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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 14. 1947 (Monday)
Robert G. Fowler, retiring
county agent, is honored by
farmers, Grangers and chamber
and chamber of commerce repre
sentatives at picnic.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The cigar
ette tax bill will go before voters
In October, so cigarette smokers
puffed easier.
20 YEARS AGO
July 14. 1937 (Wednesday)
- First annual meeting of
di-
rectors of the Oregon State Tur
key Cooperative will be held in
Medford next Saturday.
Orders from Washington, D.C.,
lajys off three surveying crews
employing is men in a sou con
servation district survey.
30 YEARS AGO
July 14. 1927 (Thursday)
State traffic department tem
porarily removes state speed of
ficer O. O. Nichols from Med
ford to northern part of state.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Mary E. Mathes is issued
building permit to erect $1,000
dwelling on South Grape si.
40 YEARS AGO
July 14. 1917 (Saturday)
About 100 residents attend
canning and drying demonstra
tion of Miss Anna M. Turley of
Oregon Agricultural college and
C. C. Cate, Jackson county path
ologist, given in public market.
From Local and Personal col
umn: L. H. Wilcox, 15 Summit
st., Medford, leaves for Portland
to join 10th engineers, forestry
department, U.S. Army.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct It superior;
even or elrht U excellent: five or
fix li good
1. Census, 1774: At this time
there were 6,664 Negroes in "x"
Colony and 3.761 in "y" Colony:
Were the "Colonies north or
south of the Mason-Dixon line?
2. Do automobile tires lose
air faster in winter or in sum
mer? 3. Bible: "Take the young
child and his mother and go into
the land of Israel." Was the
"child" a descendant of Levi,
Judah, or Benjamin?
4. In which state were the bat
tles of Bull Run fought during
the Civil War?
3. Ghee is a plant, a kind of
butter, a mineral, or a deep-sea
fish?
8. What Is a quair?
7. Is the Tropic of Capricorn
north or south of the Equator?
8. What is the popular name
for operators on the stock mar
ket who seek to force prices up?
9. Though "upon" and "on"
are synonyms, why is "on"
preferable?
10. "Did the harebell lose her
Birdie To the lover bee,
Would the bee the hareball hal
low Much as formerly?"
Emily Dickenson: in reference
to what
Answers: 1. North: Connecti
cut and Rhode Island. 2. Sum
mer. 3. Judah. He was Jesus.
4. Virginia. 5. Kind of butter.
6. A book. 7. South. 8. Bulls.
9. It is shorter. 10. Fruition
through pollinisation play
en the passion of love.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence . . .
Rockford, 111., July 9th
so had to hustle to catch the Illinois Central train at 12th street,
Chicago, for the old home town
16 minutes, to be exact, in which to transfer ourselves and the
usual long-distance impedimenta
gage. By the cooperation of the taxi driver and two red caps (one
of them taking a short cut to the track underground) we climbed
on the back platform just as the
Like most of the "older boys and
but had to do so this trip and
moments in Chicago.
Knowing Chicago and its heat-humidity rate pretty well, we
did not expect much relief from
but we got it, not only on the
when we landed at the LaSalle station a beautiful cool day, in
fact, for this time of year, and ditto here in Rockford, which some
of our readers must recall is where "Ye Editor" was born and
lived until he journeyed to Medford via Spokane, in 1907, which
if our arithmetic is correct was
That makes us older than
usual, does not properly come
Chicken. However, to this ancient mariner and most others
we believe where one was born
not to the world or anyone else, but to the individual. And so
Rockford and this brief stop is important to the undersigned, but
we shall spare our audience if any are remaining the nostalgic
details.
Before leaving on the Commodore at 5:30 p.m. we enjoyed the
All Star" game at St. Louis over T.V. Not because our favorites
won they didn t but because it was such a close and really ex
citing contest.
It is odd about sports loyalties
been able to explain why we should have always been rooters for
the National league and the Brooklyn Dodgers, but win, lose or
draw, that is what we have been
today we think the Dodgers the
league, a team that can always
are down to go chicken and beat itself yet no matter how they
disappoint the undersigned, we find ourselves cheering for them
in every game they enter and hoping against hope that the old
Dodger spirit will somehow be revived, and the boys from Flatbush
will come from behind and win as they did in the "good old days."
There is no rhyme or reason to this deep-seated and unyielding
loyalty, either to the Brooklyn club or the National league, but
there it is and there as far as we can see, it will remain ad infini
tum. We would like to shake it, for as some witnesses in Medford
would testify it is an expensive fixation, but to repeat, if we can't
shake it, we can see no one on the horizon who will do it for us.
,m
As Mencken used to remark, this part of Winnebago county
is the beginning of the Midwest "Corn and Bible" belt. We have
not to date seen more than the one Gideon Bible common to all
hotel rooms, but from here to Chicago there is plenty of corn. It
is not as high as an elephant's eye, but it is high as an ostrich's
knee, and of that dark green vigorous tone, which bespeaks a
record crop when the couny fair season opens. The grain crop, if
our eyes don't deceive us, is powerful close to being ripe for cut
ting. Meanwhile Rockford, which had a population of 30,000 when
we left now is. officially 105,000, and due to be 130,000 when the
next national census is taken.
Incidentally a large and imposing Sears, Roebuck store and
equally tremendous parking lot now replaces three of Main street's
"show-place" residences in short Main street along the river
bank which was once, the "Euclid Avenue" of this "Forest City,"
is now nearly 100 per cent a business thoroughfare. Not as attrac
tive to the eye, or the asthetic senses, but like some other things
we won't mention, more beneficial to the pocketbook of the com
munity as a whole R.W.R.
Mountain Summit Highway
Bob Frazier. the jnountain-climbinsr, nature-lov
ing associate editor of the Eugene Register-Guard,
has a project. He wants to see the development of a
mountain highway along or near the summit of the
Cascade range from the
Bob pointed out in a
has a rugged car and doesn't care too much about
dust or tire damage, the tnp can be made now in the
summer. He'd like to see the route improved a little,
paved where it needs it, and then publicized as one
of the nation's foremost tourist attractions a moun-
taintop highway the length
THE Eugene writer is
f-mlrl Vio anrnmnlisrifr!
but he feels and we agree that it would be a
worthwhile thing to do; would make more readily
available some of the most beautiful mountain coun
try in the United States, and would, like the Oregon
coast, be a major tourist attraction, possibly in the
same league with the famous Skyline drive in Shen
andoah National Park, Virginia, only longer and
more spectacular.
Here is Frazier's proposed route :
From Hood River to Government camp, along the Wau
pinita to Frog lake, then south along the forest highway
to Olallie lake and Breitenbush springs and Detroit, then
across the Santiam to Sisters, south along the Century drive
and the high lake country to the Willamette pass near
Odell lake, then off the highway again to Crescent lake
and south through the Winigo butte country to Diamond
lake, into Crater Lake National park, south on Highway 62
to Ft. Klamath and south to Lake of the Woods, Keno and
Dorris.
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THIS is a fine proposal.
The only change we'd make would be from
Crater Lake south, and we'd go by way of Prospect,
Butte Falls and Fish lake to Lake of the Woods.
There are other highways which, from an imme
diate and practical standpoint, are more urgently
needed (a better route to the ocean, for instance, in
southern Oregon).
But we can think of few which would be more
attractive or more soul-satisfying. E.A
Back to
Once upon a time, boats w7ent because they were
paddled or rowed. Then they "sailed," later they
"steamed," but many of the newer models, powered
by motors rather than steam engines, go through the
water without benefit of any special word. "Sailing"
and "steaming," though technically incorrect, are
still used to describe this progress.
With the recent visit of the Nautilus to Portland,
however, we noted with approval that newspapers re
ferred to it "steaming" up
For the vessel s atomic engine heats water to steam,
which turns a turbine, which drives the submarine.
It and its successors are "steamboats." E.A.
Sunday. July 14. 1957
The NYC "Commodore" was late
as above indicated. We only had
in this case 10 pieces of lug
conductor yelled "all aboard.
girls" we detest "HURRYING,
never more so than in our few
New York in the Windy City,
air conditioned "Commodore," but
exactly half a century ago.
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we feel, which to be truthful as
under the classification of "Spring
and spent his youth is important
and enthusiasm. We have never
for lo this many years. As of
most over-rated team in either
be depended upon when the chips
Columbia to Laiilornia.
recent editorial that if one
of the state.
under no illusions that it
rnmnrrnw nr thp npvt. rlav.
Steam
the river, which is correct.
'This sack is 6HEaew seAweea that sack is bsch
SAND. THAT SACK IS DRlrTlVOOD. THAT SACK
Today and
By Walter
VOTING AND INTEGRATION
Once again, as with the budg
et, the President has let it be
known that he is not sure he is
fully in favor
of a major
measure which
has been put
forward by his
administration.
Indeed, in the
case of the civ
il rights bill,
it appears that
he has had a
quite mislead-
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ing impression of what Is in it.
Thus, at his press conference on
July 3, he said in reply to a
question that while he is not a
lawyer and did not "participate
in drawing up the exact lan
guage of the proposals," he did
know "what the objective was
that I was seeking." It was "to
prevent anybody illegally from
interfering with any individual's
right to vote if that Individual
were qualified under the proper
laws of his state."
Protecting the right of Negroes
to vote in elections for Federal
officials is, in fact, the obiec-
live of part IV -of the bill but
the objective of Part III is to
strengthen the Federal power to
enforce all the civil tights laws.
including the law which calls
for integration in the Dublic
schools. The President has cer
tainly been misled, in fact it is
hard to see how he can have
read the bill, if he thinks that
it is directed solely, or predomi
nantly, at securing and protect
ing the right to vote. For, as the
text shows clearly, the bill is a
comprehensive measure for the
better enforcement of. all these
civil-rights, which exist in the
laws but are in fact denied or
nullified in various parts of the
country.
THE President's lack of under
-- standing of the bill enabeld
Sen. Russell of Georgia to score
heavily when he charged that
the bill was an "example of
cunning draughtsmanship," and
that it was promoted by a "cam
paign of deception."
It certainly is puzzling to find
tne .President so inadequately in
formed about the objectives of
tne bill. But whatever the rea
son for his misunderstanding.
there has been no cunning decep
tion. The text of the bill makes
it quite obvious that much more
than the right to vote is in
volved. The Attorney General,
Mr. Brownell, during the hear
ings in the House committee and
in a memorandum, dated April
9, 1956, specifically included in
tegration in the public schools
among the federal activities to
be promoted by the bill.
THERE is no doubt, therefore,
that the objectives of the
bill are much wider than to se
cure and protect the right to
vote. This raises great questions
of principle and of national pol
icy. For while the right of quali
fied adults to vote and the right
to have their children attend
unsegregated schools ar both
civil rights, there are important
differences between the two
kinds of rights. Sen. Russell him
self recognized this in his speech
of July 2 when he said that "the
American people generally are
opposed to any denial of the
right of ballot to any qualified
citizen" but that even "outside
the South there are millions of
people who would not approve"
of the use of force to compel
integration.
In principle. It is the duty of
the Federal government to use
its legal powers to secure and
protect the right to vote. But to
promote integration it is its duty
to use persuasion in order to
win consent. The two objectives
voting and integration ought
not to be lumped together, and
the wise thing to do now would
be to accept an amendment to
the bill which separates them.
VfO doubt there would still be
a die-hard opposition in the
deep South. But a bill which did
only what the President thinks
that this bill does, would be
much harder to defeat. It would
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be hard to filibuster against It
for any long time. For there are
indeed millions of Americans
outside the South who think that
it is high time that the right to
vote was respected. They do not
think, however, that integration
in the public schools can be or
should be enforced more rap
idly than local sentiment will
accept it.
Insofar as the right of South
ern Negroes to vote can be se
cured and protected, they will
acquire powerful means for es
tablishing all their rights. I am
not sure whether Sen. Russell's
remarks, which are quoted
above, really mean that South
erners of his eminence are now
prepared to concede the right to
vote. But if they do mean that,
they mark a very great advance
for the cause of civil rights,
. A disfranchised minority is po
litically helpless. Let it acquire
the right to vote, and it will be
listened to.
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Award Nominees Sought
To the Editor: As part of the
observance in June,-1958, of the
100th anniversary of The Found
ing of Shattuck School, awards
will be made to the 100 living
persons who have made out
standing contributions toward
the advancement of secondary
education through public, paro
chial, andor independent
schools.
We hope that your readers
will submit nominations of per
sons whom they feel merit rec
ognition for some contribution
toward the advancement of sec
ondary education.
Nominations are sought not
only for school administrators
and teachers but also for persons
serving secondary education in
other areas authors, editors.
benefactors, members of parent-
teacher organizations, etc. Any
Derson living in the United
States or territories is eligible
for the awards except anyone
having a past or present connec
tion with Shattuck.
Nominations may be made by
sending the name and address
of person making the nomina
tion and the name and address
of person nominated together
with a brief statement of the rea
son for consideration to The Cen
tennial Office, Shattuck School,
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A selection committee com
posed of leaders in education,
business, and industry will judge
the nominations. The awards
will be presented on June 7,
1958, during Shattuck's Centen
nial Observance.
The Rev. Joseph M. McKee,
Centennial Coordinator,
Shattuck School,
Faribault, Minn.
Girard's Rights Denied
To the Editor: Remember
Pearl Harbor! Has the memory
of the last war grown so dim
that we are willing to stand
quietly by and watch an Ameri
can soldier thrown on the tender
mercy of the butchers of
Bataan"?
Whether or not William Girard
is guilty of the charges against
him remains for a court to de
cide, but his right to trial in
an American court, by an Ameri
can counsel should not be de
nied. Until this time our service
men have had the prestige of
the United States flag to protect
them in foreign countries. With
out this protection the uniform
of these men will mean nothing.
I cannot believe that it is the
vill of the citizens of this coun
try to turn their sons over to
an erstwhile enemy to receive
what ever kind of justice they
see fit to mete out.
Our Red neighbors should be
very happy at the demoralizing
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The ' American Society of
Newspaper Editors whose
members, at least, regard it as
the most distinguished organiza
tion of newspaper people in the
world is meeting this week in
San Francisco.
Since the time when the mem
ory of the average member run
neth not to the contrary thereof,
the Society has met in Wash
ington. In this most august and
influential of the capital cities
of the globe, it fraternizes with
the great. Its annual meetings
have been chosen time and again
as the proper setting for policy
speeches of world-shaking im
portance by the President of the
United States.
When new administrations
come into office, the Chief Ex
ecutive and all the members of
his cabinet are apt to move down
to the Statler hotel, where the
sessions have been held ever
since the Statler was built, and
shake hands and rub elbows (and
sometimes bend them) with the
members of the Society.
A LL this, of course, has been
nlecsant and rewarding. It
is nice to mix and mingle with
the greats of the earth and swap
opinions with them. And, when
one gets back home, it sets one
up to remark casually in a gath
ering of friends: "Well, when I
was talking in Washington the
other day with the President (or
the secretary of state, or the
chief of staff, or the British am
bassador) he said so-and-so." It
makes one feel like SOMEBODY.
But newspaper editors are
funny. They don't like to have
their opinions influenced by
anybody. They don't like to feel
that they are being used for a
purpose. So the idea grew up
that at these meetings in Wash
ington the Society was being
taken into camp. As one mem
ber put it a year or so ago:
"Heck, these politicians are mak
ing trained seals out of us.
OO-
It was decided to get out
of Washington for a year, at
least.
Where to go?
Why, naturally, to SAN FRAN
CISCO America's most glam
orous city.
The decision was unanimous
SINCE time immemorial, the
Society's Washington meet
ings have been held in April
when Washington's weather is
apt to be near its best.
"But," the Eastern members
said, "if we're coming west, we
want to make a vacation of it.
When you Westerners come back
here, you put it on your expense
accounts and make Uncle Sam
pay part of it. We want in on the
gravy. Let's make it July, when
the kids are out of school. We
want to bring 'em along and
show 'em Our Great Country.'
So mid-July was chosen.
THEREUPON a question arose
"What kind of clothes shall
we wear? Walking shorts and
sleeveless shirts? It must be hot
ter than the hinges in California
in July."
"ri-O-O-H, n-o-o-o!!!" we West-
"erners said. "San Fran
cisco's different. It's AIR CON
DITIONED. In the day time, the
sun shines in all Its glorious bril
liance, but Its rays are tempered
to an invigorating coolness by
the breeze from the Pacific. And
of nights the chill fog creeps in,
"Bring along your furs, ladies,
And you men be sure to have
your topcoats with you. If you
don't, you 11 rue it."
SUPPOSE you know the rest
of the story.
As this is written, there hasn't
been a wisp of fog for DAYS.
Over on the East Bay, their
tongues have been hanging out.
In Marin county, just across the
Golden Gate, the mercury has
been topping the 100 mark for
days. Even m The City, you get
up a sweat walking up the
sunny side of the street. And
by tomorrow these Easterners
will be rolling in all loaded
down with heavy woolen clothes
and furs and topcoats!!!
Can you beat it?
effect this Supreme Court ruling
will have on our armed forces
And I imagine they will be able
to create quite a few incidents
to allow more service men the
dubious honor of being dragged
before a foreign court. God grant
that my son may never suffer
such a humility. And I cannot
help but ask, is this the country
so many men have given their
lives for, that their buddies-in
arms will be denied the very
rights for which they have so
bravely fought?
L. Munn,
P.O. Box 62,
Central Point, Ore.
Congratulations
To the Editor: May I be among
the first to offer public congrat
ulations to members of the Med
ford city council for their for
ward-looking action Friday
night in taking the first step
toward establishment of an off
street parking program for the
city? In 'so doing, they recog
nized and accepted the city's
obligation to do what it. can to
keep Medford abreast of the
times, to make life more conven
ient for all our citizens, and to
help the downtown . business
area help itself.
C. O. Lovejoy
11 South Central ave.
Medford, Ore.
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contribution)
Mr. and Mrs. Norman M.
Loop recenUy became the par
ents of a daughter. They claim
her "lucky number" must be
seven, and document this with
the following statistics:
She was born about 7 p.m.
on the 7th day of the 7th month
of '57; she weighed 7 pounds
7 ounces; her name (Catherine
Jean Loop) has 17 letters. Add
the number of 7s above and
you get 7.
(The father, now attending
Oregon Technical Institute, is
tne son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C.
Loop, 1200 Withington st., and
Mrs. Loop's father is Martin A.
Hayes, 613 Pine st.)
If by chance you are having
difficulty with your type
writer you might profit from
the experience of staff mem
ber, whose machine at home
was getting balky. He couldn't
find any oil. so tried a popular
brand of oily hair tonic Ma
chine works fine now.
Domestic scene:
A young wife told her hus
band she'd have to sprinkle his
shirt before she could iron it
for him. The couple's son, aged
just under 2 years, heard the
conversation, and when the
mother's attention was on some
thing else, took the situation
into his own hands.
He found one of his father's
shirts, took it outdoors, and
carefully laid it over the run
ning lawn sprinkler.
One of the more impres
sionable members of our staff
says it is a strange sensation
to call the coroner's office
each day and ask if there's any
news. The man there usually
sty, "Oh, everything seems
pretty quiet this morning."
Our man always wants to re
ply. "Well, of course, but is
there any nfws?"
Nice people department:
Mr. and Mrs. John Wubbels,
1965 Orchard Home dr., watched
from their back yard as the
YMCA fireworks show was put
on in the high school stadium
July 4. Then they sat down and
wrote a letter to the Y, saying
how much they enjoyed the
show, and enclosed a $2 check
Matter of
WILL THEY WON'T THEY?
London Recent events on
the disarmament front nicely
illustrate the extent of the new
n ij u n c e r tamty
causea Dy me
great purge in
Moscow.
What has
h a p p ened is
simple enough,
From mid
June until a
couple of days
ago, the Soviet
Joseph Aisop representative
at the marathon disarmament
meeting. Valerian . Zorin, never
opened his mouth except to put
a question. During all this long
period, the American and West
ern disarmament proposals were
expounded to Zorin in. minute
detail, without evoking any re
sponsive whatever, either pro
or con.
In the American's delegation
particularly, hopes none the less
ran high that Zorin j response
would be positive when it fin
ally come. As it happened, two
of the junior staff members of
the American delegation had
long-planned luncheon date with
their Soviet opposite numbers
on the day that the big news
came from Moscow of the fall
of Molotov, Kaganovich and
Malenkov. Without any prod
ding the Soviet officials volun-
tered the forecast that the Mos
cow shakeup would greatly fa
cilitate an accord in London.
Thus the irrepressible optim
ism which springs from Harold
Stassen's equally irrepressible
ambition to be justified. Then, at
long last, Zorin gave the anx
iously awaited answer to the
proposals of the West. It was
negative, it was violent, and it
dashed every 'hope but Stas-
sen s, whose hopes cannot be
absolutely dashed.
VOW the debate among the
' experts centers on the mo
tive of the masters of the Krem
lin for whom Zorin speaks. On
one side, the events in Moscow
following the first fall of Malen
kov are constantly cited.
When Malenkov was demoted
from the Premiership, it will be
remembered, Molotov was im
mediately assigned to make a
major foreign policy speech. It
was the most unyielding and
the most Stalinist in tone, of all
the foreign pronouncements
made by high Soviet officials
since the death of Stalin. In the
outcome, however, this Molotov
peech proved to mean very
little.
It was only a kind of public
exhibition of muscle-flexing in
tended to prevent the outer
world from suspecting that the
Soviets had been weakened or
softened by their inner tensions.
The words were hardly out of
old Molotov's mouth, then the
Kremlin briskly inauguarated
the era cf extreme sweet reason
ableness that culminated in the
famous summit meeting at Gen
for their "tickets."
The money, of course, was
added to the YMCA camp fund.
An Oregon newspaper last
Monday printed on Page 1
a headline which said: "Ore
gon Weather To Continue
Through Tuesday." We cer
tainly hope sol
Press releases can be weird
and wonderful things, some
times. One of them that, came
the other day claimed that when
Mark Antony and Cleopatra
sailed down the Nile in their
royal barge, the Roman said the
equivalent of "I'll bet I can
catch more fish than you can,"
and that thereupon they held
a fishing contest.
That's real news, boy.
A friend of ours was talk
ing via telephone to the police
station the other day on busi
ness. During the conversation
a question came up which
neither of them could answer,
so our friend asked the girl
at the station if there weren't
some officers on duty who
might know the answer. The
girl replied, with seeming re
gret, that, no, only two ser
geants were there.
'
As we drove back to work
through the mid-July rain yes
terday afternoon, we saw at least
four lawn sprinklers running fuU
blast.
Speaking of the weather, up
until the clouds started to roll
in Friday evening, it was one
of the longest stretches of un
surpassed weather we've seen
In about nine years here
abouts. A little warm at timet
yesj but mostly clear, fresh,
sunny and, well, just fine.
Our proofreader, who is some
thing of an expert on out-of-the-way
information, reminds us we
should wish all our readers a
Happy Bastille Day. It was on
this day in 1789 that the revolu
tionaries of France stormed, cap
tured and destroyed the Bastille,
the grim Parisian fortress and
prison which to them symbolized
the old regime. The world has
never been the same since
which is probably a good thing.
Fact v Joseph auoP
eva.
There are those, therefore,
who maintain that Zorin's disap
pointing response to the Western
disarmament proposals in an
episode comparable to this Mol
otov speech. After the divisions
in the Kremlin have been so
dramatically revealed, the argu
ment runs, the Soviet leaders
dare not seem at all conciliatory
lefet they also seem weak. On
the basis of this argument, a
later sharp turn in Soviet dis
armament policy is hoped for.
'
BUT the other school of ex
perts points, with equal
cogency, to the particular issue
on which Zorin was sharpest and
most negative. This was simply
the issue of truly effective Inter
national inspection and control
of nuclear disarmament.
If one boldy simplifies a mat
ter more insanely complex than
atomic physics, the Western
powers offered the Soviets a
treaty having two main stages.
In the first stage, tests of nuclear
and thermonuclear weapons
were to be provisionally sus
pended for ten months. Certain
other steps were also to betaken.
A limited inspection and control
system was to be installed, to
police the suspension of bomb
tests. And meanwhile Soviet and
Western experts were to use this
ten month period to reach agree
ment on the technical plan for
stage two.
Besides many other features.
stage two was to have two main
features of high significance.
The production of nuclear raw
material for use in weapons was
to be forbidden. And a vastly
more extensive, intrusive and
far-reaching system of inspection
and control was to be set up, to
insure enforcement of the cut
off of nuclear weapons output.
IN effect, then, the Western
proposals were designed to
find out whether the Soviets
would ever accept the only kind
of inspection and control system
on which real, full scale disarm
ament can be safely based. Zor
in's answer seemed to say "no"
very loudly and clearly. The
vast majority of the experts
have always contended the mas
ters of the Kremlin could never
in the last analysis permit a
fully effective inspection and
control system to be set up be
hind the Iron Curtain. Hence
there are many who regard Zor
in's answer as final.
Meanwhile, although both the
British and French negotiators
incline to favor a recess for
some months, the disarmament
talks still continue. And the ex
perts also continue their argu
ment which sounds so much like
the old son "Madam will you
won't you will you won't you
will you won't you join the
dance?" with the Kremlin cast
in the role of the lady with un
known intentions.
Copyright 1957 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.