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I 14 TWrtdiy, May 22, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtsTRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern 'reeoii Reads The MaJ Tribune' Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP-2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manned GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr IRIC ALLEN". JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. TeJeg Editor HICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor LIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor a r i? cotrircnM rtrmilatiAn XT trr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1891 STTRSCRTPTiaN RATES B- Mail In Advance: Copy 10c nailv and Sunday 1 year 915.00 Dailv and Sunday 6 moa. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 45 SimAav Oi-It One vear $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hiu - Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogua Riv er Taler.S and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance ' Official Paper of'CKy of Medford ; Official Paper or jacKson loumy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Arivert Uinf Rrnresentative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO. INC- Of fices in New York. Chicago. De L trnit San Francisco. Los Angeles, v Seattle. Portland. St Louia. At- lanta. Vancouver. B C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 'NATIONAL EDITORIAL 1 A S S O C'l-A T PuN Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. ! 10 YEARS AGO : Mav 22. 1948 (Sunday) 1 A parade tops off spring ." ceremonial of Hillah temple of the Shrine here. :' Sale of 37,600,000 feet of timber on the Rogue River : National forest to White pity : Lumber company announced l. by Karl L. Janouch, forest - supervisor. ! 20 YEARS AGO ; May 22,: 1938 (Sunday) '. Congressman James A. : Mott of this district, defeats Walter Norblad, Astoria, in 67 of the 70 Jackson county ; precincts in the Republican : primary. From Arthur Perry's Ye I Smudge Pot column: "A shiv t aree raced down the main i stem Monday evening as if : the law was after them, but ' no such luck." 30 YEARS AGO ; May 22. 1928 (Tuesday) f Child welfare clinic held at the Lincoln school for chil dren of pre-school age. . One hundred and five vis ; itors were shown through the Oregon Caves Sunday. 40 YEARS AGO ay 22, 1919 (Wednesday) : . A month's fishing at the iouth of the Rogue river was lost and this year's salmon 1 pack will be that much small er because of the strike of ; gillnetters. A box social to raise funds r for the Junior Red Cross will be given at the Ash Grove t school, Jacksonville rd., Fri day. ; Whai's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct it superior; t seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. t 1. Persons born between ; Aug. 22 and Sept. 23 are un- der what zodiacal sign? I 2. Amnesia is a mental dis J ease, food for the gods, or perfume base obtained from I whales? I 3. Is the terrain of Japan mountainous or flat? 4. A bi-monthly magazine is j issued once every two months, j or twice a month 5. Salt is used in freezing ice cream, to make the ice melt, or to keep it" from melt- 6. Where are the hands J placed when thet arms are J akimbo ? 7. An adjective expressing J some quality is called at ep- 2 itaph, or on epithet? - 8. , What famous painting was stolen from the T.nnvrp in :i9ii? j 9. Which mythological fig J ure is represented as bearing ; the earth on his shoulders? j 10.. What colonial possession does Great Britain have on the coast of South America? j Answers: 1. Virgo. 2. Men-, tal disease. 3. Mountainous. I 4. Once every two months. 5. ' To make it melt. 6. On the - hips. 7. Epithet. 8. Mon?. Lisa. 9. Atlas. 10. British Guiana. The TV Proposals The city council has been criticized in some quarters for its recent action in approving two .. . 1 I" J 1 applications lor irancnises irom television con cerns for special systems to bring additional TV channels to Medford. In our view, they had grant the franchise applications. The city council nas no DUSinesS gelling nseu mvuiveu m baying who can, or cannot, operate a commercial enter prise in the city. We presume that some of those who are criti cal would classify themselves as supporters of the "American, free-enterprise" economy, and resent any allegation that they weren't. But, in this case, they ARE attacking "free enterprise." . I 00K at it this way. ' V KBES-TV is the only up here several years ago at a considerable in vestment, both in money and in "blood, sweat and tears," and its owners want to protect their investment. They have done their level best to bring Jackson county good TV. But should the city council grant KBES-TV a monopoly? Not in our book, it shouldn't, any more than it should grant a monopoly to the Mail Tribune, or the First National Bank, or Mann's Department store. - One can criticize TV all one wants (and we1 ourselves have done so in the past) . But one can not deny that it is a legitimate business that it is universally accepted as such in this free America of ours, and that it is a part of our way of life and our economy. t ALSO, remember that the twro franchises to Trimble Television Inc., and to KBES-TV itself are not the first. Oregon-California Thea ters recently was granted a franchise for a closed circuit system. Thus, there are three companies with plans for additional TV systems. Details of all of them have notrbeen made available in fact, they probably haven't been worked out in detail. But each of them,. if started, will stand, or fall on whether or not it provides an acceptable'ser vice, for which people .are willing to pay. If -it does, it will be successful. If it doesn't, it won't. The same is true of a grocery store, or shpe store or lumber mill. And what a howl would go up if the council started deciding who could, , or who couldn't, open a barber shop, or a service station! , "THE three new systems proposed are alike in one thing they will use cables or wires, and will not send their signals through the air. Thus they are not subject to regulation by the Federal Communications Commission. And another point of similarity is that they each plan to charge for the service. : We have no sympathy with the cries that the proposed charges are too high. As far as we are concerned,' the price of a Cadillac is "too high," but we solve that simply by not buying a Cadillac. KBEb-lV has assured its patrons that it will continue to broadcast commercial programs (or, as they preter to call it, entertainment will remain for those who don't want to pay the extra charges for extra programs. A S FOR the objections candy, or cigarettes, or food. But that is no reason for the city council to set tonal agency to say that there shall be only one candy (or any other) store in town. If you don't like pay TV, you don't have to subscribe. If you don't like a TV program, you can turn it oil. if you don t like television at all, you don't have to buy a set. It's, as simple as that. Americans still have that much freedom. And if that is lost, it will be too late to care. E.A. . . Atomic Step Forward Today marks the beginning of a new chapter in' the short history of atomic power. At Camden, N.J., today, Mrs. Richard M. Nix on was scheduled to officiate at the keel-laying of the MS Savannah, designed as the first com mercial ocean-going atomic-powered vessel. The United States has several atomic submar ines, and the Russians report that they have an atomic icebreaker. But the Savannah will be the first use of the atom to propel a vessel designed for strictly commercial purposes. CTILL in the future are planes, trains and other vehicles which derive their power from fis sion of the atom. The technological break throughs needed for these have yet to be made presumably; the military and the secrecy minded Atomic -Energy commission have not reported success in these directions. The problem is a double one, of space and weight. Atomic reactors are bulky by nature, and need a good-sized vehicle to carry them in their present stage of development. In addition, they throw out a goodly amount of radiation, -which can be lethal to humans by thick, heavy barriers . "THE size, weight and insurmountable for Ultimately, we believe, some other form of power will, itself, replace fission power. It may be fusion power (which will eliminate the radia tion, and thus the shielding problem), or it may be a source of power which so far is purely theo retical ' or even hypothetical. .. " . . : In the meantime, the MS Savannah is a' for ward step. E.A. no alternative but to TV station. It was set j "free" TV), so that TV that too much television itself up as a little dicta- unless they are shielded mostly of lead. radiation barriers may be use m smaller vehicles. Dennis the &K8,itemiQrma&.m.rm. I 'Stop GSGU4, j Matter of Fact AT IDLEWILD . New York In the feelings i it inspires, Idlewild Airport lies halfway between the Ap- rjian Wav anrl one of the space stations of theT. grisly future period. But even at Idlewild, wait ing for a plane to . crisis - rid den F r an ce, this reporter jospb Aisop remains obses sed by the recent, strange ex perience of plunging back into Eisenhower's Washington. The second Eisenhower ad ministration, one notes as soon as one gets home, is rather strikingly different from the firsts Neil McElroy is merci fully unlike Charles E. Wil son. .There is a comparable lack of resemblance between Christian Herter and Herbert Hoover Jr. A score of other, very similar major human im provements might be cited. There is also an improve ment in the governmental at mosphere, although this is per haps rather negative in char acter. At least, the old smug ness has quite disappeared. At least, one is no longer con stantly commanded to admire the selfless patriotism of cap xains oi industry, wno are using all their hard-won know- how to dismantle the defenses, to alienate the allies, and to weaken the world position of their country. "DUT something, unhappily, is still very wrong indeed in this Washington of Dwight Eisenhower's second term. The proof lies in the last fort night's lurid, unending chron icle of disastrous American setbacks all over the globe, wnat, men, is this some thing that is wrong? In part, quite obviously, the chickens reared in the fat, I smug, outwardly lucky years oi me tirst term are just com mg home to roost. As was foreseeable, they all look like vultures. But in this reporter's opinion, the roots of the thing that is wrong go back to the very beginning, to the tragic drama that occurred when the President took office. At that time, the United States still stood at the head of the world. But a whole "bale of warnings was waiting on the new . President s desk, even as he walked into the wnite House, ihese papers terminated in the last National Security Council directive of the Truman administration They rather belatedly recog nized that America's position would soon be challenged by the rapid, massive growth of Soviet power. They called for more effort much more ef fort to safeguard the Ameri can position. WITH George Humphrey at f 7 tbp Treasury anrl Wilsnn a ; i they are again doing in the Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF TJ. A. BOTKIN has unearthed this authentic letter sent from - the 1944 European warfront by a Kentucky mountaineer to his wife in America: "Dear Nancy. I been a-gittin yore ndggin letters au along. Now I want to tell ye, I'm damn tired of them. For the first time in my life I'm a-fightin' in a real big war, and I want you to let me enjoy it in peace while it lasts. Yours etc." The crowd in the smoking car of the 8:40 was astounded when the most confirmed . bachelor in Connecticut sud denly, upped and took unto himself a bride. "I thought," sighed one man, "he would al ways be able to look out for Number One." "He was," explained his seat-mate, "until he met a charming widow lady looking out for Number Two." ,-. They have a new definition for an optimist In Dallas: an auto dealer who thinks he can sell Volkswagens in Texas! 1958, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate. Menace By Joseph Alsop Middle East. But these inter- at the Defense Department, the Eisenhower administration was already half-committed to less national effort. With Lewis Strauss moving in on the Atomic Energy Commis sion and Robert Cutler at the National Security Council, the Administration was already tending to the view that the people did not need to know about the people's business. Even so, for nine long months in 1953, the President played with the idea of "Oper ation Candor." He wanted to tell the . American people the harsh facts of their situation. He wanted to go on from there, to a call for greater na tional effort to deal with those facts. But finally, in October, 1953, "Operation Candor'" was blocked by the budget- firsters and the secrecy, ad dicts. Thereafter, the Administra tion increasingly refused to believe the intelligence re ports. It was too uncomfor table to believe the intelli gence, when nothing was be ing done about it. The leadership was self-deceived. The" country was de ceived. But meanwhile the growth of Soviet power con tinued at an ever-increasing rate. The hostile ferment in the ex-colonial countries pro gressed towards the crisis point. The very heart of the Western Alliance began to show symptoms of decay. The old, unchallengeable position of the United States was alto gether lost. And these dangers abroad, finally, were accentu ated and increased by reces sion at home. . THE government's almost to tal inability' to make any coherent, continuous response to this combination of chal lenges is a key characteristic of the second Eisenhower ad ministration. When the heat is very hot indeed, they thrash about, as they'have done and mittent thrashings only dis guise the basic passivity. One reason for this is ob vious. The great measures that are now needed cannot even be considered until the coun try is fully and firmly unde ceived. Yet any true account ing to the country, in the man ner of "Operation Candor," would now make James Hag erty and a great many other, much more important people look both silly and fraudulent. But there is another, deeper reason. A truly "dynamic new policy" that really might "re capture the initiative" cannot even begin to be involved without the - most dynamic leadership, endowed with the most inexhaustible vigor, the freshest intelligence, and the most ruthless capacity for de tailed, hard work. Until these qualities are present at the top, the new challengers can never be met. So the Ameri can position will continue to I deteriorate. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune, inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Financial note: Stocks in New York turn firm in the wake of fresh evi dence that the recession may have seen its low point and that a recovery is starting. Spokesmen for a number of key industries have reported improvement in new orders. THOUGHT: If the politicians will quit trying to MAKE VOTES out of the recession, maybe we can get somewhere. A LONG that line, Secretary of Commerce Weeks, ad dressing a conference of cor poration and business execu tives in New York City, says the best way to cure the reces sion is the DO IT YOURSELF method. He adds: "OVER - DEPENDENCE on government cures can disturb business, hamper it, or even WRECK it." T ET'S put it this way: If wishes were horses, all beggars would ride. If merely passing laws would do the trick, everybody would be rich and happy. ' The truth, as Secretary weens suggests, is that in business matters (which in clude curing recessions) the hard way is often the best way. SPEAKING way of the .easy A report just issued by the joint congressional committee on reduction of NON-ESSEN TIAL federal expenditures says that in the past ten years the government civilian pay roll has increased more than FIVE BILLION dollars It adds that the number of top civilian jobs has nearly TRIPLED since 1950. RUT- You may say These government employ ees SPEND MONEY. That extra five billions they are getting buys a lot of goods and helps to keep business booming. WAIT a minute. Every billion the gov ernment spends costs you as an individual about six dol lars. So that five billion costs you about $30. If you are the breadwinner for" a family of four, it costs you about $120. Government, you know, has a curious way of getting , its money. What it needs, it reacres into the taxpayer's pocket and TAKES. What it takes out of the tax payer's pocket, THE TAX PAYER DOESN'T HAVE LEFT TO SPEND FOR HIMSELF. ommunications 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. From YMCA sary for the well-being of To the Editor: A note of j Jackson -county, Oregon, Am appreciation for the Mail erica, and our people, than Tribune's excellent coopera tion in publicizing the Annual YMCA Auction.' The money raised through this event will be put to good use in the financing of youth activities for the teen-agers of Medford. As the Young Men's Christian Association is a non-profit organization it would be impossible to ex tend the youth programs we now offer, without the finan cial assistance of the United Medford Crusade and special fund raising events. Our sincere thanks for the efforts of the Mail Tribune staff on behalf of the" youth of this community. Herb Partridge, Youth Work Secretary, Medford YMCA Conservation Week To the Editor: As Jackson county chairman, Conserva tion of Natural Resources Week program, may I express thanks through your medium to everyone who so gener ously helped and participated in bringing this great need to the attention of the pub lic? The ministers and mer chants, the city and county schools, Boy and Girl Scouts, Medford Mail Tribune, Ash land Tidings, Rogue River Times, Ben Tucker of Jackson county extension service, Col. Paul Weiland of the Medford chapter IWLA, Howard Hop kins of the U. S. Forest Ser vice, the Ashland IWLA chap ter for help in the south end and Chester Jensen in north end of the county," the Gar den clubs, and PTAs, Jen nings Pierce as clearinghouse for civic clubs, and all others who participated were very helnful to all of whom I extend appreciation. I can think of no material subject matter more neces- Broader Interpretation Given Mid-East Doctrine by Dulles By CHARLES M. McCANN i United Press Correspondent Secretary, of State John 'Foster Dulles has given a new and important interpretation of the "Eisen h o w e r Doc trine" of the Middle East. Under . this interpretation, the joint con gressional resolution au thorizing American military aid to Charles M. McCann Middle Eastern country against foreign aggression is not limited to action against an aggresor which is "under the control of international communism." "s. The effect is to put teeth into a declaration, whfch has often been criticised as some what meaningless. Dulles gave his interpreta tion of the Eisenhower Doc trine, as it is popularly call ed, at a press conference in Washington i n discussing Lebanon. Lebanon has accused the United Arab Republic of fo menting and supporting the re bellion. The United States has sent a quantity of "police arms"- largely small arms and ;tear gas equipment to Lebanon to aid against "rioters." There has been some con fusion over the applicability of the Eisenhower Doctrine to Lebanon. The reason for the confusion is the provision au thorizing aid against an ag gressor under the control of international Communism. Though Egypt and Syria are receiving arms and other aid from Soviet Russia, the United Arab Republic certainly can not be held to be under So viet control. President Gamal .Abdel Nasser has denied aiding the Lebanese rebels. He says the rebelilon was planned and is being carried out by pro United Arab Republic Leb anese. Dulles agreed that the con gressional resolution specified aid to a country menaced by Communist aggression. But he added: "That doesn't mean, how ever, that there is nothing that can be done. "There is the provision of the Middle East resolution which says that the indepen dence of these countries is vital to peace and the national interest of the United States. That is certainly a mandate to do something if we think that our peace and vital interests are endangered in any quar ter." f Dulles pointed out that this orovision was inserted in the Eisenhower Doctrine by the Senate. careful stewardship and con servation of our God-given natural resources: soil, woods, water, wildlife, and our great recreational potentiali ties, needed for our spiritual and physical health. John E. Gribble, 139 Kenwood ave., Medford Gypsi If Dead To the Editor: On Monday, May 19, at approximately 8 a.m., some one driving in the Rogue River area hit and killed a German Shepherd dog. A tragic accident? Yes! But more deplorable still is the fact that there is someone wandering around who didn't even have the decency to in form the owner of the acci dent, and left "Gypsie" lying in the drive way of her home to be found by her-two little chums, Bobby, age 2 and Ricky, age 3. He, or she, may think they just killed a dog. But "Gypsie" was much more than that. She was friend, companion, guard and the greatest gal in the world, to her many friends who loved her, and miss her. I sincerely hope that the person who did hit her, may never have the job of gather ing up the crushed and bleed ing "nothing" that was once a gay. . warm hearted friend that someone else didn't think important enough to report. Eve King, Route 1, Box 248A, Gold Hill. Will Someone Please Explain? To the Editor: I am just a mite confused! The poor mistreated oper ators of KBES-TV have shed so many tears over the evils of Pay-TV in the past few months that the water has spilled out onto my living room floor. Now however, it seems that Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann BURDENED Washington After his agreeable experience at the NATO meeting in Copenhagen about two weeks ago agree able because everyone pres ent seemed to agree' with him Mr. Dulles has had a most dis agreeable week. There jififl is troume in WmJUomiti Indonesia, in waiter uppmann Lebanon, in Algeria and France, and in Latin America. In all of them there is a challenge to the existing position and policy of this country. And in all of them the responsibility for de ciding what to do next is cen tered upon Mr. Dulles himself. This should, I believe, raise in our minds the question of whether the conduct of our foreign policy has not become concentrated to a dangerous degree, whether responsibil ity is not concentrated to an unworkable degree in the mind and conscience of one man. ' I think it has become too concentrated, and that the price we pay for it is that in large areas of the world, as in the Latin American repub lics to the south of us and in Canada to the north of us, the issues and our interests and their interests are neglected. In other areas which are im mediately vital'as in the Mid dle East and in continental Europe, our appreciation , of events is out of date and our policies are vulnerable to the kind of surprise which the French crisis and the advent of Gen. De Gaulle would sure ly bring. F T IS necessary to look can didly at our situation. For the crucial difficulty in our dealing with the multitude of problems is that Mr. Dulles has more problems to decide than any man can possibly at tend to and know about and master. , Mr. Dulles himself is marvel of endurance and of intellectual vitality. But he conducts his office in a way which is plainly, as events are showing, beyond human pow er. As Mr. Eisenhower's ener gy and interest have declined ail tne tune the tears were falling and our beloved TV networks played heart-broken melodies on borrowed violins in the background, someone around the local station was able to wipe away his tears long enough to fill out an ap plication for his own Pay-TV system. I am trying to be broad minded and understand that it is totally different, the, good and right thing to do for Med ford residents to pay" a sub scription fee to KBES-TV; that it is just plain wrong and Un-American to pay out their Miard earned cash . for any other Pay-TV. I am afraid that someone is going to have to spend a little time and explain to me why it is wrong for me to drop a quarter in the slot, on the side of my TV to see some newly released movie, while at the same time it is perfectly well and good to pay KBES-TV their fee to either watch Clark Gable's first movie on their station or switch to the cable 'and watch Jean Har low's last picture on any of three other channels. I believe I could see the light if I owned just a little bit of our fine, upstanding, simon pure local television station, KBES-TV. , J. D. Chappelle 601 Morton St. Ashland EAGLE POINT DRIVE-IN Church Service Tonight 8 P.M. Across From High School Come as you are Listen from your car MALE' QUARTETTE - BRASS ENSEMBLE Everyone Invited ... No Collections Sponsored by: APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH 3rd and Central, Medford Mr. Dulles has received from the President the greater part of the Presidential powers in foreign affairs, the powers which under "our system should be exercised by the President himself. The result is that for all practical pur poses, excepting only now and then, the Secretary of State does not have the sup port and comfort of knowing that the final decision is with the President. At the same time Mr. Dul les is curiously separated from the State Department and the Foreign Service. He has been to an extraordinary degree his own ambassador. Is it any wonder that he cannot attend to everything at once, that what he does not attend to is neglected? Is it any wonder that with such an abnormal concentration of responsibil ity in one man, our policies, which need fresh analysis and reflection are, as in Latin America for example, so com placent and so insensitive? ONE hesitates to suggest what might be done to better this situation. Exper ience shows that such sug gestions are usually resented. Only Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Dulles can do anything about anything and they are set in their ways. But it can be said, I -think, that in the American system things do not work well if in the conduct of foreign affairs the President abdicates most of his authority and lets it fall to his Secretary of State. There are many reasons why this does not work. One of them, the most important per haps, is that the conduct of foreign relations requires not only negotiation abroad but the political leadership of Congress at home. Half the underlying grievances of South America, for example, are due to acts of omission and commission by the Congress. Mr. Eisenhower cannot fulfill the duties of his office by let ting Mr. Dulles try to perform them. Mr. Eisenhower needs somehow to have the means of doing his own work, per haps by calling into the White House his own advisor in for eign affairs. This is not meant as a way to supersede Mr. Dulles but as a way to relieve him of an impossible burden. It is not at all a reflection on his ability, which is high, unless it be a reflection to say of ay man that his powers have limits, and that he cannot do every thing. IN MY view it is urgent that there should occur at the center of the Administration reforms which will in effect return to the White House its necessary authority and to the Secretary of State the time and the freedom to ponder the great issues. It is urgent ' be cause there is every reason to think that the crisis in Al geria and in France is not just another political crisis but is in fact a crisis of the French system of government. If it is that, it will involve Europe and NATO and mark the be ginning of a new-chapter, in our foreign policy, (c) 1958 New York Herald -Tribune Inc. Camping Facilities Limited Near Bend Bend (IP) Camping and parking facilities at East and Paulina lakes will be limited because of deep roadside snowdrifts during the opening of the high lake trout season this weekend, Deschutes Na tional Forest officials said to day. t - 'f
