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I 4 Th.rsoV, November 20, If 38 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEOFORD. ORE. "Tveryone la Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 3 Worth Fir St. Ph. SP 3-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor KERB GREY, Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business lift IRIC 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 lift An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year 8420. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Pboenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO, INC, Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPEt . PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION Ep3 NATIONAL EDITORIAL Iassocm 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 Mot. 20, 1948 (Saturday) The Philharmonic Society of Southern Oregon has pre sented its fall concert under the direction of Richard D. Werner. Four Medford fliers receive civilian pilots licenses. 20 YEARS AGO Not. 20, 1938 (Sunday) Medford's city council has awarded a $118,673.28 con tract to two Portland firms for reconstruction of the city's paved streets. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The youngin's have started looking for Santa Claus tracks, and being polite without provoca tion." 30 YEARS AGO Not. 20, 1928 (Tuesday) Home Products week, Med ford's buy-at-home campaign, is well under way with the enthusiastic support of prac tically all local merchants and manufacturers. The scoutmasters' training school for boy scout leaders holds its third session tonight. 40 YEARS AGO Not. 20. 1918 (Wednesday) Leopold Godowsky, world famous piano virtuoso, will give a recital here next week. Prof. F. C. Reimer,of the Southern Oregon Experimen tal station reports on new dis infectants to fight pear blight. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tea correct is superior; seven or eight js excellent; five oi sis is good. 1. A truffle is a short roll of drums, a decorative addi tion to a woman s hat, or an edible fungus. 2. The Panama Canal is ap proximately 25, SO, or 75 miles long? 3. Who was king of Israel when David slew Goliath with his sling? 4. Every two years, the en tire membership of the U.S. House of Representatives is elected; at the same interval is one-half, one-fourth or one- third of the Senate elected? 5. Which noted Union gen eral during the War between the States engaged in a fa mous march to the sea? o. lianas is a measure ment for denoting the shoul der height of horses; what oth er human anatomical term is used to denote the number of horses? 7. Which one of the New England States is nicknamed "Bay State"? 8. What is the plural form of the word criterion? 9. In Greek mythology, a centaur is half man and half .--? 10. What type of "grease denotes prolonged or hard ex ertion of the arms? Answers: 1. Edible fungus. 2. 50 miles. 3. Saul. 4. One third. 5. William Tecumseh Sherman. 6. Head. 7. Massa chusetts. 8. Criteria. 9. Half horse. 10. Elbow grease. Independence, Mo., home town of former President Harry S. Truman, was the starting point of both the Santa Fe Trail in 1831 and the Old Oregon Trail in 1843. Schools and "Delinquency 99 A pamphlet entitled 'Tour Community Should Count to 10" came to this desk some time ago. It was prepared by the advisory council of judges of the National Probation and Parole Association. " Its sub-title was "A Primer on Delinquency Control," and it listed 10 things each community should have or do in the fight against juvenile delinquency that rathar nebulous subject which has received so much attention in recent years. The preface said the booklet "is concerned primarily with services for children who have gotten into trouble in one way or another. As in the health field, early discovery and correct treat ment are major preventive measurers." THE ten community needs listed iwere these : l 1. A special police youth bureau. 2. A full-time juvenile court judge. 3. A good probation staff. 4. Psychiatric and psychological services for the juvenile court. 5. A detention home n o t a jail for children. ' 6. Shelter care for dependent and neglected children. 7. Foster homes for delinquent and neglected children. 8. Family service agencies. 9. Special facilities for mentally defective and disturbed children. 10. Training schools that really re-educate. 1XHILE these obviously are designed for cities of metropolitan size, it can be seen that Medford measures up rather well. It does not have all the 10 items listed, but it has a number of them, and as to the others, it has a start, or at least something approaching the recommenda tions. We would, however, quarrel with the pam phlet where it says that "early discovery and cor rect treatment are . . . preventive measures." Cor rection is not prevention. When correction be comes needed, it is too late for prevention. That must start far earlier. ' It is a matter of upbringing and training; of spotting antisocial tendencies before they can become serious, and of preventing their further development. THIS Qannot be done in juvenile court, or by the police, or by a probation staff, or any of the other 10 things mentioned in the judges' report. Where, then, can it be done? - It begins, of course, in the home, the family, the early surroundings, environment and training. If there is no control here, no sense of direction, no moral training, the youngster has two strikes against him to start with. But a "man's home is his castle," and society cannot, under ordinary circumstances, enter a home and enforce any havior or obedience or training. 1 THE churches are equipped, in most cases, to TirfHrilomnral froi'tiinrr T?nt rievo acruin fhnrfn or Sunday school attendance is dependent on family guidance and attitudes. And no church nor Sunday schoql can change , a child s course in life if not' supplemented, at the very least, by home environment. But isn't there somewhere where "society can step into the picture? some place, where it can ihe training, the guidance necessary to steer po ential delinquents into better courses? A citizens committee on juvenile delinquency in Portland, formed to vention (in addition to comes up with an obvious but reluctant answer: the schools. A SUMMARY of the in r.ovf r AAA U1 Wo "Some may disagree that the schools should have this responsibility, but where else in the community are so many of our children enrolled and observed. Churches, social agencies, and other groups can assist, both with program services for many children and specific treatment for some, but no other social insti tution sees so nearly all of the children, and sees them continuously, from the ages of 6 to 17 or 18 as is done in the school systems. Therefore, the committee con cluded that a great increase was needed in the social service program of the schools and that there is need for recognition by citizens, taxpayers, and educators that classroom teachers and the school system have a great role to play in the prevention of delinquency and maladjusted behavior in children." Objections immediately come to mind. Schools are for educating, not for providing so cial services. Teachers out being part-time social workers. The schools are already overburdened with functions only distantly related to education as such, and should not be asked to do more. GRANTING the validity of these objections, the logic is still inescapable: Where- else is there? And good teachers have constituted themselves as advisors, coun- senors, and even disciplinarians, m areas outside their regular classroom assignments. - Ideally, the schools should not be social-work agencies. But what else social institution do we so ideally to serve as a were, and at the very for youngsters who seem way: for, n mere is to begin when prevention me ponce and courts are called upon for a cor rective. E. A. outside sanctions on be Isn't there some point, provide the sanctions, study delinquency pre correction or treatment), committee's report states, have enough to do with , already in many cases is there? What other have which is situated "warning system," as it least as an initial contact to be going the wrong be "prevention," it must is possible not when Dennis the Matter of Fact KHARTOUM FROM AMMAN Amman, Jordan Thus far, the outlines of the coup d'etat in Khartoum are extremely blurry from this distance. As these words are written, no one really knows whose in terests will be served by the change in the Sudanese gov ernment, although the local bettors are backing Gam al Abdel Nas ser. Although so much is still u n clear, however, cer tain things are very clear indeed. It is clear, above 4ospb Aisop ail, mat the troubled Middle East has again entered a period of acute crisis. It now seems clear, too, that the Syrian Egyptian attempt to kidnap and-or kill young King Hus sein of Jordan was the first act in this crisis-but a first act that by no means followed the script written for it. The reasons behind these conclusions have nothing to do with the events in the Sudan. They have to do, ra ther, with the same situation left behind by the coup d'etat in Baghdad, the landing of the American and British troops in Lebanon and Jor dan, and the compromise set tlement in the Lebanon. The essential point to bear in mind about this situation is that, on balance, and at least for the time being, everybody lost except the Kremlin. rpHE Western loss was too A obvious to need underlin ing. In Iraq, in the second most important nation in the Arab world, a strongly pro Western government was re placed by a government dom inated by the West's enemies. In the Lebanon, another strongly pro-Western govern ment was replaced by a gov ernment that is carefully neu tral. Despite the unimpaired survival of King Hussein's government here in Jordan, the net setback to the West and to the West's Arab friends was really appallingly heavy. Gamal Abdel Nasser's loss was much less obvious than the West's loss. Yet this loss by Nasser was perhaps the most important result of the long crisis-period. For Nasser, the post-crisis balance sheet may be itemized as follows: First, another attempt by Nasser's friends in Jordan, to. convert King Hussein's government simultaneously with the coup d etat in Bagh dad, was sternly stopped be fore it got started. Second, Nasser failed to se cure the installation of the puppet government in Beirut, which he had every reason to expect and count on. In order to get the American Marines out without further trouble, Try and -By BENNETT CERF- THE HOTEL MANAGER told suspicious looking character him carefully." When the house dick re turned, the manager in quired, "Find any of our towels in his suitcase?" "No," said the detective, "but I found a chambermaid in his grip." In Hollywood, Leo Guild asked Edward Everett Hor ton what he thought of pay TV. "Great!" said Horton. "I told you some day -we'd get paid to watch TV'" A friend of A. Armed boasts that he's dating a girl who's the closest thing to Abbe Lane: she looks like Xavier Cugat Mike Connolly defines debt as "semething you get into If you Spend as much as you tell your friends you earn." 1 O UttV ay ImsttCsrt CUMbuUd by Kjax Tuturu lyadkaU. Menace Bv Joseph Alsop the American authorities had positively approved the in stallation of a Lebanese gov ernment entirely composed of Nasserites. But the Christian Lebanese staged their coun- terstrike, and thus they upset this alleged "compromise," and forced the selection of a truly neutral government. Third, and most significant, Nasser's apparent victory in Baghdad turned out to be thoroughly hollow. When the Baghdad coup d'etat was stag ed, there is no doubt at all that Cairo believed the coup was a most glittering triumph. So it looked to the whole world. But in order to be a triumph, the Baghdad coup had to produce a government entirely pliant to Nasser's or ders; and this it altogether failed to do. SO FAR as one can judge from this rlistanpp Nas ser's error resulted from a miscalculation of the strength of his agent and underground net in Iraq. In the outcome, the leader of the Baghdad coup d'etat, Brig. Gen. Karim Kassem, turned out to want to rule over an independent Iraq instead of an Iraq made into an Egyptian province. In addition, the Communist agents and underground net turned out to be at least as strong as . the Nasserite net, if not rather stronger. And the Communists strongly sup ported Gen. Kassem's inde pendent policy. ,' For Nasser, ' Iraq's contin uing independence under Kas sem was almost as serious a loss as the Western loss of friends in Baghdad. While King Faisal, the crown prince of Iraq and the aging Nuri Pasha still ruled Iraq, these Western friends made ideal targets for Nasser's propagan da. The notion that Nuri Pasha's Baghdad could act as another magnetic pole in the Arab world was sheerly non sene. Unless Nuri's govern ment could be replaced by a true-blue Nasserite regime, it was better for Nasser to keep these ideal targets in power. In the outcome, however, the ideal targets were effaced by an independent, revolu tionary regime, strongly sup ported by the Iraqi Commun ists and quite capable of act ing as another magnetic pole for the Arabs. It happened, furthermore, when Nasser's rule in Syria .was running into fairly serious and visible trouble. IN SYRIA, the ambitious ( Nasserite program of land reform had to be put off to another season. The merchant and landlord classes are in creasingly discontented. And there are signs of disagree ment between Nasser and Ak- ram Hourani, the man who made Syria into a province of Egypt. Other signs suggest Stop Me a house detective, "There's a Jn Room 716; better check on H-20 Today By Walter Lippmann THIS YEAR'S ELECTIONS It is rather late to begin talking about our elections but it is also a big advantage to wait and b e able to read what others have written. Having been in Russia and JsvTvl off from all l H I Jl news of the campaign dur ing the clos ing Deriod. it has been impressive and re freshing to come home to read the acumulated cliDDines. The fact that there had been an election at all was curiously impressive. The fact that it was freely and fully reported in the press was refreshing. Another reason for writinc about the elections at this late date is that, almost certainly, we snail long be talking about them. For there is not much doubt that the election returns announced the passing of one political generation and the arrival of another. For the most part the men who rose to political power as the result of the second World War have been defeated or they are retiring. The elections played havoc with the Repub licans who were elected in 1946, in the first popular re action to the miseries and the frustrations of the war. The class of 1946, Knowland, Bricker, Jenner, Malone, the class which included the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wis consin, has been pushed aside. Among the Democrats a sim ilar tning happened in the de feat of Gov. Harriman in New York and of Gov. McFarland in Arizona. By and large the new men elected have made their way up since the war and they are only now ready for the leading places. - POLITICS is a very inexact ' science. But there js a rule which usually works. It is that about 15 years after the end of a big war, there occurs a big political change marked by the passing of the war gener ation and the advent of the generation which had no re sponsibility for, even though it participated in, the war. Thus 15 years after the first World War, in 1933, Hitler came to power in Germany and Roosevelt in this country. Two years earlier Japan in augurated m Manchuria that series of military aggressions which marked the end of the settlement of the first World War and led up to the second World War. The 15-year rule can be seen at work after our Civil War and after the Na poleonic wars at the begin ning of the 19th century. There is no mystery or mag ic about the 15-year rule. It is founded in the fact that about 15 years after a war ends the leaders and commanders are no longer in their prime while the young men who did the fighting, when they were in their 20's, have matured. Tr- IS NOW 13 years since the end of the second World War, and in the Presidential election of 1960 it will be 15 years. It is plain that we are living in the transition be tween the political genera tions. It is plain also that with' this change of men there is a change in the political cli mate. All the analyses I have seen disagreement between Hour ani and his former partner in the Syrian Army, Col. Abdel Hamid Serraj. And the theo retically - outlawed Syrian Communist party led by Ah alid Baqdash has been mak ing important progress, in step with the Communists of Iraq. Because of the situation in Iraq and Syria, the Nasser bandwagon was slowing down rather dangerously. Hence, the attempt to kidnap or kill King Hussein, which failed so ignominiously. If it also turns out that the new lead ers of the Sudan still want real independence for their country, Nasser's prospects will be very badly imjJaired -without any comparable im provement in the West's pros pects, it must be added. But, if the Sudanese coup adds to Egypt the one prov ince that Egypt wants most, then the Nasser bandwagon will again be rolling down the road at a good clip. (C) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. -L Walter Unntnanw TlvfiVLLflqe DAIRY-SMITH East Main St. ORDER YOUR SAVAGE TURKEY NOW! CALL SP I.I I & Tomorrow agree that as between the two partiei there was no outstand ing and clear-cut national is sue. But in both parties the winners were men who gave the effect of looking forward into the future, of looking be yond the era of the World War and its aftermath, and of being alert to the needs of the day which have been put off and neglected. I suspect that this is true even of Sen. Gold water of Arizona, who is not a conservative but a reaction ary. He may well be a vigor ous portent of some of the things to come. ' A GAINST this background that of a generation which is passing and of a political cli mate that is changing ' one must, I think, read what the President said at his press con ference on the Wednesday morning after election day. He made no attempt to hide the fact that he was a sad and bewildered man. "The United States did give me, after all, a majority of I think well over 9,000,000 votes. Now here, only two years later, there is a complete reversal; and yet I do not see where there is anything that these people consciously want the Administration to do differ ently." The answer, as it appeared in the election returns, is that a decisive majority of the peo ple want the government, not merely administration, but aU government, national and state to come alive and to be alert and to show vigor, and not to keep mouthing the same old slogans, and not to dawdle along in the same old ruts. When they are told by the President himself on the day after election that the par amount task before the coun try is to spend less money, rather than to master its great problems, the people know that the President has lost touch with them, and with their problems, and is living in the past. 17ICE PRESIDENT NIXON is ' in a difficult position. In age, he belongs to the genera tion that is rising to power. But politically, he belongs to the wrong generation. He is irretrievably committed to the politicians who are receding and are passing out of power. While he is not a man 'of, deep and abiding principle and can shift his position, it is not easy to see how he can now remake the public image of himself. For he would have, on the one hand, to retain the devotion of the old guard and, on the other, he would have to talk the language of the en lightened progressives, (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Drain To Enter Wagon in Trek Portland (DPD The town of Drain in northern Douglas county has entered a covered wagon to take part in a trek next year from Missouri to Oregon. The wagon train idea is to promote the Oregon Centen nial. The Centennial commission said Robert Roudebaugh, Drain logger, had given the $1650 needed for the wagon. Roudebaugh, his wife and their 11-year-old daughter will ride in the wagon. Plans call for a covered wa gon caravan to leave Indepen dence, Mo., next April 15 and reach Independence, Ore., 100 days later-following as close ly as possible the old Orgeon Trail. Wagons are being built at Cottage Grove and will be shipped to Missouri on flat cars. SOC Registrar Attends Pacific Coast Meeting Ashland - Mrs. Mabel W. Winston, Southern Oregon college registrar and dean of women, attended the annual conference of the Pacific Coast . Association of Colle giate ' Registrars and Admis sions Officers in Long Beach, Calif., recently. High points at the confer ence were workshops on such problems as honors programs, advanced placement, advanc ed standing, early admissions, early acceptance and others of common interest to regis trars and admissions officers. -L f Gsaesise 3-4379 I I I Little Rock Faces Continued Closure Of Public Schools By JACK V. FOX UPI Correspondent Little Rock, Ark. -(DPD- The temper of this city right now is such that it will keep its public high schools shut in definitely rather than inte grate white and Negro chil dren. The label "moderate" is the kiss of death for a politician in Arkansas today. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer- t 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. Will Try Again To the Editor: The Oregon Committee to Repeal the Death Penalty and the Oregon Prison Association are grate ful for the large measure of public support which the cam paign against the death penal ty received. The press, in par ticular, gave the issue such full coverage, both in news and in editorial columns, that we feel a strong urge to say "thank you." The fact that only five newspapers in the whole state were in favor of keeping the penalty looms large in our thinking. That we lost is naturally dis appointing. The close margin encourages us to try again You may remember the 1912 defeat and the 1914 victory, We believe that there were enough confused voters to ac count for the small majority against us. We are, in fact, quite will- ing to predict that the 1959 legislature will lay the issue before the people again and that two years from now cap ital punishment will be abol ished in Oregon. With your help the prediction can be come reality. Brock Dixon, Chairman, Oregon Com mittee to Repeal the Death Penalty. Claire A. Argow, Executive Director of Oregon Prison Assn. Oregon Publicity To the Editor: As the say ing goes, ' trying to be '. "the firstest with the mostest," would explain how I exposed my ignorance about . news papers. I wrote the end of October such a long descrip tion of Oregon s scenery and aDout ine Medford area in particular in conjunction with the Oregon Centennial News to my home town newspaper (the Walsh County Record at Grafton, N.D.) The editor, Mr, W. E. Balkee, said I spoke like a Chamber of Commerce and if he put all I said about the beauty of Medford in the paper he'd have to charge ad vertising rates. However, he was very gen erous in what he did publish. and wound up saying it sound ed so good, they had about decided to vacation in Oregon next summer. And here is where my igno rance was bliss. Several have written me from back there saying coming to Oregon was their plan for next summer. One couple from St Paul, Minn., plan on staying all summer in Oregon. They love to fish and have a new trailer. They plan on seeiiig .the Rogue River Valley. I truly Acreu from HANK MORGAN . HAROID DAY OR NIGHT . " ' ; . V J ' " V'j ; Gov. Orval Faubus was never riding higher. He un questionably has the support of a vast majority in defying the courts and the federal gov ernment. Little Rock has the sense that it is fighting the segregation battle for the en- tire South. And there is a definite fear on the part of those who do not agree with Faubus to speak their mind. These are the main impres sions an outsider gets In Lit tle Rock today. The fmal mark of the dom inance of those who will not accept the Supreme Court ruling as . the "law of the land came just last week when the Little Rock School Board resigned. The board and Superintend ent of Schools Virgil T. Blos som had been caught In the middle of stern federal orders to let Negroes in the high schools and Faubus' equally firm refusal. The board had thought that the shutdown of this city's high schools would bring a groundswell of public demand that some way be found to open them. No such swell ever came and board chairman Wayne Upton said he and his colleagues faced "utter hope lessness, helplessness and frus tration." There is rather faint but growing resistance now on the part of a group calling it- sell the Woman s Emergency Committee to Open The Schools, which has increased its membership from 200 to 750 in the last week. One of its organizers is Mrs. Byron House Jr., a woman in her early 30's with four small children. It has no answer to the integration dilemma but just wants the schools re opened. "Dozens of women are afraid to join though they want to," she ' says. . "Some gave me their dollar member ship fee but refused to be list ed as a member, go to meet ings or get pamphlets through the mail. "They are mainly afraid of jeopardizing their husband's job or business." believe the city of Medford should send Mr. Balkee a prize box of pears, and force him to mention his Thanks giving pears from Medford, Ore. How about it? He de serves them, and it would look good in the N.D. news paper. Emma Lou Carpenter, 811 Sherman st Medford. - Education Questions . To the Editor: Is it not time for the United States of Am eric? to stop living1 in a dream world and start a program to educate her youth to the full est extent possible? . -Why are veterans allowed only three years after -discharge to initiate their train ing? Why are students with ability not encouraged to at tend our institutions of high er learning, or do they exist only for those who can af ford them? Are we to sit idly by and watch the Soviet Un ion educate, yes, actually pay her students to attend col lege, while we do nothing? Some one is going to say that I'm a socialist, but now is the time for the people to act if we are to survive. Stanley Snook 3286 Snowy Butte rd. Medford tlx Courthouse SNOOGRASS, FUNERAL DttfCOtS PHONE SP 2-0M
