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4 Friday, January 30, 1959 I MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. , MEDF0RD2SiWrRIBUNB "Everyone it Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by mt:dford printing co. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBtPT W RCHL, Editor KERB GRE Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mr 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. CirculationMgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 I SUBSCRIPTION RATES w a 1 in AHmiiML Cnnv loe. Dail" and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday o mos. o.uu Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashlana, emrai rginw s w Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv- rl-.. in A ah mntnr rmites Daily and Sunday 1 year S18.00 uatlv ana oun-y i mo. Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Papet or jacuson voumj United Press International Full Leased Wire . MEMBER Of AUDIT BUREAU or timiumiwji A Jt llw- DanvauntaHvB WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De- t-Ait Kun Vrnrirn Lns AneeleS. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 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. 30. 1949 (Sunday) L. L. Lewis, Central Point guide, proudly displays a large bear and cougar he shot in the upper Applegate dis trict. M6df ord's current cold snap becomes the longest on record as the mercury dips below freezing for the 35th straight day. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 30,. 1939 (Monday) Medford mops up its heav iest snowfall of the year. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The snow, the snow, the beautiful snow, From which the slush and cussing flow." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 30. 1929 (Wednesday) Wealthy Oregonians who bought S3 California auto licenses instead of the $60 Oregon counterpart face the dubious pleasure of seeing their names in print. . Christian Endeavor socie ties of the valley meet at Ash land. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 30. 1919 (Thursday) The 65th Field 'Artillery battalion,, with many Medford and Jackson county residents in its ranks, arrives at Phila delphia. The P. and E. railroad is to cease operations at mid night tonight as local com mittee decides $125,000 cash bonds demanded by receiver is too much. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 30, 1909 (Saturday) Medford and Jackson coun ty residents are urged to rally their forces in support of the Crater Lake road bill now in the Legislature. Central Point decides to dig a huge pit to supply itself with water. Vhafs Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or sis is good. 1. Is batik a kind of wood, a rare mineral, or a method of executing colored designs on fabrics? 2. Four States border on Lake Erie; name them. 3. In which South Ameri can country is the city of Asuncion? , 4. The. accurate time-keeping device used in navigation on board ships is call a c ? 5. What well known song about Kentucky was compos ed by Stephen C. Foster. 6. In England, what is FJt. C.S.? 7. Name the woman who was executed for complicity in the plot to assassinate Lin coln. 8. Complete the following saying: "An apple a. day . . ." 9. Was the Hebrew proph et Daniel cast into the fiery "furnace"? 10. : Is gold weighed by the avoirdupois or troy scale? Answers: 1. Colored de sitras. 2. Ohio. Pennsylvania. Michigan. New York. 3. Par aguay. 4. Chronomeier. o. "My Old Kentucky Home." 6. Fellow of the Royal Col lege of Surgeons. 7. Mrs. Mary Surrati. 8. . "keeps fxhe doctor away." 9. No. 10. Troy. Van Gogh "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like." ' This classic remark represents the thinking of a lot of people when it comes to appraising the works of certain artists. We didn't happen to overhear it the other night at the opening of the showing of a collection of the works of Vincent van Gogh at the Portland Art Museum, but the expression on a lot of faces reflected a similar feeling. . The fact is, nowadays, that a lot of people know quite a bit about art, and the number, as well as the degree of knowledge is growing. INTEREST in art is an increasing phenomenon in America today. It is evidenced in a multi tude of ways. One of them, surely, is the surpris ing fact that this van Gogh exhibit of 155 draw ings and paintings, valued at some $9 million, has been an "SRO" show wherever it has been. In San Francisco, about 200,000 persons stood in line to see the paintings. In Portland Tuesday night, a crowd estimated at between 2,500 and 3,000 persons trooped into the museum for a "preview" invitation-only showing. During the 33 days it will be in Portland, we will be surprised if fewer than 50,000 persons attend, and it might well 'be double that figure. CONDITIONS at the "preview" were not ideal V for a close, detailed or appreciative inspec tion of the paintings on display. A writer in the Oregon Journal put it this way : "Those who could, looked at Vincent van Gogh's magnificent paintings and equally magnificent draw ings. Those that couldn't quite see, craned to see what the others were looking at, and the rest just talked." But, with patience, determination, and the judicious use of elbows, one could edge through the packed crowd to look at the paintings, and see what all the excitement was about. Discounting the confusion caused by the as semblage of formally - dressed dignitaries, the turn-out of half -again as many people as was ex pected, and the constant and ear-splitting roar of many simultaneous conversations, the excitement was caused by the drawings and paintings of a man now dead, less than 70 years, a man who died a "failure," insane and virtually unknown. THE art of reproduction being what it is, any-r-Ktr TXTlf V In fl-P OTl A1TA IS OTT "f O Willi 01 TT71 fVl some of van Gogh's paintings. So what is to be gained by viewing the originals? Partly, perhaps, the attraction is that they are fabulously valuable. Partly it is because he is now in the midst of a wave of popularity, and it is "the thing to do" to see his work. But principally it is because anyone in tune at all with what painting is, and is attempting to be, will realize that the man was, in his own way, a genius with the paintbrush, evoking in the viewer a variety of emotional responses. And, despite the quality of today's reproduc tions, the originals do this as prints and copies cannot. 1M0ST painters do not attempt to reproduce . objects in the same sense that they are re produced by a .camera. To a degree, they project themselves into the picture they are creating. In doing so, they may paint a picture which "looks like something," or they may create an abstraction which looks like nothing in the natural world. In either case, it is their own creation, and a painter's success is measured in how well he communicates the emo tions he himself felt while painting the picture. If he fails in this communication, it can be the fault of the painter. Or it can be the fault of the viewer, if he has not the background, the understanding or the comprehension of the ar tist's aims necessary to "receive" the message. IT MUST follow; then, that the public of today A is far more responsive to van Gogh's work than was the public of 70 or 80 years ago. For the pictures are the same, and at that time they were rejected by the public, whereas today they are enthusiastically acclaimed. This is one evidence of what we said earlier that an appreciation, and understanding, of art is far more widespread today than ever be fore in histoiy. It is evidence that today's art public has a sufficient grasp of' the artist's methods and ob jectives to understand that a picture can be a valid statement, even though it does not give a photograph-like representation of a person or scene. , 1MUCH of this readiness to understand and ap ATA predate has come about unconsciously, and through constant exposure to the work of "mod ern" artists, not only in painting and sculpture, but in the design of everyday objects, even in to day's advertisig, which has made a much greater use of non-objective art in recent years. But whatever the causes, it is a fact that an ever-larger segment of the public today is willing to investigate, to study, to see and enjoy works of modem painters and sculptors. . Van Gogh is not as far out in left field as some of the modern painters, but some of his works, particularly later in his painting career, are sufficiently non-objective to cause puzzle ment to the traditionalist The fact that thousands upon thousands of people do not let this bother them is impressive evidence thatart today is "getting through" to an ever-larger number of people. E.A. and "Art 99 Dennis the rz i k ij 'WmtfAPPWD? 1 LIKED THIS DNCAVN UW . . . HOW lWlt y I ne CUJC f Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under pertain 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. A Dime Worth a Million To the Editor: Riddle . . . You were born with it: The less of it you have the more it is worth: if it gets away you may not get it back: what is it??? Your health. Just your health. A dime given to the March of Dimes may be the answer to your keeping your health, and certainly your health is worth a million dol lars to you, or even more to your loved ones. It is a plain fact that through the March of Dimes of the past years, the dread ed polio has almost been de feated. Also out of the test tubes and countless , experi ments conducted through the March of Dimes many other important medical aids have been found and improved. Various treatments have been found to assist medical sci ence in bringing back to health diseased, afflicted, and injured human beings by your March of Dimes that would have not been possible other wise. The Salk vaccine shots for my children came too late for me, I contracted polio in 1935. But look at the diseases which stiU take a terrible toll of healthy people year after year. Virus disease take many lives and many people's health each year. The March of Dimes is now going to under take finding of the answer, with your help. One thin dime? Arthritis cripples and handicaps many people not just temporarily but for life, and I know of no disease which can let a human being live so long and suffer so much. Your March of Dimes is go ing to undertake the finding of the anwser. What causes birth defects? Will your unborn children suffer from a birth defect? How about the children of the future? Your March of Dimes is undertaking the task of finding the answer. Maybe the March of Dimes will provide the help for you tomorrow that you don't need today. Ill ness and health are two sides in a war that knows no end, and a war which exempts no one, not even you. Thousands of dedicated peo ple are pledging their lives to finding the answers and certainly those answers are worth giving a dime's worth of help for perhaps a million dollars worth of health. Bruce R. Sexton, Chairman, Medford Active Club participa tion in March of Dimes. Unlicensed Dogs To the Editor: After read ing several letters on dog con trol and dog problems, espe cially your Sunday and Mon day editions, I would like to tell of a problem I had. On several occasions a boy in my neighborhood brought his unlicensed dog in my yard and sicked him on my licensed dog, which was very securely tied up. After my son and I both had talked to the boy and he ignored our request to stay out of our yard, I called the city police. They referred me to the Hu mane Society officer. He in turn referred me. to the man at the dog pound. After three phone calls he promised to in vestigate. After two calls made in person to the pound, I was told he was away deer hunting and I would have to wait until he returned. That was in October of 1958. This is January 1959. To this day I have never been contacted by him. He was given my home address, a,lso the phone number where I work. Strange as it may seem, Menace TUB SfiOHMCOAT. YOVUKZO I could not be given help and advice on how to protect my dog so I could keep him, but I was given more than suf ficient help in obtaining a new home for him by the Hu mane society officer. The unlicensed dog I spoke of is still unlicensed and roaming the streets, fighting other dogs. One of your writers spoke of overturned garbage cans. I cook in a large restaurant in Talent. Every Say when I go to work the garbage cans are turned and garbage scattered all over. I have seen several of the dogs and not a one has license. Perhaps I sound bitter in my letter. The dog I gave away was a registered li censed 3-year-old male dog. I sincerely hope that no one else in the city of Medford who has to work for a living as I do ever has the same dis couraging experience I had. Won't someone please get on the ball and do something, not just write about it? Audrey Roberson, 529 Edwards st., Medford. Grounds for Divorce To the Editor: This is to R. G., whose letter appeared in the Sunday paper. Let me set you straight on the teachings of the Bible, if you are an authority which you should be to make a statement correcting and crit icizing all of the ministers of all denominations. If. you will read St. Matthew, Chapter 6, Verse 32, you will find justi fied grounds for divorce. Not only does it give grounds be cause of fornication, but by any sense of decency ' and righteousness it would seem justifiably and reasonably be cause the marriage laws gov ern moral conduct and any one guilty of committing for nication should be put away as so stated in the good book according to Christ's own words. Gordon L. Logan, Route 4, Box 421 A, Medford. History in Dumps To the Editor: With grow ing opposition to closure of the Camp White waste dis posal dump, it seems there should be little wider study given it. As all of us sadly know, there is a fringe ele ment who will not go to the trouble and distance south of Medford to dispose of their gunny - sacked household wastes: They will be found as they used to be, dumped along out -of -way highway places, partly hidden pretty camping places and secluded forest areas. And mind you, this is not done by the getting- by element back of the rail road tracks. A woman out Antelope way told me how people persisted, despite her no trespass signs, in dumping trash in her pas ture field. She finally found a day-book of & Medford con tractor who then had the ornery chore of cleaning up the whole pasture field. It is sad but true that this type of people are much like dogs, where one starts fouling up a flower-bed in someone's dooryard, it attracts others to do the same. There should be more waste dump grounds in stead of less, each providing a living for an attendant there. - It surely is a headache, providing waste dumping grounds. Great mounds of it that nature has patiently dust ed and grass-grown provide happy hunting' ground for archeologists to dig into, re constructing ways of life of bygone civilizations. An inter esting and amusing angle was provided me many years ago Italy Example of Confusing, Multi-Party Government; Stability Seen Long Way Off By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor The European usually pro fesses a complete inability to ""' extend American politics -the verbal fireworks im mediately pre ceding an election, i a n d 'I the compara- tive peace that descends after the decision is reached. iu'TSewbdnt real lesson in political science and for some really mixed-up politics, let's take a look at Italy which at the moment is in the hands of a caretaker government. In the Italian Chamber of Deputies are approximately a dozen political parties, rang ing from extreme left to ex treme right. A strong and recognizable type are the Communists. They are the second largest party in the Chamber of Deputies, but are not repre sented in the government. An other group is the . Liberals. But, instead of leaning left as the name might imply, they are conservatives. Some Parties Split Then there are the right wing Socialists, who have participated in the govern ment, and the left-wing So cialists who do not. These1 two originally were the same party, but split when the left formed an alignment with the hisses: Editorial Comment TREES CAN BE HARMFUL Medford has engaged a landscape architect to advise it on a program for planting trees in parkings. What- kind of trees to plant was what Medford wanted to know. Such a program would not be out of the way here. Trees, properly selected and placed, enhance the appearance of any town. Albany is not bereft of trees but many of them, particularly the' Oregon Ma ples and Weeping Willows, have been giving trouble, not because they are unsightly but because they have been planted in the wrong places. Such trees break up side walks and paving and clog sewers if not properly located. Many Albany residents have found that out to their sor row. Perhaps We could profit, too, by services of someone who knows what trees to plant and where to plant them.-Al-bany Democrat-Herald. OUR WATER RESOURCES The Oregon Water Re sources report on Rogue river water utilization fits in per fectly with. Josephine and Jackson county development aspirations. The board recommends re peal of all laws restricting the use of water in the Rogue River basin. In their place would be instituted a sepa rate program for water use in each of seven sub-basins in the region. Industrial use of water would be permitted in six of the seven includ ing the middle and lower basins extending from Med ford to the mouth of the river. This finding is the result of a survey authorized by the 1957 legislature, under a special $20,000 appropriation to defray the cost. The report will be made to the 1959 legislature, which will have an opportunity to change the law in keeping with the board's recommendation. It is too early to say whether there will be opposi tion to the suggested changes. Frankly we hope not, for the Oregon Water Resources board has offered a program that can be of inestimable benefit both to Josephine and Jackson counties. For the recreationists and sportsmen who object to taking water out of the Rogue for industrial purposes, and fear that such develop ment might result in waste disposal problems, there is when an assignment from the Road Builder of San Fran cisco sent me to then excava tion work for the new clover leaf approaches to Ross Island bridge south of Portland. "Yep," commented a wag gish shovel-runner, "we sure are shoveling out history here. Got through the Model T lay er yesterday with a couple of those dinkey brass radiators, high wood-spoke wheels and a 'pig' (crankcase). See them old massive beer - wagon wheels 'n' double-trees, and neck-yoke over there, what's left of them? Tomorrow we should be into the ox-yoke 'n' lynch-pin wagon layer. Below that we might find some old busted mortar 'n' pestle hiding artifacts of the Indian. Yep, sure is interesting how we can shovel up history in this old waste filled ravine." F. J. Clifford, Route 2, Box 200F, Central Point Communists, In the center are the Chris tian Democrats. They have been the' governing party since World War II. But they also are split between right and left. In between the major parties are others such as the Monarchists and Neo-Fascists, who have special interests, but in general lean left, and still others who chiefly repre sent language differences in side the country. Out of all these divisions have grown the present diffi culties wherein weeks may pass before a new government is able to take over and which may take years to solve. Tied to West Italy achieved a reputation for political stability, and tied itself closely to the West, dur ing the eight years immediate ly following World War II, from 1945 to 1953. Then it was under the leadership of Alcide de Gasperi. De Gasperi ruled the Chris tian Democratic Party with an iron hand and ran the gov ernment -the same way, even though only once did he have an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies. It was De Gasperi, incident ally, who crushed the Commu nist threat to take over the Italian government in 1948. But in 1953 De Gasperi and the Christian Democrats made a mistake. They rammed through a law which gave 65 per cent of all seats in the reassurance in a statement by John D. Davis, boardXchair man. It says: "Utilizing the entire yield of the Rogue River basin, there is sufficient water to meet all existing and present ly contemplated needs and uses, except for abatement of pollution. The indiscriminate use of our water resources for pollution abatement, in lieu of proper treatment, is a waste . . . and should not be permitted." We "doubt if there will be disagreement with this view point by many residents of Southrn Oregon. They are just as concerned as the board with preserving the Rpgue river as a major recreation and tourist attraction. These uses alone bring millions of dollars to this region. It even might be advisable to require a definite guaran tee of non-pollution, in any new legislation authorizing use of Rogue river water for industrial purposes. This could be accomplished by re quiring certification from the proper state agency - possibly the Oregon Sanitary Author ity that any waste material scheduled for release into the stream first has been sub jected to adquate treatment. Some of the most highly industrialized states in the east have river and streams that again are pure enough for swimming and boating. Fish populations have been restored. What once were little more than open sewers have been cleaned up by pub lic insistence on waste purifi cation. Thus it IS possible to have crystal clear streams, good fishing and pure water for domestic purposes, and still allow the industrial use of water. The way to make cer tain such conditions will apply to the Rogue is to re quire, by law, that waste dis posal receive first considera tion. Otherwise, no water. Certainly no one wants the beautiful Rogue river to be come a smelly, slimy mixture of water, sewage and waste. Unfortunately, it carries too much pollution already to suit many persons. Cognizance also must be taken of the fact that, regard less of what the legislature may do, there still will not be enough water in the Rogue for all the legally designated uses. Even now the stream gets so low during the sum mer months that persons with long-established i r r i g a t ion rights run short of water. What the Rogue basin must have is impounded water, made possible by a series of storage dams. These dams must be for flood control as well as irrigation. They must be built on the main stream as well as along major tribu taries of the Rogue. In this manner water that now rushes to the sea during most of the year, only to be wasted, can be stored and put to use the year around. This is the bright prospect for Southern Oregon if the legislature accepts the Water Resources Board recommen dations, and the Army En gineers subsequently are given the go-ahead in the dam building program now under consideration. Steps should be taken immediately to im plement the board recom mendations at the present session of the Oregon legis-lature.-Grants Pass Courier. Chamber of Deputies to the party winning 50.01 per cent of the votes in a general elec tion. In the following election, they lost. Uneasy Coalitions Formed Shortly afterward, De Gas peri was forced to- resign and a year later, died. From that day forward, only uneasy coalitions ruled in Italy, none with the power really to rule and each able to last only a matter of months. Washington Report By WILLIAM ONE MAN'S DECISION Washington A h a r d di lemma faces Congress and the country, and the Administra- tion itself in a way, over the issue of President Ei s e n h o wer's military budg et. And the V u n p 1 e asant iact is inai this dilemma rnnnrvf vaiIItt Williams. J White be resolved. The central and obvious question is whether in asking for some forty billions of dol lars the President is asking enough. 4 For at least in missiles, which may become the ultimate weapon, the Rus sians seem chillingly ahead of us. But it is not possible for Congress and the country to find a rational answer to the big question without first an swering another question. Here it is that the rub comes. This is the query: How far may the profes sional military officers prop erly go in appealing to Con gress over the heads of their civilian superiors, including the President himself as com mander in chief, for higher military expenditures than these civilian superiors have decided upon? NO ONE, not even the Presi dent himself, is absolute ly sure. It is plain that the Secretary of Defense, Neil Mc- Elroy, is not entirely easy in his mind, either. Thus members of "the brass" go one by one before Congressional commit tees carrying heavy and delicate burdens. These admirals anf generals have a compelling need, and also a high respon sibility, to fight for what they honestly believe their services require in a world of danger. But, again, they have the plain constitutional duty to bow in the last analysis to the civilian authority. And, finally, they must think of themselves. They are aware that outright rebellion from the Administration's high de fense policies may cost them their careers. For Secretary McElroy has passed the word that while he wishes to weigh indepen dent judgments with sym pathy he will not stand for out-and-out disloyalty to the Administration's budget pol icy. Given all this, it is easy to understand why the eyes of high officers and 4heir in flections of voice sometimes seem to speak these days be fore Congressional commit tees rather louder than the words actually uttered in sup port of the budget. For where does independent' judgment stop and disloyalty begin? THIS is the situation: 1. The Administration at the top (that is, the President and his chief civilian advisers) is satisfied that the budget is enoufh to maintain a "reason able" margin of safety. 2. The professional officers, by and large, are by no means so stisfied - though it is fair to add that they almost never are. 3. Congress itself simply Try and By BENNETT CERF- A STOCK BROKER with very questionable ethics talked an unitiated sucker into buying five thousand shares of a phony oil stock at 50 cents a share. A week later the broker reported, "You're lucky! That stock just doubled in price!" "Buy me another five thousand," ordered the sucker. A few days later the broker was on the phone again. "That stock's going wild," he exulted. "It just hit $2 a share!" "That's enough for me," decided the sucker. "Sell all I've'got at the market price." "Sell?" echoed the broker in amazement "To whom?" An agent was trying to persuade a night club impresario to give his new client a break. "Why, she's another Marilyn Monroe." he said then felt constrained to add, "She don't look like her, I admit but you ought to see how she reads Dostoyevsky:" C 1959. by Bennett Celt DiaUibuted by King Features Syndicata s The last one, headed by Amintore Fanfani, one of Italy's most astute politicians, fell last Monday. Hence the confusion. There are predictions that in subse quent shifts-two entirely new political blocs may emerge both non-Communist, one of them "conservative" and the other "progressive." But they may be a long time in com ing. Meanwhile, the Commu nists will be outside, waiting. S. WHITE does not know whether to feel satisfied or not. Congress does not know precisely what "reasonable" safety means. And when Congress does not know, the public cannot know. Though believing itself to be right about the budget, the Administration neverthe less is not happy to seem to be muzzling the officers or imperiously shutting off pub lic debate. But, again, it feels - and quite properly, in this correspondent's opinion - that it simply cannot allow the uniformed men to seem to challenge civilian control of the military. That is the way, if pursued long enough, to dic tatorship. The constitutional system requires that the civil ian leadership have the very last word even if that last word be terribly wrong. CONGRESS, on its side, feels cut off from the genuine opinions of the military pro fessionals. Its members know they need more information. But its most responsible mem bers know, too, that there is great peril in encouraging the uniformed men to buck civil ian authority and "tell all" to Congressional committees. What is the outlook, then? It is simply that there will not be, and cannot be, any really searching great nation al debate, of the sort that would seem to be objectively needed. Indeed, the fact must be faced that in the nature of the present world Congress, at any rate, can no longer really exercise its old power over the military purse. The Pentagon is able to put hush hush over its operations, an ugly necessity but a necessity nevertheless. So the sum of it all is this: if the President is wrong, we are all in a very bad way. For in all the circumstances only a single man, the Presi dent, can, effectively and at last, determine what the mili tary budget is going to be. (Copyright, 1959. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) JANUARY 30, 1921 It was announced loday that Oregon will have eight delegates at the convention of the national woman's party to be held in Wash ington, Feb. 15 to 18. The principal purpose of the convention is the adoption of a future program now that equal suffrage has been won. While nothing is yet known of the nature of the proposed program there is worried speculation in male circles that the ladies, not content with simple equal ity, want something more. PLAN OIL PIPELINE Rome - (LTD - Italy has an nounced plans to construct a big pipeline system to funnel oil imports to Switzerland fro mthe port of Genoa. Of ficials said today the project will sharply reduce land ship ment costs for oil needed by land-locked Switzerland. Stop Me 4
