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4 Wednesday, February 11. 193 f MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MedfordTbibdub "Everyone is Southern Oregon Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RTJHL, Editor ETRB GRE"Y Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Biuineu Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JH, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor mrHASD JEWETT SDorta Editor OLRE STARCHEK Women'l Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Rv Mai 1 In Advance. Copy toe nail- and Sunday 1 year 115.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 finnrfiv Onlv One vear S4.20 By Carrier? In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, E a g 1 Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday I year $18.00 Daily and SunUsy 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10e All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper of JacKSon lonnvy United Press International Full Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION ArfverrUin Reoresentative: 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 A cjc rv r La t (r JAZ I I " -V f wiT nvi 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 Feb. 11. 1949 (Friday) Mayor Thomas Williams of Ashland files an . answer to the city council's amended complaint concerning tenure of city officials. Irrigation water prospects are reported as "excellent" by the soil conservation serv ice. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 11. 1939 (Saturday) The Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution post pone dedication of a memorial marker on Old Stage rd. be cause of inclement weather. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The snow continued the past week, and the eeneral opinion is the time has come to break the backbone of winter, even if it does start ye spring poets." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 11. 1929 (Monday) Judge Walter H. Evans is the main speaker for the Lin coln Day banquet at the Med ford hotel tonight. - A 10 per cent tax on to bacco is proposed at Salem. 40 YEARS AGO . Feb. 11. 1919 (Tuesday) " A suitcase containing 12 -auarts of liquor is taken off .the northbound train by the 'sheriff here. The Supreme court affirms the previous decision in the Sweeney vs. Jackson county "case. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 11. 1909 (Thursday) The Crater Lake road bill is reported out favorably at Salem by the House Ways and Means committee, and a 'vote is expected tomorrow. Editor George Ptnam's libel "case is areued before the state Supreme court. What's Your I.Q.? Xina or ten correct is superior; ' seven or eight is excellent; five or 'tix is good. 1. Which Biblical character had a coat of many colors? '' 2. In which of Shake- Tspeare's plays is Shylock character? 3. On which side is a ci 'usually milked. - 4. How many thousand dollar bills would there be Tin one million dollars? i 5. Which American college -is named for two English sov ereigns? - 6. In what city is the fa- "mous Newgate Prison? ' 7. Correct the following, ."He don't come here any .more. 8. What is a thespian? I 9. In postal usage, what is 'a "nixie"? 10. What was the name of tEsau's brother? Answers: 1. Joseph. 2. "The Merchant of Venice. 3. Usual ly right. 4. One thousand. 5, :WHliam and Mary. 6. London. -7. "He doesn't ..." 8. An ac- tor. 9. Dead letter. 10. Jacob "GRANT JORDAN AID , Amman, Jordan - (UPD - :U.S. international develop- 'ment loan fund officials said " Tuesday they had decided to "grant the Amman Electric Co. a Sl.200.000 loan for con struction and improvement of " power plants here. Progress in Cuba? Slowly, the pieces are beginning to fall in place, and the American an idea of what is happening, what has happened, in Cuba. In part, the fact that laid at the doors of the "American press" that is, the wire services, the news-magazines and the large daily newspapers which .as a regular thing make foreign coverage one of their aims. First of all, the Batista dictatorship is showing up to have been far worse than it was pictured. If recently uncovered evidence is to be believed, it was a terroristic regime, with murder, torture and rape not at all unusual. TTHE fact that this was not generally known is, in part, because Batista used the weapons of dictatorship to prevent their being known. But the agencies of news dissemination are partly at fault, too. Secondly, the revolution of Fidel Castro ap pears to be a real revolution a genuine change in outlook and approach rather than just an other Latin American coup d'etat, or the forcible changing of the palace guard. And third, the executions, despite their sum mary nature and their lack of safeguards and restraints, appear to have been the dispatch of genuine criminals (albeit operating from the safe ty of official positions) ; men .who committed re volting atrocities in Batista's, name. . IT IS significant that virtually no one, even the most severe critics of Castro and his govern ment, have claimed that those executed were in nocent: they have, rather, claimed that demo cratic and judicial forms followed. This is a valid criticism, but of an entirely different order. And if tista atrocities make the standable, even if one approve the way they were conducted. A correspondent whose letter appears on this page points out that a growing accumulation of evidence is becoming available, substantiating the hope that the Castro and rash as it may be, does indeed represent the feelings of the people of Cuba. TTHAT Castro has much to learn is apparent. If he does learn, and turn out to be an em- bodyment of democratic ideals, it may be at least in part due to the experience that this district's representative in Congress, Charles O. Porter, has had in Latin American affairs. His interest in Latin America is well-known, and was used as campaign ammunition against him in last fall's political campaign. But the measure of his growing stature can be seen in a letter recently addressed to him by the American charge d'affaires in Cuba, Daniel M. Braddock, who wrote : "I am glad to learn from your letter that, you plan to come again to" Cuba about February 20 and to make a visit to Santiago. Before that time Ambassador Bon sal will have arrived and I know he, like the rest of us, will be very glad to see you. "Your recent visit to Havana was most timely and helpful in counteracting some of the anti-U.S. feeling that was being expressed. Your report on Castro to" Congress was so reasonable and persuasive that we had it translated in full into Spanish and offered it to the press, most of which published it in its entirety ... We are encouraged by the progress so far. Fidel Castro seems to be heeding your good counsel, and particular ly the suggestion that he stop talking and give the Government a chance to get down to work." In sum: The Castro regime has yet to prove itself a respected member of the American com munity of nations, but the signs are beginning to indicate it will do so. K.A. Lent Today, Ash Wednesday, is the beginning of the Lenten season a period with great meaning to members of some churches, less meaning to others, and with few emotional connotations to those without Christian church affiliations. Lent in many countries is preceded by festivi ties, marking the beginning of a period of self sacrifice, worship, and austerity. "Mardi Gras," the name of many of the festi vals, is literally translated as "Fat Tuesday," or the luesday of J?ats, when celebrants stock up, as it were, on fatty foods prior to the 40 - day penod of self-deprivation. IT IS also known as Shrove Tuesday, a day for solution or pardon for sins. Many devout people on Ash Wednesday have the sign of the Cross marked on their foreheads with consecrated ashes, which traditionally come from the burning of palm leaves left from Palm bunday the preceding year. Lent is a word which denves from the Anglo Saxon "lencten" or "lenten," meaning spring. It begins 40 days before Easter, excluding Sundays, concluding Easter Sunday, and therefore varies in time with when Easter is celebrated. E.A. Something for Everyone This is a week with a little something for everyone the devout, the festive, the historically-minded, the superstitious, the sentimental. Tuesday was "Mardi Gras" or Shrove Tues day, today is Ash Wednesday, Thursday is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lin coln, the president who has come close to being a secular saint in the minds of Americans, Fri day is the first Friday-the-thirteenth of the year (the others are in March and November), and Saturday is the 100th anniversary of the admis sion of Oregon to the United States, and is also Valentine's day. E.A. - public is starting to get it is taking time can be and procedures were not one reads aright, the Ba executions at least under cannot condone them or regime, inexpenenced Begins Dennis the ROLLBR SKATIM ? At fflGfT?' New Interior Head Slates Busy Year; Expresses His Views By Congressional Quarterly Washington - (CQ) -'The chairman of the House inter ior and insular affairs com mittee is going to have a busy year. Rep. Wayne N. Aspinall (D-Colo.), plans to schedule early hearings on the Ha waiian statehood bill. He also plans to go aboard to inspect foreign water proj ects financed by the United States under the foreign aid program. Aspinall told Congressional Quarterly in an interview that he thought Hawaiian state hood has "a better chance than it has had for many years." As the new chairman of the interior committee, Aspinall said his main goal is to avoid the legislative log jam that stymied much legi slation in the committee last year. Hawaiian statehood got caught last session, along with the Hells Canyon and Trinity River power projects and the Fryingpan-Arkansas project. Reclamation Bills The Coloradoan plans to order staff studies of foreign water projects and of all reclamation laws passed since 1902, when the reclamation program began. At the end of the session.he said, he plans to inspect several water proj ects abroad built with, U.S. TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) FEBRUARY 11. 1857 The Free Slate Republi can Party was formally organized in this lerriiory today, at a meeting held at the Linn County Court House in Albany. Hon. W. T. Matlock was elected President and L e a n d e r Holmes Secretary of "the Convention. A platform calling for the admission of Oregon as a "free state" and the immediate con 1 1 r u c t i o n of a' trans continental railroad was adopted. FEBRUARY 11. 187 Oregon's newest county, Wallowa, was created to day by the -state legisla ture out of a part of the astern portion of Union county. The county is bounded on the north by Washington.. Territory,., on the east by the Snake ri ver, on the south by Baker county, and on the west by Union county. Its county seat will be Joseph. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A CERTAIN DIPLOMAT was asked to explain the seeming servility of his government whenever the boys in the Kremlin showed an inclination to crack down. "Think back," suggested the diplomat "to the time when Napoleon escaped from Elba. Headlines in the Paris press proclaimed, 'Monster Breaks Loose.' When he landed in southern France the same papers an nounced, The Usurper Is Headed Here.' The day be fore he entered Paris, their story- ran 'Marshal at Gates of City, and when he actu ally arrives, the headlines heralded, 'Long Live Our Emperor-King!' Do I make myself clear, sir"' Peter DeVries' novel,, "Mackerel Plaza," received huzzahs from the critics, but one of them voiced an objection. "DeVries sense of humor," he noted, "deserted him when he named his hero. What's so funny about the name Mackerel?" The name of the critic .who raised this point, incidentally, is Pickerel. "-- 1359, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate. j Menace dollars. Foreign projects are not required to meet the same standards to justify construc tion as those built in this country. Under the circum stances, Aspinall said, "Amer ican taxpayers are entitled to know" whether their money is being properly spent for foreign water development. He hopes to "bring up to date, completely overhaul and codify" all reclamation laws, under a single statment of policy in one statute. Other Views His views on legislation be fore his Committee: Modification of the 160 acre limitation and the 40- year repayment schedule on reclamation projects: He favors continuing the 160 acre limitation "as a general policy," relaxing it only when a larger tract of land is neces sary to support a family-size farm. He does not favor a change in the present pay-out period of 40 years for water and power users to reimburse the government for the con struction of reclamation proj ects. Legislation reserving cer tain wilderness areas solely for recreation: "The West is generally almost unanimously opposed to this controversial legislation," he said. His Com mittee will hold ' extensive hearings on it, he promised. Partnership Administration "p a r t n er- ship power" projects: He will probably oppose them. He favors over-all multiple-pur pose basin development of water resources by the fed eral government "with no un due enrichment to any pri vate enterprise." Mining: He is "hopeful' that legislation will be enact ed "to protect our domestic mining industry-" But he cautioned that the mining in dustry-is itself divided as to the proper solution of its problems, and the Admini strator has been unable to muster enough strength in Congress to put over any major mining legislation in recent years. Indians: Any bills introduc ed to terminate federal ward ship over Indian tribes will "get very careful scrutiny to see that no injustice is done to the tribes involved," he said. , (Copyright 1959 Congressional Quarterly) NAACP BIRTHDAY New York -(UPD The Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People celebrates its 50th anniver sary Thursday with meetings, dinners and other ceremonies across the nation. TL JL KING Berlin Crisis Tough One; Neither East Nor West Can Afford Retreat; Stakes By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor The tough thing about the Berlin situation is that neither viet Russia nor the Western Powers can afford to re treat very far. As of now, the Russians i say they will turn over to their East Ger man satellite controls for all means in and out of Ber tfau Aewsom lin, including West Berlin, on May 27. Along with this, they demand that the 10,000 West ern troops in Berlin be re moved before that date and West Berlin made a "free" city within the Communist zone. There has been no sign up to now that the Soviets have retreated from that position, first announced more than two months ago. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles returned from his West European confer ences this week -and an nounced that the Western Powers also were determined there would be no retreat. It is only necessary to visit the two sectors of Berlin to understand the opposing posi tions. Two Extremes Prosperous West Berlin, free in every respect, includ ing freedom of speech, pre sents the toughest problem Communist propaganda has had to face. Here in a restricted space, along a boundary sometimes marked only by an imaginary line running down the center of a city street, lie examples of the free world and the Communist world. Last winter this correspond ent visited the two Berlins, witnessing the prosperity of the West and the poverty of the East, seeing on the one side the smart restaurants, the smartly dressed people, the luxurious shops, and on the other, the rubble, the thinly disguised emptiness of the Communist - controlled shops and the vast silence along what was once one of the busiest streets in Berlin, This comparison is what the Communists now 'want to eliminate. -' But there is more than that. Symbol of Hop To those who live behind the Iron Curtain but who still oppose the things for which Communism stands, West Ber lin remains a hope. It is one of the few escape routes left for those hoping to make their way from East to West. More than 20,000 East Berliners earn their daily bread in West Berlin, cross ing and recrossing the line each day by elevated train and on each pay day trading in their solid West German marks for inflated East Ger man marks. Of those who cross the line daily, many elect to remain in the West Last week more than 2,600 abandoned their homes and other possessions for a fu ture, which however uncer tain, still would be better than what they left For the West, its position in Berlin also has advantages The Western message to the imprisoned people in the East can be directed from Berlin better than any other place. And for the West, Berlin is a peephole to the East. These are other reasons why the Communists want the U. S., Birthday Assembly Held al College Ashland Featuring Dr. Arthur S. Taylor, chairman of tne social science division, as speaker, the Southern Oregon College Centennial assembly was scheduled this morning. Dr. Taylor, author of "A Guide to the Study and Read ing of the History of the Pa cific Northwest," co-author of the book, "Our Oregon, and also of the widely-used text book, "Our Great Northwest," addressed the assembly on the topic, "Unfinished Business. He was introduced by Dr. Elmo Stevenson, college pres ident. Richard Clark, student body president, opened the assem bly with a short address and the Southern Oregon College choir, directed by Oscar C. Bjorlie, participated. San Francisco Opera To Show in Portland Portland- (UPD -The Oregon Centennial Commission has voted to bring the San Fran cisco Opera to Portland over Labor Day week end. The Commission thus re versed a decision of its fine arts committee, which had turned down a request by the music subcommittee that the opera be brought here. Turkey lays claim to 4,300 residents who are 100 or more years old out of a population of 22 million. SV k France and Britain to get out Berlin a Liability For the West, Berlin never will represent a military ad vantage. Instead, it can only be a liability. The Western garrison there represents only a token force against the great Knowland Says He'd 'Do It All Over Again' By LYLE C. WILSON Oakland, Calif. (UPD Bill Knowland firmly assures all comers that he has no regrets over leaving the U.S. Sen ate to pitch a campaign for governor of California on the explosive issue of right-to-work. . Moreover, Knowland yle C. Wilson '"J eviueni- ly means exactly that, al though organized labor team- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS More today about the Cali fornia Newspaper Publishers Association convention. One of its principal speak ers was General Alfred Gruenther, who is now re tired and is president of the American Red Cross. Before his retirement he was com mander of NATO (North At lantic Treaty Organization, in case you aren't completely up to date on your abbrevia tions.) , GENERAL Gruenjher is one of eight Americans who, President Eisenhower said re cently in answer to questions at one of his news confer ences, are qualified to be President of the United States. He isn t an orator. He is more than that. He is a fas cinating speaker who uses none of the tricks of the ora tor's trade. He just TELLS you. Listening to him, you just BELIEVE him and let it go at that. You are unconsciously cer tain he knows what he is talk ing about and is telling it to you as it is, with neither un derstatement nor overstate ment'. Men like that carry convic tion. . WHAT is NATO? " As General Gruenther explains it, NATO is our shield of collective security. The days when our oceans were our shield are dear dead days that are gone forever. No more can we stand behind our oceans and defend ourselves as General Jackson and his deadly riflemen stood behind their palmetto log "breast works at Chalmette and de fended New Orleans. War today is a new and deadly kind of war. It is so deadly that it must NEVER BE ALLOWED TO START. Our hope of keeping that kind of war from starting lies in a COLLECTIVE alliance so powerful that NO ONE will ever dare to challenge it. Its power must lie nor merely in physical weapons. It must re side also in MEN'S MINDS. Our cause must be the cause of freedom. Our belief in our cause must be such that all over the world men who prefer death to slavery will rally to our banner. As Sir Launcelot said to his comrades-in-arms: "Our strength is as the strength of ten because our hearts are pure." We must say it with such conviction that commu nism will be afraid to attack us. GENERAL Gruenther didn't say that. He didn't in words say any thing like that. But he left his hearers with the feeling that he HAD said it. He left with them the feel ing that it will be accom plished. He is a remarkable man. W1 ILL there be war? Will Russia attack us? General Gruenther thinks not. Our power to retaliate is too great. The Russians won't take the chance. Or so he be lieves. WHAT of their economy? What of their tech nology? Will they surpass ours? ON THAT point the general isn't utterly certain. The Russians are in dead earnest, he says. THEY ARE N'T AFRAID OF WORK. They go to school to LEARN, he adds. Not to have fun. Going to school, they feel, is a great opportunity. They go in for science. And for foreign languages. Ten million Russians are learning to speak English. They could catch up with us, he thinks. They MIGHT pass us. military might around it Conceivably in this danger ous international gambling game, a war could start over Berlin. . But it's a chance the West must take. To fail to no so would mean Has No Regrets; ed with the state Democratic organization to lick him. "I'd do it all over again," Knowland said during an in terview in the office from which he now supervises the publication of the Oakland Tribune, a solid evening news paper. "I would do the same thing," he continued. "I might change some campaign details but not that right-to-work is sue. Some day we will have to come to grips with the is sue of monopoly power. Too great a concentration of pow er is dangerous." Handpicked by Taft Thirteen years in the Sen ate preceded by a newspaper career and service in the Cali fornia legislature have given Knowland some insight into politics, government and such matters. He was handpicked by the late Robert A. Taft to become Senate Republican leader when Taft, himself, was stricken. Here's how some political and governmental matters ap pear to Knowland: Presidential politics: As of now Vice President Richard M. Nixon is well in front for the 1960 Republican nomina tion. Political conditions are subject to sudden change, however, and the public opin ion polls might cut down Nixon as they cut down Taft before the 1952 Republican National convention. Budget balancing and in flation: The federal budget probably will not be brought into control and balanced so long as foreign aid continues, Foreign aid starts a chain re action of spending in which representatives and U.S. states and subdivisions argue that 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 reserve the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Other Bloody Side To the Editor: Having read your editorial condemning the open executions carried outiby Fidel Castro's new gov ernment against some stooges of the Batista murder regime, I thought perhaps you may welcome a few bloody facts from the other side of the gruesome story. It behooves-us to take heed and profit from such spec tacles of savergy, by prevent ing biggness in any form from gaining the controlling hand here in America. George Gerhardt, Ashland, Ore. Editor's note: Mr. Ger hardt's letter enclosed two articles from the Feb. 8, is sue of "Our Sunday Visitor." They can perhaps be summed up by a paragraph or two from one of them, which read: "If Americans could find some understanding of the crimes that have been com mitted in Cuba in the Jast year and a half then they would understand that the execu tions of the murderers and torturers are justice and not 'blood baths'. "A priest said to me, a little helplessly, 'But I can't un derstand Americans. In the U. S., when a man murders one, then you give him a trial and if he is found guilty you . . . execute him. But when a man here murders 30 or 40 and we try him and when he is found guilty, execute him, you accuse use of being bar barians.' " See editorial comment on this, page. NEW AND MODERN C. M. Litwiller Our new and beautiful Mountain View Chapel for weddings and funeral services is the finest in Southern Oregon. Con servatively built, yet sufficient for every need. We invite inspection and investigation. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain , View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close , Are High to abandon to Communist re venge the 2,000,000 West Ber- liners who took the West at its word. And to do so would . mean to rewrite every U. S. treaty which promised pro tection to those who oppose Communism. if billions of dollars can be spent abroad it should be pos sible to spend millions at home for their special proj ects. The time is coming when the federal government must choose between those priori ties. The new federal budget does not appear to be actual ly in balance. Inflation al ready is here and could be come deadly. If the United States became insolvent, no country in the world could orj would bail out the United' States. Rockets and missile: If $2 billion given to Tito of Yugo slavia had been put into the first satellite and rocket proj--ects the United States might have beaten the Russians. The same amount of money, so spent, would have had greater impact on America's friends, enemies and the neutrals than it could have as a grant to Yugoslavia. Governors: Nelson A. Rock efeller, of New York, and Ed mud G. Brown, of California, have similar problems and comparable states-the prob lems: $2 billion state budgets,. $200 million deficits which must be covered by taxes. Personal plans: Remain in the newspaper business, al though you can't absolutely, foreclose a return to politics because you . cannot know what may happen in politics in four, six or eight years. Editorial Comment ELEPHANT HISTORY In Ashland earlier this week, a grounds keeper at Southern Oregon college found a huge tusk when dig ging for a leaky drainage main. Soon science students and others crowded around the hole, as an attempt was made to get the tusk out intact. The effort was fairly successful but the age given the fossil was a bit off base. The object was identified as the tusk of an elephant. At first its age was estimated at from 20 to 40 million years. This was later lowered to a million years. That figure could be dras tically cut. There were two distinct kinds of proboscideans on the North American landscape. They were the mastodons and the true elephants, and their remains are occasionally found in the same formations. The creature that left its tusk in southern Oregon has been identified as Elephas co lumbi. That beast was closely related to the mammoth. It was a massive creature, rival ing the largest African ele phants of the present. Elephants, their fossils in dicate, were abundant in Ore gon. There is growing proof that they ranged over the re gion not so long ago. The mastodon was probably known to early Americans the tribes that came over the Bering trail and spread through the continent. There is a possibility that elephants were on the Oregon scene as late as 20,000 years ago. Discovery of the tusk on the SOC campus may make it possible for the science facul ty and students to brush up a bit on their elephant history. -Bend Bulletin. 6TH SET OF TWINS Jacksonville, Fla. -(UPD-Mrs. Law Pearson, 34, gave birth to her sixth set of twins on Tuesday-both boys. She has given birth to 16 children in 19 years. Eleven are living. Mrs. Litwiller 'It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us." 4
