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1 Tuesday, February 17, 1939 f iwii, IMPURE, megrora, vrc. MDFORD,STEIBUNB "Everyone tc Southern Orecem Reads The Mail Tribune"r Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager utKALU laimam. Business Mar ERIC W ALLEN JE, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. Citr Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'a Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Uediord 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 6 mot. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4-25 Sunday Only One year $420 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 bunusy 1 mo. l-oo Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City "t Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of . fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. - Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL A cc - La t its? ms rr a"s Flight ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Vail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. , 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 17. 1949 (Thursday) Sen. William McAllister re plies to the Rogue River Irri gation association's letter challenging his postition re garding a bill to remove re strictions on building a Lewis creek dam. i The 40 et 8 club will handle ceremonies here for the re ception of gifts from the French Gratitude train. 20 YEARS AGO ' Feb. 17. 1939 (Friday) The Oak Grove district to receive Medford water within about a month. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudke Pot" . column: "Al mond blossoms are backward this year. Ordinarily they are out. and killed by the frost ere now." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 17, 1929 (Sunday) Central Point Grange holds "cake walk," while Talent holds a "hard time" ball. Fire destroys the Eagle Point Grange hall. 40 YEARS. AGO Feb. 17. 1919 (Monday) Jackson county' merchants oppose a plan to raise $4,000 for a permanent livestock ex hibit at Portland. William Howard Taft, for mer president, passes through town en route to a peace meet ing in San Francisco. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 17. 1909 (Wednesday) The Crater Lake road bill is still hung up in committee at Salem. Pacific Tel and Tel defends itself against proponents of a dual.telephone system. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. The basic commodity used in the manufacture of rum is m s? 2. Which two of the Great Lakes are connected by the Sault Sainte Marie canal? 3. The leaning tower of Pisa was built to be used as a campanile; what is campa nile? 4. Name the capital of Chile. 5. Albert G. Spalding, one one of the founders of modern baseball, was a pitcher, first baseman, or catcher? 6. Which is the most mal leable of all metals? 7. In which of these States was Abraham Lincoln born: Illinois. Ohio. Indiana, Ken tucky? ' 8. For whom was "Veep' first nickname? 9. Is Mexico's principal in Hnstrv farming, livestock or mining? 10. Who was the last bach elor King of Great Britain? Answers. 1. Molasses'. 2, T.aVes SuDerior and Huron. 3, Toii tower. 4. Santiago. 5. Pit cher. 6. Gold. 7. Kentucky. 8. :V. P. Alban Barkley. 9. Min ing. 10. Edward VIII. STANDING OFFER Columbus, Ohio -fCPD State Rep. Rhoderic G. Mills report ed Monday that a taxpayer sent in this suggestion to boost state revenue: A tax on bicycle seats "to make chil dren pedal standing up saving wear and tear on their pants and correcting curved spines c Textbook The constitutionality law will be tested in the quiet dignity of the courts, rather than in the sometimes noisy and emotional houses of the legislature. The portion of the law which is being chal lenged, in a court suit filed in Clackamas county last week, is that which provides school districts may furnish free textbooks to pupils in parochial schools. It is interesting to note, in a story in the Ore gon City Enterprise-Courier, that "All parties in the suit indicated that this was a test of the law, and not intended to inflame or emphasize relig ious differences." believe the law should be tested, and that it should be done in the manner in .which' it is being done quietly,, with a minimum of emo tion, and with emphasis on the legal' question, rather than religious questions. The test is another in tions which over the years have tested and de fined the limits of the oi cnurch and state. f As such, it is apt to take years to bring to com pletion, as it goes through the courts, starting in the Clackamas county circuit court and presum ably ending in the supreme court of the United States. TPHE case is of interest in Medford, as it is in every Oregon city where a parochial school is operated in the confines of a public school dist rict. The Medford school district, under the terms of the state law, furnishes St. Mary's school with some of the textbooks St. Mary's or its pupils. Other textbooks used there are not furnished by the district. The procedure is for St. Mary's to make appli cation to the district for those books it wishes, and they are then provided on the same basis as they are for the public schools. The books are purchased from the school district's regular op erating budget. To be eligible, the parochial school must meet all state educational standards (which it does) except the one which sets forth the pupil-per-teacher load. One other free service vides for St. Mary's is pupil transportation on the district's buses, permitting St. Mary's students to ride without charge on regular school bus runs. No special runs are made for. the parochial school students. THE relationship between St. Mary's and the Medford school district is friendly and co operative, as is also the City school district and St. by the test case. The case, brought in gon City school district residents by the Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties union, is a "friendly" case, neither "anti-religion" nor anti-church," but is rather based on a view of the constitutional theory church and state. The constitutional stricture, found in the first amendment, simply says: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ..." DUT this phrase has been the basis for a large number of court tests, which in turn have fleshed it out through judicial interpretation. For one instance, the supreme court has ruled that public schools cannot provide religious edu cation as part of the daily curriculum. On the other hand, it has also ruled that fur nishing of supplemental services to parochial schools by public school districts, in some cases, does not violate the constitution. " The suit seeks a final determination as to how the textbook law conforms with or vio lates, the differing interpretations of the consti tution. A SIDE issue, but an interesting one, is the fact that there are two other parochial schools in the Clackamas county district, one a Lutheran school and the other a Seventh-day Adventist school. Neither of them has made application for free textbooks under the law. Because of this, a substantial matter of public policy is involved whether taxpayer-purchased supplies should go to one non-public school which asks for them, and not to others wThich do not ask. - In filing the case, the chairman of the ACLU chapter said: "Supplying textbooks at public expense for the use in parochial schools breaches the waU of separation be tween church and state. Such action constitutes a form of state aid to religious institutions. The ACLU be - lieves that the sanctity of religion and the integrity of the "state are both best protected when the activities of both are kept separated. "The constitutional requirement in both the United States and Oregon constitutions requiring the state to maintain neutrality between religious denominations and between believers and non-believers is a corner stone of democracy. "It protects religion from interference by the state and it protects the state from competition among re ligious groups for public support and subsidy." - It is to be hoped the suit will settle, once and for all, the question of the constitutionality of the free textbook law, and serve as another landmark in the judicial determination of how the consti tution shall be applied. E. A. Law Test of Oregon's textbook a lone: series of legal ac Constitutional separation used there, at no cost to which the district pro case with the Oregon John's school, covered the name of three Ore of the separation of Dennis the YOU 6ETTER SO VONtZOBY. 'OUSZ WHEN MY TIME IS UP. m SOT SOMBTWti' TO SAY WAT'S GONNA PUT MB Matter of Fact THE DULLES SPIRIT Washington - Why ; do so many Western leaders regard the illness of John Foster Dulles - as a major tragedy today, when they would have danced at his funeral two years ago? . It is an intere sting q u e s t i o n, worth careful Jospb &isop examination. In large part, of course, this horror aroused by the inca pacity of a man once so hear tily distrusted is an admis sion of weakness. It derives from the general feeling that Dulles is the real backbone, the one remaining element of firmness, in the Eisenhower Administration and in the Western Alliance too. With Dulles . gone, . what posture will the Administration as sume? What course will the West take? It is curious that the unyielding determination of a single aging man should have -came to mean so much, but the fact must be faced. rPHERE is more than this, -- however, to the change of attitude towards the Secre tary of State among all the men he chiefly worked with. The other element, beyond doubt, is a change in the test these men applied to the man himself. Perhaps the best way to put it is to say that, in the last two years, John Foster Dulles came to be judged less by his methods and more by his spirit. About his methods, the less said the better. The "libera tion" policy was a fraud. The strategy of "massive retalia tion" was announced at the very moment when it was be coming impossible. The talk about "brinks" was deplor able. The appeasement of Sen. McCarthy in the early years came close to destroying the American Foreign Service. An honest portrait cannot omit the wens on the chin. But it must be said that as the years passed, and Foster Dulles gained self-confidence in har ness, he vastly improved his way of doing business. "MEANWHILE, as the years pass, the spirit of Foster Dulles also gained in value because it became more and more rare. It has been much criticized, this Dulles spirit, on the ground that he was "moralistic." He was con stantly accused of "seeing the cold war too much in terms of right and .wrong." In a sense, moreover, this was quite true. His view of such a man as Anastas Mikoyan was quite simply Shelley's view of Castlereagh which was,, incidentally, most unfair to Castlereagh but produced the best denunciatory poem in English. "I met Murder on the way. He had a mask like Castle reagh. Very smooth he looked yet grim. Seven bloodhounds follow ed' him, All were fat, and well they might . . Be in admirable plight; For one by one and two ; by two, . He tossed them human hearts to chew." . "OUT surely it was better to see Mikoyan in this way, than to see him as the big businessman saw him, who were charmed by the insinu ating Mikoyan manners, or to see him as the people in Chicago saw him, who mob bed his opera box to get the Mikoyan. autograph. Since Mi koyan is very obviously an immensely complex character, necessarily mingling some good with """evil, the Dulles view of him was no doubt too uncomplicated. But it was more accurate and more hon est than the view of those Menace Alsop who found this blood-stained little Armenian intriguer a delightful dinner companion. By the same token, the Dulles vision of the cold war as a gigantic contest between good and evil, in which one could not give an inch with out being guilty of surrender to the powers of darkness, is immeasurably more accurate than -the vision of the cold war held by those who de nounce. Dulles for "inflexibil ity." It is true, of course, that American and Western policy in these last years has in creasingly lost the vital pow er of maneuver. With such defense policies as we have pursued, indeed, a bold, imag inative and rapidly maneuver ing foreign policy was and is impossible. BUT what is this "flexibil ity" that Dulles' critics prate about? So far as one can see, it means the willingness to surrender something or oth er, every time a remorseless enemy points a pistol (or a missile) in our direction. If a "flexible policy" is now to be adopted because Foster Dulles is no longer in charge of the State Department, the time will no doubt come when the desirability of being "inflexi ble" about Communist claims to Staten Island will be wide ly debated. At bottom, moreover, the cold war IS a gigantic con test between good and evil, between freedom and slavery, between the values of the hu man spirit and the values of the anthill state. The best thing about Foster Dulles was precisely the fact that he was the cold war in those terms. The spirit that drove him, forth, on that last agonizing, stoical, marvelously coura geous journey overseas, came from his sense of the moral issues in the cold war. And at the last, this Dulles spirit warmed men who burned with a less intense feeling, and they were grateful for it. (Copyright 1S59, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) FEBRUARY 17, 1896 John Philip Souza's band, the most pronounced musi cal success of recent years, will play in Portland this evening and tomorrow. lis coming will be a most in teresting event to all pro fessional musicians and mu sic lovers. The history of military bands shows n o parallel to the rapid rise to favor enjoyed by this or ganization in the two years of its existence. Mr. Souza is a masterly band conduct or. FEBRUARY 17, 1887 . Malheur County was cre ated today by action of the state legislature, taken from what were formerly -the southern and middle por tions of Baker county. It is named for the Malheur River, which runs through it. The name, which is de rived from the French word meaning misfortune or dis aster, was given the stream by Donald McKenzie, a n early Hudson's Bay officer, who hid furs along its bank only to have them discov ered and stolen by Indians. FEBRUARY 17. 1899 Wheeler County was to day created by the state legislature. It was named for Henry H. Wheeler who came to Oregon in '62 and has since turned his hand to driving a stage, farming, and slock raising. Mr. Wheeler was one of the most notable of early day drivers in this area and his escapes from Indians and road agents ' have become legendary. Cyprus Feud Hearing End; Independent Status for By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor A feud which threatened seriously Allied defenses of the Eastern Mediterranean ?nd snlattered a normally p e a c ef ul is land with blood, appar ently is about to come to an end. In the near f u ture, prob ably in Lon don, it is ex pected a pact will be signed Pill Newborn creating an independent Cy prus. For a black-bearded priest of the Greek Orthodox Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Words of Protest To the Editor:. Tolerance with the everpresent threat to our precepts of equality, free dom, and democracy has been the sometimes hard-to-achieve goal of many people. Grant ing that this threat is always with us in men like Dies, Jen ner and Coughlin, the new face of intolerance seems even more vicious . . . Dan Smoot. After viewing his Sunday report on TV, I felt that this man is following well the in famous role of his teachers. The half truths, the interpre tation of unrelated facts, the whole mass of hate, makes the averaee intelligent, decent person sick. This program may have one asset. It can stimulate and nromote discussions, it can be used as an example to our students of "the other side of the story," it is an excellent example of intolerance, mis information, bigotry and suave demagogy. Somehow my tolerance with this type of program is wearing thin. These are my few words of protest. . Lola Milhoan, 3043 Delta Waters rd., Medford. Licensing Proposed To the' Editor: Enclosed is a copy of a letter I have writ ten to Dr. Edwin R. Durno, state senator, and Mrs. Eve Nye, state representative. I do not doubt this proposal will meet with considerable opposition but it would per mit the lowering of rates for trucks and make a much more fair way of raising mon ey for highway work. At present I think the law is very discriminatory in favor of motorists and against those who use trucks for making a living. Floyd R. McCabe Butte Falls, Ore. The letter follows: It strikes the undersigned that the laws concerning the licensing of motor vehicles discriminates against those who operate vehicles primar ily designed to move goods to the consumer. All passen ger automobiles pay a maxi mum of ten dollars regardless of weight, whereas, vehicles designed for movement oi goods, that is, trucks, must pay by weight and in many cases, these trucks' weight is less than tie passenger ve hicles. Would a truck weighing 5000 pounds, with no load, do more damage to a road than a sedan weighing 5000 pounds without passengers? My an swer to that is "No." In fact, in the case of trucks which have dual tires, the damage would be much less, as the weight would be dis tributed over a greater are. In order that laws be fair to all, I do believe all pass enger or other vehicles be licensed according to weight, whether it be a small motor scooter or the largest trucks on the road. - For example, a vehicle the SIGN of DEPENDABLE TRANSPORTATION . H. Commercial Room 5, D'Anjou Bldg., Medford, Ore. SPring 3-7366 CHICAGO, BURLINGTON A QUINCY RAILROAD Island Result of Compromises church, it will be a compro mise victory. For the half-million inhabi tants of Cyprus, it should mean a return to normal agri cultural pursuits, instead of the crack of a sniper's rifle or a bomb burst in a village street. For the armed forces of Britain on the island and for the forces of Greece and Tur key it should mean a return to their normal job of guard ing the underbelly of Europe and standing as a bulwark against any southern or south westward thrust by the So viet Union Reach Crisis in 1955 The dispute, over Cyprus reached the crisis stage in 1955 . and quickly mush roomed into international sta tus ,out of all proportion to the island's size. But it brought Greece and Turkey, two of NATO's most dedicated members, to the verge of war, and from April, 1955, cost nearly 600 lives and left more than 1,200 wounded. The difficulty stemmed first from the island's great strategic value in the Eastern Mediterranean, and second from the uncompromising de mands of the island's 400,000 Greek Cypriots for union with Greece. Cyprus, about half the size of New Jersey, lies only 40 miles off the coast of Turkey, but 500 miles from mainland Greece. For 300 years it had been ruled by Turkey, and since 1878, by Britain It nev- weighing 100 pounds, in this case a light motor, scooter should pay a sum of 75 cents. A light automobile weighing 1500 pounds would pay $11.25 and a sedan or station wagon weighing 4000 pounds, and a large percentage comes in this category, would pay $30. These weights and fees re lating to them would be taken minus the driver or passen gers but with such items as commonly would be carried therein, such a s tools, tire chains, spare tires, etc. Value of the vehicle would have no bearing on the case. I, for one, would like very much to see legislation intro duced for passage. I repeat, it would be fair to all, and would not be discriminatory, Floyd R. McCabe Man and Bear To the Editor: Many years ago there lived a miner and his wife at Woodville, Ore. He was a veteran of the war between the states by the name of Walter Hale, a big masculine specimen of the early gold seekers who with his companion traveled over the old pack trail that led to upper Graves creek, some 24 miles northwest of Woodville. On one of these hazardous trips he invariably walked while his wife rode one of the pack animals. He ground sluiced with a cotton fire hose for a number of years. Now one day he chanced to meet an ugly mannered adult bear who refused to give an inch of the narrow trail to the couple. As Hale always car ried a serviceable hunting knife for any emergency, he quickly "squared off" for a hand-to-paw combat that last ed fully an hour, but did not avoid getting scathed in the melee that left Mr. Hale shirt less, and with a deeply scratched chest, 'tis said, he carried the rest of his long life. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman, Medford. ATTRACTIVE AD London - (UPD - The London Chronicle carried the follow ing advertisement in its lone ly hearts column today: "Lazv. foul - tempered vil lain, divorced for wife-threatening, tall, dark, 38, interests music and photography when o b e r, invites correspond ence. Gen. Robert E. Lee's army camped at Waynesboro, Pa., after the battle of Gettysburg. The Mason-Dixon line is one and one-half miles south. PYLE Agent er had belonged to Greece. Greeks in Majority But the Greeks were in a heavy majority on the island, and, under the leadership of Archbishop Makarios II, in 1950 began demanding union with Greece. Makarios played heavily on national senti ment in his campaign, and it was not too long before, against its official will, the Greek government also was drawn into the controversy. At least one Greek govern ment fell because the people felt it had not taken a firm enough stand toward annexa tion of Cyprus. In 1955, the Greek under ground on Cyprus declared war on the British,-and the shooting began. In the midst of it all, stood the figure of Makarios. In a crowded village church, one Sunday, he told his followers: Cyprus has known many conquerors in the past. Now it is face to face with the last of its conquerors. Your church Washington Report By WILLIAM Washington - President Eis enhower's increasingly urgent demands for budget economy a r e danger - o u s 1 y likely to produce ? what to him will be the wrong kind of savings in 4he wrong place at the wrong time. T h o IT 1 y r. William S. " T-, White equally like ly, moreover, to result in the reverse of savings in those very areas where he and the more conservative members of his Cabinet are most de termined to cut down. The confidential estimates of powerful Congressional Democrats and of some of the rebellious Republicans, too', foreshadow these ultimate re sults in the budget fight: 1. Deep . Congressional re ductions in the Administra tion's mutual security, or for eign aid, program. This, above all, the President wants to keep intact. Of all his enter prises this is closest to his heart. To continue foreign aid he has asked $3,900,000,000 or about $800,000,000 more than Congress allowed for the cur rent years. The expert con sensus at the Capitol is that he will be very fortunate not to lose a billion dollars, at least, from his request here. And this is the one place, the President has said, where the knife ought not to be applied. 2. Congressional increases in domestic spending, for housing, for welfare projects, for various public works run ning to many hundreds of mil lions more than the President wants in those categories. rpHUS IT IS that the Presi- dent's real argument with Congress is not so much over what should be the grand total of expenditures. It is far more over where the decreas es and increases should come. Congress is simply not going to cut down on water-power projects at home, for example, while giving rising American assistance to them abroad. By necessity the President is hitting again and again at "spending" in his effort to keep control of his own bud get. But every time he does so he weakens his own position on foreign aid. This he wishes to treat, for perfectly sound reasons, with a liberality that he wholly rejects for other parts of the budget. But the distinction is far too fine and complicated to be i H Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. has preserved the flame of religion and nationalism through all these centuries. It will lead you yet to liberty and deliver you from foreign rule." Shocks British The British were shocked at this high churchman's "complicity with bloodshed and intimidation." But even exile failed to shake Makarios, who at 37 had become the youngest archbishop in the history of the Greek Orthodox church. The Turkish-Greek compro mise which promises to lead to Cypriot independence is not what Makarios wanted. Nor is the system of checks and balances designed to pro tect both Greek and the Tur kish minority likely to please anyone for very long. The proposed new constitu tion specifically prevents union with Greece, but it is unlikely that it will satisfy Makarios or his followers for long. It seems more likely he merely is biding his time. S. WHITE effective politically. The irony is that the more he denounces the extravagant motives he attributes in general to the Democrats the more impos sible he makes it to protect the very large foreign aid item for which he demands special favors. i THE LARGE, lumpy- con rpnt rtf "snianHinff" Ko. comes the only issue. It can not practically be subdivided into "good" and "bad" spend ing. It all comes down to this: well, are you a "spender," or aren t you? Foreign aid, nevertheless, will not be "gutted." What Congress at length provides will certainly carry the pro gram forward as a stoutly go ing concern. And it will be an ungenerous allocation only in the most relative and theoret ical sense. Nevertheless, past experience suggests that the reductions sure to be made will be cried up as though Congress had halfway repudi ated foreign aid. Thus, the . Administration has now a peculiarly acute problem. Obviously, the Pres ident cannot simply abandon his basic and general cam paign against "spending." On the other hand, he cannot wisely be too loud in pro claiming dire results if Con gress does not follow his lead completely on foreign aid. rpHE WISE approach would seem to begin now frank ly to prepare" Allied opinion by discounting the inevitable coming foreign aid reduction simply by putting it into prop er perspectve. An even more basic prob lem, however, has no visible solution whatever. Federal expenditures are becoming so vast and so diffuse in purpose as to raise a serious question whether any President or Congress will be able within a few years actually to con trol any budget. May not in ternal events, as for illustra tion sudden business reces sions, or external events in stantly requiring vast outlays in the cold war, become the real future masters of the budget? This is the creeping night mare of some fiscal conserv atives. It is not so much the level of present spending that they fear. It is the possibility thaf.men may lose to the robot of circumstance the very power effectively to control spending at all. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) . WIND, WATER AND WORRY Plagued many local residents the past few days ... So re member, adequate insurance :overage eliminates WORRY due to WIND & WATER dam age. We'll gladly check your coverage. Bill Fish - j& fit Hi.. t
