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o MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, June 16,' 1959 MEDFORDtSWTEIBUNX "lyeryon tc Southern Oregoa Beads Th toail Tribune" published Dnily except Saturday by MJJDFCMD PRINTING CO 83 North 1r St Ph SP 8-6141 " HOBiHT W EUHL. Editor EZRB GREY Advertising Manager GEPALD LATHAM, Business M(l ERIC W A I.I .EN JR. Managing fcditor - EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Teleg Editor RICHAHD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Ms? An Indeoendent Newspaper Entered as servmd class matter al . Med for'' Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bt Ma '- In Advance. Copy lOe. Dail" and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday tnoa. 8 .00 Dail and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday only (Me year 94.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and oa motor routes. Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Surniay 1 mo. un Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Papet of Jackson County United Press International Fun Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO. INC. Of fices in New York, Chicago, De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland St Louis, Al lan's Vancouver B.C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 16, 1949 (Thursday) Medford Water Superin tendent Robert A. Duff an nounces lawn and garden wa tering restrictions, involving a schedule of alternate days. Medford 20-30 club mem bers sport black derby hats to promote the catfish derby. 20 YEARS AGO June, 16. 1939 (Friday) Jack Bearss, Ashland resi dent, becomes a state police man. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "This is National Iced Coffee week. For all the local observance bestowed it might as well have been Suez Canal Week." 30 YEARS AGO June 16, 1929 (Sunday) City Attorney Carkin rules the city has no right to sell water to Jacksonville. Pear growers launch a cam paign to sell more Boscs in the East. 40 YEARS AGO Juno 16, 1919 (Monday) Everett Y. Carkin returns home from the war. Pacific highway from Port land to the California line is to be completed by the end of the year. ; 50 YEARS AGO June 16, 1909 (Wednesday) E. A. Marsh, general man ager of Citizens Telephone company, asks the city council for permission to sell out to Bell Telephone company, and is refused. The Crater lake road appro priation decision is expected next week. ' Vhai's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eKjht is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Was Ethan Allen an American clergyman, soldier, .statesman or playwright? 2. Of what material is the home plate on a ljaseball dia mond made? 3. What was the most fa mous statement of policy pre sented to Congress by Presi dent Monroe? 4. In what country have , Hukbalahap guerillas been ac tive? 5. Of what country was Cleopatra the ruler? 6. If you wished to visit BunkerHill, would you go to Philadelphia, Providence, or Boston? 7. Who regretted that he had but one life to lose for hid country? - 8. Which State in the U. S. j divided into parishes in d of counties or town ships? 4. In Alice' Adventures, Hkio incessantly stood on his iad? 10. Is asbestos a manufact Jed product, a vegetable pro tfuct, or a natural mineral? answers: 1. Soldier; 2. Rub &r; 3. Monroe Doctrine; 4. Sepublic of The Philippines; 5. gypl; 6. Boston; 7. Nathan ftale; 8. Louisiana; 9. Father William; 10. Natural Mineral. K3.FERING PEDDLERS , Chicago-(UP&-Police warned housewives today that a team gf burglars have been looting Sotth Side apartment houses while disguised as deliveriers of pizza pies. I . Communicating .We have reported in these columns previously our conviction that the problem of communica tions is one of the big ones of the 20th Century. The problem is not because of the lack of in formation; to the contrary. It is, it seems to us, a dual one: 1. The impossibility of assimilating all the ma terial available, and 2. The lack of a universally understood medi um of communications. ""THE first of these is obvious to anyone who is at all familiar with the tremendous array of books, magazines and special publications which deal with every facet of life, and with many spe cialized functions. The second resolves language. Even in English, one of the most varied and flexible of languages, what one man writes or says may have different meanings for different readers or listeners. When this is multiplied by the number of lan guages, and is again multiplied by the number of "sub-languages" such as the specialized argots of the s c i e n c e s and many of the professions, trades and callings one begins to realize the magnitude of the difficulty. . TTHE frst part of this dual problem is illustrated .by, say, a physician, who finds' it difficult to keep up on just the medical literature of the day, the reports of new discoveries and new methods, as reported in his professional magazines to say nothing of keeping abreast of world and na tional affairs, the stock market, and the scientific fields such as biology and chemistry which are related to his specialty. The same problem is faced by any intelligent man who makes an effort to keep "well inform ed," not only in general, but also in specific fields of interest. ,- It is a problem of finding time, of course, but it is more than that : it is also a problem of special ized vocabularies and usages, which verges into the second part of the problem. XJLTE SUGGEST no answer. It is up to each indi- " vidual to decide for himself the limits of his time and. comprehension, and to guide himself ac cordingly. And it is up to those in the "communications industry" to perform their part as ably, clearly and concisely as possible ; to report as fully as possible what they are equipped to report, and to make whatever comments they feel to be helpful or im portant or necessary in the process. The American people are probably better-informed on what is going on in the world than at any time in history, both actually and potentially. But the extent of that information is still far be low the ideal of universal understanding an ideal no one can ever reach. Everyone, as the saying goes, is ignorant, only about different things. And to a greater or lesser degree, will remain so at least as long as hu man beings are limited human beings. E.A. What About Pools? Medford city councilmen are studying a pro posed ordinance requiring fences or other pro tection for private swimming pools. Ihe ordinance as drafted covers excavated and portable pools, fish ponds and other artificial bodies where water is 18 inches or more in depth. It sets forth as public policy that without proper precautions these- bodies of water are severe hazards, especially for small children. . HTHERE is no doubt that pools can be hazardous. Certainly a case in point was the drowning in Eugene last Saturday of a 2-year-old girl who fell into an unprotected pool next door to her home and was found, face-down, in three feet of rainwater at the bottom. . The proposed Medford ordinance would re quire a fence or wall with self-closing, self -latching gate, an adequate pool cover or some other protective device approved by the council.' Adopting and enforcing this ordinance would of course serve the interests of safety though at considerable expense to the pool owner. But there are other considerations. IITHAT about parental responsibility, for ex- ample? We question whether small children like the girl in Eugene should be allowed to toddle about unwatched in the first place. Children old enough to wander on their own should be clearly instructed not to venture near swimming pools unless an older person is present. Another thought is that private pools or ponds after all are on private property, and neighbor hood children should stay away unless invited. Pool owners, on the other, hand, have definite responsibilities too. A number in Medford have provided fences or other protective devices on their own initiative. They should establish safety rules and make sure any child that comes to the pool abides by them.; Many of them, of course, do exactly this, ac cepting fully their responsibility. ,. . -. . ' A NOTHER consideratibn is that pools are hard "Iy more dangerous than the bie- irris-ation ditches that pass through ter, 5ear creek. If safeguards were required by ordinance for private pools, shouldn't these be fenced off or covered too? The proposed ordinance mav be necessarv. But first we would like to see an intensive cam paign to remind parents and poohowners in no uncertain terms of their responsibilities. E.W. itself into a problem of town, or for that mat Dennis the l MiTH0iMrou ro push ml YOU HEAR? E0NAI Matter of Fact GETTING 'ROUND THE CORNER Washington The scene was the Embassy of a neutral country with exceptional ex- p e r i ence of the Kremlin's ways, in one of the capi t a 1 s behind the Iron Cur tain where the mood in the Kremlin makes the daily political j.t ml 4nsph aisod weamer. ine topic of conversation was the Berlin crisis. The ' remarkably shrewd Ambassador had asked, with ostentatious casualness, what American . intentions really were. He was reminded of the President's declaration that he "would not give an inch." At this he laughed lightly, and remarked that he was not asking about the an nounced American policy, but about the real American policy. The President cer tainly meant what he said, was the reply. Whereupon the Ambassador genuinely blanched with alarm, and burst out: "But if your President real ly means what he says, in God's name why. does he not act as though he meant it? In the Kremlin, they judge by acts, not words. They may misunderstand. They may go too far. And then there wiU be a real danger of war that can destroy us all." THE foregoing is this report ers sinelp most vivirl mem ory of i a European journey not lacking in vivid experi ences. What was implied by the Ambassador's sharp reac tion to a seeming statement of the obvious was in turn confirmed by many other ob servations. From Poland's Foreign Minister Rapacki and Hungary's Communist boss, Janos Kadar, on down, the Hungarian and Polish leaders and officials I was permitted to see made it plain that they did not believe for one in stant that President Eisen hower was in earnest about "not giving an inch" at Ber lin. The smug, superior, in credulous smiles- of the two or three Soviet diplomats I was able to talk to, said the same thing in a rather more infuriating manner. Maybe all these , indicators point in the wrong direction. All the same, they seem to be confirmed by Nikita Khrush chev's disturbing recent speech in Riga. Speaking spe cifically of Secretary of State Christian R. Herter's refusal to give away the Western po sition at Berlin on Andrei Gromyko's word of command, Khrushchev said angrily: "Even if the policy of po sitions of strength is irrevo cably suffering defeat after defeat, the Western powers continue to stick to this pol icy. They wish to shun de cisions on urgent questions aimed at relaxing internation al tensions and strengthening Try and By BENNETT CERF- THREE MEN who had indulged rather freely at a convention banquet were driving home together through the pitch black night. Two were in the front seat, the other in the back. Suddenly the driver asked the man in the back to look out and see who the crazy driver was behind them. fHe's too close on my tail; he ignores my waving to let him pass. Besides, he only has one headlight on.' The man looked out the back, then almost jumped out of his seat. "No wonder he can't pass you," he cried. "He's i tracks!" Confided Asa Jennings: Our family is so cordial, everyone says hello. The dinner table crackles with a live and friendly glow. Parlor games are started, the latest news discussed, . The same as other homes in which the TV set is bust! Jij7 jgMgttCtrf. Jfetrawtea tey Jflqg rotvira Syndic., Menace epnai Getaway fim mb. By Joseph Alsop peace. But however these gentlemen may try, they are not able to blow a brave spirit into this'bankrupt policy, of positions of strength." rTHAT was simply another way of saying that Presi dent Eisenhower was faking about "not giving an inch" which of course means, if it it means anything, that the President will risk war rather than surrender Berlin's free dom. By the same token, it is fairly obvious that Khrush chev thinks the President is faking for two reasons. The first and major reason is the great, unfavorable change in the world balance of military power which has been flaccid ly accepted by the President and his administration. The second and more, immediate reason is the President's total failure, to date, to take any of the precautionary meas ures, either military or politi cal, which the Berlin crisis logically demands. All this does not mean that the Berlin crisis itself, or even the melancholy meeting at Geneva, will necessarily end in disaster. By seeming not to be serious about Berlin, by encouraging a mood . of un corsetted complacency in the United States, by taking no military precautions of any kind, by going on with business-as-usual and budget-as-usual, the American govern ment is certainly multiplying the risks very greatly. If you seem not to be in earnest in a situation like the Berlin crisis, you really invite your enemy to occupy positions which you cannot tolerate, and from which he cannot easily re treat. VET this reporter still has a feeling in his elbow, for the very little this may be worth, that the Western allies will somehow get 'round the immediate Berlin corner. At the moment, the feeling is not based on much more than the old rule, "God takes care of drunkards, children and the United States." Nonetheless, one can still hope and believe that the fact that the President really does mean what he says about Ber lin will dawn on the Soviets before it is too late. Maybe, indeed, they have been chang ing their minds over the week end at Geneva. If they begin to take the President seriously, one can also hope an accommodation will be found this time. That makes the question of the next time, and the tune after that, however. The bal ance of power is still shifting in the Kremlin's favor. It will continue to do so until some years have passed and the missile gap is closed. If we go on through all this pe riod not seeming to be seri ous, the old rule about drunk ards, and the United States will hardly hold good for ever. (c) 19S9 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Stop Me Potentially-Rich Brazil Struggling To Keep Out of Poor House; Varqas Blamed By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Brazil, potentially one of South America's richest na tions, once more is struggling desperately to keep out of the poor house. It was on Aug. 24, 1954, that President Ge tulio Var gas, for 25 years the "strong L zil, retired to Phu Mensom nis room and fired a bullet into his heart after first writing a bitter last will and testament. In it he said: ' " I can give nothing else but my blood ... I bequeath my death to the . hatred of my enemies. I regreat that I was unable to do all I wanted for the humble . . What Vargas had done for "the humble" was to bequeath In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS It sometimes seems to me that two threads of thinking are beginning to show up rather prominently in the warp and the woof of the news: 1. Profit is a sinful thing. 2. Conservation is some thing to be ashamed of. TWO questions: ; IS profit wrong? -'.. IS coservation shameful? -In an effort to find answers to these questions, let's turn to the Book of Matthew (Chap ter 25), which contains the parable of the talents and the parable of the wise and the foolish virgins. T ET'S deal first with the M parable of the talents, for it has to do with the subject of profits. Matthew relates that a man who was traveling into a far , country called his servants and delivered to them his goods. To one, he gave five talents, to another two talents and to another, one talent. In the ancient world, a talent was a weight and money unit. A Hebrew gold talent would be equivalent in these days to about $32,000; a Hebrew sil ver .talent would today repre sent about $2,200. So, you see, it wasn't as mail change trans action. He divided his money ac cording to his judgment of the ABILITIES of his servants. Having done so, he departed on his journey. rpHE first servant took his five talents and went into business and made five other talents. The second servant took his two talents and went into business and made two other talents. The third took his one talent and BURIED it. When the master returned, he called them together. To the two who had doubled their original capital he said: "Well done, ye good and faithful servants; ye have been faithful pver a few things; I will make ye ruler over many things." As to the one who had buried his money and taken no risks, the master directed that his one talent be taken away from him and given to the one who had doubled his five talents in profitable trade and commerce. . That was a firm endorse ment of the profit principle. llfHAT of the virgins? " There were ten of them. They all took their lamps and went forth to meet the bride groom. Before starting, the wise ones filled their lamps with oil. The foolish ones left their lamps empty, trusting to Counsel With . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. them today's financial ills Since World War II, Brazil has passed through a succes sion of economic crises, each one more grave than the last. In the first 10 years after the war, she received some $600 million in American loans. In the last 10 years, prices have risen 1,000 per cent. The Cruzeiro, Brazil's unit of currency, has slipped to a value of only about three quarters of a U.S. cent. Coffee Economy Slips Despite her other riches, Brazil's has been a coffee economy. And as coffee prices slipped so did Brazil's economy. The single act of the Vargas administration which is blam ed for touching off Brazil's vicious inflationary spiral oc curred on May 1, 1954. It was a decree doubling minimum wages. Prices, already high, shot skyward. At almost the same time, Congress Probes Securities Market To Protect Suckers Washington-njPB-There is an1 old law to the effect that a fool and his money are soon parted, and it wUl be a long time before that one is re pealed. How ever, Congress is being asked to amend it a little. Edward N. Gadsby, chair- Frank Eleazer man oi tne Securities & Exchange Com mission, didn't exactly use the word "fool" in his testimony for a Senate banking subcom mittee. He spoke of the "un sophisticated investor" and the fellow "lured by spurious get-rich-quick schemes. Gadsby said he and his help ers have discovered some loopholes in , the laws Con gress passed in 1933 and 1934 to protect investors from a repetition of some of the things that happened to them in 1929. , Things like maybe another big break in the market. Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr. (D N.Y.) . wondered hopefully, running over the list of pro- Oregon Trio To Attend Library Conference Salenv-TOPD- Three delegates will represent Oregon at the 78th annual conference of the American Library Association June '21-27 in Washington, D.C. They are Nathan Berk man of Portland, member of the Oregon State Library Board; Eloise Ebert, Oregon state librarian, and Loretta Fisher, reference and circula tion chief of the state library. the future to take care of the situation. vThe bridegroom tarried, and while they were waiting they all went to sleep. Finally, at midnight, the bridegroom came and they awoke and went out to meet him. The wise ones had oil in their lamps. The foolish ones didn't. They had said: "The heck with paying now: we'll leave pay ing the bill to the future." While the foolish and impro vident virgins were getting the oil merchants out of bed and buying oil for their lamps, the wise virgins went in with the bridegroom to the mar riage, and the door was shut. The foolish virgins missed the party. THAT is a pretty firm en dorsement of - the conser vative principle that it is wise to PAY AS YOU GO and be ready for whatever happens. A GREAT STATE has opened it's Centennial celebration and we urge you to attend. We also re mind you that a GREAT STATE of mind is to know that you're adequately INSURED. Bill Fish sW Brazil set a minimum price on coffee of 87 cents a pound. Vargas' attempt to extort from world coffee drinkers the price of industrial expansion at home boomeranged. The .coffee market broke and Vargas was dead, leaving behind his bitter legacy. ; . ' Vargas, a strongman for 20 years, had become Brazil's legally elected president in 1950. From the start he courted the working classes, regard less of the effect on the coun try's economy. He found a willing audience. For in the cities, many lived in misery within sight of riches, and in the rural areas other lacked even the necessities. Makes FieldNfor Reds 1 1 They also provided a fer tile field for Communism. ' There was another set of circumstances which con tributed to today's ills, cre ated by leaders who found it posed amendments to the ex isting securities laws. No Repeal Seen Unfortunately not, Gadsby said. Market prices, which re cently have hit record highs, come under the law of sup ply and demand, it appear, and that's' one law that can't be repealed. "I think it's fair to say that the ingenuity of a large number of talented persons has been employed since 1929 to design proper statutes re garding the sale of securities," Gadsby told Williams. "We have been unable to picture any statute to do what you imply - prevent a fall in the market price." What he does want Con gress to do, Gadsby said, is amend the securities laws to make it a little bit harder fcr us to be'suckers. "The need for. added in vestor protections and the strengthening of our enforce ment hand," he said, "is par ticularly imperative today in view of the current extreme ly active securities market." What he meant here, I de duced, is that with all the money being made in the mar ket these days, just about everybody is getting in, and that inevitably a certain num ber of crooks are standing ready to fleece anybody they can. Action Is Hampered Already there have been some complaints, and Gadsby said his helpers can't always take the steps that are, need ed. - : For example, one registered investment adviser said cross his heart he hadn't done any thing wrong. But when ' the SEC men asked for his books so they could see for them selves, he didn't have any. Eventually, his clients lost $600,000. Under one of the many amendments sought by SEC, people like that would have to keep books, and also let SEC see them. Neither Williams nor Sen. Prescott Bush (R-Conn.), the other senator present, asked Godsby for advice on the mar ket. I guess they knew he wouldn't supply it. However, there's one addi tional old law I wish they had John Duffy WEST MAIN AT SIXTH Conger-Morris FUNERAL DIRECTORS "YOUR TV WIATHERMAN" KBES-TV MONDAY THRU FRIDAY 6:15 P.M. ASHLAND MORTUARY Member National Selected j politically profitable to pro mote a questionable sort of nationalism. It was this that led to Petro bras, Brazil's state-owned oil monopoly in which no for eigners are permitted to hold shares. Brazil is estimated to have enormous oil reserves, yet while petroleum imports soar, her oil lies idle in the ground because Brazil has neither the low-how nor the money to get it out. ' Now President Juscelino Kubitschek once moe is look ing for money. It is probable that once more the U.S. will bail him out. - - Meanwhile, the basic ills remain uncured. The govern ment has shown no disposi tion to undertake any such drastic "austerity" campaign as has aroused the ire of la bor in Argentina and France. It probably could not remain in office. ' asked him about. This one says whatever goes up must come down. If that's been re pealed, I'd sure like to know it. Communications Ants and Honey To the Editor: We Califor nians have an antbird in our flicker. After a hal century study of this anteating wood pecker, writer feels he has hardly begun. To really find, however, a- variety of ant birds, one must go to the tropics with their umbrella ants, their soldier ants, and even "white" ants. Dr. Beebe describes "The . Ant's Mas sacre" in his "Jungle Peace". Birding, a half a century ago, in the state of Vera Cruz, this writer found his first ant birds, the anttangers. As one proceeds toward the equator more ants -and more kinds of antbirds. There are also an$ wrens, antthrushes, antpittas, antshrikes, antvireos. Then, too, the tropics have many "honey-birds". Just "as the tropics have an impressive list of antbirds, so it has nu merous "honey" birds, honey eaters, honeycreepers, and the remarkable honeyguides. Mex ico has four honeycreepers, the Blue, the Green, the Cinnamon-bellied and the Bana naquit. These birds are almost "cousins" to our California vireos. All are birds of tropic Mexico, as in its State of Chiapas. The honeycreepers have a highly specialized tongue, similiar to that of the . hummingbirds. These are re markably adjusted quickly to sucking honey or netting in sects. Thus a varied diet that would please the most exact ing dietician. Male honeycreepers often are as brilliant as many other jungle birds. Their mates are Quaker garbed, excellent camouflage for nesting. If the teenage Audubonier in Cali fornia conscientiously studies his birds, he later will be pre pared for observations in tropics. The airplane has brought them to within almost an overnight journey. C. M. Goethe Seventh and J sts. Sacramento 14, Calif. J 4t. and C Streets . Ashland Morticians by Invitation
