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Newspaper Page TextI MAIL TRIBUNB, Mtdferd, Or. 'A Tutsdsy, April 26, 160 MEDFORDtSKrTRIBUKI Everyone In Southern OreRon Read! The Mail Tribune" ubllihed Dally except Saturday by S3 North Fir St., Ph SP 3-8141 " pnnEBT w buhl. Editor HERB GREV Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mer. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mn Editor EARL H. ADAMS, City Editor VABHV CH1PMAN. Telee. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'! Editor DALE ER1CKSUN, circulation Mgr Ar. inrienentient Newspaper Entered au second class matter at AledlorcJ, Oregon, unoer Act ox March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year (IS oc ' Dally and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville, Oold Hill Phoenix. Shadv Cove. Rogue Rlv- er. Talent and on motor routes, Dallv and Sunday I year 818 00 Dallv and Sunday 1 mo. I. SO Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms cash inAavance "official Paper of city of Me dford Official Paper of Jackion County United Press International Full Leased Wire UP.I. Tejepholo NewBplctures ""MEMBER OE AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative; WEST HOLIDAY CO . INC Of. flees In New York, Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta, Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAI ASbC,fATIOh W J MiJIIIW.'.l Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files ot The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 26, 1950 (Wednesday) The Far West league favor ites, the Pittsburg Diamonds, will open their season against the Medford Rogues, there, tonight , v The sixth petition asking for the recall of the Ashland mayor and a city councilman was filed with the county clerk today, bringing the to tal number of valid signa tures to 604, well over the number necessary for a re call election. 20 YEARS AGO April 26, 1940 (Friday) Voters registered in Jack- ion county for the May pri mary total 18,129 with Re publicans numbering 8,884 and Democrats 7,041. TotHl Is down from the 1938 total registration of 17,988. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A Cal ifornia judge holds the aver age boy of 14 is mentally qualified to drive an auto. One more question judge. Are his legs long enough to reach the brake pedal?" 30 YEARS AGO April 26, 1930 (Saturday) ' Census shows Medford has I population of 10,847; Cham ber of Commerce starts move for a recount, claiming many were missed. Three arrested for gafting salmon in Rogue river near Oold Hill. 40 YEARS AGO April 26, 1920 (Monday) Famous English captain is here to catch a fish in the Rogue river. Dr. H. P. Hargrnve resigns as city councilman. 50 YEARS AGO April 26, 1910 (Tuesday) More than 100 cars, man ned by Commercial club members, greet touring Port land businessmen here and take them on a tour of the Rogue valley. Ladles of the Greater Med. ford club are in an inter-club verbal battle over whether to Support a new city park or a new library. What's Your I.Q.? Nina ar ten cornet Is iuptrlari van sr tight Is tscellentj tiva n III It food. 1. Name the merry English outlaw who lived in Sher wood Forest and robbed the rich to give to the Door. ' 2. Yellow fever is transmit ted by what kind of insect? 3. Did Ben ito Mussolini meet his death in 1943, 1944, or isiDf 4. Which English ruler was Called the "Merry Monarch"? 5. Who was the first King Of Israel? 6. Lightning never strikes water; true or false? 7. When you think of Saruk for Earouk) it brings to mind which of these items: furni ture, crystal, or rugs? : 8. In which western state is the famed resort Las Vegas? ', 9. In five seconds name Uie 17th letter of the English at Bhabet. CptNnW PUBLISHERS AS S O C I AT I O N t 10. Where did Samson's 'strength lie? ; Answtrsi 1. Robin Hood, 2. MotauMo. S. 194S. 4. CharlM -II, who reigned 1680-1695. S. Saul. (. False. 7. Rugs, I. Ne vada. S. a 10. In his heir. New 'Profession9 . "A new profession has been growing to ma turity under our noses." So starts an article in the New York Times. It goes on to describe an activity which is rela tively new, which has grown tremendously in importance in the last decade, and which, if not exactly a "profession" in the same sense as med icine and the law, is working toward such a status through improved standards, aims and ethics. The activity is social work. It has a "bad name" among some people. But this is chiefly among people who know very little about the objectives and methods being em ployed by modem social work. DY THE very nature of the activity, which is, essentially, the alleviation of human woes, most social workers are employees, and except for the relatively few working for charitable org anizations, are employed by government units. This subjects them to the same criticisms, ex press and implied, with which teachers have had to live for years. The formula goes this way : "I like money. Taxes take money. Social work ers cost tax money. So social workers are bad." THERE'S more against social workers, too. The functions they perform are not productive of immediate, tangible or visible results, like the functions of, say, police officers, firemen, or road construction crews. Social workers labor in an area of human necessity and need ; oftentimes the jobs they do are screened from public view by legal prohibi tions against publicity: and often the results do not show up for months or years long after the job itself has been done and forgotten. Social workers also work in areas of society which, by some, are considered unworthy: among old neonle struireline: to keen body and soul to gether on old age assistance; among juveniles who have gotten into trouble ; among ex-convicts on narole or convicted men on probation ; among unwed mothers and mothers-to-be in short, among areas of society where human waste is the greatest, and where, too often, being one's brother's keeper isa pretty academic exercise. SO, SOCIAL workers are "do-gooders," "up lifters," "tax eaters," "parasites," "bureaucrats." Now. with the derotration out of the way, let us ask, honestly, are social workers worth the tax money they cost; The answer depends on one s point or view. Insofar as they can be shown to save more tax monev than thev cost, few will quarrel with their work, ( And this is considered, for social although sometimes it is long range, and tnus "in visible," saving.) For the rest, the "bleeding hearts" who value a human life, saved for usefulness by social work, above the money it costs is worth while. DUT what is it that social workers do, and how do they do it, and why should anyone care? Let us borrow from the Times article : ". . .. Once thought of as basket-on-the-arm assist ance to the poor, it (social work) is now a discipline, scientific in method and artful in manner, that takes remedial action on problems in several areas of society. ' It ministers to families in economic or emotional dif ficulties. It helps communities to bring their welfare and related services Into good balance. It works in medical, group and school situations. It seeks to cor rect the causes underlying delinquency and adult criminality ... "On the casework level, the social worker may use his theoretical and practical knowledge in any num ber of ways. He may check a man's downward slide by improving his skills and by showing him how he has been sell-defeating in his Jobs. He may aid a wom an with a disability by advising her to turn an avoca tional Interest into income. When a social worker guides a violent boy to constructive activity an ac complishment that comes about only with a big in vestment of time and patience the benefits to all of use are enormous. Not only has a boy been saved from a life of crashing against others, but his progeny line is favorably affected as well . . ." QNE asks, "But why should we spend tax money on these things? Aren't there organizations to deal with this? And why should government med dle in family affairs?" As we see it : (1) It is the affair of every citizen to see that those in need are helped and that, if possible, damaged lives are salvaged for usefulness and participation (including the paying of taxes, by the way). (2) No, not on the scale that is necessary; private organizations function in only limited areas. (3) Government should NOT meddle in fam ily affairs except when the overriding needs of society require it. UE HOLD no starry-eyed illusions that all is well everywhere in the realm of social work. It has its deficiencies, both theoretical and prac tical, as well as in some personnel. But, on the other hand, neither do we believe that trained, humane, social work is "pouring money down a rat hole." Government is nothing but society doing, through organization, what it cannot do or do as well on an individual basis. And with an exploding population, families which are disintegrating, stresses and tensions on many people who are not equipped to handle them acute need among millions of people in the midst of unprecedented prosperity how else are the resulting human nroblems to be treated if we write off social work with a sneer? E.A. an aspect too infrequently work DOES save money, to save it, social work Dennis the 'IS THAT THE WAy Wll LIKE East German Collectives Now Have Firm By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The barracks-like dormi tories of the Marienfelde Refu gee Camp in the American sector of West Berlin bulged this last week with the in firm, the aged, the young and the very young ref u gees from the latest surge of C o m m u nist hi N,'wsiim Drutanty. There have been many exam ples of such in the past-the Red Chinese communes, jam ming millions into state-run cooperatives, for one; Stalin's action condemning millions of restive Ukrainians to starva tion, for another. And alongside these must come the campaign of the last few weeks which in one savage sweep completed the collectivization of every farm in East Germany. From April 15 to April 19. more than 5,000 East German farmers fled their former lands and reached the haven of Marienfelde refugee cen ter. Statistics fail to tell the story. 31 Washington Report By WILLIAM NIXON'S OBJECTIVITY Washington -It is the cur ious fate of Vice-President Nixon to be always danger ously under rated by his a n t a g o nists and always foolishly over rated by his supporters. Only Rich ard M. Nixon himself takes U ! .... William 8. " wiuts tlve view of Richard M. Nixon's prospects as he moves cautiously toward his goal, the presidency of the United States. Let him run behind the Democrats in popular vote in a primary where public inter ests happens to be wholly in the Democratic contests, as In Wisconsin. Instantly his ene mies cry out, "Nixon is slip ping badly." This, quite right ly, does not scare him. For he knows perfectly well that try ing to predict November from such episodes of the spring time is nonsense. Let another primary end with a thumping victory for a "modern" Republican sena tor, Clifford Case of New Jer sey, over ultraconservatlve op position. Eager Nixonites trumpet the glad news that the way is now absolutely smooth before him. All he need do is run as a "modern" and not an old guard Repub lican. rpiIE Nixon who refused to be unduly frightened be fore Is iipt, this time, unduly elnted. For the question Is not now, and never was. whether he should be a "modern" or an old guard Republican. He never had the slightest inten tion of taking an old guard line. In the first place, he sim ply isn't an old guardist. In the second place, he has for seven years been an In separable part of the "mod ern" GOP administration of Dwlght Eisenhower. He would not and could not suddenly try to act as it those years had never happened. And when as he departs from that record it will be toward more, not less, GOP liberalism, specifi cally In matters like farm sub sidies and medical care for the old. In the third place, Nixon can add. He knows that five Menace IT? Grip on Economy The church and the rugged ly individual peasant with his intense love of the land have provided two of the greatest stumbling blocks to the com munization of eastern Europe Now, in East Germany, at least, the farmer no longer need be considered a factor, At Marienfelde one of the refugees produces a picture of the farm machinery he wrecked before fleeing. Another tells of hours un der siege in his barred cot tage while Communist teams on 24-hour shifts outside blare through loudspeakers demands that he sign away his lands to the collective. Suicides were common place. Plum for Khrushcher But for East German strong man Walter Ubricht there was one overriding considera tion. It was the plum he could hand Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on the eve of the four-power summit meeting. With this, Khrushchev could point to an East Germany whose economy at last was totally divorced from the West. Independent labor un ions had been replaced by state unions. Private farming had vanished and now the last S. WHITE successive national elections -two for the presidency and three for the congress - have shown this: Ultraconserva tlsm would as surely defeat the Republicans In 1960 as irresponsibly extreme "liber alism" would defeat the Dem ocrats. . THUS the vice-president is not made half so happy as are most of his backers by such straws as the New Jer sey GOP primary. For Senator Case's victory there over the right-wing challenger, Rob ert Morris, only "proved" what had long been obvious. It "proved" that "modern" Republicanism is stronger than old guard Republican ism, In the east, at least - as it has been for these last 20 years. What was not proved was that the Republicans national ly will be as strong as the Democrats In November. This is the real question for Rich ard M. Nixon. And he, for one, is realistic enough to see thlngc as they are. For the true Republican problem is quite simple. Here Is a minority party In terms of voter registration. There are more people who are more-or-less Democratic than there are people who are more-or-less Republicans. It therefore follows that Nixon cannot win In November with out (a) a highly disciplined party organization and (b) a successful appeal to Indepen dents and dissatisfied Demo crats. TysClPLINE remains shaky. " The powerful Irregular Republican, Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York, still coldly refuses to endorse Nix on or even to predict his vic tory in the fall. And looking at the thing head-on, Nixon's ability to re cruit Independents and rebel lious Democrats will be de termined largely not by him but by the Democratic party itself. It will be determined by how many mistakes the Democratic party makes. Nixon himself would never put it so baldly. But he knows that his greatest chance of all lies in the strange capacity of the Democrats to beat them selves. (Copyright. 1960. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 557 Committees Keep Pentagon Going; Problems By DICK WEST Washington - (UPD - In the early days of World War II, when things weren't going too well for our side, some one decided it would be a good idea if the Army and Navy worked together. By the time the wa r was over, approxi- Diek west- maieiy iuu committees had been created to maintain contact between the two services. Nevertheless we won. I mean we fortunately had enough people to staff all the committees and still get some fighting done. Realizing that we might not be so lucky next time, Con gress created the Defense De partment to draw the services closer together. The rest is history and I need only add that it no longer takes 100 of the small businessmen soon would vanish, too. And for Khrushchev there also was a side benefit. For as tension mounted in Berlin over the flow of refugees, he could cite it, too, as a threat to world peace. --"i ii -rrr 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. Why Wait? To the Editor: There hsve been so many letters printed about the poor fellow who not long ago had convulsions, and how wonderful the police were to stick by him until he did receive help, thanks to our wonderful police depart ment. The following poem should be a reminder for the rest of us that there are a lot more just like this poor fellow who too would appreciate kindness and a smile before their stay on earth Is ended. "Why Walt For Death?" I would rather have a little rose From the garden of a friend. Than have the choicest flowers When my stay on earth must end. I would rather have the kindest words, And a smile that I can see, Than flattery when my heart is still, And this life ceased to be. I would rather have a lov ing smile From the friends I know are true, Than tears shed 'round my casket When my world I bid adieu. Bring me all the flowers today Whether pink or white or red, I'd raUier have one blossom now Than a trunk-load when I'm dead. Mrs. Mary Jones, 428 North Holly st., Medford. Doodles and Drums To the Editor: A few days ago we learned that Jackson ville was to have a city coun cil meeting, so we sat in. It was more fun than a bushel o' cats and no dogs off-leash to chase 'em. Two gentlemen at the coun cil table just wouldn't talk. Being almost in front of me I watched them. One had a book in which he doodled constantly, the other a typed sheet regarding the dog control ordinance. He really trimmed that with a pretty red pencil. Those doodleri brought back memories of younger days when I had more tele phone friends than I had hours in which to sit by the phone, but I sat. I elevated my big feet 25 Quince . Not Solved, But Surrounded committees to keep them In touch with each other. Now it takes 557 commit tees. A list of the current mili tary committees, boards, councils and other groups has just been published by the Joint Congressional Economic Committee. Military Surround Problem Friends, when the armed forces have a problem they don't just tackle it; they sur round it. I gather they work on the theory that the best way to solve a problem is to smother it. For instance, I was not sur prised to see on the list an Army committee on leather fottwear and another Army committee on rubber foot wear. After all, Army shoes are a pretty big subject. But I never realized how big until I noted that the Army also has a committee on sole leather, a committee on upper leather a committee on rubber heels and soles, and a committee on shoe laces. I trust these committees are on speaking terms with the committee on men's seamless hosiery. It would be nice to think that they likewise work hand-in-hand with the commit tee on leather and fabric gloves, the committee on glove leather and the commit tee on rubber gloves. Committee On Crackers The Army, of course, trav els on its stomach and to help it along there is a committee being done by the Navy Noise against the wall, sprawled back and doodled all over the desk blotter. Hasty little scallops when they greeted me, hit and miss dashes when feeling mad, crooked doodles when my beans were burning, and dainty birds and flowers when I was glad. Doodling is such an expressive way to show others that you just aren't Interested in whatever it is they are arguing about - period! Besides, it passes the time away. I don't think I should tell outsiders what was discussed by the non-doodlers, but I'll say this - "All citizens of all towns should attend every council meeting in order to learn what's cooking. You'd be surprised!" As, the evening wore on and I couldn't stretch my neck enough to follow the doodlers artistic endeavors, I remarked to my seatmate, "Now that those papers are almost defrosted, I may as well go home." She started to laugh right out so I got out real fast. While The Senior Citizen's Orchestra was practicing at 601 East Jackson St., Med ford, Thursday p.m., someone took our pictures. If we'uns get into print - which I doubt - that ol' sourpuss with the drum is, yours sincerely. Pearl Spackman, Jacksonville, Ore. "Enjoyable?" To the Editor: Yours truly was a bit confused with the word "enjoyable" used in an article in your paper recently concerning daylight savings time. Said article stated that more than half the states enjoyed the same. Having lived in California for a number of years, and having just recently come to the Rogue River valley, I can assure said writer that all are not of the same mind. If rising from your bed one hour earlier than usual, and trying to retire before it is dark, plus the confusion of time changes, not to mention the withdrawal of the P.S.T. hour In the fall - when it is most needed - If at all - can be called "enjoyable," then I guess it is. Paul Wilson Phoenix, Ore. OPPOSE BULL FIGHTING Madrid -(LTD- A group of Spanish social leaders has formed the "association against cruelty in public spec tacles" to work for a ban on bullfighting. Bob Rucker Counsellor OREGON FUNERAL PLAN The Only FUNERAL PLAN Sponsored br Ortgon Funeral Directors Ail'n . . SP 2-9210 nn crackers, biscuits and cook ies, a committee on instant coffee and a committee on frankfurters, not to mention the committee on active dry yeast and the committee on canned teamed puddings. In the motorized depart ment, the Army has a tire and rim committee, a committee on track for track-layaway ve hicles and a committee on cast armor for track layaway. There even is an "Army ter mination committee" which I suspect was inspired by the Navy. Other important work is Matter of Fact THE DEBT TO DE GAULLE Washington - This city, which too seldom experiences greatness, has been paying its warm tribute lo one oi me few great men of the Western won a. uui Washing t o n's tributes to Charles de Gaulle's half p reh i s t o r i c grandeur ought to have mingled far more g r ati tude with the Iffffi admiration. This is because the United States and the other nations of the West owe the President of France a heavy, quite spe cific debt for brightening all our prospects. In fact, unless all signs deceive, de Gaulle, alone and single-handed, at last created the needed atmo sphere for a bearable solution of the Berlin crisis in his talks with Nikita S. Khrushchev. The details of these long conversations have been guarded with unprecedented closeness. De Gaulle confided the full accounts of them to no one in the French Foreign Office except Maurice Couve de Murville, the Foreign Sec retary himself. Nonetheless, enough has now been said about them - enough had to be said by Foreign Secretary Couve de Murville to other Western leaders - so that one can discern the importance of the de Gaulle - Khrushchev talks as a really major turning point. IN THE unending Berlin cri sis, another major turning point had to come first. This occurred it the Camp David meeting between Khrushchev and President Eisenhower. At Camp David the only tangible achievement was Khrush chev's agreement to withdraw his time-deadline for a Berlin solution. This was no very grandiose achievement, either, as Khrushchev's loud subse quent menaces proved only too clearly. But it now seems clear that there was also an intangible achievement at Camp David, this was, so to say a by-product of the tangible achieve ment. The President's calm but unyielding refusal to talk at all until the time-deadline had been withdrawn, his po lite but exasperating depart ure for Gettysburg, which left Khrushchev with no one to talk to, his evident willing ness to let Khrushche" fly home in a fury if he chose-all these, apparently, had their effect. The effect, apparently, was to convince Khrushchev that Eisenhower could not be budged by bullying on any of the fundamentals of the Ber lin problem. rpHE failure to budge Eisen-- hower set the stage for a new phase of Soviet action. This began after a short inter lude of post-Camp David sweetness and light. The new phase was marked by such phenomena as Khrushchev's Counsel With ... Mr. InsuranceFred Brennan V t V t Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLIY ST. Advisory Committee which nas separate panels on tur bine noise, piping noise, air conditioning noise and pump noise. The Air Force, which first developed the saturation tech nique, has an installation menu board, a menu planning board and a base menu plan ning board. My favorite group on the list is the Army subcommittee on "the qualification of well ness.". I couldn't even guess what it does but it may be tied in with the Navy's "pass ive defense council." By Joseph Alsop outrageously brutal reception of Italy's President Gronchi, the successive Khrushchev speeches threatening unilater al action at Berlin the vicious Soviet abuse of the West Ger mans and the probes of West ern intentions by such tricks as the change in the Potsdam passes of the Western military liaison mission to the Soviet Kommandateura. The aim of this second phase, it now seems fairly clear, was to budge the other Western al lies by the same tactics that had failed with Eisenhower. In the de Gaulle-Khrushchev talks, the major identi fiable achievement was once again intangible. De Gaulle seemingly implanted in Khru shchev's mind the conviction that the other Western allies could not be budged any more than Eisenhower could be budged. De Gaulle is now known to have told Khrushchev that he could have a worldwide less ening of tensions any day he wanted; but he could not have this and Berlin too; and if he tried to get Berlin, he would risk war by so doing. No one in the West is better qualified to infuse conviction into such grim words as these. No one can speak such words more meaningfully yet with the kind of Olympian detachment that all but forces acceptance of what is said. And Khrush chev seems to have accepted what de Gaulle said at face value. . THERE are two main signs which suggest that de Gaulle carries conviction with Khrushchev. One was the re cent message on Berlin to the West Germans, from Khru shchev's East German puppet, Walther Ulbrieht. For the first time, this shrill, squalid, blood-stained Stalinist struck a note of semi-compromise. The other sign was a long and deeply significant com mentary by "Pravda" on Sec retary of State Christian A. Herter's Chicago speech. The criticism of the speech was calm and temperate. More im portant still "Pravda" signif icantly pointed to the last Western offer at last year's Foreign Ministers' meeting at Geneva as a hopeful basis for discussion of the Berlin ques tion. This famous but still un published Western paper of July 28, 1959, also formed the core of the Western Foreign Ministers' belated but com plete aggieement about future Berlin negotiations at the summit. Hence the outlook, until recently so stormy, now offers reasonable hope of a Berlin solution both sides can honorably accept. The outlook may be alto gether deceptive; the signs may be altogether misleading. Khrushchev's dealings with the Berlin problem have al ways had the wild pattern of a very bad fever chart. But hope is already something, after the recent gloomy fore bodings of the Western policy makers, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Be yourt the finest man sion or fust a one-room shack. If It should burn would you In turn have have to build It back? BE SURE AND INSUREI Bill Fish