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4 Sunday, Juno 1, 1958 . MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDgTSiBUNE Everyone in Southern vrregon Heads The M;i Trlhtina'" Published Dally except Saturday by S3 North Fir St. Ph. SP .2-6141 HTRB GREY Advertising Manaref 1RIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editer RICHARD JEWETT. Sporti Editor f)T.TV"R STAOTOtd c: j DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. Aft TnHnAr)Haint TCAnmo'mA Entered as second class matter at Uediord Oregon under Act of marcn J, ioi STTRS 1 1 H I K-1 pTVffC Daily and Sunday 1 year $13 00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4.20- By Carrier In Advance Medford 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. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Medford vMiiciaj raper oi jaction 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, a c. rV NEWSPAPtt .SMSM PUBLISHEtS -ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassowtiQn U KJ 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 May 31. 1948 (Sunday') Corner-stone or the new YMCA building on Sixth st, near Main st. was formally laid yesterday as officers of the Masonic lodge of Oregon conducted ceremonies. Grants Pass is to adopt day light saving time Tuesday, it was announced Friday, fol lowing a poll. , 20 YEARS AGO May 31. (1938 (Tuesday) Gasoline was the principal expense item in the campaign costs four candidates filed with tfe county clerk today. From Ye Smudge Pot col umn: "All is calm on the Ore gon political front save for a school district election here and there." SO YEARS AGO May 31. 1928 (Thursday) , A museum, which includes wax figures of freaks of na ture, a Japanese home scene and paintings .and pictures opened on West Main st. this week. From local and personal column: "Circuit Judge Or lando Corkins of Lakeview will be here on Monday to hold court." 40 YEARS AGO May 31, 1918 (Friday) Probably the biggest social event of the school year will be the annual junior "prom" which will be held tonight at the natatorium. From local and personal column: "Medford police will hereafter bar hotel runners and jitney drivers from solic iting trade along the station platform." What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Which eastern State is nicknamed "Empire State"? 2. How many ounces are there in a troy pound? - 3. The letters F.H-A. stand for what government agency? - 4. Which Washington base ball pitcher was variously nicknamed. "Big Train," and "Big Barney"? . 5. Will hot water crack a thin glass or a thick, glass more quickly? 6. The British Royal Navy gives a daily grog ration; what is grog? - 7. What majority of both houses of Congress is required to override a Presidential veto? 8. Which city in Soviet Russia was formerly called St Petersburg and Petrograd? 9. Do spiders have wings? in WVinm riirt flalvin Cool- .X V " idge succeed as President of the U. S.? i.cnrc 1. Mew YosIe. 2. Twelve. 3. Federal Housing Administration. 4. Walter Johnson. 5. Thick glass. 6. Rum., and . water... 7... Two thirds. 8. Leningrad. 9. No. 10. "Warrerr G. Harding. . Editorial Correspondence Rice Mountain Lodge, Paul Elmer Davis was expected, for some time, but it came as a nevertheless, and a deep sense of personal loss. For to this department that somewhat hackneyed phrase "his place will be hard to fill" literally applies. As a radio commentator and writer on current politics, he always stood, as far as we were concerned, in a class by himself. His special forte was in exposing the shams, pretense and hypocrisies in public life. No contemporary writer could take the stuffing out of "stuffed shirts" with the dexterity and completeness he always displayed. As for demagogues, regardless of party, they had the same dread of his pen that the cobra has for the mongoose. He simply shook the life out of them politically speaking. We were particularly grateful to him for his fight against "McCarthyism" when that type of UN-Americansim was at its height, the threat of a U.S. "Hitlerism" a real one, and particularly difficult to combat. Almost single-handed he started the snowball rolling, that, thanks to his courage and persistence, ended in an avalanche of awareness of the danger McCarthysim threatened, and to eventful extinction of a form of internal subversion, far more dangerous . than the type Joe McCarthy capitalized for his personal benefit. The Friendly Southern Pacific can always be depended upon to be friendly to itself but ft doesn't often admit its devotion to self-interest as frankly as in an "ad" recenly received in our mail. In fact the appeal for public support is captioned in two column bold-face as follows: "We are doing our best To help OURSELVES." Never a truer word has ever been said in print. . . The final plea is not factually so accurate, but it is equally characteristic for it's based upon the assumption that if the S.P. is not allowed to do as it pleases and be relieved of all 'effective state and federal controls, it faces bankruptcy although it chooses the less harsh term of "insolvency." We quote: "It should be obvious to regulatory commissions and to thoughtful shippers and travelers that a solvent railroad is much better able to serve its terri tory well than a weak and money-losing one We operate in large figures but it is the relationship between income and outgo that counts whether you are running a railroad or a peanut stand." , We would not be so unkind as to suggest the Southern Pacific, as far as southern Oregon is concerned, does operate its railroad like a peanut stand but there are certain strik ing similarities. The similarities are especially noticeable when baseball and circus peanuts are concerned. The circus and baseball peanut vendors don't cut out roasted peanuts entirely as the S.P. does all passenger traffic, but they do pass out an inferior quality, at the rate of a cent a peanut whereas competing vendors not only roast their peanuts nicely but salt them and charge approximately one tenth as much. This is a fairly valid comparison between the way the "Friendly S.P." treats its "thoughtful travelers" from Eugene to Dunsmuir, and any other railroad that operates in "large figures" say the Union Pacific treat them if they enjoyed a such a prosperous and growirfg Neither the baseball nor any attention to good will service, they are out for all highest possible profit per capita and that is what they get. Quite properly Mr. D. J. Russell, who as S.P. president signs this pronouncement of policy says "running a railroad is no different essentially from running a peanut stand!" As for the dangers of bankruptcy and the advantages to the public of keeping a railroad solvent, this appeal would be considerably more effective if President Russell had not also signed his railroad's annual report in which he ad mitted the net profits not before taxes but after them were greater in 1957, a partly depression year, than thev were in the highly prosperous Somehow we fear it will and travelers on the Southern thoughtful ones to get so excited about the dangers of the S.P. going broke that they will favor dropping all regula tory measures designed to make public utilities "operating in large ngures to nave some ihis hesitation will probably aforesaid "thoughtful travelers" iao the s net income was lhat may be "peanuts" Pacific," but it is hard to believe any other railroad, or any other business in the U.S.A. When it has come to the often expressed our preference hot and humid weather. But of late the Weather Man We spent a month in Tucson, March since 1880 to have a blizzard and an average tempera ture in the 60 s. (Although there was, as noted at the time, only three days of rain, and sunshine for 21 days.) Here in northern New York state, May has to date been the wettest and the coldest since Teddy Roosevelt charged up San Juan hill. There was a frost last night and there promises to be another tonight. This is nothing to complain about, but we wish the Weather Man would not go so FAR out of his way to answer our climatic prayers. In motoring from Medford to Portland, and now here in the Adirondacks, we are interested in the question of motoring speed-limits if any. The main highway from New York to the St. Lawrence project runs by this lodge a very good highway, cement, not asphalt and the traffic while . not heavy this early in the season, is noticeable, especially when one takes a walk as your correspondent often does. The speed limit posted along the highway is 50 miles, and the state speed limit used to be 55 in Oregon. Well neither on the road to Portland nor here is . the speed limit obse rved by anyone and we mean ANY one. Trucks, delivery-wagons, small cars and big cars, they all go by this lodge at anywhere from 65 to 105 miles an hour. So why establish a speed limit (when no one observes it, and no one or at least not one in a thousand WILL observe it? particularly when on this highway at least there are no speed cops and no effort made to enforce it? Far more sensible we should say to pay little attention to how fast a car is going, but a great deal of attention to how it is being driven. It is claimed there has never on this particular stretchy of highway. We find that hard to believe, but it may be true for several reasons, to wit: No. 1, there is no heavy traffic even in -mid-season, while for eight or nine months in the year the traffic is very light. No. 2, there are no sharp curves or grades, it is somewhat undulating but for approximately 10 miles is practically a straightaway. No. 3, there are no hot-rod addicts, juvenile or adult, in this part of the state. No. 4, while excessive speed is a factor in the traffic toll, on a stretch of highway like this we would be far more fearful of a poor or reckless driver going 50 or 60 miles an hour than a good driver going 100. For a GOOD driver never takes chances. He or she never "steps on it" except when he can see the highway is clear far ahead, the car is behaving ok, and he has it under perfect control. We don't mean there should be no check on excessive speeds there should be but we do me?n we refer only to cross country, not urban driving the great need to make motoring less costly in lives and property is to pay less attention to what happens to be to how the car is being driven, Smiths, N.Y. The death of he had been seriously ill for distinct blow to this department or the Hill lines WOULD monopoly or traffic by rail, in area. the circus peanut vendors pay or rendering adequate public the traffic will bear, at the year preceding. be difficult for the shipners Pacific particularly the regard for the public service. be particularly strong when realize that during the year approximately $54,000,000. to the "Friendly Southern would so consider it. question of climate we have for cool, snappy weather over has been overdoing it a bit. Arizona, and it was the first been a fatal motor accident! the speed and more attention R.W.R. Dennis the Menace U LLi : P9 .VB ALl.-MXS.Ma ur. (g) 3-3' ST6AK? AV. J DI0USIT WE KEf Washington Report By William S. White THE KEFAUVER ENIGMA Washington Independent, indefatigable, indestructible and inexplicable all these large adjectives best describe Senator Estes Kef auver o f Tennessee. He is as in dependent ' a politician a s ever twice ran for the D e m o c ratic Pres idential n o m i nation. TIT 1 1 Willam S. White w ii e ii ue sought it in 1952, he had ar rayed against him the top leaders of the two most pow erful wings of the party the Northern organization bosses and every last one of the Southern elders. The story was about the same in his next try, 1956. But this time, though Adlai E. Stevenson won the top prize from the Democratic convention, Kefauver got the vice presidential nomination. He is thus not quite a two time loser having been in 1956 in the-"place" position with Stevenson in the "win" position. BUT the real point, on both occasions, was that Kefau ver was able to survive such massive hostility at all. An even more arresting point brings this piece to an other of the adjectives for him indefatigable. " His seat in the Senate is up in 1960 and this, of course, he simply has to hold. Thus all his planning must, and undoubtedly does, center on remaining in the Senate. Nevertheless, few of the general political rules apply to Kefauver. And none of them applies to him all the time. It is, therefore, an en tirely safe prophecy that one way or another his name will be in the 1960 Presidential reckoning. Kef auver's . ambition, even at its height, has been the sleepiest-looking in the expe rience of this writer. But de pend on this: Somebody or something Kefauver him self, his friends or some turn of the wheel of chance will see to it that he is not alto gether out of it. FOR Kefauver and now the adjective "inexplic able" is reached defies any ready analysis or ready un- Federal Grants Assist Washington (CQ) Do high Federal taxes trouble you? Consider, then, the advant ages of living in South Da kota. Last year, out f every dollar they paid into the Treasury, residents of the Coyote Sate got back 75 cents in the form of Federal grants-in-aid. That's the highest benefits-to - burden ratio en joyed by any state.. ; Nationally, Federal grants to individulas (as in soil bank payments) and to state and local governments (as : for highway construction) amounted to eight cents out of every dollar in Federal tax collections. That compares with an average return of 10 cents on the dollar during the second Truman Administra tion, but is higher than the 6 cent return during the first two years of the Eisenhower Administration. In fiscal 1957 the total amount distributed jumped 25 per cent to an all-time high of almost $6.5 billion. This money was channeled to state and local govern in e n t s and to individuals through 105 different Federal program. But four programs alone accounted for one-half 60HHA W&HOTDOGSV derstanding as a political force. Though "from Tennes see, he is not really a South ern politician and not even really a typical border-state politician. So little is he in agreement with the Southern ers that for years they exclud ed him from their informal but real club in the Senate. Even now, he only timidly "pokes his head in occasion ally." His speech, particularly in the Senate and to some ex tent on the stump, is largely an amiable muttering and murmuring to most of his au dience. His memory for first and last names and a keen memory is supposed to be a politician's special require ment is so bad as to be al most unbelievable. Reporters chancing to visit Oklahoma in the 1956 cam paign recall that Kefauver on several occasions spoke proudly to the crowds of his friendship for a fellow Demo cratic senator from Okla homa "Mike Mansfield." Mansfield is from Montana; Senator Mike , Maroney is from Oklahoma. THIS correspondent remem bers crossing the Kefauver trail in Wisconsin in that same campaign. There this tall, gangling, gaping outland er seemed as alien to the up per Midwest as one could pos sibly be. But everywhere he went, and no matter what he said or seemed to say, he left the stolid Wisconsin farmers in broad, fond smiles. Kefauver himself at the very same time usually was looking unaccountably down cast and a little lost. If any man is able to beam sadly, that man is Estes Kefauver.. As there is enigma in his personality, there is enigma in his Senate record. He has cast, wisely or not, some of the bravest Senate votes in its postwar history, particu larly against frightened acr tions in the field of subversive control and immigration. On the other hand, he has seemed to have missed a good many votes altogether. And nearly always about him there has been, to one observ er, a faint, genial confusion. This correspondent has never felt sure he understood in the least where Kefauver was go ing on some issues, and why. (Copyright, 1958. by United , Feature Syndicate. Inc. of the total: old-age assistance ($973 million), highway con struction ($995 million), vet erans readjustment benefits ($787 million) and soil bank payments ($496 million). There is no particular cor relation between a state's population and its share of total grants. On"' a per capita basis, grants in 1957 ranged from an average, of $16 per resident in New Jersey to $121 per resident in Wyom ing. On a state basis, Calif ornia topped the list with $532 million in grants, fol lowed by Texas with $454 million both ahead of more populous New York with $412 million. These three states together collected $227 million in high way grants, or 24 per cent of the total. By contrast, farm ers in Kanass alone picked up $78 million in soil bank payments, or 15 per cent of the total distributed under this program. In 1957, Oregon received a total of $89,407,000 in Fed eral grants-in-aid to indivi duals and to state and local governments. With a popula tion estimated in 1957 at 1,769,000 this amounted to $51 per capita, compared Today Or Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann REGULATING THE LABOR UNIONS The principle is now set tled, particularly since the testimony last week of Presi dent George Meany, that la bor unions are like all other; powerful , in terests sub ject to public inspection and public regula tion. It . is a very good thing that this principle is not in dis- W alter Lippmann pute. For if it ' were, if or ganized labor were making the claim so often made by other interests, that it is pri vate and immune, there would be serious trouble ahead. For no special interest can exercise . the kind of power which the unions possess and then deny that there is a pub lic interest in the way it con ducts its affairs. Mr. Meany has had the wisdom and the public spirit to recognize that if labor unions are not regu lated by thos i who mean well by them, they will be wide open to the assault of those who wish to destroy them. The question of regulating the unions has, i of course, been brought to a head by the sensational exposures before Sen. McClellan's select com mittee. While these exposures dealt only with seven out"of nearly 200 hundred national unions, with unions whose membership is 2,000,000 out of the national total of 17, 000,000, they demonstrated clearly that the actual abuses have been very serious and that the potential abuses are enormous. It has been shown that given the existence of powerful and rich unions, the opportunities and the tempta tions to racketeering and cor ruption are so great, that pub lic remedies are necessary. - THE abuses which have been exposed are, it might be said,-; the normal result when great power and wealth are suddenly acquired by an human institution, and there is no body of law and custom which regulates the 'conduct of its affairs. The labor unions in this1 country have become ,big in the past . 25 years, but only after long de cades of bitter and often violent struggle for recogni tion and legal sanction. In the past 25 years they have been fostered by privi leges created and protected by, Federal statutes. No other kind of private association ex ercises so "'much power over the livelihood : of its indivi dual members, over their op portunities . and over the routine of their daily lives. Individual employees may not lawfully negotiate with their employers and they are legal ly bound by the terms and conditions of employ ment which a union, certified as the sole official bargaining agent for a . given shop or company, may negotiate. Fur thermore.in the case of many contracts the law in effect requires the compulsory pay ment of initiation fees and dues into the union treasury. This legally granted power of the unions to set the terms and conditions of work also affects the rights and irtterests of management and of the general consuming public. Unions are also granted spec ial immunity from the anti trust monopoly laws and, as non-profit voluntary organiz ations, they have exemption from the income tax. There is, therefore,, no States with $38 per capita for the na tion as a whole. Total 19 5 7 allocations to Oregon compare as follows with the state's allocations for the preceding three years: 1956, $70,803,000; 1955, $64, 977,000; and 1954, $59,424, 000. , i Federal taxes collected in Oregon in 1957 amounted to $514,746,000. This amounted to .6 pet cent of the: $80.1 bil lion in total tax collections. By contrast, the state's share of total 1958 grants of $6.5 billion amounted to 1.4 per cent r . " The nine largest grant pro grams in. 1957, on a national basis j-accounted for 71 per cent of the total amount dis tributed to rindividuals and to state and local governments. Amounts allocated to Oregon under these programs were as follows: highway construc tion, $20,871,000; old-age as sistance, $7,056,000; aid to de pendent children, $2,765,000; unemployment compensation, $3,122,000; conservation pro gram, $3,064,000; soil bank program, $1,516,000; veterans readjustment benefits, $6, 820,000; Air National Guard, $1,236,000; and Army Na tional Guard, $4,547,000. longer any argument that Federal regulation is justified in principle and necessary in practice. The question is what kind of regulation is most likely to work well. Broadly speaking, there are two types of regulation. The first, on which there is now very gen eral agreement, is that the financial affairs of the unions shall be made public, and their officers legally made ac countable for the honest ad ministration of these affairs. This is the principle of the Douglas-Ives - Kennedy .bill, dealing with welfare and pen sion funds only, which has al ready passed the Senate and it is not in any serious 'sense opposed by anyone concern ed. If a similar bill applying to union funds i& passed, it should mark a great reform, not only in protecting the union members from xorrupt leaders but also in laying the general conduct of union busi ness open to public scrutiny. THE other type of regula tion, now under considera tion, is aimed at regulating labor unions by compelling them to adopt more democ ratic procedures. The theory is that if there were more democracy inside the unions, they would be better gov erned. That may be. But it is a question whether in fact the Federal government can make democracy compulsory in private associations, and whether, if it were to try to do so, it would not be biting off more than it can chew. There are in this country some 200 national unions and some 60,000 local unions, and it is not probable that the Federal government can real ly superintend their charters and regulate their internal elections. There is not much value in attempting to do what almost certainly can not be done. It is likely to lead only to disrespect of the law. My own view is that the compulsory disclosure of the financial affairs of theunions is a possible", though not an easy kind of law to enforce. Insofar as it is efficiently en forced, it may help to do many of the things which are supposed to be,, accomplished by compulsory democracy.' Matter of Fact THE ARMY'S ROLE Paris Many are groping for a key to present events in France and their probable fu ture meaning. They might well ponder the following remark able and well- attested story of the begin ning of the present agon izing crisis. It concerns the moment Joseph AIsop when the infuriated crowd in Algiers had already attacked the great building of the Gou- vernment General; and the French Commander in Chief, Gen. Salan, had given the task of restoring order to his para- troop commander, the famous Gen. Massu. At this terrible moment, as his men were forming up, Gen. Massu telephoned Paris to ask his masters in the civil government the key question. Should he or should he not fire on the crowd? He pointed out that the odds against re storing order by any other means were very heavy in deed, and he added that this was essentially a political choice. AT that time, of course, thpre was an interreenum in Paris. Felix Gaillard, who has hastily consulted, replied that , he had already ceased to be Prime Minister and was therefore unable to answer Gen. Massu's question. And Pierre Pflimlin, consulted with equal haste, replied that he had not yet become Prime Minister and was therefore unable to answer Gen. Mas su's question. In sum- the civi lian politicians refused the re sponsibility of making the crucial decision. So Gen. Mas su restored order in his own mariner; by joining in the formation of the Committee of Public Safety. Consider this episode. Then remember the experience of the French professional Army in the last ten years, first in Indochina and then in Alger ia. Many dark places of the present situation are thereby illuminated. What is revealed, aboveall, is the relative freedom of choice that a serious and firm French government can still enjoy and exercise if it wish es to do so. It is true that the crisis was precipitated by ex tremists of the Right, like Massu's civilian colleagues on the Algiers Committee of Pub lic Safety. IT IS also true that some sort of plot was already on loot when he fierce atmos- (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Circuses today, with , few exceptions, are merely pale shadows of the circuses of earlier days. Competion of television, movies and other forms of entertainment, plus high operating costs, have nearly spelled the demise of the "big top" that used to play at nearly every town every summer or at least, every other summer. And, as a result, a true, dyed-in-the-wool circus fan is a rare bird. But we know of at least one, hereabouts. He is Graham Dean, editor of the Ashland Tidings, whose pas sion for circuses goes far back into his childhood. The circus which played in Medford last week was "a clean little show," Editor Dean reported after attending it Wednesday evening. And so much did he enjoy it that he drove clear to Grants Pass the following evening so he could see it a second time. If there were more Graham Deans around, the circus as an institution of entertain ment would have a glorious rebirth. Which probably would be a good thing for everyone, in cluding the performers and the youngsters of today, whose acquaintanceship with wild animals, sideshow freaks and skilled aerial performers is limited mostly to those seen over the. antiseptic electronic box in the living room and who have never known, and thus cannot miss, the smell of the menagerie, the excitment and the color of the big top, and the inexplicable taste of cotton candy. A member of our staff comments lhat the most deliberate flatterer in the world it the barber who spends 30 minutes trimming the few strands of hair re maining on the head of a balding man. Bette Hoskins, the M-T's Jacksonville correspondent. returned not long ago from an automobile trip to Black- foot, Idaho, and reports she was fascinated by a series of signs she saw along the desert highway between Burns, Ore and Boise, Ida. Here are some of them: Ain't This Monotonous? By Joseph AIsop phere at . Algiers suddenly clotted into total crisis the code messages of the Algiers radio are proof of that. But there is no truth in the widespread impression that rightwing extremists have been able, singlehanded, to challenge and subvert the legitimate government of France. Without the Army, The Soustelles, the Delbec ques and the others of the same kidney would count for very little indeed, even in Al giers. Furthermore, if you con sider the history of Gen. Mas su's telephone call and a'1 that preceded it, you cannot properly argue that the civil government of France was abandoned by the Army. At any rate, it is just as accurate to say that the Army was abandoned first by the civil government. What, then, will the Army do now, this Army which was and is the key fac tor in all this grim affair? The best answer one can give is at once simple and complex, disturbing as well as reassuring. There are of course plenty of right-wing extremists in the French Army. The officers who joined in the Corsican opera tion, the officers of the para troop outfits that quietly moved into the military air dromes of metropolitan France in the first days of cri sis, can hardly have included many persons with liberal or leftwing views. In fact they no doubt included a good many with- downright anti democratic tendencies. But .this element in the Army is first of all a minor ity; and secondly, even the extremists of the Army will accept orders from any civil government firm enough and decisive enough to give or ders. On this head, consider again the episode of Gen. Massu, asking whether he should do what must have gone so violently against his grain. - I T IS a terrible thing that the legitimate government of France should have foun dered on a double abandon ment an abandonment first of the Army by the civil au thorities, and then, one must add, an abandonment of the civil authorities by the Army. But this drama of France's parliamentary government deserves the bitter tag-line of one of Moliere's plays: "You asked for it, Georges Dandin!" For Gen. de Gaulle, in con tra, there will be no danger of abandonment. He can give his orders, to control of even to suppress the rightwing ex tremists, for instance, and Cattle Country Watch Out for Bum Steers. Sage Brush is (JYee; Stuff Some in Your . Car,, Danger Skunk Crossing. Methodists Watch Out for Mormon Crickets. Thirsty? Drive at Night, Plenty of Moonshine. Unlawful to Spear Salmon or Shoot Craps in This Area. If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now. Skunk Bomb Fall-out Area; Close Windows. Let There Be a Silent Mo- ' ment While We Change Back seat Drivers. Grizzly Bear Feeding Grounds; Count Your Chil dren, Hide Your Honey. Idaho Skunks Are Not To Be Sniffed At. Site of Polecat Massacre, Idaho's Biggest Political Stink. A minor accident was in vestigated by Medford po lice officers the other day, and it developed lhat two cars scraped fenders while the respective drivers were attempting to talk to each other. The drivers, it de veloped, were husband and wife, each driving a differ ent car. One of the two was cited for failure to op erate in the proper lane of traffic. Which one? The, husband, of course. ."'' We are . glad to welcome, from time to time, groups of ' students, ranging from little shavers up to high school journalism classes, who tour the Mail Tribune to see how a newspaper is produced. These visits are fairly fre quent, and are conducted by Business Manager Jerry Lath- am, who explains the opera- lion of each department. We have received a report on one such recent trip, writ- ; ten for her class by Patricia . Lindsay, of the sixth grade . at Griffin Creek school. Here are pertinent portion of her story. "... The first department we visited was the circulation department. On a small metal plate the name of each sub- : scriber of the paper was print ed. A machine . . . printed these addresses on a strip of of yellow paper. These str.os - were separated so that er "1 slip had one address on it This slip was attached to each , paper for properly addressed delivery. , "In the morgue was a large bookcase full of huge albums, each containing papers de livered in a certain year, dafc ing back to 1917. "The third department was the Linotype department, where the type was set for further steps in' making an is sue. "We visited the newsroom next, the department in which news from all over world is gathered by teletypes. "Last was the pressroom, in which the type is develop ed into a circular lead cast that is placed on a cylinder, which revolves with the de sired amount of ink on it, placing print on the news print that continously rolls over it. Then the printed pa per is folded in the desired way, and placed m the cor rect sequence. "Then the papers are rolled, addressed and delivered." Patricia is going to become a good reporter one of these days. A woman we k n o w is employed by a bank, and each week gets one day off in addition to Sunday. The day off changes each four weeks. As a result, she is used to a hop, skip and jump type of employment. But this week is special. She had last Wednesday off. and next week her day off is Tuesday. So she worked Tuesday, had Wednesday off, worked Thursday, had Friday (Memorial Day) off. worked Saturday, had Sun day off, will work Monday, -have Tuesday off, and work Wednesday. She sort of likes this working every other day. they will be carried out by the Army. Furthermore,, those who think that de Gaulle is likely to be the "prisoner" of such men as Soustelle and Delbecque can hardly have rread much of the history of the last war. The man whom Roosevelt and Churchill could not make a prisoner, is hard ly likely to become the pris oner of such a one as Jacques Soustelle. In sum, the choice will be up to Gen. de Gaulle and up to him alone. What one can not predict is whether he will be content to restore san ity and order in France or whether he will imitate Fran co or Salazar. The signs are encouraging. But no one real ly knows the inner mind of this looming, remote and enormous figure who now dominates the scene in this strife-divided country.
