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    MAIL TRIBUNE, Medforii, Or.
Thursday, Jims 11, 1939
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Medrd and Jackson County
History from the files of The
"Wail Tribune 10, 2Q, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 11. 1949 (Saturday)
Registration for the YMCA's
Iearn-to-swim program ends
today.
The Medford budget com
mittee approves laaa-ou out
lays with a general fund levy
$35 under the 6 per cent limit.
20 YEARS AGO .
June 11, 1939 (Sunday)
The Girl Scout day camp is
attenderyjy 239 youngsters in
a two-day period.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A trio"
of prospectors were in from
the hills Tues. with a liver
pill bottle full of yellow stuff
that glittered."
10 YEARS AGO
June II, 1929 (Tuesday)
A labor shortage prevails in
Medford and the Rogue valley.
he hay crop in Eagle Point
so far has escaped rain
damage.
40 YEARS AGO
June 11, 1919 (Wednesday)
Congressman , Hawley . pro
cures a German cannon for
Medford, to be placed in the
cfty park-- '' ' .
-Fed W. Scheffel, of Rupert,
Idaho, 1s in medford for a few
days.-v -u-'-i ,
50 YEARS AGO ' , '". I
June lfi 1909 (Friday) -
P. and-E. railroad construc
tion gives Eagle Point a, new
lease on life. ; ,
Medford police round up 22
hoboes and Cramps along the
railroad tracks. '
What's Yosr I.Q.?
Nina or ten carreer it superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good. ,
1. Of what is chronology
the science?
2. Before the Bolshevik
revolution of 1917, what was
Red Square in Moscow called?
3. In what country is the
famous village of Waterloo?
'4. Who carried off Helen of
Troy?
5. Who wrote the music for
"Naughty Marietta"?
5. What is the smallest
known hoofed animal?
7. There are living pygmies
in Africa; true or false?
8. .The name of which State
contains four as; begins and
ends with a; and has every
alternate letter the same?
9. To what place was the
stolen Stone of Scone return
fa a few years ago?
10. What two signers of
the Declaration of Indepen
dence later became Presidents
of the U.S.? 4
- Answers: 1. Measurement
of time. 2. Red Square. 3. Bel
gium. 4. Paris. 5. Victor Her
bert. 6. Mouse deer (East In
dies). 7.. True. 8. Alabama. 9.
Westminster Abbey. 10. John
Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
WISH GRANTED
London -UPD- Sponsors of a
visit of three Russian women
doctors arranged a high-brow
Itinerary included a Shake
spearean performance, a bal
let and a concert. The visitors
somewhat hesitantly suggest
ed there were two things
they'd rather see "My Fair
Lady" and a five and 10 cent
gtore. They will.
Gratifying Support
The -reaction, of the patrons of the Ashland
and Medford school districts to the annual budget
problem this year is . exceedingly gratifying to
anyone who has the welfare of our schools at
heart. 1
It is undeniable that the schools take the
biggest chunk of local property taxes, as well
as a substantial portion of state income tax
revenues.
But in Ashland and Medford, unlike situa
tions elsewhere in the state, the voters looked
at the budgets, considered the job the schools
are doing, and came up with an overwhelming
vote of approval. In each district it was about '4
to 1.
TPHE vote, of course, was not particularly heavy
in either district. But it seldom is in school
elections. -
Those voters who stayed away from the polls
must be considered to have given a tacit vote
of approval, although they lacked the active in
terest or energy to vote in person.
But the fact that fewer than 300 voters in the
two districts were sufficientlv unset to vote "nn"
means,, to us, that the districts are doing a highly
cuiiuueimame jou, uotn in eaucauon, ineir urst
responsibility, and in "public relations" that is,
letting people know what they're doing, how
they're doing it, and why.. -
QPERATING schools during a period of rising
costs, of a shortage of really top-flight and
conscientious teachers, -of high taxes at federal,
state and local levels, and amidst a debate on
how well American education is doing, is not
the easiest task in the world.
By every criterion available, the schools in
Jackson county are doing well, with only a few
minor exceptions.
The academic programs generally are at a
high standard, the physical needs of the schools
are being attended to.
as necessary, and the non
extra-curricular activities
people call the "frills" of modern education
are ably handled and well-accepted by a major
ity of the residents. " ' : ;
"' v
IT IS the "frills," incidentally, which would be
1 the first to go if the time ever comes when tax
payers decide that the schools are costing too
much.
, We do not, and most
consider them to be "frills" at all, but adjuncts
to a rounded program of education for an in
creasingly complex world. Such things as band
and orchestra, vocal music, debate and speech,
arts and crafts, sports of all kinds, and the like.
may not be as vital as the so-called "three Rs,"
but. they do have an important role, one which
the majority in Jackson county acknowledges.
In any-organization as large as a first class
school district, there are a few sour apples and
a few deficiencies. It is good to know that it is
recognized that these are the exception, and that
the people of this county approve, generally and
in overwhelming numbers, of the job which is
being done. E.A. ,
Faint Hope in Poland
; "Over this city (Warsaw) palely shines the light of a
new hope the hope of human evolution in the iron
Communist society that already grips almost half
the world."
In this sentence Columnist Joe Alsop, in a
dispatch appearing elsewhere on this page to
day, describes the thought fleeting, vagrant and
wistful as it may be that the world behind the
Iron Curtain eventually will humanize itself.
, He finds the example in Poland, where at
least the mind, and to" some extent action, are
free. And he cautiously examines the faint possi
bility that this potent ferment might spread to
other lands. Ke even reports on the belief that
this is what Khrushchev himself wants.
"THE hope is, we fear, a faint ont.
1 Yet nothing is impossible. A century and
a half ago western Europe was in "the clutch
of the Corsican," the hated Bonaparte, who was
feared throughout the world with the same
passion that the Kremlin is today. v
Bonaparte was the product of the French
Revolution, as surely as Stalin was the product
of the Russian Revolution. The excesses of the
early 1790s revulsed the world, and made France
the bogey then that Russia and China are now.
VET France came back into the community of
1 'civilized nations. It took Waterloo to start
this return, and in other ways the situations are
not comparable.
But it does tend to suggest that, given time
and an inch of freedom, freedom-loving men
can make inroads against the grimmest tyranny.
. Can the example of Poland, teetering on the
balance between freedom and hlnndv
be the spark to set off
evuiuuuu m me communist world?
It is entirely doubtful. But stranger things
have happened. Freedom.
once-tasted but threatened, is heady, infectious
SlUII. JL.A.
through construction
- academic subjects and
those things some
thinking people do not.
a chain of humanizing
Dennis the
&.-m&u.si&um,iKt&
'I wm xxi to ptmise yook
RIBS AND SAY fttNS ASAlNf
Matter of Fact aisoP
NEW HOPE'S PALE LIGHT
Warsaw-This is a city worth
seeing, just for its strange
contrasts. It has the ugliest
I V building in the
world-Stalin's
gift, the Pal-
of Culture. It
has one of the
most enchant-
ing urban
pro spects in
the world, in
the quarter
where the su
p e r b palaces
4osph
of the
Alsop
Polish
aristocrarcy
have been lovingly rebuilt by
the Polish Communists.
This city, in truth, has shab-
biness and glamor, squalor
and beauty, excitement and
ordinariness. Life here can
be bizaree, or passionately in
teresting, or dully workaday.
But among all these violently
opposed qualities, there is one
that sets Warsaw apart. Over
this city palely shines the light
of a new hope-the hope of
human evolution in the iron
Communist society that al
ready grips almost half the
world.
I
N THIS respect, the outlook
13
distinctly more encour-
aging today than it was a
year ago or two years ago.
When this reporter first came
to Poland in 1957, the fer
ment of Poland's new-won
freedom was so uncontrolled
that the freedom itself seem
ed unlikely to last. This effer
vescence could not go on, one
felt, without imperiling the
regime. Yet theTegime could
not be imperiled without risk
ing another Hungarian trage
dy, on a far more dreadful
scale.
Last year, in contrast.
Wladyslaw Gomulka and his
Communist colleagues had be
gun f.o take the situation in
hand again. And last year,
one wondered whether the
process of getting the situa
tion in hand would not in
itself end the new freedom
of Poland.
Now, however, a very curi
ous but seemingly stable
equilibrium seems to have
been achieved. -There are
limits which no one is allow
ed to transgress, whether' art
ists and intellectuals, or
priests or peasants, or mem
bers of the new class of small
entrepreneurs whose tiny but
remarkably smart shops along
the Marshalkowska are one
of the more curious sights of
Warsaw. Yet these limits that
no one can transgress leave
the life of the individual citi
zen and the larger life of
the mind substantially free.
As the worst enemies of the
regime wiU tell you, in all
of Communist Poland today,
no one is held in jail or camp
for a political offense.
MAYBE this curious equili
brium between the Com
munist party and government
on the one hand and the Pol
ish people on the other would
be considerably less stable in
less favorable economic con
ditions. It must be understood,
moreover, that the economic
conditions are only favorable
by comparison with the bleak
past. '
There is the beginning of
a meat shortage here, because
the planners failed to realize
that the goods-starved Poles
would first spend their money
on clothes to put on their
backs - and then would in-
CIFT EXCHANGE
Geneva-fflPIWVIrs. Mary Her-
ter, wife of Secretary of State
Christian Herter, and Mrs,
Lydia Gromyko, wife of So
viet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko, have exchanged
gifts, it was disclosed today,
Mrs. Herter started it off with
an unidentified gift, informed
sources said. Mrs. Gromyko
returned the gesture with a
bottle of vodka, a wooden box
full of Russian candy, and a
book about the Soviet Union,
SSI
Menace
V ;
- - $
nevk stick a gun in mower's
crease their spending on food
for their bellies. For the long
run, there is also a grave ag
ricultural problem; for small
plot peasant agriculture can
not indefinitely feed Poland's
fast-growing population. Yet
Poland's national product and
income are rising stttl faster
than the population. Real
wages have increased by 20
per cent since 1955. Life is
not good, in short, but life
is much better.
Such "are the elements of
the Polish compromise. As far
as Poland itself is concerned,
one gets the feeling that this
compromise can last for a very
long time or maybe one
should say as long as Wlady
slaw Gomulka lasts. The real
question, indeed, is not what
will happen in Poland, but
what wiU happen , because of
Poland in the Soviet Union
and throughout the Commu
nist bloc.
The Poles have their own
answer to this second, truly
fascinating question. They see
China, going through its ultra
Stalinst agony, as one mag
netic center in the Commu
nist, bloc. They see Poland,
with all its extraordinary and
exciting differences from the
Soviet Union, as another mag
netic center.
"pHINA is vast and Poland
is smaU," .. one Polish
Communist told me. "Yet we
believe that the Soviet people
and the Soviet leaders, above
all Khrushchev, want their
country to develop in the Pol
ish direction. So we believe
that the Polish model win
have great influence in the
end."
A great deal; of course, de
pends on the correctness of
the Polish judgement of Ni-
kita Khrushchev himself,
whom it is fashionable to de
scribe hereabouts as "the num
ber one revisionist." Perhaps
Khrushchev secretly feels
about what is happening in
Poland the way John Calvin
would have felt about dancing
in the streets of Geneva. Per
haps he is just waiting to
pounce. Quite certainly, "any
true Russian Stalinists must
regard Poland at peace as far
more dangerous than Hungary
in full revolt."
The last quotation, from
one of the wisest American
experts on the Soviet Union,
seems to me to sum up the
problem. There is no promise
in Poland of a defeat for the
Communist system. But there
is a possibility, a hope even,
of the kind of - change that
will make many millions upon
millions of human lives more
tolerable and decent. And
even if this change is highly
unlikely to end the world
struggle between the Commu
nist and free societies, no hu
mane person can fail to pray
for it.
Copyright 1959, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
W-HEN PAMELA BIANCO visited the late Walter de la Mare,
l she found the distinguished English author fondly gazing
at what looked like a brown velvet cushion in one of the parlor
armchairs. Suddenly it
moved, however, and Miss
Bianco was amazed to see
it was just about the big
gestand the- tamest rab
bit she had even seen. De
Lit Mare assured her that
the rabbit's name was Rup
ert When found in the
meadow he had been all but
frozen to death. De La Mare
wrapped ft"" in one of his
woolen undershirts and
placed, him in a warm oven.
After a short sleep Rupert
awoke miraculously cured
and from that moment
was undisputed lord of the De La Mare abode.
Herbert Rogers, a sentimentalist to tfca core, recalls
1 got up and gave her my seat,
For hovrcould I let her stand?
She reminded me of my mother .
With that strap held tight in her hand."
, 1859, by Bennett Cart. Diatributtd by Kins Ftatuwi Syndictta.
Somozas Appear Little Worried About
Revolution Threat to
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor 1
President Luis Somoza of
Nicaragua has boasted he is
"no Batista who can be forced
to board a
plane and
leave the
country."
He does, in
deed, hold im
portant cards
in his defiance
of the rebels
who invaded
from neigh-
piui Newsom boring Costa-
Rica and whose numbers have
been reported variously at
from a few score to a few
hundred.
His younger brother, Anas
tasio Somoza Jr., is commander-in-chief
of Nicaraguan
armed forces which number
around 4,000 and are better
armed than most Central
Americans armies.
He has only a tiny air force,
but the rebels have no air
force at all, and apparently no
heavy weapons.
CommerciaUy, Luis Somoza
holds the trump card over dis
satisfied businessmen who
might be tempted to throw in
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
At a GOP fund-raising din
ner in Washington the other
night, President Eisenhower
said to the diners:
"I'm not fighting to balance
the budget just to claim that
as an accomplishment. At this
moment, we are engaged in a
highly important battle for a
sound dollar. This is a fight
to promote an expanding
economy and DOMESTIC
prosperity."
. He added:
"This is a fight to make
sure that a dollar earned
TODAY wiU buy for the
housewife TOMORROW an
equal amount of groceries."
WAS speaking, of
course, about inflation,
which feeds on unbalanced
budgets. An "unbalanced"
budget results when a govern
ment spends more than it
takes in and borrows the dif
ference. In the process of bor
rowing the difference, the
money supply is increased.
When the money supply is
increased unduly, the result is
that the value of money is
depreciated. It takes more of
it to BUY THINGS.
Webster defines inflation
thus: . "Disproportionate and
relatively sharp and sudden
increase in the quantity of
money or credit, or both, rela
tive to the amount of ex
change business. INFLATION
ALWAYS PRODUCES A
RISE IN THE PRICE
LEVEL."
I
SUPPOSE most of us have
said to ourselves at one
time or another:
"Well, after all, what's so
wrong about that? Why not
just go on printing MORE
money? Paper is cheap. And
. . . it isn't necessary to use
TOO MUCH paper. Why not
just raise the denominations
of the bUls?"
FT SOUNDS simple.
But it isn't as simple as it
sounds.
Remember Webster's state
ment that INFLATION AL
WAYS PRODUCES A RISE
IN THE PRICE LEVEL.
When that goes on too long,
the wage -price spiral gets
started. When the wage-price
spiral goes on too long, this
happens: '..
Our prices get so high that
foreigners can underseU us.
They can (and do) undersell
us in the markets of the
world, thus reducing or de
stroying our export trade.
Not ony that. When our prices
get too high, foreigners can
underseU us in our OWN
domestic markets - unless we
erect a high tariff wall, in
which event we cut ourselves
Stop Me
"-V-v 1
with the rebels. Nicaragua ex
ports cotton and coffee but for
almost everything else is de
pendent on imports. The gov
ernment controls those aU
important import licenses,
without which the business
man must starve.
A Heady Business
Yet rebellion is a heady
business and in Latin Ameri
ca the smouldering hatreds of
the outs for the ins gained
strength, prestige and hope
from Fidel Castro's Cuban
victory over foraes which at
the outset numbered his rag
tag army better than 1,000
tol.
Both Somozas have gone out
of their way to belittle the
Housing for Elderly Persons
Changing; Improvement Noted
(Editor's note: Growth of
the number of old people in
the population is fostering
interest in provision of ade-,
quale housing for them.
New ideas now catching on
include retirement hotels
, and retirement villages. The
still largely untapped mar
ket for housing for the el
derly is believed to hold
good profit possibilities for
private builders.)
Washington - Going, going,
and probably soon to be gone
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer,
although under certain circumstances the use of 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 the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
The Other Fellow , '
May Be Right
To the Editor: Twisted
minds. Our beloved America
is becoming a land of twisted
minds, too often resorting to
mob violence. There is and
has been too much of:5 'The
other guy is aU wrong." Hen
ry J. Kaiser once declared,
"There are three sides to a
controversy. Your side, my
side and, somewhere in be
tween, the right side."
Frank Jenkins in the MT of
June 7 may be right in con
demning the southerner for
wanting to destroy editions of
the hew versions of the Three
Little Pigs wherein the two
little white pigs got ate up
but the smarter black pig sur
vived and ate the big bad
wolf. Such smaU things are
ready kindling-wood to the
twisted mind, if it is a twist
ed mind. Yes or no, there is
always a reason.
It would be interesting -to
a,sk Mr. Jenkins how long it
has been since he has heard
the singing of the fine old
Negro spirituals? Yes, even in
one's own castle security? My
father's favorite song was
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,"
and his request was that it
be sung when he was laid
away to his long final rest.
How long has it been since
Frank Jenkins and number
less more like him have en
joyed an old-time black-face
minstrely show with the dou
bly colorful end-man's repar
tee? And how long has it
been since Frank Jenkins read
Author Cohen's interesting
off from world trade and
have to live on our own fat.
THERE ARE warning signs
that that is already begin
ning to happen to us. For ex
ample: In 1957 (only two years
ago) the United States produc
ed 62.4 per cent of all the
automobiles built in the
world, and the rest of the
world produced only 37.6 per
cent.
In 1958 (only a year later)
the rest of the world produc
ed 50.4 per cent of all the
automobiles ""built and the
United States produced only
49.6 per cent.
The source of these figures
is the Automobile Manufac
turers Association.
THAT ISNT a pleasant pic
ture because it means that
A LOT OF JOBS HAVE
MOVED FROM THE UNITED
STATES TO THE REST OF
THE WORLD.
We NEED these jobs.
NOISE NOT TAXED
London (DPD The British
government has turned down
a proposal to tax automobile
noises. G. R. H. Nugent, joint
parliamentary secretary to the
Ministry of Transport, told
Parliament Wednesday "Taxa
tion of motor vehicles on a
noise basis is not a practicable
proposition."
We Give
GREEN STAMPS
CENTRAL REXALL DRUG
Main and Central
Their Nicaragua
strength of the present rebel
lion, although Luis lost no
time in calling upon the Or
ganization of American States
(OAS) for help in quelling it.
The OAS refused to inter
vene but has appointed an in
vestigative group. '
Since 1933, Nicaragua,
largest of the Central Ameri
can states, has been operated
almost as a private corpora
tion by the Somozas. ;
Killed By Assassin
An assassin's bullet . cut
down Gen. Anastasio Somoza
in September, 1956, but his
sons moved In and took over
with scarcely a hitch.
Luis' immediate reaction to
the present difficulties was:
for good are the days when
many old people quitting
work, had to move in' with
the family of son or daughter
or seek shelter- in a public or
private home for the aged.
New housing accommoda
tions specially designed for
the elderly are beginning to
spring up around the country.
And social security benefits,
plus retirement allowances
from former employers, are
enabling men and women
with modest savings to take
stories of the young Negro
always gettin' into serious dif
ficulties but by subtle miracle,
getting out again? Then that
fine old minstrel song, "Old
Black Joe", and others of its
kind disappeared with the
emergence of the dominating
NAACP backed by the chill
shadow of the organized Ne
gro vote that is today swing
ing elections.
Where's an answer? One is:
"The Best Advice I Ever
Had," up in No. 1 front posi
tion of June Reader's Digest
by Sen. Richard Neuberger.
He tells of the remar.kable
success of a Canadian Mounty
in the far northland and the
man's success in winning af
fection and respect for him
self and obedience of law by
the natives there, which we
might add is difficult enough
in that harsh and primitive
land where laws of nature de
mand priority, all too often.
Visiting with this Lincoln
like man, Senator Neuberger
got a surprising but a simple,
humble answer: The mounty
held the other fellow may be
right.
F. J. Clifford,
Route 2, Box 200F,
Central Point.
How Long?
To the Editor:
Evolution took a turn one
day '
A Rhesus primate had
pave the way
' For man then mice,
to
in
fiery display,
Did likewise. So, now earth
bound man can say
He can finally get to heaven,
but who, I pray,
Will let him in and how
long can he stay?
George Distell,
' 156 Vashti Way,
Medford.
Aaeu from
RANK MORGAN HAROU9
ttss
DAY OR NGHT
My father often; warned
me that you cannot feed too
much meat to a young baby
and now I know what - he
meant."
His reference was to the lib
eral reforms he claims to have
instituted in Nicaragua.
His opponents say the - so
called reforms are so small as
to be invisible and that the
dictatorship in Nicaragua to
day is as severe as it eve,r was
under the elder Somoza.
: Despite the Somozas' efforts -at
belittlement, there is ample
proof of real and widespread
unrest in Nicaragua.
The opposition runs from
conservative business men
through' opposition political
groups to the Communists.
advantage of these opportuni
ties for a more satisfying
mode of living than was avail
able to old people in the past.
Types Vary -
J. he new housing accommo
dations range from small,
easy - to - keep cottages and
apartments in so-called retire
ment villages to low-rate resi
dential hotels in downtown
sections of large cities. For
old persons who can no longer
live independently, or who
prefer to reside with others,
there are modern institutions
that bear more resemblance to
resort establishments than to
olrMashioned homes for the
aged.
The increasing proportion
of old people in the popula
tion has been a prime factor in
spurring interest in housing
for the elderly. There are now
15 million men and women in
the country aged 65 or over.
and the number is expected
to reach 25 million by 198.0.
The group is already big
enough to command political
attention. Congress amended
the National Housing Act
three years ago to encourage
provision of more rental ac
commodations for elderly per
sons and to ease sale terms on
houses suitable for persons of
advanced years. Now private
real estate developers are find
ing that there is money to be
made in meeting the housing
needs of the elderly.
Many Still Active
Persons in the upper age
groups have been migrating
to the South and Southwest in
increasing numbers, but. some
New England and Middle
Western states still boast the
largest proportions of old peo
pie. The comtion assumption
that most retired persons want
to spend their time "sitting in
the sun" is being rapidly dis
carded. People are stopping
work now . at an age when
most of them still want to lead
active lives. The fact seems to
be that they are more -contented
if they stay where
their principal interest lie
and where their friends live.
Elderly persons who can no
longer afford to keep up their
old homes, or who haye lost a
mate, may find their problem
solved by moving into one of
the retirement hotels that are
being opened in the large
cities. Most of them are reno
vated hotels, no longer con
venient for transient visitors
but often ideally located lor
permanent residents who like
to be near public transporta
tion and other in-city facili
ties. Rates for furnished rooms
and three meals a day range
from as little as $65 up to $200
or more a month, and the
charges sometimes can be cut
by taking a part-time job in
the hotel.
We are as
interested in your
problem as you are.
1
th Cow out
SNOBGR ASS. FUNHAl DKCTOftS