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Newspaper Page Text4 WednetJay, Dee. 17, 1931 I MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE, MEDFORD&hrTEIBUire "Everyone tn Southern Oreguji Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RCHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager otrtAi-iJ LrtinA.M, ousine3s pigr ERIC W ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women Editor DALE ERICKSON. circulation MgT An Indenendent Newspaper Entered at second clasa matter at Mefford Oregon under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION FATES Rv Mail In Advance. Coov 10c 'Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 6 moa 8 00 Daily and Sunday 3 moa. 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4.20. Rv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold HiU ' Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv. ' er. Talent, and on motor routei . DaKv and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance OM.-lal Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson county United Press International Full Leased wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fice in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Loi Angeiea, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. r. NEWSA(I . PUBLISH! tS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 7 lASSOCtATlQN PUinrilg.TTa7TTiTl 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. 17. 1948 (Friday) Acting Mayor Frank J. Runtz calls for safety precau tions during the holidays to make Christmas accident-free The $685,000 school district bond issue for constructing new classrooms has been ap proved at the polls by a large majority. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 17. 1938 (Saturday) Seven or eight cars of Rogue River valley turkeys have been shipped in the last 10 days to eastern markets. ; From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Quite a few are getting ready to scram to sunny Calif, around the first." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 17. 1928 (Monday) The Jackson County Fruit growers league meets to elect officers and hear important reports. Porcupines at Prospect are chewing off the tops of pine trees while successfully in timidating the area's 26 dogs. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 17. 1918 (Tuesday) I Nine well-known citizens are captured in a raid for flu mask violations. : A woman write to Mayor Gates that the flu masks have improved people's looks by discouraging tobacco chewing and smoking. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; seven er eight is excellent; fire ei six is good. 1. Is the "Paul's Scarlet" a tea rose, or a climbing rose? 2. Which two valuable min erals were in the ores discov ered in the famous Comstock lode? 3. Alexander C. (Lex) Bark er Jr., gained fame as a movie actor in playing what charac ter? 4. In the nursery rhyme, what did Peter, the pumpkin eater, do with his wife? 5. All false? . owls hoot; true or - 6. Who was Nellie Melba? 7. In radio, what do the in itials FM stand for? 8. A four-sided figure with two sides parallel is known as at d? ". 9. Who was the inventor of dynamite? 10. The area of Vatican City is under 2, under 5, under 10 square miles? ..Answers: 1. Climbing rose. 2. Gold and silver. 3. "Tar zan." 4. He put her in a pump kin shell. 5. False. 6. Famous opera singer. 7. Frequency modulation. 8. Trapezoid. 9. Alfred Nobel. 10. Under 2 square miles. BIOGRAPHY ON SALE : Vatican City-JPI)-The first biography of Pope John XXIII was on sale here today. The 170-page, 24-picture book was written by Andrea Lazzarini, an editor of the Vatican City newspaper Osservatore Romano. All Are A friendly call from got us started thinking teachers. Her call was motivated by the tribute paid to the high school and junior high school musical instructors who have brought the Medford music program so much praise during a high school concert last Sunday. She said she agreed that they deserve praise. But she added that some individuals not men tioned on that occasion also deserve a word of appreciation the instructors in the elementary schools whose work is little-noticed or mentioned, but which forms the entire basis on which the later successes are built. CHE'S right, of course. But the same thing applies in all fields, not just music. It applies to the teachers who find and encourage the first spark of talent in future writ ers, teachers, administrators, mathematicians. It applies to teachers who see in some first or second or third grader a quality which sets him apart, and who bend their efforts to help him develop that quality into what later will become a characteristic of usefulness and value. OUR admiration for the teaching profession, as a whole, has long been great. It extends from those who find their most useful niche on the campuses of higher learning to those dedicated men and women who combine readin', 'ritin' and 'rithmetic with wiping put on galoshes. The accomplishments of instruction do not detract from those on anoth er level, for all are important, all are necessary, and all are devoted to sources, its people an citizenry of the future. Economists Differ Economics has never points, and we are inclined to believe that we share this deficiency with rather more than 90 per cent of the adult population of the country. We can'X even understand, fully, what Shorty Hibbard is driving at m where on this page today. the relationship of gold to our monetary system today was purely coincidental and exceedingly tenuous, and that the price of gold has little if anything to do with the credit system on which our economy like it or not is now based. CCONOMICS is the study, basically, of re " sources and their wise use. Inevitably this involves money, in our complicated civilization. But economists, learned, studious men that thev are, can and do quarrel violently about the significance and even the facts of a case, if they come from differing schools of thought. A Kevnesian. for instance, would probably tell Shorty Hibbard that he's barking up the wroner tree, blaminsr the ills of the economy on the shortage of gold and Federal Reserve system. A more orthodox (or, for Keynesianism is becoming the orthodoxy of the day) economist might agree that the nation should return to the gold of the yellow metal, and liquidate the national debt which, in effect, is the basis for America's present monetary system. SALEM Editor Charles A. Sprague points out Vtrviir rlifforinor ornnnrnir intprnrptnt.inns start at the same point and come out with diametrically opposed conclusions. The basic premise is this: A teacher was in structing her students in the proper way to wash their hands m the rest-room at the school, ana pointed out for reasons of economy, they should use only half a sheet of paper towel. Whereupon an economist pointed out that if that practice were universally adopted, it would have an adverse effect on the pulp and paper industry, that they would have to reduce produc tion, that loggers and mill - workers would lose their jobs, and the economy would be hurt. CPRAGUE ruminates about this poor teacher who is wrecking the economy, and wonders why the "economist" didn't suggest that she begin a major boom by recommending the use of two paper towels. Then he thought some more : Suppose the teacher succeeded in her original j instructions to use a half she would be saving money for the taxpayers: "This would mean that the taxpayer, instead 01 having to starve his children and skimp on their clothing to meet his tax bill, would have some money left, which then could buy more groceries and thus benefit the farmer, or more clothing, which would give employment to idle textile workers, or even build an addition to the house which would help the lumber mills and so get back to those loggers." LJIS basic conclusion is one we share : "Do you wonder I'm confused? And the teacher, too?" Economics is still an the charts, diagrams, graphs, and such-like which have been devised to describe the problems and to propose solutions. It is a relatively new far. It HAS developed techniques of description and of analysis which permit us to know far more today about the ups and clowns and intricacies of our economy. And it is But in a political climate where the voter is still boss, the economists, with their differing viewpoints and interpretations, hold only the roles of advisors, not'the In these roles they are powerful. Which is the way it should be. E.A. Important a woman the other day about elementary school runny noses and helping of teachers on one level America s greatest re educated and literate h.A. been one of our strong a communication else We had believed that the manipulations of the rather, old-fashioned, standard, raise the price -sheet of paper towel; inexact science, despite science, but has come still learning. roles of leaders. valuable, but not all- Dennis the Menace OOH'r TRY 5f?lNGlN' My lie HIM TO A TKee IN THe BACK YARD.' Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the saper; in fact the contrary i often Ihe case. Merry Christmas, Medford To the Editor: I added a new name to my Christmas gift list today. The name Medford and I write this letter hoping that others will wish to join me. The news that our UMC is nearly $5,000 short of its goal is very disturbing to me. For several years we have felt great pride that our UMC always "hit the top". To fail now would indeed be tragic. Christmas time is a time for counting blessings, and I count living in Medford high among ours. So instead of sending individual greetings to our friends in Medford, I enclose a gift (not a donation or contribution) to the UMC, and the gift tag reads Merry Christmas To Medford. Fran Wimberly 30 Barneburg rd. Medford. Editor's note: If people wish to follow Mrs. Wimberly's suggestion, gifts can be mailed to the UMC at Box 5000 until Dec. 22, when the UMC office will close. After that they can be mailed to the newsroom of the Mail Tribune, which will see they reach the proper UMC officials. Whose Job? To the Editor: Once more speaking of Beautifying our Highway: what is more de pressing when you drive our highway daily and see crushed animals, dogs and cats, beaten into the pavement until they are powdered and blowing away. This nas been in exist ence continuously between Medford and Ashland for the past 12 years, as I drive to work and back. almost every day. About a week or so ago a very large dog lay on the highway near Talent. Recent ly someone was kind enough to drag the dog to the curb. The animal was still there this morning. - This, in my opinion, is one of the most degrading things on our highway today. Rough ly I would say that more than 100 animals have been crushed on this piece of high way since I have lived in Ash land for the past 12 years. Whose job is it to remove the carcasses of animals when killed on the highway? We keep them cleared from near our premises, and we gener ally bury them. E. M. Tucker, Tucker Sno-Cat Corpora tion, South Pacific Hwy, Medford. Bus Patronage Off To the Editor: The authors of the letter printed Monday, Dec. 15, should familiarize themselves with the history of the bus system which for nearly 15 years has been oper ating in Medford and the sur rounding area, and with the bus operations in Salem and Eugene, before pronouncing that bus service is the an swer to downtown parking problems. Briefly, within the past 10 Try and By BENNETT CERF : AN ARISTOCRATIC lady that took an estate in the and hired a localite to take her every afternoon. On their first excursion, the well-intentioned driver began tell ing her all about the region and the characters who in habited it until the lady silenced him with a curt, "I hired you to drive for me, sir, not to converse with me." That was the last time the driver opened his mouth. But when he submitted his bill at the end of the month, there was one item thereon the lady didn't understand. He explained it to her: "That's sass, $10. I don't generally take it, but when I do, I charge for it." Stephen Leacock is the man who originated the story about the inebriate in a saloon who picked up a sandwich and hurled it against the mirrored wall. "There," said a bystander, "is food for reflection." O 1958. fcy Bennett Cert rutrlbutel by Klcg Features Syndicate. PONY OOWN TUB CHWiByl years buses were operated in Medford on two routes serv ing the East Side, three routes on the West Side, one route north toward Central Point and one route serving Ashland and the south part of Medford. All buses ran hourly. Ever green Bus lines service is now limited to Medford - Ashland and Medford -Camp White. The decline in service was due to lack of patronage. Service in Eugene and Sa lem was interrupted recently by a bankruptcy suit filed by drivers whose wages had not been paid, according to stories printed in the Mail Tribune Bus service involves a will ingness to walk: from home to a bus stop; from store to store while shopping; from the bus stop to home. Too many housewives have found this less convenient than "rushing to work with our husbands, in order to have the car for the day." Ralph B. Matthews, 601 Dakota, Medford Dismaying Picture? To the Editor: In regard to a situation that should not exist, I have talked to 20 per sons, of whom only five, 20 per cent, knew that the Fed eral Reserve Banks are pri vately owned. The following facts are, I believe, important to every one of us. The Treasury gold holdings are now $22,700,000; the claims outstanding against this gold total $22,300,000, consisting principally of gold certificates held by the Fed eral Reserve Banks. Neither our government nor our citizens have any interest whatsoever in the Federal Re serve Banks except that of paying interest on the notes Congress allows the Bank to Stop Me Knickerbocker family and all Berkshirshires for the summer driving through the countryside UPI Man Sees Evidence Red China Might Suffer From Commune Resentment (Editor's note: Earnest Ho berecht. United Press Interna tional vice president and gener al manager for Asia, has just completed a five-day tour of Southwest Asia.) By EARNEST HOBERECHT Tokyo (UPD There is evi dence that Communist China is headed for trouble. Competent students of Chi nese affairs' in Manila, Singa pore, Bangkok, Taipei, Macao and Hong Kong told me these troubles could even include open revolt on a scale much larger than anything the Com munists obviously are experi encing and putting down with force right now. Here is what has happened. Last year Chairman Mao Tse-tung and his comrades felt they had the situation so well under control that they announced a program permit ting freedom to express views, to criticize the party and the government. Result Astonishes The result obviously aston ished and shocked the Com munist dictators. The criticism came and it came in such force that the Red govern ment could not tolerate it. It came from the common man and from the intellectuals. In China, the people always have had tremendous respect for the scholar. The position of the soldier always has been low. So when the intellectuals started criticizing the Chinese Communist regime, held in power by the force of arms of the soldiers, the masses were impressed. Quick Retaliation Some of the intellectuals who took Chairman Mao at his Step-Down by Mao Not End of Power; Commune Push Seen By STEWART HENSLEY Washington (UPD Ameri can officials predicted today that Chinese Communist Boss create. The printing and issu ing of these notes cost the Bank $.30 per $1,000. When printing a billion dollars worth of these notes, the Fed eral Reserve pays over to our government the sum of $300, 000: that is, $.30 for each $1,000 worth of notes. Each time the Bank prints a new issue, there is more in terest that we have to pay the bank. Much of our income tax money goes to pay that In terest. In the B r e 1 1 o n Woods Agreement, our government agreed that foreign dollars were to be convertible in gold, a privilege we Ameri can citizens do not have. The following shows where a lot of our gold loss went in 1958: Britain Switzerland Netherlands .$900 million 250 170 Belgium Italy Portugal 275 " 190 35 Others, including the Bank of International Settlements $380 million: These total $2.2 billion. The Treasury Department has determined that we need $22.3 billion dollars in gold to comply with our own mone tary laws. According to the daily balance of the Treasury we are nearly $2 billion shy. This, however, is only a small portion of our deficit. Foreign held dollars con vertible to gold as of March, 1957, amounted to $16,245,- 000,000. That amount deduct ed from a little over $20 bil lion, which is our present gold holding, leaves only $4 billion to do the work of $22, 300,000,000. Living costs are going up all the time, and there are more strikes resulting in wage increases. What is our money going to amount to? Possibly revaluation of gold may help. Certainly the production of gold at $35 per ounce is im possible at present wage rates. Even with increased price, it would, take a lot of digging to produce enough gold in this country to meet our mone tary needs. The whole picture is dismaying. Shorty Hibbard 1302 Saling ave. Medford. j SAVE! SAVE! 19 word and criticized things suddenly found themselves out of jobs and banished to distant places. When the intellectuals got to the rural areas, they found willing listeners. Here the intellectuals were able to find supporters among the masses t h e peasants who could lead a real revolt against the Peiping regime. With their system of spies, the leaders of the Communist government realized some thing had to be done. It was then, some students of Chinese affairs believe, that Peiping decided on the severest of all control measures the unpre cedented communes. The communes provide ef fective; control of the popula tion. The voices of the intel lectuals no longer can be heard in the villages and the home, for normal family life is wiped out by this latest Chinese Communist Instru ment. But in hushing the voices of the intellectuals and in break ing up the families, what have the Communists done? There is feeling in many really competent quarters that Com munist China may have made a fatal mistake. Help Production The communes help to in crease production. They strengthen control of the workers. They further the cause of pure communism. But what else? Since the communes de stroy the family system, each man is more or less on his own. If he is separated from his family and made a mere unit in a machine, his family Mao Tse-Tung will intensify his feverish campaign to com plete organization of the 650 million inhabitants of the Red mainland into "slave state" communes, now that he is reported shedding, the cere monial duties of the presi dency. They disagreed with spec ulation in Taipei and some other capitals that Mao was being "downgraded," declar-, ing that such interpretations ' appeared to be based princi pally on wishful thinking. Report Confirmed A high-ranking diplomat in peiping told the United Press International in Tokyo by telephone today that Mao def initely was planning to step down as chairman of the Red Chinese government next March. No formal announce ment has been made. On the basis of information from Peiping so far, officials said, Mao apparently will have as much power as ever plus more time to devote to his agricultural-industrial reg imentation scheme which goes far beyond anything yet tried in Russia. He will continue as Com munist Party boss in China- the top power job. He will re main as chairman of the Cen tral Committee, the Central Political Bureau, the Nation al Defense Council and the Supreme State Conference, ac cording to information avail able here. Must Continue American officials ' said they believe Mao and his colleagues have passed the point of no return in their campaign to whip China's millions into a system which Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles has described as a program of "slave labor that sacrifices human dignity on a scale unprecedented in all world history." Dulles added, however, that the commune drive "is producing material results." American officials are con vinced that the drapia now being unfolded in China marks a great milestone in Communist history. Success for Mao's experiment could mean the beginning of a new and harsher era for millions. Failure could signal the be ginning of the end for Com munism everywhere. SOON! SOON! no longer is a "hostage" and he has nothing to lose if he re volts to throw off his chains. Since husband and wife are separated and can be alone together perhaps only once every two weeks, the com mune system is not likely to be voted the most popular way of life, however much it may appeal to the political bosses of China. Population Problem In this connection, it is note worthy that Communist Chi na's population is increasing at a rate of about 15 million persons per year. Some quar ters on the outside are specu lating that the love-every-two-weeks policy established with ing the communes actually may be a birth control tech nique conceived by Peiping to halt population growth. It is certain that Peiping is con cerned about feeding its more thn 650 million mouths. To control and push their millions of commune workers, In the Day's News By FRANK Dr. John F. Sly, reporting the other day to the Oregon Department of Planning and Development, made an attention-arresting statement. Ore gon's tax spending, he said, is reaching a point that causes some concern. He added: Oregon's ratio of taxes to per capita income is the HIGHEST IN THE FAR WEST. WHAT to do about it? In his report to the Development Department, Dr. Sly said there are only two ways to keep Oregon's tax burden in line with the tax burdens of states that are com peting with Oregon for indus trial development: 1. Cut costs of government. 2. Increase the state's econ omy so that it will be able to support a bigger tax total, PERHAPS, at . this point, we'd better do a little ex plaining. What does he mean by cutting costs of government? It's perfectly simple. He means SPEND LESS. In a pre vious report to the Develop ment department, Dr. Sly pointed out that. Oregon is known as a high level service state. That is to spy, Oregon provides a lot of services to its The Dalles Tries Teen-Age Jury The Dalles- (UPD -A juvenile traffic court using a jury of teen-agers who will recom mend penalties for offenders will be tried here on a trial basis. The city round ap proved the proposal Monday night. The court is designed to separate juvenile traffic cases from those involving adults. The panel will convene each Saturday morning in city hall council chambers, similar to a plan now in effect at Poca- tello, Idaho. The proposal to test such a court here was recommended by the Wasco County Juvenile Advisory Board. . The jury will be composed of six members and two alter nates. Selection wll be made from The Dalles High school by the principal. The juvenile court is expected to go into effect after the holidays. , PLANE DUE TODAY Havana -UPD- The first of three big British-made turbo props which Cubana Airlines plans to use in its Transatlan tic service is scheduled to reach here today. NON-CENTS Birmingham, England-dlPD- Frederick Martin, 35, started a three-month jail sentence to day for counterfeiting two shilling (28 cents) coins that he admitted "would not have fooled a child of eight.". SERVING ALL WHO CALL Recognized as a leader in the funeral profes- c M. Litwiller sion, Litwiller's has served Jackson Co. since 1935. Constantly striving to bring you that better funeral and ambulance service at the lowest possible cost. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy, 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close ' the Communists are reported to be sending more and more arms to distant areas. As more and more arms are sent out to control the restless masses, the greater become the chances of these arms fall ing into the hands of revolu tionaries. Might Aid Landing Western intelligence sources have reported there is reason to believe the people within Communist China would give considerable support to a Na tionalist China landing force, if they thought it had a fair chance of success. This is an interesting and important bit of information, along with the latest unconfirmed reporti that Marshal Chu Teh will re place Mao as leader of Com munist China. It all adds up to an increas-. ing flow of evidence that Communist China is not rid ing down a smooth road. She has her troubles and they are beginning to multiply. JENKINS people. He added that as long as this is true, Oregon will be a high level TAX state. By increasing the state's economy, he means getting more industries to provide more jobs for more people WHO WILL PAY TAXES, thus widening the tax base and lightening the PER CAPI TA tax burden. THIS is his point: If we permit Oregon's tax structure especially as it bears upon business to get out of balance with the tax structures of states that are competing with Oregon for in dustrial development ORE GON WILL SUFFER in the competition for new indus tries. That's the long and the short of it. IUHO is this Dr. Sly? ' He is the director of Princeton University Surveys. He was hired by the Oregon Development Department to study Oregon's tax situation, with particular emphasis on its tax CLIMATE so that an intelligent conclusion can be reached as to whether or not Oregon is competitive, tax- wise, with other states that are seeking industrial develop ment in competition with Ore gon. He will appear before a joint session of the legislature early in January to discuss his report. He is an impressive character. He knows his sub ject. In talking with him, one gains the impression that he keeps his feet on the ground and his head out of the clouds. He is PRACTICAL in his approach to the subject he has been hired to investigate and discuss. If the Oregon legisla ture gives heed to his advice and comes up with a tax pro gram designed to accomplish the objectives he suggests and if the people of Oregon support such a program he will have earned his fee. 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