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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
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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,
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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.
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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.)
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