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o FOUR MEDFOHD (OREGON) .TRIBUNE "AtrTOM an Souwiarn Oregon a;aaTaa Mail Tribuna" Dally Cxceot Saturday by .SOFORD PRINTING CO JP-4W North Fu St Phona 2-8141 . ROBERT W RL'HL. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Practically every man in town named Rich ard has been ordered in song, "To close the door." 20 YEARS AGO March 12. 1937 (Friday) R6y Rogers, assistant frost me teorologist for the valley, will arrive Monday for frost work here. ...... Albert Burch, mining engi neer, recommended by Jackson County Chamber of Commerce directorate for a position on the newly created state board of ilp'ology and mineral industry. f JARS AGO OKsrck 12. 1927 (Saturday) Approval by bonding attor- Citys of the City Hall Bond issue :fiir C50.000, has been withheld (Jnfl at an informal city council (InS courthouse committee meet Cfrl steps are taken to hold spe- gil election to revote me issue. tloyd D. Young, government (irost expert, warns valley resi dents of nearness of the frost flTiudging season. (4 YEARS AGO March 12. 1917 (Monday) R. A. Ward, of the U. S. Bio logical survey department, will Speak at meetings this week on rodent control. New Medford Sample store will open Tuesday morning at 218 East Main St., Medford. Uhat's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior; MT an er eight Is excellent: five a six Is good. 1. The first instrumental mu ffle used in a Congregational Church was set up in New Eng land (1.88). Name the instru ment. KATIOM A Name the composer of the ogera, "Pearl Fishers". O J. Bible: Jesus was compelled O p ctrry the cross between which 0 9o plces? J. In the silent movies who t tnown as the "It" girl? 9. What is the approximate filing distance between San rtncisco and Manila? Cattle have no upper front teeth; true or false? O 7. What is the Gunnison tun nel in Colorado used for? 8. What did the ugly duckling turn into?. 9. Is the "th" sound as In "hither" voiceless? 10. "Help me Cassius. or I sink!" comes from which Shake spearian play? 1. An organ. 2. Bizel. 3. Pi lule's palace to Calvary. 4. Clara Bow. 5. Approximately 6.000 miles, fc. True. 7. Irrigation. 8. A san. 9. No. 10. Julius Caesar. AIv I LIVE HERE Detroit ;U.PJ San Fran cisco jazzman Turk Murphy was about to drive a truck carrying his band and its instruments on , a street closed to commercial traffic when he was stopped by the law. "This is no commercial vehicle." Murphy protested. 'This is my sports car. touring car, business car and runabout besides, I live on this street." The officer permitted him to drive on. MAIL TRIBUNE Is Nixon a The Salem Capital Journal is already preparing to celebrate the election of Vice President Nixon in 1960 as President of the United States. In fact it looks apparently more or less like a vic tory by acclamation, to our respected contemporary. For according to the "Journal" even the Demo crats, or "a large part of them," have changed their tune regarding Nixon and now practically admit he is so far out in front no one can catch him. CENATOR John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, for example, who came so close to getting the Demo cratic nomination for Vice President is quoted as follows: "It will take more than abusive statements to beat Mr. Nixon. Those he can read while riding in the 1961 in augural parade." And why not, asks the Capital Journal, when, quote : "No one could ever put the finger on any specific thing that justified this (critical) attitude toward Richard Nixon except that as a congressman he had irked the Democrats in uncovering the treason of Alger Hiss." MO? NOTHING "specific?" 11 Was not the acceptance of an $18,000 "gift" from a group of California "Big Business" men SPECIFIC? Mr. Nixon never denied it. In a special "TV" broadcast, arranged by the same group of "businessmen," and carefully re hearsed, he merely explained what a "Poor Richard" he was, how hard it was to meet the installments on his house, how devoted he was to his spaniel "Check ers," and his family, and how the money received had nothing to do with how he voted, but only how much money HE could save the California taxpayers! As one prominent California- executive expressed it at the time, quote : "Of course it was a phoney, but It worked, didn't it?" It did work. So did the charges made by subtle insinuation and anonymous phone calls, against Congressman Jerry Voorhies claiming Jeny was a communist, the same smear technique adopted by Nixon when he ran against Mrs. Helen Gahagan Douglas for the U.S. Senate. Another "phoney" but It DID. A ND when through the "Mystery Man," Henry (the Dutchman) Gruenwald, Senator Brewster of Maine gave Nixon a check for $5,000 which was duly cashed, that "specific" incident resulted in the defeat of Senator Brewster, but never touched the slick and shrewd Senator from Calif omia. For, as the senator explained, this was a perfectly legitimate and proper campaign contribution. What was wrong about that? Nothing, probably, but innocent, why was the notorious Gruenwald called in as a go-between? This is another fact that has never been explained. But it, too, is a matter of record, and it also worked." a a a WE DON'T mean to imply that "Poor Richard" is he is too smart for that nor do we deny he is per sonable, plausible and popular at least as far as the upper echelons of the G.O.P. is concerned. But we do mean that ever since he entered public life until today, his record has not been one to in spire confidence, respect or trust, and has been one to utterly destroy the claim of his cronies that he is a young man of demonstrated presidential STATURE. He definitely is NOT. We would not go so far as to call him a "white collared McCarthy," but we would say he has the same "killer instinct," the same fondness for the "Big Lie" insinuation, and the same Houdini adroitness in squirming out of a hot box when the facts have caught up with him. This was so clearly demonstrated when a smart newspaper reporter uncovered that $18,000 subsidy from that California tycoon group not for any campaign expenses but for personal and senatorial "INCIDENTALS!" It is hard to think of any other member of the senate who could have so cleverly and completely "gotten away with murder" without leaving a trace, but it is a matter of TV histoiy now that "RICH Rich ard" DID it. (And if he had not won the election, we predict he would have received an offer from Hollywood he would have found it difficult to resist.) DUT what gets this department down as far as the Vice President is concerned is the perennial "alibi" that anything said against him comes proper ly under the heading of "ABUSE." It appears that even as smart a young man as Senator Kennedy has fallen for it Come, come! Citing the facts in a public official's record is not ABUSE. There is nothing new in the statements made above, they have been reported before in this de partment and in many other newspapers and maga zines. Certainly if they were unfounded or untrue, de nials would have poured in thick and fast, with per haps a libel suit thrown in for seasoning. ; But there has not been a word of denial, not a syllable of refutation factually, nothing but that "old line" trying to arouse support and sympathy for the "V.P." by claiming, everything said against him is abuse. As a matter of fact the exact reverse is time. Considering his record as a campaigner for public Tuesday, March 12, 1957 "Shoo-in?" it worked didn't it? a if it was so proper and Polish Leader Appears Deep in Trouble From By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Polish Communist leader Wladyslaw Gomulka appears to be in serious trouble. His independent Communist regime is under attack by Polish Reds who op pose his break away from So v i e t Russian domination, by Polish non Communists and by Moscow propaganda or gans. At the same rhxries Mccano time, xne nego tiations in Washington for eco nomic and financial aid which would strengthen him in his fight for national independence are bogging down. It is too early to say that Go mulka's control of the Polish Communist party and govern ment is in actual danger. But it could be before long if the pres ent situation continues. . Matter of Fact THE RACER Paris The final impression left by a long sojourn in the great struggle that divides the world are now e n g a ged in a peculiar sort of race. It is a life and death race but nei ther side fully understands its nature. T o describe it bluntly and Joseph Aisop and even brut ally, this is a race between the weakness of the West on the one hand and the evolution of Sov iet society on the other hand. The creatures in the race are con siderably more oddly assorted than the hare and the tortoise. And just to make this race even stranger still, each' side is back ing the other's animal to win. While I was in the Soviet Union, I often felt grave doubts about the wisdom of the West ern hopes that Soviet society will somehow and sometime change in a way that will make the divi sion of the world more bearable and less dangerous. Indeed, I feel doubts about Western hopes now, when I see a presumably respectable American professor and alleged Russian expert pro claiming the weakness of the Soviet Union's massive industry because of short visits to two characteristically antiquated tex tile factories. (Of course it is heavy industry that has grown so massively in the Soviet Union, not consumer industry.) a TN TRUTH it is positively frightening to hear from Washington that the professor's claptrap has been taken serious ly and is regarded as a great cause for optimism in the Pres ident's own circle. Nothing on earth could be more dangerous for the West than to under estimate Soviet military might and industrial strength. Every thing I saw convinced me that Soviet military-industrial power is still growing and will con tinue to grow, although perhaps at a reduced rate. All the same it is also true that the evolution of Soviet soc iety offers the West quite gen uine grounds for Ion g-range hope. This is because of the cur ious interaction of the major Soviet success and a serious Sov iet failure. The Soviet failure, which has only been really proven in the last year, is the failure to pro duce the famous "new Soviet man" so long envisaged by the Kremlin's masters. The moral laws have not been repealed in the Soviet Union, even although they were temporarily suspend ed by sheer terror. Men and wo men have not lost their desire to be free, their wish to live their own lives or their hankering to exercise their own individual judgements. People still want to be people, instead of a higher form of ant. m m m AS FOR the Soviet sucess, it is the final attainment of the goal set long ago the crea tion of a high industrial society, office and an incumbent, he has made a sensational success, met with little criticism and opposition, been for several years now the "White Haired Boy" of the Eisenhower administration, and what slings and ar rows have been fired in his direction he has eluded with uncanny skill and aplomb. FINALLY as for opposition to him as President be- ing based upon his anti-Hiss record, that is simply nonsense. This paper praised him for his refusal to believe in Hiss' innocence when so many of his fellow con gressmen did, and the press in general regardless of partisanship, as far as our observation goes, did the same. But this is not, and never has been, a question of communism or anti-communism but a question of character, a question of whether or not, the people of the country want Richard Nixon or a person of his type and with his record to succeed a President of General Eisenhower's earnest, sincere type in the White House. We don't believe they do, or when the question comes to a head, if it does, they WILL. R.W.R. It is increasingly evident that Gomulka is having difficulty in both maintaining his present in dependence and in avoiding an open break with the Russians. One big reason is that Soviet leaders are fully aware now of the danger that any move toward independent Communism pre sents to their domination of Eastern Europe. Another reason is that strong elements in Poland, both Com munist and non - Communist, want Gomulka to take an even more independent attitude. One result of the situation is that Gomulka and Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz have been com pelled to restore to government jobs most of the Stalinist leaders who fought Gomulka's return to power last October during the surge of revolt in satellite coun tries. But Gomulka and Cyrankie wicz are being attacked also by those Poles who want him to go farther toward independence. Premier Denounced By Joseph Alsop technically complex and ad vanced, with a gross product sec ond only to that of the United States. The Spviet rulers them selves have now discovered that running such a society and in suring its continued development and progress are quite different things from constructing such a society by exhortation and by force. As has been previously sug gested in this space, successfully developing this kind of society demands a greater measure of freedom than the people of the Soviet Union have enjoyed for a very long time. But as soon as a little more freedom is grant ed, as it has now been granted, then the failure to produce the "new Soviet m a n" begins to make all sorts of trouble. People say things, people even do things that are not at all approved. So there follows the kind, of puUback toward unfreedom that is now taking place in Soviet Union to understand Plato s view that all poets are sinister sub versives. In fact in the kind of society that Plato was writing about, and ten times more in Soviet society, free poets are highly subversive. That explains the current Soviet pullback. m YET'the pullback cannot go too far. It cannot in particular safely go as far as Stalinism Thus the process of evolution of Soviet society will eventually begin again. Of course Soviet society will hardly evolve to ward anything recognizable as democracy, but it should at least evolve toward a kind of modified communism in which there wiU be air enough for men to breathe- That kind of aerated Com munist society and the Western democratic societies might well jog along together in a reasonab ly comfortable way, especially if Soviet national income continues upwards. But the hitch lies in the time factor. At best it will take a very long time for the evolu tion of Soviet society on which the West has placed its hopeful bets. But what about the time factor of those Western weaknesses on which the Soviet leaders are betting so confidently? Is there any way to prevent the Western partners on this side of the At lantic from being mortally dam aged by their dependence on the troubled ex-coloniel regions, of the Middle and Far East? If there is no way to cure this mor tal weakness, how long will it take before the weakness takes effect? .see AND again, what about the deep fissure that already exists in the Western alliance it self? Can it be bridged? And if lot, how long before it con tributes to the final upset of the world power balance? By this upset rather than by war the Soviets expect to win the race. Thus the answers to the above questions will decide the outcome. And only bold, realist ic and imaginative Western lead ership will find satisfactory an- SWe"(c) 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. To Be All Sides Cyrankiewicz was openly de nounced in the Polish Parliament on Feb. 27 by Antoni Wojtysiak, a non-Communist who is also di rector of the agricultural college at Breslau-or Wroclaw, as the Poles call it in Polish-occupied Eastern Germany. Wojtysiak said that Cyrankie wicz was responsible for all the abuse of power by the Commu nists during Josef Stalin's dicta torship. Somes members angrily tried to'shout Wojtysiak down. Others applauded him. It was necessary to suspend the session for 10 minutes. On March 1, eight leading edi tors and writers of Trybunu Ludu, the newspaper organ of the Polish Communist Party, re signed in protest against the pol icy of the ruling Politburo. These eight men resented what they re garded as a trend toward a new Stalinist policy. U. S. Invited Talks The Washington negotiations were initiated by the United State which thought it wise to strengthen Gomulka by reliev ing Poland's economic difficul ties. But the negotiations have run into a snag. For one thine, the so-called Battle Act passed by Congress rigidly restricts the giving of aid to Communist coun tries. To get around this. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has ruled that Poland is not under Russian domination. That ruling permits some aid. But it also has been found that the government has disposed of most of the farm surpluses which were available to foreign countries. Gomulka almost certainly will get some help from the United States. It will be nowhere near the S300 million he seeks in eco nomic and financial aid, how ever. In the Day's News By FRANK A little later than usual Sat urday morning, President Eisen hower left his private . living quarters in the White House and headed for his pleasant oval of five in the executive mansion. He was a trifle late to work for a reason that is quite common at this time of the year in our coun try. He is suffering from the after effects of a cold. Arriving at his office, he sat down at his desk and cleared off the top. An aide put a document in front of him. Ike knew all about the document, but as all of us do in similar circumstances he glanced " through it to make sure that all was in order. Then he turned to his news secretary, James Hagerty, and asked (as all of us are apt to do) "This is the ninth, isn't it?" Hagerty con firmed the date. Whereupon Mr. Eisenhower reached for. his pen and on the line reserved for his signature he wrote: "Approved,' Dwight D. Eisenhower. March 9, 1957, Washington, D. C." THUS he became the third American President to have a ,doctrine named after him. The other members of this distin guished company are President James Monroe and .President Harry E. Truman. LET'S look first at the Monroe Doctrine. It was set forth by President Monroe in a message to the con gress on Dec. 2, 1823. It guar anteed all the independent na tions of the Western Hemisphere against European interference "for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any man ner their destiny." It added that the American continents "are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by European powers." This meant that the United States would not allow colonies to be created anywhere in the Americas nor would it permit existing colonies to ex tend their boundaries. YlHAT was the occasion for " th this bold announcement? Well, the three leading abso lute monarchies of Europe Rus sia, Austria and Prussia had pledged themselves to "PUT AN END TO THE SYSTEM OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERN MENT, in whatever country it may exist in Europe. The United States feared that these three powers (calling them selves the "Holy Alliance") might also try to suppress repre sentative government in the New World. as we were We took the step. rriHE idea was first proposed by the British. George Canning, British foreign minister, suggest ed to the American minister in London that Britain and the United States issue a JOINT warning against European ag gression in the Americas. President Monroe was at first inclined to accept the British suggestion. Ex-Presidents Jeffer son and Madison strongly fa- fored it. But Monroe's secretary From Washington By Roscoe Drummond THE ROLE OF LYNDON JOHNSON Washington In the wake of the Administration's bumpy and often acrimonious 58-day strug gle to get the Middle East resolu tion through Congress, several consequences .are emerging. There is, first of all, an in creased appreciation in the White House for the effective ness and intellectual competence of Senate Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson. The fact is that Senator John son demonstrated a responsive ness and an independence which can create a new relationship be tween Congress and the Presi dent in foreign policy. This new relationship has two aspects. One of them is personal. There is now a far higher degree of mutual respect and a better mood of cooperation between Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. John son than has prevailed up to this time. This comes from the able job the Texas' Senator did in re-casting, in a way which pleased Congress, and in shep herding, in a way which pleased the President, the "Eisenhower Doctrine" through the shoals of a touchy Senate. TJUT the role which Senator MJ Johnson played which was infinitely helpful to the Presi dent, was played primarily in behalf of Congress so that in the end the Senate was in part the architect of the Middle East resolution, not merely its rubber stamp. Thus what began as State Department leak emerged resnaped and improved, as a Presidential - Congressional reso lution in which Congress was a creative participant. This makes for a healthier re lationship between the Presi dent and Congress. If it con tinues, it will be a boon to both JENKINS of state, John Quincy Adams proposed a BOLDER course Let s GO IT ON OUR OWN, he said, because we might as well serve notice on the British that THEY TOO will be barred from further colonization in the Amer icas. xiis counsel prevailed, ana that is the way it was done. The British went along with us, and with their fleet helped us to en force the Monroe Doctrine in the years when we were too young and weak to enforce it all by ourselves. . , , QO MUCH for the first member of the "Doctrine" club. We come now to. the second. President Harry S. Truman put the Truman Doctrine into effect in 1948. The Truman Doc trine promised U. S. aid to any democratic nation whose gov ernment was threatened by "out side sources." Its purpose was to keep Communist Russia out of Greece and Turkey. It included the implied threat of military force along with economic aid to our allies among the Western nations. That part of it was known as the Marshall Plan. rpHE third member of the "Doc trine club" is Dwight D. Ei senhower, whose doctrine in cludes the threat of U. S. mili tary force to keep Russia out of the Middle East, along with the promise of economic aid to those who HELP 'US keep Russian communism out of the Middle East. SO MUCH for our three Doc- Let's now sum up. The Monroe Doctrine worked. because we stood BOLDLY be hind it. The Truman Doctrine worked. because we stood BOLDLY be hind it. , It is historically reasonable to believe that the Eisenhower Doc trine will wofk IF WE STAND BOLDLY BEHIND IT. Editorial Comment STRUCTURE ON ADVERTISING PROPOSED Another bill has been intro duced at Salem proposing to pro hibit advertising. This one ap plies only to chiropodists (foot doctors). SB 309 would make it unlawful for any licensed chi ropodist to "advertise in news papers, periodicals, or in bold face type or in any printed mat ter or by the use of any form of display sign, et cetera, includ ing movies, radio, television. This kind of regulation has no proper place in state law or in any rules promulgated by a state-created board. Apparently it stems from a notion that ad vertising is undignified. This is arrant nonsense. Advertising can be just as dignified or austere Much of the credit for this development obviously not all goes to Senator Johnson. My information is that President Eisenhower personally tele phoned, within a few minutes after the Senate had voted for the resolution 72 to 19, to ex press his appreciation to Mr. Johnsoi. for his decisive part in the result as did Secretary Dulles. . a A SECOND consequence of the pvfnt: whirr! siirrnnnrfprl th long hassle over the resolution is the expansion of iha bound aries of genuine consultation be tween Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Dulles, on the one hand, and the legislative leaders of both par ties, on the other. Those who are close to the facts are convinced that the President and Secretary Dulles are putting behind them the habit of windy "briefings of the Congressional leaders and are now persuaded that there can, there should be complete give- and-take if productive bi-parti- sanship is to prevail. Nothing could be more useful because the alternative to bi partisanship in foreign policy matters where responsibility is shared by both the President and Congress is not partisanship. The alternative is a dangerous stalemate with such a narrowly divided House and Senate. Neith er side can afford to want stale mate and the country least of all. a a rpHERE is no doubt that the -- first presentation of the Eis enhower Doctrine of a military snieid ana economic aid to the Middle East nations against Communist maneuvers got off on the wrong foot because it officially was leaked to the press in advance of the already sum moned meeting between the White House and the legislative leaders. They also felt that much of Secretary Dulles' testimony was unresponsive and given on a take-it-or-leave-it basis which annoyed many Republicans and understandably infuriated the Democrats. Congress isn't going to be pa tronized and shouldn't be. And, now Senator Johnson has shown that the leadership will work responsibly with the President when the White House treats Congress as a full-bodied participant in the creation of those parts of foreign policy which must be mutually arrived at. The premise of Senator John son's attitude is a combination of responsiveness and independ ence. This is something solid-on which the President can build because I am convinced that Mr. Johnson's responsiveness can be faithfully counted upon. This doesn't mean that the President will not have his troubles with Congress. It will take all his skill and prestige to get through his foreign aid pro gram. There will be major Re publican and Democratic defec tions. But it does suggest that his difficulties will be more man ageable. Copyright New York Herald Tribune Inc. as the advertiser wants to make it. By the same token it can be raucous and in bad taste if the newspaper or other medium will accept it that way. The state has no business regu lating or dictating the advertis ing of any citizens, whether or not they are business or profes sional people. If advertising is untruthful or defamatory, exist ing laws and codes of ethics are sufficient to stop it short of first base. If it is merely in bad taste, customers (patients or clients) will provide the answer by stay ing away in large numbers. Advertising is a public facility through which one person or group may talk to large numbers of others.- For the state to make it illegal for one class of people to use this facility is not only class legislation, at its worst, but it is a direct violation of Article I of the Bill of Rights. The legislature should elimi nate this paragraph from SB 309 entirely. Not only that, but re pealers should be introduced to remove from existing laws any such restrictions passed hereto fore. One is in the act relating to cosmeticians. 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