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MAIL TRIIUNI, MWfottf, Or. Jhundrf, Oct. 29, 19S9 MEDFORDtSWTRIBOXX "Iveryone is SouthefB Orefe) Beads The Mali Tribune J Published Ml exeertSatorday hp MUJFlWTi PJUNTOJQ CO 33 North fU 8t Ph if 8-4141 ROBUTf W llKLTlditor HERB GRI AdvertaHti Manager GErALD LATHAM BwUMM Miff ERIC W 4XLCN JB. Managing Mitor KARL ET ADAMS. Q9 Cdltef " HARRY CHIP MAN Telrfl Cdlter R1CRAKD JKWETT porta Cdlter OUVE STAR(Hr women s Edit PALE BRICKS 'N OrculatiaB atf Ail Independent newspaper" Entered a semnd class matter at Medfor Orecon under Ke of March 9 IS97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ir Mil tn Advance Ccv9 10O Dail- and Sunday 1 year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday 4 net SAfc Bailv am Sunday 3 mos 4JS Sunday Only One rear S4..M By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Paint. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill e Phoenix Shady Cove Rdfue Riv er Talnt and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday 1 no 1JM Carrier and Dealers-copy 10 au Terms casr- in Advance Official Paper of tits MedferS Official Pape oi jaeaeow c xy United Pres Internationa Fan Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUHXXtT" OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices in New York. Chleam. De troit. San rvaneiseo. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland St Louis. At- lant Vanomrve Be 0 NEWSPAPIft PUtUSHItt "'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL IDITOtlAt Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha files of The Mail Tribuna 10, 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. - 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 29. 1949 (SaiurdaY) Plans announced for new .$500,000 apartment house at Corner of Tenth st. and Oak dale ave. Central Point high gridders stop Kerby High 20 to 0 to take possession of first place in the J-D-J conference. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 29 1939 (Sunday) Besidents write letters to the editor for and afainst the proposed Medford $30,000 park bond issue. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Inter est in the alleged war in Eur oupe, around here, has faded to the vanishing point. ; Pa triot. who started out stick ing pins ' in maps, are now picking losers in football pools." 90 YEARS AGO Oct. 29, 1929 (Tuesday) Ashland asks that old Gold Hill bridge be used over Bear Creek. , Legion maps its Armistice; Day plans. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 29, 1919 (Wednesday) Police headquarters moved to the old Jacksonville rail roar1 depot on Main st. Greater Medford club launches drive fo? people to plant more shade trees. SO YEARS AGO Oct. 29. 1909 (Friday) Apple harvest gets under way with 11 carloads being shipped. Four autos- are placed on the county tax assessor's list. Whsl's Ycr I.Q.? Nine ten cermet is pcrior: even er eight is excellent; five a tin is seed. 1. Are midshipmen study ing at the U.S. Naval Acade my permitted to marry? 2. "Was Tex Rickard prom inent as a cattle rancher, movie star or sports promoter? 3. If you desired to go to Northern Rhodesia would you travel to Asia, A f ri c a, or South America? 4. How many furlongs in' a mile? 5. What are the ends of the earth's axis called? ; 6. In what country did the Manchu dynasty once reign? 7.: Which flower is said to be arrayed even better -than Solomon in all his glory? 8.; In a pullet egg larger, smaller, or the same average :. size as a hen's egg? ' 9. What is a posthumous award? 10. One US. President had 14 children; -was it John Quincy Adams,. John Tyler, 'or James Buchanan? Answers: 1. New 2. . Sports promoter. 3. Africa. 4. Eight. 5. Poles. 6. China. 7. The Lily. 8. Smaller. 9. One made after death 10. Tyler (twice mu- tied), .;, .-,r ,.cr;:- AID TO EDUCATION ' ' New York-roro-Corporations in the U.S. shelled out $137 million in 1958 for rapport of f higher education as compared with $iio miuion in tne pr vious year. Overall corporate donations to philanthropies hit a record $550 million, up from $418 million in 1956. UNICEF and Its Critics To the Editor: Enclosed is a clipping from the Arizona Republic. Knowing local children are in on the drive for funds, it is rather a problem to decide which is the true side. ' Possibly you might have an idea for an editorial? - Very truly, Ruth L. (Mrs. L. A.) Diamond 520 DeBarr are. ; -v - ' Medford. '. This sincere And interested letter arrived on the desk the other day, ping wmcn cnucizea ujnim ior pruvmiiig xuuu and medical aid to children in communist lands, and alleging it is "run by communist agents for communist purposes." This is, first of all, a bunch of unadulterated poppycock. Secondly, it is a vicious slur at one of the few organizations in the world operated solely to ease the hunger and pain of children .throughout the world. -, y THE SLURS have been manv times, but they Largely they originate from the super-patriots who can see nothing good in anything which is not 105 per cent American; who distrust auto matically any attempt at international organiza tion and cooperation, and who violently reject the reflection that all Americans (excepting only the Indians) once were ' UNICEF stands for. United Nations Interna tional Children's Emergency Fund, , now short ened to U.N. Children's Fund, but retaining the old initials. It is an orjran of the large part supported by the United States, and in large part through donations such as the Hal- ,i . t t -m r tn j loween collections wnicn Mrs. mamona men tions. ' "' -;; . It has the explicit support of the United States government, ana of prominent, informed and dis tinguished Americans in all walks of life from Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. ; f Those who attack it do not to their patriotism, their honesty nor their intelligence. And certainly not to their charity toward suffering children. I TNICEF was created in 1946 by the General Assembly of the United Nations to help all children' in need regardless of political creed or race. Here are the statistics on part of what it has done in one recent year: 15,400,000 children culosis ; '32,000,000 children protected against malaria 3,500,000 children (and their parents) pro tected against yaws 1.000.000 children treated for trachoma 5,300,000 children or tions. U.S. surplus milk which is shipped through UNICEF is clearly labeled "Gift of the U.S." Each country receiving aid matches the UNICEF allocation on an - average of more than $2 for every $1 received. (The U.S.S.R., inciden tally, has never received cial contribution for each of the past four years has been $500,000. The ;U.S. contribution is far in excess of that) I TNICEF is administered by a board represent- in t 5fl rtorirvnc inlitrlirrr f h a TT S Its budget varies between $15 and $20 million per year. : The only communist nations which have re ceived aid from UNICEF are Yugoslavia and Po land both of ;which have contributed more in matching funds than they Once before, when tack, the state department, in a letter, said : - "The United States took a leading role in establishing UNICEF and has been by far the largest contributor since its inception. We feel that United States prestige has been greatly enhanced by our role of leadership in UNICEF, which is generally regarded as being among the most con structive and universally respected e-f the. United Nations agencies." CO MUCH for the lies and distortions. . Locally, a number ticipate in the Halloween "the trick is to treat" collection of funds to be used as a donation to UNICEF. In addition, the U.S. annually produces some Christmas greeting cards, with themes drawn from many nations, with to UNICEF s work m more than 80 nations. v (The latter, by the way, may be ordered from that committee at P.O. Station, New York 8, N.Y0 IF unu JUULb disposed to drop a coin in a UNICEF Halloween box this week, he will finance: .. ; For one cent, one dose of tuberculosis yac cine. ' .; . :For three cents, a glass of milk for an under nourished child every day for two weeks, i For five cents, enoueh penicillin to cure child of the maiming and ?' For ten cents, malaria protection for a child tor almost a year. For 25 cents, sulf one with leprosy for a year. For 40 cents, a curative treatment for a child with, trachoma, an eye ness. . : Are those who attack proud of it? EA. accompanied by a clip- exploded and disproven persist. foreigners. United Nations. It is in themselves no credit- vaccinated against tuber ; - '. ; mothers given milk ra UNICEF aid. Its finan have received. UNICEF was under at of children plan to par Committee for UNICEF exceedingly attractive the proceeds also going Box 22, Church Street crippling disease, yaws. n ? !;:;,; 'y : enough to treat a child : - - disease leading to blind : ' " ' and lie about UNICEF , Dennis the III SHAKE HAKOS iF XXJ Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE TV PROBLEM Television has been caught perpetrating a fraud which is so gigantic that it calls into question the fourfdations of the industry. The fraud was not the work of a few cheats who had wormed their way into the com pany of honest men. The fraud was too big, too ex tensive, too well organ ized to b e cured or aton e d for by thro wing a few conspicuous individuals to the wolves, and by putting on a pious show of scrupulos ity about the details of the productions. '.There has been, in fact, an enormous conspiracy to de ceive the public in order to sell profitable advertising to the sponsors. It involves not merely this individual or that, but the industry as a whole. This is the judgment of the leading professional critics of television on both the ''New York Herald Trib une" and the "New . York Times." Mr. John Crosby has said that the "moral squalor of the quiz mess reaches clear through the whole industry." Mr. Jack Gould has said that the fraud could not have been carried out without "the con stant involvement of repre sentatives of networks, adver tising agencies, and sponsors." THE size of the fraud is a bitter reflection on the moral condition of our so ciety. But it is also sure proof that there is something radi cally wrong with the funda mental national policy under which television operates. The principle of that policy is that for all practical purposes television shall be operated wholly for private profit. There is no competition in television except among com petitors trying to sell the at tention of their audiences for profit. As a result, while tele vision is supposed to be "free," it has in fact become the creature, the servant, and indeed the prostitute, of mer chandizing. Television is expensive and the available channels are few. These channels are pos sessed by a few companies who are in fierce competition among themselves. But what are they competing about? About how to capture the largest mass audience which can be made to look at and listen to the most profitable advertising. IN THIS competition, as in Gresham's famous law of money, the bad money drives out the good. In order to cap ture the largest mass audi ence the companies have re sorted to fraud as in the case of the quiz shows. But, rep rehensible as it is to play the gullible public for suckers, that is not the worst of their offending. The worst things they do are first to poison the innocent by the exhibition of violence, degeneracy, ' a n d crime, and second, to debase the public taste. ' -' -" According to "Newsweek," the television networks de cided about a year, ago that in the coming season, during the prime evening hours which draw the biggest audi ences, they would devote-to violence a total of 24 hours a week. , "Heroes and villains crum ple under the impact of black jacks, whisky bottles, wrenches and even gold-headed canes. A goggle-eyed pub lic sits by while its f eUow humans are pistol - whipped stabbed, garrotted, mugged, and mussed up.". c Walter uppmanB Menace WVL Uppmann TffHAT to do about it? The great offense of the tele vision industry is that it is misusing a superb scientific achievement, that it is monop olizing the air at the expense of effective news reporting, good art, and civilized enter tainment. The crux of the evil is that in seeking great mass audiences, the industry has decided from its experi ence that the taste of great masses is a low one, and that to succeed in the competition it must pander to this low taste. Quite evidently, this is an evil which cannot be reme died by a regulating commis sion or by some form of gov ernment or self-constituted censorship. The alternative, which is practiced in one form or another in almost every other civilized country, is competition - competition not for private profit but for pub lic service. The best line for us to take is, I am convinced, to devise a way by which one network can be run as a pub lie service with its criterion not what will be most popu lar, but what is good. No doubt, this network would not attract the largest mass audience, i But if it en listed the great 'talents which are available in the industry, but are now throttled and frustrated, it might .well at tract an audience which made up in influence what it lacked in numbers. The force of a good example is a great force, and should not be underrated. WE SHOULD not, I believe, shrink from the idea that such a network would have to be subsidized and endowed. Why not? Js there any doubt that television is a mighty in strument of education-education for good or education for evil? Why should it not be subsidized and endowed as are the universities and the public schools and the explor ation of space and modern medical research, and indeed the churches - and so many other institutions which are essential to a good society, yet cannot be operated for profit? They are unwise friends of our system of private capital ism who do not recognize the fact that the higher lift of our society depends on respect for and support of non-commercial institutions. It is true that the best way for this country to produce wealth is by private enterprise for pri vate profit. But there are a lot of other things that need to be done besides producing wealth and selling goods. rjNE of them is to inform, "instruct, and entertain the people through the media of mass communications. And among these media there must be some which aim not at popularity and profit but at excellence and the good life. That it is possible to oper ate non-commercial institu tions is attested by the fact that we do operate success fully schools, universities, hospitals, laboratories of re search. Harvard and Yale and Princeton and Columbia and Dartmouth and so on are not operated for profit. Their trus tees do not play politics. They are concerned with excellence and not with making money. .-. Why should not people of this sort be able to find ways to operate a television net work? (c) 1959 New York Herald) Tribune Inc. DECIDE FAIR SITE Washington -UPD- A presi dential commission studying possible U. S. sites for a 1964 world's fair is expected to give its recommendations to President Eisenhower within a week. Los Angeles, New York City and Washington are vying for the fair. Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop BETWEEN KHRUSHCHEV AND MAO Hongkong - What is the real nature of the Soviet-Chinese Communist partnership? T"J T Is it easy or I -'"t: uneasy? Is it x ' 4, intimate or I '"Mremote? If $ s there are fric- f. l uons, where is the rub? These ques tions sum up one of the most impor tant problems Jns'Dh Alsop in the modern world. It is a problem wrapped in mystery. Yet enough evidence has now piled up to permit a tentative solution. Unhappily, before tackling the problem, it is first neces sary to hack away the enor mous hedge of misleading cliches that has grown up around it. In this tangle of growth uprooted in fact, the worst specimen is the theory that the Soviet leaders deeply fear an eventual invasion of the "empty, lands" of Siberia by countless millions of land hungry Chinese. "Look," say the proponents of this theory, "at the vast ef fort the Soviets are making to populate and develop their empty lands." But seeing fear of China in this Soviet effort is like saying that we Ameri cans developed and populated our own empty lands from fear of the Mexicans. The So viets have the same motive for expanding into their wild East that we had for expand ing into our wild West. , MEANWHILE, there is also positive evidence that the Soviets are not afraid of Chi nese land hunger. The evi dence is located in Outer Mongolia, an area once close ly linked to imperial China, and populated by people of a related race. If the Soviets were worried by Chinese infiltration into "empty lands," Outer Mongo lia would worry them most of all. In the whole Soviet col lection of satellites and pup pet,, Outer Mongolia is also the super-satellite, the prize puppet. Yet the Outer Mon golian government has actu ally been sponsoring Chmese immigration since 1955. This sponsored Chinese im migration into the most sensi tive of the "empty lands" is part of the Outer Mongolian government's published eco nomic plan a plan in which any item would be altered at a mere nod from" the Krem lin. It only goes to show the durability of cliches. For this Kremlin approved' importa tion of 20,000 and more Chi nese has lately been used to prove - the Kremlin's alleged need to tremble for its "emp ty" lands. ." ' . ' THERE is other evidence on the same line, such as the Kremlin-financed construction of the rail link from Ulan-Ba tor, which gives China easy access to Outer Mongolia. Moreover the true axis of ex pected Chinese expansion in the future has already been clearly indicated. From Mindanao in the Phil ippines, through Southern In dochina, Cambodia, Laos, Si am, Malaya, Sumatra, and on westwards into Burma, there is a great belt of land, rich in resources, suitable for rice growing, and almost as empty by China's special standards as our own wild West in the old days. This belt of land has been the obvious objec tive of the Soviet-supported Chinese imperialist drive throughout the last .decade. Cliche clearance is rough work, and only one has been chopped down so far. One more major cliche, already touched upon in a previous report, must also be cleared for good. This is the theory that the peaceably Khrush chev is always having trouble "restraining" the warlike Mao Tse-Tung. Some seeming sup port for this theory has re cently been provided by the Chmese attack on Indian bor der police in Ladakh. This in cident runs counter to the Kremlin's evident desire for an end to the border troubles between China and India. But at the point in Ladakh -where the trouble arose, the Chi nese have boldly built 40 miles of costly and difficult road, straight through Indian territory, from Gartock to Yarkand. They have already indicated their willingness to go along with the Kremlin on the general question of the Indian-Tibetan border. But they plainly mean to keep their strategic Gartok-Yark- and road link in any de facto or arbitrated settle ment. Hence the recent incident. THIS incident does not alter the record, that the Chi nese have never attempted any adventure involving mili tary, risk without full Soviet approval. This incident does not alter the key fact, either, that China cannot possibly sustain a serious war strain without active Soviet support. In short, the Chinese may wish . t go adventuring in Poles Living Outside Government, Party Seek Curbs By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The Polish Community party has decided that Poles have been living too high on the hog. . The state ment may be taken literal ally because while Polish house wives have been queuing u p for pork at the meat Phil Newsom snops, tne state farms and individual peasants have been cutting back on hog production. The problem is two-fold: Polish agriculture has not kept pace with the population growth, which is one of the fastest in Europe. Meanwhile, the Polish worker's real wages have jumped more than Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the write! although under cer tain circumstances the use of a Sen name ni initial for publics on is pe-mitsible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification ana condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must nut exceed 400 words Mining Hurt To the Editor: Two West ern mining states, Idaho and California, bordering on Ore gon, each have had ghost mines the - past - five years. Here is an item taken from the Western Mining News of Sonora, Calif., September is sue 1959. Heading, "Food for Thought." "Did you know that since World- War II nearly $500 million of our tax money has been earmarked for develop ment of mining in foreign countries? More than $350 million has been spent. Now it is coming back in the form of imports which have put many United States miners out of work, and which have knocked dividends down or out." Not a very bright picture, is it? What hurts these indus trial states also has its ma terial effects on the state of Oregon as well. Once upon a time each mining state pro duced for use in the West. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman St, Medford Paave Gone To the Editor: Gotta peeve, some morel We get all set for TV entertainment; snacks on ice, chairs placed, lights out, then -,Ugh - rerunns, than which nothing is. whicher! Same old pictures, but there are real people that we enjoy seeing every, week. They are better than - mere pictures, anyhow, (Peeve gone.) . I'll just go to the Fifty Plus club next Friday noon at Fifth and Oakdale and join in the music, community singing and games. Visitors seem to like us. Shake, friends, and tell us who you are. Pesrl Spackman Jacksonville, Ore. Citation Business To the Editor: I noticed 96 traffic citations in one day in Medford. Some of the line up that scooted out of this 96 set up of come and get a free test then get cited right after test at so much per head, like puk ting out molasses for flies. Would like to hear more about this in papers. I suggest a grand jury hearing for each cited. Demand this hearing and you will pile up so msny citations in courts in a montn, the citation business will go out of business. G. S. Reilly 338 North Laurel st. Ashland, Ore. Novelist Gives Clue to Success London - (UPD - British re porters questioning . John O'Hara at an impromptu con ference here were mostly in terested in how he, a former newspaperman, had managed to become a wealthy novelist "I'll tell you a story." the American writer said finally, "There was a man playing in the gutter outside a night club. A jazz musician came to the door of the club for some air. The street musician asked him, 'How do I get to Carnegie Hall?' , "And the hep guy replied, 'Practice, man; practice'." ways the Kremlin will not back, just as they may per haps wish to re-establish the Emperor Chien Lung's for mer influence in Mongolia, But Khrushchev does not need to fear adventures he disap proves, any more than he fears for his "empty lands." Thus the two main reasons why the Kremlin may fear China are seen not to be rea sons. Yet the fear really ap pears to be there. A proposed answer to the riddle will be offered in another report.' (c) 1959 New York Herald .-Tribune lac 20 per cent, giving him some jingling money for his pocket and the wherewithal for a fancier diet. Living Beyond Means The Communist leadership's answer for this was to in crease the price of meat 25 per cent, at the same time sending party workers out through the rank and file to explain this unpalatable bit of austerity. Poland has been living be yond its means since 1956, but the party andor the govern ment knows it is treading on treacherous ground in at tempts to get the individual Pole to retrench. Polish workers expressed themselves forcefully in the "bread and freedom" riots at Poznan in 1956 and won sub stantial concessions from the government which admitted it had been guilty of poor plan ning. More Discipline The Communist Party Cen tral Committee again, has found evidence of bad man agement in industry, bad plan ning in agriculture and rising absenteeism among the work ers. The answer to all this, the committee says, is discipline and this it will attempt to impose. The attack is being carried out through various channels. Newspapers have been mar shalled into line to editorial- In the Day's News By PRANK JENKINS All over the world today, morning newspapers printed pictures of the back side of the moon -never before seen by man. To the average lay man, the pictures are no great shakes. His private, personal, not for publication opinion, as he looked them oyer, war probably something like this. "If that's what the back side of the moon looks like, we haven't been missing much." TUT - X1 The text accompanying the pictures was more explicit. Quoting Vasily Lobastov,' as sistant chief engineer of a de partment of the Soviet state radio electronics committee, it added this description of the feat accomplished by Lu nik III: "Lunik's photo - television equipment oriented the inter planetary station - in space, trained its cameras on the moon, photographed it in two different scales, DEVELOPED AND DRIED THE FILM in zero gravity and then TRANS MITTED THE PICTURES TO EARTH." - THAT, Mr. Average Lay man has to admit, is some thing. ; If a man can build a ma chine to do that, there are few limitations to what a man can do. That's the lesson of the Lu nik's back side of the moon pictures. TD THE Russians goes the glory of sending a robot camerman around the moon and photographing it and sending the picture back to earth. But- " Before they could do that, somebody had to invent the camera. Otherwise, no pic ture could have been taken. Somebody had to invent tele vision, or the pictures could not have been sent back to earth. . PI The most priceless possession of man is his own standard of true integrity. AsreM nm the mm MOM AN . HAJtOtO DAY OR NIGHT Incomes; ize against the "incorrect ten- dency to substitute white bread for dark and meat and sausage for milk and cheese." Thousands of workers have been laid off by industry in an attempt to force them back to. the farms. Unskilled farm boys have been lured to-the factories by high wages, at once furthering the shortage of farm produce and at the same time: creating resent ment among city workers by their competition. Peasants Resist Doctors are being told to promote birth control, a pro gram which brings the gov ernment into immediate con flict with the Catholic church ' in predominantly Catholic Po land. Since the end of World War II, and with the acquisition ot the disputed western territor ies seized from Germany, Po land has made phenomenal strides industrially. Poland now is fifth In coal produc ton, and in formerly German Silesia it acquired important heavy industry, new sources of electric power and import ant deposits of lead and zinc. But as in other satellites, the Communists have been able to make little progress with the fiercely independent peasants who resist collectivi zation, prefer a horse to a tractor and insist on disposing of their produce as they wishe A ND f- Somebody had to conceive the notion that man could get off the earth -that he could FLY, first up into the air and then out into space. It is true that Lunik III didn't fly to the moon. It was SHOT there. But before Lunik could be shot to the moon, man had to be taught that flying was fit. f t i v. ; , ; a . . . wiinin nu capaomiy. - LEONARDO da Vinci con ceived the " mechanics of tnrrnr ti i Tawai n on Hnfir an 45UV VbUKUtve aa)w- eweawaaa. the days of mythology, Icarus tried it and failed. MUCH later, Darius Green tried i and tauea. uotn naa tne iaea. wnat tney lacxea was ma chinery. It remained to the Wriaht brothers to PROVE that man can fly. And they couldn't have done it if some other man. hadn't first invented the internal combustion engine.' -And so on. I'D LIKE to close this piece with the pious hope that the Russians don't get too cocky -too proud of themselves. True, they've accomplished a fabulous thing. Let's deny them NO credit. They're en titled to our fullest admira tion. But it's still permissible, to : 3 4Um V urViat 4VJTT have done they haven't done ALL BY THEMSELVES. They've been helped by the Vn-5ffif minlc rtf nil tim. 0 HELP US! 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