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1 I 4 Friday, October 17, 1938 MAIL TRIJUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtj&rTEIBUNE "Everyone In Suuthern Oregon Reidi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. 5.CJHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. ' An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Meoford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday I year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 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. 150 . Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of MedfoTd Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: 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. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 'ASSOCIATION 2 NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCtATCGfN 1 1 s V 1 1 J m 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 October 17. 194B (Sunday) A Chicago couple staying at the Utopia motel reports mis placing their auto," which bears California plates, and has enlisted local authorities in the search. Forty - three members of Mrs. Eve Prentice's accordion band performed recently in Ashland. 20 YEARS AGO October 17, 1938 (Monday) A "sparkling and brilliant" concert series is anticipated here this winter under the sponsorship of a new music association. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "S. Morris the T-Rk. tiller reports everything with wings on his place, but the north wing of the barn, has been peppered for a pheasant." 30 YEARS AGO October 17, 1928 (Wednesday) A 247.6-acre area on Eiddle lane has been selected as the site for Medford's proposed airport. Copco has completed a 27 by 30 foot map of Medford, and city officials are looking desperately for a place big enough to display it. 40 YEARS AGO October 17. 1918 (Thursday) Two "hardy and inteprid" 19-year-old ladies from Seat tle spent last night here on their hiking (and hitch-hiking) tour to Los Angeles. "Just one more shove by a few patriots" and Medford will have filled its quota for the liberty loan drive. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five ei six is good. 1. Name the canal that con nects Lake Erie and the Hud son River. 2. Who, in a play by Shake speare, offered his kingdom for a horse? 3. How many strings has a violin? 4. Fish oils are richest in Vitamin, B, C, or D? 5. Give the next line to the "familiar lines from Elizabeth Akers Allen's, "Rock me to Sleep, Mother," which fol lows: "Backward, turn back . ward, O Time in your flight." 6. Our present-day calendar was devised by Pope Gregory I "VII sw -V 1117 - 7. The earth is divided into how many climatic zones? . 8. Is air pressure greater ai sea level, or on a mountain . top? 9. On the average is the area around the North Pole colder, or warmer, than the area surrounding the South Pole? 10. When does the U.S. gov ernment's fiscal year end? Answers: 1. Erie Canal. 2 vw Richard HI. 3. Four. 4 Vitamin D. 5. "Make me a child 9a Ju" Ior lonl9nx 6. Gregory XIII. 7. Five. 8 lia l.L 9. Warmer. 10 June ?J). far What Is Is a Negro a human ously, is yes. Is, then, a Negro who is a life-long resident of the United States a U.S. citizen? It cannot be otherwise. Are all U.S. citizens equal before the law? The U.S. Constitution says they are, in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments. If any person denies any of these three propo sitions, he is either mixed up beyond redemption, or rejects the Constitution as our basic charter and therefore brands himself as "Un-American." TPHE affirmative answers to these three ques- tions are recognized throughout the nation, even in the south, by all except the lunatic fringe. The current dispute over the desegregation of southern schools steins not from these. It stems from a 1954 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court which held that separate education is not equal education. . Southern segregationists, on the other hand, maintain that the "separate but equal" doctrine, enunciated by the Supreme Court many years ago, is still a valid ruling. They attack the 1954 decision as one of "sociology" rather than one of law. THAT is the sum and substance of the dispute. It does not involve "states' rights" (as one is told in the south) it is a matter of individual rights. States' rights enter only insofar as states have been guilty of depriving individuals of their rights, which they cannot do under the Constitution. The dispute has, of course, many ramifica tions. It has motivated millions of words, much unhappiness on both sides, and desperate action by the fools, hoodlums and hate-mongers who have dragged the name of the United States of America through the mud before the whole world. Because of this, it may be worthwhile to ponder a moment on the court's ruling. Can, in truth, "separate" education be "equal" education? JAMES BALDWIN, a iicuilu uic cuuui, lie iaj'scu ay iiic iiuiiic ui a Negro family, where the teen age son was the only Negro attending a school, after having transferred from an all Negro high school. The following is quoted from Baldwin s arti cle in the current Harper's magazine. The boy's mother is speaking: "'You see that boy? Well, he's always been a straight-A student. He didn't hardly have to work at it. You see the way he's so quiet now on the sofa, with his books? Well, when he was going to (the Negro) High School, he didn't have no homework or if he did, he could get it done in five minutes. Then, there he was, out in the streets, getting into mischief, and all he did all day in school was just keep clowning to make the other .boys laugh. He wasn't learning nothing and didn't nobody care if he never learned nothing and I could just see what was going to happen to him if he kept on like that.' "The boy was very quiet. " 'What were you learning in High?' I asked him. " 'Nothing!' he exploded, with a very un-boyish laugh. I asked him to tell me about it. " 'Well, the teacher comes in,' he said, 'and she gives you something to read and she goes out. She leaves some other student in charge . . .' ('You can just imagine how much reading gets done,' Mrs. R. interposed.) 'At the end of the period,' G. continued, 'she comes back and tells you something to read for the next day.' " "So, having nothing else to do, G. began amusing his classmates and his mother began to be afraid. G. is just about the age when boys begin dropping out of school. Perhaps they get a girl into trouble; she also drops out; the boy gets work for a time or gets into trouble for a long time. I was told that 45 girls had left school for the maternity ward the year before. . A week or ten days before I arrived in the city 18 boys from G.'s former high school had been sentenced to the chain gang. " 'My boy's a good boy,' said Mrs. R., 'and I wanted to see him have a chance.' " 'Don't the teachers care about - the students?' I -.- asked. This brought forth more laughter. How could they care? How much could they do if they did care? -. There were too many children, from shaky homes and worn-out parents, in aging, inadequate plants. They could be considered, most of them, as already doomed. Besides, the teachers' jobs were safe. They were responsible only to the Principal, an appointed official, whose judgment, apparently, was never ..questioned " by his (white) superiors or confreres. "The Principal of G.'s former high school was about 75 when he was finally retired and his idea of discipline was to have two boys beat each other -'under his supervision'-with leather belts. This once happened with G., with no other results than his par ents gave the Principal a tongue-lashing. It happened with two boys of G.'s acquaintance with the result that, "after school, one boy beat the other so badly that he had to be sent to the hospital. The teachers have- themselves arrived at a dead end, for in a segregated school system they cannot rise any higher, and the students are aware of this. Both students and teachers soon cease to struggle." - - CO "separate" is "equal"? Not a chance particularly in the South, and despite all their pious talk of the "good schools" they are building for "the Nigras." . The Supreme Court may have taken sociology into account, but the decision was based on fact the fact that under the circumstances in the south (and elsewhere, for that matter), schools segregated on a color basis are not equal schools. Negroes are human beings, they are United States citizens, United States citizens are equal before the law, and no state has a right to provide unequal schooling by law. - And that is the logic which must be followed if the United States of America is going to live up to its boast of all men being created equal. E.A. 'Equal'? being? The answer, obvi Negro -miter, recently previously all-white high 'HOW'eOCTA RIDE? JM JUST 'People's Communes7 China Seen Military By HAROLD GUARD " UPI Correspondent London - (UPD - British trade reports from Peiping over the past month have underlined the importance of the drive for ' formation of "people's communes" in Red China which was- being stimulated by the Quemoy affair. "The military significance of this development is of tre mendous consequence," one authoritative report said. All reports were agreed that , the Quemoy situation was being used as an incen tive to keep enthusiasm at fever heat under the slogan "resist U.S.A. aggression." "To make sure the position is appreciated throughout the whole of the country, spon taneous demonstrations have been arranged in which 300, 000,000 people are reported to have taken part. They still continue," the reports said. They described the drive for "people's communes" as being of "more far-reaching and long term importance" than the Quemoy affair. Their Function Defined British traders said the 'people's commune" system was being planned on military lines; ,, Individual communes would initially consist of 50 to 100, 000 persons in specific areas corresponding roughly to Western rural districts. The communes' tasks would be to "manage all industrial and agricultural productions, exchange, cultural and educa tional work, and political af fairs within its own sphere." "A system of citizen sol diers will operate throughout Communications What About The Deficit? To the Editor: One question that is in the minds of many Oregon voters today has not yet been answered by Gover nor Holmes. "Who has now made up the $16,000 deficit which Mr. Holmes ran up in his primary campaign ex penses?" The laws of the state of Oregon require that all cam paign contributions be re ported within 10 days follow ing the primary election, so that the public may, in casting their vote in the general elec tion, be aware of any possible relationship between contri butions accepted and favors expected. The governor subverts the purpose of the law by run ning up a $16,000 campaign deficit and then refusing to advise the public who it is that is interested enough in his election to have now de frayed that considerable ex pense. The people are entitled to know. . Mrs. Bertha Coy Ross Route 1, Gold Hill, Ore. Humphrey Takes Issue With Ike Los Angeles (UPD Sen. Hu bert Humphrey (D-Mnn.) has taken issue with President Eisenhower's desire to remove foreign policy discussions from political campaigns. In a press conference at the Biltmore hotel here Thursday Humphrey said, "it seems to me that if we were to follow the advice of the President all the way, it would mean that all who express a different point of view on foreign pol icy should be hushed up." The senator, an outspoken foe of the current U.S. for eign policy, said the country nearly involved itself in a Chinese civil war by its For mosan Strait action. "To stake the prestige of the United States on the de fense of the offshore islands is incredible folly," Humphrey said. "Militarily it is , pre carious and diplomatically it is indefensible." KILLIM'TIA AfyVJAY." the whole commune and in course of time all private own ership of the means of pro duction, including dwellings, will cease, and all labor will be paid on a wage basis," the report said. TITis would mean that all forms of labor would be un der the direct control of the commune and could be moved at will from one task to an other. 'On Military Lines' "The whole organization would be planned on military lines and it is recognized that the communes can be of mili tary significance although that was said not to be the primary objective," one re port said. Success for the "commune" system would strengthen po litical control and, the British traders said, would insure con trol of the developing small scale industry by . covering Washington Writer 'Government by Press Release' By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent .Washington it' is perhaps good for Gov. Robert D. Holmes that he is not running for a federal office in Washing ton, D. C, after j his press re lease about Mark Hat f i e 1 d's reli gious activi ties became a cause celebre. aTroM smith For Washing ton is the scene- of what is often called "government by press release"-and the un fortunate politican who blun ders in his use of this instru ment of politics is, like Gov. Holmes was last week, forced into the impossible exercise of trying to unscramble the egg. A press release, unbe knownst to most citizens, is a brief paper prepared by -a government agency, a senator, a private company, a ladies' aid society or what-have-you; designed to communicate cer tain information to the public through the medium of the press. Newspapers and their correspondents are deluged with releases every day. Strict news judgment consigns many to the wastebasket. Missile Warfare In Washington, no one acts without firing a press release. It's like missile warfare. The State Department issues a press release with quotes from Dulles to knock out what Pravda is saying about Quemoy. Then Sen. Wayne Morse recoils and fires at Dulles, a sort of anti-missile-missile press release. At its best, the press re lease is a good and necessary aid to rapid communication of accurate data. A high per centage of news stories out of Washington are based in part on press releases. There are several delivery services here which do nothing but pick up press releases all day long at government agencies for dev livery to newsmen at their offices. . . At its worst, the press re lease distorts . what is going on inside the agency which is sues it. Mostly, in the political realm, a release is designed to put one's best foot forward. But if the trim ankle it pre sents to the public doesn't come close to fitting the shoe of circumstances, the public is deceived - until reporters, a suspicious breed, are able to cut through the smokescreen FIGHT TO FINISH Cairo - (UPD - Premier Fer hat Abbas of the Algerian government-in-exile says the rebellion will go on until Al geria wins its independence from France. How Come Nixon' Avoids N.Y. Election Battle? Rockefeller Doesn't Want Him By LYLE C. WiLSON UPI Correspondent Washington-r(DPD-How come Vice Presidetn Richard M. Nixon has not done any cam paign speak ing in New York state where so much is at stake for the R e p u b 1 ican party this year? The answer to that ques- r. Wilson "on uumes iu two versions, as follows: The smartly edited "Na tional Review," a very con servative or extreme right wing weekly, reports bluntly that Nelson A. Rockefeller will not have the vice presi dent in the state. RockefeUer is the Republican nominee for governor in a contest with Democratic Gov. Averell Har- ira Red Threat China with small units of area which would be self-supporting to a considerable extent. The reports said "the tre mendous drive" which is now in progress throughout China to increase the pace of in dustralization,' with its em phasis on small industry, was putting an "almost unbear able strain on labor, manage ment, communications and aU branches of the economy." "Many reasons have been put forward to account for China's attack on the islands -to strengthen her case for U.N. membership, to remove the military threat which they impose and to cause dissen sion in the West. Surprisingly little attention has been given to yet another 'bird'-that of internal politics, although it is the time honored means of taking the minds of the people off their domestic worries," the reports said. and come out with a more ac curate and objective account, letting the chips fall where they may. Proved Embarrasing The Bureau of Land Man agement once issued a press release designed to knock down the "inside flope" story which proved embarrassing to the agency. BLM later reluct antly made public the facts which verified the story, but it didn't proclaim it with a new press release. In the Senate press gallery at the Capitol, a long table bears each day's stacks of mimeographed releases from senators who want to get their names and point of view in the papers. Most senators, like federal agencies, employ skilled writers. Sen. Foghorn may be traveling in Timbuk tu, but if his office sends a re lease to the gallery, tomor In the Day's News By FRANK Foreign affairs: Secretary Dulles tells a new conference this country has no plans to URGE Nation alist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to reduce his troops on the islands hugging the Red China mainland (primar ily Quemoy and Matsu) but he indicated it MIGHT BE WISE militarily for Chiang to do so. . This was generally taken as a stiffening of the U. S. posi tion since Dulles had indicated two weeks earlier this govern ment would PRESS Chiang to cut ' his Quemoy and Matsu garrisons if the reds agreed to a "dependable" truce in the area. DOUBLE talk, maybe? It doesn't make sense maybe?. Wait a minute. TID you ever listen to the " talk that goes on around a poker table? Remember that in the tight spots diplomacy is a poker game with IMMENSE stakes. So, in the pinches, diplo mats tend to talk like poker players. You can't know what their tall talk means if you can't see their hands. And They dare not let anybody see the cards they hold. BUSINESS affairs: AFL-CIO President George Meany says in a state ment in Washington that "America may have a boom on Wall Street but what it really needs is a boom on Main Street." This is needed, he added, to end still critical unemployment in America. riman who seeks reelection.. The other version adds ud to about the same thing, but more gently. In response to a United Press International inquiry to RockefeUer cam paign headquarters in New York City, it was explained that: Rockefeller would welcome Nixon as a campaign speaker in New York but only on be half of Republican congres sional candidates. Rockefel ler also would welcome Nix on's personal support for his gubernatorial candidacy. He feels, however, that he (Rocke feller) is campaigning on state issues and thus Nixon's support, while welcome, would be more pertinent to New York's congressional can didates. This is a very fine line of reasoning, almost as fine as the line of reasoning by which President Eisenhower bucks the tradition of American uoli- tics by insisting that a Presi dent or a presidential nomi nee must not attempt to influ ence the nomination of a vice presidential candidate to share the party ticket with him. It was that Eisenhower line of reasoning in 1956 so dis tressed Nixon that he all but withdrew from the contest for the vice presidential nomina tion some weeks before the Republican National Conven tion met in San Francisco. Ei senhower is taking the same position with respect to the 1960 Republican presidential nomination. There is no reason, how ever, to suspect that Nixon in 1960 will be so frustrated or disturbed by that situation as he was in 1956. Running Scared The decision by Rockefeller or his strategists against bringing Nixon wholly into the New York state campaign this year could worry the vice president considerably more than Eisenhower's coy atti tude is likely to disturb him. Rockefeller is running scared as befits a political novice. Discusses row's papers may carry the story which starts: "Sen. Fog horn today said . . ." ; No one cares much whether the senator actually voiced these convictions, in Timbuk tu or elsewhere, so long as he stands behind what his press release said he said. So a press release is like currency. It's not worth the paper its printed on if he who issues it doesn't stand squarely behind it. Since press releases are self - serving devices, they suffer, like our currency, from an inflationary tenden cy. Newsmen, therefore, are careful to, examine them for what they are really worth and try to give the unsuspect ing reader as complete and ac curate a picture of what is in, behind, under and back of that innocent looking instru mentality of public affairs. JENKINS TITHAT he says, of course, is true enough, as far as it goes. The trouble with it is that it doesn't go quite far enough. Mr. Meaney, I think, is looking at Wall Street as it was pictured by the cartoon ists a couple of generations ago w hen Wall. Streeters were uniformly depicted as paunchy men wearing Prince Albert coats and white vests and plug hats. He might be surprised tq know how many( of the se curities that are sold on Wall Street and' other financial streets in America, including La Salle street in Chicgo and Sansome street in San Fran cisco are OWNED on Amer ica's Main streets, and out in the suburbs and all over. Corporate ownership in our country is very widely spread in these days. A GOOD example of that is the huge American Tele phone & Telegraph Company. Last year (1957) it -had 792,634 employees. t In the same year, it had 1,605,046 share owners. That is to say: y For each employee ' of A.T. & T. in 1957 there were TWO OWNERS of A.T. & T. shares. THAT wasn't true a couple of generations ago. , It is true now. American big business is changing. Its ownership is be ing spread among all kinds of people. No longer can we af ford to look at only ONEside of it. We now have to look at BOTH sides. Harriman was political ffesh man in 1954 when he brought off a really socko" political up set by defeating for governor Republican Sen. Irving M. Ives. Harriman squeaked through by fewer than 12,000 votes but it was an astonish ing victory, nevertheless. The governor is a more formidable candidate this year than four years ago. Rockefeller needs all the help he can get. It is quite obvious that he believes Nixon would not help him but, more likely would hurt him if the vice president entered the New York-campaign. Washington Report By William S. White THE IMBALANCE Washington - The United States is about to enter a nu clear disarmament negotiation of immense' and subtle 1 danger to the j free world at a very bad time and in circumstances that could hardly be worse. These discus es- MS - .re- . , , wiiiiam s uhii sions. mainly between us, Great Britain and the Soviet Union, open in Geneva Oct. 31. This will be on the eve of our Congres sional elections, which will cap a Campaign where "peace" has been almost as powerful an issue as plenty. The Eisenhower administra tion has long been under de mands, sometimes from our allies and always from neu tralists such as India, to agree to some unqualified step to ward a permanent halt of nu clear tests. Now to these .old pressures will be ' added the domestic pressures arising from the elections here. Nobody runs in favor of sin. And almost nobody of any vast political influence is prepared publicly to take a position for indefi nitely continuing tests that do release to some degree an un deniably nasty poison. TkTFVKRTHELESS. anv long- term nuclear cessation could not possibly be in the true interests of the West un less ,it were accompanied-as it will not be - by Kussian agreements for: ; 1. At least a start toward disarmament in old-fashioned weapons like tanks and air craft and infantry. These can still kill people, though it is often forgotten. 2. A dependable interna tional nuclear policing sys ffiti For the unpleasant fact is that in conventional arms the Russians are far more power ful than the West. They nave np'rhans 500 divisions of ei fective troops as against per haps 100 at most for the West. And they occupy a massive continental position as against the dispersed positions of the West. Thus the Soviet Union rmiM enter nuclear disarma mpnt in cood faith and still wind up with an intolerable military imbalance on its side. Manv here and in Western Europe choose not to look at this harsh reality -but this 'averting of heads will not make it go "away; ' THIS is a case in which , a six-footer offers to put down his knife if his five-foot adversary will do the same. It is the logic of the old story about the law that was abso lutely even-handed:, it allow ed the rich and poor alike to sleep in the public parks. . . This view is. held here though rarely expressed -by men who do not really dislike peace or cherish atomic fall out, and do not really see a Communist under every bed. Nevertheless, astonishingly, it MEET JOE At the Candidates' Fair at HEDRICK HIGH . If that judgment is politic ally sound, it shadows consid erably the hitherto bright Nix on prospects for 1960. For ex ample, if Rockefeller should be elected governor next month, he would control the big New York delegation to the 1960 Republican National Convention". Rockefeller would not be likely to accept Nixon as the party's presiden tial nominee if he regarded the vice president a political li ability in New York state. Nixon's speeches have been largely to raise campaign funds, of which Rockefeller doubtless has plenty. has never been strongly ex plained or widely propagated even in this country, so, we eo to Geneva far behind in a propaganda struggle of the cold war. And it is largely our own fault. True, the world's Neh- rus would in any case insist that everybody lay down the atomic weapon at once. But India-and others like India- has a thoroughly honorable but thoroughly foolish obses sion against power itself. Many, here and abroad, would not be willing so fearfully to mortgage their own security if only they knew the essen tial truth: - -1 rpHEY do not know the truth J- hpoansp there has been a great failure of leadership. And to recover the position is no job for the generals-for they are the brass ana, or course, not to be trusted. Nor is it a job for the diplomats; these know the present score but not how to win the game.- This is a job for a great professional politician with the skill to persuade masses of people to accept the sweat in hopes of avoiding the tears. Here is an opportunity to head the unpopularity ticket as of 1958-but perhaps to help save the world as of 1968. This is the hour for . some American, or simply Western, politician to rise and tell the somber facts as Winston Churchill told them to Britain When Hitler was rising... And it may be too late al ready. There is military in-telligence-not wholly con firmed but still chilling-that already the Russians are sep arating their iield forces so that some bear no kind of atomic arms. This would seem to indicate that they antici pate an atomic arms laydown and are making ready to ex ploit the total power imbal ance' between West and East that would then result. (Copyright, 1958. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) SAVE MONEY! DO IT YOURSELF RESTORE BEAUTY TO YOUR FLOORS WITH A RENTED SANDER . Easy to Operata Low Rental Rate Clean and Dustloss , FREE PARKING! SHCIAlfSTS IN HOMtWAtl$l 245 S. Central at 10th Pd. Adv. Walsh for Sheriff Committee, Alan Holmes, Chmn., 28 North Aakdale, Medford
