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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.
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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
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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.
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