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4 Sundry, August 3, 1958, MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. ; MEI)FORDTRIBUNE Everyone in Southern vregon Reads The Mau mtmne Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph. SP -2-6141 ROBERT W HUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manage GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL a ADAMS. Cuy tailor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newsnaoer Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act o March 3 189. SUBSCRIPTION RATES P7 Mail In Advance: Cony We Daily and Sunday I year $15.00 Daily and Sunday mot. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year tAZti By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagi Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Taler.t 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 Otflcial Paper o I Jackson 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 Francisvo. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. Si Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassocITatiQn 3M3 U KJ g ..ll. .-g-TITT-Hl Flight ro Time V.edford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10., 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO August 3. 1948 (Tuesday) Three valley ranches will provide settings for a movie, The Last of the Wild Horses." Charles Hoppe is establish ing an orchid farm n Med ford. 20 YEARS AGO August 3, 1938 (Wednesday) A total of 196 airplanes used Medford airport in July. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Quite a number of the Older Girls have started early fall knitting, between swings at mosquitoes." 30 YEARS AGO August 3. 1928 (Friday) Eugene A. Orr, home for the summer with his parents, Is an honor student at Hill Military academy in Portland, The Ashland post of the American Legion is preparing a float 25 feet wide for the Legion convention here this week. 40 YEARS AGO August 3, 1918 (Saturday) Evans creek and Applegate bean growers are forming an association to sell beans .to the government by the car load. The Medford public library has received today a request from the American . Library association's headquarters for more books from the commu nity for servicemen overseas. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; even er eight is excellent; five er sis is good. 1. Supply the missing word in this saying: "It depends upon whose --is gored." 2. Would you guess that Man O .War sired 84, 184, or 284 colts? 3. What is the zodiacal sign for persons born between Dec. 22 and Jan. 23? 4. Number 10 Downing Street is the address of which important English govern ment official? 5. Locate these football sta diums Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, and Cotton Bowl. 6. Is it Jupiter or Saturn that is the largest of the planets? 7. The noted Carlsbad Cav erns are located in which southwestern State? 8. Was George Eliot the pen name of a man or woman? 9. The first U.S. census was tabulated in 1790, 1800 or 1810? 10. Bassoon is the name of a type monkey, musical instrument or receptacle? Answers: 1. Ox. 2. 184. 3. Capricornus. 4. Prime Min ister of Great Britain. 5. Mi ami Fla.. New Orleans. La., Dallas, Tex. 6. Jupiter. 7. New Mexico. 8. Woman. 9. In 1790. 10. Musical instrument. LONELY PEOPLE Weston - Super - Mare, Eng land (EH) Mrs. Elsie Good all was fined $8.40 Friday for keeping her radio on full blast from dawn to midnight. She said she did it "out of the goodness of my heart there are so many lonely people here." Garbage and Zoning A garbage dump is not a pleasant thing. At worst, it can be and a noxious eyesore. out of sight and smelhng But the American people are great producers of garbage. Garbage will not simply disappear if one closes one s eyes and wishes it to go away. It's got to be taken somewhere, and disposed of. No amount of wishful thinking can alter that. CO, WE are confronted with-the problem of what to do writh it. And, in the nature of things, that problem devolves largely on the people who have the responsibility Medford's City Sanitary Service company has found itself in a position ?! 1 J J 1 . J criticized no matter wnat use of the old dump, on burg hill and south of area which is building up city, limits; the new Manor will be built just through it. So that dumping area must go. Also, the facts of the disposal area make it garbage dumping. ASA RESULT of these things, the company " for a number of months has been touring the county looking for a place which is close enough to permit hauling there to be done economically, and wrhich is far enough away from other devel opments so that it will not be a noxious nuisance It thought it had found it in a canyon south east of Jacksonville, bought a 360-acre plot of land, put m roads, and It also notified the residents of the town, about its plans. It believed, we are solved the problem to the satisfaction of every one involved. ' DUT the people of Jacksonville got to thinking about what it would be like to have a garbage dump a mile or so away, and opposition began to build up, understandably. Petitions were signed, attorneys were con tacted, and the matter county planning commission. Those protesting declared the dump, that and historic little town, would limit the growth, damage it as a tourist attraction, constitute a nuisance, prevent establishment of a planned dis tribution reservoir, and be detrimental and depre ciative of property rights.- The garbage company, on the other hand, declares that it would not is more than a mile from the nearest home, it says; it is over a ridge and is not visible from the town; drainage is away from the city; there would be little burning they plan to use, covering the garbage with earth periodically, would prevent the growth of a ro dent population or pollution of air and water. ALSO, the company, with some justice, pointed nnf -.- !. . l "fr'c wcT.f- 1iiTvir !-.--- 4-r uub uiat uic v-bjr o the town proper, and adequately covered or be closed, and that Jacksonville people could use he new dump free- of charge. And it also objected, with some reason, to a rush job of spot zoning aimed specifically against he company and its operation The proposal for an interim zoning ordinance, submitted hastily to the planning commission, was just this. Spot zoning, the company maintains and we agree, is no way to go about solving a problem which is far larger than the one at hand. ON THE basis of evidence, presented so far, o -l nf oi .! T.f IT. n 4--"i- lti lf-erl-f .iTrI onr the garbage company has The dump, certainly, der the strictest rules and it ever from becoming a nuisance and the com pany readily agrees that this is acceptable. And, while we heartily sonville s fears about a wonder if they are not -i tneir oDiections Known, concerned about the "threat" since it is hidden away in a canyon, out of DUT we think there is a larger and more im '""'portant issue at stake here. Twice in the past decade, the voters of Jack son county have voted down county zoning. If it had been adopted, just this sort of prob lem probably would never have arisen. And, if it had, there would have been orderly procedures to handle it not the attempts to rush through an interim ordinance the full implications of which cannot be adequately studied in just a day or two. "IXT'E SUGGEST that the people of Jackson county do some hard thinking about the need for county zoning. The garbage dump dispute, the attention cre ated by the use of sub-standard. housing from the old housing project as homes in areas where they will detract from the values of existing resi dences, the building up of unsightly "fringe" areas a growth unplanned and uncontrolled are doing the county and its people no good. No one, obviously, wants any unit of govern ment to tell them what they can or can't do with their own property. But worse. Would the people of Hill, or Foots Creek, wrant a garbage dump or junk yard built in their midst? There's little they couia ao to prevent it, as both a hazard to health At best it should be kept - distance. of disposing of it. where it is going to be ! 1 Ti T Jl it aoes. it is enaing tne the west side of Barne Barnett road. That is an rapidly: it is now in the $5,500,000 Rogue Valley above it, and the Freeway terrain in the White City unsuitable for unlimited otherwise developed it, city of Jacksonville, and informed, that it had was brought before the close to their attractive be harmful. The dump of trash, and the method pcouu uiuupviuoci tu one which has not been otherwise treated could the better argument. should be operated un regulations to prevent sympathize with Jack new nearby dump, we a little tardy in making i . i and pernaps a bit overly sight. the alternative is even Phoenix, say, or Gold things stand. E.A. Dennis the Menace 'let go. Joey. isao5CMwks hmb mas. msm. CPNTmV&NONe Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop OUR GOVERNMENT'S UNTRUTHS Washington The time has come, once again, to take a very grave step in this space It is time to "SUB say bluntly that the Ei senhower ad- m i n istration is guilty of gross untruth concerning the n a ti onal de fense of the United States The false jos-pb Alsop claims were most succintly pnt by the President himself in his last state of the nation message "We have now," he told the country, "a broadly based and efficient defensive strength including a great deterrent power . . . but unless we act wisely and promptly, we could lose (the) capacity to de ter attack or defend our selves." He then outlined the action he proposed to take and he concluded with this promise: "We intend to assure that our vigilance, power and technical excellence keep abreast of any realistic threat that we face." THITHER the President was consciously misleading the nation, or he silently decided to break his promise later on, or he has been misinformed about the facts. The third al ternative is not only prefer able;, it is also highly prob able. But that does not change the hard facts about which the President has been misin formed. Nothing will change them but a vastly greater na tional effort to "keep abreast" of the "realistic threat we face." The time of deadly danger will begin soon, during the period the Pentagon calls "the gap" the years between 1960 through 1963 or 1964. Massive orders for hardware must be placed immediately indeed they should have been placed last winter if we are going to make the feeblest pretence of "keeping abreast" during the years of the gap. The prospective results of our present, fantastically in adequate effort were given in detail in the last report in this space. They may be suf marized as follows: ' T7IRST, we shall retain a A modest margin of super iority in manned bambers throughout the years of the gap unless, the Kremlin puts its new, very long-range, su personic jet bomber into early production, as must of course be expected. (It is not expect ed by the Administration, but all of the Administration's ex pectations are based on the kind of reading of the grim in telligence that experience has repeatedly warned against.) Second, the NATO esti mates give the Soviets a strength in air defense that is at least two times, if not three or four times, greater than our own air defense strength; and this wide margin of supe riority will be maintained throughout the years of the gap. This means, of course, that the balance of manned bomber strength must be weighted in favor of the So viets; for our manned bomb ers are now increasingly vul nerable to interception by the more advanced defensive wea pons. Third, we shall be sending a few intermediate Tange mis siles to our NATO allies in the gap years. Meanwhile the So viets will acquire between 1.000 and 2,000 ballistic mis siles with suitable ranges to neutralize or destroy all our overseas air bases, on which the striking power of our manned bomber force heavily depends. And fourth, the U.S. vs. U.S.S.R. score in opera tional intercontinental mis siles in the gap years wjll be U. S. 0 ICBMs in 1960 vs. I J' m it U.S.S.R. 100 ICBMs in 1959 U.S. 30 ICBMs vs. U.S.S.R 500 ICBMs in 1960; U.S. 70 ICBMs vs. U.S.S.R. 1000 ICBMs in 1961; U.S. 130 ICBMs (plus a few submarine borne Polaris, perhaps) vs U.S.S.R. 1500 ICBMs in 1962 and U.S. 130 ICBMs (plus more Polaris) vs. U.S.S.R, 2000 ICBMs in 1963. - PURTHERMORE, only a few score more of the Navy's Polaris missiles will atler the balance in 1964. And the first solid-fueled Minuteman mis sile, on which the Pentagon is gambling the American fu ture, cannot possibly be ready for operational use before the end of 1963 or early 1964. It will probably be later than this. If this is "keeping abreast,' one would like to know how the Administration defines "falling behind." The effect of the present policy is indisput able. It will aUow the Soviets to gain an overwhelming su periority, it is only necessary to look back a few years, to the last time this reporter took the same grave step of charging official untruth about the national defense, That was when the egre gious Louis A. Johnson was swearing he was "only cutting fat, not muscle." The, Truman Louis ' Johnson disarmament policy ended in the Korean war. But at least Truman and Johnson then had the excuse that the United States still possessed a virtual monopoly of nuclear striking power. Now we are flaccidly let ting the Soviets gain an over whelming superiority in this crucial area where once we enjoyed a monopoly. We are doine this moreover, after abandoning superiority to the Soviets in almost all other arms areas. Can any sane man suppose that this folly is not immeasurably more danger ous than the follies of Louis Johnson? Or can any sane man seriously suppose that the end-result will not be im measurably more terrible? At this instant, the last chance to save ourselves is slipping through our hands. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune 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 lent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Why Hunt Doves? Dear Editor, and Bird Watchers: Will some one please tell me why there is open hunting on the mourning doves?' I have lived most of my life on a farm and love to hear their calls. As a child, father always told us to be especially nice to the doves as they were the farm ers best friends. I never heard of them harming anything and there certainly isn't any food to speak of in one. They do not multiply very fast. A young pair just recently appeared in my yard. I threw them some crumbs and told the children not to molest them. The next day the chil dren found .one run over by a car and a day or so later the other one disappeared, probably caught by a cat. (Name on File) Medford LOSS IS UNIQUE Chicago (UPD Reynolds Howard held a unique distinc tion Friday. He was the first person ever to report the loss of a bass drum. It fell out of the rear of his station wagon along an expressway. Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann BEFORE THE SUMMIT The immediately critical question for us in the give-and-take about a summit meeting is not where it is held, or who is invited, or under what rules the meet ing is con- i "V I auciea. it is Vi stA A whether the jjjCNOtJ postponed un- waiter Lippmann "i alter ar rangements have been made for the withdrawal of the American troops now in Leb anon. For unless this can be done, the President could hardly hope to stand up ef fectively to Khrushchev's at tacks. , If it can be done and, ii as seems indicated after the week end meeting in' London, the new Iraq government is recognized, the issue at -the summit will be transformed. The issue will not be bur in tervention, or any alleged ul terior scheme to conquer Iraq, but what can be done by the great powers to stabilize the Middle East. On that question we can, if we collect our wits, talk on equal terms. Nor wiU it be so necessary for the President to protect himself by putting up a procedural barricade. TN MANY ways the most in--" teresting development since the crisis began has been the evidence that in Gaullist France we have an ally who is able to contribute what the Western nations most need: loyalty to their vital interests which is not satellite-ism or me-tooism but is independent and constructive, carried on in the style which is becoming to great powers. If anybody has read all the notes which have been ex changed, he must have found, it seems to me, that the most self-respecting and effective rebuttal of Khrushchev's charges came from Paris. Moreover, if Washington had it all to do over again if we could erase the panicky and miscarried cleverness of the suggestion of a meeting in New York it would be in Gen. de Gaulle's proposal that we would find expressed our best interests. For having en In the Day's News By FRANK Foreign affairs: iebanon nas a new presi dent. On the second ballot, the Lebanese parliament and OP POSITION forces rallied be hind the 66-year-old army chief of staff. The news of hehab's election was greeted with joy by the strife-torn na tion. The tense armed men surrounding the parliamen tary building rebels and government forces alike emptied their guns into the air in celebration. The choice of a new pres ident by the opposing factions could mean the end of the 13 week-old political crisis AND THE WITHDRAWAL OF 10 THOUSAND AMERI CAN TROOPS FROM LE BANON. WONDERFUL! " Let's now GET OUR TROOPS OUT and quit acting like imperialists. ILfORE on the Lebanon af- iTl fair- Chehab's landslide election is considered a triumph for American trouble shooter Robert Murphy, who was sent to Lebanon to find a way to end the crisis. He ie credited with lining up Chehab as the only candidate who would be supported by both sides. A thought: Here in the State of Jeffer son where we haven't too much respect for striped pants and official cocktail parties but hold COMMON SENSE in high esteem let s start a movement to have Murphy named secretary of state. In the conduct of our for eign affairs, we need more horse sense and less protocol. BACK to the home front. The Institute 'of Life In surance reports this morning that thrift-minded Americans have made life insurance the nation's No. 1 savings medi um. It says the number of policy holders in legal re serve life insurance com panies rose to a record 109 million at the end of 1957, or 63 per cent of the nation's en tire population. TTMMMMM. Hi No political stuff. No gun ning for votes in election years. Just plain private, free-enterprise SAVING. A prediction: Over the long pull, this kind of saving will beat the political cradle - to - the-grave stuff all hollow. gaged ourselves under what seemed like dire compulsion in a dead-end street, what was needed was time and a quiet ing down of the crisis in order to extricate ourselves in an orderly way and without too much loss of face. rpHE rise of -French diplo macy carries with it the promise that in shaping a Mid dle East policy for the West, the European continental na tions will play an increasing role. This is most desirable. For while Great Brtan re mains our senior ally, an Anglo-American duet does not bring out the best capaci ties in both countries. To speak frankly, the disparity in wealth and power is so great that London alone does not stand up to Washington and is not able to -contribute to the alliance what the al liance most needs, loyalty with genuine independence and fearless thinking. This is not to say that the West needs must not rest on conformism, satellite-ism, me tooism. The United States gov ernment and the American people, burdened as they are with world repsonsibilities for which they are unprepared, need above all intelligent and candid friends to help them find the way. As Americans we should rejoice at every evidence, such as we have rec ently had from Paris, that we are among equals who are first-rate in the quality of their minds and their sensi bilties. The President has now pro posed that the summit meet ing be held in about ten days to two weeks. This may pos sibly be time enough to take care of the intervention in Lebanon and the recognition of Iraq. We may know in the next few days. In any event it is not time enough to work out with our allies a modern policy for the Middle East. But as a stopgap it might be enough to agree to make it clear at the summit that we are not intending to restore the past, that we are no intending to stand pat, but that we regard ourselves as at the beginning of prolonged ne gotiations for a new order in the Middle East, (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. JENKINS TN conclusion: ( Nebraska state employees are smiling these days. Their paychecks are beginning to arrive. They have been badly delayed here lately and the state's job holders have been having to stave off their cred itors until they could get their checks. It seems the state treasurer, Mrs. Bertha Hill, has been forced to sign the checks BY HAND. It was a slow process, and she was getting FAR be hind. But the problem has been solved. A signature plate for a payroll check signing machine arrived yesterday and the checks are rolling out fast. rPHAT'S the modern world for you. In these days government spends money so fast it has to buy fancy machines to sign the checks speedily enough to keep up. Editorial Comment DISCRIMINATION The $500 damage suit filed recently by a Negro who had a motel reservation, then was refused quarters when he ar rived, brings to mind the fact that such discrimination is banned by "Oregon's civil rights statute. The Negro probably will collect. The incident also causes us to recall an experience we once had. Like so many others "who feel the "grass is greener in the other fellow's yard," we quit a newspaper job to "buy a motel and retire." One evening a big Cadillac drove up. We noted the car first, rather than the occu pants. Closer' examination however, disclosed the car contained two colored couples. They wanted a "double," which in motel nomenclature means a unit with accomoda tions for two couples. These were the first colored customers we had encoun tered in the new business, and it was with -some misgivings that we watched them "Sign. the guest register. As though to reassure us one of the men remarked: "I am an attorney at Berkeley and my friend here is a public relations con sultant." When the two couples checked out the next morning the motel unit was so clean it hardly appeared to have been used. Everything had been picked up and there were no (By M-T Staff . A youngster about whom we have heard had, it was re ported by his family, two ambitions: One, to be a garb age man, and, two, to be a "dead carrier." They figured out the first one, all right, but it took them a little while to determine that his secondary ambition was to drive a hearse. V City pdlice last week re ceived a complaint from a resident of this cily, who said that a rooster in Ihe neighborhood caused "loud and continuous noises, par ticularly in the early hours of the morning," according to the dead-pan police log book. The owner, who said the bird was a pet. agreed to do something to end the rural flavor provided by the early-rising bird. : Correspondence from a rural friend: "Last week at 1 p.m. on a perfectly calm day, a very large oak tree fell in the meadow here. "It happened to be in a strategic place where lines went in different directions including the main electrical and telephone lines for this ranch, as well as the take-off lines to the irrigation pump and one of the houses. "It took several crews of Copco men to repair damage, including setting in a new pole. The lights finally were on again about 11 o'clock that night. "In the meantime, those at the ranch house had gone' to bed. Some time in the night one of them awoke to hear what sounded like a noisy party going on downstairs. They went to investigate. "One of the children had been playing a record-player at high volume at the time the electricity went off." A staff member remarked on Thursday (which, if you recall, was July 31. the day before the new 4c postage rale went to effect). "I wish .1 could mail out my Christ mas cards tonight." . We know a woman who went one better. She DID mail out a Christmas card Thursday. '..- And we also have heard - about a woman who pro posed what she considered to be a temporary answer to the upped postage price: Buy a large supply of first class stamps at 3c before the price went up. . . . The Saturday Evening Post recently had a cover picture which showed a hot-rod-type speedboat towing . a water skier through the middle of a bunch of boats occupied by: wrathy fishermen. The picture gave a taste of the shape of things to 'come for the county court, which probably will be charged with regulating the use of Howard Prairie and Emigrant reser voirs when completed. One of the toughest jobs in the world, we suspect, will be keeping the skiers and the fishermen in different parts of the lake and away from each others' throats, too. We can just see that jaunty sher iffs department speedboat now, all equipped with red light and siren. Well, that's the way it is elsewhere. Why-not here? cigarette butts, beer cans or other mementos, such as white travelers are apt to leave behind them. ' . Later, as we became more familiar with the motel busi ness, and also the Oregon law, we had no qualms about the race or color of the customers. Furthermore, we did not en counter the prejudice on the part of other motel guests that so often is given as the reason for denying accommodations to colored persons. Today it is not unusual to see colored persons eating in the dining rooms of Portland's better hotels. Furthermore, they are accepted there as guests. And rare indeed is the motel or restaurant that still attempts to turn them away. . The civil rights amend ments made by the 1957 legis lature put teeth in the law, for one thing. Actually, however, we feel that people also are be coming more tolerant, at least here in the west. Grants Pass Courier. , PROGRESS? One reason, seldom men tioned, why Oregon- has not attracted as much industry as other states is that a large number of Oregonians don't care whether any more people or more business comes to Oregon or not. We have listened to cham ber of commerce talk so long that it is considered' a sort ot and Contributors) The story the other day about Medford exceeding the 25.000-population mark made some of the county officials gloomy about the problems they are going to continue to have as the pop ulation increases. Which re minded' one of them about a conversation he'd had with a southern California county assessor, in which the latter was asked what areas are absorbing the ex cess influx of population there. "You are," was the reply. Recent mention on this page of bears at Crater lake seems to have stirred the memory of practically everyone who ever encountered one and it appears that most people have, at one time or another. . One such communication suggested that the Crater Lake rangers trap the bears (with- iout harming them) and take them into the far reaches of the park. Well, they do just that. Two weeks ago this morning, as we were cooking our bacon less breakfast, a ranger told us the trap was sprung, and that a "mighty mad bear" was inside. The trap is a big sec tion of corrugated iron cul vert, mounted on a trailer wheels, and equipped with a door which will drop over the open end when the bait inside is nudged. Such captives are taken far away, but usually they man age to get back to the "happy hunting grounds" of the camps again, and some of them have been caught re peatedly, as many as half-a-dozen or more times in a season. Another group of campers complained that the park serv ice is bending over backwards to protect the bears. When it was pointed out that the basic national park service 'aw re quires them to preserve the wildlife, one of them com mented: "Heck, they're doing more than preserving it; they're increasing it by leaps and bounds, so that it's out of proportion to the natural ecology." And another member of the party, a mother of small chil dren, had some plaintive re marks about bears being more important than people. . This may be true, but we still think the park service is right, and that , bears have their place at a distance, pre ferable, but still a place. We have a probably wistful belief that if you don't bother a bear, it's not apt to bother you. Ex cept, maybe, when it getj hungry, or playful, or fearful for itself or its cubs. One veteran observer of the habits of bears claims that, at night, if you flash a flashlight in their eyes, or, in the daytime, use a mirror to reflect sunlight the same way, they are rendered blind and confused for the time being and in the ensuing confusion, the bear can escape from the human. Or, more likely, vice versa. Another dodge is to pile pots and pans in a high arid precarious tower over the food, so that a warning is sounded if the bear comes raiding in the night. Mam drawback to that: You're more apt to scare the campers to death than defeat the bear's purpose. At least some camp ers we know. heresy to think that the state is alright as it is and any more residents couldn't help much. But there are many who think that is true. New citizens raise the taxes for their children must have schools, they cause demand for roads, they are more in clined to swell the relief rolls than the bank deposits. And besides they spoil the fishing. If one may state the atti tude of these mossbacks who want Oregon to themselves he could say that they would just as soon get their factory prod ucts from some other state'as to smell the factory smoke, would as soon produce vheat and beef that could be shipped away as to raise radishes for a nearby population.- They don't crave company. There is no organized group of such people to combat ac tively the work of chambers of commerce. There is no group trying to keep people away. There is merely a lot of folks who don't give a damn whether any more come or not and wouldn't raise their finger to have three million neighbors. " What is this "progress" they say that puts a fisherman on every rock, fills the school houses with strange kids, crowds the road with trucks and cars, takes the good farm ing land for a stinking fac tory? There is no point in accus ing these citizens with moss backism, or being old fash oned. They are. And they don't care. Sherman County (Oregon) Journal.
