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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medfordtribunb "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDrORD PRINTING CO 27-23 North Fir St. Phone 2-014.1 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC A1XE.N JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHJPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at filed ford Oregon under Act of . March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy IOC Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three raoa 2S Sunday Only One vear 14.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold H1U. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year S18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Olflclal Paper of Jackson County United PressjnLeased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Kjr LIKLULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de trolt San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mai) Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 8, 1947 (Wednesday) Dwight L. Houghton, assistant manager of the Medford branch of the United States National bank of Portland is appointed to Medford city council. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Oregon ians pungled up $44,200,000 for state saloon whiskey, etc., etc., last year. It wasn't worth it, say many. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 8. 1937 (Friday) Checks representing a second dividend of 15 per cent are mail ed today to all eligible deposit ee of the defunct Jackson coun ty bank which has been in pro cess of liquidation. Transient relief is named as greatest problem facing Jackson county Red Cross at a recent meeting. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 8. 1927 (Saturday) Jackson County Game Protec tive association plans mass meet ing to be held at Medford hotel soon. First meeting of new year of Jackson County Merchant's as sociation will be held in the Med ford hotel Monday. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 8. 1917 Best interests of Medford will be served by adoption of Han son Flan and rejection of Medyn ski Plan, says S. S. Bullis, presi dent of southern Oregon Trac tion company. Mayor V. J. Emerick reports he favors the Hanson Plan. What's Your I.Q.7 Kme or ten correct Is superior: sev en or eight U excellent: live or six Is food. 1. In 1773, 300 families moved from Maine to South Carolina. Were they German, Scotch, or Fnelish? 2. Was there both a Mr. Page and a Mrs. Page in bnaue speare's "Merry Wives of Wind sor?" 3. "Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at me feast of Passover." Luke 3:41. Wh 1 ie his-'" 4. Mythological creatures half man and half horse are called 5. Which place in Africa was named in honor of Cecil Rhodes? 6. The Kaiser Wilhelm Canal was renamed what? 7 Ts tincture of arnica obtain ed from a vegetable or mineral product? R What is a "comus delicti? 9. Is it possible to bake a cus tard pie in a glass plate? 10. What address begins: "Four score and seven years ago ?" 1. German. 2. Yei. 3. Jesus. 4. Centaurs. 5. Rhodesia. 6. Kiel Canal. 7. Vegetable. 8. "Body of the Crime." the facts constitut ing a crime. 9. Yes. 10. Lin coln's "Gettysburg Address." Communications Letters to the Editor must Pear the name and address at the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name ox initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letter, with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. MAIL TRIBUNE The Mii'EastProblem Most of the criticisms of the President's warning to Soviet Russia, have, to date, impressed this depart ment as justifying the title of "quibbling." Two of the most frequent criticisms, for example, from members of the congress have been to this ef fect: No. 1 : the President should not be given "blank check" as to expenses of this proposal, or the details of procedure. WHY not? President Eisenhower has been given "blank checks" for four years . as to ways and means of implementing his foreign policy. There have been very few critickms in congress expressed, even by the isolationist wing of his own party who, if they had the courage of their convictions, would be fighting against any aid to foreign countries, or any entangle ments in foreign affairs. Why start in quibbling at this late date? JMOREOVER the congress has complete control over appropriations of money, all bills pertain ing to finance must originate in the House, and need less to say, must pass both the House and Senate, be fore they become law. The President can propose spending, but the congress can, if it wishes, DISpose. Why then ask for any more authority than the congress now has? It seems sufficient. MO. 2: THERE is also objection raised on the ground President Eisenhower is shirking his re sponsibilities and trying to force the congress to take them over or at least share them. Well, it is hard to please SOME people. From the same general source when Presidents Roosevelt (T.R.), Woodrow Wilson, and Harry S. Truman, used aimed force without first getting con gressional pel-mission, they were lambasted from hades to breakfast for usurping an authority which, it was claimed, was not rightfully theirs. As a matter of. fact, in time of CRISIS, the Presi dent HAS such authority. It is only the declaration of war that must come from the congress, and this is not imperative as "T.R." demonstrated in Pan ama, and President Wilson in Mexico. So why all the talky-talk? THE one criticism this department would make re- gouuiig me iicoiaciiuo wdiiiuig t,u ouviet ivuctid has not been emphasized. That is its TIMING. Why didn't the President make some such pro nouncement six months ago instead of at this late date? The answer, of course, is, there was in late 1956 a presidential campaign going on. Instead of warning Russia that in case of armed aggression, Uncle Sam would, if necessary, call its troops into action, both the President and his Secretary were telling the peo ple in effect, that the crisis over the Suez had safely been passed ; "peace, prosperity and platitudes" were in order, there was nothing at all to worry about as far as our relations with other countries were con cerned "God was in his Heaven all was right with the world." so what was there to do but relax, march to the polls and vote the Republican ticket straight? The answer is or was nothing. X7"E CAN'T go along 100 per cent with the govern ments of England and France now claiming that if what President Eisenhower said on January 5, 1957, had been said five or six months before, their wild and reckless attack on Egypt would never have oc curred, nor the slaughter of helpless Hungarian wo men and children by Russian tanks. For all that comes under the general heading of knowing what would have happened if something else had not happened. That is only to guess. But we do believe this: If any such pronounce ment as issued by the President last Saturday had been made last August, showing America's awareness of the Communist threat in Egypt and the Middle East, England and France would never have prepared that "unprovoked attack" at least without consulting Washington first, and that might very well have resulted in its abandonment entirely. TN OTHER words, this action by President Eisen hower can not be correctly termed "too little" but it certainly CAN well be "too late" at least too late to accomplish what an earlier pronouncement WOULD, in all likelihood, have accomplished. It is only another example of what a destructive agent partisanship can be when it is mixed with or has domination over domestic or international politics! C"INALLY why is it that the one nation most bene- fited by this new Eisenhower policy toward the Middle East should have as far as noted, made no comment. This is Israel. The President has gone on record as being the de fender, by armed force if necessaiy, of the independ ence and integrity of all free nations in the area. Israel is such a nation. It is surrounded by hostile Arab tribes that time after time, publicly declare northing will satisfy them, but Israel's COMPLETE destruction. The most belligerent of these Arab nations like Egypt and Syria are dominated by Russia, aimed by Russia, subsidized by Russia, and their troops are be ing trained by Russia and instructed by Russian technicians. I T IS hard to see in view ment and such facts, the President could escape the obligation of gfving the Israeli nation every possible aid including the dis patch of armed forces. Therefore, we should suppose this statement Tuesday, January 8, 1957 of the President's state how m case of Arah attack. Trips by Congressmen Cost U.S. Taxpayers, Other Governments Washington (CQ) Foreign governments spent almost a half million dollars on touring Amer ican congressmen during fiscal 1956. That works out to almost $1,000 for each senator and rep resentative. The American tax payer shelled out even more to send his legislators abroad, but official secrecy hides that part of the story. No figures are available yet for the 1956 fall touring season, but the totals probably will be lower than they were in 1955. Published reports noted only 73 congressmen in foreign countries during the 1956 congressional re cess, compared to 151 in 1955. Election chores kept most of the members at home last fall. Totals Given From mid-1955 to mid-1956, however, congressional commit tees reported their members spent $490,236 of allies' money on overseas junkets. Senate com mittees accounted for $165,847 of the total; house committees. for $324,389. Countries that receive U. S. ec onomic help are required to match the dollar aid with an equal amount of their own cur rency. Ten per cent of these 'counterpart funds" are reserved for American use and the Con gressmen's travel money comes from the 10 per cent share. To travel abroad at other coun tries' expense, a senator, repre sentative or professional staff member has his committee chair man tell the State Department how much foreign currency he needs. The traveler picks up his money as he arrives in each country. No Individual Figures When he returns he gives the committee a voucher for his ex penses. These are totaled but not audited by the committee, and the committee totals only are made public at the end of the fiscal year. God Sive America To the Editor: Down in south ern California there are some very large, fat pink spiders (not black widows, much larger; not tarantulas, much smaller, but with nice hairy legs). These lazy, fat pink spiders spin webs and wait for fat juicy flies. Mr. Dwight D. Eisenhower seems determined to play the part of a fat, blue-bottle fly. When we send our troops to the Middle East, what? There are three spiders waiting with joy hoping to get us to do that. When our troops get there what? We have Russia (about 160 million), China (Red not Yellow) (about 400 million), India (about 400 million). So we swing the whole of Asia yet more bitterly against us. We send troops. They don't do anything just sit and wait. They don't need to do anything we just neatly stuck our head not into the lions mouth but the bear's. Europe is nothing but a tag-end of Asia. Most of the world s people are in Asia, most of the world's land. Russia is an Asiatic country, more in Asia than Europe. Africa hates Euro peans. Asia hates Europeans. Both with good reason. English and French and Israel have just given them fresh cause to hate us, and now we, too. Whether or not Syria goes Communist or pro-American or crazy, is none of our business. We are not an Asiatic country. We are half a world away. Don't you think that we will force Russia, China, In dia, Pakistan, Tibet, Indo-China, Indonesia, maybe even Japan, as Asiatics, closer and closer t gether with a common front? Nasser already leads the Arabs, let's face it, and they will carefully pull Russia's chestnuts out of the fire and. Russia won't have to do a thing but gloat and gloat and gloat. If I were the head of either Russia or China I would wish with all my heart that Mr. Eisenhower would do just that send troops to the Middle East, speak up to Con gress and say those Middle East nations CAN'T go Communist. And then all those millions of people, about a billion, would say in their hearts: "Americans tell us we can't go Communist? A-Communist we will go. We'll show them. We'll show those im perialistic English, French and Americans" (by that time we'll be lumped with the English and French in their minds). Just as the Egyptians said: "Get funny with OUR canal and see what happens." Just as Saudi-Arabia and Jordan said: "You own our oil? Ha! Ha! Well blow our oil to kingdom come and where'll you Europeans be then?" Nobody seems to have thought to ask Dag Hammarskjold and the United Nations if they want ed American troops in the Mid dle East oh, no, that would be invading our sovereignty. We just left the dirty work of the would cause the declaration of a day of thanksgiving and jubilation, from this small nation which for so many years has lived in constant fear and torment. But as far as has beea observed not a word of praise or blame has come from the Israel government. Perhaps there will later. If not there must be some fly in the Israeli amber that at this distance is not discernible. R.W.R... Incomplete as they are, the figures on "counterpart funds" offer the best guide to the ex tent of Congresional junketing. They indicate the 12 months ending last June set a record for official tourism. Representatives, who used $324,389 in counterpart funds in fiscal 1956, had required only $111,523 and $84,697 the previ ous two fiscal years. Senate figures were released for the first time' in 1956, so no comparison is possible. Most congressional travel, of course, is paid for by American taxpayers, not foreign govern ments. But very litUe of this ex pense is disclosed. For Investigations The 84th Congress voted itself almost $11 million for investiga tions, and an unknown share of this was spent on overseas studies. In addition, Congress author ized expenses for several spe cific junkets. In 1956, for in stance, 12 senators and represen tatives were allowed $25,000 to attend the dedication of a statue to Revolutionary war hero John Barry in Wexford, Ireland. Executive departments are re quired to furnish transportation, housing and other funds for Con gressmen investigating their op erations. The armed services fly or ferry touring congressional parties without charge. Overseas, embassies and legations enter tain them. There is no public accounting of any of these costs. Repeated efforts to pry the figures out of the executive agencies have been rebuffed with the answer that Congress alone has the power to reveal its travel expenses. The Comptroller General sus tained that opinion Dec. 17. But so far Congress has showed no disposition to open its books to public scrutiny. (Copyright 1957. Congressional Quarterly) English and French to be cleaned up by the U.N., then go make some more dirty work for them to clean up. God save America. She's going to need it. Edith Y. Ingle 338 Bessie st. Medford, Ore. Examine Drivers To the Editor: Now that the facts are in regarding the Ameri can motorist and the year 1956, it is time to ask if these "facts" are truth. It is true that over 40,000 mo torists died this past year on the highway. How many were left maimed and sick cannot be known. Let us assume that they are numerous. The National Safety Council and the law enforcement officers are wailing and gnashing their teeth, cursing the horsepower of the new cars and the speed they are capable of. This raises an interesting, if not macabre ques tion. This is fact. This year more speed laws were enforced, some were lowered and more diligent effort was exercised by the law. The National Safety Council cried louder than ever. Yet, more people died. The type of law enforcement in many cases is not sufficient. The beady eyed "highwayman" with his pointed nose stuck in his radar box, a half mile beyond the last house in the small town you just passed, and where the city limits just happens to be, is no help. Neither is the justice of the peace who works with him. These parasites may fatten their own pockets, and enrich the treasury of the hamlet, but they contribute nothing to the longev ity of the American motorist. Statistics seems to prove that speed is the great killer. But, statistics do not drive cars. They are driven by people who nei ther hear, nor see, and have not the slightest conception of the lethal potentiality of the guided missle that they are making pay ments on. Is it not probable that the strictest kind of tests possible to procure a driver's license are now in order? Is it not time to end the idiocy wherein an incompetent person can get a license for $1.50 that will make it possible for him to kill people. If a driver is unfit to drive, there is only one an swer. Get off the road. The law of the survival of the fittest must become the one great law of the American motorist. The only possible solution is, issue license to absolutely competent drivers and that on a yearly basis. Every other ethical profession makes a diligent effort to license only competent people. Correct driving does not fall short of a profession. Pete Logan Dark Hollow rd. Medford, Ore. Malenkov In Position Br CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Russia's Georgi M. Malenkov seems to have made a big politi cal comeback. Ever since he re- wm signed as pre- U r- i n mier on r eo. o, 1955, Malen kov had been in partial eclipse. But his at tendance at the important meeting of the Communist leaders in Bud- Cnarlo Mclano apesi last wees indicated pretty clearly' that he has been restored to first rank in Soviet leadership. Matter of Fact by s,ewart mSoP THE BLANK CHECK Washington The scene was dramatic when the President ad dressed the joint session of Con gress on Satur- day and the P r e s i d ent's words were grave and elo q u e n t. And yet when it was all over, there was a certain feeling of anti-climax. The reason is simDle. The President's proposal was over sold before he spoke. It was ad vertised as a "new policy", a novel and remarkable "doc trine", and a "bold new pro gram." In .fact, what the Presi dent really seemed to be saying was about as follows: "Look, something has to be done about the Middle East. Give me a free hand to do it money and the authority to use force if I have to. I don't really know what it is that can be done, but I want to be able to do it when I do know." "PHIS is neither a doctrine np a policy nor a program. It is a request of Congress to sign in advance a very large, very blank check. To see how blank the check . really is, consider the economic barrel of the Presi dent's double-barreled proposal. ine economic aspect of the pro posal has been" described as a Middle Eastern equivalent of the Marshall plan or the Greek Turkish aid program. It is noth ing of the sort, for the simple reason that nothing of the sort is possible in the Middle East. In fact, if precedents are sought, the closest parallel is the Administration's request for an "area appropriation" of $100 million to be spent, at the Ad ministration's discretion in the area of Southeast Asia. The money was appropriated almost two years ago. And only about $7 million has actually been spent, simply because it has proved so difficult to find useful projects on which to spend the money. It will certaily be as difficult to find useful new ways to spend the two-year appropriation- of $200 million the President has requested, in the angry Miiddle East. Consider the countries im mediately involved in the Middle Eastern crisis. OTH Saudi Arabia and Iraq earn a great many dollars already, from their oil revenues. The money the President has re quested can be used to bolster the defenses of Iraq as a member of the Baghdad Pact but this is being done already. Syria, increasingly close to be coming a ' Soviet puppet, has already angrily refused all dol lar aid. The Egypt of Colonel Stewart Alsop SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS PAY YOU LIBERAL DIVIDENDS WHILE YOUR ACCOUNT IS INSURED SAFE TO $10,000.00 BY THE FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN INSURANCE CORPORATION. PUT YOUR IDLE MONEY TO WORK. VISIT OUR NEW LOCATION AND OPEN AN ACCOUNT NOW. Investments made by the 1 0th of the month earn dividends as of the first 'gf T0UI SHIMS Apparently of Red Leadership One reason apparently, is that Malenkov kept his head during the long argument among Soviet leaders over Nikita S. Khrush chev's course in repudiating Jo sef Stalin's methods of dictator ship. Another is that Malenkov probably is the smartest of the 11 men in the inner leadership of the Kremlin. When Malenkov resigned so dramatically as Stallin's heir in the prime ministry, he said he was inadequate for the job. Reduced in Rank Malenkov was reduced to the rank of an ordinary deputy pre mier behind several first depu- Abdel Gamal Nasser is making similar angry noises the Cairo press has been denouncing the Eisenhower proposal as "im perialism" and "intervention." And anyway, if this country were now to hand out large sums to Nasser with no strings attached which is certainly not the intention the British and French, who regard Nasser as their mortal enemy, would ex plode with fury. THAT leaves Jordan and Is rael. Jordan may well go the way of Syria, or even disinte grate entirely. But in the mean time, the British hope to main tain their special position in Jordan, which they subsidize to the tune of $35 million a year, and they would not welcome an American effort to replace them. As for Israel, it is already dependent on American dollar aid, and any sharp increase in this aid will certainly not sta bilize the situation in the Mid dle East. The check is just as blank where it concerns the request for standby authority to use force. At first, it was intended to make this aspect of the pro posal far more specific. The intention was to make a unilateral American declara tion guaranteeing both Israel and the Arab states against at tack, to replace the 1950 tri partite declaration to the same effect, which was killed by the Anglo-French action in Suez, But in the end it was decided that there were two rrany risks for this country in making such a specific commitment alone. So the request for authority to use force was left open-ended and unspecific. a ALL this is not to suggest that the President's proposal is either useless or dangerous. On the contrary, the Congress ought to sign the President's blank check with Alacrity. There are times when a blank check can be very useful, and this is one of them. Despite the dreary pre cedent of the Southeast Asia appropriation, opportunities now unpredictable may arise in the Middle East where money can be spent most effectively to serve this country s interests, Above all, it is useful for the world, and especially the Soviet Union, to know, as the Presi dent said, "where we stand" on the Middle East. Even so, it ought to be under stood that the President's pro posal is not a new policy, or a novel doctrine, or a bold new program. It is simply a request for a blank check, and no-one in the Eisenhower administration has any concrete or specific idea of how or when or to what end the check will be cashed. Copyright 1957. New ' York Herald Tribune Inc. 3 Current Dividend IDLE MO HEY Convenient Street Parking FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford 29 North Ivy Street R. F. Kyle, President Now Back ties and made minister for electric power stations. He remained a member of the inner collective leadership. But men like Khrushchev, the first secretary of the Communist par ty, and Nikolai A. Bulganin, who succeeded him as premier, did the talking and represented the Kremlin on visits abroad. Malenkov did make a visit to Great Britain. But he did so in his capacity of minister for the power stations, to visit British atomic and other installations. Last week's Budapest meeting marked the launching of a new Soviet policy line toward the East European satellite coun tries. The choice of Malenkov to ac company Khrushchev to that meeting, which brought togeth er the Communist leaders of Russia, Hungary, Czechoslova kia, Romania and Bulgaria cer tainly is significant. He would hardly have been chosen unless he had made a full comeback. This does not necessarily mean that there is to be any formal change in the present Kremlin lineup. Khrushchev's Job Safe Khrushchev seems to be safe in his job as Communist party first secretary despite the East European revolts which resulted from his down-grading of Stalin. There has been no sign that Bul ganin, who supported Khrush chev in the down-grading policy, is likely to lose the prime min istry. But it is entirely likely that some day Malenkov may get back that job or may replace Khrushchev - as first secretary. For a short time after Stalin's death Malenkov was first secre tary as well as premier. The big thing in MalenBov's favor is that he is both smart and an able administrative ex ecutive, and that he does not indulge in loose talk. His visit to Great Britain was a resound ing success. Khrushchev and Bulganin, who followed him there, bounced from one blunder to another. At 55 -today, incidentally is his birthday Malenkov was Stalin's right hand man for years. He is called pudgy and roly poly. Though he is but 5 feet 7 inches tall, he weighs about 250 pounds. The keen lit tle eyes that look out from his fat face miss nothing, j If he really has made a come back, he is likely to be a balanc ing influence in the Soviet lead ership. Mr. Insurance FRSD BRENNAN Phone 2-4940 HAVE YOU INVESTIGATED UNIPAC? Here is a combination of personal policies, it in cludes fire, personal lia bility and theft, insur ance on residence glass, property damage, auto mobile bodily injury and physical damage to your car. We ll be happy to COM BINE YOUR COVER AGES and FINANCE the PREMIUMS Involved. MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 0 Per Annum m
