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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, April 14, 1955 "Every body in bouuiern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by , J?EOFORD PRINTING CO. ?7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager $ C. FERGUSON. Manajrine Editor IRIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor BARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Societv Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mer. An independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year $12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 gaily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 aily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phot nix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit, isan Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITOtlAl IassocTatiIon J J $fX&ry,u,MiM iJS-'ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 14, 1945 (It was Saturday) Priorities for construction of additional Medford city water storage costing about $185,000 granted by WPB in Portland. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Ninth army's Hell-on-Wheels armored division crossed the Elbe last week in a helter skelter dash. Some hell-on-wheels are loose around here, and where they get gasoline baffles both the police and the public. 20 YEARS AGO April 14. 1935 (It was Sunday) Wiley Post fails in his third attempt to cross the country through the stratosphere, aver aging 231.48 miles per hour be tween Burbank, Calif., and La Fayette, Ind. State police issue warning to people catching and selling sal mon caught in the Rogue river outside Curry county, which is illegal. 30 YEARS AGO April 14, 1925 (It was Tuesday) . Postal rates on post cards in creased from one to two cents. Phil Parrish of the Portland Journal praised Edison Mar shall's latest book, "The Sleep er of the Moonlit Ranges." 40 YEARS AGO April 14. 1915 ' (It was Wednesday) Judge S. S. Pentz, who re turned recently from California, says Medford and Rogue River valley are as prosperous as any community he saw and that its prospects for future growth and development are better. The city council of Talent de cided to ask people for their opinion on installing new sewer system. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Date of Easter each year de pends on the calendar, weather forecasts, the hedgehog's shadow, time of a full moon, or decision of the millinery trade? 2. Bingo has been officially le galized in other states than Ne vada; right or wrong? 3. The U. S. is or isn't the only country where harness racing is widespread? 4. U. S. consumption of candy works out to a pound per capita every two, three, four five or six weeks? 5. The Harlem area of New York City is part of the Bronx; right or wrong? 6. Of securities traded on all U.S. exchanges, about 45, 55, C5, 75 or 85 per cent in value, are trade on the N.Y. Stock Ex change? 7. Alger Hiss was or wasn't once a law partner of Dean Acheson? The Answers: I. Time of full moon. 2. Right (i.e., in New Jer sey). 3. Is. 4. Every three weeks. 5. Wrong, it's part of Manhat tan. 6. About 85 per cent. 7. Wasn't. Can War Be Outlawed? We have been asked to comment upon a com munication sent to the members of the U.S. Congress by the Gresham (Ore.) chapter of the Methodist Fed eration for Social action. The communication explains the members of this organization are deeply concerned about the drift of U.S. policy toward provocation and war in the Chinese-Formosa area, and want to do what they can to stop it. ' Their argument is supported briefly by a copy of General Mac Arthur's speech in Los Angeles January 26th, entitled: "The time to abolish war is NOW." "IXELL, we regard the MacArthur argument against " war in the atomic age as unanswerable, and the time to stop it IS now! The MacArthur plea should be particularly effec tive because it does not come from any dreamy ideal ist, or visionary theorist, but from a man who KNOWS what war is and what a modern war would be; a man, who moreover, is by profession a militar ist, and by nature a realist. The following extract from his address is particu larly effective, quote : . ,"I recall so vividly this problem when it faced the Japa nese in their new Constitution. They are realists: and they are the only ones that know by dread experience the fearful effect of mass annihilation. They realize in their limited geographical area, caught up as a sort of no mans land be tween two great ideologies, that to engage in another war, on the winning or the losing side, would spell the probable doom of their race. And their wise old Prime Minister, Shidehara, came to me and urged that to save themselves they should abolish war as an international instrument. When I agreed, he turned to me and said, "The world will laugh and mock us as impractical visionaries, but a hundred years from now we will be called prophets." Sooner or later the world, if it is to survive, must reach' this decision. The only question is, when? Must we fight again before we learn? When will some great figure in power have sufficient imagination and moral courage to translate this universal wish which is rapidly becoming a universal necessity into actuality? We are in a new era. The old methods and solutions no longer suffice. We must have new thoughts, new ideas, new concepts, just as did our venerated forefathers when they faced a new world. We must break out of the strait jacket of the past. There must always be one to lead, and we should be that one. We should now proclaim our readiness to abolish war in con cert with the great powers of the world. The result would be magical." That is entirely true. The only doubt is as to the "magical result." Let it be assumed, for example, President Eisen hower should agree the time to abolish war is now, and he should ask Ked China and Soviet Russia to join him in such an effort. What would be the reaction in those countries? Would a meeting on any fair and reasonable basis be possible? We doubt it. As far as that goes what would be the mass reac tion in this country, particularly in the Knowland and McCarthy ranks? We greatly fear "wise old Premier Shidehara" had the right idea when he said, quote: "The world will. laugh and mock us as impractical vision aries but a hundred years from now we will be called prophets." Matter of Fact Shoes for left and right feet were shaped alike for many years. It was not until about the Civil war days that separate left and right patterns were used. A hundred years is a long time to wait ! We may be wrong and hope we are, but so long as the fixed ideas of world conquest exist in the two chief communist countries, and those two gov ernments, unchanged in ideology remain in control, world disarmament and the elimination of war as a means of settling international differences remains a dream. . That doesn't mean we don't agree with General MacArthur's thesis that war is out of date, that if waged, it would not only end in futility but mutual destruction to so called victor and vanquished alike. We agree 100 per cent. But it does mean that unless there is a radical change in world temper and conditions as a whole, we poor misguided humans will, we fear, have to wage another war to demonstrate the truth of his statement, instead of having enough wisdom and en lightened self interest to see the truth now and act on it. At any rate in the words of one of our many news commentators, "that is the way it looks from here," and as of today. There is just one ray of light in the picture of "doom and gloom" namely: Because of events that can't now be foreseen, it may look better tomorrow! R.W.R. A New Job for Stassen As a postscript to the above, perhaps ex-Governor Stassen, recently appointed to a new job as disarma ment and world-peace commissioner may be able "to ao sometning mat no one else has been able to do. Stassen knows the modern world as few Ameri cans do, and is quite able when he isn't1 runnins- for office. s IT HAS been suggested that the United Nations be A given exclusive control and use of the atomic and hydrogen bombs, and the power to prevent any war by blowing up any nation or group of nations that start war. Such an arrangement would undoubtedly be 100 per cent effective. And perhaps only some such ar rangement could be -the application of a greater force for the maintenance of peace than could be aroused against it. ' I But imagine the outcries of "super-government," placing the UN flag above that of the "Stars and Stripes," abandoning our sacred sovereignty, etc., etc. And how about the attitude of Soviet Russia, re peatedly out-voted in the UN and Red China not even admitted as a member toward any such proposal ! It is so easy to see what could and should be done, but so difficult to see any practical way to do it! R.W.R. A POSSIBLE TIMETABLE Taipeh, Formosa The signs suggest that the Eisenhower ad ministration will have plenty of time to con duct its cur ious, semi-public debate with itself about the right re sponse to a Communist at tack on For m o s a ' s off shore islands. But the signs do not as yet suggest that the decision on this vital mat ter can be put off indefinitely. If the Chinese Communists are not just wasting their time and money on fruitless preparations, President Eisenhower is going to have to make up his mind whether to defend Quemoy and the Matsus some time this spring, probably between late May and late June. Nothing is more purely specu lative of course than speculation about enemy timetables and in tentions. In the present case, moreover, the evidence seems to point two ways. But on this very conflict of evidence, the experts here and in Hong Kong have built a rather persuasive theory of the probable Chinese Communist plan of action. , Considering first the evidence itself, on one side there is the fact the Peiping's "liberate Tai wan" drums have now been rather completely muffled. The play down was gradual. But by about three weeks ago, the theme that once was screamed from every Chinese Communist radio had almost ceased to be heard any longer. "Liberate Tai wan" gave place to prolonged and venomous denunciations of American "colonial interven tion" in Indochina and Asia gen erally. On the other hand, the physi cal preparations for an attack on the offshore islands have con tinued to go forward apace. The troop concentrations in the neighborhood of the Matsus have been measurably strengthened. The enemy artillery ringing Quemoy has been strengthened too, and there are ominous re ports that it may now include sixteen inch naval guns which can destroy any fortification on Matsu Island. ABOVE all, the air pattern has orniim m nro menanmo "Rv extraordinary efforts, Liuchao airfield, just across the straits from the Tachen islands, has been rushed to completion a month ahead of the earliest Sino American estimate. And Liuchao is several precious scores of miles closer to the Matsu Islands than any other airfield in the big Checkiang-Kiangsi air com plex. And as soon as it was fin ished, Liuchao was occupied by a couple of squadrons of Mig 15s. Intensive work has also begun on foochow airfield, only 30 miles from the Matsus. The ex isting concrete runway is 6,000 feet long and only needs an ad dition of a mere 1,000 to 1,500 feet. Hence it seems possible that this extension and the basic re pairs of the old runway will be completed by the end of May. The combination of Liuchao and Foochow airfields, in turn, will give the Communists a wholly new air capability over the Matsus. Before Liuchao air field was finished, their rela tively short range Migs could just reach the Matsus flying high cover. Liuchao, in itself, gives the Migs much more time over target. But when Foochow is also available Migs that get in a fight over the Matsus can continue the combat almost at will. Foochow will always be there, to provide them with the minimum fuel for the trip back to their main bases further North. Thus the Communist fighters will actually achieve a longer time over target, when they real ly need it, than the Chinese and American Formosa-based F-86s. And since Foochow will only be used for emergencies, a mini mum strain will be placed on its extremely limited supply lines. Maybe these preparations are meaningless, although their po tential meaning is exceedingly ugly. It seems more likely, how ever, that the seeming conflict between what the Communists are doing and saying is to be explained by two external facts, the Bandung conference and the visible indecision in Washington. .What Peipmg wants out of Bandung is almost certainly a set of resolutions demanding rec ognition of Communist China'as a member of the club of great powers, and telling all western ers, and especially the United States, to get out of Asia and stay; out. The current Peiping propaganda line is obvious prep aration for the second half of this program. - WARLIKE acts or even talk before Bandung will only make Chou En-lai's task mora difficult there. What could be more natural, then, than to mute the "liberate , Taiwan" propa ganda, and to concentrate every thing on securing a major suc cess at Bandung? If April ends with a big Chi- By Joseph Alsop nese success at Bandung, there will be the kind of general po litical commotion the Commu nists know best how to exploit. And in a usefuUy agitated atmos phere, attention can be turned once more to the Formosa prob lem. Perhaps the thing will happen gradually, beginning with one plane reconnaissance sorties, go ing on to torpedo boat attacks on Chinese Nationalist supply vessels and small test bombings, and then suddenly opening out into a major effort. This was the pattern of the build up to the, attack on Yikiangshan, at any rate. It has the great advantage of drawing no sharp line where Washington must say "here we must fight or backdown." Whether or not military prob ing begins early, the experts think diplomatic maneuvers will surely start as soon as Bandung is out of the way. The aim will be, of course, to transform the present American indecision into a firm decision to let the Com munists have the offshore islands if they want them. And who can tell that this aim will not be at tained. If a month is allowed for post-Bandung diplomacy, in turn, you come out with about the same date that is suggested by the work on Foochow airfield, namely the end of May. An at tack may come at any time, of course, or Russian persuasions or sudden American firmness may prevent an attack altogether. But for the reasons given, the experts think that the end of May until the beginning of the typhoon season in July should be a period of special watchful ness. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Gen. Peyton March Dies at Walter Reed Washington (U.R) Gen. Peyton C. March, Army chief of staff during World War I, died yesterday in Walter Reed Army hospital where he had been confined since breaking a hip 14 months ago. He was 90. March had been confined eith er to a wheelchair or bed ever since he broke his hip, but prior to that time had been active. His wife, Cora, was at his bed side when he died. Before March became Army chief of staff on May 20, 1918, he had served in France as ar tillery commander of the Amer ican Expeditionary forces. Communists Possibly Planning Another Blockade of Berlin By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The Communists act as if they are getting ready to impose an other blockade on West Berlin. They may be bluffing. If so, no reason for the bluff is yet apparent,. The Russians have always threatened that if the West ern Allies went through with the plan Charles McCann lO arm W e S I Germany, they would retaliate. Ratification of the Paris treat ies makes it certain that the arming will start soon. An attempt to make things tough for .West Berlin, isolated as it is deep in the Soviet occu pation zone, would be one ob vious means of retaliation. The Russians and their East German puppets must know, af ter the humiliating failure of the 1948-1949 blockade, that they can not drive the Allies out of Berlin. But they certain ly could make things hard. The Communists made their first move toward a possible new blockade on April 1, when they started to charge exorbi tantly increased tolls on the trucks which take supplies to Berlin. A truck which used to pay $5 for the round trip over the 110- mile highway between West Germany and Berlin now pays $55. On Tuesday, the East German government said officially that 521 "spies, saboteurs and terror ists" sent into East Germany from West Berlin had been ar rested in the preceding few days. The arrests, the Communists alleged, proved that the West ern Allies had made West Ber lin a "terror headquarters" for criminal plots against East Ger many. "This threat to the German Democratic Republic can not re main unanswered," an East German cabinet statement said. "The German Democratic Re public will take all measures to protect itself against this ac tivity. The use of West Berlin as a center for underground, and espionage activities against the German Democratic Republic will have undesirable conse quences and hardships for West Berlin, which lies in the center of East Germany." This statement, with its emph asis on Berlin's isolation from West Germany, seemed to be a clear threat of a blockade. If the Reds really do intend to try another blockade, how ever, it is difficult to figure out why they , invited Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab to Mos cow to discuss the terms of a treaty which would restore his country's sovereignty. A new Berlin crisis hardly would provide a suitable atmos phere for negotiations on an Austrian treaty, in which the United States,, Great Britain and France would have to take part. It could be that the Russians are bluffing about Berlin and it could be also that they" have no intention of negotiating an Austrian treaty. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the nam and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permis tible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Tribute to Mrs. Lee r To the Editor: The death 'of Mrs. Lee, curator of the Jackson ville Museum, means a real lost to .southern : Oregon. Without previous experience In mu seum, she undertook the job and due to her intensity of pur pose, and . complete dedication of herself, proved an outstand ing success. , , ; I believe it was Winston Churchill who said "Intelligence can be. applied anywhere.". It was certainly true in her case. In the years I knew her I saw her grow in stature and know ledge and in the many intimate conversations we had found her a woman of integrity and high moral principle. Yes, Myrtla Lee, wt shall miss you. Marguerita Burch, Jacksonville, Ore. Frank Morgan Harold Snodfrass CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral Directors' PHONE 2-8030 1 KING STREET MEDFORD Makes no difference which meal, or what you're having... a glass of milk is always the ideal complement Milk is good with anything, everything. It tastes fine with all foods, and actually aids digestion. 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