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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Julr 15,948 (Thursday)
Four Corners residents kill
a large brown bear wandering
through their pastures.
Eight Medford musicians
are currently members of the
(Xshland municipal band.
20 YEARS AGO
July 15. 1938 (Friday)
The Medford Elks band will
cive its weekly concert to
night.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" acolumn: "Ju
veniles are running around
these tropical days without
-shirts. This will harden them
up for the time when they
will be taxpayers, and liable
to lose their shirts."
30 YEARS AGO
July IS, 1928 (Sunday)
Local officials await arrival
tomorrow of 26 airplanes par
ticipating in the National Re
liability Air tour.
From Local and Personal
column: "Running time of
Southern Pacific trains has
been cut by the schedule
which goes into effect July 22.
40 YEARS AGO
July 15, 1918 (Monday)
A 10-man crew of experi
enced firefighters has been
placed on a monthly salary
for the season i Crater na
tional forest.
From Local and Personal
column: "J. C. Aitken, state
superintendent of fish screens,
left Sunaay for visits on busi
ness." :
oWhal's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct It superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five er
six is goM.
1. To impeach the President
mens to remove him from of
fice: true or false?
2. Which of these islands
bears the same name as that
of a breed of dog; Crete, Nas
sau, Newfoundland, Bermuda?
u 3. Does the United States
have more or less land aea
than the Dominion of Canada?
4. In the Congress, ws the
vote to declare war on Japan
after Pearl Harbor unani
Km
&f Id
mous?
5. What is the highest de
nomination of paper currency
printed by the U.S. Govern
ment for circulation?
6. Is lead th heaviest of
metals?
7. In which American war
did Sir Henry Clinton fight?
8. Whai i the N.L.R.B.?
q 9. he moon exercises what
major physical effect on the
n earth?
u 10. Nam tft river that
forms the nijrtherik Boundary
Of KefhuckJ.
1. Valtfa (W Charges).
V. ffevfeualjaxt. I. Less. 4.
&o. 9. IMS Federal Xe
se97 JTote. t. JU (iridium).
. 7. Revolutionary. I., national
iLbor Relations Board. 9. Its
'gravalional attraction causes
O tides. 10. Ohio. . .
CLEMENCY GRANTED
Algiers (UPI) French
aigjiy headquarters announced
Monday night that clemency
had bei granted to nearly
2,800 Moslem nationalists in
keeping with Gen. Charles de
Gaulle's wishes for "French
unity." About 175 of the na
tionalists had been serving
prison sentences, and the oth
.ers.were undea various forms
'of hou arrest.
For Men Only
Men
Just in case you missed it, there was a signifi
cant item in this newspaper the other day. It was
printed in the "society" or "women's" section,
which is why you might not have seen it.
Anyway
It said
"The men have won the battle to keep their
women looking sexy instead of sacky. The de
curving silhouette of the gunnysack of last spring
is dead ..." .
yHAT'S more, this stoiy, written by a lady
United Press International writer named
Gay Pauley, gave the credit to us the men.
"It is clear that the grass roots protests from
husbands and taxi-drivers . . . have not gone un
heeded," it said.
We haven't checked with any taxi-drivers re
cently, but we know at least one husband who is
glad, glad, glad this abomination is to be re
moved. And we know at least one society editor who
took the plunge into the sack, so to speak, and
now wonders what to do about that humpy dress.
E.A.
Investigations & Investigations
Brickbats as well as bouquets have come the
way of the House Legislative Oversight subcom
mittee over its scrutiny of Bernard Goldfine's far
flung activities. This is the customary story of
legislative committee investigations, even if
sometimes the only brickbat throwers are those
shown up unfavorably.
Sometimes, however, an investigation has
been conducted with such meticulous regard for
the rights of the investigated, with such scrupu
lous attention to accepted rules of evidence, with
such careful basing of questions on facts, that
even those thrown on the defensive have refrain
ed from attacking the investigators' procedure or
motives.
That has been especially true 'when the public
has become convinced that the primary purpose
is fact-finding rather than punitive. Outstanding
examples were the probes by, Charles Evans
Hughes, as counsel for special N. Y. state legisla
ture committees, 1905-06, into practices of utility
and life insurance companies.
HARDLY anybody criticized, either, Sen.
Thomas J. Walsh (D-Mont.) in his 1922-24
inquiry into the oil lease scandals of the Harding
Administration, even though prominent political
and business leaders were disgraced. But much
criticism came the way of Sen. Burton K. Wheel
er (D-Mont.) for utilizing unsavory witnesses in
uncovering, at "about the
conduct m the Justice Department.
A decade later Sen. Hugo L. Black (D-Ala.),
now Justice Black, came under heavy fire for al
leged "fishing expedition" techniques in investi
gating utility holding companies. Two decades
later, it wasn t unmixed praise for ben. Jiistes Ke
fauver (D-Tenn.) for his heavily publicized in
vestigation mto organized crime. Yet, whatever
was thought of Harry S. Truman as president,
his investigation as Senator into industrial de
fense activities had been generally praised for its
techniques, aims and results. E.R.R.
Brother Milton
Milton Stover Eisenhower, now visiting Cen
tral America as nersonal representative of his
brnthpr DwioM David,
than was any other of
who reached maturity (a seventn died m in
fancy). Maybe that was because the two are so
different.
For one thing, the president of The .Johns
Hopkins University is nine years younger than
thp former resident of Columbia. For another,
Ike dislikes writing, also
.... -m - .1 ,
like that, whereas Milton's proiessionai career
long revolved around writing. His favorite read
ing is understood to be non-fiction.
ILIILTON worked on the Abilene paper and got
A" his degree from Kansas State in journalism.
He taught it for a time at his alma mater before
becoming U. S. vice consul at Edinburgh, where
he took courses at the famous university. Milton
is the brains of the family, Ike has said.
William M. Jardine, president of Kansas
State, had become Secretaiy of Agriculture in
1925 and the next year brought young Eisenhow
er to Washington as his personal assistant. In
December 1928 Milton became, at 29, the Agri
culture Department's director of information. He
held that post for 13 years.
Thn President Roosevelt made him assistant
director of the Office of War Information, to
handle its administration, undei the late Elmer
Davis. He was in charge of the relocation of Jap
anese on the West Coast, advised Secretaiy of
Agriculture (now Senator) Clinton P. Anderson
on reorganizing the Agriculture Department, was
president of Kansas State (1943) and Pennsyl
vania State (1950) before going to The Johns
Hopkins in 1956. E.R.R." . ' - - - - -
same time, scandalous
was alwavs closer to him
the six Eisenhower boys
"grammar and things
1
Dennis the Menace
'CKD SURE THE BEACH.'
Matter of Fact
"LIFE-ADJUSTED
ENGLISH" ... . .
Washington Maybe one
ought to go on writing about
Goldfine and Adams. But
f qtner, mere
seems to be
more long-
range signifi
cance in the
rj discovery, that
.n. Ill c x x t a a
more progres
sive educators
have now
Jos-ph Alsop progressed dc-
yond the English language.
One has seen the great mo
ment coming for quite a while.
Only consider the syntax of
the average Presidential press
conference. Or consider our
government's more formal
public pronouncements which
are so obviously produced by
an ingenious- machine, that
masticates cliches and used
uniform mush; homogenizes
blotting paper into a smooth,
the mash with oil of self-righteousness;
and rolls out the re
sult in press releases, all in
one continuous process.
.
SUCH signs as these have
long foretold the doom of
out-of-date English, with all
its tiresome apparatus of tense
and number, precise word
meaning and cumbersome
grammar. For long, indeed,
the school system has been the
only obstacle to the glorious
transition from the feudal age
of language into a newer,
brighter, freer era. . But now
at last, this inner citadel of
dark reaction is falling "before
the march of progress.
This happy conclusion is
based upon prolonged, de
lighted study of the current
controversy about American
education. If you read the doc
uments, you find that out-of-date
English is., still written
by the peevish minority who
think our schools should teach
the three R's, and possibly
punish the unfortunate young
with just a hint of science.
But you also find that quite
another language is usually
written by the progressives,
the advocates of life-adjustment,
the influential educa
tors who insist that teachers
hardly need to know what
they are teaching, so long as
they hold masters' degrees in
education.
A POOR reporter, untreat
ized in this bright new
tongue, dare not attempt a
comprehensive d e s c r i ption.
Battalions of trained philolog
ists would be required, just to
deduce the revolutionary language-principles
contained in a
single correspandence that has
come into this reporter's pos
session. Straight from an in
ner sanctum of the National
Education Association itself,
these letters are so progres
sive in their grammar, word
use and in all other ways that
they alone prove, for good
and all, the N.E.A.'s brave
Try and
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-By BENNETT CERF-
SOME RED FACES lit up the administration department of a
Utah penitentiary when an "honor" prisoner, highly re
garded and editor of the prison newspaper, escaped from the
grounds and disappeared.
There was one thing the
authorities could do and
they promptly did it. On the
masthead of the paper, the
escapee's title was changed
from "editor in chief' to
"editor at large."
A beefy corporation director
Completed his outline for a
new sales division, and eyed
his board of directors amiably. t
"This company is not going to
be run by steamroller tactics,"
he conceded. "Any director op
posed to my plan is requested
to indicate same by simply raising his hand and saying 1 resign.'
,
Tom Griffin, New Orleans scribe, has come up with a new proverb:
"One good turn usually gets the whole blanket."
0 1958. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features" Syridicste '"
LOOK AT UlM SMILE'.'
By Joseph Alsop
claim to be always in the fore
front. But maybe' it is not over
bold to offer just one sample
of the new, life-adjusted Eng
lish written by our pedagogue
liberators. It is a manifesto
against the hard-nosed, three-R-
minded minority, which is
published in the current "At
lantic Monthly" by Dr. Daniel
Tanner, B. Sc. M.S., and Ph.
D. Dr. Tanner, who is present
ly assistant professor of Edu
cation at San Francisco State
College, shows the way for
every other teacher of our
youth in his fine opening sen
tence: "Among the many attacks
levied at American public ed
ucation in recent months,
none has been more vocifer
ous than those which strike
at teacher preparation and
certification."
TUST that one word, "lev-
ied," is a proof of genius.
Old fogies still "level attacks"
and only "levy taxes". But
"levy" and "level" sound al
most the same, so why not use
one instead of the other? Here
we see one of the finest
achievements of life-adjusted
English the abandonment of
undemocratic distinction of
word-meaning.
Yet Dr. Tanner was not
slothfully content with just
one proof of the errors-of old
fogyism. In his single opening
sentence, he also achieved the
bold jump from singular to
plural, the fine confusion of
number, in that haunting
phrase, "none has been more
vociferous than those." From
this starting point, one can al
ready peer into the fully life
adjusted future, when our
young will write "they is,"
"she are" and "we am," and
get the pat on the back they
will then deserve.
TT is tempting to linger long-
- er with Dr. Tanner, for his
prose is also capable of many
a lyric ornament. Think, for
example, of the singing state
ment, "The student enrolled
in a special methods course in
each of his major and minor
areas." But it would be un
fair to all the others who have
surpassed Dr. Tanner, to emphasize-only
his accomplish
ments. The point about him
is that he is splendidly, hap
pily representative of a vast
and powerful horde of mod
ern American educators.
If you doubt it, go read al
most any current American
academic work on sociology
or psychology or even politics.
You will find a language as
far removed from English as
Czech is from Russian, and
full of such brilliant word in
ventions as David Reisman's
"privatization of women"
(which mainly means the ten
dency of stenographers from
small towns to be lonely in
big cities).
Thank God, then, the new
day has dawned. Enjoy it
while you can, for with tele-
Stop Me
Editorial
Comment
OREGON'S CHARLIE
PORTER: EL LIBERTADOR?
The man who in 1954 land
ed on almost everyone's un
popular side now is Hero No.
1 from here to the Antarctic.
We're talking about Charles
O. Porter, congressman from
the southwest quarter of Ore
gon (including Linn county)
and points south. Those points
include everything between
the Rio Grand and the South
Pole, for Charlie Porter has
become the biggest thing in
Latin America since Simon
Bolivar, the great El Liberta-
dor of the last century who
threw off the Spanish yoke.
Porter, a Eugene attorney
until two years ago when he
deposed veteran Harris Ells
worth, hasn't always been
cheered. In his first try against
Ellsworth in 1954 he advo
cated trade with Red China
the wrong thing at the wrong
time.
But he was in office only a
short time when fate began to
write a whodunit that was to
make Porter into not only the
best known House freshman
but perhaps the best known of
all the 496 members.
It's a long way from Latin
America to Europe, but the
disappearance of a young pilot
and a well-known foe of the
current Dominican regime
spanned the distance, because
the pilot's parents live in Eu
gene and asked for help. Por
ter, as their congressman, end
ed up with the request.
As the mystery has both
deepened and broadened it has
become obvious that the dic
tator the United States has
been aiding is nothing more
than a gang leader some
thing Latin Americans have
known for many a year. And
Porter, who started as a
sleuth, has become something
of an expert on the poUtics of
the land below. Always an
outspoken one, he has con
demned our policy of support
ing off-color "good neighbors"
and in doing so has become
the champion of every Span
ish-speaking country which is
trying to practice democracy.
This past week he was in
Venezuela and was cheered as
a national hero. Venezuelan
papers described him as "the
congressman from Venezu
ela." He previously has re
ceived similar treatment in
half a dozen other countries
To the South and Central
American, he is the antithesis
of Vice President Nixon who
rightly or wrongly stands for
the present'policy. Porter has
come to mean a change for
the better.
Porter still Isn't exactly a
hero in his own home town or
even his home country. Life
magazine, a right of center
periodical which rarely is
kind to a left of center Demo
crat such as Porter, last month
gave him the hero treatment
but only in its Spanish lan
guage edition.
This week the New York
Times, a buddy of the interna
tionalists, which Porter now
has become in a neglected lo
cale, gave him a big hand on
the editorial page. And News
week, Time and U.S. News,
among others, are beginning
to take Porter seriously.
It begins to look as though
an incautious young flier trag
edy and a freshman congress
man may bring a complete re
evaluation of western hemis
phere policy. And it s high
ti.e Capital Journal, Salem.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
How government does busi
ness note:
On Friday the august sen
ate of the United States pass
ed a minerals subsidy bill. It
provides a five-year subsidy
program for lead, zinc, fluor
spar and tungsten, with a
STOCK-PILING program for
copper.
The bill isn't yet law. Be
fore it can become law, the
house must pass it and the
President must sign it. The
house may not pass it. The
President may not sign it. In
stead, he may veto it.
But the senate has passed
it.
QUESTIONS:
Is it a good bill?
Should it become a law?
LET'S put it this way:
Speaking in general terms,
lead, zinc, fluorspar, tungsten
and copper are running out
of the producers' ears. Prices
are low and are tending to
fall lower because present
supply of these metals ex
ceeds present demand for
them.
A subsidy would RAISE
THE PRICE. That would
please the producers of lead,
zinc, fluorspar, tungsten and
copper. It would please the
people of the areas in which
vision in every home, the writ
ten word will soon be going
out.
(Copyright, 1958, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Iraqi Revolt Threatens U.S.
Mid-East
By CHARLES M. McCANN
UPI Foreign News Analyst
United State policy in the
Middle East appears to be
threatened with virtual col-
x n e revolt
in Iraq consti
tutes a diplo
matic "defeat
that could
turn into a
disaster.
It threatens
to cripple the
Middle East
ern treatv or
Cbarles M.
McCann
ganization the Baghdad
Pact which the United States
sponsored as part of its long
chain of alliances against Rus
sian Communist aggression.
It seriously weakens any
real meaning which the Eisen
hower Doctrine, planned to
strengthen pro-Western gov
ernments of the Middle East,
might have had.
It is a victory for President
Gamal Abdel Nasser of the
new United Arab Republic,
who aspires to make himself
th head man of the entire
Arab world.
Victory For Reds
In that it adds to the gen
eral turmoil in the Middle
East, it is a victory for Soviet
Russia's policy of penetration
and subversion in the Arab
states.
The Iraq rebellion came
while the pro-Western govern
ment of Lebanon is fighting,
with a discouraging lack of
success, a rebellion by pro
Nasser elements.
Finally, the revolt came
just one day before the four
Moslem members of the Bagh
dad Pact Turkey, Iraq, Iran
and Pakistan were to meet
in Istanbul, Turkey.
It seems not too much to
suggest that Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles must now
face 'the necessity for a really
agonizing review of American
policy.
Critics of State Department
policy might go back three
years in tracing a course of
events which can not be sep
arated from the crises in Leb
anon and Iraq.
Refused To Join
First, there is the Baghdad
Pact. Dulles conceived that
pact' and the United States
strongly sponsored it.
But the United States re
fused to join. It has adhered
to various committees of the
Middle Eastern treaty organ
ization but has rejected fre
quent strong appeals that it
become a full member.
Then came Nasser's seizure
of the Suez Canal in 1956.
Dulles sponsored a strong pro
gram of reprisals by canal
using oountries. But he backed
down, step by step, until the
these metals are produced be
cause it would help to keep
the mines operating instead
of shutting down.
A NOTHER question:
Is it economically wise to
SUBSIDIZE products that are
already in over-supply?
TjOR an answer to that, let's
turn to the farm program
of the past dozen years. The
farm program has SUBSIDIZ
ED OVER-PRODUCTION. As
a result, the warehouses are
bulging with surplus farm
products. These surpluses
hang .over the farm markets
of the future like a dark thun
dercloud. So
It must be assumed
Subsidizing over - produc
tion of lead, zinc, fluorspar,
tungsten and copper would
result in accumulated surplus
es of these metals that would
hang over the markets of the
future like a dark thunder
cloud. "V"OW for the BIG question:
Why does the senate of
the United States with the
disastrous example of the
farm subsidies before it pass
a bill that proposes to subsi
dize lead, zinc, ; fluorspar,
tungsten and copper, which
are already over-produced?
Well, it's like this:
There are areas in our
country where these metals
are important items in the
local economy. A senate bill
to subsidize them leads to be
lief in these areas that incum
bent senators are GOOD PEO
PLE TO VOTE FOR.
So
The senate passes the subsi
dy bill even though its mem
bers may hope the house fails
to pass it or the President
vetoes it.
THAT'S what we call POLI
TICS. ... .
Most thoughtful people
think we have too much poli
tics and too little statesman
ship. San Francisco (UPI)
Mayor George Christopher or
dered the French tricolor
flown over citv hall for four
days in honor of Bastille day.
It flew Friday. Saturday
and Sunday. Monday Bas
tille day someone forgot to
raise it
Policv With CollaDse
j
program became meaningless.
In November, 1956, Israel
attacked Egypt. Britain and
France seized the opportunity
to demand a cease fire and,
when it did not come about,
they attacked the canal zone.
The United States angrily de
nounced the attack and led
the United Nations in forcing
Britain and France to with
draw. Saved Nasser
Many people believe that
had it not been for Dulles'
part jn that, Nasser would
have been overthrown within
a few days. Instead, he was
handed a triumph and rela
tions between the United
Washington Report
By William
UNCOMPREHENSIBLE
BIGNESS
Washington No place in
all the world is so synony
mous with sheer, uncompre-
hensible big
ness as is the
Pentagon. Of
ficially the
-military head
quar t e r s of
the United
Mates, it ns
also in fact
the military
power center
of the free
WUlam S. White
world.
It is so vast as to have al
most no human quality at all
so vast as hardly to allow
comparison. A man could
spend the rest of his life in
this building without once
emerging again into the sun
light. No service, except that
last melancholy service for
one's own burial, is unavaila
ble in the Pentagon.
There are food stores, cloth
ing stores, drug stores, de
partment stores, dental and
medical offices, restaurants,
cafeterias,' florists, libraries,
telegraph offices and Protes
tant, Catholic and Jewish re
ligious services.
TlHIRTY thousand military
and civilian employees
work in the Pentagon, where
there are 3,000 clocks to
watch, if people are so in
clined. The building, though
only five stories high, has
three times the office space
of the 102 floors of the Em
pire State building in New
York and half again the area
of Chicago's mammouth Mer
chandise Mart.
Based here are 'the Army,
the Navy and the Air Force.
Men whose memories of mili
lary service are the memories
only of field and combat
would be struck by many
things in the Pentagon.
For example, to them a
colonel is a high officer, in
deed; the terrain was never
crowded with shouldered
eagles. In the Pentagon, colo
nels or Navy commanders
are not a dime a dozen; they
are a dime a hundred.
Around a central court five
acres in area, this vast thing
rises in five "rings." There
are 10 main corridors radiat
ing out like spokes and
there are 17 miles of corri
dors. Great and dramatic deci
sions are taken in a cool, shel
tered, hushed atmosphere like
that of a metropolitan bank.
One office may cut the orders
dispatching the Marines to
the Middle East while an of
fice 20 feet away hasn't a
clue of what is going on and
will learn of it only in the
newspapers.
rpHIS building is the ulti-
mate in American
mass
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States and Britain were ser
iously strained.
In 1957 came the Eisen
hower Doctrine, designed to
strengthen governments like
those of Iraq and Lebanon
against attack by any pro
Communist country such,,
say, as Egypt or Syria. It
proved to be a paper tiger.
Only recently, however, Dul
les broadened it and advanced
the possibility that the United
States might aid Lebanon with
its armed forces. But neither
the United States nor the U.N.
has given Lebanon any help,
though it can hardly be doubt
ed Egypt and Syria have given
massive help to the rebels.
S. White
manufacturing and assembly
line technique. Put all of De
troit's motor works together
or pile Sears Roebuck,
Montgomery Ward, Macy's,
Gimbels and Marshall Field's
one atop the other and you
would have some counterpart
in civilian terms.
The Pentagon directs the
spending of so much money
that the whole thing is past
belief. The current budget re
quest on Congress is for $39,
100,000,000 out of a total na
tional budget, for every form
of governmental outlay every
where, of $72,500,000,000.
Some senior congressmen,
who are among those who
must authorize all this money,
concede in confidence that it
is next to impossible for any
body in Congress to keep any
exact check Qon Pentagon
spending. At any given time,
there may be 10 to 15 billion
dollars flowing somewhere
along the military pipelines.
To isolate one of these bil
lions, and to be able to know
that it was going precisely for
this or that function, -would
not be easy.
Everybody connected with
the Pentagon, in short, tends
to become overwhelmed by
the immensity of the business.
The current secretary of de
fense, Neil H. McElroy, a tall,
powerful, quiet man, is en
gaged in an earnest but phil
osophical struggle to wrestle
the paper work of this be
hemoth of bureaucracy down
to some scale within human
grasp. His private comments
make it plain he is fully
aware that he is not on any
boy's errand.
i .
rpo predict that McElroy will
fail in this and it is nec
essary so to predict Is to
take nothing away from his
justified reputation as an ad
ministrator. What he has set
out to do is like taking up a
pick-axe to level Mt. Rainier.
The purpose is good; the pros
pect isn't.
Thus, though the Pentagon
is the butt of a thousand jokes
about red tape and extrava
gance and the uncivil war be
tween Army, Navy and Air,
there are other things to re
member. This immense struc
ture lying on the Virginia
side of the Potomac had much
to do with winning World
War II. And it houses the
largest number of dedicated
military professionals ever
gathered in one place.
Too, the Pentagon is a
world that these men never
made. Its reason for being, in
its present fantastic size and
cost, is to be found in the So
viet menace to mankind. If
the Pentagon is the most
swollen of all the official
faces of Washington, this is
why it is so.
(Copyright, 1S58, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.) -
Fred Brennan
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