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J MAIL TglBVXf, MEDFORD, ORE. 4 Tuesday, May 6, 1958 "Everyone in Southern Vfregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD P HINTING CO 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 EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 189"i SUBSCRIPTION RATES P Mail In Advance: Copy IOe. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. 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A Canadian pilot,- James (tlflwell Harty, successfully Itnds Piper super cruiser on Qi highway north of the Sis Itiyou summit. 3 W TEARS AGO May t, 1831 (Friday) Charles S. Hart, grand ex alted ruler of BPO Elks, on a national tour, will spend Sun day fishing in Rogue river. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The younger element is behaving itself, and keeping its hands washed. It' too early for Christmas so it must be the circus next Wednesday." ' 30 YEARS AGO May 6, 192S (Sunday) Among plans for the enter tainment of delegates for the state teachers' convention here May 21 and 22 is a spe cial tour through the valley. Having received extraordi nary success, the Sander Aer onautical school is planning eto locate branches in Klam th Falls and in Montague, ) Calif. 4 YEARS AGO MT 118 (Monday) Trom Local and Personal eolumn: "Pass Creek canyon 1l now open to automobile frivel and is in very good ondition." Articles of incorporation of , The Irrigation and Power company were filed with the county clerk's office Friday. nW's Your I.Q.? Mita m tea correct is superior; m eight m excellent; five or 1. In which country is the ftj A Basel? . Bible: What was Abra 3&f.si't wife? t. Does the Paul's Scarlet tlimbing rose bloom in the jjring, fall, r all summer? . Correct the following: Xhe rain still continues." 3. Was Alexander Camp bell a statesman, actor, theol ogian, or general? 6. Who was the reigning Xing of Yugoslavia when the Kazis overran that country? 7. By what comman name is the Society of Friends known? 9. What is the tallest edi fice in the world? t. Who composed the Kreutzer Sonata? 10. One President of the United States served for two terjns that were not consecu tive; who was he? Answers: 1. Switzerland. 2. Sara. 3. The spring. 4. "The rain continues." 5. Theologian, ff. King Peier. 7. Quakers. 8. Empire State Building, NYC. ). Beethoven. 10. Grover Cleveland. Belgium and Holland had a civil war in 1830. Belgium's independence was granted that year and the Kingdom of the Netherlands was dis solved. Belgium and Holland were formerly a political un ity,. .. ... . More "Kickapoo " Business Before the present national campaign ends we shall hear more about the virtues of private initiative, rugged individualism, more business in government and less government in business. Before the Junior Chamber of Commerce con vention here over the week-end, no less a disting uished member of the Eisenhower administration than Ervin L. Petersen, assistant secretary of ag riculture, struck this familiar note repeating the time-honored doctrinal query in brief as follows : "The question is "Whether private enterprise shall undertake or share in resource development or whether this is to be exclusively a function of government the private competitive enterprise profit system has been the dom inant force in this country to attain a position of pre eminence unknown among other peoples anywhere, should it continue or should the government instead of serving the people, dominate them?" AS STATED there is nothing new in this doc trine, particularly in G.O.P. circles, but it was surprising to hear it so vigorously and uncompro misingly stated by an important official in the Department of Agriculture under Ezra Benson. For if ever a department of our American economy has been dominated and regimented by the government and told in no uncertain terms what jt can, and what it can not do, that depart ment is American farming, under the present ad ministration and former ones. If this is so wicked and such a threat to the "American way of life" why doesn't assistant Sec retary Peterson practice what he preaches and fight it? Why doesn't he do everything he can to take the government entirely out of this important bus iness? Why doesn't he let nature take its course in farming as in hydro-electric power, schools and highways, and keep the government where he thinks it belongs, making and administering the laws and allowing private enterprise and rug der individualism to handle the U. S. economy entirely? TTHE answer to that isn't difficult. He doesn't A practice what he preaches as far as agriculture is concerned because he knows that without a planned economy without some federal aid and regulation, profitable agriculture generally speaking would disappear, and as he stated we live under a profit-system and when a profit in a business disappears, the business follows suit. TPHERE is another even more obvious reason of course. That is purely political. Neither the present administration nor any administration could remain in office if it followed the Petersen doctrine and turned over agriculture and the American economy entirely to private enterprise. Why? Because the general welfare of the country would suffer such a blow that what is now called a depression, would seem like a prom ised land of milk and honey in comparison. A few would profit greatly of course, as they did in the Middle Ages under feudalism, but the rank and file would be little better than serfs. So the G.O.P. while it continues to preach against all government aid and participation, as "creeping socialism," because they believe waving the "red flag" means votes, they are care ful not to practice what they preach not only in agriculture, but in many other f ields. OOWEVER in one field the Eisenhower admin . 1 istration does practice what it preaches, that is in the field of public power development. The Tennessee Valley authority celebrated its 25th anniversary the other day, and as a result some of the underground and underhanded ef forts to wreck this outstanding example of the tremendous value of public power from the stand point of promoting the public welfare, were brought to light. The present administration has repeatedly denied appropriations for the expansion of the "Authority" has slowly but surely packed the TVA Commission with anti-public power Re publicans, until the hope of normal operations, as the original congressional act provided, be comes, practically nil, and unless a halt is called, in spite of the protests of the people, not only of Tennessee but of Alabama and North Carolina, eventually the Private Power Trust will take over along the Tennessee river as it has to-date along the Snake. A ND all this under the banner of restoringthe sacred "American way of life," as if the "American way of life" had NOT been founded upon the welfare of the people, not just a favor ed few. A ND so Assistant Secretaiy Peterson tells the " young people of the Junior Chamber of Com merce, in substance, that the burning issue" is whether the Government should serve the people or dominate them; whether private initiative should be maintained or we should have a regi mented socialistic state, whether we should have more government in business or more business in government, and so on and so forth. The national election in November and the national election two years hence will indicate how many of the voters, young AND old will be taken in by this time-honored Kickapoo medicine-show. For the real issue is none of these things. The real issue is not whether there should be more business in government and less "government in business;" but whether our government should be nothing BUT business "BIG BUSINESS" and a government of the people for the people and Jby the people ALL the people should to slightly alter Lincoln's historic statement iXerish.from the earth." R.W.R. . Dennis the Menace Jyou'O LIKE tW DOS. fl SVeZPSAU THE TIME ' Matter of Fact THE DOVES OF WASHINGTON Washington Long, long ago, when the United States still stood at the head of the world, this re porter receiv ed an interest ing sugges tion from a British field marshal's wife who was well known for her strong .tree dwelling ten- jospb Aisop aencies. In those days, it was thought to be blackly pessi mistic to question the good intentions of the late Josef Stalin. Really, it made very gloomy reading, said the lady. She was asked to suggest a more cheerful subject for pub lic comment. As she had tak en up life among the leafy branches because she was" a British - style bird - watcher, she had her answer ready. "Oh," she said brightly, "why not try birds?" After 12 years, the time has come to take this often-remembered advice. One very good reason is simple, un bounded admiration for the pair of mourning doves that have triumphantly reared twin dovelets (or should it be squabs?) in an ivy-hidden nest high above the garden-terrace. . QOMEBODY, someday, ought to do a serious survey of wildlife in American cities. (It could be called "The Ecol ogy of Urban Areas," and would then be worth a doc torate.) Here in the tired heart of Washington, at any rate, you acquire a great many unpay ing tenants if you have a fair sized city garden with a little cover for shy creatures. Some are not so shy, either. The oppossum that lives un der the garden-house even has a marked liking for dinner parties, which once caused a lot of trouble. At coffee-time, a nervous female guest chanc ed to look behind her. There in the clematis-vine, plainly illuminated in the candle light, hanging upside down in an easy, graceful, sociable way, was what appeared to be a gigantic white rat. The en suing piercing shriek did not disturb the 'pos,sum, either. BUT aside from the 'possum that teaches her young each autumn to wash their food in the fountain, and the squirrels that once invaded Tillamook Man Dies In Two-Car Collision Tillamook (IP) Harry P. Long, 70, Tillamook, was killed in a two-vehicle crash just south of here Sunday night, State Police reported. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES of Naples are confronted with one of the great mysteries in the entire history of Italy. The Neapolitan Census reveals 181,885 married men and 184,502 married women! Are biga mists rampant there? The Police department hurriedly organized a Division of Marriage Swindles to make an investigation. A favorite tourist attraction in Florida is a wild animal farm just off U. S. Route 1. All kinds of snakes from the harmless to deadly rattlers are sold at so much per foot, but there's one reassuring note in the catalogue: "No poison ous snakes will be sold to minors without parents' writ ten consent," In Cleveland, the Plain Dealer reports, a husband who went shop ping reached down to pick up a sack of potatoes, only to find he had grabbed a woman shopper in one of those abominable new dresses. J 1958. by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kin futures Syndicate,.. By Joseph Alsop the living room to make a nut-cache in the sofa, and the detestable half-wild cats, the birds are the chief tenants of this wildlife refuge among the urban asphalt. There are no quail (al though the Swedish embassy always used to have at least one covey, until subtopia swallowed up their feeding grounds). But the cardinals seem to be preparing to nest again. With luck, the mocking-bird that has been inspect ing the place rather carefully will finally decide that the advantages outweight the drawbacks. And above all, there are the mourning-doves. Their appearance is charm ing, for they look like game birds, as they are, yet like gamebirds with a special frag ile elegance. Their name is charming, too, for what could be nicer than "Zenaidura Ma croura"'? Their soft calling, like a musical fall of water, is full of love and haunting sad ness and memories of dear things lost. But all this charm, which might otherwise be cloying, is splendidly season ed with sheer spunk. The doves started nesting in early March. They stuck to it grimly, the male on the nest all day and the female all night through the bitter winds and icy rains and deep snows of this terrible spring. They must have lost at least two clutches of eggs, for their eggs take only about two weeks to hatch. But they suc ceeded in their task. Just the other day, the first pierced egg-shell was proudly drop ped from the nest. THEN, day after day, there was the wonderful sight of the doves endlessly hurrying out to find food and hurrying back to disgorge their crops into the always waiting beaks. And finally, at this moment, the two young are hopping about on the terrace bricks, learning to take grain them selves. Maybe this writing about birds is really too self-indulgent. But circle the free world's great periphery, from Berlin to Seoul, and you will see every vital position either decaying fast or in deadly danger already. Go to the West's other citadel in Eu rope, and you will discover the grand alliance crumbling into imbecility. Come back to Washington, and you find eco nomic depression plus a re sponse to the sharp strategic challenge of the Sputnik that has only consisted of not mak ing the further defense cuts thaf were planned before the Sputnik's warning. In truth, one wishes one could always write about birds, until this country re discovers its old knack of leadership. (Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Sfop Me 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. T&x-Deductible Purchasing To the Editor: With 57 mil lion enjoying employment and six million suffering unem ployment, an outright tax cut could only result in most of the dollars finding their way into the savings accounts of the employed instead of the buying stream. But if Washington decrees that for the balance of 1958 all purchases of consumer and durable goods heretofore not deductible from -personal in come taxes shall become de ductible up to 25 per cent of one's total tax, it will result in stimulating all buying, with every such tax-saved consum er dollar immediately finding its way into the market place to reverse the current eco nomic decline right now in stead of in the indefinite fu ture. The cost of the suggested remedy will be less than the loss to the government even in collectable tax dollars if this depression continues un reversed for the balance of 1958. We urge the prompt adop tion of this plan only because time has shown that Washing ton's understandable policy of waiting and hoping is not stopping the decline as pre dicted. A. N. Spanel, Chairman G. A. Ogden, Vice President International Latex Corp. Dover, Dela. 1 Frohnmayer for Jason Lee To the Editor: I became ac quainted with Jason Lee sev eral weeks ago when he was a visitor in Medford in con nection with the organization of his campaign for Associate Justice, Position No. 7 of the Oregon Supreme Court. Since meeting Mr. Lee I have made inquiry concerning his background and I find that he was an attorney in Eu gene before the war, and that he was commanding of ficer of his ship in the South Pacific during World War II. Following the war Jason Lee handled appellate cases for the United States govern ment to work off a backlog of accumulated wartime litiga tion. He also assisted the U.S. Attorney's office in Portland in cleaning up a backlog of wartime cases. Jason Lee has had addi tional training in tax matters at the New York University. There is a serious backlog problem on the Oregon Su preme Court and I am con vinced that with the valuable back ground of experience which he can bring to the court, together with his indus try, he is the man that should be elected. William Frohnmayer 622 North Riverside ave. Medford., Camp Adair Work May Start in Fall Washington (IP) If Con gress approves funds this spring for the new Air' Force Bomarc missile base proposed for Camp Adair between Al bany and Corvallis, initial work on the $10 million proj ect should start next fall, ac cording to Rep. Walter Nor blad (R-Ore.). The Air Force announced plans for the Bomarc base last Friday. Norblad said the total an nual payroll for' both the Bomarc and SAGE activities at Camp Adair would be in excess of $4 million. He said it was first believed work on the Bomarc project would not begin until next year. Australian Premier Touring United States Los Angeles (IP) Premier J. J. Cahill of New South Wales leaves by train today for Washington, D.C. and New York, stops on his six-week tour of the nation to attract U.S. money to Australia. The 67-year-old Premier ar rived here last week, lunched at a movio studio, visited plants, and spent a quiet week end around the swimming pool at his hotel. TuBVioqe DAIRY-SMITH Eait Main St. Watch for our Circus of Fun and Values . . . Be sure to see the Magician that drives to East Main and Genessee and turns into a Dairy and Ice Cream Store. I I I Ruble Being Used as By Russia By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia is using its ruble as a weapon in the cold war while it stocks nuclear weapons for a possible hot war. By means of a carefully-cal-c u 1 a t e d for eign aid pro gram, the So v i e t govern ment is court in I Vi o fatrrii- McCann of uncommit ted" countries all over the world. These uncommitted coun tries are those which are not aligned either with Russia or with the Western allies. Some of them are "neutralists" like India and Indonesia. Some are openly anti-Communist. Russia is offering them vast amounts in aid. Its own grants are supplemented by grants from other countries of the Soviet bloc. The aid program serves two purposes which fit in with the long-range Communist goal of world domination. One is penetration and sub version. The other is the fo mentation of trouble for the United States and its allies. The most recent example of the Russian economic offen Washington Report By William THE MASTER PAINTER Washington On a wet May day in Washington peo ple were circling with wary respect around 35 pictures ar ranged in a sort of rotunda in the Smithsonian Institu tion. The painting were strong in execution. They were stoutly traditional in form; there was no nonsense here about impressionism and all that. Their titles were mostly clipped and gentle "Rock Near Cannes." "Black Swans at Chartwell." But one title, though certinly clipped, twas not especially gentle. "Bottlescape," it ' said, with forthright satisfaction. And a correspondent who, long ago in wartime, had trailed along behind the paint er on some of his missions, could imagine now the gleam in the Old Master's eye when he put his brush to this opus. For this was a painting of rich bottles -r- brandy here, champagne there, and in the foreground a brimming glass of what just might have been whisky. , "EARBY was mounted a chaste blue and white card announcing the name and rank and serial number, so to speak, of the artist: "The Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill." "Old Master" is used here of Sir Winston with an aware ness that some experts may re ject it as applying to his paint ing. Indeed, only recently the Art Institute of Chicago de clined to show his pictures on the ground that he was "not a professional." Professional in the art world? Maybe not. "But pro fessional in the greater world of all men? Of course, he was and is. For his paintings not only looked good; they were good. Among other , things, they brought together, in one place and at one time, one of a dozen aspects of the personal ity of perhaps the most extra ordinary man since whom? Benjamin Franklin, perhaps. 1UT Franklin, for all his versatility and charm, sure ly could hardly match this man of the 20th century. Franklin knew how to say what he had to say, yes. But who could possibly compare it with the unforgettable elo quence, half in lisp .and half in snarl, that Churchill flung against the heart and con science of the world from a besieged and all but broken House of Commons back be fore Pearl Harbor and Stalin grad? And, here, so many years later, was Churchill again, back in America, although only in his paintings. But these, above their lines and tints, spoke to America for him. They were the calling cards of a man who under stands this country even bet- at Genesse I, I in Fighting West sive is that in the Middle East. Aid lo U. A. R. Cited Russia has given Egypt hun dreds of millions of dollars in military aid. It has provided Syria, now merged with Egypt in the United Arab Republic, with military aid far in ex cess of that country's needs. It has now started to arm Yemen, one of the key strate gic points in the Middle East, which has federated itself with Egypt and Syria. In addition to military aid, Russia is giving Egypt enor mous sums in economic aid. The Soviets are now trying to secure a foothold in Libya and Ghana. Soviet aid to Yemen has been followed by a series of frontier t incidents, small in themselves but potentially se rious, against the British pro tectorate of Aden to which Ye men lays claim. ' Red Aid No Boon Some of the countries which have accepted Russian aid find that it is not a philan thropic boon. Egypt is paying Russia for arms with its cotton, its chief export. Russia is dumping some of this cotton on the world market at prices, with which Egypt cannot compete. Countries which contract for Russian machinery and other products find out that, S. White ter than it understands him. Is this piece, then, designed to suggest that all the world really needs is a bigger and better English Speaking Union? No; it is mainly to re call another spring a spring 14 years ago this very month in England. The distinguished painter was busy then with affairs more urgent than landscapes He was stumping about the British Isles which then seemed to tilt a little at the water's edge under the mass of war machines being assem bled there. HE was smoking furiously and poking his head with his funny hat into everything. He was putting all in order, as he would have expressed it, for an invasion across the Channel that was to come on June 6, 1944. He was quarrelsome. And he was kind. He was, in the language of some parts of our country, an ornery old cuss without the slightest self doubt in his mission and wis dom. He was the patriarch, the old man, to English-speaking assault forces gathered from everywhere. He was sending them out to die, many of them And, God knows, he never sentimentalized them or vis ibly agonized over them Rather, his line was more or less the "Hey, hey, first of May, good hunting" kind of thing. But he was looking after his troops whether Ameri can, Canadian, or Anzac or United Kingdom the best he could. This was the time when he was truly the master painter the painter of a design that some will not forget in this or many another spring. (Copyright. 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) An estimated 55 million acres of U.S. farm land have been released for food crops because of the widespread shift to tractors instead of horses, according -to govern ment figures. Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. Weapon as they become progressively committed to this form of pen etration, prices tend to rise alarmingly. Some of the machinery is unsuitable, the customers find. Some of it is simply shoddy. But the program of Soviet economic aid is a formidable weapon. Allen W. Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agen cy, gave a grave warning of the danger of this weapon in a speech last week to the Unit ed States Chamber of Com merce in Washington. It is most probable that the fateful battles of the cold war will, in the foreseeable future, be fought in the eco nomic and subversive arenas," Dulles said. Vote For EARL FOR County Judge Earl Miller is EXPERIENCED in business, and the County Judge post is first and foremost a BUSINESS MAN AGEMENT JOB. He prom ises a business-tike, eco nomical administration. Earl Miller is EXPERIENCED in good government on a LOCAL level, with a back ground of sound adminis tration during his term as Mayor of Medford. Earl Miller is EXPERIENCED in problems of County and State government through contacts with the League of Oregon Cities, and serv ice on diversified boards and committees. Earl Miller is able and anx ious to serve ALL of Jack son County in all problems such as road building and improvements, flood con trol, sanitation, - taxation, etc. He will SERVE NO SPECIAL INTERESTS. Earl Miller will maintain an OPEN DOOR at the Court House so that ALL may have the access they are entitled to. Paid Adv. Earl Miller for County Judge Committee. Collier Buffing ton, Chairman, Hillcrest Road, Medford. SILKY WASN'T SO SMOOTfl! Some people gamble on a horse, And some by shooting craps. But from coast to coast, He gambles most, Who lets insurance lapse. 4 -'- Bill Fish
