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4 Wednesday, Nov. 19, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MedfordJSTbibuiie "Everyone in Southern Oregon Read The MaH Tribune" obIi5hJ Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir SI Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RCJHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mar. ERIC W ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Met ford Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATES B Mail In Advance. Copy 10c. TMilv and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily ana sunoay o uii. o.w riailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sundav Only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. E a g 1 T i TUatnvill Gnlri Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv- T.M artA rn wwininT miltM ! Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily ana aunaay i mo. i-jw Carrier and Dealers copy lOe All Terms t-asn in jiovance Ofnrtsl Paper of City f Medfor4 Official paper or jacason .oumj United-Press International Full Leased Wire "membetTof audit bureau OF CIRCULATION itrccT u-T Inl V ft rT Of. fiees in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta, Vancouver. B.C. 0 NEWSPAPEt PUBLISMtlt ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCS-AIraN J KJ 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. 19. 1948 (Friday) A total of 3,253 persons have had chest x-rays spon sored this week by the Jack son County Public Health association. Skiing conditions at Crater Lake are expected to be ex cellent this week end. 20 YEARS AGO Not. 19, 1938 (Saturday) Total assessed valuation for Jackson county shows an in crease approaching $3 million over last year. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Re publicans held a victory din ner Thurs. eve. All enjoyed the chance to crow instead of eating it." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 19. 1928 (Monday) Buy-at-Home week, encour aging the purchase of goods made locally, gets under way here. An "old-time Tiddlers' con test" is scheduled at Walker's hall. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 19. 1918 (Tuesday) Medford and Jackson coun ty go over the top in the Unit ed War Work campaign. Robert Duff, visiting hrme for two weeks during a shut down caused by influenza, re turns to his classes at a mili tary school at Santa Clara, Calif. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct it superior; seven or eight is excellent; five Of six is good. 1. Who was Carry Nation? 2. In parliamentary law, to whom does the term "The Chair" apply? 3. What agency in the U.S. Government is charged with the duty of protecting the life of the President? 4. Name the author of "Cabbages and Kings." 5. Neither the Senate nor HcAise may adjourn for more than how many days, without consent of the other body? 6. During W.W. II, a not able conference, attended by Stalin, Churchill, and Roose velt, was held at a place in the Crimea; name the place. 7. "When in the Course of human events," is the open ing clause of what famous doc ument? 8. Who disputed with the devil about the body of Moses? 9. Pistons in a gas engine make a complete stop at the end of the ascending stroke beginning the descending stroke; true or false? 10. Frankie and Johnny were lovers; he was her man, but what did she do? 1. Temperance leader. 2. The presiding officer. 1. U.S. Secret Service. 4. O.Henry. 5. Three days. 6. Yalta. 7. Declaration of Independence. 8. The archangel Michael. 9. True. 10. "She .shot him down." Notable Citizenship Yesterday, Mrs. G. Q. D'Albini watched as her most recent "class" raised their hands and took their oaths as citizens of the United States. We hope Mrs. D'Albini received a thrill from watching. We're almost sure she did, for there is some thing impressive, something touching, something meaningful in seeing people swear their al legiance to the United States of America partic ularly when they are as thoroughly aware of what it means as are those who have been helped by Mrs. D'Albini. TOR the past 32 years this good woman has been giving classes to aliens who wanted to become citizens. For 32 years she has been teach ing them about the U.S. constitution, its laws and traditions and customs. For 32 years she has watched and thrilled as the many, many people who were her friends stood before the judge and undertook the rights, the privileges, the respon sibilities and obligations of citizenship. How many people can say they have done as much for America as Mrs. D'Albini? .Not very many. For she has had a real and important part in preparing for citizenship some of our finest citizens. A ND now, after all these years, she feels she can no longer carry on with this job, which she has done under, the auspices of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is leaving town to live with relatives, and someone else will have to be found to carry on with the important and soul-satisfying job she has performed so notably well for more than three decades. To say "well done" and "thank you" in this case is not quite enough. We should also say to her that, through preparing new citizens for their roles in a free America, she has herself more than fulfilled a noble and inspiring act of citi zenship. There are hundreds of Americans who are humbly grateful. E. A. We Need. . . "We need . ; . " is one today. It is heard every We need more scientists, engineers, techni cians, schoolteachers, police officers, social work ers, juvenile officers. We need more pay for for more services to the public, 'more money for roads, for public buildings. . We need better schools, more driver trainmg for school youngsters, more school buildings, bet ter instruction. - WE NEED a cessation of H-bomb testing (or -vera noaA mnra TT-VinmK foctc tr norfopt our defenses). We need better relatitons with the rest of the world, more understanding. We need lower taxes (or more foreign aid). We need higher (or lower) farm price supports. We need water development, better natural re source protection, reforestation, more timber to cut, better access to forests. We need more tourists, more industry, bigger payrolls, more parking space, better sanitary con trol, more trees in the city, better-looking streets. X7E NEED better mental institutions and a higher degree of training for workers in them. We need a "cure" for cancer, for arthritis, for heart disease. We need money .for the United Fund appeal, of the Shakespearean festival, for the March of Dimes, for Muscular Dystrophy. ' "We need better support for churches, for city government, for the PTA, for lodges and clubs and fraternities. We need volunteer workers and money, mon ey, money. We need shorter, more economical care. We need filter cigarettes that really filter. We need . . . We need . . . We need ... "THE buffeted American citizen sees these statements or something very much like them incessantly. The wonder of it all is that he can keep going on a steady, even keel, keeping the appeals, the needs, the urgings pretty well m perspective. Many of these needs are real and vital. Some of them are phonies. Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference. But one of the things we like best about this country is the fart that anyone is free to make known what he believes are needs. And eveiyone is free to pick and chose for himself, and to de cide what is a real need and what is merely a dressed-up appeal by self-seekers. EVERYONE makes a mistake once in a while 1-1 in deciding. But in the long run people gen erally do pretty well in allocating their responses to the "we needs ..." for funds, for time, for sup port. This is not to say that all the real and vital needs will be filled tomorrow, or ever. But it is to say that the decision-makers in America the voters, taxpayers, contributors, volunteer workers, consumers generally do a fair job of picking out what they want over a period of time. And we're darn lucky to live in a place where we CAN make our own decisions about what it is we really need; where we have freedom of choice, and the wherewithal to support those choices.. E. A. of the most-used phrases day. For example : legislators, more taxes Dennis the Menace '5uT IVMATAWKES YA Impressions of Russia Said Sobering by Oreqon Visitor (Editor's note: The fol lowing article was written by Edward P. McKean Smilh. an Oregonian who recently visited briefly in Russia. McKean-Smith last June completed graduate work at the University of Oregon school of journal ism, and currently is attend ing the Sorbonne in Paris. He tells here his impres sions of Russia. By E. P. McKEAN-SMITH Everybody , and his note book seems to be going to Russia these days. A few, no tably John "Inside Every Everywhere" Gunther, "Hole in the Sole" Adlai and Wal ter Lippman have even been able to meet the boss. How ever, one does not have to visit the top to see what is going on at the bottom-which Is where most of us are. The bottom is seldom hard to reach. A visa to get there took two weeks, - or exactly what the Russians said it would take. I spent 12 days in the country: two in Lenin grad, six in Moscow, two in Kiev and two in travel be tween these places and the frontier. Instead of talking with the Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the 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 sufrnitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in' this column do not necessarily represent the views of the aaper; in fact the contrary often the ease. Helping Hand To the Editor: What is that saying about the U.S. Post man that starts like this: "Neither rain, nor snow .nor dark of night " Well, that old saying holds true, at least for our local postmen. Last year, with the help of a very few volunteers, they went out on one of the foggi est nights and knocked on doors to ask for help from their patrons in aiding- the local Muscular Dystrophy As sociation. This year they are going out again to march on Wed nesday night, Nov. 19, with the help of the local National Guard. Please open your doors and your hearts and contribute as much as you can. As a mother of a local mus cular dystrophy patient, I hope you will feel generous and hold out a helping hand. ' Mrs. Albert C. Gould, 409 South Peach St., Medford. Anti-Court Meeting To the Editor: Some months ago I sent you a letter which you printed. It dealt with the Supreme Court of the U.S. and President of the same. On December 16 we shall hold a meeting at the county court house for the purpose of considering the Constitu tion of the U.S. and how it is being flouted by the above mentioned court. The meeting will be strict ly non-partisan and voters are invited and urged to attend. There will be no charge, and no contributions will be taken. All lawyers, regardless of their locations, are specially urged to be there. Also, all judges now on the benches of justice. I can definitely promise that you will be interested, and, maybe, sufficently so to be prepared to endorse our cause to join with us. We shall charge that the said court is fast forcing its way into business which is emphatically laid upon the shoulders of all the Congress men who are duly elected. In other words, ignoring the acts" of Congress and substi THINK 010 IT? "man in the street" I became one. I walked alone - very much alone-through miles of these cities, used the famous subways of Moscow and Len ingrad and buses in all three. I was never molested. I was never followed. I was never stared at. In spite of the lan guage barrier the contacts I had with people in the course of trying to find my way around were most pleasant. Invariably, I was asked my nationality. The reply "Amer ica" never brought a hostile reaction but rather one of friendly interest. Where in America? I had to answer "near California" because no one understood the word Ore gon. Why does one go to Rus sia? The "decadent" capitalis tic West has a much higher standard of living and a much greater of variety pleasures. No. You do not go to Russia for the fun of it. You should go to observe as far as possi ble and to learn. Even in a few days you can do both to a small but nevertheless im portant degree. Symbols Seen From the time you arrive until the time you leave you tuting its "orders" for such neglected actions of the Con gress. The court has even issued "orders? making it impossible to convict communist enemies of our country in the courts of law. Let anyone and everyone come to this meeting and learn "what it is all about." Come out and see what is done and, maybe, help do it. Remember the date and be there. ' AndyUnger 634 Pennsylvania ave; Medford Moonshine ' To the Editor: We have now launched 15 rockets aimed at the moon. One never got out of Florida, one dropped in the Atlantic and one went clean to Africa, but that ain't any closer to the moon than Flor ida. One of the rockets went completely berserk and hit the Republicans. Th ey got caught trying to outspend the Democrats. They said it couldn't be done, but the Re publicans did it. Now that's harder to do than trying to put three Army blankets, a pillow, a canteen of water and your pants all in a ham mock at the same time, with you in them. This can be done, but did you ever try it when you were seasick, from the top of a stepladder, atop the coal pile, in the basement of a plunging ocean liner, with the lights opt? I tried it many times, but I never got there. I slept in an Army bean ket tle. I'm the guy who couldn't hit a plastic dummy on the rifle range, with my chin rest ing on a brick wall. I am complainin' about the Army because they can't hit the moon, but they'll do it some day. When we get a lot of rockets on the moon, we'll have to send someone up there, to shoot them back. Well have a new game, called interplanetary ping-pong. It will be expensive, $2 million a ping. It might be cheaper to blow hell out of the moon. The moon shines only part of the time anyhow. Everett Acklin, Ashland. Taf t Supporters Find Comfort To Politics of Early Eisenhower By LYLE C. WILSON (TTD Correspondent Washington -IIPD- There is a dark pattern of defeat and disaster in the political ex- p e r ience of the Republic an politicos who manned the guns which six years ago shot down the ambitions of Sen. Rob- I .via r. Wiknn CTC A. IdLU Some of Taft's long-time as sociates cite the record as evidence of a political curse come true. Some others pon der the thought that the strat egy which stopped Taft and obtained the 1952 nomination of Dwight D. Eisenhower may now focus on a new target. The new target would be Vice President Richard M. Nixon whose most formidable adversary for the 1960 Repub lican presidential nomination will be constantly aware of Lenin, the star and the ham mer and sickle emblems. Lenin's name, picture and sta tue are everywhere. So is his philosophy. You will see thousands and thousands of people on foot. Cars are being built but the real traffic is composed of trucks and buses. You will see that these thousand of people are rather drably clothed-but everybody is clothed. The mil itary look sharp and the chil dren look best dressed of all. People look like what they are constantly told they are,1 workers - and everybody is working. You will be unfair if you say that the faces of these people reflect fear and oppression. You will learn that the Russians have been able to produce about everything we can produce, much of it not as good, some of it better. In most cases there is not as much. You will learn that housing and transportation are two serious problems but you will see enormous con struction projects aimed at solving these problems. You will learn that this communist country is in real ity a highly organized capital investment country. People receive low wages, pay high taxes and high prices for most things. The government makes the profit. The people believe the myth that they own the government. You will learn that bureaucracy is prodigious. You will leave Russia high ly impressed and probably distressed. You will admit that the progress made in 40 years is almost fantastic and has been accomplished in the face of great odds. You may accept the fact that the system which accomplished this is here to stay. You will be so bered by the thought that this system or ideology has won over more converts, willing or otherwise, in a few years than other ideologies have won in many centuries. But you will not be one of them. Newspaper Guild Asks Protection Law Portland-(UPD-The Portland Newspaper Guild voted Tues day night to ask the Legisla ture for a law protecting newspapermen from having to disclose the source of confi dential information for news stories. The proposed law would ap ply to newspaper reporters, press association personnel, radio and television newsmen and employees of other news publications. The Guild said 12 states al ready have laws declaring re porters may not be compelled to reveal sources of confiden tial information. EDITOR'S NOTE Chicago -ICPD- The Encyclo pedia Britannica reports that the admission of Alaska as the 49th state means that 104 of its articles must be revised to conform with this latest development. DIDN'T COUGH ALL NIGHT Special Formula Creomul sion Cough Syrup for Chil dren relieves coughs due to colds right now, with out narcotics or antihista mines, stops tickle pro motes sleep tastes good too. Get FLAVORED CREOMULSION FOR CHILDREN is likely to be a political ua known as General Eisenhower was a political unknown in 1952. That adversary is, of course, Gov.-elect Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York. . If the Rockefeller-for-presi-dent managers - the stop-Nixon manipulators believe in curses, haunts and the politi cal voodoo, they should exam ine the record of what has happened to some of the Eis-enhower-for-president men, the stop-Taft strategists of 1952. It has been plenty. :. The Passing Parade There was Sherman Adams who master-minded the strat egy by which Taft actually was defeated at the 1952 Re publican National convention. Adams is gone. Republican Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll of New Jersey dealt the Taft pre-convention -campaign its most deadly blow in his states' presidential pri mary. Driscoll's Republican state machine was disrupted two years later by Robert B. Meyner, a Democrat, who got himself elected as governor and handed the Republican organization another licking in this year's general election. Gov. John S. Fine, and es pecially, Sen. James H. Duff of Pennsylvania were big Ike men in 1952. They have van ished from the political scene In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Sad tale in the news: A gang of ten youthful toughs raided a 'Hillsborough party the other night (Hills borough is a fashionable sub urb of San Francisco) and as saulted nine of the guests with auto chains, black jacks, tire irons and any other weapon that came readily to hand. The raid .was triggered when three members of the gang undertook to crash a party given by a Hillsborough family for their 18-year-old twin sons. It lasted only ten mmutes, but i n that short space of time the hoodlums wrecked much of the home ana DroKe most of the win dows of automobiles parked outside by the guests. une or tne guests was thrown bodily through a pie ture window. He and four oth er guests who had been man handled violently were sent to nearby hospitals. Four oth er guests were rather badly injured, but declined hospi tal aid. pOLICE, aided by license numoers or tne cars in which they drove off, which had been noted by guests at the party, picked up all ten of the toughs before the night was over. What will be done with them remains to be seen. . . W HY is that a sad tale? It's a sad state of af fairs when things like that can happen in an American community. IIHAT caused these young " tc toughs to do it? I wouldn't know. I doubt if anybody would KNOW. But case histories would be in teresting. Case histories might shed some light on what caus ed ten young Americans to BECOME TOUGHS. I'd be willing to hazard a personal guess that accurate case histories would reveal that of the ten FEW have held steady jobs or had applied themselves at school to the acquisition of an education that would prepare them for holding good jobs and getting ahead in the world. One might go a little far ther and guess that when they have thought of jobs they have thought of them in terms of SOFT SNAPS. That, per haps, they have thought of GETTING AHEAD in terms of winning a big prize in a quiz show and living spectac ularly on the proceeds. It would be a fairly, safe bet that few of them have thought of success in life in terms of hard work arid intel ligent application to the job of getting somewhere worth while. ' (mremjsv and Pennsylvania elected an other Democratic governor this month. . Events caught up with for mer Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R-Mass.)t in the election immediately following the 1952 Republican convention. Lodge lost to Sen. John F. Kennedy who may go on to take the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. Bro ther John Davis Lodge, anoth er Ikeman, lost Connecticut's governorship in 1954. By the Wayside Others of the 1952 Ike-for-president men who had to stop Taft, or else, have since been mowed down at the polls: Dan Thornton of Col orado, Douglas McKay of Ore gon, 'Arthur B. Langlie of Washington. Former Gov. Walter J. Kohler Jr. of Wisconsin, ran proudly as an Ikeman in 1957 for the late Joseph R. McCar Central High Idle As Students Attend Private Institution Editor's Note: Jack V. Fox, UPI roving reporter, was sent to Little Rock to report latest developments on integration. The follow ing dispatch contrasts what is happening at the closed Central High with the ac tivity at the private, all while high school. By JACK V. FOX UPI Correspondent Little Rock, Ark.-TOPfl-This morning, as on every week day, the teachers park their cars and walk into the fine building that was Central High School. They hold a brief staff meeting and then go to their separate classrooms. The desks are polished, the rooms spotless. The chemistry and physics labs and the biology room are ready for experi ments. On the row after row of lockers are the familiar combination locks put there early this fall in anticipation of school opening. There is everything except pupils. The teachers sit at their desks in the empty rooms. They try to make the day useful by devising improve ments in their courses. Then they write letters, practice typing, read, look out the window. For the 3,700 students of Central and Little Rock's three other high schools have scattered from coast to coast, enrolled in makeshift private schools, started taking cor respondence courses, or given up their education tempo rarily. Use Old Building A few blocks away is an old building which bears the only resemblance to a high school in Little Rock today. It is a former orphanage, later used by the University of Arkansas Graduate Division. It is the site of the Little Rock private high school, run on donations and staffed by 34 teachers who came out of retirement or are just begin ning teachers. There are 217 seniors and 288 juniors here plus 312 sophomores in a new Sunday school building of the Highland Methodist Churcn nearby. Thursday the students hold an election for president of the student body and other offices. The campaign posters are stuck on the walls with endorsements. Nowhere here is there any mention that these children's education has been crippled. Proud of Makeshift Schools W. C. Breshears, a former elementary school principal and a superintendent of schools in Texas, is the super intendent of . the private schools. He is justifiably proud of having made avail able education in Little Rock, and he points out what a tre mendous job it has been. PUBLIC SERVICE C M. Litwiller Mrs. Litwiller has served as lady assistant, organist and vocal ist for many years without added cost to our patrons. A substantial saving on every service and is appreciated by the many who call us. . LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chape' - Hwy, 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close in Loss Men thy's Senate scat. Wisconsin elected its first Democratic senator since the Republican calamity of 1932. Sen. William F. Knowland of California withheld sup port from Taft at the critical moment in the 1952 Republi can convention and look what happened to Knowland this month in California. Postmas ter General Arthur E. Sum merfield has survived, person ally, in the cabinet but the Republican organization Sum merfield helped create in Mi chigan has been obliterated since he helped turn Taft back six years ago. Sen. Edward J. Thye of Minnesota cast the deciding convention votes in 1952 which rejected Taft and nom inated Eisenhower. Minneso ta voters this month turned Thye out of the Senate. Quite a list! In it the old Taft-men find some comfort. "It was as if Little Rock had suffered a major -disaster," he said, "and that not only the buildings and labora tories and libraries all had been destroyed, but the entire teaching staff wiped out." -' For the 175 regular teach ers are under federal injunc tion not to teach in a private school. The desks, the chairs. the test tubes and bunsen burners, even the books, can not be made available to the children. Editorial Comment HAIL THE CHRISTMAS SEASON The Christmas buying sea son is here, beating th Thanksgiving turkey to the wire. At one time we might have resented the overlapping of the two holidays, but not any more. Christmas has become such a busy time that we've forgotten how to enjoy it. So many activities are con nected with Christmas nowa days that it is futile to try to cram them into one or two weeks. Churches have a spe cial choir concert and perhaps a pageant. The children ex pect to see the beaming faces of their parents at the school Christmas show. Special lodge and club meetings herald the holiday, to say nothing of private social events. Pile on top of this the an nual Christmas card ritual and the family reunions. The season begins to look more like a challenge than a festive occasion. The buying of presents and the preparation of Christmas cards are two things that can be done early to relieve the pressure. So it just makes good sense to get the Christmas shopping done early. Not only does the customer have a wider selec tion of merchandise but the salespeople have more time to offer service than they do in the frantic, final days. If we get our Christmas buying and mailing done early, we will have more time to think of "Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men" - the true holiday spirit-when the great day is upon us. We're Teady, Santa, any time you are.-Oregon States man. 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