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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.
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rain extreme north.
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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.)
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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
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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.
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