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4 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfori, Of. A Thursday, March 3, 1960 MEDFORDfeTBIBUJ(B "Iverybne In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune5 ruonsnea uauy except Saturday by 83 North Fir St.. Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W T3TTTTT S-J.i figf ,Y?SY, Advertising Manager JMC W. ALLEN JR., Mng. Editor S7 iliiAMS- Cltv Editor HARRY CHTPVAW Tola- rn RICHARD JFWFTT c5 r;t. OLJSTARCHER. Women's Editor r-Kimau.N. Circulation Mgr nfrJ second class matter at iiicoiom. wegon. under Act of March 3. 1897 STJBSCRrPTTfW By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday l year $15.00 auy ana sunaay 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, "wrai, onaay cove. Rogue Kiv- r. Talent find nn mnrT rnno. Daily and Sunday 1 vear $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c m itrma v,asn in Advance Official Paper of Cltv of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty United Press International Full Leased TOiro P-PX Telephoto Newspictnres 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. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIA1 lASfsbcATlfolh 3 W Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 3. 1950 (Friday) Chester Hubbard, president of the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce told CAP hearing in Salem yesterday that there is a need for ad ditional airplane service be tween Klamath Falls and Medford to hasten the transit of mail to this city. A 9-year-old Medford youth who admitted to setting three fires here last week has been taken from custody of father and placed in a foster home. ' 20 YEARS AGO March 3, 1940 (Sunday) Marian Anderson, the fa mous contralto, will give a concert at the Holly theater today in only appearance be tween San Francisco and Portland. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Bernie Hughes, a gridiron warrior of Old Medford, Old Oregon and a pro-team of Chicago, will look a preacher in the eye ioon, the society pages re veal." 30 YEARS AGO March 3, 1930 (Tuesday) Medford's churches will aln hold meetings Friday night to pray for peace. The new spring clothing fashions will be shown at the Craterian theater tonight. 40 YEARS AGO March 3, 1920 (Thursday) All city businesses stopped operating for a while this morning when an airplane flew over Roxy Ann and? everybody went to watch. The state fish commission will investigate the fishing problem in the Rogue river. 30 YEARS AGO March 3. 1910 (Thursday) Local pharmacist plays Joke by advertising that he will give $15 for 1909 Lin coln head pennies and when taken up on offer by many local citizens he tells them he literally means 1,909 Lincoln head pennies.' What's Your I.Q.? Nina er ten correct is superior even er eight is excellent; five or Sis is good. 1. In what Bay Is the Isle of Capri located? 2. Mexicans who swim or wade the Rio Grande to enter the U.S. illegally are known as w ? 3. The capital city of which State is named for the fourth President of the U.S.? 4. Name the five Great Lakes. 5. Insert the missing word: In field where poppies grow." 6. Is writing paper proper ly designated as "stationary," or "stationery"? 7. What is the capital of Vermont? 8. Which State is nicknam ed "Wolverine State"? 9. In what two epic poems does the ancient city of Troy figure? 1G. Correct the following: "Everyone should do their job." Answers: 1. The Italian Bay of Naples. 2. Wetbacks. 3. Madison, Wisconsin. 4. Su perior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario. 5. Flanders. 6. Sta tionery. 7. Monipelier. 8. Michigan. 9. The Illiad and the Odyssey. 1C. "Everyone should do hia job." Men and Capital What is the difference between "investing" and "spending ? In common usage, "spending" is putting re sources into something which may or may not be necessary, but which will not return anything tangible as a result. "Investing," on the other hand, is putting resources into something which can be reasonably expected to provide a return. John Kenneth Galbraith, one of America's top-flight economists (and author of the best selling "The Affluent Society," among other things), applies this concept to "Men and Capi tal." LIE DOES so in one of the Saturday Evening Post's "think pieces," called Adventures of the Mind, in the current issue. Galbraith points but that capital and men, of various types and degrees, are both needed for production. Some differentiate capital and land: some labor and management But capital (in cluding land) and manpower are still basic. The investment of capital in productive fa cilities has long been essential measurement points out. But, he adds, been a significant increase in the proportion of skilled manpower needed for economic progress, and a corresponding decrease in the proportion of capital investment. OECAUSE of the kind of economy we havt, he - goes on, capital for investment is not too dif ficult to obtain. It can from earnings, or obtained by broadening owner ship through sale of securities. The growing problem capital than m finding technological improve ments and skilled manpower. He say: "We nov get the larger part ef our industrial growth not from mose capital investment but from improvements in men and improvements brought . about by improved men. And the process of technolog ical advance has became fairly predictable. We gat from men pretty much what we invest im them . . . Investment in personal development Is therefore- a.4 least as useful as an inde of progress as an iavseir jnent in physical capital ..." Ii follows, he declares, that it i important for both business and the nation to increase in vestment in human improvement : improved technological skills, knowledge, information, ability to think and come forth with innovations. TPHE problem, he says, is beginning to be rec . ognized in these terms. After rejecting several alternatives as impracticable, he adds: "Most likely we will solve the problem by mabiHsj fuller and better uaa of the familiar instruments of public finance. We must see outlays for personal de velopment act as a cost but as an opportunity. Them we must make sure that ve are taxing ourselves suf ficiently te exploit this opportunity. "That the Federal Government must play a jola - is elemeatary. It has access to fiscal resources i herently far greater than that of states and localitisB; -now that education has become an investment rathe than a social service, these resources are indispen able. There is at least a likelihood that investment in personal development is a better guarantee of effective, national position than many of our present military expenditures. "We need slse to review our attitudes toward state and local taxation. In a poor country there are sound reasons for reluctance in taxing objects of everyday consumption in order to have more public services and . amenities. But we are not a poor country, and personal development has become not a service but an invest ment. "So states and localities should no longer hesitate to use sales and excise taxes to pay for schools and and universities. And liberals, in particular, should control their indignation when this is proposed." THERE is more to the article, all of it equally tin rti rrli 4- virT-lri m oi1 ci4?miilofinrv It probably will irritate, those (like Dick House) who are irrevocably against federal par ticipation in school finance, on principle. It may cause some gnashing of teeth by Dem ocrats (like Bob Duncan and Monroe Sweetland) who are against sales or excise taxes on principle. But, coming from a man of Galbraith's stature, it may help lead the way to a reappraisal of this nation's position on education as "investment," not "spending". E.A. Wliy Print Them? Ray DeMarrs, the Medford barber who fre quently contributes to the communications col umn of this newspaper, does so again today. - Last time he was raising questions about the Medford school district. Today he returns to the city administration, which he has belabored in letters in the past. It need hardly be pointed out that this column could hardly agree less with his conclusions. We fought hard for the council-manager form of gov ernment when it was proposed some years ago. We have never had cause to regret this,. and are more convinced than ever that, imperfect as it is. it is the best for a city THE principal point we iliUlilCilU is ICltCiaiC of the note at the head column, which says : lhe letters printed necessarily represent the fact the contrary is often Why do we print them it is important that anyone who has anything to say on a matter of public concern be allowed a chance to do so. It has happened that per cent wrong was 10 this was the important 10 It s even possible DeMarrs may be 10 per cent right this time although we doubt it. ELA. emphasized as the most of progress, Galbraith in recent years there has be borrowed, or -withheld is, now, less ill finding of this size. ' wish to make at the LUC BCUbCUCC CtU W1C C11U of the communications in this column do not views of the paper; in the case." then? Because we feel a letter which was 90 per cent right, and that per cent. Dennis the 1 "WJylE Communications Letters to the Editor must the writer, although under ot a pen name or initial for Mail Tribune reserves the 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 ot the paper; in tact The I.C.1B.A. To the Editor: I have read With mwch concern the news item about our city manager, Robert Duff, attending and Being a member of the board of directors of the Oregon section of the International City Managers Association, Also noted that Mr. Orin Nolt- ing the director of the ICMA was present alsa. I.C.M.A. is one of the big promoters of what is termed "metropolitan govern mtnt" and centralizing of govern ment. Their aim is to take the people's elective rights away and have government run by appointed "experts.' In their effort they have enlisted many unsuspecting and good American citizens into 15ie cause. To name a few Chamber of Commerce, the League of Women Voters, add church groups, no matter how sincerely coneerned about local welfare, are being used in city after city to fur ther the causa of one man appointed control oS govern ment. The "Metro" group which there are about 22 national organizations all work out of ISIS East 60th Street, Chi cago. Included are American Municipal association, the American Society of Planning Officials, the International City Managers association, the National Association of As sessing Officers, and the Pub- 1 i c Administration Service. Forerunner of these groups was the National Municipal League. In this type of government all the people can do is elect a powerless commission. All authority is vested in one man! if that man or "expert" happens to be of the commu nistic type it can lead to a drastic situation. Should we be concerned about our city manager being a board mem ber of such an organization? The foregoing should be remembered whenever the subject is raised to promote a city manager form of gov ernment; and, I believe it to be necessary that a petition be secured to abolish our city manager government and re turn to the original elective mayor - council form of gov ernment. This is an important mat ter. Don't just read this and do nothing about it express yourselves be heard help force the issue. Let the chips fall where they may. Ray O. DeMarrs, 208 West Second st., Medford. No Experiments To the Editor: Your many editorials, in the past few years, relating to the need, in this valley, for good plan ning and adequate zoning laws to protect the public wel fare have been very interest ing. It is a proven fact that any growing community must have responsible leaders and elected officials who will pro mote and protect the public health, morals, safety or gen eral welfare of its citizens. Their proper tools are good planning and good zoning laws consistent with the ideals of liberty and property rights. In order for the plans and laws to succeed, they must be fair and acceptable to all concerned, not just the will of the majority or some pres sure group. When and where. planning and zoning is done in the proper manner, by experi enced persons well versed in this particular field, there is little opposition from the gen eral public and in most in stances is welcomed as a de sirable thing. If not, they are Menace bear the name a.nd address of certain circumstances the use publication is permissible. The right to edit all letters with a ths contrary i often the case, worse than none at all and do deserve bad names. riaBsmg commissions should not consist mainly of business men because most of their philosophies conflict with the theory of public wel fare and they tend ta favor commercial pursuits. If eur present elected of ficials wisk te promote the general welfare in the valley by way of plans a-nd zoning and you wish to kelp-please editorialize fo? bigger and better planning talent and ex perienced advisors regardless of the added cost. Let us not tolerate on-the-job training at our expense. It is sawch bet ter to pay a fat fee for expert service than to dribble away much more over a period of time plus being experimented with as we are now. We must be careful and not allow half-baked plans or pet theories to be put into law because of the desire to have something done "right now." William Doarnbacn, 143 Mace id., Medford. Etewaerata Pleased To the Editor: Mr. Crook- ham is mistaken in believing the Republicans can't please the Democrats. On the con trary, Democrats are always pleased because they never have to guess about the Re publicans. The GOP can always be counted upon to make it easy for the voters by hand-picking their candidates for them and seeing to it that there is only one candidate to vote for. This proves that the Repub lican party as united. The Republican office-hold ers, once elected, are then told which office to seek next . . and when; this invariably turns out to be mid-term so that another good contributor may be appointed to fill the vacancy. The Republican party, as we all know, hates big spend ing; this is proved by the fact that costs of the Federal Farm program have increased by $5 billion since 1952. Republicans are always safe in the knowledge that if one of their number should go astray, a "new image" can be created overnight. This proves that it's all right to take $18,000 contributions from businessmen for campaign funds. M. E. Norton, P.O. Box 85, Phoenix, Ore. No Problem To the Editor: So now we take up the subject of juve nile delinquency. I'm some what of an authority on the subject since I am one of the nation's oldest juvenile de linquents. I have only one view ol the subject a aim one. Do you remember what Plato, the Greek philosopher who wrote "The Republic," said? "Of all the wild beasts, the boy is the most difficult to manage." Now, that's pretty good for a Republican. But you see juvenile delinquency is at least 2,500 years old. I have arrived at a solution. In a study of train wrecks it was found that most of the accidents were caused by the last car on the train. So with this knowledge the solution to that problem was simple. They just took the last car off each train. Do you see how that would apply to juvenile delinquents? I am not suggesting we elimi nate all delinquents. I did consider it and it has a terrif ic appeal, but it is a little too risky. It is a mere matter of reclassification. What causes Fidel Castro Breaks Getting Away With By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The amazing thing about the Fidel Castro regime is that he breaks most of the rules, and con tinues to get away with it. The answer seems to lie in the fact that that business and some gov ernments, in cluding the United States, I pun Newsom have become disillusioned about their abil ity to get along with the bearded revoluntionary but juvenile delinquency? The answer of course is juveniles. So you reclassify them all Into junior adults. That throws it all into the adult delinquency, but that is no problem be cause nobody worries about it. (Name on file) Jacksonville, Ore. Arms Control To the Editor: The tele phone calls commenting on my recent communication concerning the armaments race were numerous and en thusiastic. I am eager to stim ulate citizens to overcome the feeling that they are helpless and unconnected to great events and decisions. If we all act when our con sciences move us, we can he- come a force for good in this bewildering world. Will you please publish this one more letter on disarma ment, which I wrote t the President? Dear President Eisenhower: The other night at our local theater the movie "On The Beach" was shown. It showed the possible conclusion of our present mad armament race. No matter what our ideas or ideals, we must admit that an unfortunate, unpremeditated act might change the present cold war" to a "hot war The concern of citizens in general for these eonsequencee prompts my urgent sugges tions. As long as there are no co- trols t hold nations back, each is free to threaten, in timidate and compete in pro ducing more horrible and more powerful weapons. It seems a logical conclusion that these new weapons even tually will be used. In the past, arms races have been ended in wars. Our weird weapons eould end human life on our planet. There is another possible end which we could seek. There eould be a durable peace be tween the nuclear powers. Ef fective plans could be made for arms control. There seems to be an ample supply of pro fessional planners in the gen eral staffs . of all nuclear powers for dealing with the technical problems of war, hot or cold; however, all my in formation indicates tnat up until now very few funds and little effort have been devoted to research specifically orient ed to the development of sys tems of control. I believe it would quiet our fears as citizens if we were to develop controls capable of preventing these weird weap ons from being used in sur prise attack and means to pre vent them from multiplying more rapidly than we can in spect and control. I under stand that hundreds of thous ands of men are engaged in the development of these weapons but that no single group in the United States works full time on arms con trol methods. I urge that a center be set up with ample facilities and with ample funds budgeted by our congress. I recognize that it will cost much money but our security lies in this ef fort. Thousands of dollars for this control but not anoth er dollar for destructive weap ons is my formula. The real balancing of the budget that I would welcome would be an adequate sum for control to offset the fifty bil lion dollars arms costs. Marie M. Bos worth (Mrs. Harlan P., Jr.) 2425 East Main st. ' Medford. Two Questions To the Editor: There seem to be two questions in the news that should receive very careful consideration. One is the thought that mothers on welfare should not be allow ed to produce numerous un desirable children, and the other is the death penalty for some crimes. As to the first with the con tinuously increasing demands for contributions to health and welfare funds, research of all kinds, and special care for some, besides the in creased cost of education for the- desirable children who may be able to neip soive some of the problems, can we . afford the undesirable children? In regard to . the second question there seem to be two divisions to the problem. Can we, again, afford to take care, indefinitely, of persons who the bulk of the Cuban peonle have not. No matter that the Cuban National Bank is under direc tion of a man with no experi Today & Tomorrow By WoJter HOW TO MAKE DECISIONS The text of Mr. Robert A. Lovett's testimony before the Jackson subcommittee of the Senate' has now been made public. It deals with the question of how a Pres ident is sup posed to de cide the great i n t e rrelated Walter m" Lippmann defense ana of foreign policy. No President, no matter what his experience in military and diplomatic affairs,- can possibly know the answers to all the great ques tions of policy. If he was a soldier in the World War, his military expe rience antedates the gigantic technological revolution in weapons which has cccuwed since the World War. If he dealt with foreign affairs in the 1940s, his experience an tedates the change in the lal ance of power whieh has oc curred since in 1949 the So viet Union broke our monop oly of nuclear weapons. Bis experience antedates alao the appearance of Red China ee a formidable power in the world, and the rise in all the continents of the submerged masses of mankind. There is nothing 8b liNe-ly to cause wrong decisions af high policy as old soldiers re living th last war and eld retired diplomats who think that the last good days were the days when they ware still in office. fRESIDEN?, whoever ha is, has to find a way of understanding the novel and changing issues which he must, under the Constitution, decide. Broadly speaking, as Mr. Lovett's testimony shows, the President has two ways of making up his mind. The one is to turn to his subordinates -to his Chiefs of Staff and his Cabinet officers and Under Secretaries and the like, and to direct them , to srgue out the issues, and to bring him an agreed decision. On the whole this is President Eisen hower's method. The other way is to sit like a judge at a hearing where the issues to be decided are debated. After he has heard the debate, after he has ex amined the evidence, after he are so constituted that they are unable to live in society? This should include mental defectives as well as those who are so anti-social that they are a menace to those around them. As to the case of Chessman, there is the second half to the last problem. Erie Stan ley Gardner is reported to have said that he did not re ceive a fair trial. If he is innocent then the person who committed the crimes for which he is sentenced to die is still at large, unless he has been imprisoned, or is dead The result of that thought is that Chessman ought to have another trial. Or possibly, af ter 12 years in prison, he has become such a changed char acter that with his high "I.Q." and the knowledge he has gained of the law, that he would be an asset to a law firm and should be set at large. Probably with his early record, he wouldn't be afimit ted to the bar, but he still might find a place for him self.' (Name on File) Medford Prophecy To the Editor: Being of an inquisitive mind pertaining to 20th Century forecasts by ancient seers, some 10 years ago I acquired several books, one especially on future prophecy. We can say without hesi tation that part of many of the forecasts are being ful filled. As the contents are copyrighted, we can only mention a few of the present day subjects of world unrest and universal turmoil among humanity. For instance, the world of humanity is living in a time of great stress, In other words, "great heat is being put on, which will eliminate thou sands out of physical em bodiment. Just a look in the daily papers confirms the mass destruction brought about daily by fatal accidents. World earthquakes are also instrumental in taking a large toll of people living within the eastern hemisphere near the latitude of tropic of can cer. , Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st Medford. 1 All the Rules, But It as Idol of Cubans ence in finance and who is more used to balancing a rifle than a checkbook. No matter that foreign in vestment is being cut to zero. Lippmcnn has heard the debaters cross examine one another, after he has questioned them him self, he makes his decision. This is the method intended by the authors of the Nation al Security Act, who were the late Secretary Forrestal and Mr. Lovett himself and some others. It is a much harder method in that it subjects the Presi dent to the stress of feeling the full impact of conflicting views, and then to the strain of making his decision, fully aware of how momentous it is. But there is no other satis factory way by which momen tous and complex issues can be decided. The alternative is to smother the issues and not to decide them if it is possible to evade them. WHEN e talfc about choc- ing between t h a two methods, we must remember, of coarse, thet no President! will or can us any one- of them exclusively. There aft some issues Which ha can leave to the decisions of his subordinates. There are oth er issues which he has to de cide after hearing the debate. But some Presidents Will u one method more than they use the other, and Gen eral Eisenhower is the kind of President who expects that normally his "staff tyill bring him an agreed decision. As a staff officer in the Army he learned that this is the way the military business is trans ected. His bent in favor of the agreed decision has, of course, been much accentuated by his illnesses, by the need to pro tect him against the strains and the stresses f the Presi dency. - - A PRESIDENT With a Sif- terent training and Q different temperament would use differently the policy-making machinery of the govern ment. For while the machin ery can be improved, as Sen ator JacKsons studies may show, it is a truism that no government machinery is au tomatic and that the way it operatesjwill depend upon the man who operates it. In choosing a President there are few things more im portant to look out for than the evidence of what the can didate has done and what he shows he is likely to do in operating the . machinery by which decisions are reached, It is very hard to be sure that one has made the right choice since the office of President is enormously more difficult than any othen office. But while it is hard to de termine in advance the com petence of a candidate for the highest executive responsibil ity, that is one of the main points which the voter, at least the independent voter, is sup posed to determine. It does not help him much in making his decision to see these scat tered and disorderly primary fights where everybody talks down to the voters and nobody does more than hint at the things that really matter. I T IS NO accident that since the 19th century, when the office of President had become ITS OUR DEPENDABILITY THAT MAKES US PREFERRED Aao from FtANK MORGAN . HAROLD DAY OR NIGHT No matter that sugar cane fields lie idle. And no matter that the vaunted agreement to sell five million tons of sugar to the Soviet Union may cost the Cubans more to produce than they possibly can realize from the sale. The Cuban peasant may not fully understand the slogan "Cuba for the Cubans" but he likes the sound of it. Cites Two Events He also likes the sound of government-supplied housing and the gift of land. It hasn't all come about, but he be lieves it will. The Cuban treasury never has been his concern and isn't now. Two recent0 events are il lustrative of the workings of the Castro regime, but have an effect on the United States. One was Castro's attack on foreign investments in Cuba in which the U.S. stake is nearly a billion dollarv-and the ?nnouncement that for eign private funds henceforth vould have to be invested as the government sees fits. It was the death knell for new foreign investments in Cuba and must inevitably slow the advancement which Castro so ardently proclaims for the Cuban people. But it fits the revoutionary pattern Which was anticipated when the national bank was taken over by leftist Erneso Che Guevara. ant No Quota Changes in similar vein was the Cu ban government's recent bald announcement it would be willing to negotiate its dif ferences with the United States but only on grounds of a U.S. pledge that it mean while would take no action damaging to Cuba's economy. in other words, no changes in the sugar quota under which the United btates an nually takes more than three million tons of Cuban sugar at a rate two cents above the market. This and tourism have been the backbone, of the Cuban economy. " When this United State? re fused to negotiate -with its handS tied behind its back, the explosion of indignation among Cuban revolutionar ies easily was anticipated. President Eisenhower has warned against action which could harm the Cuban peo ple. But U.S. patience also must have its limits. so much bigger than it used to be, the successful Presi dents have been with perhaps one exception men who had learned the art as Governors of states. Whether one likes them or not, the successful Presidents in this century have been Theodore Roosevelt, Wood row Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Tru man. All but Truman: had been Governors. Truman, moreover, was the only Presi dent, assuming he was a suc cessful President, who came out of Congress. This is not because Congress is a bad in stitution, but because the work of Congress is very dif ferent from that of the Execu tive. No rule of thumb is abso lute. But for my own part there is a reasonable presump tion of doubt about the execu tive competence of any. can didate who has never occu pied an executive office, as Governor of a state, as Mayor of a big city, or as a Cabinet officer. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Ih CeuhheuM " SNODGRASS, FUNERAL DRKTORS PHONE SP 2-3030
