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o O 0 4 Monday, July 28, IMS MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFO UNE "Zveryone in Southern tregoa Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 83 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W- RtJHL. Editor . HERB GREY Advertising Manarei GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. BRIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper q Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3 189". ) SUBSCRIPTION RATES Py Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year '$15.00 O Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. 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From (Side Glances): Post master Frank DeSouza head ed homeward with $20 worth of groceries in a paper bag." 20 YEARS AGO July 28. 1938 (Thursday) o Four blueblood bulls have been chasing blackberry pick Gers near Pleasant creek. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A number of politically-minded around here declare they are 'liberals' without knowing what it means, either." 30 YEARS AGO July 28, 1928 (Saturday) Herbert Hoover, presiden tial nominee, is heading this way to try his luck with Rogue river steelheads. More decorated private cars are need for the Amer ican Legion convention's pa triotic parade. 40 YEARS AGO July 28, 1918 (Sunday) Sixty-five women hold po sitions on Jackson county school boards. Treichler-Peirson, Inc.. auto mobile dealers, have moved to 1 a" r g e r quarters in the Garnett-Corey building at the corner of Main and Grape sts. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior: seven or eight is excellent; five or sn is good. 1. Does Easter always fall on a date before the first day of spring? 2. With what sports do you associate these names: Babe Ruth, Bill Tilden, Bobby Jones? 3. What government agency is indicated by the initials T. V. A. 4. What building is repre sented on the back of the $5 Bill? o o 5. Did the birth rate in the U. S. increase or decrease dur ing World War II? 6. Name the seven colors of the rainbow. 7. Is the esophagus the passage for food to the stom ach, or air to the lungs? 8. What is a caisson? 9. Name the President who subsequently became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 10. Which is the larger at birth, a bear or a porcupine? Answers: 1. No. (II cannot precede the spring equinox). 2. Baseball, Tennis, Golf. 3. Tennessee Valley Authority. 4. The Lincoln Memorial. 5. increased. 6. Red, orange, yel low, green, blue, indigo, vio let. 7. Food ! stomach. 8. Artillery ammunition wagon. 9. William Howard Taft. 10. Porcupine. . Idiosyncratic Lebanon Mountainous Lebanon, like mountain coun tries in general, is a stew of contradictions. Add to the mixture the fact that Lebanon was under French mandate from 1920 to 1941 and now has a government based on the French parliamentary system. Stir in the fact that the population is about half Moslem and half Christian. Season with an herb rare among Arab states orienta tion towards the West and you begin to get the savor of this idiosyncratic nation. The London "Times" has called Lebanon "pre-eminently ... a country of gifted money makers." Like France, it has a prosperous and influential middle class. Like the French, the Leb anese have a taste for violence and a talent for nonchalance. Taxis take U.. S. correspondents to the headquarters of Salaam and other warring chieftains; their telephone lines have not been cut. The Lebanese army maintains an Indonesian aloofness towards the rebels. In the midst of this odd civil war oil flows through the Lebanese pipelines at pre-Suez levels. Calm is the constant companion of chaos. THE Lebanese parliament which elects a Presi dent to succeed Camille Chamoun is typically idiosyncratic. The seats are alloted on a party basis but also by religious confession. Under a re distribution put through a year ago, the alloca tion of the 66 members is: Maronites (of the Ro man Catholic Uniate faith), 20 seats; Sunni Mos lems, 14; Shia Moslems, 12; Greek Orthodox, 7; Druses, 4; Greek Catholic, 4; Armenian Ortho dox, 3; Minorities (Armenian Catholic, Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish), 2. Lebanon is a mosiac of at least 15 different religious communities, and equity as among the sects is required by the constitution. Moreover, by agreement, the President of the republic is a nnstian usually a Maromte the Prime Min ister a Sunni Moslem. The idiosyncrasy extends ever further. Leb anon's pre-World War II Christian majority of 53 per cent has given way to a slight Moslem ma jority. But because the whole structure ,of the government is based on recognition of a Chris tian majority, no new census has been taken. The delicate religious balance is maintained by re fusing citizenship to any sizeable number of the more than 100,000 Palestinian refugees estimated to be in Lebanon. THE Palestinians are cal Communists carrying on the open revolt against the government of Chamoun. Under the constitution the President, who cannot immed iately succeed himself, is elected to a six-year term by the parliament, as m France. The Presi dent appoints the premier, who is responsible to parliament. The president can dissolve parlia ment and call for new elections. Lebanon was the first Middle East state to en dorse the Eisenhower Doctrine. The government victory in parliamentary elections last year was seen as really a vote for the West' as against Lgypt and the Soviet Union. But over and above the pro-West views of Minister. Charles Malik, Lebanon, an Arab league member, is first of all an Arab state. Dur ing tKe Soviet-Western contention over Syria last September, Malik told Parliament that Lebanon would aid Syria against any attack, despite his administration s open disagreement with the pro-Soviet Syrian regime. E.R.R. First Increase When we pay four instead of three cents post age on and after Friday, Aug. 1, as the basic rate on a first-class letter, and seven instead of six cents for an airmail one, we're paying the first letter mail increase in 26 years. Know any thing else, the Post Office Department had asked in proposing a five-cent rate for out-of-town let ters, that hasn't gone up in price for 26 years? The one-cent increase amounts to 16 2-3 per cent in airmail, 33 1-3 per cent in letter mail. Know anything else, the Department asks again, that has cost only one-third more over 26 years? In that period the average retail city prices of food have risen 185 per cent, of rent 45 per cent, of wearing apparel, 125 per cent. The new rates are supposed to boost postal revenues by $550 million a year. Don't think, however, that this means an end to the postal deficit. This had been estimated in the Budget as $676 million next fiscal year. Also, in raising postal rates Congress raised postal wages by an estimated $265 million. IF YOU grumble at paying four cents to mail a letter today, you might reflect that when the nation was founded in send one 200 miles (rates m parcel post today). Even for only 50 miles it was 7y2 cents. In the early days you had to pay something for delivery to your home or office. too. Even when rates were cost 25 cents to send a letter the maximum dis tance. And when the basic letter rate did go as low as three cents up to 3000 miles in 1851. this was only for a half-ounce, ior an ounce now. bo your great-great-grandfather would have undoubtedly said vou have-little cause to grumble in 1958. prominent among the Chamoun and Foreign in 26 Years 1789 it cost 15 cents to varied bv distance, as reduced in 1810 it still as against four cents E.R.R. Dennis the Menace -x. i i i sr mm te i 1 X 'V 1 I li. 3 III t iiVi .n,',.,. 'WW Mewrlllfl If I ,llJ, ... ,.t. .UMiJh 1. .... . rB-M jTOUGMTA Gm US ENOUGH FOOM IN THE POOU ' Mcrf fer of Fact by BACK TO ADAMS Washington Even the Mid die Eastern Munich has not made the Republicans forget the problem of S h e r m an Adams. Loud though rather tentative sighs of relief are going up. be cause the word has again been passed that nothing has T J J Joseph Alsop cnangea, dna Adams will go when the time comes. The sighs are rather on the basis of "I'll believe it when I see it." But the relief is real enough all the same. At the crucial moment, the catastro phe in Iraq forcibly switched the spotlight from Bernard Goldfine to the more major problems of the United States. The impression has been therefore growing that the White House might regard this rather costly dim-out of Goldfine as an excuse for re taining Gov. Adams in his present post. The impression was strengthened by the re cent praise of Adams by mem bers of the Cabinet; but this is now seen as preparation for Adams' departure with honor. The decision that Adams must go (if there is a decision rather than a mere hope and? and expectation among those who have passed the word) has quite certainly been made by Sherman Adams himself. THOSE who should know say that has happened in his administration. According to the same sources, the Presi dent's distress has been' so great that it will be better for Eisenhower himself if Adams goes, despite the President's unprecedented reliance on his subordinate. But there is too much between them. There is, for instance, the recollection of the time when Adams spent nights on end on a cot outside the fearfully ill President's hospital door. Hence the Presi dent has had to leave the de cision to Adams. Certainly there are only too many practical reasons for be lieving that the word-passers really must be right about Adams' prospective departure. For one thing, the case was really remarkably badly han dled, no doubt because the unfortunate Adams has al ways lived in such chilly iso lation. Even the President's statement about it was a mis fortune. And its three terrible words. VI need him" were ap parently inserted by Adams's private advisers over the pro tests of Press Secretary Hag erty. THEN Adams's own disclo sure of what he had re ceived from Goldfine was in complete. He said there were no suits, and it turned out there were two suits a petty matter, but a matter that sticks in the public mind. He said that he thought the hotel rooms in Boston were a per manent apartment maintained bv Goldfine. like a man's own house. And then it turned out that this permanent apart ment wandered all over the Sheraton-Plaza Hotel, and it further turned out that it also had the magic-carpet power to transfer itself to New York and even to Washington, to the extent of more than $200 worth of eating, drinking and lodging at the Mayflower. More petty stuff, you may say, and so it is in a way; but it is the sort of petty stuff that counts in campaigns. And here, of course, is the second reason why the Adams depar ture has become almost un avoidable. No practical Republican leader supposes that Iraq or anything else will make the Democrats forget about Adams, especially if Adams is still in the " White House. Every practical Republican Joseph Alsop expects a setback this year. (Some are predicting the kind of setback that will leave the President about as impotent as James Buchanan in his last four White House months.) If there is a setback, and Adams has not departed, Adams will be. given part of the blame by all and sundry. ' - "So how, the hell," as one Republican Senator profanely inquired, "can the little guy talk to any of us after that?" AS for the third reason that is pushing Adams out of the White House, it is simply the effect of any other course on, the standards of conduct in the government. . Here the point that cannot be got over is the acceptance of cash pres ents -from Goldfine by two of the most confidentially placed employees in the White House the secretaries to Adams and Thomas Stephens. These imprudent ladies could not be fired, so long as Adams was not fired. But if their conduct is established as proper, it will then be proper for any secre tary in any part of the govern ment in the A.E.C,, for in stance to accept Christmas checks from businessmen, or politicians, or newspapermen for that matter. ' In sum, the case . for Adams's going is just too strong, and he apparently knows it and is ready to go, even although he has tempo rarily ceased to be the center of attention. Probably he is wise enough to realize that his merciful obscurity is only temporary, unless he chooses the permanent obscurity of private life. (c) 1958 New York . Herald Tribune Inc. GOP Fund Crying the By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington (UPD The po litical grapevine: Republican campaign fund raisers' are crying the blues in an angry key. Collections i are way off al- though the party suffers the political handicap of being substan tially identi fied as the al ly of big bus iness and big Lyle C. Wilson money. It would seem that ample funds would flow from such an alliance but thefurid raid ers complain: Not so: An old timer among this town's po litical mechanics cited a com bination of discouraging cir cumstances which confronts Republican money raisers: Don't Follow Through '' The business elements of the electorate do not follow through politically. They hit hard to get the Democrats out of the White House in 1952 and to keep them out in 1956 but seem to feel now that they won their political battle, and no longer need to vigorously support anyone. The industrial fat cats who put their cash on the barrel-head over the earlier years of this century, when the Re publicans were securely in the majority, are dying off.; Congressional investigations have scared off some poten tial contributdrs. Some bus inessmen who contributed substantially to the Republi cans in recent years now tell party collectors that the GOP will be licked in this year's congressional elections, and that they do not want tp be mixed up in it. The old timer, said the Democrats would be in as bad a situation or worse but for Future of This Week; Iraq Not By CHARLES M. MCCANN UPI Foreign News Analyst The future of the Middle Eastern Treaty Organization is likely to be decided in Lon don this week. Seer etary of State John Foster Dulles is in London to confer with the four ac tive members of the alliance Turkey, Iran, Pakis tan and Great Britain. Iraq, the fifth member, is f or? Charlei M. McCann Washington Report By William THE BRETHREN Washington The home of The Brethren is a great, blazingly white temple across rTW" which, etched in stone, is this mot t'o Equal justice under the law. The Breth ren are the nine justices of the Su preme Court, Willam S. White -the world's most influential tribunal and the only one of its kind. This independent branch of the Government of the United States is at once the most majestic and the least aggres sive oi all the six faces of official Washington. This court is guardian' of the Constitution. It asserts and sometimes actually uses the right to veto the acts of a Congress or a President as unconstitutional. But it has no military force at its com mand, as does the President no hold over the national purse, as does Congress. In fact, the court has really no power whatever to enforce i what it says no power ex cept the greatest power of all. This is a peculiar moral force arising from the long Anglo American 5tradition for play ing the game as the rules pro vide, or as they may be au thoritatively interpreted. ..''.-" rPHIS national sense of de cencv has thus far, for nearly two centuries, been more persuasive than dive bombers. . . The present court is like a slice of the country. The Chief Justice, Earl Warren, is a big hail-fellow as breezy as his native California-and a little inclined, in the view of some critics, to be too cheerfully quick and Western in settling - Raisers, Blues the windfall of campaign funds from organized labor. The Republicans, he contin ued, need a fund gimmick of some kind, perhaps an income tax reductions up to $500 for political contributions. The tax free riches of organized labor are spent liberally in behalf of Democratic candi dates. The Senate Republican Campaign Committee staff re cently cited a survey which reported that of $1,078,852 spent by labor groups in the 1956 campaign, all but $3,925 went to the Democrats. The Republican Party in Washington State selected last winter a candidate to op pose the reelection of Demo cratic U. S. Sen. Henry M. Jackson. John R. Lewis, the Republican nominee, estab lished campaign headquarters in Seattle. After 2Vz months, Lewis withdrew for lack of campaign funds. Such inci dents embitter Republican fund raiders. "The conservative cause," said the old timer, "is going to wither away." Conservatism's Decline The old timer probably is right about that. The wither ing process has been under way for some time. The pro cess was on public display six years ago when conserva tive elements of the Repub lican party were divided, un certain and afraid to support the presidential candidacy of the late Sen. Robert A. Taft. Twelve years before that the conservatives were mouse- trapped by the supporters of the late Wendell L. Willkie. By mail, telephone and tele graph and with packed gal leries, the Willkie-for-Presi-dent forces put on a national convention show which con fused and defeated the party regula'rs, enabling Willkie to kidnap the 1940 Republican presidential nomination. President Eisenhower was METO To not expected to attend. The revolution in that country, the only Arab member, apparent ly makes it certain that it will withdraw from the pact. The loss of Iraq is a se vere blow to the members of the alliance, and to the United States which sponsored it. But Turkey, Iran and Pak istan have announced they in-i tend not only to maintain the alliance but to strengthen it. To this end, Turkey and Pakistan urgently want the United States to become a full member. Nasser a Factor This, dispatches from Wash- S. White some cases of old and infin ite complication. The senior member of the court in service, Hugo Black of Alabama, is as withdrawn as Warren is outgoing thin faced, ascetic, with something of the worn, rubbed look of an old and much-used law book. The urban, intellectual East is typified by Justice Felix Frankfurter of Massachusetts, who is spry, witty, wiry and full of the joy of life. For years Frankfurter, a Frank lin Roosevelt appointee, was looked upon with great fear by the ultra-conservatives. He was pictured as the head and master of a classroom radicalism that was training its junior officers in the Har vard Law School for the sole purpose of joining Field Mar shal Frankfurter in an ulti mate assault upon every Union League Club and man agement group in this nation. i fTHE COURT has long memo ries of many ironies. A present irony 'is that Frank furter, no doubt with some wry private thoughts, has be come something of a hero to the legal conservatives. For the court of 1958 in a most polite and fair-minded way- is fundamentally divided along what might roughly be called conservative and lib eral lines. And Frankfurter sometimes is actually the chief of the conservative group. Generally speaking, he takes a rather traditional and reserved view of the proper role of the court. He does not gladly chal lenge Congressional acts though many in Congress have very often challenged his acts. The jso-called liberal fac tion is headed by Black and Warren, with Justice William O. Douglas in their company and Justice William J. Bren nan Jr. sometimes but not always with them. The hard-core conservatives are Justice Harold H. Burton, Tom C. Clark and Charles E. Whittaker. The two Justices who are perhaps the court's outstand ing Constitutional authorities, Frankfurter and John Mar shall Harlan, form a gener ally uncommitted third force.. On the whole, however, they are more likely to come down on the side of restraint rather than of innovation in ques tions of the court's proper powers. THROUGH history the court -- has been under intermit tent attack. Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to pack it for being too conservative on economic issues. And where 20 years ago the advanced lib erals were after the court, the ultra-conservatives are after it today. The court that was not lib eral enough two-decades ago is now, in the eyes of the right wing, far too liberal mainly because of its anti segregation decision and its various rulings restricting government action against Communists o r suspected Communists. The Brethren well know all this history. They are not, however, greatly disturbed. Time is long upon the high bench, and all things pass effered to the GOP in 1952 with the recommendation that he could win. He won easily and repeated in 1956. Those were personal triumphs, how ever, which have not accomp lished much, if anything, to ward repair of the dislocated party machinery. Hew To Held FALSE TEETH More Firmly in Place Do your falsa teetb annoy and em barrass by slipping, dropping or wob bling when you eat, laugh or talk? Just sprinkle a little FAS TEETH on your plates. This alkaline (non-acid) powder holds false teeth more firmly and more comfortably. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Does not sour. Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FASTEETH today at my drug counter. Be Decided Expected ington say, the United States will not do. The United States has joined the military, anti-sub version and economic commit tees of the pact. It has refused to take full membership large ly because President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic detests it. Nasser takes the stand that the alliance weakened Arab unity, because Iraq joined it. Actually, what he meant by unity was that it impeded his own ambition to seize the mastery of the Arab world. Dulles sponsored the alli ance. He did so to complete a chain of alliances against Soviet' aggression which ex tends from Arctic Norway through Western Europe and Western Asia to the Far East. The METO alliance was signed in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1955. It provides not only for military cooperation but for cooperation in fighting Com munist subversion and in eco nomic affairs. Kept Jordan Out 'Iraq joined the alliance de spite Nasser's bitter protests. Though he failed to keep Iraq out, he did succeed in keeping Jordan from joining it. The METO alliance has been known as the Baghdad Pact because it was signed there, and its headquarters have been maintained in that capital. It can hardly be called the Baghdad Pact any longer, however, and its headquarters most probably will be shifted to Ankara, Turkey. But the secret documents of the pact on military strat egy and tactics and on Com munist subversion will not be shifted. The Iraqi rebels seized them. The best that can be hoped is that they will not go eventually to Russia. The Iraqi revolt was a great victory not only for Nasser but for Russia. Reds Invite Shah The revolt itself effectively removed one member from the pact. The Soviet government at once started to work on weak ening it further. Shah Mo hammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran was invited to visit Russia, in obvious hope that Iran's part in the alliance might be weak ened.. The Kremlin knew it could not seduce Turkey. So it put a big army adjacent to the Turkish frontier and started alleging that Turkey intended to attack Iraq. No specific plans have been disclosed for offsetting Iraq's loss to the pact. It seems pos sible Dulles may make some dramatic proposal. In any event, Allied METO policy must be radically altered. LOTS OF NERVE St. Croix Beach, Wis. (UPD Service station attendant Ronald Anderson told author ities that a bandit who held him up two weeks ago either has a short memory or a colos sal nerve. Anderson said the bandit returned during the week end to buy gasoline. away. Come next October, upon reconvening from the summer recess, the nine black- robed men will file in at noon. The crier will call out, "God save the United States and this honorable court!" and the long march of justice will go serenely on. (Copyright. 1958. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) m. m : 't f J fere?; I FRIENDLY, In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What's the big news today? As this is written, there is none for which let us b duly thankful. The BIG news is apt to bt BAD news. MEEDLE - IN - HAYSTACK ' note: Search planes and ship made a final sweep of that South Atlantic the other da for a tiny mouse and th rocket nose cone that carriet the mouse through space and (presumably) carried it baoji again. Try this: Imagine, if you can, tbji VAST expanse of the SouA Atlantic ocean. Then imagin an object about the size ant shape of the cylinders i which liquid gas is delivers to the customer. Then TRY to imagine th task of finding an object ceT that size in an area of thai almost unimaginable magni tude. By comparison, finding the needle in the hayslc would be Basy. IfHY is finding this obj " so important? It's like this: It is relatively easy to skeot an object (say a missile) ttf yond the earth's atmosphere. It is quite difficult to bring it back to earth again because, at the high speeds at which ft will return (because of th pull of gravity) the friction o the air will burn it up unleoi an unburnable materiaj be found. CONCLUSION: V' We're seeking an u burnable material. In such 9 search, experiments are neces sary. We're doing the experi menting. If we don't find sflcl a material, maybe the Rue sians will. That would giv them a big advantage i missile warfare. What of the mouse? 99 mouse was put in to give mi an idea as to whether it trill be possible someday to sent a human being out into spaca and bring him back ftgaim safe and sound. 1UHY do we want to do thmt? " Well, why did Colum bus sail off into the then dreaded and AWFUL spaee beyond the horizon of thft Western ocean? The answer: He wanted to find out whether human beings could do it and COME BACK. The only way to find out was to TRY. Human being a strange animals, aren't thef MORE about human beings: The teletype report pn tains this terse itemr "Russia's greatest . soedfer star Eduard Streltsov will no longer lead his team to victory. The paths of glory led him today to a 12-ye prison sentence for AS SAULT AND HOOLIGAN ISM." ' WHAT happened? Some people can taje success in stride. Some can't. It goes to their heads ani ruins them. They think they're so big they can do anythinf and get away with it. Strelt sov was one of this tribe. It's at least interesting to know that Russians act tha way too. They AREN'T super men. They're just human br ings. ' The first export shipment from what is now the United States included lumber sob to England in 1608. 3 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 X LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE