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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A returning fisherman from the primeval forests reports he saw a wolf snooping around his camp big enough to spell his name wolff. 20 YEARS AGO May 31, 1936 (It was Sunday) The annual chest clinic for children of Jackson county held at the county courthouse with G. C. Bellinger of the state tuber culosis hospital conducting ex aminations. Marshall Woodell, graduate of Linfield college, chosen to re place Rolla A. Reed as teacher of the social sciences and coach of the debate team at Ashland High school, George A. Briscoe, superintendent, announces. 30 YEARS AGO May 31, 1926 Election of officers for coming year for IOOF, will be held to morrow night. From Local and Personal col umn: Gordon Walters, after hav ing spent several weeks in Port land, has returned to his home in this city. 40 YEARS AGO May 31. 1916 (It was Wednesday) The civil service commission announces that a mail clerk-carrier examination will be held at Medford, June 24. Steps in the regeneration of Front st. have been taken with the purchase by R. Nurmi of the Nurmi bakery of the Seattle rooming house structure on South Front st. What's the Answer? 1. Congress is required by law to adjourn "sine die" not later than July 31; right or wrong? 2. Total industrial production in the United States last year was about the same, nearly twice as ' great, or considerably more than twice that of all Communist countries combined? 3. A presidential candidate getting 60 of a state's popular vote gets 60 of its electorial votes; right or wrong? 4. Christians make up a larger or smaUer share of the popula tion of the world today than a quarter century ago? 5. The South African doctrine of "apartheid" calls for racial integration or racial segregation? 6. Eligible workers in the auto industry are guaranteed (a) 50 per cent, (b) 65 per cent, or (c) full take-home pay when laid off? 7. Cholera, which sometimes killed more than half a million people a year in India, is un known there today; right or wrong? The Answer: 1. Right, but a later date can be set by concur tent resolution not requiring President's consent. 2. U. S. pro duction nearly twice Communist production. 3. Wrong (he's sup posed to get all its electorial vote). 4. Smaller (32 per cent in 1953 as against 37 per cent in 1929). 5. Segregation ("apart ness"). 6. 65 per cent, in state and company jobless benefits com bined, for 26 weeks. 7. Wrong (Calcutta had a cholera epidemic in May). . . '. I i MAIL TRIBUNB How About There was a time when to Portland as a theatrical Page theatre secured all the big theatrical stars played at Portland or San usually a sell-out when pouring m from all over ern California to see such Robson, Otis Skinner, Henry Miller and many others, '"THEM DAYS," alas, have gone forever. The or is no line, as far as Medford is line for profit only and Medford, as a convenient longer exists. When the SP violating the terms of its ing theatre followed suit. radio, and particularly "TV DUT WHILE Medford can no longer claim to be a theatrical center, the recent visit of the Kramer team of tennis stars en route from Portland to San Francisco and Monterey suggests it may one of these days become a thriving sports center. For this team of top bracket "pros" were induced to stop here for much the same reason theatrical troupes in "the good old days" found it smart business to play a night m Medford, and get some revenue, rather than spend the night on a "sleeper" and get none. The tennis stars had to motor through southern Oregon on their way to San Francisco, anyway, so why not make a bit of change en route? THAT IS what they did. here was not capacity ering the fact the venture something completely new and unexpected there is reason to believe that a second visit would bring out the SRO sign and be a financial as well as a sports success. At any rate here is an opportunity for-Medford worth some serious consideraion. The best' golfers in the country pro and amateur-Mike to play here- and do . . . the best tennis, players in the country, in the world, for that matter, have played here and might well be induced to come again. ,' I AST but far from least, Medford in scholastic sports is today a standout, winning its district championships in football, basketball, track, and now reaching the state finals in With a record like that, tion what it is between San we see no reason why with the proper publicity and promotion, Medford can't become the sports center of southern Oregon as many years ago it was the theatn cal center. How about it, "General"? R.W.R. Sound Doctrine "Mistakes of a Freshman senator," by Dick Neu berger in the June "American" should be widely read in Oregon. . . . For it has a bi-partisan appeal. The Republicans will enjoy it, for they of course believe Senator Neu berger has made many mistakes, and they will find in this article a frank and pleasing admission of some of them. The Democrats will enjoy it, for the article gives a very candid and sincere record of our junior Sen ator's experiences and impressions of his first year in the senate. ' But members of both parties should heartily ap prove of the following paragraph near the close: "I am certain I can be a good and faithful senator from the standpoint of all the people only if the office means so little to me personally that I am not afraid to lose it. If I ever think in my own mind that it would be intolerable to cease being a senator then I have lost much of my capacity to serve without selfishness and without fear. Threats and pressures can move me, as I see it, only when I am frightened of defeat." In other words hew to the line of what you believe to be the best for your state and nation letting the chips fall where they may, and if to be true to oneself and to what one believes to be right, means defeat, then let defeat come and to heck with it ! . WE HOPE Dick Neuberger never deviates from that conception of his duty as a Senator, and we don't believe he ever will. ' - We only wish that quotation could be placed on every senator's desk and that more representatives of the people in the Upper House would follow it. And the Lower House, for that matter. - I N FACT we can't, at the that would improve the more than to have the members of the congress as a whole adopt the Neuberger doctrine," banish the fear of losing votes from their calculations and base their final decisions, not upon political expediencey but upon the merits or demerits of each proposal from the standpoint of the public welfare. R. W. R. State Distribution Of Road Funds Varies Washington 0J.R) Senate and House versions of the multi- billion dollar highway construc tion bill contain different meth ods for distributing federal funds to the states for a proposed inter state network of superhighways. The House version allots funds on the states' estimates of their needs. Under the Senate version, a state's allotment would be based two-third's on "its popula Thursday, May SI, 1938 Sports Center? Medford was second only center in the state. The old one-night stands for practically who came to the coast and Francisco. And there was they came, with people southern Oregon and north stars as Maude Adams, May longer a cracK passenger concerned, but a freight a slow freight at that! So theatrical "stop-over," no abandoned Medford, thus original franchise the travel What the SP started, the finished. The crowd that turned out by any means, but consid was entirely impromptu- baseball. and with its strategic posi Francisco and Portland, moment, think of anything quality of our government tion, one-sixth on its area and one-sixth on its RFD mileage. Following is a comparison of allotments for the Far Western states for a two-year period, starting July 1, under the Senate and House measures in millions: House: Arizona $24.5, California $271.9, Nevada $8.7, Oregon $37.3, Washington $54.8. Senate: Arizona $31.6,, Cali fornia $156.8, Nevada $28.7, Ore gon $37.4, Washington $44.2. Today and By Walter ON VISITING BACK AND FORTH There is much embarrassment in .Washington over the invita tions which are coming " from Moscow. It would look very silly in deed if we re fused to let General Twin ing go to Mos cow and to have a look at the Soviet Air Force. Yet we Walter Lippmann hesitate. What is worrying the Administration is that the invitation will have to be returned, and that as one thing is supposed to lead to an other, we shall end up as Sen ator Knowland put it the other day with Khrushchev and Bulganin coming to Washington to sleep in Lincoln s bed. All this arises from .a certain confusion, from a failure to dis tinguish between a meeting of the heads of government and a meeting of subordinate officers and officials. It does not follow at all that visits of the chiefs of staff, defense officials and the like, must lead to a visit by Khrushchev and Bulganin. A meeting of the heads of govern ment may not now be. desirable at all. It seems to me it is not now desirable. But that does not mean that we ought not to welcome exchanges of visits and a general increase of communi cations between the Soviet Union and the United States. THE essential difference be- tween meeting at the summit and meeting at lower levels is that the men at the top have the power to negotiate and to make decisions. Below the sum mit, men can only report, ex plore, and follow instructions, To hold a meeting at the sum mit is always an act of "high policy in that it announces a hope ; that decisions will be taken. Because of this, a meeting among adversaries at the sum mit, as distinct from a meeting among allies, should not be held until there is virtual certainty that they have reached some agreement. At the first Geneva meeting there was every reason to believe that they had reached an agreement on the impossibili ty of thermonuclear war. . A MEETING at the summit ought not to be held unless it is sure to succeed. This means that the parties to it must al ready have negotiated success fully ' through diplomatic chan nels before they meet. If they have not done this, they run the risk not only of disagreeing more spectacularly than ever, but of digging themselves into positions from which they can not then negotiate, ' There need be no embarrass ment in saying frankly that we do not favor a meeting at the summit until there have been successful negotiations through diplomatic channels. Once this is our known policy, we need not shrink from,-indeed" we can encourage, the exchange of vis its. The world will be spared the hullabaloo of publicity, of false hopes and dashed hopes, of rumors and, suspicion, that would attend a visit by Bulganin and Khrushchev to Washington. I T CAN be said that they went to London, that nothing spectacular happened, and that the confidential talks were use ful. The fact of the matter is that a visit to Washington would be a quite different affair. It Senator Neuberger Expresses Pleasure At Seaton Naming Washington, D.C. (Special) Here is the text of Sen. Richard L. Neuberger's statement on the nomination of Fred A. Seaton, an assistant to President Eisen hower, as secretary of the inter ior succeeding Douglas McKay. I am very pleased that the President has repudiated the policies of ex-Secretary McKay, and has gone completely outside the discredited Interior Depart ment -to obtain a new head for that department. It is indeed for tunate that the President has chosen to select a secretary not connected with McKay's policies which led to the surrender of the Hells Canyon power site, sur render of the Al Sarena timber in the Rogue River National For est, and turning over of our priceless wildlife refuges to pe troleum companies for oil wild catting. . - -t "Had the . President apprved of the McKay policies, he would have selected acting-Secretary Davis, to continue them. The naming of Mr. Seaton' from en tirely outside the Interior De partment is endorsement of the belief that the McKay regime was a failure. While I am, of course, not making any commit ments in advance, I am far more disposed to vote for confirma tion of Mr. Seaton than for any previous associate of ex-Secretary McKay," . Tomorrow Lippmann would be a meeting at the sum mit in the sense that the London meeting was not. For the Presi dent has a kind of decisive pow er within the Western alliance which gives him tremendous re sponsibility in talking with the Russians. He is responsible to his allies. In a personal negotia tion at the summit he may not be able to consult them ade quately. If he makes concessions in order to reach agreements, he may be accused of letting down his allies and of partitioning the world between the two giant powers. If he makes no conces sions, he may be more inflexible than his allies wish to be. ? No such dilemma exists as long as the President deals with the Soviet Union through diplo matic channels. For then he can consult his allies at every step on the way. A LL this is, must admit, hard to square with the enthusi asm of Secretary Dulles, for travelling personal diplomacy. "It is silly," he has said on tele vision, "to go at it in the old fashioned way of exchanging notes, which take a month per haps before you get a good un derstanding," when "by over night flight" and "talking a few minutes face to face," the Sec retary of State can get a good understanding. Is Mr. Dulles right in thinking that a month is too long to take for a good understanding? And is he right that when men get off an over-night plane and talk face to face for a few minutes that they always know what they are talking about? Mr. Dulles has travelled 310,000 miles, and can it be said that the globe is studded with good un derstandings? In any event, his enthusism for face to. face diplomacy will probably stop short of enthu siasm for a face to face meeting in Washington between the President and the Soviet leaders. But, given his enthusism for per sonal diplomacy; he will find it harder to explain his lack of enthusiasm for a Bulganin and Krushchev visit. Copyright 1956, The New York Herald Tribune Matter of COMMUNISTS AND NATIONALISTS Damascus, Syria Here in Syria, which is a small country, the diverse elements that make ud Soviet Mid- die Eastern policy stand m sharp re- Jief.'Since this policy appears to be co m pletely misun d e r stood ' at home, it is worth listing osepn .isup the elements item by item, and then seeing what they add up to. ITEM: Damascus is still agog over the aftermath of. the Khrus- chev-Bulganin visit to London This was the revelation to the Syria nand Egyptian govern ments, by the Soviet Ambassa dors here and in Cairo, of the alleged main theme of the So viet leaders in the Downing Street talks. According to the Ambassadors, Khruschev ; and Bulganin flatly declared that the progressive and peace loving bloc would be squarely behind the Arab states in the event of a renewal of the Arab-Israeli war. The Soviet diplomatists almost certainly misrepresented what passed in London. But their ver sion of the London talks has of course been delightedly accepted here, and is reportedly credited in Cairo as well. ITEM: In the last month, So viet diplomats here, in Cario and in other Arab capitals have begun to talk with Arab leaders about the possible terms of a settlement with Israel. The Arab response may be easily imagined. It is a fair bet that these Soviet feelers are a prelude to a solid endorsement by Moscow of the United Nations 1947 plan for the partition of Palestine, as the only fair solution of the Arab Israeli problem. - ' A return to the U.N. plan of 1947, which was put forward! re member, before the Israeli vic tory over the ; Arabs, would mean reducing the area how held by Israel by almost 40 per cent. It is what the Arabs have been asking for. Any such Soviet move in the U. N.; Security Coun cil will leave "the American and British governments as gasping and helpless as hopelessly beached salmon. We shall be made to seem the enemies; the Soviets will appear as the special friends and protectors of Arab nationalism. r?EM: ,. On the sub-diplomatic level three kinds of activity are being carried on concurrent ly. The local Communist parties have been given a- very special mission, not to . increase their own strength, but to reinforce in all ways possible the strength of the non-Communist, anti-Western forces here. The Syrian Com munist leader Khaled Baqdash, has. been using all his consider able charm to convince the more conservative elements in Syria that he is just another nationalist Tito May Ask Russian To Loosen By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent President Tito of Yugoslavia is likely to ask Russia next week to loosen its grip on its eastern European sat ellite govern ments. Tito, the only Commu nist leader who ever suc cessful d e- fied Josef Sta lin, is due to arrive in Mos- Charles Mccann cowuuesaay. He is returning the humiliat ing visit which Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin . and Com niunist Party leader Nikita S Khrushchev paid him one year ago this month. Mr. B. and Mr. K. went to Belgrade to apologize for the savage attacks which Stalin and they themselves had made on Tito as the result of his break with- Kremlin Communism in 1948. Mr. B. and Mr. K. invited Tito during their visit to go to Mos cow. It has taken him long to pick the time. It seems pretty clear that he has decided to go now because he thinks the situation which arose from Stalin's de bunking is developing favorably. Wide Subject Range " Tito told a United Press cor respondent last week in Bel grade that he intends to discuss a wide range of subjects includ ing Yugoslav-Russian relations and international diplomatic problems Tito said that he regarded the debunking of Stalin as marking a "great historical change" in Russia. " ' This change, he said, would af fect future developments both in Russia itself "and in other eastern countries. . He especially emphasized that the change has brought about "the possibility ' of different states being able to take differ ent paths to Socialism." That referred to Russia's satel lites. It means that Tito feels the time has come lor. the Kremlin to give the satellite governments more freedom in running their own affairs, Fact Y Joseph Alsop bourgeois at heart. His organ izers, in similar false whiskers, are being sent out to assist any political grouping or movement with an anti-Western tendency. .. ITEM: The nationalist appar atus is being powerfully backed up, in turn, by a commercial ap peal. All sorts of Soviet and satellite trade missions are swarming through this country and the other Arab lands, mak ing tenders on locally important projects of every sort. Because of the wages paid the workers, in' the workers' paradise, it is possi ble that many of these bids are quite honest. In any case, they are almost invariably much low er than bids by Western firms. Meanwhile, great efforts are also being made to persuade local business, political and cultural leaders to visit the Soviet Union and the satellite states for the full red carpet treatment. TTEM: The desire of the Arabs for ;' more and , more arms against Israel is constantly being exploited. Besides the new arms deal that seems to be in the mak ing with the Chinese in Cairo, the Syrians here are completing negotiations to purchase another $25,000,000 worth of surplus So viet arms through the Czechs. What, then, is one to make of the complex pattern of diplo matic, economic, propagandists and underground action? The first point that sticks out a mile is that, for the present, the Krem lin is making no serious effort whatever to promote commun ism AS communism in this part of the world. Gamal Abdel Nas ser has sternly suppressed the Communist party in Egypt, but here in Syria the local Commun ists are more pro-Nasser than Nasser himself. ' The second point that also stands out a mile is that the Kremlin is making the most des perate efforts to capture the Arab nationalist movement which Col. Nasser symbolizes and - effectively leads.'. The aim, of course, is to use Arab nation alism to destroy every Western position in the Middle East, and to substitute Soviet influence for Western influence every where throughout this strategic ally vital region. THIS the aim,' in turn," because thp whnlp Western Alliance can be brought down in ruins here-in the Middle East. Let the oil which is Britain's and West ern Europe's lifeblood once be shut off, even for a very short period of time, and the ensuing economic catastrophe in Britain and Western Europe can be counted on to break the Anglo American partnership, to destroy NATO, and to achieve, almost automatically, pretty nearly ev ery other Kremlin goal on this side of the Atlantic. - If this brilliantly conceived operation succeeds, it will be time for the Kremlin to deal with the Arab nationalists, who will then have about the same chance of survival as a naked man in a dark room with a grizz-1 3 Grip on Satellites Belgrade dispatches seem to leave no doubt that Tito means to raise this issue, and to make it a major one in his talks. ' It is noteworthy that Tito is taking with him Vice-President Edvard Kardelj as well as his foreign and economic ministers. Urges "Different Path" Kardelj, Tito's most trusted aide, is perhaps the leading pro moter of the theory that "dif ferent paths to Socialism" are possible in Communist ruled countries. That is, that blind obedience to the Kremlin line is not necessary. Tito ' will be in the ' Soviet Union for three weeks. It is his first visit since he went to see Stalin in May, 1946. It is obvious ly an important one. It ' will be In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS President Eisenhower signs the election year farm. bill. He says it has shortcomings but its advantages outweigh its harmful provisions. I '. suppose that is as, good a comment as any. After all, as everyone knows, it isn't a farm bill. It's a bill designed to snare strategic farm state votes in a critical election year. And it IS a better bill than the one Ike vetoed. TNCIDENTAL information: It costs the city of Los An geles more than two million dol lars a year to arrest drunks. And, according to Superior Court Commissioner Edward Nichols, more . than . half of the arrested LA drunks are repeaters. Hmmmmm. It sounds like they ENJOY being 'arrested, doesn't it? Tti'ORE incidental information: Los Angeles has nearly twice as many arrests' for drunkenness as San Francisco. In the last year of record, the capital of the Southland tossed 80,490 souses into the. clink whereas the Big Town of the Bay area incarcerat ed only 42,307 of them. rriHAT raises this question: -1- Do more people get drunk in Los Angeles than in San Fran cesco? And if so, why? Do people down there take to liquor as a surcease from the frustrations involved in finding ' their way from one freeway to another? ' Or is it the smog? AR- Does LA just ARREST more of em when they get lit? . You can't gauge the morals of a town, you know, by the num ber of arrests. The most immoral city in the world MIGHT NOT ARREST ANYBODY. "RACK to politics: President E i s e n hower ap points Fred Seaton, who has been a member of the White House staff serving as deputy assistant to the President in charge of administrative affairs and is a former senator from Nebraska, as secretary of the in terior to succeed Douglas Mc Kay, who resigned from the cab inet to . become the successful Republican candidate for senator from Oregon to' oppose Senator Morse in November. Oddly enough, Senator Morse APPROVES Seaton's appoint ment. He says in Washington this morning: "I have always considered Sen ator Seaton to be a fine public ly bear. But here in Damascus, as in Cario, the emotions that are driving these Arab patriots to serve the Kremlin's purposes are so strong and so inflamed that they never pause to think soberly about the dangers ahead. As .- long as British Middle Eastern policy is largely based on despair, while American Mid dle Eastern policy is a minus quantity, the Kremlin's plan for the Middle East can be expected to go forward from success to success. Copyright 1956, The New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) (VTfc - PHONE 2-8030 '. bg DAY OR NIGHT Leaders watched in capitals throughout the world. Tito seems to have nothing to lose by the visit and a lot to gain. He has said emphatically, at every opportunity, that he does not mean to align himself with Russia again. He seems to mean it. He likes the independ ence he won when he" told the Kremlin eight years ago to go jump in the lake. ; He is likely to go home with more credits to add to the sub stantial ones he already is get ting from Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. It seems likely also that he may get an agreement by which the Kremlin will give the satel lites more freedom of actions-rand increase his own influence in them. News servant. Although he and I do not always agree on natural re source policies, I . have a very high personal regard for him." TTOW come? Senator Neuberger lets the cat out of the bag. He says: "I am very pleased the Presi dent has repudiated the policies of Ex-Seoretary McKay and has gone completely outside the dis credited interior department to obtain a new head for that de partment." He adds: "The naming of Mr. Seaton from entirely outside the interior department is endorsement of the belief that the McKay regime was a failure." rpHE politics of it is this: . The big reason for voting lor McKay as senator from Oregon, (outside the accepted fact that he is competent and able and experienced) is the fact that he is a devoted supporter of Presi dent Eisenhower and the Eisen hower' policies and will back them up in the senate, whereas Senator Morse' is a bitter enemy of President Eisenhower and will VOTE AGAINST HIS POL ICIES at every opportunity. Somehow it must be inadt to appear that Ike doesn't like Mc Kay. So Senator Neuberger goes to bat for his colleague. , , Communications Latter to the Editor mint bear the name and address of the writer although under certain clrcura. stances the use ot a pen name Of initial for publication is permla. rible The Mai Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with at eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words How About Pond? To the Editor: All this talk of the new highway; spoiling good farm land and orchards! Has . anyone wondered how much farm land and orchards have been .done away with out north of town to make room for the new mill pond? . And how-about all the water to fill this pond? We small farm ers across the highway from the pond have been trying to get ir rigation water for years with out success.. Mrs. W, E. Acord 3976 Crater Lake hwy. Medford, Ore. " Congressional Quiz (Copyright, I95 ' Congressional Quarterly) Q Can you name the men who are serving in these key po sitions in the Executive Office of President Eisenhower: (a) As sistant to the President (b) Press Secretary to the President (c) Di rector of the Bureau of the Bud get d) Director of Central In telligence Agency? A (a) Sherman Adams; (b) James C. Hagerty; (c) Pereival F. Brundage; (d) Allen W. Dulles. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads ' The Community's Biggest Marketplace ; CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS
