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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MlDFORDv&TRIBUNE "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STAaCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. 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. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday inree mra. o-ou Sundav 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 $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1J5 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 WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St, Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITOIIAl ASVOCTATIION 37 w' - lEp'ASSOCIATIOM Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 26. 1945 Over 700 register to partici pate in Red Cross Swimming classes at Twin Plunges, Ash land. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Stockmen report the grass on the range is knee-high to a tall Injun, and the local end of the alleged beef shortage, are all contented cows now. 20 YEARS AGO May 261935 Ex-President Herbert Hoover visits Medford on automobile trip East. Active program to better sporting conditions in Southern Oregon discussed by Southern Oregon Sportsmen, Inc. 30 YEARS AGO May 26. 1925 (It was Tuesday) Grater Medford club holds last meeting of year, decides to take charge of hostess house dur ing National Guard encampment. Jackson county fair exhibitors select grasses to display at fair. 40 YEARS AGO May 26. 1915 (It was Wednesday) Forty-seven students receive diplomas at commencement at .Medford High school. From Ashland and Vicinity column: Although this valley is capable of raising everything in abundance, the importation of potatoes goes steadily forward Within the last few weeks seve ral carloads have been shipped in from states as far distant as Montana and Wisconsin. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rcpatt 1. More than half the natural gas consumed in the U. S. origin ates in Texas; right or wrong? 2. In U.S. industry as a whole the annual profits average about 6, 9, 12, 15, or 18 per cent -of value of assets? 3. More beer is drunk per capita in Germany than in any other part of the world; right or wrong? 4 Negroes make up less than 5 per cent, about 5 per cent, or more than 5 per cent, of all U.S. eollege and university students today? 5. More U.S. households are equipped with electric vacuum cleaners, mixers, irons or perco lators? 6. Brittany is a part of Great Britain; right or wrong? 1. Edythe Marrener is the real name of which movie star? The Answers: 1. Right. 2. About 12 per cent. 3. Wrong. 4. Slightly less than 5 per cent. 5. Electric irons. 6. Wrong; it's pari of France. 7. Susan Hayward. fire Damages Residence North of Centra! Point Central Point Fire exten sively damaged the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hensen, north. Grant rd., north of Cen tral Point, Thursday. Dick Krupp, chief of Central Point Rural Fire department which an swered the call, said the cause had not been determined. The fire, which started while both Mr. and Mrs. Hensen were away, damaged a bedroom and a livingroom. The loss was partial ly covered by insurance. MAIL TRIBUNE The Better Way We doubt if the signing of the armament pact with Germany marks the dawn of a new era of per manent peace and good will on .earth ; but it does mark a miraculous change in Russia's outward be havior. And that is something to be thankful for even though it may prove to be A year ago President Eisenhower cited the Rus sian failure to keep its promise and give Austria its freedom, as one of the major obstacles to any fruit ful negotiations with that power parley. Now Russia has not only signed a peace pact with Austria, and granted that country its independence, but has agreed to a 4-power parley, and will send its veteran foreign minister M. Molotov to a U.N. decennial celebration to be held at San Francisco. The iron curtain may- still be drawn, but it cer tainly has more holes in it than it ever has had be fore. And this transformation took place after the rearming of Germany became a certainty. So as of today the chances of peaceful co-exist ence are better than they the Korean war. "flE agree with Senator George of Georgia that instead of spurning these conciliatory overtures from Moscow on the assumption they are not made in good faith, but represent just another trap on the Trojan-horse pattern, we Russia has probably not abandoned her desire to see this world go communist, she has abandoned, in her own self interest, any by a war of conquest. This assumption might, of course, prove to be unwarranted. But on the other hand, these boys in the Kremlin are nobody's fools, and they may well have discov ered that what is becoming day by day more evident to every thinking person, is time, namely war has in this atomic age ceased to be a practical or a prof itable method of advancing ideologies or settling international disputes. Why go to war therefore when the goal may be reached more safely and far more profitably by other means? And if this latter assumption should prove to be the correct one then while Russian propaganda and infiltration would still be a danger to the free world, the danger of another world war would, in .the pres ent generation at least and on any large scale, be eliminated. That would not mean an era of peace and good will necessarily, but it would mean a world without war. And that would be SOMEthing in fact it would mark a new era in the history of the human race, the realization of a dream and a hope that for countless centuries has been regarded as impossible of attain ment! R.W.R. A Chastened McCarthy? The Russian bear is not the only wild animal that has suddenly become tamed dropping raw meat for a honey sandwich. The McCarthy leopard has changed its spots, or accepted a coat of whitewash or SOMEthing like that. . Over the air the other night butter would not have melted in the Wisconsin Senator's mouth. He did not abandon his well - worn demagogic records of opposition to . the Eisenhower brothers, Dwight and Milton, especially the latter. He even held to his fantastic notion of leading a task force against the Chinese mainland to rescue the illegally held U.S. prisoners. But he did not tear his hair or break any furniture if he did it was not audible and in a voice that never rose above a proper drawing-room drawl, he seemed at times on the verge of making peace with "Ike" and forgiving his enemies. ' He never quite reached that point. But Joe did say that if Ike and Adlai Stevenson were the candidates again he would support the former as the lesser of two evils. He had high praise for Secretary Dulles and he blamed the vote of cen sure entirely on the Democrats and few, if any, of the "Eisenhower Republicans." .. With something closely resembling humility in fact, McCarthy said he' did not expect to be named a candidate for the Republican nomination, he was not even sure the newspapers had adopted a con spiracy of silence as far as his speeches in the Senate were concerned. He had noted a certain reduction of space, but he realized every Senator thought his own remarks of more importance than was prob ably justified, and he- seriously doubted that the effort by some of his loyal supporters to get that Senate vote of censure rescinded, would succeed. OENATOR McCarthy's criticism of Senator George for placing patriotism above partisianship came as a surprise, but he didn't suggest that the Senator from Georgia had once been a Communist, a horse thief, or a member of the A.D.A. IN short here wras a very different McCarthy and as in the case of Russia, in the realm of outward be havior at least, a considerably improved one. Whether the transf ormation can be traced directly to that vote of censure, or is merely a part of a new political climate of sweetness and light sweeping over the world, whether it is permanent or a passing phase, it is surely SOMEthing for which we the "ediotrial we" particularly can be duly thankful! .- - R.W.R. Thursday, May 26, 1955 only skin-deep. country, including a four have been since the end of assume that while Soviet idea of bringing this about Today and By Walter MORALE FOR PEACE The lower house of Congress has done its bit in dealing with the military bills to give the tough - minded and cynical reason to say we told you so: let peace begin to dawn how ever faintly on the for hori zon, and be fore you can turn around the politicians Walter Lippmann who are ' wor rying about the election will begin to demobilize and to dis arm. The President had proposed to Congress that the standing forces be cut back somewhat and that this reduction should be compensated by an improved Reserve. The President's pro gram rested on the fact that with an ocean to cross for a war in Europe or in Asia, the standing forces at home can, as he put it, be "tailored." For the rate at which troops can be moved from continental United States across an ocean cannot be fast. There is necessarily time to mobilize a Reserve if it is already trained. The reduction of the standing forces can be justified, therefore, only if it is backed by a trained Reserve. "If we do not maintain an active virile, live ready Re serve," asked chairman Vinson, "then we shall have to keep a larger standing force?" To this Secretary Stevens replied, "That is definitely my view." I N THE face .of this the House has now voted to reduce, the standing forces. Then it has voted to lay aside the Reserve program. On both issues the majority of the Representatives took the cheap and easy side, they wanted to have their cake and eat it too. They did this, it is only fair to say, with the White House and the Pentagon providing list less leadership. The Representa tives did not mean, if anyone had 'asked them about it, to start demobilizing and disarming be fore there has even been agree ment on the place where we are to talk, with. th Russians. They were not thinking of the Rus sians at all. They were thinking of the constituencies. But the cynics are entitled to say that the House would not have taken the . easy line with no serious objections from the executive if Washington, which was anxious about war in February, had not become unan$ious in May- No wonder that in high quar ters throughout the Western coal ition there is a deep concern as to whether the military and po litical system, put together with such trouble, may begin to melt with the first rays of the sun. The system depends upon the continuing popular support of such unpopular things as con scription, high taxes, the presence of foreign troops, and obedience to foreign commanders. These unpopular things have been sup ported by democratic legislatures because there was a powerful Red Army in the heart of Europe controlled by an aggressive, un friendly, and inscrutable gov ernment in Moscow. The system was put together because of the tension created from Moscow. Now Moscow and the great powers say that they wish to relax the tension. If the morale of the democracies is to be maintained, they will need to pass through the equivalent of a decompression chamber. Other wise, like the House of Repre sentatives, they will develope a case of the bends. T DO not believe that morale can now be maintained by try ing to make the democratic peo ples believe that nothing has changed, that they ought to be just as frightened as they were before Stalin died. A propaganda to keep the democracies scared Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral Directors PHONE 2-8030 AiSM 1 KING STREET MEDFORD Tomorrow Lippmann would play right into the hands of the Kremlin, would give it the material it needs to claim that we do not want peace and that we are warmongers. The contest, we must not allow our selves to forget, is for the sup port of the masses of the people who are mortally afraid of atomic war who have them selves no atomic weapons, who have no defense against atomic weapons. There are only two atomic powers in the world, and the mass of opinion will move against that atomic power which seems more warlike. There is therefore danger that the Western democratic morale, having been held up so long by fear of war, might go to pieces during a long and con fusing negotiation about peace. The pri 'lent is aware of the problem. At last Wednesday's press - conference he said that "some years back, I was struck by the fact that we were prob ably going, to extremes in this thing. It was either black or white. You either had a war right now or peace, that was wonderful, and you would get it." - One of the facts of life in democratic societies is that pub lic opinion tends to become ex treme and absolute about war and peace: to oscillate between appeasement and unconditional surrender. The consequences in this century have been tragic. For absolute opinions are a fatal obstacle to successful negotia tions. Foreign policy is caught between disarmament which gives in easily and a caU f or to tal victory which costs too much and is as we have learned in the two wars politically worthless. What then ought! to be the leading idea which Jhe respon sible leaders could give to the public opinion of the democra cies? For the purposes of the coming negotiations there will be a poor public morale if the people are in a state of mind to accept and indeed to demand agreements at any price: or if they are unwilling, like for ex ample, Sen. Knowland, to buy an agreement at any price. The alternative to appeasement and the alternative to uncondition al surrender is honest, informed and vigilant bargaining. A good public morale for the coming encounter with the Communist world will exist if the democra cies are ready to support, how ever long it takes and however complex the ins and the outs of the maneuvers, the efforts to strike honest bargains. " THIS is a lower note than the rtno nra lils-A r- m . J . . A ..... shall win more confidence where we need to win it by not being too high and mighty in our righteousness, too pure and noble in our ideas for this aU too human world, too stiff-necked to recognize the fact that a good negotiation is the search for compromises from which both parties to the bargain have much to gain. For it is theso bargains which are least likely to come unstuck. Copyright. 1955, New York Herald Tribune. Inc. Logging Operators Meeting Scheduled Last in a series of logging op-' erators' meetings with state for estry department officials wiU be held' Friday in connection with the Southern Oregon Con servation and Tree Farm asso ciation session at Grants Pass Country club, Patrolmen pointed out that legislation of importance to log gers, particularly tread tractor operators, was passed at the last session of the legislature. It con cerns fire hose, pump and water supply. Ellsworth Reports On Military Bill; Getting More Study By HARRIS ELLSWORTH. M.C. Washington, D. C. (Special) The bul which started out to be a law to create a system of compulsory military training came out of Committee as a vol untary training bill. As reported to the Floor it was principaUy for the purpose of strengthening the military reserve system. Although not compulsory so far as requiring service by boys between the ages of 17 and 19, the bill does require a reserve obligation of up to 7'2 years by those who volunteer or are draft ed. I reported some of the de tails of the biU in a weekly let ter a few weeks ago. Trouble On Floor The bill ran into considerable trouble on the floor. Some dis liked it because it was not a gen uine U.M.T. bill. Some objected because it had too much com pulsion in it (the compulsory service in the reserve). Some members expressed the opinion in debate that enactment of the bill would be detrimental to the National Guard. The debate also revealed that there is actually some confusion in the minds of Committee Members themselves as to just what the effect of some of the provisions in the bill might be. After two days of debate the House simply decided to defer further consideration to a later date. That action did not kill the bill it can be brought up again at any time. It seems likely .that the Committee Members and proponents of the bill want a little time to study the record of the debate and the objections, perhaps with the idea of doing some revising. Reasonable Bill When I read the biU and the Committee report I felt it was -a reasonable piece of legislation which would create a strong re serve system and I was prepared to vote for it but after hearing the debate it seems to me the bill should have further technical consideration by the Committee and its staff experts. Water Resources To Be Meeting Topic Portland (U.R) Water re source activities and recreation development in the Pacific Northwest will be topics at the 81st meeting of the Columbia Basin Inter-Agency committee at Missoula, Mont., tomorrow. Dr. William A. Pearl, Bonne ville Power Administrator and chairman of the CBIAC, an nounced that guest speakers will include Frederick Stueck, mem ber of the Federal Power Com mission, and former Idaho gover nor Len Jordan, who is now chairman of the American sec tion of the International Joint Commission, Dead line for Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday. Get set with a new Cold Wave Permanent From 7.50 And if you are not one of our regular patrons you'll want to be one for a new permanent wave treat awaits you at Mann's ... a permanent that is more naturally soft and will last for months to come. No appointment is necessary ... just come in. Matter of Fact DEBATE ON THE SATELLITE Washington With a deter mined but not very expensive ef fort, it should be possible to launch an arti ficial sateUite into space about this time next year. This, at least, is the conten tion of lead i n g tech nicians in the missile field, who have sub mitted to the Pentagon Stewart Alaop plans for launching a man-made heavenly body in about 12 months. Until recently,, it was thought that it would take at least two years to put a satellite into space. But recent technological break-throughs in the missile art have made it possible at least in the opinions of some qualified technicians to halve this esti mate. If the Pentagon approves the project, the object to be shot into space so soon will not be much to look at. The plans call for an object only about nine inches in diameter, of the sim plest and lightest possible con struction. To save weight and bulk which is of course all im portant the little thing will contain no instruments . at all, other than a radar-response de vice to permit it to be tracked by radar on its journeyings around the globe. The purists in such matters insist that the object will not be a true earth satellite, but rather an "orbital vehicle." The pur ists are right, in the sense that such an object will not remain forever in space, like the moon. Instead, it will spiral very grad uaUy back towards earth, after some weeks or months of circling the globe, and when it reaches the denser atmosphere close to earths it wiU disintegrate. ; Obviously, the tiny thing will have no immediate military ap plication whatever. For this rea son, a debate has been going on in the Defense Department, about whether or not it is worth going ahead with the sateUite project. Aside from the preju dices against "frills" held by the supposedly hard-headed busi nessmen who now run the Pen tagon, there are serious argu ments against going ahead all out with the satellite project. ALTHOUGH some of the spec ialists in the art bfclieve that hicle can be launched into space a simple satellite or orbital ve for as little as $20,000,000, others strongly . disagree. The more skeptical, technicians point out that there are many un known factors remaining, and they have estimated the cost as high as half a billion doUars or even more, and the time in sev eral years. The most serious argument against the satellite project is that it might divert funds, facili ties, and talents from other mis siles above aU from the Inter continental Ballistic Missile, the grand prize of the missile race. EL Heading for a sill fllllllMBIB!li: (fill "ffl t a J By Stewart Atop The technicians who favor the sateUite project argue on the contrary that the sateUite can be achieved without any sacri fice of time in the missile race; that the satellite is in fact, a kind of free dividend of the ef forts to create an I.B.M. But the most cogent pro satellite argument can best be understood in terms of a couple of headlines; Soviets Claim Suc cessful Launching Of Earth SateUite, and U.S. Radar Con firms Existence of Soviet Satel lite. Two facts suggest 'that these headlines are not at fanciful as may be supposed. First, the possibUity that the Soviets will launch a sateUite is taken so seriously that a sateUite detection project has been estab lished at White Sands, N. M., and at Mount Wilson, Calif. A tremendous flap was caused not long ago in the Pentagon when the project identified not one, but two satellites. It tured out that both were natural satellites, never before detected. Second, the Russian! in April announced with a flourish the creation of a "permanent inter departmental commission for In terplanetary com munication." Russia's greatest scientist Peters Kapitsa, was appointed to the commission. Its first task was an nounced as "the organization of an automatic laboratory of scien tific research in cosmic space . . . which would, over a long period, revolve around the earth as a sateUite, beyond the limit of the atmosphere . . ." This bland announcement also caused much dismay, at least among the more sensible men in" the Pentagon. For this kind of before-the-fact boasting by the Soviets must be taken very seri ously indeed, as the Pentagon has learned to its sorrow, con spicuously in the case of the atomic and hydrogen bombs. Those who oppose the sateUite project argue that it would not matter : very much if the Rus sians did get the first sateUite into space it would presumably be as militarily valueless as the proposed American device. - BUT, AS one pro-satellite offi cial put it "We wouldnt really know it was harmless all we'd reaUy know is that it was up there."- The first satellite wttl certainly be the fore-runner of sateUites with enormous mil itary value in reconnaissance, missile guidance, and other fields. Moreover, it does not re quire much imagination to fore see the impression that a suc cessful Soviet sateUite-launching would make on the world. To knowledgeable men in every for eign office and miUtary estab lishment, it would mean just one thing that the Soviet military technicians had gained a com manding lead over their Ameri can opposite numbers, in the race for the ultimate weapon. (Copyright. 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Beavers are usuaUy gentle to ward human beings. 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