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De troit San Francisco. Los Aaselea Seat attle. Portland. . Louis. Auama Vancouver. B. C NATION At EDITORIAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Trirune 10. 20. SO and 40 year- ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 23. 1943 (It Was Monday) Walter J. Reinking named commander of American Legion post. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Rationing of cook stoves starts soon. None of the Older Girls as yet have started hoarding them as is their wont in times of mythical short ages. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 23. 1933 (It Was Wednesday) Southern Oregon to make plea for road action for jobless. Moore Hamilton elected head Of Young Democratic Society. tO YEARS AGO Aug. 23. 1923 at Was Thursday) Number of citizens fined in Justice court for violations of water regulations. Jack Elliott house on North Oakdale ave. burns while family way. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 23. 1913 at Was Saturday) Public Market sells 2,227 mel ons before 10 a.m. County WCTU holds 26th an nual meeting at Phoenix. Phone Stoppages May Spread, Union Officials State BY UNITED PRESS' Union officials warned Sat urday there may be more work stoppages such as the walkout that disrupted Chicago long dis tance service for five hours Fri day. Company officials called the stoppage a "harrassing tactic," but CIO Communications Work ers members in Chicago de manded a nationwide walkout If their wage demands are not met About 53,000 union members are already on strike against the Southwest Bell Company and violence has marked a 31-day-old telephone workers' strike In Indiana. Indiana Bell reported a long distance toll cable between Bloomington and Martinville, Ind , was cut In two places, two underground cables between Marion and Ft Wayne were cut at Marion, and other, cables cut at Elwood. Affected were long distance and teletype service to newspapers and radio station!. Negotiations Set Renewed negotiations were scheduled to begin in St Louis, Mo., Monday in the six-state Southwest walkout. The Chicago work stoppage occurred when 1,500 operators and 800 plant operators of Ameri can Telephone and Telegraph Co. employees walked out to attend a union meeting. MINK VISITS COPS" East Haven, Conn. AI.R) A strange guest walked into police headquarters one night when the door was left open because of the heat It was a mink. One ef the policemen put it into a ventilated box until he could figure out what to do with the little fellow. TheLesson of Korea The London Times has minted a special review of the Korean war and its significance, from a mili tary standpoint. One item previously stressed in this department, is made crystal clear, namely: , Red China is now. for history, a real world power. It has a million men in its frontline army, they are well-trained, modernly equipped, the equal of any ground troops in the world today. They probably surpass any modern army in guerrilla wart are. Kea unina nas anoiner million men in reserve and an estimated 100,000,000 men of military , age. This sounds fine for Red China but not so fine for the rest of the world, especially the United States. a e e e e But there is a fly in the amber, fortunately; in fact quite a nest of them. The same military expert declares Red China could not have defended herself successfully for a week in Korea had it not been for Russian aid. ' Red China depended absolutely, and still depends, upon Russian planes, Russian tanks, Russian munition-plants, Russian pilots and Russian technicians. Perhaps equally important China has the benefit of Russian staff officers in the training of her troops and in day-to-day field tactics. So what? Well a number of things, to-wit: No. 1: This knocks the frequent grape-vine report that China-is tired of Soviet Russia's domination and wants to stage a "Tito" fade-out, into, a cocked hat. It is conceivable Soviet rid of China. It is inconceivable Red China should under existing circumstances, wish to get rid of Russia. No. 2: This situation makes the position of Sena tor Knowland regarding Red China and the U.N. even more absurd than before. For if Red China should not be admitted has killed our boys over be kicked out for making to kill them. It is a legal supplies the gun for killing fires it. NO 3: Unless the present situation should com rilsiaf aIw fTrre Atrnn ? aw oil a-vi-if TT XT ntt-ai 1 could drive China entirely out of Korea, Russia would hardly accept a defeat that would turn over to her enemies control of her far eastern borders. In other words such an extension of the present Korean war could only mean a Third World War with Russia in it t No. 4: This London Times report also implies, without stating in so many words, that in such a war if confined to the Far East, the United States might well find herself going it alone. In fact, Sena tor Knowland, at one time, assumed this might be the case, whereupon he seemed to welcome this form of military isolationism and looked forward with some pleasure to the prospect of Uncle Sam winning World War HI, single handed. We grant such an attitude is a tribute to the Cali fornia Senator's adrenal-gland capacities, but we seriously question if it is a similar tribute to his quali fications either as Senate leader of the present ad ministration, or an influential figure in the forma tion of this country's foreign policies! R.W.R. Is The "One World" Here? Zahedi broadcast an eight-point program to the people of Iran. "Dear compatriots," "in the name of the Almighty I ad dress you. By order of his majesty Mohammed Shah Reza Pahlevi, I have been appointed your premier. Past govern ments have made many promises but have accomplished very ' little. , "The nation must know I am the lawful premier on the shah's orders. The principal points of my program are: 1. The rule of law. 2. Raising the standards of living. 3. Free health service for all. 4. Mechanization of agriculture. 8. Road construction. 6. Insurance of public security. 7. Protection of individual and social freedom. 8. Promotion of co-operative societies. "Long live Mohammed Shah Rez Pahlevi." Press Dispatch Kipling was right most of the time. But when he laid down the law that "East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet," he failed to forsee the future. For as the above demonstrates this broadcast by Iran's new Premier shows a meeting of minds po litically, in fact this 8-point program might have been issued by the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt only a few years ago. Even the "Almighty" in both cases is appealed to. Then there is strict law enforcement, raising the standards of living (following Hoover prosperity just around the corner no doubt I); accomplishing some thing in the new administration instead of "very little"; free health service (in spite of A.M.A.l); the mechanization and financial elevation of the farmer; good roads, improved public service and security, maintaining the' social and individual free doms (how about FEPC7), and so on and so forth. QF course "Mohammed" isn't "God,!' the voters in Iran are not white; but they are here given much the same bill-of-fare politically that their brothers in the western world have been given. So the twain have met. Politically speaking hands are clasped across the seas and over the mountains, the "One World" dream of the late Wendell Willkie is here! P.S. But by the same token so we fear is that G'Q-P. "creeping Socialism!" R.W.R. 2. 1US the first time in modern Russia might wish to get to the U.N., because "she there," then Russia should it possible for Red China truism that the man who is as guilty as the man who ' Time to Clear R Ufi Speaking of "creeping socialism" we feel the time will soon come, if it is not already here, when the present administration should clarify this popular political slogan so the people can understand it - In the realm of public vs. private power for ex ample, there is as of today considerable confusion. e e e COME weeks ago President Eisenhower cited the r Tennessee Valley Authority as the perfect ex ample of this dreaded scourge, threatening as is claim ed to destroy individual initiative, our cherished free economy and democratic institutions! But Friday last, before the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, Secretary of the Interior McKay strongly endorsed such public power, declaring not only should the government continue such projects as Grand Coulee, Bonneville and Shasta but quote: "We believe that this power should be marketed for the benefit of all the people ol the country. It should not be marketed for the benefit of a chosen few. nor at the expense of the tax-payers." Well we happen to have a "memo" from a Ten nessee newspaper man which describes the TVA project as follows: "The people of the Tennessee Valley and vicinity are not only 100 behind TVA, but want it extended and amplified. When it is claimed such a project is only a success because it was financed by Uncle Sam and pays no taxes, the answer is a horse-laugh that can be heard from Shelbyville to Memphis. Not only wiU the profits of TVA reimburse the government, but as a result of TVA, local tax revenues have increased 100 in the areas served, as a result of consequent business growth. Also as a result of TVA, and lower rates for light and power, the consumers have been saved millions of dollars. Come down here if you doubt this and see for yourself." The writer visited the TVA area several years ago and the above was then our impression. We would like to go there again. ' BUT the point we wish to make is simply this: If our former governor is sincere, then he CAN'T agree with the President and his party leader, regarding either TVA or other federal projects, simi lar to it. , Yet in his opposition to the federal project at Hells Canyon and his perfectly frank and open en dorsement of the Idaho Power company venture, (beneficial primarily to the stockholders of that com- Sany not to the people of Idaho and Eastern Oregon) e is not approving either what the people a major ity of them want or what would be best in a busi ness way for their valley. IN another part of the same Commonwealth speech Secretary McKay said: "We recognize the primary responsibility for supplying power needs for any area rests with the people locally." Once more, if our former Governor means what he says then he should be willing to leave the matter of a high-power federal dam at Hells Canyon vs. the small low-power dams of the Idaho Power, com pany to a vote of the people. , But does he really believe the people of Idaho and Oregon, in the regions affected, would vote as he does for Idaho Power company? It is hard to believe and YET! . We are more interested, at the moment, in de termining just WHAT the administration's policy is, regarding public vs. private power than whether it is wrong or right WHAT IS IT? Can't SOMEONE in authority in Washington ex plain it, so the average man up a tree can understand it? R.W.R. , "Please Shake Before Taking" eaanaiBnBawaia Our favorite candidate for the national booby prize in the field of news columnists, Holmes Alex ander, of the Oregonian, has pulled another one out of his oversized hat This time he pontificates regarding conditions the other side of the iron curtain and comes up with this lala-paluza to wit: Instead of the Rosenbergs deserving the death penalty they should have been given the congression al medal for sneaking atomic-bomb secrets to the Kremlin and thus leading to Russia's bankruptcy and destruction. , At least that is a possible, though somewhat ex aggerated, implication from his recent remarks. IT seems Soviet Russia, in spite of its unlimited labor supply, technical "know-how" in the field of science, and determination to conquer the world just can't afford to manufacture the hydrogen bomb, and can't go VERY far in the direction of atomic weapons of destruction for the same reason. Poor Russia, the Alexander story goes, is trying hard to do so, but according to "Alex" it is now a struggle between military accomplishment and fi nancial disaster, with the latter far in the lead. a e a e a "NCE more it is a case of interesting IF true. But we have an idea that, until some corrob orative evidence is presented, the Eisenhower admin istration will continue to follow the advice of its experts, and assume that if not tomorrow then the day after, Russia will have both the hydrogen and atom bomb and without calling either for a referee in bankruptcy or the undertaker. Incidentally just how a nation with unlimitd slave labor and practically unlimited raw materials ditto printing press money, ever could go stone broke in the generally accepted sense, is rather hard to figure out R.W.R. GARNET COUNTRY Concord, N. H. UJD The Adirondack region of New Hampshire and New York ac counts for practically aU of the output of garnets in the United States, according to state officials. SIMPLE LOGIC Milford, Conn. 0J.R) Early settlers of this town, founded in 1639. once voted: "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; the earth is given to the Saints; we are tne Saints." Crccctovn ' ,mmmmmmmmmmm. ft-lASA "How caa I be careful of It whan U Isn't even BUILT yetf Matter of Fact - Paris Two men whose names very few Americans had ever heard of a few months ago are now, at least as symbols, the most important political figures in France. Premier Joseph Laniel may weU be a symbol of of the past, and Pierre Mendes-France a symbol of the future. - Joseph La niel is a big, .heavy - set, rather paunchy man, with a slightly in congruous col- Stewart AJaop haircut. He is less articulate than most French politicians, but perhaps for this very reason he is the kind of man you feel instinctively is hon est clear through. He has had a most honorable record, before, during, and since the war. A wealthy industrialist himself, he heads the most conservative gov ernment in France since the lib eration. He is the. archtype of the patriotic, moderate-minded Conservative. a a a HE has an admirable program for putting France back on her feet again. On the foreign front, the heart of this program is the Laniel-Navarre plan, aU ready described in this space, for ending the Indo-Chinese war. On the domesUc front Laniel's aim has been to bring order out of France's financial chaos by the most stringent economy measures. The probelm as Laniel sees it is to restore French self conn dence, both in Indo-China and at the home. Once this is done, he reasons, the French Parlia ment will be willing to take the greatest risks inherent in ratify ing the European army pact So much for the Laniel theory, Alas, the wide gap between theory and practice was im mediately demonstrated when the underpaid French govern ment workers responded to Laniel's first very mild economy measures by crippling nation wide strikes. The gap is likely to grow wider if and when La niel tries to send troop reinforce ments to Indo-China, an essential part of the Laniel-Navarre plan. Most observers now believe that the Laniel government will fall not long after Parliament re convenes. The Laniel-Navarre plan and the Laniel domestic program will collapse, presum ably, at the same time. What then? a a e SOONER or later the answer is likely to be a government headed by Pierre Mendes-France. Mendes-Frances, who missed the premiership this summer by a handful of votes and who is widely regarded as the man of the future in French politics, is a figure who should interest Americans. -A short stocky man with great drive and intelligence, he also boasts an honorable war and post-war record. He is neither a neutralist, Marxist nor a professorial American-baiter. He is. or conceives himself to be, a sort of French New Dealer, in deed he is presenUy wracking his brains to discover a suf ficiently striking French phrase for the words "New Deal." It is his central political asset that Mendes-France stands for something new Laniel is a new face too, but he is surround ed by the old political faces of which the French have become thoroughly tired. Mendes-France has interesting ideas for a French internal new deal, which is certainly long overdue. But it is his proposed new deal abroad which should interest Americans and scare the day lights out of them. a a a rjXX) briefly, the Mendes A France position comes to this. France will be sick as long as the enfeebling drain of the Indo-Chinese war continues. A sick France cannot play her essential role in the Atlantic Community, in which Mendes- France strongly believes. The Indo-Chinese war cannot be won by military means. Therefore a Cy Roland Cot StfWesWt elMP way must be found to end the war by other means. At this point. Mendes-France and his increasingly numerous supporters become a trifle vague. but this is the sort of "other means" hey have in mind. France would offer the Indo- Chinese Communist leader Ho Chi Minn unconditional indepen dence lor Indo-China, coupled with a precise program for the staged withdrawal of French troops. For his part Ho Chi Minn would be asked to accept "free, internationally supervis ed elections," and to offer guarantees that there would be no reprisals against anti-Communist Indo-Chinese. This is a formula for handing over Indo-China to the Commun ists with the least possible loss of face. Supporters of Mendes France tacitly recognize this when they talk hopefully about Ho Chi Minn's dislike of the Chi nese, and his supposed National ist and Titoist tendencies. - yET the fact is that the French A (for understandable reasons of their own) simply have no stomach any more for the end less Indo-Chinese war. It will be folly for the American policy makers to fail to recognize this fact. It is stiU possible, of course, that something like the Laniel Navarre plan will restore French self-confidence and the will to win in Indo-China. But it is on balance a good deal more prob able that a eovernment ripHirat. ed to liquidating the Indo-Chi nese war at almost any cost will one day soon come to power here. It is the American official view that the loss of Indo-China cannot be tolerated, for the com pelling reasons recently outlined by President Eisenhower him self. But it is also the Ameri can official view that direct American participation in the Indo-Chinese war must be ruled out also for compelling reasons, It begins to seem likely that the deadly internal contradictions between these two official views may soon be demonstrated. (Copyright 1953. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Oregon Educators Refuse To Renew Pact With USAFI Eugene (U.R) The Oregon State System of Higher Educa tion has refused to renew its con tract with the United States Armed Forces Institute,.a.spokes- man said Saturday. Joins 13 Others The system, along with 13 other coUeges and universities in the nation, has declined to take any further part in the de fense department's educational program of correspondence courses The widespread withdrawal from the USAFI program was the result of a clause in the new contracts which said, "The con tractor will not employ or retain for the performance of services under this contract such persons as are disapproved by the gov ernment." - A spokesman for the Oregon state system said it was feared such a clause might deny the state its right to decide for it self the qualifications of its own instructors. Affects Five Schools Decision to reject the contract was reached in Eugene follow ing conferences between Chan cellor Charles D. Byrne and Dean John F. Cramer, head of the general extension division. It affects the USAFI program at Oregon State CoUege, University of Oregon and the three state colleges of education. ITS IN TEXAS Falfurrias, Tex. U.RJ Fal furrias was named from an In dian word meaning "the land of heart's delight" Pendleton Woolen Mills Challenges Tax Collection Try Washington (U.R3 Attempt by the Bureau of Internal Rev enue to collect alleged tax' de ficiencies from two Pendleton Woolen Mills plants and from the Charles K. Bishop trust were challenged Saturday In federal tax court here. The Bureau is attempting to collect $11,032 from the textile firm, $23,338 from the Bishop trust, and $32,243 from C M. Bishop, president of Pendleton Woolen Mills, Inc. Petitions filed by the three parties asked the court to de termine whether the 1946 in come of plants in Portland and Los Angeles were properly tax able to the company or to C M Bishop and the trust for hie nephews, Robert C. and Charles K. Bishop. The trust has been dissolved. Bishop protested the Bureau's effort to assess the trust for additional taxes, claiming it is based on the "erroneous" find ing that the 1948 income of the Los Angeles plant was also the partnership's income. He said the income was that of the Pendleton Mills corporation and was reported to the bureau for tax purposes and the taxes paid. COMMUIIICAMIS Letters to the Editor must bear the seme and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pan name or initial for publication ia permis sible. The Mail Tribune reservae the rifht to edit all letters with an aye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not sacttd 400 words. Camp White Vets Praised To the Editor We read with appreciation the letter from Alexandria Trimble in the Trib une of August 19. Thank you, Alexandria, for both my husband and myself! We are volunteer workers at Camp White, and have been, since 1949, when the volunteer service started. In aU the years we have been visiting the camp, and with the hundreds of hours of time we have put in there, no member has ever spoken to me in a vul gar or disrespectful manner. All have been just grand to us! The "Camp White Rock Club," which we helped organize, even made me their "mascot," and marked my card "No. Al." I'm surely proud of that! So far, I'm the only woman member of the Rock Club. If those who criticize the Camp White members want to see for themselves the "home life" of these veterans, we in vite them to come out to Camp White and talk with the boys. Then they will realize these veterans. are feUow Americans, with good morals, and education, and refinement equal to any group, anywhere! Dr. and Mrs. Paul T. Olsen, Eagle Point Oregon. Route 1, Box 229, MX Police Policy Praised To the Editor: It is the opin ion of this organization that your editorial policy and state ments made in connection with the Lester Hurley incident are of the highest degree. We of this organization are never of the spirit that an issue as important as this one should be soft pedaled when it comes so close to "home." We further feel that you are doing much toward bringing about a better civil condition in the city of Medford. Again our thanks to you. Keep it up. K. C. Van de Kamp, Adjutant, Steelhead Post Veterans of Foreign Wars, Shady Cove, Ore. Copco News Complimented . To the Editor: I should like to take this opportunity to compli ment you upon the reporting of the California Oregon Power Company rate case which ap peared in The Mail Tribune on August 18 and August 19. Cases of this nature are rather technical and more often than not the reports of the evi dence and issues which appear in the press leave something to be desired in the way of accu racy and clarity. The stories which appeared in The Mail Tribune on the Copco case however were exceptionally ac curate and should give your readers a clear idea of what the case U all about George D. Rives, Attorney, 111 Sutter St, San Francisco. He Wants a New Chief Tn th Editor- I wish to con gratulate you, Mr. Editor, on the excellent writeups you gave us readers, dieeine into the Po lice Department. After all, there isn't anything so nice as a gooa annare ahootinff newSDSDer to get the actual facts and give them to the public as they are. We rertainlv need a new Chief Of Police. The people as a whole will never have the faith in this man if he stays in office. Keen tin vour eood work. Mr. Editor. We are behind you 100 per cent H. W. Van Hue, R3, Box 375-D, Medford. ff
