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FOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) Medfowstribune "Everyone In Southern Oregon bwoi im Mali intiune Published Dally Exeem Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 2T-23 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W "RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Buiinoi Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegrach Editor RICHARD JEWETT SoorU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. . An Independent Newspaper Entered as second cla-a matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of rwarcn j. 1997 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance- Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year S15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Dally and Sunday Three mas 4-25 Sunday Only One Tear S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance OfJVIaT Paper of the City of Medford "'"rial Psper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION Advertising Ren.aM.. WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION T1 U I WmmiiafU'im O NEWS PA PES PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION iqhf o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tiles of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 10, 1947 (Friday) Glenn L. Jackson president of Jackson Chamber of Commerce. elected County From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "FOUR WOMEN SENT TO JAIL IN LIQUOR CASES." (Hdluie Cal. Exchange.) Cramped quarters. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 10. 1937 (Sunday) ' Arrangements completed for series of peach pruning demon strations, according to C. B. Cordy, assistant county agent. President Roosevelt urged by Jackson County Chamber of Commerce to intervene in mari time strike. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 10, 1927 (Monday) Medford will have a complete weather bureau station in the near future, government an , nounces. First annual meeting of Rogue River Academy association held . at new academy building. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 10, 1917 (Wednesday) C. E. Gates elected mayor of Medford by majority of 124 votes over Medynski and Nord wick. Exhibits at poultry show being held in the Korinek building are now complete and judging of the birds has started. What's Your !,Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev ; en or eight Is excellent; flva or ; six is fond. 1. Did the first American whaling-ship to the Pacific sail from Nantucket or Nantasket? 2. Which of these cities in Vir ginia was nicknamed "Cocked City": Richmond, Petersburg, or "Winchester? ', 3. Was Shemaiah a prophet or king of Israel? i 4. Is laughing jackass another name for laughing hyena? i 5. What are the three primary .pigment colors? 6. Is a vixen the female of either a wolf or wildcat? ' 7. Is it correct to write "all right" or "alright"? 8. Is a checkrein part of a har ness from the bridle to the sad dle, or to the stirrups? 9. Is Esperanto a Spanish, Por tuguese, or Italian city? 10. "Tall oaks from" finish the proverb. Answers: 1. Nantucket (1791). 2. Petersburg. 3. Prophet. 4. No, 5. Red. blue, yellow. 6. No. Fox. 7. "All right." 8. To the saddle. 9. No. It is a universial language. 10. "Little acorns grow." Applicators Short Course Scheduled f Salem The sixth annual Oregon Agricultural Chemical Applicators shor.t course will be held Jan. 28 through Feb. 1 at Oregon State college at Corval lis. OSC and the state depart ment of agriculture are cospon sors of the event. The course will include ele . ments of crop production, soils "and herbicides, weed control in farm crops, and identifying plants on the ground as well as from the air. Persons interested in the course should contact the de partment's headquarters in Sa lem, or Virgil Freed, chairman of the short course, at Oregon State college. TO MAIL TRIBUNE Knowland for President? The Oregonian has it all doped out. Senator Knowland is not retiring from the senate at the end of his present term for the reason stated, namely: to spend more time with his family and pay more attention to his Oakland (Calif.) newspaper. That is what he says for publication. But to the Oregonian it is plain that his real in tention is to quit Washington so he can become Governor of California, thus control the California delegation to the 1960 Republican convention and, as night follows day, become the 35th President of the United States. VtfE DON'T doubt this is what the senior Senator v from Calif ornia has in the back of his mind. But he has more sense than to "jump the gun"- and an nounce it. As he notes, he has no crystal-ball, such a premature pronouncement would do him no good and might politically do him harm. So why pull a tactical boner like that? ""THE Oregonian also foresees Senator Knowland running against Governor Knight of California and of course the "white haired boy" of them all, party wise, Vice President Nixon, for the honor of the Re-' publican nomination, and the greater honor and glory of residing in the White House for four years, and probably more. Pretty soft isn't it? DUT we believe Senator Knowland is wise not to count his chickens before they are hatched. It might even have tbeen smarter if he had 1cept his intentions to himself entirely until less time was allowed during which his opponents could build the barricades, gather their forces for a few night drills and launch a counter-attack. OOWEVER that may be, if the fight for the GOP A nomination four years hence should develop into a purely Californian "Kilkenny" there is no doubt about the man who we think SHOULD, on the basis of fitness, stature and character, win out. WE HAVE disagreed with Senator Knowland in rmmoraKI'o timoc tm'aKq Vlir TYinro than lio ha3 disagreed with the Eisenhower administration, but he has what his two potential presidential opponents both conspicuously lack, and integrity. We can picture neither Nixon nor Knight fight ing for any political principle in which they believed, but which they knew to be unpopular. We can im agine neither of them proposing any policy or defend ing any cause, they believed would lose them votes. They are both opportunists of the first water, smiling, personable, ingratiating, fluent, but any fair and objective appraisal of them and their records show both of them to be fundamentally FALSE. AS INDICATED, we hold no special brief for Senator Knowland, but we do grant him courage, independence and integrity. He thinks things out, he forms definite convictions, and then sticks to them, whether they prove to be popular or not. He is too narrowly partisan for our taste, too myopic in the area of statesmanlike VISION, but he is 100 per cent MAN, and in comparison with his probable op ponents, qualifies as of presidential STATURE, while they certainly do NOT. FINALLY, from Senator Knowland's standpoint there is the absence of that "crystal ball," which he admits and practically everyone, except perhaps prophetic Mr. Roger Babson, is in the same fix. All the world, including the U.S.A., is in a state of 1 confusion, apprehension pretty much are living from day to day, and trying to prepare for events that may develop at any time, rather than trying to do the impossible and control them. . When 1960 comes around, or even 1958, what will be the situation in this country and the world? What will be the important issues which then will be paramount, and largely determine the types need ed to lead the two major parties and the ultimate outcome? DICHARD Nixon might then be President no one could wish more fervently than the undersigned that he will not be ! But no one., including the senior senator from California, can be SURE. And it is something that Mr. Knowland should consider before committing himself more definitely, that he intends, four years hence, to run for President. Wre are reasonably sure the chief executive, of California under such circumstances, would jump on the Nixon band-wagon as he did in 1956. But Senator Knowland is made of sterner and more stubborn stuff he might decide -to give his former senatorial colleague a battle. On the other hand, of course, depending largely on the timing, he might not. But Senator Knowland is showing good sense in not being any more explicit or going any further into details than he has, regarding his decision at the time to quit the senate when his term runs out. We have no doubt he will leave the senate. We have no REASONABLE doubt he will run for Gov ernor, of California. But we have considerable doubt if conditions should radically change in, the direction above suggested,, or otherwise, he will, in the near future, be any more explicit regarding his ambition to be President than he has been, to' date. R.W.R. Thursday. January 10, I9S7 namely: courage, stability and flux. All" the nations Rhee Again Threatening Move To Unify Korea by Armed Force By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent President , Syngman Rhee is threatening again to' march his army into Communist North Korea. " . The tough old chief executive of the Republic of Korea has made the unification of his divided country his major goal for 1957. H e would like the West ern Allies who fought in the Korean War to denounce the armistice which was sign ed on July 24, 1953. Charles UcCann If that does' not happen, he says, he may take on the North Koreans and the Chinese Communists himself. Despite the odds he would face, the possibility that he may do so sooner or later cannot be ruled out. Rhee feels that his allies, in volved in a cold war with Soviet Russia in Europe and the Middle East, have too long neglected the area in which the free world went into a hot war against Red aggression. U.N. Resolutions Adopted The United Nations adopted on Tuesday a United States reso lution calling for the reunifica- WW- ' - I f' Matter of Fact THE JOB NIXON WANTS Washington TJie final deci sion on whether to appoint Vice President Richard Nixon to a key post in the Executive branch of the ej: -Sg government ST - i shatter-j ing precedent is now up to President E i s e n hower. But as far as Nixon himself is concerned, his mind is made up. He wants the job, and the President knows he wants it. If he gets it, it will be a giant stride forward for Nixon towards the Republican Presidential nominaUon in 1960. The job is the Chairmanship of the Operations Coordinating Board. The OCB is one of those government boards which most people have never heard about. Yet it is potentially a very powerful body today. Under the Chairmanship of Richard Nixon it could become as powerful as one of the great departments and more so. The OCB owes its exisitence, in a sense, to the President's military background. As a General, Eisenhower was accustomed to making decisions and then assuming, with good reason, that they would be car ried out. But in his first years as President, he unhappily dis covered that things do not work quite that way in the vast, sprawling, inchoate American government. A GAIN and again, the Presi dent had the same exper ience. He would jot "D.D.E." on a National Security Council paper, thus making the contents of the paper official policy. Months after, he would ask what had been done to carry out his decision, and find that nothing whatsoever had been done. He therefore created the OCB, in February, 1955, to ride herd on all departments and agencies, and to make sure that something was actually done to carry out NSC decisions. The President, appointed Under-Secretary of State as Chair man of the OCB. This did not work out as expected, for two reasons. Reason one was that the Under-Secretary of State was Herbert Hoover Jr., and the younger Hoover belongs to the school which holds that, given a choice between doing nothing and doing something, it is better to do nothing. But reason two has nothing to do with Hoaver as an in dividual. The State. Department, is involved in one way or anoth er in every major. NSC decision. Thus the Under-Secretary of State, when wearing his OCB hat, is supposed to ride herd on himself something no man can comfortably do. CHISTIAN A. Herter, who is to succeed Hoover on Feb ruary 1st, has let it be known that he has no particular desire to take on the uncomfortable task. Various other candidates have been suggested, including Generals Bedell Smith and Al fred Gruenther, neither of whom particularly wants the job. But Nixon does want it, and he must be considered the leading cand idate. There are excellent reasons for giving Nixon such a post. He is a man of unquestioned ability and energy, and with Presi dent's encouragement and con sent, he has done all he can to turn the ornamental office of the Vice President into some thing meaningful. Yet because the Vice-Presi- fi 141 Stewart Alsop tion of Korea through free elec tions, to be held under UN auspices. But resolutions to the same effect have been passed before, and Rhee knows as do the countries which belong to the UN that the Communists will not agree to any such elections. Rhee takes' the view that the Korean armistice has become just another scrap of paper and that his country is no nearer unification than it was 3V4 years ago when the war ended. His attitude is not unreason able. South Korea, a country of 28 million people, is supporting an army of 1.5 million men. South Korea gets United States aid. But its economic situa tion is desperate. And Rhee himself, approaching his 82nd birthday on March 26,. is as de termined as ever to get the Communists out of North Korea one way or another, if he can, so that the promise of Korean freedom- which came with the end of World War II may be fulfilled. On The North Rhee also insists that if there is any election in Korea, it shall cover on the Communist-ruled northern part of the country. Rhee's argument is that South Korea is a legally constituted country and already has a parlia ment elected by free vote. His By Joseph Alsop dency is by nature ornamental, Nixon has been essentially a fifth wheel a very busy fifth wheel, but a fifth wheel all the same. As Chairman of the OCB, Nixon would not only gain the experience in the Executive branch which he lacks. He might well also become in the second Eisenhower administration what Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey was in the first Eisenhower administration the second most powerful man in the government. As Chairman of the OCB, Vice-President Nixon would speak with an authority no mere Under-Secretary of State could possibly exercise. He would unquestionably get things done, which is what the Presi dent wants. . TTE WOULD have his finger in just about every important pie, since the NSC, far more than the Cabinet, is the real policy-making body of the gov ernment these days. In short, as OCB Chairman, the able and ambitious Nixon could well be come a deputy President in fact as well as in name. He would also make enemies, since a man whose task it is to ride herd on others always makes enemies. But the fact that Nixon himself very much wants the job suggests that he believes on balance that the OCB Chair manship will help rather than hinder his political career. And Nixon is anything but a fool. Indeed, if Nixon is given the OCB job after Hoover leaves, it will be widely interpreted by the acknowledgeable as meaing that the President has already settled on Nixon as "my boy" for 1960. So if Nixon is appoint ed to head the little-known board, it can be written down as a major event in j American politics. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Houseless Edens Look for Quarters London (U.R) One of the first tasks facing Sir Anthony and Lady Eden will be that of house hunting. When Eden resigned as prime minister he gave up his official residence at No. 10 Downing st. and the sprawling country es tate of Chequers in the Chiltern Hills. That left him with but one home of his own, a quaint little cottage with thatched roof -and rose pink walls in Wiltshire which Lady Eden bought some years back. It is not suitable for entertaining 'or commuting to London. Eden also gave up a $28,000 income when he resigned. He is not wealthy, . but this was be lieved a minor problem since he can take his pick of a hand ful of business directorships if he wants them. SOMETHING ROTTEN r Ashbridge, England U.R Aneurin Bevan's 200 pigs were put on prpbation today. The par ish council gave the left-wing Labor party leader 30 days to "improve" the odor emanating from his pig farm, although some council members said Bevan's pigs "smell no different than other pigs." MRS. JOHN WELCH. Boston, Mail., Mrs: "I'm sure of accural dotage with St Joseph Aspirin For Childrea. My children like its pars oraase flavor." ST. JOSEPH ASPIRIN FOR CHILDREN. idea is that North Korea should join South Korea. North Korea, with a popula tion now estimated to total be tween 3 million and 5 million, is merely a puppet state under Chinese Communist, occupation. South Koreans charge that the Communists are deporting North Koreans to Manchuria and re placing them by Chinese with the idea of occupying the north ern part of the country per manenUy. The number of Chi nese immigrants is estimated to total as high as 1 million. Rhee knows that his years are numbered, and his one ambition is to unify Korea by peaceful means or by war before he dies. Today and By Walter THE NEW POLICY The language of the President's I address and of the proposed joint resolution is broad and im precise. This is, one might say, unavoidable when foreign policy is " con ducted by means of gen e r a 1 declara tions served up with hot rhet oric. Vagueness and ambiguity Waiter Lloomaaa are inherent in these grandiose declarations, and we must not expect them to be precise and specific and clear. What they are meant to ac complish is at once to impress mankind and at the same time to give the Secretary of State a free hand to maneuver and ne gotiate. The proposed resolution speaks, for example, of "the gen eral area of the Middle East," which is a very generalized form of words. It speaks of "any na tion controlled by international Communism," which leaves all the difficult questions open. in view of all this, any one studying the address is bound to pause over the following sen tences. Having said that "it is my profound hope that this author ity (i.e. to employ the armed forces of the United States) would never have to be exercised at all," the President then de clared that "nothing is more nec essary to assure this than that our policy with respect "to the defense of the area be promptly and clearly determined and de clared.". I have an- impression that in the apparent contradiction- be tween this insistence on a clear policy and the vague and impre cise language of the address and the joint resolution, we might find the key to what the new pol icy is really meant to do. ' CJINCE nothing is now "clearly determined and declared," we must suppose that the Adminis tration hopes eventually to de termine clearly and declare our policy for the defense of the area. Let us now note two points. The first, which controls the whole conception, is that this is an offer by the Administration to give military assistance to any nation or group of nations "de siring such assistance." The sec ond point is that the President intends "to send a special mis sion to the Middle East to ex plain the cooperation we are prepared to give." The resolution would, there fore, appear to be an attempt by the President to negotiate mili tary assistance agreements with those Middle Eastern nations which may wish to negotiate them. These agreements, which will not be treaties but in the nature of executive agreements, will then constitute a policy for the area which is "clearly de termined and declared." This, at least, is what subject to correction I make out of it. CREMATION ' Whether the final rites are earth interment, vault burial, entomb ment in a mausoleum crypt, or cremation, the funeral services be forehand are the same. Thi casket and body are in view of the family and friends in exactly the same way and for the same length of time regardless of the method of final disposition. j . .. If you have any questions regarding cremation, or the other forms of final rites, we'll be glad to answer them. DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS In the Day's News By FRANK The big question: What are we up Middle East? to in the AS to that, one can only guess. Projects such as the hammer ing out of a new foreign policy that will be the road map and the guide for a powerful nation in its relations with other na tions throughout the earth are so fateful in their possible conse quences that they can not be dis closed In their entirety all at once. They must be approached gradually. So In arriving at a conclusion as to what this Middle East pro posal of the Eisenhower adminis tration is all about we must read Tomorrow Lippmann It is certain that there is no clearly determined policy now. It appears that there cannot be a clearly determined policy until the various' governments of the Middle East have accepted or re jected "the cooperation we are prepared to give." rpHE question, then, is: What - arp th nrnsnpets rt aorAA. ment? They are good enough for the four nations of the Baghdad Pact, for Turkey for Iran, Pak istan and Iraq. These nations would like the United States to join the Baghdad Pact, and this new policy could, be in all but name the equivalent of our join ing the Baghdad Pact. 'Presum ably, the President's offer will strengthen the hands of the Prime Minister of Iraq and his hand now needs strengthening, It stands to reason ihat Israel will jump at the chance, if in fact it is given the chance, to get a military agreement with the United States. But there is not likely to be much of an agree ment with Israel until after Mr. Dulles has had a try at dealing with the hard core of the prob lem, which is in Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. As I read the official texts. what the Administration is ask ing from Congress is general authority to be drawn upon in negotiating with the unaligned Arab countries. It is in Egypt and Syria primarily, to some degree in Iraq, that the Soviet Union is extending its influence. It does this largely by working upon the younger officers of the armies, offering them weapons in the. hope of military power, and on the intelligentsia who run the government services. To them it offers money without strict accountability. The Amer ican policy seems designed to help the State Department with men and with money to outbid the Russians. TF THIS is the purpose of the undertaking it is, it seems to me, sound enough. But I cannot help feeling that the President has made it difficult for himself to succeed because of the rhetor ical excesses of his address. For he has put the whole project in such a way that it will be very difficult for any Arab country to accept the American ' offer without aligning itself implac ably in the cold war. .Yet what the Arab countries really want is to be. neutral In the cold war. And what we really want is that they should remain neutral rather than align them selves with the Soviet Union. After the President's address it will take some explaining to make them feel that we are not asking them to make an irrevoc able choice. (C) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. COSTLY SAVING London (U.R), A motorist coasting downhill to save-gasoline during rationing was fined $10 Wednesday for speeding. JENKINS between the lines and put two and two together-. TREADING between the lines " of the news and putting two and two together leads to the thought that this "new foreign policy" that is getting so much attention in Washington and all over the world may be leading up to a declaration that here after the United States will ue the friend and the big brother of all the peoples of the world who want to run their own af fairs. THE United States of America would have a sound histori cal background for such a dec laration. We were the first people in the world to throw' off the yoke of colonial imperialism. We had to fight two wars to get it the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. But we got away with it. And We built the greatest and the freest nation on earth. line know what we were about ' and what we were.soing to accomplish, or else. And we didn't falter in our purpose. Our first step after the fight ing of two wars to gain our in dependence of the colonial sys tem was to announce that not only the narrow strip along the Atlantic coast that was included in the 13 rebelling colonies but ALL OF THE WESTERN HEM ISPHERE must be kept free of European colonial imperialism. We took that step by means of the Monroe Doctrine which was announced to the American congress by President Monroe on December 2, 1823, only a bare ten years after the end of the War of 1812. The Monroe Doctrine in ef fect guaranteed all the independ ent nations of North and South America against European inter ference "for the purpose of op pressing them or controlling m any manner their destiny." It asserted that the American con tinents were "henceforth not to be considered as subjects for fu ture colonization by European powers." VITE got away with that T No European power has since been permitted to get a new colonial foothold in the Americas. . AFTER the Spanish War, we had a relapse from our pre vious idealism and took an ill starred flyer in colonialism on our own account in the Phil ippines., But In time' We saw the error of our way and turned the Philippines loose. THERE are sound reasons for believing that the time has been reached when all peoples should have the right to run their own affairs. If so, no nation is better quali fied than ours to be the leader in such movement. . - FREE Turkey Dinner SEE THE Groceteria Ad On Page 6
