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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 26. 1946
(It was Tuesday)
Details of convention of West
ern Mining council in Jackson
ville being worked out by Flor
ence Hall, program chairman.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Almost ev
erybody these days is building a
house, looking for a house, try
ing to buy material for a house,
or endeavoring to sell a house.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 26, 1936
(It was Wednesday)
Final debates in Southern Ore
gon conference for Medford,
Ashland and Grants Pass high
schools held at Medford High
school.
Karl Janouch, supervisor of
Rogue River National forest, re
ceives inquiries on disposition of
wild horses in Little Applegate
area; roundup to be held soon.
80 YEARS AGO
Feb. 26, 1926
(It was Friday) ' - ?
Oregon governor announces
that state-owned lime ' plant at
Gold Hill may be moved to Sa
lem where prisoners may oper
ate it.
Three more entries bring to 10
the number listed for the
Charleston contest at the Natatc
rium Saturday night.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 26, 1916
(It was Saturday)
Mail Tribune publishes small
edition; high water closes paper
mills at Oregon City, delays pa
per shipment, and boxcar broke
down at Roseburg and held for
repairs.
From Local and Personal col
umn: County Assessor W. T.
Grieve, who has been attending
the assessors' convention at Sa
lem, has returned to his official
quarters at Jacksonville.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. Desegregation, says Adlai
E. Stevenson, should or should
n't be a big issue in the 1956
presidential campaign?
2. Burgess and Maclean are
a vaudeville team, Siamese
twins, authors of a popular nov
el, movie producers, or British
diplomats who fled to Russia?
3. Most labor unions make
their new wage demands in the
spring, summer, fall or winter?
4. Strife -torn Algeria has
about the same number of
French as Arabs, or many more
French, or many more Arabs?
5. Which member of the Eis
enhower cabinet has "Magoffin"
as his middle name?
6. More Americans have been
killed in traffic accidents since
' 1900 than in combat in all our
wars; right or wrong?
7. The southernmost tip of
South America is farther south
or north than the southernmost
tip of Africa, or on the same
latitude? . '
- The answers: 1. Shouldn't, he
says. 2. British diplomats who
fled to Russia. 3. Spring. 4.
Many more Arabs. 5. Treasury
Secretary George M. Humphrey.
6. Right. 7. Farther south.
Alaska has more than 7,000,
C00 acres of national parks in
cluding Mt. McKinley, highest on
the continent, .. . "
MAIL TRIBUNE
A Serious Situation
There is a United States of the North and a United
States of the South and never the twain shall meet
That is paraphrasing Kipling a bit, but it does
we fear represent a truth which is going to be more
and more clearly demonstrated as time goes on and
the school segregation problem with it
There are, of course, Southerners who understand
the North and Northerners
but they represent a decided minority the rank and
file just don t.
-
"IXHERE there is misunderstanding there is friction
" and the seeds of conflict
The seeds 'of conflict are present in the South
today. We don't mean secession or another Civil War,
but we do mean mob violence and bloodshed. The
trouble at the University of Alabama was only a
prelude.
THE trouble is theJNbrth fails to realize the South
is still fighting the Givil War, and never willingly
accepted its dictates. As a whole the Southerners,
consider the Negro question a state, not a federal
question, and believe that Uncle Sam has no more
right, moral or legal, to interfere with public school
rules and regulations in Mississippi or Alabama, than
they have to interfere with rights of free speech or
worship. ,
They are legally wrong of course. But that is their
fundamental and fixed conviction. And as Grover
Cleveland once remarked, "we face not a theory but
a condition."
THE people of the North
understand this attitude.
the law, the Constitution
Supreme Court the Supreme
who call themselves good citizens should obey both.
If they don't they are rebels and out-laws and should
be dealt with accordingly. .
This is apparently the
man of New York, in sharp contrast with the views
of the Governors of Alabama and Mississippi, and
this much is certain: unless these uncompromising
views are changed or the people of the North or South
or both refuse to accept them, then watch out
the most serious conflict between the North and the
South since the war between the states will result-
and it is hard to. see how bloodshed can be prevented.
OWEVER, we don't expect the views of Governor
Harriman' or those of
or the Advancement of Colored People" will prevail.
As the intensity and fixity of Southern sentiment
regarding the colored problem becomes clearer, we
feel confident cooler heads and wiser counsels will
prevail. . ,
Not that the Supreme Court will reverse its deci
sion, or that the effort to enforce it will be abandoned.
But as the Supreme Court advised, instead of trying
to force the. Solid South to adopt integration of all
schools, at once or else there will be some sort of
compromise reached which will allow states like
Mississippi and Alabama more time to cool passions
and tempers, reach some middle ground, and enjoy
a reasonable period of transition instead of calling
out the National Guard, with orders to shoot at once.
THIS won't satisfy the radicals on either side. But
some such course as we see it, is the only hope of
avoiding a national "cold war" and will therefore
eventually secure the support of the more enlightened
leaders, south of the Mason & Dixon line as well as
north. E.W.R. :
The Gas Bill Defense
We were not surprised to find that the "Oregon
National Gas and Oil Resources committee" of Port
land, did not applaud President Eisenhower's veto
of the Gas bill, or this paper's comments on same.
Naturally they wouldn't
But we were surprised to receive a communication
from that committee in protest, praising the measure
and denying, at least by implication, that the presi
dential veto on the grounds of suspected corruption
used to secure its passage was justified. .
THERE has been so much evidence already offered
and so much more promised that we would have
supposed the authors of the measure and its support
ers, would have been content to let well enough alone
and take their defeat in their stride and. in silence--f
or the present at least But not so..
As far as we can make out from the Portland
"protest" there is no admission of any irregularities,
real or . implied, and to claim the bill was passed
to increase the profits of the big oil and gas com
panies at the expense of the consumers, present arid
future, was to misrepresent the proposal, entirely.
Well let's see
To support this claim the Portland committee
refers to title bill as follows: ' ' ,' ' ' .
"I hope your readers will have an opportunity to- learn .
that the Harris Natural Gas bill devoted only one page to ,
the removal of direct utility type controls from sales ...
but devoted four and one-half pages to the provisions for '
establishing FPC regulations over the prices the interstate "
pipe line companies would be permitted to pay for natural
gas. and include as an operating expense." T.'""
Well there is their opportunity. So what?'
It seems rather heedless to observe . that one
paragraph of a bill of this type or any other could
make it a "bad bill", and contrary to the public inter
est much less a full page; and it might well take
more than a book on the same grounds to justify it
as a step forward in the public interest. -
The box score therefor of 4-and-one-half pages
to one is not very impressive. Not impressive ' at all,
in fact
THE important point to this paper and we believe
1 to a yast' majority of th peopliffas the item
Sunday, February 26, 1958
who understand the South,
'
.
(again as a whole) don't
They believe the law is
is the Constitution,-the
Court and all Americans
view of Governor Harri-
the National Association
Matter of Fact
THE OTHER GEORGE
COMMITTEE
Washington Senator Walter
George, whose foreign relations
committee is "now beginning its
sweeping i n
quiry into
what has gone
wrong with
American for
eign policy,
could do worse
than ask an
other George
to testify.
This other
Stewart Alsop Oreorge is lit.
Gen. Harold Lee George, retired,
an able aircraft company execu
tive who recently headed a top
level presidential committee.
The committee was assigned to
report to the President and the
National Security Council the
answers to the following ques
tions:
Can the Soviets, with their
new air-atomic power, knock out
the United States as a function-
social, and mil
itary organ
ism? And if
they can't,
how close can
they come to
doing so?
The commit
tee had a top
priority call
Joseph Alsop on the govern
ment's intelligence talent. Its re
port to the President and the
NSC is highly classified, as is
now customary in such cases, al
though it dealt only with Soviet
capabilities, and treated a sub
ject of basic national interest.
But in general the ariswer of
the General George Committee
can be summed up about as fol
lows: "Not yet, but quife soon.
And even now they can almost
certainly knock out the more ex
posed big cities, like New York."
npHE close connection between
the - work of the two George
committees must surely be obvi
ous. For one thing that, has gone
wrong with American foreign
policy is the simple fact that it
is based on a premise that is no
longer true that the United
States, and only the ? United
States, is capable of "massive re
taliation." -
Again and again, at the recent
20th Congress of the Soviet Com
munist Party, the Soviet oli
garchs repeated the same chill
ing theine. President Eisenhow
er's old friend Marshal Zhukov
for example, boasted of "mighty,
long range rockets," and warned
that the continental United
States would feel the force of
Soviet nuclear weapons in case
of world war. Such boasts, as we
sadly know, must be taken very
seriously. '
They may, to be sure, be a
little premature. Molotov boast
ed of the Soviet atomic bomb
more than a year before the So
viets had one, and Malenkov an
...1.1 .JM JIM. . I l
i'-' -
quoted from that ONE page namely exempting the
gas companies from "utility type of controls."
Why should the rates of other public utilities be
controlled, in the interest of a fair price to the con
sumer on one hand, and a fair profit to the producer
on the other, while giving the green light to the nat
ural gas producers to mak'e any rate charges they
might decide upon? ' ' -
This communication provides no satisfactory an
swer, and as far as our record goes there was none
made in either house of congress by the supporters
of the measure.
IF THIS legislation was
tVio -flnni rvfVio Somsare
profiteering" in the gas and oil business, then why
was the President of one Superior oil company in
California so willing t6 spend $2500 for a SINGLE
vote in favor of it? .
Presidents of oil comranies are not in the habit
of throwing packages of $100 bills around Senators'
offices, in Washington or at their homes, just for the
exercise. They always claim "no strings are attached"
of course, just a free-will offering to a deserving
public servant but who believes this : sort of
whang-doodle?
Perhaps the Oregon National Gas and Uil re
sources committee does, but we can think of no one
else. ' -
-
"IIELL, it is all pretty sordid and pretty silly this
"attempt to put over a "fast one" on the poor
defenseless consumer, and pretend it to be only in
the interest of a better and more extended public
service. -
If anyone so naive as to still doubt the real pur
pose of the proposal is hovering around, we would
suggest they; do. a-bit of researching on the Wall
Street 16 Action
There is one thing about Wall Street, it DOESN'T,
in spite of contrary reports play politics. It does with
out sentimentality or double talk follow the "profit
line" and never leaves it. Also it has the best re
search 'department in the country, not excluding
Washington; r : : . .. ;
So when this measure (so dedicated to the public
interest that over 4 pages were devoted to price con
trols) passed the Senate, gas and oil company stocks
rose around 4 to 6 points. When the measure was,
vetoed the same stocks fell back to normal, and as it
appeared certain there would be no passage over the
presidential veto, some of them are still declining.
If there is any reason for this, other than those
above indicated, and previously cited in this depart
ment, we would be glad to receive them, and if they
conform to police regulations would be glad to give
them space! . -
By Joe and Stewart Alsop
ticipated events by several weeks
when he boasted of the Soviet
hydrogen bomb. A lone intercon
tinental Bison bomber was flown
within easy camera range of the
Western air attaches in Moscow,
more than a year before the So
viets had the Bison in operation
al quantities.'
flBVIOUSLY the Soviets are as
u aware as Hitler was Of the
international uses of fear. Mar
shal Zhukovs "mighty long
range rockets," although they no
doubt exist in test form, are
probably not yet usable as weap
ons. But by the same token, they
soon will be.
Yet even the limited capabil
ity assumed by the General
George Committee transforms
the world situation, as the So
viets are well aware. A second
recurrent theme in all the Soviet
speeches was that, in effect, a
condition of . atomic stalemate
had been reached; and that, with
the American atomic ace trump
ed, it will be easy for the Com
munist bloc to1 trump progres
sively in the West's other and
lesser cards.
This trumping, of the lesser
cards is already well under way,
notably in the Middle East and
Asia, where the new Soviet pol
icy is radically different from
the policy of the Stalin era, and
infinitely more effective. Yet, on
both the defense and foreign pol
icy front, we continue to act as
though things are as they were.
A S FOR the Pentagon, it has
gone in for issuing re-assur
ing statements, and appointing
committees. The George Com
mittee is about the 10th assigned
to examine essentially the same
subject and the search is now
on for someone to head another
committee to do the same thing
all over again.
A second government cyme
has said that the government
now takes its cue -from Libby
Holman's old song, revised from
"Make Me Another Old Fash
ioned" to "Appoint Me Another
Committee." These special com
mittees always operate in an
aura ,of super-secrecy... But the
essential facts are clear to any
informed man, and so, in broad
terms, are the reactions they
logicaUy call for. -
They call for a "crash" pro
gram, to assure, at the very least,
that Sir Winston Churchill's
"peace of mutual terror" is truly
mutual; and for a basic revision
of American policy to meet the
new situation of atomic stale
mate. But to double B-52 produc
tion, for example, or devise an
effective policy to meet the new
Soviet economic challenge in
Asia and the Middle East would
be difficult and expensive. In an
election year, it is most unlikely
that it will be done.
(Copyright 1956, New Yprk
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
not, as was maintained on
a "nlnin fnsp nf snnftinninc
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
Being fond of the little com
munity of Jacksonville, we hope
it doesn't simply vanish into
the earth one of these rainy
days.
One irate resident informs us
that part of the intersection of
Third and Main sts., just a
block from the principal thor
oughfare, simply vanished Fri
day, dropping down into what
is presumed to be an old mine
shaft
She said the pit is a "huge
gaping hole, filled with what ap
pears to be fugutive materials
from a cesspool. It is several
feet down to the liquid, and
appears to continue cattywam
pus across the streets of Main
and Third." '
She's concerned, and with
jutification, about what would
happen if someone happened to
be walking or driving along,
and part of the city vanished. A
person could suddenly drop from
sight, she says. - ' ' '
Our . Jacksonville correspond
elsewhere in today's paper re
ports on a bed of tulips s which
has dropped down about four
feet, and still others teU of sec
tions of gardens or fields which
suddenly drop down while resi
ents have been driving horses
or garden machinery over them.
Probably, by this time, few if
any even among the "old timer-
ers' remember where the old
abandoned mine shafts run, and
it's hard to say what a solution
to the problem might be.
, But it is a problem.
About . three weeks ago.
Crater High school played two
basketball games against Ill
inois Valley High school. It
won both games. In both games
the score was 64 to 51.
The two schools played again
Friday night. Crater won. The
score was 64 to 51.
- . . .
Some motorists who drive be
tween Klamath FaUs and Med
ford via Crater Lake National
park, who are doing it just to get
from one place to another and
not to view the beauties of the
park, object to paying the $1
entrance fee.
But Park Superintendent Tom
Williams recently received a
letter from someone who not
only doesn't object, but insists
on paying. The letter contained
a one dollar bill and a note
which said he (or she) had pass
ed through the park at night
when the checking station was
closed and so was unable to pay
the entrance fee. The note was
unsigned.
A staff "member and his wife
came as close to a parting of
the ways as they have in a
long and happy married
life last week, when he waited
for her to pick him up after
work and she, thinking he'd
taken the car to work with
him, got more and more ir
ritated . wondering why , he
didn't come home.
ill Patton, the hardworking
manager of the Shakespearean
Festival, has a minion headaches
actors, actresses, flowers, stage
props, publicitiy, and so on, ad
infinitum. Also swans.
. Swans, which in prior years
have added an air of Elizabethan
England to Lithia park near the
Festival theater, are considered
to be a valuable adjunct to the
annual fiesta of the drama. Rec
ently, Patton was at his wit's
end about the swans, for one
of the pair had died, and the
other, Willie, had wandered
away. Patton issued , an impas
sioned plea for swans.
No one responded except
Willie, who came wandering
back. .
Bill would like another swan,
to keep Willie company so he
won't wander away again. He
thinks that even a reasonable ac
curate facsimile in the form of
a swan-decoy might help.
In the" mail last week we
received an invitation to the
- dedication of the new Univer
sity of Oregon Medical School
hospital, complete with a little
booklet telling about the new
hospital and including a cut-
- away verticle diagram of the
building. .' '
We were interested to note
that the quarters for the resi
dents and interns were located
just adjacent to the section
for occupational therap y
which seems .somehow, ap
priate. A reader of Potluck (there
ARE a few, we're happy to state)
tells about talking to an old In
dian on the Klamath Indian
reservation. The brave mention
ed that he was going to Klam
ath Falls to have an operation;
as most reservation Indians do
when they have something to be
fixed up.
Our reader enquired why they
should go to all that trouble
when there is a millon-dollar
hospital right on the reservation.
The Indian's comment: 'Mil
lion .dollar hospital, Woolworth
doctors.' .
Today and
By Walter
'CO-EXISTENCE'
From the speeches of the So
viet leaders at the Communist
Party Congress
last week one
can learn a lot
about what
they mean by
"competit i v e
co - existence."
They mean, as
I understand
them, that hav
ing first broken
the Western
monopoly o n
waiter lippmann nuclear weap
ons they have now broken also
the Western monopoly of eco
nomic leadership in the develop
ment' of under-developed coun
tries. They have become fully
"competitive," and they can no
longer be "contained" at the
frontiers of the Middle East,
South Asia, Africa, and it may
also be, Latin America. It is as
competitors that they mean to
"co-exist" with us, having noth
ing to gain by war, having every
thing to lose. .
To this recently achieved com
petitive power of .the Soviet
Union, the nations within their
reach are reacting by moving to
wards positions which are vari
ously described as "neutralist,"
as "nonaligned," or as "middle."
This means the progressive dis
solution of the ring of contain
ing states, which was put togeth
er by Mr. Acheson and following
him by Mr. Dulles, in the preced
ing phase of the cold war.
When observers speak, as I for
one do, of U. S. foreign policy
having become frozen, out of
touch with the changing reali
ties, I mean that we have as yet
failed to adapt our policy to meet
the new competitive power of
the Soviet Union.
TF WE comnare the vear 1947
with the year 1955, thinking
of the U.S.S.R. as a competitor
in the world, the difference is
striking. In 1947 we first launch
ed the idea of the Marshall Plan,
offering to discuss it with aU the
old allies, including the U.S.S.R.
Mr. Molotov attended the first
meeting in Paris and then walk
ed out of it, declaring that the
U.S.S.R. would have no part in
a scheme which was bound to be
dominated by the United States.
He acted on orders from Stalin
who, we may suppose, realized
that American economic power
would at that time have made
the Soviets look smaU and un
important. The result was that for several
years,' almost "eight, the Western
countries and particularly the
United States, were the sole sup
pliers of capital to the non-Con
munist nations. There was no
In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
What of the Mexico of the fu
ture? I wouldn't know. But I
think maybe I have a clue. The
clue is Manuel (pronounced
Man-oo-ELL.)
I'U teU you about him.
TN THE CITY of Tepic in the
A state of Jalisco, some 100
miles north of Guadalajara,
there is a motel with the musi
cal name of La Posada de la
Loma whichi roughly translat
ed,, means The Little Inn in the
Hills.
It IS a little inn. It has only
six units which in these flays
of heavy travel is a miniscule
establishment. Its roof is tiled
and its ceilings "are beamed. The
floors are tiled, as are nearly aU
floors in Mexico. On the walls
are Mexican pictures, painted
on tin, Mexican art is a little
on the crude side, but it is odd
ly soothing. . .
The taps above the wash basin
are marked C and F the C for
cahente and the F for frio. The
trouble is that the water that
comes from the C tap isn't cal-
iente at all and the F isn't very
frio. That goes also for the show
er. When you come out from un
der it your teeth are chattering,
but you re fUU of zip and zing.
ALONG the front there is a
galeria, with a tile floor
and chairs and tables, where
you sit and sip whatever you
may have brought along . with
you in the way of antidote
against tarantula bite for. there
is no cantina. In the little patio
bougainville glows like a flame.
There is a pleasant little res-
taurante, where tasty ,. Spanish
food is served.
IT DEVELOPS that the keeper
of the motel who, it turns
out later, is a pinch-hitter
speaks no English at aU. My
scanty store of Spanish doesn't
contain the word for vacancy.
Then
Just as the situation is ap
proaching an impasse , -
Manuel appears, and shortly
thereafter the situation is as ful
ly under control as if the Mar
ines had landed and taken over
the beach.
MANUEL stands maybe a
slim four feet in his huar-
aches, but he has bounce. In
practically no time at all, he
made it plain that there was a
vacancy and not only tnat but
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where else that these countries
could turn.
DY 1955, that is by last year,
the Western monopoly of the
capital market was broken by
the Soviet Union. No doubt, the
Soviet Union has not yet made
capital contributions on anything
like the scale of our Own. The
crux of the matter is, however,
that the Soviet Union has be
come a competitor, and that,
though suspect in many quar
ters, the Soviet Union is never
theless being welcomed. Egypt
in the affair of the Aswan dam '
has shown what this competition
can do. We are going to finance
the Aswan dam, which we would
nave been very slow indeed about
financing if we had not been
prodded by the fear that the So
viet Union would steD in and
finance it.
Under these competitive con
ditions, it is becoming incieas-
ingly impossible for the United
States to get in return for its
economic aid military agree
ments, political pledges, or even
the acceptance of our economic
and finanial terms. The new sit
uation is one that cannot be met
simply by appropriating a lot of -new
money for foreign aid. It
demands a radical re-examination,
a deep re-thinking, of all
our current conceptions of for
eign aid.
TN THE year 1947, we may also
remind ourselves, the United
States had a monopoly of nu
clear weapons. This meant that
the doctrine of massive deter
rence worked only one way: it
pinned down the Red army and
the armistice lines of 1945, and
it was safe to encircle the Soviet
Union with bomber bases.
Now, the Soviet Union has nu
clear weapons and the means of
delivering them against the
bomber bases. That is the under
lying reason why a tide of mili
tary neutralism has set in
throughout the whole vast semi
circle from Japan to Scandina
via. At the party congress last
week, the speakers aU declared
that their competition would be
peaceable. But Marshal Zhukov
was given the task of reminding
the countries where there are
bases that they are .within the '
reach of the Soviet air force.
This new military situation,
which the development of mis
siles will aggravate, demands a
far-reaching re-examination of
the . Western strategy. For the
strategic conceptions of the West
belong to a period of the' cold;
war which is very near to being
over.
(Copyright 1956, New York
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a -vacancy that existed for the
purpose of becoming an occu
pancy. - '
Then he hustled in the bag
gage, and when that was over
he dashed out to look the Amer
icano car over. His eyes shone.
, "Buick," he murmured admir
ingly. '
Then he patted it as one
would pat a beautiful, blooded
steed.
"And only 1955, he breathed.
He knew the purpose of every
gadget, how to open the doors,
how to lock them, and so on. It
was plain that Manuel, aeed
maybe 12, was looking forward
to the time when he too would
own and drive a shiny car re
gardless of Mexico's presently
more or less feudalistic econom-.
ic system.
LATER, when he came around
uua iur uie suue
shine that is inevitable in Mexi
co, I queried him as to the iden
tity of the man at the motel
desk. "Oh," he replied in a cas
ual tone: "He mv fran' ."
I said to him: "You sneak nret.
ty good English. How come?".
He shrugged his slender shoul
ders. "I have, what you call, tu
tor," he answered, at came out
later that his tutor is his moth
er, who teaches in the . Tepie
schools.) '
Asked as to the nriro nf the
shine, he shrugged again. "What
you wish," he renlied in a meek
tone. I gave him the customary
peso (eight cents.) He looked at
thj worn shinplaster thoughtful
ly and murmured "muchas gra-
cias." It was obvious that Man-
uel knew quite well that in the
U.S.A. the going orice for a
shine is 25 cents and that hp WAS
looking forward to the time
when he too would charge an
American Quarter and eet awav
with it so that he might much
sooner have a shiny car of his
own.
MEXICO is stUl feudalistic in
if d prnnnmv Tf Viae cm-ill
class at the top that gets the
bulk of the cream that comes off
the milk. It has a "very large
class at the bottom that gets the
skim milk and not top much of
that. But it has a growing niid
dle class.
And it has a LOT of Manuels,
who will be the coming genera
tion. I have an idea that when
these Manuels all grow up there
will be GREAT changes in Mex
ico's present system. -