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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.