4 Tuesdiy, October 7, 19St
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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
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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
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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
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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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