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4 Tuesday. January 13, 19S9 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. MEDFORDeSTBTBUUB Tveryone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager 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 ot March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Dailr and Sunday 1 year 15.00 Daily end Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily ami Sunday 3 mos. 4zo Sunday Only One year S4-20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Cioid Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Ri er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year S18.00 Daily and SunJcy 1 mo. 1.5J 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 ASbcC&Tl(Q)N sua Flight fo Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 13. 1949 (Thursday) About 125 volunteers re spond to an appeal from the Jackson County Red Cross, particularly for work on the Camp White veterans' home. Medford mills, which cur tailed operations when the ex cessively cold weather threat ened power supplies, are back In full swing today. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 13, 1939 (Friday) The district attorney's office announces an intensive drive to stamp out cattle rustling in Jackson county. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The first winter vacationist has re turned from California, wish ing her had his money back." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 13. 1929 (Sunday) Local fruit men agree that that pear boxes must have "eye appeal." Medford schools rank sev enth in the state in English courses. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 13. 1919 (Mondayl A soup kitchen is set up at Roosevelt school to provide hot meals for children. Plenty of farms are avail able .here for returning sol diers. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or lix is good. 1. Is tapioca obtained from the roots of the cassava, or guava? 2. Is the Roman arch round, or pointed? 3. Who popularized the word "libido"? 4. What is the I.O.O.F.? 5. Who wrote, "To err is human, to forgive divine"? 6. Is the Dominion of Can ada a member of the Pan American Union? 7. Is the speaker of the House of Representatives se lected by the entire House or the majority party? 8. Who won the heavy weight boxing title from Jess Willard? 9. How many outs in an in ning of baseball? 10. Is a nephogram a medi cal chart, a smoke signal, or a photograph of clouds? Answers: 1. Cassava. 2. Round. 3. Freud. 4. Inde pendent Order of Odd Fel lows. 5. Alexander Pope. 6. Mo. 7. Majority party. 8. Jack Dempsey. 9. Six. 10. Photo graph of clouds. March of Dimes Cans Being Distributed Employees of Empire Dis tributors were expected to complete distribution of the March of Dimes canisters to local business establishments today, according to Bart Gar red, co-chairman of the Med ford March of Dimes com mittee. The canisters are being placed on counters in stores to enable shoppers to contrib ute to the fight against polio, rheumatoid arthritis and birth defects. Alexander Mackenzie was the -first white man north of Mexico to cross North Amer ica. That was in 1793. The Challenges of 'Lunik' Russia's "Lunik" or moon-rocket now is safe ly in orbit around the sun, according to Moscow's calculations. A man who wrote a letter to the editor of the Portland Oregonian doesn't think so, though, for he states unequivocally that there is a force-field around each planet, and anything going out through it would be destroyed. We wonder how he knows? And we wonder how come, if there is such a "field," that meteors make a regular habit of plunging through it and landing on earth? IN ANY event, if we're sufficiently smart, we'll believe the Russians when they say (and are backed up by radioed messages from the rocket which were picked up by American listeners) that they have the necessary Sunday punch to send hardware to the moon and beyond. This Sunday punch demonstrates two things: capacity for effective military use, and, equally important in today's world, an understanding of the uses of propaganda, and of how to stir the uncommitted, the backward, the neutral nations of the world. pHE Eugene Register-Guard comments: "So far, the Reds have proved only that pie-in-the-sky is more appealing when flamboyantly advertised. "We still have the greater opportunity. We have far better propellants for purposeful action on our 'arsenal of humanity.' Liberty, faith, truth and broth erhood ignite more slowly than hate, tyranny, deceit, and brutality, but they develop more thrust behind a much more valuable payload. "Knowing now that we must, we can equal or sur pass the Soviets' stellar feats. At the same time we can impress the rest of the world with the fact that our basic goal is peace, not domination, both here on earth and wherever man is destined yet to travel." ' The wonder of it is. to us. that the Russian challenge to us both stars, and the appeal toward the hearts and loy alties of men has not aroused America to a oreat forward march. Amo.rica has the canacitv. as has been amply demonstrated in the past. ill 1 1 1 A T ' 1 What tnen do we laciu courageous leadership? IF IT IS, (and we see AmfiMM'c nrim rl n nan n7 suffer another two years of "drift"? Or can the congress, torn as it is by political dissensions, generate enough steam of direction to fill the vacuum : The New York Times feels that it must, and says: "It will be the duty of the new Congress ... to examine the President's budget for the next fiscal year in order to determine whether that budget pro vides adequate resources to do the job. Will that budg et provide enough resources for a sufficient number of space experiments, for basic research, and the like? "... We must really settle down for long-term competition in this field. Moscow obviously has far reaching plans for the conquest of space. The head of our National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Dr. T. Keith Glennan, said that we still have no such long-range plans." IT IS A multiple challenge which faces America. It is a military challenge, a challenge for world leadership, and, perhaps most important in the long run, a challenge to leadership into the new element of space. It will be a costly race, if the challenge is accepted. But the Oregon Statesman declares: "Costly, yes, indeed. Will the gain equal the cost? That question can't be answered positively. We have entered into a space age, and human beings can never hereafter remain earthbound in their thinking. God grant that they will use the knowledge they ac quire for the benefit and happiness of mankind." Amen. E. A. Principle and Jail Marie Torre, New York Herald Tribune tele vision columnist, emerges tomorrow from a ten day sojourn in jail. ' She was sentenced theretofor contempt of court when she refused to reveal the source of a news item about actress-songstress Judy Gar land. U. S. Judge Sylvester J. Ryan, who sentenced Miss Torre, called her the "Joan of Arc of her profession." 1I7E doubt that 10 days in a private, pastel- tinted cell with southern exposure constitutes martyrdom. Especially when one's ordeal is fur ther diluted by a flow of congratulatory letters, candy, fruit and flowers. Nor do revelations of Miss Garland's affairs constitute news of the same significance as state department policy decisions or disclosures of graft in the ranks of. officialdom. Protecting confidential sources, however, is a principle important to every reporter. In some areas, in fact, it has become a necessity for pro viding readers with adequate news coverage. TTHE First Amendment's freedom of the press 1 guarantee proved not enough in itself to keep Marie Torre out of prison. But, as she said last week, her example may lead to legislation. Twelve states already recognize the reporter's privilege on their books. And if such legislation is indeed required to safeguard the gathering of news, then we are hopeful the lawmakers in other states including Oregon will hasten its passage. E.W, in the flight toward the is it imaginative ana no other reason for Whof f li on ? TWiicf xrra and find enough sense Dennis the 'I'm not Accusm ah)Ohb. i just said iM not mm AHY MUSHROOMS 7WTAK WILSON Om &$ !' Matter of Fact THE CROSS OF GOLD Washington - "Can govern ment based upon liberty per manently endure, when cease lessly c h a 1 lenged by a dictator ship (control ling great and growing) eco n o m i c and military pow er?" The Presi dent opened 4ospb Alsop n i s siaie oi the Union message with this glum inquiry. It was the most important thing in the whole message, too. Here, in this question . of the President's was the essential clue to the central mystery of the Eisen hower administration. The mystery itself can be simply stated. From the out set, the Eisenhower adminis tration has persistently starv ed the national defense of the United States. By now, the re sulting upset in the military power balance has gone terri fyingly far. But the President is still starving the national defense in the face of the open military threat to Berlin. AS THE President is neither a criminal nor a lunatic, there must be some rational explanation of this seemingly irrational course of action. If you read his seemingly rehe torical question in its real context, you have the expla nation. The context of the Presi dent's question was best sum med up by the former Secre taory of the Treasury George M. Humphrey, who still has more influence at the White House than any other single individual. Humphrey once declared, with absolute seri ousness, that "two more years of Truman budgets would have caused this country to go Communist anyhow." This conveys the basic idea that Humphrey and the other men of his school succeeded in implanting in the Presi dent's mind at the very begin ning. The Humphrey Idea had a lot of trimmings, such as the famous, totally phony quotation from Lenin to the effect that Communism could force Capitalism to spend it self to death for defense. (Any real student of Communist theory of course knows that Soviet economists regard heavy defense spending as Capitalism's best escape from its "contradictions.") VyiTHOUT these trimmings, however, the Humphrey idea is simplicity itself. It is the idea that adequate invest ments in national defense are dangerous to the free enter prise system, and are there fore more dangerous to the United States than the Soviet Union's whole vast panoply of military might. It is the same idea, in fact, that kept Britain so long disarmed in the face of the rising threat of Hitler's military power. In Washington at the mo ment, moreover, this doctrine is being proclaimed with spe cial fervor for two related reasons. The first and most tangible is the drop in the gold reserve of rather more than $2,000,000,000 in the past 12 months. You might suppose that we would still have enough with a gold re serve that is stUl equal to the combined reserves of all the other nations in the world. But the drop in the reserve has nonetheless caused con sternation at the treasury. This is not surprising, either, since the similar gold loss in 1953-'55 caused George Hum phrey, Herbert Hoover Jr. and their allies to talk as though the end of the world were probably at hand. The second reason for the extra tenseness of feeling here is the report brought back from their recent trip abroad by Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson and the Chairman of the Federal Re serve Board William McChes- JESS'S Menace By Joseph Alsop ney Martin. Martin gave the substance of this report in a December speech in Chicago. He noted that "among intelli gent and perceptive men" abroad there was "a growing distrust of the future of the American doUar." He said that "to the foreigner, the dollar is a symbol of this country's strength." He blam ed the distrust principally upon the unbalanced budget. Anderson, taking the same ar gument a step further, has stated that this alleged dis trust of the dollar was the greatest single danger to the Western Alliance. A S LATE as October, a quite insufficient but still sub stantial increase in the de fense budget was still expect ed. The Anderson report and, the drop in the gold reserve caused the decision to hold the defense budget below the former total in the face of steeply rising weapons costs. No one at all seems to have thought of the other way out stopping the lying about our national situation; telling the country the plain truth about our danger; and asking the country to pay the taxes, in cluding if need be a Federal sales tax. In this way, the richest nation in all history could combine the two abso lute necessities, fiscal sound ness and adequate defense; but no doubt this road would be uncomfortable to take. (Copyright 1959. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) 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. Watches and Smog To the Editor: For years our watchmaker's have been making good watches. You can put them in water and beat them with a hammer, but they won't run in the smog. I've been in need of a wrist watch for some time, so I bought one. It had been drag ged across the Atlantic ocean behind an ocean liner, drop ped from the top of the Eifel tower, run over by Paris traf fic for weeks, and dragged all the way back to San Francis co. It never missed a tick, but I don't see how it could. I put it on my wrist and it started right in losing time. I took it down to the jeweler. He couldn't fix it. It's so darn waterproof, germproof, dust proof, and fireproof, he could n't open it with a blow torch. "What'll I do now?" I asked him. 'Take it home and put it. in the goldfish bowl," he says. That did the trick, but I want a wrist watch which will run in carbon monoxide gas, not in a barrel of water. Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) JAN 13, 1859 Oregon's cattle industry is born with the articles of agreement entered into by "settlers upon the Willam ette river," who are ton. inced of the importance of having neat cattle of their own. Unable to purchase cattle from the Hudson's Bay company, the newly formed Willamette Cattle company takes passage on the brig Loriot to Califor nia where they purchase Spanish herds and drive them back to Oregon. JAN. 13. 1902 "The monotonous din of compressed-air riveters and sledges (is) exceedingly Ike Moves Of Labor By LYLE C. WILSON Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhower has made the first big move in the Republican effort to t a g the Democrat ic part as a political in strument. His State of the Union Message did not, however, spell out what r vun'HSr the adminis tration evidently has in mind for organized labor. The la bor leaders are not going to like it when they get details of what is planned for them. Bully bosses of racketeering Editorial Comment CHAIRMAN WALTER'S LATEST Chairman Francis E. Walter of the House Committtee on Un-American Activities has been proposing that the Eighty-Sixth Congress endow him and his committee col leagues with power to deal with immigration and pass port questions, perhaps re naming the group the Com mittee on Internal Security. The inference might be that any citizen wishing to leave this country for a while or any foreigner wishing to come here is under suspicion of be ing un-American. There is no good reason for taking these powers away from the Judiciary Commit tee, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, between which they are now distri buted. There is no good reason for giving Representative Walter any more authority, any more responsibility or any more prominence. There is every reason for not doing this. The proposal has stirred up strenuous op position, including that of for mer Senator Lehman, who has stated that "it would label every alien a suspect and a possible subversive" and that it would be "an unbearable affront to millions of Ameri cans of foreign birth and de scent." Mr. Lehman's position is supported by spokesmen for groups interested in civil rights arid in the assimilation of the foreign-born. Fortunately the danger that the chairman of the Commit tee on Un-American Activit ies will have his way seems to have been averted. We now have the assurance of Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, that the Walter pro posal is doomed.-New York Times. REFRESHING NOTE One railroad which believes in doing everything it can to encourage passenger travel is the Union Pacific, which un fortunately does not serve Southern Oregon. In a recent advertisement, the Union Pacific again sets forth its policy about the pas senger business. "In the fact of all that has been said and written about railroads getting out of the passenger business, doesn't it seem strange that Union Pa cific should be so energetic and enthusiastic about pro moting passenger business on its streamliners and domelin ers?" asked the railroad. Then it continued, "Believ ing that if you create a better product people will buy it, Union Pacific in the last few years has invested over $31 million in new, modern pas senger equipment. Today, Un ion Pacific operates the finest, most luxurious transportation between the Pacific coast and Chicago. This is why Union Pacific advertises its passen ger trains. "But what ' "about planes? Aren't the air lines putting the trains out of business? No, Virginia, as long as there are people who prefer the finer things in life there'll always be those who will choose to ride on Union Pacific trains. Not all people believe that you have to 'break your neck' to get there. There are those who firmly believe that travel was meant to be enjoyed - not merely endured. And those who can afford to travel by train see no reason for paying more for something less." The aggressiveness with which Union Pacific is apply ing the "hard sell" to its pas senger service is refreshing in these days when so many rail road managements have one objective - discontinuance of passenger service. - Ashland Tidings. hard on the nerves" of Portlanders driving their buggies over the Morrison street bridge opening day. The planked roadbed is not. at all ample. As one news paper observed: "If a team should start across the bridge and meet another, there would be but one course to pursue-drive over the 8 x 8 timbers in any way possible." to Tag Democrats as Party Domination; Specifics Lacking unions and their strong-arm goons, bomb-throwers and bone breakers will like it even less. It seems reasonable to ex pect that the northern Demo crats in Congress will not like the administration program, either, and that they will vote it down in favor of the milder kind of legislation which Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) is scheduled to introduce. What President Seeks If it comes about that way, the Republicans will have made a pretty good start to ward creating for 1960 an is sue which could roll up some votes for their candidates if it were exploited. What the President proposed in last week's message was legisla tion to: Protect union funds from crooks. Provide for free and secret elections of union offi cers. - Protect and improve col lective bargaining. Protect the public and in nocent third parties from un fair and coercive practices such as boycotting and black mail picketing. This last proposition is the one with the stinger. Labor will cry out loud and long against it, and the Democratic majority almost inevitably In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Question for today: Where are we headed? Especially govern ment wise? WHAT of Oregon which is all snarled up in red tape and at the moment this is written doesn't know when it will get a governor or what he can do when? Well, Oregon will get a governor. And it will get a secretary of state. And the legislature wiU eventually convene and do the best it can under the circumstances to match up what the spend ers want with what the tax ers think the people will stand for. Oregon has had governor ship snarls before. Back in 1943, the inauguration of Earl Snell as governor was held up two days while the state senate battled over electing its president. But Snell became governor. There was another tangle in 1931. Julius Meier had been elected governor. Al Norblad was the defeated in cumbent. Let's tell the story from here on in the words of Charles A. Sprague, editor of the Salem Statesman and an ex-governor of Oregon. Mr. Sprague says in his personal column in the Statesman: rpHAT was back in the days - of the old Oregon capitol building. A c c o m modations were not very plus. Meier, a man of wealth, decided to install at his own expense restroom facilities in the gov ernor's suite. When carpent ers came to start work, Nor blad told them HE was gov ernor and didn't want them banging around before his term expired. So the job was deferred until after the in auguration. "This Chic Sales episode gave a Capital Journal col umnist, the late Don Upjohn, good material for his biting wit." THE point is that in 1931 Oregon got a governor. I think ve can be reasonably sure that in this third snafu an Oregon governor will again be inaugurated. Oregon has been referred to by scornful Easterners as 'the fool of the family," but for 100 years she has been flying with her own wings, as her state motto boasts. I think she'll go on flying and keeping a pilot at the controls. WHAT of California? Will it balance its budget ihis year? Or will it come out with a heavy deficit? Fiscal experts estimate that unless taxes are increased pretty sharply California's treasury deficit may run as high as 282 MILLION dollars during the next two years. That's a toughie. Spending is VERY popular everyhere. Taxes are highly unpopular in California as elsewhere. But I have an idea that the state of California will man age somehow to remain sol vent. What of our nation? Will the spenders gain complete control in Washing ton and run us ragged? I WOULDN'T know. Some odd delusions about public spending are loose in the world. But I cherish the notion that if every INDIVIDUAL American exercises reasonable care in the administration of HIS OWN AFFAIRS, and doesn't go deeper into debt than he can manage to pay out on, things won't turn out too badly. will vote it down. Blackmail picketing is known also as organization from the top. This is a strong-arm method by which a union organizer advises an employer that his workers have just been em braced by a union whether they like it or not. The em ployer must go along, the or ganizer means that he and his union begin at that mo ment to collect check-off dues from the employer although the workers may never have voted for the union; in fact, may have voted against it. Wants Stiff Penalties The administration wants stiff penalties against such goon-squad coercion. The em ployer will be able to seek an injunction against any pic ket line under such circum stances and get it before his business or property, is des Washington Report By WILLIAM Washington - The six years that have gone since Dwight D. Eisenhower was first inau- Igurated as President o f the United States have seen him turn the f u 1 1 c i r- l cle from lib eral Republi canism to tra dit i o n a 1 Re publicanism. Williams. , . White Few admin istrations in history have seen such alterations in atmosphere as the atmosphere of this ad ministration has changed from its springtime of 1953 to its present autumntime. In January of 1953 Mr. Eis enhower took office in a scene of "crusade," of high purpose, of stirring and almost youth ful hope and enthusiasm. The rascally Democrats had at long last been thrown out -after "20 long years," as the Republican slogan of protest put it. The President's emphasis then was on doing things, on taking chances, on recaptur ing initiatives which he said had been lost by the Demo crats in domestic and foreign policies alike. The tone was one of a rolling-up of sleeves, of "making America over" - though hardly in the sense that the Roosevelt brain-trust-ers had meant half a genera tion before. XTOW, in January of 'l959, ' Mr. Eisenhower's empha sis is simply on holding the line, on saving money, on running a tight, safe, but en tirely unimaginative ship of state. The man who was then the fresh, new hero of the new Republicanism - "Eisenhower Republicanism" it was called - is quite another kind of hero now. At last he fully repre sents the old Republicanism- whose first, last and middle names are caution, caution, and caution. Though the old Republicans had fought the nomination of Mr. Eisenhower in 1952, it is clear now that it was only a battle they lost, and not a war. Indeed, they have now won the war, if belated is their victory. For the President has come around to their way of think ing on nearly every issue be fore the country. Many indi cations of his progressive con version had long been dis cernible. But it is in his State of the Union message to Con gress that the full, profound implications become apparent for all to see. rpHIS is the wide, real issue -- that faces the new Demo Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. troyed or any arms and legs are broken by the goon-squad enforcers. The union will have to show a real desire on the part of the employees to join up. The administration wants complete disclosure of union finances with authority for the Labor Department t o check the reports and to loose the FBI on unions with a hoodlum tie-up. The requirement for com plete disclosure, plus power to investigate, plus severe penalties would, in effect, put racketeering unions out of business by depriving them of their tax exempt status and of their rights under the Na tional Labor Relations Board. That is what the administra tion wants and what the union leaders and the northern Dem ocrats do not want. S. WHITE cratic Congress; the Presi dent has now committed him self, in a rarely plain-spoken way, to a highly conservative and thus. highly "Republican" finale to his Administration. His old rival, Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, is long dead. But the mind of this Adminis tration is now to a great de gree the mind of Taft. There is an odd strength in the erosive effect of political regularism on those who may seek and reach office as reb els from that regularism. No better example of this has been seen. The longer the President has been in the White House, as one looks back upon it, the less he has been influenced by the mo dern Republicans whom at the outset he had been thought to typify. Why is this so? First, whenever the going has been hard the President has increasingly turned as a commanding general will usu ally turn in crisis to the sen ior colonels, so to speak. And the senior colonels in the GOP are the old-fashioned Republicans. The ablest of the liberals, in the hierarchy of the party, wear the major's gold leaf, at best, and, more often, only the lieutenant's bar. SECOND, the regular and the Old Guard Republi cans whom Mr. Eisenhower defeated in his first nominat ing convention refused to treat the defeat for a moment as a final one. They picked themselves off the floor, and bore in again. They set out at once, with Taft giving the cue, to support the President, to a point-but slowly and subtly to guide an Administration they could not entirely lead. Old Guard Republicans have at least one powerfully useful instinct - a sense of discipline. They will go a good way in rebellion. But it is simply not in thent - as it is easily in their Democratic counter parts among the Deep South erners - ever to break finally and openly with whoever reaches the headship of their party, no matter who he is. This Old Guard, in a word, will surrender (seemingly); but it will never die. It has learned long since to fight and then, if necessary, to run away so as to be able to fight another day. And this, as the Eisenhower years have spun out, the Old Guard has done. The end of the story thus is that they have won the last victory: This Administration is closing as a "regular" Re publican administration. And the President seems too set now to change again. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) "OLD STUFF , BUT TRUE1" "Doth not the wise merchant in every adventure give part to have the rest assured?" So said Sir Nicholas Bacon in 1 859 and a hundred years later it's still good advice. HOW ARE YOU FIXED FOR INSURANCE? Bill Fish tSlJ. -,M,$ LAL
