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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.
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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
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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. New York
Herald Tribune, Inc-L
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