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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDTRIBUNE "Everyone In Soutnera Oregon R-ad The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-ll oorfbt w RUHL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manaser ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHLPMA.N Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OIJVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Dally and Sunday Three mos 4-25 Sunday 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 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAV COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vnnrmivfr B C NATIONAL EDITOIIAt I assooTa'ign 7 TUillfllM 'H'lUI 5 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 30, 1947 (Wednesday) Neighbor of Woodcraft's dis trict 12 convention closes at an open meeting in Medford attend ed by about 300 people. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Many of the Older Girls report "the true madness of spring has hit them." ' Outside of their hats nothing looks it. 20 YEARS AGO April 30. 1937 (Friday) W. A. Gates estimates 400 acres of tomatoes will be planted in the Rogue river valley this season. Jackson county planning com mission votes to seek the sup port of the state planning board in procuring a Rogue river val ley water utilization study. 30 YEARS AGO April 30, 1927 (Saturday) Medford High school retains 100 per cent banking record. William Fisher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Fisher of Sams Valley, senior at Santa Clara university, is selected by large corporation for training this summer. 40 YEARS AGO April 30, 1917 (Monday) Residents asked to repair leaky faucets in order to con serve water for irrigation. Southern Pacific company places order for 11 additional locomotives for delivery this summer to assist in the heavy crop movement. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev en cr eight Is excellent; five or six is good. 1. In 1789 Knoxville, Tenn., was settled. Which city in Ohio was settled that same year? 2. Which is hardest: anthra cite, bituminous or lignite coal? 3. Bible: Name the cave in which David stayed when the "host of the Philistines encamp ed in the valley Rephaim '? 4. Hands on the conventional watch may be turned backwards without harm to its mechanism; true or false? 5. Is Baltimore, Md., Atlanta, Ga., or Washington, D.C., the largest city south of the Mason Dixon line? 6. Does the government re deem counterfeit money? 7. Name the author of the book, "Mission to Moscow." 8. A mill is what part of a cent? 9. Is the primary accent of the word "cerebral" on the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd syllable? 10. "He passeth by on the oth er side." Luke 10:31. Is this a Biblical reference to hypocrisy or to good manners? Answers: 1. Cincinnati. 2. An thracite. 3. Adullam. 4. True. 5. Baltimore, Md. 6. No. 7. Jo seph E. Davies. 8. One-tenth of a cent. 9. 1st. 10. Hypocrisy. Pilot Gets Minor Cuts In Crash of Light Plane Corvallis (U.R) Dale Buchan an, 24. escaped with only minor cuts Monday when a light plane crashed four miles southwest of Philomath. The plane, believed to have hit a downdrait, landed bottom side up. MAIL TRIBUNE Wrong Man Sent to Ireland Strange are the ways of politics and one of the strangest events of recent date is the nomination of R. W. Scott McLeod as ambassador to Ireland, McLeod gained fame, or perhaps notoriety is the better word, as a protege of Sen. Joe McCarthy and as security chief for the state department. . Although an appointee of the Eisenhower admin istration, he was, for all practical purposes, right-hand man to Senator McCarthy when the latter was making life miserable for the adminitsration back in the days of 1953. It will be recalled that one of the early fights the Eisenhower administration ran into developed over nomination of Charles Bohlen as ambassador to Russia. McLeod at first refused to clear him and Mc Carthy carried the fight against confirmation. In August of 1953, Eisenhower signed a bill au thorizing admission of some 214,000 emergency refu gees who had escaped from behind the Iron Curtain and some time later appointed Edward J. Corsi, immigration specialist, to speed the program. He immediately ran into trouble with McLeod, Mc Carthy and Rep. Walter, co-author of the McCarran Walter immigration act. Some 17 months after the act became effective, only about 1,100 refugees had been admitted. Although it was Corsi who had been trying to carry out the administration program, it was Corsi who was fired. Recently the New York Times editorialized that "no one man has represented in the public mind more than Scott McLeod all the evils of McCarthyism as applied to diplomacy." Now the conservative Irish Times, one of Ireland's leading papers, editorially calls McLeod "The Hang man" and said the Irish government should reject him. There is now very little it was his unwholesome deportment," said the Irish paper, . . . Mat led trie American senate s internal security committee to republish the disproved charges which impelled Mr. Norman (Canadian ambassador to Egypt) ... to jump to his death. We do not welcome and it is not customary to ambassadorship." On the basis of the administration s experience with McLeod, we can understand a desire to get him out of the country. But there making him ambassador to "Hit or The above, as noted, is We take pleasure and enjoy as a refreshing novelty, in agreeing with our Portland contemporary lUlro As the Journal states "strange are the ways of politics," and the appointments of the Eisenhower administration m the field been particularly puzzling. If the administration had tried to pull consistent "boners" in this department it could hardly have done a better job. This McLeod selection it is far from being an exception. The chief excuse has been in the past that only rich men could afford to be ambassador so the limited, consequently the cial consideration could selection of one of Joe McCarthy's chief lieutenants to represent American democracy m our good mend "auld Ireland." MOR could money or lack of it have been an ex cuse for the transfer Bohlen from the most important post in the field of foreign affairs today, namely Moscow, to the medi ocre and undemanding post in the Philippines. A CCORDING to press reports, Bohlen did not wish to leave Moscow and no one' in the foreign diplo matic corps wished him to leave. In fact, he was ab solutely "tops" as far as representatives of the demo cratic world m the Russian capital are concerned. And according to the same source the western powers and their representatives m out him." MORE than that. Bohlen did what no since relations with Russia able to do, namely: He voiced American principles with unswerving and clear-cut fidelity" and yet maintained throughout not only friendly, but from a personal standpoint cordial relations with the Soviet bosses in the Krem linwhich could be classed as a diplomatic miracle. One reason, of course, was his masteiy of the Rus sian language, he talked with Messrs. Bulganin and Kruschev in their own tongue and never failed to understand their point-of-view, if he did seldom agree witn it. According to the always interesting and reliable "Christian Science Monitor," Ambassador Bohlen will be given "a grand farewell," but m the hearts of the ENTIRE diplomatic mourning. Ambassador Bohlen will be replaced by a Mr. Lewellyn Thompson who has had no experience there nor in American dipto macy elsewhere, and this Russian-American relations fN THE other hand, Mr. Philippine ambassadorship, has never had any experience in Far Eastern relations, can't speak a word of Spanish, and except for his knowledge of communism as it functions in RUSSIA, his excep- Tuesday, April 30. 1957 cause to disbelieve that the hangman in our midst reward Ins services with an must be ways other than our good friend Ireland. Oregon Journal Miss from the Oregon Journal of ambassadorships have ; . is the worst in many, but area of selection was very poor product. But no finan have been involved m this of Ambassador Charles E Russia will be lost with American representative were resumed had been colony, it will be "a day of can talk a little Russian, but at the most critical time in in histoiy. . Bohlen did not want the 'Lisretf . Mp. Mitchell, tm& united states supreme court coaiwrr make mb cut yajR kids hair tional talents in the field pletely wasted. What is the answer? 1X7ELL, as we see it, there are two main ones: No. 1: Unlike so many of his predecessors President Eisenhower leaves the personnel in our foreign service entirely up and his subordinates, including the chairman of the Republican national committee. We can t believe that any attention to the appointment of R. W. Scott Me Leod to Ireland, or the transfer of Charles E. Bohlen from Moscow to Manila, he would have sanctioned either. But he was not interested. . MO. 2 : Under the present no standing in the ambassadorial field of per sonnel, it is all a matter of vacancies that are made and have to be filled in this sought-after department, be paid, and the more generous the cash contributions for the next campaign. There is the meat m this coconut. Fitness for the job, either due to native abilities or years of experience as far as the final decision And because of this attitude, there is such a rapid turn over in the field of diplomacy, that as a general rale, before the average justed to his role, and be in real service to his country, Even as strongly conservative and pro-Eisenhower a newspaper as the "Monitor" quotes a senior, of ficer in the diplomatic service "There is no national policy aimed at securing best qualified man for a part it is all simply hit or "OIT or miss is right." What they "hit" is what will pay out from a purely political standpoint; what they "miss" is a foreign service based upon character and ability, of gardless of party, could Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the na-ne and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial, for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceeo 4uu words. In the Dark To the Editor: Recent state ments by a senaior referring to "wino veterans" makes me wonder if we don't have, a few in the veterans administration. They take a veteran before their medical clinics to be ex amined for benefits. After the examination and they find him permanently disabled, they grant him $66.15 a month. They tell him he can make $2,700 a year and still draw his allowance because he is married. Sounds good, doesn't it? But it is not so good. He can't live on that and give his wife one cheese sandwich a day. He has some timber he can sell if he can get it ready for market. He has no mony to hire help so he tries to cut some short logs and wood, but he couldn't do much work. His friends, real izing his position and knowing he can't get by on $66.15 per month, came in to help him, donating their time and labor. He realized about $1,100 over the year's work. When asked to fill out a statement as to what he made the year before, he told them and the people who had helped him sign a sworn statement before a notary, stat ing they had helped him. They discontinued his pension. Where are we headed? No wonder the vet is in the slums. They, drive him there. No man can live on the starva ation pension they give the vet erans and live anywhere else. Sixty-six dollars and 15 cents won't pay house rent on an aver age modern home. If they don't want the veteran to work, why don't they give him enough for him and his wife to live on and have a decent house to live in? Then maybe he could walk down the street with his head up like he did in the uniform and not be afraid somebody will point the finger of scorn at him and yell, "wino!" That is bad, but not too bad. Let's hope and pray of diplomacy will be com . to the Secretary of State if the President had paid administration merit has practical politics. The more the more political debts can or both have no standing is concerned. incumbent can become ad the position of rendering he is yanked out. as follows-: and' consistent personnel the most competent and given job but for the most miss." which all Americans, re be proud. R.W.R. to God they never call him "comrade." Please somebody light the candle. I am in the dark. S. R. Hale, P. O. Box 135, Jacksonville, Ore. Detroit Newspapers Suspended by Dispute Detroit U.R) Publication of the News and the Times was suspended for six hours Monday in a labor dispute. Paper handlers at The News walked out in protest over a re duction in the work force. A sympathy walkout halted pub lication of the Times. Afternoon editions of both papers were on the street following agreement to handle the dispute through normal channels. Cat Caught; Power System Damaged Lakeland, Fla. U.R) The city's power system was back to normal today. It suffered $2,000 damage because a yellow Per sian cat got caught In a 12,000 volt transformer. 'The cat lost most of its hair and one leg but escaped with its life. The resulting short circuit made the lights dim throughout the city. THEN WALKED LIKE ANY MAN GEO. N., TAYLOR "Take up your bed and walk," said Christ. So the paralytic did Luke 5:18-25 BIBLE. And who was Christ. He was the 2nd Person of the God-head God the Son living here on earth at the time and by many a miracle, proving Himself to be the living and true God. Finally, He died for our sins and the third day, He arose from the grave. Receive Him as clearing your page of all sin and count eternal life to be yours. And by daily Bible reading and prayer, grow up. Harold Macmillan Increasingly Strong in British Premiership By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent It looks as if British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is going to be around for quite a while. Mac millan took of fice on Jan. 10, in succes sion to Sir An thony Eden, at a critical time. Britain was still feeling the effects of the breach in rela tions with the Charles McCann which resulted United States Matter of Fact GUARANTEE AGAINST ISRAEL Amman, Jordan, April 27. (Uncensored) (Relayed via Bei rut) The great movement of the United States 6th Fleet and all the other puz z 1 i n g recent events can be very simply exp 1 a i n e d, even though the State De partment has . Joseph Aisop hesitated to of fer the true explanation. In brief, these crisis move ments in the Middle East are by products of an American guar anty to Jordan against Israeli intervention. They are not di rected' primarily against the Sy rians or the Egyptians or even the Russians, as a State Depart ment spokesman has suggested, They are in fact primarily di rected against the Israelis. The object has been to liber ate Jordan's young beleaguered King Hussein from the threat of Israeli intervention in his small tormented kingdom. This safe guarding of Hussein from such a threat has in fact been the main American contribution to the Jordanian crisis. The idea of this American contribution to the Jordanian crisis was apparently first moot ed in Washington about ten days ago. A double new depar ture was involved to com mit the United States to posi tive action in the Middle East, and to be firm in curbing the rather natural Israeli impulse to stir up trouble among Israel's hostile neighbors. THE sheer grim necessities of the Middle Eastern situation forced the Administration into action. It seems most probable that Hussein was informed of the informal American guaranty of Jordan against Israeli attack towards the beginning of . this week, when the King received American Ambassador Lester Mallory for a long afternoon ex change of views. It can further be stated that at the same time a stern warn ing was addressed to the Israeli government, in effect indicating that any Jordanian adventure would be much worse than self defeating. Everything that has happened since then is to be interpreted, at least primarily, as a series of underlinings of this promise to Hussein and the warning to Jerusalem. To be sure, this American in tervention in the Jordanian crisis differs enormously from the elaborate internal plots and machinations pictured by the Cairo and Moscow radios. But it has been a critically important intervention none the less. The movement of the 6th Fleet; President Eisenhower's statement on the' Jordanian situ ation; the especially significant recall of American official per sonnel from the Israeli sector of Jerusalem these all form parts of the same pattern. IN ORDER to see the very great importance of this pat tern one must first if all under stand a little of the tangled local geography and politics. In brief, Jordan's richest, most populous and most dis affected province is the region on the west bank of the Jordan River, which formerly belonged to Palestine. All Israelis would like to extend their frontier to the Jordan River line, absorbing I this province in the process. Every Jordanian, from the King j down, is firmly convinced that j the Israelis are actively plan-! ning an eventual grab for the west bank. This universal Jordanian con viction is probably ill-founded. The moral obloquy that would be incurred; the appalling new weight of guilt for Arab refu gees that would have to be shouldered; the likelihood that the newly grabbed territory 4 i from the Anglo-French invasion of the Suez Canal Zone. On Feb. 14, his Conservative Party lost a seat in the House of Commons to the Labor Party in a by-election. It was the first such loss in 12 years. In succeeding by - elections, conservatives held their seats only by drastically reduced ma jorities. The Laborites clamored with increasing insiftance for a gen eral parliamentary election, cer tain that they would win it. Resignation Threatens Split On March 28 the Marquess of Salisbury, one of the most in- By Joseph Alsop would have to be disgorged later on all these considerations taken together are strong enough to dissuade any sane Israeli gov ernment from trying to seize the west bank in normal circum stances. But there is one abnormal circumstance in which the Is raeli leaders have always sworn to take action at all costs. Israel has a particular fear of the kind of large Arab state with a po tentially strong future that might result from a stronger link between Jordan and Iraq. Hence the Israeli leaders have always warned, with grim mean- ingfulness, that their Army would enter Jordan whenever Iraqi troops entered Jordan. rriHESE Israeli threats in turn assumed cardinal signifi cance in the present Jordanian crisis for a very simple and ob vious reason. The support of the Iraqi government of his cousin King Faisal has been, is today and will remain the great hole card held by young King Hus sein. In order to emphasize the reality of this Iraqi support, Iraq's tough old Premier Nuri Pasha has concentrated the flow er of his Army at H3, a pumping station on the pipeline near the Jordanian frontier. The Iraqi hole card was even more important to King Hus sein in the earlier period than it is today. Even five days ago, when he was taking his decisions and making his plans, no one could be absolutely sure how the Arab Legion would perform in the final test. It had succes sively lost two commanders-in- chief; it has been riddled with disloyalty; it had been subjected to a nasty purge. As matters have turned out thi? far, the Legion has perform ed in these last days of .crisis with great efficiency and un blemished loyalty. But King Hussein could not know this would be tne case when he sent for Mr. Mallory at the begin ning of this hectic week. THE King intended then, as he still intends, to call the Iraqi troops into Jordan if he could not control the situation with his own resources. Besides the Israeli threat, the King also had to think of the foreign troops al ready in Jordan. And while the Saudi Arabians in the south had baen placed by King Saud under King Hussein's personal command, the Syrian troops in the north were another serious danger. The threat from the Syrians was as nothing, however, to the potential threat from the Israe lis. The mere placing of the Iraqis on the border, plus the strong warning addressed by Nuri Pasha to Syrian President Shukri al-Kuwatly, could be considered sufficient to keep the Syrians fairly quiet. But noth ing but strong American meas ures could keep the Israelis out once the Iraqis crossed the Jor danian border. Such was the position, such were the complex' risks that King Hussein had to weigh and calculate, when the young King sent for Ambassador Mallory. After the long interview be- Counsel With Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan li.HMr.'PrTi. t '"niin i in l Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. fluential men in the Conserva tive Party, sbruptly resigned against Macmillan's release from internment of Archbishop Ma karios, leader of the Greek- Cypriote fight for union with Greece. A party split seemed to be threatened. At that time, independent and some Conservative elements shared the Labor view that the Laborites would win a general election. Now, a little less than one month later, Macmillan is in an increasingly strong position. Lord Salisbury's resignation proved to be but a brief sensa tion. Macmillan has held the party together. And today he is being hailed a an outstand ing success in his job. The Laborites have stopped demanding an election- for the very good reason that the ex perts now predict Macmillan would win. This surprising turn has come about partly because of the restoration of relations with the United States, partly because Macmillan has started boldly to put Britain on a new course. Notably, in recognition of Britain's reduced position in world affairs, he has radically altered defense policy by slash ing spending, reducing military commitments all over the world, and putting reliance in nuclear weapons strategy. Influential Personality But above all, Macmillan has consolidated his position because of his own personality. British,. politicians emphasize his self-re liance. They also emphasize his gift for running the government smoothly and for reducing his worries by delegating broad au thority to his colleagues. In Commons, Macmillan has maneuvered the Laborites into positions which threaten to cause a new split between its right and left-wings. At the moment, Macmillan has a majority of 62 seats over La bor in Commons. He can count on seven additional votes on most issues." He is recognized as a much stronger figure politically than Eden for years Sir Winston Churchill's political heir, ever was. It is somewhat surprising that Macmillan, now 63, is half Amer ican, as was Winston Churchill. His mother was the former Helen Belles of Spencer, Ind. But also like Churchill, his outlook is completely British. tween the King and the Am bassador there was a pause, or at least an apparent pause. For it seems likely that a stern warning against Israeli inter vention in Jordan under any circumstances whatever was rather quickly sent off by Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles to his old Friend, Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir. rpHEN, as the Jordan crisis en tered its present acute phase, public action naturally followed. The recall of the American offi cials from Jerusalem was very plainly intended to say "we mean business." The movement of the 6th Fleet said the same thing, and so did Mr. Eisenhow er's statement. These last two moves also had the virtue of saying "we mean business" not to the Israelis only but also to the Kremlin, the Syrian fomenters of Jordanian discontents, and the Egyptian organizers of the Jordanian fac tion hostile to King Hussein. Whether King Hussein would have taken the decision he did take, if he had not been liber ated from the Israeli threat, is a question no one can answer. But at least the odds were great ly improved by this American contribution; and who does not feel more free to take a gamble when the odds improve? (C) 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Insurance en your bank account. Long since has been perfected, We hope your home. And all you own, Is just at well protected. Bill Fish - A4
