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4 Friday. Auquir It, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtSsfTRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-SU1 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. I SO Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance 0'ffiriaTaperofCity of-Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC., Of fices in New York. Chicago, De- , troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver, B.C. NEWSPAMt . PUBLISH! It "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Iassocm 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 Aug. 22. 1948 (Sunday) Filming the climax of "The Last of the Wild Horses" which requires the services of 200 local horsemen has been postponed to next Sun day because of a conflict to day with the Ashland rodeo. The Gold Rush burro from Jacksonville is being trotted around the valley to inspire donations to the Jubilee. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 22. 1938 (Monday) Jacksonville citizens vote today on a bond issue to sup ply new pipe for the city's water system. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The I. Coleman boy, John, J, came downtown Saturday with his pants on backwards. Due to the miscue, he appeared go ing home, but landed in the movie." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 22. 1928 (Wednesday) Medford will vote on a bond issue for a new fire truck in November, it was an nounced at last night's coun cil meeting. Local undertakers and preachers asked the city coun cil for a ban on Simday fu nerals in order to give them selves a day of rest. 40 YEARS AGO "Aug. 22. 1918 (Thursday) A good crop is reported at the Union creek huckleberry patch. " The movie of "Tarzan and the Apes" has made a big hit here. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct luperier; seven or eight is excellent; five or she is good. 1. The well-known stadium in Pasadena, Calif., is known as what? 2. A slalom is performed in what outdoor sport? 3. Name the mountain range extending from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea that separates Europe from Asia. 4. In the Biblical story what woman accompanied Barak? 5. Is an atom made up of molecules? 6. In the Revolutionary War, Ethan Allen's soldiers were nicknamed what? 7. A scalpel is the covering of the skull; true or false? 8. How many lines are in a limerick? 9. Which former U.S. Presi dent owned "The Hermitage" in Tennessee? " 10. "Snow" is the under world name for which narcot ic? Answers: 1. The Rose Bowl. 2. Skiing. 3. The Caucasus. 4. Deborah. 5. No. (Molecules are made up of atoms.) 6. "The Green Mountain Boys." 7. False. 8. Five lines. 9. An drew Jackson. IB. Cocaine. Anti-Inflation Moves To counter the threat of inflation, the 11 other Federal Reserve regional banks are now expected to follow the lead of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco in raising its rediscount rate. The Federal Reserve Board last week announced that it had authorized the California bank to increase its rediscount rate to 2 per cent from 1 per cent. Bankers throughout the country were reported to have been surprised by the move. Yet it could almost have been considered predictable. m For all that the Federal Reserve Board is an independent agency, responsible only to Con gress, in recent years it has appeared quite re sponsive to the monetary policies of the Eisen hower administration. And in his press confer ence of Aug. 6, the President had used language in expressing his fears of inflation that in other times might nave been considered exceptional. COR example, he described the federal deficit for the next fiscal year as "horrible." And he said of the prospective deficit that it "must be the highest one, and we must go back from there." If labor and business continued year to year push ing wages and prices and profits up beyond rea sonable limits, the President said, "just as sure as you are a foot high, one day the American con sumer is going to rebel . . . and we will get some thing that we don't want." The Federal Reserve Board's authorization of a higher rediscount rate in California was the sec ond anti-inflation move it had taken this month. On Aug. 4 it had increased to 70 from 50 per cent the margin requirements for buying stocks and bonds. The desired effect in the move affecting the stock market appeared to be largely psychologi cal. It was merely reversing a step taken in Janu- flrV whpn tVtt PVrlorol Rooonro Rrovr1 vaAwnaA the margin requirement for stock transactions to 50 per cent from 70 per cent. DUT now the anti-inflation machinery the Eis- enhower administration has principally relied on appears to have been set in motion again. The rediscount rate is the fee that regional banks charge for lending funds to commercial banks that are members of the Federal Reserve system. When it's raised, the cost of borrowing automatically goes up. Last Nov. 14, the Federal Reserve system be gan to lower the rediscount rate in a reversal of policy unprecedented since World War II. Only 14 weeks earlier the rediscount rate had been raised. CINCE November, the Federal Reserve -Board cut the rediscount to 2 per cent in January ; to 2Vd per cent in March and to VA per cent in April. As the "Fed" has pointed out: "The will ingness and ability of banks to expand credit during a recession period resulted largely from active steps taken by the Federal Reserve Sys tem to foster conditions of credit ease." This of course was only one feature of what must be viewed as a remarkably short and odd recession. Even more unusual is the fact that in the midst of widespread unemployment, neither prices nor wages were lowered to any great ex tent, prices indeed rising during most of the busi ness slump. E.R.R. Billboards on Federal Roads The quantity and quality of roadside adver tising "consistent with national standards" was prescribed by Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks this week. This doesn't mean that states must follow the Weeks or any other federal pre scription. THe highway act of 1958, like the one of 1956, gives each state freedom on restricting billboards. . Only states that do restrict them in accord with the Weeks regulations are entitled to get from Uncle Sam 90 1 2 cent of the construction aid roads in the interestate system. And even so the act permits certain kinds of signs within 660 feet of each side of the new roads without dis qualifying a state from the extra 12 per cent. The signs allowed are official ones; (2) advertising the property for sale or rent; (3) announcing some "activity" being conducted within 12 miles; (4) purely in formational ones. On Aug. 12 Secretary Weeks gave a Senate Roads subcommittee some of his ideas on how such signs would meet "national standards." MONE at all would be allowed within two miles of a road interchange,' then' perhaps half a dozen for the next three miles, thereafter an av erage of one per mile. The maximum size would be 70 square feet, allowing for only a relatively small billboard. However, businesses within the 12-mile limit could get together and erect "informational" cen ters adjacent to the federal roads. These centers would list, the nearby enterprises, provided no brand names were used, and presumably would also offer rest, eating and toilet facilities to at tract the tourist. Pro - billboard Senators de nounced the Weeks preview as too restrictive. E.R.R ' j per cent instead of 90 per costs of the new federal- any (1) directional or Dennis the Menace 'I JUST WAUTfcD TD SEE If I Washington Report - By William S. Whit FAREWELL TO SOME Washington These last days of summer and of Con gress are also days of poign ant farewell to public life for some. Of the six R e p u b 1 i can I Senators who are voluntarily are leaving one political office in the hope of William s. white entering anoth er. They are William F. Knowland of California and William E. Jenner of Indiana. Knowland, of course, is run ning for Governor of Califor nia. And Jenner is widely supposed to have his eyes turned upon the Indiana state house. Another Senator, Irving M. Ives of New York, has long and valiantly fought illness. He will now fight his battle freed from the heavy pressure of official Washington. His platform will be a simple one: To recapture his health, rath er than his office. But to the three other Sen ators their good-byes to the Senate have a special finality. For over these three Alex danr Smith of New Jersey, Ralph E. Flanders of Ver mont and Edward Martin of 'Pennsylvania age has won an inevitable victory. 1 ND in the simultaneous re- 1 tirement of Smith in his om, year, rianaers ux J past to future. 78th and Martin in his 79th, Not for him simply a re there is a curious vindication turn to princeton to await of the law of averages. For j death in a shuttered old man's the three wings of the Repub- library before the sinking lican party are represented! irl Kn. u. n with faithful precision by these three old gentlemen now nearing the end of the road. Smith is a member of the centrist party faction, which maintains ties alike with Old Guard Republicanism and the "modern" Republicanism of the Eisenhower Administra tion. Flanders is over on the left a liberal or "modern" Re publican all the way. Martin is over on the right an Old Guard Republican all the way. Thus, time's attrition has hit the party with mathemati cal, impersonal fairness in striking down one member of each of its three wings.. THERE is among them no exact representative of all three. But if only because he has been in the middle so long, Smith could be said to be most nearly so. v His sentiments as he looks Try and Stop Me By IENNETT CERF ' MAGGIE OTLAHERTY cherishes loving memories of a maid she once employed whose heart was big but whose know ledge of English was sketchy. Her name was Mary. Two constant topics of complaint in Mary's life were the pesky you-clipped-us trees (the way they were always unletting themselves all over the patio) and her ' 15-year-old son Alvin. "Al vin is no better than a juven delinsky," she said, "He plays hockey from school. The toooning officer says I left him too much to his own vices." Finally. Mary reported that Alvin, "that scrounger had "flowed the coop, and good ribbons" probably to "join the army under a consumed name." She then bustled off to prepare some yackatizers and a mushoing yonlet with a little skrig of parcelry. Maggy O'Flaherty says she. can still hear Mary singing in the kitchen, "Over MIL. over dale, and those capon! go rollin' along." Mrs. Toplitz was up' till all hours the other night removing some spots from her husband's trousers two ten-spots and a five. C U&fc ay acaatUCtfX. Ciitriautadfey JSiy Totatfcj ftaaictu. COM3 REACH THE PEDALS I upon the Senate, a forum and a club almost unbelievably loved by its old members, are the moderate sentiments of a moderate man. "How do I feel as I get ready to leave here?" he re peats a friendly question. "How do you suppose? I am sad. And all this I shall miss always. But it is better this way, isn't it, than to stay on here and slowly to deterio rate? I am seeing my 78th year approach, and I have learned what all of us must learn." This thing which all of us must learn Smith does not bother to define. He simply waves a thin and aged hand. And one can see the years marching through these Sen ate lounges and remember those great old men who have stayed there sometimes too long and too late. They lived finally only upon the memo ries of past powers patri archs holding vast respect to the end but carrying only in honorable intent, not in true effectiveness, the brutal bur dens of these times. BUT precisely because he is moderate and nerhans a little fuzzy in believing that not every political question or turn in the circumstances of life must have a desperate and immediate a n s w e r Smith now turns easilv from another and a welcomed task. His hope is to help bring to gether, perhaps as a Presiden tial 'adviser or intermediary, the extremes on what he sees as the greatest issue of our era. This is the racial issue. For this, Smith believes not in more laws and more force; he believes in patience and per suasion. It may be that his mind is wrong in this for he is a man who shrinks from ultimate force of any kind. But it would not be easy, knowing him; to think his heart is wrong. (Copyright. . 1958, by United Features Syndicate. Inc.) CARDINAL WORSE Belgrade, Yugoslavia (UPD Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, whose physical condition has been poor for several weeks, took a turn for the worse Thursday, church sources in Zagreb reported. No details were available. Israeli Sources Believe 'Stick' Needed To Deter BY ELIAV SIMON UPI Correspondent Tel Aviv, Israel (UPD In formed Israeli sources believe the best the West can hope for now in the Middle East is a measure of co-existence with Arab nationalism, just as in Europe and elsewhere the West co-exists with Russia. But this is only possible, these sources say, if, in the Middle East, as in Europe, the West has a deterrent to further expansion. President Eisenhower's re cent six-point plan outlined at the U.N. gives no indication of erecting such a barrier. It dangles a tempting and very costly carrot before the eyes of the Arab nationalists, in the form of massive economic aid designed to win its "good behavior." But no whip has been bran dished as an alternative should the carrot fail' to achieve its purpose as these sources believe it will. Communications Letters "to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the oaper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Sunday Guard Duty To the Editor: This is not really directed to the editor, but to the wives and families of the National Guardsmen of this area. When our husbands enlist ed in the National Guard they were told in effect, "You don't have to enlist in the Army or be drafted to fulfill your mil itary obligation: you may drill two hours a week, and train for two weeks each summer and stay at home with your families, and not have to be away from your homes. You can plan your lives, buy homes, go to school and lead jyour life as you wish and the government win accept tnis as doing your part for the pro tection of our country." Now they wish to change. The Guardsmen are directed (at least in this area) that they are to report at the Armory every other Sunday at 7:30 .a.m. to drill until 5 o'clock in the evening, and will be paid for two drills for doing so. This constitutes hours ev ery other week. It means in many cases that the men will have at the most two days a month to be with their fam ilies. It means that the many chores a husband and father has to do will have to be crowded into Saturday, if they are not working on Saturday, and into a couple of Sundays a month. It means that many children' will see practically nothing of their fathers, and that they cannot take them to church. Sunday in the United States has always been a legal holiday, set aside to worship and be together as families. I urge all of you who do not like this situation to voice your opinions . . . write to your congressmen, and sen ators, and to Governor Holmes who is the chief of the Oregon National Guard. Ask your minister or priest to do so also. Complaining to your neigh bors never-did get any action, and griping won't change a thing. No use blaming the of ficers here for it, either, as it came from way above their heads, and I don't imagine their families like it any bet ter than the enlisted men do. Don't put it off. Sit down and write to Congressman Porter. The more letters he re ceives, the better case he has, and we elected him to voice our opinions and wishes to the government of the United States. It is his job, but he can't do anything without our help. . (Mrs.) Margaret Behnke, 166 Nob Hill, Ashland. She Suggests Homework . To the Editor: Don't you know better than to believe all you read in the paper, es pecially your own? When you state categorical ly "the national convention of the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution thinks the whole idee of a responsible in ternational organization is subversive," you display your abysmal ignorance of the facts. The National Society Daugh ters of the American Revolu tion was one of the first or ganizations to support the United Nations in its original form and has continued to do so, with less and less enthusi asm it is true, as year by year the U.N. became as you say "a debating society." To quote repeated resolu tions of the NSDAR, "We con tinue to support the United Nations organization in its or iginal purpose as a group of sovereign nations working to gether for world peace and understanding, and to oppose its threatened conversion into Added Losses in Arab Sphere A 'Spiritual Link' These quarters base their thinking on the premise Arab nationalism is implacably and irrevocobly opposed to the West, just as Russia is, and that it will do everything in its power to eradicate the last vestiges of Western influence from the region. This is the "spiritual link" between Cairo and Moscow. ' Large economic aid will not buy off this hatred, but can only help it on. And even if it would only be used to further the drive to eject the West from the region. This is the Israeli view. Because of "this Arab hos tility, even the most altruistic offers of U.S. help, though given through the framework of the U.N., will be interpret ed as "Western economic im perialism." At the same time, the smallest Russian loan, given at strictly business rates of interest, will always be greeted with loud trumpet- a world government." Surely, that does not bear out your assertion that the NSDAR "thinks the whole idea of a responsible interna tional organization is subver sive." Perhaps you had better do some research. Draw up a chart and start with the chief architect of the United Na tions, Alger Hiss, and with its ghost writer, Dalton Trumbo. Keep a tally of the num ber of times the Soviet has ex ercised its .veto as compared to that of the United States. The score stands 82-1. Sit down with the United Nations charter and the con stitution of the USSR and red pencil the identical phrases and ideas. As women opposed to so cialism or communism on ei ther national or international scale, we find the ramifica tions of the myriad agencies now operating under the aegis of the U.N entirely at vari ance with American ideals and principles and contrary to its much-publicized purpose. That this highly specialized world machinery has been channeled into other paths is fast being recognized, even by some of its original ardent ad vocates. No, the NSDAR does not "think the whole idea of a responsioie international or ganization is subversive'." It does believe that a respon sible international organiza tion of sovereign nations should be dedicated to mak ing peace and stamping out, not coddling, either Commu nism or dictatorships. Is an organization which is powerless or unwilling to op pose the forceful extension of Communist slavery calculated to bring world peace? Must the United States eventually be faced with the choice of world slavery or world war? I would suggest you do a lit tle homework. Mrs. William B. McCul lough, 137 Church St., . Ashland. The Bottomless Pit To the Editor: "The oppo sition is prepared to draw from financial resources which have a 'bottomless pit'," ... (Mark Hatfield quoted in the Medford Mail Tribune, August 19, 1958.) Democrats may throw their contributions into the "bot tomless pit" by stopping at Democratic party headquar ters in the Esquire theater building on East Main st. Marv Madden Box 476 Phoenix Submarines in Orbit? To the Editor: Next week we are going to shoot a sput nik from a submarine. We may not be the first to get a sputnik to the moon, but I'll bet we'll be the first to get a submarine on the moon. Everett Acklin - Ashland A While Kitten To the Editor: Our little 4 year old neighbor girl looks every morning for her little white kitten, which died from poison. Mary saw her kitty die, but doesn't understand that it can't come when she calls. The kitten was only 3 months old, but it doesn't take long for a child to become attach ed to a pet. If some kind hearted per son had a little white kitten to give to Mary it would make her very happy. Mary lives at 612 Cherry st.. Central Point. Mrs. J. R. Wilson 613 Cherry st. Central Point ings about Soviet generosity The same is true when Rus sia supplies the U.A.R. with arms, obliges Egypt to mort gage its cotton crop, and then unloads the crop at rock-bottom prices elsewhere, spoil ing Egypt's normal export markets. Drawn No Line The West is able to co-exist with Russia because it pos sesses the supreme deterrent of nuclear retaliation in the event of further encroach ment. But in the Middle East the West has drawn no line which Arab nationalism has been warned it will cross only at its peril, Israeli quarters feel. These sources believe the ultimate fate of Jordan re mains unaffected by anything the West has done in recent weeks. The days of Hussein's regime are numbered and there has been no let-up in subversive activity and plot ting there, mainly with the aid of agents from across the border with Syria. These sources believe, how ever, one of the few stabiliz ing factors affecting the situ ation in Jordan has been the knowledge that if King Hus sein's regime were over thrown Israel might play an active role, occupying at least part of that country. See Improvement While the situation in Jor dan remains highly precari ous, these sources believe a considerable improvement has come about in Lebanon and there is some chance it might In the Day's News By FRANK There is an interesting little tale in the news. I'm afraid it's too good to be true, but it would be wonderful if it COULD be true. At any rate The teletypes tell us Fourteen , Russians are to get their first look at Amer ica. The 14, the correspond ents say, are NOT athletes or diplomats or entertainers. They are described as just plain, ordinary Russian tour ists who have PAID THEIR OWN MONEY TO SEE AMERICA. They are bemg billed as the first "plain tourists" to visit Ameriqa since the com munist regime in Russia be gan. They will be in the U.S for 14 days. W1 HAT will they see? I'm afraid that's where the rub comes. The story starts off: The tourists arrive in New York by plane today, but the planned sight - seeing will begin tomorrow. They will board a bus that tours China town, Wall Street, Harlem, the Empire State building and the United Nations. Their two weeks of seeing America will include trips to Washington, Chicago, Buffa lo and Niagara Falls. An in terpreter is accompanying them to explain things as they go. SEEING AMERICA? I wonder. Here in the State of Jeffer son we're fairly extensive trevelers. Many of our people who will read this piece have toured New York City in a bus including Chinatown, Wall Street, Harlem, the Em pire State building and the UN. They have gone on tours to Washington, Chicago, Buf falo and Niagara Falls. I ask you: Is that SEEING AMERICA? r?'S all fine, of course and no one would say a word against it. But what these FAMILY A full program at minimum cost has been designed by your Y' especially for families including beach and boating equipment. August 30 through Sept. 1 Labor Day Weekend Meals and lodging available at low rotes. Families may save by providing own tents and cooking meals. Come In or Call The YMCA SP 2-6295 be successfully "neutralized." Iraq still remains some thing of an enigma. The coup there was, of course, by Nas serists, but it is still not clear how far it was under the di rect control of Nasser him self and how far its leaders will act independently. While there is a close spiritual affin ity between Cairo and Bagh dad and both share-the same aims, a number of considera tions, some of them economic, might make the Iraqi leaders hesitate before throwing in their lot completely with Egypt. Russia Eyes Iran While Russia can rely on Nasser to continue his disrup tive work in the Sudan, Lib ya, Arabia and the Persian Gulf, she herself, it is be ieved, will begin to take a closer interest in a country on which she has always cast greedy eyes Iran. With the crumbling of the Baghdad Pact, Iran is now in a vulner able position, sandwiched be tween Russia herself and Rus sia's Arab nationalist pro-, teges. Three countries Turkey, Iran and Israel now bar the way to a complete Russian link-up with Moscow's Arab nationalist allies in the Middle East and along the northern fringe of Africa. Unless the West can insure that these re maining friends of hers are backed to the hilt, then not only the Middle East, but Af rica itself is in danger of falling victim tothe Russian advance. JENKINS Russian visitors will see in -a guided tour of that sort isn't the REAL AMERICA. That suggests these ques tions: What is the real America? How should it be seen in order to get an accurate pic ture of what America is and what America is like? SEVERAL years ago a Paris magazine, Realites, sent a man -and -wife team, Pierre and Rene Gosset, to the U.S. to see what makes our coun try tick and what Americans are like. They didn't stop in New York. They left their plane in Kansas City. They bought a used car, and started out on their own. They were for tunate in that (like so many Europeans) they speak Eng lish. They shied away from the tourist centers and the big hotels. They stopped at motels along the way. Being charming people themselves, they got acquainted with everyday Americans. They were invited into everyday American homes. They were guests at home town neigh borhood parties. In that way, they traveled from Kansas City to the Pa cific Coast and back to K.C. When they got back to Paris, they KNEW AMERICA and they wrote a series of pieces for their magazine that pic tured America ACCURATE LY to the French. THAT'S the kind of tourists we need. Especially the kind of RUSSIAN tourists we need. If we could get enough of them, we could get the REAL AMERICA understood in Russia. If we could get the REAL AMERICA widely enough un derstood in Russia, even the communist big shots wouldn't be able to make Russians bate America bitterly enough to go to war with us. Only a dream, you say? Of course. But one has to dream at times. CAMPING IheY'sVay! Camp this summer with, your family on beauti ful Diamond Lake. The Y.M.C.A. camp is equip ped to provide your family with an ex perience in fun they will never forgetl
