4 Tuesday, December 23, 1938
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Flight 'o Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years, ago. .
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23, 1948 (Thursday)
Santa arrives by train from
the North Pole and passes out
candy and oranges nearly 700
children.
- -The traditional- alK school
Christmas music urogram in
the high school auditorium
draws enthusiastic comment.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23. 1938 (Friday)
Lee and Bob Brown have
gathered some 1,500 pounds
of mistletoe in the Applegate
district for shipment to Port
land. From Arthur Perry"! "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Dear
Kris Kringle: Make the fish
In Rogue River "bite, whether
or not they feel like, it."
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23, 1928 (Sunday)
H. W. Conger, "genial coun
ty coroner," protests having
to pay a city parking ticket,
but eventually relents and
remits.
Deadline for Ou tdoor
Christmas Lighting contest
fast approaches.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23, 1918 (Monday)
Flu masks are no longer
required on the -street, but
must still be dworn among
people indoors and at' public
gatherings.
A reconstruction program
gets underway here to provide
jobs for returning servicemen
What Y Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten' correct it superior;
even er eight is excellent; five oi
is it good, v
1. Identify "The Perfect
Fool" of stage, screen and ra
dio.
2. Who was King of Spain
when Columbus discovered
America?
3. Galleon is "the name of
a trade wind, unit of measure
ment, or 15th century sailing
vessel?
4. Where is the "Grand Na
tional Steeplechase " run?
5. A nonprofessional fin
ancial backer of theatrical
ventures is called an a ?
6. On the top part of many
compass scales, one will see
depicted a rose, a fleur-de-lis,
or a daisy?
7. A truffle is a table del
icacy; true or false?
8. Complete the quotation:
"New brooms "
9. What sort of serpent is
said to have caused the death
of Cleopatra?
10. Are there any movie
stars who are unable to sign
their names?
Answers: 1. Ed Wynn. 2.
Ferdinand V. 3. Sailing vessel.
4. Aintree. England. 5. Angel.
6. Fleur-de-lis. 7. True. 8.
"sweep clean." 9. An asp. 10.
Yes: Mickey Mouse etc.
Dewey To Leave
Hospital Today
Palm Springs- Calif. (LTD
Former New .York1 Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey expected
to leave the hospital today
and return to New York.
The two-time GOP presi
dential candidate was visiting
here Sunday when he was
stricken with the flu and
taken to Palm Springs Desert
hc,sjjitsL
An "M" on Roxy Ann?
The Medford Hi-Times, the well-edited stu
dent newspaper at Medford High school, pro
poses that a big "M" should be erected on the
slopes of Roxy Ann butte.
The paper finds it "odd" that this idea has not
been taken up seriously by anyone before, and
adds, "There is very little that could hamper put
ting an 'M' on- the mountain."
It further bolsters the idea as follows:
"Almost without exception, the schools in Wash
ington, Idaho and Montana all have their school letter
on the nearest available hill, and many of our Oregon
rivals do too ... As a matter of pride, we ought not
to be outdone by our rivals. With so many outstanding
achievements to our credit in sports, music and other
.. activities, it doesn't seem right to let neighboring
towns, with less reason, identify themselves as though
they had more to boast about than we do. So why not
: - show our school spirit with an 'M for Roxy Ann?"
WITH all due respect to the student editorial
ing question. He asks "Why Not?" We ask,
"Why?"
What would be gained by putting a big "M"
on the slopes of the lovely little-butte to the east?
Would it really assist school spirit? Would it
make Medford High's undoubted accomplish
ments any greater?
The editorial cites the fact that a lot of other
schools do it. That's about the poorest reason
we can think of. So what? Does Medford have
to do something just because a bunch of other
schools did so in the past?
TXTE'D much prefer to see Medford High school
write its records where it matters in
scholarship, in athletic competition, in musical
and forensic accomplishment, in the training of
good citizens than in the artificiality of a con
crete letter on the slope of a hill.
Rather than follow the lead of less-gifted
schools, we'd like to see Medford High school
continue to exert its leadership where it counts,
not in the realm of questionable or even phoney
school spirit.
Real "school spirit" can't be measured or per
petuated except in the souls and hearts and brains
of its students and alumni. E. A.
Old and New Stars .
Does it make any difference how old the stars
are?
Probably not, as a practical, everyday matter.
But in the world of science which is the world
created by mankind's inate curiosity and desire
to. know the whys and wherefores of our uni
verse it is a big and important question.
For the question has implications which are
fundamental to our entire concept of space and
time. Are we living in a universe which was cre
ated suddenly in some ancient explosion? Or are
we living in a universe which is constantly being
renewed in which Creation is a continuing
thing?
ASTRONOMERS, or
le in the Scientific American says:
"... Astronomers now agree that the sky Is popu
lated by objects of all ages, from very ancient stars
to those still in the process of birth."
The process is still not too wTell understood,
but basically it is suggested that vast clouds of
hydrogen form the raw material for new stars,
and that the process has been going on for bil
lions of years, with the ancient "cold" stars be
ing located nearer the center of the spiral galax
ies, and the younger, hotter stare in the swirling
arms.
The life of a man is but a fleeting micro
second in the formation of heavenly bodies, but
somehow it is more satisfying, philosophically, to
think of living in a universe which is itself grow
ing, developing and changing, than in one which
is static and dying. E. A. -
Lying Figures
"Figures don't lie, but liars figure," is an old
saying which has a lot of truth to it the same
as the similar one that "You can prove anything
with statistics."
For instance, the national debt is now about
$28.3,000,000,000, or about 2 per cent higher than
just after the end of World War II, in 1946. But,
because of the growth of population, it is 17 per
cent less on a per capita basis.
Do we, then, have more debt or less? .
The correct answer is "Both" more debt
than the total twelve years ago, but less per
person.
ANOTHER example:
Some forecasts place automobile production
at 5.7 million units in 1959, which would be about
the same as 1956 and a little more than 1954,
both good years. But, on a population or per
capita basis, the predicted 1959 output would be
6 per cent below the 1954 production.
All of which proves little except that most
things are relative, and that flat .statements of
fact often have to-be fleshed out- with some
"background" or added explanation before they
give any true meaning. E. A. , .
Cheer
If it makes anybody feel any better, the days
are going to start 'getting longer now. Monday
was the first day of winter, and the "shortest day
of .the. year J.' E. A. . .
many of them, are now
Up!
Dennis the Menace
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Washington Report
By William S. White
London-Hugh Gaitskell has
closed a civilized, highly de
cent but quite decisive hand
around the
British Labor
party.
The party, in
short, is firm
ly in the grip
of this leader
'.of the British
opposition -and
all this is
frnnrf npwc tn
William S. f. T, . . ,
wmte the United
States. Those who by Ameri
can standards are Labor ex-tremists-specifically
Aneurin
Bevan are no longer able to
raise much thunder on the
left. The left-wing of the La
bor party, of course, is not
finished. But it has been driv
en back to a more moderate
position by the realities of
British politics.
Thus if the Labor party
should oust the Conservative
government of Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan in the next
elections, Gaitskell would
come to power as a reasonable
man, by our measurement.
and not as any threat to the
Western alliance.
This correspondent recently
estimated Prime Minister
Macmillan to be an excellent
politician. At the risk of seem
ing now to be saying that
everything here is simply
peachy, it is necessary to re
cord that Gaitskell, too, is a
thoroughly grown-up, profes
sional politician.
H I S evaluation i s based
- mainly upon conversations
with detached people here. It
is based in part upon a talk
with Gaitskell himself, in his
little office in one of the most
beautifully shabby places in
the world - the House of Com
mons.
1 1 should b e emphasized,
however, that what follows
are purely personal impres
sions and that all that is said
here is solely upon the re
sponsibility of this columnist
and not upon Gaitskell's re
sponsibility. What has occurred in the
Labor party is much the same
as what has happened in the
Democratic party at h o m e.
The moderates are in control.
The old quasi - revolutionary
spirit among labor has large
ly died away because of the
vast improvement in the lives
of the ordinary people, much
as that spirit has gone from
the Democratic party since
the Roosevelt-Truman era.
Certainly, there are im
portant differences between
the Labor party here and the
Democratic party. But having
accepted these differences it
may be fairly said that Gait
skell in London is in a party
position not too dissimilar
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
"TITY POOR HUSBAND," sighed a well-upholstered house
iVl wife. "Last night he lost his entire savings."
"What are you going to do?" sympathized a friend.
"Mv cresent intention,"
said the housewife, "is to
invest half of it in a new
mink coat and take a
slenderizing course with the
other half."
Tve really got to do
something about my snor
ing," mourned a patient
"It's gotten so loud that now
I even wake myself."
"Nothing to it," soothed
the doctor. "Why don't you
just sleep in another room?"
An eager scanner of maps
declares he's located these fascinating towns' right here in the
TJ. S.A.: Noahs, Ark.; Near, Miss.; Fiveand, Tenn.; Dinah, Ho.; and
Vhis, Ky.
A staffer on a Dallas newspaper has revealed the true Identity of
Santa Claus. As you probably have suspected, he's & millionaire
Texan with a hobby.
O 135. by enMtt Csri. Distributed by King restores SyilflirsH, ....
from that of the untitled
Democratic chieftain at home,
Lyndon B. Johnson, the Sen
ate majority leader.
TN OTHER words, Gaitskell
- is the man of responsibility
in the opposition. He has got
to run the railroad. And be
cause he runs it in a practical
way, he is under pressure
from leftward colleagues very
similar to that being applied
to Senator Johnson from the
equivalent Democratic quar
ter. In neither case have these
more liberal colleagues any
chance or perhaps any real
desire to throw out the mod
erate leader. But neither lead
er -Senator Johnson in
Washington and Mr. Gaitskell
in London - is wholly com
fortable at suggestions from
the left that he has become
too soft with the opposition,
Gaitskell is lightly philo
sophic about these troubles,
whereas Johnson is often bit
terly and deeply wounded.
There are other divergences,
too. Perhaps the most impor
tant is that in British politics.
the boss is more truly the boss
of the party than can be the
boss at home. Indeed, this
may explain why GaitskeU is
more relaxed than Johnson
when party associates angrily
and vainly urge him on to
fights with the Conservatives
that would be very dramatic
but also very foolish.
TUT in deeper senses, the
Gaitskell-Johnson equation
is quite real. Each has been
required by current history to
draw back a little from pre
viously more liberal views.
Each understands that politi
cal leaders must do more than
engage in stirring and los
ing - battles. And each - as
different as they are in many
ways symbolizes the whole
story of the retreat on both
shores of the Atlantic from
the politics of protest of the
1930's. .
uaitskell simply cannot be
lieve that the trade unions in
his party are always and auto
matically right. Johnson must
be aware that Franklin Roose
velt and Harry Truman have
departed, and that for good or
ill we live in a new political
world in which the quiet tone
and the centrist policy are the
facts of political life.
As is true at home as be
t w e e n the Republican and
Democratic parties, the old
vast gulf between Conserva
tives and Liberals here has
narrowed almost beyond be
lief. Nearly everybody, reaUy,
is in the center the Con
servatives barely to the right
of center and Labor barely to
the left of center.
(Copyright, 1958, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Stop Me
Administration's Policy on Labor Union
Control Vague as 'Rules for Squat Tag'
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington -UPD- The policy
of the Eisenhower administra
tion on big, rich and ambitious
organized la
bor, seems to
be somewhat
vague, lixe the
ground rules
for playing
musical chairs
or, maybe,
squat tag.
Between
the adminis-
vi. r WiUon urauuii s wuui
policy and squat tag there is
another resemblance all
hands can get into the act at
once. For example: Postmas
ter General Arthur E. Sum
merfield was in New York the
other day speaking before an
assembly of manufacturers
about what he called the reck
Matter of Fact
QUEMOY AND BERLIN
Paris - The Paris rally of
the leaders of the West at
least showed absolute agree-
ISil ment on one
point: that
surrender at
Berlin will
amount in the
end to sur
render every
where. The
most cautious
and provincial
NATO part-
Jostpb AIsod "ers were
sure of this as Secretary of
State Dulles himself.
Nevertheless, the contrast
was striking between the
Western leaders' approach to
the Berlin problem and the
approach of Nikita Khrush
chev. All Khrushchev's dec
larations, notes, and cocktail
hour menaces about Berlin
can be boiled down to three
simple propositions, as fol
lows:
First, free Berlin is a "can
cer" on the body politic of the
Saviet satellite empire, and
the "cancer" must be cut out.
Second, "nobody" (mean
ing nobody In the West) is
going to fight an H-bomb war
for Berlin.
Third, however, the Soviet
Union is entirely ready to use
its great military power in
support of the East German
government, if the West
makes any attempt to break a
Berlin blockade imposed by
the Kremlin's Pankow pup
pets.
TiEHIND these three nrooosl
I tions of Khrushchev, there
is his knowledge that Berlin
cannot be sustained by an
other airlift, so the easy way
out that was taken in 1948
is no longer open in 1958. If
this is correct, and if Khrush
chev's second and third pro
positions are also correct, then
Berlin is already a doomed
city. In fact, if the Western
leaders are not fuUy prepared
to meet the terrible challenge
that Khrushchev is threaten
ing them with, it is their plain
moral duty to tell the free
Berliners to save themselves
while they can.
The leaders of the West are
agreed, however, that sur
render at Berlin will amount
in the end to surrender every
where. Hence, one may hope
there will be no surrender,
In these circumstances, the
contrast between Khrush
chev's discussion of the Berlin
problem in naked military
terms, and the failure of the
Western leaders to discuss the
problem in those terms is
rather glaringly significant.
F)R the West, if the easy
way out is closed this time,
the crucial point is obviously
Khrushchev's second proposi
tion. The Western allies do
not have enough conventional
military power to take on the
Red Army, without being
ready to use the strategic de
terrent too. Therefore, if Ber
lin is not to. be surrendered
in the end, the West must be
ready to fight an H-bomb war
for Berlin.
In this way, the Berlin cri
sis somewnat resemDies we
Quemoy crisis. For Quemoy,
in the last analysis, was saved
because the cold warriors of
the Kremlin and the Forbid-
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less wage and political de
mands of a few union leaders.
Summerfield also discussed
the problem of currency infla
tion which began under FDR,
continued with Harry S. Tru
man and is being carried on,
more slowly, under President
Eisenhower. Summer field
said one of the causes of in
flation "is found in the de
mands of union bosses the
new monopolists for wage
increases not warranted by
productivity gains." Summer
field continued: ,
Need For Legislation
"To prevent the extension
these inflationary wage in
creases, we need legislation to
restore democracy and respon
sibility in our labor unions, to
curb the present powers of the
union dicators, and, no less
necessary in the public inter-
By Joseph AIsop
den City were not ready to
risk a big war to win Quemoy.
Both sides in the Quemoy
fighting in fact allowed their
tactics and their decisions to
be largely controlled by the
strategic deterrent power of
the other side. Respect for the
Soviet strategic deterrent
caused President Eisenhower
to reverse all his "bigger bang
for a buck" directives, and to
forbid our forces to base their
planning on the use of tactical
nuclear weapons. The effect!
of the American strategic de
terrent on the Communists
was even more striking.
By continuing the Quemoy
blockade, and by mobilizing
more of their enormous mili
tary resources, the Chinese
Communists could surely have
taken the Quemoy Islands in
the end. But they could not
do this without risking more
intense and much wider fight
ing. The Chinese Nationalists,
for instance, would surely
have used their airpower
against mainland targets be
fore they let Quemoy faU. '
IF THE fighting had been
widened and intensified, in
turn, no one could be sure
where the process would end.
Therefore the Chinese Com
munists called off the attack.
They did this not because they
had been locally defeated, but
because they feared, or be
cause the Kremlin feared, the
American strategic deterrent.
There is one great differ
ence, however, between the
Quemoy crisis and the Berlin
crisis. At Quemoy, there was
room for a prolonged test of
wiU in actual combat. The
strange test, conducted with
real weapons, went on for
many weeks before Moscow
andor Peiping were convinc
ed that the will of the Chinese
Nationalists and their Ameri
can allies was too firm to be
tampered with. At Berlin, in
contrast, there is almost no
room at all for this kind of
prolonged test of will with
real weapons.
One .side cannot probe the
other side's intentions with
conventional arms without
forcing an immediate decis
ion, for or against the use
of the weapons of total de
struction. Any probing with
conventional arms by either
side wiU immediately engage
the other side's prestige to
the utmost. The side that
backs down after such a probe
will be universally considered
to be the defeated side.
In these circumstances,
since Khrushchev so plainly
conceives the Berlin problem
in straight military terms,
there is only one sane course
to adopt. This is the course
of using every means possi
ble, in advance of any final
test on the Berlin supply
lines, to convince Khrushchev
that he is altogether wrong!
in his second proposition. If
he can be made to believe
that the West would rather
fight a big war than surren
der at Berlin, and if 'he is
also offered a line of retreat
into East -West negotiations,
then there is every reason to
hope that a disaster canbe
avoided. But on the face of
the facts as known at present,
this is the only way to avoid
disaster.
(c) 1958 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
hi
esse inzisi
est, to redress the balance of
power as between unions and
managment.
"The principle of anti-trust
(the Sherman Act) should be
applied ... to this labor-boss
monopoly. America today
teters on the precipice of a labor-bossed
Congress. I think
it is high time that the Ameri
can people demand that the
political activity of organized
labor be brought within rea
sonable bounds, and clearly
governed by law."
The question arises, for
whom was Summerfield
speaking and, further, will he
take that bold stand when the
cabinet shortly considers the
labor sections of Eisenhower's
message to the new Congress
on the state of the nation?
Another question: If Eisen
hower's message rejects abso-lutely-which
it surely will
Summerfield's call for bare
knuckled labor legislation,
what will Summerfield do?
Will the Postmaster General
seize his hat, resign from the
cabinet and return to Michi
gan to see first hand how
Democratic Gov. G. Mennen
(Soapy) Williams and Walter
P. Reuther are doing?
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Preserving History
To the Editor: Congratula
tions to the Illinois Valley
Federated Women's club.
I hope their plans for restor
ation of the Stith-Naucke
house are fulfilled and sup
ported not only by Josephine
county but all southern Ore
gon.
Lessons of history are best
taught by this third dim en
sional method and are well
patronized by the traveling
public.
Janice G. Houghton,
Secretary
Siskiyou Pioneer Sites
Foundation .
Medford
Sales Tax? Yes
To the Editor: The working
men have been paying taxes
since the 13 states were or
ganized and will as long as we
have a government of these
United State, the state of Ore
gon, county of Jackson, and
the city of Medford. As for
the sales tax, if it will reduce
property taxes 10 or 20 per
cent, I am for it. .
Mr. Lauren Seymour stat
ed he lived in the Portland
area for many years and had
seen the Washington sales tax
in action.
Has he seen an Oregon sales
tax in action? -
Let's all do a little clear
thinking and tax all the peo
ple, not only those that are :
being taxed.
Yes, we have been paying
property tax, county, city, fed
eral, state, hidden, and other
taxes. But if a sales tax will
benefit the state and anil the
taxpayers by taxing all the
people, I say let's have a sales
tax.
R. H. Singler,
27 Rose ave.,
Medford.
Doll Showing
To the Editor: I wish to
state my sincere thanks to the
staff of the Medford Mail
Tribune and KBOY radio sta
tion for their wonderful co
operation, for the part they
had taken in letting the peo
ple of Medford and other
vicinities know about the
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Equal Cause
Summerfield could leave
now for equal cause. Labor
Secretary James P. MitchelF
challenged and repudiated the
Postmaster General's labor,
policy the moment it ap
peared. Mitchell said Eiesen
hower would make his own la
bor policy. ...
That is reasonable enough.
But, after the President has
made his policy, how will b
keep his cabinet associates in
line? Mitchell and Summer
field are so far apart on la
bor that one of them might
as well be on the moon.
Perhaps Eisenhower and
Summerfield are less far apart
although not likely. Eisen
hower did say during the cam
paign in California that cor
rupt unions should be fumi
gated. He did not repeat that
line, however, when he cam
paigned in New York tip
toed through New York, as
one reporter put it. Nelson A.
Rockefeller, running then for
governor, pointed up that
omission when asked about
the fumigation remark. Rocke
feller said he would not have
used the word.
open house" showing my doll
collection.
I am very much pleased
with the pictures, story and
the ad in Sunday's paper, and
thanks again tenfold.
To the folks who were un
able to see my doll coUection
during the Christmas rush,
and would like to see it, for
their convenience I will con
tinue to show them until New
Year's. School children ar
welcome and small children
should be accompanied by an
adult. If at any time you wish
any information, don't hesi
tate to call me at SPring
3-3433.
Thanks again to eveiyon
who took part in my "open
house." It was greatly appre
dated, and here's wishing you
all a very Merry Christmaa
and happy and prosperous
New Year.
Mrs. Flora Moore,
136 South Holly st, ;
Medford.
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nate our usual Christmas cards
this year. You'll find our sin
cere season greetings in the
form of a glass card on our
office window. ' It belongs to
each of you with our best
wishes.
Bill Fish