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rOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) IIedfordWribunx "I very body in Southern Oregon BHdl TH Man TnOUM Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. IT-39 North Fir St. Phone 2-911 ROBERT W. BUHL, Editor r rrorj'cny Manafine Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Edltot RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor DLIVE STARCHER- Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor PERALP LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Uediord, Oregon, under Act of Aiarcn j. ioai SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos, 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 155 Sunday Only One year 3.50 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S15.0A Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c pet copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper ot izekton County " United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. WC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver BC MlWSrAMt PUIUSHIRS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec 23. 1944 (It was Saturday) Miss Nancy Swem installed as queen of Medford bethel of Daughters of Job. Trom Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: It's Christ mas again, and nothing is sup posed to be stirring, not even a mouse. All the kids have writ ten letters to Santa Claus. Many can't read their own writing, put expect him to. ; - f 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 23, 1934 (It was Sunday) Series of meetings to be held to acquaint farmers of Apple gate valley with plan to con struct irrigation project at Ban ranch at Watkins. Five hundred people turn out t Oriental Gardens to see Ash land American Legion perform ance of "Ten Nights in a Bar room." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 23, 1924 (It was Tuesday) Salvation Army holds Christ mas party at old Methodist church; Santa Claus adds "much to the children's pleasure by playing the mandolin." Mervyn Chastain stars for Medford High school basketball team in 28 to 15 victory over Eureka in first game of season played at Armory. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 23, 1914 Registration of voters for Jledford city charter election 2iears 1,200 as deadline ap proaches; backers of charter change say measure will pass by substantial margin if total registration reaches 1,200. From the Local and Personal column: Two intoxicated gentle men were landed in the city jail this morning, being the first ar rest for drunkenness in 10 days. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) ' Copr. 19S4. Editorial Research Report 1. The U.S. accounts today for a larger or a smaller percentage of all autos in the world than it did 25 years ago, or for about the same percentage? 2. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant fought on the same side in a war; right or wrong? 3. Soldiers hidden in a wood en horse captured ancient Ath ens, Sparta, Rome, Troy, Jerusa lem, Carthage, Or Bagdad? , 4. Ambrose Channel is the en trance to the port of Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans, New York, San Diego or San Francis co? 5. George Washington signed the original draft of the Consti tution; right or wrong? 6. Before becoming Vice Pres ident Richard M. Nixon was a U.S. Senator, Representative, FJ3.I. agent, Governor of Cali fornia, or state judge? 7. By what name was Philip Nolan better known? 7. 1. For a smaller percent age. 2. Right (the Mexican war). 3. Troy. 4. New York. 5. Right. 6. U.S. Senator. 7. The Man Without a Country. WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Variable cloudiness north and mostly fair central portion, with occasional rain extreme north. NATION AlFtp. I TP 1 1 A I MAIL TRIBUNE When Fear A correspondent in America's greatest and most hydrogen bombs, but brotherly love." That is an appropriate sentiment, particularly at this time of year, but we fear it will not be taken any more seriously than the prediction from Chicago that the world is coming to an end next Tuesday. The American people people and while sentimental regarding such things as Christmas, they are very careful to draw the line between feelings and facts where important matters j and problems are concerned. OOW much "brotherly love" would be unearthed, for example, if a survey were made of Main street, and inquiries regarding our love for Soviet Russia or Red China were presented from door to door! Assuming-this admirable quality is our best weapon, one fears there wouldn't be enough collected to load grand-paps' shotgun. The truth is, there is no brotherly love for the Red governments here in Medford or anywhere else in the country, and if there is any over there for us no convincing evidence has been presented. So, except as a Christmas card sentiment, or a part of the Christian ritual are concerned, we might as well forget it. If brotherly love did prevail, through the world, everything would be transformed of course, and all to the good; but one has only to keep one's ears and eyes open to know that isn't the case. . .. IN fact the truth is that our most powerful weapon at the moment is not brotherly love, but the hydro gen bomb and the fear of a hydrogen or atomic war. Had these weapons of massive diabolical destruc tion never been invented, and the free world did not now possess them, World War II would undoubtedly be going on today, for the elements of such a war are now present only preventing it, especially as concerned. THIS is the ONE reason, in fact, why President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles are both so confident that the prospects of world peace are better today than .they were perfect but better. Thanks to these incredible weapons of destruction the horrors of war, have, in the, human imagination everywhere, including Russia, so outbalanced any I i . 1 J J it . I I f 1 possible beneiits to eitner participant, mat national self-interest, which in the past produced our wars, now is the outstanding, deterrent against them. It is surely something at this joyous Christmas season for which to be thankful. It doesn't mean peace on earth, good will to men are here; it does mean, war has moved further away, and the further it does go the better the prospects of increasing world good will and brotherly love. R.W.R. Asia for The Asians? In spite of the unliklihood of a global war Secre tary Dulles is undoubtedly right in maintaining that Soviet policy has not changed fundamentally. The Kremlin is still bent on dividing the free world powers if it can, and thus increasing its world con trol. This promises to be particularly true in Asia. Any war on a large scale over there is highly un likely, but conquest by sabotage and infiltration isn't. In fact there is some evidence the Red infiltration in Indonesia has already started, and the problem is, how can it be, stopped? s has been previously ment, we can see only strengthen 'resistance to among the Asians themselves. If the people of Asia don't want independence and freedom and are not willing to fight for it, if given the necessary aid, then it can't be forced upon them by this country or any other. A preventive program has been called a "Marshall Plan for Asia," and has-already aroused strong op position among the congressional isolationists of both parties. Senator Byrd, Democrat of Virginia, for example, turns thumbs down for giving away any more finan cial aid to any foreign country, for any reason. :-' . DUT what is the alternative? Must we sit by supremely while Red China and Russia take over? That is the only answer most observers can see. And then what would become of Japan and the Philippines?. IT'S a tough problem, we admit. . ; But, as the true situation becomes better known we believe it will be more and more clear," that from the standpoint of self-interest, the' United ' States should do everything in its power to build up ef fective resistance to Red aggression in Asia, not by sending an army over there, but by giving the money and materials to the Asians so they can form their own armies and fight for their freedom from foreign domination, THEMSELVES. R.W.R. Firm Lists Advice For Avoiding Lightning Schenectady, N. Y. (U.R) Sailboats can be hit by lightning. To avoid damage, General Elec tric suggests this: 1. Run a No. 6 wire from the top of the guys to the top of the mast and even a little farther. Thursday. December 23, X9S4 Is a Blessing the Oregonian maintains powerful weapon is "not are essentially a practical fear of its consequences is far as Soviet Russia is a year or two ago. Not remarked in this depart- one way to build up and this "peaceful conquest" 2. Run another wire from the bottom of the guys into the water, or to a copper plate at the bottom of the hull. " . -That will give the lightning a safe metal path from top to bot SUGGESTED READING The American Bible So ciety, the Medford Ministerial Association and the Medford Council of Church Women are cooperating in sponsoring daily Bible reading in the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The suggested scripture reading for today is: Hebrews 11. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This changing world note: Television cameras will be used for the first time in Can ada's senate chamber to record the opening of the Canadian parliament in Ottawa on Jan uary 7. A spokesman said that Can adian Governor General Vin cent Massey, who will read the speech from the throne at the opening, has given his approval; GOOD? Or bad? I think it's good. T'M sure it wiU be good if the TV cameras are handled with decorum and good taste, keeping sharply and clearly in mind that their purpose is to let the people of Canada know what an opening of parliament looks like. The more the people know, factually and truthfully, about their government, the better it will be for everybody. THERE are dangers in the use of television in reporting matters of piiblic importance. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, of Britain, pointed out one of them some time ago in commenting on the use of TV at United Nations sessions. He said: 'How are you going to get grave and decorous handling of United Nations business when everyone present and taking part in the sessions knows that every time he scratches his head a hundred million people will be watching?" What he meant was that in the glare of television publicity those who are taking part in the sessions that are being covered by the TV cameras will become self-conscious and will tend to become ACTORS rather than serious participants in import ant deliberations. . 1WAS fortunate enough to sit in for two or three days on the McCarthy hearings in Wash ington last spring. It was a fas cinating experience. But it was also a disillusioning experience. It wasn't a serious and decor us public . hearing, designed wholly to give the people a clear and accurate and uncolored pic ture of what was going on.; in a matter that concerns all the peo ple. It was a HOLY SHOW. Ev eryone present at the hearing was PLAYING TO THE CAM ERAS every minute of the time. Let me sketch the situation briefly. ' The large room in the senate office building where the hear ing was being held was half filled with the technical equip ment necessary for the broad cast. Every participant sat in the hot white light of the kliegs. Everyone knew that half the people in the United State were looking on. The result was a lot of PLAY ACTING rather than a serious investigation into what goes on in our' government. My judg ment of it at the time was that it was a scandalous thing. AND YET I imagine the people who watched, sitting quietly in front of their TV sets in their homes got a better understanding of what really was basically a three-ring circus than they could have got in any other way. rpHE time is here when the camera is already as im portant in the telling of the news as the pencil, the notebook and the typewriter. My person al feeling is that it mustn't be barred from our court rooms and out legislative halls. What we must do is to learn how to use the camera to give the people a better understand ing of what is going on than it has ever been possible to give them before. TM sure that can be done (in time) without violating any canon of decorum or good, taste. Already we newspaper people are learing that we do not have to use the exciting and distract ing flashbulb. With new and better lenses and new and better film we can get pictures that will tell the story without pop ping flashbulbs that distract at tention from what is going on. The television people can learn in time to handle : their more complicated cameras in the same manner. GOOD TIP Jackson, Miss. (U.R) T. B. Hilton, long-time elevator, op erator at the Hinds County courthouse, has directed hund reds of couples to the marriage bureau with this advice: "If you can remember the way you feel right now, then you will have a happy marriage." Matter of Fact THOUGHTS UNDER GUARD Saigon, Indochina Most, of this reporter's recent visit to the independent states which the Viet Minn still occupy in southern Indo china was passed in a con dition of house arrest. We had come my guide and I in the belief that the visit was fully nnthnri7fr1 Viv Joeeph Alsep: the Committee of the South, which is the ruling Viet Mum organ - in soutnern Indochina. But the authoriza tion, promised in a way that parodied the novels of Andre Malraux, turned out to be a parody too. I had no right to be there; and so, having got there, was nolitelv but firmly con fined to a palm hut on a canal bank in the straggling village of Vinh Phong. . . ; If I had not been reasonably lucky, I should certainly have seen more hard core Commun ists than I had any desire to see. But in the end I was treated as a merely embarrassing visiter, to be rapidly got rid of, with false papers which would not publicize the intrusion of an American into Viet Minn terri tory. So the hard core was hid den from me. On the other hand, the people of Viet Nam ; are traditionally hospitable. Furthermore as the second civilian Westerner to penetrate this region in nine years the first was Max Clos a French newspaperman I was such an object of curiosity that the simple people would come up to stroke the hair on my arm and burst into roars of incred ulous laughter. , The Western viewpoint interested the , Viet Minn "cadres'' just as much as Western hairlines astonished the peasants, so I did not lack vis itors in my partial coniinemeni. There was one main question I wanted answered in my many hours of conversation witn sucn Viet Minli personalities as my guide, who was an important professional cadre;- my chief guardian, Pham Thieu, leader of the "peace loving" socialist par ty and secretary of "The Front of National Union," and the man who gave me my peculiar exit visa, Dr. Vinh, chief of the Civil Affairs bureau and Sec retary treasurer of this southern Viet Minh state. The question was, "how did the Communist do it?" Babson Forecast To Appear Dec. 31 The Mail Tribune will publish Babson's Business and Financial Forecast for 1955 on Friday, Dec. 31. It is written by Roger W- Bab son, interna-tionally- known busi ness commen tator and in vestment ad viser whose weekly col- Bs r w. Babiam u m n appears in this paper. From 1939, when his predic tions were 89 per cent accurate, through 1954 when his average was 86 per cent, Babson has en joyed an accuracy of about 86A per cent. His weekly releases are used by over 400 newspa pers and his financial reports are used by 20,000 corporations and estates. His research work is carried on by a large staff of workers. Babson founded Babson Insti tute for Men and, in cooperation with his wife, developed Webber College for Women, both nationally-known educational in stitutions. Later he established the Midwestern Institute of Business Administration at Eur eka, Kan., and has been active also in establishment of another medium of service to the public, the . Gravity Research Founda tion) at New Boston, N.H. Knowles Attorney Appointed by Judge - The Dalles U.R) Judge' Malcolm W. Wilkinson yester day appointed a local attorney to act as counsel for Harry C. Knowles, who faces second de gree murder charges for the 1953 strangling of Albert C. Stuart near Shaniko, Ore. Knowles was brought here Tuesday night from Sacramento, where he faced a Federal Court sentence for transporting an auto stolen from Stuart across the Oregon border into Cali fornia. When arraigned, in Circuit Court, Knowles said he admitted the murder and did not need a lawyer, since he wanted to get his punishment "over with as soon as possible." The court ap pointed Sam Van Vactor as de fense counsel to notify Knowles of his own rights. PEDESTRIAN KILLED Portland (U.R) Cass A, Bol ster, 82, was killed last night when he walked in front of an automobile on Southwest Har bor Drive here, police reported. It was Portland's 35th traffic fa tality of 1954. , s, j STARTING - from n o t h i n g, f working always in the very teeth of conventionally superior French military power, how had the Communists established and held this palm hut empire in the South? Here was all the ap paratus of a normal state, de vised, as it were, in fox holes, and maintained under constant and heavy attack. What was the secret of this all but incredible phenomenon? Limited as my opportunities of inquiry necessarilv were. 1 thing I got the answer in. those? long, hours, of incongruously leisurely and civilized talk in the palm hut. The answer lay, I believe, in the men I talked with. My guide, Pham Thieu, and Dr. Vinh in particular shared three characteristics in common. - ; - ' Before joining the resistance, my guide was a leading Saigon professional man and a member of a great landowning family. Pham Thieu was a teacher and archaeologist, Dr. Vinh, a suc cessful lawyer. None of them in short had had the kind of per sonal reasons for discontent that might be expected to drive a man to put on peasant clothe live as the poorest of the -poor, and brave great and constant dangers for many long years. Yet they had all done it, and their mood was still that of primitive ; Christians, positively longing to be tossed to the near est lion. . Second, each of these men, in his different way, had been a remarkable efficient instrument of the Viet Minh palm hut state, discharging heavy and complex responsibilities with marked ef ficiency and puritancal self dedi cation. , : Third, although none of the three was a Communist, the minds of all three had been ab solutely molded by the Com munists. Each constantly re peated, as a sort of incantation Ho Chi Minh's three principles: "First, serve the" people. Sec ond, learn to distinguish between friends and enemies. Third, be ready for danger and privations; rely only on ourselves, and vic tory and glory will be ours." WHEN they repeated this spell, their very voices changed, quite plainly echoing the chant of innumerable meetings and rallies and it was just the same whenever they were discussing any subject whatever on which the party line had been laid down. Whether the topic was in ternational ; relations or . local land reform, the phrases came pat and cut and dried, always in the same order, always with the same incantatory tone, never varying from one conversation to the next. If the . Communists . : could transform such men as these into fairthful automatons, and if they could construct, as they did con struct, an entire military and civil administration out of such men as these, admitting the harder minded to the party, and using the purer idealists, as instru ments, the triumph of the palm hut state was not so hard to understand after all. But that still left the question, how bad the Communists gained their empire over such men as these? Obviously, the party's brilliantly astute use of Asian nationalism was part of the an swer. But in our long hours of talk, I concluded it was the les ser part. The larger part, I feel sure, lay in the Western impact, upon Asia. In brief, the old Asian order of society from which these men sprang had utterly crumbled under the impact of the West. Here in . Indochina, French colonialism provided a kind of armature which kept Hfe going in an orderly manner until the armature was broken in the second war. But funda mentally all values, all relation ships, all beliefs and standards were at first transformed and then hopelessly disorganized. In this state of disorganization of values, relationships and as it were, the Communist party standards, in this cultural mush, was the only thing that was hard and certain and utterly organi zed. Organization will usually triumph over disorganization. A hard minority, . however tiny, will usually dominate a mushy majority And this, alas; is the central point of the gigantic problem of halting the onward march of Communist imperial ism in Asia. v (Copyright, 1954, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) For That Last Minute Gift Shop At TWO FULL FLOORS . . (plus a balcony) : of Gifts to Choose . Frorri . . Still a Wide Selection of Wonderful - - Gifts OPEN Japanese Government Of Hatoyama Not To ' Com m u n ists Liking By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst) The Japanese Communists have decided that the new gov ernment of Premier Ichiro Hat- oyama is no good. ; In fact, they say, Hatoy ama's govern ment threatens to prove even worse than that of his pre decessor, Shig eru Yoshida. H a t o y ama took over charies Mccann the govern ment three weeks ago today af ter a months-long political crisis. Since then he has made it plain that he will proceed with Japanese rearmament, continue close relationship with the Unit ed States and proceed cautiously in any dealings with Soviet Rus sia and Communist China. Before he took office, Hatoy ama said he saw no reason why Japan should not have better trade and diplomatic relations with Russia and Red China. Mamoru Shigemitsu, Hatoy ama's foreign minister, confirm ed this in a policy statement af ter the new government took office. Moloiov Takes Cue Soviet Foreign Minister Vya- cheslav M. Molotov was prompt to take advantage of this state ment. He said Russia was wiU ing' to negotiate for better rela tions if Japan was. iiowever. Molotov made an important qualifications. He called attention to a. joint policy declaration issued after the Rus sian-Chinese Red conference in Peiping in October This declaration expressed the hope that Japan would "liber ate itself from foreign depend ence" meaning close cooper ation with the United States. There also had been a qualifi cation in , Shigemitsu's state ment. Shigemitsu said that any closer relations with Russia and Red China; must not prejudice Japan's basic, collaboration with the free nations. The response to Molotov's of fer was. hardly enthusiastic. Shigemitsu . said the Japanese government had no. intention of seeking negotiations with Russia Lausman Donates Forest Land To State Portland (U.PJ Two Ore gon lumbermen donated '. 150 acres of scenic forest land to the State Gorge Commission yester day. Worth $15,000 or more, the land will fill a gap between two state parks on the Columbia. Donors were Anton A. Laus mann, president of Kogap Lum ber .Industries of Medford and his brother, Joe E Lausmann, Portland lumberman.; Mrs. Gertrude G.' Jensen, com mission chairman, said it was the first outrigh gift to the commission in its Vt years of operation. The land will be named Vinzenz Lausmann For est Park, after the.lumbermens' father. May the Peace whicrf comes of Faith, The Courage that's born of Hope, And the Joy which dwells in Love' Be with you now, and through 19551 CHAPEL MORTUARY Frank Morgan . . Harold Snodgrass Funeral Directors Office of Deputy Coroner . . . Phone 2-8030 lr ' ' anna p m y 'The Store EVENINGS THROUGH THURSDAY f " on the basis of Molotov's state ment. 1 n Will Await Development Instead, he said, Japan will await further developments.' .. It is understood that Hatoy- ama and Shigemitsu also assur ed United States Ambassador John M. Allison that Japan would make no commitments which Would conflict with American-Japanese agreements.'; Hatoyama's government may turn out to be only a caretaker one. When he was elected Pre mier he had to promise the Soc ialists, . who supported his new Democratic party, that he would hold a parliamentary election in March. Hatoyama is out' in central Japan now campaigning for votes. It is an ' open question whether he can win sufficient backing to keep the job of prime minister. .' But it has become pretty cer tain that whoever is Japan's leader in the months to. come, it will be a man who will keep his country on the side of the free nations. . Judge Hanna Declines To Wear Black Robes Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna does not plan to wear black ju dicial robes while presiding in court here. - Judge Hanna stated that the recent action of the judges in recommending the wearing of robes in courts is advisory in na ture, and not mandatory. He declared that he feels, along with other judges who have ex pressed an opmion, that a court can have dignity without the use of the black robes, and that a court does not necessarily, have dignity when they are used. Re spect for the court is earned by the demeanor of the judge, not by what he wears, Judge Hanna indicated. . . : Portland Centennial Plans Receive Jolt Portland (U.R) Plans for a 1959 centennial in Portland were given a jolt today because ; oi word, from Houston, Tex., that plans are underway there for a world fair in 1959. .- ; James Mount, manager ; of radio station KGW arid head of a 40-member governor's commit tee 1 named to study centennial plans, said he had written Hous ton for more information about that ' city's plans. a ,v i- s '"If they intend to go aheajj. with "a world's fair in 1959, it probably will mean a change in our thinking on the centennial,' he said. But he added he didn't think Oregon should abandon its plans for studying a world's fail- until it knows definitely whether Houston proposes to go ahead with its project. - CAUGHT IN OWN TRAP Haverhill, Mass. (U.R) Omer C. Trottier, 51, who recently signed a petition urging police to curb fast driving, was fined $5 Wednesday for exceeding the speed limit. -4'
