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4 Monday, October 13, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORO, ORE. MEDFORlMWrMBUItE J "Everyone In Southern Oregon " Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORO PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manaeer GERALD LATHAM. Business Mer ERIC W. ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL A ADAMS Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon tinder Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 raos. 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 copy 10c AU Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Comity United Press International uu Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertising ReDresentative WEST-HOLIDAY CO., INC, Of fices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver, B.C. NEWS PA Pit PUBLISHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASOcSTlgN SB Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 3G and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 13. 1948 (Wednesday) A force of 18 volunteers is being trained to reinforce the Medford fire department. Plvrlet FiVhtnpr Medford police officer 1 in charge of traffic, leaves for the nation al safety congress in Chicago. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 13. 1938 (Thursday) Two hundred children armed with pets and dolls are to march down Main st. for the benefit of local movie makers. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Once upon a time,- so the fable runs, a deer was shot for a man." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 13, 1923 (Saturday) A Crater Lake bruin has helped himself to Caretaker Stone's winter supply of smoked ham. - Dr. D. W. Stone (no rela tion to the above) reports the dog and cat hospital on North Riverside ave. nears comple tion. 40 YEARS AGO . Oct. 13, 1918 (Sunday) Central Point has gone "over the top" in the liberty loan bond drive. Mayor Gates says the ban on public meetings will re main in effect until all danger of an Influenza epidemic is past. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five of six is good. 1. Was Elias Howe the in ventor of the reaper, sewing machine, or typewriter? 2. What does the name Pennsylvania mean? ' 2. Is the earth a perfect .sphere? - 4. The distance between the sun and the earth is ap proximately 96,000, 960,000 or 96 million miles? 5. In which month in 1945 did President F. D. Roosevelt die? 6. The Latin phrase "ades te fideles" means what? 4 7. The bodies of four Pres idents of the U. S. are buried on the shores of tne riuason River. Three of them are Van Buren, Arthur and Grant; name the fourth. 8. Are there more, fewer, or the same number of days in the first six months of a J.,.. -ti t- than in tht second six months? 9. What is the AMA? 10. .Two Presidents of the U. S. have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; name them. Answers: 1. Sewing ma chine. 2. "Perm's Woods." 3. No.' (It is an oblate, sphe roid.) 4. 96 million. 5. April. 6. "Come, . ye f aiihf uL" 7. Franklin. D. ' Roosevelt. . 8. Fewer. 9. American Medical Association. 1 0. . Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roose velt. .... Problem for 'Independents " We fully approve the fund-raising activities of the two major parties this year. Both emphasize a large number of small contributions thus get ting away from a party's depedency on a few substantial .gifts, with the resultant obligation (actual or implied) to the donor. This type of fund-raising campaign is not ex actly new, but it is new in its widespread applica tion this year, with the sponsorship of the Ameri can Heritage foundation and others interested in clean politics. "II7E SEE only one difficulty. y This is the fact that many voters perhaps even a majority of them are independent-minded, and don't and never have voted a "straight ticket." Instead they vote for the individual can didate. This poses a problem. Why should these vot ers (despite whatever party affiliation they may have) contribute to a political party which will use the money to support all its candidates some of whom may actually be opposed by the small donor? THERE are some voters who will vote a OWL dig lily LlV,AClj JL VV 11U aiU 11V U hJ J the fact that a small portion of their donation will go to support a candidate of whom they do not approve. For these individuals we commend the "Dol lars for Democrats" campaign starting today, or the Republicans' "Neighbor to Neighbor" drive, which is continuing. As for us and, we presume for other "in dependent" voters the problem remains, since we plan to vote for candidates in each party. . E.A. Beforehanded Action Sheriff Howard Gault has been wisely be forehanded, we believe, in appointing a number of deputies whose duties will concentrate on the enforcement of boating laws in Jackson county. Probably no accurate census of the "boat pop ulation" has been, or could be, made here. But to anyone with eyes, it is obvious that the number of boats has increased astoundingly in recent years. Some are fishing boats, some are recrea tional putt-putts, and some are high-speed jobs designed for water-skiing enthusiasts. THIS trend will be stimulated greatly in the next few years when Emigrant reservoir is increased in size many times over, when Howard prairie is filled and opened up, and as improved highways make other water spoils areas (such as Shasta lake) even more readily accessible than they are now. And, as highways need traffic patrol officers, so the lakes will need ' enforcement officers. There is danger inherent in the use of boats on lakes, and tragedy will only be avoided if the boaters are held responsible for their actions. It is, we forecast, going to be a real problem. And Sheriff Gault, recognizing this fact, has act ed wisely in setting up a nucleus of an enforce ment staff now, before it Cause for Pride On Pao-e 1 todav aDDears the first of a series of pictures designed to show just what the "Make Medford Beautiful" committee has in mind when it sup-p-ests to residents of the com munity that some cleaning up is in order here abouts. The pictures were taken, and are being print ed, not with the idea of embarrassing anyone. Quite the contrary. It is our intention to present a "helping hand" through the news columns both to property-owners and to the city, by making everyone more aware of the fact that there IS, indeed, a prob lem. WE SAID earlier, and we say again, that Med ford people have a strong sense of civic pride. . The pictures are designed to increase that pride, not deflate it. For it is our convicition that when the city of Medford (and that means all its residents) is convinced that there is a prob lem, and that the solution is relatively easy, the results will be obvious. Medford is an attractive town. But it can be and, we are convinced, will be much irfore beautiful and attractive to its residents and to its visitors. E.A. The President is 68 When Dwight David Eisenhower celebrates his 68th birthday tomorrow he becomes the oldest of our Presidents except three. Andrew Jackson reached 68 two years less 11 days before leaving the White House and James Buchanan two years less seven weeks. William Hemy Harrison, who died after one month in office, had been inaugu rated 23 days after his 68th birthday. The end of President Eisenhower's second second term on Jan. 20, 1961 comes 70 years, three months and six days after his birth in 1890 at Denison, Tex. None of our Presidents has yet been in office on his 70th birthday. , LJOWEVER, almost one-half of the men who served as chief executives of the nation, 16 of the 33, lived to celebrate their 70th birthdays as ex-Presidents. Thanks to the act of Congress this year be stowing $25,000 pensions on ex-Presidents, no future one should have to is too late. E.A. fear poverty. E.R.R. I SUPS HOPE YOU OON'T STIR THOSE SMOKE SIGNALS; 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. ThevMail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters -submitted fir publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views'-of the saper; in fact the contrary U often the case. No! On Tax Boost To the Editor: It would seem, to a man up a tree, that there are some would-be leg islators who would like to hang on to the Oregon tax payers a real' tax load. It is really an astronomical figure, too. I am speaking about the proposed addition to the al ready confiscatory gas tax, which at present takes as much more as the gas itself takes as a reasonable price. The excuse given, for the proposed raise in this tax, and the raise . in license fees, which, together, make an ex tremely exorbitant levy, is the need to match the monies the state will receive from the federal government for the purpose of highway (I should say super highway) construction. Right here, I register an emphatic NO. We all know that right now the federal government is just the same as bankrupt. With a debt of nearly $300 billion to be paid, and more being squandered overseas for no solid reason, we might say like drunken cowboys on a spree, then it behooves those states who can to con sider the poor devil of a tax victim, and not lay any fur ther taxes no matter for what reason. -. Let the highway question rest for a few years. Then be gin to think about such ex penditures. There are enough roads, if kept in repair as they should be, to enable any one to go anywhere in Oregon. What more do we want? No, let the road question go by the board, and attend to our business and not let ourselves be hectored into any such bin of expense. See if we cannot get a surplus into the state treasury and keep it for a while. Let us see how it feels to owe no man or group of men. There is one more thing I should like to say. I should like to meet with the Grange people here and there, for a conference on a subject of vital interest to all farmers. I was born on a farm, brought up there, and have done all kinds of farm work, but when I came to own a farm, I had to work for wages to live artd improve that farm. Then I saw I was too old to make the grade. So had to sell. So, if I am invited to a Grange meeting I shall be glad to come and meet with them. Andy L. Unger 634 Pennsylvania ave. Medford Wants Information To the Editor: As a sub scriber to your paper way down here in Florida, I'm hoping you will print this let ter so that perhaps some of your readers will help me. Last summer we toured the west and of all the places we visited we liked the Medford area best of all. We are na tives of New Jersey and have traveled from Maine to Flor ida, living here for nearly 10 years. We would like to leave here and resettle " in your town. There are many things we must know first though. We have lots of literature from the chamber of com merce in Medford, Salem, Portland and the Oregon State Highway department. What we need are the opin ions and information that average working people like ourselves can give to us. My husband is a sheet metal me chanic in the neon sign trade." What are his chances of em ployment? Is there any par ticular type of smaU business needed in Medford? What of a trailer park outside the city UP INJUN TPOUBLE WITH ALL limits? What can we expect the winters to be like? How are taxes, city and state? Is housing good and how are real estate prices? We will need ia three bed room home as we have three girls ages four, ten and four teen. Also, schools are impor tant to us. How do schools in Medford compare nationally? There are many other ques tions I could ask and hope that what I have asked isn't an imposition. Will anyone who reads this please help us to secure this much needed information. All letters will be greatly appreciated and please feel free to suggest and advise. Thank you everyone. Marjorie T. Nabbe (Mrs. Robert W. Nabbe) 5617 Tangerine Gulfport, Fla. High School Cleanup To the Editor: If our mayor wishes to really clean up Medford, we think it would be advisable to start with the senior high school students, for the residents who live along their line of travel must pick up trash almost every day, which they scat ter along the streets. . Please do not print my name as we do get reprisals if we say anything. (Name on File) Medford Bear Tracks To the Editor: The picture on Page 5 of Wednesday's Mail Tribune showing a plas ter cast of a giant footprint reminds us of the time we were camped near Grizzly prairie 10 miles due north of Pinehurst, Jackson county in 1937. One early morning in June near the camp in the soft earth were fresh bear tracks that easily measured 12 inches in length. It did not take my buddy and myself very long to decide the huge track was made by a giant grizzly bear. Not having heard any re port in the past 21 years of such a large bear being shot in Jackson or Klamath coun ties, it is just possible the huge beast has survived and its feet have grown 4 more inches while living in north ern California's remote wild erness. Although one thing is certain, the 50 inch long stride of the California foot print does not tally with the four legged footprint made in southern Oregon. So, the tracks have nothing in com mon. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman Medford. Charleston Invites Porgy-Bess Premier Hollywood - (UPD - Charles ton, S.C., has invited Samuel Goldwyn Studios to make that city the site of the world pre mier of the movie "Porgy and Bess." In a letter received by the studio Saturday, John M. Clarke, president of the Char leston Junior Chamber of Cimmerce, said the city would afford a "natural location" for the film's first showing because it is the home of the original "Catfish Row," im mortalized in the George Gershwin-Dubose Heyward classic. SHE'S A SOUND SLEEPER Newlyn v Harbor, England Mrs. Catherine Weeks, . 70, was wakened from her nap by a babble of excited voices in the street" outside. The crowd had been gathered by the collapse of the rear half of Mr. Weeks' house. - High-Paid Gypped By Phony Inflated Money By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington (DPD - The aristocrats among the citizens of all countries who labor in TKiLJJL """ the Sreat ke tones of in dustry are the American hands who are drawing down a bit more than $17 a day for a five day week. Or, are Lyie c. Wilson these Ameri can factory workers really the best paid, best off among the world's factory hands? It is likely that they are. It also is possible, however, that these highly paid midcentury work ers are not so well off as their Matter of Fact The Worried Republicans Washington - In terms of mild despair, Vice President Nixon has been exhorting his fellow Repub licans to re member how Harry S. Tra in a n, (not usually a Re publican folk hero) went in to win against seeming ly hopeless odds in 1948. 4nsDh AJsop Anyone who has been ex posed to the Republican situa tion in California, as this re porter has just been, is bound to suspect that the Vice Presi dent's recent visit to his. na tive state was what plunged him into the depths of bravely concealed gloom. The point about California is not really that the two top men on the Republican ticket, Sen. William F. Knowland and Gov.- Goodwin Knight, are openly at odds against one another. The prime point to note is the one made by the man who probably had the most to do with rebuilding the California Democratic Party, former State Chairman Roger Kent. Predicting a Democratic sweep with great apparent confidence, Kent added: rpHE Knowland-Knight row has brought the great day four years nearer. But the Democrats would have won this state in 1962, no matter what happened." Kent based his claim on the visible combination of thorough reconstruction of the California Democratic Party and progressive disorganiza tion of the California Republi cans. On the whole, the Demo cratic renaissance seems to be the more important of these two developments. In a state where everything is special and. strange, the California Democrats have al ways been more special -and strange than almost anything else. They have always had an immense lead in state regi stration. But for years on end, they never won elections be cause they nominated screw ball candidates, or because they preferred fighting among themselves, or because of some other folly. TOGER KENT, who is a Ste vens'on man, asserts that the personality of Adlai Ste venson attracted all sorts of bright new faces into the Democratic Party at the work ing, organization level. He says that the renaissance really began in 1952, and has gone forward ever since. In any case, the result today is plain. The smooth, hard-working, ' . well-k n i,t California Democratic Party first show ed its stuff when it won a 50-50 split in the traditional ly Republican State Senate. Now the party is united, self confident, and working all out to elect two popular and moderate candidates, Pat Brown for the Governorship and Clair Engle for the Sen ate. The moderation of the candidates means that the middle income voters and the business group are not fright ened by the Democrats, as they have been in the past. In the business group one even finds a sharp division about the desirability of Sen. Know land's favorite right-to-work scheme, which is deplored by many San Francisco business leaders particularly. But the really big division is the divi sion in the California Republi can Party, which is split, be wildered, peevish and demo ralized. Maybe Gov. Knight can still smile his way past Clair Engle into the Senate seat. The Vice President's pre scription1 of stick-to-it-iveness and combativeness might be written to order for Sen. Knowland, although only Knowland still says he can win. The unwisdom of posi tive election predictions was proven in 1948, by the very case that the Vice President cited.- ... American daily pay indicates. It is their misfortune and the misfortune of all other Americans gainfully employ ed that the relatively high earnings which they enjoy are Washington Report By William S. Whit ROPE'S END? Washington Among poli ticians tolerance is a long rope, but a rope that some where has an end. This thought is now in the minds of many, as Rep. Adam Clayton Powell of New York continues to flex his mus cles before both nervous Williams White political pai- ties in that state and its boss es and sub-bosses. Mr. Powell already had drubbed Tammany Hall by winning renomination in Har lem over its opposition. Now tc this necessary injury he has added a curious insult. He has agreed to support the general Democratic ticket after re quiring Gov. Averell Harri man and Tammany leader Car mine De Sapio to issue- ser vile guarantees to him. The governor has given "specific pledges" that Mr. Powell will be granted patron age political jobs to hand out. Mr. De. Sapio has sol emnly promised to "insist and urge" that Mr. Powell's senior ity be respected by the Demo crats in the House of Repre sentatives even though he is running as the Republican as well as the Democratic nom inee and even though he sup ported the Republican Presi dential ticket in 1956. TlfR. De Saplo's influence on the House Democratic leadership on what is totally its own business what mem bers shall have what commit tee assignments is less than vast. It would be about as welcome and effective as a claim by a union shop stew ard of the right to pick for General Motors the next man to go onto its board of direc tors. Mr. De Sapio himself, who is neither arrogant nor fool ish, is quite aware of all this. It is plain that he has accept ed a public humiliation for the good of the Democratic slate in New York. No doubt he knew also that Mr. Powell's seniority would be maaintained by the House in any event. He is by no means the first defecting Dem ocrat to be forgiven; a whole string of Southern bolters have been allowed to keep their committee places. Thus nobody here knows any rea son for Mr. Powell's presumed fears of hostile action by the House. His seat as ranking Democratic member of the House Committee on - Educa tion and Labor is safe any how. A LL THE same one cannot i avoid . the suspicion that the diagram of forces that is visible in California has a cer tain meaning for the country as a whole. Whether defeat or Adlai Stevenson was - the tonic, a Democratic renais sance has taken place in all sorts of different states, all the way from New England westward.- Averell Harriman in New York, Abe Ribicoff in Con necticut, Ed Muskie in Maine and other Democratic Gover nors have joined in the task of reconstructing their party. So have local chieftains like Dave Lawrence in Pittsburgh. Another factor has been the inborn Democratic fondness for winning elections, so dif ferent from the attitude that "I'd rather be right than.elect ed" which is too common among Republicans. The results in this election are plain to be seen. In most states the Democrats have more appealing candidates. In only one state, in the form of Nelson Rockerfeller in New York, have the Republicans found a vote-getting new face. In some states . they have chosen virtually invisible candidates, like Jack Ken nedy's opponent, Vincent Celeste, in Massachusetts. Maybe losing control of the national administraton is good for a political party, once in a while, whereas gaining con trol can be dangerous. (c) 1958 New York , Herald Tribune Inc. Helps You Overcome FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry No longer be annoyed or feel ill-at- ease because ol loose, wobbly false teetn. fasteeth. an improved alka line I non-acid) powder. SDrtnkled on your plates holds them firmer an they feel more comfortable Avoid embar rassment caused by loose plates Get r as i tooay at any drug countac Workers paid in dollars which are somewhat phony. These are not phony dollars in the sense that the Secret Service would suspect them of being run off an illicit money press. They THAT is to say, it is safe for him, though the Demo cratic party and the nation will have rather less reason to feel safe with him there. In the meantime, the princi pal meaning of Mr. Powell's triumph is this: he has now openely come forth as the first truly powerful and frankly racist politician in the North in generations.. It might be said, indeed, that he is the first in any section to make racism a total policy. For while the South has suf fered from many politicians who have been basically rac ist the late Senator Theo dore Bilbo of Mississippi, for example none has made racism his sole effective plan. Even Senator Bilbo often took political actions not connect ed with race on matters like farm legislation. Even former Representative John Rankin of Mississippi did ' some use ful work in public' power whenever he could get his mind off his racial obsessions . Mr. Powell, however, has worked the racist line so un ashamedly and so successful ly as to terrify both the Dem ocratic and Republican par ties in New York and also to overshadow such responsi ble and valuable fellow Negro politicians as Rep. William L Dawson of Illinois. And, inci dentally, Mr. Dawson has done far more for his people ev erywhere except in the head lines and in party organiza tions which have panicked in the face of Mr. Powell's agi tating skill. TllR. POWELL, in a word, '"has been infinitely more successful in promoting Mr. Powell than is actually easing the lot of his race. He . has been one of the chief reasons why such measures as Federal aid to education have failed in Congress. Dozens, hundreds, of incontestably liberal politi cians - men whose .records for advancing civil rights for Negroes are better than his own for years have known all this perfectly well.'. But they have on the whole hesitated to "blow the whistle on Adam Powell "in fear that they would then somehow be made out to be "anti-Negro.1 It is like the old days of Mc- Carthyism ,when many antag onists in principle of the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy flinched from saying what they felt lest they suddenly turn out to be "pro-Commu nists. (Copyright, 1958. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) DON'T VOTE If) THE DARK! Meet city, count and state candidates at the nonpartisan CANDIDATES' FAIR 8 P.M. Friday, Oc). 17 lledrick Junior High Gym ',f," ' 'Mil - fitr7 ' Home Phone SP 2-6675 -M V A lAD'Y ATTENDANT FRIENDLY, Said are much worse than counter feit money in at least one respect. Politicians, to Blame That respect is that the American citizen who must accept his pay in these legally phony dollars is without pro tection against the injustice of it all. If these were counter feit dollars, the factory hand coma and would spurn (them, demanding that his pay be in legal tender at full value. The U.S. government would back up the hand in that demand and, further, move fast and hard to cut off the supply of counterfeit by destroying its source and by jailing its maker. No such threat of punish ment menances the American politicians, the political pres sure groups, the big spenders and such who largely are re sponsible for the fact that the $17-per-day pocketed by the average factory hand is not $17 per day at all but a mere fraction of that comfortable sum. The politicians of both parties are about equally re sponsible for this situation, and for cause: Either they will not or they cannot change the prevailing trend toward bigger and big ger government, more and more spending, greater and greater deficits and higher and higher taxes. The end re sult of this trend, of course, is national disaster brought on by what is called currency in flation. This national disaster would destory the American way of life. . " Getting 50-Cent Dollars The government and other debtors would get some good of it. The government, for ex ample, has been borrowing money from the citizens over a period of nearly 30 years to pay its debts. For purposes of comparison, let us say that the dollars the government borrowed in 1939 - and the dollars paid to factory hands in that year - were worth 100 cents. A 1939 debt incurred in terms of 100-cent dollars could be paid off today with dollars relatively worth a bit less than 50 cents. The 1939 fac tory hand who was paid, say, $10 a day in 100 cent dollars tfptc C17 -i Hair nnw Unf dollars are 50-cent dollars, so the factory worker's real daily wage today in terms of pur chasing power is about $8.50. - That is what is happening to the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar which once upon a time was the symbol of stable value. No more. Things could be worse, how ever, and they are. Tax Foundation, Inc., calculated last spring that direct and hid den taxes now combine to take about one-third of the in come of the average American family. The responsibility for these burdensome taxes, like that for currency inflation, belongs to the politicians of both parties ana to me Dig Time spenders who egg them on. PERL Funeral rjOMEilKE ATMOSPHERE
