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e 4 Tifhy, May 20, 19SI MAIE TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDs&WTRIBUNE "Iveryone In Southern 'Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune' Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph. SP-2-8141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manapet GERALD LATHAM, Business Mgr IRIC 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 189i , SUBSCRIPTION RATE ' Py Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 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. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1J0 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of CtCy of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION 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 OVL NEWS "'AMI EE . PUtUISHEKS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCtATfotN Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. if YEARS AGO Way 20. 1&48 Thursday) About a 60 per cent vote for the primary election in ackson county tomorrow pre dicted by County Judge J. B. Coleman. O. H. Bengtson and William H. Fluhrer, candidates for state senator, queried by Med ford League of Women Vot ers concerning views on cer tein issues. TEARS AGO JBay 20, 1938 (Friday) An aged Jacksonville pros jMctor, despondent and griev ing over the death of bis wife, g being sought today. From Arthur Perry's Ye Jmudge Pot column: "The people around here have start yl to turn sour on long wind al talks about Bonneville jpswer." m TEARS AGO Jgay 20, 1928 (Sunday) The meeting of the state editorial association will be leld in Medford and at Crater .ake on June 29 and June 30. From local and personal jblumn: "Petitions against the proposed change of the Pa cific highway which would route the tourist traffic into Medford over Main st. are gaining in strength." 41 YEARS AGO , Pay 20. 1918 (Monday) Residents and businessmen ere surprised this morning to find large red crosses paint ed on the windows of every business place with the word 'Give" in white letters under neath. From local and personal column: "The Southern Pa cific company has adopted the plan of making up the salary checks of employees of the Portland division from Portland to Ashland." What's Your I.Q.? Mine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or ski is good. 1. All mammals have hair; true or false? 2. What substance required in the manufacture of explo sives is extracted from scrap greases, fats and oils? 3. Venison is the meat of what animal? 4. How many guns com prise a presidential salute? 5. What nationality was the designer of the Statue of Lib- . erty? 6. The Panama Canal has been opened to traffic since 1904, 1914, or 1924? 7. "Eureka" is the motto of which western State?, 8. Cleopatra died as the result of a knife wound, a poisoned drink, or the bite of an asp? - f 9. Painters are the experts in the culinary art; true or false? 10. Which holiday is cele brated in France on July 14? Answers: 1. True. 2. Gly cerine. 3. Deer. 4. Twenty-one. . French. 6. 1914 (Aug. 15). f. California. 8. The bite of an asp. 9. False. 10. Bastille Day. eN VACATION New Delhi - HP! Prime Minister Jewaharlal Nehru flew today to the Kulu Val ley in the Punjab for a 10-day vacation. He was accompanied by two personal servants, a security officer, his secretary and bis daughter Indira. The Wrong Man Voters of Jackson county cast a majority of their ballots for a man for district judge who had announced his withdrawal from the race and moved from the county. The fact had been publicized, repeatedly, on the front pages of the county's newspapers, over the air, and elsewhere. But, apparently, this didn't sink in. When they went to the polls and received their non-partisan ballots, voters were faced with two supreme court and two circuit court races all of them widely publicized and discussed. At the bottom, however, were two names as candi dates for district judge. Beside the fact of one of the candidates' withdrawal, the race had received relatively little publicity, since there was no controversy. SO THE voters proceeded to elect the wrong man. Why? . Lack of proper, information, obviously, was one cause. But we have 'a hunch something else entered into it. And we believe that something else was the fact that Roy Bashaw, the able city attorney for Medford who was the active candidate, decided not to use the "ballot slogan" which Oregon law allows all candidates. Robert Danielson, the for mer Ashland attorney, designed a high-sounding slogan to go beside his name. The ballots were printed before Danielson announced his with drawal from the race. , So the voter, alone in the voting booth, was faced with two names. Presumably he was not more' than fleetingly familiar with either. He could either take the slogan at face value, or as sume, because Bashaw had no slogan, that he was the one who had withdrawn. In either case he would be apt to vote for Danielson. And a majority of voters did so. I7E DO not consider, the results as a repudijf tion of Roy Bashaw, who is both competent and personable. Using hindsight, it is easy to say he should have campaigned, a bit more than he did. But without opposition, who would have thought he'd have to? Ballot slogans are of questionable value any way, and in this situation we believe them to havejbeen responsible for a miscarriage of proper election procedure. The qualified man who want ed the job was defeated; the man who didn't want the job, and who had moved from the county, won. It all adds up to just one more argument in favor of appointing judges, rather than letting them scramble for jobs in a confusing political campaign. E. A. Charles DeGaulle An implacable foe and an extremely diffi cult friend: these are the potentials of Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle. He was a hard ally to deal with in World War II, and since then his avowed friendship for the United States has been almost that of an aloof, self - contained cousin. The first U. S. gesture in World War II. to ward the De Gaulle Free French movement was the opening of lend-lease facilities by order of President Roosevelt on Nov. 11, 1941. But the State Department, still trying to maintain rela tions with the Vichy government, was painfully embarrassed when the Free French forces on the following Dec. 24 unexpectedly occupied the is lands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, off Newfound land, ousting the Vfchy regimes. ' De Gaulle in turn was by-passed when the Allies invaded North Africa in November 1942. He protested vigorously when Gen. Eisenhower established Admiral Darlan, former Vichy pre mier, as "responsible for French interests in Africa." "THESE frictions continued throughout the war and after it. De Gaulle suspected that the United States might attempt to retain certain French African territory for postwar air and naval bases. There were difficulties over military currency. Above all was what Gen. Eisenhower described as De Gaulle's desire "to be clearly and definitely recognized by both the Allied govern ments as the ruler of France" recognition which both Churchill and Roosevelt refused to extend. Even before the war ended and he was made head of the provisional government, De Gaulle envisioned a permanent alliance with "dear and powerful Russia." For postwar France he pro posed "socialization of economic, financial, and commercial enterprises essential to the life of the nation." But in October 1947 he observed that only U. S. power could restrain Soviet ambitions. "There is not one free man in the world," he said, "who does not hold as salutory this American will." MEVERTHELESS, he opposed the European A Defense Community plan in 1954, arguing that France should regain freedom from U. S. "interference" to foster co-existence between Russia and the United States. This stiff, uncompromising man has twice admitted planning a coup d'etat. Perhaps he has best described his own type in his book "The Army of the Future," (1934) : "The depth, the singularity, the self-sufficiency of a man made for great deeds is not popu lar except at critical times. He is seldom liked. Moreover, his faculties, shaped for heroic feats, despise the pliability, the intrigue, and the par ades through .which most brilliant careers are achieved in peacetime." E.R.R. Dennis the WO ! Not even ifxmi use your own PAm' . Russia Obtains New Allegiance prom Nasser in Mid-East Step By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia has taken a big new step in its program of interference in Middle East ern affairs. Premier Niki ta S. Khrush chev has prom ised President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab R e p u blic all the help he needs in try ing to make himself the dominant leader of the entire Arab world from the Red Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. Khrushchev and Soviet President Klimenti Y. Voro shilov have accepted an invi tation by Nasser to visit Egypt at a date to be named." Nasser, in turn, has an nounced his acceptance of Russia's foreign policy includ ing immediate suspension of nuclear weapons tests, opposi tion to U.S. military bases Charles M. McCann Washington Report By William S. Whit Washington The Mutual Security Program, for a de cade the strong understruc ture of this country's foreign Dolicv. once faced the danger of a determined and dedicated opposition. """3 Tt. f fronts a softer ; and more dis- tant, but pos sibly greater, peril: a creep- 4t f1 $ ing and en ) veloping bore dom. In years past oppo- uMiim a uhit. nents nave been unable to hack it down something not even at tempted anv more except half-heartedly for the record. But Mutual Security likely will be smothered one day simplv by fatigue and routine and lack of interest. The unpleasant truth is that no issue one-fifth so import ant is one-tenth so dull, to con gress and to the country, as is "foreign aid." It coes on like the Mississip pi, an object of nature toward which there is not a great Heal of hostility but not an unalterable fact of life. It is, after all, only a political creation. -.- The comparative few who retain a deep interest in the program are aware of all this. They are aware, too, that the real struggle and debate is turning from foreign aid to world trade policy. It is in this country's ulti mate attitude toward world trade specifically toward the reciprocal tariff bill now at issue in Congress that an ultimate American inter, nationalism o r nationalism probably will be largely de termined. In other words, if tariffs are kept low or fur ther reduced, this policy will be the real "foreign aid" of the future. For the present scheme of foreign aid is most surely on the way out. Given other fa vorable circumstances, some fresh and compelling restate ment of its reason for exist ence conceivably could save it. Far more likely, however, is that its purpose will be preserved, in some less-organized form to improve and con tinuously to foster the inter nation exchange of goods and ideas. ..' rprue, the house of represent tatives recently voted a new aid authorization of $2.9 billion. But this is only a dec ir""",,v"rmuj,"w L-A LS e& V mn la Menace '' '' U in foreign countries and ad mission' of Communist China to the United Nations. These developments came about during Nasser's visit to Russia, which 1 ended last week. Rebellion in Lebanon Since then, Russia has start ed making threats that the United States had better not go too far toward interven tion in the affairs of Lebanon, where pro - Nasser elements started a serious rebellion against the pro-Western gov ernment. A statement issued through the official news agency Tass has denounced the Eisenhow er Doctrine as "an open pro gram of colonial plunder." This , statement mentioned the activities of the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean as an example of pressure and intimidation of the Arab people. "Any attempt to use' in ternal developments . in Leba non for interference from out, side creates a dangerous situa- laration of policy. The real fight the fight for the ac tual money is ahead. And both bills, one for the authori zation as approved by , the House and another for the ap-. propriation,. must yet get. by the Senate. Moreover, all that has been and will be done has proceed ed and will proceed without opposition or support. The generation of political leaders who felt passionately on the subject pro or con is passing fast. Foreign aid's oldest friends are growing progressively more tired of it, more -disenchanted with it. Discussion, in the Admini stration as well as in Con gress, has long been like a stuck needle on a worn phono graph record. It would be wrong to say that nobody cares any more. But it would be fair to say that not very much. Foreign aid, like it or de test it, at least began as a de sign of grandeur. Enormously, important though it remains, it is rather like an annual bill to maintain the Fish and Wild Life Division. Tt has suffered markedly in the Eisenhower Admini stration and a bit less so in the Truman Administration from bureaucratic lack of imagination. Yet its concep tion was one of the boldest acts of- world statesmanship in history. But' the.-tale has been told too often, sometimes too pom pously, and always with too much fine print. What Mutual Security needs first is to be called mutual security.-which it is, and not foreign aid. Then it needs a new story one with a bite and challange in it. ' The total absence of bite and challenge is perhaps ill ustrated by. this fact: To make foreign aid a major issue in the average Congressional dis trict today would be as stir ring as to campaign for or against the Department . of Commerce. The old days of the great in ternationalist-isolationist de bates are long gone. But it may be that, the internation alists, having won the battles, are quietly about to lose the war. This country's military ob ligations wilL;not in any way be let down. But there is much to suggest that its economic obligations "bear far more lightly . on the national con science than they used to. (Copyright. 1958. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for. publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. , Heretical Benefactors To the Editor: Now since you have returned to normal cy, I presume you will not mind to print this last letter of mine concerning the sub ject involved. 4- Referring to Mr. Beverly's comments, will say that ac cording to my observation you will never be at a loss to find some biblical phrase or verse that can be made applicable. Mr. Bailey is cpnvinced that events are now rapidly shap ing up for the final consuma tion, within the next five years. Well, my allotted time is supposed to be almost up. I hope I'll be here that long to see how things .turn out. How ever, I venture to predict that even should Israel and the hu man race through its ignor- tion in the Middle East and can cause serious conse quences not only for the fate of the Lebanese state and its independence but also for the state of peace in the Middle East," the statement said. Thinly-Veiled Threat Pravda, official organ of the Russian Communist Party, )fas said that the Soviet Un on "could not remain indif ferent" if the United States used the Eisenhower Doctrine to intervene in Labanon. "Soviet public opinion can not ignore the plans for new imperialist adventures in the Near and Middle East, in di rect proximity to the Soviet Union's southern - borders," Tass said. These developments seem to indicate that; whatever the chance of any improvement in relations with the United States, Nasser has tied him self: closer politically as well as economically to Russia. Matter of Focf by 'BUY NOW? HELL1' Chicago '.'Buy now? Hell, I'm not spendin' a dime, be cause I don't know how long it'll be before we have 1 to dig into our savings to pay for the grocer ies." The speaker was the brisk, grey - haired wife of the owner of a small jo fa- Joipb Alsop printing plant, whose comfort able little house and admira ble garden might have served as models for ideal way of life of the American lower-middle-income group. Moreover all of it, including the well kept 1957 model car, was paid for in full except the house itself. ... "I need a car so bad it hurts, and the wife needs ev ery kind of appliance, too. But with no more overtime work and prices the way they are, how am I going to buy? I ain't, and that's that" The speaker was a skilled mechanic' He did not seem to realize it, but he had already perfprmed a notable feat of capital - accumulation, part buying a fairly big house for himself and- his family. He had been "driven to it" vhen rent controls went off in 1951. He iiowowed only $2,000 on a house that must have been worth 'at least $17,000. But the "remaining house pay ments, the grocer and the children's shoes took all the money he could earn. WHY, I don't see why you even ask. Everyone has everything they need now. All my friends are just like us theylve got cars, washer-dryers and all like that for the house, just everything that's important. A couple of years ago they; didn't even have bank accounts, but now a lot of them are saving money. Of course, I'd like , some more furniture. We're thinkin' "of gettin' . a livin' room couch this autumn, if there's plenty of work until then." The speaker was the pretty young wife of a construction worker, who added that they "had the saving habit, be cause in construction work you never know what the win ters'll be like." She remarked that their car "was kind of beat up, because my husband's hard on a car, but we think we can keep it rollin' another two years anyway." . The point about these three citizens was that they covered virtually the entire range of economic attitudes discovered by this reporter in a couple of days of intensive doorbell ringing . here-abduts. " There were, indeed, only two yari ents in 65 persons polled. ance and folly be destroyed, this old ball of dirt will still continue to whirl through space for millions of years to come. Now as to Mr. . Beverly's question: Why did the world lie dormant for hundreds of years, then make such gains in knowledge in such short time? Well, that certainly is not difficult to answer. It was orthodox religion, the very religion you and many others are still propagating today in face of all the facts of science to the contrary, that held mankind in bondage. During the dark days of Christianity, nothing was invented, nothing discovered, calculated to in crease the well-being of man kind. Superstition was uni versal. The church was trium phant. But in spite of all, a few men began to think, they were not satisfied with the assertion of the church. The first great step in the emanci pation . of the people came about when Galileo put a crude telescope to the sky and removed our earth from the center of the universe, as it was supposed to be, to the tihy insignificant speck in a mighty realm of space that it actually is. If you impartially study the history of the last 400 years, you will find that it was not the Bible, but the heretics and infidels who were the great benefactors of mankind at the cost of their lives. It is to them that I owe this expression of freedom without having to face the fate of a Bruno or Servetus William Krauss, . Route 1, Box 373,. Gold Hill From Bereaved Parents To the Editor: This is prob. ably somewhat delayed. How ever, we desire to express our appreciation for the manner in which the Mail Tribune went "all out" to rectify the misleading first report of the Joseph Alsop ONE was a disabled veteran, whose pension had shrunk in the price rise to the point where the family was really badly off. The other was a junior industrial executive, already the owner of a 1955 Cadillac and another, cheaper car of the same vintage. He would have been looking for a new car this year; but I guess we'll wait until they slim them, down a bit and get some chrome off them." It was an extraordinary and eye-opening experience to go down those prettily tree-shaded, comfortable looking streets in Harvey, 111., and Gary,- Ind. They were not poor people in these streets. They were workers in the more highly skilled and bet ter paid specialties, with a sprinkling of small business men and retired people. None of them, who wanted a . job was actually unemployed, al though the incomes of many liad been cut by shorter hours, and a fair number had rela tives who were jobless. A year ago, two years ago, indeed at any time since the end of the last war, a doorbell ringer in these streets would have heard about plans to purchase some major piece of mechanical equipment in a very high percentage of the houses visited. Six of those polled had in fact bought cars in the. last 12 months. But none were planning any re placement. v TN FACT and it is an al- most incredible f act-only one of the 65 persons polled was planning to purchase, or even seemed to desire to pur chase, a single item in the consumer-durable goods cate gory. The exception was a hard-working plumber who was "figuring to buy a new house because it don't cost any more than my rent, so naturally I'll need some ap pliances." ' They had what they needed already. Or they wanted to buy but were caught in the price squeeze. Or they were able to buy, but were fright ened by the recession. Or they were now more interested in what might be called the icing on the cake of the lower-middle-income way of life new furniture, or a living room carpet, or a power-mower, or that "little summer home" that had tempted an Allis- Chalmers accountant who for merly got a new car every two years. Since the American econo my has .been 8d largely gov erned by the consumers dura ble goods industries, one has to hope that the sample was somehow distorted, although the people polled looked as typically American as apple pie. Otherwise, the famous accidental death of our son, Elvice Snow. The next issue, April 17, gave a most satisfactory re port of the accident, which was followed in the editorial column of April 20 under "The Press' Calculated Risk." May we also express our gratitude and admiration to the many friends and even strangers to us for their much needed aid and sympathy, which will ever remain price less memories to us after our deepest sorrow. Hichard and Evice Larson, Shady Oaks Trailer Court, Central Point Council Critised To the Editor: At the last council meeting the T.V.H ordi nance was again considered by the council. Dr. Fowler submitted a thought on behalf of our local PTA to the effect, that the council should delay long enough before enacting the ordinance to give 'thought to some regulation of the type of program to be piped or cabled to the homes of citi zens. Whether one should think at all on the subject of who is to say what, we want to see when we pay for it us of no consequence here; the thing we are interested in is the reason that the council gave no consideration to Dr. Fowler's request. Councilman Dunlevy stated in brushing off the requested consideration, that "regula tion" of the proposed T.V. ordinance was beyond ' the province of the council; and the council did then and there approve the T.V. ordinance. I would like to point out that it is not only within the province of the council ' .to "regulate" the T.V. ordinance, but it is their duty to see that a regulatory provision is con tained in that ordinance. In my opinion T.V. is an amusement. Chapter 4, of our city char ter is:. "The City Council Its Powers and Duties" ' Sec. 25: "The City Council shall have power and author ity, within the limits of the city of Medford, to enact all ordinances and adopt all regu lations . . . as shall be need ed or. requisite to, maintain and establish the peace, good order, -health, cleanliness. prosperity, and general wel fare of the city." Sub. Sec. 35: "To license, tax and regulate theatrical ex hibitions and other shows or public amusements." In view , of .our city charter it would appear to me that when our council and mayor enact an ordinance that could be deterimental and injurious to the welfare of our city and its citizens and children with out regulations and in fact refuse to consider regulations, they, act wrongly; This is my own thought on the matter and it is likely. I could be wrong: in that event I . would appreciate a public showing to that effect. I am but interested in honest and economical city government that serves for the interest of all the people and its general welfare. Ray O. DeMarrs, 139 North Central ave., Medford. God's Word on Clothes To the Editor: We have no ticed the articles on the "com ing out gowns" recently in your . paper, and feel we should add our part too. by telling what God said in His word about them. We notice that too many come out without their gowns. Just . in their under clothes without their gowns. When Peter came in, contact with the Lord in St. John 21-7, he was naked, but he girt his fisher's coat unto him and cast himself into the sea. Too bad more of the nudists and theory , that the ' recession Is "bottoming but" is going to operate mighty slowly at best. (Copyright 1958. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan LM2 Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Fheiit SP 3-7343 '-'- MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. semi-nudists don't come !n contact with the Lord and clothe themselves. In Leviticus 18-6, God for bade them to approach to any that was near of kin to them, to uncover their nakedness. Verses 17 to end show it ap plied to others too. Verses 26 to end called such abomina ble customs. So God is not pleased with us looking upon nakedness. Paul received his sosDel bv the revelation of Jesus Christ, Gal. 1-11-12. Then in 1 Timo thy 4-9 he (Christ, thru Paul) said for the women to adorn themselves in modest aDDarel and shamefacedness. He did not say to undress to Indecent apparel. Titus 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 the aged women are to teach the young women to be discreet, chaste, and good. Verse 7 and to be a pattern of good works. Under the Law of Moses it was an abomination for women to even wear that which pertained to men, Deu teronomy 22-5. How much more of an abomination it is to wear no clothes. Since that v was a pattern and example for us then, God still has many abominations to look upon since so many go nude, or semi-nude or in men's an. parel. The things that are nighly esteemed among men arc an abomination to God. Luke 16-15. And the flesh is contrary to Him, Gal. 5-17. If people will not believe and obey God he will send them a strong delusion and turnjithm over to reprobate minds, 11 Thess. 2-9-10-11, Ro mans 1-24 to end. So if they will not cleanse themselves of all filthiness (II Cor. 7-1) he will and has already done so to them, and will allow them to believe there is no harm. When grandparents and par ents do so, the children will too. , Mrs. G. C. Cunningham, Box 381, Central Point Farm Loan Boost Set For Slates Fresno, Galif . OB An in crease up to 20 per cent in farm loans in four western states has received final ap proval of directors of the Farm Credit banks at Berke ley. ' . Directors took the action Monday at the opening of their three-day session here. The states are California, Ari zona, Nevada and Utah. , Directors said the loans w.'ll vary with the quality of the land and farm involved. 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