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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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