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4 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Thursday, April 20, 1959 MEDFORDTllIBUliE "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" , Published Daily except Saturday by MTJJFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GEPALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR Managing K.ditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as seond class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES B-7 Mail In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.0(, 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 route. Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1JS0 Carrier and Dealer copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper of jacBion 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 Aneeles Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 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 30, 1949 (Saturday) The Jackson county court turns down a chance to buy the military bridge across the Rogue on the old Camp White reservation for $1. Seven Medford light instal lations are scheduled for op eration next week if needed parts arrive on time. 20 YEARS AGO April 30, 1939 (Sunday) The Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce expects to open a tourist bureau soon at Riverside ave. and Fifth st. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot'? column: "The turbidity of the Rogue has been determined, so if the fish will bite there will be nothing the matter with the fishing." 30 YEARS AGO April 30, 1929 (Tuesday) Fishermen file a complaint with the state game commis sion alleging a lack of fish in the Rogue river. Scott Davis and John John son are expected home this week from their world tour. 40 YEARS AGO' April 30, 1919 (Wednesday) Glenn Eddings, Gold Hill, credited with: bringing down 27 planes in France, is ex pected home soon. A tag day for the orphan girls home Is to be held here. 50 YEARS AGO April 30. 1909 (Friday) Laying a wood-stave main from the reservoir to down town Medford for. the new water supply gets under way, with the work expected to progress at 1,500 feet a day. Mayor W. H. Canon explains a proposed charter amend ment providing for the city's new water system. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is goed. 1. In what country is Port-u-Prince? 2. How many cubic feet are in one cord of wood? 3. What is the 4th Com mandment? 4. What sort of research goes on at Oak Ridge, Tenn.? 5. On which Japanese city was the second atomic bomb dropped in 1945? 6. Correct the following: "Six and two make eight." 7. Is red alder a soft wood, or a hard wood? 8. How often is a census of population taken in the U. S.? 9. With what industry in the U. S. do you associate the names of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick? 10. In baseball, what is the term for a legally batted ball, not swung at, but met with the bat and tapped slowly within the infield? Answers: 1. Haiti. 2. 128. 3. Honor thy father and thy mother. 4. Atomic. 5. Naga saki. 6. ". . . makes eight." 7. Hard. 8. Every ten years. 9. Steel. 10. Bunt. About 75 per cent of Con necticut's total population is concentrated in three of the state's eight counties, point ing to urban trends. Average temperatures in Canada are rising at a rate of about three degrees within 70-year cycles. Over-Professionalism "Professionalism" is a good, solid word; a word which connotes a high degree of ability, an adherance to a code of ethical behavior, a self confident competence in any of a number of fields. Professionalism, then, is a virtue. But like al most any other virtue one can name, it can be car ried to a point where it becomes, if not a vice, at least a drawback. ' . An excess of professionalism can convert self- confidence into cocksure dmplacency; ethical behavior into a holier-than-thou withdrawal, com petence and ability into attitudes of don't-touch-me superiority. . TTHESE are generalities. But any thinking person, observing the pro fessional and service fields, can name individuals who have let their sense of professional zeal carry them beyond the realm of common humanity and common sense. A recent "Library Week" issue of the Satur day Review contained complaints that some li brarians in the east had removed books of the "Oz" series from their shelves, simply because they apparently did not meet the "standards" set up by librarians for books. Now there is always a legitimate debate as to whether such-and-such a book is suited for library use. We personally don't think the "Torn Swift" or "Rover Boys" series have any place in a li brary. t But we are inclined to agree that the gentle, fantastic tales of the Wizard of Oz, so popular with young people for generations, do belong. And isn't their exclusion an excess of "profession alism"? COME physicians suffer from the same malady. Because of their hard-won and specialized knowledge, it is a temptation for physicians to come to the belief that their superiority in one field carries over into others, which in turn leads to an intellectual arrogance or, in less severe cases, an attitude of "What you don't know won't hurt you." It is an attitude which the ordinary intelligent patient finds infuriating. It is also one of the tilings which have led to a widespread disenchantment with the medical pro fession as such a disenchantment which medi cal leaders recognize, and are seeking ways to combat. IT IS one of the factors, for instance, in the weak but growing demands for a higher degree of governmental participation in medical .care something which doctors regard with abhorrence as "Socialized Medicine." (We suggest they read an article entitled "Socialized Medicine, 10 Years Old," in the cur rent Harper's -.magazine, which reports on the British government's national health program a program which now receives almost universal support in the British Isles.) Excessive "professionalism" also may well motivate some (certainly not all) physicians to dislike pre-paid health insurance plans, or to re fuse to discuss with patients such things as fees, delays in waiting rooms, the nature of prescrip tions, or the reasons why a particular course of treatment is recommended. . T AWYERS, too, are susceptible to over- pro- f essionalism. Again, this cannot be a blanket indictment, by any means. But, again, anyone can name one or more attorneys who glory in the obfuscations of legal language, who treat juries politely though with thinly-disguised impatience at their lack of understanding at the ins and outs of the procedures of. jurisprudence; who may, even, seek to convert a simple court action into an arcane mystery. . Lawyers are the great acc'ommodators of our society; the professionals who seek compromise or settlement, and who handle the prosecutions and defenses and conflicts of a dynamic society. As such they are public servants. The malady of over-professionalism can convert them, in their own minds, to public masters. TTHE illness can strike wherever a profession or trade or craft is perf ormed which has its own tricks, its own traditions, its own skills and special knowledge. We have seen overweening newspaper re porters and editors in the last stages of the dis ease of over-professionalism. It has caused them to glory in the "power of the press," the while forgetting about the responsibilities of the press. dome legislators, congressmen and senators suffer from the ailment, as do other office-holders who, because of their position and experience, believe they have a corner on wisdom and com petence. DOLICE officers are not immune. In their case, when over-professionalism strikes, it usually takes the form of an over-suspicious nature, of a f orgetfullness of the rights of everyday citizens, and of a tendency to take the quick and easy way, instead of the right way, in their job of crime pre vention and detection. Happily; true professionalism in police serv ices is more and more overcoming over-professionalism, which creates a false image of what a competent police officer should be. Is there a remedy for over-professionalism? Of course. It is the same remedy that could cure most other human foibles. A decent sense of humility," a feeling of sympathetic interest toward one's fellows, and a sense of humor, will do the trick. E.A. Dennis the ' Ya threw the ball wbr your. smDtzjQ&'. tizxr Tine ntzc vTwfo rmico LMwn AAAVass jrt'an a imioAAl Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is' permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact trte contrary is often tha case. Hatfield Also To Blame To the Editor: One evening, at a late night session at the Capitol, I read your editorial of April 19 entitled "Marijane Hits Back" as well as Mrs. Duncan's lively defense of the current legislative session. I am inclined to agree with you that the Legislature ought to have enacted some new taxes and to have kept abreast of the programs now being allowed to lag. Yet, I wonder how much of the blame for this actually rests with Governor Mark Hatfield and the reckless type of campaign he conducted in 1958, when he specifically claimed he could reduce taxes and trim the budget? I am conscious of all this because I have been trying, in my feeble way, to create sentiment for budget-balancing tax increases at the Fed eral level. I find that one of the state Governors who has urged us NOT to follow the President's recommendation for higher motor -fuel taxes is Mark Hatfield. Yet Hatfield also wants the Interstate Highway program kept on schedule, and the Federal gov ernment is putting up 90 per cent of the 539 billion .this vast road - building project will cost in the 49 states. I thought Marijne Duncan had a valid point when she emphasized that there was a great difference between the Rockefeller and Hatfield ap proaches, in New York and Oregon respectively. Gover nor Rockefeller candidly said that New York state had cer tain essential needs to fulfill and he was going to collect taxes to finance these needs. Mr. Hatfield, by contrast, campaigned with a theme of ridicule against Governor Holmes as "high-tax Holmes" and he even said, at several places, that the only real issue in the campaign was that of high taxes and reck less state spending! I agree with your editorial thoroughly that government must undertake the necessary services regarding education and other needs, and that poli ticians must have the politi cal courage to levy the taxes to provide the required rev enues. But certainly Mark Hatfield has been about as far from that as any Governor could, especially in the way he attained his high office. Richard L. Neuberger United States Senator Nutshell Opinion To the Editor: Like too many already, I can't hold my opinion on the smudge "prob lem" any longer. Just two sentences directed to H. W. Van Hise will give my opinion in a nutshell. Pear trees have been here much longer than he; how about his pulling up his roots and moving? If millions live unaided by pears, billions live unaided by Mr. Van Hise! Ernest R. Hook 947 Manzanita st. Central Point, Ore. Slow Down To the Editor: This little incident requires attention I believe, as we read in the paper quite often where a Camp Whiter was hit by a car, and as the story goes, he just walked out in front. Well, from my point of view it seems that everyone is in a real big hurry to get somewhere, and where they are going I wouldn't know, they don't even have the time to stop and give a helping hand, or as far as that goes, slow down. I had just made the turn off of Eighth st. on to King st. going south, and from there I could clearly see a Menace , little old man with a white cane groping his way across the street, you could tell that he was confused, and couldn't see a thing. By the time I reached him he was in the center of the street, and the cars just zoomed by him, they didn't even slow down, and were going' faster then I do when I see a dog in the street. I stopped and asked him if I could help him across. He told me he thought he was on the side walk. There is no curb on 10th st., and that's where he got mixed up, as he couldn't see, just feel his way through. Well, the payment was great, the look of gratitude on the little old man's face, and even though it was raining I felt a wonderful glow in side, and the sun never did shine so bright. Try it some time. Slow down, or even stop. We aren't in that big of a hurry. Mrs. Irma L. Henderson, 729 Dakota ave. Medford. 'Thanks' From Hawaii To the Editor: Before the Hawaii Statehood Commis sion folds up and becomes just an incident in history, I would like to say "thank you for the wonderful support which the cause of Hawaiian Statehood received from the majority of the press of the nation. During the eventful days before and after March 11 and 12, I had the opportunity of talking to many members of Congress. One senator made this statement to me: "Never in my life has any legislation come over my desk that had such united editorial support of the Am erican Press." Only your help made such a statement pos sible. It hardly seems possible that our battle for Statehood is now over. We are busily engaged in the problem of finding good candidates for the United States Senate, and the House, and our primary election has been set for June 26, to be followed by the gen eral election a month later. We have no fear that the three plebiscite vote questions will not be answered with a re- sounding YES! Inquiries on every phase of business, economic, social, and educational opportunities in Hawaii are pyramiding each week. The advent of jet air service this fall, which will cut travel time to Ha waii in half, is going to fur ther increase this great inter est. We in Hawaii believe that our new State is destined to play an increasingly import ant part in the problem of earning and keeping friends for the United States through out the entire Pacific area. To that end we will dedicate ourselves as good Americans. We will indeed try to so conduct ourselves as to earn your continued friendship and support. Come and see Hawaii some day. We know you will like what you find. Lorrin P. Thurston, Publisher, The Honolulu Advertiser, Chairman,- Hawaii State ' hood Commission. ,YMCA-SOS To the Editor: Medford's YMCA (and' this is your or ganization) is calling for your support in its Ninth Annual Auction to be held May 5 at 7 p.m. If you have any articles of no further use to you, they can be of great value to your YMCA. A small donation can become a big boost toward the well-being of your com munity, your children and Unrest Stirs in Western Provinces and Red China's Neighbors in Tibet's Wake . By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Scattered among the sober ly dressed government offi cials and the oeasants in blue tunics and pants at the Red Chinese National Peo ple's Congress in Peiping this week were oth er deleg a t e s clad in the u m e s of Phil Newsom trioesmen from Central Asia. They were representatives of minority groups which have no rela tionship to the Chinese except by conquest but to whom toe Communists give a certain amount of lip service with no more meaning than the au tonomy promised to Tibet. And just as unrest stirred in Tibet, so it has been stirring in other outward areas of Red China. And as Communist speak ers hammered away at charges of Indian "expansionist" am bitions in Tibet, they also had reason to eye uneasily events in the neighboring Sinkiang Uighur autonomous region and the next-door province of Chinghai. Like "Wild West" Sinkiang and Chinghai are Red China's "Wild West," a land of desert wastes and sky- high mountain ranges which together comprise one-fourth of China's total territory but with only one-hundreth of her population. In Sinkiang and Chinghai, weapons are the blunderbuss, spear and bow and arrow. Nomadic tribes bear such names Uighur, Kazakhs, Uz beks. In the region are more Turkestani than Chinese and more Tibetans than there are in Tibet. As in Tibet, opposition to the Chinese springs from reli gious and nationalistic sources, with the added hatred among the nomads for any central authority. Whereas in Tibet the religion is Buddhist, among the Turkestani it is Moslem. A dream of the Moslems has been an Islamic state. Marco Polo was among the early explorers of Sinkiang through which ran the old silk road from India to China. Since the 16th century, the area has been a bone of con tention between China and Russia. Rich in Minerals The region supposedly is in credibly rich in minerals. Two yourself. Radios, clothing, furniture, even shrubs and plants for the auction can be instrumeh tal in maintaining the YMCA building and camps. The sparkle of unused glassware or jewelry can be just the thing to put a brighter sparkle on some kids' face. These are the things toward which the auction proceeds go every year. Take about five minutes of your spare time and dig around in the attic or base ment. Find that "whatever-it- is" that you no longer need and someone else can use. It's much better that it gather lots of satisfaction at the "Y1 auction than dust where it is now. It's the little that you give that helps the "Y" give so much year after year. So come on, answer the SOS Time is growing short and the YMCA needs your sup port now. If you can't take your articles to them, call SP 2-6295 for pick-up, but DO IT. The whole town's pointing toward the Auction on May 5. The whole town wants the YMCA. So let's see that the whole town doesn't let them down. Mrs. Gig Farfan. 723 South Newtown st., Medford. Editorial Comment SMALL MARK OF 'PROGRESS Mississippi's lynching of a Negro prisoner, by a mob of White men in the grand, bloody manner, strangely enough is a mark of "prog ress" in civil rights cases. Small comfort that it gives anybody, the lynching receiv ed nationwide publicity and nationwide shudders of hor ror that it had occurred, and nationwide revulsion toward the men who did it and the system that allowed it. Not 'so many years ago, this would not have been the case. The incident would have been scarcely noticed. In fact, local newsmen might not have thought it newsworthy enough to file Today it is something dif ferent. The nation has done much deep thinking about the problems of civil rights and a majority of the people believe the status quo of minority group economic and educa tional discrimination has to be changed. Small comfort But at least some comfort. - Coos Bay World. of China's greatest oil strikes were reported there. Two vast coal fields are supposed to have reserves of one billion tons of coking coal each. And there also are reports of rich deposits of tungsten, antimony, copper and perhaps uranium. To tap these rich resources the Reds are building rail roads into the area and have sent in thousands of troops to double as settlers and in emergency to quell the rebel lious local populace. The influx of such Chinese "settlers" was one of the trig Matter of Fact THE FALSE ACCOUNTING j Washington - Last week, in the semi-final stage of the Berlin crisis, the Secretary of Defense of the United States of f e r e d the country an ac an account ing. It was a false account ing. That does not mean that Neil McElroy 4ospb ajsod is a aisnonest man. In the stock market boom of the late '20s, the vi sion of many honest men was irresistibly deformed by the atmosphere of the times. Their eyes were blind to debits and credulous towards credits; and so these wholly honest men published wholly misleading balance sheets. In the same fashion, in the atmosphere generated by the President's budget -mania, blindnefs to debits and extreme credulity towards credit now prevail in the Pentagon. The McElroy balance sheet, offered to the American Asso ciation of Newspaper Publish ers, was first of all mislead ing about the priorities gov erning the current defense budget. "National security," he declared, had been the only test; and he denied that the defense program had been "determined by budgetary considerations." He forgot to relate the famous episode in the National Security Coun cil, when Under Secretary of Defense Donald Quarles tim idly urged that the national security demanded larger de fense investments. TH E President responded with the famous flush-faced anger which so frightens his subordinates - but markedly fails to intimidate the enemies of this republic. Budget-balancing, he told Quarles, "was national security." That set tled the matter. Worse still, the McElroy balance sheet was misleading about the condition of the nu clear deterrent, on which the whole Western strategic con cept entirely depends. Speak ing primarily of the Strategic Air Command, McElroy smoothly promised that "the bomber forces will be kept in any status of alert required to insure their ability to de liver unacceptable punish ment to any nation which might attack us." In contrast, the brilliant Strategic Air Commander, Gen. Thomas Power, has given sworn testimony that in its nresent alert status, SAC could conceivably be "knocked out." With no missile-seeing radars as yet in position, SAC has zero warning against a Soviet missile strike, wnn zero warning, SAC has only been authorized to maintain a 15-minute alert. Such an ic ntterlv valueless if the Soviets simply acquire a few hundred more long range missiles than the national in telligence estimates allow. When and if this happens, un less SAC has meanwhile been authorized to maintain an air borne alert, it will in fact be possible to "knock out" SAC. IirORST of all, the McElroy accounting was shocking ly misleading on the key mat ter of the Soviet missile capa bility. Our own admittedly imperfect long range missile, the Atlas, now has a claimed "circular probable error" of one mile. In other words, it can be relied on to hit within one mile of its target, ine Soviets have been in the mis sile business much longer than we have, and they have worked much harder at it. Thus their long range missile mnct Vi pxnected to be at least as good as the Atlas. If that is so, they need a verv small number of missiles indeed - in the extremely low hundreds - to knock out both SAC and the United States in our present completely sou condition of no warning, no air-borne alert, and no coun ter-striking weapons in 'hard emplacements. The current Atlas output of six missiles rer month could be immed iately raised to 18 per month, and it could be quite rapidly raised to 23 per month. By the measuring stick of this American capability, an all gers of the Tibetan revolt Proof of Chinese troubles in the region came this week with disclosure that the Com munists recently removed five opposition leaders from gov ernment posts in Sinkiang and that more than 300 other persons were assigned to man ual labor and further ideologi cal reeducation. The latter phrase, reduced from typical Communist ter minology, simply means a pe riod of brainwashing at the end of a pick and shovel. The rebels of Tibet, Sinki- By Joseph Alsop out Soviet production effort could give the Kremlin its long range missile require ment in a frightening small number of months. THE national intelligence es timates, perhaps reflecting the present blue sky atmo sphere of the Pentagon, do not concede the Soviets a fatally dangerous missile capability at any early date. McElroy's assertions were squarely based upon the estimates. But the central point that McElroy omitted concerned these esti mates. We are now risking the whole future of this coun try on the single assumption that the vast and secret Soviet tyranny has not managed to produce a few hundred weap ons, which the Kremlin has long been working all-out to produce. This is like a cor poration assuming its liabil ities are only $100,000, when the liabilities may well be $100,000,000. s What the intelligence es timators call a "strategic warning" has already been given to us, in the form of the Berlin crisis, which this reporter is now going abroad to cover on the spot. The con viction of the masters of the Kremlin, that they have achieved a great upset of the world balance of military power, is the obvious reason why they are threatening Ber lin at this time. You may believe, as this re porter happens to believe, that there is no immediate danger of war. But if McEl- roy-style accounting contmues to prevail, and nothing more is done to redress the military balance, the future danger may be very great indeed. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Six Americans Killed in France Chateuroux, France -UPD- Six Americans including three children were killed Wednes day when their car hit a truck on a highway near here Air Force officials announced today The Americans were iden tified as S-Sgt. Decker w. McQuillan, 25, of Brooklyn, N. Y., his wife, Carolyn, 22, their children, Helen, 4, Wan da, 3, and Decker Jr., 1, and a friend, Mrs.. Mary Lou Cur tis, 29, of Detroit, Mich. Air Force officials said tne six were driving back to this Air Force base in. central France when they ran into the back of a slow-moving truck. Sugar cane, bauxite and rice now are three major pro ducts of British Guiana, an area of 83,000 miles, with 500,000 people. ' all unhurried, and with. deepest understanding Avon bat FRANK MORGAN - HAROLD DAY OR NIGHT ang and Chinghai can hav little hope of help in their struggle, but the fact that they continue to fight is further proof that personal liberties died hard. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Sacramento the other day. a senate committee charged that unscrupulous bill collec tors, often using strongarm tactics or posing as police, arc preying on businessmen and the public. Beatings, embezzlement and impersonation of law enforce ment officers by thugs wer cited in a 64-page report pre pared by the senate interim committee on collection agen cies, private dectectives and debt liquidators. The report adds that auto repossessions, which are free from state con trol, have provided a hunting ground for petty racketeers, ex-convicts and musclemen. The committee's report is based on two years of hear ings held all over the state of California. IT IS AN interesting report. It is interesting for a variety of reasons. Among other things, it provides an exam ple of what can happen when our lawmakers get so busy with providing the services that go along with the mod ern welfare state that they forget to provide the protec tions that the general run of people are entitled to receive as a part of the legitimate police powers of government. The conditions described by the report are bad. The con clusion is inevitable that steps must be taken to protect peo ple against that kind of har rying. Providing that wind of pro tection is what government is for. I CAN'T help hoping, though, that in taking steps to remedy injustices such as ara described in this interim com mittee report to the California legislature we don't go to the opposite extreme and make it TOO easy to avoid the pay ment of legitimate bills. We mustn't permit our selves to fall into the delusion that bills shouldn't be paid -that collection of legitimate bills is bad business and that avoiding payment of legiti mate bills is something to be excused. If you want to get anywhere in the world, KEEP YOUR CREDIT GOOD. That is one law of sound business to which there are few excep tions. If you want an easy mind, as well as a good repu tation, see to it that your bills are paid at the earliest possi ble moment. ALSO- If you are a creditor- . Be as tolerant and as help ful as possible to your debtors. Remember that when you sold them the goods you will ingly took a chance in order to increase your volume. This business of credit is one of the important institu tions of the modern world. It deserves thoughtful and intel ligent handling. HELP US! We Need Clothing, Sheet. Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring 3-7335 BORN OF EXPERIENCE. 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