im- Lputed when there is no law." Again, "I had not known sin but by the law." Romans 5: 13; 7: 7. Why not? Let John tell .us, "Whosoever commit teth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgres sion of the law" 1 John 3: 4. "For where no law is, there is no transgression." Romans 4: 15. The word "until" in Luke 16:16 comes irom the Greek Mechri, and is translated "to" in Romans 5: 14, and reads "Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses." Shall we understand then, that death no longer reigns? B. F. Blank, 1510 Barnett rd. Medford. Editorial Comment PRESIDENT LACKS 'FOLLOW THROUGH' President Eisenhower an nounced Tuesday that he had asked his science adviser, Dr. James R. Killian, to come up with a plan for a- National Space Authority which would administer satellite and rock et programs. At his press conference- Wednesday he said that Secretary of Defense Mc Elroy had charge of the de fense space business. After the Tuesday announcement Majority Leader Sen. Lyndon Johnson commented: "First is to see what the President rec ommends; then Congress will have to give study to the whole question." This was simply serving notice that while the President may pro pose, the Congress disposes. And Republican Leader Knowland and Sens. Salton stall and Bridges showed op position to moving the missile-rocket business out of the armed services. Clearly the President will have to be more assertive if he is going to be an effective leader. His habit has been to call in experts to study im portant questions, and receive their reports, but he has been lax in the "follow through." As a result many of the re ports, and the problems along with them have been "swept under the rug." The second Hoover Commission report, the Cordiner report on pay in the armed services are ex amples. The Gaither report has prompted reference of military reorganization to Secretary McElroy who has set up a new committee to study the question! This is not the stuff of which strong leadership is made. The President is not just "chairman of the board." He should grapple directly with the major problems, and then be ready to fiht for the program he develops. In the present crisis it looks very much as though Lyndon Johnson had succeed ed Vice President Nixon as "assistant president." Ore gon Statesman, Salem. In Ihe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I suppose you have been reading these proposals to cut federal taxes as a stimu lant to business and a pro moter of employment. They have been coming with in creasing frequency from Washington. Even President Eisenhower said the other day that if the recession doesn't quit receding of its own accord by mid-summer or early fall he may himself propose a cut in taxes. TTERE is the reasoning: When the government reaches into the taxpayer's pocket and takes out the money with which to pay its bills, two things happen: 1. The government h.as MORE money to spend. 2. The taxpayer has LESS money to spend. When the INDIVIDUAL spends his own money, it is apt to make business better QUICKER than when the gov ernment spends the money. When the individual spends it, it gets more quickly into the channels of trade, thus giving an immediate boost to business. When the government spends the taxpayer's money, it trickles out more slowly into the nation's cash regis ters. rpHERE is another argument - for tax reduction as a busi ness stimulant. If business is taxed less bur densome, there will be MORE MONEY LEFT IN THE TILL after the tax collector has reached in and taken out his share. This additional money left in the till will be PROF IT and as profit it will be TAXABLE. Maybe The hopeful thinking runs The. lower tax on the high er profit will total up to more tax money than the HIGHER tax on the LOWER profit. TT MIGHT work out that way. In fact, on various occa sions in the past, it has tend ed to work out that way. At any rate, that is un doubtedly the idea that is in Ike's mind when he suggests that if the recession doesn't quit receding it might be ad visable to reduce taxes in stead of increasing them still more to make up for the re duction in government in come resulting from lower net profits due to prohibitive ly high taxes. In other words, it ISN'T a good idea to kill the goose that lays the golden tax eggs. S O MUCH for the reasoning that lower taxes may re- Doctors, Hospitals Under Criticism To the Editor: The enclosed article, by "Jim Bishop, Re porter," so nearly coincides with my own experience that I was wondering what your opinion of the matter is. Where does the money so? Hospitals are tax exempt. Many are run by religious or ganizations whose members supposed ly dedicate their lives to the work without re muneration. Mv own experience shows that the new forms of hospital insurance have tended to in crease hospital costs. They really intensify the service whether it is needed or not, knowing they will be paid. R. F. Ferguson, Jacksonville Editor's note: The article referred to above appeared in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It follows: DOCTORS WEAR HALOS TOO TIGHT Ninetv-three years ago, a young surgeon sat holding the hand of a dying president all nicht. The doctor's name was Leale. He was 23. Why did he hold Lincoln's hand? "Be cause sometimes," said the doctor, "iust before death, consciousness returns to a man and, in his blindness, I wanted him to know he had a friend." T.pale sent no bill to Mrs. Lincoln." This happened a long time ago. Today, there are 200,000 doctors in the Un ited States. It is doubtful if hut a few of them would think of holding a dying man's hand. Practically all of them would send a bill for services rendered. I am not opposed to the average doctor. He must make a living. He must sup port a family, own a home, buy a car. I am opposed to Hnrtnrs who nretend to be on a sacred mission in life while gouging the poor for all the traffic will bear. There was a time in the days of handlebar mustaches and gigs when the doctor s railing to save life, was al most holy. Today, it costs close to $50,000 to educate a doctor and set him up with Russia, Allies Moving Surely Toward 'Summit' Agreement By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Western Allies and So viet Russia are moving stead ily toward an agreement to hold a "sum mit" confer ence on world issues. There is every pros pect that the meeting will be held with in the next few months, Mccann E i s e n hower representing the United States and Premier Nikolai A. Bul ganin and Communist Party Chieftain Nikita S. Khrush chev representing Russia. Indications right now are that the ' meeting might be held In May or later. Both Alter Positions The United States has . re ceded somewhat from its posi tion "that any conference should be held only on terms that would imply sweeping concessions in advance by Russia. Russia, in turn, has modi fied its demand that the meet ing should be held without any advance conditions at all. suit in a bigger total tax take. At this point, something new is added. Washington dis patches tell us that a "key" Democrat who doesn't want his name disclosed says a TEMPORARY tax cut may begin this summer. But He adds It would have a CUT-OFF date. That is to say, as soon as business began to rise and emDlovment returned to nor mal as a result of the reduc tion in taxes the reduction would be cancelled and the high taxes would be slapped back on again. rrHAT is a horse of another color. If the government's total income ROSE instead of fall ing as a result of lower taxes that made larger profits pos sible, it would be because business, encouraged by the prospect of lower and less punitive taxes expanded its operations and hired more people at longer hours and better wages. But If business KNEW that as soon as that began to happen the old punitive taxes would be slatmed back on again, WOULD IT GO AHEAD AND EXPAND? That is the Big Question. a shingle and an office, an X-ray machine, short wave di athermy, a fluoroscope, a nurse who can do blood chem istry and a car. , Still, some doctors wear their halos tight. Too many of them speak to us with con descension, telling us as little as possible and most of that in a mumbo-jumbo of guessing. They spend less and less time on a fee-free basis in clinics. In my town, Artie just got his wife back from the hos pital. She hurts a little from breast surgery, but she will be all right. She was in for a week. Part of the bill is al ready in Artie's hands: $60 for an anesthetist; $90 for use of operating room; $18 a day for a semi-private room; $5 for "special" attention, $8 a day for drugs. Artie loves his wife. He will not argue about the bill. If it was $1,000, he'd go out and get a loan to pay it. And it is exactly here . in the field of love that the doc tors do their most merciless operating. THE day after the opera tion, Artie sat with his wife. She was hit by a spasm of pain. Artie rang the black buzzer on her pillow. No doc tor came. No nurse. He wait ed a moment, watching his wife's face twist in agony. He buzzed again. No one came. So Artie ran down the hall to the nurses' desk. There were six nurses standing and laugh ing. A doctor; with a chart in his hand, was telling them a joke. ARTIE hasn't got a bill for surgery yet. He will. It can range anywhere from $200 to $750. There is no "fair" price. He shrugs it off. "The thing I can't understand," he says softly, "is that this hospital has two or three drives for money each year. All of us give. Thank God we're able to give. The hospital is al ways full. Some of the pa tients have to sleep in the halls. With a business like that, how come they're al ways losing money and they have to start new drives for funds?" The Russians still oppose the Allied desire for a meeting of the foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and Russia to lay a solid foundation for a summit meeting. But they now have come around to conceding that ad vance preparation through diplomatic negotiations would be useful. This probably means that within a few weeks the prepa ratory exchanges will be started through the embassies of the countries concerned. There seems to be no pos sibility that a "summit" con ference will result in any his toric agreements to ease world tensions. Comes a Letter Only one month ago, Pre mier Bulganin said in a letter Matter of Fact THE ISLAND OF BERLIN Berlin The city of West Berlin, an island of freedom lapped about with the dark ness of slav ery, is not a bad place to think about the present stage of the cold war. Superficial ly, no t h i n g has changed since Berlin's JoseDh aisod m o s i neroic period, or if anything, there has been a change for the bet ter. West Berlin, with its sur face glitter and its full, free life, seems more than ever a living city; as Communist East Berlin seems more than ever a dead city. The prosperity is amazing. The affirmation of free values is deeply poignant. Island though it is, Berlin seems ut terly secure too. For has not the city maintained a full six monthes stock of all necessi ties since the blockade was lifted? And is not Berlin cov ered by the iron-clad post- blockade pledge of protection given by all the western al lies together? But but but in the first place, one cannot absolutely forget, here in Berlin, the species of crusade Nikita Khrushchev has been carry ing on for what he calls "the recognition of the status quo This began some time after the tragic events in Hungary, It has been accompanied by more and more forthright and Khrushchev statements that the Soviet Union would never tolerate any true reunification of Germany, such as would loosen the grip of the existing Communist regime in the East Zone. 17"HRUSHCHEV has also said repeatedly that "rec ognition of the status quo" is one of the subjects he is so anxious to discuss with the western leaders. No doubt, before long, U. S. Ambassador Thompson will be politely in quiring just what Khrushchev means by this "recognition of the status quo." It is as sure as death and taxes that Ber lin will . be one of the first items to be mentioned in the reply. This is sure, in turn, be cause any consecration of the Communist status quo in East ern Europe is literally impos sible, as long as the free is land of Berlin continues to exist.' In order to see why, one has only to make the pil grimage to the great refugee transit camp at Marianfelde, where more than eight thou sand a month of the youngest and brightest and best East Germans are received and sent westward on the road to freedom. The truth is that the oppor tunity of Berlin and the con Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan EM3 Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD . INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. to the United States and 18 other governments: "The Soviet government proposes to call In the course of the next two or three months of 1958 a conference of leading statesmen on a high level in which the heads of government will participate." This, if Bulganin meant what he said, constituted an announcement that Russia in tends to call the conference even if the Allied powers would not agree to it. It looks now as if that was a bluff. In any event, Bul ganin said in a letter to Presi dent Eisenhower on Feb. 3 that if agreement were reach ed to hold a "summit" meet ing, agreement on "procedur al and other questions" could be "achieved through the usual diplomatic channels.". By Joseph AIsop trast of Berlin make all the problems of Communist East Germany at least ten times more difficult than they would otherwise be. At the moment, moreover, the problems of the East Zone regime are obviously, very acute indeed. General Vin- cenz Mueller, the able officer who was the real leader of the so-called people's army, has just been dismissed from his post for opposing the sa cred party's influence in ar my matters. A PLENUM of the Central Committee of the zonal Communist party has also been scheduled and put off again half a dozen times al ready, because of a bitter de bate within the high com mand. On one side is the So viet's local viceroy, the most hated man in Germany, old yellow faced Ulbricht, de manding ruthless measures to cut workers' real wages, push forward agricultural collec tivization and "fulfill, the plan" at all costs. Opposing ' Ulbricht are -other Commu nist leaders who remember the great uprising of June, 1953, and even warn against a repetition of the June events. In these circumstances, the immense complicating factor that is Berlin must be very much on the minds of these problem - ridden men. Mean while, the Soviets have done everything possible to trans fer to the East German gov ernment their own former re sponsibilities for Berlin's ad ministration. And the East German regime has been . quietly accumulating a series of potentially useful prece dents, increasing their control of Berlin's road and rail traf fic to the West. And even, in a few cases, cutting off se lected businesses in free Ber lin from any western trade whatever. - : rpHE total handover to the -- East Germans caused George F. Kennan to mark Berlin as a prime danger point in his famous and con troversial series of B.B.C. lec tures. Kennan regarded thii move, in fact, as a just-in-case preparation to take greater risks at Berlin behind a false facade of "East German sov ereignty." Add that the Soviet Ambas sador, the Soviet zonal Com mander in Chief and the So viet Commandant in Berlin have all just been replaced, making a clean sweep of all Soviet officers and officials habituated to the old ways of doing business with the west ern allies. Altogether, even if you do not go all the way with the Kennan estimate, one can see what he means about Berlin. (Copyright 1958. 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