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1 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Thursday, April 26, 190 MntFORDcrWrBISUKI Everyone In Southern Oregon Rosds The Mill Tribune11 Published Dolly except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Ftr Jit., Ph SP 2-14 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manatee GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. ERIC w. ALLEN JR., Mn Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'i Editor PALE ERICKSON, Circulation M g An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter it Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year 119 00 Dally and Sunday 6 mos. 8 00 ' Dally and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year 14.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Mill Phoenix. Shady Cava, Rogua Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Dally and Sunday J year 18 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1 90 Carrier and Dealars copy 10c All Terms Cah In Advance Official Paper of City of MeTffofT Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire V J.I. Telepholo Newsplcturee " JffiMBFR OF AUDIT BUREAU" OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices In New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Loi Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta, Vancouver, B.O. 0 NIWSPAMR PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITORIAI ASfebCtHTlfolr, f KJ W rrn Flight or Time Madford and Jackson County History from the f Mas of The Mall tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 28, 1950 (Friday) r A private pilot and lour other persons here reported seeing a disk-shaped silvery object flying above the Grants Pass airport early today. County Engineer Paul Ryn nlng said the state highway department may increase ex penditures for maintenance of the Crater Lake highway in Prospect area. 20 YEARS AGO April 28. 1940 (Sunday) The Greensprlngs highway eight miles from Klamath Junction was covered by tons ot rock and dirt this morning when a construction blast jarred loose a hillside, From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Re vival of the long-standing dream to build a railroad to the coast has been removed from the civic mothballs. As this is the oldest pioneer hope of these parts, there is no spe cial rush about getting the golden spike' ready to nail down the last rail." 30 YEARS AGO April 28, 1930 (Monday) Canneries unite to fight closure of Rogue to commer cial fishermen. Census count gives Ashland , I population of 4,028. 40 YEARS AGO April 28. 1920 (Wednesday) The C. E. Gates auto conv pany moves from the Spnrta building to new headquarters. The road to Redding Is in good shape except for a five- mile stretch between Ashland and the Siskiyou summit, i 60 YEARS AGO April 28. 1910 (Thursday) - Medford citizens are urged ' to make sure they are count ed in the census, otherwise : Ashland or Grants Pass may (how a larger population. Medford Commercial club will give annual "High Jinks" tonight featuring a profession' nl vaudeville show. ; What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct li superior! ,f seven or eight It excellent; five er tig is ood. 1. What was the name of the : water boy in Rudyard Klp- ling poem? ' 2. What was the battle-cry Of the Texans In their strug- ' gle for independence from Mexico in 1836? 3. To kiss the Blarney Stone, would you walk up m YVa twelve steps, wade through 4 water, or hang by your feet? t 4. What is the plural of alumnus? Ef. Can gasoline be produced by condensation from natural as? 6. What name Is given an , alluvial deposit at tin mouth of a river? 7. What canal connects Lake . Erie find the Hudson river? Would a ml tor box most likelv be used by a pharma cilt, carpenter, or butterfly collector? ' i- 9. Was George M. Cohan of Irish, Jewish, or Scottish an 'teatry? ! 10. The English alphabet i luu how many letters? . Aniwerst 1. Oungi Din. I. "Remember the Alamo." 3. Hang by the feet 4. Alumni. . (. Yes, 6. Delia. 7. Erie Canal. . Caipanlar. . Irish. 10. 21. Ray Johnson Following is the substance of an editorial aired over Radio station KMbU earner mis ween : "Ladles and Gentlemen, It Isn't often that we ap. proach the microphone in an editorial manner, but this time we feel that It is important that certain things be said. "The broadcasting Industry has been and Is current ly going through a period of scrutiny and being sub jected to the analysis of regulating bodies and the general public as well. We do not deny that to soma degree the criticism the industry is receiving Is merit ed. We feel that the recent rigged television quir pro grams and the payola scandals were not In the public interest. "We do not believe, however, that the newspapers and other printed press are acting In the public interest by taking this opportunity to attack broadcasting in view ot the fact that they are as guilty, If not more so, of many of the very things that they criticize broad casting of. Payola, for instance, is a very old practice In the newspaper and magazine industry Indeed.. "Editors, reporters and others In the newspaper Industry have received everything from potato chips to free dinners, trips, entertainment, even cash, for special favors and special consideration, by eager and enterprising representatives of commercial interests. "Television and radio have been cruelly criticized by the press for the programming of violent and sug gestive materials. We're not sure that Die Industry is guilty of this, but If so, we submit that newspapers and magazines are guilty of printing this very sort of thing to a far more dangerous end to make the most of the sensational aspects of crime and sex ... "Broadcasting has been and Is being investigated. Newspapers could be next ..." DAY Johnson, manager of KMED, who spoke the editorial on his station, was kind enough to en-ant our request for a copy of it. As printed above, it lacks only a NBC's Morgan Beatty, similar vein. Kay also was kind KMED has no quarrel with the mail Tribune, and he also offered free time and facilities to answer, on the air, if we This won't be necessary. It so happens we agree with much of what he says, and want to compliment him, not only of his industry, but for the initiative to exercise the right to voice opinions on the air a right the broadcastinir media have exercised only infre quently in the past. WE WOULD quibble Tinwpvpr. Ray is taking in a castigates1 the entire "press" for the venalities of which a portion of it is guilty. "The press in America includes more than 1.700 daily newspapers, many times that num ber of weeklies, as well azines, from Time-Life-Fortune Century, and from Shoes Damnine "the press" lawyers are shysters and all doctors are quacks, based on the fact that some lawyers and some doctors are shysters and quacKs. IT IS true, and deplorable, that a segment of the press does use sensationalism as its stock in trade. The San Francisco Chronicle, once a respon sible, high-quality metropolitan daily, found it self headed toward bankruptcy, and decided to take a leaf from the sensational book of the San Francisco Examiner. Today it out-Examiners the Examiner. It has printed columns of lurid details about the sensational Finch-Tregoff trial and about the sprightly doings of Beverly Aadland usually under huge, Page 1 headlines, often in color. This may sell newspapers. But it is not respon sible journalism, and to the extent a PORTION of the press is guilty, we grant the truth of John son's criticism. DUT to damn in the same phrase, "the press," both the Chronicle and others of its type, and such papers as the staid, responsible, supercon scientious New York Times, is grotesque. It is also unfair to the thousands of weeklies and small dailies whose staffers knock themselves out gathering and reporting the news of their own communities, as accurately and responsibly as possible, and whose closest brush with "payola" is an occasional cup of coffee from the communal pot at city hall. The whole business of exerting "influence" on the media of communication, as a matter of fact, is an "iffy" business. Offers of favors are more apt to repel than to favorably influence a conscientious reporter or editor. And there is a difference, we maintain, be tween taking an expense-paid trip to gather fac tual information for news stories, and accepting gratuities to play certain companies' records. It is a difference in substance, not in degree. CXCEPT for these few qualifying observations, " we will go along with Ray Johnson's com ments. And we'd like to point out, too, that while there are some editors who take almost as a per sonal affront any criticism of "the press," there is also a large body of conscientious editors who deplore some of their colleagues' extravagances. But in doing so, they attempt to be specific, and not critize unjustly those papers which are trying to do an honest job of bringing news, com ment, wholesome entertainment, thought-provoking opinion and informative advertising to their readers. TV now, (and radio a few years ago,) is more subject to such indiscriminate criticism because the networks are the determining factor in mak ing most stations similar in the impression thev give. but, again, we agree lieving that mounting criticism of irresponsible newspapers is nnthtno- in r-i 1 o E.A. , s Editorial recorded broadcast by who editorialized in enough to point out that desired. on a vigorous detense with one or two points, lot of territory when he as a wide range of mag to the Christian & Leather to Horizon. is a little like saying all with Rav Johnson m be hp. uriincro-pi nff lichtlv. - ' an-- - o" Dennis the ... ANO PLEASE MAKE MOM AH' WD CAUN&. IF THEY HAVE A MIDNIGHT SNACK 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. Those Reds, Again To the Editor: Regarding the article "Cheap, Silly, Ir religious." I feel a little dis appointed c o n c e r ning the depth of your reasoning con cerning this matter of the Na. tional Council of Churches and am wondering If you have read some ot the more factual books on the methods of Com munism such as "Masters of Deceit" by Edgar J. Hoover, Have you ever taken time to look up the Congressional Records concerning the fine lobbying for "Freedom" done by the National Council of Churches? Here is an exam ple: "We Join with countless rank-and-file Americans as well as prominent citizens in the demand to abolish the House Committee on Un-Am erican Activities and the Sen ate Internal Security Sub committee." The National Council of Churches has a record of po litical lobbying straight down the old red line. The charge made in the training manual from the Air Force that there is considerable evidence that the National Council of Churches is infiltrated by fel low travelers and card carry ing communists is a light un derstatement when one looks at their record. By the way, the facts of this charge still stand unchallenged! I hate to undermine your naive belief that a religious organization should be above all suspicion of being any thing but pure and Innocent. According to Christ's accusa tion of the "religious," they were usually the ones who fouled things up. If you have read articles written by the "Red Dean of Canterbury" you would soon discover that Communism works very effec tively in the cloak of so-called Christian religion. Another little Job of re search some enterprising edi tor should do is to reveal the facta on how organizations such as National Council of Churches became what they are. Not by the vote of the individual churches and Chris tian people. Churches all over the country are beginning to find this out and withdraw membership which was never even given In the first place. I feel you sincerely are try ing to fight something you don't know anything about, and In doing so are contribut ing to smearing people who really know what the Reds are doing to us. If the Reds are to succeed In their Infiltration of our land. It will be because edi tors, news agencies, radio, TV, etc., will continue In reporting without revealing the facts of the situation. I realize this is a rougher Job than Just quot ing other liberal papers. When a country falls to the Reds, it's the liberal element that puts them In. When the country is taken the liberal leaders along with the con servatives are shot or sent to camps, unless they complete ly give in to the brainwashing. Lynn D. Berntson 112 Washington at. Medford Our Way Is "Sunk" To the Editor: It has been said that, "a little knowledge Is dangerous," and that is true, because It might start people to thinking. And think ing begets knowledge, and knowledge Is power, If it is used. We must realize that we are Just emerging from the dark ages but we have been so prosperous, with a relative high standard of living, that we have been contented and complacent. But the machine age has Menace brought problems. These prob lems are largely taxes and Ir responsibility. Hence the low standard of our culture. Our escapist literature and art, Escape from boredom. Sex and mayhem is our cultural fare. Cowboys, Indians and Alfred Hitchcock on TV. Any thing else is controversial and is frowned upon. Controversial topics Involve conflict of class interests. And there is the crux of our dilem ma. We live in a complex class society. We live in a so cial system of so called "Free Enterprise." A system of catch-as-catch-can. A sort of an anarchy. But by and large this system of "Free Enter prise" is a system of class rule. That class is a class of the crafty. Ours is a commercial tyr anny. It expresses Itself most emphatically in inflation, and taxes. Its abuse of the under dog is a glowing example, the neglect of the aged, warping the minds of the youth, the abuse of the wayward, unem ployment and economic un certainty, badgering the desti tute and unfortunate. Our American institutions are creatures of their environ ment. We too are creatures of our environment. Even the unfortunates caress the chains that fetter them. They go to the polls on election day and feel that they have done their patriotic duty, or to church on Sunday and feel they have praised the Lord and maker in ample measure. Through the years and the days, time is devoted to selfish pursuits and endeavor. It is the way we are conditioned. We cannot see Justice for the other fel low, in the light ot our own desires. Deplorable as that may seem, no change can be made without changing our way of life, and our outlook on social Justice. Society died with the pass ing of debate. As we do not approve of controversy, de bate is not permissable. Our social structure is so frail that it would collapse under the impact of debate in public. Po litically we are moral cow ards. We dare not express a valid opinion on penalty of being accused of being called a communist. We are sinking Into the quicksand of our own crea tion. Our way of life is "sunk." Our great danger is that some hot head will "fire on Fort Sumter." Walter Rcece, Gallce rd.. Merlin, Ore. Eternity Is Real To the Editor: The other day a valley resident asked, "when are you going to write a letter against the Cath olics?" Now such a question has caused me a bit of con cern. Why didn't this person ask when 1 was planning to write against Uie group he worshiped with? My intentions in writing any letters are not to tear down any one's character. A minister friend was taken to task for preaching against a certain group. I believe he quite well summed It up when he said, "we have not been preaching against you, we've been preaching the Bible." I believe that God has His children scattered among all church groups. We are saved Individually. It Is a sad situ ation when one gets the idea that because you don't belong to his or her church that you are all wrong. However, If any group or Like. Man. Dick Clark Bugs Those Cats On the Committee; By DICK WEST Washington IUPD Hello all of you out there in northern radioland. In southern radio- land, hello you all. This Is your teen-a g e disc Jockey report er about to scatter a little chatter your way. So p u t down that homework Dick west ana lend an ear, hey. Your teen-age disc Jockey has been over in the House caucus room tuning in on the Dick Clark investigation. It's a gasser.'man. A real gasser. Like those cats on the House Oversight Committee seem to individuals raise themselves up against God and His in spired word I feel it my Chris tian duty to be on guard. All of us here in America enjoy the freedom of worship ing according to the dictates of our conscience. This prin ciple has made America great. The great crime wave and lack of true Christianity are not to be blamed on God. In fact the real cause of our troubles are that we have spurned God. No I am not against a man because he is a Catholic, Pro testant or Jew. But if that in dividual Is exerting an influ ence contrary to the freedom God has given us, then I need not have a part in his ideas. The enemy of all good has many clever snares laid out for unsuspecting souls. The in spired Word of God has given ample warning. None need be in doubt or tossed about, not knowing where to turn. Every conceivable barrier is constantly being placed in the pathway of God's earthly chil dren. Soul defiling habits becloud the reasoning powers of many. Others are so bent on the pleasures of this life, that they have no time for God. This short life here is but a proving ground for the here after. Events all around us should cause us to look above and beyond to something far better. Our constant aim and goal should be to help some one. Earthly pleasures are only temporarly. Eternity is real and everlasting. Henry Johnson, Jr. 2400 Highway 66 Ashland.. .. . . The Moral Battle To the Editor: "To Give Our Young Men A Goal" is an article printed in brief In the current (May) issue of Reader's Digest, and should be read by every citizen interested In the future of our great country, and especially in the youth of our great country. It is the Navy s answer to a Juvenile problem, unfortu nately in existence, not only in the Navy, but in every com munity in the U.S.A. Obviously the answer has not been that of sheer discipline alone. The article seems timely in this particular area, since re cent discussions locally have brought the problem before the people of the county for remedial action. The U.S. Navy started a pro gram to show its fighting men why the United States of America is worth fighting and dying for. A like program could be started In the home, the schools and the commu nity. I quote: 'If It is to be won (the moral battle), we as a peo ple must stop merely giving lip service to our Ideals and start living them again. If we are to stay strong, safe and free, there must be a spiritual renaissance-STARTING NOW (emphasis mine) in every heart, mind and conscience in this country.' This is not propaganda in tended to increase recruiting production, but merely an at tempt to bring to light a pro gram ordered by the Secre tary of the Navy and the re sults obtained over a period of several years. Murray J. Emmerich Recruiter-ln-Charge Navy Recruiting Station Post Office Building Medford Polly-Ticks To the Editor: A few morn lngs past KMED mentioned that someone else had men tioned that ' the Democrats have gotten up more medi cines than there are ills. They called It the "Romance of the year." If any part of It ia "Ro mance," I've wasted by long life dreaming. I should have been awake and helping stir together more remedies for present use. Our. country's working people are getting hip-swing in their pocket books. Any pain In our necks is not brought on by carrying over-loaded billfolds, so please pass the Spring vitamin cap sules Just in case of bombs. For some time, working people have found it difficult to earn bare existence, let sasiu,";' think that our boy Dick has been doing the old payola bit or something. I mean, how corny can you get? Real Free Enterpriser Like everybody knows that Dick had an interest in a lot of record companies. He's a real free enterpriser, that lad. So what is that? A crime or something? One thing that makes you sick, sick, sick is all this Jazz about Dick playing his own companies' records on his own dee-jay show just so we would go out and buy them. We liked those records, didn't we, gang? I mean, they were absolutely and positively the most. They were songs to Red Chinese Premier India, Border Clash By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor A smiling Red Chinese Pre mier Chou En-lai left New Delhi like a conquering hero this week, leaving a defi nitely chilly Prime Minis ter Jawaharlal Nehru behind. Whereas Chou manag ed to wave several times before the door of his air r-Qll l e W bl'IH liner closed behind him, Nehru confined himself to a single wave at the last moment. Furthermore Chou Insisted that friendship between Red China and India was "im mortal." It appeared Nehru was not so sure. Both Stand Firm These were suface results of Chou's week in New Delhi, during which he and Nehru spent more than 17 hours in consultation over the border dispute which has disrupted seriously relations between their two countries. Both were committed to a policy of no retreat and both held to it. The territory involved cov ers 51,000 square miles along the Sino-Indian frontier which India considers hers by treaty and tradition. It runs along the so-called McMahon Line which follows the Himalaya Mountains and the water sheds. About a third of it is all but inaccessible. Two areas were in specific dispute. One was the Ladakh Region of Kashmir bordering Tibet. Here the Chinese have built a strategic road linking Tibet with the provice of Sin kiang. The other was in India's Northeast Frontier Agency where Red Chinese forces oc cupied Longju, killing three Indian border policemen in the process. Chou claimed Ladakh by right of "history" and said Longju was north of the Mc Mahon Line which India con siders the official boundary. Both views were exactly the opposite of those held by Nehru. alone medicine for their ail ments. Shaw! I can't cook up a thing to groan about, right now, but if some blamed thing developes, I won't lay It to the Democrats just to get a free pill. I'll just grin and bear it, but no one can blame me for thinking; or will they? Long years ago I forgot all about romance: we sit by the fire, play canasta or our har monicas, and look hopeful about the weather. My husband's a Republican, so being at the polls is a MUST. We Democrats "gotta" be on the job! Don't let weath er or high water keep you at home on voting day. Yours for more and better medicine and better "Ro mance." Pearl Spackman Jacksonville, Ore. Habits To the Editor: about habits: Speaking Don't feed the birds In winter If you're inclined to shirk, Or they'll be there all summer To remind you of your work. Don't be a little selfish Establishing that trend, For selfishness can make you Become Its dearest friend. Don't start a little habit You plan to later drop, For it will soon convince you It's something you can't stop! Mrs. William T. Jeffcry S21 Mnycttc St. Medford. DILUTED EVIDENCE Greensboro. N.C.-d'PO-Coun' ty Prosecutor Horace Koregay said Wednesday that from now on confiscated moonshine will be kept In the basement vault of the courthouse. He complained someone had been substituting water for the moonshine kept in his office closet for use a evidence. What's Payola? Hey turiv hv and songs to eat double-decker hamburgers by. If your hamburgers leaked a little mustard on the records, they sounded even better. But don't worry, gang. Dick Is playing this thing real cool. He went out and hired the "Computech" company to analyze the records he played on the "American Bandstand" show. Computech Backs Clark According to Computech, the analysis showed that Dick played the records that were most popular, regardless of whether he had a financial In terest in them. But I guess those committee cats don't dig mathematics or The deadlocked stale of the talks left these unofficial re actions in New Delhi: The dispute may not lead to war but it will take years to settle, with a corresponding and continuous strain on rela tions of the two countries. At home, at least, Nehru re Editorial Comment Way Out Needed (Editor's note: The Jackson county budget committee Is considering a request for $2,000 for the coming fiscal year to help finance a family counseling service, an exten slon of the child guidance clinic. At last report no decision had been reached. Because of its timeliness, and because it describes so well the needs, we are printing below por. lions of a recent editorial from the Coos Bay World.) Do you know the lonely and clothe her children, raising days off? She lost her husband not through death, but by divorce, because there was no one to help her save her marriage. Do you. know the lonely ward of the: court because both his parents were killed in an automobile accident? The neigbhors click their tongues. They could have told you something like this would happen. The couple "always drank too much." And there was no one they could turn to for help with the problems that led to the wild drinking bouts. Do you know the teenager school? Incorrigible, he's called. His unhappy parents noticed years ago, when he was just a little tyke, that something was bothering Wm like the time when he took the pencil from the dime store. But there was nobody they could find who seemed to be able to help them find any answers to their problems. You should know those of yours, right here in Southwestern Oregon, where there is no family counselling service, no psychiatrist or psycho logist. .. Ministers and welfare department personnel,' even phy sicians, for the most part are with anything but the most called on constantly to help solve problems beyond their depth. Dedicated though they are, this is a source of bitter discouragement to the most conscientious of them. These are all questions which are no longer being laugh ed off by professional people and illnesses of the body and These and other related questions concerning the mental health of this area are no longer being laughed off by a group of devoted doctors and community leaders here who have banded together to try to find a way to bring emotional help to a community which has none. They realize, too, that the deal of creative potential through persons who are so hem med in by emotional problems that they cannot find a way out to accomplish what they have ability to accomplish for themselves and others. A way out that's what this this coming weekend for ourselves and our neighbors with problems in living. COOS BAY WORLD. 'Jug Dairies? Warned Of Need for License Salem-flJPD-With the usual spring 'surplus of fluid milk in the offing, the State De partment of Agriculture warn ed today that all "jug dairies" with more than one dairy cow must be licensed by the state. A jug dairy is one where milk sales are made on the dairy premises in gallon Jugs. V- DEVOTED SERVICE I fytd Jtotiuaw "Am MOtSAN . HMOIO WOOOtASJ, FUNIIAL DMCTOtJ someimug. Anyway, tnJ Drougm in inese tnree it,i tlcians to give the Compute! aiituyaia a guinK-over. If you guys and dolls thin you've been having trouble i sophomore algebra class v should have heard the w0 inose siausucians sling figures around. They claim their fif show that Computech'i analjl sis was all wet. They claM our boy played his own reel oras more man me records oj oilier cuutpaiiies. r-ersonaiiy, i don t get it But those committee mi looked hep. So for the mcl mem mais me way the deci mai poini pounces, Leaves Unsolved gained some of the stature he lost when news of the dispute leaked out after being official ly buried for five years and when he agreed to negotiate with Chou. Indians were happy that he naa rejected iirmiy ail Chi- nese aemanas. woman who is working to feed them In frantic haste on her little boy who will be made i who is being sent to a state people. They are all neighbors not adequately trained to help minor difficulties. 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