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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 29. 1947 (Friday)
Jovial Matt Freed, manager of
the Robert Lippert theatres, un
suspectedly played Cupid
Wednesday . night when he
awarded a diamond ring to a
youth. Plans for a wedding re
sulted. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "T h e
buckwheat crop is reported
larger than last year."
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 29, 1937 (Sunday)
State and city police are at
tempting to locate the owner of
a physicians medicine kit found
on the old East Main street in
Ashland. '
Cupp's furniture store will re
open tomorrow following a fire
which partially destroyed the
building two months ago.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 29, 1927 (Monday)
An enrollment of almost 300
is expected at Southern Oregon
Normal school this fall.
From Eagle Point correspond
ence: Lucius Kincaid has been
sworn in as special police and
will attempt to keep better
order, especially during nights
of late dances.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 29. 1917 (Wednesday)
The "C" company detail on
guard at Wolf Creek fired into
the brush upon hearing noise
and sound of man running away.
Horseracing has been elimin
ated from the Jackson county
fair this year. .
Whal's Ycur I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six Is good.
1. Is rice grown in the United
States? .
2. Name the early -American
who published "Poor Richard's
Almanac."
3. Bible: In the New Testa
ment, "You cannot serve God
and" what? -
4. Which State is nicknamed
the Coyote State?
5. Was Mary Pickford, Helen
Hayes, or Shirley Temple known
as "America's Sweetheart"?
6. Did Chiang Kai-shek once
study at ' the Tokyo Military
Academy?
7. Is the T. Roosevelt family
of German, Dutch, Danish or
Swedish descent?
8. During World War IL did
Mexico declare war on the Axis
nations?
9. Is it proper to use "invite",
meaning an . invitation, as a
noun?
10. "The bullet that pierced
Goebels breastCannot be found
in all the West.Good reason: it
is speeding here ... on his bier."
A. Bierce. Is this a reference
to a German, American, or Aus
trian? Answers: Yes. it is grown in
Arkansas, California, Louisiana
and Texas. 2. Benjamin Frank
lin. 3. "mammon." 4. South Da
kola. 5. Mary Pickford. 6. Yes.
7 Butch 8 Yes. 9. No. It is strict-
l - nn.k in Amenran. Presi-
9nt McKinlev's body en route ;
to Washington, D.C.
ROAD "BLOCK
New Haven. Conn. OP)
Sleepy-eyed - residents of the
.Glen Haven road section set up
a 25-car zig-zag road block to
stop a daily procession of dump
trucks from passing by their
homes at 5:30 ajn.
MAIL TRIBUNE
How Silly Can We Get?'
The role of a Democratic office-holder in this
normally Republican state is a rough one.
As far as the "one-party" (GOP) press is concern
ed he is damned if he does
He can do nothing of which they approve, un
less of course he comes over to their party. -Then
everything will be just dandy.
THIS blind and stupid partisanship has been par
ticularly noticeable as .far as Governor Holmes
and his calling of a special
"THE Oregon Journal for example once 100 per
cent Democratic, now even more Republican than
the Oregonian has been complaining for months
about the high and inequitable tax system in this
state. The highest income tax in the country and the
absence of a sales tax, it has claimed, not only puts
an unjust and unbearable burden on the hard-pressed
taxpayers of Oregon ; but
flustries and driving many
iomia or some otner mmourger neaven.
That refrain, as stated, has been the Journal's No
I theme song ever since
state at the last election.
iAltvN m June btate ireasurer unanaer an
V nounced there would be a $37,000,000 surplus
and suggested a tax refund, which of course would
also have required a special session there were no
cries of anguish from the Journal or any other mem
ber of the 100 per cent Republican press, coming to
this desk at least.
But when a few months later Governor Holmes
suggested the SAME thing,
per proceeded to term it a "fiasco" reminiscent of
"World War days," a completely wrong approach to
the state's tax problem, a
could develop into an expensive "free-for-all" that
could go on all winter without producing anything
fundamental m the way
Oregon. One wonders
WOULD the special
Treasurer Unander, a Republican, not for any radical
reform of the tax system, but for a refund to the over
burdened taxpayers have done any better?
UOW silly can we get?
A One doesn't have to be a lineal descendant of
Sherlock Holmes to realize that this blast against
Governor Holmes, who happens to wear a Democrat
ic label, and either praise or silence for the Republi
can State Treasurer when he proposed similar
action, adds up to nothing
ridiculous form of bigoted
sanship. R.W.R.
"Q.E.D."
As a postscript to the above, we can't refrain from
a brief and we hope inoffensive employment of a
a somewhat offensive term
When former Secretary of the Interior McKay
was named chairman of the
Commission concerned with
U.S.-Canadian border, the
Secretary, Mr. McKay did
feat federal power development and his selection
therefore was "unwise," was met on the part of most
of the Oregon Republican press by the assertion that
this was all political hocus-pocus for as Chairman,
Mr. McKay would have nothing to do with the public
versus private power issue, or practically nothing.
Now only a few months after this "alibi" was
presented, we note, via Mr. A. Robert Smith's column
in the Oregonian, that Chairman McKay has been put
on the spot by-Idaho and Montana delegations in
Washington, D.C., regarding a proper solution of
the international Libby Dam project.
Congressman Lee Metcalf, of Montana, for ex
ample is quoted as follows :
"It was McKay as Secretary of the Interior who an
nounced in 1954 that Libby should be built. We suspected
that was a diversionary tactic by the administration in the
Hells Canyon fight. Now we will see if they mean business."
Exactly!
. Chairman McKay's efforts in advancing this pub
lic power project will be watched with interest.
But the point of this brief comment of course is
not what Mr. McKay will do but the fact that his
GOP supporters stoutly maintained when he was ap
pointed that in this particular field, there would be
nothing he COULD do. R.W.R.
Mrs. Neuberger Denies
Political Ambitions
Mrs. Maurine Neuberger, wife civil rights record. Such mat
of Oregon's junior Sen. Richard ters should make no difference.
L. Neuberger, this week denied ' Neither Dick nor I ever has
any personal political ambitions. I been disturbed over Mrs. Green's
In a letter to the editor of the
Portland Oregonian, Mrs. Neu
berger commented on rumors
that she was planning to run
against Congresswoman Edith
Green (D-3rd Ore.). Her letter
follows:
To the Editor: Your editorial
of August 16 suggested that I
might oppose Congresswoman
Edith Green for nomination in
1958. This report has appeared
before but there is not a word of
truth in it. One member of my
family in the turmoil of political
life is enough for me and oc
casionally, I think, too much.
The strains and vanity of poli
tics are a major reason I feel
this way. I regret deeply that
Senator Morse felt he had been
insulted because Senator Paul
Douglas praised my husband's
Thursday, August 29, 19S7
and damned if he doesn't.
session is concerned.
it is keeping away new in
established here, to CaH-
the Democrats captured the
the Portland evening -pa
purely political move which
of a sound tax system for
session proposed by State
but the most childish and
and short-sighted parti
we told you so !
International Joint Water
water problems along the
criticism that as Interior
everything he could to de
constant praise of the speeches,
statements and votes of Sen
ator Mors. We are glad that
our own representative in con
gress is thrilled with the record
of Dick's senior colleague.
I regard Mrs.- Green as a
capable member of the. house,
and I intend to support her
election, as I always have done.
Pettiness and jealousies are
dwarfed by the great issues
the need for federal aid to
schools, more support for can
cer research, grants for helping
retarded children, better pro
tection of consumers against
fraud and impurities, extended
social security, fair pay for gov
ernment employes.
These are the things which
count. These are the things in
which Im interested, and not
I ocw'r know. vmARE you
Today and
By Walter
MR. DULLES AND THE PRESS
It may be that Mr. Dulles is
as he says, now willing to let
a limited group of American
correspondents
go to Red
China' for a
trial period of
six months
Yet, it is fair
to say that he
would not be
inconsol able
if they did not
go. For in
making his
Walter Lippmann
offer he attached to it the one
condition most likely to pro
voke Red China into refusing to
admit the American corres
pondents.
He will allow 24 American
correspondents ' r e p r e s enting
leading newspapers, news maga
zines, and broadcasting compan
ies to go to Red China. But no
Chinese newspapermen are to
come to the United States. So,
unless Red China swallows her
pride and acknowledges to the
world that the United States is
entitled to preferential treat
ment, the American correspond
ents will not be able to go to
Red China. But then, as Mr,
Irulles may conceivably have
foreseen, the can argue thai it is
the Red Chinese and not he who
prevent the American press
from gathering news on the Chi
nese mainland. He can even be
disappointed and indignant at
these totalitarians who do not
believe in freedom of the press
. .
llfHETHER or not the Dulles
" proposal is actually put into
effect, or was meant to be, the
statement issued by the Depart
ment of State last Thursday
must be challenged. The terms
of this proposal affirm, and if
acquiesced in, would establish
as a precedent a new and hith
erto entirely un-American con
ception of the right and duty of
the press. Mr. Dulles is making
the claim that outside the three
mile limit he may treat the press
as an instrument of foreign pol
icy, and that the American press
in foreign countries is subject to
the paramount control of the
Secretary of State.
This claim to power is con
tained in the text of the state
ment. Having reminded us that
it has been the policy of the
Secretary of State not to author
ize in fact, not to permit
American newspapermen to go,
even at their own risk, to the
Chinese mainland, Mr. Dulles
goes- on to say that he has
changed his mind. He now finds
it "desirable that additional in
formation be made available to
the American people respecting
current conditions in China."
Now, by what right, and on
what principle, does he claim
to have the power to decide how
much information it is "desir
able" for the American people
to have? We have here the un
precedented and impertinent
assertion that the right to turn
off and the right, to turn on the
tap of news is one of the pre
rogatives of the Secretary of
State.
'THIS is followed by a truly
x remarkable declaration, one
which will have to be examined
thoroughly by all who are con
cerned with the security and the
integrity of the American press.
The Secretary of State has ac
cordingly determined' that it
may prove consistent with the
foreign policy of the United
States that there be travel by a
limited number of American
news reporters to the mainland
of China." This is, I submit, a
usurpation of power , which has
never before been vested in the
Secretary of State the power to
determine whether, when,
in internecine political strife. I
intend to work for these as a
private citizen and as a coun
selor to my husband. I am em
phatically and definitely not
again a candidate for any elec
tive office. I enjoyed my three
terms in the Oregon legislature,
but that chapter has been closed.
Maurine B. Neuberger
1910 S. W. Clifton st.
Portland, Ore.
It '- i.t i
mm A
gonna cut aw-hair 1 '
Tomorrow
Lippmann
where and under what condi-
tions, the American press may
gather and report news in lor-
eign countries.
Surely, in the American way
of life it is for the editors to
determine whether, when and
where i news is available that
should be reported, and it is en
tirely impossible to accept the
principle that Mr. Dulles, Mr.
Walter Robertson, and Mr. Berd-
ing have any right or power to
regulate the reporting of news.
They can warn newspapermen
that it may be dangerous to go
to a place like Red China, and
that the Department of State
cannot help them if they get into
trouble. But if the ..editor and
the reporter accept the risk, it
is not for the Department of
State to decide whether it likes
or it does not like to have them
go.
rpHE essential difference be-
tween a free press and a to
talitarian press lies exactly here:
that in a free country the press
is not an instrument of the gov
ernment's policy. It is an inde
pendent instrument to enable
the people to understand and to
judge policy, to help them make
or to help them unmake policy.
Last week's declaration from
the State Department denies
that in foreign affairs there is
such a thing as an independent
press. It claims a paramount
right to decide whether there
shall be more or less news re
ported from China. It asserts the
right to decide what kind of cor
respondents may go to China
in this case, the correspondents
must be "resident," and not spe
cial correspondents on special
assignments, as, for example,
Mr. Joseph Alsop or Mr. Edward
Murrow. It asserts the right to
judge "experimentally" the
news reported from China dur
ing the trial period of six
months. Thus an American cor
respondent who goes to the
mainland is to have two bosses
his editor and Mr. Dulles.
All this, it may be said, dis
closes the fact that Mr. Dulles
has an imperfect grasp of the
principles of a free press in a
free society.
(Copyright, 1957, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.) 1
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
I suppose you've been reading
about the "situation" in Syria.
The blunt FACT of the situation
is that Syria has been taken over
by the Communists and is now
a Russian outpost in the strate
gic Middle East.
We free Americans instinctive
ly misunderstand what has hap
pened there. We think of .the
Syrians as having gone Commu
nist. The truth is that the people
of Syria have had nothing to do
with it. Syrian politicians, reach
ing for personal power, tied tip
with the Communists and TOOK
OVER. They hold their power
because they have the guns.
That's the long and the short
of it.
HOW did they get the guns?
That is the significant part
of the story.
I
N SYRIA, we and the Russians
were bidding for. INFLU
ENCE.
The Russians OUTBID us.
They paid off the Syrian. poli
ticians with guns. That is to say,
they paid in the coin the Syrian
traitors understood and wanted.
We were talking in terms of
roads and irrigation projects and
such things that would better
the living conditions of the com
mon, ordinary, everyday PEO
PLE of Syria.
THE Syrian ' politicians with
whom the Russians worked
weren't even vaguely interested
in the welfare of the Syrian peo
ple.
They wanted personal power.
To get and hold personal pow
er, they needed GUNS.
The Russians offered guns.
So they got the job. Just as
Inflation Seen Ho. 1 Issue in
Democratic
By RAYMOND LAHR
United Press Correspondent
Washington TO Democrat
ic Party managers interpreted
their reports from Wisconsin to-
"1 day to mean
' that inflation is
their No. 1 is
sue for the 1958
congressional
campaign.
They also
listed dissatis
faction with
Eisenhower ad
ministration's Raymond Lahr farm, foreign
and budget policies as factors in
the upset victory of the Demo
cratic nominee in Wisconsin's
special Senate election Tuesday.
Republicans were inclined to
blame their own family strife in
Wisconsin as ihe chief reason f or
their defeat but many of them
admitted that other issues in
fluenced the outcome against
their candidate.
Tight Money Policy
.In the Wisconsin vote, Demo
crat William Proxmire defeated
former GOP Gov. Walter J.
Kohler, an Eisenhower Republi
can. Compared with the 1956 re-,
suits in Wisconsin, a normally
Republican state, Proxmire reg
istered gains in the Democratic
vote across the board in both
industrial and farm areas.
Democrats in Congress have
been yammering all year on the
issue of inflation and the rising
cost of living. They have linked
this to the administration's tight
money policy, which the admin
istration considers a weapon
against inflation while some
Democrats argue that it in fact
contributes to inflation
Another Trouble Spot
The farm issue has spelled
trouble for Republicans since
early in the Eisenhower admin
istration. Proxmire-'s sweep of
most of the rural counties in
Wisconsin indicates that it is
still a GOP headache.
Sen. Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.)
they got the job in Egypt
where Nasser needed guns.
TF WE will heed it, there is a
useful lesson for us in this
Syrian mess.
The lesson is this:
We can't BUY FRIENDS in
that part of the world because
we can't play the kind of crook
ed shell game that is needed to
win out there.
WE DID very well with our
original Marshall plan
which was designed to rebuild
war-ravaged Western Europe to
the point where it would be able
to- resist the spread of Russian
communism.
It WORKED.
It worked because in Western
Europe we were dealing with
our kind of people. The Western
Europeans love liberty. . They
APPRECIATE liberty. They ap
preciate it because over the cen
turies they have shed rivers of
blood to gain it. One values
what one has fought and bled
and suffered for.
Western Europeans, knowing
and valuing liberty, are grateful
to us for what we have done to
help them KEEP it.
A SIA is different.
Asia has never known lib
erty. So the Asians aro unahlo in
understand our efforts to buv
liberty for them and give it to
mem as a unristmas present.
Misunderstanding us. thpv ari
SUSPICIOUS of us.
I m afraid there isn't much
future for us in trvine to BUY
FFQENDS in Asian countries.
Oregon Exports Show
150 Per Cent Increase
Portland (IP) Oregon ex
ports ior the first half of this
year showed a gain of 150 per
cent over the first half of 1956,
the U.S. Department of Com
merce reported today.
Oregon exported goods valued
at $198,324,911.
"TO THOSE WE SERVE WE PLEDGE: confidential business and pro
fessional relationships; co-operation with, the customs of all religions
and creeds; observance of all respect due the deceased; high standards
of competence and dignity in the conduct of all services; truthful rep
resentation of all services and merchandise."
DAY OR NIGHT PHONE ,SP 2-8030
Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Wisconsin
said one of the conclusions to be
drawn from the Wisconsin re
sult was that farmers in the state
were 'definitely dissatisfied with
the overall federal agricultural
program, particularly , as the
dairy program has worked out."
Rep. Melvin R. Laird (R-Wis.)
called the Proxmire victory a
Matter of Fact
THE GERMAN MIRACLE
Bonn, Germany The cur
rency crisis in France and Bri
tain, wun its resulting pressure
on Germans to
revalue their
mark up
wards, is an
amazing sign
of the times,
morever, it is
far less fun
d a m e n t ally
signific ant
than the de-
JflCnh llcnn . Vplfinmflnl i
has dramatized.
This development is nothing
more nor less than the re-emergence
of so-lately ruined Germany
as a major Dower in tho ti.m
The excessive . strength of the
uerman mark on the world
markets, the increasing weak
ness of British sterling anrf the
French franc are symbols of a
radical change in all the pow
er relationships on this side of
the Atlantic Ocean.
No adjectives seem adequate
to' describe the. chance in flnr.
many which has produced this
change in power relationships.
When this reporter was last here,
five years ago, the rubble had
been tidied. Production had be
gun again. Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer, had established a re
spected government. But the oc
cupation had not yet been liqui
dated. Defeated Germany was
still , in bonds. The High Com
missioners of the victorious Al
lies were still playing at being
viceroys.
A HEALTHY, . independent
Germany then seemed pos
sible and even highly likely.
But nothing seemed more ab
solutely beyond the bounds of
possibility than Germany's re
emergence as the real., heavy
weight in the world balance of
power.
The figures tell the story in
their blunt, bleak way. Starting
with nothing, the Germany
Treasury now has total reserves
above . five billion, dollars, of
which more than 3V billion are
in hard currency. Last year Ger
many enjoyea a lavorable trade
balance of more than one bil
lion dollars. This year's outlook
is as good or better.
Most significant of all, Ger
man, steel output has multiplied
almost ten times since the post
war low. Last year it was more
than 23 million tons, and there
fore well above the British out
put. In total production of all
sorts, Germany still lags behind
Britain, although the gap is
closing fast. But in the classical
measure of basic national
strength, this new Germany is
already ahead of Britain.
rpHE first questions one nat-
urally asks is simply:
How have the Germans done
it?" The answer seems to lie in
a combination of three factors.
There is the government of
Konrad Adenauer, . with its
toughly conservative economic
policies. There is the German
trades union leadership, haunted
bv the uelv memorv of nast in
flations, and aware that living
standards must only rise as out
Dut rises. And therp arp thp pv-
ceptionally able leaders of Ger
many's enterprises, like Chan
cellor Adenauer's friend, the
banker Hermann Abs. thp man
ager of the Krupp empire, Ber-
tnoia jseits, ana tne extraordin
ary head of the Volkswagen
factory. Dr. Heinrich Nordhoff.
Between these thrpp erouns.
plus the habitually industrious
German people, the credit must
be shared. But there is still
From the Code of Ethics of the
National Funeral Directors' Association
LaSl
mrssi
Victory
protest against President Eisen
hower's record peacetime budg
et and foreign aid program. Dem
ocrats agreed that these were
factors, but contended that there
was discontent with the admin
istration's overall record in for
eign affairs, not just with the
foreign aid program.
By Joseph Alsop
another, aeeper question that
one must also ask about Ger
many's regained weight in the
world balance. It is the question: .
"How will the Germans use this
weight, by throwing it about for
their own temporary aggrand
izement, or for more permanent,
constructive purposes?"
With Germany quite likely to
supersede Britain as the third
power in the world and the sec
ond power in the West, this last
question has profound import
ance. As yet, curiously enough,
it is not a question that any but
a tiny minority of Germans have
asked themselves. They have
been absorbed in the reconstruc
tion of their own country. They
have had no time to think of
anything except their own
growing prosperity.
OUT as the example of Ameri
ca plainly proves, national
weight and national power can
never remain permanently un
committed, simply because the
nation having weight and power
would prefer not to commit it
self in the world arena. Even
tually weight and power are al
ways made to count," somehow
or other.
But how will the new Ger
many's weight and power be
made to count? The final an
swer, in this reporter's opinion,
is the direct responsibility of the
United States. The new Germany
is Europe - minded, and even
minded to form an increasingly
intimate partnership with her
traditional enemy, France. If the
United States takes . the steps
that are now needed to streng
then and restore the Western
Alliance, then this new .Europe
minded German power will re
main firmly within the Western
Alliance. And it will provide a
great accession . of Western
health and strength.
But if the United States flac
cidly permits the Western Al
liance to become a mere empty
facade (and this is why the re
sponsibility is almost wholly
American) then the new Ger
many will join the general game
of "Save yourself and the devil
take the hindmost," And after
that,- almost anything can .hap
pen. (c) 1957 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
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