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MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Or. Friday, May 8, 1959 MedfordS2Tbieunb "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune,r Published Dailv except Saturday by M7J3FORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fii St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GRE Advertising Manager CErAUD LATHAM, Business Mgr IRIC W ALLEN JR Managing F.ditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY 'JHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medforrt Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai '. In Advance. Copy lOe. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routts. Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunIay 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford oiriciai paper or jacKson vonmj United Press International Full Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF ClHt ULATlUa Avrt1in Representative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of. 'flees in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland. St. Louis. At- . lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATION At EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson G)unty History from the files of The Mail Tribune 0, 20, 30,. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 8, 1949 (Sunday) Sacred Heart and Commun ity hospitals here plan open houses to observe National Hospital day. A. Democratic picnic honor ing Moore Hamilton and Frank DeSouza is scheduled at Tou Velle park today. 20 YEARS AGO May 8, 1939 (Monday) Roy Rogers, government frost meteorologist, reports unheated valley orchards sus tained frost damage last week. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A con traption has been invented that hoes, mows, and culti vates lawns and gardens. It is equipped with a gasoline engine, but the operator sua has to walk around with it." 30 YEARS AGO May 8, 1929 (Wednesday) Straw Hat day is set for to morrow. The Barnes circus is sched uled to visit Medford .soon. 40 YEARS AGO May 8. 1919 (Thursday) Medford subscribes $266,' 000 to the Victory Loan drive Major R. W. Clancy is on his way home from service in France. 50 YEARS AGO May 8. 1909 (Saturday) Ladies of the Greater Med ford club order the first of three public drinking foun tains. The Ashland coal mine is sold to Eastern interests. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct it superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. As an artist, with which musical instrument was Pa- derewski a renowned musi cian? 2. Is the .Grace Line an air line, a railroad line, or a ship line? 3. If one mixes yellow and blue pigments, what color re sults? 4. Wedding inv itations should be mailed not earlier than how many weeks before the wedding? 5. From where did the U.S. obtain the cherry blossom trees planted in a park in the nations capital? 6. Which of these is . the capital of Texas, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, or Ft. Worth? 7. From what part of the animal are chuck steaks of beef cut? 8. A country lying between two potential enemy countries is sometimes known as a "h. r state"? 9. What was the name of Abraham Lincoln's fiancee, who died? , 10. Correct the following: "The burglar was more frightened than him." Answers: 1. Piano. 2. Ship. 3. Green. 4. Four weeks. 5. Japan. 6. Austin. 7. First five ribs. 8. "Buffer state." 9. Ann Rutledge. 10. ". . than he." AN INSIDE JOB Knoxville, Tenn.-flJPD-Police quickly, solved the "theft" of $150 Wednesday night from John Maples. The money had fallen through a hole in Ma ples' pocket-into the hollow center of his artificial leg. Recession We've heard that the recession is over. Is it? Let's take a look at the "Oregon Business Re- t i .i ii i .e i : view, a puDiicauon 01 research of the University few excerpts: "Bank debits in Oregon during March surged upward 16.9 per cent above the levels 'of March 1958... "Fmn1mrmfrit. in nnnapripiiltural industrv dur- JjmiVJMWMW w Q ing March 1959 jumped 4 per cent above the March 1958 level. All sectors shared the improve ment, with contract construction showing a 13 per cent year-to-year gain and lumber and wood products manufacturing and the "other manufac turing" sector eacn recording a gain oi per cent "TnrlPY nf man hours to . . . the highest March standing since 1956. m "Average weekly earnings of production workers in nonagricultural industry . . . represent ed a rise of 6 per cent above the March 1958 level . . . "I UMBER production in the Douglas fir region L of the Pacific northwest in March 1959 rose 1.4 tier cent above the level of March 1958 and was 9.3 per cent above the average weekly pro duction in February 1959. New orders were also higher than the levels of both a month earlier and March 1958. .. ". ... Total building contracts (for February 1959), excluding public works and utilities, were 44 per cent above February, 1958 . . . For the first two months of 1959, Oregon's total value of build ing contracts, exclusive of public works and utili ties, was 40 per cent above the comparable period of 1958. "The value of building permits issued in Ore gon during March 1959 was 30 per cent above the total reported in March 1958. Gains, reported in most sections of the state, were significantly high er than the losses that appeared in a few com munities. "Agricultural income, receipts from farm products marketed (govern ment payments excluded) in February 1959 relative mulative totals for the first two months of 1959 showed a rise of 6 per cent above the comparable period of 1958." - HHERE were a few less - optimistic spots not shnwn in t.hpsp favnrablp niint.nt.inriR. hut. t.he overall report indicates that up to this point, 1959 is starting out far better, economically, than 1958. We see no reason at should not have a generous portion of returning erood times which it seems evident Oregon will enjoy in the foreseeable (For instancein Curry, Jackson and Jose phine counties, bank debits the number of checks drawn on banks tween February and March this year, and 34.6 per cent between March of last year and March this year.) Our "layman's" interpretation of these econo mist's figures results in our answer to the ques tion we asked at the beginning: Yes the recession is over. E.A. 'The Cut of His Jib' Once, when a state man who later turned murder suspect, we asked the desk officer why the patrolman had made "Was there anything we asked. "Did the officer know the, car was stolen?" "No," replied the didn t like the cut of his THIS may seem a pretty flimsy excuse on which to stop a car going down the highway, ap parently oTbeying all the laws of the land. And it would be flimsy, too, except on the part of a conscientious and experienced officer. We would n't advise a rookie to try it. He might wind up being sued for false arrest. But the veteran police officer like experi enced veterans in many might almost be called a Actually, we presume nize, perhaps even - subconsciously, . small signs which sets a valid suspect law-abiding citizen out if, to the inexperienced difterence. JjHYSICIANS experienced in diagnosis, too, 1 sometimes can spot what is wroner with a patient as they walk in manner of walking or appearance to get a pretty good idea what the trouble is before he performs any more detailed diagnostic procedures. This talent, of course, isn't really a "sixth sense," at all. It is merely a higrhlv developed and refined talent for observation and for drawing valid conclusions from such observation. Sherlock Holmes, the classic detective of fic tion, based most of his amazing powers of de duction on acute observation. ' So there we are. back whose ability to see what others don't see, arrive at a conclusion, and stop a murder suspect, is described as a dislike of Over? Yes me Dureau 01 Dusmess of Oregon. Here are a in manufacturing rose as indicated by cash fell less than 1 per cent to February 1958. Cu all why southern Oregon future., rose 14 per cent be police officer arrested a out to be wanted as a the arrest. suspicious about him?" desk sergeant. "He just jib. fields develops what sixth sense. . it is an ability to recog apart from an ordinary, for a Sunday drive, even eye, there-is no overt the door using the to the state patrolman "the cut of his jib." E.A. Dennis the 0?A it -j iKNOWMMfeE IN THERE. MR. WILSOH I I CAN HEAR VA KBBPlH' WtV 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 initia' for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with e 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 the contrary is often the case. Training for Humanity To the Editor: I didn't re alize it at the time, but dur ing the time I was in school we were taught humane ed ucation through the material in our readers as we ad vanced from grade to grade. So, by the eighth grade we had learned to respect our teachers and parents. We were taught that the Golden Rule applied to our relation ship with both animals and our fellow-man. Some place along the line we were subjected to lessons in courtesy, honesty, fair play, truth and justice. When ever a pupil overstepped too far, he was punished-gener-ally by being switched with a limber branch of a tree, and the boy himself was sent to fetch it. Sometimes little girls cried but never did any parents come to raise an ob jection. More often the boy was punished again at home. Now we have progressive education:' And children ad vance from disregard, impu dence and disrespect to defi ance of teachers and parents. Soon they have progressed to vandalism, sadism, immoral acts, larceny, use of narcotics and more serious crimes. In fact, according to FBI statis tics, more crimes are com mitted by teenagers than any other age group. So when it is too late we have Child Guidance Clinics, Mental Health Clinics, and the taxpayer is burdened with the upkeep of detention homes, places for wayward girls and delinquent boys, for the many attendants, enforce ment officers and all the many other expenditures. ' It seems' to me that school authorities are overlooking something. Let the children be trained, their hands, their intellect, and above all, their hearts. Let them be taught to have pity for the animals that are at our mercy, that cannot protect themselves, that cannot explain their pain or their suffering and soon this will bring to them recog nition that higher law, the moral obligation of man to protect and care for the weak and defenseless. Nor will it stop there,' for this, in turn, will lead to that highest law man's duty to man.. Mrs. Francis Hollis, . Foothill Road, Route 3, Medford. Lions Pay Tribute To the Editor: Some experi ences of life are beyond the eloquence or the grandeur or the glory of words. A long ill ness terminating with death cannot be described or under stood by mere words, as could the laughter by a child or the power of friendship. So, in this time of sacredness, per haps silence might be very golden. "To hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service per formed by one another', but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is giv en," is a part of the Lions code of ethics. If silence were ever golden, it is in the mem ory of a person and their friendship. In loving tribute, in mem ory of Lady Lion Lois Hart, the Crater Lions join hands, the Lions of the world, Lions of all races, Lions of all creeds and religions. What this Lady Lion has lived for, and loved for, through us shall never perish from the face of the earth. Frank M. Wilson, D.M.D. President of Crater Lions Medford . Menace Paper Stage To the Editor: What a blessed privilege it is when fading daylight ends toil of the day that started with its beginning, and with supper over, the weary bones and muscle can relax by the fire warmth that is still of com fort morning and evening, to peruse the evening paper. forms a stage that portrays passing events of happiness and sorrow and people in volved in them. Enigmatic, bewhiskered Fi del Castro of Cuba, double flanked with local police to in sure his life while a guest here, evasive as to plans for that tragedy-ridden land, denials of Communism that don't fit in with extensive lists of Reds dug up by our sleuthing col umnists. Pitiful remains of the two Martin girls, their happy Christmas gathering greenery with family and car swept from the stage to oblivion till the rising water reveals its grim evidence. That moun tain of courage and resolu tion for his country, John Foster Dulles, mercifully pushed back into the wings as a new man takes over the critical affairs of state. Horse and rider on Medford streets, reenacting the colorful pony express days, so quickly out moded by the dot-dash 'talk ing wire.' And now, the wire less radar bouncing back from swift journey to the moon and Venus with, little news save that they are still there and not just their once-made light. The faith restoring pictured news of our President taking over his role of President in masterly manner as he is sup posed to do. Let us hope, and hope is but a prayer, that with knowledge gained and wisdom given him, he can meet with our freedom dedicated allies to the un wanted, the thankless and fruitless summit meeting with the scheming and crafty would-be world enslavers of the Kremlin, whose only thought has been to make and break solemn arrived at agreements to their selfish advantage. That out of it can be born something more help ful and worthwhile than past experiences with them have demonstrated. And so to bed, for it's most nine by the warning hands of the clock, the day's papery stage folded and to be handed to a good neighbor who wel comes us to their TV to enjoy an occasional program that our time-screened inhibitions allow us to enjoy. F. J. Clifford, Route 2, Box 200F, Central Point. M.T. Prejudice Claimed To the Editor: Enclosed is an item on consolidation of in terest to voters in the Talent and Phoenix districts. I do not expect to see it printed in the columns of the Medford Mail Tribune because so - far they have taken a very prejudiced attitude in the items that have come out concerning this con solidation question. We know that several items favoring consolidation of Talent' and Phoenix and giving facts of interest to the Talent and Phoenix voters have been withheld from your columns and from your letters to the editor page. We hope that you will be able to take a more fair atti tude in this matter in the fu ture by printing both sides of the question.' I'm sure you will as the Mail Tribune prides itself on being an in dependent paper and you should take pride in allowing the people in these two areas Many Presidential Nominees Still Not Approved; By RAYMOND LAHR Washington - (UPD - Presi dent Eisenhower sounds frus trated and unhappy about Senate delays in handling his nominees for federal jobs. He should brace himself for even rougher treatment in the elec tion yeir of 1960. He could learn what to ex pect by asking former Presi dents Hoover or Truman what happened to batches of nomi nations they sent to a hostile Senate during the last year of a presidential term. Eisenhower has grumbled about the Senate at his two most recent news conferences. He was miffed not only by at tacks on Clare Boothe Luce, who later resigned as ambas sador to Brazil, and Secre tary of Commerce Lewis L. Strauss. He complained also about inaction on nominees for postmastership, federal judgeships and U.S. attorney jobs. Small Percentage Confirmed The record shows only 15 of 990 postmaster nominees have been confirmed this ses sion, but more wiU get Sen ate approval. Nominations for judgeships and U.S. attorneys are moving slowly but not as slowly as can be expected next year. Democrats in the Senate Today & Tomorrow By Walter Although there are many who think so, it seems to me misleading to suppose that the Russians have staged the Berlin affair as a distrac tion in order to divert at tention from their ambi tions in Iraq and in the Middle East. The stakes in Germany are much bigger for them and for us than in Iraq. For in Genhany the Soviet Union and the Western alli ance, each armed with nuclear weapons, confront one anoth er directly. Neither can or will surrender its vital interests to the other, and if they cannot find an honorable and accept able modus Vivendi, there may be no alternative to a great war. Ti As compared with this, the cold war about Iraq and Iran, though important and dra matic, is nevertheless second ary. The oil of Iraq must find its market in the West. The Soviet Union has no need of it, in fact no use for it. The Soviet Union will, therefore, not go to war to seize Iraq as it would most probably go to war to hold Eastern Europe The West, for its part, will not go to war about Iraq be cause when the chips are down, Iraq with its oil fields like Egypt with the Suez Ca nal, must have a trrading ar rangement wltn the West. THE practical conclusion to be drawn from this is that however bad things may look in Baghdad, the one thing to vote independently by pre senting both sides of the con solidations issue more fairly. Mrs. Ray Burnette, Rt. 1, Box 388, Talent, Ore. Editor's note: The Mail Tri bune has taken no position on the consolidation question as it affects Phoenix and Tal ent, and has endeavored to present the various sides of the issue. If it has failed to do so, it was through inadvert ence. No communications on the issue, which otherwise met requirements for "letters to the editor," have been with held. The enclosure referred to appears elsewhere' in to day's paper. Count Your Blessings To the Editor: Well, this year's Oregon legislative fi asco is over. While our tax money has obviously been wasted, let us remember the old hymn, "Count Your Many Blessings, Name Them One by One." While the legislature was squabbling over tax measures, many bills died in committee. Some of these were "special interest" legislation that was not good for the general pub lic. Unions are disgruntled be cause their pet bills were also in the casualty lists. It cost them much time and money with nothing to show for it. For this they promise some heads will roll. However, it showed them one thing, and that is, real statesmen are not bred in union halls. In plain language, those that can be bought are often not worth the price. Leila A. Morrow, 531 North BarUett st., - Medford. . ...... . Walter " LipDDiann Worse Treatment Due in '60 will not be eager to let life time federal judgeships go to Republicans when they scent a chance to install a Democrat in the White House after the 1960 election. If they stall, they will merely follow a, bi partisan custom. A couple of pages in the congressional record for Dec. 14, 1932 tell the story. Al though under nominal Repub lican control, the Senate then voted 44 to ,37 against taking up nominations. Sen. Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, then Democratic leader, said his side felt no appointees should be con firmed for jobs running be yond March 4, 1933, when the Roosevelt administration would be taking over. A Re publican Senate did the same to President Wilson in 1920, he said. 'Bad Precedent' Speaking for the Republi cans, Sen. Charles L. McNary of Oregon confessed that he may have been an unwitting participant in the 1920 action but said it was a bad prece dent. "When his ox is gored, he regards it as a bad precedent," said Robinson. To that lame duck session of Congress President Hoover submitted 1,662 postmaster Lippmann above all that we must not do is to write off -Iraq, and then treat it as a Communist satellite in the same class with North Korea and North Viet nam. Even though the Iraqi Communists may dominate the government, which they have not yet done, we should not regard the situation as final and irreparable. Egypt has taught us that as between Arab nationalism and Soviet Communism there is much flirtation, there may even be a heavy affair, but there has not yet been any indissoluble marriage. The main reason for this, so I venture to think, is that there is no common frontier between any Arab state and the Soviet Union. With ,the exception of Albania, which is not much of an exception, the genuine Soviet satellites are all countries into which the Red Army has marched, and could march again. For this reason, Iraq, which does not touch the Soviet Union, is not likely to become a sat ellite. For the same reason, Iran, which does not have a common frontier with the Soviet Union, is a great risk if ever there is a break-up of the Shah's regime. OUR wisest course in the Middle East is to refrain from any threats of promises which, in a show-down, we could not carry out. In our relations wltn the Iraqi gov- excited and reserved. We ernment we should be un- should make it plain, but without excessive rhetoric, that we believe in the inde pendence of Iraq that we be lieve and support her inde pendence of the great powers including the Soviet Union and the United States that we believe in her right and her capacity to find her own place in the Arab world. This is a realistic policy. It is no "dyamic" and it is not dramatic. But it is all that the traffic will bear. The old policy has collapsed. It was based on the illusion that Iraq could be aligned with the West by subsidizing and arming an oligarchy that was aligned with the West, and that this artif ical arrange ment could be regarded as a military bastion against the Soviet Union. The architects and support ers of the old policy looked upon themselves as hard-boiled and tough-minded realists. But the structure they built disappeared in a night. Let us then beware of those who would like somehow to resur rect that old policy. IN THE light of what has happened in Egypt, in the light of what has happened to Nasser's affair with Russia, in the light of what has happen ed to Nasser's imperial dream of making Cairo the center of the whole Arab world, the time has come to discount heavily the catastrophic view of the Middle East. The Arabs are a community from Morocco to the Persian Gulf. But nobody is soon, if ever, going to unite them in a single great state, not Nas ser or any other Arab, not Mr. K. or any other Com munist. For as long a future as we can see ahead, there, there will be many Arab states, and there will be no one great settlement, good, bad, or indifferent, of the Arab's relations with the oth er or with the rest of the world. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. nominations. None was con firmed. Of 128 nominees for other civilian jobs, 57 were not confirmed. The Republican controlled Senate in 1948 failed to act on 830 postmaster nominations and 277 other appointments of President Truman. How ever, Truman won the 1948 presidential election and kept the jobs for Democrats any way. President Eisenhower upset Democratic hopes in the same way by winning in 1956 after the Democratic Senate had failed to act on 628 of his postmaster nomination. Strauss Nomination Different The Strauss nomination is something different inasmuch Washington Report By WILLIAM POLITICS OF VIOLENCE Washington - The politics of violence and of violent self righteousness is not only un pleasant; it is also not even good politics in the most "pract i c a 1" and expedient sense. He who takes up this sword will WilllamS. , -t , white by it, and most of all because he has no perspective, no sense of hu mor. And even if he does not actually destroy his career he will walk at length in a sour and heavy air. He. may be a correct man and even a man honesUy devoted to duty; but in the end he will walk alone. For politics is the science of people. And people, as has perhaps been remarked once or twice before in human his tor y, - are queer chaps. They may quickly forgive the sin ner, real or alleged. But they will not like the cold, correct saint - perhaps because there are no truly cold saints, and never have been. rpHESE observations refer back, for the purpose of looking forward, to what has recently been topic "A" in Washington. Topic "A" was the implacable campaign of Senator Wayne Morse of Ore gon to destroy President Eis e n h o w e r's appointment of Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce to be our Ambassador to Brazil. It will be recalled that Mrs. Luce, though confirmed by a 7 to 1 Senate majority over Mr. Morse's frantic opposi tion, at last resigned her post. She felt, she said, that Sena tor Morse had destroyed her, usefulness. Mr. Morse has a brilliantly wounding tongue. (So, too, it is true, has Mrs. Luce; but she is ' a private person and her rhetoric is her own business and hers alone.) For years Morse has used that tongue to cut down his enemies, and even his impersonal critics. An end will come to all things, however. Now Senator Morse's actions are condoned only by the excessively "lib eral" followers of an exces sively "liberal" Senator. Even in our brave, new world, few really endorse the policy of making politicial warfare on the women folk, even if motives may be the very highest. Fewer still now endorse the kind of invasion of privacy involved in Sena tor Morse's attempts to pry out from a private physician information concerning a pri vate patient, Mrs. Luce. INDEED, it would be easy to dwell long upon this arresting fact: professional liberals of Mr. Morse's sort - hotly and rightly and along with many others have de nounced in the past tech niques quite similar to the kind he felt it right to em ploy against Mrs. Luce. This, however, would be only to put an all-too-fitting shoe upon the other foot; it would serve no useful pur pose. No, this column is in tended mainly only to prove, or, at any rate, to argue the case with the evidence at hand, that nobody can afford the politics of violence and as cabinet members do not have fixed terms and serve at the pleasure of the President, There have been Senate bat tles over cabinet nominees, but only seven have been re jected when brought to a vote. Charles B. Warren, Presi dent Coolidge's nominee for attorney general in 1925, was the only cabinet nominee re jected since 1868. In 1945, a Senate commit tee recommended against Henry A. Wallace, who was President Roosevelt's nominee for secretary of commerce. He squeaked through, however, later a procedural gambit by his opponents failed on a tie vote. S. WHITE that nobody can long profit from it. This is one of the genuine. the bedrock, facts of 'political science." Far-right politicians learned it to their cost a few year sback. They had a great time of it for a while - those led by the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy in thrusting their views down nearly everybody's throat. They did this, a small, howling minori ty though they were, simply by endless shouting that there was something traitorous in not agreeing with them. The professional liberals have for a time been making some headway in their own urgent efforts to thrust simi larly fringe - minority views down present - day throats. Unlike the far-right wingers, the professional liberals do not employ the brutal weapon of attacking other people's loyalty. Their argument is not that those who differ with them are criminals, but only that they are Insensitive fools. , rvUR system will not long " function under this sort of politics, either from the right or the left. For it is based upon the great assumption that it is possible, and even necessary, to conduct political debate as civilized discourse. This assumption is that grown up men and women can differ without suspecting each other or evil or intolerable incom petence. There is, In household terms, this illustration: a man may quite fairly accuse his wife of a persistent and will ful policy of squeezing the toothpaste tube in the middle against all thrift and reason. He will not, however, if he has any perspective at all, go on to say that she is, there fore, sabotaging the economy of the United States and so helping to destroy the free world. The political system, when it becomes overtired, simply expels violence and wili have no more of it, as a stomach will at last accept no more unsuitable food. This is what happened to the men of the frantic right wing. It will hap pen now to the men of the frantic left wing. (Copyright, 1959, by' United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)-. J- I FREE PARKING 245 S. Central at 10th SB"' BW Mm
