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o 4 Monday, Juna 9, 1933 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OR IV. Medford. "Everyone ia Southern '.Oregon Reads The Mail Xribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St Ph. SP.2-3141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREV Advertising Mana?et GERALD LATHAM. Business Mer BRIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES P- Mail In Advance: Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 9 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 425 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. . Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Core. Rogue Riv er Talent, and on motor routes: Dally 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 Ctty of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU 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 T Cr NEWSPAPER BP k PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION U 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 ... , June 9, 1948 (Wednesday) A5r alternative pla to the : two proposed by the bureau of reclamation for develop- mentQpf water resources of . the Rogue basin was suggest . ed by Sherman Smith, Grants ' Pass attorney, today at , a 1 hearing. . - Yesterday was the hottest day so far this year in Med- ford with a temperature of 92 degrees. O ': 20 YEARS AGO . June 9, 1938 (Thursday) Dr. Francis E. Townsend, pension plan leader "who' has been addressing audiences in various carts of Orezon. will leave from MeSford tomor row mornirPg. .. 1 From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Farm ers are on the business end of a pitchfork, endeavoring to beat the rain, if any, to the ' barn." 30 YEARS AGO June 9, 1928 (Saturday) According to an announce ment made today by9 C. C Clark, the Opp mine near Jacksonville, has been sold to him and E. L. Childers From local and personal column: "The Hamilton Pat r ton building on South River side ave., which was gutted by fire several weeks0 ago, is ' being femoved to m8ke room for another bidding." 40 YEARS AGO June 9, 1918 (Monday) All car owners in the city ; today were making sarcastic remarks about John D. Rock efeller because of a raise of two cents in cost of gasoline On June 12, the new wage schedule ordered by the In dustrial Welfare commission of 'the state of Oregon goes ' into effect. Minimum weekly wage rate for . women is $11.10. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; live or six is good. 1. John Paul Jones did, or did not, serve in the Russian navy? 2. Does the "ship of the desert" have wheels, a pro- pellor, or feet? 3. What does U. S. P. stand for on the label of a medic inal product? 4. Sound travels faster in water, iron or air? o. wnich country is our closest Latin American neigh bor? 6. Which rank in the Army corresponds to Ensign in the Navy? 7. Who wrote the book "I Chose Freedom?" 8. What sort of work is done by a cooper? c 9. The Frisian islands are off the coast of what country? 10. What is the capital of South Carolina? Answers: 1. Did. 2. Feet (camel). 3. United Stales Pharmacopeia. 4 Iron. 5. Mexico. 6. 2nd Lieutenant. 7. Victor A. Kravchenko. 8. He makes barrels, casks, etc. 9. The Netherlands. 10. Columbia. De Gaulle s Dilemma UNE Will Alo-iers be Gen. Charles? de. Gaulle's Waterloo? Charles X, the last of the Bourbons to rule by divine right, who had thought his conquest of Al geria in July 1830 would make radical Paris ac- cept his self-righteous misrule, was driven into exile within the year. David Shoenbrun observed shortly before De Gaulle's accession: "The Bout bons Have long since gone but the French Repub lic is today fighting a desperate war in Algeria to preserve the Bourbon legacy. Algiers is the richest segment of what was and to a degree still is the French sphere of influence in North Africa. It is four times bigger than the "motherland, embracing 850,000 square miles, as against the 150,000 square miles of Morocco and 48,000 square miles of Tunisia, the former French protectorates. Its rich oil deposits could conceivably underwrite, eventually, the cost of raising the standard of living of its downtrodden Moslems to tnai or. metropolitan f ranee. DERHAPS the real and tragic problem in Algeria is its constituency 1.2 million Eur opeans among 8.5 million Moslems. De Gaulle is cultivating the residue of Moslem good will re maining from his relatively generous policy in World War II. But leagued with the Army in bringing De Gaulle to power are the reactionary French colons who have agitated violently for keeping Algeria French and essentially for keeping their own special political prerogatives. De Gaulle in 1944 granted French citizenship to 60,000 Algerians who had fought in the French armed forces. At a colonial conference at Brazza ville, capital of French Equatorial Africa, the General proclaimed the principle of federalism for the Empire. Instead of the absolute assimila tion under a Pans government the French set tlers still appear to insist upon, the overseas ter ritories were to become federated with metropol itan h ranee m a French Union. And they were to be given a greater voice in their own affairs. THE French Constitution of 1946 divided Al geria into three departments, administered as an integral part of metropolitan France. The organic statute of 1947 gave all Algerian inhabi tants the rights of French citizenship and estab lished an Algerian Assembly with increased pow ers. But these were largely paper concessions, and they were hedged about with caveats. Schoen- brun reports that "only- 75,000 out of almost 9 million Algerians have ever become full citizens for voting purposes." He quotes former Premier Mendes-i1 ranee in reference to the phony elec tions of April 1948 : .. "The Moslem peoples of Algeria welcomed the inaug uration of universal suffrage as an immense progress but soon perceived that in practice it was only a facade and a deceit." DY THESE elections for the Algerian assembly, 1.2 million Europeans were represented by 60 members in one chamber; 8.5 million Moslems by 60 representatives in the other. In mid-March 1956, two years after the nationalist uprisings had begun, the French Assembly dissolved the Algerian legislature and transferred its powers to the French governor-general. A new basic law adopted last January maintained the principle of protective representation for the European min ority and did little to alleviate internal discords. Prior to the dissolution of the Algenan As sembly, the French parliament in 1955 had ap proved a plan drawn up by Jacques Soustelle, then governor-general of Algiers and now one of De Gaulle s principal backers there. It called for greater local autonomy, redistribution of land, and various other political and social reforms. But Soustelle flatly rejected political auton omy for Algeria. His plan proposed instead "com plete integration" with France a phrase being much heard and variously interpreted today. E.R.R. Schools Face Closure Gov. Lindsay Almond has now made it em phatic that any public school in Virginia that de segregates next September, whether in obedience to federal court order or for other reason, will be closed. This is required by the basic article of the state s ' massive resistance ' code. With encouragement from the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple, 15 Negro children have applied for admission to white schools in the Washington suburb of Arlington, across the Potomac in Virginia. In retaliation, the Arlington Def enders of State Sov ereignty have announced that they will match every Negro enrollment in a white school with a white enrollment in a Negro school, so that both will be closed. Thus all of .Arlington's public schools, with a total of 24,500 pupils, face closure. Pastors of Alington Protestant churces oppose use of church Duimings as segregated private schools if the pub lic schools are forced to close .Catholic schools. not subject to state orders, may be the only ones u carry one. .k.k. , Dennis the Menace The first cast iron bridge in America was built across the Erie canal near Frankfort, N.Y, in 1840. 'I'M HERE 'CAUSE lM NOT SLEpy.j here 'cause you whistle when you snore Washington Report By William S. White 1 n Bishop Fulton Sheen Speaks in Portland Portland (UPI) Bish op Fulton J. Sheen arrived here by plane Saturday nieht. He spoke to graduating sen iors at Central Catholic high school Sunday and will con duct retreats for Oregon priests until June 20 when he will speak to the public at the auditorium. Idaho Girl Dies In Fall From Car Council, Idaho (UPI ) A three-year-old Cam bridge, Idaho, girl, Nancy Jean Conrad, died in a Boise hospital Sunday of injuries suffered late Saturday when she fell from a car AVz miles south of here on Highway 95 near the Idaho - Oregon border. Washington President Eis enhower is fast losing control or is handing over control of his own foreign policy. and the orthodox Republican wmg is moving in. It means the beginning of the end of a bipartisan ap proach in the world affairs that has en dured for 5Vi years in the i s e n how er regime. Ac tually, this bi- partisan- ship had been in use most of the time in wiiiam s. white me a e c a a e and a half since Pearl Har bor. , The President's progressive retirement from top command has been visible, on any close analysis, for a year or more. But the most , open and the most dangerous instance of this retreat came over the last week end. This was when he permit ted the Senate indeed, he all but compelled the Senate to deny to him power that his own State Department and all of his closest foreign-policy backers had sought for him in his name. i rpHE State Department had encouraged the Senate Foreign Relations committee to authorize the President to give economic assistance to certain Communist satellite countries. He could htfve done this only where he thought it might help to split the monolith of the Soviet bloc. The committee, "by biparti san majority, has voted to put this authorization into the current foreign aid bill. The motion was from Senator John F. Kennedy, a Massa chusetts Democrat. Suddenly, after a White House visit, the orthodox Re publican leader" Senator Wil liam F. Knowland of Calif ornia, reversed the whole sit uation. Knowland, an implac able opponent of any such au thority, announced that the President, too, did not want any such authority at least not in the aid bill. President Eisenhower, it was added, now would like that "kind of power but only later in a separate bill. Everybody aware of the situation in the Senate knew that it was now or never. , rpHIS strongly suggestive A evidence that the Repub lican Old Guard had over come not only the President but his own State Department had these immediate effects: 1. The rug was pulled from under Eisenhower's most use ful friends in the Senate in both parties. Under the leadership of Democratic Sen ator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Republican Sena tor Alexander Wiley of Wis consin, the bipartisans stiU fought on. But they fought on to inevitable defeat on what, with any Presidential back ing, would have . been an equally inevitable victory for Presidential powers. 2. On this vital test the Democratic leadership and every Eisenhower Republican stayed with what they had been told earlier the Presi dent wanted. Every member of the Re publican Old Guard -r- in cluding Knowland's prospec tive successor as Senate lead er, Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois voted to deny to the President an authority he now said he did not wish after aU. It is the long-term conse quences of this affair, how ever, that hold the true sig; nificance for the two and a half more years of the Eisen hower administration. - Those who have fought a- dozen battles for the Presi dent in the - foreign field do not hide their soreness and chagrin. He has gravely weak ened his position on an even more critical foreign policy issue extension of the re ciprocal trade, or tariff-low ering, program. HE B of E HAS broken the morale his own forces in Con gress, and possibly elsewhere as he rarely has done before. Many had gone up to the fir ing line for him this time at obvious peril to themselves They knew that to support any sort of help for Commun ist dictatorships would be bad news politically in nearly every part of the country. Some recognized, too, that such a policy might be bad in principle, as. well. But they took the risk because they felt obliged to back the Con stitutional right of the Presi dent to conduct this country's foreign policy. Some of them a critical number in both parties will be far less ready hereafter to respond to calls for action from a commander-in-chief who, as they see it, signaled to the charge and has himself then turned the other way The orthodox Republicans hereafter will hold a practi cal veto power over foreign policy. And even some of the bipartisans are in a way not too sorry. For the orthodox Republicans, however, much in error they may be, have always a clear and predict able coherence of purpose. They do not abandon posi tions once taken; once com mitted, they fight on to the end. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate Inc) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this :olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Wake Up, Grow Up! To the Editor: When I read in the paper about the hub bub the Democratic party made, through their lawyer, about being inadvertently list ed "Democrat" instead of "Democratic" on their nomin ation certificates, this is the thought that crossed my mind, and I'll wager every serious thinking individual that reads or hears about it regardless of party affiliation: In such a crucial time in the world's history, when the whole free world is looking to us for mature leadership and guidance and the Com munists are watching to pub licize and capitalize every little mistake and weakness we show, how can one of the two leading parties of the country make an issue over such a trivial matter? If this is a sample of the caliber and maturity of the leaders of our narty system, what chance has the country got to escape socialism or communism? Be fore it is too late, in Heavens name, wake up and grow up! Yes, I am a committee wom an, and it would make no dif ference to meif they had put elephant party or GOP, or any other abbreviation of the Republican party on my cer tificate. Leila A. Morrow 531 N. Bartlett St. Medford. Waiter of Fact By ROWLAND EVANS JR. While Joseph Aliop re ports from Algiers, Row land Evans Jr. covers the Washington base. THE MAGIC NUMBER IN THE HOUSE Washington Important tell tale signs are pointing to the strongest Democratic majority in the House next January since the pinnacle of the Roosevelt New Deal. lime remains, 01 course, for that prospect to come a cropper before the Nov. 4 election. The chill wind that blew out of California this week, however, put new sting into the bad political weather that, has dogged, the Republi cans in one primary election after another this spring. Strangely enough, even the Mid-West Republicans seem to have election-year jitters, despite the tradition that farmers vote Republican when prices and harvest are good. How else can one explain the vote of Rep. George of Kan sas and several other farm- state Republicans for- that "so cialistic dole" that the Demo crats tried unsuccessfully to substitute for the Eisenhower unemployment pay bill? INFORMED estimates that the Democrats may pick up between 20 and 40 new House seats are immensely signifi cant. They simply mean that the 'composition of the new House could well give the Northern and Western Demo crats effective majority con trol without the help of the Southern conservatives. If that happens, the center of power in the House would shift from the moderates to the Northern liberals, and with it the power to enact legislation. Everyone knows that the Democratic , prospect in the Senate is excellent. Not so well known, however, is the full measure of their prospect in the House. Not since 1934 has the party occupying the white House increased its seats in the House in a non-Presidential Writer Says United States' Cold War Position Improved LJL Charles M. McCann when Russia By CHARLES M. McCANN UP( Foreign News Analyst The United States appears to be in an increasingly strong position in the cold war with f"3"' Soviet Russia. been a radical alteration in the relative s i t u a t ion of the two great powers in the last eight months. It was eight months ago shocked the Western world by demonstrat ing, in launching the first earth satellite, its progress in the field of nuclear weapons. The" Soviet government took advantage of its success by launching a cold war of fensive. Nikolai A. Bulganin, then Premier, and Nikita S. Khrushchev, his successor, started bombarding the West ern allies with demands for an immediate summit conference of heads of government and at the same time started threatening allied nations in Europe and Asia that they would be destroyed if they permitted " establishment of American nuclear weapons bases on their territory. Now the United States has launched its own satellites. Rejected Soviet Proposals And Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, at times stand ing almost alone, has resisted all demands from both the Russian and the allied side that the United States be rushed into a summit confer ence that might turn into a mere sounding board for Communist propaganda. The United States has re- city you gave us - for our Buddy Poppy Sale Days held this year on May 23 and 24 Through the generosity of your paper and the wonder ful people of Medford and surrounding cities our Poppy Sales were gratifying. As you aU well know this money is used entirely for the use oi rena mutation 01 our Veterans and their dependent ones. So once again the members of Crater Lake Post and Aux iliary No. 1833 VFW whole heatedly extend their warm est thank you to all you wonderful people. Mrs. Russell Zundel, Buddy Poppy Chairman Medford Opposes Phone Hike To the Editor: About a year ago, the telephone company raised its rates and promised greater coverage. - Only the SPring prefix got more cover age. They just moved around the rest of us. I suggest every one write to the Public Utili ties Commissi6ner to refuse raise. We pay more on an eight party line now than four parties do. R. D. Moore, Central Point Buddy Poppy Success To the Editor: Please accept our heartfelt thinks to you and your staff for the publi-J How About It, Mr. Geddes? To the Editor: We here in the fourth congressional dis trict are very fortunate, that we had the foresight to elect Charles p. Porter as our rep resentative in wasnington The Talent project was push ed hard by Mr. Porte; ac cess roads into our over-ripe timber areas are being pushed by Mr. Porter; people inter ested in mining have welcom ed the friend they have found in Mr. Porter; the dictators of South America rue the day that you and I sent Mr. Porter to Washington because under the pressure being put on them by Mr. Porter they are finding it much more difficult to obtain your dollars and mine with which to rule their people and to squander on the populace of the cess-pool of America we call "film land A Mr. Geddes will attempt to undo these things which have been accomplished by Charles Porter at least it would seem that way because Geddes has been very slow in announcing just exactly what he would do if he were to replace our excellent, hard working congressman. Would Mr. Geddes remove the splendid work of the Tal ent project? Would Mr. Geddes send arms to Latin American dictators? Would Mr. Geddes stop all work on access roads into our over-ripe timbered areas? Just what would you do, Mr. Geddes, that Mr. Porter has not done? How would you better the ex cellent results obtained by our hard working congressman, Charles O. Porter? R. L. Brakel, 3045 Kincaid St., . Eugene, Ore. , election. In the five off-year contests since then, the Ad ministration party has lost an average of 44 seats. If that purely arbitrary yardstick were applied to the Republi cans this year, their 1958 total of 198 would drop to less than 160 seats and the Democrats would jump from 233 to more than 270. ANOTHER statistical hazard for the Republicans is their large number of "mar ginal" districts, the districts most likely to reflect changes in voting patterns. Careful study of results in the 1956 and 1958 elections shows that the Republicans have 79 seats that are especially vulnerable, while the Democrats have only 51. Even more significant is the staggering number of Republi can incumbents who, for one reason or another, have de cided not to run for re-elec tion. They already total 23, well over 10 per cent of all Republican members, and the list is not closed yet. This means that new Republican candidates must be given a costly build-up and go before the voters without the advan tage of . an established repu tation. 1 But the most nagging and fundamental of all Republican worries is the fact that, aside from farm prices, the trend of events seems to be running strongly against them. Many economists expect the reces sion to last weU beyond this fall and predict a fairly long period of relatively high un employment. I HEADLINES that bristle day after day with omin ous news from abroad are con fusing and upsetting a lot of voters, as this reporter can at test from a recent survey in the Middle West. An uneasy feeling that affair's have been permitted to get out of hand, and that the Republican ad ministration is somehow to blame, is promising electoral dividends to the Democrats On the plus side, the Repub licans talk hopefully of a bet-ter-than-usual crop of candi dates, of cashing in on the labor union scandals and of Democratic overconfidence. The California primary, how ever, did not demonstrate that the labor issue will defeat many Democrats. What all this means is that the "magic number'' of Z7U seems to be within range of the' Democrats for the first time since 1936. If the Democrats elect that many members, the Northern ers know they can dispense with the Republicans and most of the Southern conserv atives of their own party and still command a majority. Achievement of the "magic number," in other words, would not do less than trans form the entire political cli mate in the House and in Con gress as a whole. Such "lib eral" legislation as school cbnstruction and income tax reduction, not even under serious consideration today, would pulse with new life. That, and its impact on the 1960 Presidential election, is the real stake in November. , 1958 New York i Herald Tribune Inc. I jected also Russia's 'demand that having completed a big series of nuclear weapons tests itself President Eisen hower agree to an uncondi tional suspension of its own tests. Now Russia has agreed to technical talks aimed at pro viding, as part of any mutual suspension of tests, a control system that would prevent cheating. The Soviet, government has shown, some disposition, at least, to negotiate on a busi ness basis for a real summit conference at which agree ment on big world issues might be possible. Wants Increased Trade Khrushchev is making a strong bid for an immense. in crease in trade with the Unit ed States and has Jhiplicitly admitted Russia's economic weakness by asking for cred its to finance its purchases..; Dulles himself gave a most encouraging picture of .the change in the cold war situa tion when he testified last Fri day before the Senate For eign Relations Committee. Dulles emphasized the in herent strength of the allied free world and the essential weakness of the Communist world. Despotisms always seem stronger than democracies, he said, because of their rigid im position of discipline on their peoples. "The fact is," Dulles con tinued, "that the despotisms are always weaker than they appear, and the democracies are usually stronger than they seem." ' Nixon and Knowland Putting Up Prestige In Fall Elections I'M By LYLE C. WILSOlt UPI Correspondent ' Washington (UPI) Vice President Richard M. Nixon's political prestige will be up for grabs this year in Cali fornia where well - organiz ed Democrats are maneuv ering to cut him down as a presidential prospect. Nixon is Lyie c. wifccn committed ,ty desire and circumstances to make an all out campaign for the election in November of Sen. William W. Knowland as governor of California. Much has been written about the rivalry between Nixon' and Knowland, the Republican leader of tha Senate. It has been argued that their big home state was not big enough for the ambitions of these two young men, each of whom is on a political path which logically could lead to a Republican presidential nomination. Knowland is substantially if not irrevocably committed to Nixon for the 1960 nomi nation. He calls Nixon the only major aspirant as of now. Nixon is even more firm ly committed to support Knowland's ambition to be elected governor. Rough Time Democrat Pat Brown gave Knowland a rough going over in last week's primary. Both men filed for the guber natorial nomination on both tickets and the primary was something of a popularity contest between the pair. Brown substantially out-polled the senator. The political tide in Cali fornia was running strong on primary day against. Know land. It is up to Knowlan and Nixon in the ensuing months to reverse that tide or, each, to stumble away from the summit of Republi can Party leadership. Brown's election would damage Nixon's prospects badly after an all-out cam paign effort in Knowland behalf. Nixon would then ap pear to have been repudiat ed by the voters of his own state. That could be deadly to his ambition to . obtain the 1960 Republican presidential nomination. That would be a sfceeter triumph for the Dem ocratic Party than the elec tion of a Democratic Gover nor of California after long years ot failure. Aggressive Attack The aggressive intensity of the Democratic high com mand's attack on Nixon is a considerable tribute to the . vice president. It seems to be an acklowledgement by the opposition that he not only is front-runner now for the Republican nomination but would be the most difficult Republican to beat. The Dem ocratic effort to knockQoff both Nixog and Knowlana in a single state election cam paign will have the hard-fisted support of the political leaders of organized labor. They-have a double stake 'in the contest. Knowland directly chal lenges the labor - bosses with an appeal over the heads to the labor rank and file. It is an appeal accompained by en dorsement of strict regulation of union affairs, largely in be half of the members, and of legislation which would out law the cjosed or union shop. So, the bosses don't like Knowland for that, and they don't like -Nixon, either. . It should be quite a contest, and if big labor over-shoots the mark in California as it did in 1950 in Ohio in an effort to defeat the late Sen. Robert A. Taft, the opposition of big labor could become a Repub lican asset. Eight years ago in Ohio, labor made such a show against Taft of its money, men and muscle as to alien ate the voters who repudiat ed labor's interference by a decisive vote. Taft lost three or four counties, only, but carried every industrial coun ty in the state. Down with Knowland, of course, would go any chance of finding within the Republi can Party nationally any es tablished leaders willing 'to challenge the political power of organized labor. Brown's election would tend enor mously to increase big labor's political power in the Demo cratic party where it already is dominant in spots. If would nucge bis .bor toward the driver's eat in the Republi can Party, too, td" further ceprivt con)rotive cftizens of any Substantial0 voice in U.S. politic The Facts of Life - ore medical care The average American family spends 4 of its income on medical care. However, half a million families this year will have medical expenses greater than their annual income. 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