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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. 4 Friday, February 20, 1959 Medfobs&WTbibunb "Everyone to Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MF.DFOKD tU. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager OK.tUlL.Lf IJiinAJl, DlttUlcn JUJfr ERIC W ALLEN JB, Managing Editor EARL. H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN, Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDorU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women" Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon tinder Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday I year $15.00 Dally and Sunday mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year MJ0 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Potnt. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. i wj Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City t Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International run Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO, INC. Of fices in Nen York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IAI 1 ASfebcC&Tl(SlN J W J 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. 20, 1949 (Sunday) Gov. Douglas McKay and Congressman Harris Ells worth are to speak at the Camp White domiciliary dedi cation ceremonies today. Over 2,000 persons attend the Big Pines district Boy Scout exposition at the Med ford armory. 20 YEARS AGO Fab. 20, 1939 (Monday) A total of 617 persons visit Crater Lake national park, most of them being interested in winter sports. ' ; From- Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudee Pot" column: "Peo ple are now pondering the problem of stopping the Legis lature, in the 40 days allotted by law. The only way to do this, is not to start it 40 days before they want it to stop." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 20, 1929 (Wednesday) The Medford city council paves the way for a park atop Roxy Ann. Medford plans to build a new water reservoir as a pre cautionary measure. 43 YEARS AGO Feb. 20. 1919 (Thursday) Fish are being caught in the Rogue river with worms. Banks prepare to close Sat urday in recognition of Wash ington's birthday. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 20, 1909 (Saturday) A banquet is planned for the Crater Lake road boosters on their return from Salem. The Rogue river fish bill setting an open season is de feated 15-13 at Salem. What's Your I.Q.7- Nine or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five er six is good. 1. Who is the new Chair man of the U.S. Senate For eign Relations Committee? 2. Male bees cannot sting; true or false? 3. Who wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"? 4. Complete the quotation, "Laugh and the world laughs with you . . ." 5. In the history of Ameri can musical composition, who was known as "the march King"? 6. What Strait is at the south tip of South America? 7. What does I.Q. mean? 8. Which of these instru ments is used to measure wind velocity; barometer, speedometer, anemometer? 9. Little Nell is the hero ine of which Charles Dickens' novel? 10. The science of races of man is known as e y? Answers: 1. J. William Ful bright. Ark. 2. True. 3. Wash ington Irving. 4. "Weep and you weep alone." 5. John Philip Sousa. 6. Strait of Ma gellan. 7. Intelligence Quoti ent. 8. Anemometer. 9. "Old Curiosity Shop." 10. Ethnol ogy. SNYDER VS. SNYDER Denver - (UPD - It was Wes ley Snyder vs. Wesley Sny der Thursday in Municipal Court. Wesley E. Snyder of Lakewood, Colo.,' the defend ant, was fined $31 for his in volvement in . a traffic acci dent with Wesley F. Snyder of Littleton, Colo., the com plainant. . What is 'Practicality' Some individuals who are more concerned with saving money than with progress have sin gled out "pure research" as a target for their criticism. - They couldn't have' picked a place 'which shows up their lack of information more seriously, Pure research, to be single "practical" or immediate objective. It is simply a pursuit of man's curiosity about the un known; a delving into sake of increasing knowledge. IT IS hit by the critics no tangible benefit. wrong. All our scientific advances have come from "pure" research. Without it there is nothing for the practical scientist, gineer to fiddle with tools and appurtenances A government-sponsored project, for instance, may be to determine the mating habits of a ' ela tively obscure insect. "Silly," scream the econ omy-minded congressman, "a waste of taxpayers' money. And yet, out of this project, which may have cost several thousands of dollars, comes a method by which fruit-growers in Florida or California are saved millions of dollars . every year through the elimination of a fruit pest. . IF MEMORY serves it was Charles Wilson, the unlamented former secretary of defense, who said something like "Who cares why grass is green;" If Engine Charlie had work a little more he would have discovered that if scientists can discover why grass is green, they will probably have solved the mystery of photo synthesis, and unlocked the secret of why and how plants grow and are nourished a discovery which can lead to a new revolution in a dozen branches of agriculture, chemistry and, eventu ally, industrial development, ALBERT EINSTEIN was a mathematician the Ul VkJU VI CI A J. IIS J. UiiVllVU VA, AAA X IO 111U1 U esoteric realms. He dug no ditches, built no auto mobiles, invented no new plastics. And yet, with a brain and a paper and pencil, Einstein has revolu tionized mankinds concept of the universe, and, almost incidentally, formulated the theoretical formula (Emc2) on which the entire structure of nuclear physics has been built. The atom bomb, the nuclear submarine, the revolutions in agriculture, medicine and industry, all stem from that bit of "pure" scientific research. .. TOSIAH WILLARD GIBBS is a name not many people have heard. He was a professor of mathematical physics at 1871 to his death in 1903. during his lifetime. A mild-mannered man, he was dedicated to mathematical thought and study. He -was not a practical man. He never payroll," never invented anything, or applied any of his formulas to the problems of the day. He, like Einstein later, was a researcher in the realm of pure science. . r: ' One of his works was a little book entitled "On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances." It attracted little notice at the time; in fact there were few people around who could even under stand it. DUT AS the science of mathematics grew, and as technology advanced, his work began to be "rediscovered." A biographer of Gibbs did some tracing of its effects. It off ered clues which : ". . '. have led to explorations ' in geology, metal lurgy, the study of the blood, political economy, his torical theory, exchanges in goods, theories of currency, refrigeration, the interpretation of the propeties of steel, the airplane industry, the work in high" explo sives, and the study of salt deposits that in some measure account for the roles of England and Germany in the First World War, and the explanation of the activity of volcanoes. "In the second half are the foundations for the thermodynamical theory of surface tension and capil larity, of colloid chemistry, work on the galvanic .cell which has given Gibbs his tremendous influence on electrochemistry, and the work on films and crystals on which some of the researches of Einstein and Pierre Curie, to name only two, have rested." MOT PRACTICAL enough? There's more. A He developed and used in his treatise statistical methods which inaugurated the whole statistical trend of modern physics and physical chemistry. The treatise contained a four-page section an equation known as the Phase Rule. He gave no concrete illustration of it, and proceeded to fur ther problems. When more "practical" men started applying it (after they had gained enough background to understand it), it became the way through which new substances were predicted, formed the basis of alloy metallurgy, permitted development of efficient methods of manufacture of high explo sives without which the allies, in World War I, "might have lost the war at an early stageL owing to shortage of explosives." - He also, more or less incidentally, formulated theories of flight used by Langley and the Wright brothers, and without which successful airplanes might still not be possible. . And Gibbs, poor fellow, was one. of those "impractical" dreamers! E.A.- - sure, is not angled at any nature's mysteries for the on the basis that there is They couldn't . be more the technician or the en and to translate into the of progress. , boned up on his home Yale university from He gained'little fame married', never met a Dennis the 'LOOKMOM! I'M E4TIN' SUGAR Die RIGHT SWON, HUH, AVOW V JM Matter of Fact THE VANISHING RACE ' Washington-One of the sen ior Eisenhower Republicans in Congress, Sen. George D. Aiken of Ver mont, has now said in public what most other Eisen hower Repub- 1 i c a n s have been saying in private. He has said, in ef fect, that he jos-nh aisod aoes noi con sider himself an Eisenhower Republican any longer. Take this opening. . . "During the years he was President, Lincoln never bal anced the budget ... he could have balanced the budget and lost the Union. He could have held down the national debt and perpetuated slavery. And no doubt, had he chosen the latter course, he would have been applauded by many sol id citizens of that day." Deadpan humor of a rather high order was the method of Sen. Aiken's remarkable speech, which attractedx far too little attention when de livered in New York over the week end. As another exam ple, take his answer to the me too" charge levelled at the more modern-minded Re publicans by the party's con servatives. "If .a Democrat says we need better health," remark ed Sen. Aiken (and one can almost hear the flat New Eng land twang), "I'm not going to come out for poorer health just to disagree with him." MORE generally, the Aiken speech amounted to an acid assault on the whole sys tem of priorities now prevail ing in the Eisenhower ad- ministration-an attack hot by any means limited to the im plied comparison with the pri orities followed by Lincoln. First priority for national se curity and national growth was what Aiken demanded, and he denounced those who "cling to the status quo" and lack "faith in America." He never mentioned the Presi dent or the administration. But he came pretty close to doing so when he predicted a Republican disaster at the next election "unless the Re publican party leadership demonstrates greater faith in the future of America than it has been doing recently." The Aiken speech was genu inely significant because, so to say, it made official the widening cleavage between the great Republican Eisen hower enthusiasts of the past and their former hero. The world at large has not paid much attention to this strik ing phenomenon, but it is familiar to anyone who walks the corridors of the Capitol. The Eisenhower Republicans to use their old name for the sake of convenience - feel completely deserted by Eisen hower in his present budget first - and - everything - else- nowhere phase. rFHE cleavage first became apparent, of course,, dur ing and immediately after the Republican leadership fights at the opening of the present session. In the Senate, the White House actively discour aged the Eisenhower Repub licans' opposition to the leadership-candidacy of Everett Dirksen of Illinois, whose anti-Eisenhower speech in the 1952 convention was so mem orable for insinuating bitter ness. In the House, the White House positively encouraged the bid for the leadership of Rep. Charles Halleck of Indi ana, but the White House then failed to lift a finger when Halleck froze every single man of the type the President used to call- "modern Repub licans" out of any position of the slightest influence. Since then, moreover, the cleavage has: appeared in oth er fields. In the field of ap aaxnaBaaBaxM pointments, for example, the Menace WITH THE SUGAR SPOON'. GOT tfWNiN , MH,nvjm By Joseph AIsop brilliant and selfless Henry Labouisse, though a-political, is just the sort of man the great majority of Eisenhower Republicans would like to see in the difficult foreign aid job. Again, the able James H. Smith, himself a leading Eis enhower Republican, would have been a welcome choice for the Secretaryship of the Navy. Yet Eisenhower has let the party's ultra-conservatives ,veto Smith's appointment, and he is permitting Republican National Chairman Meade Al corn to block the appointment of Labouisse on the cheapest pretexts of old fashioned pork-and-patronage politics. IN THE field of policy, what goes on is sometimes even more surprising than, in the field of appointments. For example, House Leader Hal leck actively tried to prevent the Administration from pre senting any civil rights bill whatever, on the ground that this would cost him Southern support for the President's grand aim of balancing the budget. The argument actu ally won over White House Chief of Staff Wilton D. Per sons. The ensuing White House debate about what to do was time-consuming. Hence the first serious civil rights bill of this session was pre sented by a great leader of the South, Lyndon Johnson of Texas. This being the atmosphere, this being the trend, no wonder the men who used to wear with pride the Eisen hower Republican label now almost think of themselves as members of a vanishing race. The views of George Humphrey have triumphed with Eisenhower. And al though Humphrey used to be the most powerful member of the Eisenhower cabinet, and is still the President's most influential advisor, he was never even a Taft Republican. He was, and is, a Hoover Republican. Copyright 1959. New York Herald Tribune Inc. TODAY 4 In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) FEBRUARY 20, 1893 The legislature today cre ated Lincoln County out of the Sileti Indian Reserva tion and the western por tion of Benton County. To ledo will probably be the county seat. The name of the county was chosen only after a protracted and ener getically conducted dispute, the names - "Blaine" and "Bay" each being favored by a substantial faction. Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF JONATHAN WINTERS had heard so much about a swanky New York restaurant that he decided to try it. "I'm going to shoot the works," he told his waiter. "Give me the $10 dinner." "Very good, sir,", re sponded the waiter. "Would you like your coffee black or with cream?" "Never mind that now," said Winters. I'll have my coffee after I've finished the dinner." "Sir," announced the waiter haughtijy. "Coffee IS the $10 dinner." Warbles "Red" Travis, poet laureate of Englewood: "The chorus girl And sadness traced her brow. But she met a sugar daddy ' . . And she's ex-pensive now." , C 19j? by Bameit Cert Distributed by Kins feature SyadicaU. S. P. Spokesman Defends Railroad's Passenger Editor's note: Since the Mail Tribune has been highly crit ical of the Southern Pacific railroad in past editorials, it herewith makes an exception to its rule that communica tions must be limited to 400 words, and prints in full the following letter from an SP spokesman. We leave it to our readers to judge whether the letter is a vigorous defense of a progressive policy, or a weak explanation of a policy which mitigates against the welfare of the people of Ore gon and northern California. Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus Is Man of Week at Conference By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor The man-of-the-week: Greek Orthodox Archbishop Maka rios of Cyprus. The place: London. The quote: "I am entering the conference with an open mind and with the utmost goodwill and friendliness." This is an era of an acceler ating rush to independence by formerly ' dependent peoples. And in the case of the Medi terranean island of Cyprus, it is a desire for self-rule that goes back almost 4,000 years. " In recent years, that desire has been epitomized in the person of Makarios IH, arch bishop and ethnarch-or elected national leader - of Cyprus. His feelings on the subject have been summed up time and again in the view that "Cyprus belongs to no one but its own people. And that peo ple is demanding the right to Washington Report By WILLIAM DULLES' ACCOMPLISHMENT Washington - Powerful Re publican Senators have warned the Eisenhower ad- ministratio n that the ill ness of Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles must not become the occasion for any soft ening of our rjolicv in the "iKKS- cold war. Through their leader, Sen ator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, they have let the White House know: 1. That they will keep a snecial surveillance over the State Department actions and attitudes in Mr. Dunes' ab sence. 2. That if the Secretar; 's cancerous condition forces tis total retirement any successor nominated by the President would have to satisfy the Sen ate Republicans ' that he did not propose to liquidate the "tough" position Mr. Dulles so long maintained. THESE representations have been made by the ortho dox Republicans because they are perfectly aware of a most significant fact of life. This is that almost any foreseeable change in top command at the State Department would bring in a man much less deeply committed than Secretary Dulles to the line of giving no real ground to the Russians, over Berlin or elsewhere. For Mr. Dulles personally has been that policy, even if he appeared to be turning slightly more flexible before his most recent illness struck. He has literally embodied that policy. And ijt is for this reason, and this alone, that as foreign minister for a "mo dern" Republican administra tion he has nevertheless been able to maintain the consist ent support of the party's Old Guard wing in Congress. John Foster Dulles, in a 4 10 2-X0 was pensive, S7 r Policy Cuts in To the Editor: I note from your "Corporate Dishonesty" edtorial of February 13, 1959, that you have borrowed the biased bitterness of a typical C. W. Ferguson press release without investigation. ( The text of the material which Mr. Ferguson quite evi dently sent you before he went to the hearing at San Francisco was not followed by him from the witness stand under oath. Your statement that it was his "testimony" is therefore completely erron eous which could have been decide its own future." It was with that attitude that he arrived in London last week to take part'in the crit ical conference on the future of his country. No Mood for Compromise The Greek and Turkish gov ernments had worked out an agreement in Zurich, Switzer land, the week before. Britain endorsed this jJlan. , To put the final seal of ap proval on the arrangement, Archbishop Makarios, s p i r i tual and political leader of the Greek 'Cypriot community, and Dr. Fazil Kutchuk, head of the Turkish Cypriots, were invited to the British capital. Of these, the views of Maka rios were the most critical. He was not in a mood for compromise, and was reported at odds with some aspects of the Zurich arrangement -which some Greek Cypriot cir cles regarded as a "constitu tional monstrosity." But he, S. WHITE word, long has been very close to being the . indispens able man to the Republican party in the United States, just as now he begins to look to be very nearly the irre placeable man in the Western alliance. THHIS IS one of the under- lying reasons why all con cerned the President, the Congressional Republicans -are almost desperately hoping that any formal . supplanting of Mr. Dulles can be avoided, or at worst long postponed. Such a changing of the guard, so late in the President's term and quite apart from its ef fects abroad, would bring something approaching a aon vulsion within the United States Government. For John Foster Dulles' widely discussed "personal diplomacy" is not the only unexampled aspect of his ten ure. Another is the uniquely personal bridge he has formed between the conservative and liberal wings of his party. Be cause he has symbolized the "hard" line against imperial ist communism he has made it necessary for the Old Guard to back the Administration in foreign 'affairs generally far more than it might have done - and sometimes more than the Old Guard really wished to do. . He has been a peculiar am bassador between the domi nant Republican conservatives and the overshadowed but ag gressive Republican liberals in the Senate. Neither wing has ever quite captured him; but neither wing has ever quite lost hold of him, or he of It. TN SHORT, JohnFoster Dllllpc find nnf nnlw Avor. shadowed his own President in making foreign policy. He ..V. V"'J w.w has also far overshadowed his own President in the tricky task of giving to that Presi dent s party the strictly polit ical leadership required to keep that party's diverse wings reasonably united for that policy. This is why Dulles became the indispensable man or as nearly indispensable as to make no difference. The tra ditional practice has been for a President to let a Secretary of State run the State Depart ment, subject to Presidential high-policy . guidance, while the President made himself solely responsible for provid ing the necessary political pro tection for the Secretary to do his job. Mr. Dulles has done the whole business. He has done it with plodding courage and a kind of puritanical resolu tion. And - in order honestly to balance the whole set of books - he has occasionally done it with a massive tact lessness. The old gentleman himself probably would ack nowledge this in this wry hour when those who used to have no single good word for him now positively drench his hos pital bed with uncritical praise. (Copyright, 1959. by United Feature Syndicate Inc.) determined by you if time had been taken to investigate wire reports from news represent atives at the hearing. If you were interested in facts, why didn't you have a representa tive cover the hearing and then fairly present both sides? These are the facts: 1. Southern Pacific does sell airline tickets at its own expense at 13 station ticket of fices in Oregon which are in communities where there are no subsidized airports like Medford or airline representa tives. Our important shippers was satisfied with modifica tions in the plan. For Makarios, there could be only one future - an inde pendent and sovereign Cyprus state, without any infringe ments on that sovereignty. That was the logical culmi nation of his long fight in a campaign that saw him defy the might of Britain and wind up in exile, only to be freed slightly more than a year lat er and then carry his fight to the United Nations and world public opinion. Makarios is a crusader, but he is not a zealot. He consid ers his dual role of ecclesiastic and national leader a tempo rary one. With independence for Cyprus, he has said he will devote all his efforts to his church duties alone. Ran Away From Home He was born of peasant par ents in the mountain village of Ano Panayia on Cyprus, and ran away from home ra ther than become a goatherd. At 35 he became bishop of Kitium, and two years later he was elected archbishop of Cyprus and took the title of Makarios III. By that time, he had al ready started leading the Greek Cypriots - of whom there are four for every one Turkish Cypriot on the island - in their latest fight for inde pendence and apparent desire for onesis, or union with Greece. He took his plea to the Brit ish, to Athens and to the U.N, - all without success. Then EOKA, the underground lireeK uvDnot - uirect action ment of terror to the picture. When Makarios refused to re pudiate its methods, the Brit ish denounced his condoning of violence. He was accused of "traitorous plotting" and of being an accessory to conspir acy to murder by some Brit ons. He Was Exiled He was packed off In exile to the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean, only to be released 13 .months later and enabled to carry on his fight for the self-determination of Cyprus. It is a role historic to the head of the Orthodox Church on the island, and one which Makarios summed up once in a sermon on a long ago Sun day to a group of his follow ers: "Cyprus has known many conquerors in the past. Now it is face to face with the last of its conquerors. Your church has preserved the flame of re ligion and nationalism through all these centuries. It will lead you to liberty and deliver you from foreign rule." , Pear Blight Still Prevails in Area Due to a lack of cold weath er this winter in the valley pear blight is still active. County Agent Clifford B. Cordy reported this week. If the infection continues, Cordy said, blight could pre sent a serious problem during the blooming period. He said that orchardists should check for blight as soon as they have completed prun ing and if any is found it should be cut out at once. Cordy stressed that home owners should check their pear and apple trees and pyra cantha for blight. If blight is found it should be cut out, otherwise it will spread and kill the rest of the tree or plant, Cordy said. Solution for blight control Cordy said, includes two IVz grain tablets of mercuric chloride and two 7V-grain tablets of mercuric cyanide in one pint of water. Base for the mercuric chloride must be cit ric acid, Cordy said. If the so lution, when mixed, becomes cloudy, the mercuric chloride has the wrong base. The agent warned persons that both the mercuric chlor ide and mercuric cyanide are deadly poisons. Any solution not used should be eithsr poured down the sewer or buried, he said. and passenger patrons like this service. This is a part of our policy to provide a complete trans- ( portation service and our ex perience indicates we gain goodwill and both freight and passenger business we would not otherwise obtain. 2. Facts presented show gradual decline in rail passen ger traffic since 1946 with a very rapid decline in seasonal traffic in the last four years. This pattern led to the conclu sion that the Shasta Daylight could be operated on a tri weekly basis during off-tour ist peaks, spring and fall, with resultant reduction in our pas senger deficit without incon venience to the traveling pub lic. 3. Quote, "Finally it uses this as an excuse to reduce, or abandon its passenger serv ice," end quote. RIDICULOUS. When was this excuse made? We sell air line tickets at only one station where the Shasta Daylight stops which is Albany where there is no airport. We sell airline tickets at Ashland and Grants Pass -and our patrons appreciate this service. It saves them time and money. We also sell steamship tickets, all-expense tour tickets, pro vide Hertz or Avis Drive Yourself cars at any city and numerous other transporta tion services. 4. We did close our down town, ground-floor ticket of fice and move it to the Sixth Floor in the same building. I personally invite you or any one else to visit this modern, up-to-date facility. Let me show you how we have im proved our service and, in ad dition, effected a material sav ing which lowers our passen ger deficit and allows us to continue to provide those transportation services the public uses and needs. Do you know that 90 to 95 per cent of our patrons first contact us by telephone. and use this of fice only to pick up their tick ets which have been prepared in advance? We also have a Station Ticket Office, close to the downtown area, where parking space is available at all times. We do not own the Pacific Building and had no control over the choice of ten ant who rented the space we vacated. 5. No testimony was pre sented by anyone in regard to ".on ime" performance of-our iiuiuioutc ui. ouui the Shasta Daylight and Cas cade has been consistently good. The other allegations set forth in your editorial could be refuted, but I hope I have 'gone into enough detail to in dicate to you that the docu mented exhibits and state ments made by the Oregon Public Utility representative, whom you quote, were an swered in my testimony at the hearing. It might be of interest to you to know that this representative was not present when I was on the stand when an opportunity presented itself for a thor ough cross-examination under oath. In conclusion, the Southern Pacific has decided that pas senger or any other transpor tation service will be pro vided If the public our cus tomers needs it and will sup port it. We placed the Shasta Daylight in operation on our own initiative and hoped to generate enough business for a daily operation. This effort was successful for a time, but when a seasonal trend of traffic developed on the Shas ta, our studies indicated we could protect all passenger traffic presented in the off tourist season by a three-day-a-week operation and our daily streamlined Cascade. This is no different procedure than xir pre-war operation when we added and removed trains as traffic conditions warranted, and with no ques tion raised by the public or regulatory agencies. We will continue aggressive efforts to examine every de tail of service and adjust quickly to changing transpor tation trends. By doing this, we can continue to improve our services which was done last year by the receipt of 2,349 freight cars, raising our total freight fleet to 81,000 cars. Continuing this program in 1959, will be the acquisi tion of another 1,450 special ized cars at a cost of approxi mately 22 million dollars. This includes 500 wide-door box cars used primarily by the forest products industry. Our capital improvement pro gram for 1959 will total 80 million dollars. Why don't you editorialize this informa tion since it is economically beneficial to your area? To run trains which the public does not use is an economic waste. If we were to criticize other private en terprises, we certainly would make a personal investigation before accepting a one-sided opinion and accusing them of "Corporate Dishonesty". Bernal S. Quayle Passenger Traffic & Public Relations Manager Southern Pacific Company 622 Pacific Building Portland 4, Ore.