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4 Monday, February 23, 195 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtSJs&TEttUNB "Everyone it Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MJJ3FORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fii St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBtP.T W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business MT ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Rditor EABL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women" Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Enterea as second class matter al Medford Oregon under Act Ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a 1 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Daii" and Sunday 1 year f 15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4-25 Sunday Only One year S4.Z0 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Tal-nn and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUay 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Papet of Jackson County United Press International FuU Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU ur uni uLAiiun Advertising Representative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of flees in Nev. York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver B.C. Newspaper publishers association H ATI ON At EDITORIAL 511 lAc5"w r L;-"-T- TITt Flight fo 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. 23, 1949 (Wednesday) Crater Lake is entirely frozen over for the first time officially known to man-recorded history. Ray Mack of Climax rd. re ports being chased about a field by a tractor. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 23. 1939 (Thursday) Voters of Precinct 25, south of Rogue River and Gold Hill, vote down a proposed herd district 'in that area. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Mem bers of the Iowa legislature had themselves locked up in state prison, to study prison conditions. The Oregon legis lature will take no such chances." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 23. 1929 (Saturday) Wagner creek is to have a new schoolhouse. No reduction in fee for old cars plan is sidetracked in the Legislature. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 23, 1919 (Sunday) Ashland's park is being beautified for the coming sea son. A court decision upholds the validity of the Medford Irrigation district. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 23. 1909 (Tuesday) Ladies of the Greater Med ford club plan beautification of the city's west side park, including a new bandstand. Medford is to have an elab orate publicity pamphlet fea turing a tri-color picture of Crater Lake on the front cover. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct if superior; seven or eight it. excellent; five or tix is good. 1. What nickname was giv en to King Richard the First, of England? 2. Was Silas a companion of Jesus, Peter, or Paul? ' 3. How many ciphers must be added to the figure one to express a quintillion? 4. Name the husband of Minnehaha. 5. If one dies without hav ing made a will, he said to have died "in te." . 6. What is the meaning of the colloquial expression "staff of life?" 7. Willy Brandt, who re cently visited Washington is Mayor of what divided Euro pen City? 8. Does a violin have four, five, or six strings? 9. What is meant by the Fourth Estate? ' ' " 10. In what city is there a great fish market known as Billingsgate? 1. "Lion Hearted. 2. Paul. 3. Eighteen. 4. Hiawatha. S. Interstate. 6. Bread. 7. Berlin. West. 8. Four. 9. The Press. 10. London. WONDERFUL HEARSE London - (UPD - Florist George Dennis, 50, spent sev eral hours today polishing his "new" private hearse a 75-year-old, glass-sided, horse drawn job. "All my family had horse drawn hearses at their funer als and I'm determined to have the same," he said. "This one is wonderfuL " (The following editorial Is reprinted from the Dec. 4, 1957 issue of the Mail Tribune. It was announced in Valley Forge, Pa., today that the editorial has been awarded a George Washington Honor Medal as one of the "most significant" editorials pertaining to the Bill of Rights and individual liberties under our form of Constitutional government. It was one of 33 editorials thus selected from throughout the United States.) Liberty vs. License 'i Americans are rightly jealous of their free dom their liberty to do as they will without hindrance. - This' historic trait, which has grown for a longer time than the nation has existed, is an ad mirable one. But, like every other good trait, it can be overextended. In the democratic philosophy, liberty should extend just so far as the liberty of the next man. In other words, one can do anything he wants un less it harms another. That is the test of when liberty becomes li cense. ()NE sees examples of this on all sides, and at all levels, in big things and small. It was true when the early "timber barons" cut off the forests of Michigan and the Dakotas, leaving infertile and flood-producing hills for future generations. It is true of the reckless driver. No one cares particularly if HE gets hurt it is the lives and property of the others he endangers that require traffic law enforcement. It is true of the obnoxious couple in the theat er, who loudly munch popcorn or. converse freely without thought of the discomfort or inconven ience to others. ONE of the classic examples was the judicial X Ullll ly.lJ.ClU J-A tUVfll Ul OAA VA. WO 11 V ti gl V Is anyone a right to yell "Fire!!" in a crowded theater. There are other examples, close to home both in time and distance. Does one man's enjoyment of a fishing stream entitle him to oppose, on any basis, measures de signed to control floods for the protection of the lives and property of others? " Does one family's desire to own a home with out restrictions grant them the right to construct a septic tank the overflow from which threatens the health of their neighbor's children? Does a logger's right with it the right to do so stream pollution and the danger of erosion? Does a man's right to do business grant him the authority to destroy property values of an other, perhaps by building a 1 wrecking-yard or slaughterhouse next door to an attractive home? . THESE are- questions which any growing com- munity must face, and think about, and 'an swer. For they are questions which contually arise as more and more people settle in an area. And if they are not settled, in principle, they will result in bitterness and acrimony. And then it will be too late. In some instances, it is already too late. In determining the principles which" govern human relationships, one must go back to those which have been proven, time and time again, and are the only ones which will work. They stem, ac tually, from the Golden Rule. And in a democracy they can be embodied in the idea, of "the greatest good for the greatest number," and the belief that there should be the greatest possible liberty for all but license for none. E.A. . Timing a British Election "Unfair," Americans would cry if their Presi dent could and did call a national election just when things were breaking well for his admin istration. Yet that is often the British practice. Whether Prime Minister Macmillan calls an elec tion for this May may well depend on whether his visit to Moscow beginning J? eb. 21 is chalked up as a success. Also, British budgets are submitted early in April, and some tax reductions are predicted in the new one. The Government would expect the voters to react favorably to tax reductions fol lowing any easing in international tensions.' A ND certainly the Macmillan regime could use some political breaks. Although the public opinion polls some months ago showed it ahead, today they show it no better than nip arid tuck with the Labor party. And the Government has lost strength in most of the recent bye (special) elections for the House of Commons. Of course a prime minister is not completely free in fixing the date for general elections. The maximum time between them is five years and the last previous one was held in May 1955. Also, no government can hold on very long if its margin in Commons is shaky. The Labor Government of 1950 lasted less than 20 months after elections of that year had given it (the British would say "them") a Commons majority of only 7. The Conservatives achieved an 18-seat margin in October 1951 (Labor had the popular majority) and increased it to 58 in May 1955. But it's against British tradition for the same party to. win three spaced out elections in a row. E. R. R. to harvest timber cany in a way which creates Dennis the 'HAVEOU LOOKED IHTXAS,MzMTCtilL? fJEMNIS IS. ALWAYS T41KIN' ABOUT QOlti' THERE. Matter of Fact THE REASON WHY' Washington - A question of great importance is under lined by Nikita Khrushchev's HLV "LPPfll ansrv. war like answer to the WestT era . A 1 1 i e s' note on Ber lin. The ques tion is why the American g o v e rnment is so remark ably compla- 4nspb Alsop t"" " Berlin crisis. On the face of the facts, complacency is ut terly unjustified. At the very outset, Khrushchev commit ted himself to use force, if need be, to get his way at Berlin. He has now renewed that commitment in unvarn ished terms. For just these reasons, partial military mo bilization is actually advocat ed by many old hands at deal ing with the Soviets. These men are Dean G. Acheson, who strongly supports the firm policy of John Foster Dulles, and George F. Ken nan, who bitterly criticizes the Dulles policy. But instead of mobilization, we have continued disarma ment. And instead of the earn est concern that is being voiced by men like Acheson, the most intelligent officials of the State Department went on parroting the story that "the Kremlin has got itself into a box on Berlin and wants out." At least they did this until Khrushchev's last speech. THE American government has been complacent, in short, because the American government has been cheer fully convinced that Nikita Khrushchev did not mean a word that he said about fight ing to get his way at Berlin. The reason for this conviction can be given, in turn, in four short words: Quemoy and the "Bison." To begin with the first part of this seeming-magical form ula, Quemoy's profound ef fect on the State Department is really impossible to exag gerate. The decision was taken - by Secretary of State Dulles almost single-handed - to risk war rather than per mit the Communists to seize the off-shore islands by naked force. The gamble paid off, too. Furthermore, there can be very little doubt (and Secre tary Dulles feels no doubt at all) that fiie gamble paid off because of the 'American de terrent, which lay in wait far from the battlefront. The test of nerves on the islands with what may not be called false weapons, convinced the Com munist high command that there was real danger of the eventual use of real weapons. To avoid this danger, the at tack on Quemoy was called off. FROM this experience, Sec retary Dulles reasoned by analogy that the threat to Ber lin will also be withdrawn, if the Communist high com mand is again convinced that there is real danger of the eventual use of real weapons. This was the most constantly repeated Dulles argument, both before Christmas, and again on his last courageous trip abroad. As for the other part of the seeming-magical formula, an over-estimate of -Soviet production of the "Bison" bomber has also affected the Defense Department in a way that cannot possibly be exag gerated. In response to this "Bison" over-estimate, form er Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson was driven to increase output of our own B-52 bomber. This was just as well, since the B-52s are about the only effective force-in-being we now have. Yet the Defense Department has never recovered from the ap parently shattering experi ence of being driven to in crease its own efforts by an Menace By Joseph Alsop over-estimate of the Soviets' effort. "VlfE gave them too much ' credit in the Bison case," the Defense leaders are al ways in effect saying; "and by God, we're not going to make the same mistake again." Because of the "Bison" story, in other words, the Defense leaders think they can safely ignore Khrush chev's claims to great powers with long and medium-range missiles, just as the State De partment makes light of Khrushchev's highly specific threats to Berlin because of the Quemoy story. The two arguments, from the "Bison" experience and the Quemoy experience, may both be N right. God knows, every American and every other friend of freedom every where must pray that these arguments are indeed right, in. every minute detail. But one cannot forget that the "Bison" overstatement is the only one on record, in a long trail .of other American national estimates that have been much , too smugly opti mistic about Soviet military capabilities. One cannot for get either that there is no room at Berlin for the kind of safe test of nerves that took place at Quemoy. Above all, one cannot forget the tone taken by Nikita Khrushchev. For all these reasons, the further question arises, wheth er Dean Acheson's judgment of the risks is not better than the prevailing official judg ment. (Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) 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. Beard Issue To the Editor: Well, a strategic retreat from the brink of beard issue was ac complished with little loss of dignity and the beard intact, though there was grave doubt for a while. For the attack was real and had all the fervor and determination of a Molly Pitcher. That was nigh a month or more ago when the opening skirmish came, "Just when do you plan on shaving again?" "Already shaved." "Where?" "Can't you detect that denuded portion that marks the Abe Lincoln pat tern?" (Pregnant silence). "Don't tell me you plan on harboring one of those beard things?" "Just that." (More pregnant silence). Then: "Well, if other wives can put up with it, maybe I can. But it sure makes you look a hundred years old or more." There was more to it than that, as all centennial year husbands will readily realize. Some there are who failed to survive the fight, their beard less and haggard features mute testimony to the brave fight they put up. But making me look older is nothing in my way of life. For when one is right up against the four score year mark, there is compensating pride in the ac cumulating years. And old as I am,. I learned something of this stroking of the beard, so noticable with grandpa Clif ford who nursed a long white beard, save for, a slightly brownish tinge ! down the center from his 87 years of home-made tobacco chewing. My learning came sudden, like at the breakfast table when my dear and watchful one chortled with ill-concealed sadistic joy, "Just what are you planning to do with that provender hanging on your, er, beard?" A quick ap prehensive stroke of the, er, beard brought forth a tiny toast crumb, barely an antr Bar Association Report May Attack U.S. Supreme Court on Communist Rulings By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (UPD Chief Justice Earl Warren will not like some of this week's news from Chicago. Neither will most of his S u p reme Court col leagues care for what is in the works. In the works is a plan which very likely will put yle ii, Wilson the American Bar Association on record with - a cerefully worded complaint against the U.S. Supreme Court. The complaint, in layman's language, would be something like this: That the court has actively, consistently and dan gerously weakened the de fenses of the United States and the several states against the subversive activities o f Communism and Communists. There will be no suggestion, of course, that the court has done this deliberately. A spe cial Bar Association commit tee has prepared for submis sion today or Tuesday to the ABA House of Delegates a re port o n Communist tactics, strategy and objectives in the United States. The House of Delegates meets in Chicago today and Tuesday. May Become ABA Policy The ABA board' of Direct ors screens reports to the House of Delegates and might prevent submission of this one. The special committee, however, has voted to submit the report. Bar Association spokesmen believe it will sur vive the screening process and go before the House of Dele gates. This latter organization is the ABA policy-making body. Tne House of Delegates can adopt or reject the special committee report. Adoption would make it an official ut terance of the bar association, itself, which is something some important elements of the-i association hope to pre vent. Odds, however, favor adoption of the report, A re port on the same subject was drawn a year ago but was not submitted for consideration by the House of Delegates. It was published in the Aug. 22, 1958, Congressional Rec ord. The 1959 report will con tain proposals for corrective measures against a series of Supreme Court decisions which began about three years ago. There are 23 such de cisions, so far. The 1958 report contained 10 proposed corrective meas ures intended, in effect, to re verse the Supreme Court by legislation. Bill Approved The House Judiciary Com mittee approved last week a bill to counteract the court's decision on the anti-Commu nist Smith Act. load, certainly not sufficient for a mid-morning snack as was suggested. So now I've learned the habit of beard stroking. A very important training con ducive to double-harness win (with beard to show handi cap). F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point. 45 Cold Noses To the Editor: I write from the Sanctuary, a refuge for homeless dogs upon a hill farm in southern Indiana. I am the staff - the one fight ing woman who is trying to hold the place together. In times past those who love dogs have been good to us, and so we ask again, bearing in mind our debt in grati tude. We need food (of any sort) and old towels, blankets or pieces. Almost anything . has an application here. Forty-five cold noses and warm hearts salute you! Mrs. Louise Wood The Sanctuary Route 2, Box 264, Martinsville, Ind. Blast Annie!! To the Editor: Since there is now once more, a discus sion going on regarding the use and upkeep of the top-or park- on Roxy Ann, why not consider this: Have the top blasted or bulldozed off of said Annie hill so that all of Medford, et al, can see and benefit from a wonderful view of Mt. McLoughlin. That would be really something. It could be paid for by public subscription and placing a lot of jars around the city and county for contributions. What a scenic grandeur that would be! Far greater stunts have been executed, and for less objectives. Of course, this project is not as important as cleaning, and keeping clean, that foul and disease-breeding stream of water now known as Bear Creek, formerly Stewart Creek. When and if you want my contribution just yell-"Blast Annie!" (Name on File) Ashland In Yates vs. the United States, the Supreme Court re versed two Federal courts and ruled that the teaching and advocacy of forcible over throw of the U. S. Govern ment, even with evil intent, was not punishable under the Smith Act so long as the ad vocacy was divorced from any effort actually to start a revo lution going. Dominican But Unfree, May Face Trouble (Editor's note: The suc cess of the revolution in Cuba has fanned new ru mors and speculation about other strong-man govern ments in Latin America. The three most widely men tioned as possible revolu tionary target are the Do minican Republic, Paraguay and Nicaragua. UPI for eign news editor Phil New som will devote his next three foreign commentaries to the situations in each of these. countries. Today: The Dominican Republic.) By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor Generalissimo Rafael L. Trujillo has a simple philoso Washington Report By WILLIAM Washington-The decline of one power position within any Administration is follow ed, in the phy sical law of politics, by a corresponding I rise of one or more other nower dosi- i t i o n s, John Foster Dulles hag been, tak ing all in all, the strong man of the Eisenhower "team." Now, in his grave ill ness, the power structure within the Eisenhower Ad ministration is shifting basi cally all over the field of government and not merely in foreign affairs. There are two merging new forces, and they are co- operative and not rival groups. They might be called the Anderson group and the Nixon group. The first re volves around Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. An derson. The second, of course, is led by Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon. NIXON, by coincidence, has just returned from a brisk visit to his native California in which he had obvious suc cess in rallying fellow Re publicans from the clammy defeatism resulting from last November's elections. He has come . back, moreover, amid straws in the wind (polls and the like) suggesting that Gov ernor Nelson Rockefeller of New York still has a long way to go to take the 1960 Presi dential nomination away from him. And, finally, the Vice Pres ident has returned ready, willing and able to take up an even larger share of re sponsibility in directing the national Republican party. No one in the Administra tion, of course, is talking openly of the new lines of authority now developing in Dulles' absence. And there is, of course, no formality to this fresh pattern of actual power. Indeed, there is genuine de sire on every hand to be lieve, as the President him self believes, that Dulles is far from through as the di recting head of foreign policy. BUT even under the most favorable prospects for Dulles' - illness and his con tinued ability to control for eign affairs, this much is all too obvious: He cannot pos sibly continue to contribute to the inner stability of the A d m i n i s tration over the whole broad scope of its work, quite apart from for eign affairs, as he has done so long. Much new and -varied re sponsibility, therefore, will fall upon the Anderson group and the Nixon group. The An derson circle already controls and expresses the Administra tion's attitudes on all mone tary matters. It is likely now to broaden its field of action and assume responsibility for practically every part of the Don't Neglect Slipping FALSE TEETH Do fils teeth drop, slip or wobble ben you ttlk. eat, laugh or sneeze? Don't be annoyed and embarrassed by such handicap. FASTEETH, an alkaline (non-acid) powder to sprin kle on your plates, keeps false teetb more firmly set. Gives eonfident feel ing of security and added comfort. Bo tummy, gooey, pasty taste v feel ing Oft 'ASTKTa today at ao ink "TiiakWi jLrttM Til William S. White The Bar Association special committee said in 1958 the No. 1 Communist tactic at that time was nullification of the Smith Act. The Supreme Court has nullified it in con siderable degree. FBI Direc tor J.Edgar Hoover testified in January, 1958, that of 109 top Communists convicted un der the Smith Act of subver sive activities, 49 by then had Dictatorship, Rich phy that goes spmething like this: Every citizen has the duty tc work for national progress; that progress will suffer if the people spend time on political dis putes. In his Dom- . ican Republic, V&l he sees that nobody will waste time ar- Phil Newsom gumg puiiuub, particularly those of his re gime. Trujillo has wielded abso lute power over his Caribbean country for 30 years, stamp, ing out almost all organized S. WHITE internal, or houseke e p i n g, conduct of the Administra tion. The Nixon circleand in practice this will mean Rich ard M. Nixon personally, for he is really a one-man operator-may be expected to take on an even larger mandate. Nixon for years has been the President's chief political agent in dealings with Con gress on all domestic issues. NOW, he will also act as chief political agent with Congress on foreign issues as well-a task that Dulles has been doing. This Nixon must do even if, happily, Dulles' stout heart should continue to make his replacement as Secretary of State , unneces sary. And should the appoint ment of another Secretary become necessary, the Vice President's practical responsi bilities would become noth ing short of immense. Then he would become, in fact, a kind of super Secre tary of State over whoever was appointed to that post. For, as Dulles himself has so clearly shown, a successful Secretary of State must carry Congress even though it sometimes be a reluctant Con- gress-with him even before he carries the allies with him. At this late stage of the game, no possible successor to Dulle could hope to catch up with our gravely complicated affairs throughout the world while simultaneously creating the necessary personal posi tion with Congress. (Copyright, 1959. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) SHOT TO DEATH McLean, Va. (UPD Helen T. Gardner, 51, divorced wife of former Assistant Air Force Secretary T r a v o r Gardner, was found shot to death Sun day at her estate here. Police said she committed suicide. Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) FRIENDLY. 1 M' - 7$ rY . t$Zi jF w.wjapayr, P,Hr'"- T been set free by Supreme Court rulings. The 1958 report badly stat ed that Congress should move to -safeguard the nation against the overall trend of the court in the area of sub version. The 1958 report is said to be stronger. If so, the chief justice and most of his associates will find it un pleasant reading. internal resistance. But the successful overthrow of the Batista dictatorship in Cuba has sent ripples to Dominican ' shores. Exiles In Caracas Early in February, 14 per sons took refuge in the Vene zuelan Embassy in Ciudad Trujillo, the first sign of in ternal unrest in a long time. But it would seem the main impetus for any serious chal lenge to Trujillo would have to come from without. A number of prominent Do minican exiles have gathered in Caracas, Venezuala. Cuban revolutionary hero Fidel Cas tro gave Venezuelans a heavy share of the credit for his victory. Castro is known to be sym pathetic to the anti-Trujillo cause and there are strong, although unconfirmed, reports that some of his battle-hardened rebels are training recruits both in Venezuala and Cuba for possible guerrilla war fare in the Dominican Re public. Trujillo, reputed to have one of the best intelligence forces in the Western Hemis phere, could be expected to be fully prepared for any in vasion attempt. He is believed to have an army of about 20,000-trained by U. S. Marines but as yet untested in battlq. He has his own arms fac tory, a navy that includes two former British destroyers, and a fighter-bomber air force that includes some jets. It would appear that any attempt to crack this would have to be well-organized, well-equipped and prepared for a long siege. The Dominican Republic oc cupies the eastern two-thirds of Hispaniola Island, about midway, between Cuba and Puerto Rico. The rest of the island comprises Haiti. The Dominicans had to fight four times for their in dependence in the last cen tury but this left the country in such a state of chaos the United States had to occupy it for an eight-year period that ended in 1924. Became President in 1930 Trujillo became president in 1930. Since then he has ruled either as president or commander-in-chief of the armed forces (his present title) without opposition. His brother, Hector, has held the title of president since 1952 but there is no doubt as to the real man in charge. Trujillo balanced the coun try's budget last year for the first time. Its international debts are paid and credit is good. The Dominican peso is free and has held its value at $1 U. S. Internally, the Trujillo fa mily, now fabulously wealthy owns many of the major in dustries and is able to retain a firm control on the econ omy. Hear your fav orite hymns on KMED every Sunday, 10:35 a.m., sung by "Tennessee Ernie" Ford PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 IADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
