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FOUH MEDFORD (OREGON) Mebfo: jTEIBUNE "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor . HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Manager SKiC A 1 ,1 ,r.2i JK, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. CitT Editor - HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor . LIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ev Mail In Advance: Per Cony 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3JS0 Sundav Onlv One year $320. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville, Gold Mill, fnoerux. Shady Cove, Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 125 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. 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PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 23. 1946 ' (It was Saturday) Oregon Governor Earl Snell announces candidacy for re election for Republican nomina tion in primary. - From Arthur Ferry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Many of the fair sex are wearing cowboy duds, and are home on the range, and everyplace else but home. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 23, 1936 (It. was Sunday) Gusty winds rip down signs, fells trees and power line poles in Rogue valley. , '- Jackson county agricultural conference votes in favor of dam on Lake creek near the Hanley ranch as aid to farming. 80 YEARS AGO Feb. 23, 1926 New 10-cent air mail stamps received by local post office for use on east-west mail routes. From Local and Personal column: Four tramps, given shel ter in the city jail last night, were promptly hustled out of the city today by the chief of police as suspicious characters. Each one was not blessed with a red penny, it is understood. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 23, 1916 The Medford Choral society organized: J. Vilas Beckwith elected president. About 1,000 children and 80 automobiles participate in child' ren's Washington birthday parade. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. The Constitution does or doesn't specify how, if a Presi dent is unable to fulfill his du ties, his inabiilty shall be deter mined? 2. The Israel-Arab war of 1948- 49 was generally considered as Israel or an Arab victory on the whole, or a stand-off? 3.. Gov. Herter (R.) of Massa chusetts says he will or won't run for another term as gover nor, or hasn't yet decided? 4. Johns Hopkins hospital is in Boston, Baltimore, a suburb of Washington, Rochester, Minn., or Los Angeles? 5. Was there ever a time when members of Congress were paid per diem of attendance instead of on a yearly basis? 6. As result of the "package deal" with Russia several months ago, Japan is or isn't now a member of U.N.? 7. Did any President of this century wear a beard? The Answers: 1. Doesn't speci fy. 2. Israel victory on the whole. 3. Says he won't. 4. Baltimore. 5. Yes, in early days of U.S. 6. Isn't. 7. No. Portland Streetcarmen Discuss Wage Agreement Portland (U.R) Streetcar men's union members and Rose City Transit Company officials scheduled another meeting to morrow to discuss a two-year wage agreement. .The union seeks at least 20 cents an hour spread over two years while the company says it could offer no more than 10 cents. Discussion centers around an April 1 start ing date. MAIL TRIBUNE The Red Tide There is no point in kidding ourselves. There was a time when the tide favored we democracies, but as of now that tide has turned the other way. The case of Greece is only the most recent example. France is another. Any impartial survey of the world would show tne same trend m East and in Asia. - As a result the prestige of the United States politically has been steadily declining of late, while the prestige of Soviet Russia' has been on the climb. : THIS BEING a presidential year, it will be a temp- tntinn tri hlnmp the Refnihlipan nartv fnr this un fortunate situation. - But as far as this department is concerned we doubt that is the answer. retary Dulles no doubt he upon but the cause of this it, goes deeper than any individual, or party. It is part of a world-wide revolution for nation al and racial independence, This takes the form of status quo, a demand for TT IS PROPER and correct to brand Soviet Russia as the greatest danger to national independence and the greatest threat to nationalism in the world today, but as was demonstrated in Greece and is so apparent m India, it is difficult to put this idea over, effectively, and to counteract the widespread belief among the masses abroad for an overthrow of the national independence and better society for the rank As is true m so many is right will win out in the end. But the process is often a slow one and the danger in free countries is that too many will become discouraged and want to quit. The isolationists in the congress are hoping that this point will soon be reached. A resolution has already been introduced that would cut off all eco nomic aid to foreign lands. Any such action would merely hasten the process of democratic deterioration, and make progress on the "come back trail" the more difficult and costly. The three great needs are evident: fortitude, pa tience and persistence. It is to be hoped that which ever party wins in' November these qualities will not be absent. We don't believe they will be. R.W.R. "While Rome Burns Probably anyone who and declared it a shame we could not do things the way they do them in Russia would be "shot at sun rise." ' . ' ... ; - Yet lie would express the sentiments of some true mends Of the national good roads program. For they have no party no presidential elections placing what they think will bring them votes above what they know or should know is best for their country. IF THE trio in the Kremlin ' roads is a "crying need" their slave labor and build , But in this country, while both major parties agree a national good road system of some 40,000 miles IS a crying need, they have been fighting over the de tails especially financial, for many months and prom ise to continue for many months more. In fact, it. will greatly surprise no one if is beaten by default, or at least delayed until after the election. - - Not only are the politicians fighting but the truck drivers, lobby is fighting the automobile lobby the latter say the former are getting the better of the pay- as-you-go-system, and the latter claim they are only asking for their rights. Neither of them like the BQggs 1 11 1. i il n ' t i. Din Decause it increases tne IF THE auto and truck who should? The pedestrians? .., As we see it, the expense of such a system of good roads should be borne by the motor: vehicles that use them cars or trucks because they are the ones who will benefit most by such construction, and they are the ones responsible for the crying need of such an expense. v " We can think of no fairer tax than a tax on the automobile and , truck owners especially the latter lor tne construction of an up-to-date and comprehen sive national highway system. - 7 Such a system will mean added profits to each and every one of them and incidentally it should mean fewer accidents and a consequent reduction in motor traffic casualties. But as things are now going in congress there seems little chance of any agreement on this bill or many others the members of both parties are too busy gathering material to make votes either for themselves, their party or both. R.W.R. Editorial Comment TESTIMONIAL A proposal for county zoning will face voters of Marion Coun ty (Salem) next May. Twice be fore voters in Oregon's third most populous county turned the measure down, by a con siderable margin the first time and by a narrower vote in 1954. We have had county zoning here since 1948, when it was voted in over the opposition of those who feared letting their elected officials restrict the uses to which a man could put his own land. Philosophically the opponents of county zoning were on rmddie-good ground.- Thursday, February 23, 1958 western burope, tne Middle We hold no brief for Sec could easily be improved turn in the tide, as we see and against imperialism. an uprising against the a new deal. that Soviet Russia stands status -quo, the advance .of the birth of a new and and file. ' cases what is true and what 99 rose in the halls of congress politicians in Russia, and with aforesaid ' politicians decide a system of good they proceed to call out it. the proposed rpad program cost ot gas, on and tires, owners refuse to pay their But practically they didn't have a leg to stand on. Now, as we near the end of our eighth year of. living with a county zoning law, we sug gest that it has been an over whelming success. Perhaps it has been all that has saved us in a decade that saw our sub urban fringe areas mushroom ing in size. If Marion . county voters want to see how county zoning works in practice, we invite . theni to look at Lane County. What they see will lead them to institute zoning in their own county. Eugene Register Guard. v - Today and , By Walter A REVEALING BLUNDER The affair of the Saudi Ara bian tanks is a ludicrous but damaging example of what can happen in a big and complicat ed government when it is not clearly led and firmly admin istered from the top. For months, this govern ment has been faced with the dangerous Walter lippmann problem ;of arms shipments to the Middle East. On this subject there has recently been a conference at the highest level between the President and the British Prime Minister. There have been many pronouncements about arms for the Middle East.' How then could it happen that the State Department had for gotten about its own approval of the sale of the Saudi Arabian tanks, that the Defense depart ment, was operating . without realizing what a mess the ship ment of these arms would now cause, once the facts became known? HTHE reason for this incident must be that there is no high policy for the Middle East which comes from the top and is ad ministered all the way down the line from the policy-making of ficials to the operating officials. The President has not, of course, been truly in command, certainly not . since his illness, in fact not really since he went to Denver last August. Yet it is only the President who can ef fectively coordinate two great departments like State and De fense. He can coordinate them only if at cabinet meetings and elsewhere he makes the heads of these departments. understand clearly what the policy is. It is only too obvious that nothing of the sort has happened during the past sixth months, or could have happened. rpHE lack of a high command has been aggravated by the way Mr. Dulles conceives the of fice of Secretary of State. He thinks of himself as a roving ne- gotiator, who represents : the ncn thority fairs. . - He works out high problems by personal negotiation, and then leaves the policies to be ad ministered and operated in his absence by officials who do not know at first hand what they are. Mr. Dulles is not in Wash ington long enough or continu ously enough to command the operations of his department. The effect, as the Saudi Arabian tanks illustrate, is to leave the immediate business of the gov ernment to be-operated by bu reau chieftains on their own no tions without overhead direction from the top. The administrative confusion is not the only, or .indeed the most serious, consequence of the way our affairs have been con ducted during the past six months. There has been nobody at the top whose business it has been, or who was able, to face up to .the new Soviet challenge which lias confronted us since the first Geneva meeting. The President has been too ill to deal with it, and Mr. Dulles has been too preoccupied with his travels, his negotiations, and his speeches. In these past six months we have suffered the big gest and most serious setback since the Communist victory in China. The fundamental cause of the setback is that the Soviet Union has been developing a new for eign policy since Geneva, where as we have remained frozen and inflexible in the policy of the pre-Geneva period. That is why there is scarecly a country from France and Italy and Germany and Greece to India and beyond where the pro-Western and pro American parties and politicians are not in trouble. With nobody at the top in Washington . who can and will take new decisions, pur diplom acy is almost everywhere fight ing unattractive rear guard ac tions. TT WOULD be interesting to know who in the high places where decisions can be taken has been putting his ' mind on the speeches delivered last week at the Communist Party Con gress in Moscow. They are very long speeches. But they are exceedingly., im portant. Their common theme is that within the Communist world they have an industrial system which is, in terms of na tional power, not only in arms but also in the means of capital development, already reaching equality with the West. The So viet leaders have been declaring that the rate of economic growth in the Soviet Union surpasses that of all countries, and that, therefore, they will become a more and more formidable com-! petitor in the economic and po litical markets of the world. I do not know whether all the statistics that were put out last week are correct. But the world I jBBm I will - not doubt the great fact Tomorrow Lippmann that the Soviet Union is now the strongest power in Eurasia. It is this economic fact which ac counts for the extraordinary tone of confidence that pervaded aU the speeches made in Moscow last week. It also explains the ideological and political declara tions about how Khrushchev and his people expect to win the cold war without revolutionary vio lence. They believe that in the competition with us for influ ence in the uncommitted coun tries, they can make more, at tractive offers than we are like ly to make. "PVEN if they cannot offer as much economic aid as we could, they will be able to offer more than Congress will allow us to offef. Moreover, whatever they offer, they can offer on terms which are politically more attractive than the terms which Congress insists that we should impose. .... ; They are in a stronger bar gaining position in the uncom mitted nations. For 'they do not ask, they do not need to ask, for military pacts or their equiva lent. They are able to identify themselves with the popular longing to remain unentangled. "What is more, in the underde veloped countries, which are by definition without capital re sources, the governments must necessarily play the principal role in capital formation. ' This suits the socialist ideology of he Russians. It runs at cross purposes with our own anti-socialist ideology. ." THE new. challenge of the So viet Union is very formidable indeed. If we are to meet' it, we shall have to reverse ourselves on a number of things which are strongly believed in here. We shall have to be willing to ex port capital on a considerable scale. We shall have to be win ing to do that without insisting on military terms, without pen alizing political neutrality, and without expecting the underde veloped but old and crowded countries to adopt all the princi ples of the American free enter prise system. " We shalf, in other words, have to be willing to contribute capi tal to countries, which, as ..neu trals and as socialists, will be un like the United States. The alternative, I believe, is to go on losing bur influence in the uncommitted world. Copyright 1956, ; New York Herald Tribune, .Inc. Larger World Role For Italy il Aim Of New PreSiednt By CHARLES M. McCANN ; United Press Correspondent President Giovanni Gronchi of Italy seems to believe that his country should play a much big ger part in western allied affairs. Gronchi is to arrive in Wash ington Monday for a state visit to Presi dent Eis e n h o w e r and Secretary of State John Charles McCann Osier JJUlies. Dispatches from Rome indi cate he will do some frank talk ing about American foreign pol icy and about Italy's importance. Gronchi's view apparently is that Italy, which before World War II was a top-ranking power, has been shunted to a diplomatic sidetrack. NATO Critic - It is reported he wul have some criticism to make regarding the present set up of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, of which Italy is a member, and re garding American foreign policy in general. . . ' Normally, any such talk would be made by Italy's Premier, An tonio Segni. . But since Gronchi was elected President last April 29 for a seven-year term, things have changed in Italy. Italy's two preceding post-war Presidents, like the President of France, were figureheads. Their role was largely ceremonial. Policy Spokesman Gronchi no sooner had been inaugurated than he started to make himself a spokesman of Italian policy, domestic and for eign. He caused considerable anxi ety in the United States and other aUied countries, for one thing, by calling for an opening i to the left." This . was immediately inter preted as implying that he thought the Communists and their . fellow-travelling left wing Socialists, ought to be permitted to play an active role in the gov ernment.. What he really aimed at, it appears now, was to change the policies of 'the dominant Chris tian, Democratic party, which he helped to found, so that it would attract voters from leftist lures. Matter of Fact by THE SELF-CONFIDENT SOVIETS . Washington The Soviet rul ers are now genuinely and abso lutely confident of their posi- ton. Internal ly, they are sure there is no shadow of of a threat to their regime. Externa 1 ly, they are sure . that the "tide of history is now flOW- Josepb Aisop ing ever more rapidly in the direction of the world hegemony they- seek. Observers on the spot, like Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, and Soviet experts in this coun- f try, agree that this remark able self-confidence was the real hallmark of the 20th 'c o n g ress of the Soviet party which has just Stewart Aisop taken place in Moscow. The self-asurance of the Soviet leaders took two forms. "" On the other hand, there was the brisk, authoritative way in which Communist party boss Ni kita Khrushchev and those who followed him on the speaker's stand rewrote basic Communist doctrine. Khrushchev sharply de nounced Josef Stalin by implica tion, and Deputy Premier Anas tas Mikoyan even denounced him by name, for one-man rule and for doctrinal deviations. -, T7"HRUSHCHEV, moreover, took " it upon himself to correct two basic Leninist theories that war .between the Capitalist and Communist states was inev itable, and that' Communism could only triumph through bloodshed and revolution. These theories were valid enough in Lenin's day, Khrushchev said air ily, but they were no longer true today. - "My God," one student of So viet matters remarked, "they've not only kicked Stalin in the shins, they've gone further, and patted Lenin, on the head." Really amazing self-confidence is required for this sort of thing, . in a society where a charge of ideological deviation ism is used like a dagger in the back. Khrushchev and the lesser lights who followed him could not possibly have gone so far, unless they were genuinely un afraid of any internal. challegne to their power. fYN THE OTHER hand, the So- viet rulers were similarly self-assured about any external threat to the regime. Mikoyan struck the correct note when he boasted, almost in the same breath, "of active, flexible for eign policy . . . restrained, calm in tone, without sharp words," and of the Soviet ability to de liver nuclear weapons-"to any point on earth by aircraft or rockets." This combination of sweet reason and not-so-sweet remind ers of Soviet military power is now solidly established as the Soviet foreign policy line. And each speaker in turn hailed the results of this two-edged policy, not only with confidence, but with downright complacency. If you try to see the world EASY PARKING RICKEY'S Wholesale and Retail (Formerly Valley 1245 SOUTH RIVERSIDE Where Parking Is No Problem Just Drive In As Long As You Wishl O Z a. - RIB OR SIRLOIN STEAK ROUND O z T-BOfJES CHUCK ROAST RUMP ROAST'S.) EASY PARKING Joe and Stewart Aisop through the eyes of the Soviet rulers, the complacency becom es' entirely understandable. When Khrushchev and the oth er Soviet rulers were young men, hacking and clawing their way up the Soviet bureaucratic ladder, the Soviet Union was a b e 1 e a guered and backward country. Its heavy industry was pitifully inadequate for a major power. It had not an ally in the world, and it was surrounded on aU sides by powerful poten tial enemies. . TUHEN THE war ended ten ' years ago, the total ruthjess ness of Stalin had given the So viet Union an important indus trial base. But the country was devastated, Russia had no allies but the unwilling satellies, aU Asia was still oriented towards the West, and the United States had an absolute monopoly of at omic weapons and long range air power. Even three years ago, when Stalin died, the United States was stUl supreme in air-atomic power. The western foreign pol icy experts devoutly believed, moreover, that Stalin's death would result, to use Khrushchev's j words, in "confusion in the par ty's ranks, discord among . its leadership, hesitation in carry ing out its internal and foreign policy." . "V"OW, as Khrushchev and his colleagues look about them, they can be pardoned for self congratulation. Their home po litical base is whoUy secure. They have in China a depend able and increasingly powerful ally. .All Asia is leaning their way, as Faul Hoffman has just sadly warned, so that there is now solid basis for Khrushchev's boast that the "majority of the population of our planet" is on his side. As Trevor Gardner has also warned, there is not the slightest doubt that the Soviets are now threatening to surpass us, not only in missiles, but in the whole . area of air-atomic power. ' Finally, the Soviet Union "is now most seriously chaUenging the supposedly unchaUengeable industrial might of the United StcttGS All in all, it is not difficult to IsgU"' B GIVE A LOOK - at Some of These Meat Prices Out of TOP GRADE Commercial BEEF for Friday and Saturday! STEAK (Well trimmed) ..... (Center cut) Communications ; Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ol a nen name or initial for publication U Dermis jible The Mail Tribune reserves" the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for oublica tion must not exceed O0 words Thanks From Guard To the Editor: I wish to thank you for your cooperation during our recent recruiting drive. A large part of our success was due to the whole-hearted efforts extended by such public spirit ed persons as yourself. The final results are not de termined as vyet since we are still getting men contacted dur ing the drive. For your infor mation, however, . this battalion had a net increase of strength of 100 men for the period 1 Jan uary 1956 through 17 January 1956. This increase represents one-third of our original strength and about 50 per cent more than our expectations bas ed on previous recruiting ex perience. Your efforts on our behalf are deeply appreciated. Francis C. Ayres, Lt. Col., Arty, OreNG, Commanding, 732nd AAA Bn. Ashland, Ore. 300 East Germans Said Escaping Each Day Portland (U.R) Gunther Kempff , German consul-general in San Francisco, said yesterday about 300 Germans a day are es-' caping from Communist East Germany to West Germany. He said about 1,000,000 Ger mans have crossed the Iron Cur tain in the past five years. Kempff was here to speak to a Portland State " institute on German affairs.. understand the reasons for the public show of self-assurance which Khrushchev and his fellow oligarchs" have just" staged in Moscow. It is more difficult to understand the public show of complacency which still emanat es from Washington. Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at Monday, other days 5:30 previous day. noon Saturday: 10 ajn. Monday for "Police Escorts" Medford is more fortunate than' many com munities in having a police department that provides traffic escorts for funeral processions, without charge! ; We, as funeral directors, are ( especially grateful to those officers who, as' a public service, aid us. in looking after the welfare of those we serve. CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS EASY PARKING SS&ET Fish Market) PHONE 3-1221 Our Lot and Stay LB. LB. LB. 59' EASY PARKING ft i
