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History from the files of The
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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."
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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
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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.
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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
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