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Old Sol is now busy putting sugar in the pears and makin big potatoes out of littlf ones. 20 YEARS AGO July 19. 193S (It was Sunday) The annual Rod Cross swim mi:'3 and liff saving school will (.pen al Sf A.m. tomorrow at Nata t'lrium Willi Ivnn A Fowler, in charge. Fix e members of the Medford Gun club. Including its president, T E. Daniels. Jack Porter. George Barnum. Dr. Edward Durno and John Tolin, have re turned from a tournament in Bn'ish Columbia. 30 YEARS AGO July 19. 1925 (It was Monday) Cadet Hans W. Holmer. class of 1927. United States Military academy. West Point, selected as assistant business manager on the Howitzer staff. From Local and Fersonal col umn: Mrs. Arthur Brown and daughter returned yesterday from Eugene, where they spent a short lime with friendc 40 YEARS AGO July 19. 1S16 (It was Wednesday) Manager Brevard of the Med ford club has stated that class A baeball will remain hrre as long as public support justifies it. Local Knights of Pythias re-1 ceived copy of the program for the convention of the supreme lode in Portland Aim. 1-10. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cjr FriMnnal Rfcareb Rpporl t. The auto inriustrv made i about one-fourth f wer ears in first than in first half or one-naif 'lfiSU19 number, or io'Per ! ident Eisenhower said that the October foreign min isters' meeting would provide the ''acid test." warned about same cent more" dr.vierm'enew ma-.icaiiy in every state of the ! 'TTvich'mcT b ron5'' - bower !cabine7l!isCa0memherCof the Mormon Church? 4. Largest West Indies island in Hispaniola. Cuba, Puerto i Rico, irininad. .Martinique or ' 2s. Jamaica" 5. About ia) 5. ib 15. (c or id' e.i per cent of all U.S rtn-,ifcric ciiri-ante 'liv in"' 6 a harem is or isn't much i uan arms deal came out into tne open, the Keel lead the same thu-.s; as a seraglio? , ers' tour of Southern Asia immpdiatplv after the rnn- 7. Waiter Ulbricht is president of Switzerland. West German f .ireicn minister, east German Red ieadcr. or president of Au- The answers: 1. About on fourth fewer. 2. Wrong; mult take examinations in torn. 3. Sec y of Agriculture Benson. 4. Cuba. 5. About IS per cent. 6. Is. 7. Red leader in East Ger many. a new federal grade of beef j -u.s. standard-went on sale j primeL rho?ce good" standard, j commercial and utility. I MAIL TRIBUNE Wa Does Panama Want? The red carpet will be out for President Eisenhow this wpfk- pnrl. hut. beneath it will be a 'number of inter-American stumbling block?. On the : record the Panama conference is supposed to be large- , T. 11 - -1 i. ..1. i-T lOA.U V, vm' iv ceremonial, it was eaneu to maiA uie iouui anni versary of the Pan American conference of 1826 that led to the founding eventually of the Pan American Union in 1S0O. That organization was succeeded by the Organization of American States in 1948. But as recent economic conferences of the O.A.S. nave ueiiiu;i.-uctit--u, uic uuu .""'-i iv."" nv. j. state? feel that they have been relatively neglected by the United States' in favor of massive aid to such ! Soviet-inclined nation? a? Yugoslavia. Now they're ! saying that Communism is offering real competition ' to'the United States in the lands south of the border, j Adolph A. Berle, Jr., former Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to Brazil, reports that Russia is ready and probably willing to buy up South Ameri can surpluses and pay for them in gold. That commod ity could be translated into the U.S. dollars needed by the capital-starved Latin American nations. "This amounts," Berle to the United States to put . ... . try, the United States can not put up." "PHE NEXT economic conference of the O.A.S. is scheduled for next year, probably in August. Meantime, here are some of the concrete forms of aid the Latinos are urging the United States to extend. They want some form of stabilization for agricul tural markets. This might take the form of U.S. price supports for Latin American raw materials and com modities, particularly cocoa and coffee. And they would' like to see an inter-American bank established with the U.S. furnishing most of the funds, but with Latin Americans as manager?. Still another proposal is a special United Nations inter American fund, with the U.S. contribution in the nature of 50,000,000 annually coming from taxes the U.S. collects from firms operating in Latin Amer ica. TTHAT President Eisenhower's concern for hemis- pheric solidarity is real is demonstrated by the very fact that he is flying down to Panama less than a month after the final sutures of his recent intestinal operation were removed. The conference originally had ben scheduled for June 24. President Ricardo Arias Espinosa of Panama, who had called the conference, suggested a postponement to the other heads of states. The new date was arrang ed after consultation with the White House. President Eisenhower's brother, Milton, is report ed to have urged him to attend even after the opera tion. On his return from a good-will tour in 1953, Dr. Eisenhower said that Latin America's greatest need was U. S. capital for industrial expansion. The Pana ma trip was strongly urged, too, by Henry F. Holland, Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American af fairs. E.R.R. A Year After Geneva Yesterday (July IS) marked the first anniversary of the opening of the Geneva "summit" conference of the Big Four heads of state. Said President Eisenhower at that time : Some 11 years ago 1 came to Europe with an army, a navy, an air force, with a single purpose: to destroy Nazi ism . . .This time I come armed with something far more powerful: the good will of America . . . the aspiration of America for peace. ... 1 hose were the words of President Eisenhower on arriving at Geneva for the Big Four conference a vear j ago. Thev presaged what was to become known as ! . 1 . s ,, , . , , , . trie "Geneva spirit, the most amiable atmosphere m East-West relations since the beginning of the Cold; War What rins harmonf.rl to thnt snirit in 1 months'' i ' " 1"! "THE conference itself, though long on atmosphere, j n A o cVl rn nnnpvntn -t was short on concrete East remained split on German reunification. The Big Four foreign ministers were to meet in October to ' work over the disarmament proposals of the four pow j ers. Two days after the conference ended, the United 'States and Red China announced that thev would 1'SlSe Uieir Ueneva dlSCUSSlOnS Irom a Consular tO an I ambassadorial level. In his July 25 report to against believing that "one week of friendly, even fruitful negotiations can wholly eliminate ... a gulf as anc ceeP" a? tnat between West and East. He 'dK however, that he and "every other individual who was at Geneva" felt for Peace DETWEEX Geneva in July and Geneva in October, JJ the Reds began their drive to crack open the ; est s position m the Middle Last. The Czecho-Egyp-: ference ended was another venture to promote "neu tralism" and "anti-colonialism." As for the foreign ministers' conference itself, it ended on Nov. 16 without agreement on a single item on the agenda. Secretary of State Dulles on Nov. IS in a report to the people said that "in the sense of peaceful competition," the cold war would "inevitably go on. u as the Geneva Well, the Russians were the indispensable conditions for a secure peace.'' The Reds by refusing to negotiate on reunification of Ger - man "to which they had specifically agreed last July'' had "seriously set back the growth of any confidence Thursday. July 19. 1958 contends, to an invitation Up or shut Up. The Soviet J- i . v" "- I v agreement, m--,-ir,T n-r t TM-i r W -icf- i,-il the American people, Pres- the "longing of mankind" spirit dead . "not yet ready to create German Unity Deadlock Shown In Formal Policy Statements By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent A complete deadlock has been reached on the question of unifying Germany. Russia say V anv um f l c a- t i o n negotia tions must be conducted, at least at the start, between the govern ments of West Germany and East Germany. cha.-ies Mciann West Germany says just as firmly that it will not. in any circumstances, nego tiate with the East German Communist regime. This seems to mean that it will be impossible to find any basis for negotiations for many months to come. It means also that there will be little hope of making any progress in disarmament negoti ations. The two problems are interlocked. West Germany's stand was proclaimed formally on June 28 bv Foreign Minister Heinricn Von Brcntano in behalf of Chan- Matter of Fact ELECTRONIC POLITICS Washington Is television a new and revolutionary' political ins'rnripnt H-tined to change radically and forever the style of the American po 1 i t i c a 1 cam paign? Or is it just another medium, among many, for reaching the voters? f 1 ..smu The coming election ought to give a fair idea of the answers to these ques tions, simply because the Re publican campaign strategists are proceeding in the first as sumption, and the Democrats on the second. The Republican campaign will be pitched directly at the view " , " ""l ers of the na lion's 40 mil lion television sets. The pitch will Gtart in earnest at the convention in San Francisco. Chairman Len Hall and Cam paign Director Robert Hum- 0 Stewart Alsop phreys have recruited Hollywood actor George Murphy to direct the contention, much as a Holly wood director directs a motion picture. Murphy's problem is more complicated, of course. His main object is to keep the television viewers glued to their sets, de spite a total lack of suspense about the outcome, right up to the grand climax of the Presi dent's acceptance speech. To that end. he hopes to treat the tele vision viewers to an orderly and entertaining spectacle, rather than a continuing mob scene. TJUT convention delegates, though sheep-like in other re spects, are not subject to orders as movie extras. No convention in history for example, has ever started on schedule. Murphy plans to deal with this problem b' recruiting the most attractive "oll.J;W0Cl attractins - if not Marilvn Monroe the next best thine to appear on the platform at ten in the morning, with the bleary-eyed delegates thus lured by beauty from their beds, the gavel will bang before a full ouse at eleven. And the show :ei)l crnt nnlor ti-n,. If the Hall-Humphreys-Murphy plans work out, the convention will be just that a show, and a good one. There will be plenty of professionally acted plays and pageants, naturally extoll- inrt oil tt-iinrte PonnVilian in carry the television viewers through the dull spots. And there will be an absolute mini mum of long-winded speeches. According to present plans, the main speakers will be form er President Herbert Hoover and Thomas E. Dewey. But Hoover, Dewey and other speakers will be urged to keep their speeches to a maximum of 25 minutes hardly a warm-up for the tradi tional convention speech, and large numbers of would-be ora tors like George Bender, hard pressed Ohio senator are being : poIltely but y.ouraged. ZITHER still tentative conven- -' tion plans included a tele vised dramatization of the Re publican platform, with Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles, for example, briefly summariz ing the foreign policy plank and speaking more or less off the cuff on "what Eisenhower for eign policy means for our fu ture." The whole show, of course, will be a build-up for the climatic moment, the Presi- that the free world can J j promises." 1 Still, the Reds did not seem to want "to revert to ! the earlier reliance on threats and invectives." In that ; sense, "the 'spirit of Geneva' survives." E.R.R. cellor Konrad Adenauer. Brentano said: (1) No agree-, ment is possible on disarmament as long as Germany remains di vided. (2) The West German gov ernment refuses absolutely to negotiate the unity issue with the East Germans. This statement represented no change in attitude. It got little attention. Its importance was that it was a formal statement of policy which Brentano read to the West German Parliament. Russia's attitude was stated, just as formally, in the commu nique issued in Moscow Tuesday after a conference between So viet leaders and a big delega tion of East German officials. The communique said: "The restoration of German unity is the affair of the Ger man people themselves. . . There is only one way to unite Ger many and that is by means of talks and negotiations between the governments of both Ger man states." This likewise represented no change in Soviet policy. Its im portance lay, like Brentano's statement, in the fact that it was By Joa and Stewart Alsop dent's acceptance speech. The climax may be delayed to Thurs day. August 23rd, instead of Wednesday as originally plan ned, in order both to appease the San Francisco merchants and allow more time for the build up. The campaign to follow will be aimed equally squarely at the voter with a television set. More than S2 million in tele vision time has already been contracted for, through the ad vertising firm of Batton, Barton, Durstine, and Osborne. The time will be divided between 35 "five-minute" spots on major shows and ten full half-hour periods on national hook-ups. The President himself is ex pected to appear on only five or six of the half hour shows, al though this number may well be lipped in the heat of the cam paign. The other periods will be devoted to what Chairman Hall likes to call "productions," rather than speeches perhaps a serial report by cabinet mem bers, perhaps a cabinet meeting, shows like last winter's success ful "Salute to Eisenhower," and so on. Closed circuit television will also be used, so that the President can "say a few words" to Republican get - togethers about the-country. 4 S these plans suggest. Chair man Hall and the other Re publican strategists are con vinced that modern merchandis ing methods married to televis ion have basically altered tra ditional political techniques. The Democrats scoff at this theory, perhaps because they simply don't have the money to pay for the Republicans' kind of television campaign. Only the traditional whistle stopping, the Democrats claim, can lend a campaign the needed color, movement and vigor. The election in November should provide some interesting clues on whether, as the Repub lican strategists believe, we are in the midst of an "electronic revolution in politics." Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication ia permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Greatness of Heart? To the Editor: This is ad dressed to the people of Med ford, Oregon: In utter amazement have I just finished reading an article stating the difficulties encounter ed by the Southern Oregon Humane Society to keep open their doors. Must a city the size of Med ford depend on the compassion and generosity of one man to give succor to the helpless and injured four footed creatures of God? Surely, somewhere . in your beautiful valley there are others who have this same greatness of heart who will share the mon etary burden of keeping so vital an institution free from the fear of a darkened door. Mrs. Robert Erismann 336 S.W. Woods st. Portland, 1, Ore. BIRD BANDIT Memphis, Tenn. (U.P.) Mrs. J. R. Hamm found a thief in her backyard here a sparrow. The bird swooped down and plucked a feather from the back of a doz ing duck. He flew away and re turned for another, but the duck awoke and chased the "pick pocket" away. iustifiablv Dlace on Soviet a formal policy declaration. The Moscow communique seems to constitute the Kremlin declaration of war on Adenauer which was suggested as likely after the recall of Valerian A. Zorin, Russian ambassador to West Germany. In the conference with the East Germans, the Kremlin promised to build up their re gime by means of closer eco nomic cooperation. As part of this, the Soviet delegation prom ised to halve the cost to East Germany of the Russian occupa tion forces. It also promised East Germany long-term credits on easy terms. It has now been announced that Zorin will be attached to the Soviet foreign ministry as one of the several deputy min isters. There is every probability that Zorin will be given charge of the German situation. It would be his job to direct a propaganda campaign against Adenauer. Much of this propa ganda would be pointed toward the national election to be held in West Germany next year. Specifically it would be aimed at trying to intensify opposition to Adenauer among the social ists and other elements in West Germany. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Searches for lost people are a part-of the news in Oregon and elsewhere. Up in the Willamette valley, in the vicinity of Dallas, a tim. ber worker got lost in the woods while marking trees on a tree farm. Word of his plight got around and 50 people turned out to help hunt for him. Eventually he found his way out to a road and got home. The search was called off as rapidly as the searchers could be found and apprised of the situation. Fortunately, none of them got lost. rN THE McKenzie region of L Lane county, a fisherman failed to return to camp and searchers turned out to find him. He was located eventually in his boat, which was grounded on a gravel bar. He had no idea which way to go to get to camp, so he was wisely sitting tight and waiting until someone found him. 4 SILVERTON family, oppres sed by the heat of yesterday, took off late in the afternoon for beautiful Silver Falls park to cool off and enjoy a picnic sup per, rts tne snaaes ot evening tell, a three-year-old boy was missed. Everybody in the Dark joined in the search, which was fruitless. When they got back to town to organize a search on a larger scale, they found the tot safe at home. He had caught a ride with friends in another car. So the story had a happy end ing. H ARDLY a day passes with- people lost in the woods or elsewhere. Are we moderns los ing our sense of direction? The answer, I think, is NO. It's just our fabulous modern communications. When anybody gets lost, EVERYBODY in a range of hundreds of miles knows about it almost instantly, and turns out to help in the search. TARK this: The help-each-other spirit is just as strong in these modern days as it was back in the pi oneer period. We AREN'T cold and selfish and hard-hearted and self-centered, as the disgruntled cynics would have us believe. We moderns are just as warm hearted as the ancients. TROM lost persons, let's turn A to petty crime which makes headlines in profusion every day. Over in Coos Bay, the man ager of a food store and his wife were held up by a couple of masked gunmen, who forced them to open the safe. They were then bound up tight and left. The store manager, when they were found and liberated, said the bandits slugged him with a pistol when he tried to catch a glimpse of their faces. Down in Hayward, in the Bay Area, the woman credit manager of a clothing store was stepping up to the night deposit slot of a bank branch when she was ap proached by a well-dressed man who pulled a gun and said: "I'll take the bag. if you don't mind." He added: "I'd just as soon shoot you as not." She gave him the bag and fled. And so on. Stories like that are flesh and blood of the news. ARE we moderns getting wick eder? I doubt it. There is the story, as told by Luke, of the certain man who went down from Jeru salem to Jericho and fell among thieves which stripped him of his raiment and wounded him and departed, Isaving him half dead. That was a long time ago. I expect a lot of things like that were happening all the time, back in those days. In propor tion to the population, these in- Today and By Walter THAT BLACK CAT Mr. Dulles on neutralism has been behaving for all the world like the man who went into a dark room looking for a black cat that wasn't there. The black cat that Mr. Dulles has been looking for is a univer sal all - pur pose definition Waiter Lippmann of neutrality which will announce the exact temperature of our official mor al disapproval. He seems to feel that it is somehow the business of the United States, and of him self as Secretary of State, to pronounce a wholesale blanket verdict on all countries which do not belong to NATO, SEATO or METO, on countries as diverse as India and Ireland, as Sweden and Egypt, as Switzerland and Yugoslavia. Because this cannot be done, he has within the past month or so found it necessary to contra dict the President, to contradict the Vice President who had con tradicted the President, and to contradict himself. QJUCH a thing ought not to hap- pen in a well conducted gov ernment. For it betrays our con fusion of mind which is more damaging than the attacks of our adversaries. On June 9 at Ames, Iowa, Mr. Dulles declar ed that, except under very ex ceptional circumstances, the prin ciple of neutrality is obsolete. short-sighted, and immoral. This blanket verdict that they are all immoral irritated the non-ioin- ers who are a multitude in South Asia, the Middle East and Eur ope. The trouble was compounded by Vice President Nixon's howl er in attacking Indian policy when he was in Pakistan. So Mr. Dulles had to go back into the dark room looking for his black cat. Last Wednesday, at his press conference he emerged with a new version of the Dulles doc trine. As of July 11 countries belonging to the UN (which in cludes all countries, excepting only Switzerland, that are able to get themselves admitted) are no longer immoral neutrals, and Switzerland is not an immoral neutral because it has been neu tral for so long a time. This reduces to absurdity the attempt to generalize about the morality of neutrals. For having started with a blanket disappro val, Mr. Dulles has ended with another generalization which leaves him with no neutrals to disapprove of. The official doc trine at the moment is that neu trality is immoral but that there are no neutrals who are im moral. VfOW that we have arrived at ' this thundering anti-climax, the question is how did we be come entangled in so stultifying and damaging an argument? This is the morning after, and we must try to remember what touched off last night's talking match. At the moment of It there is a truly perplexing and difficult situation. The basic assumption of the cold war, that the world is divided into two camps, has been overtaken by the course of cidents were probably just as numerous then as now. But there were no newspapers, no radios, no TV's then, and history has been to busy with BIG CRIMES, such as wars, to record all the petty crime that went on. T HAVE a notion that people, A taking them by and large, al-1 ways have been a pretty good ! lot, and I'm sure they're just as ! good now as they ever have I been. I Frank Morgan 'X, v;; I. i ' 'Y CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral PHONE 2-8030 MEDFORD Tomorrow Lippmann events, and a great change has come upon the world situation. Among the developments which have caused this change the most influential has been the attain ment of nuclear parity by the Soviet Union, the success of the forced industrialization of the Soviet Union followed by the re action against Stalinism, and the consolidation of the Red regime in China. These developments in their combined effect have work ed for neutralism, have worked against the idea that nations which have no nuclear weapons can find security by joining one or the other of the two military coalitions. In the face of this new situa tion there have arisen in Wash ington two schools of thought. The one, represented by Senator Knowland, would likes to refuse American aid to any country which does not join one of our military alliances. The other. which has had encouragement from the President himself, would recognize that the weak and under-developed countries may have good reason for not joining military alliances, and would nevertheless give them economic aid. TJEITHER school of thought has i ' as yet produced a policy which can be applied indiscrim inately to all neutrals. No one will ever produce such a policy. In the reality of things the ques tion of how to treat Tito'-; Yugo slavia is distinct and specifically different from the question of how to treat Nasser's Egypt. In the Asian sub-continent we have a vital interest in being friends both in India and with Pakistan. But it is impossible to formulate a generalized policy which is equally good for both. The root of the trouble about defining neutrals has been the practice, unfortunately rather common in our inexperienced diplomacy, of trying to deal with specific and diverse and hard problems by sweeping them un der the rug of moral generaliza tion. This is a political vice which can be, and frequently has been, ruinous to an effective and realistic and genuinely moral policy. It is the business of the statesmen to work out an Egyp tian policy, and a Yugoslav pol icy, and an Indian policy, and a Swedish policy and an Irish policy, and to refrain from up setting the applecart by pro nouncing moral judgment on "neutrals" as such and in the abstract. SPHERE are people who, when they hear an official use of the word "moral," feel that mor ality is being promoted and de fended. It may not be so. No body thinks it to be moral and high-minded for a man to issue blanket moral judgment on his fellow men. He is likely to get himself thoroughly distrusted and disliked. For each of us ex pects to be treated as an indi vidual person, not as a part of a generalized lump. So it is among the nations. They are proud, as we are proud, and they resent, as we would resent, being put publicly on trial to be judged for their moral character. They resent it all the more when the judgment is generalized and when they are treated, as faceless objects, hav ing no distinct individuality of their own. CERAMIC TILE 49' i DYKE'S 227 East Sixth Hjrold Snodgrau Directors 1 KING STREET
