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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Mar 24, I94S
at was Friday)
Valley residents today found
themselves with limited postal
service, no Railway Express ser
vice and faced with dwindling
supplies of food and petroleum
products because of railway
strike.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The recent
rain was worth $1,000,000, and
made most of the visiting Odd
Fellows feel at home.
20 YEARS AGO
Mar 24, 193S ,
(It was Sunday) ,
Xavier Widmer and Frank L.
Applegate of this city will be
delegates to the 26th annual
convention of the Knights of Co
lumbus at Klamath Falls, May
24-25.
Mrs. J. D. Rickert was elect
ed warden of the Rebekah as
sembly at its annual state con
vention in Roseburg Friday.
30 YEARS AGO
Mar 24, 1926
(It was Monday)
Another summer round ,- up
clinic, the third in the series,
held at First Baptist church.
Next week the Craters will
launch their campaign for new
members of the Medford Cham
ber of Commerce, under the su
pervision of A. L. Hill and Pres
ident Gaddis.
40 YEARS AGO
May 24, 1916
(It was Wednesday)
Bishop C. W. Nibley of the
Mormon church has resigned as
president of the Utah-Oregon
Suger company.
Graduation exercises of the
Sacred Heart hospital will take
place Thursday.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1935. Editorial Research Report
1. Which one of the following
federal judges is not on the Su
preme Court: Black, Burton,
Clark, Douglas, Frankfurter,
Harlan, Minton, Parker, Reed,
Warren?
2. The United States is or isn't
a party to the Baghdad pact?
3. Mendelssohn's "Wedding
March" was composed as inci
dental music for a Rhine river
festival, a play of Shakespeare,
ox a parade of German clowns?
4. The British parliament is
in session longer each year than
the U.S. congress; right or
wrong?
5. Foreign-trained doctors tak
ing exams in 1956 to practice in
the U.S. will number one-third
the year's total of American me
dical school graduates; right or
wrong?
6. More people live in the me
tropolitan area of London, New
York, or Tokyo? '
7. A fifth of whiskey contains
(a) 16, (b) 25.6, (c) 32, or (d) 128
fluid ounces?
The answers: 1. John J. Park
er of North Carolina, chief judge
of 4th circuit U. S. Court of Ap
peals. 2. Isn't. 3. For Shakes
peare's "A Midsummer Night's
Dream." 4. Wrong. 5. Right
(estimate by chairman of N. Y.
State licenses committee of
Board of Regents). 6. New York
(12.3 million against London! 8.3
and Tokyo's 7.7 million). 7. 2S.6
fluid ounces.
MAIL TRIBUNE
How About Campaigning?
Just how valuable are campaign speeches? By
"valuable" we mean how many votes do they change
or make?
In the recent primary ex-Secretary of the Interior
McKay conducted what is generally known as a "vig
orous" campaign.
His primary opponent, Phil Hitchcock, did the
same though not as vigorously.
But neither of them attacked the other. Both con
centrated on Senator Wayne Morse, candidate in an
other primary and another party.
VET SENATOR MORSE received more votes than
either of them and nearly as many as both com
bined. It is difficult to believe had they left Senator
Morse alone, his total would have been materially in
creased though of course it might be.
On the other hand, had the two GOP aspirants at
tacked each other, particularly if Hitchcock had at
tacked the record of ex-Governor McKay as head of
the Department of Interior, how would their race
have come out?
As it was, McKay's majority was less than 25,000,
in a contest where over 240,000 votes were cast, and
it was an "Alphonse Gaston" affair from the very
first.
Even more important perhaps, the sole victim of
their campaigning, Oregon's senior senator, did not
campaign at all ! He put up no defense. -
What does that add up to?
e
ILIAD WAYNE MORSE left his job in Washington
" and campaigned for himself and against McKay
in the primary as McKay did against him, what would
have been the result?
One can only guess.
But if campaign speeches are half as important as
most of the political experts maintain, Hitchcock
might well have been the victor and Morse might have
passed the 250,000 mark in his total vote. No one can
be sure. But it is an interesting conjecture.
A NORTHERN contemporary R epublican of
course ! shares our skepticism regarding the ac
tual vote-making value of campaign oratory.
Noting that Lew Wallace defeated Bob Holmes in
Jackson County and came close to nosing him out for
the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in the state
this paper concludes somewhat facetiously as follows :
"The way to win an election in Oregon apparently is
not to wage a campaign but to have a heart attack, withdraw
from the conflict, and wage no campaign whatever. Look
what a "heart-attack did for Ike."
e e a e e v
"THERE IS another side to this particular coin, how-
ever. Had Wallace's opponent Bob Holmes, done
some active campaigning himself gone out over the
state instead of staying at home, not to ask for votes
but to get acquainted with the people of the state
and explain that while he was unopposed in the May
18th election he would have acting Governor Elmo
Smith to meet in November, and hoped they would
keep him in mind or something to the effect the
result, we feel certain, would have been very differ
ent.
IN OTHER WORDS, if a candidate for public office
io Yir.f TmrtiTm nnrei'efniif on A tm"1 rr era A .om
paigning is imperative, if he wishes to get anywhere.
That does not mean he must necessarily rant and rave
and call his opponent an "unadulterated liar" at every
whistle-stop, but it DOES mean he must get acquaint
ed, make his name and face familiar to the electorate
instead of remaining a portion of the political "terra
incognito."
FINALLY, the actual value of political campaigning
should receive an excellent test here.in Oregon in
the final weeks of the present campaign. -
We have in mind, of course, the contest for the
US Senate between Senator Morse (incumbent) and
ex-Secretary of the Interior McKay, aspirant.
Both men are well known, have been in the service
of their state for over a decade, and both are fighters.
Apparently Secretary McKay will not accept any
challenge for open debate, it is rather doubtful, in
fact, that he will call Oregon's senior Senator an "un
adulterated liar" at "least as often as he did in the
primary.
But one thing for sure there will be no quarter
asked or given on either side. There will be no punch
es pulled. And if we are not greatly mistaken the vot
ers of the state will have a good idea of the records
of both men, what they favor and what they oppose
when they go to their respective polling places on the
coming 6th of November.
VND that is as it should be. Let's have the FACTS.
Let's have less name-calling, and more informa
tionthe TRUTH.
Just where do these two men stand, regarding is
sues important to the people of this state and to the
national welfare?
In this particular case the value of political cam
paigning its necessity in fact so the voters may
know exactly what they are voting for and against,
calls for no further argument It is a MUST, both
from the standpoint of the candidate and the public.
R.W.R.
President of OSC Salutes Pear Industry
Portland (U.R) Dr. A. L.
Strand, president of Oregon
State College, last night saluted
the pear industry for recogniz
ing the "five elements of sur
vival." Dr. Strand spoke last night
at the silver anniversary of the
Oregon - Washington - California
pear bureau here.
Thursday, Mr tt. 1936
He listed the five elements as:
Good product, establishment of
a department of research and
development, capable manage
ment, loyalty of every member
and persistence to keep eyes on
the objective and stay with it
when the going gets rough.
The bureau opened a two-day
meeting today.
Nehru's Role as Neutralist,
Advisor to Nations, Growing
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru of India has added the
Algerian situation to the long
list of his dip
lomatic inter
ests. He has
offered a de
tailed propos
al to bring
France and
the Algerian
Nationalists to
gether to end
the increasing-
Charles Mccann iy danger o u s
revolt. Nehru made the proposal
in his role of "neutralist" peace
maker. In the same role, he is
likely to have something to say
soon about the breakdown of
Singapore independence talks in
London.
Chief Minister David Mar
shall, who led the Singapore
delegation in London, stopped
off in New Delhi on his way
home to ask Nehru's advice
about the next step.
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Freeway Considerations
To the Editor: Thanks for your
democratic and humanitarian
views expressed in the Mail
Tribune on May 16 regarding
the proposed freeway cutting
through the residential section
of Medford. It is my opinion
that any individual or civic
group should consider very ser
iously the possible results of
this proposal, not only from the
sentimental standpoint of wiping
out one of the older and well
kept residential areas and dis
locating many families, but also
from the practical side.
This highway will quite nat
urally create an east-west traf
fic obstruction in addition to
the prevailing ones, namely,
Bear Creek and the railroad
right-of-way. While a railway is
essential to any "Community, and
was more so in the past, it has
never been a particular asset to
a downtown area. The history of
any commercial right-of-way is
one of municipal deterioration,
and to placa the Medford busi
ness district between two of
them just isn't using foresight.
Another practical point to con
sider is that of tax revenue. Fifty-eight
taxpaying residences
will be eliminated, in deference
to the state highway. Further
more, property devaluation in
the right-of-way area is inevit
able, and we already have the
problem of adjacent areas' re
luctance to come into the city
limits. Unquestionably, we must
work harmoniously with the
county and state, but, the city is
our first consideration.
In regard to the businesses lo
cated on the highway's present
route, it might as weU be in
another state for the benefit
they receive, since it is to be
(we understand) a non-stop free
way, unapproachable from with
in the city limits.
Since federal funds will assist
in the construction of the high
way, it will of necessity, be
made available to military use
in the event of an emergency in
volving that factor.
So far definite information is
unavailable. Mayor Miller is to
be commended for his sensible
and fair-minded attitude in re
questing more specific informa
tion, and a further study of the
possible effects upon the city.
No southern colonel (or Tex
an) could take more pride in his
surroundings than do the resi
dents of' Medford. While we
might point with pride to a
beautifully constructed, modern
freeway, where are we going to
point from it? Certainly not to
what will be visible of Medford.
Mrs. J. W. Barnard,
19 Geneva st,
Medford, Ore.
Praise for Morse
To the Editor: I am a resident
of Brooklyn, N.Y. For many
years it has been my privilege to
travel throughout the country on
business. The city of Washington,
D.C., our great capital, has al
ways been close to my heart,
because there one may visit the
varied buildings and secure a
close-up view of our law-makers
in action, in both the House of
Representatives and the U.S.
Senate.
During my many visits to the
Senate balcony, I watched and
listened to the statements of
our Senators. The presentation
of bills, the pro and con, the in
t e r e s t displayed, particularly
that display of human interest
for the common good of all, is
heart-warming to the average
citizen, as I am.
I noted with great interest the
deep-seated - devotion that -your
great Senator . from Oregon,
Wayne Morse, has always shown.
His stalwart stand for the truth,
the rights for all peoples regard
less of their State, his particular
and keen interest for the citizens
of Oregon, has always held me,
as it has others, spell-bound. In
my conversation with some
friends at these Senate sessions,
they expressed the sentiments
That he will get it, there can
be no doubt. Nehru is an out
spoken man with advice on
world problems.
He lis also a very influential
man in parts of Asia and Africa,
two continents which are emerg
ing from "colonialism."
"Leader of Asian Democracy"
Marshall, arriving in New
Delhi from London, called Nehru
"the leader of Asian democ
racy." Nehru is unlikely to decline
that title. He assumed the posi
tion of "neutralist," remaining
aloof from the West-East cold
war, as soon as India got its
independence in 1950.
He took the leading part in
trying to form the so-called neu
tralist bloc of Asian-African
countries.
No one can doubt that Nehru
is a man of good will, and that
be- earnestly seeks . peace and
world betterment.
One trouble, however, is that
the military alliances which he
opposes are those the western
and hopes that if the Senators
from their own respective State
were to show that keen interest,
perhaps we of other areas could
gain much.
I cannot but admire Senator
Morse for all he stands for. Re
gardless of party affiliation, he
has left a deep-seated imprint
for the common good he holds
and performs for his constit
uents. A man must be admired
for believing in the things he
knows to be best for his fellow
man. That is true representation.
The mere fact that a man belongs
to a party should not permit him
to be swayed by that party's
desires, but rather to throw off
the shackles of being owned.
If the citizens of your great
State were to visit our Capital
and to personally witness the
true spirit of Senator Morse,
they would be proud of their
choice and re-elect a man who
works so hard for his State and
country.
Allan A. Goodman
596 Argyle rd.
" Brooklyn, N.Y.
More on Routes
To the Editor: In my letter
which was printed in the paper
for Friday, May 18, I evidently
made a mistake and wish to cor
rect any false impressions made
by same. I mentioned the Klam
ath Falls-Fish Lake-Lake Creek-
Eagle Point highway. I intended
the reference to Juniper Ridge
route to apply to the Butte Falls
route which connects with said
highway near Fish Lake via Mo
squito hill at present, and which
is quite steep and narrow. The
old logging railroad grade is not
steep; I don't think it will be
over 4 grade: has no short
turns (railroad curves must not
be short) and it would not be
difficult to widen sufficiently
for safe travel thereon.
As for the freeway proposal
(elevated) over Riverside ave.,
which I made this could be ex
tended at any future time if ne
cessary and. for the present
would serve the needs. It would
not cut up any real estate and
would not involve rights of way
problems.
problems. No access to sideroads
permitted except a cloverleaf de
vice provided at intersection of
Crater Lake highway - 99 high
way; no parking, no pedestrians
permitted on upper deck or level.
No orchard land or other farm
lands would be destroyed and I
am sure my proposal would not
be more expensive than the 200
ft. right-of-way plus the con
crete to be used via Hillcrest.
These engineers don't seem to be
interested in saving money for
the taxpayers. All their propos
als always seem to run into multi-million
dollar projects.
Floyd R. McCabe
Mt. Pitt Star Route,
Butte Falls, Ore.
Congressional
Quiz
(Copyright, 195S
Congressional Quarterly)
Q Emergency aid to help
fight Communist guerrilas was
given to which one of these
European countries beginning in
1947: (a) Greece (b) Hungary
(c) Indochina?
A (a) G r e e e. President
Truman in March, 1947. enun
ciated the "Truman Doctrine"
to help "free peoples ... re
sisting attempted subjugation
by armed minorities or by
outside pressure."
Q President Eisenhower is
not seeking one of the following
new elements in this year's for
eign aid program. Which one?
(a) A special $100 mUlion fund
for the Middle East; (b) author
ity to spend up to $100 a year
for as many as 10 years; (c) eco
nomic aid for most West Euro
pean countries; (d) funds to help
other nations build atomic re
actors. A (c) Economic aid for
allies have formed in defense
against Communist aggression.
Another is that he seems" in
clined to list Soviet Russia and
Communist China as among the
"anti-colonial" countries.
For instance, Nehru does not
call Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
and 'Tibet colonies. When Rus
sia and Red China wanted those
countries, they just moved their
armies in and took over.
Proposal Seems Reasonable
However, Nehru's proposal on
Algeria seems to be a reasonable
one at first glance. He called for
a cease-fire, and for French rec
ognition of Algeria as "a na
tional entity" and "personality."
He asked that Algerians and'
French settlers in Algeria be
made equal. Finally he called
for formal negotiations between
France and the rebels.
It is possible that Nehru will
advise Marshall to keep cool for
the present in hope that the
Singapore talks can be reopened.
But in any event, Nehru's in
terest in Algeria and Singapore
will increase his influence in
Asia and Africa, including the
Arab nations which are support
ing the Algerian rebels.
Nehru probably will have
some thoughts to express on
Singapore when he attends the
British : Commonwealth prime
ministers conference in London
late next month.
He undoubtedly will have a
lot of advice to give President
Eisenhower and Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles too,
when he visits Washington early
in July. !
Matter of Fact
THE TROIKA
Damascus The "Troika," as
someone has called it after the
three horse team that draws a
Russian sleigh,
ope rates all
over the Mid
dle East. But
here in Damas
cus, the lovely
city of the sev
en rivers, the
"Troika" not
only operates
but rules.
Stewart Akop Syria s Pres
ident, Shukri Kuwatly, does
not govern his country. Except
for a tendency to oratory, very
little is left of the fiery Arab
independence leader who once
defied Turkish' torture. Now
adays Kuwatly seeks only peace
and comfort, perhaps comfort
above all; so he obeys the "Tro
ika." Syria's amiable, astute, decid
edly temporary premier Said Ga-
hazi does not govern his country
either. Even the Chief of Army
Intelligency, Abdul Hamid Sar-
aj, the young, dynamic, leftwing
captain who has the most impor
tant influence' on the Syrian
army and is constantly being tip
ped as Syria's next military dic
tator, does not exercise any final
authority. For both Ghazi and
Saraj also obey the "Troika."
WHAT then is this "Troika,"
' ' which has acquired predom
inant power in this country
where the slightest hint of for
eign influence used to stimulate
paroxysms of anti-colonial rage?
It is simply the strangely assort
ed but highly effective combina
tion of Egyptian political leader
ship, Saudi Arabian bribe mon
ey, and Communist organization
al talent.
Of these it is necessary to say
at once that the Communist par
ty is measurably the least im
portant as yet. In the last year,
the crafty chief of all Middle
Eastern Communists, K h a led
Baqdash, has managed to make
Communism almost respectable
in Syria. He can turn out a street
crowd of several thousand when
ever he chooses. His organizers
have partly penetrated the other
leftwing groups.
But although Baqdash has the
usual organizational advantage of
Communists everywhere, he has
much less real appeal as yet than
the other leftwing leaders like
the fiery Socailist, Akram Hura
ni, and the military politician,
Capt. Saraj.
Furthermore, men like Hurani
and Saraj are much more na
tionalist than they are leftist.
And their angry, suspicious and
violent brand of nationalism does
not lend itself to final domina
tion by the Communists.
AS FOR Saudi Arabian bribe
money, this is one of the most
extraordinary phenomena in the
whole Middle East. In Syria and
Lebanon, the main centers of ex
penditure, the Saudi Arabian
government is rather reliably re
ported to be investing something
like half a million a month of its
American oil dollars in politi
cians and the press.
- You hear well-authenticated
tales of organized press visits to
Saudi Arabia, in the course of
which the Syrian and Lebanese
editors were each sweetened by
a tactful little envelope contain
ing the equivalent of $1,200
which is a lot of money here
abouts. Anyone who wants to
most West European countries.
Exclusion of economic aid for
these countries was specifical
ly noted by the President in
his March 19 message to Con
14. ISk-s
Today and
By Walter
Sukarno and the Revolution
Dr. Sukarno, the President of
the Indonesian Republic, who
was in Washington last week,
came at a time
when the ad-ministra-tion,
and even
some members
0 f Congress,
are reapprais-
1 n g American
policy in Asia.
We know that
we have been
Walter Ltppmann working up a
blind alley. In fact, the invita
tion to Dr. Sukarno was meant
to mark a ..new approach to the
neutralism of the newly in
dependent nation.
Yet it must be said that to
listen carefully to what Dr. Suk
arno said to Congress, and to
what was implied in what he
said, was a sobering experience.
For though he had come as head
of the Indonesian republic, he
spoke with a great zeal and
fervor as an apostle of the rev
olution which is rising against
Western power and influence all
the way across Asia and Africa.
We ) are, it was quite evident as
he spoke, only in the first phase
of the re-appraisal which the
tides of history are compelling
us to make.
More specifically, what Is go
ing on in Washington , today is
an effort to correct errors in our
policy which are quite recent,
which were the consequences of
the Korean war. Before 1950.
By Stewart Alsop
start a newspaper in Damascus,
however silly his rag may be,
can reportedly count on a suffi
cient monthly subvention from
the Saudi embassy to make jour
nalism a paying proposition.
The stories of Saudi purchases
of politicians of all colors are
equally well authenticated and
even more numerous. Altogether,
the discovery of oil in Saudi Ar
abia has brought a glowing new
prosperity o public life in this
part of the world.
"DOT Communist organization
only gives impetus; Saudi
money only imposes unanimity.
The real direction of Syrian af
fairs comes from Egypt, and
more specifically from Egypt's
Gamal Abjel Nasser.
Undoubtedly, Nasser's author
ity in Syria is strongly reinforc
ed by the other members of the
"Troika." Undoubtedly, too,
Egyptian authority is all the eas
ier to assert because Syrian pol
itics currently resembles nothing
so much as a basket of eels. All
the eels are in competition. The
Egyptians, so to speak, hold ev
ery eel by the tail. Even Capt.
Saraj does not apparently have
the strength to take over the
government without Egyptian
backing, which there is good
reason to believe he would like
to have but cannot get.
ITOR THE PURPOSE of any
practical anlysis of the Mid
dle Eastern situation, it is vitally
important to note these truly re
markable features of the situa
tion here in Syria. But one
should not stop there. Normally,
the Communist organization
would not be so effective. The
Saudi bribery would arouse more
indignation. The Egyptian lead
ership of Syria would be resent
ed. But recent history, and par
ticularly the Palestine war, have
created an abnormal . mood in
Syria, in which Gamal Abdel
Nasser's special blend of militar
ism and anti-Westernism have a
great appeaL
And it is this all dominating
mood which causes the activities
of Nasser's allies to be tolerated,
as it also caused the voice of
Nasser to be heeded at all times.
Copyright 1956, The New
York Herald Tribune Inc.
Tomorrow
Lippmann
we did not. take the view that
all nations ought to loin a mil
itary coalition of which we are
the leaders, that neutralism or
not joining our alliances was
morally wrong and unfriendly
to American vital interests, that
with grudging exceptions join
ing our military alliances was
the passport to economic aid.
In the Marshall Plan, which
was launched before the Korean
war, economic, aid was given
ahead of military aid. The NATO
military alliance ' had not vet
been conceived when the Mar
shall Plan went into effect. It
was the Korean war that com
pelled us to rearm ourselves in
Western Europe and led to the
militarization of our foreign
policy in Asia. .
We are now engaged in tryintf
td persuade Congress to agree
to some demilitarization of our
policy.
Dr. Sukarno made It auite
plain how necessary is the de
militarization- of our relations
with newly independent coun
tries like Indonesia. But there
was a lot more to his address
than that, and -all of it dispelled
any notion that with a few
changes of emphasis in our
foreign aid policy, all be well.
In the welcoming addresses and
in his responses much was said
about George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson. But the
analogy cannot be carried very
far. For the revolution of which
Dr. Sukarno is so brilliant a
leader and spokesman has a
depth and scope and energy
which are without precedent.
- The revolution is not only
anti-colonial in the sense that it
is a rebellion against foreign
rulers. Dr. Sukarno went beyond
that to raise the question not
explicitly but by intimation
whether the revolutionary move
ment means to stop short of the
explusion of all Western power
an influence from Africa, South
Asia and the South Pacific.
What gives this revolution its
fierce and enormous energy is
the determination at long last to
undo the human .consequences
of three centuries of the white
man's domination, and at the
same time overcome the econom
ic and technological backward
ness of the former colonial lands.
Dr. Sukrno made it plain that
if this four dimensional revolu
tion can be carried out by dem
ocratic means he would prefer
it, but that the revolution will
have to be carried out, if neces
sary by totalitarian means.
The revolution which Dr. Suk
arno was proclaiming is running
from Morocco to Tunis through
the Middle East, to Aden, to
Ceylon, to Singapore, to Indon
esia, probably to Formosa and
Japan. The Western nations,
among whom we belong, are on
the defensive throughout his vast
area, and all the key positions
remaining to them are under
attack. One has the feeling that
the Western nations are fighting
rear guard actions, the French
in North Africa, the British in
the Middle East, we in Formosa
and beyond.
We must begin to ask our
selves questions to which we can
not expect to find quick and
certain answers. A new relation
ship between the emancipated
East and the democratic West
will have to be found. Where
shall we look for the end of the
thread by which we can find
our way through the labyrinth?
In 1950 the answer to that
question was plainer than it is
today. We should have looked
to India to be the mediator.
Is it now too late for this? Is
the damage done by our crudely
militaristic policies irreparable
in the sense that opportunities
which once existed are now fore
closed? Let us hope that nothing is
irreparable. ,
1956, The New York
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