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MAIL TRIBUNI, Medfeed, Or. Monday, Dec' 14, 1959 "Everyone in Southern Orecaa Read The Mall Tribune published Dtilv except Saturday by MIJDFt AD PRINTING CO 83 North Wt St Ph BP a-6141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor BERB GRE Advertise Mana CEI'Ai-D LATHAM Buein ERIC W uLEN JR. Managing Kditor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHTPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JKWETT SporU Editor OLTVE ST ARCHER Women's Edltot PALE ERICKSQN Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Sntered a second class mat tar at Medfor Oreenn under Act el Marc S 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES M a I In Advance Codt 10c Dall- and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Dally and Sunday 8 mos 8 01 Call and Sunday -3 mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year 8450 v Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland, Central Point. Eeele Point. Jarkronvllle. Cold Hill Phoents Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talm and on motor routes Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 150 Carrier and Dealers-e o p y lOe . All Terms Cast- In Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Papet ol Jackson county Untied Press International run Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Ar'vertlsine Renresentative WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices In Kev. York. Chicago. De troit San Pi-aneisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. cqZl NEWSPAPER k PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Wail Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 14, 1949 (Wednesday) Drive reaches $3,000 goal ior Jackson county ambu lance plane; order in for two engine Cessna. Two Medford safe-burglars arrested in Coos Bay. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 14, 1939 (Thursday) German pocket v battleship "Admiral Graf Spee" bottled up in Montevideo harbor by British ships. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The state proposes to hire a lec turer to warn young people of the perils of drink. There is evidence some of the older folks could stand a sermon or two on the subject." SO YEARS AGO Dac. 14, 1929 (Saturday) ' State highway commission to spend $1 million on roads this corning year, U.S. Steel plans big expan sion to end depression drift. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 14. 1919 (Monday) Cold spell ends and Chin ook winds create danger of floods throughout western Oregon. "Dry Christmas" promised nation by rum enforcement agencies. 80 YEARS AGO Dec. 14. 1909 (Tuesday) Grants Pass city council grants 50-year lease to pro. posed electric road in valley; Ashland council to decide soon. Tro-IT.S revolution imrnin nt in Nicaragua: President Zelaya reportedly plans to resign. What's Your I.Q.? Nine ar tea correct is superief; seven or eiyhl is ncenenr; rive Six is good. 1. Does the population of North America exceed that of South America? 2. In what body of water Is the Isle of Man? 3. What is the name of the league organized in 1945 among Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Ye men? 4. Is Arizona classed as a plains State or a mountain State?- s Tn what snort did Helen Wills Moody gain her great est fame? c 6. What happened to Bene dict Arnold after his treason was discovered? 7. What country is the world's largest producer , of wool? ' 8. Who, in American polit ical life, was known as the "Kingfish"? ' -' ' 9. From what language are the Romance languages derr ived? 10. Complete this saying: A word to the wise ." 1. Yes. 2. The Irish Sea. 3. The Arab League. 4. Moun tain State. 5. Tennis. 6. Ha be came a British Officer. 7. Australia, 8. Huay Long of Louisiana. 9. Latin. 10. " is iufficieBt'. Of National Concern ' m Whenever somebody tells us that federal aid to education is as dangerous as the bubonic plague we suggest that he take a look at Hermiston High School, talk to teachers and administrators at Hermiston High School. That school received while McNary Dam was a lesser amount thereafter. There isn't a speck of evidence that anybody ever attempted to dictate to Hermiston High School. The Oregon State Board of Education reveal ed recently that 31 of Oregon's 36 counties are getting federal aid under the National Defense Education Act. In the current year, $711,000 will be spent in 133 Oregon school districts to improve teaching of science, mathematics and foreign languages. The act also offers federal aid to dis tricts that want to improve their counseling serv ice to students, and several districts are accepting that aid. e "llE DOUBT that any T ticipating in the National Defense Education Act program has had any unpleasant experiences with it. We doubt that educational processes. Education is a matter a school district is doing less than an adequate job the entire nation suffers. If a school district is doing an above average job the entire nation benefits. It is as important to you that a boy in Mississippi who has a pared to go to college as it is to his school district in Mississippi. The fight against federal aid to education is phony. The opponents place their emotions ahead of good sense. Pendleton uast-uregoman. So Let It Be Whereas, Americans are incurably addicted to the formation of clubs, societies, conferences and conventions, and WHEREAS, the inevitable result of such gre garianism is the drafting of resolutions, and WHEREAS, such groups have fallen by tradi tion into the reprehensible practice of drafting statements of their beliefs with the aid of exces sive and offensive whereases, and 1 WHEREAS, such imperishable documents as the Declaration of Independence are not clutter ed with whereases, and WHEREAS, the whereas form of a resolu tion is a. blot on the use and a depredation of people of the United States, therefore BE IT RESOLVED, that no more whereases and be-it-resolveds shall be employed by such clubs, societies, associations, conferences and con ventions, and . BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that-this resolution, being duly noted, shall be expunged from the record. Portland Oregonian. Lost World of Oz If Junior or Susie is watching teevee or' read ing a comic book instead of reading something worthwhile, maybe there is a reason for it. So be lieves Shirley Jackson, the distinguished novelist and short story writer, who laments, in the Dec. 10 Reporter, the lost world of Oz. The Oz books, still fresh in the mind of many a parent, stimulated the childish imagination. Teevee and the comic books stimulate imagina tion, too. But do many of the modem "children books?" They certainly do not, says Miss Jack son. Yet, she argues, children need to have their imaginations stirred. ' CHE, writes of the -'substantial" books now put out for the younger set. Junior, instead of watching teevee, can curl up with the life of ex citing old John Qunicy Adams. His sister can read of how "Violet, Girl Horticulturist, found love and a career in a greenhouse." The smallest readers are invited to read about "Visiting a Supermarket with Mummy." Pretty vapid stuff compared with television fare or with Oz. Reading, at first exposure, is a flight from reality the often rather circumscribed life of the small child. When he doesn't find this escape in the reading ottered him, he turns to places where he can get it, including: television. The tragedy is that this escape from reality is only the first step in reading. JORE important is the second element flight .into reality. The person who reads widely has a better idea of the real world than does the per son whose whole life is and ideas of which he personal knowledge. Television drama, like the '"first of the benefits of reading. It does not )rovide the second. The Oz books, or something ike the Ozvbooks, however, will likely lead to an appreciation for reading. Thus they will place m the childish hand the into reality.. Television drama does not offer this key. Childish imagination, childish lungs, was meant to be exercised. For its full development, however, it ought to be exer cised in a way that will challenge it when it is no longer, so childish. substantial federal aid under construction and in Washington, D.C. has school district that is par- any has lost control ot its of national concern. If high 10 is properly pre . ' of the English language the intelligence of the made up of the objects the Oz books, provides key to a lifetime of flight like childish legs and Eugene Hegist?rGuard. Dennis tKe Menace SAVeO YA SOME tvw.? w WASH Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The 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 Yumpin' Yiminy! To the Editor: Aye yump all over Yackson county in Apperson yumpin' tin yack- rabbit. Aye yump around Medford apd Yacksonville. Yump in sewer ditches, yump in creeks. Yump over fire hydrants, and yump into garbage cans. Aye yump over sidewalks, and aye yump through plate glass window. Yump in yail, yump out. Never try to yump over moon,, try to yump over Sis kiyous. First yump, and aye yump out of transmission. Quit yumpin' in No. 1 Ap person yumpin' tin yackrab- bit. Start yumpin around in No. 2 yumpin' tin yackrabbit. Everett Ackhn, : Ashland, Ore. Rationale To the Editor: The letter in your Communications column panning modern popular mif- sic show a great deal of bias in peoples judgment. One must listen with a proper point of view. First take, the case of the "tin - cans falling - down - the- stairs" type. Anyone who has ever observed a child in a house that boasts a stairway knows that children are ihrilled by the clatter of a bag of marbles, a bowl of nuts or a box of sundry articles dumped down the stairs. With one - level bungalow type houses so popular, these der prived children need a substfc tute - hence "tin-cans-falling- down-thestairs" type music. Next consider the stutter and or hiccough singer. It is common knowledge that 'pop" -singers have not had voice training. It seems logi cal to say that Bing started this trend with his untrained voice singing "in the b-b-b-b blue of the night." Now just stop and think! If you had to make your living singing to millions of people with an un trained voice, wouldn't you be scared? You b-b-bet your b-b-boots y(eh)ou would! If it hasn't already astound ed your ears, note the pro nounced "twang. This twan- gy flavor is accomplished by holding notes on consonants instead of on vowels and should be recognized as a great physical feat because most people would strangle if they tried it. Fourth-off-key and off-beat lyrics and orchestration. Well, when they're out of tun,e and not regular we'll just have to assume that they haven't heard the dinner-hour com mercials. , And if the whole effect still sounds wierd, listen to the words! For example, the one who sings that he'll always remember that one lovely day and he knows that their love was true love so now he goes his own way. We've heard since time be gan that true love, be it of friend, relative, sweetheart or the Almighty, is the great est and most rewarding expe rience of mankind. So how miserable this poor creature must be when he finds it fit only for rejection, and goes his own lonely way rather than being impelled to stay in its warmth and honor. So close your eyes to the peace and comfort of your surroundings and listen-listen to pure agony! ' Ruth Anderson, - . 204 Sunrise ave., Medford Mora Tut-Tulting To the Editor: I read your editorial "Tut - tutting the 'Civil Warl" with interest. WOP&.foMl VA VSGN'T west cwiHe; Mail Tribune reserves the right to the case. Some valid points are made in the editorial; however, feel that perhaps you are not looking at the situation in an objective manner. Your dismissal of the man handling of the OSC rally girls is bad enough. I suspect if it had been your daughter being passed through a male rooting section against , her will, you would not have been o flippant in your attitude to wards this incident. From flippancy you go to very poor taste in your "hunch" that "some of them actually enjoy ed it." This sort of irresponsi ble writing is a disgrace- to any paper. By letting your natural prejudice for your alma mater white wash the actions of the U of O students, you are re fusing to recognize . the ser iousness of the situation. While it is true that what hap pened at Eugene did not cause any serious damage, it is also true that the only reason a riot did not result was the leadership shown by the OSC rally squad in keeping control of the OSC rooting section. By writing off the U of O student's conduct as "youth ful high spirits" you have left the way open for more inci dents of the same sort. I If pul lie pressure does not show dis approval of these actions, we have no logical arguments to hold the wilder elements at OSC under control. Another example of how seriously this "childish be havior" should be taken by this excerpt from a letter sent to the OSC Barometer by R. B. 'WaUs, director, Depart ment of Music, OSC. "This is to say I am fed up with this kind of childish, and irresponsible behavior on the part of university students or guests. Inasmuch as the uni versity seems either unable or unwilling to control then- crowd, I suggest we discon tinue the practice of sending our band to the game in Eu gene, and they not send theirs to Corvallis." 'Your editorial "Tut-Tutting the 'Civil War' " provided an example of editorializing without thinking. It also pro vided an example of vulgarity applied by insinuation to per sons you do not even know. You are letting prejudices rule your writing with the re sult that you are doing a dis service not only to the parties referred to in your editorial (including the university), but also to the readers of your editorial page. Frank Lamb Room 417 Poling Hall Oregon State College Corvallis, Ore. Slill Happy To the Editor: Well, con gratulations to Mr. Nolan and Mr. Marks for standing up to be counted! I felt just a little bit lonesome out there on that limb in defense of the local stations, but I've gone out on limb before, that's where the fruit is. I had hoped to elicit support from other fans Science Shrinks Piles New Way Without Surgery Stops Itch Relieves Pain Hew York, N. T. (Special) For the first time science has found a now healing substance with the aston ishine ability to shrink hemor rhoids, stop itching, and relieve ain without surgery. In case after caxe. while p-pntlv relieving pain, actual reduction (snnnKage) took place. Most amazin sr of all results were M ttawaga thai .uffuaw auoa Today & Tomorrow By Walter The Indian Revolution The pressure from China, which I wrote about in yes terday's article, has come at a time when India's future d e p e n ds on far - reachine decisions at I home a n d I among her friends and well - wishers abroad. There are, as we saw yester day, great but subtile and ex tremely delicate decisions to be taken primarily in Mos cow but also in Washington as to how to preserve the peace of inner Asia by the containment of China. There are also decisions to be taken, primarily in Washington but also in London, Bonn and Moscow, as to how the econ omic salvation of India is to be financed. Bat inside India there are decisions to be made which are no less momentous, and in this report I shall attempt to identify some of them. The Indian republic is now about ten years old, and it is still led and governed by the generation of its founding fathers. Of them the greatest, of course, is Nehru. The time has come when the founding fathers have no greater task or duty than to prepare the way- for their successors. The problems which India must solve in the next ten years are enormous and they are urgent. They call for nothing less than a revolution in the economy . of India, and this revolution, even with all the necessary foreign aid, must be carried out by a new gen eration which has young en ergy and fresh enthusiasm and sharp vision.. WHEN WE speak of the rev. olution to which India is committed, it is useful, I think, to clarify the issue by saying that there are two ob jectives. One of these must be reached in about six years. India must be made capable of feeding itself before it is overwhelmed by the ava lanche of its growing popula tion. The second task can be achieved only if and as the first problem is solved. The second task is that of prepar ing India in the course of the next 10 or 15 years for the day when the country will have an independent and pro gressive economy which can finance its own development by normal commercial opera tions. The task of feeding India is critical, and if it is not car ried out, the human and polit ical consequences will be dire. The task of developing an independent Indian econ omy is a spectacular objec tive, indispensable, however, if the free institutions of In dia are to survive in the com p e t i ti o n with totalitarian China. Plans for meeting these two objectives are being formulated by the old guard, by the generation of -the founding fathers of Indian independence. But the plans will have to be carried out by the successors of the founding fathers. Now, it is not clear who these successors are go ing to be, and they are not being groorrled for the work or made known to the people, Yet, unless this uncertainty about the succession of power is faced fully and resolved for some of the other fine sta tions, but I like the idea of their statements better. It is my belief that those who are so critical of a job being well done would be do ing that job if they were so much better qualified to do it. find the programming on each of these stations equally attractive with that of KYJC, each has something to offer at different .times of the day which I thoroughly enjoy. And if we were all to be really-honest, I think we-would say we can take a lengthier diet of the easy . to listen to music than any other variety. like some classical music and a little bit of hillbilly music, but only as a garnisn served up with the main course. And now I'm happy about my position in this minority. I like the company I'm in. (Name on File) Jacksonville. astonishing statements like "Pile have ceased to be a problem!" The secret is a new healing sub stance (BiorDyne)-!-discovery ef a world-famous research institute. This substance is now available in suppository or ointment form under the name Preparation H At your druggist. Money back guarantee. Walter LlDnmanlk Llppmann boldly, it will, I venture, to think, jeopardize the success, which will not be easy in any event, of the economic revo lution. WfHEN I raised this question with Indians, I was often told that India is a genuine, working parliamentary de mocracy on the British model and that it has like the British- a very competent civil service. The system is such that it will provide for a successor government by the normal procedure of elections and of parliamentary democ racy. This is true in the sense that India has political insti tutions of "the Western kind which are virtually unique in Asia. I would not question the confidence of the Indians in the capacity of their own institutions to produce a suc cession were it certain or even probable that India can solve its problems with a normal government constitut ed more or less In the Brit ish style. I do not, however, think that the British them selves could solve their prob lems without radical political changes if they were faced with problems of the magni tude and the complexity of those of India. What troubled me was the disparity between the revo lutionary objectives of the Third Five-Year Plan and the mildness, the almost Victor ian mildness, and the normal ity of - the Indian political system. I asked myself whe ther the gigantic economic revolution can be carried out by parliamentary politicians and civil servants without the dynamism and the discipline of an organized mass move ment TDC to DO NOT know the answer this question. But I have no doubt that it is the crucial question. For the solution of the basic problem-which- is how to feed adequately the population-requires not only materials and the tools which money can buy.- It requires also a revolutionary change in the traditional way of life of the Indian masses in their villages. I do not see how this revo lution, which must go deeply into the Indian social system and the Indian culture, can be brought about by the persua sion of experts alone. I would suppose that it would require the organized pressures of a popular movement under gov ernment leadership so dynam ic and so purposeful that it can inspire people to do vol untarily the kinds of things that in Communist China are done by compulsion. Such popular movements are always dangerous. They can get out of control. They pan be exploited by dema gogues and fanatics, and they pan erode the kind of parlia mentary democracy which In dia enjoys. I do not like the medicine, which in too big doses is a poison. But this would not be an honest re port if I did not raise the question whether the strong medicine may be needed. I am afraid it . is. For India does not have all the time in the world to solve its basic problems by the education of its masses and by persuasion. The essential economic prob lem must be solved within a few years, or it may well be come insoluble. F)R SOME years the Ford Foundation has sponsored a team of American agricul tural specialists who have worked - out a plan for the solution of the Indian food problem. They are led by Mr. Douglas Ensminger, a man of great knowledge and wisdom and sympathy. The American experts point out that while the Indians have been able to increase food pro duction somewhat, they are falling behind because of the greater increase in the popu lation. If this goes on, if the popu lation continues to grow fast er than the food supply, India will soon, in some five or six years, "be short about 28 mil lion tons of food. This is more than can possibly be Drm 1 Funeral Home ;sv FRIENDLY HOMELIKE Revision Urged in Washington UPD The ad ministration plans to ask Con gress next month to tighten the law governing the use of chemicals in food processing. Arthur S. Flemming, secre tary of health, education and welfare, said Sunday he would urge that the law be revised to make it easier to ban all use of chemicals found to cause cancer in animals. He predicted that Congress would approve the change. Flemming explained that the present law authorizes his department to deny the re quest of a food producer ask ing for permission to use a certain substance if it has been found to be cancer-producing. But he said the law requires the government to prove the chemical is cancer-producing in the case of food processors supplied by any conceivable form of rationing or importi." Large masses of the Indian people, and we should add of their working animals, are under-nourished and indeed hungry- most of the time. They have such an unbal anced diet, that they, do not have the strength and the energy and the will to im prove their methods of farm ing. . , . The Ford people are confi-. dent that they can master this situation in about six years. To do this there must be more fertilizers and more insecti cides. There must be plants to make fertilizers and in secticides. There must be better plows and other agri cultural tools. There must be more water for irrigation and more storage space. All this will require about $1.5 billion in foreign exchange to pay for the tools anc! the chem icals that have to be implied. It will require also about $1.8 billion worth of surplus wheat from the United States. TiHIS IS the price, say these experts, of "continued po litical stability in India." If the food problem is not solved, there will be a grow ing inflation in food prices and that will bring not only s e m i - starvation but wide spread unrest and all the dan gers of an uncontrollable in ternal crisis. He would be a bold man who tried to argue that India's fundamental problem can be solved more cheaply than the Ford experts say. For -myself the real ques tion is whether the program, which is no doubt conserva tive, can be carried out quick ly enough among the three hundred million peasants who live in more than half a- mil lion villages. - I cannot help feeling that for such a far-reaching revo lution on such a gigantic scale in so short a time there will be needed in the leadership of the Indian nation and in the organization of the Indian masses a dynamism and a discipline which are 'not now there. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. 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 Hear your on KrAtu every Sunday, 10:30 a.m., sung by "Tennessee Ernie" Ford ATMOSPHERE Food Process Law who previously had received, permission to use the subw stance. . 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