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MAIL TglBVXf, MEDFORD, ORE.
4 Tuesday, May 6, 1958
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. 10 YEARS AGO
!Mt t, lldl (Thursday)
3Dr. A. Irin Merkel, county
Cfiealtft director who has been
r5?iih tAe county health de
Jtrtment for the past 10
ytltt, will enter general pri
'J?ttf practice June 1.
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.)
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bear the name and address of
the writer although under cer
tain circumstances the use of a
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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