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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
.Feb. 26. 1948 (Thursday)
- Harris Ellsworth files for
"reelection as Oregon congress
man; E. H. Mann, Medford,
"files for Republican candidate
.'from Jackson county to Ore
:gon legislature.
Z The Mail Tribune begins
publication of Frank Jenkins
column "In The Day's News."
20 YEARS AGO
ZFeb. 26. 1933 (Saturday)
f New silica plant for Bristol
jSilica company under" con
struction in Rogue River.
- From Arthur Perry's Ye
-Smudge Pot column: "Pussy
"willows have reached their
maturity, and keep the Older
Girls busy ramming them in
living room vases."
130 YEARS AGO
'Feb. 26, 1928 (Sunday)
; Eleven-year-old Medford
boy accidentally killed while
rplaying with gun.
Sale of $75,000 worth of
;bonds for Medford Irrigation
district starts.
;40 YEARS AGO
;Feb. 26. 1918 (Tuesday)
Z No arrangements being
-made in Medford to feed
jtroops passing through area.
Z From Local and Personal
rcolumn: "C. C. Cate, county
-agricultural agent, who has
been bothered for the past
two years with a floating
;cartilage in his left knee, will
;have an X-ray examination."
Vhal's Your I.Q.7
'Nina or ten correct is superior;
-seven or eight is excellent; five or
-six is good.
1. Sound travels through
the atmosphere faster in high
"or low temperatures?
2. Bible: What has the first
year of the public ministry
of Jesus been termed?
- 3. Which .U.S. president is
"noted for the statement: "All
that I am or hope to be I owe
to my angel mother"?
4. Are the rows of kernels
on ears of corn odd or even
numbered?
5. The four-inch measure
ment used as a unit of meas
ure for the height of horses
at the shoulder is called a ?
i 6. Are snow flakes always
rwhite?
; 7. Name the three U.S.
.presidents who were assassi
nated. ; 8. The sun is a planet, star,
Zot meteor?
" 9. Dress seams are "pinked"
by dyeing; true or false?
t 10. What is the German
word for "mister"?
; Answers: 1. High. 8. The
ryear of obscurity." 3. Abra--ham
Lincoln. 4. Even. 5.
THand. 6. No. (red. green,
orange and black snows, due
to bacteria and algae, have
-been recorded). 7. Lincoln.
-Garfield. McKinley. 8. Star.
ZS. False (they are "pinked"
Iwilh a special type of scis
sors). 10. "Herr."
MAIL TRIBUNE
Kreisman on Citizenship
We can think of few persons better equipped
to address a gathering of students on the subject
of government than the man who was so em
ployed last week, at the banquet held to mark
Student Government day.
The speaker was Arthur Kreisman, scholar,
teacher, student and philosopher. He is widely
known in the valley for his lucid discussions of
literature on television, and, at one point, was
even better known in his home town of Ashland
for his clear-headed search for solutions, and his
refusal to accept some of the stodgy excuses why
government "cannot" do some of the things it
should do.
OIS talk to the students showed that Dr. Kreis-
man lias given a great deal of serious thought
to the problems of making local government
work. And he is not blind to the hazards which
lie in the way misunderstanding, lack of infor
mation, and suspicion on the part of the public,
on one hand, and inertia and disregard of the
people's wishes (in too many cases) on the part of
public officials, on the other hand.
But let Professor Kreisman speak for himself.
Here paraphrased are excerpts from his talk,
which reasons of space prevented from being re
ported as fully as they merited in the news
columns earlier:
In government, people get what they deserve.
When they gripe about their local government they
are merely talking about themselves. Local govern
ment is what they make it.
Interest in local government is basic. It does little
good to be full of theories on how the world should
be run when a person knows little about how his
local government actually should be run.
Good government, like charity, begins at home. All
too few people have a deep and continuing interest in
their local government.
Choice of people to run that government too often
goes by default. During an election period, those in
terested in local government literally have to go out
and beat the bushes and do some arm-twisting to get
candidates for offices.
Local government, then, falls on the sftoulders of a
few public spirited, successful .and busy people. Their
friends and supporters the people who put them in
office too often evaporate in their support when the
heat is on. The average citizen sits at home and grouses
about the government, pays taxes, and even votes if
he happens to think about it.
It is the "average" citizen who is the curse of the
community. Sunk in ignorance and apathy, he refuses
to participate in community projects. This condition
also extends to state and national levels. This same
type of citizen howls down the people in his govern
ment who have vision and foresight. The average
citizen wants all kinds of services, but he won't pay
for them.
For example, a man's gutter plugs up with a little
mud. However, instead of shoveling it out by himself
in a few minutes time, he gets on the 'phone and calls
the city. The city sends out a truck with all kinds of
equipment and a crew. The job is done, but it is such
demands which cost the taxpayer plenty. Then he
complains when his taxes must be raised to pay for
such services.
.
Mr. Average Citizen is law-abiding man. He
thinks laws are fine for everybody else. He cuts
corners, then squawks when he is penalized for it.
During election time a big campaign is put on to
get these people to vote. This is a silly kind of trouble
to go to just to get out the vote of people who are
actually little interested in their government.
Just think what would be accomplished if -every
citizen believed he had to give some time to public
service. This is not an unworthy ideal. It's .the kind
of ideal these young people are being invited to adopt.
Through this program (Student Government Day)
more citizens become thoroughly familiar with the
problems and needs of their community and govern
ment. The average city council meets in solemn silence.
The only time citizens appear on the scene is when
they anticipate fireworks because of some controver
sial community problem.
Every time the people fail to support their elected
officials or to back them up, it is costing the people
money. Eventually the elected officials get tired
after constantly having to ruck public opinion, and
continually make explanations. Then, eventually,
they refuse to submit a needed bond issue, and com
munity needs pile up until something has to be done.
Then it costs the taxpayers about four times as much
as it would have originally, when the needs were first
recognized and a bond issue submitted to their vote.
rR KREISMAN concluded his talk with a plea
for more cooperation, more understanding,
and a better-informed and more interested citi
zenry. His points are valid and his conclusions sound
up to a point.
But it occurs to us that he may be just a bit
on the pessimistic side. We, too, have seen the
type of behavior of which he complains, have
seen needed improvements delayed time after
time by apathy or unthinking and short-sighted
opposition.
But there's a bright side to the coin, too.
We do have people who are willing to sacri
fice their time and their talents to the public serv
ice. We do have men and women who are sin
cerely concerned with local government, and who
are willing to work at it.
A ND it is a good thing this is so, or else local
government would founder in a sea of sus
picion, befuddlement, cynicism and inefficiency.
We loin with Dr. Kreisman m behevmsr that
Darticination bv students
years in local government learning of the prob
lems and difficulties at first hand is the best
possible kind of training for citizens, of the future.
They will be needed
with those now so engaged. And there are such.
Dr. Kreisman should know. He served four years
on a city council an unpaid and largely thank
less job himself. E.A.
Wednesday, February 26, I9S8
still in their formatve
in years to come to. join
HOW AM I GONNA CUT WOm YOUR YARD IF )0U PUT UP A F&JCEf
Republicans Seeking
Man To Tackle Reply
To Truman's Speech
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) Repub
lican anguish under the hurt
of Harry S. Truman's cam
paign oratory
is matched by
adminis tra
tion anxiety to
make an ade
quate answer
to the former
p r esident's
Washington
Birthday ad
dress. The f or-
Lyia c. Wilson mal Republi
can reply is tentatively sched
uled for March 4.
It would be a wonderful op
portunity for somebody. As
Bert Williams, the old black
face comedian, used to sing,
some Republicans are saying:
Wonderful opportunity for
somebody; somebody else, not
me.
As of 72 hours after HST
raked the administration in a
give-'em-hell sendoff to the
1958 Democratic congression
al campaign, Republican strat
egists had not picked their
man to answer the former
President. The search has been
on for weeks because it long
had been known what Tru
man intended to do last Satur
day night.
If such an attack had been
made on Franklin D. Roose
velt during his presidency,
FDR most likely would have
come out of his corner swing
ing and the attacker might
soon have wished he never
had been born. Failing that,
President Roosevelt had a
stable of hatchetmen and the
incomparable- political poison
pen of the late Charley Mi
chelson. FDR not only had them, he
used them to the utmost.
"Mow the man down," FDR
would say to Charley Mike
or to the late Harold L. Ickes
and the mowing proceeded in
the roughest kind of style.
The Ick, as Honest Harold
familiarly was known to
FDR, was known around
town, also, as Donald Duck in
recognition of the sustained
staccato of his quackery.
Charley Mike was a sure
shot with his trusty type
writer, a political gun slinger
unmatched before or since.
Old Charley was publicity di
rector of the Democratic Na
tional Committee, an asset to
the party near the weight of
James. A. Farley and of FDR,
himself.
Takes on Tough Ones
Deadly in debate as were
Michelson and Ickes, it was
FDR on his own who usually
took on the tough ones and
when Mr. Big mowed 'em
down they were likely to go
down for good. That's, what
Republican strategists would
like just now to happen to
Try and
i igp j
-By BENNETT CERF-
iLIFTON FADIMAN, eminent critic, believes in the encour
agement of authentic (NOT publicity-crazy) eccentrics,
and cites as prime example (1) the French dandy who paraded
down the Champs Elysees
trailing a live lobster at
the end of a string, because,
he explained, it knew the
secrets of the sea, and (2)
the late Joe Gould, of
Greenwich Village via Har
vard, who, inheriting $1,000,
bought a big radio, took it
out on Sixth avenue, and
kicked it to ' pieces. "Kip"
Fadiman also recalls an off
beat mathematics professor
who vacationed in Brussels
so he could readily organize
mountain-climbing expedi
tions to the highest point in Belgium. How high was that
point? The prcf replied, "12 feet above sea level."
David Niven asked a shoestring producer how his latest picture
was faring at the box office. "I'll be perfectly honest with you,"
the producer replied. "I won't answer."
1958, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kiss Features Syn4i?ste.
Harry S. Truman.
So it might be if President
Eisenhower would do the job
himself, bringing to the task,
as did FDR, the great prestige
of the White House. Some Re
publicans think the President
should do that but that large
ly is wishful thinking. DDE
has no stomach for the rough
and tumble of politics, and ac
cordingly, he probably will
duck this party job.
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon may have to do the
honors although it is reason
able to presume he is not
eager. His reluctance, if any,
would not be for distaste of
political conflict. The vice
president is a rough man in
political debate, as Truman
and other wounded Democrats
well know. But the White
House on occasion has re
quired Nixon to soften his
campaign speeches. Given full
freedom to answer Truman's
kind, to slug him with bare
knuckles, Nixon might wel
come the opportunity to an
swer HST. It would be quite
a show.
Republican Rally
Slated in Salem
I n t e r e s ted Republicans
from Jackson county "have
been invited to participate in
an "old-fashioned Republican
political rally," in Salem Fri
day, March 7, according to
State GOP Chairman James
F. Short.
Local candidates, as well as
party members from through
out the state have been in
vited, he said. The majority
of candidates for statewide
offices, as well as many coun
ty officials and candidates,
have indicated they will at
tend. Don Stathos, Jackson coun
ty cRairman, has been asked
to report on Republican activ
ities in this area.
Governors Oppose
National Guard Cut
Colorado Springs, Colo. (IP)
Federal cuts that would re
duce Oregon's National Guard
by several hundred men have
been opposed in a resolution
of western governors.
The conference gave full
support to the resolution pro
testing plans to reduce Na
tional Guard strength in the
United States from 400,000 to
360,000. Some 21 units of the
Oregon Guard would be af
fected under the proposal.
Gov. Robert Holmes, who
is chairman of the confer
ence's resolutions committee,
presided today at a roundta
ble discussion on natural re
sources. Stop Me
Communications
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Letters submitted for publica
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The letters printed in this
column do not necessarilv repre
sent the views of the paper. In
fact the contrary is often the
case.
Wet
To the Editor:
For thirty days and thirty
nights,
The rain came tumbling
down,
Until upon my brow ap
peared A dark forbidding frown.
Don't tell me that it's over,
That soon we'll see the sun,
I know from past experi
ence The worst is yet td come.
Don't tell me that tomor
row, A little sun we'll get,
Forecast for tomorrow?
The weather will be wet.
D.O.R.
(Name on File)
Grants Pass
Boom, Boom, Boom
To the Editor: We raised
billions, and we had a boom.
We raised more billions,
and we had a boom, boom.
Then we lose .a boom.
We'll have another boom
again soon, you'll, see it, if
you re lookmg at the moon.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland.
No Noise Makers?
To the Editor: We are writ
ing you this letter concerning
the coming Subdistrict A-2
Basketball tournament at
Southern Oregon college this
coming Thursday, Friday and
Saturday evening.
We received a letter telling
us not to bring our noisemak-
ers to these games. The noise
makers we would take consist
of a trumpet and a few of
smaller volume. .We have
these noisemakers to boost
our spirit at games. This is
done in a friendly way and
we like any competition we
can get. We feel that we
should be able to bring the
noisemakers because they are
an important part of our
winning the game.
Three Eagle Pointers
Golden Age Club
To the Editor: I wonder
whether the oldsters in Med
ford or nearby would be
interested in a Golden Age
club where we could get to
gether to sing, visit, or play
canasta?
At 75, I do not want to sit
on the shelf and knit. I am a
nature lover who has fished,
hiked, hunted, and watched
wildlife.
Alone now I feel grounded.
I have a lifetime member
ship in Denver Heights' Gold
en Age club in San Antonio,
Tex., but that is so far away.
Anyone who is interested,
please write to:
Mrs. P. Morava,
1109 Niantic st.
Medford
Townsend Plan
To the Editor: Let's look
back to your editorial of July
31, 1946, headed "Another
Townsend Plan," and my re
ply of the same date.
And for a few minutes con
sider what has happened in
the meantime. Instead of hav
ing in effect the Townsend
Plan for National Insurance
on the pay as you go basis,
with only a 2 per cent gross
tax, we have now a record
national debt of $270 billions
with $8 billions annual inter
est, and Still millions out of
work, thousands of bankrupt
cies in all states, and still no
one knows how to stop it.
Even the press still short
sightedly will not expose the
foreign legalized counterfeit
ing agency politely known as
the Federal Reserve, and
which is and has been for 42
years the real cause of de
pressions.
Oregon also now has noth
ing to offer the new manu
facturer or business man, but
Indiana has, where they have
a large surplus; also Hawaii,
with no debt at all, unless
they shortsightedly become
one of the states.
The Townsend plan was
and is, the only plan that
would also put the country on
a business basis instead of the
screwy Social Security, now
so lopsided, and as the au
thors now admit is not found
ed on the right basis.
It is like using the waters
of the Rogue river to make
electricity, and then the wa
ters go on to the sea. We like
wise could control the flow
of money with 2 per cent
gross tax, use it, not hoard it,
as it is only a medium of ex
change. But, don't take my word
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By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
A serious split has develop
ed in the leadership of the
East German Communist
party.
Three first-ranking men
have been ousted from their
posts in the last few weeks.
Others are
under attack.
It is report
ed persistent
ly despite de
nials, that
Walter Ul
bricht, the
party leader,
and Premier
Otto Grote
whol are on
opposite sides in what looks
like a critical situation.
The split stems from dis
agreement on party policy
"Stalinist" Ulbricht, who favors-
a harsh dictatorship,
against a number of "revis
ionist" leaders who favor a
relaxation like that which
has taken place in Poland.
But the quarrel also is re
ported to be due to the in
creasingly serious East Ger
man economic situation.
Ulbricht and his support
ers are trying to speed up
production at the expense of
industrial workers, by in
creasing individual output
quotas without raising wages.
Favors Concessions
Ulbricht's opponents favor
concessions to industrial and
farm workers. The fear that
popular unrest might lead to
a new uprising like that of
June, 17, 1953.'
.There is no evidence that
such an uprising is likely.
Neverthelss, East Germans
obviously are unhappy. They
have only to contrast condi
tions in Red-ruled East Ger
many with those in free West
Germany, which is about the
most prosperous country in
Europe.-
Ulbricht seems to be firm
ly in control of the party ma
chinery. But dissension is so
serious that it is bound to
weaken the Communist re
gime unless it is ended.
In consequence, it is be
Charles M.
McCann
Rise in Gold Price
Advocated by Many
Wall Street Groups.
By ELMER C. WALZER
United Press Financial Editor
New York OP) The sug
gestion of a gold price rise
is coming up again' in finan
cial circles as
it always
does in times
if a business
dip.
.Many
groups have
a d v ocated a
rise i n the
price which
today is $35
Eimer waizer ner fine ounce
where is has been since Jan
uary of 1934 when formal
dollar devaluation was an
nounced. The stock exchange house
of John H. Lewis & Co. has
devoted its entire Bondex
weekly stod-. bulletin to the
gold situation. L
It ' publishes a tabulation
compiled by the Internation
al Monetary Fund showing
gold holdings of various na
tions and the number of
months the gold holdings
would finance imports for
each of several years.
For example in 1937, world
gold was placed at $25,300,
000,000 and imports at $27,
261,000,000. That meant the
gold of the world would fi
nance 11.2 months of im
ports. In 1956 the figures
were $35,500,000,000 for gold
and $98,064,000,000 for im
ports a mere 4.3 months.
The Contrast
United States gold in 1937
would pay for 43 months of
imports; 1957 only 19.1
for it. Read Representative
Patman of Texas in Congres
sional Record of Feb. 13, and
you will get a few ideas. All
other reforms wait on money
reform so why not reform
money, and don t let anyone
tell you to the contrary.
George H. Holmes
1326 Third st.
Salem, Ore.
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lit Develocs Arsioncr.
Communist Leaders
ing reported that Ulbricht
may soon order a "sweeping
purge of his enemies.
The party split first became
apparent when Karl Schird
ewan, Ernst Wollweber and
Fred Oelssner were expelled
from their posts in the ruling
Communist Party Politburo
and central committee. Oels
sner later was ousted as a
deputy premier.
Paper Attacks Selbmann
Communist Party newspa
pers now are attacking Fritz
Selbmann, one of East Ger
many s leading economic ex
perts, who only last week was
made deputy chairman of the
state planning commission.
Selbmann is under attack
at present on the ground that
he thinks too much along
"capitalistic" lines in his
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Government figures show
the nation's output of goods
and services climbed to a rec
ord 434V4 billion dollars last
year (1957). That figure rep
resents a five per cent rise
over 1956.
The new high was achiev
ed despite a decline in the
production rate in the final
quarter of 1957.
QJOUNDS pretty good, does-
n't it? But wait a minute.
The figures are quoted in
DOLLARS. Because of infla
tion, the value of the dollar
hast been shrinking. In periods
of inflation, it "takes MORE
DOLLARS to buy a given
amount of goods.
- So the figures aren't quite
as gbod as they sound.
WHAT is inflation?
Put it this way:
You're a dairyman. You be
gin to feel the pinch of rising
costs. So you put water in the
milk. Thus you have more
milk to swap for other things.
It looks like a good scheme.
But, sooner or later, the sugar
merchant gets the same idea.
months. United Kingdom's
ratio fell from 8 months in
1937 to 1.2 months in 1957
The article notes that many
economists oppose a rising
price for gold, but that many
bankers are alarmed at the
decreasing liquidity of many
nations on the basis of gold
and imports.
The problem of liquidity,
they hold, could be met by
a devaluation of all cur
rencies in terms of gold
in other words, raising the
price of gold.
Bondex hears that a com
mittee of the International
Monetary Fund is currently
studying the problem.
' "As the recession in this
country deepens," says the
Bondex article, "official op
position to a higher gold price
may, diminish. The need for
augmenting the world's liq
uid resources could also - be
met by more liberal U.S.
trading and still more foreign
aid.
Increasing Opposition
"As a matter of fact, how
ever, such proposals are en
countering increasing opposi
tion in Congress. By contrast,
raising the gold price may
appear politically defensible,
even though some of the bene
fits from such action would
fall to the Soviets."
Bondex has compiled a ta
ble showing mine production
of gold for leading areas in
terms of various prices $35,
$52, and $70 per fine ounce.
' United States production
for 1956 amounted to $65,
280,000. .This figure would
rise to $96,990,000 with gold
at $52 an ounce and to $130,
560,000 at $70 an ounce. The
sterling area would rise from
$650,460,000 at $35 an ounce
to $1,300,920,000 at $70 'an
. Plan For
Tomorrow
An ever increasing number
of the prudent and though
ful are finding it well to
plan today for the inevita
ble needs of tomorrow.
C M. Litwiller
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tnan
ideas about factory manage
ment.
Party leaders also are mak
ing demands in newspapers
that additional punishment be
imposed on Schirdewan, Woll
weber and Oelssner for op
posing Ulbricht.
An interesting angle of the
report of dissension between
Ulbricht and Premier Grote
whol is Grotewohl's personal
position in East German lead
ership. He was a leader of
the Social Democratic party
and led a wing of it into co
operation with the Commun
ists.. He is valuable to the Reds
as a symbol of unity between
Communists and Socialists.
Hence Ulbricht might think
it unwise to oust him even itf
they disagreed.
So he puts sand in the sugar
he swaps for your milk. The
flour merchant, caught in the
same bight of the line, puts
chalk in his flour.
So, in the long run, nobody
really profits.
BUT
Spprtlv
We all love inflation and
hope it never ends because in
inflationary periods prices
and wages KEEP ON RIS
ING, thus creating the illu
sion of prosperity.
That s the long and short
of it.
SO MUCH for the t inflation
problem.
Let's take a look now at
another ancient sore spot
the Middle East problem.
rVER in the Middle East
where men have been
fighting each other as far
back as the historical record
goes little Syria and bigger
Egypt have gone together to
form what is optimistically
termed the New United Re
public of Egypt and Syria. In
Cairo, Colonel Nasser (Egypt's
new Man on Horseback) tells
a half million of his jubilant
countrymen the union of the
two nations has RID THE
MID -EAST OF FOREIGN
DOMINATION.
He adds:
"Arabs NOW RULE THE
MIDDLE EAST."
T'M afraid he's wrong, but I
hope he's right.
If the Arabs would or
could run the Middle East
and EVERYBODY ELSE
WOULD GET OUT and quit
meddling in the Middle East's
affairs, the world would run
much more smoothly.
Navy Examination
Issued for Positions
An examination for skilled
positions with the Navy on
Guam has been issued by the
Navy Board of United States
Civil Service Examners, 45
Hyde st., San Francisco 2.
Applications are being ac
cepted for central office re
pairman, liquid fuels gauger,
lineman, power plant and tele
phone electricians, office ma
chine repairman, refrigeration
mechanic and upholsterer.
-Other positions are onen
tor duty in this region, Alaska
and Washington, JJ. U. lnior
mation may be. obtained at
post offices, or the eleventh
U. S. Civil Service region,
Federal Office building, Seat
tle; or the Civil Service com
mission in Washington, D. C.
The six leading coal pro
ducing states West Vir
ginia, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Indiana and Kentucky and
Ohio have yielded more than
22 billion tons of coal since
the year 1800.
ounce.
Old timers in Waif Street
recalled that the gold tinker
ing of the 1930s was an ex
pedient to raise commodity
prices. Commodities never
budged until real demand de
veloped, they asserted, add
ing it would be dificult to
make a case for new gold
tinkering today.
Mrs. Litwiller
clearly ." . '. unhurried by time or
- need arrangements fully explained
rmliiai Ihiliawi II I
'It is better to know us and not need us,
to neea us and not know us.