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Wnt, and on motor routes Daily and Sunday On year $13 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.2ft All lenMLMiimnw Official Paper of tha City of Medford United Prei Full Lease a wira MEMBER Of AUDIT BUREAU micT.Hni i TrtA V ri..fPAW? INC Offices in New York Chicago. De Seattle Portland. St- Lotua Atlanta. Vaneouvw B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHES ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford nd Jackson County History from tha filet of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and lp years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Juna 14. 1946 (It was Friday) Crater Lake National park will open Saturday, June 15. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Cowmen back from the hills, where they left rock salt at strategic points for steers, report they never saw the alleged beef shortage looking finer, and bawling louder. 20 YEARS AGO Juna 14. 193S (It was Sunday) Lake of the Woods is higher now than at any other time since 1917 and the road from Butte Falls is submerged, according to Karl L. Janouch. supervisor of the Rogue River National forest. Shriners from southern Ore gon and northern California will attend ceremonies in Klamath Falls for Hillah Temple cere monies June 20. B0 YEARS AGO June 14. 192S (It was Monday) The coming of the National Guard is one of the big events of the week and the Wednesday surprise bargains of the Medford merchants is another. Congressman W. C. Hawiey announces that the board of Nav al examiners had accepted certi ficate of examination recently issued Ned Harrell of Ashland. 40 YEARS AGO Juna 14. 1916 (It was Wednesday S. S. Bullis says the city coun cil will be asked at its next meet ing to approve the railroad con tract. The annual school election Will be held on Monday, June 19, at 1:30 p.m. to elect a school board director. What's the Answer? 1. Time lost from work be cause of strikes in the first four months of 195S was less, about the same, or much more than in the same months last year? 2. Rio de Janeiro is closer to New York than Lisbon; right or wrong? 3. George Washington was first inaugurated president in Boston, New York, Philadelphia Washington, Annapolis, Md., or his house at Mt. Vernon? 4, Lebanon, a Middle East Arab country, has more Chris tians than Moslems in its popu lation: right or wrong? 5. More fathers or more moth ers are alive in the U. S. today, or about the same number of tach? 6. American troops were sta- tioned in Iceland originally to discourage a Nazi or Soviet at tack? 7. The ten highest mountains in the world are all in the Hi malayan range; right or wrong? The answers: 1. Much more (7.7 million man -days against 5.4 million). 2. Wrong (Rio is 635 miles nearer Lisbon). 3. New York. 4. Right (672.000 Chris tians and 557,000 Moslems In 1949). 5. More mothers. 6. In July 1941 lo guard against Nazi occupation. 7. Right. U.S. AMBASSADOR CHOSEN Montevideo, Uruguay IU.R) The Uruguayan government an nounced Wednesday that Julio Lacarte-Muro would be ap pointed ambassador to the Uni ted States. He now is ambassa dor to Boliva. MAIL TRIBUNE Adenauer and German reunification standing topic of conversation between President Eis enhower and Chancellor Adenauer. 1 At the time of Adenauer's last trip to the United States, in June a year ago, the western powers were perturbed about a surprise Soviet bid to the West Ger man statesman to visit Moscow. Adenauer announced in Washington that he would go to Russia, but he re jected in advance any Soviet offer to agree to German reunification in returnfor a pledge of German neu trality. 1M0SC0W established diplomatic relations with l" West Germany last autumn and then proclaim ed the sovereignty of East Germany. Because it was thus in position to negotiate directly with the two gov ernments, fears persisted that pressure from the peo ple for reunification would eventuate in a neutral Germany. " - '' Today the word is that the Kremlin has lost inter est in neutralizing Germany. Khrushchev is supposed to have said that he prefers 17 million satellite East Germans to 70 million neutral but reunified Germans. He suspects that neutrality would not keep the latter from driving to recover former German territory now in the hands of Poland. A DENAUER reportedly is determined to discuss Khrushchev's "brutal and arrogant views" with President Eisenhower. The chancellor repeatedly has declared for revision of Germany's present eastern boundaries, and the Kremlin as consistently has in sisted that the Oder-Neisse dam must be recognized as permanent. John L. McCloy, former U. S. High Commissioner to Germany, recently suggested that German renunci ation of claims to the lost territories would be the course of wisdom. Fewer main there, and the exodus ment of the claims would fears of German aggression chains binding Poland to Russia. b.K.K. Conscience of the Senate On last Washington's Birthday, the Senate decid ed that the time had come for a thoroughgoing inves tigation of improper or illegal methods used by lob byists and others to influence action by Congress. This followed by five days the Eisenhower veto of the natural gas bill because the methods used to get it passed had violated "acceptable standards of pro priety and had endangered public commence m tne integrity of governmental processes." One vote was cast against the resolution wmcn authorized the investigation. The dissenter was Sen. Langer (R-N.D.) a legislator who often disagrees with his colleagues. On this occasion he. drew atten tion to a clause in the resolution which called for a "report to the Senate by Jan. 31, 1957." Langer said the effect would be to delay any action on badly need ed changes in the corrupt practices statutes until after the 1956 election. I ANGER was assured that the special committee set -4 up for the probe would proceed with diligence and dispatch ; that it would issue interim reports and recommendations; also that the Senate would not wait for a final report but would shortly take up an elec tion reform bill jointly offered by the Senate major ity and minority leaders Sen. Lyndon Johnson, (D Tex.), and Sen. William F. Knowland (R-Calif.). By mid-March, 83 senators had added their names as sponsors of the Johnson-Knowland bill to make a total of 40 Democrats and 45 Republicans. But the bill has not yet been reported for action, and almost nothing has been heard from the special investigating committee appointed in February. Hence it now looks as if Langer had been right; hope that a new Federal Elections Act of 1956 would be enacted by the present Congress is rapidly dimin ishing. E.R.R. The Weeks Ahead This is Corset and Brassiere Market Week (June 11-18). According to the Rubber Fabrics company, several thousand department store buyers will be in New York to see the fall styles of "approximately 175 designers of shape insurance." Curiously, it's also Father-Son Week. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce is offering for 51 cents a compendium of this year's "Special Days, Weeks and Months," which the Chamber says is "as comprehensive as we can make it." The wealth of de tail is almost staggering. COR example, next week (June 17-23) is National Bow Tie Week. And the following week (June 24 30) is International White Bread for Health Week, also National Swim for Health Week. Something really to look forward to (June 30-July 5) is National Hillbilly Homecoming Week. And remember that this whole month i3 Portable Radio Month, also Dairy Month, also National Rag weed Control Month, also American Fresh-Water Pearl Month. Get to controlling that ragweed and diving for those pearls! E.R.R. Multnomah Jury Hears Chief Pureell Portland (U-PJ Police Chief Jim Pureell was the only witness to appear before the Multnomah county grand Jury yesterday in its current probe here. Pureell appeared before the jury In both morning and after noon sessions. He also appeared Tuesday in response to an invita tion tendered by tha jury panel. Thursday, June 14. 1938 Reunification j seems to have become a line established at Pots than a million Germans re is continuing. Abandon help to relieve Poland s and possibly loosen the Greek Scholar, Historian Dies in North Carolina Wake Forest, N.C. June 14 Services were held her today for Dr. George Washington Pascal, widely known Greek scholar and Baptist historian, who died at his home Wednesday. Pascal, who would have been 87 on July 7, had been ill for several months. He had retired from the faculty of Wake Forest college 18 years ago. Chou En-Lai Trying To Talks With By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Chinese Communist Premier Chou-En-lai is trying persistent lv to arrange a conference with Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles. He w a n t s, for one thing, to talk over the future of Formosa, the island strong hold of the Chi nese Na- Charlet HcCann tionalists, which his government says it is determined to get by one means or another. Chou also would like to dis cuss the situation in Korea, in hope that he can get the United States to withdraw its troops. But Chou has not shown the slightest sign that he is prepared to negotiate on any basis which would offer hope of settling either the Formosa or the Korea issues. Nor has he shown that Red China is ready to carry out its promise to free the 13 Ameri cans whom it still holds in pris on. , Is Sitting Tight Hence, Dulles is stitting tight, awaiting some indicaUon that Chou really wants to talk busi ness. What Chou really is after is to get his foot in the door toward the recognition of Red China by the United States and its ad ministration to the United Na tions. American and Chinese Com munist representatives have been meeting about once a week in Geneva, Switzerland, ever since last Aug. 1. The basis for these discussions is the release of American prisoners held in China and other "practical matters affect ing both sides." One of these matters is a pro posed declaration that the Uni ted States and Red China would not resort to force to setUe their disputes. Prisoners Top Item To the United States, the first consideration is to win the re lease of all American prisoners. It looked, after the negotia tions started, that there was hope of success. The Chinese did release 39 Americans. Today and By Walter THE PRESIDENT AND MR. DULLES There is only one subject of public interest, and that is the rate and the charatcer of the President's re covery. On that his doctors alone are qualified to speak, and they have done, so not only in reas suring but in deed in enthu- waiter Uppmann siastic terms. Later on, nowever, after he is out of the hospital and has had time to try himself out it will be the turn of the President him self to speak. Until then, the country must once again resign itself to a period of uncertainty. Had the President not been stricken, there would be many subjects of great public interest. One of them is the sharp con flict on neutrality between what the President tried to say in his press conference on Wednesday and what Mr. Dulles said in his speech at Iowa State College on Saturday. This conflict is all the more surprising in view of the fact that at the press conference the President promised that Mr. Dulles would make it all very clear, "so that we can all under stand what it is we are trying to do in waging the peace." What Mr. Dulles made clear is that he and the President do not think alike, or perhaps we should say that they do not feel alike, on the subject of the nations which refuse to join our military al liances. FOR THE President, who re members our own history as a neutral in respect to the al liances of Europe, it does not seem immoral, or necessarily un wise, if a nation prefers not to align itself in a military pact. For him, such neutrality does not mean indifference "as be tween right and wrong, or de cency and indecency." But for Mr. Dulles, who was in one of his sternest and most righteous moods, neutrality among military alliances is "ex cept under very exceptional circumstances. . .an immoral and shortsighted conception." This is a rather sweeping generalization in view of the fact that in Europe it covers Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, not to speak of Austria and Finland; and In Asia it cov ers India, Burma, Ceylon and Indonesia; that in the Middle East it covers all the Arab states except Iraq: and that if one looks into the facts it would cover a lot of Latin America. Secretary D They promised to release the rest. But they failed to do so, and there has been no progress in the Geneva negotiations since last September. During aU this time Chou, who is the Red Chinese foreign minister, as well as premier, has made it known frequently that he would like to talk to Dulles personally. It has been disclosed belatedly that Chou's latest bid for a talk with Dulles was made in Geneva May 11. Turns Down Bid Dulles has now turned it down. First, he wants the re maining prisoners freed. Second ly, he wants Red China to re nounce the use of force as a means of getting Formosa. Chou has made no new offer on the A1 offer of Fact By Joseph Aisop THE NATION MAKER Jerusalem The face is strong-1 featured and almost square, bright crimson from hard work under the Ne gev sun, and oddly framed by two high standing wings of silver hair. The massive head is far too big for the short, sturdy body.. The -u&epn .isop arms are aiso very short and muscular, and they are often waved, like flippers, to emphasize a point. From these details of the out ward appearance of David Ben Gurion, you might suppose that the Prime Minister of Israel cuts a ridiculous figure. But you would be wrong. Even although he so strongly resembles a large. elderly baby. Sir Winston Chur chill somehow conveys an over whelming impression of personal grandeur. And this mysterious trait of the old Englishman who saved his nation is rather con spicuously shared by the old Jew who made his nation. As Ben-Gurion talks, now philosophically, now with harsh practicality, now with nostalgic recollection of his past struggles you keep 'thinking of Israel's judges (particularly the more beUigerent judges) and Israel's prophets (particularly the tough- Tomorrow Lippmann ViTHAT has brought about the " Eisenhower'-Dulles muddle is that apparently uncontrollable itch in high quarters to utter resounding generalizations. Why was it necessary for the President to discuss neutrality in general and abstract terms? Why was it necessary for the Secretary of State to speak on a subject as if from a mountain top? Do other heads of states and other Foreign Ministers any where feel that they must gen eralize and declare moral judg ments about the policies of other governments? Why then must we suffer this recurrent afflic tion in Washington? The essence of the problem of neutrality and alliances is that it is the problem of each sover eign state, and that there is no general rule. What is best for some states is not necessarily best for all states. The vice of the Dulles position is that- it pre sumes to judge and condemn (on general grounds the policy of many states with whom we Have no quarrel, who have done us no injury, who have as much right as we have to join or to refuse to join particular alli ances. Mr. Dulles should know that his sweeping moral judg ments will win him no allies but can alienate many friends. THE occasion for these untime ly and dangerous utterances is that -certain of the new "mil itary alliances particularly the Southeast Asia Treaty and the Baghdad Pact are causing so much trouble that a reappraisal has become necessary. The Pres ident's friendly remarks on neu trality reflect one aspect to this reappraisal in which he has un doubtedly been participating. Mr. Dulles's harsh remark re flect another side of the reap praisal. They " reflect "the fear that if any concessions, like the President's are, made to, neu trality, the whole fragile struc ture of the alliances wiU crum ble. The crux of the problem is to find ways of reducing the mil itary character of these alliances and of transforming them into agencies of economic coopera tion. The Administration has not yet, however, succeeded in for mulating such a solution of the problem. Fearing that the ex istent system of alliances will dissolve before a new system of cooperation can be worked out, Mr. Dulles Is for public pur poses let us hope for public purposes only grimly standing pat on the pretense that the whole policy is firm and is in no need of serious revision. 1956, The New York Herald Tribune, Inc. mi Arrange ulles prisoners. As regards the use of force, Chou wants merely to loose declaration that the two countries should negotiate the future of Formosa peacefully. It has been disclosed, also be latedly, that Chou on April 9 proposed through Great Britain that a big conference be held to discuss the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Korea. This proposal was rejected also, through the United Nations com mand in Korea, on the ground that the Reds will not agree to free elections by which Korea might be unified. As of now there is no indica tion that the deadlocks in the Geneva negotiations or the Ko rean situation can be ended. But Chou keeps on trying to get Dulles into a conference. er sort of prophets) in the old Bible times. en BEN-Gurion, the sharp, some times unscrupulous p o 1 i t i cian, is there too. So is Ben Gurion, the leader of such ruth less single-mindedness that he was wholly ready to sacrifice the simple Arab peasantry of Pales tine, in order to create the Israeli state. But Nehemiah, for ex ample, was also something of a politician. And Nehemiah was certainly fierce enough towards the "Arabians and the Ammo nites and the Ashdodites" when they tried to stop him rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem alter tne Babylonian captivity. In these days, the Old Testa ment is hardly news. Yet every Western policymaker and every Arab ler.der ought to study it prayerfully, for there is no other way to understand the spirit of David Ben-Gurion, which is also in large measure the spirit of his people. That spirit is a cardinal political fact in the Middle East; and if you do not take it as a fact, you are bound to make the wildest misjudgments and nour ish the most Idiotic false hopes. r EXPLAINS, in the first place, why Ben-iiurion and most of the other Israeli leaders are not at all averse to living in a state of siege almost Indefinitely. The Arab boycott of Israeli trade, the ever present tension on the bord ers, the constant menace of at tack, would cause most Western statesmen to suffer a nervous collapse within a month. But Ben-Gurion plainly finds danger invigorating, and considers that a state of siege has positive ad vantages. - ' "We have gathered in our tribes from all over the earth," he says. "From them -we must make our nation. Those who never held a plough must learn to till the soil. Those who were always humble must learn to be proud. It does not hurt for all our people to know that they must rely on themselves and only on themselves. So the new nation comes to birth. We want peace, but not at any price. And if we cannot get real peace for 10 years or 20 years, why we can stand it. And there will be some blessing in it too." It seems a fantastic statement, in this self-indulgent age. It is made with a slight smile, a quick shrug and the flipper-gesture. But every word of it is plainly meant in deadly earnest. Ben-Gurion is just as serious too, although again he smiles, when he describes how the British Prime Minister tried to persuade him to seek peace, same months ago, by offering important terri torial concessions to the Arabs. "I told Sir Anthony Eden's representative," he says with a happy grin, "that if he really wanted to take this land from Israel, he had better mobilize the British Army." THE SPIRIT that breathes through these remarks is the same spirit that animates Ben Gurion's approach to two prob lems of the most vivid current interest. One is the problem of border incidents, which was sup posed to have been settled, only a few weeks ago, by UN Secre tary General Dag Hammar skjold. If anyone imagines Israeli policy has been changed by Ham marskjold's mission, he is al together wrong. Since the victory over the Arabs in 1948, Israel has always been troubled, and is being troubled today, by constant pin pricks along her borders. With or without the toleration of the Arab governments, border cross ers steal the harvest here, make off with irrigating pipe or ani mals or other valuables there, or open fire on an exposed road or even commit a murder some where else. The Israeli policy al ways has been to wait just so long, and then to order one of those major retaliatory opera tions which have caused so many flare-ups of tension in the last eight years. That is still the Israeli policy. Ben-Gurion argues that if all the little border incidents went unpunished, their numbers would increase and they would grow progressively more serious "until our people would have no security." herefore, he declares grimly, "Israel cannot tolerate In THe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In rhe U.S. senate the other day, Oregon's Richard Neuber ger mads a curiously interesting move. He proposed that federal power commission licenses for (power) dam construction be SUSPENDED in case where li censes have failed to comply with state law. His proposal was in the form of an amendment to a bill spon sored by Senator Barrett of Wyo ming, which would simply re quire federal agencies to observe state water laws. Neuberger's amendment goes considerably farther. He said in introducing it that it would BLOCK construction of the Pelton dam on the Deschutes river by the Portland General Electric company and also a Hell's Canyon dam on the Snake river between regon and Idaho that Is now under construction by the Idaho Power company. SENATOR Neuberber is doing what looks like a good deed. But he has MIXED motives. It may be that his suspension pro posal would strengthen the the ory that the states own their own waters, which was shaken by the recent U.S. supreme court decision authorizing the Portland General Electric company to go ahead with the Pelton dam re gardless of state objections. I think, however, that his pri mary purpose is to block the Pelton dam and the Hell's Can yon dam, both of which are pri vate power projects. Senator Neuberger wants a monopoly of government power in the Co lumbia Basin, and both the Pel- these terrorist acts." TY THE same token, although - the Svrian eovernment has publicly stated that it would be a casus belli, Ben-Gurion also de clared grimly that Israel must proceed this year with the Jor dan water diversion scheme. Wa ter is Israel's lifeblood. The prop er sharing of the Jordan waters has already been planned. Israel will "explore all avenues to avoid a quarrel." But, says Ben- Gurion, "if the Arabs decide to start a fight over this problem, we shall go to work and damn the consequences. What then, you ask the old man, if the consequence to Israel is a war between this tiny nation and all the millions of Arabs? And to this he answers that he will never make a preventive war "Because even a bad peace is better than victory in war. But he will not be frightened or blackmailed, either, by his neigh bors power and his neighbors threats. 'Time," he remarks," "is sup posed to be on our enemies side. But in these last eight years, we have doubled in material strength and we have ' much more than doubled in moral strength, which is the most im portant strength of alL With all their MIG-15s, I do not think that Arab strength has doubled. You say I am not logical. I an swer that only fools look for logic in history. And I tell you, whatever power they may bring against us, Israel will not falter or submit." SYX THIS note ended both the lonp rnnversatinn that T haH with this remarkable man. And both times, as I went out of his simple office, I found myself re calling the passage in which Nehemiah describes how he re fortified Jerusalem a passage often proudly quoted In Israel today. "(In) that time," says the Prophet, "half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the I spears, the shields and the bows, 1 and the habergeons . . . They which buUded on the walls, and they that bare burdens, and those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in work, and with the others held a weapon. For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded." Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune, Inc. ir r ton dam and the Hell's Canyon dam are private power enter prises. Hell's Canyon, in particular. has been made a sacred cause by the proponents of public power. T IS certainly a mixed situa - tion. Down here in Southern Ore gon and Far Northern California we believe about as strongly as we can believe in anything that the states own the water. We fear that if the government estab lishes complete ownership the time wiU come when water will be moved around from state to state and from watershed to watershed according to the the ory of the GREATEST GOOD TO THE GREATEST NUMBER. We feel VERY strongly that the water that falls in our water sheds BELONGS TO US, to be developed by us for our own uses. We feel DEEPLY that if anybody wants to use our water he should COME HERE and use it HERE, where it falls in the first place. We are violenUy op posed to the idea of ANYBODY taking our water away from us for use SOMEWHERE ELSE where population and wealth ara greater, and votes are more nun erous. We feel that well be better able to protect our water under state ownership than under fed eral ownership. We have been disturbed by the implications of the supreme court decision in the Pelton dam case. WS'RE more or less neutral in the resoundinff. tuh - thumn- ing, bonecracking public power battle. We have rib objection to Shasta dam, which is a public power project with important reclamation side issues. We have no objection to the federal dams that have been built in the Co lumbia Basin. As a matter of fact, if the Coumbia Basin wants a public power MONOPLY, we're reany to say that if that's what .they want it wiU be all right with us if they'll just leave us alone. Down here, the only power development we have is private power development. We want it. We need it. We want more in dustrial development, and pow er is an essential for industrial development. We don't want any body STOPPING the only kind of "power development we've been able to get. SO WE'RE a little uneasy over Neuberger's proposal to STOP private power dams that have already been started. All in all, we greatly prefer Senator Bar rett's bill, as it stands, because it proposes simply to require federal agencies to observe state water laws. To us, that seems to cover the situation adequately. Congressional Quiz 'Copyright, I95 ." CongreulonaJ Quarterly) Q Prior to the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in 194B, how many defensive alliance agreements formal pacts to come to the aid of an ally if attacked had the U.S. made in its history: (a) 1 (b) 11 (c) 110 (d) 1,100? A 1. The U.S. had xnede only the French Alliance of 1778. 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