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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Not. 26. 1949 (Saturday)
Portland Penquins beat
Fresno Falcons 4 to 2, in Pa
cific Coast Hockey League
game.
Gargantua, famous 550
pound gorilla, dies in Balti
more. 20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 26. 1939 Sunday)
Maginot line will contain
Germany, say France and
Great Britain. .
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "With
Democratic turkey on tap last
ThnrsHav nrA Ttpnuhliean
turkey next Thursday, a num
ber of citizens are primed, to
give thanks for Populistic
beefsteak."
30 YEARS AGO
Not. 26, 1929 (Tuesday)
Forest fires now burning In
Siskiyous are blamed on in
cendiaries. Squaw creek mining dis
trict enjoys boom with pros
pects of copper.
40 YEARS AGO
Not. 26, 1919 (Wednesday)
Gov. Olcott refuses to call
special session of legislature
for ratification of woman's
suffrage. '
Germany declines to sign
peace treaty.
50 YEARS AGO
Not. 26, 1909 (Friday)
TJ. S. cruisers sent to Nic
aragua to protect American
citizens. .
People all over country are
interested in buying land in
Rogue Valley after triumph
at apple show.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is eicellent; five er
sis is good. .
1. What have these In com
mon: zloty, drachma, rouble?
2. In what state is Arling
ton National Cemetery?
3. What amount in, dollars
did the U.S. pay to France for
the Louisiana Purchase?
4. What President of the
United States wrote his own
epitaph?
5. What man, renowned for
his wisdom, built the first
temple in Jerusalem?
6. In what card game is the
Blackwood convention used?
7. Who officially opened
SHAPE headquarters at Roc
quencourt, France, in July,
1951?
8. Who was the Maid of Or
leans? 9. Who said: "With malice
toward none, with charity for
all"? 1
10. Name the seven Presi
dents of the United States who
were "war presidents.'
Answers: 1. They are mone
tary units. 2. Virginia. 3. SI 5
million. 4. Thomas Jefferson.
5. Solomon. 6. Contract
Bridge. 7. General Dwight D.
Eisenhower. 8. Jean d'Arc.
9. Abraham Lincoln. 10 J
Madison, Polk, Lincoln, Mc
Kinley. Wilson. F. D. Roose
velt. Truman. -
JET SETS RECORD
New York DP& An Ameri
can Airlines jet Wednesday
night set a commercial speed
record of four hours, 22 min
utes for a non-stop flight from
San Francisco to New York,
the airline said.
Thanksgiving Proclamation
The year that is drawing toward its
close has been filled with the bless
ings of fruitful field and healthful skies.
To these bounties, which are so con
stantly enjoyed that we are prone to
forget the source from which they come,
others have been added, which are of
so extraordinary a nature that they can
not fail to penetrate and soften the heart
which is habitually insensible to the
ever-watchful providence of almighty
God.
In the midst of a civil war of unequal
led magnitude and severity, which has
sometimes seemed to foreign states to
invite and provoke their aggressions,
peace has been preserved with all na
' tions, order has been maintained, the
laws have been respected and obeyed,
and harmony has prevailed everywhere,
except in the theater of military con
flict ; while that theater has been greatly
contracted by the advancing armies and
navies of the Union.
MEEDFUL diversions of wealth and of
. strength from the fields of peace
ful industry to the national defense
have not arrested the plow, the shuttle,
or the ship ; the ax has enlarged the .
borders ' of our settlements, ' and the
mines, as well of iron and coal as of the
precious metals, have yielded even more
abundantly than heretofore. Population
has steadily increased, notwithstanding
the waste that has been .made in the
camp, the siege, and the battlefield;
and tile country, rejoicing in the con
sciousness of augmented strength and
vigor, is permitted to expect continu- ,
ance of years with large increase of
freedom.
No human counsel hath devised, nor
hath any mortal hand worked out these
great things. They are the gracious gifts -of
the Most High God, who, while deal-
ing with us in anger for our sins, hath
nevertheless remembered mercy.
.... ,
IT HAS SEEMED to me fit and proper-
that they should be solemnly, rever-
ently, and gratefully acknowledged as
with one heart and one voice by the
whole American people. I do, therefore,
invite my fellow-citizens in every part
of the United States, and also those who
are at sea and those who are sojourn
ing in foreign lands, to set apart and
observe the last Thursday of November
next as a day of thanksgiving and praise
to our beneficent Father who dwelleth
in the heavens. ; P p " '
And I recommend to them that, while
offering up the ascriptions justly due to
him for singular deliverances and bless
ings, they do also, with humble peni
tence for our national perverseness and
disobedience, commend to his tender
care all those who have become widows,
orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the
lamentable civil strife in which we are '
unavoidably engaged, and fervently im
plore the interposition of the almighty
hand to heal the wounds of the nation,
and to restore it, as soon as may bq con
; sistent with theDivine purposes, to the
full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tran-.
quility, and union. ...
Abraham Lincoln
(1863)
Thanhs Due Today
Abraham Lincoln's words, as reproduced
above, have an awesome pertinence today.
. In the midst of the War Between the States,
he had the humility and a sense of the fitness of
things to look about and find those things for
which to be thankful. "
Do we not, today, have far more things for
which to render thanks?
In our nation today, few indeed go hungry
and cold; few lack shelter; few, indeed, lack the
wherewithal for at least.a few creature comforts
and warmth and friendliness.
"1I7E ARE, to be sure, faced with both threat
and challenge.
Internal strife, while it has yet drawn little
blood, hangs like a cloud over the nation's eco
nomic well-being.
Abroad ', we face implacable enemies we do
not fully understand, whose strength is growing,
and whose motives and whose word we neither
trust nor approve. We live under the shadow of
annihilating war.
Crime and in particular crime perpetrated
by our young people, who are our very hope for
the future increases from one report to the
next.
As a people, too often we seem to.be more
preoccupied with the toys of an abundant wealth
than with the stern virtues of integrity, honesty,
and courage.
DUT one asks is there nothing beyond the
creature comforts for which to offer thanks
on Thanksgiving day in 1959?
Such a question, of itself, bespeaks a dim view
of the realities of today.
There is, first peace an uneasy peace, un
doubtedly, but still the guns are silent and the
soldiers live. ,
And there is still freedom. A man can speak
Dennis the Menace
Matter of Fact
MAO AS STALIN
Hong Kong - The Stalinism
of Mao Tse-tung differs from
the Stalinism of Josef Stalin
in two main
ways. On the
other hand,
n the screws
have been
put on more
gradually.
But on the
one hand,
the lot of the
masses in
ioi.pb Aisop China now
appears to be even more ter
rible than the lot of the mass
es in Russia at the grimmest
period of Stalin's forced, in
dustrialization program.
The way the screws have
been put on is easily seen, in
the Peking government's own
published figures for capital
investment from 1952 to the
present. In 1952, the total in
vestment - primarily in hea
vy industry, of course was
3.7 billion yuan. The next
year, it almost exactly doub
led, reaching 7.5 billion yuan.
It increased only slightly
in 1955; but in 1956, it rose
very steeply to 13.8 billion
yuan. And a second slight in
crease in 1957 was followed
by a second gigantic rise, to
26.7 billion yuan, in 1958.
The unanimous testimony
of all the escapees and refu
gees indicates that these ver
tiginous rises in the govern
ment's capital expenditures
were closely reflected in a
series of sharp drops in the
living standard of the masses,
i
CRUDELY speaking, the
people who have been
through the wringer say
they were at least as well off
from 1949 to 1952 as they had
been in the wicked Kuomin-tang-landlord
days. The poor,
landless peasants actually
benefitted in this period of
the honeymoon between the
Communists and the Chinese
masses. And although the
state's take was somewhat in
creased from 1952 onwards,
the situation in the country
side was perfectly bearable -at
least by Chinese standards
- until 1955. ,
In that year, when Chinese
agriculture was fully collect
ivized, the testimony is em
phatic that the level of life
of the peasantry dropped
very sharply indeed. More
work was demanded, and
there was a sharp deteriora
tion in the diet, which is the
Chinese peasants' almost ex
clusive measure of their own
living standards. The combi
nation of this first really
sharp depression of the level
of life with the sharp ensu
ing rise of state investments
can hardly be a mere coinci
dence. Again, Chinese agriculture
was once more reorganized
in 1958, in the huge world la
bor camps called people's
communes. Again, the testi
mony is emphatic that' this
If',
1 iOiw !
his mind. He can vote for whom he will. He can
earn his living as he wishes. He can move from
place to "place without hindrance. He can see his
children grow to adulthood without that awful
tyranny of the mind which makes automatons of
children m other lands.
... -
A ND THESE blessings are more than sufficient
" to cause us all to offer humble thanks that
they are ours. '
Too, they should remmd us that they are not
ours by happy coincidence or happenstance.
These blessings have
men before us men who served their nation with
their blood and toil, each in his own way, that
these blessings could be passed on to their chil
dren, to us.
If we are worthy of
we offer thanks today, we shall continue in that
tradition of serving freedom, of serving others,
ot serving this nation, so
free, at peace, and a leader in the cause of justice
and liberty forever. E.A.
new organization of agricul
ture was also accompanied by
another sharp drop in the lev
el of life. And again, the com
bination of this final plunge
to chain-gang . status with
the . huge state investment of
the "great leap forward", can
hardly be a mere coincidence.
:
THE FACT that the screws
were put on by stages, in
this manner, has cardinal po
litical significance. In Rus
sia,, the peasants were left in
almost undisturbed jessession
of their land and its products
from the revolution ' until
1929, when the Five Year
plans began and the collec
tive farms were formed. In
Russia, therefore,' what
amounted to a .strong peasant
vested interest was allowed to
grow up, before Stalin decid
ed to carry put his forced in
dustrialization at the people's
expense. Actual peasant mas
sacres had to be ordered, to
break the resistance of the
Russian peasantry to their
state-contrived 'plunge into
wretchedness
. ' In China, in contrast, the
peasantry were only very
briefly left in undisturbed en
joyment of the benefits of
the "land reform" that had
been the subject of such glow
ing promises. Beginning with
their "mutual aid", teams, the
state kept up the pressure un
til the order was given, 'for
full collectivization in . 1955.
The increases in the state's
take from the product of the
land were also made in stag
es, with the biggest increases
in 1955 and 1958. These are
the reasons, no doubt, why
the only peasant resistance to
date has been passive resist-,
ance. . - .
Meanwhile, it must also be
noted, the sacrifices demand
ed of the Chinese people
have not been altogether vain
sacrifices. Prof. Chohming
Li of the University of Cali
fornia has authoritatively set
forth the reasons for not tak
ing all the Chinese Commun
ist claims of industrial growth
at face value. But Prof. Li
and all other competent stud
ents of the problem agree
that 'Communist China's in
dustrial growth, though less
than claimed, has still been
very important. Steel output,
for instance, may- well., have
risen from 1,349,000 tons in
1952 to 8,000,000 tons in
1958. And the target for this
year is no less than 12,000,000
tons.
- . a .-
rrHE CENTRAL drama of
the last 12 months has
been the decision to continue
as before. The pressure on
the peasantry is not to be re
laxed. The state's share of
the product of the land is not
reduced. The rate of invest
ment in industrialization is to
be maintained at the same
high level, mainly at the ex
pense of the masses. This win
ter looks like being the worst
-
been wrought by many
these blessings for which
that she shall continue
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Wet and Dry ,
To the Editor: An article
entitled "When the Wets Are
Dry," taken from a Sunday
school paper, is so appealing
and so convincing that we felt
it should have as wide a read
ing as possible, and we are
happy to avail ourselves of
this opportunity through the
Communications columns of
the Mail Tribune.
' "When the Wets Are Dry."
Maybe he enjoys sipping a
cocktail in a flying saloon at
30,000 feet, but he demands
a dry pilot for his airliner as
it sails through the blue. Per
haps he likes a legal drink or
so every day, but he wants a
dry surgeon when his wife
faces a delicate operation. Or
he brags that his lovely little
daughter can attend an ade
quate school financed by li
quor taxes, but he is cautious
lest some drunken maniac at
tack, run down, or kidnap his
little girl on the way to that
school. He likes to drink now
and then as he rides on the
train, but he expects the en
gineer to be bone-dry on the
entire, trip. He may like to
stop at every roadside tavern
he comes to, but he expects
the driver of his car to keep
the bottle at arm's length.
Maybe he toted for the repeal
of the Eighteenth Amend
ment, but if he is on a steel
beam 12 stories up erecting a
skyscraper, he expects the
crane operator handling that
beam to be very dry and very
sober. Or, even if he likes a
bootleg drink now and then,
he still expects his son in the
armed forces to be under the
command of a dry officer.
There are times when even
the wettest of the wets are
bone-dry!
Quiz the fine young man
who is spending" the best
years of his life in the Ohio
penitentiary for the turn-pike
murder of seven with his auto
mobile While under the influ
ence of legal liquor. Or quiz
the 22-year-old murderer of
three teen-agers who was too
drunk, to know how it hap
pened. Or quiz the relatives
who mourn at those ten graves
so fresh and so cold. All will
Drummond
(Walter Lippman is again traveling abroad,
reports from Washington in his absence.) -
BLOT ON THli SHOWCASE
' Washington-In many ways
Washington, D. C. is a shin
ing national showcase of good
race relations and equal op
portunity in education, in pub
lic, playgrounds, and in jobs
tout in the midst of it all there
remains a disfiguring blot in
the front yard of the Federal
government.
It is a blot of racial dis
crimination literally on the
front door of the government
of the United States.
What is happening is that
the new east front to the
Capitol plus an additional
House office building and an
other Federal office building
on Independence Avenue are
all in process of construction
in violation of the provision
in every Federal government
contract "not to discriminate
againstany employee because
of race, religion, color, or na
tional origin." (Executive Or
der 10557.) '
This means that in the Fed
eral government's own major
building . projects, including
offices for both the Executive
and Legislative branches and
the prized new face-lifting for
the Capitol itself, racial dis
crimination has been prac
tised from the beginning and
is practised today. This, in a
city where Negro workers
make up 60 per cent of the
labor force.
BUT IT IS no longer going
At the intiative of Vice
President Nixon, the Presi
dent's Committee on Govern
ment Contracts is now ener
getically attacking the road
block which has stood in the
way of equal job opportunity
in the construction of these
government properties.
My information is that the
Vice President made two rec
ommendations at the latest
meeting to the Committee on
Government Contracts.
He proposed that the com
mittee reject the proposal of
the Matthew . H. McCloskey
Construction Company of
Philadelphia to add to his
work crew on these three
projects nine Negroes from
Philadelphia in order to cir-
yet for the hundreds of mil
lions of Chinese farmers.
There are strong signs,
however, that' this ' Draconic
decision to continue as before
is causing the worst inner
strains Chinese Communism
has experienced. Some kind
of showdown seems to be ap
proaching. (c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Sound Base Needed for Influx
Of Students in Stafe Schools
(Editor's note: The writer
of the following editorial,
which appeared recently in
the Pendleton East Oregon
ian. is J. W. Forrester Jr..
editor and publisher of that
. paper. It is of particular
significance,... inasmuch . as
Forrester, is a member of
the stale' board of higher
education,' and it familiar
with the factors involving
the dispute between Ore
gon State College and the
University of Oregon, rela
tive to the curriculum de
mands of the ivr schools
under the "allocations" sys
tem or the state institutions
of higher education.) ,
IT IS THE ENVY
OF MANY EDUCATORS
Before the Oregon Legisla
ture ; of 1932 established a
state, unified system of higher
education each of the state
supported institutions of high
er education hoed its own row
of corn. Within rather lax
legislative controls each in
stitution determined its curri
cula. And each went to the
legislature to make a case for
operating funds and funds for
buildings. Each school exerted
as much pressure as possible
upon legislators through
alumni and others of influ
ence. The legislators got fed up
with working under that kind
of pressure. But it was for a
better reason that they decid
ed to establish the state sys
tem of higher, education. They
concluded that Oregon's sons
and daughter's would be bet
ter served in state supported
institutions of higher educa
tion if' all were directed by
a central authority and that
Oregon taxpayers would get
more for their money.
Soon after the state system
was established under a state
board of higher education
with an administrative staff
headed by a chancellor, an al
location of courses lor the
various institutions was de
fined. As certain needs in edu
cation have developed in Ore-
agree that it is high time for
the wets to shout, "Dry," and
the drys to shout louder!
H. R. Bulman,
. Route 4, Box 316 K',
Medford.
Reports
Rotcoe , Drumond
cumvent the union discrimi
nation against. Negro,members
and Negro workers in the
District of Columbia. He
wanted this matter solved not
just symbolically but in terms
of breaking down the dis
criminatory rules and prac
tices in the building trades in
the District itself.
Mr. Nixon also asked that
a special subcommittee, be ap
pointed to provide the mech
anism for resolving - all such
building trade discriminations
in the District.
Both of these proposals
were unanimously approved.
The subcommittee will in
clude Secretary of Labor
James Mitchell, John Roose
velt of New York, George
Meany and Walter- Reuther,
president and vice-president
of the A. F. of L.-C. I. O., and
Judge Lawrence E. Walsh,
Deputy Attorney General.
:-
HERE is what's happened so
far:
A. J. Thomas, 'a Negro
worker, filed a complaint
with Vice President NixonJ
reporting that he had been
denied employment by the
McCloskey Construction Com
pany which had stated that
he could be employed only if
referred to them by Local 201
of the Rodmen's Iron Steel
Bridge and Structural Steel
Workers as the exclusive re
ferral agent.
At one time this local
would only refer its own mem
bers for jobs. It has not ac
cepted ,a Negro member in
years. Theoretically now Lo
cal 201 has set up machinery
which on its face seems to
comply with the law to refer
all qualified applicants to con
tractors for jobs but uses that
machinery so that no Negro
applicants get referred. Mr.
Thomas could never get re
ferred and never got a job.
There is no implication and
no suggestion that the Mc
Closkey Construction Com
pany wishes to be a party to
racial discrimination. The evi
dence is that it tried faithfully
to work the matter out with
the union and was blocked.
The idea of going around the
union practices by importing
a few Negroes from outside
the District was -offered in
good faith.
Mr. McCloskey is now be
ing asked to employ any qual
ified worker from Washing
ton either with or- without
union approval.
If it doesn't happen soon,
the new face to the Capitol
will wear a countenance of
racial discrimination.
(c) 1959 Now York Herald i
Tribune Inc. I
gon additional allocations
have been made.
Science was added at Uni
versity of Oregon and Busi
ness and Technology at Ore
gon State College. Both ele
mentary and secondary teach
er education were placed in
the University, OSC, South
ern Oregon College, Eastern
Oregon College, Oregon Col
lege of Education and Port
land State College. Degree
granting curricula in the li
beral arts and humanities was
given to SOC, EOC, OCE and
Portland State. Departmental
majors in certain liberal arts
areas were added at Portland
State.
Each of these moves, in the
judgment of the Board of
Higher Education was sound
educationally. Because EOC
and SOC are rapidly develop
ing as regional colleges it
seemed to the board necessary
to expand the curricula at
those schools for the increas
ing number of students who
wanted to attend them rather
than University of Oregon or
juregon oiaie college.
: Portland State College was
established to provide educa
tion for boys and girls who
could afford a college educa
tion only if they could live at
home. PSC has had rapid
growth and .probably will
eventually have - the largest
enrollment in the system.
PSC students could not be
given half a loaf of education.
They had to have more than
PSC offered them in, the be
ginning. : . '
'.'
Offering both elementary
and secondary teacher train
ing at all of the schools is ac
complishing what the board
had hoped it would. Many
moreteachers are coming off
the assembly lines.
Through this process the
Board of Higher Education
has kept squarely before it an
image of each institution, an
image drawn by the board ac
cording to the job it thought
each institution should do.
-,"
This was very much in the
board's thinking when it de
cided last month to add a de
gree in the liberal. arts and
humanities at Oregon State
College with a strong minor
in the technical fields. The
board wants OSC to be clear
ly identified as a scientific
and technical school, thus the
requirement for a strong tech
nical minor for the student in
liberal arts or humanities at
OSC. The student who wants
a degree in liberal arts or hu
manities but has no interest
in technical subjects will
have to go elsewhere.
It was the board's judgment
that this was sound education
ally and that it would
strengthen Oregon State Col
lege as a technical and scienti
fic institution. It was carefully
thought out by board mem
bers. It wasn't something
patched together, as a com
promise in answer to OSC's
request for a degree in lib
eral arts and humanities. It is
important to note that this
was a unanimous decision by
board members.
The board must apply a
stern allocation test to avoid
duplications whenever added
offerings are considered for
an institution in the system.
But of greater importance, it
must consider the needs of the
students an institution serves,
and the needs of the area in
which it exists. Had the origi
nal course allocations for the
schools been frozen as of 1932
Oregon's sons and daughters
would v have been poorly
served. The allocation system1
:
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HtAMC MOtGAN - HAJtOU)
DA OR NIGHT
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if
must be flexible.
It was inevitable that there
would be duplication of edu
cational offerings within the
system. It has happened and
it will happen again as cir
cumstances demand.
Oregon's unified system of
higher education is looked
upon with envy by educators
in many states. It has served
Oregonians well. Governors
and legislators have kept it
out of politics and members
of the board have kept their
eyes fixed on their sole func
tion, to give Oregonians ade
quate higher education at the
least possible cost. The cost Is
well below that in many
states.
As that' immense croo of
post-war babies is about to
descend upon Oregon's insti
tutions of higher education it
is well that the state owned
schools have a sound,, well
tested base from which to
operate. An immense task
stretches ahead.
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
From Tehran, Capital of
Iran: ,
Joyous Iranians heard, the
formal communique making
the engagement of their Shah
to dark-eyed Farah Diba of
ficial. Radio Tehran buUetin
ed the brief announcement. It
said simply; "The court min
ister with great pleasure in
forms the public of the en
gagement of His .Imperial Ma
jesty Mohammed Reza Shah
Pahlevi with Miss Farah
Diba."
The Iranian public also
learned from persons inside
the palace that the handsome
monarch DIDN'T KISS HIS
LOVELY BRIDE-TO-BE dur
ing the champagne ceremony
at the marble palace Monday
when he slipped a large dia
mond ring on her finger."
WHY NOT? "
" WeU, it isn't the kind
of engagement that calls for a
kiss. Shah Pahlevi - come De
cember 18, which is the date
of the royal marriage - won't
be marrying Miss Farah Diba
for love. He won't be marry
ing her for money. Or for so
cial position. Or for ANY of
the reasons that dictate mar
riages in less exalted circles.
He wants an heir to his
throne.
THAT'S the way they get
rulers in Iran.
With aU its faults -I
prefer OUR system.
1 SUPPOSE you've read of
the ancient chant that
down through the centuries
has resounded in the streets
of the capital cities of coun
tries ruled by absolute mon
archs: "The king is dead.
LONG LIVE the king."
On' the face of it, it doesn't
make sense. So let's dig down
to the roots of it. What the
people meant when they have
intoned that chant is this;
"The old kind is dead. We
are thankful that the old king
has an heir, because if there
WERE NO HEIR there would
be WAR among the aspir
ants for the throne. And war
is the worst thing that can
come to the people."
When one looks at it in that
light, it is rather pitiful. From
the standpoint of the people,
STRUGGLES FOR POWER
have always been pitiful.
That is one of history's trag
ic essons., : " , i
FOR
TOMBE
THANKFUL
....and
tomorrow
will be
another
today
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