4 Tuesday, November 18, 1958
MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE.
MEDFORDrirTRIBUSB
"Everyone in Southern Oregon
Reads The Mail Tribune"
Published Daiiy except Saturday by
MEDFORD PRINTING CO.
33 North Fir St. Pa SP 2-6141
' ROBERT W RCHL, Editor
HERB GREY. Advertising Manager
GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr.
ERIC W ALLEN JR,
Managing Editor
EARL H ADAMS City Editor
HARRY CHIP MAN. Teleg. Editor
RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor
OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor
DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr
An Independent Newspaper
Entered as second class matter at
Meciora uregon unaer act ox
March 3. 1897
SUBSCRIPTION BATES
Br Mail In Advance. Copy 10c
Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00
Daily and Sunday mos. 8 00
Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23
Sunday Only One year J4.20.
By Carrier In Advance Medford
Ashland, Central Point. Eagle
Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill.
Phoenix. Shady cove. Rogue ruv.
er. Talent, and on motor routes:
Dally and Sunday 1 year f 18.00
Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 150
Carrier and Dealers c op; 10c
All Terms cash in Advance
fflrlal Paper of City of Medford
Official Paper or Jacmon 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.
NEWSFAPEt
k PUBLISHEIS
"ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
v?7
ASOCTrgN
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
Nov. 18. 1948 (Thursday)
Rogue Valley ham opera
tors offer to transmit Thanks
giving greetings anywhere in
this country or its posses
sions. The Jackson County Public
Health association reports a
"very good response" to its
current X-ray campaign to
detect TB.
20 YEARS AGO
Not. 18, 1938 (Friday) '
Annual autumn Dollar
Days attract a large number
of shoppers to downtown
Medford.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
grand opera ballet perform
ance was well attended. Some
of the artists could have leap
ed no better had they "been
getting out of the way of an
auto while jaywalking."
30 YEARS AGO
Not 18, 1928 (Sunday)
The Studio Players, a little
theater group here in Med
ford sporting some profes
sional talent, opens its season
next month with "Dover
Road."
f Fernando Germani, Italian
organist, presents a concert
for a small but appreciative
audience in First Presbyteri
an church.
40 YEARS AGO
Not, 18, 1918 (Monday)
The Elks plan a Red Cross
Victory ball Thanksgiving
night.
Lt. Col. E. E. Kelly is re
ported to have been in the
thick of the closing battle of
the war, the advance upon
Sedan.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five of
sis is good.
1. What is a duplex house?
2. Name the capital of
Iraq.
3. Castel Gandolfo is a res
idence of what personage?
4. Labor Day is celebrated
on the same date in, Septem
ber of each year; true or
false?
5. Name the reputed au
thor of the fable about the
boy who called "Wolf, Wolf."
6. In which of these States
was Thomas A. Edison born
Ohio, New York, or New
Jersey.
7. In which State is Muscle
Shoals?
8. In the nursery rhyme,
who was it "who lost her
sheep?
9. Except for the War of
1818 and World War II, in
what month has the U.S. en
tered each of the principal
wars in which it has partici
pated? 10. Which four States of
the U.S. have names begin
ning with "New"?
Answers: 1. A two family
House. 2. Bagdad. 3. The
Pope. 4. False. 5. Aesop. 6.
Ohio. 7. Alabama. 8. Little
Bo Peep. 9- In ApriL 10.
Hampshire. York. Jersey.
Mexico.
New Slant on
Prr.V.cil-.lir in nrrrmrr
A. J KS 1 K A JT 111 VVllllilVll A bit llVkJW V - J WW v
have always associated the word "bankruptcy"
with businesses, or with individuals who handle
a lot of capital, and who somehow let their lia
bilities pile up higher than their assets over too
long a period of time.
We were interested, therefore, to leam that
by far the largest number of bankruptcies filed
through legal channels are by working people
wage earners who take on too heavy a burden
of debt to carry from one payday to the next.
USTES Snedecor, Portland, federal referee in
bankruptcy, recently made a talk in Oregon
Citv about the subject which was revealing.
He forecast that 1958 will turn out to be a year
of many bankruptcies being filed, and he expects
2,870 in Oregon before the year is out, a figure
high among other states.
This is not, he said, because business or in
dustry are on the rocks. Paradoxically, it is for
the opposite reason the economy is expanding.
LIE explained it this way:
During a period of expansion, such as the
nation has experienced over the past few years,
installment credit mounts. The total grew more
than five times from 1941 to 1957 from $6,
085,000,000 to $33,133,000,000.
This means that home payments, auto pay
ments, and payments on furniture, furnishings,
appliances and so on, are gobbling up a far great
er proportion of the salaries of wage earners.
Then, when a seasonal setback comes along
or a "recession" such as that which hit the
nation during the past year, and Oregon harder
than . most states the wage earner is the one
who gets caught.
Then, rather than submit to excessive garn
ishment of his paycheck, which might not allow
him and his family enough to live on, he files for
bankruptcy.
CNEDECOR says it results from inequitable
laws. He says, for instance, that bankruptcy
laws exempt a man's home and automobile from
collection by creditors, but that they do nothing
to protect his livelihood.
The report on the talk in the Oregon City
paper added :
"Furthermore, the. creditors themselves are hurt.
Because when a man is forced into bankruptcy, every
one suffers and nobody gets his fair share of assets.
On the other hand, if a man's wages were protected,
more times than not the debtor tries to pay off and will
if he can. But once he has been forced into bankruptcy,
then everything goes."
He suggested that Oregon follow the lead of
other states, and Tut a limit on the amount of a
man's salary that can be attached. He suggested
20 per cent. To quote again :
"Two examples were cited. In Pennsylvania there
is a limit, and last year it had only 694 bankruptcies
filed. Texas, another state with a limitation, had 341
filed. In giant New York state, with many times the
population of Oregon, 2,962 people filed for bankrupt
cy just slightly more than Oregon. New York has a
limitation on attachments too. On the other hand,
California, like Oregon, has no limitation. Last year
it had 15,000 bankruptcies filed."
WE found the report
rrroof intovocf Tint
a new slant on who files the most bankruptcies,
and why, but also because it pointed to a defi
ciency in Oregon law, where a change could turn
out to be of great benefit to a great many people.
If he is right and he is certainly in a posi
tion to know the individual wage earner would
receive far greater protection, and creditors, too,
would have a better chance of getting their mon
ey far better than by garnishing a working
man's salary to a point where he can't support his
family and is forced to seek the unsatisfactory
solution of bankruptcy. ' E. A.
Cars and Grades
In quite a number of high schools in the north
west, surveys have shown a high degree of cor
elation between grade averages and automobile
ownership.
The figures have varied, but have shown a
remarkable similarity in pattern.
At South Salem High school, for instance, of
the 594 junior and senior students owning cars,
7 per cent are A-average students; 19 per cent
are B students; 31 per cent are C students and 44
per cent are D students.
DROKEN down into boys only, or girls only, or
junior class only, or senior class only, the re
sults are, jf not identical, directly similar.
Without a more detailed and complete sur
vey, it is impossible to assess the real significance
of these figures if any. For instance, the survey
didn't show how non-car-owning students com
pared in the grade breakdown. And even if the
car-owners have a comparably greater proportion
of poor students, one cannot say if it is cause or
effect.
But the surveys are certainly suggestive that
autombiles and good grades don't go together (on
the average) whatever the cause.
DLANS for a similar survey at Medford High
school have been discussed, and it may well
be made within the next few months, according
to Principal Lester Harris
It will also be interesting, although pos
sibly inconclusive. There are many ramifications
of the problem, including the costs of car pur
chase and upkeep, the time consumed by activities
which only automobiles make possible, and so on.
There are some who are using such statistics
to support a demand that 18 be made the legal
minimum driving age, but we can't go along with
that yet until further facts are in. E. A.
Bankruptcy
ix-itTi Trincf npnnlp VP
of Snedecor's talk of
nnlir ViDKonca if itoito no
Dennis the
HUlliMf fri M ih II I II I r
lilPBByja.
7HlS ONE'S SOT A LOT OF 6000 READIN
IN IT. . . . IF YA LIKE PICTURES.
Washington Report
By William S. White
ROMANTIC LIBERALS
Washington-In the Demo
cratic party there are profes
sional, or romantic, liberals
and there are
plain, or
working, lib
berals. The
r o mantic
D e mocratic
liberals re
spond to new
and "modern"
faces with ec
static h i g h-
ttr;iiin. c u:t.; minnpnnpss
the newer the face the glad
der the esctasy. The working
Democratic liberals have
mostlv a common view on is-
. -
sues with their more enthusi
astic colleagues.
The preat difference is that
the working liberals are, first
01 all, simply .Democrats. 10
them, the word "liberal"
qualifies but does not sup
plant the operative word
"Democrat." In short, they
like their tjartv to win elec
tions. These are what might
be called the Harry Truman;
liberals.
But the romantic Demo
cratic liberals have aims so
much more diffuse and pos
sibly so much more elevated
as to be difficult to define.
Thev will have none of the
crude bonds of party; they
wish to soar wiio ana iree
above all that is common
place in politics.
9 W 9
THESE gentlemen and la
dies are now consider
ably worrying the more "reg
ular" liberal Democrats and
sorely worrying all purely or
ganizational Democrats of
whatever hue. For these pro
fessional liberals are rushing
into headlong embrace more
in private than in public, it
is true of the image of the
Republican Governor-elect of
New York, Nelson Rockefel
ler, as the properly inevitable
President for 1960.
This is being done before
Mr. Rockefeller has had a
chance to write a line on the
first page of his gubernatorial
record; even before he has
taken his inaugural vows.
All this is not welcome
news to the 1960 Demoncrat
is Presidential nominee, who
ever he may turn out to be
and however liberal, for that
matter he may turn out to be.
For ostensible Democrats are
making very early, and very
emotional, commitments to
Mr. Rockefeller. And by this
they are necessarily weaken
ing the prospective Demo
cratic position for 1960.
There is, in fact, a strong
paraUel between this "I like
Nelson " movement among
the romantic liberal Demo
crats and another movement
among the same kind of group
in 1948. Then, some of these
professional Democratic lib
erals including a few who
were at least supposed to be
close to the Truman Adminis
tration began an earnest
pursuit of a curious theory.
This was that President Tru
man ought to step aside and
more or less force a "new
face," Dwight Eisenhower, to
take over the Presidential
nomination.
MR. TRUMAN, who is not
generally thought to be
too conservative but has never
theless never quite hidden his
distaste for professional lib
erals, was of course insen
sitively unwilling to oblige. It
was then supposed by the dis
appointed professional liber
als that General Eisenhower
was the only authentic and
fully respectable liberal in
sight.
It is commonly forgotten
now; but the chant "I like
Ike" arose in this quarter
even before it arose among
any considerable number of
Menace
Republicans. It started be
fore Mr. Eisenhower had ever
served a day in elective of
fice. It started at a time when
very little that was factual
as distinguished from vaguely
impressionistic was known
about his public views.
Perhaps it is objective to
say that the Ensenhower Ad'
ministration has not been a
notable triumph for the lib
erals, whatever else it has or
lias not been. And most of
the professional liberals who
had cried out in his behalf in
1948 before long were crying
out against his Administra
tion with more vehemence,
actually, than those Demo
crats who had fought him all
along.
NOW, it may well eventu
ate, to the contrary this
time, that Nelson Rockefeller
will be very modest of what
the romantic liberals really
want. This, however, is not
inevitable and not even
highly probable. What is cer
tain, however, is that a simi
lar movement of spiritual se
cession by professional liber
als weakened the Truman Ad
ministration and contributed
to what was possibly fated
anyhow Operation Throw-The-Democrats-Out
in 1952.
It does not now seem that
all this really served the in
terests of any kind of liberal
Democrat. The Republicans,
even those not desperate to
have Mr. RockefeUer as their
1960 nominee, are watching
current professional liberal
developments with pleased
interest. This is perhaps the
only one watery ray discern
ible to them in this, their
gloomy November.
In defeat they are practical
men, even though they do
sometimes seem determined
to lose any victory once gain
ed. But the romantic Demo
cratic liberals sometimes
seem inconsolable only in
some of their victories and
exultant only in some of their
defeats.
(Copyright. 1958, by
United Features Syndi
cate, Inc.)
Communications
Veterans Day Success
To the Editor: On behalf of
the Allied Veterans' Council
of Jackson County, I would
like to express my sincere ap
preciation to the many valley
residents and business firms
who helrjed us make Veter
ans' Day the tremendous suc
cess it was.
Especially would we like to
thank the Retail Merchants'
Association, who cooperated
fully in regulating their store
hours to coincide with our
program, and the Medford
Mail Tribune, which gave
space for our news releases
and advertising. Along with
these, we thank the Milk Pro
ducers' Leaeue and Jorgen-
sen's Dairy for the splendid
ads in the Sunday paper pre
ceding Veterans' Dav . .
without such cooperation and
backing, the magnitude of tne
program would have never
been conveyed to the public.
Sine there will be a new
nresident of the council Dec
1, I wish to assure all veter
a n s organizations, the, Na
tional" Guard, and others who
have worked with us that it
has bean a year full of exper
ipnre and Dleasure for me. I
sincerelv hope that my sue
cessor enjoys it as much and
has the fine support I have
received along with our out
standing committeemen.
Thanks again, very much.
Keeean Townsend,
President, Allied Veterans'
Council of
Jackson County.,
Granr-in-Aid Fund
Increases
In 86th Congress
By Congressional Quarterly
Washington -Two develop
ments appear certain - in a
generally uncertain future -
when the 86th Congress con
venes seven weeks hence.
-President Eisenhower will
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
A University of California
physicist reports that a couple
of years hence the U.S. may
attempt to blast a new harbor
in Ajaska, using NUCLEAR
explosives. The attempt, he
adds, maye be made as early
as two years from now.
The U.C. scientist (his name
is Gerald Johnson) says a site
has been selected at Camp
Thompson, north of the Ber
ing Strait. He says the shale
rock at the location chosen
for the experiment could be
moved by nuclear explosives
at a tenth the cost of present
day techniques.
YOU may ask:
Tin 'NF.F.T) a narhnr
away lip in the Arctic north
of the Bering Strait?
That isn't the point.
The point is that if we do
need one, or should in the fu
ture need one, we could pro
vide it relatively quickly and
relatively inexpensive by us
ing nuclear explosives.
rpHAT brings up something
-- else.
Something fantastic.
Something as yet mysteri
ous, to be spoken of in whis
pers OPERATION PLOW
SHARE.
WHAT is Operation Plow
' sharp?
It is still top drawer secret,
but here are some hints that
have been permitted to leak
out:
As everyone knows, we
have been carrying on an un
disclosed number of UNDER
GROUND blasts in Nevada.
This fall, several of these ex
plosions of MUCH GREATER
POWER THAN EVER BE
FORE have been set off.
About all that has been giv
en out about them is the vague
and guarded statement that
scientists have obtained from
them information showing
that such explosions can be
made to do PEACEFUL work.
U.S. industry particular
ly the oil segment of industry
is described as "excited"
by O p e r a t ion Plowshare's
prospects. It is added that
hardly a week passes .when
the AEC (Atomic Energy
Commission) doesn't receive
communications from - com
panies interested in putting
atomic blasting material to
work.
ALL this raises problems
x These problems can be
guessed at from this extract
from a recent Washington dis
patch:
"Because they (these under
ground explosion techniques)
can also be used in WEAPONS
development, this country
must prove to the world that
Project Plowshare is honest
ly dedicated to peace . . ,
This was made plainly skep
tical of Plowshare's motives.
"To overcome the world's
skepticism, this country is
ready, subject to congressional
approval, to make Plowshare
materials and services avail
able to other countries for
construction work or the tap
ping of buried resources such
as otherwise unobtainable oil
and minerals."
THIS much, at least, we must
keep clear and straight in
our minds:
. We are standing at the
threshhold of a world that is
fabulously newer and poten
tially more wonderful than
the new world that was dis
covered by Columbus. Forces
greater than were ever
dreamed of by man are being
placed in man's hands. In the
use of these forces, man faces
a choice.
He can use them for good.
He can use them for evil.
Which shall it be?
That brings up a thought
that has long fascinated me.
It is this:
In the world of the past,
Stops Constipation
Due to "Aging Colon'"
New laxative discovery re-creates 3 essentials
for normal
As you grow older, the internal mus
cles of your colon wall also age, lose
the strength that propels waste from
the body. Stagnant bowel contents be
come so dry and shrunken that they
fail to stimulate the urge to purge.
Relief, doctors say, lies in a new
laxative principle. Old-style bulks and
moisteners may create gas, take 3 or
4 days for relief. Old-style salts and
drugs cramp and gripe the entire
system. Of all laxatives, only new
Colonaid gives you its special 3-way
relief that works only on the lower
colon (area of constipation).
Foreseen
renew and amplify his propo
sals for checking the growth
of Federal grants-in-aid to
state and local governments.
-Congress, for its' part, will
ignore the proposals. Most
probably it will march in the
opposite direction.
The President's concern
over the trend toward more
and larger grant programs
was voiced repeatedly in 1958
both in his budget recommen
dations and in his reaction to
legislation approved by Con
gress. Faced with a deficit of
$12 billion this year and sev
eral billion next year, he can
show no less concern in 1959.
Congress, on the other hand,
will reflect the results of the
Nov. 4 election. Not only did
Democrats win 2-to-l majori
ties in House and Senate; they
extended their control of state
governments. Come January,
Democrats will occupy the
Governor's mansion and con
trol both houses of the state
legislatures in 22 states, Re
publicans in only four states.
Support at State Level
This means that Democrats
in Congress, who have always
looked with greater favor
than Republicans on grants-in-aid,
will be powerfully re
inforced at the state level, at
a time when the states are
scraping the tax barrel to
meet the rising cost of public
services.
Federal grants to state and
local governments for such
programs as highway and hos
pital construction, public as
sistance, urban renewal, and
unemployment compensation
climbed from $2.8 billion in
fiscal 1953 to $4.1 biUion in
fiscal 1957. The total this year
is expected to reach $6 billion
Last January the President,
on the advice of the Joint
Federal-State Action commit
tee, asked Congress to trans
fer two small grant programs
to the states, along with a por
tion of the revenues from the
10 per cent Federal excise tax
on local telephone service. He
also asked the legislators to
modify the hospital, public
assistance, school and urban
renewal programs in a fash
ion that would have reduced
Federal outlays.
Opposite Reaction
Congress not only didn't
comply, it liberalized grant
formulas for emergency
school aid and public assist
ance, added $400 billion to
the highway program, and
launched a new aid-to-education
program with about $500
million for grants. The legis
lators also approved bills
which the President vetoed,
increasing Federal aid to air
ports and establishing a loan-and-grant
program for area
redevelopment.
These two bills are almost
certain to be repassed in 1959
in a form more generous than
desired by the President. In
similar fashion, Congress may
be expected to approve an
omnibus housing bill no less
costly than the one that, for
the lack of six votes, failed to
pass the House in August.
That measure authorized $300
million a year for six years
for the urban renewal pro
gram, in which the Federal
government puts up $2 for
every $2 invested at the local
level.
Demands for Federal grants
and loans for school construc
tion are assured of sympathe
tic attention from most of the
non-Southern Democrats in
the 86th Congress. An expand
ed program of - low-interest
Federal loans to cities for
such public facilities as wa
terworks, streets and play
grounds may win substantial
support if interest rates con
tinue to rise.
AU things considered, the
President's forthcoming plea
to reverse the rising tide of
grants-in-aid has about the
same chance of being heeded
as Canute's admonition to the
seas.
the techniques of DISAGREE
MENT have been more highly
perfected than the techniques
of AGREEMENT. I think we
are going to have to make a
change.
We must begin to see to it
that the techniques of agree
ment get more attention than
the techniques of disagree
ment. regularity.
(1) Colonaid moisturizes dry,
hardened waste for easy passage with
out pain or strain. (2) Colonaid's
unequalled rebulking action helps re
tone flabby colon muscles. (3) And
Colonatd acts gently, on the nerve
reflexes that stimulate the vital "mass
movement" of your lower colon.
Colonaid relieves even chronic
constipation overnight; is so gentle it
was hospital proved safe even for ex
pectant mothers. And Colonaid won't
interfere with absorption of vitamins
or other food nutrients. Get Colonaid
today! Introductory size 43c.
Matter of Fact
HUSSEIN FOREVER
Amman, Jordan Events in
this extraordinary country
have a way of resembling epi-
SOdes in one of
the old serial
movies say
"The Perils of
Pauline"-with
,the heroine, or
in this case
tne hero, al
ways emerg
ing from di
rect danger in
loi-pn aisop a giow or tri
umph at the clase of each
episode.
The curious fact remains.
however, that even such an
unreal piece of melodrama
as young King Hussein's es
cape from the attacking
Syrian MIG fighters can also
be fuU of genuine political
significance. Consider, for ex
ample, just one' incident in
this particular installment of
the Jordanan serial.
After the young King's
plane had taken off, the
tough, astute Prime Minister,
Samir Rifai, and several other
leaders of the government re
turned to the Jordanian gov
ernment office building for
breakfast and a business talk.
They had no particular fear
of a Syrian attack on the
King's plane. But just to be
sure that all went well, one
of those present turned on
the radio communicator with
the Amman airfield tower,
which is installed in the gov
ernment offices because of the
King's passionate interest in
aviation.
AFTER the first growl of
Ktatir- trip pftmmnniftitftr
quickly began to pour out the
argument between King Hus
sein's pilot and the Damascus
control tower. Then, quite
suddenly, there was silence
(because the pilot, Wing Com
mander Dalsleish. observed
radio silence from the moment
of the first pass by the Syrian
MIGSs.) The breakfasters
were tilled with conserna
tion, thinking the King had
been shot down. They at once
telephoned the news' to the
Jordanian Chief of Staff, Ho-
bis Majjali, at the Arab Leg
ion camp at Zerqa.
There the telephone opera
tor must have listened in, or
in some other way the news
that the Syrians bad shot
down King Hussien spread
like wildfire through the
camp. By a kind of instan
taneous combustion, over the
protests of their officers,
huge majority of the Arab
Legion rank and file immedi
ately marched off on the road
to the north, with the actual
intention of - invading Syria
without any further delays
or formalities.
rpHE troops would not be
- quieted or reassured, un
til great numbers of them had
been taken in a long proces
sion of Army trucks to cheer
the King at the palace after
his almost miraculous safe re
turn. Altogether, it would be
hard to imagine a more curi
ous or more convincing dem
onstration of an army's loyal
ty and affection. And the tim
ing and everything else
proved very clearly that the
demonstration was in the rare,
truly spontaneous category.
Anyone with the slightest
experience of Arab politics
must "see the far-reaching sig
nificance of this demonstra
tion. In every Arab state, the
Army is the dominant politi
cal factor. In Iraq, for in
stance, the Army was disloyal,
and a seemingly all-powerful
government was bloodily, sub-
verted. But in Jordan, as one
by-product of the strange epi
sode of the King's escape from
the Syrian MIGs, the most
convincing proof has' been
given of the loyalty of the
Army rank and file.
rpHIS Js one reason why it is
now necessary to correct
a previous report in this space,
concerning the alarm felt in
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.
Joseph Alsep
Washington about King Hue-
sem s plan to take a vacation.
The official Washinetonian
alarm was real enough, but it
can now be categoriacUy stat
ed that the alarm was quits
groundless. Young King Hus
sein emphatically was not tak
ing a vacation with the ex
pectation that he would not
return to rule in Jordan. Futh
ermore, the most cynical for
eign observers and the Jor
danians most hostile to King
Hussein's government agree
that nothing would have hap
pened during the King's ab
sence to prevent his return.
In fact, this reporter has had
a sharp lesson, concerning the
truth of the old rule of the
reporter's trade that you must
always go and have a look
yourself.
Even a brief look at Jordan
has been enough to provide all
sorts of bits of positive evi
dence, aU tending to prove
that King Hussein's govern
ment is now as stable as any
government can be in this in
herently unstable country. For
example, there were the huge
street crowds shouting their
huzzas for the King and bel
lowing "Down with Gamal
Abdel Nasser" for good meas
ure. VOU can argue that this part
of the demonstration after
the King's return was not al
together spontaneous or sin
cere. No one can disprove this
argument, which is made by
some observers here. But 14
months ago, all the police and
all the money in the world
would have been unable to get
the street crowds of Amman
to cheer Hussein and curse
Nasser. That fact is unargu
able, and it means that a most
important change has occur
red here.
Besides the Arab Legion's
loyalty to Hussein, there seem
to be two other major factors
behind this change. One of
these factors is quite .simply
the way the incomparably
brave young King has f inaUy
"got through" to his people.
Even the enemies of his gov
ernment admire his courage
and determination. No on
could help but do so. The
Arabs are also great believer '
in luck. There is even a single
word in Arabic "mantou!,
which means a lucky man,
with whom it is wise to be on
good terms and unwise to op
pose. Rather naturally, in
view of recent history, Hus
sein is thought to be such a
man.
Just as they believe in luck,
the Arabs are also great bandwagon-watchers
and bandwagon-jumpers.
This too has a
bearing here, because the oth
er factor in the improvement
of Hussein's position is the
growing conviction that the
once resistless bandwagon of
Egypt's Nasser has lost much
of its momentum. But this .
check of the Nasser bandwag
on is a separate and a major
subject.
MONEY
At Crater Finance you may
borrow for any worth
while purpose on your
FURNITURE - AUTO
SALARY
and repay in monthly In
itallmtnti. You may
choose the terms most suit
able to you up to 24
months.
Loans may be paid in ad
vance or in full at any time.
Crater Finance
CORPORATION
135 Pine Street
Central Point
Phone NO 4-1273
Frank Wilkinson, Mgr.
Convenient Parking
REMEMBER THE
BANANA!
When a banana leaves the
bunch it gets skinned ... By
the same token you'll be better
off grouping all your personal
risk policies into a package
plan. Stop in for an explanation.
Bill Fish