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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 11, 1949 (Wednesday)
Miss Clair Hanley is named
president of the new Southern
Oregon Historical society.
Medford city officials are
hosts to a League of Oregon
Cities regional conference.
20 YEARS AGO
May 11, 1939 (Thursday)
One hundred M"e d f o r d
school teachers are re-elected
for the next school year.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Hay
ing and a carnival have fail
ed to produce the rain the
farmers so prayerfully desire.
There is nothing .left to do
but oil the rural roads, al
ways heretofore an ironclad
guarantee of a downpour."
80 YEARS AGO
May 11, 1929 (Saturday)
The Owen Oregon sawmill's
flowerbed is -robbed by van
dals. Four Jacksonville school
graduates receive rings and
other emblems.
40 YEARS AGO
May 11, 1919 (Sunday)
Special services are held
In the city's churches in ob
servance of .Mother's day.
Experts plan to seek oil in
the Willamette valley.
50 YEARS AGO
May 11. 1909 (Tuesday)
Miss Anna Spicer, Jackson
ville, enters the Tribune's free
trip to the fair contest.
Considerable activity in
sales of valley orchard tracts
is reported.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is ssjparior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. What flower has been
called "the queen of flowers."
2. Name the patron saint of
Scotland.
3 During the administra
tion of which President was
the Spanish - America war
fought.
4. ; Does the word osculate
mean to vibrate, swoon, sway
or kiss?
5. In which of Sir Walter
Scott's novels is Rowena the
heroine?
6. Name the capital of Ar
gentina. 7 Which great English poet
was blind?
8. The National Labor Rela
tions board is an agency of
the U.S. Department of La
bor; true or false?
9. In musical composition,
what does adagio mean?
10. Name the new Secre
tary of State. .
Answers: 1. Rose. 2. St. An
drew. 3. McKinley. 4. Kiss. 5.
-Ivanhoe." 6. Buenos Aires.
7. John Milton. "8. False. 9.
Very slow. 10. Christian Her-,
ter. '-. '
Oregon Wagons Head
For Kearney, Nebr.
Minden, Neb. -UPB- The On
to Oregon Cavalcade spent the
week end here before setting
out this morning for Kearney,
Neb Wagon train members
were guests for dinner Satur
day evening at the Minden
Sty hall and the Minden
chamber of commerce hosted
the Oregon group- Sunday.
Welfare Uses
Public Welfare administration in Oregon has
coasted along comfortably for years drawing
very few complaints. Occasional instances were
reDorted. as with some families in eastern Linn
county where abuses had been discovered, but
they were handled in normal iasnion. inen came
the jolt to the recent Legislative Assembly, an
asking for $1.9 million just after assurances had
been given that only about $500,000 would be
needed to f lnish the bienmum.
The explosion which
over the administrator
to abolish the State Public Welfare Commission.
The upshot was a resolution introduced by Rep.
Grace Peck to have an interim committee investi
gate welfare in Oregon.
FROM different angles
4 sources fresh cricitisms have been leveled at
the way public welfare is administered. Judge
Virgil Langtry of the court of domestic relations
in Multnomah county has written a four-page let
ter to Governor Hatfield citing instances where
undeserving were getting assistance or where
welfare grants seemed to
of family responsibilities,
On Tuesday Judge Victor Oliver of the circuit
court of Linn county made a statement from the
bench expressing his displeasure with the way
welfare money is being spent. He had in mind a
case where a wife who was seeking a divorce was
receiving welfare payments because her husband
refused to pay support money. He said there
ought to be an end "somewhere" to handing out
public money when the
provide support.
IN ADMINISTERING a
the handing out of sums ranging up towards
a hundred million dollars a biennium abuses are
bound to creep in. Administrators and casework
ers are often faced with difficult questions both
as to whether applicants really qualify for aid on
the basis of need, and if so, for how much.
And where others have some obligation to
provide assistance, the problem becomes more
complicated. Judgment factors enter in. It would
not do for one who wears her heart on her sleeve
to be a caseworker. She would be too sympathetic,
and' too generous.
- On the other hand a caseworker must guard
against becoming "case-hardened." She is deal
ing with human beings not with impersonal files
in a filing drawer.
COME factors enter in which go beyond the
scope of the welfare administration; Cases are
reported where-children are spawned and the
father drifts off relying on welfare to take care
of the woman (who may not be his wife) and the
offspring. Reports have been made too of how
males show up about the time the ADC check
comes to cohabit with the female until the money
is used up. perhaps leaving behind the seeds of
new life.
These are problems of public morals which
welfare confronts but can't cope with. The desti
tution is there; and children can't be allowed to
starve because their fathers are vagrants and
their mothers lewd. Here the attack must be on
the low moral levels. "
Besides cases of this class there are others
where fraud is discovered. Welfare grants are re
ceived over a term of years though the recipient
has other income or property.
A FTER you count out all the chiselers and graft
" ers there remain the great' majority who rely
on monthly relief checks for all or a major part
of thein subsistence. This is true of elderly per
sons, many of whom are under care in nursing
homes. It is true also of orphaned children; and
in periods of unemployment of families of job
less whose unemployment compensation has run
out.
We are committed to a system of private cap
italism under which individuals and families are
self-supportng, dependent on their own industry
and skills to earn for themselves a decent living.
The business mechanism, guarantees no jobs, is
apt to be ruthless if the worker cannot produce up
to certain norms. Society then must care for the
cast-offs of the free enterprise system and for
those whose deficiencies disqualify them for
steady employment. v
:
117E ARE doing this now with a large measure
of decency. Vigilance is necessary to screen
out the moochers and the crooks, but their num
bers are minimal compared with those who' merit
assistance under the law.
People should not let the disclosures of abuses
blind their eyes to the great amount of good
which is done by Public Welfare. There are no
beggars on the street to excite pity or repulsion;
but just because there are few visible signs of
distress is no proof that it does not exist.
Ignorance should not dull the conscience so
the needy will go unaided in a land of plenty.
Oregon Statesman, Salem
Psychiatric Test Due
New York - (UPD - A 44-year-old
postal . clerk leaped
from a studio audience onto
television screens across the
nation Sunday - night and
proudly announced: "I finally
made it for mother. What the
hell - you gotta make a
splash."
Cornelius McConnell was
taken to Bellevue hospital for
psychiatric examination after
hi unicheduJed-appearance
and Abuses
followed blew debris
and brought an attempt
and from responsible
discourage assumption
and even immorality.
breadwinner if able to
program which calls for
. ,
TV 'Performer'
on the TV panel show "What's
My Line."
The show continued after
his brief interruption. Master
of ceremonies John Daly said
it appeared to be just "one of
those things that happen in
the spring."
- McConnell had leaped from
the audience to the, stage
while the blind-folded panel
was questioning mystery
guest Milton Eerie.
Dennis the
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A BATH I
Labor Investigation
Echo in Many State
By RAYMOND LAHR
Washington flJPD The. Mc
Clellan committee investiga
tion of labor corruption is
echoing in the state - houses.
Some governors and legisla
tors think they see a good
national issue which can be
converted to state use.
The AFL-CIO is using its
left hand to fight against
passage of state labor reform
laws while using its right in
Washington to get a federal
law acceptable to the labor
chieftains.
The current issue of the
AFL-CIO News reported that
"attacks on unions have been
launched in more than a doz
Senate Abjures Use
Of Loud
Talk
Styles
By FRANK ELEAZER
Washington -(UPD- Now that
the Senate has pleaded guilty
to loud and disorderly con
duct, mild re
forms .may at
last be in
sight. The
law makers
could even fix
it so a visiting
taxpayer can
hear w Ji a t
they're lay
ing. i rm
Frank Eleazer ine.seud-
tors are not actually worried
so much about what can't be
heard in the public galleries.
But it has got where the Sen
ate generates so much ruckus
the members can't hear then
own speeches.
This has some disadvant
ages. Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-
W.Va.) said for instance he
likes to know what he's being
asked to vote on.
The trouble with senators,
it now is admitted, is that they
talk too much when they don't
have the floor and too low
when they do. The so-called
great voices of the Senate dur
ing debate are always speak
ing in whispers.
Maybe A Bouncer! ,
The senators also, surround
themselves while at work with
too many flunkies, of which
Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss.)
said 1,623 now are licensed to
repair to the Senate chamber
whenever in need of amuse
ment. Among other reforms in
this , crisis, Stennis has pro
posed putting a professional
parliamentary policeman and
bouncer in charge of the Sen
ate. Leaders also are threaten
ing, anew, to install a public
address system.
As things stand now, no
body can hear most of what
goes on. Being a freshman,
and not stupid, Byrd named no
names but said he didn't see
why the members couldn't
simply speak up. One who fre
quently doesn't is Democratic
Leader Lyndon B. Johnson
(D-Tex.), who is renowned
about equally for his back
stage maneuvering and for
legislating into his shirt front.
Sen. Alexander Wiley (R-
Wis.), one of the few who
doesn't need it, is among those
backing installation of an am
plifier. Wiley could be heard
m a windtunnel. So could
Stennis. Byrd is no mean ora
tor either.
Among members more noted
for a confidential approach to
oratory is Sen. John J. Wil
liams (R-Del.), a one-man in
vestigating committee whose
words the press gallery, with
an eye on the libel laws, is al
ways most anxious to record.
Morse Like Train
Sen. Harry'F. Byrd (D-Va.)
speaks now and again about
saving money and mostly
reads his stuff down into his
wallek Chairman J. W. Ful-
Menace
you were at own kuff
en state legislators this year
under the smoke-screen of "la
bor reform."
' In Indiana, the labor move
ment blocked passage of a re
form bill but paid a high
price. It lost its battle for re
peal of the state right to
work law.
New York Bill Passed
The New York Legislature
passed a labor bill over AFL
CIO opposition but these ob
jections were mild compared
to those raised against anoth
er such measure in Ohio. A
bill similar to the Ohio mea
sure was introduced in the
Michigan legislature under
Republican sponsorship. "
The Ohio bill carries the
M
Speal
cers;
Varied
bright (D-Ark.) of the Foreign
Relations Committee consid
ers loud talk a mark of poor
breeding. He's never guilty
himself.
When Sen. Hubert E. Hum
phrey (D-Minn.) talks, every
body 'can hear, in extreme
cases as long as eight hours.
Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.)
starts low and slow like a
train pulling out of the sta
tion. Out on the stretches,
though, he really rolls.
Sen. Lister Hill (D-Ala.)
talks up pretty good, but
some of his listeners fall vic
tim to a regional language
barrier, manifested by an "oh
wah" which he inserts be
tween all grammatical seg
ments. On roll calls, Sen. Sam
uel J. Ervin Jr. (D-N.C), when
he's not voting no, sends up a
loud "ah!", which the clerk
now knows to read as a yes.
But the Senate is a place
where they still keep snuff in
the box and where micro
phones are viewed as new, un
tried, and suspect. So if you
want to know what the sena
tors say, you'll probably have
to continue to rely on the
press. The press, meantime, is
considering .learning to lip-read.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
What of the Oregon legis
lature which after 155 days
last week shut up shop and
gone home?
Let's put it mildly. It could
have done better.
It could have done ' worse.
Caught in the jaws of the vise
between those who want to
spend more for services that
are paid for out of taxes and
those who want to be taxed
less, the members of the Ore
gon legislature made an hon
est effort to hold down spend
ing. If the effort had been less
sincere and determined, the
spending would have been
greater.
THE big need in Oregon is
to widen the tax base.
That is to say, to GET
MORE TO TAX. More indus
trial plants to pay property
taxes and corporation income
taxes. More new employees
to pay moderate taxes on their
individual incomes and mod
erate property taxes on their
homes.
If that is to be accomplish
ed, the tax climate of Oregon
must be kept competitive
with the tax climates of other
Western states. If Oregon's
tax climate is permitted to
become markedly more rigor
ous, Oregon will suffer be
cause of inability to get the
industrial expansion that is
Foreign N
Brazil, Ch
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
From the foreign editor's
assignment sheet:
Smoke Screen:
The next few days or weeks
should provide an interesting
fireworks display put on by
Soviet propa
ganda outlets,
especially if
things start
going, against
them at Gene
va. The first
move would
be . to charge
that the West
deliberately is
Phil Newsom x o r p e a omg
the foreign minister's confer
ence. Diversionary moves
could be stepped up Commu
nist activity in the Formosa
Strait against. Quemoy and
Matsu islands, new charges of
Western interference in the
Middle East, particularly Iraq,
or an outright incident in one
of the land or air corridors to
Berlin. Communists scare tac-
Results
Capitols
blessing of Gov. Michael V.
DiSalle, elected only last
fall with labor support. In
that same election, labor lead
ers won one of their greatest
political struggle by defeat
ing a right to work law.
DiSalle's sponsorship of la
bor reform legislation promp
ted the Machinists' Union
newspaper to pose this ques
tion in a headline: "Is DiSalle
Turning on Labor?" He re
torted that his objective were
the same as those of the AFL
CIO Ethical Practices Com
mittee, which was created to
combat corruption and un
democratic practise in unions..
The AFL-CIO recently dis
patched Arthur J. Goldberg,
counsel for the Ethical Prac
tices committee, to Columbus
to testify against the Ohio
bill. He had some criticism of
specific provisions along with
these general comments:
"If Ohio passes such a law,
I think it fair to assume that
other states will feel free to
do likewise. And this will
mean that virtually every na
tional union operating in the
United States will be subject
to a multitude of restrictions,
varying from state to state,
all of them applicable to the
officers of the national un
ion in addition to the federal
restrictions ,
'Crazy-Quilt Pattern . . .'
"Because we have'' support
ed appropriate federal legis
lation, we oppose and will
continue to oppose the enact
ment of legislation on a state
by state basis which will in
evitably create a crazy quilt
pattern which will severely
hamper the operations of hon
est trade unions.
Goldberg said the AFL-CIO
opposed the New York law
but that New York, unlike
Ohio, did have a "Little Wag
ner Act," and a "Little Nor-ris-LaGuardia
Act" to protect
the rights of unions.
In Congress, the Senate
has passed and sent to the
House a bill to police corrup
tion in unions. Although it
carried labor support as it
came from the Senate com
mittee, labor spokesmen have
not yet decided how they feel
about it as it was amended
on the Senate floor.
needed.
That's the long and the
short of it.
UNFORTUNATELY, 1 i 1 1 le
was done at the legisla
tive session to widen the base.
The added spending that was
authorized was simply load
ed onto the same old base.
But
We may have been saved
(temporarily, at least) by our
neighbors. Both California and
Washington appear to be UP
PING their spending more
steeply than Oregon.
IN CONCLUSION
I can't help thinking that
if the Oregon legislature had
wisely ' and carefully (and
maybe prayerfully) determin
ed FIRST what the state can
afford to take out of the pock
ets of the people in the form
of taxes and had "then trim
med the requests for tax
funds to FIT THE MONEY
AVAILABLE under the tax
structure determined upon, it
would have put the horse be
fore the cart.
As it is, the cart is still be
fore the horse. Which is to
say that the spenders still
come in and tell the legisla
ture then turns in and taxes
the people to raise the money
the spenders say they need.
As long as that system is
continued, taxes will continue
to RISE.
evs Assignment Sheet: Soviets,
ile, Algeria and Red
tics haven't worked too well
in the past, but they never
seem to give up trying.
Brazilian Oil:
Brazilian Nationalists and
Communists are after the
scalp of National Develop
ment Bank President Roberto
Campos who suggested that
Brazil's restrictive oil policy
be relaxed to permit foreign
investment. Brazilian indus
trialists also favor a change
as a means of hauling Brazil
back from the brink of nation
al bankruptcy, staved off so
far only by enormous loans.
But the Nationalists continue
to cry, "Brazilian oil for Bra
zilians," and a student demon
stration against Campos was
called off only after threats
that political police would
crack heads if necessary.
Improved Relations:
Chile hopes soon to con
elude successfully negotia
tions with the United States
for loans and credits totaling
$108 million to help President
Jorge Alessandri's campaign
to lead the country along the
path of free enterprise. Latin
American nations, tradition
ally resentful of the "Colossus
of the North" have had indi
cations recently that the Unit-
Communications
Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the writer although 'nder cer
tain circumstances tne use of a
pen name or initial for publica
tion is per-missible. 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
Why Not Appreciation?
To the Editor: It seems
long time since I have read
anything about teenagers,
either in the news or editorial
columns, except where an oc
casional one or two were
picked up for some depreda
tion or other.
Last Sunday (May 3) a news
item quite casually mentioned
their contribution to the
March of Dimes in Jackson
county and this mention con
sisted of only one line across
a column.
This one line stated that of
$14,902.97 total collection for
this worthy cause, over $4,000,
or nearly one-third, was col
lected by the teenagers in an
effort where several adult or
ganizations participated.
I have purposely waited a
whole week for some sort of
small item of appreciation, but
alas, all I have seen is an
article in the Oregon Journal
of today, and it was only a
condensed copy of the M.T,
article, and consisted of five
lines and two words with no
mention of teenage activities
Appreciation is one of the
greatest attributes of the hu
man being. Now a little reflec
tion would reveal that as far
as public recognition is con
cerned the teenagers have
shown more of this quality
than any, and to my surprise
even the officers of the March
of Dimes chapter.
Most men who own a dog
that has been taught to re
trieve or work stock will usu
ally pat the dog on the head
or speak a word of kindness
when the dog has performed
as expected.
I wonder if there are not
enough teenagers endowed
with that human attribute
called appreciation (they are
human you know) to respond
in the same manner as most
dogs, by being glad to cooper
ate when noticed -and appre
ciated. We have corrective meas
ures of many kinds and no
one seems satisfied with the
results, so why not try a lit
tle prevention in the form of
persuasion, appreciation and
public acclaim for good deeds
as a means to the end we
desire?
C. R. Burrill,
122 Vilas rd. W.,
Central Point
Godfrey Expects
To Go Home Soon
New York - Arthur God
frey has recovered so rapidly
from an operation for lung
cancer that he expects to be
able to go home to his Vir
ginia farm in about two
weeks, a CBS spokesman said
today.
Surgeons removed a por
tion of the TV-radio enter
tainer's left lung May 1 at
the Columbia Presbyterian
Medical Center. The hospital
announced this morning that
he continued to make satis
factory progress.
Cesium, a metak little
known outside scientific cir
cles, costs about $750 a pound.
Now Many Wear
FALSE TEETH
With Mere Comfort
FASTEETH, a pleasant alkaline
more firmly. To eat and talk In more
TEETH on your plates. No gummy,
' .
gouey, paBiy waw ui ibcuuk. vuvtimv
"plate odor" (denture breath). Get
FASTEETH t njr' drug counter.
ed States is reappraising its
relations with its Latin Amer
ican neighbors. They hope
that at least some of the U.S.
aid now flowing to Europe
and Asia will be diverted
southward.
Suspicious:
President Charles de
Gaulle's recent announcement
that a solution to the Alge
rian revolt may be in sight
has done little to appease ex
treme French right-wingers in
Algeria who oppose any set
tlement short of total "inte
gration" with France. May 13
is the first anniversary of the
uprising that brought De
Gaulle to power, and the next
week will be one of watchful
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
THE SENATE'S ROLE
Washington - For this sum
mer's more or less inevitable
summit conference President
has available
to assist him
a powerful
second - line
force from the
Senate, The
Senatorial re
servists, how
ever, are not
aching to be
called up; and
certainly they will go into no
action without his specific and
clear invitation and com
mand. ' An infantry outfit is
reckoned by old soldiers to be
really grown up - ready to
fight effectively and free of
all romantic nonsense - once
the men have learned the' first
law of army profesionalism.
This is that a good soldier
keeps his mouth shut, his eyes
open, and never, never volun
teers. The Senate wilLnot
volunteer.
The idea of bipartisanship
m foreign affairs has now
reached a similarly adult and
profesional level. This is a
very good thing, indeed. In
the past years those devoted
to doing things in the biparti
san way have sometimes lean
ed too far forward. Admini
strations sometimes have too
enthusiastically called on the
Senate to come into the game
too soon. Past Senates, like
rookie soldiers looking for
pre-mature glory, have in
sisted sometimes upon getting
into the game before they
were really needed or really
useful.
THE consequences have been
to downgrade the proper
authority of the executive
branch of government and to
cause unnecessary confusion
in the outer world as to who
was running what on our
side.
The leadership of the pre
sent Sentate, and particularly
its controlling Democrats, is
in this gerenal state of mind:
Like everybody else, it
hopes that the current Gen
eva Big Four conference of
foreign ministers will bring
some progress in easing East
West tension. Like everybody
else, it doubts very much that
this will occur. So, it assumes
that the crisis will really
come about August in a sum
mit confrontation between
President Eisenhower, Ni
kita Khruchchev, and the
leaders of our British and
French allies. .
There is, therefore, not the
slightest feeling in the most
William S.
White
Reasonable Funerals
(Priced for Everyone)
FRIENDLY,
China
waiting to see if the rightists
seize upon the anniversary
for anti-De Gaulle demonstra
tions. The right wing French
settlers fear De Gaulle may
agree to a settlement which
would leave them with a mi
nority voice in Algerian af
fairs. Stalin:
The Chinese Communists,
who never de-Stalinized Sta
lin as thoroughly as the Rus
sians did, had a big picture
of the late Soviet dictator at
their May Day rally in Pei
ping. Stalin was up there with
Marx, Engels, Lenin and Mao
Tse-tung. Peiping broadcasts .
made no mention of a picture
of Nikita Khrushchev.
S. WHITE
responsible Senate quarters
that any Senate representa
tion at the foreign ministers'
meeting will be either neces
sary or desirable.
TT IS FELT to be possible,
however - and only pos
sible that the summit con
ference itself may produce a
reason and a need for Senate
representation. It is assumed,
for example, that the Presi
dent might think it wise to
ask the Senate to send observer-advisers
to the big
show under these conditions:
1. If, toward the climax of
the summit, he was actually
approaching a proposed agree
ment with the Russians. 2.
If, as would be all but certain,
such an agreement would, re
quire Senate action say the
ratification of a new treaty.
3. If this arrangement were
such as to make it prudent to
seek the counsel and support
of the Senate before the Pres
ident put his name on. the
line.
Few here believe the Presi
dent will ask Senate partici
pation under circumstances
short of these - the Demo
cratic leaders specificaly be
lieve he will not. They them
selves do not, however, at all
discuss another kind of cir
cumstance in which, this cor
respondent suggests, tha Presi
dent might well summon them
to the scene.
IT IS entirely conceivable,
though raising the sugges
tion at this early point is not
relished, that the real func
tion of a Senate delegation
might be to take the Presi
dent off the hook. This is a
crude term to recognize a
plain possibility: the summit
meeting might develop over
powering "peace" pressures,,
from our own people and our
allies, for making with the
Russians the kind of deal
which a chill and unpleasant,
realism would be unwilling
to make.
At this point, the President
might find a Senatorial dele
gation infinitely useful. He
could say to all concerned, in
sober truth, that while he him
self would risk going along
the Senate simply would not.
The Senate in a word, though
few realize it, can be far more
resistant to emotional clamor
than can the Presidency.
' This might become the true
and ultimate utility of the
second-line forces from the
Senate, though, of course, no
body in his right mind wants
to see this sort of thing be
come necessary.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Features Syndicate, Inc.)
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