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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the file of The
Mai Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 3u years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 31. 1947 (Friday)
The "Hire a Vet" drive here is
producing good results, accord
ing to M. E. "Bud" Fisher, field
assistant of the veterans employ
ment service.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: According
to well established Applegate
district lore, the meat of a hog
butchered in the dark of the
moon, will curl up at the edges
when fried.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 31. 1937 (Sunday)
Jackson county completes Red
Cross flood relief quota with
total of $2,752.82, according to
George T. Frey, county chair
man. Plans for continuing the eradi
cation of blight and disease in
deserted orchards are considered
by Jackson county court.
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 31, 1927 (Monday)
Southern Pacific gives consent
of constructing a grade crossing
at Sixth st. over the railroad
tracks, according to Mayor O. U.
Alenderfer.
A speech, "Thrift in Business
Is given by A. J. Crose at meet
ing of Jackson Parent Teacher's
association.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 31. 1917 (Wednesday)
Germany serves notice upon
all neutrals that restrictions an
Naval warfare have been re
moved and that ships will be
sunk regardless of nationality or
cargo in barred zones.
Shortage of fish in upper
Rogue is due more to lack of
screens in irrigation ditches
than to commercial fishing,
states J. C. Sitken, inventor of
Sitken screen.
What's Your I.Q.7
Kin or tn correct U superior; mt.
a or eight U excellent; fiv or
tlx is good.
1. Was the first telescope
used in the U.S. (1830) set up
at Harvard, Yale, or Princtton
College?
2. Pietro M a s c a g n i's best
known opera is C a
R a.
3. Bible: Who said, "Saul,
Saul, why persecutest thou
me?"?
4. What Is the name for the
science of animals?
5. Does "quid pro quo" mean
something for nothing, or value
received?
6. Wilmington is the capital
of which state?
7. Which famous explorer was
known as the "Admiral of the
Ocean Seas"? f,
8. The mass trial of World
War II arch criminals was held
at which city in Germany?
9. Is the word "stand" ex
pressive of more than one col
loquialism? 10. Fit in the name of the
flower: "Fresh as a" what?
Answers.- 1. Yala (1S3Q1.
2. CaTsilaria Rusticana. 3. Jesus.
4. Zoology. 5. Something for
something (value received). 6. No
stat. It it th chief ciiv of
Delaware. 7. Christopher Co
lumbus. 8. Nuernburg. a. res
it). "Daisy."
Another "Ify" Question
The photogravure section of last Sunday's Ore
gonian features a lengthy symposium entitled "What's
ahead for the Republican party in Oregon."
Robert C. Notson the paper's capable managing
editor acted as "M.C." while the panel consisted of
such prominent and law abiding Republicans as Rob
ert T. Mautz, state national committeeman; State
Senator Rudie Wilhelm Jr. ; and the primary oppon
ent of former Governor Douglas McKay for a seat
in the US Senate (later his ardent supporter against
Senator Morse), Philip S. Hitchcock.
As remarked it is a lengthy offering, too lengthy
to be adequately summarized in this space, or any
where else we imagine.
But the main point made was that the future of
the Grand Old Party in this state looks cheery and
bright, IF the Republicans get smart (like the Demo
crats,) and instead of going into a campaign of high
powered propaganda and expert salesmanship only
a few weeks before the election, conduct a campaign
approximately the year around. This should be done
not with the old-school stand-pat type of candidates
but with a new school, young, "zaalous and articu
late." TELL there is undoubtedly something to be said
for this diagnosis, particularly in the direction
of selecting better qualified and more energetic can
didates. But it seems to this department that the main
cause of the Democratic victories in the state last
November has been overlooked in this offering,
namely: not only the superior calibre of the candi
dates but WHAT THEY STOOD FOR.
THERE were many sneering remarks made by the
Republican campaigners about the Morse slo
gan of placing "principle above party," the public
welfare above private profit, conservation of natural
resources state and national rather than exploitation
by "Big Business." But it took more than sneers and
smears to hide from the people of Oregon as a whole,
the plain fact that by and large the Republican can
didates McKay, Smith and Ellsworth DID represent
the Old Guard astigmatism and the "backward look";
while the'Democratic candidates DID represent a new
group and a progressive and constructive FOR
WARD look.
THIS conflict in viewpoint and principle, became
clearer and clearer as
and the diff ering views regarding such issues as Hells
Canyon, Al Sarena, and Pub..ic Power, became more
and more apparent.
Probably the superior campaigning ability and
persistence of the Democratic candidates did prove
a factor, but as we see it, a minor one.
If the issues had been reversed and the personal
ities and political techniques of the candidates re
named the same, our guess is the results would not
have been materially different.
For the people of Oregon as a whole, wanted less
partisanship and more principle in politics; they
WANTED conservation rather than exploitation of
our natural resources; and trey wanted and we be
lieve STILL want what only FEDERAL and multi
ple development of electric l ight and power can give
the MAXIMUM production at the LOWEST profit
able rate, for the benefit of .LL the people.
Wanting- these things, they naturally voted for
the candidates and the partj, they believed best cal
culated to give them.
That as we see it, is the main cause of what hap
pened. TT IS hardly necessary to add, however, the Repub
" lican trio in this symposium did not agree with
any such diagnosis.
In fact Mr. Wilhelm at least, attributed the defeat
of the Republican aspirants for congress to the fact
they did not go along with the Eisenhower program,
and the position of the Republicans will be greatly
enhanced in 1958 if they do and show a greater soli
darity behind the most popular President since the
redoubtable "T.R."
THAT, we grant, is a new view point. We only wish
Mr. Wilhelm had cited some facts to support his
thesis.
In what direction, for example, did Messers Mc
Kay, Ellsworth and Smith, fail to follow the "We like
Ike" line, and scorn any passage they could secure,
on his ample coat-tails?
It would be interesting to know.
: Our recollection is the GOP candidates unitedly
and enthusiastically supported and lauded "Ike" at
every opportunity, while the Democratic candidates
repeatedly took issue with
gram particularly regarding education, public power
and conservation.
A T the close of the symposium, however, we must
admit that as far as his
party and devotion to
Kay would permit, Mr. Hitchcock gave unmistakable
signs of a certain doubt and skepticism regarding the
basic progressive principles of his party and its future
m this state.
For example, in answer to questions by "MC"
Notson, Mr. Hitchcock frankly admitted that regard
ing the partnership plan
tion, he thought "The Republicans came to regard it
as a means of doing nothing rather than doing some
things," and as for the fact that as "new workers
come into Oregon, become
settled they will tend to become more conservative
and tend more to the Republican party," he somewhat
Thursday, January 31, 1957
the campaign progressed,
the administration s pro
loyalty to the Republican
ex-Secretary of the Interior Mc
of the present admimstra-
more prosperous:and more
Matter of Fact by Joseph
BEFORE A SIBERIAN
JOURNEY
Moscow As these words are
written, this reporter's bags are
packed for a
long Siberian
journey. The
first Moscow
chapter is end
ing; so this
seems a good
.moment to try
to sum up the
first impres
sions, or rather
4a H...
L. J the surprises.
Joseph Alsop
of an mtroduc-
tion to the Soviet scene.
. These last two weeks have
been the most interesting and
awakening political experience
which this reporter can remem
ber in a very long time. Above
all, the surprises have come
thick and fast, succeeding one
another with a rapidity at once
bewildering and Intensely stimu
lating. There is the character of Rus
sian architecture, for example.
Who would have been prepared
for something like the archi
tecture of Palmyra alien styles
borrowed from a foreign culture,
and made larger, heavier and
more ornate and more grandiose
to suit the taste of borrower? Or
again, there is the character of
official Soviet taste. Even after
many warnings, who could ex
pect to find a great nation ap
parently conimitted, in the year
1957, to the approximate stand
ards of taste of a small German
principality of the mid-Victorian
era? Yet that is the taste
which reigns here under the
curious label of "Socialist real
ism." rpHE charm and vitality of the
people, wonderfully retained
despite the hardness of their
lives: the obstinate vigor of the
Russian intelligentisia, which
should have died in the grim
years of Stalin; the intensity of
most Russians' interest in the
arts and the things of the mind.
despite or perhaps because of
their limited opportunities in
these realms of experience all
these are other surprises in a
long, astonishing list.
But that list's biggest, most
significant, most perspective-
changing item is unfortunately
the hardest to pin down in
words. Maybe the best way is to
describe this central surprise is
the discovery that, although the
problems of this powerful Soviet
society are wildly different from
the problems of our Western
society, they are very real prob
lems for all that.
It sounds banal when put like
that. It may also sound too re
assuring; and it is well to re
member that the Soviet leaders
do not appear to have any cur
rent problem so urgent, so hard
to solve and so likely to produce
a weakening result as the crisis
that now confronts the Western
leaders in the Middle East. The
central Soviet problem, which
the wisest foreign observers re
gard as having a deeper import
ance than the unrest in Eastern
Europe, is in fact a long term
problem.
THE problem actually arises
frnm th ffrpatpct. cinflp
Soviet achievement. By great
sacrifices, at fearful cost, the
Soviet Union has now been
raised to the level of a high
technical society, with an in
dustrial production surpassing
the combined production of the
two originators of the industrial
revolution, Britain and Ger
many. As a high technical so
ciety, the Soviet Union may
seem mal-formed and mis-shapen
to our Western eyes.- Con
sumer goods have been persist
ently slighted, and are being
slighted today in favor of the
kinds of . industrial investment
that increase the strength of the
state rather than the comfort
of the citizens. But this is now
a high technical society all the
same.
In political terms, that means
two things. On the one hand.
education on a wide scale has
been essential. So the Russian
people are no longer the dumb.
compliant mass of illiterate peas
ants that the Soviet leaders in
herited 40 years ago. The peo
ple now include a very large
educated element who know
about and hanker for broader
horizons.
e , .
ON the other hand, preclsely
because the status of a high
technical society has now been
achieved here, the methods that
were used to achieve this great
result are no longer really work
able. In the building phase, to
illogically praised the type of approach of President
Eisenhower to this question and then added quote :
. "I think that as people get a stake in the economy they
are interested in its conservation. But they are still going
to be interested in progress and growth and development
and meeting new situations as they come up. The type of ,
approach that President Eisenhower has m that area will
prosper and if the Republican party in Oregon adopts that
kind of approach it wUl enlist the support of "these jjeople.
If it DOESN'T it WONT."
i ,
CDITOR .Notson being a keen and sophisticated
newspaper executive decided this was a good time
to call it a day,-and pursue such a line of reasoning no
farther. So said he:
"Thanks very much I think that is a good note to close
on."
The Mail Tribune seconds the motion, it was, and
is ! R.WiR. -
put it crudely, it was possible to
use the knout, as Stalin may be
said to have done. But once it
has been successfully built, this
kind of society is too complex.
too massive, too delicate in its
inter-relationships, too full of
ramifying chains of conse
quence, to be successfully man
aged with the knout alone.
Thus while the education
necessarily given to the people
has created a longing for broad
er horizons, the progress in the
society itself has created a posi
tive need of an even more im
portant character. This is the
need for more independence of
judgment, more freedom of de
cision, more flexibility and more
open communication at all levels
of the Soviet managerial ap
paratus.
The Soviet leaders unquestion
ably launched the famous de
Stalinization campaign because
they recognized the demand and
the need too briefly and crude
ly set forth above. Almost equal
ly unquestionably, they were as
surprised as everyone else by
the uncomfortably dramatic re
sponse which followed. Hence
the statue of Stalin is now be
ing regilded in patches, and the
patches are likely to get con
siderably bigger in the near fu
ture. Yet that will only obscure,
and cannot permanently solve,
the problem created for the
Soviet leaders by their own suc
cess. (Copyright New York Herald'
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God Forbid
To the Editor: I am writing
because of the proposed Free
way. I hope that the citizens of
of Medford will fight this cruel
measure of the highway commis
sion to bring this awful thing
through our city! destroying
people's homes and causing
much suffering, especially for
older people.
This is a very cruel and
heartless measure. Are we
living Russian, or some wartom
country that some dictator can
command us to leave our homes
so they can destroy them? May
God forbid. Let them do their
destructive work outside of
Medford. If it should hurt the
orchards, it is not as bad as
hurting people. Lets get togeth
er and fight this 'thing. So God
help us!
Mrs. Lydia Ehrke,
200 Tripp st.,
Medford, Ore.
Power and Responsibility
Tn tho FHitor: Reference your
editorial. A "Bad Neighbor"? on
Jan. 28.
Thank vou for indicating the
thinking behind the city's policy
of not providing services to areas
outside the city iimiis. may i
point to the fallacies in that
method of thinking?
Rerrvriale is not asking the
city to provide it with city serv
ices. The Berrydale baniiary
District, formed under the laws
of Oregon, is asking the city of
Medford, who is furnishing a
"Public Service", to pertorm xne
"Piihlic Dutv" and honor the
agreement entered into between
them in 1951 for the acceptance
of district sewage for treatment
by the city. The contract is good
for ten years in case the city
wishes to honor it. Matter of
fact, a contract is not one of the
requirements for obtaining a
"Public Service".
Usually a city is not required
to furnish public services outside
of its limits, but once it does
thon it takes on a DUblic duty to
provide that service to like per
sons without cuscrimuiauuii.
It Is generaUy known, in a
nf thi kind, that when the
need of the applicant is immedi
ate, the person from wnom ne
must ask for service has an un
fair aHvantaee if he is Drone to
take it. This is also true when
the person has the only estab
lished service of the kind re
nnirpH. ProDer weights and bal
ances should be applied to even
the scales. .
I repeat again the district
rio not ask the citv for credit.
It is wiUing and able to pay its
own way. It may not be so aDie
if its tavps ar increased to a
lari pvtent. It has met all the
conditions prerequisite to form
a lawful district and has offered
to' meet all the conditions xe-
Two Important Moslem Nations
Join U.S. in Mid-East Position
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Two important Moslem coun
tries are joining the United
States in its attempt to strength-
en the Allied
position in the
Middle East.
The two
'I If countries are
1M3 Turkey and
Iran, both
members of
the Baghdad
alliance, which
is aimed at op-
rharlcs McCino posing - C O m-
munist aggression. -
While King Saud of Saudi
Arabia is visiting Washington,
Turkish Premier Adnan Men
deres is making a state visit to
Libya, one of the nine Arab
countries with which the new
Eisenhower Doctrine is chiefly.
Today and
By Walter
THE REVIVAL OF EUROPE
In the backwash of the dis
aster in the Middle East there
are many in Britain and France
... 1. n V. .... A
f .ll Wlll Jill IJI.UWS1 W II U LI a V
'. J turned toward
their best hope
for the future
lies in the uni
fication of
Europe." Mr.
Macmillan and
his new Chan
cellor of the
E x c h e q uer,
Halter Lippmano
Mr. Thornycroft, are both sup
porters of British participation
in the project to establish a lim
ited free trade area in Western
Europe.
Within the free trade area,
which Britain and the Scandi
navian countries may join, there
may soon be ready treaties to
establish a still more intimate
economic union consisting of
France, West Germany, Italy
and the three Low Countries.
These treaties would create what
is called a common market and
would provide also for collabor
ation in the development of the
peaceful uses of atomic energy.
The French .Prime Minister,
M. Mollet, has long been an ad
vocate of projects which go even
further than that; and reach out
toward certain tentative experi
ments in political confederation.
A LL these projects have beep
under negotiation for a con
siderable period of time. But
they have acquired very consia
erable popular and political
support since the Suez crisis in
the autumn. It had long been
argued that while Western Eu
rope was sub-divided into a
large number of small national
economies, none of these separ
ate nations would be able to
compete successfully with big
countries like the United States
and Russia where a very large
market sustains mass produc
tion. This economic argument
for greater European unity has
been making some headway, at
though the resistance of the shel
tered national vested interests
is very powerful.
The autumn crisis over Suez
has provided a powerful politi
cal argument one which ap
peals to the pride and the patri
otism of the European nations.
quired by the city for connec
tions as have been required from
like districts who now are using
the public services provided by
the city of Medford.
I wonder if the city fathers
are aware of their public duty
to the community as a whole?
Medford has a certain amount
of control, pertaining to planning
and the building of subdivisions
for quite an area around the
city, that it exercises. Does it
follow that they also have re
sponsibilities? William Doernbach
143 Mace road.
Medford, Ore.
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concerned. .
It is announced also that Shah
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran
will visit King Saud on March
3.
Neither of these visits is like
ly to receive much attention out
side of the Middle East itself.
But it may be taken for grant
ed that neither President Gamal
Nasser of Egypt, who aspires to
leadership of the Arab world,
nor Soviet Russia will welcome
them.
Fit In Perfectly
The visits of Menderes and
the Shah fit in perfectly with
the aims of the Eisenhower Doc
trine. They are calculated to oppose
the anti-Western, pro-Russian
trend which Nasser's policies
have encouraged in Arab coun
tries. Libya is at the western end of
To morrow
Llppmann
What happened at Suez and in
the United Nations provided a
spectacular demonstration that
in Europe, which was for so
long the political center of the
world, there are no longer any
world powers. Europe is divided
by the Iron Curtain, and West
ern Europe is sub-divided into a
number of weak and national
states, none of them on the mod
ern scale of a great power. It
was shown in the autumn, that
this divided and sub-divided Eu
rope is unable, either by diplo
macy or by force, to affirm and
to defend its vital interests in
the outer world.
MM
VET there are in Western Eu-
rope some 250,000,000 peo
ple, more than there are in
either the Soviet Union or the
United States. Their level of edu
cation is the highest in the
world. Were they given a mod
ernized large scale economy,
there is no mass of people any
where who would surpass them
in capacity to work.
It is plain that their econo
mies are weak and their politi
cal influence is low because
of their disunity. For what else
can explain the fact that on the
great international issues of life
and death neither Europe as
such nor any nation in Europe
is treated as a principal power?
THE question -which troubles
mp rinps nnt come frnm anv
doubt that the case for greater
unity is a good one, or that the
projects for a common market,
for a larger free trade area, and
for atomic energy deserve en
couragement and support by all
men of good will. The question
in my mind is whether Western
Europe can be unified while
Germany remains divided. West
ern Germany is a principal
member of Western Europe. Yet
Western Germany must look to
the East, it must look to re
union with Eastern Germany,
and that means it must look to
a settlement with Poland and
with the Soviet Union.
Until the German question is
Evsnj. R. V. Sittstr
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Across from the Courthouse
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FUNERAL DIRECTORS
the chain of countries which be
long to the Arab league. It lies
between French North Africa
and Egypt.
The United States has an im
portant Air Force base in Libya.
a it has in Saudi Arabia.
Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan
and Great Britain are the mem
bers of the Baghdad Pact or
alliance.
It was feared, at the time OI
the British-French attack on the
Suez Canal zone that the Bagh
dad alliance might be weakened
beyond repair.
Took Strong Stand
Turkey. Iran, Iraq and Pakis
tan are Moslem countries, like
the Arabs. The attack was ex
ceedingly embarrassing to them.
They not unnaturally took a
strong stand against the attack.
But since then, the alliance
has revived in importance. All
of the Moslem members are
strongly pro Western, even
though Iraq is a member of tne
Arab League.
The four Moslem countries
met in Ankara, the Turkish capi
tal, on Jan. 19. They came out
officially in full support of the
Eisenhower Doctrine.
They. thu beat out President
Eisenhower's own Congress in
approving his doctrine.
resolved. Western Europe alone
cannot be politically stable. If
Western Europe is not politically
stable, it cannot have power and
influence in world affairs. It
this is correct, then what West
ern Europe needs in addition to
a common market and the like
is a common policy for a settle
ment with Eastern Europe and
the Soviet Union.
IT IS NOT mere fantasy to
imagine that Britain, which
is withdrawing and reducing its
global commitments, may find
a new field for the exercise of
its political genius in the unifi
cation of Europe through a set
tlement with Eastern Europe.
If that were to happen, some
thing great and good for all the
world will come out of the self
examination through which
Great Britain is now passing.
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