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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordvTribuni "Evrrvbody in SouUiern Oregon Reaos The Mail Tribune ' Published Dailv Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-2gNorth Fir St Phone 2-?ll ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB REY Advertisinz Manager F. C FERGI SON Managing Editor IRIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HRRY CHIPMAS TelegraDh Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDorU Editor O' IVE bT ARCHER Societv Editor .TACK JACKSON Sundav Editor GERA iJTLAJHAM Cumulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper "Entered" as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act or March 3. la-Ji SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ev Mail Ir. Advance: Per coov !0c Da.lv and Sunday One vear 12.00 Dailv and Sundav Six months s.so Daiiv and Sundav Three rnos 3 JO Sundav Only Or e vear 3 30 n., rar-ier In Advance Medforl. Ashland Centra. Pom. ,f Jacksonville Gold Hill. Shadv Cove Rogue River. 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Wallace ordered killed were available to the consumer. 20 YEARS AGO July 26. 1945 (It was Friday) Operation of Medford corpora tion, replacing Owen- Oregon Lumber company, to start Mon day; employment to reach 200 men in two weeks. Oregon Highway commission allots $120,000 for work on Siski you section and $125,000 on Ash land Neil creek section of Pa cific highway regrading and con struction work. 30 YEARS AGO July 26. 1925 (It was Sunday) Medford residents mourn death of William Jennings Bryan in Daytcn, Tenn. Ashland school board selects Easlerling-Tavener site for new grade school. 40 YEARS AGO July 26. 1915 (It was Monday) - California-Oregon Power com pany proposes to city council new contract for lighting: five per cent of gross receipts for I" years. From Local and Personal col umn: The backbone of the heat .was broken Sunday with a mod- cdation in temperature, and at r.oon today the mercury rose to but 82 degrees in the shade, about fifteen degrees lower than during the last week. The air is somewhat hazy due to forest and brush fires. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of lh 7? Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Rtpart 1. Steel price rises following steel wage increases are estimat ed to add about S5, $15. S25. $35 or S45 to the cost of making a 1956 car? 2. Which state calls '"parish's'' what all other states call coun tics? 3. Which of these first ratified the UN charter: China. France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States? 4. Which member of the Eis enhower cabinet ran the Repub lican election campaign of 1952? 5. Fingal's Cave is on the Irish or Scottish mainland, an Irish or Scottish island, or in Wales? 6. Maximum age for draft li ability is or isn't higher for doc tors and dentists than for other men? 7. Durum is a town in North Carolina, a kind of wheat, a breed of cattle, or a layer of the skin? The answers: 1. About $15. 2. Louisiana. 3. The United Stales. 4. Postmaster General Summer field. 5. Scottish Island. 6. Is. 7. Kind of wheat. Tree farms are now operated in 36 states. MAIL TRIBUNE "The Morning After In returning from Geneva the Soviet delegation stopped for a conference in Berlin. Once more Premier Bulganin maintained the con ference had relieved international tensions, but he proceeded to demonstrate the cause of one of the chief "tensions" between Soviet Rusia and the United States, had not been relieved. This is the unification of Germany. Both countries favor unification in theory but Russia insists that, if and when, such unification is achieved Germany must secede from Xato and become independent of the West. To date the United States has refused to favorably consider such action, and Chancellor Adenauer is reported to be equally firm against it. SO WE fear that any international celebration of "the dawn of a new era of sweetness and light" between the USA and the Soviet Union would be somewhat premature. There is no doubt the threat of a world war has been removed farther from reality, as a result of this "good will meeting" in Switzerland but the ideo logical and political conflict between the two coun tries promises to continue for some time to come. Premier Bulganin remarked before the Geneva conference assembled, quote: "It would be naive to think we shall solve all complex international problems, but if all participants in the con ference display good will, sincerely seek to reach agree ments we undoubtedly will be able to find common ground, to chart feasible ways to an effective settlement on which the peace and well being of the peoples depend." IIELL there was plenty of "good will" shown at " the meeting by the United States as far as the public reports were concerned; but just what went on behind the scenes is not so clear. Apparently the Russians did not take any offi cial notice of President Eisenhower's challenge to exchange military information, and enlarge trade re lations. This, if it proves to be Moscow's permanent atti tude, hardly qualifies as a gesture of good will, or manners, but let us hope there will be some ex planation for and softening of the "snub" later on. Secretary Dulles pretty well expressed the prob able reaction when on his return and in the rain he, remarked: "Only history will show whether it was a great or momentous conference and whether the good spirit en gendered there will be maintained." He might have well added that the verdict of histoiy will be influenced more by what is to be ac complished in the immediate future by both major powers than what was accomplished at Geneva. A peaceful and mutually satisfactory solution of the German problem should, as far as a better situa tion in Europe is concerned, be placed first on the agenda. R.W.R. Not Quiet on Eastern Front The return of the US "turn coats" from China emphasizes a fact often overlooked, to-wit : There is no peace in armed trace. In other words factually, a state of war still exists between the United States and North Ko rea (or if one prefers the UN and Red China.) This item may be an important factor in the final deter mination of these turn-coat cases, as well as the con tinuation of peace in the Far East. THERE are and have been for a long time, for ex- ample, many disquieting reports from the far-off Pacific area. The terms of the trace in Korea, it is claimed, have been broken repeatedly by the North Koreans and the Red Chinese, the forces opposing the South Ko reans being some experts claim, greatly strengthened since the armistice was signed. There are some who fear an all-out attack on South Korea may come at any time, and without advance warning. TOR many weeks all has been quiet in the Formosa area. But now there are reports of the Red Chi nese massing forces on the mainland near Matsu and once more Chiang Kai-shek fears an attack there. CO HERE is another reason for not being too san- guine about the future as far as the conflict be tween democracy and totalitarianism is concerned. As Bulganin declared in that pre-Geneva speech, quote : "Some people think that capitalism is better than so cialism. We are convinced the opposite is the case." So long as that conviction endures, in its present intense form, no complete harmony or deep seated goodwill between the greatest capitalistic country and the greatest communistic country in the world, should be expected. That doesn't mean there will have to be war. It doesn't mean there can't be a "modus viviendi" thatis peaceful coexistence without war. It does mean, wTe believe, such a sharp conflict in ideologies and political beliefs, renders any period of genuine friendliness and cooperation difficult if not impossible to obtain. In fact so long as Russia not only cherishes this firm conviction but insists that its political beliefs be extended throughout the world by propaganda and infiltration there can be slight sense of security in the free democratic countries, and unfortunately no ma terial reductions in preparations for war. R.W.R. La Grande UR) Robert Lee Denton, 15, Union, who was struck in the head by a light ning bolt Friday was rousing for brief periods today and doctors said he will recover. Tuesday. Julr 21, 19SS Korea. There is only an San Juan, Puerto Rico (U.R) Puerto Rico Monday observed the third anniversary of the signing of its constitution as a free state, associated with the United States. Matter of Fact THE MEANING OF GENEVA Geneva The great men have departed, and this comfortable city has returned to its normal well-fed calm. Looking back over the past week, it logically can be argued that the great men might just as well have stood in bed, saving them selves consid erable effort and their re spective taxpayers considerable expense. For. after all, no for mal agreement whatsoever on any disputed issue of real im portance has been achieved here. Yet something has been achieved here all the same, and this Geneva conference will live into history for it. As far as Europe is concerned. both sides have recognized the realties of the current situation and tacitly agreed to do nothing violent to alter these realities. Both sides have recognized the status quo. In official American circles. it is not fashionable or popular to spell out this fact. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles long and bitterly opposed the Churchillian notion of a "meet ing at the summit'' just because he knew that it would amount to a recognition of the status quo. When asked why he opposed the Churchill proposal, Mr. Dulles in those days always pointed out that photographs of the American and Russian lead ers smiling together were sure to be taken. Then these pictures would be distributed throughout the Soviet satellite countries. The satellite people would inter pret them to mean that all hope of liberation was lost and that resistance to Communist rule was henceforth hopeless. Now there are plenty of pic tures of the President, and Sec retary Dulles himself for that matter, in animated and friendly conversation with Bulganin, Khruschev and Co. If Secretary Dulles' initial reasoning was correct, this means that we have abandoned the satellites. TN FACT, the satellites were abandoned long ago, when, de spite campaign talk of "libera tion," nothing was done at the time of the Czech and German uprisings in June, 1953. Since then, the satellite people have needed no photographs to tell them that we were not going to war to liberate them.. And they are perfectly aware that they cannot be liberated by-' radio propaganda or campaign speeches. The President's reference to the satellites in his opening speech was thus a purely formal exercise, and it was recognized as such by all concerned. His very presence here has been a signal to the Russians that we intend to do nothing violent to overturn their satellite empire. But the recognition of the status quo has not been a wholly one-sided affair. Until very recently, the Russians were saying, or almost saying, that they would fight rather than per mit German rearmament. Thes,e threats could not be entirely discounted. This reporter recalls, for ex- ample, a conversation with the great British soldier, Earl Wa vell, before Wavell died. Wavell was a most undemonstrative man, but suddenly he smashed his fist in his palm and said with almost passionate earnest ness: "If you Americans rearm the Germans, the Russians will fight. If I were the Russian Chief of Staff. I should advise my government to fight." In short, the Russian threats had to be taken seriously, simply because the rearmament of a hostile Germany is a deadly serious thing for the Russians. Yet the Russians have now made it entirely clear, here in Geneva, that they will not fight to pre vent the creation of a West Ger man army. Behind the polite exchanges here, in other words, both sides have been saying: "We think what you have done and are doing is intolerable, but we in tend to tolerate it anyway rather than go to war about it." IT MAY BE, of course, that the status quo in Europe will be suddenly and radically altered by political rather than military means. There are knowledge able persons who believe, for ex ample, that the Russians are get ting ready to offer the West Germans reunification on their own terms, given a simple pro mise not to join NATO. But when one considers what sacri fices such an offer would in volve for the Russians, it seems wore likely that Prime Minister Bulganin meant what he said when he remarked that it would take "time" to solve trie German problem presumably a great deal of time. " If so, the freezing-in-position which has been tacitly acknowl edged here in Geneva reduces the chance of war breaking out in Europe, in the immediate fu ture, almost to the vanishing point. Surely this is a gain, even though, for the long run, it set tles nothing. And there may have been one ml Stewart Alsop By Stewart Atsop other gain too. President Eiscn hower's dramatic offer of mu tual aerial inspection seems likely to come to nothing. But both sides have at least recog nized a mutual advantage in some sort of warning system against surprise nuclear attack. Yet despite such gains, it is. alas, not yet time to relax hap pily in the glow of an assured peace. For there has been a death's head at the feast here in Geneva. For a long time, it has been obvious that far the great est danger of war lies in Asia rather than in Europe. And nothing meaningful whatsoever has been done here to deal with this far greater danger. (Copyright, 1955 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) On The Side By E. V. DURLING (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) Any man who has a traffic ticket "fixed" is a disgrace to his community. He has participated in a form of bribery and is there fore a criminal. So is the man who "fixed'" the ticket. All or ganizations interested in safe automobile driving should strongly combat this type of "fix ing." An investigation is in order. The man who had the ticket "fix ed" should be charged with bri bery and jailed. The "fixer" like wise. The latter should also be fired. Turn the rascals out: It is petty corruption that leads up to a major graft. It is ticket "fix ing", that leads to wild driving and disrespect for the law in general. Those Matches Folder matches appear much shorter thar formerly. Has some efficiency man convinced match manufacturers profits can be in creased by cutting a piece off each match? The average folder match is all right for lighting a cigaret. It is adequate for igniting a cigar if you puff vigor ously. However, it certainly is too short for the proper lighting of a pipe. Corny A favorite word of the synthe tic sophisticates is "cornv." I note a reference by one of these intellectual giants to the song titled "Count Your Blessings" as being "corny." Maybe it is "corny." But I like to sing it in the shower occasionally and enjoy its philosophy. Incidental ly, t once had a terrific run of bad luck. Everything seemed to go wrong. At that time I carried around in my wallet a poem including the line, "I kept hum min' better times are comin' and you bet they came." Very "corny" line what? But I kept repeating it and I believe it helped pull me out of that I slump. Song Writer Among the song writers achieving recognition by publish ing their own songs is Lawrence Wright of London. Not only were Wright's songs great commercial successes but so is his business. He publishes the songs of many other composers. The slogan of his firm is "You can't go wrong with a Wright song." Wright used a pseudonym for his own songs so as the publisher he could boost them as if the work of another writer. Using the pseudonym Horatio Michaels he wrote and published that smash hit titled "Among My Souve- nirs." Get It Right Nineteen hundred was not a leap year. Bob Fitzsimmons weighed 156Vfc when he fought and knocked out James J. Cor bett at Carson City, Nev. Such are statements made by me. In numerable subscribers claim I am wrong on both. I am right. I warn you, . gentlemen, don't risk your stogies. I know where of I speak. Asides Did you hear about the kid who, when out motoring with his parents, said. "Papa, I wish you would let Mama drive. It's more exciting." . . . Replacing of steam engines by diesels con tinues. When down on the farm I miss the sound of that engine whistle in the distance. Was one of my favorite sounds. Changing Names The father of the Duchess of Windsor didn't care for the first name his parents gave him. I don't blame him. It was Teackle. He changed his signature to read T. Wallis Warfield. The Duchess didn't like her first name either. It is Bessie. She changed her signature to read Wallis War field. Horse Players Practically every book of ad holds up George E. "Pittsburgh vice on "How to Beat the Races" Phil" Smith as a shining exam ple of what a smart horseplayer can accomplish. There is no doubt that "Pittsburgh Phil" died a jnillionaire. However, in addition to, playing the horses he was part owner in several track bookmaking establishments. There is a possibility that he accumulated most of his money as a bookmaker. Milk Producers Picnic With Eugene Producers Medo-Land Creamery, Eugene, and the Southern Oregon Farm Tank's Inc.. a group of , milk producers of Jackson and Jose phine counties, held their sec ond annual picnic in the Grants Pass city park Sunday. July 24, according to Don Geren, Eagle in the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Big question: What's really happened at the "summit" conference in Geneva? I DON'T know, but I'll make a The heads of state assembled there were sizing each other up and arriving at conclusions that will be veryt. very valuable in the future. These conclusions, based on PERSONAL contacts and PERSONAL observation. COULD prevent somebody in the future from making a wrong move that might lead to a war that nobodv wants. TTERE'S an interesting little "sidelight on the Geneva af fair: Mrs. Eisenhower was hostess at a yachting party on Lake Geneva. She took along the wives of the British and the French delegations and the wife of Switzerland's president. She would have invited the wives of the Russian delegates but the Russian delegates DIDN'T BRING THEIR WIVES ALONG! That, it seems to me, is a sig nificant comment on commu nism. JOTTINGS from the notebook: " Oregon has had many inter esting characters. In any list of them, the name of Sam Board man must be included. He came from Colorado and acquired land holdings up along the Columbia in Morrow county, where the town of Boardman bears his name. At Boardman, Highway 30 (the Old Oregon Trail) leaves the great river and bears off eastward and southward. Life in Colorado had taught Sam about irrigation. He soon discovered that he NEEDED it. So he started scratching around to GET it. And agitating for it. The upshot of his scratching and his agitating was the Umatilla irrigation district which has been a big factor in the develop ment and the prosperity of that area of Oregon. Intelligent scratchers and agi tators are good for the commun ities they live in. "EWENTUALLY, Sam Board man came into the service of the state of Oregon. He put together the bulk of Oregon's present state park sys tern. He loved the job as a mother loves her child. He'd see a piece of land, lovely in itself and in a lovely location, and the thought would come to him that it would make an ideal state park. So he'd start in hounding the owner of it especially if the owner happened to be a well-to do individual. About three times out of four in these cases, he'd wind up by getting the land do natcd. If he didn't get it donated out right, he'd badger the owner sometimes using the tactic of crying on his shoulder until he got an exceedingly attractive price out of the old skinflint. IT WAS thus that the Oregon state park system came into existence. The Oregon state parks were then and still are a part of the state highway sys tern. Sam visualized as an ad junct of the state's highways, de signed to make travel in Oregon pleasanter and more soul-satisfying. THE Old Oregon Trail was deeply imbedded in Sam's af fections, and the thought came early to him that its beauty would be tremendously en hanced if it were bordered by trees in its ruggeder 'arid sec tions. Did he go to the highway com mission for a bigger cut out of the gasoline tax pie, so that he could BUY trees and HIRE them planted? Did he go to the legis lature for a juicy supplementary appropriation with which to ac complish his purpose? Nope! That wasn't Sam's wav. He ORGANIZED THE SCHOOL CHILDREN. Someway or other, he wangled the trees and then he fired the school children with the ideal of SERVING THEIR STATE by going out and plant ing them. For nothing! Just for love of the commonwealth in which we live and have our being. Imagine that in these days when, if we want something, our idea is to get an appropriation from gov ernment and then HIRE SOME BODY to do it for us! HE CHOSE his tree varieties wisely ailanthus (the Tree of Heaven), locust, Russian olive, all of them well adapted to arid soil. They didn't all live, of course. But a surprising number t DID live (some of them because school children carried water to them in buckets until they got their root systems established.) These survivors add immensely to the beauty of the arid stretches of Highway 30. Anyway, states with citizens like Sam Boardman are lucky. Point, president. The Eugene group was headed by Gordon Coleman, manager of Medo-Land, and his wife and family. Also in the group were Clyde Johnson, plant superin tendent, and Leo Reed, assist ant superintendent, and their families. Dead line for Sunday ClauiXicd is at noon Saturday. Committee Rule in Soviet Russia Seen Increasingly Probable By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst ' It seems increasingly prob able, after the Geneva confer ence, that Soviet Russia is now committee rule. It seems probable also that the three men who led the Soviet dele gation to the Big Four meet ing are 'the three top men on the commit tee. They are Ni- cuaries Mciaun ma a- rwnrub- chev, first secretary of the Com munist Party, Nikolai A. Bulganin, prime minister, and Vyacheslav M. Molotov, foreign minister. These three men evidently were able to make any neces sary policy decisions without referring back to Moscow. As regards the frequent re ports of a "power struggle" in the Kremlin, if Khruschev, Bul ganin and Molotov did not get along well together in Geneva, they put on a convincing act. Khruschev Talkative The diplomatic experts who attended the Geneva conference differed widely in their com ments on the Soviet delegates. Some saw deep significance in the fact that Khruschev was exceedingly talkative, as usual. at dinners and parties. They noted that he sometimes pushed himself in front of Bulganin. Others reported that in the actual Big Four meetings Khruschev kept silent. He let Bulganin and Molotov do the talking. One commentator saw Chrysler, Union Said Near Agreement Detroit (U.R) Chrysler Corp an dthe CIO United Auto Work ers were believed near agree ment today on a pact similar to the precedent-setting contracts obtained, by the union from Ford and General Motors. The UAW resumed negotia tions with Chrysler Monday aft er a week's recess which the union requested to study the company's first offer in the talks, Neither side would reveal the contents of the offer but it was believed to resemble closely pacts granted by Ford and GM which guaranteed workers 26 weeks of pay during layoff per iods. 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Zhukov, by the way, was not promoted to membership of the powerful 11-man Presidium of the Communist Party when that bodv was reshuffled earlier this month. Joking Comment Molotov himself was responsi ble for the "retirement" talk which has cropped up intermit tently during the last few weeks. During the Austrian treaty nego tiations in Vienna in May. Molo tov commented to a WTestern delegate: "We are getting old, and it is time to give way to younger men." - It was not long before reports were published that Molotov's retirement actually was immi nent. Molotov was asked about the Vienna remark at a reception in Moscow on July 9. "I was joking," he said. "I was talking about all of us get ting older, and of the need for young blood." The possibility that Molotov will retire before very long can not be ruled out. He is 65. He has been under greatt tension most of the time for many years as foreign minister and, for a time, as premier. 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