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f MAIL TRIBUNI, Mtewr, Or. Tuesday, April S, 10 MEDFORDSKtTRIBOm ' "Everyone In Southern Oregon Rru Ths Mail Tribune" VuEniihVd1nlly except Saturday by 83 North Fir St.. PhBPa-qu: " "ftORERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Mnniger GERALD T LATHAM, Bui. Mgr. KRIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor Sahrv phipman Teles. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'l Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation jrtgr An Indeoendent Newspaper Sntered ai second class matter at meaiora, uregon. unaor aci 01 March 3. 18117 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance, Copy Iflc Dally ana Sunday I year inm Dailv and Runrtav & moi. 8 00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4 Si Sunday Only One year 54 20 Rv fnrrlfiiw In ArivMnftv. Mm! ford Ashland, Central Point Eagle Point. Jackionvllle. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv- . Daily and Sunday-1 year $18 no Dally and Sunday l mo. i.eo Carrier and Dealara copy 10c A"rcnni casn in Aovanco "Official Paper of City of Mfdfnrd Official Paper of Jacjtfton County United Press International Full Leased Wire 1 P.P.I. Telephoto Newsplcturee "TSeMBER OF AUDIT BTrhEAU OF CIRCULATIONS jnCrfvtrt Ulnar" Re-nrenentative WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices In New York. Chicago. De trnff Kn Fmnrlnco Loa Aneeles, Seattle. Portland St. Loull, At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. O" NEWS PA PER BUSKERS ASSOCIATION EDITORIAI V VJ J Fliqhl or Time Medford and Jackion County History from the filei of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 end 50 years ego. 10 YEARS AGO April 5, 1950 (Wednesday) Ashland will join list of Oregon cities going on day light saving time April 30, city council says. An estibated 2,000 persons attended the first Hobby fair at Camp White Sunday. 20 YEARS AGO April 5, 1940 (Friday) Flags will be flown and National Guard will wear uni forms during tomorrow'! Army Day celebration hers. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The pioneer atop the state capltol at Salem now flaunts a set of false whiskers, to advertise that city's centennial celebra tion next July." 30 YEARS AGO April 5, 1930 (Sunday) Whether dogs should be li censed in Medford or not is the subject of a controversy here. Valley orchards are In full bloom and sky is being watch ed for signs of frost. 40 YEARS AGO April 5, 1920 (Tuesday) Mass meeting of citizens at Page theater last night passed resolution asking for recall of entire school board. Operations at Trlgonla oil well extended to 24 hours a day instead of eight. 50 YEARS AGO April 5, 1910 (Tuesday) Six baseball players are ar rested after fight between Butte Falls Home Defenders and Beverldge's Battling Ball tossers teams during game yes terday. Federal government approv al of Crater Lake road may nullify Supreme Court decis ion that road is purely a local affair. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct it tuperlon even or eight U eiccllcnt; live or ill It good. 1. A short ton equals 2000 pounds; how many pounds in a long ton? 2. Who wrote "A Child's Garden of Verses"? 3. Was It Washington, Lin coin or Theodore Roosevelt who told Congress, "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of pre serving peace 7 4. Was Hawaii a kingdom or a republic, at the time it was annexed to the U. S.? 3. Some species of fish can eurvlve being frozen in tec; true or false? 6. Docs a storage battery deliver direct, or alternating current? 7. Where docs the famous Gulf Stream originate? 8. Who was the author of the expression "the Iron Cur tain"? 9. In what two months of the year do the equinoxes come? 10. In what country Is the city of Antwerp? Answers! 1. 2240. 2. Robert Louis Sivinson. 3. Washing ton. 4. Republic. 5. True. 6. Direct. 7. Gulf of Mexico. 8. Winston Churchill. 9. March and September. 10. Belgium. Fontana, Calif. -lUPD- The owner of a nudist camp who checki the birth certificates of applicants said today the most recent members, of the local colony are Adam and Eve. NATIONAL 1!A ' I Agency Competition The Oregon Journal had a perceptive edi torial in its issue of last Sunday entitled " 'Quiet War' Between Federal Agencies." It put its finger on a point which many people do not realize that there is a competition, and sometimes a jealousy, between agencies of the federal government. The most-publicized of these, of course, are the so-called inter-service rivalries, involving the Army, Navy and Air Force. But at other levels, too, federal agencies some times fail to get along, and sometimes are en gaged in internecine warfare, albeit quietly. TPHE Journal's piece was largely devoted to the "quiet war" between the U. S. forest service and the national park service the one dedicated to "multiple use" of our forest resources; the other in charge of administering areas where single-use recreation predominates. The Journal i3 sympathetic to both, and points out with p-ood sense that agency is dedicated to what it considers to be the primary job, and that the "warfare" emerges only when the objectives come into conflict. This occasionally happens, usually when a proposal is made to take national forest land convert it into park. DUT aside from this conflict, there are others. - The fact that the Army engineers and the bureau of reclamation are accord is well-known to with either agency, or The soil conservation agriculture) and the weather bureau (department of commerce) have clashed over their respective responsibilities in the field of irrigation water supply lorecasts. The bureau of land management has occasion ally come into conflict ment agencies, specifically the forest service. And undoubtedly there are others of which we are unaware. ymS conflict, this "competition," is not all to the bad, either. For, in the democratic tradi tion, it is through debate and argument that de cisions are made. The park service, for cused of "trying to build an empire" of wilder ness and other recreational lands. Well, maybe that's an accurate description. But from what we know of the park service, it would be more ac curate to say that they are doing all they can to follow the directives given to them by congress, to preserve ana maintain ana historical resources In this process they tion to values other than and Jiave thus rendered nation. THE forest service and the bureau of land man agement, to cite another example, use differ ing practices in some of their land and forest management procedures. In doing so, they tend to serve as a check upon each other, and provide data which can be used to determine which, bes,t procedures are. As a result, we do not feel that the sometimes overlapping, sometimes competing functions of the various agencies are damaging. They may, indeed, better policies and more aunumsuauon in me lenerai agencies wnicn are so important to this part of the country. E.A. Mind vs. Man is not ruled entirely bv logic, reasoning, facts. If he were, this probably would be a more orderly world. But it wouldn't be nearly as in teresting nor as much fun. One of our readers sent us a clipping from a women's magazine in which Dorothy Thompson was writing, and marked a passage from her article. It said : "Everything of importance ... to life and policy arises out of feeling. The education of the feelings is no less Important than the education of the intellect. If we are to have science, we must have art, music, poetry, literature, manners, deportment, instinctual 'good behavior,' or society is a Jungle." e MAN is, theoretically, a rational animal. But "1 he also is an emotional animal. And without both elements he is not man. Without reason, he is pure animal; without feeling, he is pure machine. And man is neither. How many of our folk-ways, our reactions, our mores are based on pure "feeling," and how few on pure rationality. In our political debates, "feeling" rules more than the intellect most of the time. But this isn t all to the bad. JEN tend to make their assessments of other 1T1 men, including those running for political office, on the basis of instinctive reaction, just as much as on the basis of a reasoned position. Emotion and "feeling" was one of the reasons why Franklin D. Roosevelt was such a popular president for so long. The same is true of the way in which the electorate has responded to Ike. And sometimes "instinctual" reactions are just as good as, or better than, decisions based purely on facts and reason, for often all the facts aren t available. So, as Miss Thompson declares, the "educa ion" of the "instinctual man" is as important as tlOll the education of the intellect. E.A. the personnel in each not always in complete those who have worked both. service (department of with other land-manage instance, has been ac the nation s major scenic as best they may. have called public atten purely commercial ones, a real service to the over the long ran, the necessarily wasteful or lead to better practices, efficient and economical Heart Dennis the "MR.WILSON! LOOK! I'M IN YOUR YARD!" 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. Don't Take The Pets To the Editor: I do not be lieve that year-round restraint is beneficial for a dog, and it certainly defeats the purpose of keeping one. A dog is either kept as a companion for children or as a policeman, and what can dog do on the end of a chain? I have noticed that If a per son goes by on the street late at night the dogs will bark and you can mark the pro gress of the individual by the dog that is barking. They are especially noisy if the person has an unnatural gait or is running. I submit the following of a law for consideration: "That nil male and spayed female dogs be licensed at 10 cents per lb.; unspayed fe males at 20 cents per lb." You will find in a year or two the people will have had their females spayed to save money, thus cutting down on tne dog population. Those that raise dogs as a business can afford to pay the added tax as they sell pups for profit. I have noticed a predomin ance of large dogs on the east side as Boxers are fashionable right now. However many of these people are not as well off as they appear to be and in a year or two with the in creased tax you would see the large dogs gradually disap pear. The law should also Include a section that empowers the police to deal with unruly dogs and their owners. Let's compromise on this dog question as a sane, sen sible people who recognize the rights of all individuals. Large dogs cannot be kept in the house as much as small dogs, and I know that when they visit a yard it looks like a small bulldozer had been there. But let's remember they are just a fad and with a little assistance the fad can die out as quickly as it came. Remember when every one who was any one owned a Corker Spaniel? I enjoy so much seeing a little boy peddling along on his bicycle with his dog proudly trotting along at his side. We have taken Fourth of July away from them; lot not take their pets too. L.CUB a. morrow, 531 North Bartlott st., Medford. On Llberalistlc Lackadaisicnlneis To the Editor: "Political ob servers," as used in your edi torial April 3, is handy all right. Your usage implies a large following to your way of thought, and In this case it may be true; but perhaps a bit misleading. People, to be sure, give such men as Mr. Cook and Mr. Fleming little chance of being elected; but for a different reason than you would have us believe. Many people (as you were), "political observ ers." look at the platforms of these men with varying de grees of anxiety, but fortun ately few Individuals nurture any hostility toward these views; In the same breath however, we must realize it is unfortunate those who do nur ture hostility toward these views are In a position (news paper men, radio and TV commentators, etc.), to Influ ence a greater part of the elec torate. People naturally and immediately realize t h e s c I plaques that we see? If so, men, such as Cook and Flem- WHY? ing, are presenting principles It used to be when a dona- Menace PUTTlN' A FOOT that more closely mirror the ideal. But then the influence of that liberallstlc lackadaisical ness makes Itself felt. "It's no use voting for men such as these, because they won't stand a chance of being elect ed; and even if they were elected, they would be too far outnumbered in the legisla ture to do any good." To do any GOOD. . . 1 Here we have the true feeling of the people. We of these United States have been lulled into accept ing the platforms of all who profess legislation directly re lating to security, and pleas ure, especially security. This is a natural enough tendency, because man in his perverted state succumbs to these temp tations. But pleasure itself is a transient thing, and security epitomizes the phantom of all phantoms.' People as a whole tend to follow, and because of the dis guise of eloquence, have fol lowed those political leaders who possessed a certain ultra glibness, Into the debtor's dun geons of paternalistic captiv ity. Captivity to be sure, for we have traded our true free doms for a pseudo-security. A nations without freedom, is a nation captive; but our dicta torship differs from all those of history. We have fallen prey to the most obscene ty rant of all, ourselves. In this election year we have the opportunity to cast out of office .those who con tinue to malign our constitu tion, and replace them with men capable of activating the people to repair and then maintain this treasure. Robert J. Howard, 828B West 14th St., Medford. Put In His "Place" To the Editor: Refer to Me teorologist William Rogers' statements in April 1 Mail Tribune that, "The people of the valley who are shouting the loudest are the back yard burners and I understand nothing can be done about them because they won't stand for it" and "Year-around trash burning In one back yard would be equal to one day of orchard heating." Since I am one of the loud mouth people referred to by Mr. Rogers, I feel put into my proper place. Especially since 1 now know that my back yard burning, each day, is equiva lent to an orchard heating of about 15 acres, or more than 310 heaters (open pot type no doubt). Now I know why the neigh borhod dogs are turned loose each morning to romp all over my newly planted garden, I had no idea that I was pol luting the air to such an ex tent. I promise to support and vote for any reasonable regu lation of back yard burning prior to regulation of the or chard heaters. William Doernbach, 143 Mace rd., Medford. Monty for Plaques To the Editor: There have been quite a number of peo ple discussing between them selves and me, "Something that I do believe should be made clear to the public." The public Is led to believe that the monies donated to the Medford Crusade was sup posed to be distributed to the needy, Red Cross, Salvation Army, etc. - but a question, 'Do they get it?', the money, or does a portion go for 'Stop Kennedy' Movement Noted in Last Minute Wisconsin Campaigning By LYLE C. WILSON Milwaukee, Wls.-OTD-Hand-some Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Moss.) doesn't like to admit it, but there is a socko "stop Kennedy" movement here. A front run ner must ex pect that and iOtfSr K.enneayis v)jari I the front run XjaVJ ner right now '.jie c. wuson tioaay) ior tne Democratic presidential nomi nation. Today is Wisconsin's presidential preference pri mary day. The people are voting. So, Matter of Fact b THE MOON-BARKERS Milwaukee, Wise. - At half past two in the afternoon, the Westlawn housing project not only looks even more dreary than the ave rage low cost urban redevel op- si ment. It also i V i appears to be Y $sjr4U more utterly I Tk I a b a n d oned, I -Wk $1 j more bare of human habitation, than Gold smith's "Deserted Village." But the voice of Sen. Hu bert H. Humphrey of Minne sota re-echoes cheerily from the blank, grey housefronts that line the grey and treeless streets. "Hello, folks, this is Senator Hubert Humphrey, a candidate for the Democratic nomination to the Presidency, come to visit with you in your fine housing project . . . Get out and vote on April 5, friends, vote for Humphrey in your great Wisconsin pri mary . . . Hello tones, tnis is Senator Hubert Humphrey, a candidate ..." With wonderful resiliency, with every appearance of genuine enjoyment, with cries of delight for the occasional child or other sign of life in Westlawn, Humphrey con tinues to salute the void for close to a half hour. Then he bursts into a nearby shoeing center, to greet a straggle of over-burdened housewives as though they were life-long cronies. And thence he plunges onward to another housing project, and another shopping center. e OnHIS Interlude of the Hum- pnrey campaign in Wiscon sin is not worth recalling be cause it is typical. Lately, Humphrey has generally been drawing good crowds. It is tion was made the hat was passed around, and dumped on the table, no one receiving a reward for passing the hat. Plaques do not fill one's stomach. Shorty Hlbbard, 1302 Sallng Ave., Medford. He's Encouraged To the Editor: Information contained in your editorial April 3 I find very encourag ing. It is very pleasing to know that we the people of Oregon have such men as Mr. Cook of Silverton and Mr. Fleming of Springfield run ning for office to represent us in Washington, D.C., who still believe in our true Amer ican way of life and govern. ment as specified by our Con stitution of the United States of America. My own observations have indicated to me that there are a great number of people in our own state that have grown tired of encroachment of un limited government into their private lives, excessive taxa tion and insane spending by the bureaucrats in Washing. ton, so in spite of your at tempted propaganda to the contrary, it is my opinion they do have a good chance of be ing elected by the voters of Oregon to the Senate and Congress of the United States. It is my assumption from your editorial that you are against Constitutional govern ment as specified by the Con stitution of these United States of America, therefore opposed to the true way of American life. E. W. Temple 1750 N.E. "D" st. Grants Pass, Ore. Editor's note: We yield to none In our support of the Constitution. But it is amply evident we differ from many in our interpretation of that magnificent charter of gov ernment. 25 Quince . Kennedy may not be the front runner at all after the ballots are counted tonight. Front runners must expect all oth ers to gang up In a stop-him movement. If the others fail to stop the front runner, then the front man simply gallops on to win the presidential nomination at his party's na tional convention. The others, thus, must lose the prize. Morse Enters Picture Thus It is that Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) barged into this primary campaign over the week end by telecast from his Washington, D.C., office. Morse hammered hard against Kennedy, warning Wisconsin labor voters that Kennedy had Joseph Alsop worth recalling, rather, be cause it helps to prove a rather important rule. The rule is that in any hard-fought campaign, both sides tend to madness, and the side that is running behind frequently verges on lunacy. This obsessivepower of the campaign to master the cam paigners has been well illus trated here in Wisconsin. Sen ator Humphrey came out here with the announced, unques tionably sincere intention of "campaigning for Humphrey, not against Kennedy." He ob served this sensible rule until the event disproved all his stragegists' hopeful assump tions about the existence of widespread, natural Hum phrey support In Wisconsin. At this point the campaign took over. Humphrey began to do precisely what he had sworn he would never do. This he called "debating the rec ord. rriHE "debate" has chiefly - consisted of presenting very carefully selected Kennedy votes, most of them of far from recent date, to prove that Kennedy and that devil for all Democrats, Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon, are just "Tweedledum and Twee- dledee." Senator Humphrey knows perfectly well, of course, that this is unalloyed nonsense. The real Tweedledum and Tweedledee, in fact, are Ken nedy and Humphrey himself. They are in close agreement on all major issues, including the farm issue. They did not always agree so closely, but Kennedy has moved further and further into the liberal camp as he learned his bus! ness. This was the reason Humphrey himself gave, to this reporter among many oth ers, for his original decision to speak up only "for Hum phrey, not against Kennedy." But when he found he was running far behind, the cam paign thundered its remorse less dictates In his ear; and le obeyed. Humphrey's last minute at tack on Kennedy may help him to gain a lap, or even several laps, In this crucial Wisconsin race. The public opinion pollers have shown Kennedy very far ahead. But the great past errors of the pollers have always been caused by the undecided vot ers. Generally, the undecided voters can be prorated be tween the two sides. But sometimes, at the last min ute, they all troop into the same camp, as they did in the last British election and in our election in 1948. SOMETHING like than tan happen here. The experts are still finding a consider able percentage of undecided voters. Most of the undecided are also Protestants. The Hum phrey "debate of the record" may just possibly give these people a subconsciously de sired pretext to vote against Kennedy. The Wisconsin pri mary will then produce a relatively indecisive result, in stead of the solid win for Kennedy which still seems more likely. Such a result would hurt Kennedy considerably, while helping Humphrey hardly at! all. Outside Wisconsin, mean-1 while, Humphrey has already been badly hurt by his attack on Kennedy. Like Wisconsin's Gov. Gaylord Nelson, the dele- j gate-owning chieftains in oth-! er states blame Humphrey for j starting fratricidal warfare 1 among Democrats. All of which suggests that In campaign-time, one should never be surprised to see a normally weU balance, astute, amiable and warm - hearted politician baying at the moon with blood-stained tongue. Copyright 1960, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Bob Rucker Counsellor OREGON FUNERAL PLAN The Only FUNERAL PLAN Spomertd by Onion Funeral Directors Au'n . . SP 2-9210 done them In by helping fash- Ion the 1959 labor reform bill. Morse is, himself, a candidate of sorts for the Democratic presidential nomination. Of sorts, only, Morse has no chance. His real choice is Ad- la 1 E. Stevenson. Thus, also, some of the Symington-for-president peo ple in Wisconsin got into the act. They announced for what it was worth, which wasn't much, that they would support in today s primary Sen. Hu bert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), Kennedy's opponent. In Wash ington, a representative of Sen, Stuart Symington was not a party to this Wisconsin maneuver. More important in the stop Kennedy movement Is the un mistakable trend to Humphrey of Wisconsin voters who in 1952-50 were for Stevenson. The strategy of all concerned Is obvious. If Kennedy moves out of Wisconsin Wednesday with a big primary victory he will be jet-propelled toward the Democratic presidential nomi Time Running Out On Disarmament Pact Possiblity By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Two events of the last few days provide grim support for a United States warning that time is run n 1 n g out on the world disarmament conference at Geneva. And for all his bluster and his re- renewal WfeJf threats VON SeWSOtn asanui ut I- lin, they must have given So viet Premier Niklta Khru shchev food for thought on his return to Moscow from his visit to France. One of these events was the successful launching of the United States' weather satel lite which on signal from is ground control sends back pic tures of the earth's surface covering an area ranging from 30 to 800 miles, with amaz ing detail. The other was the explo sion, even as Khrushchev was concluding his talks with French President Charles de Gaulle, of France's second atomic device in the Sahara Desert. Both have far-reaching Im plications in man's stumbling search for survlvial in an atomic age. Military campaigns In the past have succeeded or failed Flood Control System Praised Omaha, Neb. -0JPD The gi ant Missouri River flood con trol system has passed its first big test with flying colors, the Army Corps of Engineers said today. Five dams along the upper course of the Missouri gave engineers almost push button control over the river during the thaw triggered floods which swept the prairie states last week. The floods were caused by downstream tributaries of the Missouri river in Nebraska and Iowa. But they would have been much worse If it were not for the Pick-Sloan flood control system. Through some tricky ma nipulation by the engineers, the reservoirs had greatly re duced the amount of flood wa ter which passed downstream from Omaha. TO Counsel With . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan i Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOUY ST. to-.. ' L - J nation next July In Los An geles. If nothing intervened to stop him between here and Los Angeles, Kennedy would be nominated on an early bal lot. There would be no pro longed and agonizing ballot ing, no huddles in smoke fill ed rooms. In short, there would be no deadlock. Stevenson's admirers, Sy mington and his followers, even Sen, Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.) and his southwestern buckaroos, all want and need a deadlocked national conven tion in which Kennedy has been stopped cold. At that polnt-if it ever is reaehed the Democratic nomination must fall among those three or be tossed up for grabs among them. Stevenson says he Is not a candidate. Hie worshipping ad mirers hope, however, to draft him again. Stevenson has not said "no" to that. He has said, however, that it could not happen-that a man could not be drafted twice. A draft blew Stevenson into the 1952 nomi nation. because of weather. And as science progresses In its ability to make its sa tellites perform upon com mand, that much closer comes the ultimate weapon the sa tellite with the nuclear war head. It was this ultimate weapon that Fredrick Eaton, chief U.S. delegate to the Geneva Conference, had in mind when he proposed international agreement outlawing weapons In outer space and the proper controls to see that the agree ment was carried out. The Communists rejected Eaton's argument that time was running out. But just as France by its independent effort brought the membership in the atomic club to four, so, unless lnter nationad agreement can be reached, eventually there must be a fifth member and a sixth. And as the deadliest wea pons that mankind has ever known come into more and more hands, the temptation to use them must be increased accordingly. Eaton was right. Time li running out. Denture Wearers Here's Good Newsl Now For the First Time . . . New Mir acle Dental Discovery Makes False Teeth Feel Like the Real Thing. RIG1DENT Comfort Cushion Denture Retainer ends slip ping, dropping, loose, embar rassing, irritating dentures. Holds them firmly and more comfortably in place. 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