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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-
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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. . -
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