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4 A "fcveryune in Southern Orega KMdi TheMsU Tribune" MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 19,9 tubllihcSTJailji excepfsaturdaf St Ji North ntSt..Ph SP 3-9141 . "TlOBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Adve-.-tislng Manage!' GERALD T LATHAM Bui Mir ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng Editor EARL ti AUAMa. ciiy Editor RICHARD JEWErT Sportl Editor OLIVE STARCHER Womtn'i Ed'tor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation MgT An indeoenaent Newspaper entered as second dais matter at Aleaiora. ureajon. unaer aci oi March 3. 1897 simscRipmoN rates ,' ill Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year 1S00 Dally and Sunday 8 mos 8.00 Dally and Sunday 3 mos 4.35 Sunday Only One rear 14.30 stv rnrrier In Advance Medlord Ashland. Central Point E title Point. Jacksonville Gold mil Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue Rlv . Tatnt and nn .notor routes Daily and Sunday 1 vear S1B00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1 .50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c AMTerms Cash In Advance Official Paper" of City of Medfnrd" Official Papir of Jackson Cotinlv United Press International Full Leased Wire U.P.I Tcjephoto Newnplctures ""MEMRKR OF AlJbit" BUREAU- OF CIRCULATIONS AHvertlsl'na Rcpresenta'tlve: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices In New York Chicago De. trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland St Loula. At larta. Vancouver. B.C The "Debate" Sk V"'"" ff!?A PUBLISHERS m J.A-JS0C1AT(0N NATIONAL DITORI Al lASftbc(rATI0 a W Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County Hisiorv Irom the tiles ot int Mail Trlbuna 10. 20. 30, 40 and 50 vear ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 28. 1950 (Thurtday) A federal Judge In Portland tnrinv ruled that the govern. ment had failed to prove Its charge ot restraint and mo' nopollzation of prepaid medi cal care against Oregon doc tors. . An emergency call for pear nickers was sent out by in state employment office here today to help a "serious situ ation" In the orchards. 20 YEARS AGO Sent. 28. 1940 (Saturday) Jacksonville and Gold Hill scored victories Friday In opening games of the Jackson county six-man lootoaii con i nrence. . From Arthur Perry's "Ye SmudKC Pol" column: "Pio neers met at J'vllle Thursday and let their memories drift back to the days when there was a livery stable in Asn land, and a faro game In the county seat. 30 YEARS AGO Sent. 28, 1930 (Sunday) ': Employment in both the county and city has showed an Increase during the past month. Jackson county 4-H clubs won a number of prizes at the recently concluded state fair. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 28. 1920 (Tuesday) Harry Howard, newcom er to the city, has announced he is a candidate for mayor and will try to unseat Mayor Gutcs. Mcdford will play Its first game of the Season Oct. against Klamath Falls. SO YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1910 (Wednesday) The Mcdford Commercial club will meet next week In Its new quarters at the recent ly completed Natatorium. The Jacksonville city coun- i ell last night issued a call for bids for the city's proposed $30,000 water supply system. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina or ten camel li superior teven or eltht It eactllenli Ht at i lii it good. ' '1. Docs arid refer to dry ness, acidity, or bitterness? 2. Helsinki Is the capital of which country? - 3. Lard Is a product of what animal7 '4. What Is the singular of axes? 5. Name the smallest planet. ' . 8. At which "Mount were the Ten Commandments ' Introduced? 7. How many years are denoted by "three score and twenty"? 8. Only three States In the union have four letters In their names; can you name them? ' 8. Is Midway Island In the Atlantla or the Pacific Ocean? 10. Docs r oss thrive In well drained, or In damp soil? Antwerii 1, prynwt, 2. Finland. 3. Tht hog. 4. Ax or axis, S, Mercury. 8. Mount Sinai. 7. Eighty. 8. Iowa, Ohio, Utah. t. Pacific. 10. In damp soil, , SEIZES NEWSPAPERS v Tokyo -tun- The Indonesian government today seized two more newspaper printing plants, Radio .Republic In donesia reported ' today. ' The radio said eight plants now have been taken over by the government. We were nleasantlv surprised at the presi dential candidates' debate Monday night We'd expected a fairly cream-puff affair, from the advance billing, but it turned out to be a good show a revealing one, in fact. No strong supporter of Vice President Nixon was, we suspect, motivated to switch his support to Senator Kennedy. And vice versa. But we wonder what impression it made on the undecided and uncommitted voter of whom there a lot this year. IMMEDIATELY following the two party con- ventions, we were pretty well depressed, feel ing that both candidates were sort of gray-flannel-suit, machine-made, precision-ground, calcu lating automatons. We felt it would be difficult to work up any degree of enthusiasm for either. Our bias, frankly, was against Nixon. But we found it hard to see John F. Kennedy as a man who fitted the crucial needs of the time; a man who would give this nation some intelligent, ag gressive, spirited, dynamic leadership after near ly eight years of what Joe Alsop calls "soothing syrup." ' AS THE campaign has progressed, however, anrl as trio nnnrliHnrps havo mjulfl r.hpil' nn- sitions, their personalities, their approaches more clear through speeches and statements, our orig inal reactions have changed. As a result, it was with an unabashed liking for Kennedy that we sat down Monday night to watch the debate. What happened strengthened our impressions of both men. Nixon, who obviously was suffering f r o m nervousness and tension, and who looked thin, almost haggard, and far from well, was still his old skillful, fast-on-his-feet self, and acquitted himself with poise, dignity and reasonableness. But he was (in these eyes at least) on the defensive from first to last. Kennedy, on the other hand,, was master of himself and the situation,' had done his, home work well, looked fit and self-confident, and was frank in his appeal to the American people to move forward into the adventurous 1960s. ONE OF our favorite Washington political com mentators the other day described the dif ference between Nixon and Kennedy more or less as follows: "Kennedy is saying to America 'Wake up! ; Nixon is saying 'Kelax ! This is an oversimplification, and a lot of people will disagree with some heat. But that was the net impression which we received from the television "debate," and if Kennedy can reinforce this "image" of his, keep Nixon on the defensive, continue to call out to the best instincts and ambitions and hopes of the American people, he will wind up in the White House next January. ONE THING which was notable by its absence v was the fact that not once during the hour long; TV program was the word "religion" used. The "religious issue," as a matter of fact, has drooped out of public view m the last lew days, and we hope it stays ounea, ior it is a nuiiui IHSIIP. IT IL IK ail 1MHL1C UL illl. - Perhaps, havincr been raised so early in tne campaign, and having been bruited about so vi ciously, people are just plain tired of it, and will icrnore anv further attempts to inject it into what should be a campaign based on lar more im portant issues those of survival, of prosperity, of equal justice, of health, of education AS TO THE "debate" itself, it didn't really strike the sparks nor define the positions and issues as sharply as it might have with a treer-swinginc iormat. But it most certainly did more to illuminate these things than just about anything in political history. If the next three sessions are as good, such face-to-face confrontations should be permanent ly adopted as an American political tradition. One thing one great thing that stood out: Because the opponents were both physically present, mere was little ot the slum-bang, eye- gouging sort of campaigning (nor the smear by innuendo) that one has seen in the past. it was a gentlemanly encounter, and did both participants credit. We can hardly wait for the next one Dennis the Menace 'Who vwits to give my mom a seat 'fopz i stand on his shoe?' Congo Is Second Time U.N. Has Foiled Communist Aims; K Wants aKeover By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Twice in the last 10 years prompt United Nations action has thwarted imperialistic c ommunism's ambitions t o expand. The first time was in Korea. More recently it has been in Af r i c a, a a r richer prize. Back of this, then, lies Ni- p'hil newsom klta Khrushcnevs vioieni at tack upon Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and his determination to destroy United Nations usefulness even if it must be at the cost of some popularity among the uncommitted or neutral na tions he seeks ultimately to win. So far as Korea was con cerned, the Communist attack there was a line-straightening operation designed to remove ... Communications ... Letters io in Editor mutt bear iha nam and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances Iha use of a pen nam or initial for publication it permissible. Tha Mail Tribune reserves the right to adit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Tha letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent tha views of tha paper; in fact the contrary it often the cata. -E.A. Who Is "Shocked"? Elmo Smith. Republican candidate for t h e United States Senate, was oiiotcd vestordav bv United Press International as saving. "I was shocked to hear my opponent say she would not nsK a nuciear war to protect free West Berlin. Politicians, of course, are easilv "shocked" by their opponents' statements. nut biruth s statement actually did shock us. WE WONDER if Smith has carefully consid mnl llin iin,ilirt.,i!nn nf ...Ur.1 I. I v vi, v. iiiii'iiiaviuna ui wiuiv nil sum. We suggest he think about the words "nuclear war," which he bandies about so easily, and re member that implicit in them is the certiiin end of civilization as we know it, hundreds of mil lions dead combatants and innocent, hvstanrl. ers ali!:e - and very possibly the end of the hu man race. E. A. t a Later Than Wa Think , To the Editor: After Mon day evening's talks by our Presidential candidates, I feel a deep sense of pity and re vulsion for a group of people who are so obviously desper ate to hold their grip on the voters of America, they have the unmitigated gall to offer us a pathetic, sick, weary little man as prospective leader of our country. Naturally, being the com passionule people we are, we feel sympathetic with Mr. Nixon's .sincere efforts, his willingness to be "used," much as they used that dear old well-liked General. However, sympathy and compassion will never, never lead us out of the miserable mess the Republican party has gotten us into already. This statement of "guard ing Federal money to force us to use our own initiative ' re veals their objective exactly. Those of us who labor for a living pretty well know how to do that already. There is nothing that con niving Russian leaders would like better than to see the American working class in a further state of depression and confusion, than we already are. 11 doesn't take a very smart person to know that. 1 would most sincerely urge those who have the voting privilege to consider t h e above facts, and to remember that only we, the voting pub lic, can prevent further dam age to our great country, by "voting out" the present pow er of greedy weaklings. We now have a young and vital statesman as a leader that has our full confidence. We know his intelligence is both desired and necessary He has the Integrity, the cour age, to do the Job, and we had best grab him while he available. It is much later than we think. Mary A. Williams 357 Orr dr. Central Point, Ore reau of Land Management), Well, folks we still have the freedom to take a pauper's oath. Be joyful. That is the Freedom for which my hon orable ancestor fought for at the Battle of Brandywine. We live at Galice. The Bu reau of Land Management is planning on taking all free dom over below Hcllgate for its private empire. It plans on being the trail boss. But we have plenty of company. We are all in the same boat. The rich and poor alike. Oon't feel slighted folks, your time will come. The ghost of Hitler is moving 4n While Mr. K moves into Cuba, Hitler's ghost enters the land of the free. Make way for State Socialism. Ours appears to develop into Big Business and Big Government. There is an issue for the boys that want to be presi dent. Walter Recce, Galice rd., ' . Merlin, Ore. Lott Fraedomt To the Editor: Good morn ing. What freedoms have you lost lately? .As for me not many but a few. However this has been our best season for losing free doms. First we lost our free dom to talk to the county court of Josephine county, Next we lost our freedom to bargain. Then we lost our freedom to bargain. Then we freedom to protest the Inking of our land. Next we lost the freedom to collect re muneration on private proper ty for public use. Next we were restrained by the county sheriff while our property was being destroyed. But that was only a be ginning, because the hard wallop came when we lost our freedom to earn a livelihood. Due to economic conditions the mill where we worked shut down because they could not buy logs from the govern ment that had a monopoly on the timber. The mill lost its freedom to operate. We lost the freedom to work. The free dom to sign checks. The free dom to pay bills. The freedom to buy groceries and shoes. Next, the Bureau of Land Management began to con test our freedom to live in our home where we resided for 13 years, a home that cost us $3,500. Next we lost our freedom to appeal. Get a load ot this: ". . . It, an appeal is taken, the amount of . . . filing fee is J5 . . . Your letter was not ac companied by a filing fee and j therefore cannot be considered as an appeal Can Lova Ba Bought? To the Editor: In regard to a communication about unjust taxation, the poor paying less and the rich paying more would our writer have us be lieve that capitalism is true equality? Let us suppose that the gov ernment is taxing the farmer of his substance. One has a thousand bushels, another has fifty, and a third person has thirty-five. The taxer sets the quota at fifty bushels per per son. The first has 950, the second has none, the third is left in debt or put in prison for failure to pay. And this is lust? Our government has had to lean toward socialism to keep a few from monopilizing the entire country. For every rich man there are tens of thous ands of poor and there always will be. If a rich man was to be taxed according to how much a poor man could pay, his wealth would greatly in crease. Eventually the rich would be fighting each other to see whose slave you would be. You can look at it in many ways, but they all have a slight curve and when pur sued they go in endless cir cles. To a true capitalist this Is heaven, but to the socialist and the poor it is hell. The Lord only asks that we live in peace with one anoth er. If we seek to out-do one another, shall we be at peace with one another? Can love be bought? T. M. S. Rogue River, Ore, that think more of the dollar than fair play they had bet ter stop and think about their being a party to the same thing they accuse this Mrs. Naples of. For" instance to il lustrate: I have had business with attorneys in California, Oregon (perhaps 20 in Ore gon). Washington and Canada and have found the majority of them fair and square-shooters, but have been robbed by some. Several times I have called to have a legal paper made when the attorney was not In, and office lady was a notary public and wrote out the papers and completed them for me, and yet had never been inside a law school. I also know that many le gal papers are handled by banks and mortgage compa nies by personnel who never attended law school. There fore it would appear to me that it is about time the State Bar association had a split and the attorneys who believe in fair play and want to be fair with their clients have their association and the oth ers theirs, and let the public choose which class they de sire to deal with. The big unions seem to pro tect the crooks in their un ions and I wonder if the bar association wants to be guilty of the same action. Jerry Smith Talent, Ore. Two Bar Associations? To the Editor: I want to congratulate you on the un usual daily paper you put out. I doubt whether there is a town the size of Medford in the United States that can compare with the over all news and special articles your paper has. Another tribute is to your wonderful Southern Oregon with Its beautiful mountains and streams. I am surprised at the number of modern mo tels from Ashland to Grants Pass, and this goes to prove that your tourists have to stay over to get a better look at what is here. I had my attention called to a front page Item in your paper last week and also Sun day's paper of Sept. 25 In re gard to the State Bar associa tion attempting to get an in junction against a lady in Cen tral Point by the name of Naples tor making legal pa pers for her clients. I was also told mat a cer tain attorney was recently In dicted but still practicing law. without any action trom the .The claim do- Stat Bar association. scribed Is null and gold, (Bu I If soma Jealous ittoricyi Tribes of Israel To the Editor: Surely you are old enough to remember back when there were Derro- crats as national leaders. Cuba was 90 miles off our shores at that time also. American influence really ousted one ruler there and re placed him by a man that soon outgrew the britches we gave him, as did rulers of other countries where our dollars placed puppets. Just about any confidence man can come here and pre tend that he has the backing of all the people and by so saying, secure "Federal Wel fare aid. , There was a Communist college founded in Chicago 37 years ago and to date the FBI lists at least 28 more. Our laws protect them from abuse by any group of people. We as a nation are fully pre pared to furnish well edu cated full - fledged Commu nist leaders from among the rich and the poor, to aid in ruling any government that is In need of trained leaders Our millions of dollars, given to the world, have. never bought us any friends and not even a better class of enemies. Church groups say we should give also, all of our extra food and goods God's chosen tribes of Is rael were forced to buy sur plus foods from one of the leaders of His tribes, as he acted as a man of power in Egypt. Rev. A. Gllman 322 South Riverside ave. ' Mcdford. a free-world thorn sticking in the aide of the Asia mainland between Red China and Soviet Siberia. The U.N. scarcely was five years old then and never be fore had it supplied troops against aggression. Inspired by America It is doubtful if it would have acted at all except by United States initiative, and it did not have the unanimous support of all nations outside the Communist bloc. Ia contrast has been the strong world support for the U.N. action in the Con",o which has triggered Soviet de termination to destroy it. The three - man presidium with which Khrushchev pro- nosps to replace the office ot secretary general had Us counterparts in Korea and later in Indo-China where Com munist representatives armed with veto power suc cess;u!ly hamstrung both the armistice and efforts to re unite divided nations. The United Nations secretary-general is the world's chief troubleshooter, instruct ed both to carry out United Nations mandates and to warn the U.N. Security Council of potential trouble spots. He has no veto. The Soviet Union, with one veto already in the Security Council, now proposes to add another. Would Increase Power By setting up a presidium in which the membership would consist of one Corn, munist, one neutral and one representative of the West, Khrushchev would take over one-third control of the entire world organization in contrast to the approximate 10 per cent he now has. His veto power effectively would prevent any such ac tion as the U.N. has been able to carry out in the Congo. Thus, Khrushchev would gain his free hand to swallow up young and confused na tions one by one as they emerged and would turn the U.N. into a futile debating society. Proposals To Revise Electoral College System Meet Defeat swung well over the line, and we got a scare we will not easily forget. I am sure most of the drivers are more considerate. The "Hot Potato" letter amused me. We "shemales" do have the name of being catty at times, so we can't blame Mrs. Eleanor Roose velt too much for throwing th? word "Bigotry" around Mrs. R. travels a lot, and while doing so, has time to think up things. Remember when men thought they had discovered the North Pole they were about to stamp their mark on it when they found in large letters ... no, no "Kilroy," it read "Eleanor Roosevelt was here." Any how, that's how I "heared" it. I too have been around; have seen 47 states and the countries north and south of ours, but I am Irish and I can think up little meannesses to say while all the tied-up dogs are howling, the radio blar ing and my husband hitting his thumb. Friends often wish I'd go to the North Pole I bet yuh Just now I am thinking about Mr. K: Instead of all the provocation and eyeing the big chip on his shoulder, we should remember that he is our guest; uninvited, to be sure, but here. We know he hasn't an open mind when it comes to Americans, but surely it has room to recog nize kindness. He should be accorded every courtesy. I believe Christ would so handle the situation. Gram Jacksonville, Ore. Mrs. R and Mr. K To the Editor: I am one of those who wrote about one of the log truck drivers. I am sure most of them are very careful, but I wouldn't be foolhardy enough to pull ahead of such a load with the thought "if he bumps me, the blame will lie with him." If I were dead I wouldn't care who was to blame. A heavy load can not stop quickly. Timber may support ' the valley, as Mrs. E. L. F. wrote, but it doesn't have to support the dead. We were In line to become in that condition when one truck driver passed us at high speed on a sham curve. tha back tnd ot that WU Hunting Fever To the Editor: With deor hunting season almost here the following, copied from a clipping, may help us wives realize we do not each suffer alone; all hunters are alike "When the first touch of fall is in the air you're apt to see small groups of men clustered around their coffee cups talking in an earnest and mysterious fashion. "These are the deer hunters getting ready for a season which never meets some ex pectations but always chal lenges them to one more try. "They are the men who have been complaining around home all summer about the overdrawn notices from the bank and past due bills at the store. They are a peculiar breed. When hunt ing time arrives they lose all appreciation for the value of a dollar. The urge to hunt is a disease which affects rich and poor alike. "The first to recognize the symptoms are .the wives. They know it is inevitable, yet each year they hope the germ fails to take root. Their hopes are in vain. Hunting fever is a perennial disease which thrives on the first Autumn breeze and reaches its peak the first day of deer season. There is no preven tion, no cure, except time. It is a seasonal affliction. "You can buy insurance against some kinds of sick ness, but there is no protec tion against hunting fever. The cost of the disease comes out of the grocery money The man who hunts is a per fectly normal human being nine months of the year but his mind becomes warped and confused as deer season ap proaches. "Fortunately, time has a way of passing rather swift ly. Ere long the deer hunting season will be here and gone and the fever will sub side to normal. The victim will hang up his rifles for another year. "But next year the same guy will bite him and he'll go through the same silly notions. He'll make the same mistakes, suffer the same agonies, neglect the same creditors, ignore the .same wife. It's hunting fever. Most red-blooded men get it." A Hunter s Wife (Name on file) al Point, f r. t0 I be accon By LYLE C. WILSON Washington - MPD - Some tinkering with the U.S. Con stitution would be appropriate rnuswai any time now to c u t pres s u r e groups and b a r e knuckled po litical minori- ties down to size. This could accomplish- devis- Lvie c Wilson i n g anotner method of electing presiden tial electors. Any numerous religious, racial or occupation al minority in any state is, under the present system, a potential election-day balance of power. The objective of electoral college reform would be to give back to the voters the presidential election and the party platforms. Such reform was proposed in the Senate in 1956 with the endorsement of 51 senators. At present, a stale's entire electoral vote goes to the can didate who gets a plurality or better of that state's popular vote, no matter how close the vote may be. The reform pro posed in 1956 would permit each state to choose between two methods of allotting elec toral votes on the basis of popular votes cast: Alternate Methods ' ' ' 1. The state's electoral vote would be divided on a per centage basis among the three presidential candidates receiv ing the most votes. 2. Each congressional dis trict would vote for one elec tor of its own and for two at large for the state. That is, electors would be chosen ex actly as members of the House and Senate now are chosen. This was a compromise pro posal combining in one pack age two alternative proposals which long had been pending supporters of in deadlock. both proposals joined in sup port of the compromise. Sen ate approval seemed assured. Thereafter, a favorable two thirds House vote would have enabled submission of the proposed amendment to the states for ratification. A weak spot was alterna tive No. 1 which seemed to invite third or splinter parties into every state although sup porters of No. 1 insisted it would riot have that effect. No. 2 unquestionably would discourage splinter group poli tics and surely would yank the rug from under pressure group minorities. The objec tive of the reform proposal was to distribute the electoral vote more equitably between the major parties in relation to popular vote returns. The overall advantage would oe to the smaller of the two major parties, the Republican party as of now. Affect on Truman . A shift of less than six tenths of one per cent of the 1948 vote from Harry S. Tru man would have thrown that presidential election into the House and, probably, in dead lock. If the proposed amend ment had been in effect in 1948, the electoral vote would have been: Truman 258 (less than a majority); Thomas E. Dewey 221.4; State's Righter Strom Thurmond 38.6; Prog ressive Henry A. Wallace 9.4; others 1.8. Under the pro posed plan, in such circum stances, the Senate and the House together would choose the president, each member casting one vote. The actual 1948 electoral vote was: Truman 303; Dewey 189; Thurmond 39. Truman polled 49.5 per cent of the 1948 popular vole. This proposal looked like a sure winner in the Senate un til minority group leaders got the word. They put the pres sure on and the 51 senators committed to the proposal be gan to melt away. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Portland the other day, the Agriculture Division of tne American Cyanamid com pany sponsored a recognition and award luncheon to honor the county agents of Oregon for their outstanding service to agriculture and their con tributions to the common good of all people. The luncheon was one of live neid in the United States. It was the only one held in the West. The award went to C. A. Henderson of Klamath county as the outstanding rep resentative of Oregon's coun ty agents. The implication is clear. Charley Henderson is regarded as the most distin guished county agent in the tar west. IT MUST be added here that this hnnnr rlnaen't UH1 uuoi, V UCiUIlg to Kt nth countv alon Chaney Henderson is known - :C respected and consulted all over southern Oregon and tar northern California. In mis wnole area he is Mr. County Agent. TN THE nearly four decades he has been on the Job, no single individual has influ enced more effectively the ag riculture of our whole region than C. A. Henderson. This is particularly true of t h e Klamath Basin. When he took over, the Basin's agriculture was raw and new and untried. He has shaped its develop ment. His leadership is large ly responsible for the fact that the Klamath Basin is now not only one of the West's newest agricultural districts but one of the most promising. YTHER than the conferring v of the distinguished serv ice award, the highlight of the luncheon was an address by Dr. Robert H. White-Stevens, manager of the nutrition, physiology and biochemistry agricultural division of t h e American Cyanamid compa ny. - ! He gave hit hearerl togii startling new Ideas of the im portance of the American farmer in the future of a world in which food - because of an explosive increase in population - will be perhaps the most important survival factor. FIOR example: 1 Not TOO long before Charley Henderson took over as county agent in Klamath county, one American farmer fed four people. One Ameri can farmer now feeds 24 peo ple. We are presently Inclined to think of that as merely an evidence of overproduction. Mr. White-Stevens gave us a picture of it as checkmating the grim theory of Malthus that population would In crease faster than food pro duction and so the people of the world would starve to death. WHAT to do about it? " Well, he said, the world as a whole will have to do what t h e American farmer has been doing in these years when we have been shivering in our boots bcause of In creased agricultural produc tion PER ACRE and the sur pluses that have been piling up as a result. That Is to say: The WORLD AS A WHOLE will have to learn in the fu ture how to GET MORE FOOD from each productive acre. Either that or STARVE. T WAS a challenging A speech, and very well worth listening to. It gave all of us who listened to it some thing new to think about. Maybe, over the long pull that lies ahead, .jrpluses will -be nothing to worrv about. May be, over this long pull, the heavy production that now results In agricultural over production will save tha world from ttarvation. t I
