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V MAIL TRIBUNE, Me.re Or. Tuesday, May 26, 19S9 ".Everyone in Southern Oieguss Reads The tiail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday toy MJJDFOiiD PRINTING CO. 83 North Fir St. Ph. SP a-S141 ROBERT W RXTHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GEPALQ LATHAM. Business MT ERIC W ALLEN JK, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAM, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDOrts Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor PALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newsoaoer" Intered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act ox March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES B Mai Win Advance. Cony 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 sua, tJOt Daily and Sunday 3 moa. 4.23 Sunday Only On year 4.10 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Co, stogua uv er. Talent and on motor routes Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and bunuay l mo. lJn Carrier and Dealers copy 10c Ail Terms Cash in Advance bffleial Paper -of City af MedfarC Official Paper of jacwon comity United Press International Fun Leased Wire MEMBER Or 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 8. OT NIWSPAMK FUtllSHIKS ''ASSOCIATION NATION At COITOtlAl Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson . County History from tha files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 198 (Thursday) Central Point city council man vote to negotiate with Medford for possible use of the Camp White sewer dis posal plant. All directors of California Oregon Power company are re-elected at a stockholders meeting. 20 YEARS AGO - May . 1939 (Friday) Mrs. J. C. S. Weillsis named president of the Jackson County Public Health associ ation. . '.- From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column:" Sci ence has captured a musical note, that 'is inaudible to the human ear.' Some hold there should be more of these." 30 YEARS AGO May 26, 1929 (Sunday) The Rev. E. P. Lawrence, pastor of the Presbyterian church, resigns. This year's fruit crop may be short 1,000 cars, according to J. Court Hall. 40 YEARS AGO May 28. 1919 (Monday) Planes of a flying circus make arrangements to land in Bill Gore's field. A traveling salesman talks to his New York city head quarters by telephone, mark ing Medford's first transcon tinental call. 50 YEARS AGO May 26. 1909 (Wednesday) L. H. McMahan, Salem at torney, starts his suit to block the Crater Lake road appro priation. The Crater Lake road com mission holds a preliminary session here, and adopts its by-laws. What's Yc:r I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five a six is good. 1. .Which of these are not mammals: pigeons, whales, armadillos, eels, bats, stur geon? 2. A hog, if given too much food, will overeat; true or false? 3. Does a sesquicentennial celebrate the anniversary of an event that occurred 50; 100, or 150 years ago? 4. Correct the following: "He sung for his supper." 5. What i the name for the process of curing leather? 6. An ungelded male horse is known as a s n? 7. Who was Alice Long- worth s father? 8. Mao Tse-tung is a . com munist leader in which coun try? '9. Was Shakespeare a writ er of plays, an . actor, or a play director? 10. Twenty-eight years ago, a German boxer was declared the world heavyweight boxing champion, after being fouled in a bout with Jack Sharkey; name him. Answers: 1. Pigeons, eels, sturgeon. 2. False. 3. 150. 4. "He sang . . ." 5. Tanning. 6. Stallion. 7. Theodore Roose velt. 8. China. 9. All three. 10-Max Schmeling. The Threat to Labor , Trip nTirasp.- anrl the nhilosonhv behind it. of "The public be damned" orginiated with what Teddv Roosevelt once called "malefactors of great wealth." It was m those early days of this century tnat being a union man was a dangerous and courag eous thing to be. The working man, and the un ion , which was struggling to improve his lot, along with the other members of the general pub- 1 AT. - a; J? AT- - Ti: ,1 uct were uie vicums ui uie puuiiu uc uauuieu philosophy. -v The heritage of those days are today's laws which regulate business and industry. TODAY the wheel has TrtrJoTr o niwminont more think of saying "the public be damned" (out loud, anyway) than he would think of cutting his firm's public relations budget, or deliberately vi olating the anti-trust laws. The industrialist of today may not be chasten ed. But he does know the danger of flaunting the public, and the public's opinion, for too long and too flagrantly. JIMMY-Hof fa should read his history. For today the philosophy of the "public be damned" is headquartered, less in the "malefac tors of great wealth," than in the "malefactors of great power." Hoffa and his ilk, if they persist, will bring upon the labor movement publicly-supported laws so strong and so restrictive that they will end forever labor's power to threaten the entire economy, and, perhaps, labor's present great power in the political arena. Some thoughtful labor leaders, and many thoughtful "rank and filers" of the labor move ment, know this. But, up to now, they have been powerless to do anything about it. CO HOFFA, and his racketeers, goons and bully boys, constitute the greatest danger to organ Led labor in many years. . And his threat of a nationwide general strike (later unconvincingly disclaimed) is. a threat against the welfare and the United States. The traditional tolerance of the American people can be pushed only so far, and the public damned only so long. And in this, we honestly believe we also speak decent, union memoers, wno nave more to lose than most of us in the strongarm tactics of Hoffa and other malefactors of great power. E.A. Ridiculous Ruling Say you own a radio or television station. Say a politician buys a quarter-hour in which to air his views while seeking reelecton. And say another poltician comes along and insists on his right to buy an equal amount of time. OK" Ok. V Say during a political announcers interviews Politician A, for free, and Politican B claims he should have equal free time to air HIS views. OK? Still ok. 9 DUT SAY that, in the course of your broadcast ing, you put on a news program which reports on the newsworthy doings of the governor, or the mayor, or a senator who happens also to be seeking reelection. And say that his opponent, who has done nothing newsworthy, demands equal time. OK? No sir. That is carrying the "equal time" ruling to an imbecilic and absurd extreme. A ND YET, by a decision interpreting the "equal time" provision of the Federal Communica tions Act, that is what the Federal Communica tions Commission has ruled. It arose out of a television news broadcast which showed the mayor of Chicago, in the course of his mayoral duties, welcoming the president of Argentina. One Lar Daly, who over the years has been a candidate for about every office in sight (includ ing the presidency), this year was a candidate for mayor of Chicago. He saw the news broad cast, and immediately demanded "equal time," on tiie basis of the federal law. The FCC, by a 4 to 3 decision, said he was entitled to it. (Parenthetically, it could be noted that the FCC once held, in a decision later overturned by a court, that a station could not censor a political speech it was broadcasting, but could be held liable if it contained any defamatory material.) If the equal time decision stands, it will make a shambles of news broadcastng, and may, in deed, serve as a real detriment to the people's right to know what's going on during a political campaign. 1 JN SOME jurisdictions it is not unusual to have a half-dozen or more candidates for the same office. If, each time one of them is mentioned on anews broadcast, all the others come around claiming equal time, news broadcasting is going to turn into a travesty. The easiest solution for the station, in such a case, is to watch its news broadcasts pretty closely, and perhaps even "censor" them to avoid such a scramble for free time. In such an event, the station and the public it serves will be the loser. President Eisenhower called the FCC decision "ridiculous." He was never moreright. E.A. come full circle. inrlnctriolief Trrrmlrl Tin security of the people of for the vast majority of campaign one of your Dennis the 5-26 4s4.itc.itu. ssnaetfe .tiT& Neuberger Defends Position From Blast By Senator Morse (Editor's note: The follow ing letter from Sen. Richard L. Neuberger is tone of a num ber sent to editors throughout the state. In it he defends sev eral of his positions from ear lier attacks made by his col league, Sen. Wayne L. Morse. His letter has been described in news stories,N but the fuU text, although dated May 13, was unavailable here until now.) To the Editor: There has been some discussion in Ore gon as to who is causing dis ruption among Democrats in Oregon's Congressional dele gation. I want to call to your attention a lengthy report from the Oregon Farmer Union paper for April, 1959, describing , a critical attack made upon me by Sen. Wayne Morse at a Farmers Union meeting in the town of Mar ion on April 11th. You will note that Senator Morse has assailed my posi tion on the following .issues: 1. Bi-partisan foreign policy generally. 2. Our foreign-aid program. 3. Reciprocal-trade policies. 4. A balanced budget. - 5. Determination of postage rates. . 6. Financing of the Inter- state Highway System. 7. Federal farm price sup ports. Perhaps a few of Senator Morse's charges should be made to conform to facts. For example, he is quoted as say ing that I was the only Sena tor to oppose his cherry-growers' amendment which would have weakened the reciprocal-trade program, whereas he knows full welT that his amendment never became law. " Senator Morse has attacked me on the general question of foreign aid. He has called me a "rubber stamp" for the ad ministration. I realize these programs are not popular with certain isolationist groups. They are easily sus ceptible to demagoguery. Despite Senator Morse's sweeping attack against my attitude on foreign aid, I find that I have voted with Sen. Hubert Humphrey on 53 out of 57 foreign-aid roU calls since I became a member of the Senate and with Sen. Jack Kennedy on 48 out of 56 foreign-aid roll calls. Would he include both these leading Democratic possibilities for the Presidency in the vigorous indictment he has voiced of my foreign-aid stand? I think it is pertinent to note that our foreign aid pro gram was initiated by two great Democrats President Harry S. Truman and General George Marshall. Reciprocal Try and By BENNETT CERF- MOST TAXI DRIVERS, even in New York City, are honest and polite, despite having to wrestle for hours on end with some of the most infuriating traffic snarls on the face of the earth. A few drivers, of course, reflect discredit on their chosen trade, but there are ways of putting these mavericks speedily in their place. Author Robert Ruark, for instance, says, T always tip just a little bit more than is generally expected. Then if the driver fails to say Thank you' I don't close the door on the right when I get out. He's got to climb out of the cab and come all around it to remedy the siuation. If the delay costs him a fare, it serves him right' a A man applied for a job in a dress establishment on Seventh Ave nue. "I'm known as a crackerjack salesman," he began hopefully. "Nothing doing," cried the boss. "You don't start in my firm as a salesman. You start as a partner like everybody else:"' -0 18S3. by Bcaactt Ccif. Distributed Bus JeatUMa Syndics- Menace 'Con't wosRy 'eon' mb, mam. trade was originated by Presi dent Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary, of State Cor dell Hull. I do not think it reasonable or right to turn against these policies because a Republican President has had the wisdom, at least in these instances, to continue them. I likewise regret Senator Morse's attack on my position regarding Federal highway fuel taxes and postal rates. The Interstate Highway Sys tem, which includes U.S. 99 and U.S. 30 in Oregon, will cost $37.5 billion. I think it is better to pay for these roads as we go, rather than heaping deficits on the shoulders of future . generations and risk ing further inflation for our selves. As for postal rates, my ex perience last year in the bitter political battle over rate schedules convinced me that this issue-should not be deter mined by political log-rolling. Therefore I have proposed that the Post Office depart ment be ernpowered-subject to Congressional yeto-to de termine a fair domestic rate structure based on sound cost accounting. The Post Office department still incurs a defi cit of about. $522 million a year. Higher rates are dis tasteful to me as well as oth ers. But it is foolish to con tend that revenue must re main fixed without taking into account both general and specific benefits accruing from use of the mails. As long this deficit operation exists, everybody's withholding and income taxes are being tapped for a share of the cost. Finally, I think my loyalty to the Democratic party is not contestable. I have been a Democrat since I became 21 and registered to vote at the Lane county courthouse when I was a student at the Uni versity of Oregon. My wife Maurine is likewise a lifelong Democrat. I can remember when we were among the handful of .about a dozen Democrats in the whole Ore gon State Legislature and Senator Morse was stumping the state against Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. But, essentially, I have sent you this letter and press clip ping to demonstrate just who might be causing the dissen sion in the Democratic party and in Oregon politics. Sena tor Morse's attack upon me took place on April 11. 1 have not commented upon it until this time, but I believe you and your friends are entitled to know the facts. Richard L. Neuberger United States Senator Stop Me TAI Free Election in Singapore Due To Change Political Face of Asia; Leftists Feared By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The political face of Asia undergoes another change this week end Many fear it will not be for the better. At any rate, on May 30 some 600, 000 voters elect the first g o vernment for a self-governing state of Singapore. It marks the end of a Crown under which Soil Newsom Colony status British guns for more than 100 years controlled the sea trade route between India and China. It leaves Hong Kong as the last great British Crown Colo ny clinging as an island out Dost to the mainland of Asia. The alarmists fear it also could open the way to domina tion of the Malayan Peninsula to the Communists. A Symbol of Might The great free port of Singa pore was founded in 1819 and was ceded to the British East India Company in 1924. , Until World War II, it stood as a symbol of British might in Asia. . But on Feb. 15, 1942, the great Singapore bastion fell to invading Japanese who had done the impossible. Singa pore's big guns pointed out si- 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 tc 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 tha views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often tha case. The Church Defended To the Editor: Attacks against the Catholic church are not new. The most recent attack, that of Mr. Roy L. Laurin speaking on "Religion and the Presidency" in the Medford High School audi torium, cannot be ignored. Mr. Laurin is a Baptist min ister, representing the p.nti Catholic. organization official ly known as "Protestants and Other Americans United for the Separation of Church and State". Laurin in his public speech questioned the patriotism of Catholics. Stripped of verbi age, the Laurin statements be come plainly ridiculous. His main argument ran something like this: Senator Kennedy is a Catholic. A Catholic's first allegiance is to a foreign pow er, the Pope of Rome. There fore, Sentor Kennedy's first allegiance is to a foreign pow er, the Pope of Rome. And a person whose first allegiance is to a foreign power is unfit for a public office. . His argument is logical aft er accepting the principle that a Catholic's frst allegi ance is to a foreign power. There are two perfect socie ties, the Church and the State. Each is supreme and inde pendent in its own sphere. The Catholic church has been created by God for the spirit ual welfare of all men, especi ally its members; and the State is placed over temporal matters that concern the common welfare of its citi zens. When there is a direct conflict between God's laws and that of a government, e.g. Communism, which de nies the basic God given rights of man, Catholics obey the su preme law of God as set forth in the Bible and Tradition. Laurin is an advocate of the separation of Church and State but he, a Baptist minis ter, used a public school build ing to deliver his attack against the Catholic church. He also proclaimed freedom of speech. He did not ask or give the audience an opportu nity to ask questions from the floor either during his talk or following it. He is opposed to unethical means of solicitation of funds. For speaking briefly he demanded from each lis tener the sum of $5 to $1,000 to help his campaign against Gier's Pharmacy PHOENIX, ORE. Will remain open for business with a competent pharmacist. Closed Wednesday In memory of HERMAN J. GIER to sea, guarding what up to then had been regarded as the only feasible invasion route. But the Japanese hacked then way through the Malayan jun gles and attacked from the rear. The profound changes in Asia since the Japanese defeat in 1945 also have had their effect on Singapore. On Aug.. 31, 1957, the Fed eration of Malaya came into being as an independent state inside the British Common wealth of nations. - , Singapore became a Crown Colony, split off from the Ma layan states with which it for merly had been linked in the straits settlements. Economically, the Malayan states and Singapore were practically an indivisible whole. But the Malayan fed eration rejected Singapore out of fear of its overwhelming majority of Chinese residents. Of Singapore's population of about 1,500,000 nearly 80 per cent are Chinese. UPI Man Killed , But desire for independence also had been mounting in Singapore, accompanied by mounting influence of the Chi nese Communists. In 1955, noted Chinese au thor and scholar Lin Yutang resigned as chancellor of Singapore's Chinese Nanyang University, declaring that Chi nese schools in Singapore op- the Catholic church. Mr. Lau rin's actions betray his words. The Catholic church does not seek the union of Church and State. Here is a statement of the Most Rev.' John T. Mc Nicholas, Archbishop of Cin cinnati on the subject of Church and State separation: "No group in America is seek ing union of Church and State, and least of all are Catholics." Any person interested in learning more about Catholic teaching may do so by attend ing special classes every Wednesday at St. Mary's High school at 8:10 n.m. Donald W. Sweeney ' 356 Sutter ave. Medford Musie in the Schools To the Editor: Thank , you for your editorial in regard to our public school music. It was only the other day that I had occasion to write to a former co-editor of the American Music Teacher pub lication in regard to the prog ress in the music of our pub lic school system. Had you been present at the program of Elementary Voices, Band and Orchestra given two weeks ago at Hedrick Junior High school, you would have heard "The Oregon Trail" and other tunes, in celebration of the Centennial, so well direct ed that you would have un doubtedly felt inspired to the editorial level. Music in the public school system had a hard row (pro nounced two ways) over a long period of years being ever-lastingly at the bottom (or sub-level) of the budget. More editorials along this line of thought would cerr tainly encourage tua teachers who have slowly but surely made cultural progress with but little recognition. Mrs. Rawles Moore, 2520 Lyman ave., Medford. Editor's note: An inspection of the program of the High School reveals that both "The Oregon Trail" and "Oregon State Song" were sung earlier in the program mentioned-edi-toriaUy the other day. Other musical programs in the schools have paid tribute to Oregon's Centennial year. erated in an atmosphere of intimidation and terror foster ed by Communist China. Chinese students touched off riots in which United Press International Correspon dent Gene Symonds was among those killed. Prominent in these activi ties was the pro-Communist Peoples Action Party, which also is prominent in Singapore politics today and which is expected to win a majority in next Saturday voting. Party leader Lee Kuan Hyew denies his party is Com munist and gives this descrip tion of party policies: "My party is not promising the workers heaven on earth. But it win give employers Matter of Fact h SATELLITE FACADE, SATELLITE REALITY Budapest-"Khrushchev said to me, 'I certainly won't send you any Russian advisors, be cause you Hun garians won't give a Russian any credit for your successes, but if you have a failure and there's a Rus-s-i a n advisor handy, y o u'l 1 all blame Ivan!' " The Joseph Alsop story can be considered au it was told to thentic, since me by Nikita Khrushchev's local partner, the present lead er of Hungarian Communism, Janos Kadar. In his joke to Kadar, moreover, Khrushchev went straight to the heart of the matter with his usual earthy shrewdness. To be sure, he did not ad mit (perhaps because he dared not admit) that the dilemma was inescaDable. But of course the mere absence of Russian advisors in the ordinary min istries of the Hungarian gov ernment is relatively mean ingless. It does not alter the harsh fact that the Hungarian situation is a' colonial situa tion. In any colonial situation, the subiect neonle automati cally discount all the systems successes, and bitterly "blame Ivan" for all failures and dis appointments. - a rpHE evidence that the Hun- A garian situation is colonial is plain for all to see. The sixty or seventy thousand so viet troops that garrison the country are rather ruthlessly confined to their barracks and training areas. Yet the uni versal awareness of their half hidden presence is the one of the two main props of the governments authority. No effort is made to hide the omnipresent security po lice, the grim A.VJJ. as every one still calls them. Their vast Interior Ministry is the most conspicuous new building on the Danube waterfront, and in that building, there is.no lack of Russians. Russian of ficers seconded from the M.V.D. actually hold top com mand positions in the A.V.O. Well-justified fear of the se cret police, much deeper in Hungary today than in the Soviet Union itself, is the other main prop of the gov ernment's authority. In H u ti e a r v. in short. Khrushchev and Kadar are now relying on the same in struments of power that Stalin and Rakosi relied on. But Khrushchev and Kadar differ from Stalin and Rakosi, be cause they dislike relying -on these instruments. They want to make the Communist gov ernment of Hungary a stable government by winning the support of the Hungarian masses. a a FOR this purpose, they have adopted the recipe so brave ly and hopefully tried, by so I 4 j Counsel With Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLIY ST. hell on earth." In the new self-governing state of Singapore there will be a legislative assembly of 51 members, a prime minister and cabinet of nine and a governor-general representing Queen " Elizabeth of Britain. The governor-general must be a Malayan. Internal dissention. and charges of graft have split the opposition to the Peoples Action Party, increasing heavi ly its changes of victory. Britain still will be respon sible for Singapore defense and external affairs. But, in anticipation of a leftist victory at the polls, both business establishments and capital are fleeing the once great fortress. many Western colonial admin istrators, with such invariable failure. They have set out to improve conditions in Hun gary. "The first rule of all our' planning," Kadar told me em phatically during our long talk, "is that the standard of life in this country must be raised each year." The oth er point he emphasized most strongly was the new "real ism" of Hungarian Commu nists. "The mistakes of the past," he repeated again and again, "were committed be cause we Communists did not ct on the facts as they were, but on the facts as we wanted them to be." As one illustration, he cited the suspension of the cam paign to collective Hungarian agriculture. In December, he said, he had urged the need to make a new start in agri culture, because of the un doubted economic inefficiency of small plot peasant farm ing. But in March, he had taken the lead in calling for a halt to "consolidate, because if we had gone further, there might have been a temporary drop in farm output." In other words, conditions are not merely to be improved in Hungary. Under Kadar, the improvements are to be made in a practical un-doctrinaire way that will cause the mini mum of dislocation. After hearing the boss of Hungary describe the heavy state in vestments that are planned for the new agriculture collec tives, this reporter is quite prepared to believe that the scheme may work. If so, Hun gary is due for a gradual but great increase in agricultural productivity. a BY THE same token, it is entirely believable that the whole Hungarian Communist program of improvement and advance will work in the end. This is a potentially rich little country. It is not afflicted with Poland's fearful popula tion problem. Since then the heavy handicaps of the Stalin Rakosi years have now been cast off. In short, the rulers of Hungary will be quite astonishingly memcienr, u their program fails. For all these reasons, the soft spoken, pleasant manner ed Kadar is entirely convinc- ine when he insists, as he did to me, that he is "going to make things better in Hun gary." But his further claim, that "the political problem in Hungary will then be solved" is entirely unconvincing. Ka dar, unfortunately, is too ob viouslv the facade and the A.V.O. are too obviously the reality. Unless the whole body of colonial history is utterly mis leading, "just making things better" in order to win a sub iect DeoDle's , support for a colonial regime is the political equivalent of trying to square the circle. Copyright 1959, New York Herald Tribune Inc. JUST IN CASE! You'll likely never riava a fire, But just in case you do. We'll Guarantee, You'll never be. Both broke and homeless too. Bill Fish
