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4 Monday, January 12, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. MEDFOBDSLSrTBIBUire Tveryon lc Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune,r Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North F:r St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR, 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 Medford Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mot, 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.43 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUay 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of 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. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL lAc5" asssisraa 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 Jan. 12. 1949 (Wednesday) Private citizens in Ashland try to settle the hassle be tween Mayor Tom Williams and the city council while re call petitions for three city councilmen are circulated. Medford's weather grows warmer again, with a low of merely 12 degrees last night. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 12. 1938 (Thursday) Tickets are now on sale for the Southern Oregon Concert association's presentation of "Opera Intime." From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A 'true-blue Democrat. - called yesterday. He sure was blue about it." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 12, 1929 (Saturday) An election is to be called soon to vote on airport bonds. The Jackson county budget for the coming year is com pleted, and calls for the rais ing of $662,562. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 12. 1919 (Sunday) The Southern Pacific depot receives a new coat of paint, both inside and out. A crowd at this same depot welcomes homecoming sold iers. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Are all four feet of a galloping horse ever off the ground at the same time?' - 2. Is a coot a bird, an in sect, or a fish? 3. What is the name for a solid object having twelve plane faces? 4. What is the origin of the name Friday? 5. Who won the first Tun-ney-D e m p s ey heavyweight championship fight? 6. Correct the following: "There are two reasons, neither of which are men tioned." 7. Into what body of water does the Ganges river empty? 8. Name the writ com manding a person to appear before a court to testify as a witness. 9. ' What university, found ed in 1636, has been con tinuously operated longer than any other institution of higher learning in the U.S1? 10. How many keys are on a standard piano keyboard? Answers: 1. Yes. 2. Bird. 3. Dodecahedron. 4. From the Norse . goddess. Frigga. 5. Tunney. 6. ". . . neither of which is . . ." 7 Bay of Ben gal 8 Subpoena 9. Harvard. 10. 83. State Motpr Vehicle Address Changed Salem Oregon motorists who must renew their"auto- mobile registrations by Jan 31 are asked to mail applica tion forms and fees to the Department of Motor Ve hicles, 1905 Lana ave., Salem The agency moved to new quarters early this month. Applications for new tabs can be made by sending the current registration certifi cate with the required infor mation entered on the reverse side and a $10 check or money order to the department's Lana ave. address. Swan Few people pay much if any attention to the message given to a new legislature by an out going governor. This is natural enough. His official power is gone; he is, in a political sense, a "has-been," for the time being anyway, .and everyone is con centrating on what the new governor has in mind and will recommend. The outgoing governor's message, then, is sort of a swan song plaintive, perhaps, but not of much immediate and practical moment. HPHIS undoubtedly is tine in the case of Gov. Robert Holmes, who, if all goes well, will be an ex-governor by the time this appears in print. But his message, scheduled for delivery to the legislature early this afternoon, is a good one, born of two years experience in a political "hot seat," and shorn of most if not all political bit terness and back-biting. He advises- the legislature to proceed with caution, in view of the conservatism in fiscal matters shown by voters in the last election. DUT he also sounds a warning that the state is at a cross-roads, and if in its 101st year it is to forego the need for progressivism, and a real istic look ahead, the results will haunt the state in the years to come. The last part of the message, in our view, was contained in those paragraphs near the end where he sounded this warning. It was, perhaps natur ally, overlooked by the wire services' coverage, which was devoted to the more practical aspects of his recommendations concerning the budget, bond issues, and so on. But here, distilled from his experience, is Gov ernor Holmes' look ahead : ". . . We live in a more complex, not a simpler world; we live in a more dangerous, not a less danger ous world; our obligations are more, not less serious, -and our choices are clearer, not less clear. "The amount of money we are spending for edu cation is woefully inadequate now. We not only lag behind Russia, we lag behind our own faith in the value of education in a democracy. We are not provid ing the money necessary to strengthen community ser- - vices in the areas of health and welfare and to revise old and costly programs of vast institutions centrally located for the care of the physically and mentally ill. We are not building the roads we ought, to build to' . accommodate our own communities and our own ec onomy. We are not facing up to the fact that the pres ervation of our cultural and political freedom is costly -terribly costly, and that it will cost us more and more for a long time to come. ". . . Eventually we in Oregon will choose between paying the taxes we ought to pay, or of suffering a decline both in education and in all other state ser vices. I recommend then, that you abide by this budget in order to keep faith with the voters' expression at the polls, but that you do it with your own eyes open and your voices clear to tell the people that sooner or later we must face up' to our real obligations and our real duties as citizens . . ." WE WILL, if course, simply have to wait and can i-F fit OfTi T .aorriclofifTi AccomVilw folroc; heed of Holmes' advice, and to see if Governor Hatfield has the same sensitive appreciation of what this business of government is all about. There will be thousands of little issues to be solved in the next 90 or ture deliberates. But, as we see it, there is only one big one. And that is whether Oregon is eroincr to accept its obligations or whether it is going to shirk tnem ; wnetner it is going to do the job that should be done, or let it slide: whether it is going to be realistic about the state's needs, or whether it will fecklessly wait to see if "something turns up." The governor and legislature should give heed to Bob Holmes' swan song. E.A. .The Resolution To Diet The spirit is still willing but the flesh is apt to get weak along about the middle of January. By that time the mortality becomes heavy in good New Year's resolutions. In none is it heavier than in the one to take off some weight. Everyone agrees that persons who're too fat, one in -every four of us, run more risk of death tharr if they weren't. More complex, however, are the answers to twro related questions: (1) just how fat is too fat? and (2) What s the best way to take it off? I JNTIL recently the second question seemed answered easily: Eat less, especially of fats. Now the authorities warn us that- it's not that simple. For one thing, there's fat and fat. Animal fats are thought more of a villain than non-ani mal ones in producing the cholesterol that thick ens artery walls. - And even here there's doubt. For it may be something amiss with an individual's system, like faulty metabolism, that keeps any fats from be ing properly absorbed. fat milk, butter, fish" highly nutritive. And harmful as obesity, if not For some it's more causes over-eating: emotional maladjustment, real troubles, boredom, maybe just habit. One thing is sure: faddy diets, anti-weight pills and drugs, devices to roll the fat away all are use less. They could even be worse than useless. Bet ter let your doctor be your guide. E.R.R. Song 100 days as the legisla Major sources of animal oils, certain meats are malnutrition can be as more so. than sheer gluttony that Dennis the ON THE ROAD TOAWiDA Matter of Fact ITS BEEN MY LIFE" Washington - The young men were bitter and desperate for strong leadership. The old men were bit ter for the r e a s ons old men have. The party c h i e f t ains, fearful of the future, were seeking a quick sacrifice to propitiate jnstpb Aisop xne nam gods of politics. It would have been dif ferent, of course, if the last election had turned out dif ferently. It would have been different, too, if the Presi dent of the United States were not the irremovable, unchallengeable head of his party during his whole term in the White House. In their present mood, the Congres sional Republicans would surely have risen against Dwight D. Eisenhower, if that road had been open to them. But that road was not open, so they rose against the exist ing leadership in the House and Senate. Old Joe Martin is kindly, loyal, endlessly hard working, but he is less tough and less efficient than the leaders in the Senate. So Martin became the scapegoat for the Republican Party's crowding misfortunes at the opening of the seventh Eisen hower year. PARTY loyalty, which is his ' "vii; .a k-vu( lux uiua me brusquely dismissed leaders of the House Republicans from blurting out such crude, un fashionable truths as the fore going. Yet his dismissal, after a third of a century in the House and just short of 20 years in the leadership, has left Joe Martin auite visiblv rueful and hurt. "If you'd done everything Ike ever asked you," he said sadly, "wouldn't von think he'd stand by you? All he had to do was pick up the tele phone; but he didn't. That's his way, of course, and I don't blame him personally. He was very kind after the result, really very kind. I'm sure he wasn't in it, but some of his people were; and so were Nixon and the Dewey crowd. They had to be. A man like Charley Halleck can t come up and beat the leader all by himself. "They said I didn't fight the Democrats hard enough. Well. I had to get votes from Sam Rayburn and McCor- mick to put Ike s program through, didn't I? You can give 'em hell safe enough, if you have the votes. But we're a minority, as Halleck will find out soon enough. "The truth is, I'm glad to be out. The next two years are going to be very rough. That's another thing Halleck will find out. But I wasn't glad to be beaten. I've never been beaten before in my whole life. And you don't like being left by fellows you've always depended on and tried to help. I didn't like that, either." rpHE OLD man - he is 74- half shook his head, as though to shake unpleasant thoughts out of it, and turned to talking of the past. No American will ever again have the same sort of career as this small-town black smith's son, who went to work at $10 a week when he left high school; saved half his salary; and joined in buy ing the local newspaper with the thousand dollars he had banked at the end of four years. Small town editing got him into politics. He managed the last campaign of the first Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge. He came to the House a marked man, in 1924, because he was a friend of the enigmatic Coolidge. Nicholas Longworth first brought him into the narrow circle that runs the Menace By Joseph Alsop House.. And he still looked back on the time of Long worth and John Nance Gar ner as a halcyon era. "Those were the days of the bi-partisan room, where Nick and Jack Garner used to get together and settle things over a drink," he says. "They were my friends, and I'm proud of it. Of course I didn't drink with them or play poker with them. I never did drink or play. All I've ever done is work. It's been my life, the work of the House; and it s been a good life. IN THE last week of the last spssinn. ht nut in Qfi hours (his secretaries counted) on the work of the House. He paid for that with a blood clot in his leg. Six doctors he assures you, say the leg is all right. He carries a re assuring letter from one of them, which he shows his visitors. But still, the illness worries him, for he has never been really ill before. He will take a little vacation, to "get really cured." After that, he will come back "to be an independent member." He adds hastily, "I don't mean politically inde pendent. 1 11 always be a regu lar Republican. I mean free to do what I like which the leader isn't." Speaker Ray burn, his old friend, has of fered him any office he chooses in the Capitol. He has a committee, "the committee furtherest from this earth, the Space Committee, which does not interest him greatly. 3ut he will find work some how because, as he repeats, "the work of the House is my life, and I guess it will be to the end." (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment A POINT IN TIME A point occupies no space Lines intersect at a com mon point, but the point oc cupies no space. Apparently this phenome non in he concept of space is to be applied in the con cept of time. Mark Hatfield has resigned as secretary of state, the resig nation to be effective when he is inaugurated as governor. And Governor Holmes has appointed Dave O'Hara sec retary of slate, effective at the moment when Hatfield vacates that office. Hatfield, however, says he will name his man for secre tary of state when he is inau gurated as governor. So in sight are two "poli tical" lines crossing a com mon point in time: the mo ment when Hatfield vacates one office and simultaneously assumes another. The Supreme Court will have to decide whether that point has enough duration for Holmes to name the new sec retary of state, or not. Medievalists used to argue about how many angels can dance on the point of a needle. The Supreme Court will have to decide who at a given mo ment of time, a moment with out duration, is governor and who may be secretary of state. Now we respect the wis dom of our Supreme Court in matters of law; but how they will resolve this conun drum of physics, involving both time and space, is a matter on which I shall await the demonstration. One thing does seem cer tain, there can be only one secretary of state, as was re marked by Senator Vanden berg in a very different con nection when Henry Wallace, secretary of commerce, start ed talking like a secretary of state when Jimmy Byrnes, the appointed secretary, and Vandenoerg were in Paris wrestling with the Russians. Lawyers though are said to be drafting briefs, spiced with legal citations and such, for In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS On Wednesday Ike deliv ered to the congress his mes sage on the State of the Un ion. It contains about 5,000 words. Printed in full, it would fill about a solid page in this newspaper. It's pre-, paration has taken weeks of time. The mere reading of it to congress took about an hour. , So don't expect to gain a full understanding of it by reading the headlines and glancing at the first few para graphs of the story. IT'EEP this in mind: Ike's political job is to convince the country that a GOP administration is needed now and will be needed AFT ER 1960. The political job of the congress, which is heavily dominated by Democrats, is to convince the country that the GOP administration must be THROWN OUT in 1960 and a Democratic administra tion put in its place. If you keep that situation clear in your mind, you will find it easier to understand what is going on. BACK now to Ike and his mpssappwhiph ran nnlv be highlighted here. He starts off by admonish ing the heavily Democratic congress to "help maintain the marked forward thrust of our economy by CUTTING THE COST OF GOVERN MENT and adopting his forth coming BALANCED budget." He adds: "We can afford everything we CLEARLY NEED for the military and for the nation's progress, but we cannot af ford one cent of waste." . That is to say: We can't afford to spend any money in the wrong places. TTE CALLS for resolute ac--"--l tion by government, bus iness and labor to curb "the wage-price spiral" and pre vent further declines in the value of the dollar. That's a toughie. We all want what we can get. We're much more interested in what WE get than in what the oth er fellow gets. That's deeply rooted in human nature. But There are dangers. If we aren't careful, we can PRICE OURSELVES OUT OF WORLD MARKETS. Already foreign automobiles, to mention only one item, are doubling their sales in the United States each year. That can't be laughed off. TTE CLOSES by appealing to lawmakers of both par ties to "join in cooperative work to build a better Ameri ca." He says to the members of the congress, and, over their heads, to the people of the United States: "The basic question facing us today i more than just mere survival- the military defense of a national life and territory. ' It is the preserva tion of a way of life. We must meet the world challenge and at the same time permit no stagnation in America. Unless we progress, we regress." rpHAT IS a serious matter. We mustn't forget that the overall objective of com munism is to conquer the world. We are the chief de fender of the free world. If we weaken ourselves-by too reckless spending, for ex ample, on things that are not fundamentally essential the free world can GO DOWN. It's just that serious. AH in all, the President's State of the Union message deserves the thoughful and serious and non-partisan con sideration of the American people. TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) JAN. 12. 1853 An "Act to Establish the Willamette University" at Salem passes the territorial legislative assembly, and the Methodist denomina tional school's first board of twenty-six trustees in cludes David Leslie, George Abernalhy, and A s a h e 1 Bush. ammunition in the court bat tle. The issue comes back though to determining who is what at an evanescent mo ment in time, a moment, like a point, devoid of duration. This is a battle for the his tory books as well as the law reports. -Ex-Gov. Charles A. Sprague in Oregon Statesman, Salem. PUBLISH U.S. BOOKS . London - (UPD Moscow Radio said Sunday night that at least 600 American books have been published in the Soviet Union since World War II, with a total of 50 million copies printed. 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 clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Criticizes Egg-Throwers To the Editor: There is a driving force behind me push ing me to write these few lines. I have always been a radi cal advocate of freedom in all things. I have nothing but ut most respect for any one who believes and voices his opin ions on anything. But, I am now ashamed of some of my fellow Americans. The treatment afforded the Russian envoy in Tiis tour of our country makes me wish I could mete out the punish ment I feel is due this very small minority. Believe me, they would throw no more eggs at anyone for several years. Where in the world did they get the idea that these actions are American? If they are right, then I have been wrong all of my 43 years. Thank God, I have not lost nor abused the respect I have for the human dignity. - All those so-called Ameri cans who act thusly are cer tainly not citizens of my country in the sense I am. Judge me if I am wrong. Donald D. Doud, Gold Hill, Ore. From UMC To the Editor: Allow me this means of expressing the heartfelt thanks of the United Medford Crusade. Again Med ford "leads the way" in set ting an example for the rest of our state by being the only united fund drive that has constantly met its goal. For the sixth consecutive year, our established goal has been met and exceeded. Thus, we assure our children and our neighbors' children of the many vital community serv ices offered though our UMC agencies. As publicity director for the gampaign, may I take this means to express our parti cular thanks for the excellent co-operation of the Mail Trib une in making this campaign a success. Your continued in terest exemplifies your de sire to make Medford and our state the best possible place for growing youngsters. Looking forward to- work ing with you again in the fu ture. Herb Partridge Publicity Director UMC No Middle Ground To the Editor: The many articles offering from time to time in your paper relating to new scientific discoveries about life deserve a comment No doubt they are released to give emphasis to the marking of the 100th anniversary of Darwin's Theory of Evolu tion, now being noted by scientists everywhere. Without getting into an ar gument by quoting the Bible, I believe this question de serves serious thought by any one who understands what is at stake. Basically it is this: either man is a triune being composed of body, soul and spirit, or he is just a bundle of nerves and electrons. Eith er man has life beyond this world, or he returns to dust when his heart stops beating. If this world is all there is for man, then life is a joke and means nothing. If this be true, then might makes right, and since man counts for nothing individually, he should be used to make a new world free of supersti tion and foolish ideals. This is what Karl Marx taught. It is being practiced by Communists everywhere today. If we, who accept Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the Bible as God's word, are fools, then Communism is right. If there is no moral law and no God who cares for each individual and wants to save him, then Communism will control the world within 10 years. Today they have the resources to do it, and are right on the schedule 4aid out by Lenin in 1917. You cannot split the dif ference. There is no middle ground. Either Jesus Christ or Lenin and Marx has the right answer. Time will telfwhich is right. To believe Christ means only a broken dream if he never rose again. To re ject him is eternal doom if he returns as he promised. Parker Bailey, 542i a- St. Ashland, Ore. 3 Times Faster Relief Certified laboratory tests prove BELl-ANS tablets neutralize 3 times as much stomach acidity in one minute as many leading digestive tablets. Get BELl-ANS today for the fastest known relief. 35 at druggists. Send postal to BELL-ANS, Orangeburg, N. t for liberal free sample. Washington Report By WILLIAM LIBERAL WEAKNESS Washington The basic weakness of the advanced, or professional, liberals is being shown so repeatedly that their power in the new Congress may turn out actually to be less than in the old. This is a seemingly in credible situ ation. For on the basis of the November elections, the ultra-conservatives should have their lowest influence in two decades. And it is bad news, too, for a rational, or effective, liber alism as well as for this emo tional, or ineffective, liberal ism. What is this profound weakness of the advanced lib erals? Their ideas academical ly are far stronger than their ability to put them into ac tion. They lack proportion and a grasp upon reality. They are daily alienating the practical liberals, with whom useful common causes could be made - if only the professional liberals were not alone so almost religiously right on every possible occa sion. The result weU may be that an undue and unearned power wiU fall by default to the ultra - conservatives. Al ready, indeed, exactly this has happened among the Sen ate Republicans. AT LEAST three times al-k- readv the advanced liber als have demonstrated their odd ineffectuality: , 1. The ineptness of their de feated campaign to unseat some of the Old Guard Re publican leadership in the Senate has only consolidated that leadership. And they have gone out of their way to make the country suppose that liberal Republican ideas took a beating. What actually took a beat ing, instead, was a widely un realistic leadership slate of fered by the liberals against part of the Old Guard regen cy headed by Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire In putting Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky up to oppose Senator Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois for the GOP floor leader's post, the professional liberals made every possible mistake.-Senator Cooper has true intellec ROCKEFELLER IN ARMY New York (UPD Steven Rockefeller, 22, son of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, was sworn into the Army Sunday and later left for Fort Dix, N.J., for eight weeks basic training. William S.' White Hear Your FAVORITE HYMNS on KM ED EVERY SUNDAY Sung by "Tennessee Ernie" Ford Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) . Perl BSmPQ S. WHITE tual distinction and rare cour age and integrity. He is, how ever, a shy man, far removed from the company comman der type that makes a good floor leader. rpHE sensible alternatives to - pressing Mr. Cooper-who is not himself a professional liberal-would have been quite plain: (A) Not to challenge the Old Guard at all if humil iating defeat could be the onlv possible reward. (B) Or, at least to make the challenge with a rival candidate known to have practical. oDeratine skill. Finally, the professional lib erals prepared their case, characteristically, by issuing manifestos. The Old Guardists simply lay low-and gathered up the required votes. 2. Again, many of the ad vanced liberals-who tend to suppose that any chanee must be good-rushed into happy embrace with some of the most right-wing Republicans in the House. The conse quence here was to replace the old GOP leader, Rep. Jo seph W. Martin Jr. of Massa chusetts, with Ren. Charles Halleck of Indiana. " Martin, of course, is no lib eral. But Halleck is a tough, able, typical Midwest Repub lican. He is likely to give the time of day to the profession al liberals even less frequent ly than Martin did. Thus, the top official GOP leadership in both houses has passed to men from the Middle West, a re gion that for 20 years has fought all liberalizing move ments within that party. O THE advanced liberals In both parties have got off to a very poor start in trying to change the Senate filibus ter rule. (The filibuster, of course, is deliberate time killing to prevent a vote on a bill.) Naturally, they set out, under the leadership of Sena tors Paul H. Douglas (D.-Ill.) and Jacob K. Javits (R.-N.Y.) with impossible rather than attainable demands. They wish to have the Senate agree that a filibuster can be halted hereafter by a bare majority, or a margin of one vote. The obvious reality is that most of the Senate, including many authentic liberals, know this to be indefensible extrem ism. But the advanced liber als have been busier in pro claiming their fighting inten tions than in rounding up votes. ' ' Theoretically, all things are conceivable. So it is perhaps even conceivable that the pro fessional liberals can have their way here. But, if they do, it will be the authentic miracle of this calendar year. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT FRIENDLY, HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
