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MAIL TRIBUNE, M4for4, Or. Monday. " 11, I960 "Tveryone in Southern Oregon Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North Fir St.. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RXJHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD T. LATHAM, Bin. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CfflPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $ 15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only On year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er, Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.30 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c AU Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire T7 J J. Telephoto Newspictureg " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWS PA Pit PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL iScQkTlQn A Flight o' Time Medford nd Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 nd 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO -T.n. it. 1950 (Wednesday) Madame Chiang Kai-Shek complains that effective com munist propaganda preveniea U.S. from helping Nationalist Chinese on mainland. Tuesday night's wind des troyed a brand-new refinish ing mill at Camp "White just hours before it was to go into production for the first time. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 11, 1940 (Thursday) Roy Gardner, ex - convict, ittwi suicide in San Francisco last night. He ap peared in Medford in 1938 on a lecture tour and in 1921 hid fiwm federal aeents near Easle Point while bullet mimri in his le healed. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudfe Pot" column: "Ore gon Wool Grower's associa tion asks removal of reciprocal trade treaties and wool pulled over their eyes by the same treaties." SO YEARS AGO Jan. 11. 1930 (Saturday) "Prink" Callison, local high school coach, is leading candi date for vacant head football coach position at the Univer sity of Oregon. Gov. Norblad protests car toonists depicting "Old Man Oregon" with chin whiskers. "Wants state figure smooth shaven. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 11. 1920 (Monday) .. Oregon legislature ratifies women's suffrage. William Jennings Bryan urges senate to ratify League of Nations so U.S. can join. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 11, 1910 (Tuesday) First attempts to fly a mono plane in U.S., failed today when plane crashed on take off at Los Angeles. Oregon Federation of Labor passes a resolution calling for proportional representation, both legislative and council manic. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Tungsten is an element; true or false? 2. What is the name of the longest wall in the world? 3. What is the bulldog edi tion of a newspaper? 4. Since 1860, Germany be gan five wars; can you name three of them? 5. On what river did the steamboat "Clermont" make her trial trip 152 years ago? 6. Was New Hampshire one of the original thirteen States of the Union? 7. In what city is the Great White Way? 8. What branch of the armed forces has the motto "Semper Fidelis"? 9. Horseshoes were invent ed several centuries B.C.; true or false? 10. What is the smallest breed of dog? Answers: 1. True. 2. Great rii f China. 3. Early edi tion for distant points. 4. Dan ish. Ausiro-Prussian, Prussian, World Wars I and II. 5. Hudson River. 6. Yes. 7. New York City. 8. Manne Corps. 9. True. 10. Chihuahua. 1 lo 6 lbs. . - - Pretty Kettle of Fish This is addressed to our friends who, in the Communications column today, take exception to a piece appearing here last week called "Sui cide Amendment." ' What Willis Stone SAYS the proposed 23rd amendment would do doesn't make the slightest particle of difference. What the amendment WOULD do is what we were talking about Have you read it? Have you thought about it? IF NOT, here is is: "Section 1. The Government of the United states shall not engage in any business, profes sional, commercial, financial, or industrial enter prise except as specified in the Constitution. "Section 2. The Constitution or laws of any State, or the laws of the United States, shall not be subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amend ment. "Section 3. The activities of the U. S. Gov ernment which violate the intent and purposes of this amendment shall, within a period of three years from the ratification of this amendment, be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected shall be sold. "Section 4. Three years after the ratification of this amendment the sixteenth article of amend ments to the Constitution of the United States shall stand repealed and thereafter Congress shall not levy taxes on andor gifts. M OW 1 If that bit of absurdity became part of the constitution, it would do would do. We suggest our mends read the pro posed amendment carefully, then go back and read the "Suicide Amendment" piece again. The constitution (Read it lately? We have.) specifies the nation may collect taxes (we'd keep the internal revenue service), may provide for armed forces (we'd keep the Army, Navy and Air Force), shall conduct a census (we'd keep the bureau of the census), and establish a post office and post roads (we'd retain the post office and, perhaps, the bureau of public roads). And, possibly, the department Everything else would just a few, the forest service, bureau of land management, bureau of reclamation, social se curity administration, public health service, na- , i i. ii :i uonai aeronautics ana space aamimstrauon, son conservation service, extension service, experi mental stations, federal poration, and a host of And that would be E.A. Don 't Take It Off The best thing that's happened to the auto business since the hydraulic brake, in our opinion, is the Automobile Information Disclosure Act which went into effect a year ago. This is the federal law to post the itemized price on each car and the dealer to keep the price slip there until the buyer assumes possession. It s found on a rear side window. And we're pleased to likely to stay there even worn off the law. THEY will if there are ax uuiiu liAv taic viit J. ii kjciii i iauwow vyuu this week fined a San Francisco dealer the max imum $2,000 for removing slips The law came into ness failed to police itself. Buying an auto still can be a pretty slippery undertaking for the aver age person and it's a relief to have one solid bit of information to grasp. Actually, a dealer has to be a pretty shaggy sort to want to take the tag off. Dealers we've talked to say the law has proved to be a help, not a hinderance, to their business. They say it increases buyer confidence and saves a lot of talking time. Capital Journal, Salem. A Good American Voice The Ohio American Legion brass should have known better than to tackle Sen. Stephen M. Young, whose Milquetoast appearance hides a very tough character indeed. But' not having known better, the Legion naires presented Senator Young with a golden opportunity to get a load off his mind. The Legion big-wigs met in Cincinnati and adopted a resolu tion call on Mr. Young to cancel a speech he was to make to the Emergency Civil Liberties Com mittee in New York. They said the group was a Communist-front organization, though it is not so listed by the Attorney General. IN REPLY, Senator Young wrote to the Legion Americanism chairman: "I repudiate your resolution, Buster, and your pompous, self-righteous, holier-than-thou title of Americanism chairman' ... Do you self-appointed vigilantes demand that I submit a list of speaking en gagements for clearance by your outfit before I, as a Senator of the United States, may open my mouth in public? . . . Many of you loud-mouthed, publicity seeking, professional veterans were chairborne in the Pentagon or elsewhere while millions of us were over seas in combat . . . You demand that I cancel a speaking engagement. Til make that speech in New York." This is a good American voice speaking and if the Ohio Legionnaries have not heard it before they have not been listening. St Louis Post Dispatch.' . t personal incomes, estates, everything we said it of justice. be prohibited, lo name deposit insurance cor others. a pretty Kettle ot lish. that requires a factory that white slip usually note that the tags are after the newness has many federal judges being because the busi Dennis the Wfc don't vwnt anything, wis JUST CAMS IN TO MAKE OURSELVES DIZZY. 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 Mail Tribune reserves the right to 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 the case. Influences on Children To the Editor: Many per sons are becoming alarmed over the increase in crime and seeming lack of parental restraint. Wanton disregard of human rights is at every hand. The blame is placed here and there. One preacher even went so far as to say "Televi sion is the Devil's sewer line." Personally, I am convinced TV as it is beintr used, for a large part, is just one result or sum of the aee in which we live. I shudder for the youth who have been penned up almost like animals in our cities, and are being brain washed by this modern me dium of communication. We talk about the brain-washing tactics of other countries. I ask, what are we subject ing our precious children to? Are we going to sit placidly by and continue to let money- greedy interests rob our chil dren of a future prosperous life? Before youngsters are hardly able to talk, they are now lisping some brewers ditty or finding which cigar ette has the least tars and nicotine. How surprising to live in an age when pretenders of hu man good and outright liars are given more attention than those who stand by the right. I am thankful that we have access to a source of informa tion that speaks out far stronger than any words I could convey. No longer is the Book of Books kept from the common people. Like a well spring of life, its counsels and precepts are available to all. Like weary mountain climbers, with parched tongues, coming upon a bubbling spring, so are the precious, wisdom filled pages of Holy Writ to humans. We've tried almost everything else. Why not go to the true Spring of Life? Instead of attiring our babes in dime store cowboy outfits, with a gun at each hip, why don't we place the real things of life before them? All the gold we may have acquired will avail us nothing in that day when fi nal accounts will be made. Our children need us and we need our children. Henry Johnson Jr. 2400 Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. He's For Private Enterprise To the Editor: You finally aroused me sufficiently in Thursday's editorial, "Suicide Amendment," to break out pen and paper in retaliation. I believe you should recon sider, "It would reduce the U. S. to a fifth rate power al most overnight, alone and without friends in the world, bankrupt, destitute." First, is it possible to buy friends in the true sense of the word? I say NO, not now or ever. Stop all foreign aid? Our true friends would still be with us. Bankrupt the U.S.? Nonsense. By passing the 23rd amendment we would be immensely stronger and much closer to a bal anced budget. By selling the 700 odd gov ernment owned corporations, the value of which is esti mated at from 50 to 100 bil lion dollars, that amount of money could be applied to the national debt and the same corporations would go on American tax rolls, and inci dently eliminate an annual loss of 38 billion dollars which is the amount of personal in come tax paid. Then, in the good years after private enter prise has taken over, these corporations will be paying the federal government 8V2 billion dollars a year which could be used to reduce the Menace staggering national debt. All of this added up and we should be debt free in 25 years. Bankrupt! Destitute! Bosh!! Example of present trend in Federal Government: Non defense spending has in creased from 2.6 billions in 1930 to 28.1 billions in 1959, an increase of about 1000 per cent. I like this thought of Wood- row Wilson in 1912. "The his tory of liberty is a history of limitations of Governmental powers, not in the increase of it. Therefore, when we resist the concentrations of power we are resisting the processes of death, because concentra tion of power is what always preceeds the destruction of human liberties." - Ed Olsen, 190 Clover Lane, Medford. Spank the Writer To the Editor: I have just finished reading your tirade against the speech Mr. Willis Stone gave at the Medford High school on the evening of Jan. 6. I have come to the conclusion that you did not have your information and facts in very good order and that your publisher would be highly commended by the citizenry of our town if he took you out to the woodshed and spanked you as a parent would any guilty youngster, You were guilty of insulting the intelligence of your own readers as well as the other citizens, because you failed to present the facts and figures correctly on the proposed 23rd amendment. As a mat ter of fact, you completely and thoroughly warped the intent and purpose of the en tire theme, and I would sug gest that in the future you prepare your material on a more orderly and factual ba sis before sounding off. - Byron Palmer Route 2, Box 25 Jacksonville, Ore. P.S. Please feel free to use this letter in your column. It might just create a little read er interest. You started the ball rolling, inadvertently, I'll admit, so keep it going. Editor's note: We didn't start it. Willis Stone did. Highway Surfaces To the Editor: A couple of weeks ago I wrote a letter about the unnecessarily slip pery roads here in Oregon. Last week I read where five people were killed on "99," four north of Eugene and one south of Medford. These deaths were blamed on "icy roads" but ice was only a con tributing factor. The bulk of the blame lies with the sur face of the road. True enough we need better driver habits and attitudes, but with the best of drivers we also need the safest possible roads, which we are not getting. When a surface that is al ready as smooth as glass be comes wet or frosty, or acquires a very thin coat of ice, all normal control is gone. Such was the case at Eugene and south of Medford; at Eu gene fog freezing on the road killed four people; at Medford a thin layer of ice killed an other, or so it says. I suppose I will be called a crank by some, and a crack pot by others but I know that these accidents would not be nearly so numerous if the proper type of surface were applied to all of our highways. A good example of this type of surface can be found between Glendale Junction and Aza lea, Oregon. On that stretch Foreign Notebook: Anti-Semitism; French Split; Suez Memoirs; Japanese Trade By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Notes from the foreign editor's notebook: New Angle West Berlin expects the Soviet Union to seize upon the recent anti - Semitic outbreaks in West Ger many as a rea son to issue a stern new warning to the Western Allies and West Ger Phi Newsom many against Nazi activities a revival of in the Federal Republic. The Washington Report By WILLIAM NAZI MEMORIES Washington-The most dan gerous problem now before the Western allies is not their rZTr differences over how to negotiate at the summit with the Rus sians. And it is never offi cially admit ted to be a problem at all. W " S" . Responsible people here and abroad have understandably played down this situation, for already it serves Soviet interests as few things could. All the same, its of road, under the same con ditions, reasonable caution as sures you of safe control of your car, while almost all of our new, four lane freeways are surfaced with a smooth slippery material. Why? We have the material, we have the methods and we are pay ing plenty; why are we get ting more and more miles of the same slick, dangerous roads? Why is the highway department s p en d i n g thou sands to burn off excess oil and still building more of the same? I drive between Medford and Portland over 200 times a year and there are many more like me who will agree when I say that a large part of our winter accidents are directly and solely the fault of. our highways. Let those who decide what type of sur face shall be applied to our roads re-examine their reasons and see if they are really worth the price. The next time you drive, look at the surface of the road you are on, compare the dif ferent types of material used, and judge for yourself. Should it be raining or frosty, drive as if your life depended on it. It does. E. B. Van Horn, 505 Franquette st. Medford. "Such Journalism" To the Editor: I read your editorial in the Dec. 7 (sic) sue. Having met you on oue or two occasions, I judged you as being an intelligent, well educated man. The statements you made were very misleading and an insult to the audience and the cattle people of this county who sponsored this meeting. I am sure had you attended the meeting or conversed with Mr. Stone as you were re quested to do, being only 20 feet away from the man at the time, or if you had made any intelligent attempt to as certain the facts you would not have succumbed to such journalism. Armin Richter 1015 North Central ave. Medford Trusts Big Business To the Editor: The writer is one among many regular readers of the Mail Tribune who do take seriously a favor able attitude towards the pro posed 23rd amendment to the U. S. constitution. We are gratified to believe that your estimate, that we are neither sensible nor informed, does not necessarily describe our intellectual status; we accept your opinion as amusingly condescending. We are among many who are well informed about the U.S. constitution and its intent to protect our freedom of thought and action and enter prise. We are most jealous of the heritage it gives us, and strenuously rebellious against the abridgements of that con stitution which are robbing us of our property and per sonal freedoms. We are conscious that one in each eight income-earning individuals in our land is get ting his income from our tax pockets, but we don't have to like it. In fact, we have much, much more confidence, in big business, with all its short comings, than we have in big government. Paul Hornbeck 321 East Pine st. Central Point, Ore. Soviet warning would tie in with demands for a "free de militarized" West Berlin and would provide Soviet Khru shchev with additional am munition for his summit meet ing with Western leaders next May. . In Bonn, the West German government is believed ready ing get-tough measures for anti-Semites but to be waiting for the story to drift out of the headlines. Informed sources say Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer's government believes that, in the present atmosphere, critics would ac cept nothing but extreme mea sures which only would drive right-wingers underground. S. WHITE gravity is becoming compell ing and it needs to be men tioned out loud. The plain fact is this: there is a steadily rising antagon ism toward West Germany within the free world. This is especially, and critically, true in Britain which is now the actual Western leader in poli cy - making for the coming summit conference with Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union. A close association with West Germany has been at the very heart of Western pol icy since the cold war began about 1947. What is now go ing on is seriously straining these vitally necessary ties. THE immediately obvious toward the Germans is a ser - -.wov ies of crude anti-Jewish acts in West Germany. Chancel lor Konrad Adenauer is mov ing fast and sincerely to pun ish this sort of thing and to see that it does not continue. The West Germans suggest that Communist agents in East Germany have framed these incidents to attempt to show that a new Naziism is at work and so to hurt West Germany with her allies With this estimate, some in formed officials m Washing ton entirely agree. The real and basic difficul ties, however, run far deep er. And they will not alto gether be ended even if Aden auer is able both to halt the outrages and to prove their Communist inspiration. For the simple truth is this, with full respect for the countless thousands of American fami lies who lost men in the war we never as a whole nation had more than the faintest awareness of the measureless evil and cruelties of the Nazi Germans. Many other nations and peoples knew all too well. And, being human, they do not forget - the Jews every where, the Poles everywhere, the British, and many of the French and Belgians, among others. THUS, the nearer we ap proach that day when West Germany is to demand an lm portant role in summit nego tiations the more difficult it is for many to accept these German claims to place and Dower. True, the Adenauer government is not responsible for the unspeakable brutali ties of the old Hitler Ger mans. True, Adenauer Ger many is making every hon orable effort to repay society. But say all this and you still have not said quite enough for many -including a great majority in the British Isles. The civilians there remem ber the long, savage, murder ous air assaults upon London, the months and months of death and destruction and de privation - and despair when England stood alone. The ex soldiers (and plenty of our own, too) remember this and more. They remember Ger man actions -not only in the death camps but on the bat tlefield - against helpless men that will stain memory itself so long as life shall last. This correspondent knows for a fact that these recollec tions are most widely held. For he, too - if a personal reference may be excused to support a point - remembers all this; . sometimes in night- mares, lor ne wnnessea suf ferings of others, that have persisted for a decade and a half and still come again and again. Yes. the one course of wis dom is to forget, and to draw up against the undoubted common peril, the Soviet Un ion. But let us not be too im patient with those who have so much reason to find for getfulness so hard. (Copyright, 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) do FALSE TEETH Reck. Slide or Slip? FAS-TEETH, an Improved oowder e be sprinkled on upper or lower plates, holds false teeth more firmly in place. Do not slide, slip or rock, no gummy gooey, pasty taste or feeling. FAS. TEETH Is alkaline (non-acid) Does not sour. Checks "plate odor" (den ture breath). Get FASTEETH at ear (rug count. However, once the story has died down, the government is expected to move for legisla tion shackling them more ef fectively. Politics, French Style France, under President Charles de Gaulle may be moving toward an even more authoritarian govern ment than it has now. De Gaulle's In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Dee, Union in his State of the message to the con- gress: 1960 can be our most pros perous year. FWILL be if we make it so. Prrvrwi-it-ir wnn't -incf fall into our laps-in 1960 or any other year. CUBA offers to give back to American tourists one-half of their round trip fares in order to attract them to the luxurious-and now mostly vacant-Havana vacation hotels. The 50 per cent was pio neered on flights from Florida to Cuba and has been extend ed to flights from New York. The Cuban tourism commis sion calls it "Operation Friendship." WHAT does it mean? At least, it means that American money is highly esteemed in Cuba even if Americans aren't. WINSTON CHURCHILL, " now vartat.i oniric nn thp Riviera, is living in the lap of luxury, a London news paper tells us. His penthouse apartment at Monte Carlo's Hotel de Paris has three bathrooms done in pink, gray ivory and marble, the story adds, and on his arrival Sir Winston spent an hour in a bath and then dined on oysters, fish soup, roast duck, apple sauce and fruit. There was champagne, the story adds, to go along. WHERE does he get the " wherewithal to pay for it? Mr. Churchill Isn't heredi tarily a rich man, as riches go in these days. But he has written a lot of books that people have bought and paid for, have read with much in terest and much improvement of their store of knowledge and in the , final accounting have felt that the books were worth every cent they cost. I thinly most of us will agree that he has earned his lux uries. TN WASHINGTON the other day a reporter toured the Capitol building and described what he saw. One thing that intrigued and puzzled him was the rite of REFILLING THE SNUFF BOXES in the senate chamber. He wrote in his story: "Since no senator I know, or know of, now sniffs snuff, I can't figure out why the boxes become empty. I even find myself wondering why they are there at all. HMMMMMM. I think maybe T can enliehten him. When the Capitol building was built and furnished, snuff boxes were as essential as ash trays are now. So the gov ernment appropriated the money to provide them and to keep them filled. When .the federal govern ment starts spending money for anything, it. NEVER QUITS. An appropriation, once "made, goes rolling on down through the ages. That helps to explain why the fed eral payroll keeps on grow ing and taxes keep on rising. cabinet now is badly split over the economic program of Finance Minister Antoine Pinay who is determined to hold to his austerity Una against other powerful Gaul lists who demand a greater say in industry both for the government and the workers, including Communists. But the powers granted De Gaulle under the new Fifth Republic place him in an unassailable position, and should his pres ent cabinet dissolve, it prob ably would be replaced by an even more iron-fisted one. Suez Wounds Reopened Wounds left by Britain's disastrous invasion of Suez in 1956 still are far from healed, and a new political rumpus is expected in the wake of this week's publication of for mer Prime Minister Sir An thony Eden's Suez memoirs. Previous "inside stories" have caused brief flareups but these are expected to be as nothing compared to Eden's own ver sion of one of the most con troversial incidents in Brit ish history. Red Ties Look for the Japanese gov ernment to come under in creasing pressure to restore economic and cultural rela tions with Communist China. The Reds broke off contact with Japan last year in a huff when Japan refused to com bine trade with diplomatic re lations. At least two high- ranking politicians-with their eye on the presidency of the ruling Liberal Democratic party and the automatic pre miership are advocating economic and cultural rela tions with the Peiping regime. It's a popular issue and likely to be the only major one after the U. S.-Japan security treaty is signed. H JL JLow can I regain my health? 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