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40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 27. 19! 7 (Wednesday)
Mail Tribune receives final
approvel from FCC for con
struction of a radio station.
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.
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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
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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
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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.-
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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.
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