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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNI "Iveryona tn Soutliern Oregon Beads me Mali Tribone Published Daily Except Saturday by MUIFUKB PRINTING CO 37-29 North Fir St Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY AdverUsin Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager EKIC ALLEN JR. Managing fccmor IAKL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second etas matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Cony 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River. 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Wing or chards for Alexandria and Egypt markets. George Villas, eastern repre sentative of the Dollar steam ship Lines, Inc., in Shanghai, describes city in letter to his mother here. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 19, 1927 (Monday) Choice Oregon white malaga grapes from Ashland area in 28 pound boxes go from $1.75 to $2 per box on today's Portland market. New printer - telegraph goes into operation in the Daily News office. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 19. 1917 (Wednesday) City council reduces pay of the city treasurer to $100 a month. The La Scala Grand Opera company has been secured to ap pear at the Page theater Thurs day. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is -superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. Name the winged, infantile figure which is often associated with Valentine's Day. 2. The Irish well know that shamrocks have three, four, or five leaflets? 3. Bible: After the murder of Antipater, did Herod's will nomi nate 1, 2, or 3 of his sons to suc ceed him? 4. The prohibition amendment (18th) was repealed in 1933, 1934, or 1935? 5. Is it the elephant, tortoise, or eagle that is reputed to have the longest life span? 6. Is pinkie a name for the little finger or the thumb on the human hand? 7. Name the patron saint of Ireland. 8. A motorist drives his auto mobile 40,000 miles, equally us ing four, original tires and a spare tire; how many miles has each tire traveled? 9. Pronounce "breeches". 10. "Till thou has paid the ut termost farthing." Is this quo tation from the Old Testament, Apocrypha, or the New Testa ment? Answers: I. Cupid. 21 Three. 3. Three. 4. 1933. 5. Tortoise. (200 lo 300 years). 6. Little fing er. 7. St. Patrick. 8. 32,000 miles. 9. Brich-iz. 10. New Testa ment. Singer Frances Langford Resting After Surgery Santa Monica, Calif. (IP) Singer Frances Langford was re ported "resting comfortably" to day at Santa Monica hospital following emergency surgery to remove her gall bladder. The blonde entertainer, wife of wealthy manufacturer Ralph Evinrude, underwent the opera tion Wednesday. She was ex pected to remain hospitalized for a week. MAIL TRIBUNE Why Doesn 't Our favorite REPUBLICAN paper, the Salem Statesman, in commenting upon a recent editorial in this column regarding ability of the Republican him, raises the interesting Senator is so independent 100 for either major party, he doesn't resign as a member of either and come out in his true colors as an "Independent?" WELL why not? T Needless to say, Morse we don t know ANYone who can ! But our idea is, that wishes to serve his state to serve it he must get elected then he better choose the major party of his PREFERENCE at the outset. To register as an "Independent," when there is no such party organized, would be to go it alone without any organized support, and that would simply be to sign one's own political "death warrant." Far more sensible, we would has such an aversion to can not conscientiously identify himself with either, to abandon his aspirations or if holding office resign. The ultimate result same. (F course, "resignation" w haters. But should our senior senator be con demned for not going out enemies? That would, we believe, "Old Guard storm-troopers What the "Old Guard" Morse decided after the 1952 Republican convention that he preferred Adlai Stevenson and the Democrats to General Eisenhower and That was high treason Union League club, and yet, there were thousands of registered Republicans who did the same thing, and even more registered Democrats who did it in reverse. That is common practice in a presidential year in this country, if it were not the party-in-power would never be voted out. Then why consign Senator Morse to hell fire and damnation for doing merely what so many God fearing and law-abiding citizens do? The answer is there is no logical or rational reason, but that is the way 100 partisanship in this "land of the free and the home of the brave," WORKS. And in an entirely different way, Senator Morse, we believe, will work as an INDEPENDENT Demo crat, just as he did as an INDEPENDENT Republican, always reserving the right to disregard the orders of the Top Brass and vote as his conscience dictates. As previously remarked that is the course he al ways told the people of Oregon he WOULD follow if elected to the Senate, in opposing the Democratic leadership on the civil rights issue, he is merely carry ing out his pledge. R.W.R. Rogers versus Morse The following letter from Mrs. Maurine Neuberg er, wife of Oregon's Junior Senator, is so "a propos" of our recent observations concerning independence in politics and blind vindicitive partisanship, that, with her permission, we herewith reprint it in full as follows : Honorable Joe Rogers Independence, Oregon Dear Joe: Upon my return to Oregon after nine" months in the capi tal, I find that you have changed your party registration from Democratic to Republican. Naturally, I was particu larly interested because of our service together in the Leg islature and because we often jointly sponsored bills to try to assist the dairy farmers. I want to congratulate you upon having the courage and sense of independence to join the political party with which you feel the most congenial and comfortable. You should not have remained a Democrat if being a Democrat violated your convictions. I was a little surprised I must confess because you often confided to me that I, a Democrat, was almost the only member of the House who really gave you active support in some of your dairy bills. However, you have done right to join the party of your choice. If that was the Republican Party, you did right to make the change. I have inquired of my friends in the press and in politics to learn if you were denounced by Democrats as a "turn .coat" and "traitor" because you resigned from the Demo cratic Party. I was happy to learn that no such denuncia tions occurred. I also was pleased to be told that no Demo crats suddenly insisted that you should resign from the Legislature, inasmuch as you had quit the party under whose banner you were originally elected. If I am not mistaken, this responsible behavior by the Democrats of Oregon is quite a contrast to the way in which leading Republicans behaved when a prominent Republican resigned from their party some years ago! Good luck to you, Joe, and may our personal friendship continue. Kind regards. Cordially, Maurine B. Neuberger TTHE above refers, of course, to the "swtch" of State Representative Rogers from the Democratic to the Republican party while. holding office as a Democrat; an action similar to that of Senator Wayne Morse, who holding office as a Republican joined the Demo cratic ranks. v Senator Morse was scathingly condemned for such action as a deserter, a turn-coat and a traitor, by Re publican leaders in the state. But as Mrs. Neuberger points out, there have been no similar outcries from the 7ARIOUS conclusions will be drawn from this by various observers depending largely on their po litical affiliations. Standing on the side-lines it is the conclusion of this department that this that the Democratic party is standing and liberal party, ship in both areas falls far Thursday. September 19. 19571 Morse Resign? Wayne Morse and the in "Old Guard" to understand query WHY, if our senior he can t go down the line we can't speak for Senator if any citizen of Oregon in Washington, D.C. and say, for any aspirant who both major parties- that he in either case would be the would delight the Morse- of his way to please his "be too much for even the to expect. can't forgive is that Wayne the Grand Old Party. m the upper circles of the Oregon Democrats. is merely added evidence the more tolerant, under while the G.O.P. leader short. R.W.R. f I 1 U C Today and By Walter THE LANGUAGE OF THE COLD WAR The cold war in the Middle East is being carried on in a special sign language, in a kind of code, which hides what is going on until it has been translat ed and deciph ered. The real struggle is for power and in fluence inside the Arab gov- Walter Ltppman eriimems, uiu j at the moment inside the govern ments of Syria and of Jordan The Arab ruling classes, of course, understand this quite well, as do the authorities in Moscow and Washington, in Lon don and in Paris. But they can not speak plainly. Arab opinion will not accept a frank state ment that any Arab countries are the stakes of the competi tion for influence by the great powers, and that for the time being the Russians are ahead in this competition in Syria while we are ahead in Jordan. In order to hide the reality and yet to be able to talk about what they are doing, all the gov ernments concerned have re- sorted to the same device. They are transposing what is actually going on an internal struggle for power into the conventional international language of exter nal aggression and the resistance to it- So, when Russia sends arms to Syria, she says that Turkey, incited and armed by the United States, is preparing to attack Syria. When we send arms to Jordan, we say that be cause Syria is being armed, the defense of Jordan must be strengthened. In fact, there is no reason at all to think that Russia is send ing arms to Syria in order to mount a military ' aggression against Jordan or anyone else Nor is there any doubt that the last thing we want is that Tur key and Jordan should do any thing so foolish as to attack Sy ria, and thus to set the whole Middle East aflame. Even if they were planning an indirect mili tary aggression, the Russians can have no illusions about the mili tary prowess of Syria, which is not far from zero. Nor can we have any illusions about the prowess of Jordan, plus or minus some guns and some tanks. Mos cow and Washington know per fectly well that neither is get ting ready for the overt aggres sion which they accuse each other of. What they are actual ly doing is to wage a cold war. wmAT then is the sense arid 11 nurnosp of the arms ship ments? They are consigned to the military men who control the armies which control the governments. The young King's government in Jordan rests squarely on the loyalty of the Bedouin levies, as against the suspicion and hostility of the Palestinian Arabs. What influ ence we have in Jordan has to be nourished by keeping the King's officers and troops con vinced that they can look to us for money and for arms. But in the code language now in use, we have to talk as if this were 1940 and as if Jordan were Belgium, and as if we were preparing it for resistance to' an invasion by a. big aggressor. What we are actually doing is to subsidize the army, to keep the King on his throne in a gov ernment that is not unfriendly to us. Likewise, the Soviets armed Syria, a country which since it achieved its independence has rarely for long been anything but a military dictatorship. Sy rian politics is made up of the rivalry and the intrigues of groups of army officers, not averse to cutting each other's throats in a struggle to control the dictatorship.. The present Syrian crisis has come about be cause a conspiracy of officers, who are not in power, have, with some support and many promises from Russia, gotten control of the dictatorship. Rus sia's object is to keep them in Tomorrow Lippmann power and to strengthen their hand. But using the code language, Moscow is describing the opera tion as the defense of Syria's in dependence against Turkish and American aggression. THE cold war in the Middle East is obscure, intermittent, and indecisive. Nearly all the Arab governments are inherent ly unstable, having no sound sup port that can be depended upon among their own people. This is particularly the case in Syria and in Jordan, and with qualifi cations it may turn out to be the case in Egypt. The monarchy in Iraq, thanks to a comparative ly progressive government, may prove to have a longer expecta tion of life, as may also Saudi- Arabia, where tribal customs seem still to be strong. But the political and social structure of the region is so frail that in any period of history, regardless of the ideology, it would have been a standing invitation to a .cold war of the great powers. So, the internal weakness of the Arab states is a continual threat to peace in the world. Unhappily, we seem to be in hibited from taking the only course which could conceivably lead toward stability and peace That would mean to enter into negotiations which produce an agreement among the great powers to establish, if not a set tlement, at least a truce in the cold war over the Middle East, Nobody, however, seems to want this, not the Arabs who denounce it as a revival of the great power imperialism, not the Russians who have seen visions of the expulsion of the Western powers from Africa, the Middle East and Southern Asia, and not we, who wish to contain the Rus sians and to exclude them alto gether from the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Yet, although a negotiated truce is impossible, it may yet come about that everything else is intolerable. (c) 1957 New York Herald . Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The census bureau estimates that on the first of August the nation's population was 171 mil lion 510 thousand. That represents an increase of more than THREE MILLION PERSONS since August 1, 1956. THAT is to say: Thp aDDroximate equiva lent of TWO OREGONS has been added to the population of the United States within the past year. I S THAT good? Or is it bad? IT ALL depends. Tf all vnn ran think of is HOW ARE WE TO FIND JOBS FOR THREE MILLION MORE PEOPLE EVERY YEAR it Will look a bit terrifying. But look at it this way: Three million more people will rail for a lot more houses. That will create an outlet for more building materials. Three million more people will eat a lot more food. That will make market for more farm prod ucts. Three milion more people will require a lot more clothes. That will open up markets for more textiles. And so on. That puts a different face on the situation. MORE statistics: The commerce department savs that PERSONAL INCOME in August climbed to. an "an nual rate" of 34T,iS BILLION dollars. - - - That is an "annual rate" of a billion dollars more than in July and 2f billion dollars more than the total personal income in 1956. 1HAT looks pretty good. But Is it so good? , WOULDN'T know. This big increase in personal I Tunisian Leader Puts U.S. on Spot With Arms Plea - By CHARLES M. McCANIf United Press Correspondent . President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia has put the United States on the spot with a de- m a n d for arms. He threat ens, if he does not get them, to seek them from Soviet Russia and to join Egypt and Syria in a policy of Charles Mccann "n elu tralism." The trouble is that Bourguiba frankly wants to use any weap ons he gets to fight France, from which Tunisia gained its inde pendence in 1956. Relations between France and its former protectorate in North west Africa have been getting progressively worse for several months. Recently there have been serious clashes between France and Tunisian troops along the frontier between Tunisia and Algeria. It is no secret that big sup plies for the Algerian rebels are moving through Tunisia. Alger ian rebels operate from the Tun isian side of the border: Rebel bands flee into Tunisia to escape French punitive forces. France long ago stopped sup plying Bourguiba with weapons. It also has succeeded in block ing proposed weapons supplies from Italy and Belgium. Bourguiba has been a strong supporter of the United States and its allies in the fight against the expansion of international Communism. If he did seek weapons from Russia possibly in a relay through Egypt and turned Tunisia toward "neutralism," it would be a most serious threat to the free world in a new area. Both Tunisia, on the northeast of Algeria, and Morocco, on the west, want France to grant out right independence to Algeria International Group Seen Bourguiba has shown interest in .the formation of a Northwest African group of countries which would include Tunisia, Morocco, an independent Al income that the commerce de partment is talking about is QUOTED IN DOLLARS. That raises a big question: How much will this year's dol lars BUY as compared with last year's dollars? That's where the rub comes in.- T1HE RUB is this business of inflation that everybody is talking about. I suppose that those of us who are working and earning will be able to ;keep up with Lizzie. When we begin to run short of cash with which to pay .the higher prices we'll just tap the boss for a raise. That will put the bee on the boss, and he'll have to raise his prices. That, in the course of time, will make it necessary to raise wages again. It's like a kitten chasing its tail or a squirrel going round and round in its exercise wheel, running like heck but getting nowhere much. rpHE real rub is faced by those -- who retire on a fixed income, say a pension. Just how they are going to fare is something that hasn't been determined yet. Actor Robert Mitchum Breaks Bone in Foot Asheville, N. C. . (IP) Actor Robert Mitchum was "uncom fortable" but back at work to day despite a broken foot bone and a sprained ligament in his ankle. Mitchum, in Asheville to film movie about mountain moon shiners, received the injuries Wednesday when he tripped on an electric cable on the set. He returned to workafter treatment at a local hospital. There is one human desire that needs no explanation in relation to our cosmic urge. That is the eternal quest for fraternal love and friend ship. We want friends who permit us to rise above our limitations, and "who know all about us but like us just the same." True friends are the realization of all of our best thoughts about all humanity. J Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse - Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS ' DAY OR NIGHT geria and possibly Libya, which fronts Tunisia on the east. France was highly suspicious of the visit Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon paid to Tunisia early this year on his Afriean tour. It was outraged when Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) de manded in a speech in the Sen ate on July 2 that the United States stop supporting France in its attempt to hold on to Al geria. Matter of Fact WARSAW: 1957 Warsaw The modern world can show no stranger city than this Warsaw, which is at once the capital and the epi t o m e of the the new Po land of Wla d y s 1 a w Go mulka. Tow e r i n g into the pale sky, as though still seeking to Josepb Alsop dominate the city, there is Joseph Stalin's gift, the Palace of Culture and Rest every proportion wrong, ev ery ornament false, every con sideration of usefulness and beauty sacrificed to heavy, emp ty show. But what is meant to be shown, one wonders, by this macabre white skyscraper like a giant wedding cake made for a marriage feast in hell? And then one realizes it was meant to show the nature of Stalinism, with its anti-human system of priorities, its total sac rifice of all human values to the state's crude power. The war's grim ruins still three quarters surround the pal ace of Culture and Rest in its wide, bleak park. But further over towards the blue ribbon of the Vistula, there is the new Warsaw that Wladyslaw Gomul- ka began to build before his fall from power in 1948. It is old Warsaw, ideally reconstructed the palaces of Poland's princes the richly ornamented burgher houses of the square in the old town, all carefully rebuilt frpm bomb-blasted shards at vast ex pense. HPHE plainest housing is still so 1 desperately short here that the key money for a poor flat can come to 10 times an ordi nary worker's monthly wage But so far as I could discover, no Pole resents .the outlay on this remarkable recreation of Warsaw's ancient beauty, full of the elegance and rationality and high pride of the Polish renais sance. bomewnere in this curious contrast between Joseph Stalin's and Wladyslaw Gomulka's con tributions to the Warsaw scene, there perhaps lies the hidden clew to Warsaw in 1957. It is a city looking both ways, towards the West whence came the ren aissance, and towards the East whence came Stalin's hideous skyscraper; and it is governed by a Communist Party looking both ways too It is not a comfortable ; city, by any means. Life has grown better since October, but only a little better. For the average worker's family, it is still a cruelly hard struggle to keep enough food on the table; and the final failure of an old pair of shoes is a major catastrophe. Even for the foreigners and the Poles who have some money to spend, there is no comfort, much less luxury. There is only a kind of frantic gaiety in the strange, shabby restaurants and clubs of the various intellectual organi zations where those with a little cash in their pockets gather to enjoy themselves. - 1ESPITE the gaiety, it is not a J happy city, either. Someone has written that the leaders of the revolutions that swept Eu PHONE SP 2-8030 Or Else Any decision by the United States to supply Tunisia with arms undoubtedly would result in a crisis in French-American relations. Bourguiba is well aware of that. But he seems to feel that he is in a strong position in de manding that the United States let him have weapons or face the prospect of opening up a new area of Communist pene tration. By Joseph Alsop rope in 1848 had no program they had only an innocent belief that all problems would be au tomatically solved by the down fall of tyrants. That was the spirit of the vast majority of Poles last October. Their regained personal free dom is so sweet to every one of them that you can still almost see them tasting it, as you can see a child delightedly tasting the summer's first ice cream cone. Yet most of them are un happy because they have now been brought face to face with the hard central fact that free dom for a nation does not solve any problems at all, but only gives the chance to tackle the existing problems in a new way. The Gomulka government ' is rather nervously aware of the disappointment because Poland's liberation has naturally failed to work a general miracle. Being composed of indoctrinated Com munists, the government is also made extremely nervous by the ebullience with which Poles are enjoying their new freedom. As these words are written, an ugly row is going on between the government censor and the fam ous ultra-free students' newspa per, "Poprostu," that was in the vanguard in October. rpHE censorship is not the only bad sign, either. Gomulka's "one weconomic policy" is far less bold than Lenin's was. Pro posed new tax laws, new "anti speculation" regulations are making some people wonder whether the secret police, hav ing been thrown out of the po litical window, may not one day walk in again through the eco nomic door. In short, the co-existence of Communism and free dom, which makes Warsaw so enormously strange, is not yet absolutely stabilized. But unless the Kremlin final ly finds the Polish example un bearably dangerous, it is this reporter's guess that this pecul iar co-existence will somehow be made to succeed. One reason for this guess is simply Vladyf slaw Gomulka. The other is the singular Polish propensity for heroism, which Gomulka both shares and understands. (Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) BUSINESS TRAINING is a lifetime investment Start yours A
