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4 Tuesday, August 25, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtcTBIBUNE "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune'- Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ZRIC W. ALLEN JR, Managing Editor ZARL H. ADAMS. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Te!eg. 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 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S420. 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 $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 Official Paper or 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 ASSOClrATPaN TTiiifl.m:m 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. 26, 1948 (Thursday) Those cloth sacks attached to rat traps the Chamber of Commerce was worried about yesterday? They are used for rural mail delivery in moun tain areas, as many callers have since informed the Chamber. Eric Allen, Jr., secretary to Gov. John H. Hall, will ar rive early in September to be come city editor of the Mail Tribune. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 26. 1938 (Friday) Bird-shooters prepare to flock to the Medford Gun club to practice wing-shots on clay pigeons in anticipation of the season on upland feathered fowl. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot" column: "There are many signs of autumn, such as the shortening days, and pleasant blondes cashing bum checks and disappear ing." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 26, 1923 (Sunday) The new ' Valley school building at the end of Grove land ave. in Siskiyou heights will be open for inspection this week. A Medford fireman re ceived a wedding shower two nights ago, which got under way with a shower bath for the prospective bridegroom. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 26, 1918 (Monday) Bartlett pear -picking is nearly completed. The pear blight disinfectant demonstration is being held today at the experiment sta tion. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. What people fought three wars with the Samnites? 2. Is the earth the second, third, or fourth, planet in distance from the sun? 3. Is copra a mineral, metal, or vegetable product? 4. A buffoon is .a kind of sideboard; true or false? 5. Are leopards striped or spotted? 6. With what widespread industry do you associate the family name Weyerhaeuser? 7. Periods of play in polo are designated as c s? 8. New York City does, or does not, have a system of City manager government? 9. What is a cyclotron? 10. Are U. S. Senators elected to serve terms of two, four, or six years? Answers: 1. The Romans. 2. Third. 3. Vegetable. (Dried Cocoanut meat.) 4. False. 5. Spotted. 6. Lumber. 7. Chukkers. 8. Does not. 9. An atom-smashing machine. 10. Six years. MISSILE EXPERT HURT Amsterdam -(LTD Dr. Wern her Von Braum, the U. S. Army's missle expert and the man behind the Explorer sat ellites, was bedridden today with a suspected slipped disc suffered when he bent over to pick up an object at the In ternational Astronautical Con gress here. .-- A menca s We bow to no man in our admiration of fem inine pulchritude. For this reason if for no other we are always pleased to observe "MissThis or That," or the "Queen of This or That." Almost universally, they are nice young wom en, sincerely attempting to do their very best in a rather exciting situation, and under consider able pressure. The demands upon them upon their time, their good nature, their abilities, and their ner vous systems are terrific. A ND while we can see no objection to a hand- 4- u:. -4.: l 1 a 4.u: feume vuuxig wumaii &uujei.uiig neibeu iu una soil of thing if it is what she wants, we do have the feeling it would make us happy if a daughter of ours began having such ambitions. Thoughts of this sort vere wandering through our mind the other day during a conservation we were fortunate enough to have with Miss Marilyn Van Derbur, a 21-year-old blonde college student from Denver, Colo., who is the reigning Miss America until her successor is named soon. Miss Van Derbur is no raving beauty. As she is quick to point out, Miss America is no longer just a beauty contest, but a gruelling competition with judging points based on talent, poise and personality as well as beauty. CHE is, in fact, a pretty, pleasant, courteous girl; clean and wholesome, who has all the con ventional American ideals about what is good and "what isn't, and who is sincerely and deeply convinced that she has a mission during her one year reign a mission to convince an entire gen eration of potential Miss Americas that they, too, can carry high the banner of righteousness, even if they can never be crowned at Atlantic City. If this sounds condescending, we don't meant it to. Miss America is honestly convinced that she is doing good. And she probably is, too. Her idealism is admirable and we respect it highly. She is also very pretty. She plans to continue her college career, ma joring in music ; she says mother is the best career a too many activities can have an unfortunate ef fect on college studies, and that she is determined to make "straight A's" during her junior and sen ior years. , CHE also talked of the erica. Of the hundreds of thousands of miles she has traveled, living out of a suitcase; of being put on the stageih front of thousands of people on short notice, and having to appear poised and radiant under all circumstances ; of living in a hotel suite in New York for a full year, and only daring to venture out after dark for fear of swarms of auto graph-hunters. She spoke of being a ies, and of feeling she had to "live up to the ex pectations" of her sorority sisters, of the thous ands of letters she has received, many of them touching or inspiring, and of the obligation to reply to them all. 1YJISS Van Derbur, we concluded, is a sincere, conscientious girl with high standards of personal conduct. She is a bit inclined to look down her nose at some of the "Miss This" and "Miss That" con tests which are based solely on the bathing suit sort of thing. And she is convinced that within a few years the Miss America of that period, whoever she may be, will be welcomed at the White House, as well as on the runway at Atlantic City, as a living ex ample of all that is good in American - young womanhood. Maybe this is tine. But it occurs to us that it must take a remark ably well-adjusted girl to be able to hold to those ideals, right down the line, after the tinsel and the glamour vanish ; when the adulation and the autograph-hunters are. gone ; . when she no longer is deferred to and given the key to the city. COME former Miss Americas have made that adjustment, and have become useful citizens. Others have not. We believe Miss Van Derbur, a high-spirited and thoughtful young woman, with a fine, closely-knit family, will make the grade. But we wonder about the artificiality of the life, the set of values implicit in this and similar contests. Are surface poise, a pleasant personality and physical beauty really important and lasting criteria of worth? How about the unreal life lived for the week, or the month, or the year, in volved? Are these fit bases for a future existence of peace with oneself and one's loved ones, and for a worthwhile contribution to the community? Or, put another way, is being "Miss This or That" worth being "Ex-Miss This or That"? - We wonder. For all the "Misses' " sake, we hope it is. E.A. - - - 99 that being a wife and woman can have ; that rigors of being Miss Am- year behind in her stud "Missei Dennis the Menace 'MOmZ, I'M GOING TO 3ABY SIT FOR THE MITCHELLS. WOULD yOU LOAN N& ONE Or 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 cojumn do not necessarily represent the views of the oaper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Klamath Bill Victory To the Editor: As you un doubtedly know, we have sent to the President for his signature a strong and ef fective bill providing for so lution of the Klamath Indian Reservation Purchase prob lem. This bill has resulted from a Senate-House confer ence on the issue. "First and foremost, we are assured by high officials of the Forest Service that the great Klamath pine forest will be adequately protected under the compromise lan guage adopted in conference. Whereas the "continuqus sup ply" language was retained, the words, "according to sus tained yield procedures" were added to assure full pro tection against any damaging policies which might call for the harvest of trees too quick ly or too recklessly. Secondly, the $90 million authorization is retained to add the timber to the Nation al Forests, should that be nec essary, and to pay the with drawing Indians. This is a generous sum. I am particularly grateful to my- Senate colleagues Senators Anderson, Watkins and Church who battled manfully beside me in the long conference discussion for a fair bill which would pre serve the sustained-yield poli cies of the Senate version. Also my debt is great to Sen ator Murray, the chairman of the Senate Interior and Insu lar Affairs committee, who has never let supporters of this legislation down on any issue pertaining to the Klam ath situation. I also want to thank Repre sentative Albert C. Ullman for his fine cooperation. He deserves a great deal of cred it. In addition, Governor Holmes and the Oregon State Legislative Interim commit tee were more than helpful. They gave much valuable testimony throughout the long struggle. I particularly want to thank you for your encouragement. I always have had the feeling that the. people of Oregon were behind me in this urgent cause, despite certain snide attacks from a few elements like the National ' Lumber M a n u facturers association. After all, we had three great aims: (1) To do justice to the Indians themselves, (2) to keep the Oregon lumber mar ket from being broken wide open by a bargain-basement sale of 4 billion feet of pine timber, and (3) to save the Klamath timber, watershed and wildlife marsh for future generations. Thank you for helping us to achieve "these goals. Richard L. Neuberger, United States Senator. For Lark Lovers To the Editor: The Society for the Propagation of the T,ark has recently been or ganized by a group of bird and nature lovers in South Bend, Ind. Our first goal is to take a census survey of this unusual bird, prelimi narv to further planning which aims to preserve and propagate all species of this remarkable songsier. 10 ac rnmnlish this, we would like to enlist the aid of bird lovers throughout the nation. Anvone who is interested, be they young or old, Boy Scout or Girl Scout, can neip ns bv sendins a post card or letter to our headquarters with any pertinent informa tion, such as what kinds of larks do we have in the va rious states? Are they increas ing or decreasing in numbers? TRANQUILIZERS? And what can be done to pre serve and propagate them? Joseph Barnes, Secretary, The Society for the Propa gation of the Lark, P. O. Box 51, South Bend 24, Ind. More Than 100 Years To the Editor: Although next year is focal for a plan ned Centennial for Oregon, the state, I submit that Ore gon, the commonwealth, held forth years before the event this proposed centennial cele brates. For my maternal an ceStors, even, it began in 1853. They arrived in Linn county by covered wagon in that year to find a real pi oneer settlement awaiting them. Back, back much farther the record runs, at least to the first settlements in Ore gon. I think that it is unfair to suggest that it took politi cal unification in Oregon to mark a true beginning in the field of law, order and gov ernment in the local field, duplicated in many places. The 1958 centennial will, at best, merely mark Oregon's place in the Union with defi niteness. So it is, that while we cele brate 1958 with pride for Oregon's contribution to po litical union in the United States, we should not forget to view the great, although sometimes shadowy back ground of pioneer history that includes much more of time and effort than are to be found in only 100 years. It is in this background, if anything, I should say, that we will find the true spirit of the pioneer and Oregon's ac tual place in history. Al though, of course, we cannot but be inspired by the plan ning for the forthcoming cel ebration. Fee C. Esteb, 325 South Riverside ave., Medford. Editorial Comment THE EASTLAND TIRADE " It is a serious matter when the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, even though he happens to be James O. Eastland of Missis sippi, attacks the personnel of the Supreme Court in terms of so-called "pro-Communist" decisions. To his cred it Senator Morse of Oregon promptly administered a re buke from the Senate floor but the Eastland tirade has not had the widespread re pudiation that is called for. What Senator Eastland -iid was to take a group of the most important decisions of the Supreme Court over the last 15 years decisions aris ing because citzens had sum moned the protection of -the American Bill of Rights and scale the Justices according to what he called "the ap parent fondness of the Su preme Court majority for the Communist cause." Senator. Eastland is free to disagree with Supreme Court decisions whenever it suits his fancy. Indeed he may do it all the time if he likes. But when he takes nine members of the bar of as many dif ferent states elevated to our highest bench by three Presi dents over a period of more than 20 years, and tags them as "pro - Communist'! and "anti-Communist" he maligns not only the Supreme Court but the Senate in which he sits. For the Senate has con firmed every one of these Justices. Nothing could be more France, Germany, Italy Seek Agreement In Assessment of Middle East Situation By WELLINGTON LONG UPI Correspondent Bonn, Germany -OJPD-Chan-cellor Konrad Adenauer, In meetings with the premiers of Italy and France during the next four weeks, will at tempt to reach an agreed as sessment of the Middle East situation. Adenauer, his advisors say, feels any attempt to prepare a Western plan for future treatment of the Arab world is fruitless unless there first Matter of Fact THE COURT. THE SOUTH AND LYNDON'S MAGIC Washington The story really began that day in May, 1954, when the Supreme Court handed down its his toric d e cree holding that segregation in the public schools was u n c o n stitu tional. It ended, or at least a vi tal c h a pter ended, in a dramatic rli- Rov.iand Evans Jr. max late on a recent night in the Senate. A remarkahlp display of legislative black- magic, a strange and occult art for which Senator John son is justly famous, swept from the Senate floor the Smith Bill, the potent weapon of rebuke that the anti-court coalition had wheeled up against the Supreme Court. This bill, already approved in the House, would not di rectly have touched the school decision. But as a symbol it was a supreme test for both sides. In a word, its approval would have established the court's vulnerability. Who could then be certain" that new, more daring attacks would fail? Having been taken to the Congressional woodshed 'once, the high court might easier be taken there again. THE Smith ' Bill, in short, had to be sent back to committee and by a combina tion of ingenious plays it fi nally was. Oddly enough, the fortunes of Vice President T?irhard M. Nixon were brandished ' by both Demo cratic and Republican lead ers wooing support for their fight against the anti-court coalition. Viewing the pros pect from opposite sides, they inrprl im the effect of a tie vote on the political fu ture of Mr. Nixon. A lew re publican fence-sitters were ificallv advised that if they did not cast their own votes against tne anti-court bills, the Senate promised to end in a tie vote. That would surely require Vice President Nixon to break the tie and ha Wfll ild hp harrassed and abused no matter how he voted. The same precise strategy, aiiirnprl 180 deerees. was conducted by the Democratic leaders. Several .Democrats, inrlined to suDDOrt the anti- court coalition, were private ly warned that Johnson naa lined up the required votes to defeat the court-curbs if they would only withhold their specious than the theory that a decision is "pro-Communist" because it protected the rights of an American citizen who is also a Communist. The great Justice Holmes said it well in an opinion which Sen ator Eastland apparently has never read: "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought-not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. TO PRESERVE NATURAL BEAUTY . Approved by Congress and waiting the signature of Pres ident Eisenhower is a bill of considerable interest to resi dents of Josephine and Curry counties. The bill extends boundaries of the Siskiyou National Forest through a 20 mile corridor of the lower Rogue river, regarded as one of the most scenic areas in the United States. Rep. Charles Porter of the 4th district piloted it through the house and Dick Neuberg er was successful in obtaining senate approval. Signature by the president is regarded as a matter of course. The bill will enable the U.S. Forest Service to ex change timber tracts away from the Rogue for privately owned timber along the river, and thus preserve the natural beauty of this famed stream. If one would like . an. exam- is agreement on the present situation there; There remains basic dis agreement on this point of departure. It remains despite U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' and Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani's blitz visits to see Adenauer late in July and early in Aug ust. To Meet Fanfani The West German chancel lor will receive Fanfani for a second meeting at the form er's vacation residence on the By Rowland Evans Jr. own votes. If they voted, they were told, they risked locking the Senate in a tie. Who could possibly profit from a tie but Vice President Nixon, who would get all the glory? CK) IT went. One surprised Democrat, hurrying back from a trip just in time to vote in favor of the court curbs, was whisked into a cloak-room and, yielding to his leaders' appeal, sat tight right there until the vote was completed. Consider what Sen. John son and Sen. Dirksen, Sen ator Knowland's heir appar ent as Republican leader, were up against? Only the previous night the Senate had refused, by a generous seven vote margin, to kill the Smith Bill by tabling it. Johnson had carefully balanced the odds on that impending vote. Alert lieutenants, buttonhol ing senators and toting up practice rollcalls, had assured him that ample votes were available. But both Johnson and his incomparably able staff had fatally misjudged the emo tional impact of Sen. Douglas' red-flag amendment. Douglas demanded that the Senate vote its "full support and ap proval" of the court's school- integration decree. Three and possibly four votes that John son had counted as secure dis appeared in the inflammatory debate that followed the Douglas amendment. When that first vote came on the Smith Bill, Johnson had for the moment lost control. BUT there could be no thought of turning back. The long, dreary fight to limit the effect of some of the Supreme Court's decisions had the support of all the orthodox Southern Democrats and almost all the orthodox mid-Western Republicans, an gered not by the school de cision but by the court's han dling of subversion and sedi tion cases. Joining this for midable team were a few other Republicans who would like to damage Chief Justice Warren's reputation. . There could be no retreat by Johnson and Dirksen. Skillful use of the Nixon play, and the voluntary "de lay" in Sen. Frear's official return from the South, changed the composition of Senate forces. So did the de cision of three Senators to switch their votes from the previous night's balloting. Sen. Lausche, Sen. Bennett and Sen. Malone, all record ed as against tabling, now voted for recommital. Final ly, two "live" votes available to be cast against recommital were persuaded to pair with absent senators who favored recommital. The effect of "pairing" is to wash out both votes, in effect neutralizing the "live" vote. When ' all the black magic had wrought its wonders, the vote was 41 to 40. And there assuredly ended the most de termined legislative assault on the Supreme Court since Reconstruction. Of such frag ile stuff are great decisions made. (c) 1958, New Yord Herald Tribune Inc. pie of how logging down to the water's edge can mar the gorge, one need only drive to the area near Galice where logging has been going on this year on the north bank. The appearance is sorry in deed. This preservation of natur al beauty against the inroads of logging is not new. Driv ing over Highway 97 between Gilchrist and Bend one will see many beautiful ponderosa pine trees beside the high way. These trees are large and would make excellent lumber. They were saved for edification of the traveling public because Robert W. Sawyer, then publisher of the Bend Bulletinr fought an edi torial battle to retain a na tural fringe of timber along the highway. Future generations will continue to enjoy the gran deur of the lower Rogue river gorge because members of this generation were thought ful enough to preserve its na tural beauty. Grants Pass Courier. shores of Lake Como Aug. 31. He also will have his first meeting with French Premier Charles de Gaulle since the latter took office in De Gaul le's Lorraine home on Sept. 14. Dulles and Fanfani both have conferred recently with De Gaulle, the former just before and the latter just aft er the Iraqi revolution which caused the U. S. to land their troops in Lebanon and the British to do the same in Jor dan. , The apparent air of com promise around the , United Nations headquarters in New York has somewhat eased the sense of urgency in diplomat ic circles in Europe. Iron Out Details Fanfani, Italian sources re port, feels the Middle Eastern economic development scheme President Eisenhow er proposed to the United Na In the Day's News By FRANK The congress as this is writ ten is struggling to adjourn, passed a lot of laws. The congress that will assemble next January will pass a lot more laws. Next year is an odd-numbered year. In odd numbered years, most of our legislatures meet. All of these legislatures will pass laws. City councils, etc., will add to the pile. We have ALREADY on our statute books so many laws that only one of these fantas tic mechanical brain comput ers could total them all up. Why so many laws? This, I think, is the reason: As a people, we have a pious relief that when something is wrong all we need to do is to PASS A LAW. Having done that, we assume, everything will be hunky-dory. T ISTEN to this: J Sports Illustrated mag azine says in a recent article that the peoples of the world spend the colossal sum of 23 billion dollars every year oa accountable forms of public gambling and an immense ad ditional amount in private games which can not be traced. Of this amount, the Sports Illustrated article adds, the United States alone accounts for 15 BILLION dollars, with horse racing, numbers games and slot machines leading the list of major betting outlets. THOUGHT: In every state of the Union but Nevada gambling is forbidden (or at least inhibi ted) by LAWS. But gambling goes on. A LL this sounds like a plea for free and open gambl ing. It ISN'T. It is intended merely to point a moral. The moral is this: Merely PASSING A LAW isn't enough to end an evil. If- an evil is to be ended by passing a law, the law must be ENFORCED. Laws are enforced only when they are backed by public opinion that is so strong and so uncompromising that those who fail to enforce them will be voted out of of fice at the next election. That's about the long and the short of it. SPEAKING of laws and those who make them -that is to say, speaking of GOVERNMENT-a rather un usual convention has been in session in Tokyo during the past week. The name of it is. the Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asia Conference. The dele gates were all women. The Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. tions incorporated many of Fanfani's own thoughts. But many details remain to be ironed out, and here is where both Adenauer and Fanfani and, presumably, De Gaulle, believe there first should be an agreed assess ment for the Arab problem. Fanfani, the source say, be lieves the main aim of West ern policy should be to pre vent the Arabs falling under Communist governments. On this point, Adenauer is in complete agreement. Fanfani believes, however, a series of non-aggression pacts among the Arab states is necessary to preserve the peace in the area. Here, Adenauer disagrees, Adenauer is said to believe in the inevitability of com plete Arab union under the leadership of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. The German believes any Western attempt to stem this process is futile. JENKINS subjects they discussed are in teresting. For example: The first woman ambas sador from the Philippines, Mrs. Trinidad Legarda, as serted in a speech to the con ference that Asian women are brought up to give preferen tial treatment to men-to CAT ER to them, to defer to them, to give them full authority in the homes and in the business of government. Her statement seems to have rung the bell. The cor respondents tell us that the leader of the woman's move ment in Western Samoa sum med up the feeling at the To kyo conference when she got up and agreed with Mrs. Le garda that Asian countries are MEN'S countries. TTMMMMMMM. Asian countries are ad mittedly the worst governed countries on earth. The moral seems to be: GET MORE WOMEN INTO GOV ERNMENT. , keep all the income. Interest from Municipal bonds m not subject to Federal Income Tax You don't even report it Yet, next to government bonds. Municipals are traditionally the safest investments. 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