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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuttday. rfovembar 30, 1954 MedfordCWrib UNI "Everybody in Southern Uregoo rtemai xne miu XTiDune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor E. C. FERGdsON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR- city Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editol KiuiiAKU jkwisti', sports bailor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of jnarcn a. ioj CT-DCfDlQT'inM PATES By MaU In Adrance: Per copy ICe , Daily and Sunday One year $12 .00 n.ji'u - cndiv c;i-ir mnnthm fi S0 uau r buu " Daily and Sunday One month 155 Sunday uniy one By Carrier In Advance Medford. Asniano. cenxrai roum vf",:r"-..if;. fiiH mil. Phoenix shariv Cove. Rogue River. 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The ag riculture committee of Congress has been advised by a "special ist" that cigarette production is twice what it was in 1936, but the supply is only half what is needed. 20 YEARS AGO Not. 30. 1934 (It was Friday) - . Medford Wrestling Promoter Mack Lollard announces he has matched Mike Sterich, the "Ju goslav muscle mangier," with Jack Fosgren, Canadian cham pion, for Medford match. Students of Sebastian Appolo to present concert; those on pro gram include Martha DeSouza,' Jean Pruitt, Phyllis elevens, Bobby Hoagland, and Gloria "Wunsch. 30 YEARS AGO Not. 30. 1924 (It was Sunday) Pete Oard, ranger at Crater Lake National park, comes to Medford and reports weather at park has been "truly heirogliph erous, and at times super-glorious and absteminous." Coach Hughes' Medford High football team battles to 7 to 7 tie with Ashland. 40 YEARS AGO Not. 30, 1914 (It was Monday) Mail tribune reports that Sec retary of Navy Josephus Daniels has issued order forbidding Navy recruits from singing "It's a Long Way to Tipperary." From the Local and Personal column: According to the Port land Oregonian, Bud Anderson's fight with Bobby Evans at St. Helen's, Ore., Thanksgiving, was a frost of the first dimension. What's (he Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report 1. The Pilgrims always ob served their Thanksgiving Days in November; right or wrong? ' 2. "Univac" is a guided atomic missile, wartime naval maneu ver, famous ski course, elec tronic computer or type of air plane engine? 3. Linseed oil comes from soya beans, cotton, petroleum, palm trees, flax, or an animal's foot? 4. The average car gets on the road about 15, 16, 17, 18 or 19 miles to the gallon? .... : . . 5. When the Wright Brothers began to work on airplanes, they were in the auto, bicycle, machine-shop, clothing, or black smith business? 6. The Carlsbad Caverns are in Arizona, Kentucky, New Mex ico, Virginia, or Wyoming? 7. Hackmatack is a tree, jungle animal, dish like hash, flower, or city in Michigan? . The Answers: 1. Wrong; some early ones were in February. July, October. 2. Electronic com puter. 3. Flax. 4. About 17, 5. Bi cycle. 6. New Mexico. 7. A tree. An Army School of Musketry was organized at the Presidio of Monterey, Calif., in April, 1907. The Alger Hiss Mystery The Alger Hiss case is certainly one of the strangest of: the post-war anti-Communist era, and one of the most tragic. The strangeness is not decreased by the contin ued denial of guilt by Hiss as he is released after serving his sentence. .. . To have him confess his guilt, in view of his record, could hardly be expected. But why, in view of that same record, shouldn't he return to civil life and keep his mouth shut, instead of repeating his claim that his conviction was unjust. . TTHE evidence against Hiss at his second trial was not only convincing, but-since the trial ended had there been any evidence that cast any real or reason able doubt upon the justice of the perjury verdict, certainly SOME one of his many lawyers would have produced it. None has been. The claim of "forgery by typewriter" is just too fantastic to be seriously considered. "I17HAT is the Hiss idea then? The only explanation we can advance, is that Hiss by maintaining his innocence, believes he can raise doubts in the minds of a sufficient number of people, to allow him, as the years go by, to stage some sort of a "comeback" At least he realizes that to confess at this late date "would not only convict him of a long unworthy period of perjury, of brazen, heartless deception of some of his family and best friends, but would remove all doubt in the public mind, close the case completely and render any, sort of "come-back", as far as this country is concerned at least, impossible. So being a smart man, Hiss probably figured he had nothing to gain by admitting his guilt, after maintaining his innocence all these years, and every thing to lose. He therefore sticks stubbornly to his story of having been wronged, on the gamble that it can't make the spot he is in worse, and might make it better. .-.; Matter of Fact By Stewart Alsee The Achilles Heel IN reviewing the Hiss case, the tragic mistake made Vit tViic l-villiarr iiorcnnQlo imino" man fan WP believe, be traced principally to an overweening egotism. We have never believed that the former head of the Carnegie Foundation deliberately plotted to aid Russia at the expense of his own country that he was the Benedict Arnold type. At the time he yielded to communist persuasion and transferred certain documents to Whittaker Chambers, he more likely rationalized the action as justified for him because Russia was then a staunch ally; the great peril was not Stalin but Hitler, ana ANYthing that aided the fdrmer against the latter was a contribution to the defeat of Nazism, which everyone in his country and the free world desired. Such action was a betrayal of his trust, entirely inconsistent with his oath of office, of course. But after all it was Emerson who said consistency was "a hobgoblin of little minds" and Hiss had a mind that wasn't little by any means but was superior in size and quality to most of the minds about and above him. - So perhaps he figured there was nothing really so wrong about it, not for Hiss at least. He was giving aid to a worthy cause, and as the creed of his pro-communist associates always stated the end justified the means." Moreover in the younger intel lectual setm Washington at THAT time pro-Russian sympathies and actions were not as reprehensible or dangerous, as they came to be a few years later. "IX7HEN the pay-off came however, and Hiss mean- while had risen to a place in official Washing ton, which was probably far beyond his fondest dreams only a few years before, it was again that quality of extreme egotism that very probably proved his undoing. . . ; X FTER all what evidence did his enemies have against him? The unsupported tale of an unknown hack-writer who was a confessed liar and ex-communist to boot couldn't a smart lawyer like Alger Hiss with his brains, high standing and influential friends, win a case like that? It would be his word against this "inferior" nobody nothing for a superman like Hiss to worry about. 14 AD Hiss not been so sure of himself and his out standing superiority to the average, would he ever have been persuaded to bring a libel-suit against the man he KNEW had the facts and was telling the truth? Probably not. At least that was Hiss' final, fatal error. r COR had Hiss never sued Chambers for libel or better still if he had made a clean breast, nf his pro-Red dealings, expressed his deep regret and turn ed states evidence, he would probably today be no worse off than the Whittaker Chambers, Elizabeth Bentleys and their communist aides in the case who repented and followed the same course. But that would have ended Hiss' sensational n fitable and brilliant career in the U.S. public service. The "BOV Wonder." the rail of Seorptaripc rf State and members of , the US Supreme Court with 1 f I m . - - nis egotism, amoiuon and pride just couldn't do that! This inability was the trigger of his destruction. R.W.R. Editor's note: Joseph AIsop is flying to the Far East to report the de veloping crisis in Asia. In this and a succeeding report, Stewart Alsop de scribes the inner conflict in the Eisenhower administration which the Asian crisis has generated. , Stewart Alsop THE INNER CRISIS I Washington Two schools' of thought diametrically opposed on the most basic issues of na tional policy. are now clear ly developing within the E i s e n hower .admin istra tion. In the past, as in the dismissal of Gen. Mac Arthur, this kind of inner conflict has al ways led 'in the end to some sort of public and violent explosion. Whether cr not this happens again, it is important to understand what the conflict is all about. The acknowledged leader of one school of thought is Adm. Arthur Redford, the able and ex tremely forceful chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Adm. Rob ert Carney, Chief of Naval Oper ations, is firmly in Radford's corner. So, most of the time, is Gen. Nathan Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff. Radford also has important al lies outside the Pentagon. One of these is Walter Robertson, As sistant . Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. Another, of course, is Sen. William Know- land, the Administration Senate leader. Robertson particularly is in a key position. He feels passion ately about Asia. If he were to resign in protest against any as pect of the Administrations Asia policy, this would mean ter rible trouble for the Adminis tration among the very powerful group of Knowland-minded Re publicans on Capitol Hill. It is not possible to reproduce in a short space all the shades of the opinions held by a number of men on an exceedingly com plex subject. But in general, the position of the Radford-Robert- son-Knowland school of thought is about as follows. , - T7IRST. The United Spates A should not passively accept an "atomic stalemate," . to use Knowland's phrase. Second, while this country still enjoys atomic superiority, A the Chinese Communist regime should be prevented, even at great risk, from consolidating its power. For if Communist China is permitted to become a genuine great power, fully industrialized and militarized, while an atomic stalemate has neutralized Ameri can offensive power, certain consequences are wholly predictable. China will dominate Asia, and all Asia will go Communist. The American position in the Pacific will be hopelessly compromised. The Western alliance, deprived of markets and resources, and confronted by overwhelming force, will begin to crumble. And in the end, the United States will be left nakedly iso lated in a Communist world. It is difficult, it must be said, to fault the logic which leads to these gloomy conclusions. But these conclusions also have a surprisingly optimistic, and much less convmcing corollary. This is that it will be by no means impossible it will not even be very difficult to pre vent the Chinese Communists from consolidating their posi tion. According to this theory, a combination of American sea and air power with local anti Communistic forces, by properly applied pressure, can insure the disintegration of the Chinese Communist regime. Robertson is perhaps he lead ing exponent of the view that Chinese Communism will col lapse, like the walls of Jericho, if only the American trumpet is blown ' hard enough. But all members of this school share the conviction that limited Ameri can action will bring almost un limited rewards. . This conviction, indeed, .un derlay two immensely signifi cant majority proposals which the Joint Chiefs of Staff made to President Eisenhower in the last few L months. The first was the proposal last spring that American sea' and air power should be used to save Indo China. The second was the pro posal in September that Ameri can air power, if necessarv. should be used to hit targets in land on tne Chinese mainland to support the defense of the Chin ese Nationalist off-shore islands. TN both cases Adm. Radford was supported by -Adm. Car ney and Gen. Twining. In both cases tne underlying thesis was that the job could be done with out using American erounrl faw. es and without any large degree ui national moDiiization. And in both cases President Eisenhow er supported the lone dissenter, Gen. Matthew Ridgway, Chief of Staff of the Army, and vetoed the proposal. The meaning of these two ve toes by the President far trans scends the specific issues in dis pute. For the Presidential ve toes are only symbols of the cen tral fact that a conflict of opin ion so deep that it goes right to the roots of national policy has developed within the Adminis tration. This conflict amounts to an inner crisis of the first magni tude "in the American Govern ment. The crisis may be conceal ed for a long time, depending largely on the course of events in Asia. But sooner or later, it must be resolved, simply be cause no government can go on indefinitely facing two ways on the basic issues of policy. Mean while it is also worth trying to understand why the President acted as he did. (Copyright, 1954, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) National GOP Committee Checks Neuberger Election Portland, Ore. (U.R) The Republican National committee has concluded a auite. iiiree day investigation into Oregon's sen ate election in which Richard L Neuberger defeated incum bent Sen. Guy Cordon. Stanley Beattie,' Detroit at torney and special counsel for the national committee, left last nigh. to report directly to the committee. Portland Records Studied . Beattie spent most his time here studying Portland city and Multnomah countv election rec ords and conferring with elec tion officials. Ed Boehnke, chairman of the State Central committee, said the Oregon Republican organiza tion .'.was not notified of the investigation in advance. He said the investigation was a "rou tine procedure." Recheck Unwarranted Bohnke was quoted last week as saying ;that Oregon Republi cans "have found nothing to war. rant a recheck of ballots" in the Cordon - Neuberger election. Democrat Neuberger won by ap proximately 2400 votes. While Boehnke admitted that a ballot recount might result if Beattie unearthed election ir regularities, he said he had not heard of irregularities in an Oregon election in 30 years. Beattie made no public state ment on his conclusions. He said he came to Portland to have a "look-see," as he had done in the senatorial race in Michigan. First Ship US Military Aid Karachi, ' Pakistan (U.R) The first shipment of United States military aid, "tanks and other equipment," has arrived in Pakistan, it was announced to day. , ' . '-: ,:- The Pakistan government kept details secret and the press was barred from the docks, but Prime Minister Mohammed Ali said "tanks and other equip ment" for the army was in cluded; He described, the shipment as the "beginning of what we ex pect to be a steady flow of mili tary equipment from the United States to our army." A U.S. Military Assistance Ad visory Group has been establish ed in Pakistan under Brig. Gen. William T. Sexton .to help the Pakistan army learn how to use American equipment. All army equipment now in use is British. Sexton said the military aid is what the U.S. Army calls "logis tical aid." He said the American group would do no training, as was done in Turkey, but would act in the role of instructor on use of the equipment in training. To Strengthen Defense Sexton said the main purpose of U.S. military aid would be to help Pakistan strengthen its de fense forces to combat both in ternal and external aggression. U. S. aid -also will help Pakis tan develop economically to sup port an army, and the American government has appropriated more than $100,000,000 in econ omic aid to bolster Pakistan's economy. DR. THOMAS C. ANDERSON r ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF HIS OFFICE FOR THE PRACTICE OF v" ; OPTOMETRY . : at 209 MEDICAL CENTER BUILDING ' PHONE 3-S522 . HOURS 9:00 TO 5:00 EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT Practice Devoted to Complete Visual Service Including Examination of EyesFitting . - of Glasses, and Visual Training ' SUGGESTED BIBLE READING The .American Bible- So ciety, the Medford Minister ial Association and the Med ford Council of Church Wom en are cooperating in spon soring daily Bible reading in the priod between Thanksgiv ing and Christmas. The suggested scripture reading for today is: Psalm 46. Oregon Will Join Western States in Defense Exercise. Salem (U.R) Oregon will join other Western states and Hawaii in a regional civil defense exer cise Dec. 7, designed to test re covery ability ' following an atomic attack. Taking a new approach to the exercise, . Oregon will operate within the framework of "X plus one" or the second phase of the June 14 exercise when Portland theoretically suffered, an atomic attack, State Civil Defense Di rector Arthur M. Sheets said. Operation second phase covers a period of 24 to 48 hours after the attack. Carrying the June test a degree farther will enable civil defense officials to review past operations and study problems oc curring on the day following an attack. Sheets said: Hundreds of Questions "The follow-up exercise will raise hundreds of questions in emergency welfare, medical, utilities and all CD services. But all of them will revolve around the principal question of what happened to the people. Care of people continues to be the yard stick for disaster relief plans." Second phase will be par ticularly concerned with a spec ial study on dispersal and evacu ation of the Portland area and the effect on civil defense plan ning throughout the state. This will be a joint project on the part of several CD departments from different agencies. Churchill Can Still Be Problem To Own Pa rty a nd Opposition a Dairy Inspectors Open Three-Day Meeting at Salem Salem (U.R) Dairy inspectors from all parts of Oregon opened a. three-day short -course here yesterday.. They were welcomed by J. E. Short, new state director of agri culture; heard a review of dairy organizations ' by Oscar Haag, state college dairy marketing specialist, and were given a look at the industry role in milk sani tation legislation by Lyle Ham- mack, Portland creamery opera tor. , .- Hear Dairyman They switched to a new angle for this, their third annual short course. They heard a dairyman and a housewife tell them what they think of dairy inspectors and the work they do. Hector MacPherson Jr. of Al bany, the dairyman, said that dairymen in recent weeks he concluded that problems of the dairy industry did not lie in the sanitation field. Rather, the big problem in dairymen's minds today is: "Am I going to stay in business? . Inspections Needed But MacPherson added that the economics of the dairy in dustry is tied up with sanitation. MacPherson said more attention needs to be given to platform and ' bulk tank inspections of milk and nrobablv less attention rto the "kind of barn, roof, drain, and so on that a dairy has." . . Mrs. Norton Peck, Portland housewife, told the inspectors consumers don't know the laws but have faith in the wholesome ness of milk because inspectors are on the job everywhere. Eugene U.R) Final check out of the first of three Look out Point dam power generators, with water in the penstock, has been started on the middle fork of the Willamette river. i By CHARLES McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst Prime ; Minister ' Winston ChurhilV at 80, hardly can be called as he was for years the problem child of the British Con servative party. But he has just shown, as he nas done so many time be fore in his 55 years in poli tics, that he can be a prob lem to his own Charles Mclann party as Well as to the opposition. ; It is easy to see why Church ill thought, in the closing days of World War II, that it might be necessary to rearm the de feated Germans to help stop the Russian sweep through north western Europe. What is not easy to see is just why Churchill picked this par ticular time to disclose what he thought. Churchill has been urging for months a top-level meeting cf Western leaders with Premier Georgi M. Malenkov of Russia in an attempt to ease West-East ten sions. . He has even toyed with the idea of meeting Malenkov alone in an attempt to make himself the great peacemaker of post war Europe. Why, then, did Churchill make his disclosure at this particular time? Not Major Speech v ' He did not make it in a major speech. He made it at a pre-birth-day celebration at a meeting of 600 of his constituents in a high school auditorium in a London suburb. Has he given up the idea of playing a part, perhaps the lead ing part, in a Big Four meeting? Did he have some deep secret reason for mailing a statement that was bound to enrage the Russians and embarrass his own ConseVvatives? Was it just an old man's wandering into remin iscence in an attempt to show his undoubted gift . of . looking into the future? . . t ... - All those questions remain un answered. . . But in April and May, 1945, Churchill saw the nightmare possibility that the Russians, racing axong tne .Baltic coast oi Germany, might reach the North Sea. ' - . V. Had the Russians reached the North Sea' coast of Germany 350 miles from Great Britain the great German ports of Ham burg and Bremen would have gone behind the Iron Curtain. They might be behind it still. The Russians would have oc cupied Denmark. Would they be out now? They are not yet out of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria, and they are back in Czechoslovakia. : It was a touch-and-go matter for a while. As it was. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery.e with his British and Canadian armies aided by a corps of Amer icans, reached the northwest cor ner of Germany before the Rus sians did. They occupied Lue beck, at the eastern side of the Schleswig-Holstein Peninsula, 12 hours before the Russians got there, and thus cut the Red army off from Denmark. Montgomery went on to occupy Denmark and take the surrender of the Ger mans there. The Russians were j : i e j:An4- A. .4-14- 4v V Atlantic Ocean. It was a dangerous moment in history. But why. did Churchill bring it up in November, 1954? Los Angeles (U.R) E. W. Scripps II, son of the late Rob ert P. Scripps and a director of the E. W. Scripps trust, and his bride, Jean Wilton, are headed for Hawaii on their honeymoon. Adri nennes Of all drivers involved in fatal traffic accidents, annroximatelv 4 per cent are of the hit-run sneak variety. - ' ; ... SELECTIONS! (YET SO THRIFTY) . Brunch Coats Nylon Prints and Embossed Sculptured Dusters Pastel Colors $598 Robes A Very Wide Assortment of Styles and Fabrics for a warm Christmas welcome. SELECT NOW ... WHILE . HANDKERCHIEF SPECIAL 3 for $ 1 00 More and More LOVELY GIFTS Lingerie ; ' . Blouses Sweaters Dresses Suits Coats ALL SURE TO PLEASE! 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