4 Monday, January 12, 1959
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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
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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.
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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.'
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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.)
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