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4 Monday, January 26, 1939 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MedfordTeibunb "Everyone 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 HERB 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 ERICKSOX 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. nail- and Sundav 1 vear $15.00 Daily and Sunday mos. 8.00 Dailv ana sunaay -i mos. m 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 sunoy l mo. iju Carrier and Dealers copy 10c AU Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper or 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 Yorlc. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta, Vancouver B.C. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL asctin Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20,-30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 26. 1949 (Wednesday) Serious fuel shortages in the valley are confined to liquid petroleum, gas and wood, distributors reported. Construction started on trunk sewer system for south west Medford to cost $100, 000. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 26, 1939 (Thursday) Toastmistress club to be or ganized in Medford under the sponsorship of the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce. ; Jackson county council of the Shasta-Cascade Wonder land association starts drive to raise $3,000 as county's share of fund. I 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 26, 1929 (Tuesday) County tax levy for year cut to 19 mills. Medford men start wearing derby hats and supply fails to equal demand. Construction date for SOS packing plant announced 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 26. 1919 (Sunday) Talent irrigation bonds totaling $600,000 are sold. Good trout fishing reported in Aogue river, with many good catches. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 26, 1909 (Tuesday) John Norling is reported to have discovered a large de posit of iron ore assaying 51 per cent iron, one mile west of Jacksonville. Washington Governor-elect Samuel G. Cosgrove passed through Medford in his pri vate railroad car "California" which was attached to train number 16. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or mx is good. 1. With what historic event do you associate Cemetery Kidge? 2. Complete the following: "Something is rotten in the state of -." 3. Are all birds hatched from eggs? 4. Where did the x Wright brothers make their first air plane test flights? 5. What is the slang term ftr an out-of-date automobile, stripped down and having the engine stepped up for high speed? 6. Does the 1950 Census show that there are more males than females, or more females than males, in the United States? 7. Name the national flow er of England. 8. What Queen repeatedly said "Off with his head"? 9- Supply the missing word in the following, "Flow gent ly, sweet , ; among thy green braes." 10. What fraction of the hu man body is water. i Answers: 1. Battle of Get tysburg. 2. Denmark. 3. Yes. 4. Kilty Hawk, N.C. 5- Hot Rod. 6. More females. 7. Rose. 8. Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland. 9. Aflon. 10-23. jg Newspaper Aid To Dependent Children President Eisenhower's budget for fiscal. 1960 discloses that the upward trend in caseloads for public assistance to dependent children is expect ed to continue. Under the federal-state program, the federal government pays $14 of the first $17 per recipient for aid to these children. Under 19o8 amendments to the Social Secur ity Act, the federal share $17, previously 50 per cent, now varies among states from 50 per cent to 65 per cent, depending on state average per capita income. The program for three current years is broken down in the budget thus: Average monthly number of recipients 1958 Families Children ... Persons Average monthly payment Total payments (in millions) '. Federal share (in millions) 679,476 1,945,244 2,541,959 $26.72 $815 . $487 rURING World War II the caseload of the de pendent children program fell as mothers or others in charge of families found work. But the rise has been rapid and The number of children receiving aid at the end of 1950 was more than twice that of Decem ber 1945. The rate of increase has slackened since then, but even so, only 1,662,000 children receiv ed aid in 1950 as against an estimated 2,204,000 to receive it in 1960. A strong factor has been the rise in illegiti macy. The National Office of Vital Statistics esti mates that in 1956 the latest year for which data are available there were 20.2 illegitimate live births per 1000 unmarried women 15 to 44 years of age. This is as against 11 in 1946. Most disturbing are the figures for teen-agers. Of every 1000 live births in 1956 to mothers un der 15 years of age, 660.8 were illegitimate. Of every 1000 births to mothers 15 to 19, about 140 were illegitimate. But of every 1000 births to mothers 20 to 24, only 44.4 were illegitimate, and in upper age brackets the ratio eases off consid erably. '' A STUDY conducted by a Washington news " paper in 1958 indicated a high percentage of "repeaters" among unwed mothers. A District of Columbia public assistance official was quoted as having "a strong suspicion" that the Welfare Department was confronted with "a hard core of these people who are incapable of functioning at an adult level, taking responsibility for them selves, and all of their children." Discussions of the rapid rise of illegitimacy always bring out suggestions that second children of unwed mothers be removed and made wards of the state. Social workers in general oppose such a solution. And church and other groups are naturally against a more drastic ' solution also broached sterilization of repeaters. THE CHARGE is made by some taxpayers that 1 the aid to dependent children program favors undesirable family situations even that it fosters illegitimacy. Welfare administrators counter that the American public will have to make up its mind on how it wants to aid illegitimates and children deserted by fathers. If the public believes that public assistance is the wrong way, then some alternative must be agreed upon; the children cannot be allowed to starve. E.R.R. They Had Been Drinking A leading citizen dies when his automobile crashes a utility pole on the way back from the country club. A shabby pedestrian is run down at a busy intersection. In both cases the police report ? ii i i ttt ii i i .i carries me notation "naa first case the driver, in the second case the pedes trian. A study by safety showed that drinking drivers had been respons ible for 37 per cent of all A report by New York m lifois snowed that during a special test period 55 per cent of the drivers killed at the wheel or who died within 24 hours of accidents had been under the influence of liquor. IN THE New York test medical analysis estab lished that the drinking drivers had from .10 to .40 per cent of alcohol in the blood stream at the time of their accidents. Under the laws of about half the states an alcohol content of .10 per cent is relevant evidence and .15 per cent is prima facie evidence of intoxication. For a person weighing 150 pounds, the latter figure will usually result from drinking six beers or six ounces ol lUU-proof whiskey. Police Commissioner said me relationship between drinking- drivers and excessive speed, inability to perceive haz ards, and failure to choose the right course of ac tion had been proved by tie added The living these unfortunate operators." A recent 'statement by FBI Director Hoover with murderers. E.R.R. SOCIAL LEADER DIES Beaconesfield, England-fCPB -Constance Lady Bain, 79, -a social leader of the Nassau, Bahamas, winter colony, died here today at her home, Lead-hall. of the aid in excess of 1959 764000 2.188,000 2,860,000 $28.00 $961 $583.4 1960 ' 770,000 2,204,000 2,880,000 $28.45 $983 $599.5 (estimated) steady since. oeen annKinr in me organizations in 1957 traffic fatalities in 1956. City's police department Stephen H. Kennedy the department's test motorist can learn from classed drunken drivers g AIR RIFLE HEAD DIES Plymouth. Mich. - (UPD - Ed ward C. Hough, 86, president of the Daisy Manufacturing Co. which makes the Daisy air rifle, died Saturday at his home here. Dennis the 9 O 0 o o n o Arb ou WN' TO TELL MB SHOW ISZ&EV JZ4J? yOi TJ7IN' TO TELL MB TftTV Matter of Fact SOME KREMLINOLOGY Some vividly, even pain fully interesting questions are due to be answered very shortly, at the s c h e d uled 21st Congress of the Commu nist Party of the Soviet Union. . If Anastas M i k o y a n makes a re port to the p -lostpb Aisop congress, ior instance, it will prove the good judgment or the smug complacency of the Adminis tration's claim that Mikoyan was much impressed by our firmness and resolution about Berlin. Much more import ant, the foreign affairs speeches at the party Con gress will also show whether Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles and other Adminis tration leaders have been re markably wise or exception ally foolish in their reading of the Kremlin's present at titude towards Berlin. THE official assessment is that TJilrita Tfhrimhphou and the other masters of the Kremlin now think they have "gone too far" in their threats to Berlin, and consequently "want to get off the hook." The Tightness or wrongness of this official Washington assessment is, almost literally, a life-and-death matter. Hence one greatly wants to see whether the assessment will be happily confirmed or grimly contradicted by the language usecf about Berlin at the Congress in Moscow. The test will have another sort of interest, too. It will help to indicate whether it is better to accept Secretary Dulles's largely instinctive judgment of the Soviets, or the carefully trained judg ments of the Soviet experts who have spent many years in the business. Even those experts who have not been exiled from the State Depart ment take a vastly darker view of the Berlin crisis than Secretary Dulles. One of them spoke for all of the rest when he described the Berlin chal lenge "as the most dangerous since the end of the second World War." 4 A S FOR George F. Kennan, --the leading exiled expert, he makes his colleagues who are still on the job look al most merry and bright. It is Herman's thesis, in brief, that Soviet leaders do not use such language as Khrush chev has used about Berlin without carefully weighing every word of it, and meaning every word of it. As Kennan takes what Khrushchev has said quite literally, he further believes that the Kremlin leaders are probably quite ready to risk a war - maybe even a big war - for Berlin. Kennan agrees with Secre tary Dulles that Mikoyan was sent over here because of the Berlin crisis. But on the basis of the presently revealed rec ord of the Mikoyan visit Ken nan doubts whether anything sufficiently imaginative was done or said during the visit to change the course of the crisis in any way. Hence he has a foreboding that the party Congress will show an actual hardening of the ' So viet attitude towards Berlin, instead of the softening antici pated by Secretary Dulles. Kennan goes further than this, moreover. Recent events have led him to conclude that in the matter of Berlin, as in other matters, Nikita Khrush chev is acting under severe pressure from dissident Sta linist or neo-Stalinist groups in the Soviet Communist party. He suspects that the Chinese Communist leaders are supporting these dissi dents, and so helping to force Khruschev into a harder line than he might choose of his own free will. rFHIS may seem curious -- after the recent publica tion of the transcript of the Menace o o '26' By Joseph Alsop meeting of the .Communist Party Central Committee, which showed committee members speaking of Khrush chev in the. same terms that used to be reserved for Josef Stalin himself. But in the first place, the mere publica tion of the transcript was an extraordinary event, seem ingly aimed to warn off any potential challenger of Khrushchev's authority. Secondly, Kennan lays special emphasis, not on the wretched old Bulganin's grovelling "self-criticism" be fore the Central Committee, but on the non-appearance of Molotov, Malenkov, Kagano- vich, and Shepilov. They ought to have been there to out-grovel Bulganin, says Kennan, yet they were able to stay away somehow. The strange episode of the Soviet proposal of Molotov as Am bassador to the Netherlands is another detail in the same pattern; for The Hague is vastly farther from Peking and Moscow than Ulan Bator is. Finally, the famous tran script itself described Moto tov and Kaganovich as "ter rorizing the staff of the Min istry of Agriculture at the time of Khrushchev's bold abolition of the rural motor tractor .stations. In other words, the transcript showed Molotov and Kaganovich still acting as open, influential op positionists, ' many months after their seemingly decisive defeat and fall from power. For these and other causes, many Soviet experts expect the Party Congress to produce further severe disciplinary action against the members of the famous "anti-party group." If there is no such action after the recent re newal of the drumfire of at tack on these men, it will plainly suggest that Khrush chev s mastery is distinctly incomplete. In short .there are almost too many reasons to watch for the results of the coming Party Congress with most anxious attention, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Sweetland Conies To Soldiers' Ai Portland- (UPD -A state sen ator today came to the aid of bearded Oregon National Guardsmen who have been ordered to shave their Cen tennial whiskers. State Sen. Monroe Sweet land (D-Milwaukie) said he would ask Gov. Mark Hatfield to review the order "The citizen soldiers of the National Guard must not be subject to petty disciplines of this type," he said All units of the National Guar in Oregon have been ordered to be "cleanly shaven" for federal inspections. The order was issued by Maj. Gen Thomas E. Rilea, head of the ONG, in compliance with Pen tagon policy and Sixth Army instructions. Sweetland said "motives of good citizenship which prompt them to be members of the Guard are also the motives which prompt enthusiasm for Oregon's great event of 1959," he said. He said that if Hatfield wouldn't act, "I'm sure the Legislature will." West Coast Business Executives Confer Los Angeles-fUPD-Mo.re than 1,000 business and industrial executives today began a three-day West Coast business leadership conference spon sored by the American Man agement association. The keynote address was delivered by William M. Al len, president of Boeing Air craft Co., Seattle. Queen Victoria ruled Eng land for 64 years, longer than the reign of any other mon arch in recent history. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Crying Shame To the Editor: Come now, lay off Mrs. Ragsdale. She no doub likes a good dog as well as anyone. It probably is most ly resentment toward the owners for not caring to train their dogs. I hear many peo ple speak in the same strain as her letter. We have had to clean our very doorstep and our shoes more than once be cause of passing dogs. Maybe the poor little dog gie could not wait until he got home, as Mrs. Branson suggests. Anyone who ever observed knows that dogs al most always leave their own yards when nature calls. We like .a good dog as well as anyone, but there are just too many of them uncared for. Enough of "straining at gnats and swallowing cam els." The pound master says he destroys an average of 50 dogs a week of uncalled for and homeless dogs. That is 2600 a year.. : I don't think a higher li cense fee would solve the re production of the animals. Rather make a law to taKe vour "best friend" to the vet erinary hospital for a few days whether it be male or female. Kvrlndinff of course those in the commercial business of purebreds. Naturally they keep theirs in special nous- ing. It is a crying shame tnat these mongrels can't have a few days of comfort in their confinement before tney are sent to "dog heaven." But I notice there is county money for widening and beautifying some of the streets where the "upper crust" lives. But there isn't any to make a road safe for children that have to pass over it twice a day to attend school, nor to make a humane place for the does that have to be confined until disposed of. Mary E. Atkins, . 1634 Orchard Home dr. Medford. Bodes 111 To the Editor: If you will read an article on page 47 of the "Readers Digest:' for eo ruary, 1959, I think you will agree with me that we in the United States have very little room to criticize the peoples of other countries for being swayed by every political breeze that blows over them How a literate nation such as ours can be led around by the nose like a band of sheep is really frightening and bodes ill for our future as a free nation. Leila A. Morrow 531 North Bartlett st. Medford Veterans, Too To the Editor: I just read the piece in Thursday's Tribune about the Firemen and Lady Lions repairing toys for Christmas. Well, I will say that the Veterans at Camp White should have quite a bit of credit coming to them too I was out at Camp White just before Christmas and the boys in the Hobby Shop and a couple of the other buildings that were open for that pur pose, repairing toys, were all busy, and I will say too, that they had plenty of old broken toys to repair and they were doing a swell job at it. Not only that, but there were a few fellows making chairs, tables and doll beds. So why not give the Veterans out at Camp White some credit too? Seems as though once the Wars are over, most all of us forget the Veterans are the ones that made these United States a free country Please print this in your column, as I think some thought should be brought forward for our veterans, who gave so much for us and re ceive so little in return. A. F. S. (Name on File) Gold Hill. A Matter of Education To the Editor: This letter is by way of reply to Mrs Kula's letter re: Why we need a dog pound, and why it is overcrowded. I should say that it is mainly due to igno rance on the part of the general public about the man agement of the female dog's breeding season. Public edu cation on the disenchanting facts of spaying females and altering of males would cut down tremendously the popu lation of unwanted puppies. In regard to the manage ment of neighborhood pets; of course, no one should have to tolerate the nuisance of overturned garbage cans, or wholesale excavations of flower beds, lawns, etc. These things, however, are usually the actions of the ill fed dog, and wholehearted support of the Humane society might en able them to do effective work in the investigation of such mistreatment of animals. However, in the average neighborhood, how many times do the pets do any real damage? Naturally, this can not be said of strays. So often, to the non dog owner, the business of being a good neighbor is a one-sided af fair, with the pet owner being expected to turn himself in side out to appease his some times unreasonable neighbor. It seems that every street must have at least one crotch ety neurotic to whom even the word "dog" is distasteful and who never appreciates the time and love that goes into the feeding, grooming and training of the animal. He seizes upon every petty situation as if it were of world shaking importance and does his best to make every dog owner in the neigh borhood feel guilty if his pet so much as barks at a stran ger. Good neighborLiness and tolerance is not a one-way street. Ordinances such as Mrs. Kula suggests (with the pos sible exception of increasing license fees) accomplish lit tle in the problem of too many stray dogs. Would she tolerate for one minute the idea that families should be limited to one child each be cause of the increase in juve nils delinquency in recent years. Indeed, no one would! People are, of course, ex pected to keep both their dogs and children under con trol, but they cannot be ex pected to be limited by law to the number of either they wish to possess. Such pro posed laws can only result in more, not less, neighbor hood friction and an in creased work load on our already overburdened police department and courts. W. L. Stevens Jr. 1208 Saling Ave. Medford, Ore. Uncontrolled Breeding To the Editor: The South ern Oregon Humane society has long been seriously con cerned with the unsatisfac tory and inadequate condi tions at the county dog pound At long last, it seems that public is waking up to the situation and, we hope, will demand something be done The Human . society is ready to help in any way possible Our office is at 2902 Table Rock rd., phone is NO 4-2406 . Of course, this problem is really a minor one compared to the BIG one facing all hu mane organizations in the country, and all our efforts will be ultimately to no avail if the public isn't informed of its seriousness and starts act ing to prevent it. A new coun ty dog pound ten times the present size, with heated buildings, individual runways and innerspring mattress beds would still be inadequate in a few years if the basic cause is not remedied, that is, the uncontrolled breeding of sur plus cats and dogs. The figures are appalling: at the present time the U.S. is breeding surplus cats and dogs at the rate of 10,000 an hour, or nearly one quarter million a day. Every year about 35,000,000 puppies and 50,000,000 kittens are born, of which only 10 per cent are ab sorbed by the normal turnov er of replacing a pet that had lived out its natural life. The other 90 per cent of each year's litter are killed by au tomobiles, shot, are poisoned, or starve to death. Jackson county disposes of an average of 200 dogs a month. The responsibility for this horrible situation lies squarely on the persons who breed puppies or kittens that they cannot or will not keep and humanely maintain. Perhaps, at some time, you have allowed your female dog or cat to bear one or more lit ters; perhaps you carefully and conscientiously found homes for all the infant ani mals; perhaps you have checked and know that every animal of the litter still is liv ing a comfortable life, so your conscience is easy. Well, your conscience shouldn't be easy. The fact is that you added to the surplus of cats and dogs. Your litter found homes, but other litters didn't and as long as there are more cats and dogs than we can provide homes for, any litter of pup pies or kittens is surplus. The suffering will never end until animal owners recognize that they commit a terrible cruelty when they permit the More Comfort Wearing FALSE TEETH Here is s pleasant way to overcome loose plate discomfort. FASTEETH, an improved powder, sprinkled on upper and lower plates holds them firmer so that they feel more com fortable. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. It's alkaline (non acid). Does not sour. Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get PAS TEETH today at any drug counter. Washington Report By WILLIAM INCHING FORWARD Washington - The cause of Negro civil rights is inching forward over all the obstruc- 9 tions , thrown : up, by design i or simply by 3 emotional re flexes, by the bitter extrem ists of both South and North. Patient men in both ree- UilliamS. - white ions are mov ing in the finest traditions of tolerance and fair play. It may even be that we are en tering the end of the begin ning - in a phrase Churchill once used of this sad di lemma. It is an oddly mixed group of forces that is slowly ad vancing upon this problem of passion and prejudice, a pas sion and prejudice that do not live below the Mason Dixon Line alone. Virginia's State Supreme Court of Appeals has become also a gallant and distinguish ed court. Against all their deepest private wishes and convictions (and undoubtedly against the will of a great majority of the state), Vir ginia's gentlemen - justices have struck down Virginia's "massive resistance" laws against school integration. They have read the Constitu tion; and they have said no. . rFHE kind of courage this -- required, the kind of ju dicial integrity and objectiv ity, can be suggested in a question: How easy would it be for a comparable court in Illinois or New York to ren der a decision having the ef fect of supporting a notion that integration was NOT to be had in one of those states? And in the White House, President Eisenhower is reso lutely clinging to hisproperly impersonal and properly mag isterial role. He is refusing to issue hot declarations in fa vor of the Supreme Court rul ing outlawing segregation. He is not, of course, for segrega tion. He is simply taking the position that it is not for him to say that the Supreme Court is right or the Supreme Court is wrong. It is only for him to say that the court has stated the law and that he will do his duty to enforce it. The President, too, has read the Constitution. And while his Presidency on the whole may have been one of a weak leadership - as this corre breeding of surplus animals. W. O. Herring Humane Officer Southern Oregon Humane Society 2902 Table Rock rd. Medford. ter if Hear Your FAVORITE HYMNS on KM Every Sunday, 10:35 a.m. Sung by "Tennessee Ernie" Ford Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) . IP F gsr SBC ff S. WHITE spondent, for one, happens to believe he is acting in this matter as the leader of all the United States. For he knows that if a President may properly describe one Su preme Court ruline as "good" he may with equal right later describe another Supreme Court decision as "bad." FINALLY, bipartisan forces headed by Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, the Senate Democratic leader, are pre paring ultimately to adopt an addition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. This was surely not.the act wanted by the ex tremists, or even by some who were not extremists. Still, it was a great advance, the first in eight decades. And the changes now pro posed will not do what the extremists want, or even what many non-extremists want. But they will at least go a step farther. And in such an issue 10 centuries of Anglo American parliamentary his tory suggests that it is far bet ter to move ahead a little bit at a time, always retaining that little bit gained, than to plunge forward in anger only to be thrown far back in an swering anger. Is the Johnson plan "po litical?" And is he "running for President" on it? Certain ly yes to the first question; probably yes to the second. For every action of a legisla tive body is necessarily politi cal. And there is other "poli tics" in this affair, too. - THOSE liberals demanding much more far-reaching legislation, in line with the wholly understandable but not necessarily wise demands of their supporters are these not "political?" Are such lib eral Democratic Senators as Humphrey of Minnesota, Ken nedy of Massachusetts and Symington of Missouri not "running for President?" Is Vice President Nixon, who is on their side in this matter, not "running for President?" Of course, they are all "run ning for President." And why not? What is needed, indeed, is: 1. Not to moan sadly that it is all "political," but rather most deliberately to keep it all political, and not emotion al. For it is precisely a politi cal solution, meaning a common-sense compromise, that is required, rather than an evangelical one. : 2. To recognize that this is one of those harsh problems that simply will not yield to extreme attitudes or methods. It is the worst time, perhaps, in a hundred years of our na tional life to listen to the either-or, the or-selse men, on either side. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) E D PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT FRIENDLY, HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
