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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
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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
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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.
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service, aid us. in looking after the welfare
of those we serve.
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