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Newspaper Page Text4 -iriSJSnTlirSoulherh Oregon Reedi Tne Mell Tribune day b ROBER-TW BUHL "Editor HERB GRET Aovoriiim GERALD T LATHAM But ear Krilior itnr I Editor R IC H A R D J K W KTT S POT t mot litoi Ed An lna.pnon. :-s-T- n'rf?5 ASVon under Ac. .1 " Merer, 3, IB9T SUBSCRIPTION BATES B Mail In Advance I y end Sunday-1 year II d! v and Bundy- mot I n! v and Sund.y-3 moa Sunday Omy-On-. year Simla Copy Mailed. r Sal OU Daily and Sunday-1 mo S""?" PA-Lr. Copy I 3 50c 100 omelaTraper of City of Meat Official Paper ol Jacaton Coui ford County United Preu p ,fl!i.Sf mSTp" AnH Seattle. Portland Den-'er NIWIPAPH PUIlltHIKS ASSOCIATION RATIONAL E0"TOIAl Memoor Calllornla Newtpaper Funllahera Aatoclatlon Flight or Time Mcdlord and Jackson County Hiitory from tha filet of Th MaTTrrlbun. 10. 20. 30. 40 and 50 vrt 0- 10 YEARS AGO May 26, 1953 (Tuesday) The Rogue river wbs reced ing today after a sudden rain fed rise yestcrdny which swept away a cofferdam at Savage rapids, destroyed irri gation Intakes and tempor arily closed Highway 01). Repeal of Gold Hlll't dog confinement ordinance was favored today by a wide ma Jority of those voters ballot ing on the measure. 20 YEARS AGO May 28, 1943 (Wednetday) MaJ. Gen. Charles Ger hardt, commanding officer of "Fir Tree" division, buys tirst VFW poppy sold in Mcdford area. '. , ., rixm' Arthur Perry 8 'Ye Smudge Pot" column-. "Corn is now growing line mo weeds, and In a number of Instances, Is the weeds." ' 30 YEARS AGO May 26, 1633 (Friday) Oregon graduate nurses open stale convention in Mcd ford. Mcdford Glcemen well re ceived in spring concert. 40 YEARS AGO May 26, 1823 (Saturday) Congress allots $67,500 for construction of Crator Lake Prospect highway. Recently formed Mcdford Rotary club to receive charter next week. SO YEARS AGO May 26, 1913 (Monday) S. S. Bullls, Olcan, N.Y., granted franchise by county court to operate Inlcrurban trolley line on Jackson coun ty highways. West Liwton annolntcd marshal of Mcdford Memorial day parade. What's Your I.Q.? Nina ar ran correct ft superior; lavan or oight it excellent; five or lit It good. 1. If some one threatened to pin back your auricular ap pendages, what would he be referring to? 2. The opening words of which American classic arc: "Four score and seven years go"? 3. The a h Is an animal that sleeps upside down. 4. All statca have the same voting requirements: true or false? 5. During which unison do we experience "Squaw Win ter"? . The U. S. Post Oftico de partment does, or does not. employ women mall carriers? 7. Formerly "plus fours" were widely worn by players engaged in which spoil? 8. Kaiser Wilhelm II fled to which country, where he was Interned for the remainder of his life? 9. Name the manager who piloted tin Now York Yan kees to the 1047 world cham pionship. 10. Who was U.S. President when the WW I armlsllce was dgned? Aniwarst 1. Ears. 2, Lin coln's Gettysburg Addrasi. 3. Sloth. 4. Falsa. 3. Autumn, t. Do. 7. Golf. 8. Tha Neth erlands. . Bueky Harria. 10. Woodrow Wilson. SUNDAY. MAY 26. 1863 What Now for Agriculture? There are lots of tinners we don't understand in this complicated old we understand the least is the so-called iarm problem" the odd mixture of attitude, habit, politics, economics and emotion which has cost us se heavily over the past three decades, and which has been the subject of so much debate and acrimony. Having confessed our ignorance, let us at tempt to set forth a confused layman's concept of what it is all about. It is, if we read it correctly, compounded of two elements. The first is the vital importance of a healthy agriculture to the nation as a whole. The second is the really fantastic increase in farm productivity made niques, including but not limited to fertilizers and pesticides. DURING the depression years, it became na tional policy to assist agriculture. And dur ing the war, when the overriding emphisis was on higher and higher food production, the -national policy was designed to that end. This, coupled with the new techniques, re sulted after the war in glut upon glut of farm produce. And laws and subsidies, once designed to increase wartime production, continued, re sulting in huge surpluses of many basic products. The overproduction gave rise to the threat of disastrous price declines, in turn threatening the entire economy. So the subsidies and controls were retained, despite surpluses. I AST week's vote by the nation's wheat far mers represented something of a revolt against the whole system a system which sim ply grew up as a result of circumstances, and which has thus far defied solution. High production, strict controls, and subsi dized prices have continued. The wheat farmers' vote against their continuation is the first real break in the process. : What happens how? No one knows. Some Congressmen are talking about new legislation to save wheat farmers from what could be tre mendous over production and skidding prices. But there is a very general conflicting sentiment, including that in the Administration itself, which would let the results of the election stand, and "see what happens." WHATEVER does happen whether the clas sic l;iw nf Kimnlv anrl rlpmnnrl will tulro over, thus ruining a good many farmers, or whether Congress does come up with a new stop gap plan the time has come for a complete re assessment of the nation's farm policies. : Whether such a reassessment would result in any lasting solutions or not remains questionable. For some of the nation's best brains have been devoted to the "farm problem" over the years, and have failed to find a solution which was ac ceptable. But the wheat vote a solution other than production and price con trols would have a better chance of acceptance now than in the past. IT is entirely possible that a long range solu linn iri11 lin trii'f I lu lir a lit rmi t in WTn v-vit mut duce food far in excess population increasing at the rate it has been, the day is not too far distant when population will outrun food supply. It already has, as a matter of fact, if we talk in terms of world population and world food production. Our vast stored surpluses would vanish almost overnight if they were distributed to people who are chronically hungry. Why, then, arc we not selling our surplus foods, or even giving them away? International politics and economics enter here, for food dumped at low prices, or given away, on a large scale, would play hob with international markets, and bring anguished protests from other na tions which have traditionally been our friends. e e m THE day may come, however, when these rea- sons will become more and more specious, and when we do attempt to dispose of sur pluses by shinpimr them abroad. If and when that happens, surpluses will turn into shortages. For, under existing circum stances, the world is not growing enough food to provide a decent standard of nutrition for all its people. Meanwhile, this confused layman looks for a period of farm confusion, even amontr experts. It does not appear that the classic economic forces of demand and supply will rectify the sit nation without undue hardship on many, for sup ly will far outrun demand in the short run. Nor do we believe that Congress has any ready an swers up its sleeve. IT is unfortunate that we will just have to "wait "to see what happens," for people are going to get hurt in the process, and the nation's economy as a whole may suffer. A whole segment of the economy does not go from "mixed" or "managed" back to full "free enterprise" economy almost overnight without some dislocations. Yet, if this rather drastic reversal of trend in the farm economy docs stimulate some basic thinking, and some new approaches, maybe it will have been the best thing that could have hap pened in the long pull for the nation's, and the farmers', welfare. E.A. world. One of the things possible by new tech any rational attempt at certainly indicates that of our needs. But with MfcDrOMD "Now That We've Got To Come Back And Offer To Let Ui Drive" Matter of Fact (O New York Herald AFTER RACHEL CARSON Washington - . A Iridium by a river's brim Only a trlllium ii to him. And it is nothing moral This perversion of Words- worth is inspired by the tur tle that now lives in the side garden. Bloodroot and hepatica, star flower and wild ginger, dogstooth vi- Holds and 'i v milde nhair v Tcarr. Solom" ""ST II on's seal and 1 jack - in the-A!:-; pulpit may well inspire him with appro priate Wordsworthian senti ments. At any rate, he leaves them alone. But he does not leave trilliums alone. After a rain that brings earthworms to the surface, you can catch him at it, his dome of tortoise-shell gleam ing wctly, bulldozing through the trilliums in search of nourishment. Their stems are fragile, and when he marches across a trillium's prostrate form, that is the end of the trillium-which is particularly painful because they were pretty wonderful this year. 1MIE turtle is proof that you - cannot nrinrtt th xtrn high principles advocated by Rachel Carson without losing a little on the swings of your gain on the roundabouts. He was established In the side- garden, in fact, as a tubstlture for slug-poison. The place is hardly more than an arcaway, naturally damp, unavoidably short of sunlight. Therefore moss and the wild flowers that grow in the woods and ferns in all their varieties were put there to avoid the only other alter native, which was dusty, fu neral Ivy. But moss and ferns need to be kept moist; and the daily mlstspraying to en courage the moss somehow encouraged slugs as well. Slugs in such numbers have rarely been seen. Slug-poison was used for the first attack on them, and ignorantly used at that. Instead of being placed on i stone, like a light slug-buffet on nature's dining-room table, the poison was scattered about the garden In a haphazard manner. Few slugs expired, but every inch of moss turned brown that the poison touched. a e rpHE turtle was then sug- gested, as a better anil slug measure: and this he has indeed turned out to be. No slug is to be seen anywhere Bits of hamburger even have to be provided as an occasion al diet-supplcmcnt, because of a lurking fear that the nar row little garden may not of fer enough foraging-rooin. Otherwise all is well, except for those trilliums. That raises the auestlnn, in turn, whether the Carsnn prin OK llMeat 1tM r Bur., M 'Couldn't you make a special lata lor our froua All wo want lo too la Barry GoldwaUrl" MAIL UHlBUNt, MttOOKU. OHtUON Out, We Wait For Them By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate ciples cannot be universally adopted. A few trilliums, after all, are a reasonable sacrifice, if the gain is a garden both slug-free and poison-free. But the answer to the ques tion, also Is in the negative. The truth Is that giving up poisons is as hard for a gar dener as giving up booze is for an alcoholic. THE old general drenchings with DDT have been abandoned, to be sure. The Japanese beetles which the DDT was mainly aimed at have found natural enemies by now. Furthermore, the main effect of the DDT-drench-ings was to destroy all the enemies of the red spiders, which are worse than Japan ese beetles if permitted to multiply without limit. But there are the cherry trees, only one year in the ground and so horribly vul nerable to borers. There is also the wisteria, which has an as-yet-unidentified enemy lhat can only be defeated with DDT spray. Not without grim thought of the DDT al ready accumulated in our fat, like an alcoholic reaching for the rink which he fears will put the last, finally fatal knob on his liver, any serious gar dener is bound to give those cherry trees and that wis teria the protection they need. That is not the end of the grim story, cither. The sys temic poisons, which arc poured upon the soil for plants to drink up, are far worse than DDT or parathion or malathlon or any of the other noxious substances Ra chel Carson has warned us against. To handle them at all. in fact, a mask and gloves are needed. "Never again!" is the oath invariably taken, when the mask and gloves are put away again. BUT J am UT there is the rare and d handsome Buxus Ro- tundifolia, a big-leafed box which grows almost to the height of a small tree and does not object to being es palicrcd on a wall. And there Is ono of Henry Hohman's astonishing hybrids, a dwarf box with a curiously lacy habit of growth. It suffers from box-leaf miner, and so does Its larger, wall-growing cousin. The leaves are yellowing hideously. The miners encyst ed cannot be reached, except by a systemic. So the mask and gloves are shamefacedly routed out again; and the often-repeated oath is once more broken. The moral is rather simple. If Rachel Carson is right and the chances are that she Is largely right something ought to be done about it. Furthermore, the something done needs to be considerably flerner than the report of the President's scientific advisors. which had the approximate power of an old lady's moral lecture to a confirmed drunk. ' . Dry s 'p,'iii Today & Tomorrow By Walter (o 1963 The THE KENNEDY ROUND Simple as it sounds, in prac tice the idea of forming an Atlantic partnership in a low- tariff trading area is in fact j, , nuge ana com plicated. The JTfl p r e 1 iminary J,M talks for what m is caiiea i n e Kennedy round of tariff ncgotiati o n s began some Lippmanx time back with American inquiries about the agricultural prod ucts. The results were not promising, and it has develop ed that the European market will first have to agree on its own unsettled agricultural problems before it can begin to think about ours. Now Christian A. Herter has been at Geneva talking about the principles by which tariff negotiations should be gov erned in accordance with the powers granted the President under the United States Trade Expansion Act. Although it was always evi dent that the road to the At lantic trading partnership was steep and rough, the prelimi naries have disclosed some thing which is, I think for al most all of us, surprising and new. We have been assuming that Europe wanted so much to sell industrial exports in the United States that it would pay for the privilege by opening its own market to American farm products and industrial goods. This may prove to have been a great miscalculation. e THUS, it has been plain for some time that the French farm bloc has greater influ ence on French policy than the French, German and Ital ian industrialists of the Com mon Market. French farmers, who are beginning to develop agricultural surpluses, will not allow the Common Mar ket to be opened freely to the cheaper food of American and other overseas farmers. Yet, the United States Congress is not likely to accept agreement in which the American farm er is discriminated against. In the Geneva preliminaries about negotiating low tariffs, we were taught that what we first offered the Europeans in the way of access to our mark et did not seem to them worth what they would have to con cede by way of American ac cess to the European market. This. European attitude is shared by all members of the Common Market, and it is not - like the exclusion of Great Britain - due to a personal de cision of General de Gaulle. We have reason to think that even if our first offer had been more attractive. General de Gaulle might on political grounds have sought ways to abort the negotia tions. But the trouble which Governor Herter encountered in Geneva was not due to General dc Gaulle, but to the great disparity between the European and the American tariff systems. a e IF I have understood correct ly the oroblcm at issue be tween the Europeans and our selves, it is roughly speaking as follows: The AVERAGE level of our tariff and the Common Mar ket external tariff is about the same. But the averages conceal very different rate structures. In the Common Long Thoughts on the Race for By ERIC SEVAREID It was two years ago this week end that President Ken nedy sent his special message to the Con gress in which he said that he himself be 1 i e v e d we "should go to the moon." It has taken two years to de velop the be ginnings of a national de bate on the question, among congressmen, scientists and editorialists. I say the "beginnings" of a debate because, on its pub lic plane at least, the argu ment has not yet come into its true focus. The true ques tion is not whether we should try to land men on the moon the nature of this political world as well as the nature of man's curiosity and the un quenchable spirit of science make it inevitable that we try but how we go about it. The real argument is going on In semi-private between the cold warriors, including the military, who want a "crash" program, and certain scientists deeply aware of the difficulties and dangers, who (ear the atmosphere of a "race" In this delicate opera tion. They discount the last. Ing value of the prestige at tendant upon being first. They would lika to tea tha aaaV trim Uppmtnn Wuhtnrton Post Market tariff, 80 per cent of all the tariff rates are be tween 10 per cent and 30 per cent. In the American system, only 63 per cent of the rates are in this range. We have more low rates than Europe, and we have more high rates. Thus, 20 per cent of our rates are under 10 per cent; only nine per cent of the European rates are in this low bracket. On the other hand, eighteen per cent of our rates are over 30 per cent, but only 1 per cent of the European rates are in this high bracket. The Europeans are attack ing these high American tar iffs, these peaks jutting up out of the mass of rates. They have demanded that before there is a general linear cut, for which we are asking, there should be an "excret ment," which is a French word for lopping off the peaks. a e e 11HEY point, for example, lo the very high tariff on coal tar dyes. This ingenious tariff schedule imposes a duty of 36 per cent to 40 per cent. And it imposes this high rate not on the F.O.B. price in the country of origin, but on the selling price of similar prod ucts of American origin. This device roughly doubles the ef fective tariff rate. It is evident that the Euro peans have a grievance and that there is something in their claim that to cut such an exorbitant tariff by 50 per cent would still leave it an exorbitant rate. Had we not acknowledged that there is justice in the European argu ment, the negotiations would have failed at the very begin ning. The actual negotiations, as distinguished from the pre liminary talks about proce dure and principal, will pre- In the Day's News By FRANK On Tuesday of last week, the wheat farmers of the Unit ed States went to the polls in a national referendum elec tion and rejected a new and tighter federal production con trol plan for their crop by a vote of 547,151 FOR and 596,943 AGAINST. The vote was 47 per cent for and 53 per cent against the proposal. But that doesn't tell the whole story. Under the terms of the referendum, approval by at least two thirds of those voting would have been required to put the proposed new program into effect. In Oregon, six Eastern Ore gon counties where wheat is the major crop voted in favor of the new and tighter pro gram. It lost in most other Oregon counties. In Klamath county, the program received a favorable vote of only 11.2 per cent of those voting. In Oregon as a whole, the wheat growers voted 5,032 against the plan and 4.637 in favor. In the state of Washington, the vote of the wheat growers was 6,976 for and 8,012 against. WHY this decisive rejection? This thought occurs: The wheat growers must have got tired of being hired NOT to produce wheat. THEN Of course There is the fantastic sur wnule psychology of strain and rush, of looking over our shoulder, rooted out cf this endeavor. They believe that with this step toward the moon we have reached the point where haste will not only make enormous financial waste but very probably pro duce failure and human tragedy. Congressmen now express ing doubts about the moon program are being contemptu ously assailed as pinch-penny mossbacks living In the last century. This comes a bit gra tuitously from partisans of the President, since he him self. In his message of two years ago, urged every citi zen and Congressman to "consider the matter careful ly in making their judgment," because, he said, "it is a heavy burden and there is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States takes an affirmative position in outer space unless we are pre pared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful." a a a Only now are many of us, including the worried mem bers of Congress, beginning faintly to comprehend the order of magnitude of the ef forts and the burdens to come. A new and fathomless world of human endeavor is swimming into our ken. It 1 natural and not necessarily a sign of stodgy un-tmagmative-nest that practical men In THINGS YOU WOULDN'T KNOW IF YOU HADN'T READ THEM HERE White men got here just in time to save the forests from the Indians who were tear ing them down at a wild rate to use for making bows and arrows ... A cow owned by a Mrs. O'Leary started the San Francisco earthquake . . . There is a real need for some thing for people who can't eat before everytime they brush their teeth ... A musi cal pine tree is one with a perfect pitch . . . Pigless pork was developed by a man who simply couldn't stand bacon and tomato sandwiches . . . Queen Elizabeth has never changed a tire on her Rolls Royce . . . Aaron Burr's friends used to call him Perry Mason and his enemies called him sneaky ... No one really knows how sheep feel about their sheep shape . . . The white line down the center of the highway is a safety zone for bicycle riders . . . Goldy Bearwater was the name of a pretty conservative Indian . . . Crater Lake was built before the Panama Canal. sumably, begin next May. But substantial agreement is still far off. In order to agree to a partnership in the vast Atlan tic world, there will be needed in order to overcome the ob jective difficulties not only unusual flexibility and in genuity on the part of the governments and the legisla tures, but an overriding will to bring the Atlantic partner ship into existence. The best one can say is for the time being all are agreed that there is no alternative but to go on trying. JENKINS plus that has been accumu-lated-a surplus that filled all the warehouses and then over flowed into receptacles such as empty and Idle ships. Not to mention the building of fabulous numbers of new warehouses. It must have become obvi ous to a very large number of growers that this huge surplus tended to hang over the wheat markets of the future like a dark thundercloud. LET'S get back to the tour ist industry. Here are some figures that may surprise you: DURING the 1962 tourist season, 9,225,378 out of state visitors came to Oregon in 2.804,660 automobiles. That's a litle belter than FIVE TIMES the population of Ore gon. They spent an average of $20.45 per day per car. Forty three per cent of them came from California-and so must have passed through Southern Oregon twice, once on the way up and again on the way back. THIS is the point: If we could have stopped all of these California cars twice-once on the way up and once on the way back - it would have meant the addi tion ol nearly FIFTY MIL LION DOLLARS to our Southern Oregon economy. stinctively and immediately try to estimate the practical costs Involved; indeed, they must. And the more they try, the more dismayed they feel. They have a few present facts to go on: they know that the budgets for NASA have been doubling every year for the past five years. They know that a successful moon landing in this decade would cost at least $30 bil lion and maybe more. They see that of the 400.000 quali fied specialists now working in "R and D" research and development 60.000 work on NASA projects and that this percentage must sharply rise, raising the gravest ques tions about scientific prior ties in the American society of the future. They see what our present budgets for normal military preparedness are and they sec no way to reduce them sub stantially. Now they sec, dim ly on the horizon, a second realm of uncontrollable ex penditure which can match and even surpass normal de fense expenditures as the years go by. Space is limitless and there arc only staging points in its "conquest" there is no stopping place. Being practical men of the present, with present and practical responsibilities, of course, they feel dismay. What is a vision to some men Is a spectre to others. The im mediate spectra these men tea DOG HICCUPS Wa talked to a man tha other day who was an hour lata for an appointment be came ha had been trying to . get his hiccuping dog to broalha into a paper bag. Ha reported that tha kick ing and screaming waa something fierce and that both he and tha dog wound up hiccuping together. YOU'VE HEARD THIS? The captain's voice coma over intercom as he spoke l the passengers of the trans continental jet, "We have lost ground contact, our com pass is inoperative, our ra dios are dead and we seem to be completely lost. HOW EVER, we have a 50 mile tail wind and you'll be pleased to know that we are making ex ceueui progress. MOON SOON Wa like a lina from a Broadway production that goes like ihits "For anoth. or two hundred million dol lars, wa can have a white mouse on the moon by tha and of the year," HISTORICAL NOTE Many years ago an Elmer Paige used to operate a stags coach line between Jackson ville and Roscburg. (Accord ing to Realtors, every houss on the Old Stage Road was the official watering stop). Anyway, we thought you'd like to know that the horse drawn vehicle had a sign on it that said, "Take the stag and leave the driving to Paige." PRONUNCIATION? If we pronounce monkey s "munkey", why don't we -pronounce donkey ei "dun key"? Or monkey at "mahnkey"? ASHLAND, YOU'RE NICEI -There's a nice surprise waiting for you in Lithia ville if you're young in heart. We daren't mention the name of the hotel (it rhymes with Cleopatra's boy friend, however) but we can tell you that they put up a scrumptuous, reasonably priced, picnic basket for two. You have a choice of Prestige Ham (Tranchc-de-couperes) or Roast Cornish hen (all white meat), complete with spiced pears, French bread, cheese and fruit and a choice of wines. Ants are an optional extra. 5D PARKING PROBLEM SOLUTION Will Rogers laid it. "Don't let anyone drive anything lhat Isn't paid for." Space is a permanently growing fed eral debt, a permanently un balanced budget, a permanent level of extremely high taxes. This Is only the beginning. Anyone has only to let out hia imagination a short notch to see the ultimate possibilities to see humanity's push into space transforming this so ciety, dominating its intcllcc tural pursuits, absorbing its resources, altering the train ing of Its youth and its moral and religious concepts, upset ting the priorities for ill social and humanitarian ef forts on terra firma. e e e Those who scold the wor riers say that to cancel tha moon voyage would be as if Ferdinand and Isabella had cancelled Columbus' voyaga which opened the New World. They are more right than they know. What ts at stak are not only the new marvcla to be found, but also the pro found transfiguration of tha source of the search. After the voyage of Colum bus the Old World was never the same, in political, econo mic, military, social, religious or intellectual terms. After the first men walk upon tha moon. Old Earth will never be the same and the change will begin in the two socie ties. Russia and America, now competing for the cataclysmic honor of commencing tha alteration. (Distributad 1963, by Tha Hall Syndicate, Int.