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4 Thursday, October 23, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtKfTBIBUNE "Everyone tn Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. EUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertisine Manarer GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. EKlt W. ALLEN JfU Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SDorta Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women"! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Med lord Oregon under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai) In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20. Bv Carrier In Advance Med ford 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. 130 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official paper or 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. NEWSPAPEt PUBLISHEIS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 5ul l"0C5,N 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. 23, 1948 (Saturday) The Medford City Teacher association meets this week with new officers presiding. Headquarters for the 1949 Community Chest drive have been opened at the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce offices. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 23. 1938 (Sunday) Compositions by Miss Lucie Landen, faculty member of Southern Oregon Normal school, will be presented at a "composer's evening" in Ash land. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Last week was 'Be Kind to People week. Nobody was killed with kindness." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 23, 1928 (Tuesday) "The shuffle walk and pump handle "movement in ballroom dancing is rapidly becoming a thing of the past," according to an item in "Local and Personal." A deputy state fire marshal discusses the need for approv ing a ballot measure for a $30,000 bond issue to finance better facilities for Medford's fire department. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 23. 1918 (Wednesday) The Red Cross has com pleted its drive to provide clothing for the Belgians. Mayor Gates has ordered quarantines and fumigation for houses where anyone is suffering from the flu. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven er eight is excellent; five er six is good. 1. When going through a fence, a hunter should drag his rifle after himself; true or false? 2. To which island in the West Indies was the name His- paniola originally given? 3. Complete this proverb: "Every dog has ." 4. When the Vice President of the U.S. is absent, who pre sides over the United States Senate? 5. What body of water lies between the peninsula of Lower California and the mainland of Mexico? 6. What weapon did David use against Goliath? ' 7. Potsdam is a suburb of which German city? 8. In which civil war in a European ' country did the term "fifth column" origi nate? ! - - 9. Is the Republic of Libe ria on the west coast, or the east coast, of Africa? 10. In which European country did the breed of dogs known as spaniels originate? ' Answers: I. False. 2. Haiti. 3. "his day." 4. The President Pro Tempore. (An elected Sen ator). 5. Gulf of California. 6. Sling. 7. Berlin. 8. Spanish Civil War. 9. West coast. 10. ; Spain. 1 Registration Figures - Having no ciystal ball, we don't know wheth er or not this is going to be a "Democratic year" in Oregon politics. But we do know that it is a "Democratic year" in voter registration. We have already commented on the fact that the Republican majority in Jack son county is no longer a majority it is a plur ality, and a small one at that. Jackson county, long a Republican strong hold in a Republican state, is joined only by Jo sephine conuty in the fourth congressional dis trict by having more Republicans that Democrats. Each' of the other five counties in the district have Democratic majorities, as does the district as a whole. IN the fourth district (Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Lane and Linn counties) the Democrats have 111,527 registered voters, the Republicans 95,267, a difference of 16,260. The largest Democratic majority is in Coos county, where the count is 14,622 to 9,051; In Jackson and Josephine, the GOP margins are 687 and 342, respectively. Throughout Oregon, the registration figures are 447,195 Democrats, 395,090 Republicans, a Democratic lead of 52,105. N the state as a whole, there are 14 counties with Republican leads and 22 Democratic coun ties. Marion is the largest Republican county, Washington is second,' and Jackson is third. J The largest Democratic majority in the state, of course, is in Multnomah county (Portland), where there are 156,201 registered Democrats to 121,206 Republicans. But elections aren't won by counting up the total number of registered voters. It still depends on the individual voter (no matter what his reg istration), and whether or not he's sufficently in terested to get out and vote election day. - ' And perhaps even more important, no politi cal party can count on all its registered voters voting only for candidates of that political per suasion. Intelligent voters cast their ballots for the man, not the party label. (And shhh! we've even heard some devout party leaders, in both parties, admit, off that s what they do, too.) &.A. U.S. Cardinals Trip trirpp United States urinces of the Roman Catholic Church Cardinals James F. Mclntyre nf T,ns An p-ples.vEdward A. Moonev of. Detroit, and Francis J. Spellman ticipate m the election ot a rope tnat oegins on Saturday, Oct. 25. Only two nations have more members of the College of. Cardinals, Italy, of course, with 18, and France with 6. There are nine from all of Latin America, two from Canada. Whpn the late Pius XII in 1946 brouerht the College of Cardinals up to its full strength of 70, five members were from the United States. Of these five three have died: John Cardinal Glen nnn nf St. Louis. Dennis Cardinal Douehterv of Philadelphia, Samuel Cardinal Stritch of Chi cago. The present total is 55. ' THE first U.S. Cardinal was Brooklyn - born TrViv lYTf1! rolrmr vi o m a A i 1 C7P tttVi Ck-r A irT tt Willi lUvVyivoiiVjr iiamu in iuiu vv 1111 in 11- bishop of New York. A year after his death in 1885, the second U.S. Cardinal, James Gibbons of Baltimore, also American-bora, was named. For some years thereafter the United States had only one Prince of the Church, but in 1924 there were four, Cardinal Dougherty of Phila delphia, Hayes of New York,.Mundelein of Chi cago, 0 Connell of Boston. The number of Car dinals was raised to the present 70 by Pope Sixtus V in 1587 After the 1946 consistory the non-Italians (42) exceeded the number of Italians for the f L'st time in four centuries. E. R. R. Brown For President? The betting odds favor the election of Ed mund Gerald ( "Pat" J Brown, 53, over his Repub lican opponent for. governor of California, Sen. William F. Knowland. If Brown wins, he may well jump into the lead for the Democratic 1960 presidential nomination. ' . I One obstacle would be his commitment to serve out his four-y ear gubernatorial term if elected. Perhaps another, obstacle would be his repu tation, at least so far, for being all things to men. One news magazine has called him a "genial teddybear." But as governor he would have 112 years to build a record. ' " . His Catholicism (his wife is a Protestant) could be little or no barrier these days. Indeed, it could keep co-religionists from feeling resent ful if the convention passed over Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. ..., , THE GOLDEN STATE, along with Pennsyl vania, has 32 electorial votes, second only to New York. If another Californian, Vice Presi dent Nixon," gets the Republican presidential nomination in 1960, as now seems indicated, he'd have no advantage over Brown in Calif oria in be ing a native son. And California ' could ' be no pushover for either party in 1960. It is true that in 1952 it gave Eisenhower a 700,000 majority and in 1956 one of 600,00, but in 1948 it plumped for Tinman by the hair-thin margin of 17,865.. Brown as governor of California would be in the forefront of Democratic presidential possibili ties in large part because none of the others, at least as they stack up in 1958, seems exactly for midable.: E. R. R. - the - record, of course, of New York will par- 'CbVOU REALIZE THAT IF YOU MARKY M ITAL1W GIRL tlKB 3INA, XPUU HAVE TO EAT SPAGHETTI fOR BREAKFAST? Roscoe Drummond Reports ... (Drummond is substituting for Walter Lippmann, during the latter's trip to Russia.) VIEWS OF A 'MODERN' REPUBLICAN Washington QUESTION: What is your philosophy of Republicanism? V " Clifford P. Case (R), U.S. senator from. New Jersey To anticipate and meet squarely the problems of the ,day that is the task of the Republican party. This means an open mind. It means alertness to recog nize new and ever-changing problems in both the interna tional and the domestic fields. It means willingness to con sider and to search for new ways and new solutions. We believe these can and should be found within a framework of governmental and social organization which guards against vesting any group with too much power. For neither business, nor labor, nor any other group should dominate our country or our party. We believe in checks and balances in society, in government and in the Re publican party. This is es sential if freedom is to sur vive. ... - '': . . We Republicans recognize that initiative and a free economy are among the basic driving forces of America. We recognize, equally, that government ' has a vital role to play in assuring that the nation's economy and the well being of its people, its educational and scientific progress and its military se curity go forward on a sound and adequate basis. We believe America can be an example for the world of how a free people works and prospers and at the same time manages to help other nations in .their efforts to achieve economic progress. We believe in working with other nations, through the United Nations, . toward the goal of a peaceful world in which all nations and all peo ples may develop secure in the knowledge that differ ences will be resolved by rea son rather than by force. -. QUESTION Is this differ ent from what many Dem ocrats believe? ""Sen. Case The crucial dif ference is that the Republican party can be a far more ef fective instrument of prog ress. Of course, there are dif ferences of view within the GOP, but nothing like the basic split that divides the Northern and Southern wings of the Democratic party. That split inhibits' constructive ac tion in many areas of most pressing concern to the coun try as a whole. It affects not only civil rights questions, but such fields as education and housing; even foreign policy, since the way we han dle civil rights problems at home affects our standing abroad. The effective functioning of the Congress is involved, since Southern Democrats dominate -committee chair manships. There is always, in the Senate, the threat of fili buster, which has many times operated , to , prevent urgent legislative matters from ' even being considered, much less acted upon. QUESTION How does the record of the recent Congres sional session measure up against your philosophy? Sen. Case It is a mixed record. On the plus side are: defense reorganization, exten sion of the reciprocal trade program, mutual security, im provement of social security, the college loan program, re vision of the Atomic Energy act and approval of Euratom, establishment of the new space agency, and, at long last, acceptance of a some what more realistic approach to the farm program. Sen. Case On this side of the ledger I would put: failure to act at all on aid for school construction, elimination 'of the scholarship program, fail ure to enact any public hous ing legislation or to provide adequately for urban renewal, complete . neglect of civil rights, a totally inadequate, piecemeal approach to immi gration problems, and rejec tion in the House of legisla tion to provide a measure of much-needed protection for union members. Another area neglected by the recent Congress is that of regulation of campaign ex penditures and other measures to promote integrity in the conduct of government. A bill to bring election laws up to date to regulate primary elections and to set realistic ceilings on campaign expend! tures was reported by the Senate Rules Committee in the first session only to lan guish on the calendar until ad- journament this year. The basic idea behind this bill is that of disclosure mak ing the pertinent facts avail able to the press and the pub lic. It should be supplemented, I believe, by requiring dis closure of the financial inte rests of top government of ficials, in the Congress as wpII as in the executive branch. In clusion of the legislative branch seems to be essential if we are really serious about increasing the respect and confidence of the public gen erally. " QUESTION On what issues do you think the election will turn? Sen. Case Generally, I ex pect the issues will vary even more than usual from state to state. There continue to be seri ous pockets of unemployment, and in these areas this may be reflected at the ballot box. Indeed, I think this was an important factor in Sen. Payne's defeat in Maine. Much of the country, how ever, is probably more con cerned now with the threat of inflation. We haven't yet found a really effective me chanism for controlling the upward spiral of prices and wages, partly because the voice of the consumer and of those on fixed incomes has not been effectively expressed. . Big business, big labor, and big ariculture are articulate in their own behalf. Each is inclined to point the finger at the others as 'the cause of the rising cost of living. Mean while, the indices continue to climb, although at a slower rate. The plain fact is that there is still a lot we do not know about the interplay of economic forces and how to adjust them without upsetting a proper balance. Short of direct controls, which nobody wants, the government should seek an effective conterweight on the side of the consumer. Civil rights will, of course, loom large as an issue in many areas. Finally, depending on the turn of events, international development may be an over riding factor. (c) 1958 New York Tribune Inc. Coast Conference To . Curb Inflation Held San Francisco-(UPD-A Pacif ic Coast regional conference to curb inflation was held here today, with- delegates from a number of West Coast cities. The meeting was sponsored by the Chambers of Commerce of San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles and Portland. Prin cipal speaker was Neil H. Ja coby of UCLA. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Not "Piffle" at All To the Editor: The Mail Tribune has labeled my pro test of Congressman Porter's using his free mailing privil ege to mail campaign mate rial "piffle." Wasting the taxpayer's mon ey may be "piffle" to .the editor of the Mail Tribune and certain Democratic poli ticians and their paid politi cal labor-boss supporters, but I'm sure it isn't to the tax payers of either party. ' The attempt to pass off the piece of political propaganda mailed by Porter as some kind of "official" document won't work either. It appeared in the Congressional Record, aU right, but it was inserted by Porter, about Porter, and is no more than a hymn of praise to Porter, written by Porter or one of his press agents. A child could see that it has only one1 purpose, to influ ence the voters of this district into thinking that Porter has accomplished something for them in his term in Congress. It is filled with the usual dis tortions and false ' implica tions. Any way you look at it, it is pure "and simple political propaganda and all taxpayers, no matter what their beliefs, are paying for it. As I said, it may be legal, but it is still dishonest and unethical in my book. It simply bears out what Porter's campaign manager in Coos County in 1956 wrote to the Republican candidate for Congress: "Porter will do anything for a vote." Donald L. Stathos, Chairman, Jackson County Republican Central Committee 76. Not 756 To the i Editor: Of course Mrs. Catherine Gribble Lynch (Communications, Oct. 21, 1958) is entitled to her opin ions about me as a Congress man and as a user of the word "ambiguous." However, she is in error when she writes tha't "The Congressional record shows Porter introduced 756 bills. Only one passed." The facts are these: In the two sessions of the 85th Congress I introduced 76 bills, 24 of which passed in whole or in part; 13 made some headway in one House or the other; and 39 had no legislative action although many of these resulted in ad ministrative action and at least one (Rogue River flood control and reclamation) help ed crystallize public opinion in Jackson and Josephine counties. Average number of bills filed per Congressman was 35; per Senator, 51. About 1800 bills became law out of some 20,000 filed in both Houses. Only one bill had my name on it (Waldo Lake), but the Rogue .River bank protection bill was my bill in that I originated it, drafted it, and nursed it through com mittees and the House. My Republican colleague, Mr. Norblad, in 14 years has had two bills passed bearing his name. I believe in making clear what I stand for. If Mrs. Lynch disagrees with any or all of these bills, perhaps a more pertinent discussion would be on the merits of particular legislation. Charles O. Porter, Member of Congress. Geddes on Foreign Policy To the Editor: Many of the misinterpretations of my po sition and mis-statements of fact contained in the Mail Tribune of Oct. 2 I can over look, since as "E.A." himself pointed out, this is the season of partisan politics and in the heat of campaigns, editorial writers, like some politicians, can be careless and at times overly enthusiastic. Several of these misrepresentations I cannot overlook, even though I cannot cover them all in this letter. One issue in the editorial that I do not choose to overlook, is the rather in temperate charge that I have no interest in foreign affairs, merely because I have critic ized my opponent's forays into trie field. I shall continue to criticize. Early in his brief career,' my opponent attempted to have some of his ideas on foreign policy accepted by amend ments to a Mutual Security THE DANMOORE HOTEL 1217 SW Morrison St. PORTLAND, OREGON All transient guests. All those who come, return. Rates not high, not low. Free garage, TV's and radios. Reputation for cleanliness. Reservations by long distance, phone refunded on request upon arrival Matter of Fact bv josePh uoP FROM PORCH TO PICTURE WINDOW 'Indianapolis In politics, in. population and in way of life, there are great differ- ences between Takoma ave. and College ave. here . in Indianapolis. College ave.. or at least its 3400 and 3500 blocks, clearly came into be ing in the building - 4osepta Alsop boom after the first World War. Its houses are . solid, roomy, style-less, rather dark, and all, of them have front porches. The hooks, with no hammock hanging from them, commemorate the almost van ished American habit of front-porch sitting. Older peo ple, some retired, some with small businesses, most of them rather well off, are in a majority along College ave. Takoma ave., in contrast, was one of the early post World War II, G. I. loan-supported building develop ments. Its houses are flimsy, cramped, vaguely pseudo Georgian boxes, each with its picture window, none with storage space for so much as winter underwear. Younger people, mostly in dustrial workers and - union members, are in a heavy ma- bill. One amendment was de feated by 171 to 4 and the other almost as decisively. At this point, my opponent de cided, like the - proverbial small boy, to take his bat and go, not home, but to South America. ..' Since his ideas were not accepted, he decid ed that everybody was out of step except Charlie and went out to peddle his ideas in the wide, wide world. Since then, he has continued this lrre sponsible and dangerous course, to the utter confusion of those citizens 4n certain South American countries who do not know whether his policies or the State De partment's (by virtue of con gressional majority decisions) are the policies of the United States. There are 435 congressmen in the House of Representa tives. What would happen if each decided to try to pro mote his own ideas on for eign policy on foreign shores? What is now a shaky world situation would become abso lutely chaotic. , If I am elected to congress as I expect to be, I shall take a great, interest in foreign affairs and work for a sound foreign policy. I shall work, however, in the halls of Con gress, not in foreign lands, and I shall work through the accepted, orderly channels of study, discussion, and debate, not through the dangerous channels of groups of exiles and revolutionaries outside this country. . Paul Geddes, Roseburg, Ore. BerleGoes On With Show Despite Injury Hollywood -(UPD- Comedian Milton Berle went on with his hour - long television show despite an injured knee which left him limping. The veteran performer suf fered a badly bruised and cut knee during rehearsals ear lier in the day when a break away piano was prematurely released and struck him. FIRES ON NAVY TUG Stockton, Calif - (UPD - Sher iff's deputies Wednesday con fiscated a rifle belonging to Pashal Fraser, 68, after he adr mitted firing it across the bow of a Navy tug as it passed his houseboat on the ' Stockton channel. "It was going too fast," Fraser explained. "I just shot once to warn them to slow down. i There is only one thing that will really train the human mind and that is the voluntary use of the mind by the man himself. You may aid him, you may guide him, you may suggest to him and, above all else you may , inspire him. But the only thing worth having is that which he gets by his own exertions, and what he gets is in direct proportion to what he puts into it. A. L. Lowell Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass, , FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT ' PHONE SP 2-8030 jority in the 3000 and 3100 blocks of Takoma ave, TTVAKOMA ave , as might be expected, is . decidedly more sympathetic to the Democrats than College ave. But despite this political di vergence, the two neighbor hoods also have two things in common. Both gave Presi dent Eisenhower substantial majorities in 1956, and in both, the Republicans appear to have lost heavily since then. As usual,, the figures tell the story. On College ave., 29 rather articulate voters suffered the intrusion' of this reporter and the professional - poller, Lou Harris. . In . : line with the neighborhood voting record, they had chosen Eisenhower over Stevenson in 1956 by a whooping 22 to 7. That year, in the Indiana eovernorship race, they had also given Gov. Harold . Handley 21 votes, against 6 votes for the Demo crats and 2 not voting. Yet this year, only 13 of these same .people are ready to vote for Handley for the senate. No less than 11 have already made up their minds to 'vote for the Democratic senate . candidate, Mayor Vance Hartke of Evansville Five are still examining the alternative with as much dis taste for the Republicans as for file Democrats. If this switch is representative, the Republican ' bedrock in this obstinately Republican big city has been sadly chipped away. NONETHELESS, What we found on Takoma ave., was even more interesting. Of 23 intending voters polled by us, 12 had chosen Eisen hower and only 5 had chosen Stevenson in 1956. Among th ese more natural Demo crats, the Eisenhower coat tails had also helped the local ticket rather more than in most parts of the county. Eleven of them had voted for Handley for governor, and only 6 had voted for the Democrat. This time, the Tabor unions have been hard, at work, per suading the faithful to regisr ter in order to vote against the right-to-work proposal on the Indiana ballot. Thus the Democrats had acquired no less than 5 new votes. One new voter, not a union man, was backing Handley. In addition, seven more Handley voters had left him in the in terval. .Hence the grim final score was Hartke 15 votes, Handley only , 5 votes, and 3 "don't know." The falling off In the Re publican vote was not only much more terrible, on Ta koma ave.,- than on College ave.; the political tone was also more ominous. In both neighborhoods, those who intended to vote Republican were decidedly defensive, if not downright defiant, just as intending Democratic voters used to be in the two great Ei senhower years. But in Col 5S VOTE (X) Robert DUNCAN (X) Marijane ; DUNCAN DEMOCRATS RE-ELECT BOB Your Present State Representative for STATE REPRESENTATIVES Independent thinking and Cooperative Action Means Good Government! 'GOOD GOVERNMENT IS YOUR BUSINESS'' Pd. Adv. Duncans for Legislature Committee. ' Mark Norton, Chairman, Phoenix, Oregon FA? lege ave., the new Democrat recruits wre seldom violent about it; xhey talked rather like the much-wronged lady who so nobly said that she was not angry, only a little sick at heart." , ON TAKOMA ave., in con trast a crrMt mnnv npn. pie were very angry indeed. One peppery lady an older woman this, married to a high ly - skilled, well - paid auto worker with long seniority, who had never been laid off treated us to a positive- ti rade about her husband's wrong-headedness. First, she said, her had persuaded her to vote "for that Eisenhower" last time. Now she added, just to make matters worse, he still maintained the Presi dent had a right to play a lot of golf. But, she concluded triumphantly, "he's at least got the sense to see that peo ple like us can never vote Re publican again" .. Two small neighborhoods in a great city do not necessar ily foretell the final outcome, any more than a single rural route in a big farm state. But more comprehensive polls than ours, and the observa tions of the local experts, and the very shrillness of the Re publican campaign, all com bine to point in the same di rection. As of now, the out look is dark for the Republi cans in Indiana, unless Nixon style medicine can revive the patient, (c) 1958 New York Herald - Tribune Inc. ELECT GORDON HUDSON DEMOCRAT for ; l State Senator A young businessman deter mined to further economic development in Jackson County Vote for Your Future VOTE FOR HUDSON ; Pd. Pol. Adv. Hudson for Sena tor Committee. Joan I. Redden. 2246 Aloha St., Secretary. , ELECT MARIJANE Worked with Bob in both '57 Sessions T .-.-:.-:-: -.Hx-v-.-y--. ' ' ' -Vol I