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FOUR MZDrORD (OREGON) itoFOWvOTRIBUNE "everybody in Southern Oregon seada The Mali Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MiUfORU PRUiTIKU TO. 21-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HZRB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.W Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of Marcn 3. lovi SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily ana sunaay inw mu. Sunday only uns year ao.au. By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, Daily and Sunday One year tlS .00 Daily and sunaay jne monm a. Carrier and Dealers 5e per copy. ah Tmim r'aaVi in Advance Official Paper of the City of MedforC otticiai raper oi immpq vm.j United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATiun mccr.iinf t mAV rnMPANT. INC Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco, iam nB Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITOtlAt IA550t'rAllW.N ZJ s ijjj.nrir NIWSPAPlt UlLISHItt 3 IsVASSOCIATlOW Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 10 1945 m was Thursday Congress gives approval for Navy to use Camp wniie n ca pital. From Arthur Perry'" Ye Smudge Pot column: The Presi dent is coming out for "economy in governmental affairs." Even tually common sense will return to the nation's capitol and not be regarded as a malignant plague like beri beri. 20 YEARS AGO May 10. 1935 (It was Friday) The Medford CCC district celebrates second anniversary with general holiday. Orchardists north and south of Medford smudge when tem perature drops to 30. 30 YEARS AGO May 10, 1925 (It was Sunday) Metals Extraction and Refin ing corporation of Utah builds plant to extract gold and plati num from sands in Gold Hill area. From the Local and Personal column: Fishing is growing bet ter both in the river and the smaller streams, and . a number of good catches of salmon and trout were made Sunday. 40 YEARS AGO Mar 10. 1915 (It was Monday) Medford Ministerial associa tion recommends city council enact ordinance censoring mov ing pictures. Ashland undertakes improve ments including work toward Lithia park. - What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 el the 7T) Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Repwf 1. In the new Eisenhower pro gram for foreign aid, most of it would go to Europe, or to Asia, or about equal parts to each? 2 Outside of the 10 states of the Solid South, there are more Republican or more Democratic state governors? 3. More money was spent for advertising in the first quarter of 1955 in the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal, Life, Time, or Look? 4. Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, leader of the British Labor party left wing, is English, Irish, Scot or Welsh? 5. The U.S. winter wheat pro duction is normally larger . or smaller than spring wheat pro duction, or about the same? 6. The Dow Theory is on mak ing a light-weight mineral from salt deposits, stock prices, origins of the Old Testament, or rain productions? 7. A U-S." Senator named Bible does or doesn't represent a state of the so-called "Bible Belt?" The Answers: 1. Most to Asia. 2. More Republican (21 to 17). 3. Ia Life, according to Life. 4. Welsh. 5. Larger. 6. Stock prices. 7. Doesn't; Sen. Bible is from Nevada. YOUNG 'BANDIT Kinston, N.C. (U.PJ Police rushed to the scene when the Bank and Trust Cos new alarm system that spreads a city-wide alert went off Monday. They discovered a three-year-old "bandit" had accidentally trip ped the alarm. MAIL TRIBUNE Competition Can't Be Socialism Walter W. R. May new editor of the "Oregon Voter" (we are glad to note that "Mr. Voter" himself the gifted C. C. Chapman, will continue as a contribu tor with his trenchant and penetrating observations,) is very reassuring in his comments on Hells Canyon as a federal project. He is an opponent of the same, of course, but maintains "all this talk about private development leading to excessively high prices" is a lot of calabash, the fact being that all power furnished by private utilities is possible today only upon engineering as surance that the power created will be provided at a cost comparable and competitive with all-federal power. "commercial money" he declares would not be so stupid" as to expect otherwise. if this is true, then we can expect to hear " no more of the often-advanced charge ,that the supporters of federal power are trying to drive out private power and establish in this field a form of predatory socialism. If no private power projects are authorized un less the private power engineers figure they can com pete successfully with federal power, then what is all "the noise and fury" about? Competition is the life of trade, and this is the case in Tennessee. The much discussed (and cussed) "TV A," is in direct competition with the private pow er companies there but both are making money, only in one case the profits go to the stockholders and in the other back to the U.S. Treasury. Costs of power have been reduced in Tennessee but the private oper ators as a whole are still in business, and paying divi dends. ERTAINLY no "socialism" there, merely compe- tition in which the government is a competitor, and a factor in keeping power rates from soaring into the stratosphere. From such a source as the Voter such news will be particularly refreshing and welcome to those who are more interested in low-cost power and plenty of it, than they are in the claims of either proponents or opponents of Hells Canyon or any other federal dam project financed by Uncle Sam. They are interestednot so mucn in polemics, as in cash results. R.W.R: '.. How About It? A subscriber asks lis to explain the administra tion's foreign policy especially regarding Quemoy and Matsu, and whether the policy is determined by Secretary of State Dulles or President Eisenhower. "What is the foreign policy anyway?" is the final question. ; Well that is quite a "bill of goods." In , theory, of course, the Secretary of State does not originate policies but edly Secretary Dulles has however, been a strong factor in determining many of the administration's decisions. As far as Quemoy and Matsu are concerned, however, the problem is essentially a military one, so the President as Commander-in-Chief is the per son responsible, and has taken on his own shoulders the responsibility, of final determination. THE President's position ia ftiat i-f Port PViinoco moy or Matsu, and the nature of that attack indicates to the President Formosa is the ultimate . objective, then the United States will join in the defense and a hot war will be on. But if in the President's opinion Formosa is really not threatened at that time, then again presumably the United States will hold off and leave the defense, up to Chiang Kai-shek, and his own forces. That surely places a tremendous responsibility upon the President but that is what he asked for, and what the congress, almost unanimously, gave him. IT is about as clear as mud as far as any determina- tion of what will actually happen if and when an attack on these off-shore islands by the Chinese Reds should be made. For the decision will be entire ly up to one man, and what his opinion of the condi tions at that particular moment may be. He can't KNOW now himself. He can't know until the attack occurs. 1 As to what this confusing policy adds up to, here is our GUESS: President Eisenhower first and fore most wants to avoid any alf-out war over the off shore islands or anything else war with anyone over anything, for that matter. He doubts very much any attack, by Red China will be made. But if it is, then again only a guess he will decide Formosa is not threatened, he will aid the Nationalists in evacuating Quemoy and Matsu, and join them in Formosa for an all-out defense. doesn't the President, if this IS his program, " announce it? Because that would give away his hand and be tantamount to an invitation for Mao to take the off-shore islands over, without a struggle. "Ike" doesn't want that So he is and we believe wisely keeping the enemy guessing, and apparently Senator Knowland also. And his hope as well as his gamble is, as we see it, his strong belief that in the near future at least, the Red Chinese don't want to launch an all-out attack on Formosa or the off-shore Chinese islands, anymore than he wants them to. He may be wrong. And this entire speculation may be wrong also. But that is our "GUESS" as of TODAY, every thing in this mad world, including the Far East, may be different tomorrow! R.W.R. Tuesday, May 10, 1953 carries them out. Undoubt in this case as in others, as we understand it molro anv affaplr nn Olio. Matter of Fact THE ISLAND CHAIN MYTH Tokyo Behind the dizzying twists and turns of American Far Eastern policy in the last two years, there has been a single solid fact that you could, so to speak, safely hang your hat on. At about the time of the Korean truce, President Eis enhower and Joseph Alsop the National Security Council formally adopt ed a new Pacific strategy the strategy of "The Island Chain." And this strategy of the island chain has been and is the inner, unspoken explanation, the un seen mainspring, of every Wash ington debate and decision about Asia since it was adopted. On the one hand, those like Adm. Arthur Radford who have advocated a bold American line in Asia, have really been argu ing that boldness was needful to defend the island chain on which our strategy is founded. On the other hand, those like the President himself and in a different sense Gen. Matthew Ridgway, who have voted down Adm. Radford and his group, have justified retreat in Asia on the ground that American inter ests in the Pacific only required holding the island chain and did not really extend further. What then is this strategy of the island chain which lied be hind the drama in the Formosa Strait this year, as it lay behind the drama of the Dien Bien Phu crisis last year, and the. tragic Korean truce decision the year before that? In brief, it is a variant of the famous "American line" in the Pacific that former Secretary of State Dean Acheson has been so much denounced for defining just prior to the Korean war. The island, chain which this strategy requires to be held by the U.S. runs from Kiska and Attu, through Japan and Oki nawa, to Formosa and the Phil lippines. South Korea is in cluded as an outpost of Japan. . SOUTH Korea is ultimately to be defended as Formosa is now defended, by what the Pen tagon likes to call "indigenous" forces sustained by an American guarantee and air and naval support in case of attack. And on the offensive side, enemy aggression is to be met by air-atomic "massive retalia tion," andor a two pronged con ventional attack based on Korea and Formosa. These are the basic ABCs of Eisenhower Administration pol icy making in the Pacific. But in the context of the continuing crisis in the Formosa Strait, the question now has to be asked whether these ABCs which seem so sensible on the surface, in fact add up to valid strategy when one looks beneath the surface. When one performs this dis turbing operation, the first hid den fact that strikes the eye is the obvious insufficiency of our forces in the Pacific to hold this island chain that they are sup posed to hold. If you assume that we are going to use the absolute weapons and the enemy, who also has these weapons, is not going to use them, everything is OK. But everything is the op posite of OK if you do not make this highly peculiar assumption. A strategy that is island-based is obviously an air and naval strategy primarily. This has been the justification or ratiocination use what word you please of the Eisenhower - Wilson Humphrey cuts in the American ground forces, which have had their greatest impact in the Pa cific. In terms of ground forces, we have hardly enough strength in the Pacific to put in your eye four-and-a-half divisions and two combat teams in the Far East Command, with one Marine divi sion still slated to go home. Throw in the 40 odd divisions of South Korea and Nationalist China and the other little bits and pieces like the Japanese self defense force, . the - South Viet namese army and the Thai army and air force. There is still nothing that even begins to balance the vast ground armies of Red China, the 20 divisions of the Vietminh and the powerful Russian infantry in Eastern Si beria. This might not be so disquiet ing, if the air and naval balance were as favorable as the island chain strategy obviously de mands. But it is precisely at this point that American self de lusion begins in earnest. The air forces on our side that are worth considering are as follows: - PIRST there is the Far East air force, comprising 13 groups (of which three were to have been withdrawn from the Pa cific until the Formosa crisis changed the signals). . FEAFS whole bomber strength consists of one ludicrously obsolete World War II radial engined group on Okinawa and the B 36s on Guam. Besides these there are only fighters, including a good many obsolescent F-84s. In all, then, FEAF has approxi mately 900 planes. Second, there are the planes of our Pacific fleet, comprising six carriers in all. This adds 450 more aircraft. Third, there is the Chinese Na tionalist air force theoretically By Joseph Alsop comprising six groups. But of these, all but one squadron of F-861 and one group of F-84s are either not yet operational or too obsolete to be counted. This therefore adds another hundred aircraft. And fourth there is a South Korean fighter group of 75 F 86s. The crude addition of all the serious air forces on our side in the Pacific, thus gives an ap proximate total of 1,525 air craft. The Chinese Communists alone have just about this num ber of jet aircraft within their total air force of some 1,900 planes. ' The Soviet Air Force in East ern Siberia is at least twice as large as the Chinese Commun ist force. If there is a fight, there is every reason to expect that Soviet units will at least enter the fight in Chinese disguise, as they did in Korea. The redeploy ment of the main body in Chi nese Communist air into Central China in fact implies reliance on Soviet help in the north in case of need. Finally, in terms of bases available, the enemy has also gained superiority in the last two years. No wonder, then, that the state of mind of the American commanders in the Far East is said to be close to anguish, that this city is. full of well authenti cated reports of urgent requests to Washington from American headquarters here to do some thing to redress the Far Eastern power balance. The existing mili tary balance in fact makes the island chain strategy unreliable. How the political balance is likely to make this strategy posi tively mythical must be the sub ject of a further report. ' (Copyright. 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Government Rests Conspiracy Trial Denver (U.R) Government prosecutors rested their case late Monday in . .the Denver Smith Act conspiracy trial after 18 witnesses had identified all seven of the defendants from the stand as Colorado and regional officials of the Communist party. The jury was excused until 10 a.m. Wednesday by U. S. District Judge Jean S. Breitenstein, who is hearing the trial. He gave the defense until Wednesday to prepare motions and to get ready to present defense wit nesses. The government case, which required 22 actual trial days, ended at 2:10 p.m. after U.S. Attorney Donald E. Kelley fin ished questioning the last wit ness, Bellarmino "Bill" Duran, 30, of Denver. The trial began March 21. Duran testified he was an un dercover agent for the FBI in the Communist party from 1948 until a month ago. Intense cross examination of Duran, un employed Denver truck driver, had delayed government at tempts to rest their case since last week. Germany Still Split 10 Years After War; Stability Enjoyed ByCHARLES McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst It took the Germans less than three months after the end of World War I to establish the Wei mar republic in place of the Kaiser's e m pire. This time it hat taken' 10 years since the end of World War II to ei tablish the Bonn republic claries Mccann as a sovereign nation in succession to Adolf Hit ler's Third Reich. And Germany is stUl divided, with its eastern part under Po lish Communist and Soviet Rus sian occupation. r Germany fought World War I on the soil of other countries. At the end it was exhausted but un damaged. It was only after the armistice that Allied troops moved in to occupy it. Germany then never ceased to be a sovereign nation, and only a small part of its territory was occupied. This time every German, man, woman a'nd child, had the oppor tunity to find out what war was like. While the bomber planes of the United States and Britain rained destruction on German cities, the armies of the Western Allies and the Russians swept over Germany to meet at the El be river. This ought to prove an import ant factor if some future Hitler arises and calls on Germans to materialize his dreams of con quest. One interesting thing is that the Germans have enjoyed more stable government in the years since World War II than they did in the years between the end of World War I in 1918 and the rise of Hitler in 1933. It is forgotten now that after the Kaiser's regime collapsed, it was a very close question whe ther Germany would become a democracy or a Soviet republic. Friedrich E b e r t, Socialist leader and labor union organi zer, did more than any man to save Germany from Communism then. Ebert had been named chan celor after the armistice. PRISONER ACCOMMODATED Charlotte, Mich. U.R) Earl C. Hicks, 38, had 11 months added to his sentence because the judge was in an agreeable mood. "Why don't you make it a year," Hicks said disgustedly Monday after the judge' sen tenced him to 30 days in jail for non-support. "Just as you say," answered the judge. "Make it a year." sr asB asa ww assi - m av i mum m w -mm - y V He succeeded in suppressing serious Communist uprising in Berlin in December, 1918, and January, 1919. Ebert insisted that elections be held. As a result, a national as sembly met at Weimar, in the wooded hills of central Germany, and set up what was called the Wiemar republic, in February, 1919. . ... Ebert was elected president. Had he not died on Feb. 28, 1925 there -might never have been a Nazi Germany. Ebert developed into a states man of world stature. He died under the strain of office. . Germany was beset by political and economic problems, and no leader emerged to take Ebert's place. No leader, that is, until Hitler. Most Germans knew he was a fraud and a menace. But they were ripe for a dictatorship. Newspapers Urged To Promote Hews Chicago (U.R) Newspaper promotion managers should de vote more money toward pro moting news and spend less on comics and features, according to J. Russell Wiggins, managing edi tor of the Washington Post and Times Herald. Wiggins spoke at the silver anniversary meeting of the Na tional Newspaper Promotion Association yesterday. While only 10 per cent of the average newspaper promotion budget is spent for news, he said, about 70 per cent is devoted to comics and features. "News is the principal prod uct newspapers have to sell," he said. Court Records DISTRICT COURT Charles E. Lane, no operator's license. S6. Frederick W. Hancock, violation of basic rule. 58. William P. Billman. 87. Crater hotel, drunk on a public highway. $13. Charles F. Gentry, 73. Chiloquin, drunk on a public highway. $30. . LeRoy J. Fleming, Robert E. Warri ner and Clarence H. Malott, angling in closed area. $30 each. Wilber E. Clark, violation of basic rule. $12.50. Melvin E. Hilkey. overload. $53. Neil E. Jackson, overload. $45. Arion D. Christensen. no motor vehicle license. $15. Pete G. Kershaw, violation of basic rule. $10. Judy A. Mooring, no operator'! license, SO. POLICE COURT Charles Alan Hahn, unnecessary noise (pipes), $10. - " -- Richard Guy McDougal. illegal U turn. $2.50. Francis Henry Rempent. failure to yield right of way (vehicle). $10. Cecila Marie Fifield. failure to yield right of way (oncoming traffic), $10. Merlin George Harvey, failure to stop (sign). $5. Timothy James Dugan. failure to stop (light), $5. Edward C. Albern, violation of basic rule. $15. Don Byard Campbell. Gerald John Adlfinger. Mercer Louis King. Gyles Mack Stelle, violation of basic rule, $10 each. Portland Carpenters Will Limit Pro jects Portland (U.R) Starting June 1, Portland area carpenters will "man only those projects on which collective bargaining con tracts are in effect" Clell Har ris, secretary of the Portland dis trict council, said last night. Harris told the Central Labor Council an impasse has been reached in negotiations with three' contractors' associations.' The Portland council seeks a 10 cent hourly wage increase. The Portland council repre sents some 6000 carpenters ia Multnomah, Clackamas, Yamhill, Columbia and Washington coun ties. . MR. ' ' INSURANCE .Fred Brennan Our roof that was burned out has been replaced at a cost of $2000. The insur ance adjuster is allowing only $1500 because of the depreciated value of the old roof. Could our policy have been endorsed to cover the full replacement , value? For Information Call MEDFORD itoURANCI AGENCY Phone 2-4940 You Know Her? Geo. N. Taylor ' She kept her house spie and span and was ever ready to help among the neighbors. Her man had a good name and her young folks were her de light. Yet she had under it all a heavy, heavy heart.. She came to believe the Bible that all have sinned and the wages of sin is death. John 3:16 saved her. It reads that God so loved her that he gave Christ, his -only-born Son to die for her and that if she be lieved on Him as Lord and Saviour, she would not perish, but have eternal life God's free gift to all who believe. She believed - and 'came into' the eternal life. TWO She also came to see that after Christ had died for her, He arose from the grave. And by that same power, Christ would also raise her up to glory. : THREF Than hv RiVtl ami Prayer, day by day, she grew up. This Message paid by a Bea verton family. -adv. All on apyitem &afc cbesrft please y&i
