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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone in Southern Orefoo Reads The Mail Tribuna" Published Daily ExceDt Satur'taj by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North rtr St. Phone J-4I41 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertuinc Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL U ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorta Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advanca: Per Codv 10c. Daily and Sunday On year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six montha 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mol A3S Sunday only One- rear $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. jacKxonvuie. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Sunflow ers still bravely cheering for Alf Landon Of Kansas are blooming in Applegate front yards. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 27, 1937 (Friday) Physicians auto is ransacked for narcotics. Elks band conducts anotker concert in city park tonight. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 27, 1927o(Salurday) U. S. Department of Com merce officials and Pacific Air Transport are anxious to cooper ate in enlarging the municipal airport, it is reported. Every Oregon mayor is in vited to Jubilee of Visions Realized in Medford. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 27, 1917 (Monday)' Campaign to begin on conser vation and preservation of food by district home demonstration agent. Slim prospects for much for est highway work including Crater Lake is predicted. What's Ycur I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is snpeiior; seven or eight Is excellent: live or six Is good 1. Is the Congo or the Ama zon river the longer? 2. Did Brazil send any troops overseas to fight in World War II? 3. Bible: Is "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" the 3rd, 4th, or 6th Commandment? 4. St. Moritz is a noted inter national sports center in which European country? 5. Name the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 6. Who was chancellor of Aus tria when Adolf Hitler seized control of that country in 1938? 7. Which U. S. city is rick named "Hub of the Universe"? 8. The Lindbergh law con cerns kidnapping, illegal opera tion bf airplanes, or the inter state shipment of ammunition? 9. Are "depository" and "de positary" interchangeable? If so, which is the commonly ac cepted form in the U. S.? 10. "Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it." G. Eliot. Is this a reference to luxury, luck, or "likker"? Answers: 1, Amazon. 2. Yes. 3. No. the first. 4. Switzerland. 5. John Edgar Hoover. 6. Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg. 7. Boston. Mass. 8. Kidnapping. 9. Yes. Depository. 10. Luxury. Soviet Scientists to Irrigate Huge Desert London (IP Soviet scientists are planning a multi million dollar scheme to divert the Ob and Yenisei rivers and irrigate huge new oases in the desert wastes of Siberia and Kazakhstan, radio Moscow re ported. The broadcast heard here said the Ob will be dammed to form a vast inland sea. A canal 400 miles long will run through the Turagai desert to carry water to : dry regions of southern Siberia. 1 MAIL TRIBUNE "What Are We Afraid 0f" Secretary Dulles might well take a tip from Pete Rademacher. For Pete in his bout with the world's heavyweight champion took a leaf from the book of the late Pres ident Franklin D. Roosevelt to the effect there was "nothing to fear but fear itself." That one phrase in the opinion of political histor ians did more than any other one thing to bring Uncle Sam a victory over the worst financial bust in Ameri can history. THE same psychology saved Amateur Rademacher, A from serving as a cringing "punching bag" for Floyd Patterson, the champion "pro". Pete made mon keys out of all the pugilistic and though defeated in the perts predicted he would showed such a gallant spirit, stamina and courage, that he came out of the fracas, with greater increase in prestige, popularity and promise than his $250,000 prize-winning opponent. Moreover instead of his fighting career being fin ished, offers are now pouring in from fistic promoters all over the country. and because of the plucky fight he put up, his share of the close to his opponent s fabulous guarantee. e 1VTICE going Pete! In peace, the only thing to fear is fear itself. No mat ter what the nature of the conflict may be the con testant who enters the arena with fear of his oppon ent eating at his vitals is beaten before he starts. Oth erwise be may not win. But win, lose or draw, if he fights the good fight, gives everything he has, he will come out a better man than spect of all observers, and himself. "1XHAT has this to do man we grant who lives on a much higher moral and intellectual plane than that which surrounds the roped arena, and the of t-termed "manly art of self de fense. Well merely this : As Chester Bowles suggested in last week's "Saturday Review" "What are we afraid of?" Why should this great country be afraid of ex changing students, newspapermen, athletes, or what have you, with Russia, China, or any other commun ist country? As Mr. Bowles expresses it, quote : "What are we afraid of? How can we lose in open com petition between Communist ideas and our own? "Do we fear that Americans brought up in the tradition of freedom, will come off second-best in contact with Rus sians 'or Chinese), who have known only their own stagnant and discredited ideology? After seeing the grim Soviet system work and hearing the numbing, stilted doctrinaire phrases which ate sj obviously boring the new generation of Soviet Youth I predict the opposite. The writer then goes on to elaborate: "Let the Kremlin pick 500 of its most trusted students at random to come to America while we pick 500 to go to the Soviet Union rnd tht result cqjild only be profoundly sub versive of Communist dogma "The Soviet students would return with their eyes opened to the dishonesty of thtir government's propaganda and new respect for the dynamic power of free institutions. The Am erican students would undoubtedly return with greater sym pathy and personal liking for the Russian PEOPLE, but with an even keener awareness of how unpleasant life can be under an authoritarian government and with an increased appreciation of "our own accomplishments and our limitless' democratic potential" EXACTLY! What have we got to LOSE, what have we got to HIDE, what have we got to FEAR in a free and open competition between our prosperous and powerful democracy, and the dictatorship of a police-state, su perimposed upon a form of communism which in its essence was "old stuff" in the days of the Modoc In dians and the Aztecs? IF Chinese or Russian communism are so attractive " and the TRUTH concerning them so dangerous, then why is it, that practically eveiy day, scores thousands in fact-r- of common people under the to talitarian yoke risk their lives and lose what fortunes they may have, to escape it? Mr. Dulles might well take a trip through China town in San Francisco or New York for that matter en route to his next stop the native Chinese in both to the "paradise for workers." And also how the same people are faying every day in eveiy way to SOMEhow SOMEway get their friends and families, over here, and as far as possible away from the form of government which the Com munists claim is such a howling success and Secre tary Dulles and the State Department, must agree with them to some extent or they would not regard it as sufficiently alluring, to the human race, to fear it. "IlE agree 100 per cent with Chester Bowles. After an extensive personal and unofficial tour of So viet Russia, he returned convinced that the "fear, pol icy" of the present administration and its state depart ment, is not only unwarranted and unrealistic, but is doing harm to the Umted States, and increasing rath er than decreasing the power of Communist propa ganda, especially in the ranks of world youth. For such a policy which would run away from any free competition with communism, shrink from any exchange of people or ideas, would, as Mr. Bowles expresses it, be to indulge in "Pure folly which would slip us into a reverse "Iron Cur tain" mentality at precisely the time when it may be possible to make real progress in breaking down such curtains every where." CO we return to the query "WHAT are we afraid of" anyway? R.W.R. Tuesday, August 27, 1957 prophets and wise guys 6th round (when most "ex be defeated in the first) movie profits may come prize fighting as in war or he went m, gaming the re with increased respect for with Secretary Dulles, a in Formosa, and see what places think of returning $tthn?it, All rfsMs i 'just surname? Afbht YA Matter of Fact st.wart ai,oP MR. GAITHER'S JOB Washington President Eisen hower has called the head of the Ford Foundation, H. Rowan Gai- ther Jr., to Washington to do a job of the very highest i m p o rtance. Gaither's bas ic assignment is to study the possibility of e m p 1 o y ing -i sssssssl new lecnnoio- ' itewait Aisop gical means of defense against atomic attack. In the opinion of some experts, these new techniques could save this country from total nuclear destruction if war comes. Gaither will have the help of such top-level talent as industri alist-engineer' Robert. Sprague and Dr. James Killian of M. I. T The Gaither group is the last of at least five such groups ap pointed in recent years to study air-atomic defense and related problems. Both Sprague and Kil lian have headed committees of their own, and there have also been the Bull, Kelly, and Wede meyer groups, as well as the pre-Eisenhower Lincoln Project. This almost-endless series of committees reflects a simple fact ever since Eisenhower became President, the threat of actual physical destruction of the Unit ed States, in case of nuclear war, has loomed larger and larg-. erengulfing all other problems . A PPOINTTNG one committee aftpr another has hppn way of temporizing with the problem. Yet it is also true that, as a result of the work of these committees, the United States has at least the bare beginnings of a serious air-atomic defense, where it had virtually none at all in the early Eisenhower years. The distant early warning line, for example, which opened for business in the sub-Arctic this month, is one result of the studies which have already been made. But we have no more than the In the Day's News . By FRANK JENKINS World of the future note: The air force says it can for see passenger travel by MIS SILES t several decades from now. Speaking in San Francisco, Major General Schriever, com mander of the air force's bal listics division at Los Angeles, tells his hearers that man-carrying vehicles can operate out side the earth's atmosphere. All that remains now, he adds, is for technical experts to perfect the missiles and to find men who will staff them. I SUPPOSE he's right. But I can't help feeling that people with money enough io buy tickets will come in awfully handy. lyORLD of today note: ' ' The census bureau announc es that last year TOTAL tax bill meaning all federal, all state and all local taxes came to the rather staggering total of $545 PER PERSON. That is to say. If you are the breadwinner for a family of four, your total tax bill in the year 1956 came to $2180. That isn't hay. VOU may dig up all your tax -receipts (including your with holding slips if you work for wages or a salary) and add them up and find they don't come to that much. So, you say, how come? You must remembers that the cost of taxes has to be added to the cost of doing business and therefore has to be added to the prices paid by the consumer. We all pay our. share, in the final showdown, of the cost of taxes. PERTINENT question: Is it possible to reduce taxes? It is but FIRST we must re duce government spending. If government goes on spending in a big way government will have to go on taxing in a big way. to s " -fzi stave. mens "5"i""'"" I QDtW DO WtPlC7Uf&S bare beginnings. The present American air defense is totally inadequate to prevent a devas tating attack by the growing So viet air and missile forces. What we have done, essentially, is to buy the means of warning of an attack, without buying the means to respond effectively to the attack. The cancellation of contracts for the F-103 jet fight er is the latest move in the Wil son program of unilateral dis armament, which has left the continental air defense com mand with hardly more than a skeleton force. Meanwhile, with evidence mounting of Soviet successes" with the long range ballistic missiles, the days of the conven tional plane - against - plane de fense are clearly numbered in any case. At the same time, cer tain "te chnological break throughs" have opened the way to a new, and infinitely more ef fective kind of defense, even against missiles. riAITHER'S task is. essentially. " to study the practical possi bility of exploiting these new technical advances. The precise nature of the breakthroughs is secret. But they are undoubted ly related ' to recent great ad vances in electronics, and to such new weapons as the anti missile missiles with nuclear warheads. New "shotgun tech niques" of air-atomic defense will also doubtless be considered by the Gaither group. Some technicians, perhaps ov-er-optomistically, believe that a near-total defense, even against ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads, is a practical proposi tion as a result of such technical advances. It is literally impossi ble to exaggerate the importance of achieving such a defense, if it can be achieved. For one thing, it could, make the difference between total devastation and continued exist ence for the United States, if all-out war came. But that is not all. Even short of . all-out war, the danger of our situation is very great. ASA result of the budget-dic-tated "more bang for a buck" doctrine, the United States is completely committed to fight any war with nuclear weapons. And this total commitment to nuclear war has happ'ened at precisely the same time that the Soviets are threatening to over take and surpass the ' United States in air-atomic power, so recently an American monopoly. Meanwhile the Soviets have al so maintained their crushing lead in conventional power. As long as atomic war carries with it the threat of the destruc tion of American cities, the So viets will have a standing invi tation to nibble the free world to death by limited aggression with conventional weapons, or by subversion an invitation they have already accepted in the Middle East. But the kind of defense some experts now be lieve achievable would "wholly transform the world situation, restoring the upset power bal ance. These facts suggest the extra ordinary importance of Gai ther's assignment. Gaither is re puted to be an able and coura geous man. But the kind of new defense the experts have in mind would certainly be very costly, and it remains to be seen wheth er anything solid comes of Gai ther's assignment, in the present national mood of complacency. (Copyright, 1957. New York " Herald Tribune. Ine.) Blind Man-Hush Up Geo. N. Taylor When told that Jesus was to pass that way, the blind beggar began to yell "Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me." The crowd tried to quiet lim but he kept yelling. When Jesus came to the spot. He asked a question and then "Receive your sight." Luke 18 35-43 BIBLE. By Christ's power the beggar could now see and by Christ's power, you also will see your name in the Book of Life. Believe that Christ died for your every last sin and God writes your name in his Book of Life. And by daily Bible and prayer, you grow up. This Message is by God's people who want you to know. Communist In Indonesia Barring Changes Br ROBERT MONAHAN United Press Correspondent Djakarta (IB : Indonesia faces Communist political dom ination by 1960 unless the na tion's "big three" political par ties settle their differences and force a solid anti-Communist front. This was the opinion of many political observers here who watched the Communists hack Editorial Comment DULLES AND CO. GOOF Red China's announcement that it will refuse to grant visas to the 24 American newsmen who had obtained the belated permission of the U. S. State Department to visit the Com munist mainland adds a ridicu lous chapter to a ridiculous story. The State Department has from the beginning been on un tenable ground in refusing to grant passports for travel to Red China. Its grudging relaxa tion of this policy with respect to a few newsmen was, in itself, an invitation to just such a re buke, as has been administered by the Mao government. Actually, the U. S. govern ment is in no position to nego tiate with the Red Chinese on the subject of admission of the newsmen. There are no diplo matic ties between the two gov ernments.' The 24 newsmen, hav ing cleared the State Depart ment hurdle, must make their own arrangements. The State De partment would be better ad vised to grant thjs freedom to all newsmen and others who wish to travel to Red China for legitimate purposes. Indeed, the implication of the department's limited opening of the door was such as to support, at least from the Chinese viewpoint, the Mao spokesman's charge that the Am erican newsmen were to be on a subversive mission for the U. S. government. e Moreover, we are aware of no, good reason why this coun try should refuse admission of reporters from Red China, even though it must be acknowledged that the Communist press is an arm of government, as the west ern press is not. We have long tolerated the representatives of Tass, the official Russian news agency, without noticeable harm to the nation's security. Surely we cannot expect world opin ion to approve of the concep tion cf the Sine-American news link as a one-way proposition. Both Britain and France, which have correspondents permanent ly in Red China, grant recipro cal rights to the Red Chinese. If Mr. Dulles . and his aides are embarrased by the turn of events, they have only them selves to blame. They will be vulnerable just so long as they persist in a policy so contrary to the principles of a free societv as is the blanket restriction of travel. Oregonian. Soviet Jet Airliners To Land in New York Washington (IB Russia will show off to America next month two of its 500-mile-an-hour jet airliners. U. S. officials admitted rue fully today the Soviets ' may realize, some good publicity out of whisking the Russian delega tion to the United Nations from Moscow to New York in the speedy planes. They wiU arrive at a time when the United States has hundreds of jet military planes but no jet passengers planes in scheduled operations. The flight to this country was authorized Monday' by the state department. It marked the first time Soviet passenger planes had been authorized to land in the United States. One of the TU105 jets will arrive between Sept. .3-7, and the other between Sept.' 13-17. Senate Passes Bill To Give Medal to Soldier Washington (IB The Sen ate has passed and sent to the White House legislation author izing the President to give the Congressional Medal of Honor to the "Unknown Soldier" of the Korean conflict. The unknown GI will be bur ied in Arlington National ceme tery under terms of a bill passed last year. Dominance Forecast out spectacular gains in recent provincial and municipal elec tions on Java, where more than half of Indonesia's 82,000,000 people live. These observers now look to late 1959 when the nation votes in its second parliamentary elec tion since independence from The Netherlands. If the Communist party makes as much headway in the next two years as it did from 1955 to 1957, they say, it is virtually certain to gain control of thena tional legislative body. Influence Submerged Some highly placed Indones ian politicians have . expressed the view that unless the three major non-Communist parties united against the Communist assault they will see their power and influence completely sub merged. But many observers frankly doubt that any solid anti-Communist front movement will em erge from the three parties be cause of their inability to settle long-standing differences. The "big three" are the Mas juml, a -Moslem party regarded as the most pro-Western of the major political factions; the Voters in Wisconsin Choose Successor To Joe McCarthy Today By GEORGE ARMOUR United Press Correspondent Milwaukee, Wis. (IB Party leaders expected a relatively heavy turnout of 800,000 Wis consin voters today in a special election to name a successor to the late Sen. Joseph R. Mc Carthy. . A heavier vote probably would favor Republican nominee. Walt er J. Kohler in the race against Democrat William Proxmire since the state normally has more GOP voters. Although the campaign was marked by apathy, party spokes men said they observed a quick ening of interest as the election approached and revised their voter estimates upward. However, official state esti mates still saw a top vote of 600,000 and said the total could be as low as the primary total of 460,000. Three-Time Governor Kohler, 53, a. three-time gov ernor, and Proxmire, 41, who lost to Kohler- in two guberna torial races, are the leading can didates in a field of five. Run ning independently are Hpward Boyle, a "McCarthy" Republi can," Mrs.' Georgia Cozini and Douglas Wheaton. Boyle was given an outside chance of playing the role of 1 VFW's Convention Parade Scheduled Miami Beach (IB The Vet erans of Foreign Wars planned to stage their annual conven tion parade today even though rumors circulated a band of militant Cuban exiles hoped to break up the proceedings with "a demonstration against the gov ernment of President Fulgencio Batista. The parade was scheduled ov er a mile and one-half route on Miami Beach's famed Lincoln Road and Collins Avenue, start ing at 7:30 p.m. A member of the July 26th Association, a band of Cuban rebels, told a friend Monday night that members of the group planned to break into the center of the parade about a half block before the marchers reach the reviewing stand. The parade, a highlight , of the VFW's 58th national en campment here, will present 10,000 marchers, 50 bands, sev eral floats, and - championship drill teams.- Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phont SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOU.Y ST. Orthodox Moslem Nahdatul Ul-f ami; and the National Party, which claims President Sukarno as founder. ? After the 1955 parliamentary elections, the Nationalists and Masjumi each emerged with 57 seats in the 257-seat Parliament. ' The Nahdatul Ulama, which split from the Masjumi in 1952, gained 45 seats and the Com- , munists 39. The other seats were j divided among Indonesia's host I of minor parties. I No Longer No. 4 Java's recent elections have shown clearly, however, that the Communists can no longer be considered the No. 4 party of Indonesia. - In central Java, the Commun ists crushed the Nationalists and took from them control of the provincial legislature. In east and west Java, where the vote was still being tallied, the Commuists faced stiffer op position from the Nahdatul Ul ama and Masjumi. But it was more than clear they were mak ing big inroads and had won control of the provincial capit als of Surabaya and Bandung, in addition to Semarang in cen tral Java. "spoiler" for the second time. He ran in the Republican Sen ate primary in 1956 as a backer of McCarthy and drew 19,800 votes. Boyle's total hurt the chances.of former Rep. Glenn R. Davis, who lost to Sen. Alexan der Wiley by 10,000 votes in that race. Kohler, regarded as an Eisen hower Republican, and his sup porters refused to recognize Boyle as a serious challenge, Jmt took pains to criticize Boyle for entering the race. High Stakes . The election stakes were high for both parties, nationally and in Wisconsin. Election of a Democratic sena tor, the first from the state since 1932, would give Democrats more solid control of the Sen ate." Election of Kohler would put Republicans in a position to take over posible future con trol of the upper chamber. The Democrats now have a 49-46 edge, with one vacancy. The Republicans would have to gain a 48-48 tie in the Senate to take control because Vice President Richard Nixon would vote in a tie. Want to Take LION -SIZE VACATION? Borrow The . . . American Way LOANS 25 1,500 AUTO SALARY FURNITURE For Any Worthwhile Purpose PAYMENTS TO FIT YOUR BUDGET! American Finance Corp. Phone SPring 2-8886 123 W. 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