Today and Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
DEVALUATION AT GENEVA
The Geneva meeting brought
into the open the historic fact
that there has been a big change
of feeling in
the Soviet
Union and in
.the United
States. The
r e m a r kable
thing about
the new
friendliness is
that it has oc
curred with-
waiter Lippmann out any cor
responding change in the de
clared policies of the two coun
tries. What then, we may ask,
has happened to the great con
flict of policies about Germany
and about China to the big un
solved and as yet insoluble is
sues of the cold war?
What has happened, I think, is
hat while the conflicting poli-
- cies are as yet unchanged, the
imoortance of the issues De
tween the two countries has
been re-examined, and then
down-eraded and devalued. Both
'. governments. Dushed and
backed by a mounting public
opinion, have concluded that the
-nprifie issues Germany,
China. Formosa, the satellites.
Vietnam, the bases are not of
such vital importance that they
must be settled at the nsK ot nu
clear war. Both countries can
live, in fact they are living, with
these issues unsettled. Each
would, of course, prefer to settle
them on his own terms. But
rather than take the risk of war,
they will talk politely about the
issues, and they will wait and
see.
that they too were afraid of war,
Eisenhower had this whole coun
try behind him. He could go to
Geneva with the avoidance 01
war as his paramount aim.
Secretary Dulles said on Tues
day that as a result of Geneva
the diplomatists can now prac
tice diplomacy without fear- of
war. Among the Geneva powers
at least, this means that they
are, as it were, darmed. They
do not have to make concessions
and thev cannot enforce their
demands. All they can do is to
argue and if they settle, it win
be because they have strucK a
bargain, because they have given
up something in order to get
something.
THIS devaluation the down
grading of the policies and
the up-grading of the danger of
war occurred in Western Eu
rone more than two years ago.
Tt was made articulate by
Churchill. His appeal for a meet-
ine at the summit, which ne
made in Mav of 1953. was in
spired by the conviction that
once the statesmen realize, as
they had not yet realized then,
what the nuclear weapons
meant, they would have to agree
' on the avoidance of war. Once
again the great old man has been
proved a true prophet. In the
two years that have passed, the
realization has come to both Rus
sians and Americans, and it .has
affected profoundly not so much
the specific terms but the spirit
of their conflicting policies.
The realization has also af
fected profoundly the balance
of political forces within each
country. It is manifest from the
public documents that there has
been a creat change in Soviet
military thinking, due to a new
and recent appreciation ot tne
nnrlpar wpannns Tt is also mani-
r fest that Soviet foreign policy
is deeply influenced, pernaps
even directed, bv the re-educated
military leaders of the Soviet
Union.
THE West German press taxes
a dark view of this, having
recognized at once that insofar
as Geneva did anything aDOui
German unity, it down-graded
the issue and reduced the com-
nulsion to settle the issue. It is,
therefore, most improbable that
Mr. Dulles will be able by diplo
macy in the Foreign Ministers'
meetines to induce the Soviet
Union to acceDt Dr. Adenauer's
terms. For what has he to offer
the Russians in return for their
arrpntine a reunited and re
armed Germany within NATO?
In the Geneva climate Germany
can be reunited only by bargain
ing and compromise. The Ade
nauer terms do not permit mucn
bargaining and compromise, and
the prospects are that unless
they are revised, there will be
no German settlement.
THE first effect of the down
oraHiru nf the issues is. as I
have been saying, that the
easiest thing to do is to leave
the issues unsettled and as tney
are. But this cannot, of course,
GAL 2 Today & Tomorrow
go on forever. So we shall see,
I think, that as the great powers
do not make settlements, the
nponles affected will tend more
anH mnro to take their own fate
into their own hands. There will
be a national popular move
ment in Germany on both sides
nf dividine line. There will be.
or rather there already is a
strong tendency toward accom
modation across the dividing line
of the Formosa Strait. The pn
marv concern of the big powers
will be to see to it that their
own clients or satellites, do not
involve them in a great war
TN this country, the cause be
-I hind the immediate causes of
thi rollanse of McCarthyism and
Vip pffarement of the war party
has been the popular realization
that modern war is intolerable.
President Eisenhower has al
ways been opposed to the war
party. But even as late as last
Januarv. he resisted them with
difficulty and felt compelled to
appease them considerably, it
may have been the threat of
war over such an absurdity as
Ouemov and Matsu which was
. the trigger that set off the
" Ampriean revulsion asainst a
third World War. In any event,
once the Soviets began to show
TKDR there is now a worldwide
X nnmilar fpelins that none of
rvi
the existing conflicts of interest
are worth a nuclear war. Eisen
hower has always shared that
feeling himself. It is moreover
the real feeling of most Amen
rim Tint hitherto it has been
suppressed until Eisenhower ex
pressed it.
At Geneva he was able to
identify the United States with
the sentiments of the great mass
of mankind. He was able there
fore to build a bridge across the
chasm to our great adversary.
and to knock awav the worst ot
the barriers and stumbling
blocks that separate us from our
friends. We are, as a result
much less alone.
Convrioht. 1955.
Ntw York Herald Tribune Inc
Baker (U.R) Clifford G
Murrav. 30. former Pendleton
Ore. nolice sereeant. has been
named new chief of police at
Baker, effective Aug. 15.
La Grande (U.R) Police Chief
Robert K. Lord has submitted his
resignation to the La Grande
City Commission.
Dead line for Sunday Classified is
at noon Saturday.
Is That So?
Although the vocal music of
birds plays an important role in
our forest chorus, don't overlook
the fine instrumental players
h vL-nndnecker. snipe, mourn
ing dove, ruffed grouse, Hum
mingbird, nighthawk and owl.
Surely, the hollow drumming
roll of the songless ruffed grouse
is one of the best sounds of the
forest The male takes his stance
atop his favorite stump or fallen
log and with a roll of drums
proclaims at once the state of his
affection towards his demure hen
while issuing a warning to all
males to keep their distance.
This accomplished drummer
i ,,ms He makes his hol
low drum-like roll with rapidly-
beating wings, a blur to tne on-
4tv,r nr asainst his body but
bv striking the air with a furious
tempo. The sound, wonaenui
starts slowly and then
quickens to a roll which seems
ot tho time to mi c""-
woods. "Thurmp. Thurmp . . .
lllllHUlUi l- . 1
Thrrrrrrruuuuuummmmmpppp:
Tur t.rith the volume ai
peak,' it breaks off suddenly. But
the volume of tne souno.
v-.. 4ka w hirrincr wines attests to
the bird s great breast muscles
which extend from necK to tan
otin to winetip.
In contrast, that instrumental
ist the downy woodpecker raps
out a furious beat on a favorite
reverberating dead limb. It is
not that woodpeckers are voice
less in fact, the tucker nas a ,
solid, rich repertoire. But day
in and dav out, the downy wood-1
pecker will beat a rat-a-tat-tat
against an old tree trunk, mak- ;
ing the wood fly as he digs out ;
insects. But come spring, it is ui ,
tr- Snsppts Then he goes back !
to his special reverberating dead
limb or a metal rainspout io
hammer out a fine, rolling tattoo
which proclaims his territory,
his feeling toward his mate, anu
warns all males to stay out oi
his preserves.
Wings Make Noise
A different sound, and yet a
part of the woods, is the wing-
flapping of many biras, noiaoiy
the heavy ones. Unmistakable is
the slow and heavy flap of the
great blue heron, his neck fold
ed into a flat S, as he pioas nis
solitary way through the sky to
the beaver pond to eat his fill of
small fish and frogs, ine rapia-,
flying teal's wings whistle as it :
shoots along the course of a
river, following each bend. or
want of a better word to describe ,
the flight of the mourning dove, j
its wings "winnow the air ana i
make a sound unlike any other
in nature. Aside from this sound,
the mourning dove makes no ;
noise other than a long-drawn,
moaning coo from which it takes j
its name.
With the lengthening shadows j
of the afternoon comes another ;
'winnowing" sound again for .
want of a better word the ;
eerie, aerial higtypitched winnow j
of the jacksnipe. This is an en- j
thralling twilight sound ana liKe
that of the mourning dove is
made with feathers and wind
alone. This "song" comes from
nr. hiph and no one is yet sure
of its exact making but apparent
ly as the snipe circles and drops
to earth in fast flight, the tre
mulous wonderful notes are
made by the air rushing past its
outer tail feathers.
Night Hawk Misnamed
The night too has instrumental
choristers. As night falls, the
niPht hawk sadly misnamed
takes to the air. I say "mis
named" because this is no hawk
at all but an insect-eater and a
near-relative of the whippoor
will which it closely resembles.
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
As it wheels and whirls in the
night sky it catches insects dex
terously. In doing this it emits a
series of "beeps" but the climax
to its performance is instrumen
tal. As the night hawk dives
steeply, about 20 feet from the
ground, it throws its wings out
ward and down and as the air
rushes past the quills, they pro
duce a tearing "boom" while he
rockets skyward again to repeat
and repeat the performance.
Great horned owls can clatter
their mandibles and make a fear
ful sound but this and their
hoots are far from being great
music. However, one ot their
kind, the short-eared owl has an
instrumental performance which
is good. After crying his mating
song from the sky a series of
unmusical "toots," he may dive
and in doing so, brings his wings
- .
together under ms Doay wnn
a claDDine sound, most unusual
for these soft-winged silent fliers.
And except for the rare night
drumming of the ruffed grouse,
this is the last of the instrumen
tal bird songs of the day.
(Copyright. 1955, by
Eugene Burns)
(Released by McClure
Newspaper Syndicate)
In the Day's News
Sunday. July 31. 195
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By FRANK JENKINS
Mere off-the-cuff stuff about
In this ever - changing world,
one is' always running into
something new some gadget
that makes it possible to do some
given job quicker and at less
operating cost.
Along that line, there's one
for the book in Pendleton, its
designed to enable mo
torists to register injiotels with
out ever getting out ot the car:
It's in use at the Temple hotel,
run bv Morris Temple, who in
vented the thing.
ITS operated by a contraption
that will remind an ex-infan
tryman of a shrunken pillbox.
it sits at the curb in front of the
hotel. You drive up to it and
reads the printed directions.
Then througn tne noie oui
of which, if it really were a pill
box, the muzzle of the machine-
gun would be sticking you
look into a television screen.
On the screen, you will see the
room clerk. It's a two-way out
fit and through a lens at the
the room clerk will see you.
Over a two-way lound-speaker
arrangement you will talk to
the clerk and he will talk to
you
When you've completed vour
deal, a bellhop appears, takes
your signature on a registration
card, gives you your key and
directs you to the hotel's free
garage or parking lot. Then he
carries your baggage up to your
room.
When you've parked your car,
you stroll up at your leisure and
find everything cozy and nice.
HERE'S a point that will ap
peal to the traditional Scotsman-
When you reach your quar
.... i i,i
ters, there will De no Deimup
fiddling with the window or
turning the heat off or on while
he waits for you to reach for
your change pocket. He will
have cleared out before you get
there. If you're of the type that
in order to feel properly import
ant just must shower aown wun
a tip, you can of course hunt the
boy up and crowd it on him.
riH. ves. As you drive up, a
" neon sign informs you
whether there is or isn t a va
cancy. Everything has been
thought of.
1R. Temple frankly admits
i-'A that it was the growing com
petition of the roadside motel
that started him thinking along
the lines that led to his mven
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIYg
Three Oregon Cities
Receive Recognition
Salem (U.R) Secretary of
State Earl Newbry said Friday
three cities and the state of Ore
gon have been recognizca for
outstanding traffic engineering
and police safety work during
the past year.
The cities are Portland, fcu-
trene and CorvalllS. Fortlana
earned a second place award in
the 350,000 to 500,000 popula
tion group by the Institute of
Traffic Engineers, Honorable
mention went to Eugene and
Corvallis in awards by the Inter
national Association of Chiefs or
Police.
Oregon was judged best among
the Western states by the traffic
engineers.
tion.
The motel is easier to get in
to. His problem was to make his
hotel easier to get into, thus
putting him on an even footing
with his competitor. The motel
is also easier to GET OUT OF,
and the present model of Mr.
Temple's robot doesn't take care
of that situation. He's still mul
ling that end of it.
But
I presume
T.ik-P all the rest of us busi
ness men, he's more interested
in getting customers into tne
store to buv than in getting
them out of the store alter
they've made their purchase
i wvwiv his invention is a
shining example of Amen
ran enterorise.
tf now. the rjoliticians had ar
rived a decade or so ago at the
that what every-
hnrlv wants is GOVERNMENT
GUARANTEE OF HOTtbi
AnH
Tf the motels had combined to
grab off the bulk of the traveler
business
AND
If the hotel vote had been big
enough to make it seem politi
rallv worth while
Well, in that event, the poll
ticos would have solved the
problem by the simple expedient
of voting a subsidy sufficient to
make up to the hotel people the
difference between the business
they actually got and the busi
ness they thought they OUGHT
to get.
THAT'S the political way ta
handle such situations.
Personally, I prefer the free
enterprise way, and my hat is
off to Morris Temple and his
new gadget.
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