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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: In Klamath county millworkers have started piling up at the picket lines, in stead of piling lumber. 80 YEARS AGO August 11. 1935 (It was Sunday) Three - hundred fifty men, mostly CCC's, battle a grass firQ on Roxy Ann's south slope; Southern Oregon Art associa tion to start free art classes to day. 80 YEARS AGO August 11, 1925 0 (It was Tuesday) Crater Lake stage driver fined $50 for speeding. Barney Oldfield named ref eree of auto races to start hsre Aug. 16. " 40 YEARS AGO August 11, 1915 (It was Wednesday) Twenty-one incendiary fires started near Trail. Public schools to open Sept. 6. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. The trend in movie theaters just now is for more or fewer double features, or just about the same as always? 2. Most persons not using a private car to travel between U.S. cities these days go by train, plane or bus? 3. Your chances of getting can cer are seriously affected by the kind of food you eat; right or wrong? 4. About 15, 30, 45 or 60 per cent of all corn grown in the U.S. goes into hogs? 5. Which one of these South American countries has no sea- coast: Bolivia, Columbia, Ecua dor, Uruguay, Venezuela? 6. Of the 12 states completely wet (no area dry by local option) more are in the East," South, Middle West or West? 7. Who in the Bible was the husband of Sarah? Th answers: 1. Fewer. 2. Most by train. 3. Wrong. 4. About 45 per cent. 5. Bolivia. 6. More (6) in the West. 7. Abraham. FCC Delays Action On KBES Change The federal communications commission has again delayed action on a proposed change of transmitter site for KBES-TV, it was disclosed recently. The FCC considered the change recently but postponed action till further information could be obtained from the sta tion Farlipr. the commission noSfied KBES-TV that action was being delayed pending a decision by commission mem bers on a proposed new ruling. The new regulation,' if ap proved, would limit location of transmitters to within five miles of the city? to be served. mail tribune Socialism vs Social Progress If one cares to do a bit of political research it will be found that the warning cry of "creeping socialism" is nothing new. The same general political and economic group that is now calling all the federal power projects the invention of the devil and 'Carl Marx had the same fear of a federal income tax, not so many years ago. The argument then was a democratic government in a free society had no right to take away a portion, large or small, of the money honestly earned by a free and independent citizen. That was confiscation closely associated with the divine right of kings and a baronial feudal system. MOREOVER that theory was sustained for many years by the US Supreme Court. In fact a con stitutional amendment had to be passed to validate an income tax. That was in 1913, and the protests and lamentations from certain political quarters heard then have not disappeared entirely today, particularly at income-tax paying time. There are many who still long for the good old "no income tax" days to return. NOT only was a federal income tax opposed as "socialistic" (the word is now New Dealism) but the records will show old-age pensions, social secur ity, unemployment and even bank deposit insurance were likewise fought by a valiant minority. These measures were termed as an alien and un-American philosophy which would destroy individual initiative and thrift, kill private enterprise, and create an idle dependent class which would in due course sink the shiD-of-state, and the end of the world the free world, would be here ! O THERE is nothing really new to this revival of - . TT 1 the fear of socialism as the next step m uncie Sam's degeneration, if something radical is not done to stop it. Chief Justice Earl Warren of the US Supreme Court explained the revival very clearly and succinct ly the other day when he remarked that too many good American citizens fail to distinguish between Karl Marx socialism and social progress. That is the point. Most of these social reforms did originate in Europe, principally in England -and Germany, but not under anv socialistic reeimes. but under monar chies. These benefits to the ed, not from any particular idealistic urge, out as a practical matter of governmental self interest, safety and security. THEREFORE this department is not greatly con- cerned over the final fate of public power in this country as a result of the revival of this socialist scare. The law bf action and reaction of ebb and flow will have its way in the field of social progress as in all other affairs of men. We now happen to be in a period of "ebb" that's all, and naturally the forces of reaction intend to make the most of it. But in spite of the Hoover report and- the Grants Pass Courier we expect to see TV A, Bon neville, Grand Coulee and all the other public-power projects now in operation, continue on the job ; and we even expect to see Hells Canyon eventually util ized as a High Dam federally developed and con- . t . i t i trolled not because ot any political upneavai neces sarily but because as even the Federal Power Com mission Examiner admitted, and some proponents of the Idaho Power company also now admit, the larger federal project would bring "the greatest good to the greatest number" and the piecemeal private power project would NOT. AND that, after all, is the truly American principle that has prevailed in the past in such matters and we believe will prevail in the future. As stated it isn't socialism, it-is social progress. It isn't destroying our cherished American institutions it is improving and strengthening them. It is not going back to Karl Marx or any other long haired alien theorist of the past, it is only going back to the founder of the Republican party who maintained that this is a country, of by and for the people, and he put special emphasis on the "FOR." In other words what will benefit the country as a whole and a majority of the people in it most, will in the final show down, prevail. R.W.R. Ike in "Will President Eisenhower run for a second term?" Practically everyone answers that in the affirma tive. So do we. But unless we are much mistaken he does not wish to run, and if he wrere another Calvin Coolidge he wouldn't. But unlike "Cal" Ike undoubtedly realizes -that if he should refuse to run his party wrould be defeated. And his strong sense of party loyalty, could not countenance that sort of desertion. CO UNLESS something quite unforseen occurs, it will be "Ike and Nixon" as it was before. Practically everyone thinks that this ticket would mean election by another landslide. We are not so sure of that. But we are sure of this: if Ike is given a second term he will not enjoy himself as he did in his first R.W.R. Thursday. August II, 1955 rank and file were adopt 1956? Mat t er of Fact by s.wart WHERE KHRUSHCHEV STANDS Editor's Note: This Is the third of a series of reports summing up Stewart Alsop's experiences in the Soviet Union, which he brought out with him from Moscow. Moscow There is no ques tion about it. The Soviet regime really is a dictatorship without a dictator, an authoritar i a n regime r u n on a c o m m i t tee system. This seems incredi ble when you first think about it a little more. Joseph Stalin was a suspici ous man by na- turp naranniar Stewart Alsop in nis suspicions towards the end of his life. He had, moreover, every reason for knowing that a patential dictator is a danger ous man to have around. How logical, therefore, it is to sup pose that Stalin would be care ful to have around him men who were not potential dictators, men who were, indeed, congenital No. 2 men. Remember, furthermore, that these congenital No. 2 men lived out their lives, while the old dic tator still breathed, in nprnptnal fear of destruction at the hands of the secret police who were the instrument of the dictator's will. How further logical, therefore, to suppose the No. 2 men would share one mutual obiect tn smash the instrument of terror, to make sure that the ser-rpt rn- lice would never again place them in fear of their lives. AU the known facts fit -this theory the fact that Beria was shot, the fact that Malenkov was not shot, the fact that the secret police chief is now a career cop, responsible to the Presidium as a whole rather than any single member. The theory seems aU the more convincing when you rub shoul ders with the presidium mem bers, which anv Westerner in Moscow can do to his heart's con tent these days. For the present Soviet bosses look very much like the sort of men a suspicious old dictator, who wanted able men to serve him but who want ed no truck with potential rivals, might gather around him. SABUROV and Pervukhin look like brilliant technicians, which is what they undoubtedly are. Molotov may be the ablest of the lot, but he is essentially a technician too. Voroshilov is ' a handsome nonentity. M i k o y a n and Kaganovich are tough, wily professional political operators, but they do not have the smell of supreme power about them. Nor does Bulganin, although Bul ganin does have a certain air of authority, rather in the manner of a Southern colonel of the mint julip tradition. Aside from the new men, that leaves Khrushchev and Malen kov, the two most interesting figures in Russia today. At a re cent Western reception, this re porter had a conversation lasting about ten minutes with Khrush chev. Khrushchev grabbed my hand in both of his, and hung on like a vice for the whole ten minutes. He went on at some length about how he had read what I had written about the So viet Union; did not like it; but he hoped that some day I would be able to find out the truth about the Soviet Union and teU the American people. Alas, when I did my level best to get a real interview out of him, he immediately caught on, and smilingly blocked every ef fort. But at least this rather un comfortably close contact made it possible to sense something of the quality of the man. He is really a very ugly man indeed. He has tiny little eyes, and a big loose mouth, teeth copiously decorated with steel fillings, and a barrel - shaped figure. But he 'has enormous vi tality, and the odd charm which great vitality imparts. Because he looks so much like a peasant out of Tolstoy (crossed, perhaps with a mid-Western iso lationist politician) and because he has been known to get pub licly cock-eyed, there has been, in this reporter's view, a tenden cy to underestimate Khrushchev. If he is a peasant, he is a re markably shrewd peasant with an extraordinary talent for sur vival and a great taste for power. Malenkov is an entirely dif ferent manner of man. All the Soviet rulers now smile constant ly and with ferocious determina tion in the presence of Western ers. But whereas a grin comes easily to Khrushchev's lips, smil ing is obviously a frightful ef fort to the saturnine Malenkov. DERHAPS recent experiences have made it difficult for Malenkov to smile easily. He is the living embodiment of what one Westerner here called "the first Soviet experiment in demo tion instead of annihilation," and is it still not entirely certain that the experiment will succeed. Even so, some shrewd Western observers would bet on Malen kov rather than Khrushchev, be cause of his youth and unques tioned intelligence. But this re porter's instinctive feeling, for what it is worth, is that Malen kov is also essentially a techni cian and a No. 2 man. This feeling seems" fo be sup ported by Khrushchev's recent Alsop remarks to an Asian ambassa dor here. Khrushchev volun teered that the trouble with Mal enkov was that he wanted to run Russia like a bureaucrat, with rules and regulations for every thing. But, said Khrushchev, you can't rule Russia that way in Russia, you have to be ready for anything, a bad crop failure, threatened famine, for example. These remarks very clearly suggest that Khrushchev has no doubt that the demoted Malen kov will stay demoted. They fur ther suggest that Khrushchev believes in naked power more than rules and regulations. To gether with other evidence of Khrushchev's increasing power, they could even be taken to mean that Khrushchev is on his way to the position of supremacy that Stalin once occupied. Yet a return to the Stalinist pattern of dictatorship just does not seem likely, at least in the near future. For one thing, the re-imposition of a true Stalinist dictatorship would require the reinstatement of the secret po lice as the dictator's chief instru ment of terror. The most ex perienced observers believe that any attempt to revive the old po lice terror would unite the army, the bureaucracy, and even the Khrushchev - controlled party in last - ditch opposition. For another thing and this is again a matter of extremely fallible instinct Khrushchev just does not have the smell of a dictator about him. Unlikely though it may seem, the best bet seems to be that the present com mittee system will continue for a long time, with Khrushchev cast in the role of chairman of the committee, but not dictator. Copyright, 1955 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Night Classes Set For Fall Term at Southern Oregon Ashland Night classes of fered at Southern Oregon college for the fall quarter of 1955-56 will begin on the evening of Sept. 26 and run through Dec 20, 1955. Enrollment may take place on the night the class be gins and fees may be paid at that time. Classes .beginning on Sept. 26 are: Crafts, Wilda; Appreciative Aspects in Art (G), Miss Ady; School Organization and Law, Dr. Bowman; Methods and Ma terials, Dr. McAulay; Methods and Research Materials ' in Science (G), Mr. Diebel; Begin ning Spanish, Hannan; and Or chestra, Matthews. Classes beginning on Sept. 27: Ceramics, Wilda; Comparative Religion, Dr. Kreisman; and World Problems, Dr. Clifford Miller. On Sept. 28, these classes will begin: Second Year Spanish, Hannan; and Principles and Techniques of ' Speech Correc tion, Mulling. Classes slated to begin Sept. 29 are: Folk Dance, Miss Ben nett; and Research Studies in Child Development, Dr. Graham. Secondary provisional certifi cation, according to Mrs. Mabel W. Winston, registrar, may be granted on completion of the fol lowing courses taken from the list above: Appreciation Aspects in Art, Methods and Materials, Research Studies in Child De velopment, Comparative Relig ion, World Problems, and Prin ciples and Techniques of Speech Correction. Attention was directed by Mrs. Winston to the opportunity for those who completed Mr. Han nan's class in Beginning Spanish last year to continue their study in the language by signing up for his Second Year Spanish course this year. Aly Khan Seeking Visit With Daughter Reno, Nev. (U.R) An at torney for Prince Aly Khan went to court yesterday in an attempt to force Rita Hayworth to let Aly take her daughter, Princess Yasmin, with him for an 11-week visit. The attorney; Kenneth Dillon, said Aly is entitled to have Yasmin with him for that period under terms of the divorce Miss Hayworth got in 1954. Aly is now in France. District Judge A. J. Maestretti set no date for a hearing on the motion, but indicated it might be later this month. "We have got nothing but stalling in this matter from Miss Hayworth," said Dillon in ex plaining why the matter was brought to court. Miss Hayworth has repeatedly said she would not take Yasmin to France until deportation pro ceedings against her current husband, singer Dick Haymes, were finished. The U.S. govern ment recently announced it is dropping the matter. HEAD CRUSHED Brookings (U.R) Leo H. Thompson, 46, of Harbor, Ore., was killed yesterday when a truck on which he was working slipped off its blocks and crushed his head. Communication? Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a Den name or initial for publication is permis tfble. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Can't We Dream Big? To the Editor: Don't we dream big anymore? There is no com parison between the power po tential Hells Canyon offers and the three low dams the Federal Power Commission has author ized the Idaho Power company to build on the Snake river be low the canyon. Even Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay, who should know, has acknowledged publicly the out-of-state utility win only offer "almost" as much power as Hells Canyon, then why has the power commission set tled for second-best? Our patriots boastfully assert we are "the greatest nation on earth" and I think most of us agree Oregon is a pretty wonderful place to live in but we act as if we have lost hope. Hells Canyon is our biggest remaining damsite. If we must forfeit our right to its de velopment, let us at least let those in power know it hurts. Who knows? They might catch a spark from our dreams. Hildur Kane 2166 NW Irving Portland 10, Ore. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Geneva which so recently was the site of the epochal meeting of the heads of state of the U.S.A., Britain, France and Russia another conference has just opened. It is the United Na tions conference on peaceful uses of atomic energy. At its opening session, it listened to a message of greeting from President Eisenhower. In his mesage, our President called atomic science the newest and MOST PROMISING TOOL OF ALL for the betterment of human life. rpHOSE are strong words. But they are undoubtedly true. If we (meaning by that ALL the people on earth) have the common, ordinary horse sense to make of atomic science the SERVANT OF MAN instead of the DESTROYER OF MAN there is practically no limit to what atomic science can do in the way of betterment of human life on this globe. VTATURALLY enough, I sup pose, we think of atomic science in terms of power to run machines. That is tremendously important. Machines do the drudgery that formerly had to be done by aching human backs and human arms. With the DRUDGERY done by machines, human minds will have the time in which to create new things for the betterment of mankind. Atomic science opens up vast new frontiers along that line. T ET'S consider for a moment such a simple thing as heat ing our homes. Suppose you could drop into a jigger in your basement (if you're old-fashioned, or your utility room if you're more modern) a lump of uranium about the size of a peanut and go on getting heat from it for years. That wouft be wonderful. .Well, it's strictly within the limits of probability. At a NOT TOO DISTANT TIME. SPEAKING of heat, at the in stant when it explodes (splits) the uranium 235 atom has a temperature of TWO HUNDRED TRILLION DEGREES. That's a lot of heat. All we need to do is to learn to control it dependably. That we can do if mankind can learn the trick of living at peace instead of GOING TO war. CP- You see Ike isn't talking through his hat when he says atomic science is the newest and most promis ing tool of all for the betterment of human life. LaMoille Pugh Heads Secretarial Science Miss LaMoille V. Pugti from southern California recently ar rived in Medford to take a posi tion on the staff of the Robert son School of Business, accord ing to Leslie- B. Robertson, man ager of the school. Miss Pugh will head the secre tarial science department of the school, Robertson said. She was graduated from Oberlin college, and Sawyer School of Secre taries in Los Angeles, and ob tained her teaching credentials at Claremont Graduate school. CZECHS TO GIVE AID Tokyo (U.R) Czechoslovakia agreed Wednesday to give eco nomic aid to Communist Viet Minn, Radio Peiping reported today. The Red Chinese broad cast said that a trade agreement and an economic aid pact be tween the two Communist coun tries were signed at Hanoi in northern Indochina. Today and By Walter THE PROBLEM OF THE SECOND TERM Beginning in the late spring the President's wav of talking and acting gave the impression that he had decided to run for a second term. But last week, just as Congress was adjourning, he let it be known that he has. not made up his mind, that he is Duttine off Walter Lippmann the decision, and that he is find ing it a very difficult decision to make. From what he said last week to Sen. Bender and a dele gation of Ohio Republicans and the next day at his nress con ference, we have a good idea of how he sees his problem. Will ne De too oia in a second term' to be at his best in coping with i -n :J i ..?.... I the President's responsibilities? The answer to this question, he has now told us, he must know what the state of the world will demand of the President and he must know what will be the state of his own energy and health. Because he does not have the gift of prophecy, he cannot, he says, answer this question now. He is deferring the decis ion, presumably until early in the coming winter when he will size up the prospects at home and abroad, and will have had a medical check-up. liriTH great respect I venture " to suggest that the President is making his decision more dif- iicuit than it ought to be and indeed that as he is posing the problem for himself, it is in soluble. He will not be much better able to prophecy reliably next. wintPr than hp i ,; cm. mer. Nrt nnp will ho give him a clear preview of what , . ' . " , M eive him a clpar nrpvipw nf what will be happening between 1956 and 1960 to the world and to himself. He is deferring the decision because he would like to know more about the future than he is going to be able to know. But why does he want so much cer tainty? Because, I believe, he knows that as things stand so much deDends UDon his decision. Too much depends up6n his de cision. For. like Adenauer but unlike Churchill, he has not se lected and trained and promoted an acceptable and adequate suc cessor. Because there is no num ber 2 Republican, a dilemma ex ists - which must, which does, trouble his conscience. He alone is able to be elected. But as he cannot be sure of completing a second term, he has it on his conscience that he mav be mak ing a President that the 'country does not want, a President who cannot carry on where he leaves off. By failing to raise up an ac ceptable successor, the President has placed himself in a quand ary: He is indispensable to his party, but he is vulnerable be- Mrs. Schmidt-Fine To Meet Husband Nevada City, Calif. (U.R) Mrs. Una Schmidt has decided that three's a crowd. Her attorney, Harold Berliner said Una will meet her airman husband, Daniel, alone when he returns Friday from a Chinese Communist prison camp. She previously had intended to bring along her 21-year-old second husband, Alford Fine, so the three could talk over their strange "Enoch Arden" triangle. Una said she married Fine in Mexico last year in the belief that Schmidt was dead. "Assuming there is an -earlv meeting, Fine will not be there," .tseriiner said. ".His presence would not be appropriate." Una. 20. took her 2-vear-old son, Danny Walter, and went off to live by herself until her 22- year-old first husband returns and she decides whether she loves him or Fine more. Schmidt was to leave Hono lulu late today. He and 10 other airmen recently released from a t-ninese Communist prison camp are due at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., Friday morning. Frank Morgan - Across I 0CTCKs I Tomorrow Lippmann cause of his advancing age. This is what makes hi decision so agonizingly difficult. If there were another strong Republican available for Vice President who was acceptable to the whole mass of the Eisenhower supporters, the President would be free of his main difficulty. He could in good conscience dtcide to run again, knowing" that if he falls, there is a successor who can carry on. o Unless he promotes such a successor, a good Republican who is satisfactory to the Eisen hower Republicans and to the independents and to the Demo crats, he cannot, I submit, make a decision which sattafies his own conscience. If he decides not to run, he is consigning his party to almost certain defeat, If he does run, he will be haunt ed by the idea that he mav be using his own popularity to im- jr.4j un pose upon the country an un DODular Prpsirfpnt O "DECAUSE so much is at taVi. it is necessary to speak frank ly, ihe President himself has spoken frankly about his aee. Given good health, that is not a oisquaiiiication. But it V a com pelling reason for taking great care about the candidate for Vice President. Now, the trouble wit Mr. Nixon is that he is at best a re cent convert to Eisenhor's kind of Republicanism. In his political connections and as a political operator he belongs with the opposition to Eisen hower. The great strength of Eisenhower is, as William S. White put it the other day, that he has expanded the center, until the fringes are insignificant. Mr. Nixon is close to the Rieht a iLnortlf t0? ? tne Democrats, to the mdepend fringe. He is unacceptable to "u lo a larEe ""fly OI Ke- publicans, who make up the Eis- ' mc uu- enhower center. He could not be elected if he were nominated. and he would be beaten in the campaign which would divide and embitter the country. If he became President because of Eisenhower's disability, he would almost certainly divide the great coalition which Eisenhower unites. It is, I submit, the President's duty to examine frankly, fear lessly and objectively these po litical realities. Before he de cides whether he himself will run for a second term, it is his duty to make sure that his Vice President is acceptable to his own following, and comoetent to carry on. When he has done that, his own personal decision will no longer need to depend upon predictions about the un predictable, upon certainties that can never be had. Having provided for the larger future, he can make his own decision in the present and the nearer fu ture. rpo SAY that there is no ac ceptable second man avail able to the Republican Party is not only a counsel of despair. It is inherently ' improbable. Eisenhower is no doubt the in dispensable candidate for Presi dent. But can it be argued that Nixon is the indispensable can didate for Vice President? All that can be said is that there is nobody else now in the running. There is, however, no question but that with a whole year to go the President has virtually un limited power to make a suitable and acceptable man known to the nation. If the man he picks has what it takes, the country will soon realize it, once the Presidential spotlight has been turned upon him. fTHE President cannot, I think, - in fairness to himself, to his party, and to the country leave the problem as he has now posed it which is to force everyone. including himself, to keep guess ing for another half a year aboujt matters which will not be any more certain then than they are now. But if, before making his own decision, he decided to make sure and clear the succession, he will have made his own decision much easier to make. For he will havp talrpn out &nnrl insurance. and nothing fatal an tremend ous will then depend (n tne de cision. r.nrnrriaht. 19S5. ' New York Herald Tribune Inc. Harold Snodgrass (1 FUNERAL DIRECTORS "The Chapel of Cherished Memoria 0 CHAPEL MORTUARY from the Courthouse
