4 Monday, December IS. 1951
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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.
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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.)
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grams. The barrier is down.
Three Republican committee
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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." Hoffa predicted last
month that he will in time
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port industry, 4,500,000 mem
bers. "We will not be stopped,"
he said, "by the McClellan
committee, laws or the
courts."
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