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J MAIL TRIBUNE, Mee'fere', Cr. Friday, No. 27, 19Sf MEDF0RI2ktTWBUKX "Every oo is Southern Oreiesi Beads The MsU Tribune-' Published DhII except Saturday by MJJDFOWD PRINTING CO 83 North fli 8t Pb SP 8-6141 ROBiRT W RT7HL. Editor HERB GRE AdvertixJr.i Manafer GEFALD LATHAM Business Mgr ERIC W AIXEN JR. Managing Kditor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telee Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women! Editof PALE EKllKs K carcuianon May An Independent Newspaper Entered a semnd elasa matter al Medfor Oreeon under Act of Mar 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mai U-ln Advance Conv 10c Da 11- and Sunday 1 year SIS 00 Dally and Sunday moa ft-01 . Daily and Sunday 3 moa 4.2S Sunday Only One yea? S420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eeele Point Jacksonville, cold mil , Fhoenla Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 vear 118 00 pally and Sunday- mo i-oo , Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Casr- In Advance OfflcM Papr ef City f Madfori omeial Papei el Jaeaaon counry United Preaa International Pull Leased Wire " MEMBER 07 AUDIT BURZAtT" OF CIRCULATION Advertisina Representative: WEST HOl.CDA 1 CO INC Of fices to New York. Chicago De troit. San Francisco. Los Anceles. Seattle, Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver BC r NEWSPAPER ssssssk i PURLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOtlAl cgfclAc5' Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 yaan age. 10 YEARS AGO Not. 27, 1949 (Sunday) Sen. Wayne Morse says he expects to enter 1950 Repub lican primary "unopposed." Two explosions that rattled windows in Medford yester day still mystery. 20 YEARS AGO Mot. 27, 1939 (Monday) Two well-known Medford women die in auto crash on return trip from San Fran cisco. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A New Jersey hunter shot a ditch digger accidentally for duck; the victim was flying low at the time but not quack ing." 30 YEARS AGO Wot. 27. 1929 (Wednesday) Ashland defeats Medford 19 to 12 in final game of season. Long drought continues, Medford and Talent irrigation districts to aid farmers. 40 YEARS AGO ;Not. 27, 1919 (Thursday) Cold weather causes rush to city wood yards; supply running low. Mae Murray in "Twin Pawns" at Liberty; Bill Rus sell in "Six Feet'Four" at Ri lto. SO YEARS AGO Not. 27. 1909 (Saturday) Rogue valley orchards yield $1,000 an acre; most prosperous year ever. Robert Lovett, president of Harrlman Lines, will tour Medford.. Vhsl's Yoar I.Q.? Nina er tan caned Is tu eerier; even r eight is excellent; five at is is e4. 1. What is 'die name for a young pigeon? 2. In what month of the 'year, in the northern hemis phere, does the day with the shortest interval between sun rise and sunset occur? 3. Is a garrulous person shy, or talkative? 4. On what date is Flag Day "celebrated each year? 5. Is the capital of Maine Lewiston, Augusta, Bangor, or Portland? 6. In what cabinet office did . James A. Farley serve under Roosevelt? 7. Name the famous vol : cano in Sicily. 8. In what century did Corn wallis surrender to George Washington? 9. Which of these is not a breed of dairy cattle: Guern sey, Holstein, Caithness, Jer sey, Brown Swiss? 10. In polo, how long is a chukker? Answers: 1. Squab. 2. De cember. 3. Talkative. 4. June 14. 5. Augusta. 6. Postmaster General. 7. ML Etna. 8. 18th cenutry. 9. Caithness. 10. Fif teen minutes. SUCCEEDS FREED New York - UPD - Fred Robbins, a native . of . Balti more, was scheduled to take over today the six-day-a-week American Broadcasting Co. Hisk inckev nroeram for teen agers formerly conducted by Alan Freed. Freed was fired last wetk following a grand jury investigation of the "lumla" "racket. . Are Courts Do you, who read this, know how to settle the steel dispute with justice and fairness to both sides? Do you know the rights and wrongs, and the rightful claims, of the disputants in the Portland newspaper strike? Do you know the truth of the claims and counterclaims of the railroads and of the rail road workers the conflicting claims of "feather bedding," of unequal pay, of outmoded work rules? Do you know where justice lies in the dock strike, or the copper strike or any of the other labor disputes now existing or in the offing? TJOU may have ideas and prejudices. But to most, the issues are unclear. What is clear, however, is that in our in creasingly complex and interdependent economy, such labor disputes no longer are, or can be, the private affair of employer and employee, of labor and management, of corporation and union. The public interest the vital, overriding in terest of all of America's 178,000,000 people is intimately involved, and becomes more so as time goes on. Many thoughtful people are pondering this. 1MORE and more, one finds editorial writers, politicians, leaders of thought and opinion, striving to find a solution which will not wreck the American tradition of negotiation and col lective bargaining and which will avoid some government bureau's being able to dictate terms (and thus the economic well-being of a whole segment of the economy). The system of collective bargaining has a long and largely successful history. But when bargaining breaks down, and a strike which af fects the public welfare ensues, what then? It may well be time for government to step in to protect the public interest. TTHE more we think about it, the oftener we come to the proposal made over a period of years on this page a system of labor courts.' In the American system of jurisprudence, the courts have' many functions the interpretation of law, the settlement of civil disputes, the ad judication of criminal charges, as. "referee" and last resort in the multipilicity of disagreements and arguments arising out of a vital, complicated, growing society. A tradition of quiet dignity, aloof and im partial, has grown up in the courts of America. And in the courts, as constituted, Americans have a trust and faith, born of experience, as in few other democratic institutions. ' IF, THEN, a system of labor courts were set up under the federal Constitution's provision allowing Congress to establish all federal courts other than the supreme court, it would fit readily into the existing framework of government. If collective bargaining broke down, with little chance of settlement in sight, then either party could take the matter .into court. Both sides could then present their arguments in detail, and there, in the calmness and dignity and impartiality of the judicial system, an equit able solution based on the merits of the case could be found and enforced. THE fact that such a would be a powerful factor in motivating parties in dispute to settle their . And if free bargaining failed, there would be assurance of protection for the overriding public welfare, an assurance that such an impasse as the .record steel strike of this year, with all its resulting dislocations and suffering, shall not be allowed. Isn't it about time that some machinery is set up to protect the rights of all three parties to a major labor dispute employer, employee and the public? And wouldn't labor courts do just this? E.A. "Featherbedding, " Et Al As an example of the sort of thing mentioned above, we cited the conflicting claims of the railroads and the railroad brotherhoods. It is an issue of substance in this community, where many men make their livelihood with the Southern Pacific, and where the railroad consti tutes a substantial and important part of the economy important not only as an employer but also as a earner. We have been deluged with mailings from the Association of American Railroads and other industry sources, setting forth, chapter and verse, their allegations of featherbedding. ' , fN THE other hand, friends in the brother- hoods have supplied us with information con taining their side allegations that the railroads' proposals would endanger safety, penalize work ers with long and faithful service, and still not achieve more efficient and economical operation. We have studied these conflicting claims, and are no nearer to a decision as to who is right and who is wrong than we were before. Both sound convincing. ' But there are such utter, and apparently ir reconcilable, differences in the two stories, that it would take long, detailed and expert study, on the spot, to arrive at a verdict ... Unless both sides submitted their substanti ated cases to a court, which, upon the merits and the evidence, would then be able to render an equitable decision. E.A. the Answer? remedy, and such a pro- disagreements. Dennis the Menace POfff ANYr O&tf JLW DOORS! 7H CANARY 6XQK QUIA S CAG AGAIN r Editorial Comment THE LABOR IMPASSE My mind . keeps coming back .to. the impasse which arises when labor and man agement fail to arrive at an agreement by collective bar gaining. It is the critical do mestic issue of this year. The big steel industry has been deadlocked for months be cause of this failure and its operations now are resumed under court order whose force runs out in two more months. Strike conditions prevail on the Portland daily papers be cause of a similar failure. There has been bargaining but no bargain. The federal law on labor relations goes only so far as to compel management to bargain with representatives chosen by employes. Union labor has contended that if employers will sit down and bargain an agreement will be reached. It has been satisfied with the legal compulsion to bargain. But in the instances cited, bargaining came to a dead end. .- When we use the word bar gaining we think of a pros pective buyer and prospective seller getting together and haggling over the considera tion. It may be a horse trade or an automobile trade or the sale-purchase of a . house. If they come to an agreement, the deal is made. If they don't, each goes his own way, the buyer to find some other seller who may welcome his offer, the seller to seek out another buyer who may meet his terms. That isn't the situation in industry when collective bar gaining fails. Legally, the windup of bargaining leaves the principals free to bargain with others. In practice, la bor still claims the jobs of the employer and resists loss of those jqbs to others. In the localized situation in Port land this resistance has been manifest by pickets march ing, or . by autos circling bumper to bar. ingress and egress at the struck plant. Po lice have been on hand to maintain order. But in the big steel industry no attempt was made by the industry to start up. It seems to concede that the jobs still belong to the strikers. Friends of labor will defend this claim. The workers in vest their lives and so have a moral claim to continued em ployment. The other side will point out the fact that the employer who has invested in his business is entitled to some protection, too. He may not be as free to pick up and move as the employe. If the latter can go and get another job, why shouldn't the em ployer be free to step out and hire other workmen? Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- GOLFER SAM SNEAD once told a group of awe-stricken hackers at the. Century Golf club about a time he was slicing badly and zoomed a drive 280 yards through a bunga low window. "The ball upset an oil lamp and set the bungalow on fire," asserted Sam. "What did you do?" chorused the hackers. ' "There was only one thing I could do," said Sam solemnly. "I quickly teed up another ball, aimed carefully, and hit the fire alarm box on Anderson road. The fire engines were at the bungalow before much damage was done!" Chon Day tells about a pair of middle-aged lady duffers who waddled out to the first tee of a, Detroit golf course on a sultry morning. "I don't want to play too long" declared the woman who drove off first. "Let's quit as soon as either of us makes a hole in one!" 0 159. fcy Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kiog Futures Syndicate. ' The assumption of advo cates of collective bargaining is that after a period of ne gotiation, reasonable men will find a common ground for agreement.' When one notes the great number of such agreements in modern industry, he might conclude that . the assumption is at tested by experience. Em ployers, however, would say that peace is bought with rather a high price. Labor is sure to counter with a similar claim on its side. The statis tics do show, however, that real wages (wages in terms of buying power) have increased much more rapidly than the cost of living in the postwar period. This is not discredit able at all because we should be pleased with a rise in standard of living for em ployed persons, save -if that levies a severe penalty on other groups less fortunately situated, those - who, like farmers and persons on fixed incomes, have little bargain ing leverage. This leads up to the ques tion I have previously posed: Can voluntarism survive in industrial relations? Compul sion on wage rates might have to be followed by gov ernment fixing of prices, and then our free economy really would be scrambled. ' . The legislation of the Franklin Roosevelt era and the economic forces gener ated in the war and postwar period shifted bargaining power quite firmly into the hands of organized labor. The sequel has been price infla tion, though that is not to be blamed entirely on this power shift. Now leaders of organ ized labor should exercise greater statesmanship y and limit the exercise of their great power. Otherwise bar gaining comes to a dead end, and may be followed by legis lation which will trim unions of some of their freedom. Compulsory arbitration, ' for instance, would deprive la bor of its prime weapon, the strike. The time to halt the inflationary spiral is now, and both sides who engage in collective bargaining should recognize that fact and bargain to that end. -Charles A. Sprague in the Oregon Statesman, Salem. COMMERCIALISM WINS New York (UPD - The .Rev. Edward O. Miller, pastor of an Episcopal church here, charged Thursday's famed Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in mid-town New York was the "final triumph of com mercialism over God." Miller said it was a case of moving "God from Thanksgiving to move merchandise off the shelves before Christmas." 'Conscience' Payments to Treasury Top $283,000 By FRANK ELEAZER Washington -(UPD It begins to look like one of our more dependable taxpayers for the pii,.!,! past several years has been a Seattle resi dent who just possibly never filed a return. Each week he (or she) stuffs $7 or so in an envelope and dropy it in the Frank Eleazv mail .- 10 , uie collector of Internal Revenue, Washington, D. C." These anonymous offerings have totalled $7.13 since some body noticed their similarity and recurrence and started a tally. The ' serial number of each $5 and $1 bill has been recorded and the money add ed to the government's con science fund. Pope John's Influence Gains As He Enters His 79th Year By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The man - of - the - week: Pope John XXIII. The place: Vatican City. The event: His 78th birthday. The quote: "Look at the people, listen to their voices. What do they ask? What do they implore? Not new monstrous arms but peace . . . but justice . . . but tranquility and con cord." Pope John observed his birthday this week (Wednes day, Nov. 25), his eyes firmly fixed on tne future and two major ob jectives. A s one of the world's great moral lead ers, one ob jective is world peace. It will be Phil Newiom tne top sub ject when . President Eisen hower calls upon him next month. As spiritual leader of more than 500 million Roman Cath olics, his second objective is a reunion of the Roman church with the Orthodox churches of the East, and to win back- other Christian groups now separated from Rome. - av ; : ; - Lid Washington Report By WILLIAM D.A.C. AND THE SOUTH Washington-Democratic Na tional Chairman Paul Butler has at long- last persuaded a real, live Dixie politician to join his heretofore all-Yankee tu emocratic .... ( m tv ittoa But there is great ques tion as to who has won over whom. The DAC for years has been boycotted not onlv . hv WK- all powerful Southerners but also by all the principal Democratic leaders in Congress, Northern and Southern. . ; Mainly this has been due to the resentment of Congres sional figures, whether liber al or not, at DAC's efforts to say what ought to be done on legislative issues. Congress Li g u r e s legislation is Con gress' business and not the business of an unelected body like DAC. DAC is, after aU, the creation of the Democrat ic National Committee. And no national committee has either responsibility or pow er as such. It is essentially only a partisan drum-beating organization. THE REPUBLICANS, at least, have never thought otherwise. They, too, have a kind of "advisory committee" of earnest nonprofessional people. But they keep their advisory committee well up in the stratosphere. There, it proclaims vast and cloudy goals that annoy no faction of the party. Any thought of having the GOP advisory committee critr icize the Republican party in Congress, as the DAC regu larly criticizes the Democrat ic party there, would be treat ed as madness. In short, the official, pro fessional GOP campaign or ganization, the Republican National Committee, is and certainly will remain the ab solute boss. But the Demo cratic Advisory Committee is another thing altogether. It numbers the great prima don nas of the party. It has infin itely more influence, through such figures as Harry S, Tru man and Eleanor Roosevelt, than its parent, the Democrat in Year; I don't know whether there has been a national outbreak of honesty or what. But con science money has been rain ing down on the Treasury at a rate of $700 or $800 per day. President Eisenhower said he hoped to pick up $83,000 in conscience payments -; in fiscal 1959. It turns out he took in $283,473.16. The pre vious year's take was only $88,014.76. Most Under $4,000 Most tax dodgers find it possible to ease their con sciences with payments of less than $4,000, the amount re ceived from an anonymous Chicagoan last week. Tax agents here say it's downright amazing how many anony mous tax payers figure their debts at an even $10. The biggest anonymous payment on record was $30, 000, in 1916. To this end he has called an Ecumenical Council, a meeting of all the world's Catholic church leaders. No exact date for the council has been set but it will be the first in around 90 years. It is among the highest of all church councils. It was last month that Pope John rounded out the first busy year of his reign, a year which effectively killed the belief he would be an "interim" Pope - whose ac complishments generally would be limited to a consol idation period after Pope Pius XII. But even more than his ac complishments, the Pope's own personality has seized the imagination even of those outside his church. This rotund peasant's son demonstrated early his gen uine fondness for people and his impatience with tradition. In the last year, the Pontiff has made some 40 visits out side the Vatican, one to the Rome central prison. Speaks Against Communism Exalted, titled and humble have encountered the earthy warmth of Pope John in the last year. He has received the Shah of Iran, King Hussein of Jor dan, the, king and -queen of S. WHITE ic National Committee itself. These and other stars, like former Secretary of State Dean - Acheson, just use the Democratic National Commit tee for a hall to meet in, so to speak. , . They have tried to make of themselves-and to a point they have succeeded-a force in the Democratic party on terms of competitive equality with the elected Congressian al wing. Gov. LeRoy Collins' belated decision to join this team, therefore, has signifi cance far beyond what meets the eye. PIRST, IT means this: The moderate Southerners, of whom Collins is represent ative, have decided to let But ler have a free run no longer with one of his favorite com plaints of persecution. His cry has been that the South erners would not join DAC simply because of hostility to his strong pro-civil rights stand. Thus, he has long pre sented himself as a kind of political Eliza fleeing the Southern bloodhounds. It will be difficult for him to resume this role now that Collins has signed on. Second: The Congressional wing of the party has to a de gree, and indirectly through Collins, now joined what it could not altogether lick. The Congressional leaders, who are "moderate to conservative in view, will have on the DAC a new spokesman in Col-lins-and an elected politician at that. It won't necessarily follow that the DAC hereaf ter will be less displeased with the Democratic Con gress. But it is a good bet that it will be less vocally dis pleased, through the efforts of this Floridian bridge. Third: The DAC will now clogston's Metal Weather Stripping and Screens Estimates Gladly Phone SP 1-1014 Evenings 7 Habit Is Widespread Uncle Sam got his first recorded conscience payment in 1811. With the exception of 1848, something has been dropped into the kitty every year since. In 1827 the contri butions came to $6. The big year to date was 1950, when the anonymous take was $370,285.47. The total re ceived through last June 30 was $2,556,678. Somehow, a lot of the un signed mailings are post marked at quiet hours like 2 a.m. Many are addressed merely to "Conscience De partment, Washington, D.C." Pays For Stationery One regular contributor re cently has been a Tampa, Fla., fellow who addresses $10 bills every month or so to the "conscious" fund. Fortunate ly the postmaster takes a broad view on matters of spelling. He sends these Greece and Princess Margaret of Britain. He also has seen the sick and blind in Rome, and exchanged the time of day with street cleaners. The sweep of his interests has included languages, so that at 77 he began learning to speak English. But while even the Com munists have found it diffi cult to attack this new leader, he has demonstrated that for him there will be no com promise with Communism. He told Catholics through out the world they could not remain good Catholics if they cast their ballots for politi. cians or parties which cooper, ate with the Reds. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name ino address ef the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for. publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the. paper; In fact the contrary is often Likes Loyalty Oath To the Editor: Mail Tribune Editorial, Nov. 24, 1959 . i . "Loyalty Oath Again." Agreed! The .loyalty oath itself doesn't "seem too ob jectionable at first superfi cial glance"; but, as we look at it more carefully, we find such an oath is the least, the bare minimum, we should re quire of those who seek fed eral funds for their educa tion. Are those who make up the electorate not allowed at least these guarantees: The careful use of their finances, the continuance of the Ameri can way of life under the constitution, and a reasonable amount of peace of mind? To say the oath Is "utterly useless," is to infer a com munist, or any other subver- have as a member a South erner who really wants to see progress in civil rights for the Negroes-and has tak en plenty of risks at home to prove it. Collins', moderate approach will not," of course, ever suit Butler, who wants extreme measure to be ap plied to the South. It is at least possible, how ever, that other members of the DAC will heed the Gov ernor's counsel. The point might even be rea'ched where a compromise solution of the divisive issue of civil rights would have some chance of prevailing in the Democratic National . Convention next summer. (Copyright, 1959. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) I 9e 1 ) We Are Small Enough To Know You, Large Enough To Give Complete Service Oregon Finance Co 45 South Central, across 8th St. from Wards Medford's First Personal Finance Company Established 1928 Our Rate Is the Same. You Get Personal Attention and Your Money Stays at Home promptly to the Internal Rev enue Service. It's not only tax matters that get people's consciences to hurting. A government worker in Boston enclosed $25 with a nice letter ex plaining that he had used government stationery for his private correspondence, and he wanted to settle the debt. His letter was on government stationery, of course. Ex-soldiers (or their moth ers or wives) are forever chipping in to cover foot lockers, bug bombs, blankets and other stuff they carted home from the war. A fellow from Brooklyn not long ago sent in $500.26 with this ex planation: "I admit milking the cow and wish to make restitution." Southerner Saved Enclosing $250 in cash, an anonymous corresp o n d e n t from Birmingham, Ala., re cently told the tax boss: "I got saved and I feel I must do this. How is it with your soul?" Government men recall a case many years ago when five $1,000 bills turned up in a letter from somewhere in New England. In those days big bills were easier to trace. Agents soon found their man. He was 80 or older, a Polish immigrant who had risen from peddler to business suc cess. He said this country had been kind to him and he wanted to make sure he hadn't erred in his own favor when reporting his tax. The agents had heard that kind of story before. They de cided to look at his books. They checked his returns for three years. The result was, they gave him back the $5,000 and arranged to get him a re fund. He had overpaid by $11,000., the sive, may perjure himself with impunity. The loyalty oath may be insulting to many; it could never be insulting to an American patriot! Discriminating? Certainly. This oath would discriminate against every hue of subver siveness. The communists in this country are outwardly and invariably indistinguishable. Know this however; they all harbor an inner disgust, and a base contempt for those who through smugness, or ignor ance aid in their own victimi zation. There is no little irony present when the three schools you mentioned feel the way they have announced; for there, behind their ivory walls is born, nurtured, and highly developed the core of their corps of Liberalism. Robert J. Howard 828 B West 14th st. Medford DRAFT CALL CUT Washington -IPD-The Army will draft 7,000 men in Jan uary, a cut of 2,000 from De cember's call. The new levy will bring to 2,497,430 the number of men called up un der the draft since the start of the Korean war in June, 1950, the Defense Department said Wednesday. DANCE1 Saturday Night OASIS Eagle Point Gene Thomas Says: You get extra courtesy and friendliness when you your loan from an in dependent local company. 4
