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4 Monday, December IS. 1951 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, MEDFORDtTRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregufl Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RCm. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager -r.ntvL.i liAznAi, cuainess 0igr- Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Metfford Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION PATES Bt Mail In Advance: Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily ana Sunday mo. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year 14-20. By Carrier In Advance Med ford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cova. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and oneViotor routes: Dai.'v and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and bunday i mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance OfM.-Ul Paper of City of Medford Official paper or 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. NEWSPAFEt PUBLISHEIS -) 'ASSOCIATION 32 NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. IS. 1948 (Wednesday) The community Christmas tree at Main and Front sts has been set up and decor ated. The thermometer here plummets to 21 degrees, low est of the winter. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. IS. 1938 (Thursday) A new pear price record is set here as Rosenberg Broth ers fills an order for two Christmas gift packages with 24 Cornice pears each to be sent to Manila by clipper at a total cost of $85. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "One of the Older Girls, discussing Fuehrer Hitler, branded him a blankety -. blank; then blushed." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 15, 1928 (Saturday) Medford's population has grown to 13,111 according to competent computation. Two Medford womenmusic studio operators, oppose the Chamber of Commerce's cam paign against peddlers. 40 YEARS AGO Dee. IS, 1918 (Sunday) The "usual fine of $5" is assessed against more violat ors of the city's flue ordin ance. Five French war posters are displayed in the public li brary. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct it superior; seren or eight is excellent; five 01 fix is good. 1. Is the Zambezi river in Asia, Africa, or South Amer ica? 2. In mathematics, what is the accepted value of Pi? 3. What is the name of the oldest Negro Republic on the west coast of Africa? 4. How did the Reichmarsh- al Hermann Goering meet his death? 5. Under what ancient sys tem was a tenant known as a vassal? 6. Cinderella's slipper was made of what material? 7. A person who is three score and ten years old is how many years old? 8. Who is generally regard ed as the father of the mod ern submarine? 9. The prefixes "semi" and "demi" have the same mean ing; what is the meaning? 10. Correct the following sentence: "The government begun at once the work of rebuilding." Answers: I. A f r I e a; 2. 3.1416; 3. Liberia; 4. By swal lowin poison; 5. The feudal system; 6. Glass; 7. Seventy years old; 8." Simon Lake; 9. Half; 10. "The government began, etc." Americans use an average of 200 miUion cans of pressure-packed products that can be sprayed out during the course of one year. Average number of auto lights in a passenger car rose from 5.5 in 1925 to a new high total of about 25 in an average car today. Deadlock On Berlin? Foreign ministers of Great Britain, France, and the United States meet in Paris today to dis cuss the formal Western response to the proposals of Soviet Russia on Berlin. The Big Three foreign officers are expected to be in close touch with Foreign Minister Heinrich von Bretano of the Federal Republic of (West) Germany. Meetings of the North Atlantic Treaty Council open the following day. The Soviet ultimatum can only be answered by rejection, Western Powers appear agreed. The question to be worked out in Paris then must be, how flat a rejection. Should the door to negotia tion be slammed or just discreetly closed? The West Germans seem determined on slam ming the door. Mayor Willy Brandt of West Ber lin on Dec. 8, the day after the overwhelming de feat of the Communists in the -municipal election in the German capital, made public his confusion over U. S. policy. He was especially concerned about the statement by Secretary of State Dulles Nov. 26, that the United States in certain circum stances might be willing German Communists as Union. rjULLES on Dec. 8 sent Chancellor Konrad Ad enauer of the Federal Republic a letter under stood to reaffirm unqualified rejection of the lat est Soviet proposals. Adenauer and French Pre mier Charles de Gaulle joint statement pledging present occupation status. The French otherwise have not discussed Berlin policy publicly in any great detail. British policy probably is the most flexible of all. The London Times the thinking of Prime Minister Harold Macmillari when it noted that "Berlin is no more legally than geographically separable Germany as a whole." it suggested wider taiKs on Germany. And -even if, as expected, the Russians AJ J ,1 ATI, l-l,nn snm-.f Via rvrrAaA " lejtxitJU wilier lams, uiese tcumui uc orumtu, FOLLOWING up earlier Russian government on Nov. 27 handed notes to British, French, West German, and U. S. ambas sadors in Moscow proposing that Berlin be made a "free city." The harassed German capital would be. "an independent political entity" demilitar ized and separate from "either of the existing German states." Russia suggested a four-power guarantee for Berlin similar to the Austrian neutrality agree ment. The Soviets would the United Nations also the new status of Berlin. worked out, Russia would delay for six months to June 1, 1959-East German assumption of con- trol over Allied military EAST Germany on Dec. 10 flatly rejected a pro nncn 1 11tt T?ro rl f T- o A tvinA in on iwfflMTimiT published in a Danish newspaper. The Berlin Mayor had suggested an extraterritorial strip of land along the main highway route from West Germany to West Berlin, by UN troops. So long as Germany is split, Berlin in Brandt's view and in that of many Germans is "the clamp that holds these divided peoples together." Sooner or later, it would appear, a final solu tion of the Berlin problem must be linked with a solution of the problem of German unification. And on this the East and West positions are so hardened as to be lithified, and so opposed that no early compromise appears reasonably to be hoped for. E.R.R. Rights Declaration Freedom of thought, conscience,' religion, op inion, expression . . . ownership of property . . . education . . . economic security and adequate liv ing standards . . . equality before the law . . . labor union membership . . . equal pay for equal work . . . asylum in other lands. These are among the rights every individual ought to enjoy, says the Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UN General Assembly 10 years ago. And what should every individual be guaran teed against? Among other things, slavery or ser vitude . . . torture or other cruel, inhuman or de grading treatment . . . arbitrary arrest, detention, exile, interference with privacy . . . attacks upon honor and reputation . . . discrimination. As will be seen, the liberties specified in our own Constitution are pretty well covered. These are primarily political and civil. The 1948 Declar ation, like the Four Freedoms enunciated by President F. D. Roosevelt in his 1941 annual mes sage to Congress (of speech, worship, from want, from fear) , is also economic and social. "THE Declaration was adopted unanimously al " though the Soviet bloc abstained from voting because, if you please, freedom from fascism was not specified! Also abstaining: Yugoslavia (an other Communist state), South Africa (racial superiority complex), Saudi Arabia (slavery prevalent). . As almost everybody is against sin, almost every nation is for the Declaration in principle. But after 11 years of wrestling with details, a UN committee still is unable to spell out a Human Rights treaty that wouldn't tread on too many toes. All the same, as with the Ten Command ments, the Golden Rule, the Beatitudes, there can be inspiration in the Declaration as an ideal. - E.R.R. . 1 r to deal with the East "agents" of the Soviet on Nov. 26 had issued a maintenance of Berlin's was perhaps not tar Irom from the question of speeches, and hints by have "no objection to sharing . . . m observing" While this was being traffic into Berlin. fenced in and policed Dtmnis the Menace Matter of Fact While Joseph Alsop re ports from the Middle East, Rowland Evans jr. covers the home base. -HUMPHREY'S BOOM Washington - A well-heel ed "stoD Kennedv" drive is taking shape in potent, liber al - Demo cratic , circles in the ; East 1 1 s ' u n a ri nounced aim to prevent the glamor ous Senator from Massa' chusetts from mflvin d sn jr. far ahead of the field, as Franklin Roos evelt did in 1932. that the nomination will in effect go to him by default. That, of course, was the reason for the pleasant noises that Mrs. Roosevelt cooed to ward Sen. Humphrey the oth er day. Mrs. R. has shown in terest before in the man who stayed to dinner at the Krem lin. In October, she squeezed Humphrey's name in hetween Truman's and Stevenson's as examples of Democrats who could "lead," and left out all the others. What this means, quite simply, is that ; the "liberal Democrats, including Mrs. have picked the hrepres ator from Minnesota . as the man to head off Kennedy. ' rpHE move toward Hum--- phrey started last spring when Adlai Stevenson, just before his trip to Russia, told some of his biggest East Coast contributors that under no circumstances would he seek the nomination for him self. He mentioned several al ternatives, including Hum phrey and Sen. Joseph S. Clark, as Democrats in whom he had confidence. Sen. Clark was approached but immediately removed himself from all considera tion. He advised the group to talk to Humphrey, which it did. Humphrey, however, help ed. He recalled the " sputter that ended his quest for the Vice-Presidential nomination in 1956. He worried about the effect that an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomi nation in 1960 might have on his chances for re-election to the Senate. His present . term ends in 1960. There were other question marks. So the Senator told his New York admirers that he would cogitate and let them know later. Now, partly as a result of the cluster of rich headlines that has bl6ssomed from his mission to Moscow, and partly as result of Gov. Harriman's defeat and Gov. Williams' poor showing, there is little doubt about the Senator's intentions. From here on out, he will be run ning hard. THIS raises fascinating pos sibilities. . If Rockefeller should be the Republican nominee, for example, Hum phrey would be the obvious "poor man's candidate," the frugal but honest son of the Mid-West sod battling the Eastern money interests. And yet, if you listen in to the restless conversations of the politicians, . you hear Humphrey also touted as a Democrat whose educated tongue and keen turn of phrase could cut Vice Presi dent Nixon "down to size." Stevenson loosed a personal attack on Nixon during the 1956 campaign that had all the impact of a leaf falling in mud and which Nixon never even deigned to answer. Humphrey, by all odds, would be the tougher antago nist against the expert debat er's technique of Mr. Nixon. There would, however, be obvious disadvantages in a Humphrey candidacy. De spite his extraordinary inti by Rowland Evans Jr. mate w o r king agreement with Sen. Lyndon Johnson, the agreement that has pre vented the Senate Democrats from cutting their own throat, Humphrey is still per sona non grata in most of the South. Whereas a Ken nedy or Stevenson candidacy would tend to obliterate or at least mollify the North-South split, a ticket headed by Hum phrey would magnify it and almost certainly break off a chunk of the Southern wing of the party. "PERHAPS a greater disad vantage is Humphrey's failure thus far to "catch on," as the politicians say. One, prevalent Humphrey image portrays little more than a glib, headline-hunting " Left- Winger, who, for unexplain ed reasons, would not be quite "safe" in the White House. The truth is quite different. Humphrey's mind is 1 endless ly flexible and absorbant, his knowledge of affairs is little short of staggering and his approach to the great un solved political questions is, on the whole, original and imaginative. He is visibly calmer than that day long ago when the chairman of a political rally, worried be cause Humphrey had spoken far longer than scheduled, slipped a message to him that read: "To be immortal you need not be eternal." Humphrey read it aloud and scored an ace with . the crowd. He now seems to haye scored an ace with his trip to Moscow and he will soon be in a position to score another as the leader of the fight in the Senate to modify the fili buster rule. Even if these and other Humphrey aces did top Ken nedy's formidable holdings, however, it is entirely possi ble for the beneficiary to be not Humphrey himself - but Adlai Stevenson. Copyright 1958 New Yoik Herald Tribune 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 I clarification and condensation. Letters suDmittea tor puDuca tion must not 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. . Biological Illiteracy To the Editor: For the over wrought brain workers, a shock absorber is to be had in some hobby. Should there not be childhood and adoles cence education toward hob bies? After one is plunged into our strenuous American life, it then usually is too late. Studying camouflage color patterns, as of caterpillars is one such outlet. The caterpil lars that come to the porch of the writer's Sierran cabin in the Canadain life zone were m a r v e 1 o usly camouflaged. They disclosed how Mother Nature had successfully work ed out the problem of conceal-ing-coloration milleniums ago. One caterpillar dropped from the 180-foot silver fir at the corner of the porch. It was a remarkably zigzag of brown, grey, green and yellow. Plac ed on either a grey branch or on green needles in this sea son of yellow pollen-dispersal, this larva's color blended so perfectly, it would take a sharp-eyed chickadee or robin to spy it. The out-of-doors can be used to so educate kiddies that bio logical illiteracy will be re duced. If we could obtain in America absolute biological literacy, as did Iceland of reading and writing, our coun try would eventually have lawmakers with clearer vi sion. We have only had two presidents really educated in Wilson Writes of Political Undertow, Da nger of Inflation, Hoffa's Plans By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (UPD The po litical undertow: The stop-Nixon effort fail- and now has been revived for I960. The dump - Ad ams effort prevailed. Just around tVia rr.-r. o r. I CSTA more likely I v I ihAn not. is Vie c. Wilson another dump movement dumo Agricul ture Secretary Ezra T. Ben son. Improving farm prices in the months preceding this year's election he bewitched many persons into believing tnat tne lortnright secretary s farm belt standing likewise had improved. The voters de feated a great many pro-Ben son members of Congress. Re publican survivors would spark the dump-Benson move ment if it comes. biology; Jefferson and Theo dore Roosevelt. Writer has had much to do with social service legislation, both at Sacramento's State capitol and Washington's National capitol. The lack of grasp of the fundamental principles of biology which affect human life there is appalling. C. M. Goethe Seventh & J sts. Sacramento 14, Calif. Buses Needed To the Editor: O.K., we voted down the measure for the off the street parking. Now, here is our idea for a much better and serviceable program. We would like to have city bus transportation to all the suburban homes. Anyone with any forethought would see that that would solve the parking problem adequately. With a good de pendable bus service,, we housewives would not have to rush to work with our husbands, in order to have the car for the day, drag the kids to school and half worn out, try to find a parking place down town, so we could do the shopping. Other cities seem to find this necessary. Portland, Salem and Eugene, and since we are fourth in size, must we be mid-Victorian? The housewives are the prime ones to consider we should think, since they are the ones who do the most of the shopping. If we could take the bus, we wouldn't take the car! Mrs. M. L. Terzenbach, Mrs. R. S. Ashenberner, 1294 Corona ave., Medford. Educate Downtown To the Editor: Let me com pliment you on your unbiased editorial in Friday's Tribune. However, some things you didn't mention: 1. The American people of Medford will not be told to vote so and so on a measure in this case "yes." 2. We aren't so stupid as you make us out. Some stores buy their own parking lots -let the rest do the same. 3. Prices are higher in the core of town where you want us to shop, so why should we shop there? 4. Businessmen of down town don't want new stores such as Sears and Safeway because it will and does cut their profits. It also gives us moderate prices, parking places and better clerk serv ice for less. 5. We waited In line to vote. Maybe the noes are more used to waiting and being pushed around and can take it. ' 6. Parking, and fluoridation, too, lost just because they de feated themselves. We won't have things jammed down our throats. Maybe it's the downtown that needs education and un selfish ways. Mrs. Howard Glascock, 233 Beatty st., Medford. China rates as the world's chief producer of tea but it consumes most of its own crop and exports only smaller amounts of some of the finer and costlier varieties. Soon You Id Y It Won't Be Long! Eisenhower administration friends in big business did not leap to offer employ ment to Sherman Adams so Adams will make-do writing a book for Harper Brothers co. Estimates of what Adams might receive for his White House memoirs range as high as $100,000, before taxes. It is billed as an inside-the-White-House project. Political pros will in some measure judge how far inside the White House the book really goes by .how frankly, if at all, Adams discusses the 1956 ef Washington Report By William THE ANSWERS " Washington Countless minds of a steel trap keenness on figures, endless cranial lobes bulging with formid able fiscal lore, are wor rying frantic ally about the govern ment's budg get, which is to be disclos ed next William s "white month in all its terrifying bulk. ' This correspondent has al ways leapt backward in hor ror from any implied obli gation even to understand, much less to report upon, any kind of budget-Federal, state, county, city or personal. He never met a payroll. Worse yet, as a small businessman in the writing trade he has trouble deciding at the end of the month which pants pocket owes the other pants pocket, and how much. All the same, it is conceiv able that even the most ig norant in this field can oc casionally stumble upon some idea that might be of help to the sturdy characters who are trying so wistfully to reduce Federal spending. CJUCH a modest proposal is here offered, and by un animous consent it will here after be known simply as Plan A. Plan A involves a policy of austerity so Spartan that even the most conserva tive economists might well quail from the enormous .sac rifice involved. Plan A would sweep through the Federal bureau cracy at the cost not simply of many heads but also at the less measurable but grievous cost of the self- esteem of many others heads that would be left. For Plan A would entail nothing less than the cruel and immediate discharge of the thousands sometimes it seems it really must be mil lions of young women who answer the telephones of the male Federal bureaucrats. And in such wholesale fir ings the outstanding symbols of status for these males would be lost and gone. No one inexperienced in the technique of getting a Feder al official on the telephone personally in his -personal voice can readily imagine what a vast industry Wash ington telephone - answering has become. One rings up the department of so and so and asks for John Jones, who is a fairly important gent there. rpHE First Answerer replies in a throaty whisper which may or many not be in Greek or Hindustani. What she is saying, in any language, is that she will transfer you to "information." he knows perfectly well what Jone's ex tension is; he has had the same one for the six years she has been on the job. But she is not going to let down the side by disclosing such clas sified matters to mere strang ers from the outside. There is a peculiar half-buzzing, half-ringing noise for a while and then a voice comes on from the young woman who is in charge of the infor mation end of the .telephone. This is the Second Answerer. The Second Answerer is will ing to give you Jone's exten sion number. She then rings back the First Answerer to. divulge this secret. Can fort to prevent renomination if Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Chairman Meade Alcorn of the Republican National com mittee and Chairman Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) of the Senate Finance committee are agreed that crippling, deadly inflation is almost upon us. Both men deplore the spend ing mood which accumulates endless, inflationary federal deficits. Alcorn believes the Democratic left wing in the new Congress may hike in- S. White The First Answerer, with the air of having done her full duty against an interlop er to no avail, reluctantly then rings Jone's extension. You have, the good feeling that now you are about home free on this thing. But this notion is all vanity. For when there is at long last actually response from Jone's verv own extension you are at best only halfway ud the toilsome hill. For the Third Answerer til rn c mif tn Ka caivia m igmatic young woman who is a telephone receptionist by title but in fact is far more than this. She is the resolute guardian of what is still only the perimeter to Jone's office. In her turn and taking her time as is her undoubted con stitutional right (and after a good deal of earnestly confus ing conversation as to wheth er you are calling from "out side" or "inside") at length she rings yet another tele phone, j The young woman who now responds is the Fourth An swerer. It is naturally diffi cult to engage her attention immediately to the matter at hand. But at last you succeed in this, and you discover that she is in truth Jone's person al secretary. "I'm so sorry," she says, with a perfectly revolting sweetness. "He mentioned that he wanted to talk to you and that you were going to call up. But the fact is, he just left the office for the day." "How long ago?" you ask. "Just this minute," she re plies. As you sadly drop the ear piece back on the hook you mentally compute the total elapsed time since first you put in your call. Figure it as closely as you can, and it still comes to 11 minutes and 14 seconds. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Call at PERL'S-HOW... MM It's FREE Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) wiiLiiiiivniiiiiiiiii mi rainwwiie vm Yzf4 Home him va FRIENDLY, come tax rates. The Senate Finance committee has been a barrier to hefty tax pro grams. The barrier is down. Three Republican committee members did not seek re-election to the Senate and a fourth was licked, in this or der, Martin, Pa., Flanders, Vt., Jenner, Ind., and Malone, Nev. With the prevailing 8 to 7 ratio of Democratic and Republican committee mem bership, Byrd and his prede cessor, the late Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.), usually could find a bi-partisan con servative majority. The party ratio in the new Congress will be 9 to 6 or, even, 10 to 5. That should put Byrd and the more or Jess conservatives in a permanent minority. Some responsible labor leaders look beyond Jimmy Hoffa's relationship to the la bor movement as a whole to what could become of his ul timate relationship to the welfare of the people of the United States. Such leaders believe Hoffa would set back, seriously endanger, the U.S. labor movement if he suc ceeds in setting up his pro posed over-all transportation union, the Teamsters plus ev erything else with wheels, keels or wings. One responsi ble labor man said to your correspondent: "Against such a union as Hoffa projects, the people would be defense less." 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