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TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern Oregon . Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 : ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN, JR. Managing Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DAXE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. ' An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of I March 3. 1897 I SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. gaily and Sunday 1 year 113 00 aily and Sunday 6 moi. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and bunday 1 mo. I SO Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official riper or jacKson county "tjtiited Press Full Leased Wire "3IEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertisine Representative : WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC.. Of fices in New York. Chicago, De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time tdford and Jackson County Pfcstory from the files of The ftail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 yean ago. 10 STARS AGO if). 1Q48 (Fridavl . I X meirinrial fmloeizins the Iat$ Arthur Perry, long-time Republican and columnist tor ttii Mail Tribune, was reaa at Ihe annual banquet at the Kbgue Valley Country club last night. peaking .at the weekly meeting of the Medford Ac tive club last night, Clinton Bennett, Jackson county em ployee emphasized the out standing year - around work of the street and roads de partment. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 13, 1938 (Sunday) Democratic institutions are threatened as they were in the day of Abraham Lincoln, i- u. tnapman, eauor or. me Oregon Voter, says at annual banquet - meeting of Lincoln club of Jackson county. jyrom Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "A young flood oozed down Oak dale ave. in mid-week, and some of the speeders were able to splash water on the fijopt porches." so:years ago Feb. 13, 1928 (Monday) i Additional Medford terri tory inside the city limits will have daily carrier service, ab6ther carrier will be add ed also to the present eight xrian staff. tFrom local and personal: "There will, be reduced fares td all points between Feb. 18 and 22, as a special Washing ton's birthday feature, ac cording to the Southern Pa cific railroad." 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 13, 1918 (Wednesday) J The Rev. J. Myron Boozer, Grants Pass minister, made te biggest hit at the Lincoln day banquet last night with a dry, witty speech on Lincoln. iVhat's Your I.Q.? Une or ten correct it superior; even or eight is excellent; five or six it good. ;1. For what purpose is a C3raie used? 12. Bible: Did Cain, son of I Adam, have a wife? 13. The painting "Elderly . Juan &eaiea m an Armchair' was the work of which mast er? ;4. What is the opposite of optimism? 15- A person affected bv hypochondria would have utter disregard for his health oi fear of riding in an eleva tor? J6. Is Charles Town, Char Iffiton, or Charlestown, the capital of West Virginia? 17. Germany declared war oa Russia on June 22; was it in 1940, 1941, or 1942? ;8. Does the United States, Canada, or Chile, produce the mj)st copper? 19. Which American, general instituted the Purple Heart award? If your friend was well veried in goniocraniometry, . wogld he be an expert in the niessurement of footprints, fingerprints, or the angles of tbeThead? fXnswers: 1. As a container -- for-liouids (wine, water, ete.l. 2 Yes. 3. Rembrandt 4. Pessi mism. 5. No. (he would have m"oibid anxiety about his own health). 6. Charleston. 7. 1941. 8; United States. 9. General George Washington. 10. An gles of the head. What "We the People" Need One of the urgent needs of the country is a Public Prosecutor and Defender. The need is for an able, experienced attorney, with a large staff of assistants and researchers, REPRESENTING NO POLITICAL PARTY, but the people ALL the people of the United States, and dedicated absolutely to their interests. THE Public Prosecutor and Defender should get a salary comparable to the salaries paid lawyers representing Big Business U.S. Steel, General Motors and What Have you and he should be subject to removal only for cause. After all, the biggest single business in the "USA" is the "government of the people," and when their interests are threatened by the big private "Vested Interests" they should not have to go into court with two strikes already against them. ..... AS THE situation is today, they seldom have the money to get to court, and if they do, by the reason of being completely outclassed in the matter of cousel, financial resources and politi cal, power, they are lucky to get to first base, much less to second, third or home. . THIS is wrong. And if we might be so bold as to say so it has for too many years, been the "American Way" with the time long overdue, to bar it for what it IS 100 UN-American. ..... TAKE the Friendly Southern Pacific, for ex- ample. Ent for the nnhlie-snirirpri nnri nnrprrmnerflted services of State Senator aided by his fellow state senators, Messers Ged- des and .Brown - or Kose burg and Grants Pass nothing would have been done officallv to nro- test the SP violation of the spirit of its franchise in depriving Southwestern Oregon of all passen ger service. It is at a great sacrifice of time and money now that this action is being continued, and, be cause of the practically unlimtied resources of the "Billion Dollar" S.P.. its Dowerful lobbv at Salem. its tremendous political influence even extending to the COURTS, it would take a hardy optimist indeed, to predict the "case for the peoble" will be won. As this involves interstate commerce, if there were a "Public Prosecutor and Defender'1 in Washington, he would at once rjlace all the nower of his office "financial, legal and factual" against tne b.F. and m tavor oi the people of Oregon, and needless to say the situation as of today would be very different. THERE are all sorts of 1 j a t. .li." T-i nau a .ruuuc rrosecutor ana Leienaer m Washington come before him. lake "Pay TV as another example. As a correspondent in last Sundav's naner stated, there is a tremendous amount of confusion surrounding this issue. And this confusion is a 1 t - a. . m . - - . direct result of the millions of dollars put into anti-pay "T.V." propaganda, as well as nolitioal pressures at Washington via the powerful lobby of the billion dollar Television industry. ..... HIS, too, is wrong. All that has been be given a 3-year TRIAL. oi ine wiristian science Monitor Washington Bureau has well stated, "WHY NOT LET THE PUBLIC DECIDE." Why not? That's the democratic way. ' But thanks to the terrific power, financial and political of this industry, and the fear, (we believe unfounded) that if the people had a chanr-ft t.n get better TV pictures mey wouia drop iree "TV a committee in the congress has already voted against even a "trial" and as the situation now stands it appears the big vested-interests will have all the guns, legal poli tical and financial, while the people (who we be lieve if they clearly understood "Pay TV" would heartily welcome it) will, as usual, be powerless. ..... "IXfHETHER such an issue could properly be brought before such a department of the government only the future could determine. But there would be no doubt that here would, as in the SP case, be a clear example of the need of such a department. IT ISN'T a new question, rp.JJ T i j.euuy xvouseven pointed me prooiem out in his crusade against what he called the "male factors of great wealth". But it seems to this department that it' has, in recent years, taken on a new and extremely timely significance. ...... TAKE the so called "Tidelands Oil case" for i . juai. diiuuier CAcunpie. There is no doubt, as people ever had a chance whether the billions of oil should go to three or four states (and even tually on a lease-basis to a few of the biff oil com panies) or be divided among all 48 states as an aid to national education tne people would have voted almost unanimously for the latter. But under the circumstances what chance did they have? Not the chance of the well known snowball. And for reasons as above indicated. Had a strong:, the government dedicated to the protection and promotion of the PUBLC eration, now anierent the Thursday. February 13. 1958 Phil Towprv nf Mpdfnrd s cases that would, if we a- i t- i ... asked is that "Pav TV" As William M. Stringer at very slight extra cost of course. i i ji , , we see it. that had the to vote on the auestion profit from this offshore well-financed department, of WELFARE, been in op- result would have been ! K.W.R. 00nY GST UP! tlL JUST Matter of Fact THE FRENCH SITUATION Paris In a tragic manner the bombing of the little Tun isian village of Sakiet Sidi Yussef has underlined all the anomalies of the present 1 French situa- t tion. Here was a military oper a t i on whose political pen alties were out of all pro portion to any Joseph Aisop -Am a g inaoie miltary reward. According to French Foreign Minister Pi neau, this heavy attack upon Tunisian territory was never authorized by the-French gov ernment. Pineau' even told this reporter that he did not believe that such an opera tion had ever been knowing ly authorized by the French commander in Algeria, Gen. Salan. ' , . .. jfjne's first reaction to such statements is simple amaze ment. It is easy enough to understand the feelings: of the French professional soldiers, who have lived through the long and bitter war in Indo china and now find them selves involved in a long and bitter war in Algeria, with Tunisia playing the "protect ed sanctuary role" that China played before. . ' ' ... TUT what of the fantastic indiscipline that is reveal ed by the triumph of these feelings, by the actual com mission of a fairly major act of war, without the slightest authorization from the French cabinet? Who should bear the responsibility of this? As pvprv Ampriran Tcnnws who had read foreign com ment on the problems of the United States, diagnosing oth er nations' inner ailments is a pastime which wise men will generally forego. But in the present instance, this reporter would like to suggest that the fault lies, not really with the soldiers, but chiefly with the politicians. The defects of the French political system are frequently- exaggerated. The ability of France's political leaders is widely under-rated. But with the possible exceptions of Gen. de Gaulle on the Right and Pierre Mendes-France on the Left, almost every French political leader is flagrantly guilty of the same flagrant sin of omission. None of them will get up on their hind legs, in the Chamber of Deputies or elsewhere, and say in so many words: "France cannot have her cake and eat it too." . . OEVERAL grave issues of policy were posed, for ex ample, when the Algerian rebels began to use Tunisia as an out-of-bounds base. The most obvious was the simple issue of peace or war. As lately revealed by this cor respondent, the French Cab inet finally put this central issue up to the French Gen eral Staff. The military had been saying the Algerian re bellion could not be crushed while the Tunisian base ex isted. So the civilians asked thes military whether the Tu nisian base ought to be elim inted by the reconquest of Tunisia. The French Chief of Staff, Gen. Paul Ely, replied un equivocally that the venture could not even be considered, for want of men, the muni tions, and the money for the job. The one efficient course of military action, against Tunisia vas thus ruled out. Logically, that left only a sin gle other alternative, leaving Tunisia alone and strengthen inly, the measures against border-crossing inside Algeria. But this degree of tolera tion was in fact insupport able. Hence a kind of creep ing border war against Tuni sia was begun, which has now produced the Sakiet Sidi Yus sef bombing. No one who has much familiarity with situa-1 PULL UP A CHAIRI' By Joseph AIsop tions of this type will believe for a moment that this kind of operation is at all likely to impede the Alegrian reb els' use of the Tunisia base. It is an attempt to have the cake and eat it too to satisfy the understandable impulse to hit at the Tunisians, without the impossible expense' of the kind of blow that might do some real good. There is just the same pat tern in the French govern ment's treatment of Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Bour guiba. As . French Premier Gaillard himself recently ad mited to this reporter, Bour Guiba has always wanted to be a friend of France, but he has never possessed the au thority to prevent the Alger ian rebels from basing them selves in his country. In this situation, hi was about equal ly logical "to try to crush Bourguiba, because of his failure of responsibility, or to try to forget about Bourguiba for the time being, because of his basic friendship. .... BUT it was not logical once again, it was trying to have the cake and eat it to do everything possible to alienate Bourguiba without doing anything effective to crush him. The story does not end ei ther with the prickly and sad problem of France's relations with Tunisia. The, bravery and efficiency of the French Army in Indochina has been almost universally underesti mated. But as conducted by successive French govern ments, the Indochinese war was one long obstinate at tempt to have the cake and eat it. There are unpleasant signs that the same may be true of the tragic fighting in Algeria. In truth, constant at tempts, to have the cake and eat it in many departments of national policy are a natural consequence of the uneasy balance of the present French political system. And these strange attempts are all the more dishearten ing, because they distract the world's attention from the new French reality, ofa na tion; in full renaissance, al most bursting with a splendid renewal of energy and vigor. - (Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Byrd Not Seeking Reelection; Will Trim Conservatives By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) The re tirement of Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) will open a con spicuous hole in the conserva tive ranks of the Senate. Until and unless his power is inherited by a man of com-, parable stature, conservative iriflnpnop hnrlspt and tax policy will be weakened in the Senate. The voice of Southern conservatives will be muted. . B vrri mho announced Wednesday he will not seek reelection this year, has oeen the outstanding congressional foe of big government spend ing for a quarter of a century. But he fought a losing battle while the nparptime federal budget expanded more than tenfold during his 25 years in Washington. Holds Purse Strings He is chairman nf thp Sen ate Finance Committee which handles tax, tariff, social se curity and other legislation naving great impact on the economic state of the union. If the Democrats retain con trol of the Senate his succes sor will be Sen. Robert S. Kerr (D. Okla.) who has never been aligned with Byrd in the economy bloc. There will still be conser vatives on the rnmmittee after Byrd retires. But none wields power comparable. Liberals and middle-of-the-r o a d e r s Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Consider Picketing? To the Editor: I, for one, read the article of Feb. 10, on brutal slaughter and agree with it that if we can con vince our F.F.A. people and the 4-H Clubs to open eyes and ears to the fate of their pets that we .might reach through the callousness and indifference practiced by many butchers today. -I was employed a number of years by. a meat firm which owned andf operated a large slaughter house in connection with the business. There hu mane methods were not pro vided. At the close of the day I often heard employees dis cussing incidents of horror and cruelty that could have been avoided if proper meth ods had been employed. Feelings ran high about an old cow, a family pet, that was about to be butchered. Terrified by the screams and groans of dying animals and seeming to realize her fate she broke loose, jumped fences and ran until she fell exhausted. How many would want a steak from an animal that had been heated for running and the meat tensed from fear? Some of our big companies like the Hormel plant at Austin, Minn., are helping our cause by proudly display ing a large sign along the highway stating, "Every ani mal in our plant is killed humanely." Should picketing be con sidered in this business, too? (Name on File) i Medford Urges Humane Trapping To the Editor: Few women who wear furs are aware of the method by which they are produced. The coats,' stoles, and other wearing apparel made of wild mink, beaver, muskrat, raccoon, and pelts of many other species repre sent many hundreds of hours of suffering for animals. - The commonly used meth od for- taking furbearers is the steel jaw trap. When an animal step's on it, the power ful jaws clamp shut on its leg. The spring is so . strong that the leg is often broken when the jaws close on the helpless animal. Those who have had a car door close on a hand will probably find that experience an aid in imagin ing the pain experienced by animals held by a leg in a tighter grip for many long hours and often for days or even weeks. Many of the traps, I should mention, have skin and bone piercing metal teeth in the crushing jaws. Trappers often find that to escape the pain, fear, hunger, thirst, and other agonies they undergo, animals gnaw off their own legs to escape. Aft er gaining freedom, they suc cumb to gangrene, hunger, or shock from blood loss, Those that do not escape must wait until the. trapper, visit ing his trap line, arrives to free the animal from its suf fering by killing it, usually with a club. The torment of trapped animals lasts for many days, and often for weeks, before death finally have claimed the recent va cancies on the Democratic side of the committee. Surprise Announcement The 70-year-old Byrd's de cision caught his fellow, sena tors and' most of his office staff by'surprise. It was under stood he had confided his plan to only two of his aides here. He wrote his announce ment in longhand in his office Monday before leaving Wash ington for a week. His statement said he had promised Mrs. Byrd six. years ago he would not seek another term, and that she had since suffered two crippling ill nesses. GOULD'S CASTLE SOLD Paris (IP) A chateau, a town house and some farms from the estate of the late American millionaire Frank Jay Gould have been sold for $240,380. The property was auctioned off here Wednes day. Gould, a long-time resi dent of France, died in Juan- les-Pins in 1956. HELP US! We Need Clothing, Shoes, Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! Tha Salvation Army SPring 2-4230 Indonesian Politics Hearing Explosion; Ultimatum Given By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Indonesian political sit uation seems to be nearing the explosion point. A "revo- lutionary council" of young army colonels has issued a five day ultimatum demand ing that President Sukarno oust Premier Dju a n d a and name former Vice President Mohmmed Hat ta in his place. The ultimatum expires Sat urday. The alternative to its acceptance apparently will be the proclamation of a rebel government. Sukarno himself is visiting in Japan. In his absence, the Djuanda government has re jected the ultimatum and or dered the dishonorable discharge of Col. Ahmad Hussein, leader of the revo lutionary pouncil, and three fellow-officers. See Economic Chaos The rebels charge that the Djuanda government is pro Communist and is plunging Indonesia into economic chaos. President Sukarno, himself a "neutralist" with the usual neutralist slant toward the comes to them. Senators Richard Neuberg er, Hubert Humphrey and Estes Kefauver, have intro duced a bill '(S. 2489) to re quire that trapping on all lands owned by or under jur isdiction of the Federal gov ernment be by methods that either capture the animals painlessly or cause instant death. A companion bill (HR 9303), introduced by Repre sentative William S. Broom field of Michigan, is pending in the House. I ask all humane-minded people to write to their Sen ators and Representatives in support of the humane trap- ping law. Its enactment will help prevent some of the most terrible suffering caused the woodland creatures by man kind. Mrs. Louise Pollard, S. Stage Rd., Jacksonville Mouse Control Man May Stay in Field Portland (IP) Continued assignment of a federal spec ialist to keep watch on south eastern Oregon's mouse in festation will be sought, state health officials said today. Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer, said the decision was made after three Public Health Service experts warned of possible disease outbreaks when farmers go into infested fields next spring. . The report said several outbreaks of. , tularemia and other diseases among the mice, plus low. winter birth rates, may reduce last falls infestation as much as 75 per cent by spring. But it said the population may increase again during the spring and sum mer months. Ground water shows evidence of contamina tion with tularemia in some areas, posing a potential threat to health, the report said. Cargo-Liner Fire Reported Extinguished Wellington. N.Z. (IP) The 13,000-ton c a r g o-liner Persic which reported a ser ious fire aboard" Wednesday radioed today the fire was out and it was proceeding as plan ned to Callao, Peru. The Persic carried , no passengers Charles M. McCann Advertising Isn't Free! Any set of books in any business will show that "advertising" is charged to "expense" and must be added to the overhead, or cost of operating a business. It must, therefore, be added to the price of the merchandise or service ... and YOU are the one who pays for it. Our low operating costs, conservative advertising expense, and no "employee payroll" result in savings for YOU! DAY OR NIGHT-PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse . Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Communist wav of thinkinz. is not threatened so far. But behind the rebel move ment is long-brewinr. wide spread discontent with Su karno and the politicians with whom he has associated him self. Part of the dissatisfaction is 'due to the feeling in Su matra and other important islands of the Indonesia group that the government is being run for the benefit of Java, on which the capital, Jakarta, is situated. Set Up Own Regime) This dissatisfaction led Col. Hussein, commander in cen tral Sumatra, to set up an autonomous regime in the is land in December. 1956. This regime is using Sumatra's rich resources in rubber, cof fee and other products for Today & Tomorrow By Walter llppmann TURNING POINT IN NORTH AFRICA It is not clear whether the bombing of the Tunisian town of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef was au thorized from Paris or was done on or der s from military head q u a r ters in Algeria. If it was a local action, the bombing, which which i,yie c. wuson resulted m a massacre of civilians, can be disavowed and reparations of fered. But if Paris accepts responsibility, the event marks a turning point in the international relationships of the Algerian war. For while it is being argued that the bombing was carried out under the doctrine of "hot pursuit" to silence an anti aircraft battery in Tunisia which had fired across the frontier at a French plane in Algeria it is hard to recon. cile this with the fact that the planes attacked the market place of the town, machine- gunning and bombing so many men, women and chil dren who could not possibly have had anything to do with the anti-aircraft battery. It can hardly be denied that this was not an act of hot pursuit. It was a reprisal to terrorize the Tunisian population and deter them from aiding and encouraging the Algerian reb els. , . . npHIS will have long conse- quences. For it goes to show that the Algerian war is not an internal affair of France Algeria being juridi cally a part of France but an international affair whicn it is imDOSsible to isolate and ignore. It is clearly impossi ble for the United States to ignore it, and to adhere to the position that the Algerian struggle is purely French business like, let us say, a riot in Bordeaux or Marseilles. - The United States is in volved not only because American planes, intended for the collective defense of Western Europe, were used. The United States is involved because the whole of North Africa, with which we are greatly concerned, is threat ened. IF there is to develop out of the conflict on the Algerian border something like a state of war with Tunsia, it will be impossible for the United states to remain disengaged and neutral. We cannot, on the one hand, supply the French government witn arms under NATO, with for eign exchange under the cred Sumatra's own use by con ducting foreign trade direct with other countries. The Communists have made , strong gains in local elections in Indonesia in recent months. They always have had a voice in the government. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in a most un usual statement, said at a press conference in Washing ton Tuesday that the United . States would like to see an Indonesian government "which is constitutional and which reflects the real Inter ests and desires of the peo ple." He intimated that the pres ent regime under Sukarno and Premier Djuan'da did not meet this specification, and ' he mentioned the growing Communist strength. it agreements, and on the oth er hand maintain that the war in North Africa is none of our business. The war in North Africa has reached a point where it has spread beyond the lim its of Algeria, not only into Tunisia and Morocco but on to the high seas as well. De spite the official promises that the Algerian war was in its last phase, the prospect is that there is in sight no end to that war. It is the kind of war which modern armies are never able to win by military actions. It is the kind of war which can be ended only by political ne gotiations. The United States will not now be able for long to ' avoid the commitment to promote a political settle ment in Algeria. OUR commitments in NATO . and our vital interests ia the peace and friendliness of. North Africa make it impos sible for us to follow a policy of political neutrality and ab stention, coupled with large military and financial assist ance to France. If the war spreads, as it has spread in the bombing of the Tunisian town, we shall find ourselves entangled and helpless. We are compelled, therefore, to move "from the policy of neutrality and ab stention to a -positive policy to promote a settlement. T (Copyright 1958, New York" Herald Tribune, Ine.) YOU CANT MISS! Finding fust the right kind of GIBS0H
