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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
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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
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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
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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