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4 Tuesdiy, October 7, 19St MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MedforiwTeibu "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 GERALD LA I HAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Snort Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE EKICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An IndeDendent Newsnaoer Entered as second class matter at Mediord 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 0 mos. 8 .00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 bunday 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 918.00 Daily and bunday i mo. 1.50 ; Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c Alt Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medfor Official Paper of daemon County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. IN'C, Of fices in New York, Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver, .c V NIWSPAMt rums Hits -association NATIONAL EDITORIAL I7 AStPci)T(3N r 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 Oct. 7. 1948 (Thursday) An essay contest in connec tion with "Salute to Medford" week is underway at Med ford High school. Ten Medford girls are sched uled to attend a district meet ing of the Future Homemak ers of America in Lakeview. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 7, 1938 (Friday) , Gold Hill has received a government allotment of $21, 240 for waterworks and sew ers. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Inas much as there will be nothing left for themselves, after the dismemberment, now under way, Czechoslovakia can save time by giving a quit-claim to Germany without further delay." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 7. 1928 (Sunday) Hunters await with .ill-concealed eagerness the opening of, the Chinese pheasant sea son, the birds being reported plentiful. Local political candidates have begun engaging in leg work, tracking down poten tial backers with as much . avidity as deer hunters. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 7. 1918 (Monday) There was a light frost here this morning. The Neighbors of Wood craft are entertaining chil dren with a Halloween party tomorrow evening at the Lodge hall. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine er ten correct b superier; even or eight ie excellent; :ive ei six is good. 1. Which country of Cen tral America is largest in area? : - " '" 2. Was Roger Bacon a monk, a chemist, or an author ity on optics? 3. What legislative body exercises exclusive jurisdic tion over the District of Co lumbia? 4. What is a P. T. boat? 5. Does a wombat most re semble a snake, a bear, an albatross, or a whale? 6. Is an invidious remrk most likely to provoke laugh ter, ill-will, or good-will? 7. "Colonel Pyncheon" is a character in which Nathan iel Hawthorne novel? 8. In which European coun try did Wilhelm, former Em peror of Germany, die? 9. Norway is a republic; true or false? 10. The inhabitants of Mad agascar are known as M tr ans. Answers: 1. Nicaragua. 2. All three. 3. Congress, 4. Pa trol Torpedo Boat. 5. Bear. 6. Ill-will; 7. "The House of Seven Gables." 8. The Nether lands. 9. False (Constitutional Monarchy.) 10. Malagasiane. TOO MUCH PEP Newcastle-on-Tyne, Eng. - (UPD-Mrs. Ethel Jamieson saia it was true: She stole a piece of beef, a piece of bacon and a baby's rattle from a store. She blamed her thieving spree on four "pep pills" she took. The fine was Paying for Parks The Oregon Journal has commented on a re cent Mail Tribune editorial in which we took the county court to task for trailing far behind other counties and behind the needs of Jackson county in planning for an orderly expansion of recreational facilities, such as parks, picnic places, campgrounds, and so on. ' In its comment, the Journal admits it does not know all the circumstances in Jackson county. Then it goes on to point out that parks take money, and suggests that, while the county court needs to take the lead in a park program, this must be accompanied by a willingness on the part of the taxpayers to pay for such a program. And it added: "The Mail Tribune, while castigating the commis sioners, might well have pointed out this fact." "IXELL, now, we thought we had at least in TT directly. The editorial stated that $3,000 was budget ed for park purposes last year and $12,000 this year. It nointed out that the thousands upon thousands of county residents who like to camp, picnic, relax, jide horseback, fish, boat and hunt (and who are finding it increasingly difficult to do so) are taxpayers. The implication here is not that parks are free, nor that only non-taxpayers use them. As a matter of fact, over the past two or three years we have received nothing but support (from taxpayers) in our attempts to point out that Jack son county needs county parks, and isn't getting them. No one expects them to be free. THERE is one circumstance with which the Journal may not be familiar, and that is that Jackson county has had no tax levy for county purposes for three years. Income from federal timber sales not only has paid the costs, but left a comfortable surplus in the county's coffers. We can think of no purpose more logical for the use of this money from the county's natural resources than for it to go into natural resources of a different type parks and recreational areas. If this were to haonen. we would exnert nn anguished outcry from taxpayers. Let the Journal ponder this : In Jackson countv. this vear. rrmnt.v monev for narks totals capita; in Multnomah statement, it is aoout 3b cents per capita. The Journal's editorial headline snirl. "Tav. payers have to be willing son county people are just as willing as tnose ot Multnomah county to pay for parks. E.A. Fairy Tale --And Art Form As a lad, we watched western movies with great gusto. Those were the days when we were untroubled by pricks of conscience about "wast ing time" with things that and worthwhile." Times changed. Later, we remember p-oiner through an unhappy period when, if we ever found ourself doing something frivolous, we had a guilty feeling. loday, while we still unease when time is flitting by and nothing is be ing done, we've discovered a half-dozen excellent rationalizations, starting with "All work and no play makes Jack a dull from there. THUS, we now find is possible to watch west wra fr '"TAT nrifV Vi a enwo oriflii-ioiocf i 1 o lr r-P responsibility with which we were blessed some three decades ago. A recent discovery made it even easier. We were reading an article about television (we've f orgotton just where), and the author made some remark about the television western being today's "Americ'an fairy tale." That did it. Fairy tales they are. THHEIR pretense at reality is only superficial. They are, rather, latter-day morality plays (in one genre), or (in another) romances typical of the troubadours drawing on the legends of the Cid, of Richard the Lion Hearted, or even Till Eulenspiegel. The early-day western was stereotyped and formularized and predictable. The latter-day "adult" westerns, while times making a fetish of their villains sometimes of black, and frequently mixed-up bringing up) still have little relation to reality at least the reality of the period from 1850 to 1890 m which most of them are set. TI7ITH this in mind, we now feel it possible to " sit in front of the TV set in utmost relaxa tion, watching the westerns in the secure know ledge that we are watching a new art form the American fairy tale. r The best of them, "Have Gun, Will Travel," "Gunsmoke," and "Maverick," and even the second-best, are not "how it happened" in frontier days. They are stories of people who have been abstracted from life, and cast in a man-created and stylized environment, a Never-Never Land, but one which forms a backdrop familiar to Am ericans, and against which they can play out their tales of morality and adventure and romance in high style, and without worries about an un wieldy frame of reference. As fairy tales, from which one can extract whatever significance one wishes, they are lots of fun. And one can always rationalize by saying one likes them as an art some people line oaiiet. less than 19 cents ner county, by the Journal's too." We believe Jack- weren't "constructive" on occasion feel a slight boy, and working up less patterned, and often "reality" (meaning that wear white hats instead are just the victims of a farm -sort of the way ti.A. Dennis the Menace 10-7 &-rsa.t?u.smetar.i!.Tjre? Hl.AlK.f!AfWN 0(0 W EVS SET Washington Report By William S. White THE LITTLE ELECTIONS Washington An Ameri can political consensus is be ing reached in the most local and fragment ed series of c o n t e sts in m i 1 1 i ons of f a r m h ouses and thousands of h a m 1 ets, towns and cities a c r oss the United States of W illiam s "white America. This biennial Congressional campaign, like the 85 that have gone before it across a century and three-quarters, is learding up to what is always called a "national election" and never is that at all. What are really coming in Novem ber, instead, are so many scores of small elections over so many real and open and hidden and sometimes merely implied "issues" as to be quite beyond discerning, let alone counting. The whole present process is one of vast diffusion, with two exceptions. There is the Deep South, where Demo cratic primaries alone have long since settled who is to come to the House and Senate. And there is a handful of hard-core Republican areas in the Midwest and New England where Democratic challeng ers run against Republican certainties simply out of duty to a two-party tradition that in these areas is only a chap ter in a civics textbook. BUT for the vast bulk of the country this is a real election. And the real ques tion in the obvious sense, on all present readings, is not whether the Democrats or the Republicans are to control the new Congress, Rather, it is how much the present Dem ocratic majorities are to' be expanded: But men will be elected or re-elected as "Democrats" who are far closer to most of the Republicans than are at least one-quarter of the Republi cans themselves. Men wiU be elected or re-elected as Re publicans who are practically indistinguishable from 80 per cent of the Democrats. Perhaps no political way in any free country is so ut terly untidy so without any true pattern as is the Amer ican way of choosing a Con gress. All the same, it may be that this is the very strength of the system. Most of the best of all political in stitutions look planless, though they are not, and seem casual and actually are. WHEN it is all over a quasi- national result will somehow have been obtained through a procedure that is Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A GRACIOUS NURSE in a maternity ward tapped a gentle man at the bedside of a brand new mother and said, "Would you like to see the baby?" The man nodded and was taken to the nursery. The baby was shown to him through the window. "It looks exactly like you," said the nurse. The man thanked her for the compliment. Later the nurse told the mother, "Your husband seemed simply delighted with the baby." The mother corrected her, "That wasn't my husband. He was here to collect two overdue in--stallments on my TV set" Traveling along the Rappa hamock River, Calvin Coolidge was shown the spot where George Washington reputedly threw a silver dollar from one shore to the' ether. "Not bad,'' conceded Coolidge, "if true. And besides you must remember a dollar went s lot further in those days than It does now." O 13a, by. Bennett Cat DiitribuUd by Kias features Syndicate, RIO OF THOSE TEWVES?' anything but national and of ten is as thoroughly local as high school play in an Iowa village. One party probably the Democrats will return here in January in command of at least the procedures and possi bly even the ultimate actions of the 86th' Congress. But the total result of the election will have been based upon hundreds of candidates' per sonalities and promises and public attitudes and some times the total lack of such attitudes. Is Congressman Jones or Senator Brown returned be cause of his well-known views on China or Western Europe or something truly important of this sort? The tendency is to say he is, and even to be lieve he is. But very often this is nowhere near the rea son. The present senior Republi can foreign policy spokesman, Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin, was handsomely re-elected in 1956 after his own . state party convention had turned openly against him and the Republican party national organization had seemed to have trouble re membering his name. It was fashionable to see Wiley's struggle as an immensely im portant test of how an inter nationalist politician would in a supposedly isolationist state. . BUT this was all much too logical to fit the facts. The facts simply were that people liked "old Alec," as they said in large numbers upon being asked. Nine times out of ten they couldn't have cared less about his foreign policy views. Thus the simple truth is that it will be a great mistake to go about reading vast na tional and international im port into the results of this current Congressional elec tion. No doubt it will prove that the country is a vague, general way is more "Demo cratic " than Republican. But for what kind of a Democrat ic party will the people' have spoken? The party of the ad vanced liberals? The party of the moderates? Nobody in the world will know that an swer, and thus nobody can know what really happened. Is this bad? Not in this cor respondent's view. For a truly "efficient" party system in which every sheep is plainly separated from every goat has often wound up with the goats feeling obliged to de stroy every last wrong-headed sheep, or vice versa. It is not too bad a thing to keep every form of the absolute even absolute clarity out of poli tics. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Stop Me 'Reign of Red-Run By B. K. TIWARI UPI Correspondent New Delhi - (UPD - India's Communists, who won the southernmost Kerala state in a peaceful election 16 months ago, now are trying to consol idate their control with a reign of terror. This is the disturbing con clusion reached by top-level officials of the Congress par ty, the majority party in India. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru himself has declared that "an atmosphere of fear" grips the 13,600,000 inhabi tants of the state. He has called for an impartial probe into Kerala's affairs to deter Matter of Fact GOODBYE FOR NOW San Francisco A stern re solve to get away from the Far East, not only physically but also at the t y p e w r iter, has abruptly melted away. It has melted in the heat generated by the current public talk of worthy per sons who have Joseph aisop never seen China, know no Chinese lead ers, and would rather take a physic than read Chinese his tory. From this talk you might suppose that Chiang Kai shek's remaining fragment of China is a species of island cesspool, ruled by an aging tyrant who hankers to en tangle the United Sates in a great war by a foolhardy rein vasion of the mainland. Yet by any practical test, Chiang's Formosa is consider ably more respectable than Nehru's India, to cite the most obvious and most loudly ad mired example. The lot of the common man is immeasurably better. The country is im mensely more prosperous. The educational and welfare sys tems are infinitely more ex tensive. The government is substantially less corrupt Only the unearthly Indian self-righteousness is lacking. TN ADDITION, Chiang Kai- shek's old talk about "re invading the mainland" has about as much present mean ing as John Foster Dulles' old talk about "liberation." Chi ang has no more intention of attempting a serious "rein- vasion" of the mainland than Secretary Dulles has an in tention to attempt the "liber ation" of Hungary. But it is probably useles to make these points, in view of the strange, enduring power of the superstitions about Chiang, whether pro or anti-. It is more important, in any case, to try to be a little more realistic about the Chinese Communist mainland. Here the essential fact to note is fairly simple. In brief, Communist China is now en tering the hideous and blood stained phase that the Soviet Union entered when Stalin launched his massacres of the peasantry. The reason is the same. The Chinese Communist rulers, like Stalin before them, have learned that they cannot finance their forced industrialization without bru tally depressing the standard of life. BUT although the reason Is the same, the circum stances in China are vastly more grim. The standard of life that has to be depressed is very much lower. The pool of untapped resources is very much smaller. The goods and commodities available for ex port are very much fewer. In every way, the Chinese prob blem is incomparably more difficult than Stalin's was, except that limited Soviet credits are available which have to be repaid with inter est. The greater difficulty of the Chinese problem is easy to gauge if you compare Stal in's collective farm system with the new system of "Peo ple's Communes" which the Chinese Communist leaders are now ruthlessly imposing on the toiling peasantry. The scheme for the collective farms at least had some other trappings of humane Western thought. The scheme of the communes is frankly intended to transform the whole coun tryside of China into a series of vast slave farms, of a char acter without any modern parallel. DR. T. M. HOBART Osteopathic Physician and Surgeon 303 Medical Center Building By Appointment: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. .... 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY Phone SP 3-3331 Terror' Reported From Indian State of Kerala mine whether the state gov ernment is responsible. Commies to Blame As far as some of the top men in Nehru's own Congress party are concerned, how ever, there is no question that the Communist government of the tropical state bears full responsibility. U. N. Dhebar and Sriman Narayan, president and secre tary of the party respectively, warned after a recent on-the-spot inquiry in Kerala that the non - Communist leaders would be wiped out or forced to flee if the terrorism con tinued. The Communists walked I into the 15,000 square -mile By Joseph Alsop The probable horrors of this new phase in China go be yond the bounds of normal imagination. Secrecy, plus idi otic sentimentality about "this great Chinese experiment," will no doubt conceal the full extent of the horrors for a long while, as happened in the Russian case. But if Stalin massacred 20,000,000 as he did it is a reasonable . fore cast that the Communist mas sacres will pass a hundred million human beings. . THE question remains wheth er the Chinese neonle will suffer and submit as the Rus sian people suffered and sub mitted. At the risk of an un usual accusation of over-optimism, this reporter would venture the opinion that they will not suffer and submit They are more vital, tougher and more dynamic than the Russians. Their history shows that they are somewhat like camels capable of bearing enormous burdens but also capable of sudden, unshak able, unmanageable resistance when the burdens grow un bearable. Both China's previ ous revolutionary dynasties lasted less than a generation, precisely because they im posed unbearable burdens. Mao Tse-tung must have the memory of the fate of these predecessors Of his very much in his mind. One way to re lieve China's internal pres sures, dimmish the need for massacres and ease the situa tion generally is to add the resources of China's rich neighbors to the southward to China's own inadequate re sources. And in these circum stances it is unwise to ignore the possibility that the attack on the offshore islands is the first, tentative venture of a much more ambitious scheme of conquest, (e) 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc. 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. Political Poesy To the Editor: This is the story of Geddes the gent, who never engages in argument, or vexes his mind with the complexity of problems of na tional security. The H-bomb, Formosa, So viet threat haven't hurt busi ness in Roseburg yet. Let's shuck off the United Nations and live in good old isolation. Whether . these struggles are lost or won we'll still be snug in Oregon. Vote for me and we'll all be rich from favors and handouts the like of which Bernie Goldfine has never - dreamed. Our beaver pelts will now be teamed with vicuna for the federal trade. Government bureaus can be swayed by "working" with people in intimate detail. How can the Geddes system fail? Vote me in and when I'm through Sherman Adams will look good to you. George Rode Cherry Heights, Medford. John Wayne Becomes Grandpa First lime Hollywood-dJPD-Actor John Wayne's 22-year-old daughter, Toni, gave birth to a 7 pound 6 ounce girl Monday, making the swashbuckling film star a grandfather for the first time. The baby was born at St. Joseph hospital in 'nearby Burbank to the former Miss Wayne, now the wife of Don ald La Cava, an executive in Batjac Productions. state in March, 1957, after up setting both the Congress par ty and the Praja Socialist part (PSP) in an election. They had promised sweep ing reforms under a "non violent democratic policy." But opposition was intense during the Communist's rule and a crackdown followed. There was a wave of political murders, assault or threats on Congress and Socialist party members. Non-Communists in several trade union organiza tions were beaten or threat ened. Several officials who did not toe the Communist line found themselves out of jobs. A judge was sacked after he issued a ruling against a Com munist lawbreaker. A magis 'Right to Work' Is Issue in 6 States; Arguments Listed By Congressional Quarterly Washington-(CQ)-Voters in six states will pass judgment on the American labor move ment Nov. 4. - They will decide whether labor unions should continue to have the right to sign con tracts with management re quiring all workers at a plant to join the union.' The question is on election ballots in California, Colo rado, Idaho, Kansas, Ohio and Washington. It is worded in various ways,, but the ques tion boils down to "should our state adopt a right-to-work law? The. voters' answers will be studied in all the states, not just the six expressing them selves. These, answers will show whether a change in the balance of power between la bor and management is in prospect. They also will indi cate the political worth of being for or against right-to-work laws. Outlaw Union Shop Right-to-work laws, now in force in 18 states, take away a union's power to seek con tracts, requiring all workers at a plant to become mem bers. This power is known as the "union shop." Manage ment under union-shop agree ments can hire non-union workers, but the workers must join the union after they start work or lose their jobs. Proponents describe right-to-work laws as merely guar antees of the worker's God given right of free choice. Without that choice, they argue,vunions can do as they please without fear of losing members. This, they say, in vites union corruption. Opponents contend right-to-work' laws really are clubs for breaking up unions. The laws give management the opportunity to hire only anti union workers. Then, oppo nents say, the workers will be right back under the thumb of management. As for compulsory membership, op ponents contend all workers should help pay for the bene fits won for them by the union. Use All Techniques Both sides are using all the political and public relations techniques to win converts films, speeches, literature, contributions to sympathetic political candidates, "citizen" organizations, etc. Speakers ranging from "plain folk" to clergymen to celebrities are out stumping in the six states for each side. But the big campaign ques tion is how the " public will react to the exposure of cor rupt leadership in the labor look upon right-to-work laws as brooms needed to clean out the House of Labor? Or will Counsel With . . . , Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan VS. nj Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. trate was transferred because his decisions were a bit too impartial. India's parliament has rung during the last few months with charges of misrule and terrorism in Kerala. The Communists, however, insist that the Congress and Social ist parties are deliberately in citing violence to discredit their regime. Chief Minister E. M. S. Nambeeripad maintains that the state is functioning nor mally. But congressmen charge that Nambeeripad's recent release of 1,360 prison ers and his commutation of death sentences for another 250 - mostly Communists or pro-Communists - is not de signed to insure normalcy. the public decide unions can do more for the workers than management, despite some corrupt union leaders? The Chamber of Commerce of the U.S. hopes the Senate Rackets Committee hearings on labor corruption will prove to have created a favorable climate for a national right-to-work law. The Nov. 4 bal lots will tell. Leaders of the AFL-CIO anti-right-to-work fight are frankly worried. They say la bor corruption is an entirely different question from the right-to-work issue but they admit the two are impossible to keep separate in the public mind. The AFL-CIO is doing all it can from its national head quarters, in Washington to help anti-right-to-work forces. The Chamber of Commerce of the U.S. and National Asso ciation of Manufacturers are leaving the battle pretty large ly up to state business asso ciations. Other Groups In between there are the National Right to Work Com mittee and the National Coun cil for Industrial Peace. The committee was founded in 1955 by former Rep. Fred A. Hartley (R-N.J.-1929-49), co author of the Taft-Hartley Act. The committee argues movement. Will the public that right-to-work laws must be passed to preserve free choice. The committee's board of directors is comprised of both labor and management representatives. The council was founded this year by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and former Sen. Herbert H. Lehman (D-N.Y. 1949-57). It contends it is not fighting for either manage ment or labor, just the sensi ble balance of power now existing. Council leaders ar gue right-to-work laws upset this balance of power to the detriment of the whole econ omy. They say the end result of upsetting the balance is a bigger role for government; in private business. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell is against right-to-work laws while President Eisenhower and Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon are uncommitted. Nixon in 1950 voted against a Senate amend ment to authorize states to outlaw union shops in the railroad industry. .'$ (Copyright 1958, i '. Congressional Quarterly Inc.) 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