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Newspaper Page Texts w ft) 5 & FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UEDFOEaSjfc,TKIBU!a "Iverybody in Southern Orf on Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-S141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager X. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OUVE STAR CHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Zntered aa second elaas matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday On yaar $12.00 rwilv anH SunHiT Six months 6.50 Dailv and Sunday Three mos. S.50 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. -t.k.Hii noM Mill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. and on motor roum: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers Sc per copy. All Terms caan in Acvmcg Affielal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased wire MXJKBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices to New York. Chicago. De- Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. NATIONAL EDITORIAL TUON IT NIWIPAMt "Association 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 August 28. 1945 (It was Tuesday) Japan occupation under way. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A local GI Is back from Okinawa and the peace riots in San Francisco re- cently. 20 YEARS AGO August 28, 1935 (It. was Wednesday) Merchants to keep stores open till 9 p.m. during fruit season. Relief canneries in county to continue operation. 30 YEARS AGO August 28, 1925 (It was Friday) Congressman Madden of Illin ois visits city, and is taken to Crater lake by Chamber of Com merce committee. Fist fight erupts at local rural school meeting. 40 YEARS AGO August 28, 1915 (It was Saturday) Forest fire in Butte Falls area brings heavy loss. Longest hot spell in many years reigns; month and a half temperatures average between 93 and 101. g What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Rspari 1. Which one of these Presi dents was not elected to that office: James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Theodorrf Roosevelt, Cal vin Coolidge, Harry Truman? 2. Which war'of the U.S. was ended by the treaty of Paris? 3. Nob Hill is in Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, S. C, Den ver, New Orleans, or San Fran cisco? 0 4. The Garrison of a "Garri son ' Finish" was a track star, pugilist, jockey, football coach, or traveling salesman? 5. The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society is the governing body of which religious organiza tion? 6. Elderly or young drivers are more apt to doze at the wheel while driving, according to the Automobile Club of Amer ica? 7. Lady Cavendish was better known as what star of the stage? The Answers: I. Arthur; 2. Revolutionary War; 3. San Fran cisco; 4. Jockey; 5. Jehovah's Witnesses; 8. Young; 7. Adele Astaire. Leaflets Ask Caution From Holiday Drivers Salem (U.R) Leaflets ap pealing for special driving care to prevent accidents during the Labor day weekend will be handed to motorists by state police as the holiday nears, Su perintendent H. G. Matson said Saturday. The leaflets call attention to the critical traffic hazards of the weekend and ask the help of all drivers in preventing such need less tragedies as the five deaths charged to Labor day traffic last year. Hollywood (U.R) Actor Jean Hershot, who played the title role in the Dr. Christian radio dramas for. many years, today t underwent minor surgery in a Santa Monica hospital. MAIL TRIBUNE Deeds Versus Words The one outstanding criticism of Soviet Russia today is the absence of deeds to match her words. Her words are most reassuring at times positive ly beatific. Russia is passionately for peace, disarma ment and good will toward men. Her emissaries, of ficial and unofficial, in sharp contrast with the past, are today, models of good manners and filled with friendliness and humor, toward the free world in general and the U.S.A. in particular. But when things come down to brass tacks, and something concrete enters the debate, such as the union of East and West Germany, Russia is just as firm and unyielding as was the case before the winter of discontent ended, and the great Slav thaw started in. . a a e CO THE net result is to leave the free world, includ ing the United States, cheered by the change of heart in the realm of Communist diplomacy; but still skeptical as to any fundamental change in totalitarian ideology, or the Kremlin's basic attitudes toward that world. There has been one great improvement however in recent months, particularly since the Geneva meet ing that is the growing conviction in Washington and throughout the country, that as President Eisenhower remarked, "Russia doesn't want war anymore , than does the United States." Senator McCarthy brushes this off as a shameful "retreat, appeasement and But it is, of course, nothing of the sort. It is merely the truth. With the advent of the atomic age, war as a desirable weapon of advancing national interests has ceased to exist although some nations may be slower than others to realize it. The "new Russia" has not been. DUT the reduction and " war danger, does not mean necessarily the elimi nation of ALL danger. For until there should be a complete change in the brand of communist imperialism that exists in Moscow and Peking, the dangers of conquest by infiltration and subversion, remain a threat to the freedom and independence of other nations and the survival of the democratic world. . So until reassuring words are matched by reassur ing deeds, this danger will continue to exist, and while it would be silly and unwise not to express gratitude for the considerable blessings of the past few months as far as our improved relations with the communist world is concerned ; it would- be equally unwise and foolish to assume those blessings include an end to all danger and a security, which in a permanent and lasting sense, does not as yet exist. R.W.R. Words Versus Deeds In the realm of deeds versus words, we would sug gest that before the Oregoniah writes another lauda tory editorial entitled the "Forthright McKay" the record of the Secretary of the Interior in this field be more closely examined. The Oregonian apparently took Mr. Secretary's speech before the Isaac Walton league of Portland as its justification for handing him this bunch of roses in recognition of our ex-Governor's outstanding frankness and courage. IN. THE realm of words we believe the record will show that Secretary McKay has claimed he is not against "true conservation," not against "public power" where private power can't do the job as well and the national credit will allow. He is devoted to preservation and improvements of our national parks and always has been he isn't against .anything much but the Democratic party, the New Deal and being a hardy Scot, feather brained extravagance and waste. . piOSE are the "words." How about the deeds? But for Secretary McKay's initial opposition to public power at Hells Canyon, the Idaho Power com pany "give away" would have been beaten before it started. There is scarcely a real friend of public power, conservation of our ' natural resources or effective protection of wild life in the Interior Department that Secretary McKay has not fired or tried to. On the other hand his department has called in representatives of the private power companies to check on proposed legislation, and their recommenda tions were generally followed. "QUTDOOR America" the official publication of the Isaac Walton League, before which the Ore gonian claims the Secretary of the Interior so courage ously displayed his f orthrightness, devotes five pages in its August issue to a recent .speech given in the House by Representative Reuss of Wisconsin, from which the following are extracts, quote : "This week Albert M. Day, a veteran of 37 years in the . Department of the Interiour and seven years director of its Fish and Wild Life service is being fired by Secretary of the Interior McKay because he had the courage to stand up to the pressure groups which are trying to restore the evil practice of baiting water fowl. This splendid career public servant is being sacrificed because he refused to do the bid ding of the wealthy game-hogs who now caU the tune in the . department of the interior." And here is the conclusion of the Wisconsin Rep resentative, quote : ' If the President is interested in protecting wild life he is t making a tragic mistake in firing Mr. Day and retaining Secretary McKay. If he will study the record I think he will come to the conclusion that he should restore Mr. Day and fire McKay." Publisher Palmer Hoyt former editor of the Ore- Sunday, August 28, 195S surrender." eventual elimination of the Matter of Fact THE PRICE OF PARALYSIS Casablanca Either the French will somehow get rid of the built-in paralysis of their sys tem of government, or aU North Africa will go the way of Indochina. That is the main lesson of the tragedy which has been unfolding here. Consider what has hap p e n e d. Two years ago. a Stewart Alsop French m i 1 i tary clique, acting more or less independently of the govern ment, succeeded " in getting rid of Moroccan Sultan Sidi Mo hammed ben-Youssef, who had displayed a disquieting tendency to think for himself. Ben-Youssef was replaced as Sultan by an elderly, agreeable fellow called Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. Ben-Moulay Arafa's relation ship with the French is best conveyed by the famous story of the menu. Shortly after ben Moulay Arafa was installed as Sultan, Gen. Guillaume, then Resident-General, gave him an official luncheon. When the guests sat down, Guillaume po litely offered the menu for the Sultan's inspection. f Ben-Moulay Arafa immediately reached un der his robes for an official seal and stamped the menu. The conveniences of this sort of relationship are obvious. But it developed that there were dis advantages as well. The deposed ben-Youssef (act ually a rather worldly type) be came precisely what Morocco had hitherto lacked a sym bol of nationality acknowledged by all Moroccans. In short, the deposition of ben-Youssef was precisely what was required to make Moroccan nationalism the formidable force it has now be come. Ever since ben-Youssef was deposed, the situation has deter iorated steadily. Months ago, it became obvious that some thing had to be done, and in June, French Premier Edgar Faure sent Gilbert Grandval to Morocco as Resident-General. with instructions to work out a plan of action. Grandval is a briUiant and forceful man. He SDent several weeks sounding out all shades oi opinion including the views of the Nationalist leaders, who had been jailed or exiled by the previous regime. He soon con cluded that two policies were possible, . i ' . . , rjNE was a policy of absolute " ly ruthless and brutal repres sion. But this, he warned the French government, while it might work for awhile, wouM lead to another Indochinese sit uation in the end. The second alternative was a policy of com promising with the Nationalists, while safeguarding French in terests. Grandval advocated this choice. But for such a policy to suc ceed, he warned, tie thing must be done with decision and a cer tain dash. Ben-Youssef must immediately be brought back from his dusty boarding house in Madagascar to France and in stalled there in comfort and honor. Ben-Moulay Arafa must be replaced by a Regency Coun cil approved by ben-Youssef. And real, not fake, reforms, giv ing genuine power in internal af fairs to qualified Moroccan Na tionalists, must immediately thereafter be put into effect. Above all, Grandval warned, these things ' must be done be fore Aug. 20, the second anniver sary of the deposition of ben Youssef. Otherwise, there was gonian, now of the Denver Post, seconds the motion, as does the Sacramento Bee. DUT the quarrel we have witii the 'Oregonian at this "L particular time is the use of the word "forthright" which in our dictionary means, "straight forward, above-board and outspoken." That is precisely what our ex-Governor has not been. We believe the record will show Secretary McKay has never admitted he is "all out" for private power versus public power or he is against any effective con servation of natural resources, where private profit and exploitation can be realized, or that his remark after his appointment that "business had been put back in the saddle" meant that he agrees with his col leagues from Detroit, that what benefits General Mo tors benefits the country and G. M. in his opinion should come, first S HAS been so often.remarked in this department the man's sincerity or but the man's entire philosophy of government, his conception of public life and its obligations in a democracy, are. In other words we believe Secretary McKay hon estly believes in that well known . "trickle-down" theory, is a perfectly sincere advocate of the principle that the main job of this government is to see that Big Business prospers, and that once attained the General Welfare will be able to take care of itself. If he would admit this, or if he would not repeat edly, when charged deny it, the term "forthrighf would be deserved. ; But with the record what it is, the term isn't. R.W.R. Stewart Alsop isure to be. bloodshed, which would make further rational ne gotiation difficult or impossible Premier Faure agreed with Grandval indeed, he as much as said so to American Ambas sador Douglas Dillon. . But at precisely this point, the built-in paralysis of the French politi cal system began to operate. Powerful economic and politi cal interests here in Morocco threw their full weight against the Grandval plan. Equally pow erful military and polical lead ers in France, like Gen. Juin and former Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, brought great pressure to bear against the Lrranavai policy, mey were joined by members of Faure's own cabinet, like Defense Min ister Pierre Koenig and, to a lesser extent, Foreign Minister Pinay. The French political system is such that this opposi tion was enough absolutely to inhibit any decisive action at all, So transparent substitutes for real action were adopted. First, ben-Moulay Arafa was asked to form a "representative" govern ment, which everyone knew the unfortunate old man could not possibly do. Then the Nationalist leaders and other Moroccans were invited to Aix-les-Bains, to confer with French Cabinet lead ers an equally futile gesture, since the views of all concerned have been known for months. TlsEANWHILE. Aug. 20 has come and gone, and what Grandval foresaw has occurred. Although the responsible Moroc can Nationalists succeeded in preventing serious trouble in the big cities, where their authority is great, there was the most ter rible violence in the countryside, where they have little power. The result is already obvious. The extremists on both sides bid fair to take over. The respons ible and moderate Nationalists, like Bouabid and ben-Bar ka, are in serious danger of losing the leadership of the Nationalist movement to the most brutal ter rorists, and no doubt ultimately to the Communists. At the sama time, both here and in France, the hands of the French advo cates of drowning Moroccan na tionalism in a sea of blood have been greatly strengthened. In short, since Aug. 20, French North Africa has moved a long way toward becoming - another Indochina. Perhaps the situation may still be saved, but' no one here thinks it likely. And the pity of it is that decisive action by the French government only a few days ago would almost certainly have averted the dan ger. It might even ' have sta bilized the situation here for a generation. Obviously the par alysis which is built into the French political system is a cost ly luxury. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. 342,000 Students Expected in State Salem (U.R) An estimated 342,000 elementary and high schoolstudents will attend Ore gon schools this fall, Lawrence L. Marschat, director of research for the State Department of Education, said today. The figure is an increase of 4.5 per cent over last year's enrollment, which itself was up 4.9 per cent over the preceding year. Last year's total was 327, 800. - Marschat said most of the in crease was due to the highest number of births in the 1940s. Transfers from other states have decreased slightly. honesty are not questioned, In TKe Day's By FRANK JENKINS Weather news bad again! Edith, fifth of the Hurricane sisters, is building up strength about 550 miles northeast of Puerto Rico " the familiar stomping ground of the Hurri cane tribe. She is expected to continue on a west-northwest course at about 15 mph during the next 12 hours, with a gradual in crease in size and INTENSITY. TlfHAT-to-do-about - it depart- ment: Somebody back East suggests that an atom bomb be exploded inside hurricanes to BREAK THEM UP before they cause trouble. The weather bureau is cool to the idea. It says that in com parison with the power of a hur ricane an atom bomb is a mere firecracker. THAT is to say: Man still hasn't equalled nature in his powers of destruc tion. THE news seems to be running on the screwball side. A dairy specialist at the Uni versity of Idaho tells us that a strange (and presumably glam orous) heifer, when introduced into a dairy herd, can set off no end of production troubles. In fact, he says, a newcomer to the herd is the most frequent cause Today and By Walter THE "BLOODLESS REVOLUTION" When the outgoing president of the American Bar Association is cheered as he calls for a "bloodless rev olution" to . be led by lawyers to restore our "ancient liber ties," there is no doubt that the times have changed. We are in the early stages of a Walter Lippmann great popular reaction against the hysteria and the demagoguery, .the lawless ness and the cruel injustices which we call quite rightly the era of McCarthyism. There are underway, or projected, many investigations which are in ef fect reviews and reappraisals of what was done in the name of security and patriotism and anti- Communism to the ancient liber ties which Americans share with other free and civilized peoples. The great majority of the leaders of American opinion are no longer willing to stand for the theory that espionage, sabo tage and subversion can be dealt with only by ignoring the Consti tution, and by conniving at what is nakedly and simply lynch law, There are, however, a minority who hold that such is the danger of Communism and such is the threat to American security that no patriot should question the methods or the results of the anti - Communist investigations and prosecutions. They hold that nothing, not even the con stitutional guarantees, must in terfere with the detection, the exposure, and the punishment of those who may be security risks. And if in this process innocent men and women are tortured and ruined, these unfortunate in cidents not to be talked about too much in the work of sav ing the American republic. THESE zealots consider them selves the purest and highest patriots in the land. They are in the habit of insinuating that all who do not take them at their own valuation are in some meas ure suspect suspect perhaps of treason, perhaps of disloyalty, certainly of softness and blind ness. The zealots are due for a reappraisal, most particularly for their pretension that the law lessness which they incite and defend is necessary to the secur ity of the United States. Ever since McCarthy was rid ing high, it has been as plain as the nose on his face that he did more than' the whole Commu nist propaganda to turn the world against us, to deface the good name of America, to rum confidence in our leadership. His goings-on fed our enemies and silenced our friends. ' What was not so immediately and blatantly evident was that the application of lynch law to men suspected of being security risks threatened to become in itself a major cause of national insecurity. McCarthy carried the lawlessness he represented to its logical end when he charged the Democratic Party with 20 years of treason. That was an effort to divide the American nation implacably, and to create an issue within our people which pointed in the direction of civil war. At that extreme point, to be sure, the tide of American opin ion began to turn against Mc Carthy. But the zealots who still adhere to McCarthyism con tinue to advocate and justify law lessness. They continue to de mand and to praise the sub version , by Congressional com mittees and by private vigil antes of the guarantees of the News of PSYCHOLOGICAL UPROAR which can cause milk and but terf at production to drop as much as five per cent. He adds: "The intrusion creates excite ment, and this is marked by but ting, kicking and threatening until the new arrival is accept ed and a new " social order is established. The duration of the uproar depends on the pride and aggressiveness of the individual cows." rr. WHAT he says is'true, our agricultural colleges may have to set up a cow psychology de partment. AN ARIZONA farmer (John Jacobs of Phoenix) is back home after a tour of Russian agricultural areas. He says Rus sian agricultural methods aren't as bad as most of us had sup posed, but Soviet farm produc tion isn't anywhere near up to ours either in quality or quan tity. He adds: "Their system of farming end their planning apparently come from a central headquarters, probably in Moscow, and until they CREATE MORE INCEN TIVE FOR THE PEOPLE and allow more planning at the farm level it's going to be hard for them to step up their farm pro duction." , What he means is that in Tomorrow Lippmann Constitution. Were they to pre vail, which happily they will not, they would leave the innocent who are injured with no lawful redress. That is the way to dis order. For when a state sub verts its own laws, it opens the way to violence. 7':. PUNNING parallel with the reaction against McCarthy ism, there is under way a reex amination of security itself. Ont can distinguish four principal at tacks on our national security. The first is spying in order to obtain military secrets. The second is infiltration by secret agents for the purpose not only of spying but of influencing policy. The third is the organi zation of sabotage in case of war, The fourth is subversion by pro paganda and other means of con version in order to build up a revolutionary opposition. It is with the first of these- the spying out of secrets that informed opinion is changing. The Geneva Conference on Nu clear Energy has proved con clusively what scientists have long been saying that scientific secrets do not last long because what one scientist can discov er, others since they deal with the same natural world will discover too. It is also plainer than it was a few years ago that what you can hide temporarily from the Russians, you must hide also from your own scientific community. The net of it is that the preservation of scientific sec rets is not nearly so important as it once seemed because there are so few real scientific secrets, THE real secret, we have come to realize, is not what weap ons and devices the adversary possesses. It is what he intends to do with his weapons. - Our new "disarmament" policy is based on this new secret. It looks toward, making . public, making visible and unmyster- ious the purposes of the govern ments that command the military forces. The objective of the new policy , is not to" hide secrets but to bring about the disclosure of secrets. This will have, in fact is al ready beginning to have, a big effect here at home. Until re cently we have regarded the Iron Curtain as some of the perma- net furniture of the world, and we have felt compelled to guard our own secrets with our own homemade and improvised, ver sion of an iron curtain. Now, as it is our policy to induce and encourage the Soviet Union to roll up the Iron Curtain, we aref, rolling up our own iron curtain at home. We are not so wor ried about our secrets because we do not have so many secrets to worry about. ' - 1I7HY, we ask ourselves, has " there been this great change In the tide of American opin ion? Is it because McCarthy overplayed his hand and, hav ing attacked the Democrats, let fly also at the Republicans? Is is because the innate decency of our people was revolted by the cruelties and the injustices? No doubt. And yet the ultimate rea son for the change is, I believe, the enormous emotional relief which has come .since all the great powers have acknowledged publicly that there is no alterna tive to peace, that they cannot contemplate war. The pall of a terrifying and obsessive fear has been lifted, and men feel free again to care for those things, like their lib erties, which they have always cared for. Copyright. 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Russia the government RUNS EVERYTHING. LET'S put it this way: finnnnu .vnn livpri lmflpf a system in which everything you did was ordered by the gov ernment and run by the govern ment. Suppose you knew the govern ment was going to pungle up every time you went in the hole and was going to TAKE THE SURPLUS AWAY FROM YOU every time ygu did pretty weU Would you lie awake nights devising cheaper and more ef ficient ways to do the job? . I DOUBT it. - I'm nuite sure T wouldn't When I went in the hole, I'd just sit back and wait for the government to reach Into other people's pockets and take out the money to PULL ME OUT OF THE HOLE. If Mr. Jacobs' observations are accurate, that's what is happen ing in Russia. Communications Latter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot sen nam or initial for publication is permis rible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit aU letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Has Hope in Spit of McKay To the Editor It has been truly said that "the price of lib erty is constant vigilance. When President Theodore Roosevelt de clared' for conservation of our natural resources, seconded heartily by Secretary of the In terior Pinchot, we felt a sense of relaxation. We couldn't have been more mistaken, like young newlyweds saying their "I do," feeling so secure against any in terruption of their happy dreams. An elderly friend of mine, the watch-dog type, stopped by with a sheaf of documentary evidence that a trusted U. S. agency has turned predator. It told of a U. S. Chamber of Commerce secre tary in an address to the San Francisco Chamber of Com merce, that, the organization he represented was against the pol icies ot our Forestry Service, National Parks Service and any other agency proposing to bottle up our timber-lands, power sites, etc., that they, the U. S. Cham ber of Commerce were prepared to and are mailing out literature to school-teachers upholding this "new look." Is it any wonder that our sup posedly protector Secretary of the Interior McKay and others have been inveigled to help put some slippery skids under our strenuously won, Golden Age, that includes our almost lost Hell's Canyon power site? The Washington Water Power Co. thought they had the Grand Coulee site stymied when they got the smaller and easier KetUe Falls site, so -much so they went to the cheaply developed Lake Chelan with its miles of free sandy beaches, age old pines and shaded areas, turning it into a muddy bank power reservoir in spite of all the small bunch of us "crack-pot die-hards" could do. .'v '. Well, we have Senators Morse and Neuberger and others on the public-interest side. And when the New York Times and even staid old Oregonian indorses their valiant stand, there's still hope for our natural resources. F. J. Clifford, 1211 W. Main, Medford, Ore. Natural Route for Freeway To the Editor: Why has no mention been made in your pa per about the seemingly natural route for the proposed Freeway which is to relieve the heavy through traffic? Two routes have been exam ined, both of which are through the city which is supposed to be by-passed. The natural route mentioned is on the west side. Now there is still time to plan for the future. Twenty years from now when the rapidly growing city of Medford wiU have moved out that way. The East side is already so congested with new roads lined by new homes that it is consid ered the residential part of the city, which we all know is not the accustomed, nor welcome route for a Freeway. In planning for the future, the 200-foot wide Freeway, we un derstand, can be located in an approximately straight line from the new highway over Black well Hill bypassing Medford and J Ashland, and connecting with highway 99 over the Siskiyous. No matter where it goes it will cause contention: the point at issue is to look ahead, and NOT make a choice we would all be sorry for (as in portions of the Highway from Medford to Ash land). A. B. E. (name on file). NAME LEARNED Name of the occupants of the five-room house which burned to the ground on Sticky lane Thurs day night is Mr. and Mrs. W. J. HoweU, Central Point rural fire men reported. The name was first given as Matthews. .The couple is now staying with friends at 114 South B stT, Eagle Point. Howell reportedly is em ployed by Jim Henson, White City building contractor.