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10 YEARS AGO
July 19. 1 9-16
(It was Friday)
The week-long strike of union
nu'.o mechanics, employees of
Ronue Kiver Chevrolet, Skinner
and L. C. Taylor garages con
tinues. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Fnt column: Summer
finally arrived. 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."
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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
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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.
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