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4 Tuesday, February 3, 195 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. "Everyone 1b Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 83 North Fix St. Ph. EP 3-S141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor EZRB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business ligt 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 Mg An Independent Newspaper Zntered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance, Copy 10c. Dail and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 0 mot. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 425 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, . Ashland, Central Point, Eagle ' Point, Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv- er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUay 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c ' All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Medford .Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Fun 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 PUBLISHER! ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL SM ASfcbdrATI Flight ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files or The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 3. 1949 (Thursday) Today is the 40th consecu tive day that temperatures in Medford have dipped below freezing, and there's new snow on the ground. . Snow measurements at .three points in the Talent Ir rigation district watershed show there shoul'd be plenty of water next summer. 20 TEARS AGO Feb. 3, 1939 (Friday) The Jackson county coun cil of the Shasta-Cascade Won derland association opens its 1939 membership campaign. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The snow fell silently. The con sensus . of opinion, -held this was the only nice thing about it-" - 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 3. 1929 (Sunday) .' January's rain was less than half the normal fall. : ' Construction of the new fire hall proceeds speedily. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 3, 1919 (Monday) A trunkload of whiskey is seized after its arrival here from Hilts, Calif. Eggs are 40 cents a dozen locally, and may drop to 30 cents by the end of the week. SO YEARS AGO Fab. 3. 1909 (Wednesday) Landslides and washouts rJplav trains from the south. The Medford Athletic club is the latest in local health in stitutions. What's Your I.Q.? Nina er ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five er lot is good. ", 1, The Holy . City of the Mohammedans is M ? ; 2. is matter indestructible? ..' 3. The boy . orator of the Platte was William J. ? . , 4. Quito is the capital of .which South American coun try? . .. 5. Who has been called the Immortal Bard? : , 6. Is is - possible to photo- trraDh a miraee? ,7. Which President of the United States said, "Don't flinch, don't fumble, and hit he line hard?" 8. Can horses sleep while standing? ' 9. A dromedary is a one humped or two-humped cam el? 10. During World War II, who were the SPARS? Answers: 1. Mecca. 2. Yes. 3. Bryan. 4. Equador. 3. Wil liam Shakespeare. 6. Yes. 7. Theodore Roosevelt. 8. Yes. 9. One-humped. 10. Women's Reserve of -the U.S. ..Coast Guard. Hoover School Cubs Visit Mail Tribune Members of Den 1, Pack 100, Hoover school, visited the publishing plant of the Mail Tribune Monday afternoon. ' Touring the plant were Tom Capsey, Jimmy Cummins, Richard Ellenback, Jon Hud son, Mike Leeyer, Bruce Gor don, Jon Thurman and Danny Vorheis. Accompanying them were Mrs. J. O. Dennenback, Den Mother, and Mrs. L. Thur man, assistant Den Mother. Reason Writing in the "Letters to the Editor" column of the Oregon Statesman in Salem, a former men tal patient at the Oregon State hospital makes a plea for larger staff and more individualized treatment at the hospital. He makes the plea on behalf of "the 800 to 1,000 . . . who are now condemned to live and die in a mental institution" but who "could be re habilitated in as little time as three months, -a great many in six months, and an endless number who could, with patience, eventually- be returned to normal life." But he also makes the point that this would be an economy in the long run, and says: "... This would be more of an investment than an expense-it would lift a heavy maintenance load from off the state." sees UIS letter, with which we agree wholeheartedly, brings to mind a report in the February issue of Harper's which is essentially optimistic about the nation s chances of getting somewhere m the fight against mental illness. The states, says the mann, have at long last about their snake pits, the state mental hospit als which sprang up simply as custodial- institu tions where the "insane" could be put away, out oi sight. Encouraged by recent ment, and shocked by World War II induction figures which showed a high percentage of armed forces rejections for mental inadequacy, the states have been putting and effort into the hospitals not only into build ings, but more important, into trained staff. 1 'T'HE western states have done more. . 1 Through the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education (an organization supported by states joined by compact to seek better means of interstate cooperation Frank J. Van Dyke of western states have formed the Western Council on Mental Health Training and Research. An ambitious, but still mental, program has been outlined and started. Already a telecommunications conference, join ing physicians, psychologists, social workers and nurses in five states (not including Oregon), has been held, to the mutual benefit of those involved. CTTLL ahead are a conference of western men- tal hospital superintendents, a model program for mental health research, draft legislation for mental health research, residency program, a four-state conference lead ing toward experimental training program, and a pooling of university statistical experts to develop better methods of analyzing state hospital-operations. As the council says, cases,, outrun practice. To will take trained men and and far better- communications between them than is possible at present. Ihe state hospitals will be with us for years curable patients who could become healthy, tax paying, wage-earning, useful citizens with pro per treatment will continue to be confined there. DUT for the first time hope that the worst licked. As the Harper's population of mental institutions, for the first time in years, is staying steady, or even declining slightly. ; This is a reflection of new drugs, new methods of treatment, new concepts of what mental dis ease is. The new interstate program, with its emphas is on communication; and the training of person nel, can do much to speed the day when the "snake pits" will no longer be a shame and a dis grace to America. , Dr. Robert Felix, director of the National-Institute of Mental Health, has stated the problem thus: ' "There seems to be a feeling among many of the people in our country . . . that if you forget about men ; tal illness and ignore it, it will go away . . . We hide this thing and cover it up; we alibi for it arid bury. our., heads in the sand . . and this is the greatest problem, . the most expensive health problem we have in this country." . Is it possible we're beginning to pull our heads out of the sand: What's We read a long article the other day about "What Is News?" and it seems a man has written a book about it in which he says newspapers are filled with other stuff than news. It isn't that newspapers are filled with material other than news. A simple answer would be tha -ews is whatever is new. A price change in beans or overalls or mutton cL jps is news and newspapers publish such things. A better mousetrap is news or a high-tailed car was news once. And readers find out such things by reading news papers. If Bumstead wins an argument it is also news. But newspapers do more than that. They publish ideas or the information from which ideas may be ob tained. You see, we think that ideas are very personal things and grow in a head from something that goes into that head, usually through the eyes, and reading newspapers -is the most common way of getting the information that can grow into ideas. There is a lot of valuable information that is not new, although it might be new to someone. Putting such things before readers in a form they are accustomed to and can understand is what newspapers do, and whether it is news or his tory or information, it can and does contribute to -the manufacture of ideas. And that is valuable, very much so.Sher--man County Journal, Moro, Ore. .' for Hope author, Walter Kauf- begun to do something developments in treat more and more money in education, of which Medford is chairman), brand-new and experi an interstate psychiatric interstate service and knowledge has, m many permit it to catch up women in many fields, at Salem and Pendleton to come, and potentially in many years, there is of the problem can be article reports, the total Let us hope so. E.A. News? Dennis the Wouldn't t & 6&xr if we HAD TO com nJme ON A I I Ml I 1 I : I - 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. Mining Potential To the Editor: I read with interest the article in the Jan. 25 paper on the present and future economy of the state, which was discussed at a meeting of "Great Decisions" in connection with Oregon's Centennial. Logging, agriculture and industry were emphasized. Mining wasn't mentioned, al though it may well be that it was intended to be includ ed under "Industry." However that may be, there is a great lack of inter est by the state as a whole, and more especially, by Jack son county, in a basic indus try that could prove poten tially great if we, the citizens of the state, would encour age the production of more minerals, of which we have a great abundance still to be unearthed. We have here in our own county gold, copper, mercury, chrome, manganese, nickel, cobalt, asbestos, to name but a few. Of course mining has had it tough in recent years. Our present administration has, in order to promote good will in foreign nations, caused" to be imported vast quantities of metals, some of them almost duty free. Foreign aid is com mendable, but to allow the United States to be a dump ing ground for foreign prod ucts in competition with our own mines and factories is poor legislation in my esti mation. . . Three years ago I worked at an antimony mine in Alas ka which was caused to be shut down because e n gov ernment traded the farm sur plus to ' Czechoslovakia for TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) FEBRUARY 3, 184$ Held a regular Cabinet meeting today . . . Mr. Bu chanan read the draft . which he had prepared for an answer to Mr. Paken ham's second, proposal to refer the . Oregon' question lo arbitration. . All con curred in the conclusion that the offer to arbitrate should be rejected. . .". The answer which should be made lo the two Resolu tions, ope of the Senate and the other of the House, call ing for information on the Oregon question, was also considered; but both sub jects were postponed ... Diary of President James K. Polk Try and -By BENNETT CERF- APAIR OF Communists from a satellite delegation sneaked off to Miami Beach for a stolen weekend. "What a glorious place this is!" enthused one. "Such gorgeous hotels! Such sun! C,,V. Voeiitifiil mric!" "Not so loud, you fool," warned the other. "The miserable capitalists will hear you and start enjoying ittoo!" A mixed up industrialist who's been haunting psycho analysts for seven years ex plained to his accountant, "It's not the cost of the analysis that bothers me; it's all the loose change that slips out of my pockets while I'm lying on the couch!" A southern entomolorist wanted to study some cotton bugs, but the laboratory supplier told him there were only two available and they could only be rented by the hour. 'Thank you, no," decided the entomologist, "I do not care to be the lessor of two weevils." O Ton far Boaiit CaiL Distributed hv Klsz Feature Sinl!tfc . . Menace sot snowed in m' Q4d SNOWPIQW antimony. We had been ship ping to Portland, Ore. A that time there was no smel ter in the U.S. that would take our own ore so we shipped to Japan which was too costly so we shut down. But things finally straighten ed out. The owner of this mine now can ship to a large company in the East Who re fuses to buy any more for eign ore. The above isn't meant as a criticism. I am merely prob ing and wish the mining' in dustry in Jackson county and the state a rosy future. I am not a 'tourist' but a native and have lived here most of my life. 4 James Chisholm, . Gold Hill, Ore. Fishing Expert To the Editor: When I was a boy I belonged to the old sandhill quartet. We spent most of our time fishing for carp in the South Platte riv er. We always fished the hard way, with a 4 pound pitch fork, tied to a 150 pound test rope and cast from a pair of stilts. That is not the best way to catch carp, but it is a swell way to fall into the riv er and catch pneumonia. I never stabbed anything but my big toe and we soon had it sewed back on again. We had another good way of not catching carp in a gun nysack. One of us would hold the gunnysack between our stilts, while the others would try and herd the carp into the sack. All we ever got in the sack was tadpoles and boys. Fishing today is different, but catching them is the same.' We fish from a motor boat with a river guide, a game warden and an income tax consultant, four seat cushions, four lifejackets, a fire extinguisher and an as sortment of 100 spinners, . a fishing license, fish tags and a lawyer to show us where to cast. We fish above Sav age Rapids and below Savage Rapids dam. In four years I ain't caught a Savage Rapids dam salmon. All I ever catch is a motorboat, going in the opposite direction. Last year I caught two motorboats go ing down the river, I wrap ped the line around the pro pellor of one, but the other one got away. I am not the world's champion fly caster, but I can throw a pitchfork farther than anybody from a pair of stilts. The 1959 sal mon season will soon be here and I'll be there to catch my limit in motorboats. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. - Stop Me Russia, China Interdependent Today, But Future May Hold Breakup for Red Giants By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor In the long run it seems in evitable that Red Chinese and Soviet Russian Interests must conflict. Some . differ ences already are apparent. But for the short term, tnere is no reason to be lieve there has been any ktHj weakening of Phil Newsom me JvlOSCOW- Peiping axis. Each remains too dependent upon the other. Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai voiced the party line when he told the 21st Com munist Party Congress in Moscow: "The Soviet Union and China share a common fate and joint interests. Their friendship is eternal and un breakable." Yet even in the last 10 years profound changes have occurred in relationships be tween the two. The greatest is the fact that in that time Red China has emerged from the status of weak satellite of the Soviet Union to full partnership. Exert Influence. That change in status has enabled the Red Chinese to exert great influence on Kremlin policy decisions, at times apparently even pos sessing the power to force So viet premier and party lead er Nikita Khrushchev to re verse himself. There are several notable examples. In 1956-57, it was Chinese party leader Mao Tse-tung who encouraged Po lish leader Wladislaw Gomul- ka to take a more independ MSA Wa sh i n g ton Re po rt By WILLIAM WHAT'S HAPPINESS? Washington--Every now and then a veteran of public serv ice who has become an insti tution in him self, Gen. Lewis Her shey, raises a quiet voice of common sense in a country more full than it ought to be o f luxurious nonsense. William S. -,. 1 white General Hershey, who has been direc tor of Selective Service since before Pearl Harbor, has just made another such contribu tion. He has suggested that the millions of young men who have been and will be exempted from the military draft should have no- abso lutely free ride in conse quence. Why not, he asks, at least train them in Civil Defense? In what is surely the under statement of this winter sea son he tells Congress: "We are not doing all that we should in preparation against possible nuclear attack." This recommendation well may get nowhere. Neverthe less, it is important that it has been raised, apart from the plain fact that there has always been an ugly inequal ity of sacrifice between those who have had to go into serv ice' and those who have stay ed at home. FOR, intentionally or not, General Hershey has put in a good blow at a wide spread American attitude that is doing us no good as a coun try. This is that "happiness" is somehow guaranteed, ex clusively to Americans. Hap piness must be delivered by life with the calm regularity that the utility pipes in the electricity necessary for look ing, say, at "I Love Lucy" on the television. If happiness is not so de livered - and "happiness" roughly means an absence of all trial, trouble, contention and upset-the whole thing is unconstitutional, un - Ameri can, and unbearable. Young women go home to mother the moment they are not "happy," even if this un happiness proceeds from some scarcely appalling denial such as a husband's refusal to buy a dish washer on the install ment plan. Mother usuaUy thanks heaven that daughter, if only by her own grit andj gumption, has been savea from unlawful oppression in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. YOUNG men leave their jobs the second instant af ter they become "unhappy." It has long since been pointed out to them that a fellow can't do his best work when he isn't happy, and particularly not if his unhappiness results from the- savage withholding of his right to become an "execu tive" before his fifth college reunion. The young men know that a vice-presidency of the corporation is part of ent line in Poland and forced Khrushchev to swallow his own dislike for the Polish leader. Last summer, Khrushchev brought every pressure to bear to bring about a summit conference among the United States, Britain, France and Russia. But after a hurry-up, secret trip to Peiping, Khru shchev abruptly reversed his stand. Khrushchev has made no secret' of his dislike for the Red Chinese commune plan which has engulfed some 500 million Chinese in a gigantic push to speed agricultural and industrial production. Gave Lip Service But in the 21st Congress, Khrushchev had to give lip service to the commune plan, saying it was a permissible instrument for "building So cialism." Considerable has. been made of the fact that of all the Communist party leaders, only Mao of Red China and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia did not attend the Moscow congress. Tito long has been at odds with Moscow and his absence was anticipated. It may be that Mao's health, never good, was not such that he could make the trip. Or it may be that he could not bring himself to take a public position second to Khru shchev and to say as Chou En-lai did say: "The practice of the Soviet people is show ing the whole world the way to transition to Communism." But whatever their differ ences, it is essential now that the two present a united front to the outside world Needs A Friendly China Khrushchev could not af ford an unfriendly China at his back while fomenting a new crisis in Berlin. S. WHITE the American way of life. And they certainly will not per mit others to destroy the American way of life-not ev en if they have to quit and fall back on Dad to make their point. It is extraordinary how this happiness legend has per vaded our national life. One forgets how deeply it has done so until he goes abroad after lone absence from any for eign, shore and sniffs anew the atmosphere of . foreign life. Men in old Europe-and in old Asia, too-wear the long pants of adulthood. They know that "happiness" is an ideal rather than a condition of living, particularly person al haDDiness as defined to mean that one is always al lowed to do, or not do, just as he pleases. They are gay before the manifold troubles of our times. But they know the vast difference between turning a gay face toward life and assuming that life will be very careful not to cause one any trouble, anywhere, any time. THEY know that happiness is a large, loose word, and that nobody can expect to have it for long if it means simply that precise state of affairs that will make him personally entirely comforta ble and never bothered by a nasty world. In short, in this way tney are more grown-up than we are. Ana wnue we are wui rying about the cold war, per haps we could do worse than worry a bit, too, aDout xne state of private, individual morale in a country where so many have come to expect to live always on the peak of that big rock-candy mountain. (Copyright. 1959. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Elkins Reversal Appeal Studied San Francisco-IUPD-The U.S. Court of Appeals took under submission today a petition seeking reversal of the federal wire tap convictions of two Portland men. Walter H. Evans Jr., attor ney for Portland nightlife fig ure James B. Elkins and Ray mond F. Clark, his associate, argued Monday that the evi dence was insufficient for conviction and that some of it was obtained by an illegal search. He contended that 15 judi cial errors had occurred dur ing the proceedings. U.S. Attorney C. E. Luckey of Portland said the defend ants had been given a fair trial and that they now were claim ing errors "in a shotgun manner." Elkins was sentenced to 20 months behind bars and Clark up to six months. Both are free pending outcome of the appeal. . The use of a chemical re- j tardant causes chrysanthe- j mums to grow full-sized bios- j soms on short stems. I A public falling out be tween the world's two great est Communist powers would create a hurricane such as to make Tito's defection seem a minor breeze. Further, despite the great percentage increase in Red China's agricultural and in dustrial output, she still is de pendent upon deliveries from Eastern Europe and upon So viet Russian technical and fi nancial help. Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop. COMMENTARY ON THE McELROY GOSPEL Washington By studying last week's testimony by the Defense Department leaders as scholars study the Bi ble, you can now discover the s t r a n ge m a i nsprings of the Eisen hower Admin istration's de cision to ac cept inferiori Joseph Alsop ty to the Sov iets in ballistic missiles. The clue to the mystery lies in budget pressures, plus the great difference between the liquid-fueled missiles of the first generation and the solid-fueled missiles of the next generation. In brief, liquid-fueled bal listic missiles cannot be kept full ready to fire. Their min imum "reaction time is a quarter of an hour or rather more. Even by maintaining a costly fuel-alert, in other words, these missiles cannot be fired within less than 15 minutes of the first warning of. the enemy's attack. Be cause of the same fueling problem, bases for these mis siles are also very costly. The expense is further increased by a wide margin, if the bases are "hardened" in order to protect the missiles on their pads against anything but a direct hit. '' rpHESE characteristics make liquid - fueled IRBMs and ICBMs much more suitable for a nation that can attack first and by surprise, like the So viet Union, than for a nation like the United States, that has vowed not to attack first, If the necessary money is spent to disperse and "harden" the launching-sites, liquid-fueled Atlases and Titans in suffic ient quantity can certainly even up the ICBM balance be tween this country and the Soviet Union. But Atlas and Titan are interim weapons, which will certairJy have be replaced as soon as possible. The planned replacement is the solid-fueled Minuteman missile. Minuteman will hard ly be able to carry as heavy a warhead as the more power ful liquid-fueled Atlas and Titan. But the solid-fueled Minuteman missiles will be cheap to produce in quantity. Having built-in fuel, they will have zero "reaction time" and their launching sites can even be made mobile, for greater protection. UOR the United States, therefore, the second gen eration of ICBMs is immense ly preferable to the first gen eration, except for one tiny fact. Atlas missiles can be ob tained now, and Titan mis siles can be obtained soon. Minuteman missiles, in con trast, will hardly be available in operational quantities until five years from now, and the delay may be considerably greater than this. All these facts are so im portant because the Eisen hower Defense Department has never been able to get used to the idea of disposable weapons. This is certainly odd, in a country that invented if Counsel With Mr. InsuranceFred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Cad Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. The long run outlook may be something else. There can be no such thing as co-equal dictators. One must follow. And Mao shows no disposi tion to follow indefinitely. And in the years to come, it would seem logical that China's exploding population must look beyond China's present borders. Where more naturally to the vast undevel oped lands of Soviet Siberia or toward the Urals. the disposable facil tissue, and in a Defense Department re shaped and still dominated by that great man, Charles E. Wilson, who is such a strong advocate of the disposable automobile. Nonetheless, Wil son also rebelled, and his suc cessor, Neil McElroy still re bels against the basic need to maintain force-in-being by purchasing weapons now that have to be replaced later. This being the psychology, the Defense Department is buying very few liquid-fueled missiles now, and waiting to buy a lot of solid-fueled mis siles later. The result, inevit ably, is acceptance of heavy inferiority in missile striking power, at least until the dis tant date when the Minute man missile will become avail able in quantity. This lighthearted treatment of the "missile gap" has in turn been justified by two devices which would cost the greatest executive his job, if he used them while still in private business. In the first place, the "missile gap" has been made to seem very much less dangerous by comfortably downgrading the opposition. lo be sure, the comfort of General Motors would not be long-lasting, if G.M. produc tion and pricing policies were based on the belief that the people over at Ford were a buch of slack-twisted incom petents. But this is the best parallel for the Defense De partment method of judging Soviet missile capabilities. rl THE second place, the dangers o fthe "missile gap" have been further obscured by the simple act of cooking the defense balance sheet. The comparatively useless ICBMs being sent to our NATO al lies are counted on the bal ance sheet as major, assets. The far .more numberous and immeasurably " more ..useful. Soviet IRBMs are not count ed at all; or, if reluctanly mentioned under Senatorial pressure, the Soviet IRBMs are not put down on the debit side, of the balance sheet. Other . examples of this in teresting practice might also be cited. If American newspapers would print something com parable to the grimmest Bi blical commentary, chapter and verse could also be cited to prove all the foregoing that may seem incredible. But for the present purposes, this is commentary enough on the McElroy Gospel. It remains to examine the risk, the alleged ly "calculated risk" to which the McElroy Gosepf exposes the United States and the free world, (c) 1959 New York Herald ' Tribune Inc. Our major medical policy . subject to $1,000 de ductible . . . plus our dread disease policy with $1,000 cancer coverage. Result Complete catastrophe coverage. Complete details on re quest. Bill Fish I w f
