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Democratic
Type Harmony
Oregon Democratic Chair
man Bob Straub has been talk
ing the past few days about
what a harmonious state con
vention the Democrats had in
Salem.
It's easy to see that the big,
loose limbed legislator from
Eugene is a peace loving man,
and we have been pondering
what he may have meant by
"harmony."
; One of the reasons we have
admired the Democrats so
many years is their disinclina
tion toward harmony if it
means dictation or unendur
able compromises.
We liked the differences
that appeared at the state
convention, the diversities of
thought that' caused change
after change in some resolu
tions offered in committee and
on the floor of the convention
We have always been more
than slightly suspicious of too-
smooth operations, whether in
a family, city council, legisla
ture or political convention.
We have always liked the
rough and ready, give and
take of the democratic pro
cesses of the Democrats.
We liked what we saw at
Salem.
Maybe that's harmony.
It sure sounded good to our
ears.
It sounded like free people
arriving at mutual decisions
through reasonable compro
mises. Maybe we could call it
harmonious democracy. - Coos
Bay World.
New Evidence
On Fluorides
There is still a small but
vocal hard core of people in
our community who are op
posed to the addition of fluor
ides to our water supply.
These people blame every ill
from hang -nails to fallen
arches on the chemical.
But as time goes by the
Intelligence of our citizens in
voting for the fluoride be
comes more and more obvi
ous.
The most recent survey on
' results of scientific experi
ments with fluorides comes
from Long Island. There are
in Long Island twin commu
nities called Carle Place and
Mineola. The former has flu
orides in toe water and the
latter does not. In Mineola
three local dentists, assisted
by the State Bureau of Dental
Health, have kept close check
on more than 1,000 students
in the two areas. The survey
has gone on for seven years
and results show that stu
dents in Mineola have fifty
per cent MORE cavities than
do the students from Carle
Place.
Another test result comes
from two communities in New
York, Kingston and New
burgh. A check was started
in 1944 and by 1952 a reduc
tion of 47 per cent in tooth
decay was noted among the
youngsters in the city using
fluorides. This has now in
creased to 58 per cent.
None of the three largest
cities in Oregon have fluorides
in their water supply. The
newspapers in both Salem
and Eugene have done their
best to educate their people
to the advantages but so far
to no avail. They still have
hopes, however, and each one
occasionally runs stories or
editorials on the subject.
Portland, on the other hand,
must be considered to be
city right out of the dark
ages. There they don t have
fluorides in the water, dogs
are permitted to run at large,
they don't have the much
more efficient council - man
ager form of government,
their weather is lousy and
they probably don't know yet
that Oregon State won the
liberal arts battle. Ah, well,
this didn't start out to be an
anti-Portland editorial but a
pro fluoride effort, and a pat
on the back for Cc-vallis
voters. - Corvallis Garelle-
Times.
restricted in almost any field?
Since people have to eat
they'd buy just about as much
if markets were open only on
Tuesdays as they do all week.
And what a fine, high-profit,
high-leisure life it would make
for market operators.
We presume the dealer's
test case will, invalidate the
law, for it is of questionable
constitutionality. If not the
council should repeal it. -Salem
Capital Journal.
Sunday Car Sales?
The auto dealer, new to
Salem, who is ignoring the
city's no-Sunday - sales ordi
nance may not be the most
popular fellow at the next
dealers' meeting, but he's
right.
The only thing you can't
do in Salem on Sunday is sell
a car. The rare, if not unique,
ordinance, was passed in 1939
after first being defeated and
then tied in the council. Be
hind it were 66 local car deal
ers who wanted Sunday off.
Sunday, in most cities, is
an auto dealer's biggest day,
especially in the used car
field.
Such specialized blue laws
have no lofty principle be
hind them. A city s lawmak
ing" powers are based on the
need to protect the health and
safety of its residents. But the
auto sales law obviously and
admittedly is designed only as
a convenience to a certain j
group.
The bank measure of a
couple years ago which failed
was a direct parallel. It
would have prohibited bank
ing on Saturday.
A law prohibiting publica
tion of newspapers on holi
days would make life softer
in the business, but it would
be an equally improper use of
city or state police power.
And the whole concept be
comes absurd when you apply
it to other fields and extend
it.
If one day can be put off
limits by law, why can't two
or four or even six days be
1831 The first home loan by a Savings and Loan
Association was granted to a lamplighter in Frankford,
Pennsylvania, now part of Philadelphia.
Last year, Insured Savings and Loan Associations like
ours, made home loans to more American families than
did all other financial institutions combined . . .well
over 1 million loans totaling $15 billion. Whether
you are opening a savings account for
a down payment on a home of your
own or want financing to buy or build
your home, we suggest you see us first.
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29 North Ivy 'Street Robert F. Kyle, Manager
Legislators' Pay Bill
It is to be hoped that the
petition to put the $2100 an
nual legislators' pay on the
ballot will gather plenty of
signatures so the people will
get a chance to right a wrong
that is seriously endangering
good government in Oregon.
The present $600 wages re
ceived by Oregon legislators
is merely a token amount,
and each person serving in the
legislature must take funds
from his pocket in order not
to end up in debt at the end
of each session.
Furthermore it also means
that many good men and
women who would like to
serve the state cannot afford
to go to Salem where they
might well have a hand in im
portant and constructive prog
ress. We are told that two of our
favorite legislators will not
file for re-election because
they canot afford to be away
from their jobs at the next
session.
The recent decision of the
Supreme Court, while un
doubtedly just in the legal
interpretation, that legislators
could not legislate their own
salaries, is odd when the leg
islature has raised other state
officials including supreme
court justices in the past.
Oregon voters need to take
a good long look at the high
caliber men they have in the
legislature, and decide to at
least give them a "break
even salary. The state can
not afford to make the legis
lature a job only .the rich or
the privileged can afford to
hold. We need people from
all walks of life; people who
work with their hands as well
as the professional white-collar
folk. That makes for better
richer laws. Coquille Valley-Sentinel.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter lippmann
Walter
l.lppmanw
Below Normal
Rainfall Noted
Precipitation at Medford's
Big Butte Springs weather
station was slightly below
normal during January, ac
cording to Robert Lee, city
water superintendent.
Chances of recording a nor
mal amount of rainfall this
year are even less than they
have been because of Jan
uary's rainfall, Lee said.
A total of four inches fell
last month, compared to the
normal January rainfall of
5V2 inches, he said.
This brings the total for
the agricultural year, which
runs from September through
August, to only 10 inches,
compared to the normal 21
inches.
Lee pointed out that chanc
es of making up for the 11VS
inch deficit are very remote
because in normal years some
60 per cent of the total rain
fall has fallen by the end of
January.
The average yearly amount
of rainfall at the weather sta
tion is 37 inches, Lee said.
Two Appear in
Circuit Court
Mrs. Faye Keever, 45, of
317 Marie St., Medford, ap
peared before Circuit Judge
Edward C. Kelly Thursday
and imposition of sentence
was suspended for 10 years
on charges of larceny by em
bezzlement. Mrs. Keever was directed
to refrain from drinking in
toxicating liquor, to work
where she does not have to
handle money, and to use a
portion of her salary to pay
bock the money taken.
She had pleaded guilty to
taking $17,607 from the Verl
G. Walker company, Medford
from Nov. 1, 1957, to Aug. 10,
1959, while an employe of
the company.
The case of Jack LeRoy
Vincent, 25. of Jacksonville,
charged with burglary not in
a dwelling, was continued.
William E. Duhaime was ap
pointed his attorney. Vincent
is charged with entering the
Jacksonville Dental labora
tory Jan. 21.
Salem -(UPD-The supervisor
of the state's meat inspection
program. Dr. William L.
Searles, has resigned effective
Feb. 15.
ON ALGERIA
The surrender of the rebels
who had barricaded themselv
es in Algiers is only a magnifi
cent begin
ning. Gen. de
Gaulle has
crushed the re
bellion by ex
erting his au
thority and by
imposing his
discipline up
on the Army.
Thus he has
proved to the
French nation, to the Moslem
nationalists, and to all the
world, that he meant what he
said last September when he
promised self-determination in
Algeria. But in asking the
French National Assembly for
special powers, he has made
it clear that the resistance to
his Algerian policy is wider
and greater than the rebellion
behind the barricade . in Al
giers. The surrender on Monday
morning did not mean that
this resistance has been liqui
dated. It meant, rather, that
Gen. de Gaulle has committed
himself and the overwhelming
majority of the French nation
to the hard and painful task
of overcoming this resistance.
For behind the young zealots
who manned the barricades
there are very powerful eco
nomic, political, and military
interests which are determined
to nullify Gen. de Gaulle's
promise of self-determination.
They intend to nullify this
promise because they believe
that genuine self-determination
in Algeria must mean that
Algeria will become an inde
pendent Moslem state in
which the European settlers
will be a weak and harassed
minority.
THE SITUATION is one in
which this country has a
part to play. Before Gen. de
Gaulle defined his policy last
September we were in a quan
dry. For when we undertook
to form a policy in the United
Nations and among the rab
and African governments with
whom we are in communica
tion, what we got from Paris
was only a demand that we
give them unconditional sup
port in a war which we be
lieved could not be won.
But after the General spoke
in September, there existed a
real alternative to the cruel
and inconclusive war. We had
then every reason to support
his offer of self-determination,
and last November in the Unit
ed Nations we made a mis
take, it seems to me, in not
giving France our positive
support.
Now, the case for positive
support is even clearer. Until
the uprising in Algiers, it
could be said with some rea
son that the General's policy
was verbal, and that it had
not yet been tested against
the French opposition. It has
now had its first test and,
though this test is far from
conclusive, the moment, has
come when we may be able
to exert a positive influence
towards making it conclusive.
We might begin by making
it known that we do not re
gard the problem of Algeria
as primarily that of liquidat
ing colonialism and ending im
perialism. Algeria differs de
cisively from India and Pak
istan, from Burma and Cey
lon, from Egypt and Syria and
Iraq, from Tunisia and Mo
roc c o, from Ghana and
Guinea. The difference is that
the European population is a
settled community, and al
though it is in a minority of
one-to-eight, this is a very
large minority.
.
TF THERE were as large a
a proportion of British in
India as there are Europeans
in Algeria, there would be
some 50,000,000 of them. And
if there were 50,000,000 Brit
ish settlers in India, the inde
pendence of India could not
have been carried out as it
was.
The problem of Algeria is
not a simple colonial problem
which can be solved, as re
spects the demand for politi
cal independence, by with
drawing the troops and re
patriating the colonial admin- j
istrators. The problem m Al
geria is the problem of a so
ciety in which two commu
nitites, with very different
ways of life, have to live
separately but intermingled.
The problem of France in
Algeria is essentially and in
principle the same problem
that the British face in all the
Africa: 1 territories where the
white settlers are a strongly i
established community. It is '
the problem of constructing !
and governing a plural so-;
ciety. When the different com-:
munities are sharply differ-j
ent owing to religion, race, or
the level of their develop-i
ment as in Ireland, Pales
tine, and the old British In-
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dia the problem of the
plural society has rarely been
solved. ,
HAVING made it known
that the problem does not
fit into the traditional pattern
of colonialism and imperial
ism, we should recognize
that Gen. de Gaulle is commit
ted to an experiment which
must be given every chance
to succeed. It is in the general
interest not only of France
and of Algeria but also of the
rest of Africa and of the
peace of the world that this
experiment in creating a plu
ral society should succeed.
For if it fails, the outcome
will at the best be a partition
of Algeria wijh the French
Army occupying the coast and
the immediate hinterland. At
the worst the outcome will be
chaos in which tyranny will
flourish. We should use our
good offices in Tunisia and
Morocco, and in other coun
tries which have befriended
the Algerian Nationalists, to
persuade them that this is the
time, which if missed may
never return, to collaborate
with Gen. de Gaulle in order
to end the war and to prepare
for the process of self-determination.
After the events of
the past ten days, Gen. de
Gaulle has proved his good
faith, and he has earned the
right to be supported.
All this does not mean that
we should show our support
in any ostentatious and em
barrassing way. There should
be no thought of any kind of
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
ONE OF BILLY ROSE'S funniest stories concerns the time
he was hired as a "consultant" for Universal Pictures.
The Laemmle family stfll ruled that company with an iron
band, and it was to them
that Billy presented his
great idea. "You're going
to make 'Show Boat,' I
faiow," said Billy, "but
this is its second time
around in movie form,
and you've got to have
some new feature to ad
vertise. And since by this
time everybody in the
country knows songs like
01' Man River and 'Can't
Help Lovin' That Man,'
I propose that you throw
out the whole Jerome
Kem score, and have a
brand new one written for the picture.'
When people burst out laughing at this ludicrous notion,
Billy Rose says, "Go ahead and laugh but they accepted the
idea and had a new score for 'Show Boaf actually written. I
don't recall what it cost them Jut I do know I parted com
pany with Universal a short time later."
O I960, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Sing Features Syndicate
intervention. Nor should we I NAMED COCHAIRMAN
have any illusions of grandeur
about the weight of our in
fluence in this part of the
world. We should be quiet.
But we should be clear. We
should be clear about making
it known to those who are
really concerned that our
hesitations and abstentions
during the autumn have been
replaced by a policy of posi
tive support.
(c) 1960 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Eugene - Frank Albert, son
of Mr .and Mrs. M. C. Albert,
304 South Peach st., Medford,
has been named cochairman
with Jack Turner of High
land, Calif., for Dad's Week
End which will take place at
the University of Oregon
campus Feb. 19-20. Albert, a
sophomore, is majoring in
psychology.
Salem-IUPD-State Rep. t. R.
Hoyt (R-Corvallis), has filed
for reelection.
Sunday, Feb. 7, 1960
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Of.
BOTH one wears CONTACTS!
Actually, both pictures ar of Or. Noles' 13-year old"
daughter who has worn contact lenses 16 hours a
day for the past two years. And . . . she wears dark
green tinted contact lenses for swimming and skiing.
A dramatic illustration of the cosmetic and psycho
logical benefits to be derived from wearing contact
lenses.
why not send the WHOLE girl back to school?
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