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MAIL TRIBUNE, MtdforJ, Or. Friday, July 10, ItSt MEDFORDtWTBIBUHB "Everyone ib Southern Oregon , RecU Tha Mail Tribune-' iubIUhed Dtil except Saturday by MJ JJFCHU) PRINTING CO. 83 North fll St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBtHT W RUHL, Editor EZRB GRE'V Advertolnf Manfr GEPALD i-ATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W 41XEN JR, Man King Kditor EAfoTH ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telef Editor KICHAKD JEWETT SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Vt omen's Editor DALE ERICKSON Clreuiatlon Mx An Independent Newspaper Entered a sewmd class matter at Medfar Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8-0C Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 429 Sunday Only Ona year 93,0 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point, Eagle Point. JacksonviUe. Gold Bill. Phoenix Shady Cova. Rogu Riv er Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUsy 1 mo. 1.90 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City Msdford . official Paper of Jackaoa County United Press International Full Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU " OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: wrT Hfll mV CO INC. Of. in Km Vnrk Oilcaffo. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, roniano ai. louii, Janta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPIR PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASfebcUTKg C7 kJ V 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 July 10. 1949 (Sunday) The summer boy scout pro gram at Camp McLoughlin on Lake of the Woods is laun ched today. "Judge" Jimmy Dunlevy holds kangaroo court down town to try those guilty of not wearing cowpoke togs. 20 YEARS AGO July 10, 1919 (Monday) - From "Side Glances:" Su perintendent Bob Duff getting worried about air in the-city's water and hoping the cus tomers would be patient until he could do something about it" From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Many editorials these days haye the theme: The meek shall in herit the earth.' The meek may some day, but not until the slick have put up a bat tle for it." 30 YEARS AGO July 10, 1929 (Wednesday) A police patrol is asked for the orchard districts because of the danger of transients setting fires. The farm bureau head pre dicts the largest turkey crop in the history of the valley. 40 YEARS AGO July 10. 1919 (Thursday) The Medford fire whistle is blown so residents would shut off their lawn hoses to in crease water pressure. A local boy runs off to join Pancho Villa's army in Mexi co, but . is apprehended en route. 50 YEARS AGO July 10. 1909 (Saturday) Future coal mining work in the Medford area is to be done by contract. The city's' gravity water system is to be connected with Fish Lake Ditch company's canal at Bradshaw drop with in the next day or two. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight it excellent; five ee six is good. 1. The maple leaf is the popular emblem of what coun try? 2. How many 'outs consti tute an inning of a baseball game? 3. Which of these States is smallest in area - Delaware, Rhode Island, Nevada, Con necticut? 4. Is it illegal to send threats through the mails? 5. Which of the Great Lakes lies wholly within the terri torial limits of the United States? 6. The pollen from which weed is the principal cause of the majority of hay fever cases? 7. Which Oregon city is called the City of Roses? 8. In which State of the TJ.. S. was petroleum first dis covered? 9. The beverages known as chocolate and cocoa are both made from the seeds of what plant? 10. The President of the TJ. S. has the power to declare war, with the advice and con sent of the Senate; true or fMlse? Answers: 1. Canada: 2. Six; 3. Rhode Island; 4. Yat; 5. Laka Michigan; 6. Ragweed; 7. Portland; 8. Pennsylvania; 9. Cacao; 10. False: (Only Con gress can declara war). 1 Congress Criticism of the 86th particularly among the "liberals" who are disap pointed in the record made so far, and particu larly in view of the broad program of social and economic betterment so freely promised before last .Novembers election. The National Committee for an Effective Con gress, a nominally non-partisan group which is identified with liberal causes, declares that "Congress has not kept pace with the historical requirements of the times. ' And it adds: "It has not, supplied the new national direction, the sense of movement, which optimists expected after the 1958 election. Confronted with the erosion of America's world position, Washington lies becalmed, as one commentator says, 'in the collision of planned drift and masterly inactivity.' Even the housekeeping assignments are not on schedule." t THE respected Courier-Journal of Louisville, comments: "Washington's urge to stall nearly everying on dead-center has been noted in these columns before, with credit apportioned both to Congress . and the Administration ..." Walter Lippmann, one of the most perceptive, if not always the most far-sighted, of commen tators, finds the Democratic majority trapped between its recession-born promises of last iall and the stone-wall choice of deficit spending or higher taxes. They are thus, he says, immobilized. Few Democrats (Sen. Richard L. Neuberger is among them) are willing to propose tax increases to pay for the developments they think are needed. v JOSEPH ALSOP, with different perspective and political orientation, comments similarly. He is more concerned with the'immediate politi cal implications of the impasse, whereas Lipp mann 'is more inclined to deal with the long-range aspects of a government which is balking at the cost of preparing the way for continued growth and development. Paul Butler, chairman of the Democratic National committee, and the Americans for Dem ocratic 'Action, likewise assail the Democratic leadership in both houses. For the ADA to slap at Democrats is unusual; for the Democratic chairman to do so is startling. ' Leftward-leaning Democrats in the Senate itself, notably Proxmire of Wisconsin and Morse of Oregon, also have criticized the leadership for taking its cue from the White House. 1X7HAT are some of the things the "liberals' " the "spenders" want? Well, adequate defense comesfirst with everyone. But beyond this requirement, which is the major money-eating federal program, those who believe the federal government has a role to play in the development of the country,' economically and socially, have in mind such things as these: A revived highway program (the present one is in danger of coming to a screaming halt for lack of funds) ; an accelerated job of getting the national" forests ready for the demands of the next 100 years; recreational development, includ ing the protection from despoilage many areas which the American people need in which to spend their increasing leisure hours. .. THESE are not things which, except to a limited onI TMfirtnTVifinl rvforf Iayis? 4"V amcinlvmci 4-r 'r-lt tion on a local or even state level. They need attention nationally, and the federal government is the only agency with the size and the resources to perform them. That isn't the end of the list, either. Thoughtful educators, eyeing the tremendous increase in population, actual and to come, and existing deficiencies in the nation's educational establishment,-see a need for a revolutionary in crease in educational spending and organization. Police authorities, judges and juvenile work ers, to say nothing of parents and teachers, see the need for a nationwide attack on the causes of crime, in general, and juvenile delinquency in particular.' AMERICA'S health list notably mental illness, cancer, and cardio vascular ailments. Too many Americans now die who could, with expanded research, still live. A far-seeing program of foreign economic aid, while not a very popular project in some domestic quarters, would furnish the best hope for the growth and peaceful development of many areas of the world where now near-starva tion and unrest reign. The world is now too placent about the "backward" nations. It is to our own self-interest to see that they are given a hand in their march forward. The alternatives are unpleasant communism, or chaos. . HHESE then are some ica needs or should many people think it needs and should have. It is, at any rate, an idealistic list of projects. Can the United States afford it, or any part of it? Some people would phrase the question differently: Can the United States afford NOT to do these things? - Whether or not it can, the prospects, at the present writing, appear dim for any such sweep ing program or even any major part of it. The Congress seems determined to avoid any new extensive deficit spending, and appears in 'no mood to consider a higher level of taxation. Somehow, if seems too nation on earth (that's that spends more for liquor and cigarettes than it does on education) can't Dav the bill for a happier, more secure future. E.A. ' Under Fire Congress is mounting:, standards are high, but small for us to be com of the things that Amer- have or at least what bad that the wealthiest what we call the nation I Dennis the I LEFT 'm OVER AT Toms 'EM CAUSE IM GOM RIGHT ffACJCf Washington Report By WILLIAM BUTLER AT ODDS Washington National Democratic Chairman Paul Butler is moving with un exampled self- assurance to control the I960 Demo cratic conven tion for pur poses that are quite clear but in behalf of men whose identies are not clear at all. His central motives are plain enough. He wants to dis credit the party's "moderate" elected Congressional' leader ship and inevitably the rec ord of the Democratic Con gress itself both 'within the party and in the eyes of the country. He intends to destroy that leadership's influence at the convention and thus to open the way to the nomination for President of some person deemed by him to be "liberal" enough in his definition. He is attempting not only to drive from the convention all the conservative Southerners, but also to make powerless even the party's moderates North ern as well as Southern. THE conservative Southern ers have long been fair game to nearly every Demo cratic faction - outside the South, and understandably so. For these conservatives for years have brandished the threat of party bolts to try to force their way, even as a mi nority. But Mr. Butler has now gone far beyond these favorite Southern whipping boys. In at tacking the Democratic Con gressional leadership and rec ord in terms as harsh as those used even by the Republicans, he is . serving this notice: no degree of dissent from his view of the proper liberalism will be tolerated in 1960 if he has his way. He is hitting, in a word, not merely at the top Congres sional leaders from Texas, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. He is also strik ing at many powerful non Southerners, among them the Democratic floor chief of the House, Rep. John W. McCor mack of Massachusetts, and such Senate hierarchs as Sen ator Mike Mansfield of Mon tana. And he is alsocutting, if more obliquely, at four of the five present real Democratic Presidential "possibilities": Senators John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, Stu art Symington of Missouri and Johnson. For if the Democra tic Congressional performance is as poor and timid as he says it is, no man who is a part of that record can escape some measuer of blame for it. A collateral effect of Mr. Butler's clamors is, of course, to put increasing pres sure on the three liberals, Senators Kennedy, Humphrey and Symington, to open fire on the moderate, Johnson. This kind of Senate in-fighting would hurt not merely John son but them all. Two large unanswered ques tions, however, remain: In whose convention interests, precisely, is Butler operating this curious campaign? And how does he feel qualified to take the whole conduct of the party into his own hands? As to the first question, the suspicion is wide among na tional Democratic politicians that Butter is running an ope ration in aid of a third nomi nation for Adlai E. Stevenson. This is assumed mainly be cause Butler is much influ enced by politician Paul Ziff ren of Calif ornia, who is sup posed to be a "Stevenson WUllamS. Waits Menace WACXM'fBOL! J DIDN'T fiRlNS S. WHITE, man." Even this explanation, however, is not too plausible. For Stevenson as titular party head was ready to discharge Butler as national chairman in 1956 until he wep to be kept on and until one of his pres ent chosen victims, Rayburn, interceded for him. ' (One consequence of But ler's present activity would be to deny to Mr. Rayburn in 1960 his traditional honor as permanent chairman of the convention.) rIE second question how does Butler think he alone is competent to dominate the convention? is a good one even if the Democratic Con gressional leadership is worse than he says it is. That leader ship, after all, has presided over three successive Demo cratic victories in Congres sional elections. Butler presid ed over a catastrophic Demo cratic Presidential defeat in 1956. And in 1958 he was re pudiated in his home state of Indiana in trying to block the successful Democratic Sena torial candidate, Vance Hartke. v No one can say absolutely that Mr. Butler is not alone right about party matters now. But no one can gainsay that never in memory has a salaried, unelected employee of a national party sought to grasp so much personal pow er in such enigmatic circum stances. ' There is room for one larger, and final question: Who, on balance, are benefit ing most of all from the But ler strategy? Answer: The Re publicans and weU they know it. (Copyright, 1959, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK , From Havana: Premier Fidel Castro's rev olutionary regime is armed with the DEATH PENALTY for a major onslaught against opposition to his land reform program. Castro has proclaimed the land reform program as the fundamental law of his revo lution and has defied every effort to slow it doWn or mod ify it. ITfHAT is his program? Basically, he proposes to expropriate the holdings of big landowners, paying them for it with Cuban bonds. whose value 'would be doubtful in view of the fact that his ex propriation program would upset Cuba's economy, thus limiting her ability to levy and collect the taxes to pay off the bonds. The expropriated lands would ' be distributed among the Cuban people in smaU tracts. QN V so ITS face, of curse it sounds alluring, It conjures up visions of a happy and con tented people, with each fam ily living in its own palm thatched cottage, under its own bougainvillea vine, with its own banana tree in its own back yard and its own pine apples growing in its own gar den. There was a time - in the day of the hoe and the hand shovel and the homespun gar ment woven on the home loom and tailored by , the hands of members of the fam ily when iC might have worked. But times have changed. Industry has chang ed. Especially Cuban industry, which is based on sugar and tropical fruits. These require huge expenditures of capital and the supervision of trained minds. If Cuba's great sugar indus try is wrecked, Cuba's econ Koslov Trip to U.S. Talks Peace, Trade By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The man-of-the-week: Soviet 1st Deputy Premier Frol Koslov. The place: Detroit. The quote: "If our two countries live in peace, then peace will be secure m the Svll ttrfcnla -trm-lst It was the farthest away from home the graying, broad - shoul dered Koslov U J i. I iA Wa I ever veil- &lVt Mured and what he really thought of the results of his two-week "goodwill" trip to the United States remained locked behind his quick smile and his easy.' recovery from embarrassing moments. But for the 50-year-old Kos lov, the man with the rather arbitrary designation as suc cessor to Premier Nikita Khrushchev, there had been moments of strain. One had come early in the trip when he repeated once too often the myth that Ameri can famine relief sent to the Soviet Union in the early 1930's had to be paid for in gold. Vice President Richard Nixon knocked that one down with proof that the charge was false and Koslov retired from the field. Meets Two Rebuffs To this lesson in history was added a rebuff by the citizens of California who showed an almost total lack of interest in his presence and the Mayor of Detroit who had suggested it might be bet ter if Koslov did not come to Detroit at all. It was at about this point that Koslov requested a "pri vate day," especially to be free of newsmen. , In Detroit, he met Gov. G. Mennen Williams and let his irritation come to the surface after the governor disclosed the contents of their remarks in a press conference. The governor's press con ference, Koslov said, "violat ed a rule." What gains, if any, either the United States or the So viet Union made as result of Koslov's "goodwill" visit re mained debatable. What was not debatable was Koslov's carbon - copy echo of Khrushchev's unyield ing stand on international is sues dividing the two nations. Newsmen lost count of the number of times the word "peace" appeared in Koslov sentences. To industrialists he held out the promise of billions of dollars to be gained in trade with Soviet Russia. Missile Might Boasted But whether he spoke of peace or dollars, it was against the background of Russia's boasted missile might. Koslov was born too late to be a member of the elite Bol sheviks who plotted against aild overthrew the czars. He JENKINS omy, wUl suffer seriously. There will be tourists and gambling to fall back on, but they are not very solid foun dations on which 'to base a nation's economy. T et'S take a look at our own area, whose economy is based on timber almost as ex tensively as Cuba's is based on sugar. If its full economic benefits are to be realized, timber re quires huge investments of capital in sawmills, pulp and paper plants, woodworking factories, and so on. Sugar production requires immense investments in sugar mills. Much of our timber is blocked into large holdings -the big timber and lumber companies, the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Manage ment, etc. Suppose our gov ernment expropriated the pri vate timber holdings, threw its own Forest Service and BLM and National Park serv ice holdings of timber into the pot and divided it all up among all the people in small tracts. WHAT would happen? " We all know what would happen. The economy of our timbered area would be wrecked. You cant EAT timber. It has to be manufac tured into useful articles. Our timber payrolls would vanish - and with them would vanish the prosperity of our area. That is about what will happen to Cuba if Castro's land redistribution plan goes through. NO REASONABLY well in formed person can fail to look upon Castro's land pro gram with a jaundiced eye. The probable result of it would be to wreck Cuba's economy and throw the island into the bands of the communists. was born in 1908 near Ryazan in central Russia and, as many of his contemporaries, was the son of a "poor peasant." But he joined the Commu nist Youth Organization at the age of 15. He had just passed the age of 35 when his industry and ambition came to the atten tion of the Central Party lead Ike Uses 'Lame Duck' Limit To Enhance Political Image Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhowers political image should be alight with an es pecially favor able glow this week. The old sol dier did quite a job of poli ticking at his Wednesday news confer ence. "What he did was to Lyle C. WUsoo contrive t suu- stantial asset out of a condi tion which generally is re garded as a liability for him and for the Republican party. That condition is the consti tutional prohibition against Communicafions 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 permissible. 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 Are We Ready? To the Editor: "Drop Shown in Juvenile Delinquency" our paper ' reports. That's good news. The stated fact that so many youths are repeaters is not. It shows a weak spot in our penal system and our so ciety. An offender is someone who needs help and he isn't being given that help. Likely, he only needs a little love and to know somebody cares. Few youths reach maturity without having a few misde meanors. Luckily, they aren't caught by the police. Loving parents or friends have shown that they cared. Not in the of fense but in the integrity of the offender. Thus they were helped to get on the right track before there was a po lice court. They were indeed lucky. - Now with all the churches, lodges, and various 6rganiza- tions who work to be helpful to mankind and spend money to help youth, why can't someone take in these erring ones and be a big brother to them? Give these first of fenders a reason to believe somebody cares. A unit formed for that purpose with in each fraternal group could probably eliminate our crime in 20 years. Isn't delinquency really started by a natural spirit of adventure that is not evil but lacks proper direction? It con tinues because of a feeling of being outside. Outside of cir cles of attention, love, and ap preciation. To prevent it we need only to offer that friend ship that would make them feel they belong. They need the warmth and security of love. ' Much money is being spent on young people, but we re not reaching the ones who need it most, as our police records prove. Here is a won derful chance to show some of the love of our Heavenly Fath er. We have everything to gain -security, happiness, savings from destruction, and large police systems. WeU, are we ready for action? Or we will wait until our own loved one is lost? , Frances Ray, Ralston, Wash. For Calendar Reform To the Editor: At the risk of appearing a poor sport, one who loses hard and never for gets, I write to take issue with an answer to a Dag Hammar skjold, Secretary General of the UN; a request directed to the state department in the spring of 1955. The issue is still pending in spite of the re ply received from the state de partment and therefore appro pos of discussion. The request from the secre tary general was for an opin ion upon the advisability of calendar reform, at that time upon the agenda of the Eco nomic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The state depart ment replied that this govern ment "did not favor calendar reform." Point one in retaliation is, that Congress had not express ed itself either in favor of or disapproving action for calen dar reform. Neither had the people been given an oppor tunity to express their atti tude. The state department Seen Indecisive; and Red Missiles ership in Moscow. There are indications that at this time the mentor was Georgi Malen kov, who inherited briefly Stalin's mantle as 1st Secre tary of the Communist Party and Premier. It is a tribute to Koslov's adroitness that he escaped the anti-party purge, of which Malenkov was a victim, and Eisenhower being re-nomi nated and reelected to suc ceed himself. He frequently is called a lame-duck President, meaning that his political fu ture is behind him. This is a political liability in the sense that aU hands are aware that the great powers of the presidential office must in a matter of months pass to another. These are the great powers of reward and punish ment. Gobbla-de-Gook Word At his news conference, Ei senhower capitalized on his inability to succeed himself. He was being asked about his vetoes of congressional legis lation. Specifically, a ques tioner wanted to know wheth er these vetoes which simply kill legislation might not cre ate in the public mind a nega tive image of the Eisenhower Presidency. "Image," as used this way, is a gobble-de-gook word meaning the added-up, collective opinion of the citi zens on the basis of the ob- was without information, or authority . of Congress, to make such a declaration. Point two is, contrary to the statement made by the state department, that the United States could not pos sibly act for a reform of the calendar for the reason that important religious faiths op posed it. I know of one or pos sibly two minor religious groups who oppose such action for calendar reform. I know of one of three branches of a non-Christian group who op pose this action. Taken to gether they represent, prob ably, about one-tenth of one per cent of the nation's popu lation. Under the Constitution the majority are allowed to pass laws which they deem beneficial for the public good, howbeit, protection is afford ed minority or dissenting groups who cannot accord full faith or credit to that ac tion. ' The state department paper was too broad, also at fault in "principle." It should be al tered and corrected. Fee Clifford Esteb, , P. O. Box 1413, Medford. THIS CAR SIMCA Elysee CAN SAVE YOU HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS IN GASOLINE ALONE! i It's the great new SIMCA from Paris! The car that saves you money on every count: SIMCA costs much less than it should, because every thing in the book is included as standard equip ment. Heater, defroster, automatic choke, elec tric windshield wipers, and even a 2-level horn. And SIMCA's engine is up front, for perfect balance, hence greater road stability, and eas ier control. Test drive the new SIMCA today. 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"It seems to me' that if any man has almost the compul sion to think only of the Unit ed States of America and its citizens, rather than any po litical image or political am bition, weU, then, I should be, or any President who is in his second term today, should be such an individual. What I am trying to do is to get legisla tion passed that wiU benefit the United States. . . " 'Good For The Country' Some questions later, Eisen hower had another go at the same idea: "I am having a reaUy very, busy, hard time because I think there are too many peo ple who are not looking at many of these problems in th broadest possible way. I stick by that, I am trying to do what will," I believe, ba good for the country." 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