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o o O o o O o o O O o c O O O o o o O O o TOTJU MEDFORD (OREGON) Q ? MedfordvjTribuve "Everyone m So-jtr,em Oregon Reads The Maii Tribune" rAl.r"T Oailv fcxeot SaturrUy by W.ZtjfOHO PKINTIi-G CO ' 27 -Tj North Fir rnone 2-311 ROBERT W REJHU Editor PwB GREY A4v!injc Manager CERAlD LATHAM famines Manager ERIC AL1.EN JR Managing Editor ZARlo H ADAMS Citr Editor HARRYnCHlPMAN T;fraDh Editor RICHA0 JEWETT Soorta Wilt or CLI VE feTARCHER Sodetv Editor IILE ERICSSON. Circufaon gr. q A n Ind e pend e nt New 5 pa per Entered aj seccori clam matter at (ledior Oregon under Act of March 3. IH'tl w subscription rates Ey Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily i and Sunda One year $15 00 EO jf ar Sunday Six monthi 8 00 Daily ana Sunday Three mc 4.25 O Sund. Only One year $4 20 By Carrier In Advance S Medfdrd Ashland Central Point Eagl Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Snadv Cove Rorue River. Tant f-. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge fat columns) People can buy auto licence plates. for jtos they haven't got, through cgjigence and fficiency of the secretary of state. o 2o 'TEARS AGO Dec. 13.5936 (Sunday) . .. Tire need in Medford is for &nes costing $5,000 of less1, ac cording to Bruce Bauer, man- gp'oof the re'ail department of O Timber Products company. S)e 2-Vl) annual convention of the Oregon.)ti(S Horticultural OSocty will be held here net December, according to Arch W&, of thco Medfod exper o iment station. O O o 2 30 YEEARS AGO'0 o Dec. i. 126 (Monday) qO JdforsJ's nw aerolegical weather station for coat air prrfiagoplnnes cSminc through the citg will be in operation next Oweek with D? M. Little, form er! of dthfc N.Y., i$ charge. High school football team and the coach, frfhk Callison; are pft;ts ofiionoffiof t!e Kiwarris 40 YERS AGO Dec. 13, 1916 (Wednesday) The neiSng of farmers in Jhe Jdford vicinity to organ ize A National Farm Loan as sociation will be held Saturday. AOcijzen's rneeting will be neia to aiscuss tne fliec-nsKi gapn at th Xatatorium "tonight under the auSoice of the O People's Prrressive non-parfisan O league. O 50 YEARS AG90 o . O D. 13. 1906 Thuray) 0 Sreek letter fraternities "at University of Waejiington agree not (Jh admit Japanese students to membership. G From ftocal and P,fonal col- umrQ A. E. Kellogg, county coroner, is in frm Gpjd Kill. What's Your I.Q.? Vln or tn correct ! mperior: ie en or Uht li excellent; five or slrejvvT 1. What i the appropriate metal gift cignmonly given at person thtn wedding anniver sary 2. Has the Qjstrict of Columbia" Ptotal ynd area c4 either 46. $t 661 square miles? o 3? was the great-greai- greridfher of Es$er. was Mordecai a descenda of Kish? 4 . WereQIohann and Richard Strauss, composers, related? 5. Is the middle initial of Pres ident Eisenhower the same as the initial of his first name? 6. During what season iere the Dionne quintuplets born? 7. Can the falcon hover mid air without app.it motion of its wings? 8. In Eugene Fields poem: Wynken, Blynken, and-Oname the other character. 9. "Git" is 0colloguialism of "to fit'' as well as 'feat": true or false?Q 10. "Unen I got b Memphis, I got a cab. but went leefoPe I got it. Bgd I got such acold. that I shall nt soon (etcfid fit.", AreQthe much-belabored "goes'' all verbs? nsBrs: 1. Tin. 2. No. 61 square miles. 3. e. Grandson. 4. No. S. ,fts. 6. Spring. May.: 7. Yes. 8. Nod. 9. True. GeaU a foundry teftn. 1$. Yes. O o O o Oq O o o MAIL TRIBUNE Sowing Dragon s Teeth We may be overly optimistic today. But, as we see it, "the bear that walks like a man" is going the way of the dinosaur. As has often been remarked the dinosaur was broad of beam and a super-tank in strength, but it lacked brains and that lack brought its downfall. There were no animals in the jungle who could out slug "Dino" but nearly all of them could out-think him. So he went "the way of all flesh" and finally disappeared. MOT that we expect Russia to disappear. But we do expect so long as Russia remains under its pres ent leadership and ideology and persists in its belief that it can shoot loyalty to communism into its satel lites, via superior strength in tanks and machine guns, it is riding to a fall, and sooner or later, a fatal one. HTHE Kremlin can no more conquer .the world by force, than Hitler did or Napoleon tried to do, and if its brain power matched its firing power it would long ago have realized this. But instead of doing so, Russia has blindly fol lowed the time-honored tradition of violence since the days of Rurik and the early Czars, considering sub mission through fear preferable to devotion through be'lief and proceeding to secure the former by butch ery and brute force. TT can't be done, particularly in this modem world. And if the" present Kremlin leaders had the brain power to devote to a study of human nature, they have to devote to a study of Karl Marx and. Lenin they would know this. , But apparently they haven't, as their inhuman treatment of Hungary indicates. That they will eventually win a temporary sub- . mission is almost certain, for unfortunately there is no force available to combat force. But the dragon's teeth of hatred they are sowing will be planted deep and wide and eventually, we predict, yield a harvest that will give this tiny but fearless state, the freedom and liberty so many of its citizens 'have been willing to fight and die for. Also unless the Russian bear changes its head and heart in the meanwhiler -it will at long last retreat within its borders licking its wounds and be forced to admit that God no longer follows the heaviest bat talions, and that the moral condemnation of the civil ized world, can't be disarmed or shot down and si lenced as can the defenseless women and children in the streets of Buda Pest. "Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small." R.W.R. Old Man Ox Again The Mail Tribune opposed the constitutional amendment that confined a President of the United States to two terms. . . It was at the time a product of G.O.P. hatred for F.D.R. and hia "New Deal" time, it was up to the people of the country to decide at the polls whether or not they wanted a certain per son for President, regardless of how many terms he may have served or any other consideration. But the spite amendment was put over and there it' stands. Now it is amusing to note that some of the distinguished gentlemen who were so hot and both ered about the establishment of a permanent (Roose velt) dynasty in this country, have no such fears re garding President Eisenhower and a third term. So thay want the amendment repealed, so if Presi dent Eisenhower continues to improve physically and according to all reports from Atlanta that is the case there will be no legal obstacle, at least, to his carrying the Grand Old Party to a stupendous victory again. AS so often remarked in this column it "always makes such a difference whose ox is gored." When a Democrat was the "menace" the countiy had to be saved, but when his place was taken by "the most popular Republican since Teddy Roose velt," no menace exists. "VELL, as far as that goes, this paper is all for such a repeal. The fear that gave the amendment birth was really the fear of a basic principle of democ racy, that the people of the country ARE qualified to rule, that this IS a government of the people, by the people and for the people in fact as well as theory. As long as we have elections that are free, and a ballot that is really secret, we have no fear of the voters marking their ballots ant, And a candidate they they should have regardless i tical matter of course it is i his age General Eisenhower will ever agree to be a candidate for a 3rd term. But if he should, then there should be no constitutional prohibition against the Republican party nominating him, and the people of the country deciding whether they wish his adminis tration for four more years or don't. They have this right and there should be nothing in the constitution or elsewhere to prevent it. R.W.R. Earthquake Recorded Not Far From San Diego San Diego .R1 An earth quake strong enough to be felt but not strong enough to cause damage was recorded here at 5:17 a.iru Fred Robinson, ama teur seismologist reported. Robinson said the quake last ed 14 minutes and appeared to be centered "not too far from San Diego" in an undetermined directien. Thursday. December 13, 195B and as we stated at the for some one they DON'T DO want is the candidate of his tenure. As a prac extremely doubtful that at Morse and Wife Start Journey To Washington Portland U.R) Sen. and Mrs. Wayne Morse departed here yesterday" en route to Washington where the senior Oregon senator will begin his third term in the Senate in Janu ary. Traveling by station wagon, they plan to stop in Wisconsin to visit friends en route to the nation's capitoL West Germany, Turkey Showing Concern Over Russian Position By CHARLES M. MeCANK United Press Correspondent West Germany and Turkey have put their Allies on the spot in the North Atlantic Treaty O r g a nization talks in Paris. West Ger many wants to know what NATO would do if a revolt broke out in East Germany and Russia threw its Charie Mccann armed xorces Against the rebels as it did in Hungary. Turkey wants NATO to build up its strength in the Eastern Mediterranean including a fleet of atom bomber planes in view of Russia's belligerent attitude in the Middle East. West Germany and Turkey have good reasons to be con cerned over the position of their countries at the moment. Norway Unlikely War Theater Alone among the 15 members of the .Atlantic Alliance, West Germany and Turkey face the Russian Red army along their frontier. Norway has a narrow frontier facing Russia, but it is far above the Arctic Circle and is an unlikely war theater. Both West Germany and Tur key are convinced that the Today and By Walter A STITCH IN TIME Everything is being said in fact everything has been said by everybody, about the import ance of repair ing the NATO alliance. "It is our firm pur pose," said Mr. Dulles on his arrival in Paris, "to bury past discords in a future of peaceful and fruitful coop could scarcely Ualier LuDnuoD eration." There be any better purpose to be firm about, and the question is how to achieve that purpose. This will not really be done by helping with oil and money necessary though they are to soften the consequences of the Egyptian disaster. The discord arose because the British and French governments came to the desperate conclusion that they had vital interests in the Middle East which tneir ally, the United States, was not effectively de termined to protect and to pro mote. The American view was that although these interests were genuine and legitimate, they could not lawfully be pro tected and promoted by military intervention. The American op position to the British and French intervention was what clinched the verdict of the Unit ed Nations, compelled Britain and France to break off their military action, and to agree to the withdrawel of their forces. The discord will stay buried insofar as the United Nations, with determined United States leadership, addresses itself to the Middle Eastern problems out of which the discord arose. Britain and France have been forbidden to solve the problems by their own military action, and they have been compelled to desist. But unless the prob lems themselves are taken ser iously in hand, we may be sure that the discard will burst forth again. THE biggest business which the NATO allies have ahead of them is to work out a com mon policy on the Europe which lies east of the dividing line. At bottom, NATO has been based on the fact that Germany and Europe are divided between the Soviet orbit and the Atlantic al liance. To be sure, the division has never been accepted in prin ciple. The allies have never ceased to advocate the reunion of the two Germanies, and they have hoped for the liberation of the captive countries; Never theless, in the planning and org anization of NATO, the division of Europe has been accepted as a fact, and NATO has never yet had a policy for the unifica tion of Europe. The good things that have been happening in Poland,- the horrors that have been happen ing in Hungary, should both be taken by NATO as full notice that its basic assumption is be coming invalid the assumption of a Europe divided into two military and political systems. There is in this development great promise and there is aw ful danger. At its best, the countries of Eastern Europe will evolve peaceably as in Poland. At the and repression will spread to Eastern Germany, and if it does, NATO will be faced with the most sinister choices. TT WILL be a case of inex cusablye neglect if the NATO governments do not prepare themselves for what might at threat of Russian aggression has been .ncreased if anything, not diminished, by the surge of re volt in the Soviet satellite coun tries. West German Foreign Minis ter Heinrich Von Brentano told the NATO Council of Foreign Ministers Wednesday that Hungarian-style rebellion in Eastern Germany could bring Europe to the brink of World War III. Turkey Alarmed Turkey was quite naturally alarmed over the bellicose posi tion Russia took after the British-French invasion of the Suez Canal Zone. It also is alarmed over the situation in Syria, on its southern border, where a pro Russian faction dominates the government. It happens, unfortunately, that the anxiety of West Germany and Turkey over the threat of Russian aggression comes at a time when the jVATO alliance has been weakened. The Paris talks are concerned in great part with an attempt to restore relations between the United States and Britain and France, strained by the Suez invasion. Talk Of Arms Reduction But the United States and Britain also are talking about reducing the strength of their forces in Germany after getting West Germany to enter NATO Tomorrow Lippmann anly time in the next months explode into a European crisis of the1 first magnitude. The way to prepare for this crisis is to anticipate it, and to avert it with negotiable proposals which are directed towards the uni fication of Europe. The Hun garian horror cannot really be ended, something like it else where cannot surely be prevent ed, unless the NATO powers can work out with the Soviet Union an all-European security system. Merely to go on passing res olutions do not gather force and effectiveness good enough. These resolutions do not gather force and effectiveness by being re peated. They do not liberate anyone. Nor do they reduce the threat of a European explosion which lies under the surface. A EUROPEAN policy is urgent Iy needed to provide a frame work of guarantees within which the occupied European countries can be made safe against their neighbors and safe for their neighbors. It is impossible to imagine the end of the military occupation, which remains from the World War, except within a European system of security. What is only too easy to imag ine is the disorder and danger that may break out in Europe if the NATO governments just drift along, repeating their old stale shibboleths about Germany and the satellite countries. Copyright 1956 New York Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address at the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or iniUal for publication is 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. From a Presley Fan To the Editor: Would you please put this in the Com munications? Mr. Noel E. Kooken, I think you are down right unfair with what you say about Vic. I know Vic very well and he did not steal your old gun. As him hav ing a "Elvis Presley" hair cut to show how much trouble they can get into and not be caught, well that i9 a lot of phooy. May be you can't remember far back enough to when you were a teen ager, but I am sure that you had a singer that you worshiped as we worship "Elvis Presley." Yes, they have hair like that to show they are a "Presley" fan. I suspose you want all the girls to git a pig-shave too, because their hair is too long. I am a "Presley" fan and I am very proud that I am. The only reason you don't like "Elvis" is be cause you are jealous of him, and that you can't be like him. Oh, by the way since when did the D. A. start telling the kids how to wear their hair? You don't see him telling some adult how to wear his hair. But he sure can tell us how to wear it, jus,( because we are teenagers. I thank you very much. Sandy Boles 1260 Sunset ave. Medford, Oregon (McLoughlin Junior High.) BUSY AS BEAVERS Potsdam, N. Y. (U.R) Bea vers confiscated a weeping wil low tree on the Arthur McRobbie grounds to build a dam across a pond, also on the property. The artificial pond is fed from a small stream. McRobbie hadn't noticed the beavers at work until he discovered the 12-foot high trap was missing. and to embark on a big rearma- ment program. France already has sent most of its NATO troops to Algeria. And Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in his speech at the NATO council Tuesday, talked about using "moral pres sure" equally with military strength as a defense against Russian aggression. He also em phasized the "high ideals" of the United Nations. But West Germany and Tur key seem to feel that while moral pressure and high ideals may be very nice, they would not be of much value in oppos ing Russia's Red army. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Hungary is in the grip of what seems to be an almost complete general strike. For the first time since the rebellion began, there is no electricity in Budapest. Postal service is paralyzed. Rail roads are at a standstill. A giant iron and steel plant in the edge of Budapest is closed down and tough-minded Hungarian pickets warn the Russians there will be a fight if the4Soviets try to move in. The strike is engineered by Hungarian patriots who believe that is the only way to oppose Russia's overwhelming military might. AS THIS is written, martial law is scheduled to go into effect in a few hours. That may be the biginning of the crisis point. Russians and Hungarian communist puppet police have been conducting an intensive search for arms during the past 24 hours. As soon as martial law takes effect, anyone caught with a weapon will be given a military trial ENDING WITH A FIRING SQUAD BEFORE A BLANK WALL. - In the present inflamed state of public opinion throughout the world no one can tell what wholesale butchery of that sort might touch off. : THERE is a new straw in the wind. Polish students clashed with police and army units in a mass anti-Soviet demonstration last night in the Polish city of Stet tin. The Warsaw radio (communist-dominated) first said the riot was touched off by "hoo gans." Later it admitted that the street brawl turned into a march on the Russian consulate, where hundreds of demonstrators smashed windows and tried to break in. Poland comes next after Hung ary in hatred of the Russian op pressors and over the centuries the Poles have often demonstrat ed their willingness to die fight ing oppression. COMPETENT observers offer the opinion that what is hap pening in Hungary and to a les ser extent so far in Poland marks the beginning of the break-up of the Russian communist empire. Does that mean that the danger of world war is diminishing? Not necessarily. We must remember the posi tion of the Kremlin despots Kruschev & Company. They must be badly frightened men. All this has happened under THEIR leadership. THEY will be held responsible. All despots have their enemies. In this case the enemies of Kruschev & Co. MIGHT UPSET THEM. SUCH an upset wouldn't mean mere loss of power and poli tical disgrace as is the case in less brutal and savage regimes. In their case, it would probably mean getting stood up before a firing squad. They might start a world war as the lesser of two evils. Corner ed despots have done that before. 'T'HESE are grave days. Cool heads and steady hands are needed if another world war is to be avoided. When You Need Extra Chfalrs . . . 0 We have 25 folding chairs We will be'glad to jctjn for any occasion. 0 There is no charge, and wa.akoonly that you pick them up and return them. DAY o Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrss FUNERAL DIRECTORS Matter of Fact NIXON'S FRIENDS AND ALLIES Washington A" re-shuffling of the top- administration posts is now in prospect, as always after an elec tion. And when the game of mu sical chairs is over, Vice-President Ricna.d Jf. aMixon, who was no throttle- l".".r- ifri first Eisen- nottom in ine t.t2'A hower adminis- aoieun AiioB t r a t i o n, may emerge as the second Eisenhower administration second most powerful man. Within the n e x I several months, there may be sixQnew faces in the Cabinet in the State, Defense. Justice, Post Of fice, Commerce and Treasury places. And of the six new faces, the Vice President Wfll in all likeli hood recognize in threS0 and perhaps four either a close personal friend Stewart Alsop or a powerful political ally. Secretary of State John Fostgr Dulles is expected to 4e among the first to depart,, Until recently, Dulles had wanted to stay on until his 70th birthday, in Febru ary, 1958. Bui in the nature of things. Secretaries oof State are expendable. Dulles' personal re lationship with the leadigg for eign figures with whom he must deal is now strained, to say the least. To take only one example, Dulles and British Prime Minis ter Eden are each firmly and mutually convinced that he was tricked by the ot!er irf the Suez crisis. (One recalls the little coup let in George Orwell's "lg84": "Underneath the Greenwoad tree, I sold you anr you soldJ me.") Even so, Duiles might have stayed on if it had not been for his serious illness? Now, although he has recovered with his usual astonishing vitality, the v?ord is being passed that Dulles will bow out in six months or less. HIS heir apparent is, of coursP. Gov. Christian Herter of Massachusetts, who is to replace Herbert Hoover Jr. as Under Secretary. As Under-Secrojary, Herter will serve a sort of p bationary period. But he is a most capable man, witb a deep knowledge qf foreign affai, and he will almost certainly pass the test with lying. coiprs, and become -Secretary of State. Herter is ve'ry close to the Vice President. They became in timate wHen they sefved to gether in the House, and trav eled abroad together, and their friendship survived and was strengthened by Harold0StassrPs abortive putsch to replace Nxon with Herter in the Vice Presi dency. It is significant that when Herter decided he did not want to run for Governor again, he turned to Nixon, and asked him to intervene with the President, to beg the President, hot to 'put pressure on Herter to run again, and to indicate that Herter would be interested ina foreign policy post after his term ran out. fN the domestic front, Nixon is. likely to ind an even closer friend i a key Cabinet spot. The present Attorney Ge erel, Herbert Brownell, is ex pected to return to, New York before too long, to men his per sonalfortunes. Hif deputy, Wil liam "Rogers, wilf almost cer tainly replace him. Rogers is Damon to Nixon's Pythias it was to Rogers tfeat Nixon in stantly turned the night he learn ed of the President's heart at tack, j The ailing Arthur Summer field is also expected to bow out as Postmaster General, and Re publican Chairman Len Hall (if he doe not run for Governor of New York) is a leading candi date to replace him. HU and OR NIGHT PHONE 2 rjt o o O By jo. swon Map" rixon are not particularly close persnJly, but Hall did as much as any other marp to assure Nixon's renomirflltii. AndOthe asfiite Hall is an ally well worth having. 0 q Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilsco's departu9e is also ex poerSd, perhaps in the late spring. His farmer Under-Secretary, General (jilotorsiman Roger Keyes, has aiyeady Tjeen tenta tively sounSed out to replace him. But Keyes likes making money ana prefers Detroit to Washington. Aside Rom Keyes, ThorSns E. Dewey is the Thost probable choice among several possibility for the Defense post. oQ A GAIN, Dew? is not an inti- mate of Nixon's in the sense that Herter and Rogers are. But he placed a sizeable political bet orcNixon when he supported him all outPfor renomination during the anti-Nixon putsch. And like HaHi Deweji is a useful ally to haveo around, in or out of the PCabinet. Add that Nixon may become Chairman of the Operations Co ordinating Sard, a little known but extremely powerful body, with its fingers in every gov ernmental pie. Aud that Nixon is not only ambitious but highly intelligent hlS rqg?nt impres sive foreign policy speech was vritten entirely o)y himself, on lined yellow paper, in his own peculigfcsr5brthad. Add that the PreSdent i8tjids tg use Nixon as a substitute President es:en more tharr he (ld in his first term. It is then clear wh(g)ixr will almost surely corae far and avPay the most jibwerful Vice President in history. And it is als clear why the Vice Presi dent, ey$n thtjar advance, Jflokg) like f) hard man to beat for the Republican nomition in 1960. (Copyright, 1956, New York herald Tribune Inc.) Q ClareSooth Luce To Leave omeJ)ec. 27 tome (U.R) U. S. Ambassa- he win leave Rome Deg 27 r 28 and will pay a ief visit to cWashington to meet her succes sor, James D. gellerbach. 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