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4 Tuesday, October 21, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MedfordTribune "Everyone In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. Rem.." Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H AD WIS 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 Med ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance; Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4.20. 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 c opjr XOe All Terms Cash m Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official paper of jacuson county United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION 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. NEWSPAPEf. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL V? I ASSpCIKiN . j if BHJHMI3.JCHti1 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. 21. 1948 (Thursday) Medford's city park swim ming pool is "90 per cent complete." Street crews begin grading Hawthorne ave. between Jack son and Main sts. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 21. 1938 (Friday) The Reese Creek school has installed WPA sanitary toilets. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "WPA investigators discover Oregon has the same climate as Monte Carlo, site of the world's largest gambling hell." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 21. 1928 (Sunday) Harmonica bands are be coming quite a fad in local schools. The Ludlum gold dredge in Foots Creek is rapidly becom ing a tourist attraction. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 21. 1918 (Monday) Manager Percy of the Ri alto theater takes advantage nf the flu-eDidemic ban on public gatherings to overhaul i his picture projection equip ment. Final tally for the liberty loan bond drive's subscrip tions here appears to be $325 thousand, more than $26 thou sand more than the quota. What's Your I.Q.? Nina er,. ten correct it superior; seven or eight is excellent; fivo of sis is good. 1. Pure gold is 20, 24, or 28, carats fine? 2. How many squares are there on a checkerboard? 3. The name of which state capital is the same as that of a mythical bird? 4. Babe Ruth's nome-run record for a single was 56, 58, or 60? 5. Name the radio song stress who introduced Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." 6. Identify the American traitor who, during the Amer ican Revolutionary War, tried to send the plans of West Point to the British. 8. Korea is a peninsula ex tending 600 miles southward from Manchuria between the Yellow sea and the Sea of ' 9. Does a sonnet consist of 12, 14, or 16 lines? 10. "Mrs. O'Leary's cow" allegedly started a fire that virtually destroyed what city? 1. 24. 2. 64. 3. (Phoenix) Ariiona. 4. 60 (1927 season). 5. Kale Smith. 6. Mist-like rain. 7. Benedict Arnold. 8. Sea of Japan. 9. 14 lines. 10. Chicago. 111. HUNGRY HORSE New York-l!PD-Came lunch time and the horse hauling a junk wagon got hungry. Edward Kaplan of Irvington, N.J., walked up to his 1958 convertible to find the horse biting the car trunk. KING-SIZED LOOT London -OJPI) Thieves who hijacked a truck have king sized loot on their hands. The truck contained men's cloth ing that, included trousers with 56-inch waistlines and size 60 coats. " Can Do In the musical, "Annie Get Your Gun," there is a song, part of which goes as follows : "Anything you can do I can do better, "I can do anything better than you ..." Up to this point, this would well serve as the theme song for the campaigns of the opposing candidates for governor of Oregon. No great issues have developed, and the cam paign has not been marked by any amount of edi fying debate. (One Oregon editor referred to it, graphically, as a "snarling match.") Some obser vers go as far as to think that Bob Holmes is the Democratic Tweedle-Dee to Mark Hatfield's Re publican Dweedle-Dum. A B men are relatively young, both are per sonable and presentable, both have a con siderable following, both are "liberal minded" on most issues, both are qualified for public office both through temperament and experience. The two do differ in their positions on some questions. And while such differences are ger mane to the campaign, none of them are of any earth-shaking import. Their positions on the important issues tax ation, power development, attraction of indust rial payrolls to the state, and so on are general ly similar if not identical. DUT a choice must be made by voters. Our vote will go to Governor Holmes. First let it be admitted that Bob Holmes has made mistakes during his first two years as gov ernor. He has alienated quite a number of peo ple, some of them politically powerful. But there is an old saying, which has much of truth to it, that the only man who makes mistakes is the man who does something. And Bob Holmes has done things. " He has been vigorous and decisive, and while some of his decisions we believe to have been the wrong ones, he must be given credit for being willing to stick his neck out. V GENERALLY speaking, his appointments have been excellent. He has called on many top flight people to staff the boards and commissions of the state (sometimes, it is true, at the cost of replacing equally well-qualified men whose terms had expired.) He has not hesitated to speak out on almost any given subject, and has provided a4eadership in the executive department that gives the feeling that things are getting done. All in all, we believe he has earned the right to a full term in the governor's office. He has grown as governor, and we feel that a four-year term would give him the chance to accomplish the things which in the past two years have just gotten under way. AS FOR Mark Hatfield, he is still a young man, . and has many productive years ahead of him. If defeated, he still "will have two years more to serve as secretary of state. He, too, will continue to grow. In sum, and by-passing the "snarling match" campaign, the contest is not lweedle-Dum vs. Tweedle-Dee. It is a vigorous, ambitious and ac tive governor, only now well started on his pro gram, on one hand, and an ambitious and able secretary of state on the other. Bob Holmes deserves reelection. E.A. The Samaritans An attractive, gray-haired woman came in to the office one day recently to discuss what was to her a matter of importance and concern. She had recently lost a son in a tragic acci r?fnt. (she was in careful control of herself, but her eyes betrayed the the role of the many people who nad come to ner airl whprrslip needed them, although thev had no personal connection with "I AM tiying to thank every one of .them," she said "but that isn't enousrh. Peonle should know how kind, how understanding these people were, when they really didn't have any reason to be. Thev helped, iust because another human being needed help." In particular she mentioned tnose wno went far beyond the usual call of duty in helping to locate relatives (some of them were on a hunt ing trip) all over the Pacific coast. Telephone operators, iorest service employ es stntp nnlipp. reeentionists and announcers at the TV and radio stations, and those employed - -. . n i -i at other business establishments an aia iar more than they needed to in the ordinary course of events. WTE agreed with this from her grief to make it known how much she appreciated the humanity of humans. There are good people in the world. There are kind people. There are people who will do anything they can to help another in need. And perhaps it is well for us to be reminded of this, from time to time, with the sorrow-shocked We see too much of and sometimes tend to nature of man to be kind. 99 shock she still felt) and either her or her son. woman, who took time as the attractive woman eyes-reminded us. man's inhumanity to man, forget that it is also the E. A. Anything... GlNA GIVES ME A PAIN MTH 7HAT 'ARRVEDgRCf STUFF 1 Washington Report By William BIPARTISANSHIP Washington A half-dozen high-level arguments involv ing the Con g r e s s ional campaign-and thousands of little ones across the country are going on about some thing called bipar tisanship in foreign policy. Some persons are accused of - breaking bipartisanship. Some are declared to be sup porting it. But not every body is talking about bipar tisanship is making very plain sense. So the public is hardly in position to decide who is guilty of what, because it can have no very definite idea of what bipartisanship is and is not. Here is a volunteer effort, by an eye-and-ear witness to the development of the con cept, to clear away at least some of the confusion. First of all, "bipartisanship" is a product of sloganeering, though intended to express a noble ideal. And, like all such products, it is highly elastic, if not actually rubbery. - THE term began to be large ly used about the time the late Senator Arthur H. Van denberg of Michigan under went a great conversion to ward the close of World War II. "Van" had been a power ful isolationist; now he be came a powerful internation alist. He preferred the term "un partisan." By this he meant to suggest that in high and urgent foreign matters there should be no jiartisanship at all that is, no fishing about for the sole purpose of domes tic political gain. Somehow "unpartisanship" never caught on; people preferred the more woolly prefix bi. At all events, the original unpartisans who are the vet eran bipartisans of today meant then, and mean now, these things: 1. That it is impermissibly petty and bush-league and dangerous for politicians to set up endless howls designed simply to harass any admin istration in its conduct of this country's business abroad. 2. That the party in op position to the White House and indeed individual mem bers of the Whit House party itself if they so choose has, however, a right and duty to criticize. The line drawn is about this: criticize anything and everything, yes; but only up to the point where it is obvious to any sensible man that you will enjure the coun try itself abroad if you go any further. HUS it is fair and desirable THU to House in foreign policy so long as that policy is simply in preparation and so subject to change if debate shows it to be unwise. But it is neither fair nor desirable, to carry on these attacks once this coun try is finally involved and committed to a grave course, even an unwise one. Bipartisanship does not mean, and never did mean, that the 'opposition has no right at any point to pick holes and at some points violently to pick them. It only means that the opposition has a duty to show some respon sibility and some .common sense. When an administration is only preparing a policy it is only that administration's pol icy. But when it has actually made the policy and pledged the country's honor and inter est to it abroad in genuine crisis and not mere academic matters everybody in public life will go along if he is a real ' bipartisan. .- TRUE, this puts critics on a thin diet and especially if S. White they honestly believe the pol icy to be disastrous. All the same, by this point it is no longer an administration's policy. It is then the declared policy of the United States of America since we really can have only one President at a time. And, anyhow, the critics will later have their chance. Once the national crisis has passed they will have oppor tunity to turn out the admin istration for what it has poor ly done. Thus, it is easirer to il lustrate what is not bipartisan ship than what is. Here are three examples of grave bipartisanship: (1) The almost general Re publican attacks on the Kor ean War while the guns were still going. (2) The far less severe and far less general Democratic attacks on Mr. Eisenhower's dispatch of troops to the Middle East attacks that went onv after the troops had landed. (3) Such of those recent assaults on Mr. Eisenhower's Formosa policy as offered no construc tive proposal and simply im plied to the world that we might not stand with him if, right or wrong, he got into war. Editorial Comment DIRTY, HARMFUL POLITICS Events, with a bit of behind-the-scenes boost, have conspired to give a public im pression that Oregon's driver improvement division is a lousy outfit. Two legislators, both with personal, selfish motives, have attacked it.' A confused fellow from Portland has been pa rading around the state with a sandwich board attacking it, The well-publicized hear ing for a rebellious state po liceman has cast indirect doubts about the division. Broad, all-encompassing state ments have been made by po litical candidates about the division's parent department. Although much of this has been done by disenchanted Democrats, a good part of it has been helped along by Re publicans who hope it will reflect on Gov. Robert Holmes. This is dirty politics. Po litical victory isn't worth des truction of a necessary func tion. Republicans, if they win, just might have a tough time controlling highway safety with a division which might remain discredited in public eyes for some time to come. We hope party loyalists will lay off and that Mark Hatfield will stop sitting back and watching the slaughter. We presume he's for traffic Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF AFTER SAMPLING his wife's cooking, hubby was in any thing but a happy frame of mind when his spouse sug gested, "Let's go see a horror movie tonight." "Why bather," asked her darling, grimly, have you here?" "when I John Straley tells of a German couple who had 14 daughters, all of whose names began with a "B" ex cept the very youngest They named her Alice. "Run out yof names beginning with "B?" smiled the census taker. "Ach, no," sighed the mother, "but when they told Papa it was still another girl he cried, Das ist alles." Walter Fontaine defclares, "Middle age is that time of life when a fellow looks back and realizes the mountain he's been climbing is only a molehill." . - George S. Kaufman's definition of grand opera: "First, the tenor sings, then he gets stabbed. Whereupon, instead of bleeding, he sings i half hour more." Communications Letters to the Editor must bear tht name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for 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 I? often the ce. Alcohol Cost, Damage To the Editor: The follow ing information is from the Quarterly Journal of Alcohol Studies, June, 1958: 1957 U. S. expenditures for alcoholic beverages, $10,700, 000,000. 1957 U. S. per capita ex penditures for alcoholic bev erages, $62.82. 1956 estimated number of alcoholics m U.S.A.: Males, 4,243,000; females, 772,000; total, 5,015,000. Would you use this infor mation in the Mail Tribune? If the American people were thoroughly informed as to the cost of and the damage done by alcoholic beverages, more would be done to limit its use, thereby lifting many to a higher plane of living. It is certainly disappoint ing that your policy is to car ry alcoholic beverage ads when the use of it is so harm ful as well as being costly. Mrs. Milton Kornstad, 408 North Ivy St. Medford Hits M-T. Porter To the Editor: The politi cally slanted comments which have appeared recently in the Medford Mail Tribune editor ial column seem to be written as spur of the moment fillers of space rather than studied editorials. The first noticed made ref erence to the qualifications of Democratic candidates. Im mediately thereafter an' im portant county position to be filled was changed on the Democratic ticket. In the past Sunday's paper was another such editorial, headed "Piffling Charges." This was run most appropri ately at the same time a letter from the present Congress man, Porter, was printed. From Mr. Porter's letter I quote one sentence which shows the character of anoth er Democratic candidate. Mr. Porter said, "What I had meant to tell you, and no doubt did in an ambiguous fashion, was that had the bill as it was then come up for a vote I would have voted against it." Confusing? In the diction ary ambiguity is defined: "1, vagueness; indefiniteness; un certainty; s2, an expression whose meaning can be taken in two or more ways." Many of the voters in this district, Independents, Demo crats, and Republicans, want a man to represent them in Washington who is not vague, safety, but we haven't heard him say it. And the whole fracas is hitting below the belt. We'd be remiss if we didn't defend the outfit because we have been perhaps the foremost editorial voice in urging the tougher program now being followed. The division is manned by largely the same career peo ple - despite a reorganization - with substantially the same procedures as evolved under Republican administrations. The only principal change is one of degree. The point system, whereby a driver ac cumulates points for accidents and citations, is the same. But rather than being called in "after 12 points" a driver is called in "at 12 points." The difference of one point nearly doubles the number of driv ers who are interviewed and greatly increases the number who lose their licenses for short periods. These are people who are repeating, flagrant offenders - the people who can and do kill. Smearing the driver . im provement 'division is one means that doesn't justify the political ends.-Capital Jour nal, Salem. not uncertain not idefinite, not given to making state ments whose meaning can be taken in two or more wavs. The voters want a man with ability. The Congressional rec ord shows Porter introduced 756 bills. Only one passed. Most voters, no matter what their party affiliation, are loyal to our country. Porter is working for trade with Communist "Red China; work ing for United Nations recog nition of Red China. We voters want a reliable man. One who means what he says, and says it in a way that holds no misunderstand ing for any man. That is why many Independents, Republi cans and Democrats intend to vote for Paul Geddes for Con gressman. We want a man who will represent the people, not somone who owes his stay in office to political boss es. . . Read "Hoffa's Unholy Al liance," Readers Digest, Oct. 1958 also page 43, Readers Digest, Nov. 1958. Mrs. Catherine Gribble Lynch 130 Kenwood ave. Medford. Mrs. Hopkins' Reply . To the Editor: In reply to my opponent's communica tion in the Oct. 19 Mail Trib une, indicating a ' "Sept. 24" "news release" was "mislead ing," I would be more im pressed with the sincerity of his concern in the matter had he called the "misleading" "release" to my attention the day he "read it '- with inter est." Instead, he has treas ured it for one month in an attempt to gain political rec ignition for his astute dis covery. I have not received the let ter; however, I wish to com mend him for his expressed desire to cooperate with me in encouraging "maximum participation at the1 polls on Nov. 4th." For the Record: 1. Voters who have doubts about their eligibility should contact the county clerk at once. It is the elector's per sonal responsibility, to keep his registration record up to date. 2. An elector who moves within his precinct or whose address is changed by official authority, though the resi dence remains the same, is entiUed to vote without re registering. . He will be chal lenged if the poll book ad- address does" not correspond The old- address must be crossed out, the new address written in, before he may sign the poll book and re ceive his ballot. (Signature certifies correct address). It would have simplified the voting process had the voter re-registered as suggested. 3. An elector who moves to a new precinct .when regis tration is closed may secure "Certificate of Registration" from county clerk, entitling him to vote in new precinct for all candidates and meas ures. He must re-register for next election. 4. An elector who moves out of precinct prior to close of registration, who does not re-register but whose name has not been removed from the poll book for non-voting, may return to his former pre cinct, sign an application for reregistration, receive an offi cial ballot on which he is en titled to vote for state and district candidates and meas ures only. Yours for a nice clean cam paign free of misleading ac cusations. Bereth P. Hopkins, , County Clerk, Candidate for ... Re-election Another View To the Editor: In regard to the editorial. of Friday, Oct 17, you were quite correct in saying no one would argue about the equality of Negroes and whites -that is no one with any sense at all. How ever, your reference to a par ticular individual in a partic ular place, I feel, was ex tremely narrow-minded and one sided. I have lived in the south and around Negroes all of my life, until four years ago, and have made recent trips back to visit my family. Yes, sorfe Negro schools are a shame 'and a disgrace, not only to their race but to all of us as well. But for every shabby, ill-staffed school for Negroes, you will find at least one of the same for white children. When you meet one bum Husbands! Wives! Get Pep,Vim; Fed Yqrfnger Thousand! of couples are weak, worn -out, exhausted because body lacks iron. For new younger feeling after 40, try Ostrez Tonic Tablets. Contain iron fornewpep, vim; plus high-potency dose Vitamin Bi. In a single day, Ostrex supplies as much iron as 1 6 doz. raw oysters, 4 lbs. of liver, 16 lbs. of beef. 3-day "get-acquainted" size only 69 . Or get Economy size, save $1.67. All druggists Roscoe Drummond Reports... (Drummond is substituting for. Walter LIppmann, during the Iatter's trip to Russia.) - DOING SOMETHING ABOUT RISING CRIME Washington - With major crimes mounting yearly one such - crime for every sixty persons-in 1958 - Attorney General William P. Rogers answers questions on what the Federal government can and is doing about it: QUESTION - What is the Federal government doing for its part in better law enforce ment and in setting a stand ard which win help state and local communities to do a better job on their part? ATTORNEY GENERAL ROGERS - Traditionally the FBI has cooperated and aided state and 'local law enforce ment agencies throughout the country. The FBI's vast fing erprint identification files and its scientific laboratory facilities are called into play daily by local and state police officials to aid. them in local law enforcement. This service is rendered without cost. In addition, the FBI conducts training of local police at the FBI academy, as well as par ticipating in local and regional police schools. On a national level, the Department of Jus tice has launched a drive to combat the overlords of or ganized crime operating on an interstate basis. This drive will focus its efforts on the top 100 hoodlums of the1 coun try. The program will be a joint effort, combining the re sources of all Federal invest igative and law enforcement agencies against the racketeer ing fraternity. QUESTION - Why is it vi tal to get at the 100 top racke teers and cut down the suc cess 1 of the overlords of crime? ROGERS - The figure of 100 is, of course, arbitrary and has only been selected for purpose of concentration. If we can reach these top over lords we can cripple their en tire operations. It is the opera tion of these top leaders that is most difficult for state and local law enforcement agen- with a chip on his shoulder who thinks the world owes him a living and lives accord ingly, do you automatically consider him. to be the exam ple of all men? - As far as Negro children and teachers being doomed,' I find that hard to believe. No Negro is doomed unless he wants to be, just, as a white person is doomed, unless he works to get ahead. Too many Negroes, southern ones at that, have proven that. I feel your editorial is an example of the way most (not all) people in this area feel about this particular problem. It is easy to teU someone else how to improve and correct their faults when, having nev er had the problem, you don't know what you are talking about. - Anne J. McKibben 3672 Bursell rd. ' Central Point No Slight Intended! To the Editor: Since publi cation of a certain picture on the front page'of yoyr Sunday edition, several of my friends have asked me why I failed to attend the Candidates' Fair. I assured them, and would like to take this occasion to assure others," that I was there. They need not be concern ed about the apparent slight by the Mail Tribune. While my opponents, shown in the picture, sat glumly in the "corral" talking to each other, I was pleasantly engaged in meeting and talking with the voters. - , ." Roy Wilkes City Council Candidate Ward 1 1863 Crater Lake ave. Medford. Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. cies to reach. They are the directors, schemers and or ganizers who do not confine their activities to any one state or locale. The interstate character of their operations makes them prime targets for Federal concern. QUESTION - Isn't it far easier to identify these top racketeers and put them out of business? ROGERS - By publicly identifying these individuals they would be forewarned and might be able t0 sustain -a claim of government - in spired prejudicial publicity at a resulting trial. It would, of course, be easier merely to identify these individuals. Identification alone would not serve as a deterrent. They must be prosecuted, convicted and sent to. jail. QUESTION - Is the drive against these top racketeers a continuing program? ROGERS - Yes, it is a long- range program built on pol icies which we hope will be lasting. It is not intended to produce quick or sensational results. Too often in the past have crime crackdowns been sporadic and have not pro duced lasting results. " QUESTION - The McClel- lan committee has shown the grave abuse of the labor racketeer. What is the Justice Department doing about it? ROGERS-Prior to the reve lations of the McClellan com mittee, the Department had prosecuted successfully many labor racketeers. The two principal weapons have been the Hobbs Act which is ba sically a labor extortion stat ute and section 302 of the Taft-Hartley Act which is de signed to outlaw the taking or receiving of bribes by em ployers or representatives of labor. In fact, since January 1953 to date, 117 defendants have been convicted for vio lation of these statutes. All matters brought , out by the McClellan committee within the Federal jurisdiction have been and will continue to be thoroughly investigated and prosecutions will be brought where Federal violations are shown. Again, I should em phasize that the states have jurisdiction over most crimes involved in this field. QUESTION - What further weapon for . dealing with crime and the criminal does the Justice Department heed from Congress in order to further its campaign? ROGERS - We shall urge in the next session of Con gress new Federal legislation to give the. Federal authori ties additional weapons to curb organized criminal ac tivities, particularly those .that have interstate aspects. QUESTION - Is there any role which the individual citi zen can usefully play? ROGERS - The determina tion of the individual citizen that law enforcement be effec tive is our strongest weapon against the nation's criminal element. No criminal can op erate for long in the face of a determined and informed public opinion willing to co operate .with law enforce-, menf agencies. Here are some specific ways the individual can aid in the struggle against crime: (1) supply information about known criminal activi ty to the proper law enforce ment officials; (2) testify as witnesses when trials arise; (3) serve as grand jurors and jurors when called; (4) exer cise an informed opinion when voting for local law en forcement . officials; ' and (5) provide a proper home and community ' environment in which young' minds will gain a basic respect for the law. (c) 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc. PENNIES FROM HEAVEN! Makes a nice song title but we all realize it - takes planned econpmy to accumulate those pennies. Call us for the lowest net cost on fire insurance or package policies on our budget plan. Bill Fish
