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fa FOTJH MEDFOHD (OREGON) "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mali Tribune" Published Dally Exceot Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phooe 2 -6141 ROBERT W RUriL Editor HERB GREY AdvertUlng Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1S97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year 915 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mot 4-26 Sundav Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One yar SIB 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per cony Ail Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United PressFull Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louts Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORlAi asTocITa'ion TT77TTTTT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the flies of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 24. 1947 (Friday) Hal Byers may be manager of radio station KMED if Med fcrd Radio corporation pur chases the station. From Arthur Perrey's Ye Smudge Pot column: Pig-stocking is the order of the day in the rural regions. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 24, 1337 (Sunday) Jackson county chapter of American Red Cross has $480 as its quota of fund to help vic tims of floods in east. Snow started falling yester day morning and blanketed Medford by last night. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 24. 1927 (Monday) Medford Chamber of Com merce urges large attendance at Crescent City harbor improve ment celebration at Grants Pass Friday. W. W. Belcher, Boy Scout executive in southern Oregon, speaks at Kiwanis club. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 24, 1917 (Wednesday) City council nullifies contract between city and Southern Ore gon Traction company calling for construction of railroad to Blue Ledge district. Meeting is called at Antelope school, district 12. by the teach er. Miss Nell Peachey, to organ izing a community meeting. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct lr. luperlor: -en or elfht l excellent; live or it is zood. 1. chloroform was first used bv inhalation In 1842; did this occur in New York, New Haven, nr Philadelohia? 2. Is "Albyn" the ancient Cel tic name of Scotland, Ireland or Wales? 3. The books of the New Tes tament are" held to have come into existence during the A A-A 4. Is the body of President Grant buried at the Arlington watinnal Cemetery? 5. Was Dustin Farnum an ac tor, owner of a famous circus r a nnvelist? 6. Is Trondheim in Germany, Finland, or Norway? 7 senium chloride in crystal line form is commonly known as 8. Was the region drained by Tigris and the Euphrates called either Babylonia or Mesopota mia? a Wnulrl it be rjroper to say "I contracted to meet him at supper?"' m '-Ho .-a not merely -.: ' tv,o nlrt Mock, but the old IMif u ' ' , block itself." Burke. Did he refer to Pitt or Churchill? i N.w Haven. 2. Scotland. 3. Apostolic Age. 4. No. Grant's Tomb, New Tone tuy. a- 6. Norway. 7. Salt. 8. Yet. 9. No ("Agreed" not "contracted.") ... ("Agreed" not "contracted.") 10 Pitt. Dr. Stephens Elected Chairman of Society Dr. R. Stephens, Grants trist. was elected chairman of the Southern Ore gon Optometnc society meeting luesaay m He will take office at the group's next regular meeting in early February. Other newly- elected officers are ur. a. j. j w iiartfnrH vinwhn irmaii. and Dr. Robert Harland, Medford, sec- MAIL TRIBUNE The Second Inaugural We have been asked for our opinion of the Presi dent's Inaugural address with the implication that w:e,had decided to ignore it. No we had no such intention. But other things seemed at the time of more importance. Moreover we could find nothing new or startling in the second inaugural. In fact there was a striking resemblance to the first as far as the administration's foreign policy is concerned, and that is all, on Mon day last, that the President considered. A ND what did it add up to? Well, as we see it, it added up to a rather lengthy but nicely phrased burial service for Ameri can isolationism and the "Old Guard." It might be said that the First Inaugural killed U.S. isolationism and the second buried it. Which, as far as this paper is concerned, is all to the good. We have always agreed with and ap proved of "Ike's foreign policy." It is clear cut, en lightened and realistic. There has never been a word in this column said against it. DUT the Republican "Old Guard" just doesn't like " it We were sorry we could not get a clearer view over TV of former President Hoover, whose views of what this great "fortress of America" should do and say, were repudiated by nearly every phrase Presi dent Eisenhower uttered. For example, quote : 'This is our home yet this is not the whole of our world. . For our world is where our full destiny lies, with men of all peoples and all nations who are, or would be, free. And for them so for us, this is no time for ease or rest. We look upon this shaken earth and we declared our firm and fixed purpose the building of a peace and justice in a world where moral law prevails. The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy, to serve it will be hard. And to attain it we must be aware of its full meaning and ready to pay its full price." fE ALSO failed to detect the facial expressions " of Joe Martin, House minority leader of Massa chusetts, Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, (per haps this Joe did not attend) or even "Mr. Republi can No. II," Senator Knowland of California. And. how about Secretary of the Treasury Hum phrey of Michigan's Mark Hanna political legatees? He gav half-hearted lip service to the "New Repub lican" budget but welcomed suggestions as to how the outlays could be reduced, and added grimly: "Unless such huge expenditures can be reduced, we we will suffer a national depression that will make your hair curl." Now hair curling would not bother Secretary Humphrey or his balding Hanna board of director's particularly, but curling would, and it is this threatened calamity that the Secretary fears, and predicts, UNLESS a halt to gargantuan expenditures, particularly abroad, is called. "ULTELL as far as that goes this inflationary danger is sensed and feared bv President Eisenhower himself as he pointed out ' But in this second inaugural the President dis regarded this threat entirely, and proceeded to lay out a program of foreign sian communism, which raises a prospect of increase m U.b. expenditures to tremendous heights. Even the people of Soviet Russia are included in this blue-print of peace and good will, the follow ing we thought being particularly praise-worthy: "We hope no less in this divided world than in a less tormented time the people of Russia (may join again the ranks of freedom.) We do not dread, rather do we welcome, their progress in education and industry. We wish them success in their demands for more intellectual freedom, greater security before their own laws, fuller enjoyment of the reward of their own toil. For as such things come to pass the more certain will be the coming of the day when our peoples may freely meet in friendship. So we voice our hope and our belief that we can help to heal this divided world may the turbulence of our age yield to a true time of peace when men and nations shall share a life, that honors the dignity of each, the brotherhood of all." "llE DID detect the grim, 1 1 Ambassador Georgi Zarubm, only a couple of rows behind the presidential podium, and it was quite plain he did not like this. How could he? For this was an impassioned appeal to the rank-and-file of the Russian people, behind the back of the ruthless dictatorship he represents, to revolt. As a matter of fact, judging by the applause throughout the inaugural as well as at its appealing finish, there was no real enthusiasm in the assem blage, for the President's well phrased remarks. w HY? OSr explanation would be two-pronged, some what as'f ollows : No. 1. There was, as stated, nothing new in it, it was merely an elaboration of the basic features of the First Inaugural. And No. 2. The audience was about equally di vided, if not predominately ultra-conservative, made up of GOP big shots less inclined to join in a cru sade for freeing and financing the world than in a business-like audit of the costs the nation's im mediate material future and the condition of its finances. TN SHORT, while President Eisenhower killed A isolationism four years ago and buried it on Jan uary 21, 1957, with proper ceremonies, the popular response in that huge audience, at least, indicated that what is called the "New Republicanism" is go ing to have far harder sledding in the next four years, particularly WITHIN the Grand Old Party, than it had in the last. R.W.R. Thursday, January 24, 19S7 up of their bank balances in his Budget message. aid and defiance to Rus stony visage of the Soviet Matter of Fact Bys,ertAsop THE THIRD CHALLENGE Washington Four years ago; when a solemn, inexperienced and rather nervous Dwight Ei senhower had just taken the oath of office for the first time, this re porter pointed to three "tre mendous chal lenges" which confronted the new President. Stewart Alsop In the light of his second inauguration, it mav oe worth . recalling those chal lenges, and trying to assess how the President has met them. Here were the three great prob lems facing the President, as they looked four years ago: The first thing the new Presi dent must do is to establish his political leadership of the Re publican party." "The second thing the new President must do is to establish his ideological leadership of the Republican party." "Finally, the most important thing the new President must do is not merely to carry on where Truman left off, but to find bold, positive solutions for the problems that plague us," throughout the world. TT took him a long time to do it, but surely, by any reason able standard, the President has triumphantly met the first two challenges. To see just how tri umphantly the challenges have been met, it is necessary to re call the political atmosphere which prevailed for more than two years after that first Eisen hower inauguration. The President was hardly in stalled in the White House be fore he was engaged in a series of bitter rows with the con servative wing of his own party. There was, for example, the row with the right wingers in the Senate, led by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, over the confirma tion of Charles E. Bohlen as Am bassador to the Soviet Union. And there was the concurrent row with the House conserva tives, led by Rep. Daniel Reed, over the President's budget tax program. The President had his way in both cases, in the end, but only with the help of the Democrats, and these conflicts were only the In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Hopeful thought: It is beginning to look like KINDS of communists are springing up. TN Poland, there are communist factions. Poland has just held an election. Its results are still vague, but apparently the- com mie faction that wants to have as little to do with the Kremlin as posible won out. Yugoslavia is a communist country, with a communist dic tator. But the Yugoslav commu nists want to run their own af fairs in their own way, with no butting in from Moscow. Even in Moscow there are KINDS of communists. There are the Stalinists and also the anti-Stalinists. They are obvi ously suspicious of each other, with each faction seeking to gain the upper hand. HUNGARY, of course, is differ ent. They started out there with kinds of communists. One kind was all for Moscow. The other kind wanted Hungary to be run by HUNGARIAN com munists. It's different now, after all the shooting. As nearly as one can judge from this distance, there are now only communists and HUNGARIANS. WHY is the fact that there are ' KINDS of communists a hopeful sign? It's like this: Inevitably there will be per sonal rivalries among the lead ers of the different kinds of com munists. History tell us they may get to FIGHTING AMONG EACH OTHER for power and privilege. That would be good for the rest of us. When thieves fall out, honest men come into their own. THAT'S enough, I about communism ' day. reckon, for one Let's consider for a moment another pressing problem how to stay alive and whole on the highways these days. TTP north of Bend the other t- day, four members of a Cali fornia family died in a head-on collision. According to state po lice authorities, here is what happened: A truck started to pass around a snow plow and collided with an oncoming passenger car. The wind was blowing a cloud of snow from the plow across the roadway, OBSCURED THE VIEW. The tragedy followed. It followed because somebody violated one of the fundamental laws of safety. The law is this: NEVER PASS WHEN THE VIEW .AHEAD IS OBSCURED. fXS traffic-filled modern high " ways, trying to pass another vehicle when the view ahead is obscured is as dangerous as Rus ian roulette. 11 first of a seemingly endless series. In those days, moreover, the President very often seemed uncertain of his power, and un willing to use it. "I speak my piece," he used to say to friends, "and then it's up to them." rpHOSE were the days when the President was so often frus trated by his own party that he talked seriously of forming a third party. After 20 years in the wilderness, many Republicans had formed the habit of looking on the occupant of the White House as their natural enemy, and the thought of accepting the President's political or ideologi cal leadership hardly occurred to them. Consider the difference now. Sen. McCarthy is sunk without trace, and there is no one else in the Republican party who would think for a minute of seriously challenging President Eisenhower's leadership. The response to his budget, the high est in peacetime history, and higher by many billions in the non-defense field than any bud get ever proposed by Harry s. Truman, tells the story. If the President had submitted such a budget in the first part of his first term, the Republican Congressional leaders would have exploded like so many rockets. Now the President's au thority in his party is such that the resistance of the Republi cans on Capitol Hill is confined to private mutterings the only open opposition has come from the President's own Secretary of Treasury, George M. Hum phrey. A S for the President's willing ness to use his authority, it is only necessary to consider the "Eisenhower Doctrine." The President has started his second term by demanding of the Con gress a blanket grant of author ity such as Franklin Roosevelt, at the height of his power, would never have dared ask. This new willingness to use his power to the full may be a good augury as regards the third of the three challenges listed in this space four years ago the need to "find bold, positive so lutions for the problems that Today and By Walter PROSPECTS The President enters upon his second term with good prospects at home but with much to worry about abroad. The country is p r o s p e rous, and its inter nal problems though im portant are not critical. There is not ; now, as there was at the time of his Walter Lippmann first inauguration, deep and bit ter division among our people. History may well say that the most notable achievement of Eisenhower in his first term was to bring about internal peace within the United States and to inaugurate an era of interna good will. The President himself has the confidence of a very great majority of the nation, and while he has opponents and critics, he has no formidable enemies. There are, as there were bound to be, big differences be tween the Eisenhower of today and the Eisenhower of the first inaugural. The facts of life are stronger than man's preconcep tions." He began, for example, with a theory which was pre sumably acquired in the class room at West Point. The theory was that Congress determines policy and makes the laws while the President, deferring to Con gress, executes the policy and enforces the laws. The practice of this theory very nearly brought him to a disaster in his first two years of office. His administration was wracked owing to his passivity in the face of the usurpation of power by Congressional commit tees. Now, within the bounds of his own temperament and of his own energies, Eisenhower has become, as have all successful Presidents before him, a pro ponent of the idea that the Presidential office is the central and the originating branch of the government. IT SEEMS safe to predict that for his second term what happens in foreign affairs will be decisive. The basic problems of the budget are on the one hand inflation and on the other how to finance the welfare measures of what used to. be the New Deal and what is now called the new Republicanism. These problems stem directly from the costs of the military establishment, from the over- riding fact that we are involved in a gigantic race of armaments and that the cold war has been resumed on a wider scale and with renewed intensity. This is not what President Eisenhower hoped for vohen he was inaugurated four years ago. It is fair to say, I think, that his original hope was that, starting with a move to end the Korean war. he could arrive at some elobal truce with the Soviet Union. Such a truce would have Hard New Communist Shape in Russia and Satellites By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Russia's new policy line is taking shape rapidly in the Soviet Union, the satellite coun tries and the Communist parties of Western Eu rope. The new policy, made necessary b y the Polish and Hungarian re volts, was Tharles McCano w o r K e Q out during the recent visit to Mos cow of Chinese Red Premier Chou En-lai. It is aimed primarily at end ing the unrest and the move ment toward "independent Com munism" which resulted from the denunciation of the late i Josef Stalin. Also, it evidently is aimed at making sure that the big Com munist parties of France and plague us." This is the challenge which President Eisenhower in his first administration has not really met. Instead of finding "bold, positive solutions," a policy of accepting the status quo, of making do with things as they are, has been adopted again and again, all over the world. It is now clear,, that things wiU not remain as they are for very much longer. As the Presi dent remarked in his second in augural address, no nation can now escape the "tempest of change and turmoil." The whole tone of that address suggests: that the President is determined to meet the third, and unmet, challenge. It is infinitely diffi cult to meet. But given the enormous authority which the President now exercises, and the whole power of the United States, it should not be impos sible to meet. Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Tomorrow Lippmann enabled him to disengage many of our armed forces from their far-flung and perilous commit ments all over the globe. Only on this assumption could he have believed, as he did during the 1952 campaign and as he set it forth in his famous com pact with Sen. Taft, that he could reduce drastically the Fed eral expenditure, that he could reduce taxes, and that he could reduce the size of the Federal government. His hope then was that he could disengage, re trench, and reduce. This hope was based on the deeper hope that the cold war could be, if not ended, at least moderated, As he enters his second term, he finds himself extending rather than reducing our com mitments abroad. On the three great fronts of the cold war, in the Far East, the Middle East, and in Central Europe, there is no present prospects of negotia tion which might open the way to some kind of truce. There is an atmosphere of irreconcila bility here and in the world about us which hangs heavily upon the future as the new term begins. Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. LIFE EVERLASTING I am standing upon the seashore; a ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, "There! She's gone." Gone where? Gone from my sight that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her; and just at the moment when someone at my side says, "There! She's gone" there are other eyes watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "There she comes!" ...... And that is dying. If you would like a cop'y of the above, suitable for framing, just let us know! DAY ORNIGHT PHONE 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse - Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrasj ' FUNERAL DIRECTORS Italy follow the lead of Moscow in party matters. Leaders Touring USSR ..Inside Russia, all first rank leaders are touring the various republics of the Soviet Union, making speeches, showing them selves to the people and con ferring with government and party officials. In Hungary and East Ger many, Red" authorities have adopted a frankly tough policy. Hungarian Puppet Premier Janos Kadar has started a pro gram of merciless repression. East'German Red leaders have announced repeatedly that any attempt at revolt will be smashed with all the force of the armed police forces and the Russian occupation army. Czechoslovak .Communist lead ers are to go to Moscow Friday to get their orders for the new policy line. Delegations from Bulgaria and other satellites al Communications Letter to the Editor must ber the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. Bomb Scare Scored To the Editor: Last Saturday night I listened to an hour long broadcast over one of the na tional networks. It was a dra matic production designed to in terest people in the cause of civil defense. It attempted to show how a middle-western city with a civil defense organization, plagued though it was with op position and inertia, fared better than did its sister city which had none when the Russian rocket with the H bomb warhead final ly arrived. Washington, San Francisco, and New York were wiped out by bombs dropped from planes, but targets of less strategic importance received only rocket-bomb treatment in the Christmas-eve debacle de scribed in this play. In the end the hero and the heroine just a minute The en emy? Well, we had been ready for him all the time, and when he started pin-pricking us with those H-bombs we really let him have it. With one mighty blast launched from a submarine in thfe Baltic sea we were able, ap- Darentlv. to "equalize" every thing from the Gulf of Finland to the Ural Mountains and the Black Sea. Just what the nature of this blast was and how the rest of Europe and Asia fared under its impact was not told. In the end, as I started to say, we were given a homey scene in which the heroine, who had been active in civil defense work, timidly admitted to her husband that the doctors only give her a seventy-five per cent chance of having healthy, nor mal babies because she has been "exposed to radiation," but the husband confidenUy assured her that "seventy-five per cent was passing. Civil defense has the com mendable objective of protecting life and property in time of trou ble, but this sort of propaganda in behalf of protection against the sort of trouble here depicted is false, foolish, unrealistic and immoral. It would be a sanguine nuclear scientist indeed who would give a prospective mother even a twenty-five per cent chance of. having healthy chil dren after the 'earth had been subjected to such fire-works and j consequent radioactive faU-out ' Line Takes ready have been there. Italians Moscow-Bound Two leaders of the Italian Communist party, the largest outside the Iron Curtain, went to Moscow last week for a confer ence. A delegation of the French party, which ranks next to that of Italy in size, is to go soon. The big victory of Wladyslaw Gomulka, Poland's new inde pendent Communist leader, ap parently ended any hope that Russians might have that they could bring Poland back into line. ' But in the remaining Commu nist countries of Eastern Eu rope, "Stalinist" leaders those who oppose any liberalization of Red regimes seem to be firmly in control. - It is evident that, under the new policy, they will try to dis courage by any means necessary any attempt to break away from Moscow dictation. as described in the broadcast. As usual, we are just about "one war behind" in our thinking. Civil defense of this sort served London very well in the days of the block-buster and the fire bomb, but it will not be worth much if and when the big "mod ern" bombs begin to faU. The only good we can ever expect to get out of those H bombs is that they may neutralize each other before they are auowed to go off. E. Whealdon, 804 Cedar St., Medford, Ore. Congressional Quiz (Copyright. 1958 Congressional Quarterly) Q Four Middle East nations are bound to a Western nation by the Baghdad Pact. Take one point for each of the five mem ber nations you can name. A Great Britain, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan. Q The "Eisenhower Doc trine" for the Middle East has been compared to the "Truman Doctrine" of 1947. With what countries was the Truman Doc trine concerned? A The Truman Doctrine was a plan for military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey. Q Match the following Mid dle East leaders with the coun tires they represent: King Saud Iraq Premier N.uri as-Said Egypt King Hussein Saudi Arabia Pres. Gamel Nasser Jordan A Saud. Saudi Arabia; as Said,' Iraq; Hussein, Jordan; Nasser, Egypt. Q The "baby" of the family of nations lies in the Middle East. It is a country which be came independent in 1956. Can you name it? A The Sudan, which be came an independent republic Jan. 2, 1956. ' Q In April, 1956, . Glubb Pasha was dismissed as head of the Arab Legion and expelled from Jordan. This news caused particular concern in Britain. Why? A John Bagot Glubb, who had commanded the Arab Le gion for many years, was Briton. ! PACIFIC , INDUSTRIAL-- 16 S. Central Phone 3-5308 retary-treasurer-
