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4 Thursday, April 1, 1939 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Medforb?vTribuke "Everyone us Southern Oregon Reads The Mai Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MJJ3FORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fit St Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KCKB GREV Advertising Manager GtPALD LATHAM. Business Mj;r ERIC W UXN JR. Managing F.ditor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medforn Oregon under Act ox March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mai '. In Advance. Copy 10c. Dall" and Sunday 1 year (15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.0C Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland, Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and bum-ay l mo. l-WJ Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of 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 una 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 April 16. 1949 (Saturday) The Ashland Junior Cham ber of Commerce plans an Easter sunrise service in the Shakespeare theater. Oregon's longest Legislative session closes after 97 days. 20 YEARS AGO April 16, 1939 (Sunday) The Medford High school class B band and the trumpet quartet ensemble win first di vision ratings in competition her. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: 'Taxes are still the subject of consid erable informal and impromp tu cussing, . and vitriolic at tacks to whack." 30 YEARS AGO April 16, 1929 (Tuesday) Local dog owners rush to buy licenses. The probable sale of the Blue Ledge mine is reported. 40 YEARS AGO April 16, 1919 (Wednesday) An Easter egg hunt for chil dren is to be held in the city park. Nine lawn mowers are sto len from local lawns. 50 YEARS AGO April 16. 1909 (Friday) A syndicate purchases the Moore hotel property on Main St. Swift and company starts to erect a warehouse here .as a distribution point for southern Oregon. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; eve or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. A young mare is called a f ? 2. A precocious child is one who is bashful; true or false? 3. If your car is stuck in the mud, would you get more traction if you further inflat ed your tires, or if you slight ly deflated them? 4. How many baseball teams are in each major league? 5. 'What colors are the silk fibers in U. S. currency paper? 6. The young of elephants are called what? 7. Name the'U. S. general who organized the "Flying Tigers" for the Chinese gov ernment? 8. The . Atlantic ocean is saltier than the Pacific; true or false? 9. Which two principal powers fought "The Hundred Years War"? 10. In the Bible story, what did Esau sell? Answers: 1. Filly. 2. Fake. 3. Deflate. 4. Eight. 5. Red and blue. 6. Calves. 7. Claire L. Chennauli. 8. True; 9. Brit ain and France. 10. His birth right. Teacher Liability Insurance Defeated Salem -(UPD- A bill which would have required school boards to buy liability insur ance to protect teachers and other employees from damage suits was defeated by .the Sen ate Wednesday, 16-14. . Lawyers argued that the bill would add to school costs, result in nuisance suits and constitute legislation for a special suit. Lets Go Slow We hope that the disturbing reports from Salem, to the effect that there is a legislative plan afoot to let the state run into a serious deficit sit uation during the coming biennium, are un founded. There is evidence to indicate they are not. Dr. Edwin Durno, Jackson county's state sen ator, makes a passing reference to this possibility in a letter which appeal's elsewhere on this page. He confirmed this in a telephone conversation yesterday afternoon. Members of the chamber of commerce's com mittee on governmental operations ran across the same report during a visit to Salem Tuesday. IF THESE reports are correct, the Democratic majority simply plans to pass the appropria tions measures it feels are essential to the bed rock needs of the state, let taxes continue much as they are at present, and make no provision for the increased needs of the state, nor for inflation ary trends and natural increases in costs due to population growth. Thus, if the figures of some members of the ways and means committee are correct, the state will be broke or worse by the end of the bi ennium. IF THESE reports are correct if, indeed, the A legislature is going to put the state into a posi tion of running into debt it is fiscal irresponsi bility of the worst kind. It is, in fact, a higher degree of irresponsibility than letting many of the state's pressing needs go hang. ' Dr. Dumo reports that appropriation measures which have come, or are still, before the ways and means committee, contain spending requests totaling some $369 million, compared to n con templated budget of $300 to $305 million. Many of these are necessary to the continued well-being of the state. He cites some of the more important ones in his letter on this page. DRESSURES for the legislature to adjourn are mounting. An "official" report on expected state expen ditures is not due until this week end, according to Sen. Alfred Corbett, co-chairman of the ways and means committee. " Governor: Hatfield is being asked about his attitude toward increasing basic school support funds (and .thus holding down local property taxes;. The House taxation yes, no or "boo" about what sort of a tax program, if any, it will present. I he sales tax proposal, calling for a vote of the people in 1960, whipped through the senate, and may come to a dead end in the house. . -,., THE picture, in short, is one of confusion ; of lack of direction; of a scatter-brained, piece meal, breath-taking and jittery conclusion to the session, without anyone knowing exactly what is happening, or why. We concur with Charles A. Sprague, editor of the Oregon Statesman and former governor of Oresron. who this week advised the leo-islaturfi not ' ' to make a paramount issue get nome, and to conclude its labors m a reso lute and unhurried manner." ' In the closing days of a session, the pressure can get so great that discretion and horse sense can fly out the window. We've seen it harmen. We'd like to suggest down a bit, and ponder to a growing state in its The Tax If the needs of the state are to be met, and the state is not to run into debt, that means new taxes. No one likes taxes. But they are necessaiy. If services are to be rendered, they must be paid for. We have always contended that taxpayers will pay, if not happily at least willingly, if they know where their money goes, and if they approve the purpose. " The sales tax proposal, even if it is not killed in the house, cannot become effective for another twro' years. What happens in the meantime? .. "THE state can use up the "surplus" of some $30 million plus what it will have ori hand at the end of the biennium. It can collect an added esti mated $8 million within the biennium by the bookkeeping expedient of permittine- no install ment payments of 1959"s inis mucn probably will serve to support the "bed-rock" budget of some $300 nlns millions without providing anv "cushion." anv allnwnnfP for increasing costs, or 4-1, J j? uii uie ueeus lor more ouiiamgs, added scnool support, other badlv-needed educational m As sures, or perhaps even the oi me puonc wenare program. .A NYTHING beyond this presumablywill re " quire an increase in income taxes, by hiking rates, lowering exemptions, or by similar devices. mi. Till-. " inis snoma De done. c ' The Mail Tribune traditionally has nnnnspn a sales tax. It is not yet ready to endorse one. But the time may come, and in the foreseeable future, when a sales tax will be neeessarv fnr fisrl integrity and the needs of Hint to the weatherman: We REALLY could use some rain. E.A. v . committee hasn't said o out of how quickly they that the legislature slow on their responsibilities Centerinial year. E.A. Dilemma taxes come next April. for any material inroads i ;i t t i i , increased requirements a growing state. E.A. Dennis the If'' THAT CX CHAIR i' Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE UNREADY ALLIES Only a month remains be fore the Foreign Ministers are obliged to meet in Geneva, nana there is much to be done before the Western powers have anything like a sound nego tiating posi tion. We are in fact not ready for seri O u s npffntin. Walter Lippmann tions at the level of the For eign Ministers or at the sum mit. If we could do what would be most convenient, we would postpone these v meet ings for a better day. This is, however, not pos sible. For while May 27 is not the deadline of an ultimatum demanding that we accept the Soviet terms, it is never theless a deadline which the Western governments not thought it ' prudent to ig nore. They have realized that if serious negotiations about the two Germanys and Berlin are not under way during the summer, the Soviet govern ment is almost certain to take measures which would dam age severely the Western posi tion. rpHIS does not mean that the Soviet government is like ly to blockade West Berlin or that it is likely to use military force to oust us from West Berlin. They are playing chess and they will not sweep all the pieces off the board. They are likely to make a move which it is very diffi cult to reply to. Most" likely they will do what they have threatened to do, which is to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, and to let the East German government administer the whole problem of access to West Berlin. This would be a very baffling but a very powerful move. It would be powerful because once the East German state has a peace treaty it will be, whatever we may think of it a sovereign state. Very quick ly it will receive diplomatic recognition by all the govern ments of the Communist orbit, and almost certainly also from many of the governments which take the line of "posi tive neutrality" This would seal publicly and formally the partition of Germany. ; Yet it would be a baffling move for us. There is nothing that we can do to prevent it. Most of the talk about how firm we are going to stand is addressed to the notion that the Communists may blockade West Berlin. What we must be thinking about is what we wiu do supposmg they, do not blockade Berlin, not now.nnr in the probable future. How then do we stand firm against a measure which, without anv physical action on their part, deprives the people of West Berlin of confidence in their own future, which derjrivps th people of West Germany of hope that the western powers can reunite the two Ger manys? : ' rpHE basic reason why the Western powers are not now ready for a serious nego tiation is that they are faced with an ugly reality the par tition of Germany and they have not yet been able to ad just their policies and their in ternal politics to this ugly fact'. The public tragedy of Mr. j Dulles's illness- is that . he is uniquely qualified to lead the Western coalition in adjusting itself to the ugly reality. It is in this context that Dr. Adenauer's 'decision to seek the Presidency can most plau sibly be explained. When I was in Paris before I went to Bonn, several people in the know said somewhat crypti cally that the Chancellor was Menace o 'tuw.iimt: Lippmann a sad man and needed to be reassured about his future and his place in history. In Bonn it was evident that there was great anxiety in high quarters about the out come of the German elections the Presidential elections this year and the parliamen tary elections in 1961. The anxiety arose from the fact that there is a powerful tide of opinion running against Dr. Adenauer's policy. The tide is not only among the Socialists but also within his own party and on the right of it. There was a chance that the Social Democrat Carlo Schmid, who is a popular fi gure, might, win the Presi dency against any of the available Christian Democrats and there was a chance that Dr. Adenauer might not ob tain a reliable majority in the next parliamentary elections. ANY public demonstration that Germany will not be reunified might prove to be decisive against Dr. Adenau er's party. By accepting the Presidency now, he is insur ing the continuation of his po litical influence against what might happen in the elections of 1961. Seen this way, Dr. Adenau er's decision is a wise one. It is ' like battening down the hatches and reefing in the sails for the storms which are ahead. His decision will make it less dangerous to the West ern alliance to work out a pol icy which is based on the real ity that Europe and the two Germanys and Western Ber lin must find a way to live for a long time without a settle ment which restores the old German Reich. Now that Dr. Adenauer has taken out insurance for the political future, the unity of the Western alliance on a firm policy which is negoti able depends on this country. Germany, France, and Great Britain cannot achieve this unity among .themselves. To tell the truth, there is too much jealousy and suspicion among them and when the leaders "are candid, they are at one in saying that there will be no Western policy unless and until Washington speaks again in a clear and confident voice. (c) 1959 New Yofk Herald Tribune Inc. Coslello's Health Declared Improved Atlanta - (UPD - Gambler Frank Costello "is in better health here than when he be gan serving his sentence," Atlanta Federal Penitentiary Warden Fred Wilkinson said Wednesday night. .Costello, who began serv ing time here Oct. 21, 1958, on an income tax evasion conviction, is assigned a mod erate duty job because of a heart condition. The w a r d e n ' s statement came after reports that the gambler was "very sick." Lumbermen's Group To Meet Monday R. E. Mahaffay, general manager of West Coast' Lum berman's association, will dis cuss the proposed moisture content amendment to the Southern Standard Building code at a district meeting of the association at the Jackson hotel Monday. There will be a no-host din ner with a social hour start ing at 6 p.m. Other matters of industry interest will be dis cussed.' Also expected to attend are Emmett Stoddard and Harry Fimmel, field staff members of the association. Senator Durno Gives Tax; Sees To the Editor: It was my pleasure Tuesday morning to discuss Senate Bill 495 (the sales tax measure) on the floor of the Senate. I present ed in detail my feelings on this matter, in the following manner. I arise to support Senate Bill 495. 1 think that you will have observed that in the in frequent times that I have arisen to speak, I have not been the mouthpiece of labor, industry, education, or even the thinking of a committee. I have spoken as an individ ual, and that is the manner in which I speak now. Some of my contemporaries might say that I am no author ity on taxes. They would be right. However, I did cam paign on the issue of the sales tax in the primary and in the general election. This issue today so nearly coincides with my concept of taxation that I expressed as long as one year ago, that I think my reasoning then applies now. I said then, while the abil ity to pay should always be a dominant factor: 1. That the property tax payer was paying more than his share. 2. That the personal income taxes in Oregon could not be raised substantially without the law of diminishing returns setting in. 3. That we were going to reach a point in the economy of this high service state, when we were going to have to seek a new tax base, name ly the sales tax. 4. That I was in favor of a sales tax providing it was not just another tax, but one which would effectively re duce the other tax bases. I admitted a sales tax to be somewhat regressive, but I submitted 1. That we already had a selective sale tax in many cat egories. 2. That a sales tax eliminat ing drugs and food would not place an undue hardship on those people of moderate and fixed incomes. 3. That I believe all people should have a part in govern ment, whether they exercise their right of franchise or not. That I further believe that all people should pay something for the services of government that they, receive. It is a fact Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although nnder cer tain circumstances tne 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 Consideration Needed To The Editor: I would ap preciate your publishing this appeal to those people who are subscribers in telephone party lines, who so obviously feel the phones were installed solely for their own pleasures and no one else. Because no other lines are available, I am on a 10 party line. It's almost impossible to get a business call through to us, or ts get on the line to call out. My husband tried all day Thursday to call me from his army camp, to let me know he was on his way home on a three day pass. After trying at each available stop, and 17 hours travel, he finally reached me, when he was within 50 miles of Med ford, to meet his bus. All day Sunday and Mon day, my daughter in a distant state tried to call me. She finally got in on this line late Tuesday. If we need to run an advertisement in your paper, and give our phone number, no one can reach us, so our money is wasted. No, I realize full well the job of housewife can get very monotonous and boring, which is mainly the reason women sit and talk for hours at a time, regardless of the fact they are tying up the line. These "bored" housewives might give the above facts some serious consideration. If she feels like a visit, she could go to the home of the person she so likes to talk to, for no doubt, that person would appreciate a visit, and p"!ease not tie up the lines for hours, as the other nine of us do hope to make a call occasionally. We all expect our loved ones to be able to reach us, from a distance. Too, if we place an ad we trust the answerer may be able to reach us for inquiries. Won't you please use a little consideration and think of these things? The phone company has asked repeatedly that its sub scribers limit their conversa tion to 5 minutes. They have tried, in every courteous way, to appeal to its customers. But it just seems as if the "talkers" take a special de light in tying up the lines and resent being reminded of being such poor sports. I so often think of this fact, Possibility that those who receive most pay little or nothing in income or property taxes. 4. I further submit, as a part of the second or third in dustry in our state, the tour ist visiting our state should pay something for the conduct of our government beyond the selective sales taxes that we already impose. We would col lect many millions of dollars which remain in the pockets of our tourist friends as they pass to the North or the South and start to collect the pennies in their pockets from business transactions there. I further submitted that the sales tax is simple, the admin istration and collection is rel atively inexpensive, and its enforcement is not difficult. I do not like earmarking of taxes, but I do approve of equality of participation of state and local government in education, and I do not see how we will achieve that without a new tax base. There has been a continu ing pressure on Ways and Means for the appropriation of moneysfor many projects. To enumerate a few, I could mention House Bill 514 or Senate Bill 94 which would appropriate $20,000,000 for the Basic School Support fund; educational television, $450,000; a request for an in terim study of the whole prob lem of secondary education, $150,000; an open-end appro priation for the establishment of community colleges; a cor oners' bill that would cost in the neighborhood of $200,000 biennially; a bill for the aid to the blind which will cost between $280,000 and $350, 000; a measure to aid the gift ed child program, $250,000; a measure appropriating money for an improved county health program of $838,000; the cre ation of an interdepartmental agency for the study of men tal retardation $200,000. These are just a few. We do not have the money and the pressure has been growing for these services of state gov ernment. I am asking the Democratic majority of this Senate to in itiate legislation in the form of income taxes which would provide for at least some of these services which we need so much. I am asking that "If our appeals to God for help in our problems had to be made via a 10-party line, how very seldom they would reach Him, or He us." You people who are so thoughtless might consider that. Please, let's show our true American spirits, and grati tude to the phone company and to our friends and neigh bors, by being more consider ate to our fellow man. Your neighbor, Mary A. Williams, 357 Orr dr., Central Point. Tim Will TeU . To the Editor: In Tuesday's "Communications," Fra n c i s Ray of Ralston, Wash., won ders if Christianity is real. Without disputing the senti ments expressed, I must take exception to his test of re ality. The reality of the Chris tian faith depends on whether Jesus Christ rose from a tomb bodily over 1900 years ago. Either He was killed and that was that, or He rose, is alive today at the right hand of God, witnesses by His spirit to His children, and will re turn soon to prove His divin ity and put a stop to what Mr. Ralston is talking about. Either this is a historical fact and a reasonable hope or the whole thing is a fairy tale. If Jesus did not rise bodily, whatever He taught means nothing, since it is merely what some people call a good way of life. While it is easy to see who believes it and who just puts on a show by observing lives, this means nothing if Jesus Christ is dead. If Jesus was killed 1900 years ago, He was really fool ish to stick His neck out, and we who trust Him as Savior are bigger fools to believe any fine morals will save our necks, either in this world or one to come if such there be. Time soon will tell if Jesus is alive. Parker Bailey, 542Vi "A" st., Ashland. '-nTLAJvM til 1 mJU Breatheasy Complete Set Regularly $1250 NOW $750 Limited-Time Offer ER-7? Position of Fund they extend this income tax legislation to help solve the problems of the 1961 session which will undoubtedly leave us with a deficit of $60,000, 000 unless steps are taken to correct it. I firmly believe that if such legislation is en acted and the income taxes are increased that such taxes will be so onerous to the peo ple of the state, that they will be very happy to consider the feasibility of a sales tax. They will have almost two years to Matter of Fact THEIR HEARTS BELONG TO ADLAI Milwaukee, Wisconsin-The first thing one learns from a political safari through stra- tpirallv cru cial Wisconsin is the present strength of Sen. John F. Kennedy's D e m o c ratic P r e s idential Candida cy. This Kennedy strength may wane. Or the los-ph Alsop Massachusetts Senator may be overtaken here by the other hard-running Democratic can didate, Sen. Hubert Hum phrey of Minnesota, who plans to cultivate Wisconsin before next year's primary as no political vineyard has been cultivated in recent memory. As of today, however, the Kennedy strength is highly impressive. Almost equally impressive, it must be added, is what may be called the second line strength of Adlai Ste venson. Since the two active Democratic candidates, Ken nedy and Humphrey, are al most certainly coming into Wisconsin to fight the key primary here, the local Demo crats are making their first- line choices between these two. Barring unforeseen de velopments, Wisconsin can therefore be expected to send either a Humphrey delegation or a Kennedy delegation to the Democratic convention in Los Angeles. DUT whether it is a Hum- phrey delegation or a Ken nedy delegation, the band from Wisconsin will also, in a quite important sense, be a Stevenson delegation. In this respect, a minor episode of the mid-Western Democratic con ference, at Milwaukee some weeks ago is usefully illus trativer In brief, virtually all the grandees of the Wisconsin Democracy had gathered for a late drink after the wind-up of oner of the Milwaukee ral lies' evening sessions. The lo cal party organization is by no means united, being di vided both into adherents of Gov. Gaylord Nelson and ad herents of Sen. William Prox mire, and into a pro-Hum phrey and pro-Kennedy group. All the same, the gathering was amiable, and the argu ment about potential . Demo cratic candidates was friendly. Finally, one of those pres ent said, "Come on, tell the honest truth. Leaving practi cal politics on one side, which Democrat would you really like to see nominated?" The whole room was polled, and Adlai Stevenson's name was heard on every lip. THIS strong residual senti ment for Stevenson will have no effect, of course, if one of the active Democratic candidates wins nomination Your blend of personal wishes ... our blend of service ... in perfect harmony for all. V)Aahel f JmhaMf Aaeu from th FRANK MORGAN - HAROLD SNODGRASS. FUNERAL DHKCTORf DAY OR NIGHT I n ruaL ' on Sales Deficit study the philosophy of this line of reasoning and can so advise their Representatives and Senators before we meet again. Dr. Sly so wisely said, "The people of the State of Oregon will know when they need a new tax." I ubmit that this legisla ture should determine and talte into consideration the will of the people. Edwin R. Durno, M.D., State Senator. By Joseph Alsop oh an early ballot But sup pose . the kind of situation arises that it so hopefully en visioned by the supporter of Sen. Stuart Symington of Mis souri. Suppose Kennedy and Humphrey cannot make it, and the convention is thrown wide open. In that case, so far "as Wisconsin is concern ed, the Stevenson sentiment will become most important. This reporter found no Wis consin Democrat, among a large number confidentially queried, who did not mean to go for Stevenson in the situa tion above-outlined. For Sym ington, in contrast, there is no discoverable enthusiasm in any quarter here in Wis consin. This sharp contrast between the unanimity of the Wiscon sinites' second choice of Ste venson, and their marked lack of enthusiasm for Symington, would seem to raise a question that goes beyond Wisconsin borders. How much basis in political reality does the Sym ington preconvention strategy actually have? If there is a deadlock, is not the conven tion just as likely to turn to Stevenson? ONE can think of a very large number of key states where the position favors Ste venson rather than Symington at present. California is a notable example. Minnesota, Michigan, the Northwestern states, and some of the Rocky. Mountain states also come to mind; and New England, too, will lean to Stevenson rather than Symington. Even in New York, where Carmine DeSapio has been making Symington like noises, the Tammy chief tain will have an ugly fight on his hands with the numer ous Stevensonites in the state. In short, despite the bitter opposition of President Harry S. Truman and many others among the older professionals, Stevenson is going to be a hard candidate to stop if the front-runners fall by the way side. He may be a two-timt loser, but he still commands much affection. Even among those who think he would make a good President "if I could only name the Presi dent myself," as one Wiscon sin leader put it. For Symington, all this per haps means that he has not gone far enough, by going from inactive to active-inactive candidate status. He might have to get out and beat the bushes like a fully active candidate, if his strate gy is to have a serious chance of working. Copyright 1959. 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