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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
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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. -
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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
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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.
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