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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
June 23, 1945
(It was Saturday)
Jackson county court consid
ers small tax levy to aid con
verting old courthouse to Jack
sonville museum.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Due to
OPA monkeying with the food
and meat supply, upstate eater
ies are closing and "famine" is
feared. Even people equipped
with "the boarding house reach"
are suffering, one report says.
20 YEARS AGO
June 23. 1935
(It was Sunday)
Crater Lake National park of
ficials make residence at park
for summer.
Wireless telephones installed
In ranger station at Big Apple
gate to help "control fire fighting-
30 YEARS AGO
June 23, 1925
(It was Tuseday)
Jackson countians reminded
that automobile license plates
will not be isued unless title of
car is established.
Page theater, damaged by fire
two years ago, will be rebuilt
and be known as New Page.
40 YEARS AGO
June 23, 1915
(It was Wednesday)
More than five tons of cher
ries, mostly Royal Anns, shipped
from Rogue River valley.
From Ashland and vicinity
column: The Scandinavians of
Jackson county are scheduled to
picnic in the. Ashland park on
June 24. In view of this event.
Emil Peil, the leading Swede
in these parts, seconds the in
vitation, "Valkomen till rar
Stad." The date set commemo
rates the Scandinavian "Mid
sommar Dogan," or midsummer
day. Medford is expected here
in big array. -
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research ReaeH
1. The idea of a national Fa
ther's day originated with a fa
ther, bachelor, mother, spinster
or child?
2. Some large U. S. cities im
pose their own income tax on
top of a state income tax; right
or wrong?
3. About half, or many more
or many less than half of Kor
ean war veterans have used their
right to GI unemployment com
pensation? 4. Official head of the Church
of England is the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Prime Minister,
Queen, Prince of Wales, or Lord
High Chancellor?
5. Two presidents were born
west of the Mississippi; Eisen
hower and who?
6. The Achilles tendon in hu
mans is in the shoulder, near the
heel, around the elbow, in the
lower back, or near the knee?
7. A catamaran is a kind of
boat; right or wrong?
The answers: 1. A mother
(Mrs. John B. Dodd, Spokane.
Wash.) 2. Right. 3. Many lest
than half. 4. The Queen. 5. Hoov
er. 6. Near the heel. 7. Right.
CLOCK CHANGE
New York The daylight sav
ing plan now used in some cities
is less than 40 years old.
MAIL TRIBUNE
The McCarthy Rise and Fall
If Senator McCarthy has not decided Lincoln was
right he soon will.
It was President Lincoln of course who incident
ly was not only a great statesman but a smart politi
cian who maintained you "can't fool all the people
ALL the time."
The junior Senator from Wisconsin thought he
could if hie adopted such a popular issue as anti-Communism,
yelled often enough and loud enough and
was sufficiently shrewd in his exaggeration and mis
representations. But Joe's chickens are coming home to roost.
Seeing the writing on the wall even Senator
Knowland Republican leader in the Senate has turn
ed against him.
Meanwhile, McCarthy's favorite legal water-boy
and mascot, Roy M. Cohan observing that his idol
the Wisconsin senator is no longer or very seldom
on the front page, explains it all on "a conspiracy
of silence" on the part of the American press and
particularly the editors and radicals known to Roy
as "egg-heads."
We like the comment of the Salem Capital Jour
nal on this feature in the McCarthy decline, quote :
"Conspiracy of silence? Many politicians and others
like to think so when they can't hit the front pages the
way they would like to. But you don't have to be popular,
good, constructive or noble to gain newspaper publicity.
You do have to be INTERESTING. Joe used to be but the
people got tired of him and the news hawks quickly
sensed it. The newspapers under many managements' but
alike in their eager search for interesting material record
the results rather than determine them. Maybe Cohen
can think of a way to put Humpty Dumpty together again.
Its been done a few times."
Well if it has, we failed to make a note of it at
the time.
Our prediction is that McCarthy and Humpty
Dumpty will never come back and be put back on
the wall again. The reason? Well at long last the
people have not only become fed up with him, but
have become wise to him and his side-show tactics.
They are no longer interested, because they know he
is a phoney and always has been. Once the people
get on to that sort of a fraud they refuse to be taken
for a ride the second time.
THIS is not to say the Wisconsin Senator is going
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is going to be any new or benevolent dispensation re
garding the "Reds" Russian Chinese or Indian. The
fight between democracy and totalitarian imperial
ism, is bound to go on so long as the latter tries to
impose its ideology upon this or other nations, either
by force or infiltration.
moment will remain.
But the McCarthy type of opposition to Commu
nism based upon the "Big Lie" technique, stupid pre
judice, misrepresentation and for personal political
purposes only, we believe won't go on, not only be
cause it is essentially wrong and fals6, but because in
the long run it is ineffective, and aids the cause it is
supposed to hinder.
'..
This departure from the front page by the junior
Senator from Wisconsin is only one of many eviden
ces that finally the worm has turned, the play so
profitable for McCarthy and McCarthyism for a time,
has played out, and as the Salem Capital Journal
states, tiie newspapers of the country, were not (we
regret to state) responsible for this fall, but merely
were among the first, to note and record it. R.W.R.
It All Depends,
Some weeks ago when Senator Neuberger sug
gested that the ham-acting and pretense on TV be
discontinued, there was considerable ridicule express
ed hereabouts, and our junior Senator's alleged in
clination to waste time over, trivial fiddling while
Rome is on fire, was in many quarters, deeply de
plored. These critics, we fear, never read the speech as a
whole. For the real thesis presented, was not con
cerned too much with "make-up" illuminated
"ponies" and "falsies," as with the general need for
better, more serious and genuine presentation of the
issues over the air, and a reduction in artificial build
up and make-believe.
The New York Times, not disposed to deal in
trivia, commented upon this portion of the speech
with favor. Now what do we find?
Vice President Nixon none other, declaring
that what he calls "set speeches" of presidential nom
inees haranguing a big rally, or smugly, and snugly
reading his "teleprompter" in the studio is "on the
way out."1
Mr. Nixon thinks such telecasts will have to be
better produced than in the past, that there will prob
ably have to be interviews and even audience-par
ticipation, with unrehearsed, off-the-cuff questioning
if .the candidates are to get the voters in any large
numbers to "stop, look and listen."
We don't claim that the two speeches were identi
cal in viewpoint but they were in subject matter
closely related. And we also believe that had Vice
President Nixon delivered the Neuberger speech and
Neuberger the Vice President's, in that sequence,
there would have been very little criticism of either.
It ALWAYS depends
gored! R.W.R.
Seattle Youths Held For
Eugene (U.PJ Three Seat
tle' Wash., youths were held
here today after admitting more
than a dozen breakins over a 24
period, police said.
The trio, held for Washington
authorities, was working its way
to Hollywood by looting taverns
and service stations along high
Thursday, June 23, 1955
Security problems of . real
so much upon whose ox is
Series of Thefts
way 99, officers said.
- State police said the youth's
vehicle was "loaded" with loot
from the burglaries. .The lads
were stopped for a ' "routine
check."
- The trio admitted burglaries
in Salem, Eugene, Junction City
and Jennings Lodge, .
Nehru's Dndia Visit
Strange ExtiBlbuiBoiii
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Staff Writer
The Soviet Russian govern
ment and Prime Minister Jawa
harlal Nehru of India have just
staged a most interesting diplo
matic exhibition.
Reports of Nehru's 15-day visit
to the Soviet Union, which ends
today, read like the minutes of a
meeting of a mutual admiration
society. ,
Nehru found nothing wrong
with the workings of the Commu
nist dictatorship or with Russia's
foreign policy.
In fact, he said in one speech
that Russia must be given the
credit for a relaxation in world
tension during the last few
months.
The man who used to complain
so bitterly of British oppression
during the years before India got
its independence saw no Russian
slave labor camps.
He did not see the Kremlin as
the center of a vast conspiracy
which in Europe has deprived
the people of nine nations in
addition to Russia itself of their
liberty.
Great Peace Maker
The ' Russians, in turn, saw
Nehru as a great peace maker.
Just what the political results
of Nehru's visit will be remain
to be seen.
Nehru is a "neutralist." Unfor
tunately, his neutralism tends
toward the view that Communist
Russia and Communist China are
peace-loving, and that the United
States and its allies are imperial
ists. If Nehru's neutralism does not
incline more to the left as the re
Matter of
SIR KINGSLEY WILSON
Washington: It is now con
firmed that the able under Sec
retary of Defense, Robert An
derson, will
shortly return
to private life.
At long last,
moreover, the
Secretary o f
the Army,
Robert Stev
ens, is due to
return to his
family textile
business.
Joseph Alsop Defense Sec
retary Charles E. Wilson, has of
fered the under secretaryship to
the Secretary of the Air Force,
Harold Talbott; but Talbott has
refused this promotion on the,
ground that the air force com-1
mands his first loyalty. So far
as is known, therefore, no final
decision lias been made on the
replacement for Anderson.
Ordinarily, such news of
shifts at the second level of the
administration would have no
very shattering significance. In
fact there is no great significance
in the departure of Army Sec
retary Stevens. He is an amiable
but. remarkably dim figure, and
it was a conspicuous irony of
history that he should have been
catapulted into a spotlight that
only served to illuminate his
dimness.
The retirement of Under
secretary Anderson, on the other
hand, has a meaning out of all
proportion to his rank, for seve
ral different reasons. In the first
place, it will deprive the defense
department of by far the ablest
and most courageous civilian
officer now operating in the
field of general defense policy.
FJ THE second place, it will
disappoint a rather passion
ately cherished hope in the
armed services. That hope was,
very simply, for the departure
of Defense Secretary Wilson, and
his replacement by his far more
lucid and defense - minded sub
ordinate. There was a time when
this' shift appeared to be on the
cards; and there seems to be
come reason to think that Un
der-Secretary Anderson was real
ly staying on in the expectation
of this shift, and has now de
cided to go because it has be
come clear that his chief wiu
stay.
In the third place, and most
important of all, the departure
of Anderson removes any linger
ing doubts that may still exist
about the Eisenhower adminis
tration's order of policy-priorities.
Anderson always challenged
the policy - priorities established
by the treasury and the budget
bureau and approved by the
White House.
Secretary Wilson, on the oth
er hand, in effect operates as a
treasury representative within
the defense department. He
wholeheartedly believes that it
is his duty to think first about
tax cuts, second about balanc
ing the budget, and about the
defense of the United States as
a very poor third. He and the
Treasury Secretary, George
Humphrey, form a working
partnership in which Humph
rey is the guiding spirit.
By a remarkable combina
tion of great force of character
and great personal charm, Sec
retary Humphrey long ago at
tained a unique position of in
fluence and power in the Eisen
hower administration. Humph
rey's views on policy - priorities
would be hard for any secretary
of defense to challenge, even if
the defense secretary were also
a strong charactered and at
sult of his visit to Russia, it will
be because he has a high degree
of sales resistance.
His reception on his arrival in
Moscow can be described only as
hysterical. . Russians said they
never had seen anything like it.
Not only were the top-ranking
Kremlin leaders at the airport to
greet him but the streets of the
city were lined by tens of thou
sands of people who cheered him.
Cheering Crowds
Everywhere he went he was
greeted by cheering crowds in
cluding children who almost
buried him under bouquets of
flowers.
Nehru is the kind of man who
responds to this kind of treat
ment. In a speech in Moscow Wednes
day, speaking of the Bolshevik
revolution of 1917, Nehru said:
"Almost at the same time as
the October revolution led by
the great Lenin, we in India be
gan a new phase in our struggle
for freedom. And although under
the leadership of Mahatma Gand
hi we followed another path, we
were influenced by the example
of Lenin."
It was an astonishing state
ment for a man of Nehru's un
questioned intelligence to make.
The October revolution in Rus
sia was a coup by a handful of
professional revolutionists. These
Bolshevik revolutionists seized
control of the government from
Alexander Kerensky and his fel
low leaders who had overthrown
the czar nine months earlier.
Oh, well, perhaps Nehru was
just thanking the Communists
for a good time.
Fact y Joseph aioP
tractive man who was determin
ed to enforce the more normal
rule that the urgent require
ments of national security have
first call on the national re
sources.
OECRETARY Wilson, on the
& other hand, has no desire
whatever to challenge Secretary
Humphrey. He wholly sympa
thizes wira ine numnhrev view
that taxes and budgets are the
really worrying problems far
more worrying, indeed, than
anything so remote as the Soviet
bid to take world air leadershin
from the United States. This is
tne ex officio view, of course, of
all treasury secretaries and
chancellors of exchequers.
ine greatest tragedy of this
administration, very nrobablv
is that Secretary Humphrey did
not get the defense department.
If it Were Humnhrw
r - rw muo
nose, so to speak, was being
daily rubbed in the grim realities
oi our deteriorating strategic
situation, the position today
would be very different. rr
all Humphrey's power and per
suasiveness would now be in
action to assure an adequate de
fense, instead of being in action
to assure more tax cuts which in
turn the purchase of more ermine-lined
Cadillacs.
AS MATTERS stand, however,
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ing the defense department and
Charles Wilson staying on, the
outlook is rather easily predict
able. There will be no change in
the tempo of the present defense
effort, which so exactly recalls
the defense effort organized for
Neville Chamberlain by Sir
Kinsley Wood.
There may even be further de
fense cuts. The treasury secre
tary is determined to give the
taxpayers another round of
presents in 1956. These election
year goodies can only be fi
nanced by hacking a bit fur
ther into the musculature of the
armed services. Altogether,
against the background of the
Moscow overflights, it is a rea
sonably disquieting outlook.
(Copyright, 1955, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
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Today and
By Walter
THIS PRE-WAR
ARMISTICE
Before the parleys in San
Francisco began, the frame
within which the four Foreign
Ministers are
now working
had become
visible. For
one thing they
are no ; longer
the Big Four:
there are now
eight powers
who will take
part as princi
. pals in at least
Walter Lippmann some of the
coming talks. They are, in addi
tion to the Big Four of World
War II, West Germany, Red
China, Japan and India.
Dr. Adenauermade that very
plain indeed for West Germany
during his recent visit to this
country. It has been evident for
Red China since last winter
ever since we began talking
through intermediaries with
Mao Tse-tung. Japan is now ne
gotiating directly with the So
viet Union for a peace treaty.
And India has become a mediat
ing power which no one cpuld
afford or would dare to ignore.
WITHIN recent weeks it has
become clear, I think, that
all these principals powers are
in basic agreement on three gen
eral propositions. The first is
that war, .which now means
thermo-nuclear war, is impos
sible, and that there is no alter
native, if not to peace as the
President has said, then at least
to the avoidance of war. The sec
ond proposition is that while the
great powers must not wage war,
they cannot now make the con
cessions which would be needed
if they were intending to settle
the big issues. The third proposi
tion is that, unable to fight and
unable to settle, they must never
the less find ways to relax the
more severe and dangerous of
the tensions.
At least in the West, this has
not been the popular view, and
Mr. Dulles, Dr. Adenauer, and
Mr. Macmillan have all shown
much concern over the fact that
what the public expects differs
so much from what they think
can and should be done in the
coming talks. The popular view
is that in order to relax the ten
sions, it is necessary to settle the
big issues such as German re
unification and Formosa. The of
ficial and, as it were, inside view
is the reverse: that it may be
possible, and that it is most de
sirable, to relax the tensions be
fore the settlement of big issues
can begin..
This is in fact the formula
that is being used in the Formosa
Strait the place of highest ten
sion between the two. armed
coalitions. There are very strong
indications that variants of this
formula will be used in the com
ing negotiations at Geneva and
beyond.
THERE is, I submit, no doubt
that the underlying cause of
all the recent diplomatic activity
is that the competition in arma
ments has come to a stalemate.
War, and the threat of war, can
not under the existing condi
tions be used as an instrument
of national policy. The unusabil
ity of war, be it for conquest,
for liberation, for face-making or
for face-saving, has made neces
sary a return to diplomacy. But
the unusability of war has also
affected the character of diplo
macy which, almost always in
the past, has had war as its ulti
mate reserve and sanction.
Under the present conditions
the fact that the' principal
powers cannot fight means also
that they feel no compulsion to
make big concessions in order
to settle the big issues. What
they want to talk about, what
they are impelled by their inter
ests and by their public opinion
to talk about, are not settlement
of the big issues but ways of
making it more certain that this
stalemate, this cease fire before
hostilities, this pre-war armis
tice, will endure.
ENOUGH has already been said
by each of the principal
powers to show that none is now
ready for, that none now really
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expects or desires, to strike the
bargain which would make for
settlement. This was made indis
putably clear on the Western
side during Dr. Adenauer's visit.
He does not want and the
Western governments .have
agreed with him to negotiate
now for German reunification
and a German peace treaty. He
does not wish to negotiate the
momentous issues of Germany's
eastern frontier until there is a
German army, until Germany
has become, as she will, the lead
ing European member of NATO.
The Soviet Union, for its Dart,
has also taken a position which
rules out for the present a neat
and genuine negotiation about
Germany. Even if we make al
lowances for the tactless and
provocative way in which Sec
retary Dulles raised the vital
issue of the satellite states, the
Soviet reaction made it clear
that they will not negotiate now
about the military status of their
satellites. That does not mean
that, foUowing the affair with
Tito, they may not themselves
do something to alter the status
of their satellites. But just as
Dr. Adenauer has declared that
his military arrangements are
not negotiable, so also have the
Russians declared that their ar
rangements are not negotiable.
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AND YET, and yet, all the pow
ers are already engaged in
negotiations. About what? About,
one may say, the little issues
which exasperate people and
provoke hatred without in fact
having anything decisive to do
with the big issues. They are is
sues of the prisoners of war, of
detained civilians, of the nui
sances and the cruelties of the
iron curtain, of the trade embar
goes, of the aimless shooting in
the Formosa Strait, of the fabri
cated accusations and of the
propaganda of preventing war
the provocative deployment of
armed forces, and all manners
of sideshows of the cold war,
Under the constraints of the
military stalemate, all the prin
cipal powers are impelled to
stay more or less where they are
now, to live with their differ
ences, hoping somehow to out
grow them' or to out-live them,
For the big issues always in
volve territory. The little issues,
on the other hand, involve mere
ly the tactics of administrative
policy.
A general policy of negotiating
the removal of the little issues
fits the needs and the present
political capacity of all con
cerned. They cannot and they
will not now build a new and
stately mansion of peace. But
remove the fire hazards, and
they can fix the room, they
can repair the plumbing in
their separate dwellings which
they will be occupying for a long
time to come.
IF THIS is the kind of results
that the governments expect,
and are hoping for, they might
do well to say so, to make it
their avowed, instead of only
their implicit policy. They could
then worry less than they do
about the peoples expecting too
much. The people would know
what to expect, which is nothing
momentous in itself but a lot of
little things that could add up
to a good deal.
And then it would no longer
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Against Annexation
To the Editor: I will admit a
part of the proposed annexation
may need water and sewer serv
ice. But why force a shot gun
marriage between the city ot
Medford and an innocent by
stander?
Our permission was not asked
and we were not given a chance
to voice an opinion. Why should
people with enough gumption to
do something on their own be
forced to pay the bills for part
of Medford? We had nothing
what-so-ever to say about the
boundary lines. We were told
the City of Medford did what
they thought best (But for
whom?)
I lived in Medford for eight
months after sbeing discharged
from the Navy. Then we bought
19 acres of raw unimproved
ground. Since then we have
cleared, leveled, fenced, in
stalled an irrigation system, and
built a small house.' If we want
city facilities wouldn't we have
stayed in Medford? We wanted a
place to have, our own meat,
milk, eggs, vegetables and some
freedom. But after July 5, what
then? We have no guarantee that
it will be zoned as an agricul
ture zone or for how long.
As for taxes. Last year our
taxes were over $300. How can
we be justly forced to pay an
other $100 to Medford? We have
1,858 feet on proposed streets
or roads. How much will our
assessments be, $7 for streets
about $3 each for water and
sewer, or $14,154? No wonder
we do not want to be in the city
of Medford. .
Besides we could not run our
private business and affairs as
we wish to.
Please voters, think before vot
ing. City water and sewer can be
had without being forced into
city limits. Water and sewer dis
tricts can be formed without
joining Medford.
Is the bait worth the pain of
the hook?
G. L. Frasier
Rt. 3, Boxl79B'
Medford, Oregon
seem so necessary for so many
American politicians, with the
shining exception of the 'Presi
dent to prove every time they
speak on television that they are
not Communists, that they are
not fellow travelers, that they
are not dupes, and that they
are second to none in their
capacity to say what has been
said so often that it does not
need to be said again.
(Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
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