FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuttday. rfovembar 30, 1954
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago. ,
10 YEARS AGO
Not. 3D. 1944
(It was Thursday)
Jackson county residents
asked to take gifts for service
men to courthouse on Dec. 7,
Pearl Harbor day.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The situa
tion is quite befuddled. 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
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Practice Devoted to Complete Visual Service
Including Examination of EyesFitting .
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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. - ' ;
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