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I FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Tveryone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-3141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clas matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moi 4.25 Sunday Only One rear $4-20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portlard St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOtlAt 3 assocITain Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 5, 1947 (Friday) County clean-up of coin de vices is nearly complete, sher iffs office announces. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: No pedes trian has been killed by an auto In the metropolis this year so far. This speaks well for the drivers' courtesy and the leap ing agility of the pedestrian. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 5. 1937 (Sunday) Main Street Methodist church celebrates is opening of auditor ium. Plans for the annual Armis tice day celebration will be made at meeting of the Med ford American Legion post. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 5, 1927 (Monday) Roseburg talent featured in Copco radio program. A basket dinner and program are planned as part of the South ern Oregon Pioneer society cele bration in Ashland Sept. 22. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 5. 1917 (Wednesday) Women needed to aid Red Cross in mercy work here. City council to consider fire men's request for increase in wages from $70 to $80 a month. What's Your 1.0.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six is good 1. Which type of spaniel dog leads in popularity among the breeds recognized by the Am erican Kennel Club? 2. What is the birthstone for March? 3. Bible: Is much known of the youth of Jesus? 4. After assassination was Mo handas K. Oandnis body em balmed and sealed in a crypt? 5. Name the inventor of the telephone. 6. In which "low country" is the guilder a monetary unit? 7. The young of elephants, whales, moose, and hippopotami are all called what? 8. Ergophobia is the fear of work, immodesty, or sharp curves? 9. "Holy, holy, holy!" Would it be correct to use "wholly. "wholly," or "holely," in an Old English sense, as interchangable with "holy?" 10. The poem "Muckle mouth Meg" is one of Browning's; and Ballantine wrote "Muckel-mou'd Mee." Does "mou'd" mean mouth, mould, or stooped? Answers: 1. Cocker Spaniel 2. Bloodstone. 3. No. 4. No. it was cremated on a funeral pyre of sandalwood... 5. Alexander Graham Bell. 6. The Nether lands. 7. Calves. 8. Fear or dread of work. 9. No. Meaning of all three differ. 10. Mouth. Grange Notes Central Point Grange The Central Point Grange will meet Friday, Sept. 6. The lecture hour will preceed the business meeting and will start promptly at 8 p.m. Mrs. Frank Perl, who was to show slides of France, Italy and Switzerland, will be unable to attend as previously planned be cause of illness in the .family. The lunch after the business meeting will be served by Mr. and Mrs. Winn Arnold, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hall and Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Wilson. MAIL TRIBUNE NO Cause FOR Panic One of our subscribers asks why we have not com mented on the '.'ultimate weapon." He apparently reads a great many newspapers for he maintains: "All the other papers are very much excited about the announcement from Soviet Russia, some of them declaring it is as alarming to us as the Hiroshima bomb was to the Japanese, and the United States must catch up at any cost before the lights go out and the skies cave in." TX7ELL probably we would have commented on it, if the Southern Oregon Golf Tournament had not intervened! But seriously a more compelling reason was the fact we could not share the violent and even hysterical reaction of many politicians and members of the press who interpreted this announcement from Moscow, as a victory by Russia only comparable to the victory of England at Waterloo. We couldn't see it and still can't. IN THE first place we don't believe there IS any 1 "ULTIMATE weapon." The wonders of scientific research, we feel sure, are not confined to weapons of wholesale destruction, but are also present in areas of national defense. We don't believe the limit in the latter field has been reached. No doubt the inventor ol the bow - and - arrow thought he had the "ultimate weapon," but the in ventor of the flint-lock musket proved him mistaken, and when the latter claimed the honor, in came the repeating rifle and the machine-gun. So the slaughter has gone on and on. The crea tion of the atomic bomb we admit, ended an era in military tactics, and started a new one, and now the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile according to the Kremlin has passed a successful test, and no time was wrasted in broadcasting the fact. THAT haste is important, we believe. It at least suggests the entire "ICBM" buildup is a bluff. We don't mean Soviet Russia has NOT com pleted a successful test with some type of ."ultimate weapon". Judging the present by the recent past it has. But we do mean that if it had any intention of using it against the United States or any other coun try, it would have tried at least to have kept the ac complishment a complete secret at least until its "zero hour" had arrived. I N OTHER words and share the nrevailins: alarm is our conviction that Soviet Russia has no more desire or intention of start ing World War III than has the United States. Whatever the exact nature of its "ICBM" may be it does not intend to start another world war with it, it only intends to use it as a weapon of communist propaganda and further miiltration. In short BLACKMAILS CO THE more alarmed and fearful, the free demo- cratic world and particularly, the U.S.A. become and react to this carefully-worded pronouncement and slightly veiled threat, that effort will be. t THEREFORE instead of talking about the crying need of haste "before the lights go out and the skies fall in", we think it better sense, and better strategy, not to fire (even whites of their eyes " and ' der" dry. A FTER all there is no Jr' Soviet Russia has done missiles" the United States or better. The fact that Russia may be a few steps ahead at the moment is no alarm fire and rushing for with Russia when the U.S.A. was leading. That is to play the Russian game. THE U.S.A. game, we believe is not to retreat before That may involve "calculated risk": But in view of the fact that "atomic war" has practically priced itself out of the market, it is small indeed compared to the risk of yielding to fear of what Soviet Russia might do, when there is little reason to believe she has any intention, or desire, to do it. K. W.K. Is The Climate Changing? , 4 It never fails. Whenever there is an in the valley some one asks ing? Some years ago we had But after longer observation and considerable re search, we have decided the answer is No . 1 fR TO express it in another way; the more the climate changes the more it is the same. That is the weather changes but through the' years the climate basically does not or at least hasn't per ceptibly for fifty years or more. A weather-graph for such a period would show there have been dry years and wet ones, cold years and warm (it never gets hot here as it does in the East, Middlewest or in Arizona and California) also there have been early Falls and late Springs ditto. But take the long view, com pute the average and one will find that fundamentally there is "nothing new under the sun" as-far as the climate of Southern Oregon It IS we believe the best all-around 12-month a year climate in the country and we don't except Palm Beach or Palm Springs. So in answering our most recent interrogator, we can only say: "The climate isn't changing, and for the love of Pete, let's hope it doesn't." R.W.R. . Thursday, September 5, 1957 the chief reason we can't the greater the success of orally) until we ' see the meanwhile "keep our pow .... , , reason to doubt that what in the realm of ' guided can ultimately do as well cause for turning m a 4 the exits, than was the case unusual stretch of weather if the climate isn't chang' our "dou'ts." and late ones, early is concerned. 1 mmmimi0 'YOU GOTTA ADMIT JS A KEEP TUB CAJ? KEtfS' Matter of Fact THE RATTLING SKELETON Warsaw How many skele tons are going to come rattling out of how many closets in Moscow? The dead, d i shon ored bones of of Mars hall T u k h a she vsky have now been sud denly exposed to public view, for the honors due to the re- Joseph Aisop lies of a hero of the Soviet Union. But will it end there? These grizzly but a b s orbing questions are posed . by one of the most curiously fascinating items of b e h ind-the-scenes in formation about the Soviet Union that this reporter has run across in. a very long time. It is solid information, too, com ing from a highly-reputable Po lish leader who talked at length with the responsible Soviet of ficials directly concerned. One of the sequels of the Sov iet's famous Twentieth Party Congress was an extraordinary order for a scientific and impar tial review of all the political condemnations in the entire bloodstained period of Soviet history from the Revolution of 1917 to the end of the second World War in 1945. fPHE truly staggering task was confided to. the historian sociologist on the faculty of Mos cow University, Professor Kim. The Professor is himself a mem ber of the second Soviet genera tion, being the son of a Korean Communist who made the pil grimage to the capital of the world revolution and married a Russian woman in Moscow. To Professor Kim were hand ed over all the super-secret files having to do with political trials in the possession of both the Communist Party and the Soviet secret police. Incredibly enough, it turned out that from the days of the terrible Cheka onwards, hardly a single scrap of paper in the entire ghastly record had ever been destroyed. Every note, every affidavit, every instruction, every confes sion and pseudo-confession and verdict had been filed away with truly Teutonic efficiency. And the files were completely intact! In addition to the files, there were ghostly but still articulate survivors. Frightful though the purges were, not everyone was sent to the firing squad. In each group of victims of this Soviet society that eats its children, there were always minor per sonalities who were condemned, perhaps not mercifully, to the living death of the prison camps. A good many of these are still alive. Professor Kiih and his large staff of young historial students have been tracking down the poor ghosts and inter rogating them about the cases in which they were involved. OBVIOUSLY, Professor Kim and his staff cannot have completed 110 or even 120 or their huge and gruesome task. Obviously, too, the publication of Professor K i m's results is likely to be selective, to say the least. For instance, will Bukhar in and the other "rightist devia tionists," who were purged for opposing agricultural collec tivization, be" admitted to the left of rehabilitated skletons? It seems highly unlikely now. But who can foresee the future? Meanwhile", the pre paration for the rehabilitation of Marshal Tukhashevsky is presumably a first fruit of the professor's labors as well as a startling and vastly significant indication of the Red Army's enormously in creased influence on Soviet politics. Marshall Tukhashevsky almost bey ond doubt has al ways been secretly revered by Marshall Zhukov, who is his heir. Even more than Leon Trot sky, Tukhashevsky deserves the credit for organizing the Red Army that Zhukov now leads. In one sense, Tukhashevsky was a victim of Adolf Hitler. Hit ler's intelligence service pre pared the documents exaggerat PRBTTY AF PLACE TO By Joseph Alsop ing the long and close relation ship between the Soviet and Ger man General Staffs in a way that seemed to indicate a plot against Stalin and his state. These docu ments were then allowed to fall into the" hands of President Benes of Czechoslovakia. Benes forwarded them with a covering personal note to Stalin himself. In the ensuing hecatomb, not only Tukhashevsky but also Da len-Blucher, the great organizer of the defenses of Eastern St beria, and virtually all the rest of the Red Army High Com mand went to their death. So much is known. "OUT there are also highly re liable indications that the atmosphere for the hecatomb of the High Command was pre pared in another way. Being wholly peasant army in those days, the Red Army was gravely demoralized by Stalin's wnoie. sale massacre of the Russian peasantry. T u k h ashevsky and the other Marshalls are believed to have warned Stalin v e r bluntly, therefore, that he must call a halt to the blood baths of collectivization. Will it now be sliown that the Marshalls were f o r e d o omed, even before Hitler laid his trap. by challenging Stalin's omnipot ence on the very same point that doomed Bukharin? This is only one of the crucial puzzles of the Soviet past that will perhaps be solved by Professor: Kim s as signment, which is. in any case an assignment without p r e v ious parallel in recorded history. . (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address oi the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit ajl letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words More About Parking the committee in opposition to the "off-street parking" deal last November, I wifh it to be em phasized that we are not and never have been against off street parking as the need for same goes. However, we have opposed and will continue to op pose a parking set-up owned and operated by the city with park ing meters and policed by the city, subjecting all those who use the parking lots to penalties for over parking. There is enough public resentment to our present street parking meters. It is our intent to encourage a proper off-street parking lot at the start and to settle for no less. We are interested in a plan that will encourage potential downtown shoppers to use our main business district without fear of penalty for doing so and without having to. pay a toll to our city for the privilege of spending their money in our city. " . We would like and welcome a "plan" for off-street parking; a plan considered and discussed by all persons interested; not just a handful of merchants who act only with the intent to feather their own nests, and to that end place our city officials in a com promising position. You say because of the defeat of off-street parking last elec tion, ". . . it left the city without an organized . . . plan.' May I point out that one reason for the defeat was the lack of a "plan"? Even to this day no plan if one exists has ever been presented to the people. We maintain that when a plan is shown that is designed for the benefit of all the city of Medford and not just for the benefit of a handful of centralized merchants who want something for nothing or about nothing most every one will be for it, and there will be no opposition. Ray O. DeMarrs, 708 West Second st., Medford, Ore. Vienna OP) Jenoe Heltia, 86, Hungarian novelist and play wright, died Monday in Buda pest, according to Budapest Radio. Reds Make Indonesia; By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Communist Party gains are plaguing East Asia's two big "neutralist" leaders. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India and President Sukarno of In done s i a are exceed ingly friendly to the Soviet Russian and C h i n e se Communists. . But neither wants Com munism to Charles McCain flourish In his own country. The Communists won control of the south India state of Kerala in elections held last February and March. Now Indonesia's Communists have made startling gains in pro vincial elections held in Java, which contains about 50 million of that country's 80 million peo ple. In Kerala, the Communist government has imposed crip pling taxes on plantation own ers, encouraged riotous strikes In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS On the home front: At his news conference this morning, President Eisenhower calls' inflation the most pressing domestic problem facing the na tion today. Right! Everybody wants his wages raised. Everybody wants his profits raised. But when that happens PRICES RISE and so we don't have any more left over than we had before. The only answer anyone seems to be able to think of is to raise wages and prices STILL MORE. fK THE foreign front: v Egypt's Nasser, in a mes sage to the Organization of Arab Students which. is meeting this week in Berkeley, says Arab in dependence is not an end, but the BEGINNING of a long struggle. He adds: "The enemies of the Arabs have not yet learned how to re spect our freedom." "jlTORE than anything else, the "- Arab peoples need some real patriots AT THE TOP. Leaders of the caliber of the American- Founding Fathers. Unselfish men whose first con cern will be the welfare of the Arab peoples not just POWER held by those who are in the direver's seat . . . Less poverty at the bottom . . .Less luxury at the top. More equitable distrubution of the good things of life. More recognition of the fact that ruler ship is a RESPONSIBILITY not a privilege. THINGS like that can't be pro - vided for the Arabs by out siders. If they are to come about, they will have to be provided by the Arabs themselves. fN THE push-botton war front: v The chief of U.S. air de fenses ' says the ocean-spanning intercontinental ballistic missile could be intercepted with what he calls an "anti-missile missile." The man who was Germany's missile chief during World War 2 (Walter Dornberger) agrees that such a defense shouldn't be too difficult. Writing in the Army-Navy Air Force Register, says the flight path of a missile can be sent up to explode it. THAT is to say: T.pf trio rnhnte TTTfTTTT TT OUT AMONG THEMSELVES up in the upper spaces. That would at least be more sensible than sending up . the cream of our young manhood to do the fighting. The young daughter was very boisterous, and her father wanted it quiet, so he could read. He clipped a large war map from the paper, tore it up into bits like a jigsaw puzzle, and told his daughter to sit down and put the map together again. This, he thought, would keep her occupied for several hours. The little girl was delighted and took the handful of torn paper. In just a little while she was back, the map all neatly arranged and perfectly put to gether. "See fiere. Daddy; here it is!" she shouted, as she ran up to him with the map on a magazine. Her father was much surprised. "Well, how in the world did you do it so quickly?" he asked. "Well, you see," she replied, "there !s a big picture of a man on the other side, and so I just put him together and turned it over. You see, Daddy, if the man is right, the world comes outall right, too." Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass ' FUNERAL DIRECTORS " - t DAY OR NIGHT . .aL. PHONE SP 2-8030 Gains in India and Leaders Troubled and freed thousands of prisoners including murderers. Report Kerala Conversion Advices from India report that Kerala is rapidly being convert ed into a Communist totalitarian state. So far, Nehru has been able to do nothing about it. Kerala's chief minister pro vincial prime minister is E. M. S. Nambudripad. A wealthy member of a high-caste family; Nambudripad was for years a member of Nehru's own Con gress Party. He went over to the Communists after World War II. " Perhaps encouraged by their success in Kerala, the Commun ists now have become active in Bihar state in northeastern India. They have opened a big cam paign of disruption in plants of the gigantic iron, steel, automo bile and locomotive combine which is controlled by the Tata family of industrialists. The Indonesian Communists Editorial Comment DULLES ALWAYS WRONG ... As for communist domi nation in Syria, even then al legedly threatening. Dulles five days earlier had said he did not think the situation too serious. He suggested that the dollar was a powerful weapon that could be used in Syria. We do wish Mr. Dulles would get rid of that clouded crystal ball. He couldn't be wrong more often if he did it with tea leaves. If Secretary of State Dulles had made the correct decision in the beginning he wouldn't now find himself in a most em barrassing position. When U. S newspapermen asked weeks ago for visas to China Mr. Dulles refused. When it was pointed out to him that the state de partment did not have the right to control the reporting -of news he refused to budge. Finally he was forced from that untenable position. He said 24 reporters could go to China. Now, the Chinese government says it, will admit them only if representatives of Chinese news papers are permitted to come to TT n TV T 1 r xl A uic u. o. iviemuers ui me iimeri' can Society of Newspaper Edi tors cannot be blamed if they derive some enjoyment from watching' Mr. Dulles sweat. Pendleton East Oregonian. HOW MUCH LONGER? A Blue. Mountain Eagle edi tonal says: , "Without doubt, Hells ' Canyon is a victory for private enterprise and a definite defeat for socialism." , How much longer must we be fed this nonsense that Hells Can yon was a fight between private enterprise and socialism? The only question involved at Hells Canyon was whether the re sources, of the Snake River would be fully or partially de veloped. The same question is posed at Pleasant Valley, where Snake river water will or will not be, according to the height of the dam, put to its fullest use. Pendleton East Oregonian. RANSOM OF TILLAMOOK That laws are made by ran som, and threats and trades as well as by reasoned argument and thought is revealed by Sen Richard L. Neuberger in his Aug. 26 newsletter. He cites the case of the Northwest Technical Institute, a government agency that is using the former blimp barns at Tillamook for a testing station. Texas wants the station to be at Amarillo Air Base. Senator Neubefger says the Am arillo site is more expensive. He's working to keep the sta tion in Oregon. , The other day he got a tele phone call from Idaho's Rep. Gracie Pfost, an ardent advo cate of a high, government dam at Hells Canyon. Mrs. Pfost said that a Texas congressman who represents the Amarillo district and who voted for fhe high dam won their successes in a se ries of provincial elections held throughout Java. So far at least, the Communist gains have had no effect on the policy of friendly "co-existence" with the Russian and Chinese Reds which Nehru and Sukarno have pursued. In Sukarno's case, the Com munist gains may even strength en his personal position because the Reds have enthusiastically supported his attempt to turn Indonesia into a "guided democ racy." The many critics of the "guided democracy" program, say it may turn Indonesia into a dictatorship. Sukarno will be able to say that the Reds, the strongest sup porters of his "guided democ racy" plan, gained strength in the elections while other parties lost. But it is hardly likely that he will like the emergence of the Communists as a major element in Indonesia politics. in committee threatened to withdraw his support if the Ore gon senator didn't quit blocking the attempt of the Texans to get the Tillamook station. The sena tor says he replied to Mrs.' Pfost (and by indirection to the Texas congressman) as follows: "I am tired of these perennial ransom . exactions with Hells Canyon as the bait. I am not going to try to buy the high dam by offering Tillamook as a hos tage. The little training school in our state has done a magnifi cent job. Even, the. Air Force generals admit that. Texas al ready contains just about every American military installation except West Point and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but it still isn't satisfied. It demands, as a further pound of flesh, one of the few Defense Department contracts in Oregon. It yet may win this demand, but it will do so over my bitter protest. If we ever get Hells Canyon, it must be on the merits and not by sac rificing the school at Tillamook or anything else worthwhile." Good for Senator Neuberger. That's the way a senator should look at the problem . . ' Eugene Register Guard. Neuberger Praised Considering the fact that he owes his election in no small measure to the support ofi or ganized labor, it took consider able courage for Sen. Richard Neuberger to get up in the Sen ate and urge the Teamsters union NOT to elect Jim Hoffa as president. He said that mil lions of Americans will be bit terly disillusioned if one of its largest trade - unions - in the United States chooses as its na tional head a man who has had associations and personal affilia tions of the type of those that Mr. Hoffa had." This is advice from a friend of organized labor. The Team sters will do well to heed it. Oregon Statesman, Salem. Ex-Railroad Agent Here Is Promoted Portland John C. Strom- berg, former Union Pacific dis trict freight and passenger agent in Medford, has been promoted to first assistant general freight agent for the railroad in Port land. . ' He succeeded George D. Schade who was recently ap pointed general freight agent for the Union Pacific in the North west. Stromberg served two years in Medford leaving last Jan. 1 when he was appointed second assist ant general freight agent in Portland.
