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Today and By Walter RIVALRY AND TURMOIL Secretary Wilson, with the President's support, is insisting that the dispute among the serv ices must not be argued out in public. He said that the Admin istra tion will not tolerate the kind of propa g a nda which was launched last week end Walter Lippmann by the Air Torce and by the Armv. Wheth er the policy of surpressing the dispute is sound depends, it seems to me, on what the dis pute is about. It is reasonably plain from what Secretary Wil son said at the big Pentagon press exhibition that he believes the issue to be "the roles and mission business," that is to say, which of the services is to have which of the new expen sive weapons. He must have been hearing more than he likes to hear about these rivalries. and he is very much annoyed at finding that the services have gone over his head, hoping to work up public opinion and Congressional support. There is not much real doubt. it seems to me, that if only "the roles and mission business" are at issue, then these issues should be settled within the Pentagon and the National Security Coun cil. The relative value of one guided missile over another, the military capabilities of the air craft carriers, the role of the Army in aerial defense these are questions which neither the general public nor the Congress are competent to decide. They are by their very nature ques tions which have to be answered by the services themselves under the guidance of the President and the Secretary of Defense. TUT is there not more to this dispute than the roles and mission business of the three services? We know that there is at bottom a much bigger ques tion,, which was raised some time ago by General Ridgeway, of high strategy in the age of nuclear weapons. There is no use pretending that this question has as yet been settled, that a clear policy has been arrived at by which the services can be guided. It would clear the air a good deal if the Administration was to admit that policy is in the making but is not made, and that the military art is develop ing faster than our strategical understanding of its conse quences. Here there is not only room for public discussion but an urgent need of it. The need of it is manifest not only within the Pentagon in the dispute over the strategic roles of the Army and Navy but in such matters as the differences between Mr. Dulles and Mr. Stassen. There bing as yet no firm decision about the role of the Army in future wars,- Mr. Dulles and Mr. Stassen do not have an agreed view of what to say about the reduction of the Red Army. i ' A NYONE who thinks he knows the answer to the undecided questions of. high strategy is merely exhibiting his own in ability to realize the complexity of the problem. The undecided questions are enormously diffi cult to answer because the an swer requires a correct forecast of what the wars of the future will be like, and how the United States could or should be in volved in them. I have the impression', which may well be mistaken, that American strategic thinking is deeply affected not only by the new weapons but by the undi gested consequences of the Ko rean war. That war was a sear ing experience, and the brunt of it fell upon the Army. Putting aside the question of whether it was wise to commit a ground army to a land war in Korea, the fact is that this involved a sudden reversal of what had been settled American strategic policy. The policy was not to commit ground forces to a war on the Asian continent. THE unresolved question, which haunts and perturbs American military thinking, is whether the Korean war was a precedent which established a new policy, or whether it was a unique affair marking the ex ception to a settled policy. If Korea was a precedent, as many seem to think it was, if we need to be ready to fight a series of wars of the Korean type, then General Ridgway and the Army fr ok -m MARKET 1202 North Riverside OPEN EVERY NIGHT Til & MIDNIGHT Tomorrow Lippmann are obviously right. But if Korea was an exception to the general rule that in re gard to Asia we are not a land power but a sea and air power, then the responsibility of the ground army has been greatly reduced. . It would do much to clarify the deeper issues in the Penta gon if it were known whether Korea was the precedent of a new strategy of intervention on the ground, or whether it was the exception to the older policy of not intervening on the ground. THESE are matters which the President himself is peculiar ly competent to speak about. For, as I understand it, he play ed a leading part in formulating the policy of not committing ground forces in Asia, the policy which was overthrown when North Korea attacked South Ko rea. It would not be surprising if he believes that the Korean affair was an exception to a rule, a necessary exception it may be, but not one to be treated as a precedent. In any event, our military thinking will be in a turmoil until this question is clarified. Copyright 1956, -The New York Herald Tribune Traffic Safety Drive Starts Memorial Day Salem (U.R) An intensive, nationwide traffic safety cam paign begins in Oregon Memo rial Day. The campaign, "slow down and live," will concentrate on attempting to reduce accidents, injuries and deaths which offi cials said can be blamed on "in a hurry" complexes of drivers. Capt.. R. G. Howard of the state police said officers' days off would be cancelled Memo rial Day and the patrol would be augmented to take care of traffic. $500 in Prizes Set For Crowing Contest R6gue River Cash prizes to taling $500 will be awarded to the "crowingest" rooster during the fourth national rooster crow ing contest in Rogue River June 16. First prize is $250. Entries must be made before 11 a.m. of the day of the crow. Entries are not free and may be mailed. The crow starts at noon. Free hot dogs will be served during the event. Music and games will be provided, dancing on thei Rogue River outdoor pa vilion is scheduled. , i ii ii i THAI'S WHY YOM . is w PRICES Matter of Fact By stewan aimp THE "NEW" STEVENSON Jacksonville, Fla. Adlal I. Stevenson, fighting for his po litical life here in the Florida primaries, pre sents an un usual spec tacle in sev eral ways. For one thing and this is most unusual he is a man doing some thing he hates doing, and do Stewart Alsop ing it well. It is no secret that Stevenson never wanted to enter any pri maries at all, and balked like a mule when his advisors told him he had to. It is equally no secret that, now that he is up to his neck in primaries, he hates it. He bitterly describes the whole primary system as "this mad en durance contest." If you spend a day or so cam paigning with Stevenson, you can't blame him. Only a mad manor possibly an Estes Ke fauver could possibly enjoy the primary routine. Consider the following diary of a ' typical Stevenson day this week. UP AT dawn or thereabouts, in Miami. Breakfast with twittering ladies charm must be turned on. Radio recordings must sound statesmanlike but not stuffy. Leave 8 o'clock on 2lA hour plane trip to Talla hassee. Meet with Governor and Governor's Cabinet at capitol must be especially nice to two perennial Cabinet members with great influence. Speech on cap itol steps to state employees re leased for occasion crisis when ex-Governor Caldwell, introduc ing, calls Kefauver "sychophant" of Negroes, implying Stevenson indifferent to Negro vote. Could be fatal ' in California. Lunch at university (ham and very sweet potato) and speech. Speech -prepared for university audience audience turns out to be mostly business men. Much hand-shaking with students. Side trip to meet Governor's wife (Governor friendly but uncom mitted and very important). By plane to Lake City. Press confer ence called to deal with Cald well matter. Speech at dusk on main square. This woolhat coun try must deal somehow with segregation issue. Speech suc cess. Much hand-shaking. By plane to Jacksonville. Final lengthy conferences. And so to bed. THIS sort of thing goes on day after dav. Thp ripmanrfs nn the candidate to put up with the endless frustrations and de lays, to deal with the inevitable crises, to make real contact with the voters, above all to be nice when he does not feel like being nice, to smile when he does not feel ilke smiling, to bounce when he does hot feel like bouncing : must be almost intolerable, es pecially to such a candidate as ti 'J 'it - Jr t ' - - V . a,-. -Sir 'S'. ;- J5K- .. ..-JgS I -' -::v "-' V-. ' '. V . J .-.': !-.., -- START AT $119.50 Adlai Stevenson. Yet Stevenson does it all, on the whole, very well indeed. To the non-participating spec tator, there is a certain nostalgia in the performance. Everyone is four years older (Stevenson him self is noticeably paunchier), and the cast of characters has some what changed. But in many ways it is so much like 1952. Stevenson is still the interest ing, courageous, highly intelli gent, oddly contrary candidate he was then. He makes, if any thing, more jokes than ever, many genuinely funny. There is the familiar strain of self-deprecation, grown with time. He is himself the butt of most of his jokes, and to the despair of his advisors, he likes to call himself an "unemployed politician," and to point out that the Florida counties he won in 1952 were the ones he did not visit. 'TWERE are the familiar flashes - oi eloquence ana political in sight, the same bold, refusal to conform. It takes courage for Stevenson to defend the intellect and the intellectual before an audience of Florida businessmen, or the Supreme Court decision on segregation before a woolhat audience in northern Florida. Yet somehow the whole perform ance is less effective, less mov ing, than it used to be. Much has been written about the "new Stevenson." It is un doubtedly true that his Minne sota defeat persuaded Stevenson that he had to fight to survive, and in some ways he is fighting harder than in 1952. But essen tially he is the same old Steven son he says, accurately, that he could not change if he wanted to. IlfHAT has really changed is If Tint Qfoirancnn ki.t U 1 w v vnouu UUL tdl- endar. The year 1952, with the Korean war still on and Joseph R. McCarthy riding high, was a bitter and fear-filled year. It was a year in which Stevenson des perately wanted to say some things that desperately needed to be said, and he said them elo quently. This is a year of even greater dangers, but the dangers lurk below the surface, and they are not real to most people. One senses that they are not entirely real to Stevenson, or that, at any rate, like everybody else, he does not know what to do about them. Now there is almost nothins? that desperately needs to be saia, and that Stevenson des perately wants to say. This is. perhaDs. the real dif ference between the Stevenson of 1952 and the Stevenson of 1956. (C)' 1956. The New York Herald Tribune Inc. Chicago (U.R) The Na tional Safety Council has-refused to grant its top award of honor to any state or city for all-around traffic safety per formance in 1955. a - A MLOWANCI ON AN AUTOMATIC GAS UTILITY W SERVICE California-Pacific Medford, Oregon In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS When the subject of Big Bus iness comes up in these days, I reckon most of us are inclined to think of it as a bunch of happy and well-fed gentlemen who have nothing much to worry about and no problems except splitting up the profits. Alfred Perlman, president of the New York Central railroad, one of the nation's largest cor porations, dissents from that view. He tells the company's stockholders, assembled in Al bany, N. Y., that the NYC has plenty to worry about. A MONG its headaches, he says, are its palatial terminals, such as the Grand Central in New York -City. "These vast pal aces," he adds, "are CANCERS eating away at our profits and undermining the stability of our investment." He cites the NYC's terminal in Buffalo as an example. He tells the stockholders: "It costs us more than three .million dollars a year, including 5274,000 in taxes, to operate this vast sta tion, and we sell less than $3, 000,000 worth of tickets a year there." Then he adds: "The New York Central is looking for ways to give away, sell or TEAR DOWN passenger stations that cost us a fortune in taxes and main tenance." T THINK, Mr. Perlman, your customers may be inclined to APPLAUD if you do just that. These fabulous big city termi nals are headaches for the trav eling public s well the rail roads that own and operate them, and it costs the public at least a small fortune in tips to get into them and out of them. Why don't you replace them with simple and relatively in expensive structures equipped with moving belts that will carry the passenger's baggage directly from the trains to the taxi stands? I think your customers would welcome such a set-up. "1I10RE about big business: Last January, as you may remember, the Ford Foundation put on sale some ten million shares of stock in the Ford Motor Company. These shares were bought by some 325,000 persons. Last week, Ford stockholders opened their first annual meet ing in Dearborn, Mich. They are housed in a tent city. Two tons of fried chicken, a half ton of apples and 200 gallons of milk are among the items that have been ordered for box lunches for them at noon. One stockholder couldn't make it. He's a seven-year-old boy liv ing in Durham, N. C, and he is considerably disappointed. He sent a note of regret to the com pany in which he explains: "My mother says I'm -not old enough II II II f W RAMQ 1 W' Utilities Phone 2-5284 Sunday, May 17, 18S8 McMiniwille Girl Injured in Crash McMinnville, Ore. (U.R) daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Cramer of Culp Creek, Ore., suffered severe multiple cuts and bruises and possible leg fractures Saturday when the family automobile left the high way on a curve, rolled 'over at least twice and came to rest upright in a clover field near Amity. State police said the girl was pinned under the car with the frame resting on her legs. She apparently had been - thrown from the vehicle when it rolled over. Her parents suffered minor cuts and bruises. The girl was brought to Mc Minnville hospital for examina tion and treatment. Police said the auto was demolished. to travel that far alone." ALL THESE people are PART OWNERS of the Ford Motor Company one -of America's two or three BIGGEST COR PORATIONS. As - many more people as are willing to save up enough money to buy a few shares of stock can become part owners of the Ford Motor Com pany." ' Isn't that MUCH-better than socialism with its accompani ment of public ownership of everything? LET'S take a look at cotton. Cotton once stood on its own feet. Now it is heavily subsidized by government. What has hap pened, as a result? Well, 25 years ago when cot ton stood on its own feet Amer ica exported" annually some sev en million bales of it . Now, with American cotton subsidized, we export only two million bales of it. HOW COME? I still remember the Mex ican cotton grower who said to me several months ago: "You Americans don't USE your cot ton. You just store it up in ware houses. We're now selling the cotton you USED TO SELL. We're doing FINE." Isn't government in business wonderful? Americans spend $800,000, 000 a year on flowers and seeds. Dental Tradition Says: "Never Retire" I have ' never done better work than now and I have no intention of retiring. Dr. S. Ralph Dippel, D.M.D. RANGE Company Msorora (OTEaowi mail tribtjtte i Interim Tax Group Continues Analysis Of State Sales Tax Salem WJ.R) The Legis islative Interim tax committee Saturday continued its section-by-section analysis of the 1955 Oregon sales tax measure with an eye to updating it for possible 1957 use. Committeemen, headed by Sen. Rudie Wilhelm of Portland agreed to invite League of Ore gon Cities officials to express their views on a permissive one per cent sales tax for cities and counties. Such a tax would be levied by the localities on top of the state sales tax, Sen. Wilhelm said It would be collected by the state and turned back to local gov ernments. Express Doubt Committee members expres sed some doubt about the wis dom of exempting -Oregon in surance companies from both premium taxes and corporation excise taxes. They said a full review of taxes on domestic companies would be made by the committee. Tax Commissioner Sam Stuart told the committee that cost of the property tax revaluation program in seven completed counties was running over or iginal estimates. But he said the MONDAY MORNING Reg. Values . to 69c yd. SPECIAL Summer prints, sll lighr lengths limited amount mentl JAKE H iASY IN y Ill Auto Seat Covers Fits all makes, models and styles of cars i- - $o)98 Terry cloth seat covers in Split back and solid backs, colors yellow, green, blue, cinnamon and gray. Tight fitting for year around comfort washable, just let the kids have fun in the car. No worries about seats or expensive covers. "Terry Fits" are the answer to all seat cover problems back and front. J. J. NEWBERRY CO. Sixth & Central cost was not out of line with the per cent of the job completed. One detail of the proposed sales tax gave committee mem bers a little trouble. They first decided that water should be exempt from the tax. Then they changed their stand. They said water could be taxed when it is frozen and sold as ice. WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Fair on Sunday. Azaleas Come to GARDEN CENTER NURSERY and pick your in bloom. These are large flowers, hardy evergreen Glendale hybrids, large plants 24" or $2.50 Only if your receipt ends with number 5, you get another $2.50 Plant Free GARDEN CENTER NURSERY (formerly Newhall's) i mi. So. of Phoenix on Hwy. 99 PHONE 2-7601 Fabulous Assortment Embossed COTTONS gty pieces in I to 5 yd. Come early New ship. ' ft f "J) U YD. TUtdtmif DElUXf- ALur.'iinur.i SFOLDIHG CHAIR! Reg. $5.77 ON SALE $188 Wide seat and back of muftV colored Saran cloth. Wood arm rest. Made of kiln-dried Northern Hardwoods, warp resistant, lacquer-finished so that rich grain shows through. ea. . Medford's Bargain Corner
