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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
to years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 21, 195S
(It was Friday)
Lightning bolt strikes barn
In Coker Butte district; burns It
to ground, knocks owner, some
cows to the ground.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The sizzling-platter
days, now at hand,
are highly beneficial. They make
the corn grow, put sugar in the
pears, make big potatoes out of
little ones, and hustle the cucum
bers to keep as cool as one.
20 YEARS AGO
June 21. 193B
(It was Sunday)
Frank P. Farrell, Medford at
torney, elected chairman of
Jackson County Republican cen
tral committee at Hotel Medford
meeting.
All major gas companies cut
prices one-half cent per gallon;
premium gasoline at 24 cents
and standard at 22.
10 YEARS AGO
June 21, 1926
(It was Monday)
From Local and Personal col
umn: In fighting a fire in a
residence at La Grande recently,
firemen unearthed about 70
bottles of beer. The occupant of
the house was arrested but de
nied all knowledge of the beer.
Pola Negri's latest film, "The
Crown of Lies," opens at Rialto
today; "Flaming Pola represents
the secret dreams of most girls
who in tancy see inemseives
rising from a humble state to the
gorgeousness and power or a
queen." from News of the
Screen column.
40 YEARS AGO
June 21. 1916
(It was Wednesday)
- Nurserymen's convention In
city this week to feature stere-
opticon lecture in public library
What's ths Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 77
Copr. 1953, Editorial Research
Report
1. Negroes make up (a) 20,
(b)- 30, (c) 45, or (d) 50 per cent
of the population of the District
of Columbia?
2. The 300,000 francs a year
that is the minimum needed
by a Frenchman to meet living
costs is equivalent to about
$760 or SL760?
3. The three bones known as
the hammer, anvil and stirrup
are in the human shoulder,
ankle, ear, elbow, or neck?
4. "My off is all" is. country
Dutch for (a) "I have only an
off sale liquor license," (b) "My
vacation is over," or (c) "I have
nothing but bad luck"?
5. Small privately owned
farms, state farms, or collec
tives predominate in Yugoslav
agriculture?
6. Which two of these were
not in the Confederacy of 1861
65; Florida, Virginia, Maryland,
Texas. Kentucky, Arkansas?
7. Which is the one of the
Seven Wonders of the Ancient
World which has survived to
this day?
The aswers:' I.' 45 per cent
according to Board of Trade
estimate (rise from 35 par cent
by 1950 census). 2. $760 at cur
rent f r a n c-dollar exchange
rates. 3. Ear. 4. "My vacation
is over." 5. Small privately
owned farms. 6. Maryland and
Kentucky weren't 7. Pyramids
of Egypt, . 1
MAIL TRIBUNE
"Creeping Socialism "Again?
It is rather amusing to observe the private-power
press dust off that old cliche about "creeping social
ism." The Republican administration abandoned it
some time ago, as far as federal power projects are
concerned.
It had to do so or be charged with glaring incon
sistency. For even Secretary of the Interior McKay,
came out without reservation for one of the largest
and costliest government development projects ever
proposed namely the Upper Colorado River project.
TFTVA, Bonneville, Grand Coulee and the other fed-
eral multiple-power developments are inventions
of "Old Man Debill". Karl Marx, then the Colorado
project must be.
For there is not even the guise of "partnership"
in this "billion dollar" proposal recently enacted into
law and duly signed by the president.
The government that is, the taxpayers pay all
the expenses with nearly twice the cost of a similar
project at Hells Canyon (which the present adminis
tration opposes) and which will supply far less power.
w
HEN it comes to these
involving huce expenses, slow, sure, but low re
turns, collateral benefitsf in the way of irrigation,
water transportation and' recreation, the private pow
er companies are simply not interested. So, if great
public benefits such as the administration claims for
the Upper Colorado river project are to be enjoyed,
the government must do it.
That has been the contention of the Mail Tribune
for a long time, if the government won't do the job for
the people, the job won't be done.
'
B
UT THIS is no more socialism, creeping or walk
ing, than government
nancial aid to Big Business via tax exemptions, de
pletion allowances, etc., etc., as well as aid to the un
employed and destitute. The government loans the
money but eventually it is paid back.
MEVERTHELESS, with a campaign on there is lit
tie doubt, the old cry of "socialism" will be raised
again, and the time honored definition of Congress
man Ellsworth that this is socialism, which is only an
other term for Russian communism may well be re
vived, although all over the world the orthodox social
ists and communists are laying awake nights trying
to think up schemes for destroying the other.
IT'S THE old, old "army" game.
There is an ebb and flow as there is in everything
else, but the traditional political pattern doesn't
change not much at least. R. W. R.
It All Depends, .
It always depends so much upon whose ox is gored.
Representatives from Colorado, New Mexico, and
other states that will benefit directly from the Upper
Colorado River development, spoke and voted for this
"multiple project" but the same representatives had
been very vocal against federal projects that unlike
private enterprise, pay no taxes.
Some of them claimed that if TVA had to pay
taxes like the private power companies it would have
to charge rates higher than their present competitors
and thus be forced out of business.
Well, a partial answer to that is TVA does pay
large sums in lieu of state and local taxes, and even
larger sums to the government in repayment of the
government loan. t
But the amusing feature is that these same repre
sentatives who were and are so exercised by the tax
angle in Tennessee and probably in Hells canyon
were not similarly disturbed when it came to the Up
per Colorado River project.
In fact, during the debates in congress they dis
missed the tax argument as fallacious because turn
ing non-productive land into productive land in five
states would benefit not only the districts served in
the matter of tax income, but the states and the gov
ernment. No taxes or very low taxes, would be re
placed by a tremendous increase in taxes, local, state,
federal, income and property taxes.
a
T17ELL, they are right the second time.
" There are two sides to the tax angle in the
multiple federal project problem, and Tennessee is a
striking example.
The transformation of that state from a bit of "To
bacco Road" to a thriving, growing and prosperous
commonwealth, has increased tax payments, income
and property by the proverbial leaps and bounds.
We grant the tax item is hard on the pri
vate power companies, and has reduced their rates
and consequently their profits but it ' has not, as
some have claimed, driven them out of business. And
the benefits from the public welfare standpoint have
been tremendous. , ...
After all, in a democracy the public welfare is
rather important ! R. W. R. - "
Stale Funds Under
Highway Bill Told
Washington (U.R) The
amount of federal aid states
would receive in the next three
fiscal years under the compro
mise highway biU includes:
California: $99,500,008 for pri
mary rural-urban roads, $268,-
000.000 for interstate roads, total
$376,500,000.
Oregon: $27,400,000 for pri
mary rural-urban roads, S63.900,
000 for interstate roads, total
$91,300,000.
Washington: $30,000,000 for
pcomary rural-urban roads, $75,-
Thursday. June 21. I9SS
multiple-power projects,
financing of the mails, fi
Sparing Use of Gospel
Music Urged in Churches
Des Moines, Iowa U.R) A
professor of church music warn
ed today that churches should
use "gospel music" sparingly
because It is "well below" the
best churches have to offer.
Dr. Evelyn Hoff of Yankton
(S.D.) College told a church
music conference that "gospel
music is well below the best of
the hymnody of the church,
which expresses the worshipful
praise of the eternal."
500.000 for interstate roads, total
$105,800,000.
'Neutralist' Greece Seen Aim
Of USSR bv Shepilov's Visit
M
By CHARLES McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia is due to make
a strong bid next week to steer
Greece toward a "neutralist"
policy.
Dmitri T.
Shepilov, Rus
sia's new for
eign minister,
Athens next
Thursday for a
two-day visit
It is evident
that Shepilov
chanw Mccana nopes 10 capi
talize on the Cyprus situation by
weakening Greece's ties with its
Western allies.
Advices from Europe say he
intends to seek a political agree
ment for closer Greek-Russian
relations, offer Greece important
trade and credit concessions and
try to increase cultural ex
changes. It is a development that the
Western allies will need to watch
closely.
Greece NATO Member
Greece is a member of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiz
ation. It is allied with Turkey,
a fellow NATO member, and Yu
goslavia in a Balkan defense
treaty.
But the Cyprus situation has
weakened Greece's cooperation
with the Western allies mater
ially. Greece is bitterly angry over
Great Britain's refusal to sur
render Cyprus. Greek air force
Today and
By Walter
A DEPRESSING VISIT
Although he was unable to
have much of a talk with the
President, Dr. Adenauer accom
plished just
about what he
came for. This
was to reas
s u r e himself
and to demon
strate to the
West Germans
that he has the
u n q u a 1 if ied
support of the
United States
government.
Walter Lippmann
This he' got from Mr. Dulles.
He got a public commitment
which appears to say that we
shall come to no agreement with
the Soviet Union on any issue
for example the regulation of
armaments or the Middle East
unless Moscow accepts Dr. Ade
nauer's terms for the reunifica
tion of Germany. This would
mean that Moscow must allow
East Germany to be absorbed
by West Germany, and that it
must allow a reunited and re
armed Germany to remain with
in the NATO military system.
This sounds bold, high-principled
and uncompromising un
til we look and see what Dr.
Adenauer and Mr. Dulles pro
pose to do about it if Moscow
continues to refuse their terms.
The answer is that they have no
way of compelling, and no way
of inducing, the Soviet govern
ment to throw in the sponge.
They can complain that Ger
many is divided. But Germany
despite their complaints will
still remain divided.
A divided Germany, as we
know from what Khruschev told
the French Prime Minister a few
weeks ago, is just what the
Kremlin wants. Khruschev will
not be sorry to have Dr. Ade
nauer and Mr. Dulles insisting
on terms for the reunification of
Germany which nobody expects
Moscow to accept, terms which
a very large mass of Germans
themselves do not think it rea
sonable to ask Moscow to ac
cept. The net result of the Adenauer-Dulles
declaration is to
make it as easy as possible for
the Russians to refuse to nego
tiate while Dr. Adenauer is at
the head of the German govern
ment. 1ITHY then, we must ask our
selves, do these two ex
perienced statesmen take a posi
tion which is an insuperable ob
stacle to the reunification which
they say they wish to promote?
Almost certainly because there
is to be a general election in
Germany next summer, and Dr.
Adenauer is in political trouble
at home. He is under mounting
attack from the Social Demo
crats on the left, from his former
allies the Free Democrats on the
right, and from important ele
ments in his own Christian Dem
ocratic Party.
The cause of the trouble is
loss of confidence in the policy
which he and Mr. Dulles have
just reaffirmed in Washington.
A growing mass of the West
Germans do not believe that
they can rearm within NATO
and at the same time induce the
Soviets to abandon East Ger
many. The Adenauer terms are
tantamount to a demand for un
conditional surrender on all the
vital issues. To demand uncondi
tional surrender is wishful think
ing and reaching for the moon.
Faced with a loss of confi
dence at home, Dr. Adenauer
l-t !iclS Is to arrive in
planes have started to intercept
British air liners flying over
Greece on the allegation that
they have deviated from a pre
scribed air lane.
Greek relations with Turkey
are approaching the danger
point.
It is reported from London
that Turkey has informed Brit
ain that it will land troops in
Cyprus, if necessary, to prevent
Greece from taking it over.
Once Under Turkish Rule
There is no reason to doubt
this. Turkey has made it plain
that if Britain surrenders Cy
prus, Turkey must get it.
Cyprus was under Turkish
rule from 1571 until 1878, when
it came under British administra
tion. The island is 43 miles from
the Turkish mainland and 683
miles from Greece. Greece never
has owned it.
In view of Greece's deteriorat
ing relations with Britain and
Turkey, Shepilov's visit could
not have been better timed.
Athens dispatches have dis
closed that Shepilov was not in
vited to make the visit. He ar
ranged it through Michael Serg
eyev, the Soviet ambassador to
Greece. It will come after Shep
ilov's visit to Egypt, Syria and
Lebanon.
Pressure On Premier
Greek political parties in op
position to Premier Constantine
Karamanlis plan to bring pres
sure on him to use the Shepilov
visit to head toward "neutral-
Tomorrow
Lippmann
came to Washington for help.
He wanted proof that the United
States government, which has
conferred such enormous bene
fits on West Germany, is whole
heartedly behind him and his
personal policy. He means it to
be understood that to oppose
Adenauer in Germany is to run
afoul of Eisenhower and Dulles
in Washington.
If we are not very careful, we
shall find that the American
connection with Germany has
become a party issue and that
we are identified with the politi
cal future of Dr. Adenauer him
self.
"R. DULLES was more than
willing. For he and Dr. Ade
neuer are of one mind in wish
ing to stand pat on the formu
lae which were worked out in
the Stalin era and before the
hydrogen bomb.
It is not that the old formulae
promised good results. They are
at a dead end. It is that both
men shrink from what they fear
might happen if they conceded
anything. Dr. Adenauer is too
old to change, and too far com
mitted. And Mr. Dulles is so
used to Dr. Adenauer and so far
committed to him that he would
rather not have to deal with any
one else.
The hope that inspired the
Adenauer-Dulles talk was not
that they could reunify Ger
many. It was that the old rou
tines might still be good enough
to see ur. Adenauer through the
German elections of 1957.
THERE Is no telling how much
Tlr AHanona. nnll 1 1 1 1
... .r 11 uc llcipcu.
But we may be sure that he and
Mr. Dulles have done nothing to
reinspire and to reinvigorate the
Western alliance. They have re
minded the world that their idea
of how to lead an alliance is to
dig in and to refuse to move.
"I consider the new tactics of
the Soviet Union more danger
ous than the previous aggressive
conduct," said Dr. Adenauer at
Yale. And how does he pro
pose to meet the new and more
dangerous tactics? By saying
again and again what he was
saying before the new and more
dangerous tactics were adopted.
Is this the way to keep the
confidence of democratic na
tions who are looking for wise
and resourceful leadership? It
is the abdication of leadership
by old and tired men.
TT is safe to predict that if the
leadership of the West is to be
like these Washington talks
inflexible, sterile, unrealistic
and wishful then the troubles
of the Western alliance will be
come worse and worse. The al
liance will crumble if it is led
by men who think it a virtue to
be unchanging in a changing sit
uation. The challenge put forth by
post-Stalinist Russia is immense,
and the Western world is in a
desperate need of statesmen to
show the way and to lead it on.
It may well turn into a trag
edy of historic proportions that
in none of the capitals of the
big powers of the Western world
is there a government with the
vision to see and the energy to
act that the leadership of the
West is in the hands of preoc
cupied and harried men in Lon
don, of weak and distracted men
in Paris, of a very old man in
Bonn, and of a sick man in
Washington.
(Copyright 1956, The
New York Herald Tribune. Inc.)
Leading in this is the Union of
the Democratic Left party. The
Communist party is outlawed in
Greece. The Union of the Demo
cratic Left, however, follows the
Communist line.
How much of a bill of goods
Shepilov will be able to sell Kar
amanlis and Evangelos Averoff,
his new foreign minister, re
mains to be seen.
It would not be surprising,
however, if Greece used the
Shepilov visit to play the East
against the West, as Egyptian
Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser is
doing.
In any event, the visit portends
nothing but trouble for the West
ern allies.
In Ihe Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
By FRANK JENKINS
Foreign affairs stuff:
France's Pineau (pronounced
PEE-NO) and our Dulles are
closeted in our state department,
where they are discussing what
the correspondents term "far-
ranging" foreign policy prob
lems. In the discussions Pineau is
expected to urge the United
States to give firm support to
the French government in its
battle to crush rebel national
ists in Algeria.
TTMMMMM. Let's see.
AJ- Pineau, one presumes. Is
arguing that Algeria is a part of
what is called "metropolitan'
France. He is pointing out, one
takes it, that Algeria sends rep
resentatives to the French na
tional assembly, which is the
French equivalent of our cong
ress. He is urging that the Al
gerians have their own assem
bly, whose members are elected
by the people.
About the only string the
French government has on Al
geria is the governor-general
who js appointed in Paris.
fFHAT is to say:
- Algeria's relationship to
France is about the same as the
relationship of Alaska to the
United States. Pineau is un
doubtedly suggesting to Dulles
that if armed rebellion arose in
Alaska the U. S. would take
steps to put it down by armed
force (as France is doing in Al
geria) and if we couldn't put
down the rebellion by ourselves
we'd probably ask our allies for
help.
So.
' He's' (probably) asking us to
help put down the rebellion in
Algeria.
AT THIS point, let's ask a
Jr- question:
How did Algeria get to be a
part of France?
It happened like this: Back in
1830, a French consul was in
sulted by the ruler (called the
dey) of Algeria. So France, in
vaded and conquered the coun
try and took over the govern
ment and has hung onto it ever
since.
We at least BOUGHT Alaska
T ETS try another comparison.
" In a way, we took over
Arizona and New Mexico by
force. At any rate, Arizona and
New Mexico were a part of
Mexico, and somewhat more
than a century ago we claimed
that Mexico had insulted us, so
we went to war with her. We
won the war, and as a part of
the setUement we took over a
considerable amount of terri
tory that had been Mexico's,
and Arizona and New Mexico
were included in the loot. We
salved our consciences with a
little buying, including what
was known as the Gedsden pur
chase. But In general we took the
territory by force, just at the
French took Algeria.
T WOULDN'T be surprised if
Pineau is reminding Dulles
of aU this and suggesting deli
cately to him that if armed re
bellion arose in Arizona and
New Mexico we'd put it down
by force, and if we couldn't
wangle it might ask our allies,
including France, for help.
DUT that way,, his proposal
that we help lick the socks
off the Algerian rebels is at
least arguable from the stand
point of diplomacy and historic
international custom.
There's a difference, how
ever. The difference is this:
Our states of Arizona and
New Mexico and our territory
Of Alaska AREN'T REBELLING
AGAINST THE UNITED
STATES. They don't want out
of the Union. They don't want
to run their own shebang as in
dependent nations.
npHEY want to stay in the USA.
Nothing could induce them
After-Eating
Hangover?,r
Always carry Toms for top-speed
relief of acid distress. No mixing,
do waiting. Take Toms anywhere.
OT0c'hJ Mt THE TUMMY
Matter of Fact ey j0Ph ai.oP
ISRAEL'S MEANING
Jerusalem In a whole series
of different ways, it is an eye
openin cxnerience to visit
Israel. After a
long struggle
with red tape,
you pass
through the
Mandel b a u m
onto frnm A T-
( ab Jerusalem
J to Israeli Je-
i rusalem. I n-
stantly you
..wpa Aisop are breathing
a new air, observing a new land
scape and seemg the future in
a new perspective.
Essentially, Israel is so differ
ent from the surrounding Arab
lands, and . indeed from the
countries of the West too, be
cause this is a place where they
believe in miracles. They be
lieve in miracles, in turn, be
cause they have accomplished
miracles.
When you consider the mas
sive counter-forces that were
overcome, the creation of the
state of Israel was in itself a
miracle. So was the transforma
tion of this once barren and un
fruitful land into a rich and
smiling landscape of vineyards
and orchards, fertile fields and
grassy meadows, populous busy
towns and productive industries.
A GAIN, the transformation of
the people themselves is al
so touched with miracles. For
here the Jews of the Diaspora
have been gathered, from both
sides of the iron curtain, from
Africa and from Asia. Peddlers
from Casablanca casbah have
been made into sturdy farmers
as I saw at a new cooperative
farm. Long-locked Jews from
the pre-medieval ghettos of the
Yemen have become steelwork-
ers of a high technical cate
gory, as I was shown in a new
pipe extrusion plant.
And these and all the others
in this enormous gathering in of
the tribes are being rapidly
merged into the national whole,
and turned into Israelis in the
full sense of the word.
The state, the land, the peo
ple, in short, all in different
Congressional
Quiz
(Copyright, 195
Congressional Quarterly)
Q Which of the following re
quire the signature of the Pres
ident for enactment into law?
(a) bills; (b) joint resolutions
(c) simple resolutions; (e) orders
A (a) and (b). Both are
enrolled in the list of public
or private laws when action is
completed. A traditional dif
ference in subject matter is
observed in drafting bills and
joint resolutions. The funda
mental difference, according
to a 1909 court opinion, is that
an enacted bill "governs all
persons under tha jurisdiction
of ihe enacting power" while
a joint resolution is "but a
rule for the guidance of tha
sovereign."
Q Under the terms of a
treaty the U.S. acquired what is
now California, Nevada, Utah,
New Mexico, Arizona, a corner
of Wyoming and the - western
slope of Colorado. Which treaty
was it: (a) Hay-Pauncefote Trea
ty; (b) Treaty of Guadelune Hi
dalgo; (c) Webster -Ashburton
Treaty?
A Treaty of Guadalupe Hi
dalgo in 1848, which ended
the war with Mexico. The trea
ty was negotiated by an unau
thorized person, Nicholas P.
Trlit, whose credentials had
been withdrawn by President
Polk because he was diaiat
isfied with an armistice Triit
negotiated. But tha treaty was
promptly ratified by tha Sen
ate. to get out because they know
they're better off in the USA
than they could be ANYWHERE
ELSE. The Algerians feel differ
ent. They want out of France.
That puts a different face on
the whole affair.
ways represent achievements
which any rational, practical
forecaster would have held to
be utterly impossible only 10
or 20 years ago. Therefore there
is a mood here going far beyond
the mood of the old Scotch song
"What other men dare, we
can do." Here the mood is "We
can dare and do far beyond
other men."
pHE prevalence of that mood
L makes the very air of Israel
quite remarkably exhilarating
to anyone accustt.med to the
moods of other lands, where de
featism and materialism, self-in
dulgence and despair, suspicion
and self-seeking so often seem to
compete for dominance.
But while this Israeli mood M
so exhilirating in itself, it is
also a hard political fact that
must be Judged cold-bloodedly.
like all other hard political
facts.
The Israeli mood, for Instance,
makes nonsense of the State De
partment's complacent trumpet
in gs about the "success" of UN
Secretary General Dag Hammar
skjold's. Middle Eastern peace
mission. So far as can be ob
served, Hammarskjold had no r
long range success of any kind.
He certainly did not succeed
in persuading the Arabs to ac
cept the existence of the state
of Israel. More immediately im
portant, he certainly did not
succeed in persuading the Israe
lis to abandon those policies
which may lead to an outbreak
of war with the Arabs.
ON THE contrary, from Prima
Minister Ben-Gurlon to th
simplest private in the army, tha
Israelis are all but unanimous
that their national security de
pends on meeting Arab terror
istic acts along their borders
with stern military reprisals
against the Arab governments.
And from Prime Minister Ben
Gurion to the poorest farm
worker, the Israelis are all but
unanimous that their national
future depends on going forward
with the Jordan water diversion
scheme, which the Arabs hav
said will mean war.
The Israelis are people, more
over, who think very little about
risks, including even the risk
of war, when they are convinced
that their national security and
national future are genuinely at
stake. They must further be ex
pected to be even more careless
of all risks, if Soviet Foreign
Minister Shepilov climaxes his
Cairo visit by announcing th
Kremlin's support for a reduc
tion of Israel to the frontiers
proposed in the UN partition
scheme of 1947. That will be a
threat to end Israel as a work
able state; and the Israelis will
be all the more inclined towards
an early showdown.
TN ANOTHER way, too, view
- ing the mood of Israel as a
hard political fact makes non
sense of the opinions now pre
vailing in Washington and Lon
don. It is highly unlikely that
the Arabs will ever make peace
in return for the little bits of
Israel that Prime Minister Eden
and Secretary of State Dulles
have tried to persuade the Is
raelis to sacrifice. The effort to
persuade the Israelis to make
serious territorial concessions
was even more unrealistic. As
Prime Minister Ben-Gurion
bluntly informed Prime Minist
er Eden, the Israelis will fight
first. There should be no mis
take about that.
In short, grim courage and
ruthless self-denial make Israel
intensely admirable as a human
accomplishment, but this same
courage and self-denial also
make Israel highly intractable
as a political fact. There is no
use saying about the Israelis,
"They ought to do differently."
They will not behave as many
Western policy - makers think
they should behave, because A
that is not their nature. And'
one must add, they only exist
today because that is not their
nature.
Copyright New York Herald
Tribune. 1956
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