4 Monday, October 13, 1938
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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;
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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.
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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
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-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
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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.
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