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Thursday, April 14, 1955
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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
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.
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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.
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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
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