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Pfcstory from the files of The
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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
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the writer although under cer
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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.
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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
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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.)
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