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I ' Mondiy, August 23, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. : MedfopjTeibune "Everyone in Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune- Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager ojc.ftAL.ij laiham. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMA.V Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SDorU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'! Editor rMLERICKNarcuJatjwnMgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at .Med lord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 5 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 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. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City 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. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassociTatiQn KJ 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 August 25. 1948 (Wednesday) The Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce admits it doesn't know what those small cloth sacks attached to rat traps and suspended from tire sections along mountain roads are used for. Coronation of Barbara Tay lor as queen of the Jackson ville Gold Rush Jubilee will take place Sept. 4. 20 YEARS AGO August 25, 1938 (Thursday) The name of Dorra Lee Per ry has been forwarded to Hollywood as winner of the contest to see which local girl looks most like Shirley Temple. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Cali fornia has passed Oregon in the contest to see which state can develop the most crack pot ideas, per capita." 30 YEARS AGO August 25, 1928 (Saturday) Today marks the opening of the "Greater Movie Sea son" for Medford, in which local theatres are observing the 32nd anniversary of the birth of moving pictures with "bigger and better produc tions for consumption here. Interest is growing in the formation of a Medford rifle club. AO YEARS AGO August 25, 1918 (Sunday) From 50 to 70 autos were parked in the Applegate dis trict yesterday where the blackberries were thickest. Deer season is in full swing. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; eeven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. What was the relation ship between Augustine Wash ington and George Washing ton? 2. When a submarine sub merges, the temperature of the air within increase or de crease? 3. What city is called the Eternal City? 4. A Fourdrinier machine Is principally used in which industry? 5. The order of calling the roll of States in national po litical conventions is alpha betical, geographical, or by population? 6. What is the name of the highest military decoration awarded by the United States? 7. Who was Henry Wal lace's predecessor in the office of Vice President? 8. Name the isthmus that connects the North and South American continents. 9. In which New England city was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born? 10. In which country is Rangoon? Answers: 1. Half-brothers. 2. Increases. 3. Rome. 4. Paper manufacture. 5. Alphabetical. 6. Congressional Medal of Honor. 7. John Nance Garner. 8. Isthmus of Panama. 9. Port land, Maine. 10. Burma. . Citizens in Tamapa,' Fla., are required to help police officers make an arrest when "a would-be prisoner resists Otherwise, they face arrest themselves. Arab Nationalism This mid-20th century Arab nationalism is different from earlier manifestations of unity among the Arabs, as trouble-shooter to the Arabs, has intimated. What Mohammed, last of the Islam in the early 7th hesive force that was primarily religious. Arabs, like Jews, is incongruous to speak cut tne Moslem conorts across north Africa, crossed over to Spain from Morocco in 711 A.D. had received a heavy ad mixture of (Hamitic) . This so-called Moorish occupation of Spain finally restricted to the Kingdom of Granada in the south (until 1492), was marked by a high degree of culture. Cordova for a time was really the intellectual centre Spain provided wide tolerance for both Christian and Jew. "1XHEN the Arabs combined, after a fashion, v" behind Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, in the 12th century, the cementing force was an external one, the Christian-manned Crusades. When Arab lands fell to the non-Arab Turks, the racial dif ference failed to become in view of the religious bond of Mohammedan ism. The forces that awakened Arab nationalism in the 20th century were partly intellectual Western ideas; partly political maneuvers against Turkey by the World War T allies, then their failure to create a unitary Arab state ; partly racial hatred of the new state of Israel. Even when the Arab League was founded in 1945, the Arab world was divided by Egyptian and Hashemite claims for leadership. And if the Hashemite dynasty is gone in Iraq and on the de fensive in Jordan, any unifying Arab "conscious ness of kind" may still have to reckon with a di visive economic factor the oil riches possessed by some Arab states and not by others. E.R.R. Hurricane Month About 40 per cent of all hurricanes occur in the month of September. The so-called "hurricane season" normally extends from June to Decem ber. The season so far and the phrase "so far" should be underlined has been relatively harm less. The U. S. Weather Bureau had reported three tropical storms through late August, only one, named Cleo, a hurricane. And that one, while violent enough, stayed in the open Atlan tic. The first 1958 tropical storm, Alma, hit the Texas coast around Brownsville, June 15, but did little damage. . Then came Becky, which swirled far out into the Atlantic. The U. S. Weather Bureau traditionally names its tropical storms r.nd hurricanes after women, perhaps because they are eye-taking, de structive, and relatively unpredictable. The names for this year, assigned long in advance, go from Cleo to Daisy, Ella, Fifi, Gerda, and so on, winding up with Zoma. No one can remember when 26 hurricanes blew in a single year, so Zorna will hardly be used this year nor even the exotic Xrae and Yurith. THE Weather Bureau on May 31, explained that no long-range hurricane probability fore casts would be made this year. These 30-day warnings had been released on an experimental basis in 1957 "at the request of newspapers and shipping interests." This year, the Bureau con tends, they are not being released primarily be cause they are too open to misinterpretation. The Bureau will, of course, continue its bul letins on actual tropical storms and hurricanes that appear to be forming, also its regular five day forecasts. And its Hurricane Research Pro ject will go on with hurricane-prediction studies. The Bureau issues a special bulletin on any storm of damaging intensity which potentially could strike coastal areas. A tropical storm offic ially becomes a hurricane when its wind velocity exceeds 72 miles per hour. Hurricanes are milder than tornadoes', but even so, they unleash in a day energy equal to that of 20,000 atom bombs. THE first of a chain of new "jumbo-size" ra 1 dar units the Weather Bureau hopes will im prove forecasting should be in place at Miami in December. With 31 of these on order, the so called "hurricane coast" will have first priority, immediately followed by the flams states. As for tornadoes, they have been relatively few in number so far this year, upsetting predic tions in some quarters of another bis: tornado year. But these storms, for all that their swath and rarely extends for more than 16 miles, can do unbelievable damage. So 1958 may not be remembered so much as does as the year when three twisters hit Wiscon sin areas, killed 28 persons, and tore apart more than $1 million farm and town property. As for the "so far" in the second paragraph, the Weather Bureau just isn't talking about the rest of the hurricane season. E.R.R. Robert D. Murphy, U. S prophets, provided in century A. D. was a co are a Semitic race (so it of "anti-Semitic Arabs"). mat, alter sweeping Berbers. of Europe. And Moorish a unifying Arab force the "tornado belt" in the most violent of all, is less than a mile wide a year with few torna Dennis the Menace 'ItS just the 8Q77DM paptof THINfc l Trc U9 CV5K THEgE.HUH? HUH, MOMf Matter of Fact THE CATHOLIC CANDIDATES New York It seems a fair bet that the New York Demo crats will nominate former Atomic Ener gy Commis sioner Thomas Murray for the Senate seat that is being vacated by Irving Ives. The other leading possi- Jos!ph Alsop Dlilty is IN. I. District Attorney Frank Hogan. Thomas K. Finletter wants the job very badly, has worked hard to "get it, and is superlatively well equipped for it. The real obstacle fo Finletter's nomination is the competing candidacy of James A. Farley. This is true despite the fact that Big Jim -Farley has very little chance of being nominated himself, because of the old New York state quarrels of the late Roosevelt years. To be blunt about it, the New York Democrats do not want Big Jim, but because Big Jim is Irish and a Roman Catholic, they do not want to reject Big Jim without recog nizing the large voting grorp of Irish Catholics, who have lately been drifting toward the Republicans. Murray is not only a member of Farley's faith and race; he is also what may be called a silk-curtain Irishman, in the style of Sen. John Kennedy of Massachu setts; and this is another plus. tpOR these highly practical reasons, Murray, wh has made no effort at all to get the nomination, seems to have a rather better chance than Finletter, who has worked like a nailer to be nominated. For the same reason, Hogan is likely to get the nod if Murray does not. Everyone of coursje piously denies that these are the reasons for the Murray and Hogan boom. But they are the reasons, all the same. At the moment, moreover, these reasons have a particu lar interest, going beyond the well - established American habit of composing state tick ets in a way that "recognizes" the largest possible number of religious and racial voting groups. In brief, ,a Roman Catholic is once again a ser ious candidate for the Presi dency itself, for the first time in 30 years and for the sec ond time in the entire history of this country. The New York story raises the question, in other words, whether Sen. Kennedy's na tional candidacy will be helped or hurt by his relieion. which played such a large role in the political for tunes of the great Al bmitn. This is a problem that every student of the Democratic form-sheet for 1960 argues about in nrivate. This seems like a good time to discuss it straightforwardly in public. i fttcr orolonced inauiry among the professionals of many states, tnis reporter has reached the somewhat un orthodox conclusion that the same religious affiliation which so handicapped Al Smith will be a positive ad vantage to Jack Kennedy. In the first place, thanK God, the country is still ashamed of the campaign of nreiudice that was waged against Smith. If anything of that sort is again attemptea, it will win a catholic canm- date more sympathy - votes than it can cost in prejudice votes. Sepnndlv. the Protestant American view of the Catho lic Church has greatly chang ed in trio last, three decades. Thirty years ago, for reasons rooted m our political and ethnic oast a sreat manv re spectable and conservative 1 the coom jar.aIqm! Lucky By Joseph Alsop people were really troubled because Al Smith was a Cath olic. Some of these people countenanced and even aided the prejudice campaign waged against Smith. This gave the campaign ah impact it could never have achieved, if it had stayed, where it belonged, in the sewers. This kind of thing cannot and will not happen again, simply because the Catholic Church is now recognized as a conservative political force. This so-called "better ele ment" will not fight another Catholic candidate as they fought Smith, just because he was a Catholic. THIRDLY, and perhaps most important of all, the troops who were rallied by the cam paign against Smith have all but vanished from the Ameri can political scene. In 1928, the organized prohibitionists could command the vote of a large majority of Senators and Representatives. You have to be getting on a bit to remember how the Congress used to be intimidated by Wayne B. Wheeler and Mrs. Ella Poole, but these people really did intimidate the Con gress. They intimidated the Con gress, in turn, mainly because rural America in those days was the countryside that pro duced the Scopes trial. Now adays, on the contrary, rural America is not so enormously different from small-town or urban America. Nowadays, on the farms of this country, there are far more television sets than backhouses. This great material change has brought with it an equally great change of outlook. Hence one cannot imagine great numbers of our farming people, even in the Protestant South, rallying once again to the "hate -the -Pope" battle cry. Meanwhile, every Ameri can Catholic would very na turally like to see the proof that the White House is also open to a member of the Ca tholic faith. So there you have the equation. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK ' I'm afraid we're going to have to talk about the cost of living again. Here's why: The National Industrial Conference Board (a private research organization) an nounces that in July its index recorded a drop of one-tenth of one percent in the cost of living. This, it said, was the first drop in 26 months. The federal government an nounces the next day that ac cording to its index the cost of living CLIMBED TWO TENTHS OF ONE PER CENT in July to establish another all-time high. HMMMMMMM. Who's right? Whom shall we believe if anybody? CONSIDER this: These cost of living "in dexes'" are complicated af fairs: Here's how they work: A list of items entering into the average cost of living of the average American family is compiled. A record of the prices at which these items sell on the wholesale and re tail markets of the country as a whole is kept. At intervals (the usual in terval being a month) the fig ures are totaled and an AV ERAGE is struck. This aver age is then compared with the averages over a given period of time. Thus the ups and downs are computed. - THIS could happen: The list of items used by Fresh Red Chinese Victory Seen in New Cambodian Action; Pacts Seen Possible By AKIO KONOSHIMA UPI Correspondent Tokyo (UPD Fears are heightening that Communist China is on the verge of scor ing a fresh victory in South east Asia with the return to Peiping of visiting Cambo dian Premier Prince Noro dom Sihanouk. Sihanouk returned to Pei ping last Thursday from a three-day visit to China's in dustrial northeast. He first ar rived in the Chinese capital on his current tour on Aug. 15 on the heels of his govern ment's recognition late last month of the Peiping regime. Recognition of the Peiping regime by the tiny Asian kingdom was considered by many as one of Communist China's major victories of the year, and many fear that this victory will now be followed up with a new series of agree ments between Peiping and Pnom Penh. Economic Links Indicated Indications are strong that new economic links are in the making between Sihanouk and Communist Chinese Pre Washington Report By William ' THE "NEW YORKERS" Washington For years the old - fashioned Republicans over the country have looked half in curios ity and half in deep dis approval up on the goings on in their party in New York State. . They are a little like the farmer who uiiiiam s whit may once visit an East Side night club but will go away shaking his head and muttering thanks that no such establishment operates where he, lives. To the Old Guard from the Middle West Republican heartland, the phrase "New York Republicans" means a breed - apart and a breed hardly better, really, than the wretched Democrats. But the "New York Re publicans" ever since about 1940 have been the tail that wags the Elephant. They, with their Eastern-influenced and relatively liberal allies, have dominated five succes sive national party conven tions. FIVE times they have re jected the claims of the Old Guard and nominated Presidential candidates from among so-called "modern Republicans. These candidates have progressively joined much of what they could not lick the internationalist, more-or-less welfare-state no tions of the Democrats them-, selves. This was the process which sn often and in the eyes of the Old Guard so brutally denied n'omination to one of the most revered orthodox Republican spokesman of this century, the late Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Now, history is not merely JENKINS the National Industrial Con ference Board might DIFFER slightly from the list used by the federal department that compiles the government cost of living figures. That, in itself, could ac count for the difference shown in July. A FTER all, the difference is relatively small. Here's what it amounts to: According to the National Industrial Conference board, the cost of living dropped 0.1 per cent in july. According to the federal figures, it ROSE 0.2 per cent. That is to say: According to the NIBC in dex, you saved TEN CENTS on each $100 worth of these items your purchased in July. According to the government index, each $100 worth of these items cost you TWEN TY CENTS MORE. That's a difference of 30 cents on each $100 of these items purchased by the "av erage" American family. That isn't TOO much to holler about. And These indexes do have their uses. They help to tell us where we are going. ONE more thought: The cost of living is a relative matter. For example: - H, in the month of July, the average American family had eaten LESS STEAK AND mier -Chou En-Iai. But worse still for the anti-Communist nations of Asia, a strong pos sibility also exists that some loose military ties may also be forged. Sihanouk and his party hav been receiving full red carpet treatment from the Chinese since their arrival. This has been given full play by the Communist press and radio. The really significant talks between the Prince and the Chinese leaders, however, are thought to have taken place on Aug. 17 just prior to Siha nouk's departure for his China visit. The Communist radio men tioned only that the talks were held and the names of those participating. With Si hanouk's return to Peiping. the observers feel that final touches may be put on new agreements between- the na tions which will be disclosed in a final communique at the close of the Cambodian pre mier's visit. China already has given considerable economic aid to S. White repeating itself in New York; it is repeating itself at a highly accelerated pace. Nelson Rockefeller's success in grasping the governor's nomination represents in some ways the most-unrelieved defeat yet suffered by the Old Guard. Even the still young "father" of New York Republicanism, Thomas E. Dewey, always had at least some political background and at least some professional understanding if hardly any sympathy toward the ortho dox old-timers. V "ROCKEFELLER, however. 1 has busied himself infin itely more with international and national problems than with the affairs of the Repub lican party. The Old Guard suspects that he knows more about the plans of the. Pandit Nehru in India than he does about any Republican court house. Most national politicians in both parties see Rockefeller as extremely unlikely to de feat the sitting Democratic governor, Averell Harriman. They consider this scion of the great, golden house of Rockefeller to ' have been given mainly the role of pick ing up the" tab for running a campaign in New York in a tough, Democratic year. All the same, the national Old Guard can find no ade quate comfort in this. For, in the first place, Rockefeller might just conceivably win. If he did, he, would over night become a great power in the national Republican party. He probably would cast his weight on the side of God knows how much public spending and the like. The Old Guard has learned sadly to accept this kind of thing in the Democrats. But this is simply cannot bear in any public man who calls himself a Republican. TlIOREOVER, even assum " ing that Rockefeller after Election Day holds the distinction only of a defeated GOP nominee, an uncomfort able fact will yet remain. This is that the "New. York Republicans," far from show ing any reconversion toward ancient GOP doctrine, plain ly are moving farther away from it with each passing year. Rockefeller, after all, de feated for the nomination a man with a considerable claim on all wings of the Re publican party, Leonard W. Hall. "Len" was and is a pro, whereas Rockefeller is an un abashed amateur. Hall had ably served Presi dent Eisenhower as chairman of the Republican National Committee a job for which he has had, by the way, no excessive thanks' from the White House. He was no beau ideal of the Old Guard. And if even he, who had no more than tolerable connections with the Old Guard, could not make it in New York, this question is raised: MORE HAMBURGER it could have saved the 30 cents difference involved in the two indices. Worry of FALSE TEETH Slipping or Irritating? Don't be embarrassed by loose false teeth slipping, dropping or wobbling when you eat, talk or laugh. Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your plates. This pleasant powder gives a remarkable sense of added comfort and security by holding plates more firmly. No gummv, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. It's alkaline (non-acid). Get FASTEETH at any drug counter. its tiny neighbor to the south. That further aid may be forthcoming is seen in the fact that the talks between Chou and Sihanouk were par ticipated in by Cambodian minister of economic affairs and finance, Vice - Chairman of Chinese State Planning Huseh Mu-chiao, and Vice Minister of Foreign Trade Lei Jen-min, as well as Chi nese Foreign Minister Chen Yi and Vice-Foreign Minister Luo Kiu-po. More disturbing to the anti Communist circles, however, is the presence in Peiping of such Cambodian military leaders as National Defense and Security Minister Tim Nguon and Cambodian Air Force Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Ngo Hou and other Cambo dian officers who arrived in Peiping last Tuesday. No one expects Cambodia to be drawn into a full mili tary allaince with Peiping. A Question of Trust But they also remember that Sihanouk referred point edly to his nation's border troubles with Thailand and South Viet Nam when the Cambodian government rec ognized Communist China. A Cambodian delegation led by Foreign Minister Son Sann Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words The letters printed in this :olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Goodby; Free TV? To the Editor: In our mod ern atomic age, the complexi ties of our way of life are boundless, but. with the aid of all our sciences, the people meet all challenges without any qualms. One of our sciences is the legal system which as we all know is customed from Eng lish law, modified to meet the ever changing problems that confront us all ard is unques tionably the finest legal sys tem in the world. : With . law unconsciously in mind, let's turn to radio and television. It is understood that both radio and television within most all our states is sponsor ed by the people for privi leges of advertising their pro ducts and business names and through these people both forms of entertainment which all of us enjoy depend upon for existence and deriving from this cycle we all enjoy what is commonly known as free television and radio. We are at its inception be coming familiar with closed circuit television and needless to say it isn't thought of too highly by the majority of the public, but yet we will go and pay to see what has al ready been paid, and by doing this we are all bringing the day nearer to be unable to sit in our homes and enjoy most any of the sporting What possible Republican in any degree acceptable to them will be able to make it in the foreseeable future? (Copyright, 1958 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Very Lenient Terms (When necessary you may have 30 months to pay, with no interest or carrying charges). if "l ' -'- ffj vxd Home FRIENDLY, is in Bangkok now discuss ing the border question and other matters with Thai For eign Minister Prince Wan Waithayakon. With South Viet Nam, how ever, no talks are taking place. Sihanouk has express ed willingness to go to Saigon itself to discuss the border is sue, but many feel that Siha nouk, does not trust South Viet Namese . President Ngo Dinh Diem nor that Diem trusts Sihanouk. Some feel that a sort of Chinese Communist guaran tee for Cambodia's "neutral ity" in the cold war struggle in Asia may be forthcoming. That Communist China will at least receive strong guar antees that Cambodia will continue to maintain its fence sitting position seems fairly certain to many. Sihanouk, immediately aft er his government granted recognition to the Commu nists in Peiping, "declared strongly that he wanted to maintain his friendship with the West as well. But the observers point out that Sihanouk visited India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Burmese Premier U Nu, two of Asia's top "neu trals," en route to Peiping. events taking place through out our country. Radio is a common form of family enter tainment enjoyed by millions but how would we feel if we should have to pay monthly bills for the use of our sets? Closed circuit television is an effort to compensate for a failure to create a means to attract the American public to attend the events and it seems it should be a loss which the people should not have to pay. Referring to the heavy weight championship title bout staged in Los Angeles Monday Aug. 18, 1958, be cause of an unexpected low attendance of the public, they forbid even our radio broad casters from announcing from ringside. i To permit this form of mon opoly to grow and, already it is powerful, as can be seen, we may sooner than some realize, say, good-by forever o free television. Noble B. Day, 1832 North Riverside ave., Medford. Rodeo Whitewashed? To the Editor: Just to keep the record straight, the state ments made in the communi cation in regard to cruelty prevalent in rodeos were tak en from the August, ' 1957 News Bulletin of The Humane Society of the United States. Fred Myers, executive direct or of the Humane Society, made the report from personal experiences in policing rodee. What is the clean, wholesome ness in throwing calves around, and twisting steers necks and the use of the in famous bucking strap used to cause pain that will produce abnormally frantic bucking? The plain fact is that it is impossible to conduct a rodeo without causing pain and fright to animals. It is quite evident Mr. Herring is either naive or has no conception of what constitutes cruelty and brutality. And I can't under stand why a humane officer should white wash a public commercial entertainment of this nature. (Name on file) Medford PERL Funeral Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
