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MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. I MEDFORDtSWTEIBDNE Iveryone In Southern Oregon reou hb wan i n Dune PubUshed DaiJy except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO . 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RIXHL. Editor " JjERB GREY, Advertising Manager Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Tdeg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor SW?S,A5Sn!R- wiinen'i Editor DALEjRICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper fre1 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 mot. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 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 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 United Press International run jeased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU UrtlHCULAIION Advertising Representative: fices in New York, Chicago, De- irun. aan rrancisco. liOS Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta. Vsncouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER 3 k PUBUSHEtS "'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I assocUtiQn 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. 15, 1948 (Wednesday) Settlement of the two-month-old plumbers' strike in Jackson and Josephine coun ties is announced today. The Merchant Style review highlights the county's 4-H club fair program tonight. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 15, 1938 (Thursday) Delegates begin arriving to day for the Northwest Avia tion Planning council confer ence which starts tomorrow here. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Der Fuehrer Hitler is in a 'retreat' in the Bavarian mountains. Among the lesser criminals, a retreat is called a 'hideout.' SO YEARS AGO Sept. 15, 1928 (Saturday) The fruit growers' league and board members of Ore gon State Agricultural col lege meet today and congrat ulate the college and experi mental station on work done in connection with pears here. Sale of hunting licenses in the county is "exceptionally brisk." 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 15, 1918 (Sunday) A special course in orchard work is being offered women at O.A.G. Wives and sisters are now scheduled to march with mothers of servicemen on Sept. 21, Mothers' day. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten eorrecf is superior; even er eight is excellent; five er six is good. 1. How many pieces of sil ver did Judas receive for be traying Jesus? 2. What .were the magic words used by Ali Baba in the "Arabian Nights" to en ter the cave of the 40 thieves? 3. Which manufacturer pro duces Lincoln and Mercury automobiles? 4. A palindrome is a dance pavilion, beehive, or a sen tence that reads the same backward and forward? 5. "Devil's bedposts," is a term applied to which play ing card? ' 6. Was it Noah, or Daniel, Webster who compiled the first American dictionary? 7. There are approximately 150,000, 200,000 or 250,000 physicians in the United States? 8. Epilepsy is a contagious disease; true or false? 9. A tablespoon constitutes 13, Vz, or Va fluid ounce? 10. The mule is a hybrid animal; true or false? Answers: 1. 30. 2. Open Se same. 3. Ford Motor Co. 4. Sentence that reads the same backwards and forwards. 5. Four of Clubs. 6. Noah. 7. 200.000. 8. False. 9. Vz fluid ounce. 10. True. PHILANTHROPIST DIES White Plains, N. Y. - (UPD -Mrs. Preida Schiff Warburg, 82, a civic worker and philan thropist who gave millions of dollars away, died Sunday in her sleep. Grass Roots Political Funds The Republican Party opened a month-long "Neighbor to Neighbor" campaign to encourage widespread giving of political contributions in small amounts yesterday. The Democrats plan an intensive three-day drive "Dollars for Demo crats" opening next week. This new attempt to encourage small indi vidual contributions to political parties is being launched as the congressional campaign shifts into high gear, and there are a few signs indicat ing that this year the movement may really get off the ground. For one thing, the American Her itage Foundation through the Advertising Coun cil is pushing the idea in newspaper, magazine, radio, and television advertising. The party "pros" would of course welcome any new sources of revenue. At the same time, backers of the movement are declaring that if ordinary citizens "pay their way" in politics the big money boys will lose much of their influence. THE idea of small individual contributions to political parties is by no means new. The So cialist Party for many years required the payment of party "dues." And in the 1948 campaign the Progressive Party appealed for direct contribu tions, small or large, at elaborate mass meetings. Then in 1952 the Democrats experimented with a campaign for $5 contributions. Stephen A. Mitchell, then national chairan, reported in December 1952 that the plan had yielded about $500,000. This year the sights are much higher; the American Heritage Foundation puts the goal at $10 million. KT FIRST blush, the $10 million figure may seem unrealistic. But back in 1955, in advo cating a nation-wide campaign for small contri butions, Philip L. Graham, publisher of the "Washington Post," cited Gallup poll data in dicating that 17 million families would be willing to contribute $5 each to the parties of their choice. Even a fraction of the $85 million this would raise, said Graham, would "revolutionize Ameri can politics." A nation-wide campaign in Graham's scheme could "raise enough honest, untainted money to permit our politicians to run for office without becoming obligated to corrupt or selfish forces." Idealistic as this sounds in the wake of "influ ence" scandals in both the Eisenhower and Tru man administrations, the only 2 per cent of U. S. io ponucai campaigns. Ana or an campaign spending, 90 per cent comes from about 1 per cent of the population. IN REPORTED contributions alone, the Republi cans outspent the Democrats in the 1956 campaign for federal office by about two to one. The total reported about $33 million momen tarily shocked the public. But the total actually spent must have been four or five times more. The Republican National Committee came through the 1956 campaign with a slight .money surplus. The Democrats wound up with a deficit of a round million. This year the threat of con gressional investigations could discourage bus iness contributions to the Republicans and labor giving to the Democrats. A cheerful new development in shaking the money tree was announced Sept. 4. Dan A. Kim ball, president of Aero-jet-General Corporation and f ormer Navy Secretary, announced a plan to seek $2 political contributions or more, if de sired from each of the California manufactur ing concern's 15,000 employees, to go to the party of the individual's choice, of course. E.R.R. India -Pakistan Talks If India and Pakistan can agree on the East Pakistan-India border disputes, the achievement will be welcome to the United States. Any devel opment that promises to relax tension between India and Pakistan would promise as well to ease our own relations with both. As the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan were about to meet in New Delhi, the Indian Fi J 1?!. 1 nance Minister was arriving in Washington. Mor- arji Desai wras here after visiting Great Britain and before gong on to Canada in efforts to raise $1 billion of additional foreign exchange to get India's second five-year plan completed by March 1961. Late last month financial experts of the United States, Britain, Canada, Germany, and Japan India's principal creditors met in Washington under , World Bank auspices to try to work out an answer to India's economic and financial difficulties. INDIA has had to cut back its second rive-year plan by one-fourth largely because it has been spending more than it could otherwise af ford on its military establishment. For example, despite a chronic shortage of foreign exchange, the Indian government last autumn ordered about $85 million worth of jet planes from Britain. Pakistan also maintains immoderately large forces, and for the same reason the difficulties with India rooted in the dispute over the state of Jammu and Kashmir. For 11 years these na tions have been squabbling over that district of about the size of Minnesota. Heavy U. S. economic aid to India, many experts believe, has been outweighed in the In dian mind by the U. S. arms aid to Pakistan. Pak istan is linked with the United States in the South east Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) and adheres to the Baghdad Pact. So if a settlement of the border disputes is in the making, Wash ington would welcome it as a possible prelude to direct negotiations on the more basic differences between India and Pakistan. E.R.R. hard fact remains that voters now contribute A -I A H Dennis the Menace 'rlEY! WHO ATE THE SUCKERS OFF THESE LITTLE SUCKS ? Matter of Fact While Joseph Alsop re ports the news from For mosa, Rowland Evans Jr. covers the home base. THE NIXON PROGRAM Washington - Vice Presi dent Nixon, the Republican who stands to lose most by decline of the E i s e n hower a d m i n i stra- tion, is delib erately stak ing out a pro gram of his own in a way u n p recedent ed for a Vice President. Rowland Evans Jr. It can also be said that the versatile Nixon will be offered and will accept important new executive assignments from the President in the final two years of the Eisen hower administration. This is, obviously, the verv least that Nixon can do in an effort to reverse the Admin istration's falling fortunes and at the same time nroiect a fresh and separate image of a Nixon program. Even Adlai btevenson. who never held a job' in the Truman adminis tration, was hard put in 1952 to defend himself against Re publican charges of "that mess in Washington." . AS Republican heir appar- w i way iiaa nucauj' ucu given great responsibilities, Nixon will find it even more difficult to avoid getting caught up in the folds of a tattered Eisenhower mantle. He must somehow show that if he were minding the store, things would be better. Although the job will be extraordinarily difficult, sev eral imminent events are go ing to make it easier for Nixon both to impress his own political ideas on the Eisen hower administration and to advertise a stricly made-by- Nixon program, whether ac ceptable to the Administra tion or not. The first of these is the virtually certain departure of Sherman Adams. With Adams out of the White House, the President will surely be more exposed to the practical poli tics of the Vice President. He will also be less protected from political . pressures of top Republicans around the country, almost all of whom, as of today, are betting on Nixon in 1960. - A SECOND imminent event certain to enhance Nixon's influence within the Admin istration is, paradoxically, the November election. As sure as death and taxes, the Demo crats will run their margins in Congress close to the spec tacular majorities of the mid 30's, dwarfing the normal off- 'I ? In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I suppose you listened to Ike's speech on the Far East situation. If so, you .should keep this fact in mind in ap praising what he said: President Eisenhower stood in the shadow of a tragic mis take in American foreign policy. The mistake was made a dozen years ago when we failed to back the Nationalist Chinese against the reds. At that tims, Nationalist China still had the strength, with our help, to stand off the reds. We didn't help. Instead, we spoke sympa thetically of these Chinese communists as "simple agrar ian reformers" and stood aside while they took over the Chi nese mainland and drove the remnant of the Nationalist Chinese to their present sanc tuary on the island of For mosa. These "simple agrarian re formers" are now threaten ing us with what could be By Holland Evans Jr. year losses by the White House party. The Republicans will pin the lion's share of the blame on the President and his policies and will de mand that Nixon, whose po litical judgment' most Repub licans respect, be given a broader policy role. This is likely to occur even if the Republican party in California, Nixon's own state, is sunk without a trace in November, an event that is becoming accepted as prob able by well-informed Repub licans. Nixon's part in a los ing campaign will not, of course, help him politically. But the President is" also go ing to campaign for his party this fall and he, rather than Nixon, will suffer most from the defeat. Nixon has made no effort to conceal his unhappiness with some of Eisenhower's policies the past year. He was the only Republican at the top who recognized the immense military and political sigmfi cance of the Soviet Sputniks last October and said as much He was the only top Republi can who pressed for the re lease of key portions of the Gaither report so that the frightening picture of the growth of Soviet military and industrial power would be- come the property of the en tire country. He was the only senior member of the "team" to suggest publicly that a fat cut in taxes might be needed to cure the recession. "OUT these have been iso- lated, ad hoc sentiments The planned campaign to put forward a Nixon program did not really start until just the other day, when Nixon laid out his economic program be fore the Harvard Business School "not as Administra tion policy" but as Nixon doc trine. The President, it is appar rent, has given Nixon a clear signal to proceed at will in developing and advertising his own oolitical philosophy, Nixon will have little more to say on this score, however, until after the Congressional campaign and after his trip to Europe late this fall. Un veiling of the Nixon program thus will wait for the start of the new year and will in crease in tempo as the Presi dential election year of 1960 approaches. As for executive assign ments from the President, Nixon's jobs will depend on what new troubles and diffi culties the Administration en counters. By every sign, his talents will be used with in creasing frequency as the President nears the end of his own term of office. (Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) the beginning of World War III if we refuse to do what they want us to do. SO much for the past. Let's now take a realistic look at the PRESENT. HERE -in the mythical State of Jefferson, we are AVERage Americans. As aver age Americans, we would per haps be willing to FIGHT if the Chinese reds should at tack the island of Formosa, which is the tragic last stand of the OLD CHINA that was our friend. But I doubt if we are will ing to go to war to defend the outpost islands of Que moy and Matsu, which are only a few miles from the Chinese mainland, which is now ruled by right of con quest by the communists. They are 100 miles from For mosa. 1 I have a notion that WE would be willing to GO TO Inflation Seen Clearest Present Danger To Future of People of United States By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington-flJPD-The Que moy crisis has been getting the big headlines but thought ful cit i z e n s realize that the clearest present dan ger to their future well being is some thing else. That some thing else is inflation, the Lyle C. Wilson caiastro p r l c reduction of the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar to buy the necessities of life. The Quemoy crisis is what FDR used to call "iffy." If, for example, Red China tries to take the near-shore Nation alist islands there will be fighting between Communist Washington Report By William S. White A NEW CANDOR Washington - One of the most significant changes in the Washington atmosphere since Dwight D. Eisenhower 3 c a m e to power in 1953 is now un folding. Both the President and Secretary o f State John Foster Dulles are speaking in increasing ly candid William S. White terms of the enormous world nroblems that so long have confronted us. And if candor is the beginning of wisdom, then this Administration's foreign policy is becoming far more nearly wise, how ever sticky the situation m the Far East may be or may become. For five and a half years the President and Mr. Dulles have addressed this country and the world largely in soothing terms. Their settle ment of the Korean War gave the Communists an entrench ed position along our secur ity line in the Western Paci fic. BUT to that part of public oDinion which was more interested in any peace than in power, the Administration nresented the Korean ar rangement as a triumph for peace. And to that public opinion which believes peace can only follow power, the Administration rep resented its partial surrender as a tough and practical conclusion. In Indo-China we took up a confused, ambiguous position, half of involvement and half of aloofness. The result was to leave the Communist aggres sors there holding a dagger over free-world interests a dagger whose poised presence the Administration no longer denies. But this, too, was of- WAR if Communist China should attack the Farallones, or the Santa Barbara islands, or Catalina-or even Las Tres Marias, which are just off the coast of Mexican Baja Cali fornia. We'd feel that was permitting an enemy to get TOO CLOSE FOR OUR SAFETY. So let's grant that the Chi nese reds may feel the same way about Quemoy and Matsu. BOILING it down Average Americans (who are a, sentimental people) might be willing to go to war to protect the Nationalist Chi nese in their Formosa sanctu ary where they were driven because in the final pinch a dozen years ago we refused to back them against the com munists. But I think average Ameri cans are not willing to go to war to back the claim of Na tionalist China to these out post islands which lie within gunshot of the Chinese main land, which has been con quered and is held by the Chinese communists. That's about the long and the short of it. Stops Constipation Due to "Aging Colon" New laxative discovery re-creates 3 essentials for normal As you grow older, the internal mus cles of your colon wall also age, lose the strength that propels waste from the body. Stagnant bowel contents be come so dry and shrunken that they fail to stimulate the urge to purge. Relief, doctors say, lies in a new laxative principle. Old-style bulks and moisteners may create gas, take 3 or 4 days for relief. Old-style salts and drugs cramp and gripe the entire, system. Of all laxatives, only new Colonaid gives you its special 3-way relief that works only on the lower colon (area of constipation). and U.S. armed forces. If the Kremlin so wills it, that fighting would lead to all-out atomic war. "Iffy" is not the word fof inflation nor for the money crisis which menaces the United States and every inhabitant thereof down to the last born infant. The immediate bad news which the citizens somehow do not seem to grasp is that a Republican administration voted into the White House on an economy pledge has been unable to make good on it. $12 Billion In Red This administration conced ed last week that the federal government would go in the red in this fiscal year by about $12 billion. The impact of this over-spending on the value of the. dollar in your pocket or your dollar in the fered as a victory for Mr. Dulles' diplomacy. The change in tone here and its importance could hard ly be overstated - seems to have begun in the most recent crisis in the Middle East. There, the President stepped in with a boldness and de cisiveness unexampled for him in sending the Marines and paratroopers to Lebanon. Now, as in his address to the country of last week, he is talking in a way that his Ad ministration was never quite willing to talk before. He is saying that while he will not fight for the little offshore islands - Quemoy and so on -as such, he will certainly fight for them if the Chinese Com munists assault them as way stations to larger aggressions. HE could have . taken the easy and popular evasion that the little islands were in any case meaningless. And the temptation to do that was great in light of the sinister rise in the belligerence of Communist China in associa tion with the Soviet Union. Moreover, and this is. the key to the whole point, the President has obviously recog nized that what he is doing is not popular even in this country - but only necessary in a responsible leader. This new kind of look is even more evident in Secre tary Dulles. Mr. Dulles has publicly faced up to two harsh real ities - and whatever his ac tions of the past he has faced up to them like a man. One of these realities is that our allies are absolutely out of step with us in our Far East policy and will not go along with us if we get into serious trouble out there. The second truth Mr. Dulles is now acknowledging with out shelter behind legalisms must have been hardest of all to accept in an Administration that has so persistently relied on public relations techniques. THIS reality is that a for eign policy in this world and in these times cannot be run on any GaUup poll, post card principle of asking the public to send in the answers as to what really ought to be done. In a word, the Madison Avenue approach - the ad vertising techniques which made peril look like security and losses look like gains - has gone from the conduct of our foreign policy. And not a moment too soon. For it seems clear that the Administration is way out ahead of the pub lic in the Formosa btraits, and only plain, tough, candid talk will put right that situa tion. Many - this correspondent, for one - have many times protested the lack of candor m the Administration, remaps they ought now, in fairness, to acknowledge that Mr. Ei senhower and Mr. Dulles are looking steadfastly down the gun barrel into tne ongm face of danger and running our affairs abroad without re sort to any soft-sell or soft soap. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) regularity. (1) Colonaid moisturizes dry, hardened waste for easy passage with out pain or strain. (2) Colonatd's unequalled rebulking action helps re tone flabby colon muscles. (3) And Colonaid acts gently, on the nerve reflexes that stimulate the vital "mass movement" of your lower colon. Colonaid relieves even chronic constipation overnight; is so gentle it was hospital proved safe even for women in critical stages of pregnancy. And Colonaid won't interfere with absorption of vitamins or other food nutrients. Get Colonaid, today! bank could be severe. There is nothing "iffy" about the accumulating fiscal year deficit nor about its im pact on the dollar's purchas ing power. The chilling fact is that the dollar already has shrunk by half in the past 20 years. It is a four-bit dol lar now and going down. The citizens may begin to get the word on inflation if the President and Congress are able to accumulate enough courage to try either of two moves or to make both at the same time which might Communications Value of Gold To the Editor: Looking back on the records of the early Oregon territorial 49er gold miners of "California gold days," brings to mind the many hardships they had to cope with even after finding fabulous amounts of the prer cious metal. One of the risks was trans portation, either by boat or the overland trail route through hazardous regions at the mercy of wild Indians be fore reaching Portland. After a perilous return to safety there was another drawback, as there was then no money for exchange of gold dust and nuggets and the merchants only offered from $11 to $12 an ounce in trade, although all gold was worth from $16 to $18 an ounce back in that century. This condition caused a circulation of a pe tition to the Oregon Provis ional Government asking that an Oregon mint be set up to coin gold dust into legal ten der money. Today, the prevailing han dicap to gold mining is the need for an open and free world market. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st., Medford. Wythe Mouse WILLIAMSBURG. VIRGINIA Scene of (lie prelude to the Bailie of Yorktown In this handsome house in September. 1 78 1 , occurred the prelude to victory for the American Revolutionary forces. It was Here tkat Washington arrived on September 14 to set up headquarter! preliminary to the siege of Yorktown. General Lord Corn wallis had allowed himself to becomebot tied up on York Peninsula in the belief that British sea supremacy controlled his rear. When the scale of sea power tipped in favor of Admiral de Grasse and the French fleet. Cornwallis was trapped and dug in for the siege. Williamsburg was a beehive of activity; French and American forces were en camped in large number. General Saint Simon and Rochambeau, the Marquis de Lafayette, along wilh others of Washing ton's staff pored over maps; supply trains were assembled; under-officers briefed, un tilSeptember 28, at 5 a.m. Allied Forces marched out of Williamsburg toward Yorktown and the eventual end of British domination of the North American conti-nenf ?, - ' i s f f V -V4 f A I ne SP2'6675 - A f LADY ATTENDANT i FRIENDLY, check the inflationary spiral. One move would be to cut spending in a big way where it would hurt in veterans' benefits and all subsidies, for example. The other would be to raise taxes, also in a big. way. A hike in the gasolina tax is now being discussed. Turn Heat On The citizens would get the word, right enough, in , such circumstances and, doubtless. turn enough heat on Presi dent and Congress to defeat the economies and prevent major tax increases. Federal income taxes al ready are so high, however, that to increase them sub stantially would dangerously diminish personal purchasing power. T. Coleman Andrews, who was President Eisen-, hower's first commissioner of internal revenue, believes the U.S. middle class now is be ing taxed out of existence at current rates a frightening modern version of the goose and the golden egg. Andrews published last month a brochure showing what' the combination of high taxes and inflation have done to the working man's take home pay purchasing power. Copies may be had from Eco nomic Research Associates, 6 Iris Lane, Richmond 26, Va., at 25 cents. They are $6 for 100 copies in, bulk. If you had in 1939 an in come of $2,000, says Andrews, you would have needed in 1957 an income of $4,806 to match your 1939 purchasing power. Of that $2,806 in crease, Andrews calculated $2,051 had been absorbed by inflation and $755 represent ed a loss to an increased tax bite. The $4,000 1939 man would have needed $10,097 in 1957. By 1975, Andrews estimates, a $10,538 income will buy what $2,000 bought in 1939. "In other words," Andrews wrote, "We've GOT. infla tion." PERL Funeral Home HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
