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4 FrMay, December 12. 1931 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oron, :medfoi lUNB "Everyone In Southern Oregufl Read The MaU Tribune- Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 3-8141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. IKH. W. ALLEN JR., Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT SnorU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'! Editor PALE EK1CKSON. Circulation Mgr An Indenendent NewsDSDer Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday o moi. o.uu Daily and Sunday 3 moi. 4.25 Sunday Only Ona year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers e o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Ful' 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. NEWSPAPEI k PUBLISHEtf "ASSOCIATION E2 NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCHTrtfN ZJ 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 Dee. 12. 1948 (Sunday) Santa's arrival js put off this time until Dec. 23, but street decorations and the community Christmas tree are going up now. The plight of a stranded family here points up the need for emergency housing. 20 YEARS AGO Dee. 12. 1938 (Monday) The county clerk's office reports the new application blanks have arrived and it is now back in the marriage li cense business. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The state legislature next month Is apt to be confronted with a law to curb all pernicious activities, other than more lawmaking." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 12, 1928 (Wednesday) The county court takes a collective dim view of road side garbage dumping. Medford is one of the west coast communities being con sidered as a dirigible site. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 12, 1918 (Thursday) A Medford man pleads guilty to violating the flu mask ordinance. Mayor Gates closes the Medford Business college to prevent spread of disease. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; seven er eight is excellent; five ei six is good. 1. A simple form of physi cal culture exercises is called a.... s? 2. What majority of each house of Congress is required to override a Presidential veto? 3. Give the line that fol lows the nursery rhyme, "A knife and a fork." 4. Which U.S. President later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? . 5. If an object is limpid, would that denote that it is flexible, or clear? 6. Gertrude Ederle, who was the first woman to swim the English Channel, per formed the feat In August of 1926, 1932, or 1936? 7. Which is the correct spelling embarrasment, embarassment, or embarrass ment? 8. The Greek legendary hero, Cecrops, was half man and half what else? 9. Was it on Dec. 7th, 1940, 41, or 42, that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor? 10. The Everglades Nation al Park is in Louisiana, Mis sissippi, or Florida? Answers: 1. Calisthenics. 2. Two-thirds. 3. "A bottle and a cork." 4. William How ard Taft. 5. Clear. 6. Au gust. 1926. 7. Embarrass ment. 8. Half dragon. 9. 1941. 10. Florida. INCOME REMAINS HIGH Madison, Tenn. -0IPD- Being In the Army hasn't affected the income of entertainer Elvis Presley very much. Tom Parker, the singer's manager, said Thursday that Elvis earn ed about $2 million in 1958- very close to the figure for 1957 when he was a civilian. Movies and records brought in the money. Parking- Now What? For the second time, Medford voters have de feated, an off-street parking program. . The defeat was not overwhelming, but it was sufficiently decisive to put the quietus on the plan proposed, in slightly differing forms, in Novem ber of 1956 and December of 1958. The only reason for attempting to assess the reasons for the defeatris to see if some workable plan can be devised which will meet with the approval of a majority of Medford residents. We still believe that most of them recognize the need, and that the two plans were defeated largely as a result of the way they were presented. piRST, the fact that a general obligation bond 1 issue was called for is, we believe, the decisive factor in the two defeats. Residents and taxpayers simply would not believe the assurances given them that the bonds would never become a bur den on their property. And, in line with exper ience of the past few years, thev voted down any thing; that smacked, correctlv or not. of taxes. Second, there were plan spelled out in considerable detail exactly who is going to pay exactly how much in exactly what way, where the- before they were willing to say "yes" with their votes. If these two objections r,re met, we think a parking measure would pass. TTHERE were other imponderables involved in , the measure's defeat. One woman called" to express her dismay at the congested condition of the polls, and the fact that in some instances voters had to wait for per iods ranging up to more than an hour., She said that some of her friends, who had planned to vote "yes," simply decided not to wait that long and go home. ' The weather cold, after 5 p.m. may have kept others away from the polls. And a final imponderable is the fact that there has been little sense or urgency about off-street parking, similar to the urgency of voting for, say, a badly needed new school, or sewer system, or something which is of direct and observable bene fit. HTHERE was a time when municipal sewers, or streets, or street lighting, or parks, or recrea tional facilities were not thought to be a proper function of cities. As time passed, people came to the realiza tion that muncipal action on these problems was the only realistic way to solve them, and the necessary authority was granted to the cities. Universal recognition of the fact that park ing is coming to be a problem in the same cate gory, needing municipal action, is just as slow coming as was the earlier recognition of other functions which now universally belong to cities. It is coming but it is coming slowly. MOW THAT the people have spoken, we be lieve it is up to the merchants and the city council to follow, the permissive features of the 1957 off-street parking ment district, to spell out in detail what their program will be, and then to the people to ask their Ti ll.l it seems oovious uiat tne. voters win reject, any plan which obligates the city generally. For this reason the financing should be explained in specific detail, and there should be an under standing that no general levy would become pos sible. We can understand the disappointment of those who have worked so long and so hard to work out a practicable plan. But they should not let this disappoint discourage them. Some day Medford will have a parking pro gram. It is now up to the city, and the merchants and property-owners who will benefit, to work one out which will be acceptable to the voters of the city. And it may be that an entirely new approach is needed. E.A. Cycling Revival The Eugene Register-Guard, its nose tilted slightly in the air, notes patronizingly but approve ingly that students, at Oregon State college in Corvallis have "discovered" the bicycle. The Guard's editorial .writer, presumably a vigorous, outdoor type, long been iashionable on Eastern campuses, but that the sturdy Western students have thought of them as nothing but kid stuff. Now, however, he finds the Beavers' new discovery salutary, and commends the practice to students on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene. , , HE SAYS, for instance : "OSC students who bicycle through Corvallis streets will discover, at their slower pace, what they are sojourning in a pleasant as well as a sleepy little town. They'll make friends with village dogs and with one another." (We can hardly wait to see the rejoinder from terrible-tempered Bob Ingalls, editor of the Cor vallis Gazette-Times, after this, for the long slumbering rivalry between the two towns and the two papers has iiarea up again in recent months). But the fact remains that bicycling IS a healthful and inexpensive and pleasant means of transportation, and we'd all be better off if we tried it, students and adults alike. As it is, it seems as though everyone in Med ford, except elementary and junior high school students and Shoe Repairman Wilbur Gardner, has forgotten how to get anywhere except by automobile. E.A. many who wanted the lots would be, and so on damp, foggy and dark law, to set up an assess to go back, once again, approval. L 111 notes that bicycles have Dennis the Menace A SggAT SIS FENCS 7fAS WHAl mNT VVK tHKISTvlASf ' Washington Report By William MODERATE MANSFIELD Washington - The Far West has a new leader in the Senate and in the highest foreign policy coun cils of the United States, Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana. Cur iously, he has not sought out the honor; ac tually, it has come and tug William S Ulhll. ECU ly at his sleeve. Indeed, upon the life and times of Mike Mansfield there hangs a tale that might be called paradox triumphant. Nothing about him follows the familiar scripts. For he has come to great power al most against his will. He has been returned to the Senate with the greatest vic tory at the polls scored by any Senator in a two-party state m the country - 76.3 per cent of the total vote This was a more decisive re election score even than those of two much more pub licized Senators - John F, Kennedy of Massachusetts, 73.5 per cent, and Stuart Symington of Missouri, 66.1 per cent. " Any one of these figures may speak loudest of all. NEVERTHELESS, he has tics commonly regarded as standard to politicians. He is very quiet and shy, rather than cheerfully aggressive TT j i - ne is studious ana even a little bookish, rather than hearty and backslapping. He speaks briefly and infrequent ly, rather than long and often, sometimes ne is unsure about what ought to be done about major issues - and candidly says as much in stead of being absolutely and automatically positive with the answers. In fact, he is a master poll tician, although, given all his background, he never should have been anything of the kind. He does not really wish to run anything or anybody; to hold a seat in the Senate is enough for his ambitions. In the last Congress he lightly bore and rather apologetically used his influence as assist ant Democratic leader, a post that was pressed upon him in the first place. This time, how ever, he will have "no choice but to use it more often and more openly. piOR the West is the emerg ing force in the Senate and Mansfield is inevitably its spokesman. Moreover, the greatly enlarged Democratic majorities will provide more work and more problems for all the party hierarchy. Thus an added part of this general ioaa must now tan upon Mansfield. So, too, will an in creasing loreign policy re sponsibility on a man who is a "strong" member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. And the Mansfield who is a reluctant powerhouse has a parallel in the Mansfield who is an untypical Westerner. To conform to the stereotypes he ought to be almost exactly what he is not. He fits the pat tern only in the physical sense. He is appropriately tall and leathery. But he has no big hat, no Western drawl - and no in terests ' that are exclusively Western. In no way does he suggest the wide open spaces and the great outdoors. In stead, he suggests the library -the college library at that. He was born 56 years ago, not on any range but in New York City. His parents moved to Montana when he was three years old. As a boy he dug in the mines at Butte. It is a high, curiously cosmo politan city where the great U CANY CLIMB OVSP . S. White controlling copper corpora' tions have long since adopted a philosohical attitude toward the necessity of having Democrat Mansfield rep resenting Montana in Wash ington. H E NEVER went to high and studied in his own way until he was able to go di rectly to Montana State Uni versity. He took a Master's degree there and wound up bearmg what is sometimes fatal curse politically-he was a professor, no less, in Latin American and Far Eastern history. He is the only member of the Senate who has been private, or the equivalent, in three, of the armed forces - Army, Navy, Marines. As Marine he served, in the 'twenties, in the Philippines Siberia, Japan and China. He began his career as an unqualified liberal but he has progressively moVed into the center of the - Democratic party. He is, in a word, one of the "moderaters." And these, by all present signs have inherited the balance of power in the Far West. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion ' is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to f clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must npt exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this :olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Paper 'Plugs' Medford To the Editor: Just couldn't resist telling this, because it proves there are still gener ous hearted, broad minded, unselfish people in the world Away back there in Graf ton, N. D., their Walsh Coun ty Record has again published a very impressive article about Medford's part in the Oregon Centennial, after re ceiving a most interesting let ter from Mrs. Virginia D. Card of Medford, describing Jacksonville as a ghost town and its unique historical West ern appeal to visitors of the Centennial in 1959, such as Wells Fargo stages, surrey lines, etc., even the possibil ity of hold ups, also magazine stories and pictures of Jack sonville, and copies that will be available even back in N.D. Mr. W. E. Balkee, editor of the Walsh County Record, mentioned the loyal spirit of Medford citizens and also said after the plugs they had given Medford and the state of Ore gon, he wondered if it "wouldn't be thoughtful of that city or state to make me an honorary citizen or some thing," because they should be plugging for North Dakota He truly deserves, a pear or chard, or -a big box of pears for Christmas, maybe Hood River apples too, one of my young lady friends suggested. Emma Lou Carpenter, 811 Sherman st., Medford. Good People- To the Editor: I hope that you'll see fit to print this in your paper, as I know of no other way in reaching the many, many people here in the Rogue River valley. who were so kind and just plain wonderful to me and my fam ily after the tragic accident which took the life of my dear husband. I would like to say again as I've said so many times, that God was so good to me in giv ing me my Bob even for so short a time, but God was also good in giving mi so many Meany's Proposal for Labor Party Said 'Historic'; British Precedent Cited By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (DPD When George Meany, head man of AFL-CIO, talks about organ ized labor setting up its own political party it is appropri ate to mark date as an his toric occasion. That is ap p r opriate be cause George Meany is a cautious, con servative indi- l i i i yle C. Wilson v i a u a i way more than any . other in the modern labor movement is heir to the caution and con servatism and the thinking of - Battle of Purse Shaping Up In Congress; Lobbies Ready By Congressional Quarterly Washington-(CQ)-With the opening of the 86th Congress less than a month away, lobbyists are taking their places for a year-long tug-of-war. The biggest lobby battles wiU be dollars-and-cents ones. The Eisenhower Administra tion, faced with a $12 billion deficit in its budget, will try to economize by pulling the Federal Government out of several programs which give money to states and cities. It will also oppose many new programs that involve spend ing Federal money. But since every major pro gram has pressure groups guarding it, the Administra tion's attempts will be chal lenged. Often, the Eisenhow er Administration and . con servative lobbies will be on one side and the Democratic majority in Congress and lib eral lobbies on the other. Major Fights These shape up as major battles in the 'Administration's expected economy campaign: HOUSING - The Adminis tration will want to reduce the Federal Government's role in helping cities clean up In the Day's Hews By FRANK From U.N. headquarters in New York comes this interest ing note in the news: The free world marked Hu man Kignts Day tms weeK with a new drive to condemn Russia for its continued "re pression in Hungary of funda mental rights of the Hungari an people." The Western powers re leased the next of its resolu tion on the tenth anniversary of the Universal Declaration, WHICH WAS SIGNED BY RUSSIA, guaranteeing the rights of man. HPHAT is to say: Ten years ago Russia signed a solemn declaration guaranteeing THE RIGHTS OF MAN. Ever since, she has been riding rough-shod over the rights of man in Hun gary and elsewhere through out her slave, empire. Food for thought: Why sign an agreement with Russia to ban testing of nuclear weapons when we have before us this flat proof that Communist Russia re gards solemn agreements as mere scraps of paper to be torn up when it suits her pur poses to tear them up? Why sign an agreement with someone whose word is no good? BUILDING note in the news: More houses will be start ed in the United States in 1959, but they'll cost more. That the consensus of a group of house builders at an out look symposium sponsored in Washington this week by the National Association of Home Builders. The builders say they ex pect a five per cent spurt in housing starts next year, but forecast a price increase of at least five per cent over this year. That's what we call infla tion. IITHAT is inflation? " Well, it ISN'T a bogy man who merely says BOO! wonderful friends. There just aren't adequate words to express my apprecia tion, and no one will ever know how much it has meant or what a great help it has been to me. Thank you, all of you, from the bottom of my heart. I have a great hope of be ing re-united with our dear one again in that land where there will be no more tears or parting, and I hope and pray that we'll see each and every one of you there too. Mrs. Bob Meilicke and Children Route 4, Box 318 Medford. the late amuel Gompers; to his patriotism, as well. Samuel Gompers might be the name of a race horse or of a movie magnate, long dead, so far as most of today's Americans are concerned. He was, however, the great man of the U.S. labor movement, a cigar-maker by trade who was born in England and who died Dec. 13, 1924, full of honors conferred by his adopted homeland. Gompers was one of the founders of the AFL and its president from that founding in 1886 until his death, except during the year 1895. Opposed by Gompers Gompers was firmly against organized labor setting up its slums, renew cities and build public housing units. The AFL-CIO, American Muni-; cipal association and Nation al Housing Conference will press for more Federal help, not less. The National Asso ciation of Home Builders and National Association of Real Estate Boards are likely to push for a housing bill more liberal than the Administra tion wants. The Democratic leadership is committed to getting an omnibus housing bill passed. EDUCATION - The Admin istration opposed giving states Federal money to ' build schools in 1958. It is expected to take a similar stand in 1959. But the National Educa tion Association, the teachers' lobby, will press for a broad Federal aid program, includ ing both money for construc tion and teachers' salaries. The Administration will be supported by the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S., long opposed to Federal aid for school construction. AIRPORTS-The Air Trans port Association, American Municipal Association and AFL-CIO will press anew for Federal money to help com- JENKINS to frighten us. It has teeth. They can bite. Continuing inflation can price the United States out of world markets-if it continues long enough. That would be bad for all of us. W ILL we check inflation? One wonders. Checking inflation means doing it the hard way. Just letting things slide is the EASY WAY. Human beings who are VERY human tend to choose the easy way. North Carolina Schools Evacuated Asheville, N.C. -0IPD- Police emptied two more schools here Thursday after anony mous telephone callers warned of bombs set to go off in the buildings.1 Earlier in the day two schools at Winston-Salem had been cleared for similar rea sons. The bomb scares Thursday brought the number of threats against schools in North Carolina during the past three weeks to at least 25. No bombs have been found at any of the threatened in stitutions. RESIGNS POST Washington-flJPD-The Board of Trustees of George . Wash ington University announced Thursday the resignation of President Cloyd Heck Mar vin, 69, and the appointment of Vice Adm. Oswald Symi9-' ter Colclough (ret.) as acting president. MiMmmmmmmmiMiMmiMmmMiMi m iLUGA 4 I li i 55; NEXT WEEK Watch our north window for an unusual 5t Christmas Display by Crater High Art Class. Our Next Ad is on Page 6 mtfftitttftttitlff!fit!tltltft!tfffftftft!t!f!l!ff!fi;c own political party although as an Englishman he must have been intimately aware of the political movement sparked by British labor in 1900 which is the powerful British Socialist party of to day. Perhaps that was because Gompers also was acutely aware of what was happening inside the British Labor par ty. The substantially conserva tive British Laborites who founded a party 58 years ago had no suspicion, in their in nocence, that they actually had contrived the political cradle of bigtime British So cialism. By 1924, however, and the years immediately Drecedine Gompers' death, the Socialist munities build airports. Presi dent Eisenhower vetoed the proposal in 1958. But this time there are far more liberal Democrats to contend with. Also, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas) included the airport program on his legislative agenda. So an attempt probably would be made to override a veto PUBLIC POWER - The American Public Power As sociation will press for more Federal hydroelectric pro ects, not less. It wants more starts authorized in the Paci fic Northwest and some in the Northeast. The association feels the Democratic majority in Congress will be on its side. It is optimistic about TVA's chances of getting authority to issue revenue bonds so it can get money for expanding its facilities. The Administra tion will try to save its "part nership policy" and probably will oppose spending on any new projects. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, representing pub lic power cooperatives, claims the Administration has master plan for wrecking the Rural Electrification Adniin istration's program. It says it will fight a life and death battle to keep the Adminis tration from raising the 2 per cent interest rate on REA loans. LABOR - The Administra tion will try to hold the lid on such labor legislation as unemployment insurance and the minimum wage law. But here it will have to fight the 10.5 million member AFL CIO and its numerous allies in Congress. Besides' liberal izing unemployment insur ance and the minimum wage law. the Administration is faced with AFL-CIO demands for public works legislation, Federal aid for areas suffer ing chronic unemployment, reduced income taxes for low and middle income families and Federal health Insurance for the aged. Since everybody from bee keepers to lighthouse keepers have lobby , organizations in Washington, the Eisenhower Administration will have to look long and hard in 1959 for a place where it can cut funds without hearing screams of protest. (Copyright 1958, Corigresiion al Quarterly Inc.) i Yes e Pin Y S MM1 COTTON m identity of what is miscalled the British Labor nartv was clearly evident. Its first and long time secretary, the man who molded it in the Socialist pattern was, himself, an intel lectual and a Socialist, the late James Ramsay McDon ald. MacDonald came to be British prime minister in time. ' MacDonald, Gompers Disagree Your correspondent intpr- viewed Ramsay MacDonald in 1923 in the small House of Commons office alloted to the leader of His Maiestv's lnval opposition. The Labor party naa come so far since 1900 as to be second most numerous in the House of Commons at the expense of the somewhat left wing Liberal party. The Conservatives were in power. Kamsay MacDonald recom mended in that interview that U.S. labor follow the British lead and create a political party of its own. The United Press New York news desk referred that Lon don dispatch promptly to .Sam Gompers for comment. With snap and vigor the old man repudiated the whole idea. No political party for him. Re ward your friends and oppose your enemies, was Gompers' political creed. Meany wasn't very enthu siastic this week about setting up a labor party. He said it would be done if labor could not otherwise gain its politi cal objectives. The 2,842 lis tening delegates of the New York AFL - CIO convention, however, greeted the idea with booming cheers. Gompers wouldn't have been cheering had he been there. He watched labor go political in his native land and was not pleased. Editorial Comment - DOING RIGHT Today's text comes from two 'sources, "the Rev. Billy Graham and Dr. Kermit Eby, professor of social sciences at the University of Chicago. They say important things in' a world preoccupied with' rocketry and the tactics of a cold war. Billy Graham says we must "out live" and "out believe" the Communists, suggesting that survival as free, digni fied people entails more than: what we normally regard as the trappings of diplomacy and war. ' And Dr. Eby says, "I don't feel America should be strong' so we can stop Russia, but we must be morally strong be-" cause it's right. We must treat minorities as equals, not be cause we want them as allies, but because it's right that we treat them that way." Progress, to be sure, has been made in scientific fields and in race relations. In both cases the cold war has been a goad. We have made strides . !J i. . we pernaps woum not jei. have made, had it not been for the threat of world Com munism. Yet, we can feel little comfort in knowing that it apparently takes a life-or- death challenge to get us to do what is right. Eugene Register-Guard. YOU Can- ni 5)c
