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4 Monday, September 8, I9SS MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE Medford&Tribune "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. BUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. Axilla vr . JA., Managing Editor IARL H. ADAMS. Cit-v Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Snort Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor gALERICKSNpculaionMgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at aieoiord Oregon unaer Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: C o n v 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 uaiiy ana sunaay B mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.2S Sunday Only One year $4.20. 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 $18.00 uajiy ana sunaay i mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford oiticial 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, ban rancicco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta, Vancouver, B.C. NEWSPAPER , PUBLISHERS 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassochtiQn J 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 Sept. 8. 1948 (Wednesday) ; The city council has re ceived a $1,000 pledge toward completion of the new swim ming pool building. The Shakespeare Festival has just completed the most successful season of its eight- year history. 20 YEARS AGO Sept, 8. 1938 (Thursday) : An all-time high of 2,326 students have enrolled in Medford's schools, with more expected after the end of fruit-picking. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The meager rain of yesterday im proved deer hunting condi- tions. Judging by the tragedies of past seasons, precipitation is also needed to improve the aim of hunters." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 8, 1928 (Saturday) ; Medford voters will decide next Monday whether to ap prove a $100,000 bond issue to finance repair of paved streets and purchase of neces sary equipment. The Southern Oregon Mu tual Rabbit Breeders associa tion announces every hutch will be full in the Jackson county fair's new rabbit build ing. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 8, 1918 (Sunday) The fourth Liberty Loan campaign will open tonight at the Page theatre with Dr. Esther Love joy, Portland, as guest speaker. Fire swept the Model Cloth ing company's downtown store at East Main and Bart lett sts. early today. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Is the Danube river in Europe or Asia? 2. How many equinoxes are there each year? 3. Did John Quincy Adams serve as Representative in Congress before or after he served as President of the United States? 4. Is an artisan a deep well, a blood vessel, a skilled crafts man or an imitation oil paint ing? 5. For whom was the month of August named? 6. Caliber indicates the muz zle velocity of a weapon; true or false? 7. The American Red Cross was organized by Florence Nightingale; true or false? 8. Which State of the U.S. is second smallest in area? 9. Au is the chemical sym bol for which metallic ele ment? 10. The motion picture, 'The Pride of the Yankees," was based on the life of which well-known New York ball player? Answers: 1. Europe; 2. Two: 3. After; 4. Skilled craftsman: 5. Caesar Augustus; 6. False (size of bore); 7. False. (Clara Barton); 8. Delaware; 9. Gold; 10. Lou Gehrig. Britain s Race Problem Race riots at Nottingham, a city in the Eng lish midlands, and more recently in the Notting Hill district of London fraught with neo-Fascist overtones are posing political problems that ap pear to be out of all proportion to their size and frequency. A proposal to control the arrival in Britain of Negro workers by quotas has been advanced by both of Nottingham's members of Parliament one Conservative and one Laborite. A similar resolution is on the agenda for the Conservative Party conference this autumn. And the riots fig? ure to be a bitter subject of debate when Parlia ment reopens in October. HTHE Nottingham riots involved some 200 per- sons the night of Aug. 23, with another 2,000 watching the street fighting. A correspondent for the "Manchester Guardian Weekly" attributes the Nottingham violence to an "attack on white people . . . (which) was largely the work of a group of 'irresponsible' colored men, mostly West Indians." But these were retaliating for "previous assaults", in the preceding 14 days by white "ted dy boys" the British, equivalent of our own juv enile delinquents. The violence in the west London erupted a week later along the same lines, running on for several evenings. And the "Guardian" warned: "The trouble is infectious. Similar incidents may well take place in the slum quarters of other cities." CEX, unemployment, housing appear to be the key words to Britain's new race problems. Some British girls, particularly those of the in dustrial working class, were attracted to free- spending U. S. Negro GIs in World War II, and similar types have been dating West Indian im migrants. The white "teddy boys" jealously vent their anger on all Negroes. Moreover, one white women married to a West Indian caught up in the Nottingham riot complains, "if you are mar ried to a black man everybody treats you like you were a common prostitute." As of July 1, Great Britain, which until very recently was enjoying full employment, had 412, 000 unemployed, or 1.9 per cent of the labor force. The proportion of jobless among colored and Asiatic immigrant workers is much higher than among British workers as a whole. For ex ample, in Nottingham there are about 430 color ed men unemployed out ot a total zuuu jooiess. -. ON THE other hand, colored men who do find work are frugal, and some have been able to buy homes on mortgage for 600 or 700 pounds $1680 to $1960. This while Britain sutlers what the Liberal "News Chronicle" calls a serious housing shortage. The "teddy boys" also resent the flashy automobiles some Negroes have been able to buy. Britain has only about 200,000 colored work ers, including 110,000 West Indians, 60,000 Indians and Pakistanis, and an indeterminate number of West Africans. This is as' against 23, 800,000 employed on July 1. But the West In dians continue to arrive by the boatload, drama tizing an already tense situation. Trade union groups in Sheffield and Birm ingham have formally asked to be-notified of cases of discrimination. Meantime, the "News Chronicle" comments: "It would be disgraceful if Britain became a color bar country, and any control would have to be univer sally applied without discrimination of race or color. The object of immigration control must not be to ex clude colored people, but to ensure that all who come to Britain will have a chance of living amicably with us. What is Deliberate Speed? Technically, the issue before the U. S. Su preme Court at its special session on the Little Rock, Ark., school crisis is whether to vacate a stay granted by the Eighth Circuit Court of Ap peals from its own order vacating in turn an order granted by District Judge Harry L. Lemley, June 23. The Lemley order delayed integration in Little Rock schools for 30 months, or until Jan uary 1961. But in a larger sense the issue appears to be, what is meant by "with all deliberate speed?" The phrase comes from the Supreme Court decision of May 31, 1955, outlining the manner in which its historic anti-segregation decision of May 17, 1954, should be carried out. Federal district courts were directed to enter decrees "necessary and proper to admit (pupils) to public schools on a racially non-discriminatory basis with all deliberate speed." . THE phrase "with all deliberate speed" was not in itself original. Mr. Justice Holmes referred to it in a Supreme Court opinion in 1911, setting forth the principle that "a state cannot be expect ed to move with the celerity of a private busin essman ; it is enough if it proceeds, in the lang uage of the English Chanceiy, with all deliberate speed." Opponents of segregation wish that the Su preme Court's 1955 implementation order had been more explicit. But at least one legal ana lyst suggests that the Court was intentionally vague, calling "deliberate speed" a "worthy com panion to such other artfully indefinite phrases m the Constitution itself as 'due process,' 'equal protection of the laws,' and 'commerce . . . among the several states'." E.R.R. Notting Hill area of north E.R.R. Dennis the Menace bU KNOW WHY I DIDMT COMS CHAFED MY HAMS TO "TEX. Matter of Fact ARGUMENTS AT THE BRINK Washington - The only way to make sense about the ugly crisis in the Formosa Straits is to distin g u i s h very to clearly be- tween the "why" of the existing situa tion and the "wherefore" of the policy for dealing with that situ- Joseph Alsop It is easy enough to give the "wherefore" of the decis ion to use U. S. forces, if need be, for the defense of Quemoy and the Matsus. 'The follow ing main points have been anxiously canvassed by the leading American policy-makers in the past three weeks. First, the loss of the islands could very easily result in the subsequent - loss of Formosa itself .' Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has nearly a third of his army, and more than a third of his very best troops on Quemoy and the Matsus. He also has a large share of his . best American military equipment on the islands- about half a billion dollars worth. The Formosa combina tion 'of mainland leadership and native population is in herently fragile. A shattering defeat on the offshore islands would therefore shake Chiang's government to its foundations, opening enor mous cracks and fissures for the levers and crowbars of Communist subversion. CECOND, for reasons that will be given, America's prestige in Asia is just as much committed on the is lands as Chiang's prestige Thus a Communist victory on Quemoy andor the Matsus would surely cause a far spreading political earth quake. It would in fact, alter the policy or even endanger the existence of every Western-oriented and non-Commu nist Asian government from. Japan around the great cres cent to Burma, .including even the Philippine government. Third, and perhaps most important of all, the reper cussions of a Communist vic tory on Quemoy and the Matsus would by no means end in Asia. Another back down, another surrender on these little islands would en courage new Communist ad ventures at other points around the world, with West ern Europe itself not exclud ed. Berlin is the most exposed and one of the most vital of all the positions vital to the West. The Communist need to cut this infection-spot of free dom out of the heart of East Germany is currently more urgent than ever. Surrender at Quemoy, and Berlin would be next on the list. The "wherefore" of the American policy can in fact be quite simply summed up. It is designed to prevent a chain-reaction of other Com munist challenges and West ern defeats, that would begin on the rocky islands in the Formosa Straits, but would end in very much more criti cal areas. But that leaves the question, why on earth was a situation ever allowed to arise, in which so much de pends on holding a position like Quemoy? THE "why" story begins with an adman's foreign policy gesture, the famous "unleashing" of Chiang Kai shek. Even after the unleash ing, Chiang himself saw that his regular troops and his po litical prestige ought not to be committed on the offshore islands, which he was then treating as entirely expend able. He made the commit ment on the islands under severe American pressure, which was applied to give substance to the unleashing. Then the American govern- WHEN YA CALLED ttfc? I'VE THAT'S WW1.' By Joseph Alsop ment itself 'saw that Quemoy and the Matsus had better be quietly abandoned, after the warning crisis in the winter of 1956, which ended in the evacuation of the Tachen Islands. Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson was charged with persuading Cniang to make the , move, But Robertson used only the gentlest persuasion. Chiang recalled the past American pressure, and argued that his government could not stand the blow of another evacua tion. Chiang was quite open ly encouraged by Admirals Arthur Radford and Felix Stump, who even approved the continuing build-up of Chiang's island garrison. I?VEN so, Moscow and Pe- king would probably not have risked an attack on the offshore islands at this time, if . the Communist high com mand had not just been treat ed to such a display of Ameri can feeble-forcefulness during the Middle Eastern crisis. As events are proving, an enormous Western defeat was concealed behind the Leban ese landing and the strange transactions in the U.N. And as this reporter wrote at the time, our acceptance of the defeat in the Middle East directly invited attacks on every exposed position, de pending tor its defense on American firmness and resolu tion. The offshore islands were- and are the most ex posed position of this type. Over-all, therefore, it is im possible to defend the way we got into this very nasty mess. But it is easily possible to de fend the decision that has now been taken about the mess. Nor is there any sense in the wailing that "Quemoy and the Matsus are such bad places to take a stand." The enemy, alas, also chooses the places where stands have to be taken. The enemy always chooses the most embarras sing places. And today, it is already very late to take a stand. (Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Editorial Comment HONEY ON THE CROW If one is compelled to eat crow, it is well to have it topped off with something sweet. The honey we detect in the editorial Bronx cheer raised over the state to The Oregonian's suggestion that Portland would welcome a one-year stand of the Ashland Shakespearean Festival is the evidence that Oregon" editors are . rarin' to celebrate the state's 1959 Centennial. They do not want Portland, in the phrase of Editor Bill Tugman of the Port Umpqua Courier, "trying to hog it all." Word we had from Ashland was that the city's celebrated Shakespearean show was in danger of eviction. If such is the case, we still hold the view that Portland or some other city say neighboring Medford should offer a stagp for the Centennial year. If Ashland purposes to do that, there is, of course, no need for even a one-year change in site. We hope that the hospitable people of Ashland will take it as a compliment that some Portlanders covet their Fes tival, just as we covet at times the sandy beaches of the coast counties. Now that we have been editorially convinced that the former is just as un obtainable as the latter, we'd be cheered to hear of Ash land's plans for a Centennial year Festival free of the men ace of the fire marshal. These forthcoming, we could finish our sweetened crow with rel-ish.-Poriland Oregonian. Adams-Goldfine Relationship Of Maine's Senatorial Election Tw T.Vt P n WIT SflW TVi. i i i. : , . . By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington- (UPD -The first election test of the damage Bernard Goldfine may have done to Re publican can didates in this campaign year takes place to day in Maine's t r a d i tional jump- the -gun voting for state and fed eral officials. This is not a It is the best, Lyle C. Wilson very good test. however, which can be had before the Nov. 4 general election in 47 other states. Washington Report By William WASHINGTON PRIVACY Washington - There is much that is wrong with Washing ton as a national community and these s h ortcomings are faithfully and sometimes perhaps even v e h e mently reported for the country's information. Undoubted ly, we have wuiiam s.white gt here vast numbers of Federal bureau crats whose dogged earnest ness in annoying the citizens of the republic - with billions of printed forms in duplicate, triplicate and worse must be conceded. And, in truth, we have got here a center of endless alarm and crisis and confusion to the rest of the nation. If it isn't the State Department and Lebanon then it is the Pentagon and Quemoy or the Justice Department and Little Rock. Admittedly, too, the coun try's eardrums most of the time are assailed by a pitiless clack and clamor from this political city. By no fair esti mate can it be passed off as a place of reserve and calm deliberation. GRANTING all -this, how ever, there are verv im portant things to be said for this place and that is the theme of this little piece. Washington, for all its faults, does not yet have and with good fortune may not soon have - the new all- plastiglass telephone booth. This is a snugly fitting sort of bulb under which the tele phone user sits much as the yellowish slice of coconut cake used to sit under the glass bell on the counter of a railroad restaurant. . The great triumph of this extraordinary symbol of progress," according to a photo caption, is that it pro vides "maximum visibility." To an unscientfc and un- progressve type it would ap pear that the principal value of this "maximum visibility" could hardly be to the man who puts in a dime to use the phone. Rather, it would be to such worthy strollers-by as might like to watch him make his call. This, ho.wever, is a slight diversion from the point of the moment, and so the thought will be put aside. AGAIN, political Washing ton, for all its sins, is happily much less unprogres sive than is big business gen erally in this: no wife here must be analyzed and approv ed by her husband's boss. The philosophy in business is that man can't be a good junior executive unless his wife "fits in witn wnatever jolly sales task force to which he may belong. The fact that some top cor poration executives had been providing this arresting ad visory service to lesser and would-be corporation execu tives has, of course, long been known. But how very helpful it has become was only re cently illustrated. In a United Press International dispatch big-business man has kindly summarized this work for the general public by announcing several categories of wives with which business has com pletely lost patience. The complaining woman, the dominating woman, the possessive woman, tne wite- in-a-rut, the bored woman: none of these, it seems, will do at all. This instance of progress in the art of advice and con sultation, like the scientific progress so strikingly shown in the "bubbletop" telephone booth, might seem to some not ecessarily desirable pro gress. But this, too, is rather besidethe present point; so it, too, is put aside. IfHAT is the point, then? ' Why is it that the" invasion of privacy in this country is This test is important beyond its real significance because it may set in motion forces which will oust Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams from the White House. The principal offices up for decision today in Maine are: Governor, one IT. S. Senate seat, three seats in the House. Goldfine figures in the sena torial contest. The opposing candidates are Edmund Mus kie, a Democrat, now complet ing a second term as govern or, and first term Sen. Fred erick G. Payne, a Republi can. Vicuna After the House hearings revealed Goldfine's generos- S. Whit. becoming so appalling as to be almost beyond words? . The undoubted constitution al right to free speech is be ing extended to a very du biously constitutional right to free looks to peering and poking into people's private lives and private affairs in a kind of witless, unintentonal insolence. A less "progressive" American would have stood this sort of thing for 15 min utes -or make it 10. True, we are accustomed in Washington to putting the private life of any President, and the private lives of a very few other top officials, under an endless public surveil lance. But they did know this to be a part of the job, and they are, after all, public of ficials in dramatic places, And even these, and many hundreds of important people indisputably paid by the pub lic to be public servants, are thus far allowed, to make their own estimates of their wives - and even to use low-visibility telephone. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) FCC To Open Hearings on TV Channel in Miami Washington - (UPD - The Fed eral Communications Com mission prepared to open court-ordered hearings today to determine whether back stage wire-pulling was in volved in its award m the now-famed Miami TV Chan nel 10 case. Sensational disclosures about the case earlier this year be fore the House - influence-in vestigating . subcommittee re suited in the resignation of FCC Commissioner Richard A. Mack. Issues in Cass The FCC now must de- termine: -Whether anyone tried im properly to influence Mack or any other FCC member. -Whether any other FCC member ' should disqualify himself from voting on the case. . ; -Whether Public Service Television, Inc. - which was awarded Channel 10 - should keep the channel and, if not, whether any of the other orig inal applicants should also be disqualified. ' The hearings were certain to review much of the scandal-tarred ground covered by the House subcommittee. Key witnesses again are scheduled to include " Mack, his long time friend and financial angel, lawyer Thurmon A. Whiteside, and Col. A. Frank Katzentine, unsuccessful ap plicant for Channel 10. Judge To Preside Judge Horace Stern, former chief justice of the Pennsyl vania Supreme Court, was brought in to preside at the hearings which are slated to run about three weeks. Nor mally an FCC examiner con ducts such hearings. The U. S. Court of Appeals tossed the case back to the FCC for re-examination after the influence investigating subcommittee aired charges that Mack was improperly swayed to vote in favor of Public Service. The only inhabitants of Jan Mayan Island, about 300 miles east of Greenland, are those working with the me teorological institute. Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With Utile Worry Eat, talk, laugh or sneeze without fear of insecure false teeth dropping, slipping or wobbling. FASTEETH holds plates firmer and more com fortably. This pleasant powder has no gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Doesn't causa nausea. It's alkaline (non-acid). Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FASTEETH at any drug counter. ities to Adams, Payne volun tarily told of his own indebt edness to the textile manu facturer. Payne got a vicuna coat, availed himself of hotel accommodations at Goldfine's expense and accepted a $3,500 interest-free loan toward the purchase of a home here in Washington. Democrats are not raising the Goldfine issue against Payne in their formal cam paigns but it is a matter of general knowledge and gen eral conversation in the state. Payne has been hit frequent ly, however, with questions about his Goldfine connec tions as he "has appeared be fore Republican audiences during the campaign. The significance of all of this is blurred by the fact that Muskie is an astonishingly ef fective vote-getter in Repub lican Maine and seems to have been a satisfactory govern or. With or without the Gold fine issue, the odds would fa vor Muskie in today's elec tion. Licking For GOP His election, nevertheless, would alarm many or most Republican candidates in other states who come up for judg ment in November. Politic ians, especially good ones, al ways run scared and his is especially true this year of 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. Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the aaper; in fact the contrary I often the case. Parents' Responsibility To the Editor: The letter written by Mr. Orville Bunn of Central Point, was a trib ute to the teen-agers. How true, the statement that all teen agers are not ju venile delinquents! I, as the father of a teen ager, and also a high school teacher, am proud to say that many of my best friends are teen agers. It is true that Medford has lit tle to offer a teen ager in the way of recreation. We have no skating rinks or concession parks or teen-age dance halls but does this make a delin quent? Don't we still have parents? It is not the responsibility of the public to raise one's child. It is the responsibility of the parents! These chil dren did not ask to be born into this world, nor did our neighbors or friends request we have our children. Then, parents, wake up! You owe your teen agers their recreation! We have a beautiful . park in Ashland do you and your children use it? Thirty cents worth of gas oline will take you down and back. -A picnic lunch, a car load of your . c h i 1 d r e n's friends, a tennis racquet or even a cheap rubber ball, will give you a day of pleasure. Ever try. being a kid? Shed your . shoes and walk the creeks in the park with your teen-aged friends. Sound corny? Well try it, I did last week end and what fun we all had! , Our police have slipped up sometimes, they're human, and humans make errors, but believe me, when they come snooping around my home to Very Lenient Terms (When necessary you may . have 30 months to pay,, with no interest or carrying charges). iiluiWMHaanjpaiji FRIENDLY, Frank Perl J&L Sidelight Today ' M I Republican politicians, good or, bad. What used to be the Grand Old Party is likely to take a bad licking this year. Repub lican candidates are aware of that fact. They have cited it with vigor in urging that they not be saddled with addition al and unnecessary weight this year, such as the Issue of Sherman Adams' continued presence in the White House when the voters go to the polls. There was a storm of Re publican protest during the House hearings, the candi dates insisting that Adams must go. President Eisenhow er, replied simply that he could not spare Adams: "I need him." Some others coun selled that the Adams-Goldfine issue be permitted to cool before the President's No. 1 man departed. Barring Eisen. hower himself, no Republi can party leader is on public record that Adams could or should stay. The landing of U. S. armed forces in Lebanon shifted public attention from Adams. The Adams-Goldfine issue has , cooled considerable since then. The political climate in which Adams now could re tire with a maximum of dig nity and a minimum of tem porary embarrassment to Ei senhower has been achieved. see if my children are party ing alone, I'll be insulted! Our police chief, whom I've known personally for manv years, needs -no correction in his handling of delinquents His child psythology is , out- standing! There are many wonderful men and women of my generation today, who are leading fine lives and are out standing citizens because of our own police chief. Let's give credit where credit is due. Our police department is available when needed. They don't have time nor money to check each teen-age home to see what they're doing, nor does our Mail Tribune editor' nave lime io pian your cniia s recreation, his job is to re port the news, and believe me, he'd rather report an out door Bar-B-Q for teenagers than a teen aged scandal. Then again, the well-to-do people of our valley are not responsible for establishing our children's recreation. Get to know your child, share his secrets, heart aches, etc. Don't laugh at his silly little prob-lems-they're not silly and they're not little! Something must be done to curb our teen-aged delin quency, and an of us must help, but the job is small if started in your own home. If each of us is responsible for his own, and doesn't shirk his duties, there will soon be no problem for the police. My only suggestion in a case such as this, is that punishment should be bestowed upon the parents instead of the child. The parents would soon learn to know where their children are and what they're doing! Neil Stone, 626 West Second st. Medford. PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE W lr
