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40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 19, 1947 (Friday)
City cleaning up hundreds of
dead fish floating in Bear creek.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Good Buzz
Saw To Trade For Wood"
(Lamed Tidings) Never the
twain shall meet.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 19, 1937 (Sunday)
An order for the best quality
D'Anjou pears and Newtown
apples was placed this week
with the Charles A. 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(18th) was repealed in 1933,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
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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.)
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