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I 4 Thursday, December 11, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDTBBUKE "Everyone tn Southern Oregufl Read The Mail Tribune" , Published Daily except Saturday by 4 MEDFORD PRINTING CO. J 33 North Fr St. Ph. SP 2-6141 i ROBERT W RCHL, Editor 7 HERB GREY. Advertising Manager , GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr I ERIC W ALLEN JR.. ! Maaaeine Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor . RICHARD JEWETT SDorts Editor : OLIVE STARCHER. Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr I An Independent Newsoaper a Entered as second class matter at Uetuord Oregon under Act ot - March 3. 18S7 SUBSCRIPTION BATES ! B Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 J Sunday Only One year $450. Bv Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland. Central Point. Z a g 1 e 7 Point. Jacksonville. Gold HiU. Pnoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv- T er. Talent, and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 ; Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 I Carrier and Dealers c opt 10c All Terms Cash In Advance orrt.-lal Paper of City of Medford Official Paper or Jaclison county United Press International FuP Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION AdverHsine 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. . NEWS PA Fit PUKUSHEIS j ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCHTI0N 7 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 Dec. 11. 1948 (Saturday) , Prof. F. C. Reimer is ' awarded the much coveted Marshall T. Wilder medal in pomology. Downtown building owners are asked for permission to string Christmas decorations from their buildings in order to properly receive Santa Claus. i 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 11. 1938 (Sunday) The Medford 20-30 club ! undertakes a fingerprinting 1 project. From Arthur Perry's "Ye . Smudge Pot" column: "Nippy weather Sat. brought out new fur coats by the womenfolks, and last year's wool socks by ; the menfolks." I 30 YEARS "AGO ' Dec. 11. 1928 (Tuesday) The Retail Merchants asso- " ciation declares war- on ped- t dlers. t Residents of the Dead In- dian district prepare a peti- ' tion asking for a county road. ( 40 YEARS AGO Sec. 11. 1918 (Wednesday) An Army aviator is visible ; ever Eagle Point again, his I plane reportedly . appearing I "about the size of a chicken t hawk." Red Cross workers take a well-earned day's rest from the making of flu masks. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct it superior; seven or eight is excellent; five er sis is good. ; 1. What river do the Cat- i skill mountains overlook? I 2. A "laughing jackass" is a ; fish, a bird, or a mammal? 3. Paul Revere was a silver- : smith; true or false? I 4. What is the derivation of J the state name Dakota? ! 5. The famed Folger Shake- ! speare library, is located in ; wnioi vj.o. city ; . - - - - 6. With what colony was I Roger Williams connected? 7. Name the capital of I Northern Ireland. t 8. Of 'what is an' olive J branch a symbol? I 9. Is the diameter of the moon about 2,100, 5,100, or 10,100 miles? t , 10. Which character in Shakespeare speaks the lines: "To be or not to be, that is the question ? . : Answers: 1. Hudson. 2. Bird. '. 3. True. 4. Indian tribal name, ' 5. Washington, D.C. 6. Rhode - Island. 7. Belfast. 8. Peace, ' or amity. 9. 2.100 miles. I 10. Hamlet. ; SENTENCED . . Bonn -l?D- Robert Schneid- er, former chief psychologist ' of West Germany's armed - forces, was sentenced to three . years and ten months in pris on Wednesday. He was found guilty of forgery and fraud . in representing himself as a ; I doctor of psychology, psychi- atry and medicine. Schneider, 38, spent nearly two years in " jail awaiting trial and this :time will be deducted from Hard Winters &Palm Trees The Bend Bulletin speculates as to whether this is going to be an especially, hard winter. The central Oregon newspaper takes note; of some unnamed local prognosticators who are pre dicting the 1958-59 winter, will be a ;tough one, weatherwise. They base their predictions on the law of averages citing the fact that Oregon is long overdue for a hard winter, that the last one, the "winter of the blue snow." was some 40 years ago. Snow was 48 inches deep on Bend streets then, they recall, traffic stalled on roads, and tunnels were dug from houses to woodsheds. -. yHE Bend editorial writer also recalls that the winter of 1883-84 was another tough one, with stock dying on the ranges, and ranchers dig ging tunnels under the drifts between house, barn and haystack. The editor has his doubts about a recurrence. And even if it proves out, he declares that modern snow-removal methods and other appurtances of modern civilization will take the hardship out of it. - - Further 'south, in Klamath Falls, Herald and News Managing Editor Bill Jenkins is convinced that the time of hard winters is passing, and that Oregon is turning into a Banana Belt. For the past couple of years, he points out, it's been diffi cult to get decently chilled while sitting in a duck blind. , - - . DE THAT as it may, our worries in the Rogue valley are not those of the high desert coun try shared by Bend and Klamath Falls. " , We seldom have fenough jsnowto cause more than temporary inconvenience,' and if Jenkins and some rather .more., scientific, observers re correct about the climate er, we 11 have few if any except, probably, the Indeed, the chief complaint of some winter sports enthusiasts even some distance to find decent sport. CPEAKING of the Rogue Valley Banana Belt, it is interesting to note that a few palm trees are growing in this area. A Sacramento man, in a letter to the Salem Capital Journal, takes note of a recent editorial in that paper which makes trees grow m Oregon. ; He says : "For many years there have been quite a. few palms growing in the Medford-Granla Pass area in Southern -Oregon. In fact the first palm; set out there .was. at - Jacksonville in 1871 . He also cites others in the state, including, he says, a couple on the Capitol grounds in Salem. .'" - pOUNTY Horticulturalist Cliff Cordy reports Vr. there are a few palms in Medford and Ash land, and we've also seen them in the Coos Bay area. A former resident of Ashland says he re members a few there which succumbed to a cold winter some years ago. Jacksonville. All of which proves have a generally wonderful climate, that the weather is an ever-intriguing topic of conversa tion' and speculation, and. that the only way .to determine u ine cnmaie waitandsee. E.A. Thermoelectricity Long-neglected discoveries in the actions of electric current are beiner studied these davs. and ultimately may well produce practicable thermo electric devices. v-;;. ' r - '" Thermoelectricity is a phenomenon of certain semi-conductors which converts heat directlv into electric current without moving parts and without the loss involved in using a steam-activated gen erator. It also will use electric, current directly, without the use of special gases, to remove heat in other words, to refrigerate; . , POTENTIAL practical.- applications of - these principles are widespread, and some manu facturers are already looking to the day v that simple, low - powered and mobile contrivances can be operated electrically from, sayr a kerosene lantern, or that containers can be devised to either heat or chill foods, at the turn of a dial. These are still in the futurer but at present development rates, they could actually .be on the market within a few years. 4 Most of the recent studies of thermoelectricity have been done in Russia, and progress in the field is described by Soviet .physicist Abram F. Joffe in a recent issue pfjthfi Scientific Ameri can.. ' ; ; , EFFICIENCY of the devices so far i$lo4, about 10 per cent but that will be improved, and the fact that they are relatively inexpensive, that they have no moving parts, and are lightweight and mobile, makes them almost immediately practicable, particularly in isolated areas where electricification has not yet reached. ' Joffe says: . ' , r : "Many citizens of the U.S.S.R. now make electricity to power their radios simply by lighting a small kero sene lamp. The lamp is part of a small electrical gen erator which' has no moving parts. It converts heat . directly into electricity and could use a wood fire or the concentrated rays of the sun as readily as the heat of the lamp. Russian citizens are soon to be furnished -.with a refrigerator which utilizes the same principle to produce the opposite effect . . ." He also predicts that thermoelectricity, virtu ally ignored for 100 years, is now "unfolding be fore our eyes. Let us see what will happen in the changing for the warm winter weather- worries fog. now is that one must go enough snow, to make the claim that no palm '3 - We don't know of- any in nothing except that we reany is cnangmg is 10 .;w t ir i. Dennis the Menace Today & Tomorrow By Walter lippmann BEFORE CONGRESS MEETS Since the elections, the same issue,-though in different forms, has risen in both of the two parties. It is the peren nial and fun damental is tu e of who shall predom inate Con gr eisional leaders or the leaders who ronniin -thn Walter Ii. o I' I Lippmann the State Houses and the parties in the big pivotal states. The politi cal interests of the two sorts of politicians are not identical, and personal, interests play a very big part in political alignments. Owing to the rule of senior ity and the one-party system in the Southern states and in some Northern states, . the prime interest of the Congres sional leaders is to hold their places in Congress, If possible, they would,, of course, like to control Congress. But in any event their main object must be to keep their own seats. Winning the Presidency and with it the big pivotal states is for the senior Congression al leaders, not a paramount and vital interest. r - On the other hand, in the pivotal states the Governors and the candidates for the Sen ate and the House J have a prime interest in winning the Presidential election. It can happen, as -in New York this year, that a state election runs contrary to the tide of the na tional elections. But that is the exception rather than the rule. pi 'THE Democratic " party, .the conflict-of, interest is centered on the rules of Con gress, on the right to filibuster in the Senate and in the House 6n the ability of the commit tees, especially the Rules Com mittee, to suffocate legislation which, if it came to a vote, might command a majority. The Congressional leaders have more power if the rules restrain the majorities which might otherwise prevail, not only on questions of civil rights but also on welfare measures. " - -. ' ." The leaders who are based on the states want to loosen CAN YOU SPARE A BUCK FOR THE BARD? One of the. West's great cul tural landmarks (and tourist attractions) is in trouble.' ' The Shakespearean theater in Ashland, Ore., has been torn down, condemned as a fire hazard. And if the Shake spearean plays that have de lighted thousands of visitors every summer are to continue, it will be necessary to raise $275,000. Many people from the Shast a-Trinity-Siskiyou area have enjoyed Ashland's spirited productions of ' the bard's works and may want to help preserve this fine in stitution. , (We even have a selfish in terest, since the Shakespear ean festival each August gen erates some tourist travel that comes through, bur re gion. Also our own ' Bridge Bay theater with:its summer stock company forms, the. mid point in a cultural tour which includes - Shakespeare on the northern end and the Music Circus in Sacramento on the other.) . , , ... . ... . . , Ashland, with only 8,800 population, is striving might ily to raise its share of the money, but it will need help. ; If you're inclined to take part, your check can be made out to Oregon Shakespeare Festival building fund com mittee and mailed to "Shake speare, Ashland, Ore." Red ding (Calif.) Record-Search- the rules in order to win the votes of the big urban and suburban masses in the pivot al states. They are interested in the White House and in the candidate for President, and the national leaders of the parties work with them.' THE same , conflict exists in the Republican Party, and it takes the form of an issue between the '"savers" and the "spenders." Broadly speaking, the spenders compriseithe Re publicans who hope to carry their own states and to elect another Republican President. They are strongly disposed to rally to Mr. RockefeUer. The savers - have their present champipn in President Eisen hower though on the record he is no saver as compared with former Secretary Hum phrey. Mr.Nixon is in a quan dary. He knows that the next President is almost certain to be cast in the image of a pro gressive spender. He himself is deeply involved with the professional-; politicians who are known as unprogressive. Although the conflict can be described in terms of spenders and savers, it would be misleading, I think, to sup pose that, as between Rocke feller and Nixon for example, the issue is between the Left and the Right. Even how, there are already signs that a movement is building up be hind Rockefeller which is es sentially .like that which brought about the nomination of Willkie, Dewey, and Eisen hower, and defeated Taft who was the great representative of the Congressional Republi cans. A movement of this kind gets its momentum from very powerful corporations and fi nancial institutions centered in the big cities of the pivotal states. It is a movement de signed elect, not merely to nominate, a Republican. We shall be hearing a lot more of it. - ' ' ' WHAT goes on in the coming ' session of Congress will, of course, deeply affect each of the two parties. If the Eisen hower budget and his legisla tive program are vulnerable on the question of defense and if they look reactionary to the mass of the people in the piv otal states, Mr. Nixon's quan dary will become even more acute. Mr. Rockefeller's posi tion will grow stronger, . On the Democratic side an inert Eisenhower budget may well precipitate a serious con flict between the national pol iticians and the established Congressional leaders. For there will be a majority in the Congress who, as a reaction against the Eisenhower ad ministration, will be greatly tempted to try to govern this country, .irom the - floor of Congrles. The problem of Speaker Rayburn and of Sen. Johnson is to -distinguish between the evil of Congressional govern ment with its wild majority, and the evil of standpatism, which is quite out of date in these times. -- (c) 1951 New York Herald " Tribune Inc. - Bid Invitation on John Day Dam Issued Walla Walla (DPD Army engineers- said .today invita tions to bid on initial excava tion for John Day dam navi gation ; lock 'and approach channel have been issued. In vitations also were issued for the north shore abutment em bankment of the dam. Work will include construc tion of a permanent railway embankment on the north shore. Bids will be opened Russian Rocket Pads Ring High Tibetan Mountains; Give Missiles Blast-Off Aid Editor's note: Denald wis of the London Dally Express has spent some time en the border of Tibet Interviewing traveler and businessmen from that re mote kingdom. In the following dispatch he report on Soviet military activities In Tibet. By DONALD WISE London Daily Express Staff Reporter -Distributed by UPI On the Tibetan Border-flJPD -A quarter of a million Chi nese, working under the "di rection of Russian rocket ex perts, are carpeting the roof Matter of Fact By wh ai,p NASSER AT THE CROSSROADS Cairo-"Now is the time to normalize relations between mv country and the Unit ed States, be t w e e n the United Ar.ab Republic and the Western powers." This remark by the P r e s ident of the UJlJL. is decidedly not a headline maker in Ga- 4ospb Alsop mal Abdel Nasser's old,' flam boyant style. Yet it implies, it almost admits, a deep change in Nasser's situation. Formerlv. Nasser had no de sire at all to "normalize rela tions." All his energies were mobilized to do rftle against the West, until the old Middle Eastern: policy of -the. West was finally decisively defeat ed by the coup d'etat in Baghdad. The West's defeat is only half the difference, moreover. Just before President Nasser received me. Cairo eot the erim news that stoutiv inde oendent Chief of the Iraqi Police, Tahir Yahya, had been abruptly replaced by a pro Communist. At a stroke, in fact, the Communists' chances of success in their drive for full, power in Iraq had been increased from somewhat less than even to much better than even. FACED in this manner with a new, unexpected and menacing foreign intrusion into the,. Arab lands, from which he has so often vowed to expel all : "foreign inter ference," Gamal Abdel Nasser today stands at acrossroads. The simple, otherwise unim portant fact that he received me at all meant that he felt the great change in his situa tion; for he has seen only one other American reporter in much more than a year, and until recently he was saying that he , would never : do it again. He wants "normaliza tion" because he knows that he stands at a crossroads, and he wants room for maneuver and calm choice. It must be very bitter to him that the West's defeat in Iraq has not also been his own great triumph. After all, the flame of nationalism that Nasser has lit among the Arabs was the real cause of the fall of the old Iraqi regime- But he was not bitter or excited or oratorical in his old manner. He seemed only a little thinner, a little greyer, and a great deal .more coolly analytical than when I last saw him, in the same small, document-littered study of his unpretentious Cairn house, where he does much of his day to day work. PRECISELY because he stands at a crossroads, with a great choice remorselessly, almost unavoidably looming ahead, he did not j?f ve a great deal that was endUiously sig nificant to say for the record in the course of a talk that lasted more than two hours. He seemed to have wanted to make the gesture, so to say,. of seeing an American report er again, but to want, too, to avoid discussion of the hard realities of his new situation. Thus aU the first part 7 of the talk was given, first to complaint that.-, the Western press was "poisoning" rela tions between the West and the Arab lands, and second to a long but remarkably suc cinct and interesting review of his past relations with the West. At length, however, an opening occurred. It was pos sible to point out that the Kremlin, which had so strong Yes . iL. YOU Can- pun of the world in Tibet with the deadliest pattern of .mis sile launching pads facing the free- world. The two dozen or more pads stretch from the north eastern frontier of India op posite Bhutan along the. Hima layas to the Karakoram moun tain range against the Indian and Pakistani . frontiers of Kashmir. In terms of what the West already knows of the 6,000 mile Russian intercontinental ly supported Nasser against the West, had now radically changed its line, with the re sult that Arab nationalism now faced an attack from a wholly new quarter.- ' ttTHAT would he do about " it, he was asked. He paus ed as though to consider, and then spoke almost hesitantly: "Really it is not easy to be lieve that Iraq will finally line up against Arab nation alism. It is my hope that Iraq will always act as one of the Arab countries," supporting Arab nationalist ideas. In the meantime our policy is very simple-to wait and see the developments that events bring. . . -.' ; "We have to organize our actions, or there will be a bal ance that may destroy us. So inspite of the activities against Arab nationalism of the Com munists in Iraq, I cannot take the position that Iraq today is hostile to the Arab nation I said in my last speech that we shall support Iraq against any danger." - At this point, President Nas ser made a -curious gesture of frustration and remarked that although Jhere was no more important problem, it was not easy to discuss while he was still following a policy of wait-and-see. So the talk went off the records, into a remarkable analysis of the Iraqi coup d'etat and its con sequences to .the "Arab na tion." . , f ' m e e " OF THOSE things which were said, a few; may be noted without breach of pro priety..: For example, ; Presi dent Nasser spoke highly of Brig. Abdel Karim Kassem, although Kassem has been the rallying point for the Iraqi Communists; and he deplored the "foolishness" of Kassem's defeated rival, the advocate of union now with Egypt, Col. Abdel Salam Aref. Kassem had wanted and Aref had refused to constitute ayFree Officers committee, like that here in Egypt. President Nas ser said that the committee was the instrument of pre serving national unity and protecting the army against the pressure of the political parties in Egypt's crucial pe riod. He implied that if Aref had been wiser about this matter, events. in Iraq would have taken a different course. Again, in a singularly re vealing parenthesis of his ex position, President Nasser ex plained: that he made his own policy on the principles of military tactics, and strategy that he had learned in staff school.- The suggestion that one-of these principles was, "the offense is the. best de fense," made him laugh. But it was clear that the prin ciple he had currently in mind' was the strategic rule against fighting a war on two fronts, against both the .. So viets and the West in fact. : ' ':.' O THE general impression con veyed by this conversation was perhaps the most impor tant thing that can be record ed concerning it. In the first place, Gamal Abdel Nasser is under no illusions at aU about the meaning to him of the new Communist line in the Middle East. In truth, he regards the sudden Com munist attack on the Arab nationalist movement as more dangerous than the old West ern blocking effort. He wUl not be afraid to fight the Com munists, because of the aid he has received from the So viet Union. In fact one can predict an early beginning of the struggle in Nasser's own western province of Syria. : With regard to Iraq, how- Soon! it ballistic missile, H-bomb war heads could be fired off the Tibetan Plateau to hit ac curately anything in the world except maybe for parts of Africa and America. Altitude Makes Difference . What makes these launch ing pads so deadly is their altitude. Anywhere in this icy windswept area the Reds have a 15,000 to 20,000 foot start over the West at launch ing. What this means ia terms of added flight range of an ICBM is not accurately known. But it must certainly be prodigious since missile men's greatest"struggle is the initial surge off the pad and here the Reds wiU, blast off with a three mile start over anything lifting off, say, Cape Canaveral. The rocket pad building plan which is being pressed ahead at breakneck speed is the third stage of Red Chinese military planning in Tibet. The green light from Mos cow for technicians to come in with their know-how and missiles was given by Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, when he flew, to Peiping with an outsize military advisory group shortly before Mao Tse - tung's gunners started shelling Quemoy in August. Adjusted to Standards Mao's "liberators" started infiltrating into Tibet- early in the 1950's. They spoke the language, drank Tibetan tea with salt and yak butter in it. and dressed in Ions coats. high soft leather boots and round fur hats; Around 1954, with his fifth column of tobacco traders and teachers (all of them sol diers or political commissars) thoroughly spying out the land, the Red dictator sent his blue and khaki-clad sol diers scrambling up the wick ed passes and ravines from Langchow on to the Tibetan plateau. Led by the warlike Kampa tribe, Tibetans lost thousands of dead fighting their "libera tors" with British and Ger man weapons until the Dalai Llama,' living Buddha and ruler of Tibet, called a halt to all resistance. The only way of preserving his national entity was to go along with. Mao's plans and he knew it. Wanted Intermarriage As Czech trucks ground up roads, which engineers were blasting and building just ahead of them, with cheap gifts of textiles and alcohol to keep the liberated happy, Mao ordered his soldiers to intermarry with the Tibetans. Stage one of infiltration paved the way for stage two -absorption of. the local popu ever, Nasser has not yet made up his mind $out the. right course, even assuming that the worst happens in Bagh dad. On the one hand, the long fight with the West has left just as much aching scar tissue in Cairo as it has in London. On the other hand, there is the fear of the "war on two fronts." Unless Nasser's relations with the West can indeed be "normalized," and not Just on a temporary basis, he will cling for a long time to thel policy of wait-and-see. But Gamal Abdel Nasser still means what he has always said, the true Arab nation alist must oppose any kind of foreign interference in the Arab lands, from whatever source. Copyright ISSt. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Aa-sss tnm rtw Cwre IAM( MOtOAM HAtOU) SNOOCtAK. FUMtAi DMCTOM DAYQNGm j 3 lation and the erection of military bases. In New Delhi there is very worried Prime Minister Nehru. India's Himalayan frontier is impossible to defend for economic and financial rea sons. Nehru's defense is to win big-wig Chinese friends like Mao and influence Chi. nese people with the non- alignment theory that armies are a thing of the past. Meanwhile, the little fur hatted Chinese soldiers at In dia's borders are trotting over the passes and reducing the wispy no-man's-land of what was never a well-defined fron tier into merely yards in some places, a few miles in others. Communications Letter to the Editor mutt bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of pen nam or initial for publica tion ia permissible. The Mall Tribune reserve the right to edit all letter with an eve to I clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion tntut not exceed 400 word. The letter printed in this jolumn do not necessarily repre sent the view of the paper, in fact the contrary la often the case. Thinks Retirement Law Wrong To the Editor: Where is the wisdom of this age? We hire a man to run our schools. We pay him a salary down through the years. He was a good man when he started. Every year he got better. With every year's experience he be came more valuable to us. Now we suddenly discover that he will soon be 65 years old and that we cannot use him any more. . Somehow it Just doesn't seem right. I am speaklnc about Mr. H. P. Jewett. Who made the law that men had to retire from school teaching or administration work at the age of 65? What a silly law. Why can't it be repealed? Mr. Jewett is a better man now than he was five years ago or ten or twenty. The next ten years of his life should be the best. Why should the schools of School District 6 be deprived of his services? We think this law that re quires his retirement should be repealed and he 'should be allowed to continue in the work that he knows best. Carroll W. PoweU Box 621 ' ' Central Point, Ore. Irrigation District ; Discussed at Meeting Cave Junction Lee Mc Allister, engineer with the bureau of reclamation, told the board of directors of the Sucker Creek Irrigation dis trict recently that final plans for the district may not be prepared until after July 1, 1959. McAllister said the Sucker Creek work probably will re quire about five months to kcomplete, and the staff' now has a backlog of work. HELP US! We Noes Cleriilnf . SKeee, Dishes, Famirure. We Fick Vp. HELP OTHERS! Tke Salvation Army SPrint 3-7335 mONESF 2-8030 -"his sentence. " next three to five years, h. A. a Jan.-14. . . -