4 Tuesday, May 27, 1958
MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
MEDF0RDt2h,TRIBUNE
"Everyone 4n Southern Vrregos
Reads The Mail Tribune"
Published Daily except Saturday by
MEDFORD PRINTING CO
33 North Fir St. Ph. SPJ2-6141
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. Sporta Editor
OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor
PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr.
An Independent Newspaper
Entered as second class matter at
Metiford Oregon under Act of
March 3. 1891
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Mail In Advance: Copy lOe.
Daily and Sunday 1 year $13 00
Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00
Daily and Sunday 3 mos.
Sunday Only One year 64.20
By Carrier In Advance Medford
Ashland. Central Point. Eagle
Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill
Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogua Riv
er Talent and on motor routes:
Daily and Sunday 1 year (18.00
Daily and Sunday 1 mo. ISO
Carrier and Dealers copy 10c
All Terms Cash in Adva nee
Official Paper of CKy of Medford
Official Paper of Jacksoa County
United Press Full Leased Wire
MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU
OF CIRCULATION
Avertising Renreaentatlve:
WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC., Of
fices in New York. Chicago. De
troit, ban r rancisco. Los Angeles.
Seattle. Portland. St Louis. At
lanta, Vancouver. B. C.
NEWS PA PER
PUBLISHERS
ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
W I IassocPatiQn
W
piiJiirup.-.n.-iiir
Flight ro Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 27. 1948 (Thursday)
Initiative petitions for a
measure that would require
the state to take over and op
erate Camp White hospital as
a mental institution is short
300 signatures.
o Resignation of Vic Richard
son as secretary-manager of
the Ashland Chamber of Com
merce accepted by board of
directors.
20 YEARS AGO
May 27, 1938. (Friday)
Medford High school's 45th
annual commencement exer
cises will be held in the aud
itorium at 8 p.m. today with
Dr. Bruce R. Baxter, presi-
" oeni oi wmameue university,
giving the address.
From Arthur Perry's "54e
Smudge Pot column: "Oregon
Republicans are now of good
cheer and wide smiles."
30 YEARS AGO
May 27, 1928 (Sunday)
While apple thinning time
is still a week away, several
orchardists issue calls for ap
plicants for thinning jobs.
J. F. G. Cone, lookout man
on top of Mt. Pitt, was seen
walking through Medford re
cently with long black beard
and be-ribboned locks.
40 YEARS AGO
May 27. 1918 (Monday)
News from Bremerton states
that the Navy has replied to
the application of Miss Marion
Towne, Phoenix, for a com
mission, but is not giving com
missions to women.
From local and personal
column: "Col. John Leader
of the British Army, heal of
military traiing at the Uni
versity of Oregon, addressed
the Medford High school stu
dent body this morning."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. When is St. Swithin's
Dy?
. 2. Lincoln and McKinley
were the only U. S. Presidents
who were assassinated; true
tor false?
3. What are young of bears
called? '
. The middle name of
James C. Petrillo. head of the
American Federation of Musi
cians is Cedric, Cecil or
Caesar?
5. What is the highest score
possible in bowling; how
many "strikes" are necessary
to attain it?
6. What is the sign of the
zodiac for persons born be
tween July 23 and August
23?
Who was the first Ameri
can to win the Women's Brit
ish golf title?
8. Which English Duke was
called the "Iron Duke"?
9. Name the Admiral whose
ships are credited with sink
ing the greater portion of the
Japanese Navy in World War
10. Which old-time baseball
player was known as the
"Georgia Peach"?
Answers: 1. JY 15; 2.
False. (Garfield was assin
ated); 3. Cubs; 4. Caesar; 5.
ann with 12 strikes; 6. Leo;
7 Mildred (Babe) Didrickson
Z.harias; 8. Duke of We Ung
Ton: 9. Fleet Admiral I WUham
r. Halsey; 10. Ty Cobb.
Levels of Mathematics
Mathematics is many things.
It is a baby, learning suddenly the difference
between "one" object, and "more than one."
At the other end of the scale, it is a "pure"
mathematician, pondering concepts which have
little relationship to the everyday world, and yet
which may have far-reaching significance on the
lives of all mankind, if Jhey ever reach practical
application.
A HIGH school studentof today knows more
about mathematics than did Euclid, the great
Greek who is the father of geometry. Only with
in the past 300 or so years has it developed to a
point where it is a sharp and invaluable tool, not
only in everyday life, but in the arcane fields of
advanced science.
Today's student has long passed through the
field of numbers (arithmetic), and into algebra
and geometry, both Euclidean and non-Euclidean,
and has a nodding acquaintance with calcu
lus, trigonometry, probabilities and statistics.
These are all mathematics.
TTOO often, however, as he progresses, what the
student knows of higher mathematics is for
gotten. Only those who have come to think of it
as something more than just a tool are motivated
to go on and explore the more rarif ied reaches of
the science.
These do so because they have fallen in love
with mathematics as such; because they have
found a beauty in its rhythms and involutions;
because it challenges and stimulates them.
This is not for everyone. Only a select few
follow pure mathematics as a profession. The
numbers are limited by interest, by ability, and,
of course, by the-demand for the pure mathema
tician, who has no immediate interest in applying
his work to anything practical.
A LBERT Einstein was a "pure" mathematician,
who was fascinated by the science because
of itself, and not because of what it could lead
to. And yet, his work is the basis on which present-day
nuclear physics has been built. His con
cepts of space-time-energy relationships were
the result, purely and simply, of mathematics.
Yet they have had far-reaching effects in a
half-dozen sciences, from astronomy to physics
tc mathematics itself.
There are not many men who can follow in
Einstein's footsteps.
IN AN article in its current issue, Fortune Maga-
zine estimates there are about 3,000 "creative,
pure" mathematicians in the world, with about
300 of them in the United States. These, the stoiy
says, rank with the best anywhere.
The article, entitled "The New Mathematics,"
declares that these heirs to Einstein are creating
a revolution- in mathematics, and that this may
lead to break-throughs in every field of science.
.They are working in utterly abstract fields,
using concepts apparently totally unrelated to
reality as most of us know it,-and, Fortune says,
"are coming up with ideas that yesterday's great
est minds hardly dared to contemplate."
TTHIS work actually may result in new sciences,
not more than guessed at, at present things
that have never before been reduced to equations
where insights can be, obtained and predictions
hazarded; perhaps in human behavior, or in
other fields which heretofore have been almost
entirely haphazard.
The Fortune article says that this is one of
the "most exciting intellectual adventures in his
tory." And while the results cannot be foreseen, one
can expect great changes to ensue in the way
people look on the universe around them, and
use it for their benefit. ,
Even to those of us who are thrown for a loss
by the relatively simple forms of mathematics, it
is a prospect which brings vicarious excitement.
'117'HILE mathematics at this level is almost
" pure intellectual exercise, without immed
iate applicability, applied mathematics at lower
levels is an essential to today's civilization, from
making change at the corner grocery store, to
business mathematics, communications, trans
portation eveiy field, in fact, where there is a
relationship between numbers or spaces or things,
which need evaluation and computation.
It will be even more essential in the future.
For instance, contemplate the difficulties in
volved in figuring out the course of a rocket
bound for the moon :
The equations must take into consideration
the forces of gravity, not only of the earth, but
also of the moon and sun ; they must not only in
clude the space to be traversed, but also the time
element (the fourth dimension) involved; the
quantities of fuel necessary; the speeds imparted
by the fuel itself and by the spinning of the earth
on its axis ; the weight of the rocket at the start of
the flight, and of the changes as the fuel is ex
hausted; and the places in space occupied by
earth and moon both when the flight starts and
when it is completed.
IT IS not given to eveiyone to have the aptitudes
and talents' to handle problems of this kind.
Good ones are rare.
But there must be great satisfactions in this
field to those who have the abilities, the interest
and the perseverance to carry them through to
the rarified air of mathematics of an order suf
ficient to solve such problems or the less prac
tical but more "challenging problems which lie in
the universal abstract patterns linking numbers,
space, motion, energy, concepts and time. E.A.
Dennis the Menace
'I PUT SOME COLO WATER IN 'CAUSE IT WAS TOO HOTt THEN I
PUT SOME HOT iVATEfc IN 'CAUSE
SAME COLO
Matter of Fact
THE DEFORMING MIRROR
Paris No more curious
situation could be imagined
than the present situation in
this deeply troubled country.
Virtually the entire army,
a large part of the permanent
civil service and ever-increas-
9?v na niimVierc
of influential
people, in all
the' other key
sectors of
Frenctf life
now believe
that Gen. de
Gaulle's re
turn is "the
only way
x it
Joseph Alsop out.
Most of those who most
strongly believe that France
now needs De Gaulle have
just resigned, themselves to
this great change. They re
gard it as risky but unavoid
able. This sudden surrender to
the huge, remote, mysterious
even mystical figure that is
Gen. De Gaulle demands an
explanation. The explanation
is obviously a growing rejec
tion of the French National
assembly. But why is the
elected Parliament so de
spairingly rejected? '
rpHIS reporter's private key
to the great puzzle of the
French parliament was ac
quired in the very darkest
days of the last war, in 1940.
A member of the personal
staff of France's war-premier
Paul Reynaud had just made
his way to the United States
after notable adventures.
In those days, the question
everyone was asking was why
Reynaud had not led a
French government in exile
to those same North African
provinces where France's
agony now centers. It was
known Reynaud had wanted
to do so. His intelligence and
courage were questioned by
none. Why then had Reynaud
handed over the government
to the advocates of surrend
er, Petain and Laval?
On being asked this ques
tion, Reynaud's former staff
assitant offered the following
explanation. Reynaud has
wished to lead a government
into exile, that would repre
sent "a parliamentary ma
jority" which had dissolved
in the acid of disaster. He
therefore handed over to the
advocates of surrender in the
belief that the Adolph Hitler's
surrender terms would prove
"unacceptable." The idea was
that Hitler's unacceptable
terms would cause a parlia
mentory majority to rally to
Renaud, after which the de
parture for North Africa
could be organized in proper
style.
TF THIS account is indeed
correct. Paul Reynaud in
fact regarded the opening of
surrender-talks with Hitler as
a parlimentary maneuver. You
could have no more astonish
ing illustration of the pe
culiar astigmatism that is
caused by the-French parlia
mentary career.
In the last year and a half,
this reporter has observed the
same phenomenon at first
Topping Takes Over
As USC President
Los Angeles (UPI) Dr.
Norman H. Topping, 50, edu
cator, scientist and vice presi
dent of the University of
Pennsylvania, takes over Sept.
1 as president of the Univer
sity of Southern California.
Topping's appointment as
USC's 7th president since the
school was founded in 1880
was announced Monday by
Asa V. Call, president of the
USC Board of Trustees.
He succeeds Dr. Fred D.
Fagg, who served 10 years as
head of the private school and
retired July 1, 1957.
IT1WS TOO COLD; THEN I PUT
By Joseph Alsep
hand and on many occasions.
For example, he has heard
two successive Prime Minis
ters discussing the Algerian
problem at length and in de
tail. Both of these very able men
hardly once touched on the
cruel realities of the situation
in Algeria. They talked, rath
er, of the quite different reali
ties of the situation in the Na
tional Assembly of what
measures the Deputies would
approve and what they-would
not approve, of how the dif
ferent groups stood, and so on
and on.
As in the case of Reynaud,
a kind of substitution of reali
ties had occurred. They did
not see the problem itself.
They saw the problem as it
was reflected in the distorting
mirror of the passion-charged,
endlessly maneuvering cham
ber. Precisely because of its
intricacies and uncertainties,
in short, the French Parlia
ment lives a true life-of-its-own,
which actually supplants
the real life outside.
.
TT IS this strange state of
affairs which makes the out
er world think France is weak,
whereas France is in fact a
nation in full renaissance,
with regained vigor. It is this
strange state of affairs which
has ended by so sharply alien
ating those who live the real
life of France from those who
live the parliamentary life.
And it is this state of affairs
which Pierre Pflimlin is be
latedly, obstinately, desperate
ly seeking to remedy with his
constitutional reform.
But already, in the Assem
bly, they are talking of re
placing the Pflimlin govern
ment with a government head
ed by Guy Mollet. And even
if Pflimlin endures and his
reform is voted, it is hard to
see how this will restore the
authority of a government
which no longer has any real
authority either over the army
or in Algeria,
(c) 1958, New York Herald
Tribune Inc.)
California Candidates Said
Presidential Timber
Sacramento (UPI) Cali
fornians get a chance next
week to choose between two
candidates for governor who
may be presidential possibili
ties in 1960 or 1964.
The primary election ballot
Tuesday, June 3, pairs a na
tionally known Republican,
Sen. William F. Knowland,
and a Democrat, Attorney
General Edmund G. Brown,
who is popular in his home
state but not yet well known
outside the Far West.
If the election goes as ex
pected, Knowland will cap
ture the GOP nomination,
Brown will win the Demo
cratic nod and the two mep
will clash in a runoff Nov. 4.
Both men cross-filed in the
primary that is, filed on both
Republican and Democratic
ballots.
Even though Knowland' re
peatedly said he expects to
serve out a full four-year term
if elected governor, political
talk persists that the 49-year-old
GOP minority leader in
the senate will make a bid
for the White House or per
mit himself to be "drafted" as
the Republican presidential
nominee in 1960 or 1964.
On the record as far as 1960
goes, Knowland has said only
that a fellow Californian, Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
(3Eyju:inm:n
Asthmatics! We give $5 trade-in
allowance for your old neb (even
if broken) on a new Breatheasy
set precision pyrex nebulizer;
bottle of inhalant; zipper carry
ing case. Money-back guarantee.
At Your Druggist
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, events in
France are rushing toward a
showdown. The showdown, if
is comes, will be on the Alge
rian question. This is the Al
gerian question:
Shall France KEEP Algeria
at whatever cost?
IN OUR minds, that raises
this question: How did
France GET Algeria in the
first place?
Roughly and sketchily, it
came about like this: An Al
gerian chieftain made insult
ing gestures toward France.
His gestures included the seiz
ing of some French property.
The French went to war about
it. They TOOK Algeria. Not
only did they take Algeria.
They made it an integral and
in their minds PERMANENT
part of France.
All this happened back in
the 1830's more than a cen
tury ago.
PRETTY rough stuff, we are
inclined to say offhand.
France ought to be ashamed
of herself.
She ought to give Algeria
back to the Algerians.
WAIT a minute.
Before going off the
deep end, let's take a look at
a chapter of our , own history.
Back in the 1840's New
Mexico and Arizona, along
with considerable other areas
of what is now the American
Southwest, belonged to Mex
ico. We were beginning to
covet this territory. We felt
that we needed it in our busi
ness, but we didn't know ex
actly how to go about tak
ing it.
At this psychological mo
ment, a Mexican general
crossed the Rio Grande and
made a pass at us and we
chose to construe this pass as
an insult. We declared war,
and as a result of our victory
in the Mexican War we took
New Mexico and Arizona and
quite a lot of other territory
(including California as a side
issue) and eventually integrat
ed them into the United
States.
SO, YOU see, we aren't alto
gether blameless, and we
shouldn't be TOO caustic
about France's record in Al
geria. THERE is a difference, of
course. Arizona and New
Mexico (and California)
DON'T WANT OUT OF THE
U. S.
Algeria DOES want out of
France.
That changes the situation
materially.
WHY are we. so concerned
about this Algerian busi
ness? That's a long storyf and this
piece is long enough already.
The nub of it is that we are
up to our ears in a cold war,
and France is an ALLY of
ours. She is a very valuable
ally, as you can see for your
self if you will take a look
at the map.
France lies in the very
heart of the NATO alliance,
and maintaining the NATO
alliance is an essential part of
our strategy of defense
against communist Russia.
"is the only major candidate"
for the nomination.
Right To Work Issue
Brown is the top Demo
cratic vote-getter in the na
tion's second largest state. Re
cently, Paul Butler, chairman
of the Democratic national
committee, predicted that if
53-year-old Brown whips
Knowland decisively "it will
catapult him into the national
picture as a presidential possi
bility." Much of the campaign be
tween Knowland and Brown
has resolved around the right
to work issue.
Knowland has endorsed an
initiative petition now being
circulated throughout the
state which would ban the
closed shop, union shop and
maintenance of membership.
Ranking with the Brown
Knowland fight for governor
is'a three-way contest for-the
U.S. Senate seat being vacated
by Knowland.
The major contenders are
Republican Gov. Goodwin J.
Knight, 61, who originally in
3 Days Left
To SAVE at the Big "Change of Ownership" Sale at
Lucas & Howard "
With National Brands YOU Know '
" Hiway 99 South of Central Point
North of Medford-Phone NO 4-2243
Hope and Danger Face France
In Continuing Political Crisis
By CHARLES M. McCANN
UPI Correspondent
The one sure thing about
the French political ' crisis
seems to be that it will last a
Innf timp.
In the end, it
may prove to
be a good thing
for France.
Apparent 1 y
it had to come.
The French
parliamentary
system of gov
ernment had
been falling to
Charles M.
McCann
pieces bit by bit due to the
years-long succession of
smaller crisis which resulted
in the overthrow of Premiers
by the National Assembly.
Premier Pierre Pflimlin is
fighting hard for his govern
ment's life.
Dispatches from Paris em
phasize more and more the
odds against him. They say
that he has almost no chance.
The alternative to Pflimlin,
or to another parliamentary
Premier whose position would
be even weaker, is Gen.
Charles de Gaulle, the great
unknown of French and world
politics.
About all that is known of
De Gaulle and this includes
his own followers seems to
be that he wants very badly to
be France's leader, with vir
tually dictatorial power, and
that he would like to be put
in office legally.
But De Gaulle would have
handicaps too.
The Communists have made
it known that they will call a
general strike at once if De
Gaulle is called to power.
There is little doubt that the
non-Communist unions would
join the Red-controlled Gen
eral Confederation of Labor
in the strike.
The feeling seems to be that
the French public as a whole
would accept De Gaulle calm
ly, if not gladly, as the one
hope of ending the progress
of political disintegration.
Whether labor unions gen
erally would join in them,
and to what extent, is un
certain. De Gaulle would have con
trol of the French armed
forces and of the formidable
army of police, totalling about
250,000 men including the Re
publican Security Guards and
the Mobile Guards.
If Pflimlin stayed in office,
he would have the herculean
task of regaining authority
over the rebellious armed
forces. Then he would face
the problem of the future of
Algeria as his predecessors
have done.
If De Gaulle took office he,
too, would have problems
France's relations with its fel
low North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization allies and with So
viet Russia, Algeria, Tunisia,
Morocco.
It is possible that in time,
he might find the armed
forces a problem. It was the
armed forces that started all
this. A victory or De Gaulle
would be above all a political
victory for the French officer
corps. And such a" corps, hav
ing tasted political victory
once, -might not want to go
back on a strictly military
diet.
tended to run for . reelection
but bowed out of the picture
"in the interests of party har
mony" when Knowland de
cided to try for the top spot;
Republican Mayor George
Christopher of San Francisco,
and Rep. Clair Engle, a Demo
crat, who has been one of the
leaders in the house of repre
sentatives in water and recla
mation legislation. "
The primary election ballot
also includes contests for the
state's 30 congressional seats;
80 seats in the state assembly,
20 in the state senate and six
other statewide positions in
cluding lieutenant governor
and attorney general. One of
the five candidates for attor
ney general is Republican
Rep. Patrick J. Hillings, close
personal friend and political
associate of Nixon.
STEALS SERMONS
Jackson, Miss. (UPI) A
burglar robbed the Forest Hill
Methodist Church of a safe,
whose contents may force him
to do some soul searching. The
safe contained 300 sermons.
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
A VERY FAT LADY took up horseback riding for reducing
i- purposes. The first time she dismounted the cockney stable
man requested, "Would you mind walkin' out "quickly and not
passing the 'orse?" "Why?"
demanded the fat lady. "Be
cause," explained the stable
man, "If 'e sees wot 'e's been
carryin' for five dollars an
hour, 'e'll 'ave a fit."
A man who had made & for
tune overnight took his" minis
ter Into the library to show
him all the rare books he had
acquired. "There," said the
rich man with a dramatic ges- '
ture, "are my best friends."
The clergyman remarked drily,
as he glanced at the pages.
"I'm glad you don't cut them."
CBS may try out a new program to the Cannibal isles. It's called
"Eat the People." There's a new Shakespeare festival in the win
for TV fans, too. Its working title, "When Othello Needs a Friend.",
1958, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate. . 'i
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. Lettei
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
saper; in fact the contrary is often the ras
Council Complimented
To the Editor: At the City
Council meeting of May 15,
the statements made by me,
requesting deferment of final
decision re grant of more TV
franchises, and mentioning
the benefits of" educational
TV, were my own, as an indi
vidual, not representing any
organization. I felt the mem
bers of the council listened
attentively and gave my re
marks due consideration. The
Trimble Television, Inc., rep
resentative stated that educa
tional TV was in their future
plans.
It is my opinion that our
city council members are to
be complimented for the dig
nified, intelligent manner in
which they conduct our gov
ernment business.
M. J. Fowler, M.D.
815 East Main st.
Medford.
The Monster Freed
To the Editor: The monster
stands at the bar of justice. He
has just been found guilty of
ithe murder of over one mil
lion Americans, as evidence a
double row of corpses is laid
out that reaches from 'Frisco
to Portland. As you walk
down the line you see many
that you have known in the
past, from just friend to some
one that meant everything to
you.
With a heavy heart you set
the monster free. Then the
monster is led to a gate
marked 1959, through this
gate you can see a horde of
people. There are the old, the
young, the middleaged and
unborn infants. These are the
living dead, the toll that the
monster must have for his
year's work. You count them,
35,000. You cannot see the
faces yet, they are still just
numbers.
The one who knows says,
"We could cut this monster,
speed, by half and 34,000 of
these people could live." A
thunderous "no" comes from
you the people, and loudest
from the 35,000. Then the gate
is opened and the monster is
on his way. Gathering them
in, by ones, by twos and more.
As he drops the mangled
bodies each one is now recog
nized. The wail of the people
can be heard to heaven as
friends and loved ones are
dropped by the monster.
You scan the dead faces as
Counsel With . . .
Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan
Fred Brennan
Or Call
Mr. Friendly
Bill Fish
Phone SP 3-7343
MEDFORD
, INSURANCE
AGENCY .
27 NORTH HOllY ST.
Stop Me
they go by. Something about
one of them draws you closer.
It can't be. But you are not
just looking in a mirror.
G. Brown,
Box 259,
Prospect, Ore.
lampa papers
To Still Compete
Tampa, Fla. (UPI)
The Tampa Morning Tribune,
new owners of the rival
Tampa Times, promised to
day that the two newspapers
would still "compete . . . in
serving the best interests of
the Tampa Bay Area and the
state of Florida."
John C. Council, president
and publisher of the Tribune,
made the statement in to
day's edition following an
nouncement of the purchase
in Monday's afternoon edi
tion of . the Times.
The sale puts the two
Tampa dailies under the
same management. No pur
chase price was disclosed.
SHOWER
RuNCPlP?
You need a
WESTINGHOUSE
.Electric
WATER HEATER
Only 7950
With Trade-in
Trowbridge & Flynn
Electric Co.
214 West Main Street
Phone SP 3-6241
RELIABLE OR LIABLE?
This is the time of year
when youngsters are play
ing in your yard. Visitors
may be staying at your
home, you're fishing, golf
ing, or boating.
Do You Have Liability
Coverage?
Bill Fish