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4 Tuesday, April 7. 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDKtTRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern Vrregon ncdus xne mau iriDune 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. Soeietv Eriitnr DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent NewsnaDer Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3, 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES t " Mail Jn Advance: Crmv ! Daily and Sunday 1 year $15,004 xjauy ana aunoay o mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 sunaay only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: uauy and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wife" MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU ur CLKUULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I assocTatiQn r J u - Flight ro Time , Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 1, 1948 (Thursday) An urgent plea for donors of type A blood has been made by Paul Gierula, whose wife is suffering from a rare type disease believed acquir ed during her four year s work in shipyards. Maurice Tedrow of the for est service reports he saw wild colt on the Applegate range. 20 YEARS AGO April 1. 1938 (Friday) Public invited to a benefit dance in the Jacksonville Grange hall; proceeds will be used to pay return trip travel expenses of an infantile pa ralysis victim from Warm Springs, Ga. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "A pleasing April Fool joke to day would be not to have any." 30 YEARS AGO . April 1, 1928 (Sunday) Recent development of win ter sports in upper Rogue area will be impetus for de veloping resort home sections in the Medford and Crater Lake highway district, real estate men say. From local and personal column: "Approximately 340 students will attend the Southern Oregon Normal school this year, an increase of 25 per cent over the attend ance of last spring, registrar s figures show." 40 YEARS AGO April 1. 1918 (Monday) "Failure of the Medford school board to fake any ac tion on inspection of city schools by public health nurse, brands tnem as slackers in the eyes of the state board of health " savs Dr. S. A. Lock- wood, city health officer. From local and personal column: "Although no cable message has been received yet in the city, relatives of Med ford boys in the 65th artil lery feel sure they have either arrived in France or will be there in a day or so. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. i. Which is the largest bay on the Atlantic Coast of the United States? 2. Bible: On what day of the week did Judas make a bar gain with the Chief Priests to deliver up Jesus? 3. A glockenspiel is a kind of dance? true or false? 4. During World War II, Donald M. Nelson beaded the W.P.B.; what was the W.P.B.? 5. Saccharin is sweeter, or less sweet than sugar? 6. Correct the following sentence, "A paratrooper must be strong in body and also mentally." 7. What is an obi? 8. Is a stereoscope an in strument for hearing or see ing? 9. Mice grow up to become rats: true or false? 10. Which island in the Greater Antilles is affiliated with the United States? Answers: 1. Chesapeake Bay. 2. Wednesday. 3. Fals (it is a musical instrument). 4 War Production Board. 5. Sweeter. 6. "A paratrooper must be strong m body and 2so in mmd " 7- A Japanese sash. 8. Seeing. 9- False. 10. Puerto Jtfco. for We commented here Time sure time how so many of us have so little of it despite an increasing amount of time away frqm the job. The reason is that things to do club and vision, yard and house work, and so on. And, when in discussion with intelligent people, it is often and often that we hear them say, "I just don't have time to do do." IN THE old-fashioned I niTTw nnl -IntT -T-W. going through several books m a week that un doubtedly is tine for many people. But we ran across a suggestion in the Eugene Register-Guard the other day for those people who chronically bemoan don't have time to read they'd like. . It said: "Don't look for too much. Look at first for only a little bit, maybe for 15 minutes a day . . : Suppose you read a page a minute, which is not fast reading. In two weeks you'll find you've read 200 pages if you read only for 15 minutes a day. If you do this for a year, you'll find you've read 5,475 pages or more than a dozen fair sized books that you would not otherwise read. "At the end of this year, assuming you're still on schedule, you'll likely find that you're reading more than 15 minutes a day. More worlds are opening to you. Your interests are broader than they ever were before. The more you read, the more you find things you want to read, and do read. Time no longer is such a problem, for you find time appearing for read- ing when time is no longer available for other things. It's an a matter of choice." THERE'S one more thing to be considered, and that is the problem of selection. In the past 20 or 30 years, the amount of print ed matter has doubled couple of hundred years or. so there have been plenty of good books to read. But it. has been only in the last few decades that there have been not only books, but also bigger newspapers and a de luge of magazines on every conceivable subject and in every conceivable format. Many of them are worth while. But with the sheer volume of reading material available, one must become more selective than ever before. E.A. Sun Power The Navy's Vanguard satellite the tiny, six inch orb now whirling around the earth at a speed which varies from about 12,000 to more than 18,000 miles per hour is equipped with something relatively new, These gadgets draw light-energy of the sun, never beeri done before. Solar batteries were so ago, and have haa now, because the amount put out is tiny. But it is enough, in the Vanguard, to power a radio transmitter. And it gives promise of keewing the tiny radio (Because the Vanguard satellite is high enough to miss most of the earth's atmosphere, it may continue circling the itely.) . , f JNTIL the advent of atomic energy, almost all the power used on earth came from the sun, though indirectly. The energy of work - on food, which was nourished by sunlight. Coal and oil, the "fossil" fuels, vegetable matter, again lions of years ago. Hydro generated it was the sun which evaporated the sea water which formed the clouds which carried the rain and snow to the hills, where it fell and formed into rivers to turn But until the advent direct use of sunpower was extremely limited warming homes m the summer, for instance. DEC A USE ol the limited amounts oi power - which the solar batteries can put out in their present stage of development, anyway their uses will be limited. But experiments are well along in other meth ods of capturing the direct power of sunlight. These concentrate principally on the utilization of sun-heat, rather than, a direct conversion of sun-energy into electric power. There are, for instance, sun-powered ovens, which catch and concentrate the sun's rays to pro vide exceedingly high temperatures. Experiments in the distillation of. sea water from sun heat are making progress. The design of buildings which draw most of their heat needs from sunlight is becoming tetter understood. - AND, finally, the employment of nuclear fusion Tc? in ilrta f-ff trier lO All Wits UXXXXAg While this does not use "sun power" as such, it does create energy in the does, by converting hydrogen into helium, and putting to practical use the resulting tremendous . 1. 1 na jl. energy wmcn is given on in tne process. Much remains to be learned about these pro cesses, but scientists the world over are working on them, and there is little reason to doubt but. that by the end of the centuiy we will be using these new sources of power in increasing amounts, as the "fossil" fuels continue to diminish at an accelerating rate. E.A. Reading the other day about lei there are so many other organizational work, tele all the reading I'd like to sense that of sitting tt" r v tTnyaa T n "c- o rl the fact that they just the worthwhile things and trebled. For the past solar batteries. power directly from the something ; which has developed only, a year or limited usefulness up to of power which they on the air indefinitely. globe almost indefin animals was dependent originally were largely nou rished by the sun mil - electric power was sun the turbines. of the solar batteiy, the same way that the sun Dennis the Menace '75 time ito eoai kxvm wsioe our i' Matter of Fact SLOW FOOTWORK V Washington As these words are written, the Ameri- can policy makers are ner vously wait ing for the an nouncem e n t of a Kremlin dec i s i o n to sus p e n d all further Soviet tests of nu clear weapons for a consid erable trial Joseph Alsop period, while this emotion-charged question is being negotiated by the leading powers. The Kremlin has already underlined our sinfulness and its own attachment to the "cause of peace" by denounc ing the oncoming American program of nuclear weapons tests at the United Nations. gestu res on our allies and the world will not be lessen ed,' either, by the fact that the Soviets have obvious iy just com Stewart Alsop pleted all the the tests of nuclear weapons they have any present need to make. The Soviet test series, in itself a remarkable phenome non, began eight months ago. Since last August their tests have been made both singly and in groups, and at a new proving ground north of the Arctic Circle as well as at the Siberian proving ground al ways previously used. - Rather early in the series, a powerful fusion device was exploded at very high alti tude, other weapons tested have been described as "sub stantial" in size, having "a large yield," and "in the meg aton range." Considerable numbers of small weapons have also been tested, and on two occasions, there have been two tests of different weapons on the same day. In all, 15 weapons tests have been made in eight months. This statistic is all the more striking because , the Soviets have made only 39 tests in aU since their first successful atomic shot in 1949. rpHE tests gave no indication -r of any serious Soviet, com petition with the American effort to get a clean nuclear' bomb. But the high altitude explosion of a fusion device must be interpreted as an im portant step in Soviet devel opment of anti-aircraft rocket with a nuclear warhead. And various signs understood by the scientists indicate that a good many of the other weap ons tested have been physi cally very compact, and there fore suitable for delivery by medium and long range bal listic missiles. Such is the Soviet test story, which adds just the right note of grim irony to the predicament of the Amer ican policy makers. Judging by the increasing passion of the debate about nuclear weapons in both Britain and West Germany, the American policy makers' predicament is going to be very unpleasant indeed, if the Kremlin comes through, as forecast, with its phoney announcement of a vciunxary suspension oi iut- ther nuclear tests as a "contri bution to peace." The phoniness will hardly be noted, in either Germany or Britain, or . indeed any where else. The Kremlin in itiative will be taken at face value. The British govern ment of Prime Minister Mac- millan will be under particu larly heavy public pressure to match the Kremlin's gesture with a similar gesture of its own. In his present weak po litical situation at home, Mac miUan may even be driven to take independent action if the United States hangs back. ewcwwtos. mxvz down ano By Joe and Stewart Alsop TlTEANWHILE, if the Ameri- X'A can government insists on continuing its nuclear tests, the U. S. will be de nounced for bloody-minded ness and intransigence. And it will not be much better we say we are also ready to end nuclear tests, after mak ing adequate provisions for inspection, as the President vaguely hinted we might eventually say - at his last press conference. For in this latter case, we shall just ap pear to "me-too" the Soviet initiative, and the credit for ending tests will go to the So viets. Just to increase the irony a little further, there is the ad ditional fact that the Ameri can' government has had am ple warning of the Kremlin's intentions. Weeks have pass ed since the intelligence - an alysts first warned the State Department and the Atomic Energy Commission that they must be ready for a Kremlin announcement of voluntary test suspension. Even .before this warning, the idea of closing the atomic club by agreeing to end tests was already gaming ground within the administration One could predict that this idea would eventually be come firm policy. It was even described in certain high cir cles as the one positive thing that might be agreed upon at a summit meeting. . BUT fighting the whole trpnrl with ereat bitter ness ana astuteness was tne chairman, of the Atomic En ergy Commission, . Admiral Lewis Strauss, with his staff and allied scientists. The com mittee meetings that were held on all levels after the intelligence warning were riven with argument and dis cord. Secretary of State Dulles, who alone might have made a decision, was away until very recently on the con ference circuit. So the final policy decision was the one that has become increasingly usual. It was the decision to do nothing, to remain impassive, to wait dumbly for the other side's blow, because agreeing to do nothing was easier than agreeing to do something. (Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) 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. The letters printed in this ;olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Who Can Be Apathetic? To the Editor: Ordinarily, Easter bonnets were flashing their bewitching influence on the hearts of the feminine populace as soon as there was a hint of spring in the air. Not so in 1958. Events of greater import ance occupy all mature minds. How could it be otherwise when a voice within the reach of every ear in the world, gives his analysis of the at tempt man is making in ex ploration of our God made moon? "The heart of man will nev er be the same again," words said with pathos, by Mr. Eric Sevareid, as he depicted the glory of the real moon and its majestic inspirational effects on people of all ages. Very likely listeners, and especial ly the ones of us who were born in Mr. Sevareid's home state (North Dakota), thought his analysis was superb. Closing with the expression "before man opened the an cient vault of the God made moon, he should breathe a prayer, beseeching forgive ness." One can't help won- in the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS World of the future note: Sir George Thomson, British Nobel prize winning physicist, predicts that the ul timate source oi power which, he says, is heavy hy drogen in sea water will be harnessed within 20 years. ne aaas that there is enough heavy hydrogen in the seas to supply the world's de mands for power for a THOU SAND MILLION YEARS. T'HAT'S a long time so let's quit worrying about what we re going to do when the oil is used up and the coal is all used up. The future will probably take care of itself. At least, it always has. Our job is to take care of the present. : . I ixiwti DacK to power, It's highly important. For example: Back in 1797, a New Hamp shire man received a patent on a washing machine. His invention, however, didn't amount to much because no cheap and CONVENIENT source of power was availa ble. In 1797, Benjamin Frank lin had already flown his ex perimental kite and had brought electricity down out of the stormy sky, but nobody had yet learned how to make electric current cheap . and handy. Power washing machines and all the rest of the house hold gadgets didn't begin to change our lives for the bet ter by taking the DRUDG ERY out of living until elec tric power became available at the socket in the wall, And At a price people could pay. TJERE'S more about power progress: Away back in the 1400's Leonardo da Vinci, who was not only a painter but an in ventor and a scientist, design ed a FLYING MACHINE. He drew sketches of it in his notebook. Although rudimentary, it was a reasonably efficient de sign. But it couldn't be "made to fly because the internal combustion engine hadn't yet been invented. So mechanical flight had to wait for 400 years until a couple of Yan kee bicycle mechanics put s crude gasoline engine into an airframe and MADE IT FLY. DON'T discount the import-anf-p of nnwpr And don't scoff at Sir George Thomson's prediction that in 20 years "power pro duced by fusion of heavy hy- Committee Head Named by Society Dr. T. Winston Smith, Grants Pass optometrist, has been named to head the intra- professional committee of the Southern Oregon Optometric Society, according to Dr. Rob ert Harland, president. Dr. Smith also will serve as education chairman of the society and will be responsi ble for arrangements for a seminar to be scheduled in Medford later this spring. The one-day seminar will feature Dr. Ralph Barstow of California and is expected to draw vision specialists from southern Oregon and north ern California. ' dering if a gifted person like Mr. Sevareid will ever be the same again, or any one of us who can comprehend, even in the smallest sense. Then the words of the oth er . newsman who . watched America's first little moon shoot off into space: "There goes man's mind." How could any grown-up mind be apa thetic? Scientists tell us everything awaits its time, and maybe our time has come to exter minate gossip, slander, hate, criticism, and childish compe tition, and realize what we wear in our hearts shows in our face. Besides it would be one way of making a valuable contribution to a better world. Don't you think so, too? Emma Lou Carpenter, 811 Sherman st., Medford. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT formerly SO. OREGOfi HUMANE SOCIETY Now Known As BOARDING KENNELS Operators Former Attendants ROBERT and CLARA GARRISON 2910 Table Rock Road - SP 2-8222 'Big Brother' Seen Necessary For Russian Communist Rule By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The latest Kremlin shake up appears to indicate that a one-man dictatorship is essen tial in Soviet Russia. Nikita S. Khr ushchev's assumption of t h'e post of Premier, in addition of that of First Secretary of the f!rmmiinist Mccann Party, appar ently marks the end of a five year' . period of "collective About Washington By ROSCOE DRUMMOND (Substituting for Walter Lippmann, now in Europe) DEALING WITH THE RECESSION Washington There are four favorable developments bearing on the recession. They are encouraging de velopments, not because they suggest a speedy upturn which is certainly not visible but because they show that the Federal government is acting alertly and responsibly to shorten and cushion the slump: 1 the cushioning stabiliz ers, which have been built in to the economy since the har rowing experience of the long-drawn-out depression of 1929, are proving their value as never before. These stabi lizers include old-age pensions and, primarily, unemploy ment insurance payments which vary in amount and length by states and which President Eisenhower is ask ing Congress to extend for an additional 13 weeks through Federal financing. In conse quence personal income is holding up better today than in any postwar dips in the economy and this itself is brake on the downward spir al. Personal income declined 8 per cent in the 1929 depres sion, only 3.1 per cent in 1948-49, 1.9 in 1952-54, 1.3 per cent in 1957-58. 2 Another favorable de velopment is the certainty that the Federal government the President and Congress alike, will exercise the fullest range of its resources from monetary policy to a tax cut if necessary, to preclude mass unemployment and to build recovery. The Eisenhower ad ministration oes not believe that government action can end the recession by itself or even provide the main stimu lus. But it certainly doesn't look on the recession as an act of angry providence out of everybody's control and it does believe that Federal ac tion can hold the recession in bounds and shorten its dura tion. J The next encouraging development is the extent to which the leaders of both par ties are now stepping back from playing partisan politics drogen atoms in sea water will be available for our use ALSO- "Don't liaf vonrceslf eroff at this fantastic modern world. It 's a GOOD world. It's a bet- ter world than mankind has ever known before.. And it's GETTING BETTER. For ex ample: For countless centuries the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. But a survey of consumer finances sponsored by the Federal Reserve Board shows that here in America, in the years since 1950, the number of families with less than $5,000 of annual income has GONE DONE by nearly seven million. The number of families with MORE than $5,000 of annual income has GONE UP by more than 11 million. The number with in comes of $7,500 or more has RISEN by seven million. THAT is to say: Hprp in America a revolu tion has been worked in the position of the ordinary indi vidual. That revolution is steadily UPGRADING in comes and positions. America is becoming a na tion of well-to-do people. leadership." Nikolai A. Bulganin, who has been demoted from Pre mier to president of the State Bank, was the last of five men who were in the first rank of leadership when Josef Stalin died on March 5, 1953. Khrushchev may not be another Stalin. For one thing, there is no sign that he pos sesses Stalin's insane lust for power. It may be that he will listen to, and to some extent be guided by, the views of his colleagues in the ruling Com munist Party Presidium. But it happened that one by one the top-ranking men with taxes. ""OTHING could be more helpful than the agree ment reached between Secre tary of Treasury Robert An derson and Speaker Sam Rayburn of the House, where tax bills must originate, that neither the Administration nor the Democratic leader ship will try to pull off a po litical coup by rushing for ward with a tax-cut bill while the other's head is turned. The agreement is that neither side will act without prior consultation with the other. That's good. This is responsible politics at its best. It is not surprising that two men of such stature and wisdom as Speaker Ray burn and Secretary Anderson should be the ones to have brought about this under standing. There are solid reasons why Mr. Anderson and Mr. Ray- burn are trying to keep poli tics out of the tax equation. It is economically dangerous to rush into a tax cut for wrong reasons because, by acting too soon and before the facts are clear enough, a tax cut might prove to be the wrong thing. It is politically dangerous because it is by no means self-evident that the political rewards will go with the tax-cutters, particularly if a tax cut abets inflation and keeps the cost of living going up. But the temptation to try to play politics with a tax cut is very great and it is reassur ing to see Mr. Anderson and Mr. Rayburn standing agains it. rFHIS leads to the fourth fa vorable development. Tak ing much of the political heat off precipitate tax cutting means that the' Administra tion will be in a better posi tion to resist a premature tax decision. It can better do what it believes wise, namely, wait until the recession indi cators are clearer and thereby act more prudently. The outlook now is that the end of the downturn is not yet at hand, but there is a pos sibility that there will soon be favorable factors in some segments of the economy, like home building (which the bleak winter has been hurt ing) and department store sales. This means that the need for tax reduction may not be promptly evident and that it will be prudent not to rush into a tax cut. The cli mate for prudence is better than it was a month ago. Prudence does not mean in action on anti-recessicn meas ures. There are no political incentives for inaction partic ularly since the ' Gallup poll now shows that for the first time since 1937 a majority of the voters cite unemployment as the nation's No. 1 problem. (c) 1958 New York Her ald Tribune Inc.) Counsel With Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. F-Afll who stood with Khrushchev beside Stalin's coffin have gone Lavrenti P. Beria, Georgi M. Malenkov, Lazar M. Kaganovich, Vyacheslav M. Molotov and Bulganin. With them has gone Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, who rose to the first rank later. Few Survivors The only survivors of those who stood beside the coffin besides Khrushchev are Mar shal Klementi E. Voroshilov, the 77-year-old figurehead president of Russia, and Anastas I. Mikoyan, who had not then really attained first rank. Now, whatever happens, the five-year collective leadership has gone. For even if Khru shchev acts with the counsel of his fellow-members of the Presidium, he is the unchal lenged leader. Since Malenkov. Molotov and Kaganovich plotted to overthrow him last June, Khrushchev has packed the Presidium with younger men, on whose loyalty he feels he can depend, from the various Soviet republics. He seems safe from in trigue against him for quite a while. The men who have gone were accused, probably just ly, of trying to disrupt the collective leadership either because, like Beria and Zhu kov they coveted the leader ship themselves, or because, like Malenkov, Molotov, Ka ganovich and Bulganin, they disagreed with Khrushchev's policies. Intrigue seems to have de veloped almost from the first' in the post-Stalin leadership. There was little apparent intrigue in Stalin's day. It was Stalin's practice to strike first when he suspected any disloyalty. He was no rattle snake, who gave warning with his rattles, but a cobra. Little Father. Big Brother Now, it might be said, things are normal again in Russia normal even as they were in the days before 1917 when the czar was the "little father." . Under Communism the big brother, rather than the little father, is an essential man. Nikolai Lenin was the big brother before his death in 1924. He was a much bigger man than either Stalin or Khrushchev and it is inter esting to speculate what might have happened in Rus sia had he lived. After Lenin came the grim years of Stalin. Then Khru shchev denounced Stalin and the "cult of personality." But for whatever reason, the col lective leadership which fol lowed did not work. Whether ' Khrushchev all along aspired to one-man dic tatorship or had it thrust upon him by circumstances does not matter. He is now the big brother which Rus sian Communism seems to need. A diversified, managed in vestment in the resources and industrial growth of Canada. Net earnings are retained and rein vested by the Fund at low tax cost. 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