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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) urns -Xverrone In Southern Orefoa Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dailv Except Saturlaj by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor EEPB GREY Advertising Manager GERA.LD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor KARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class 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 mos -25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent nd on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-50 earner and Dealers 10c per copy Ail 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 Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C 01" NEWSPAPER PUIUSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL IDITOtlAt fs I a$$o ICJ-AIK 'VV H I Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 17. 1947 (Friday) New lighting system Installed on Main st. marks first important advance in the lighting of the street since the present system was installed in 1911. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudage Pot column: "The sod soaking car-washing windshield wiper testing rain aids fall plow ing and duck shooting." 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 17, 1937 (Sunday) A survey of teeth and mouths of Jackson county school chil dren will be made in the near future. IEU members here attend meeting and deplore strife be tween CIO and AFL. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 17, 1927 (Monday) Rumors narrowed to 18 cases of typhoid fever in the Medford area. Ashland orchardist Imports horned toads to clean insects from orchard. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 17, (Wednesday) Heavy frost kills tomatoes that were unprotected and puts an end to cucumbers in the valley. Interest in the Liberty bond campaign should not dampen en thusiasm for "Hoover's drive" to conserve the food supplies of the nation, local authorities re minded. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent: five or six is good 1. When does the' 24th hour of the day begin? 2. Is arson a chemical ele ment? 3. Bible: At the final "fall of Jerusalem" did the Jews re tain their national identity? 4. When two members of a legislative body "pair" their votes, do they have their votes recorded on the same side of the issue or on opposing sides? 5. Does only the male canary sing? 6. Who wrote the "Blue Danube" waltz? - 7. "Baldwin", "Jonathan" and '"Mcintosh" are commercial va rieties of which fruit? 8. Name the author of the tale, "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." 9. Is "a tal" formal or in formal for a short or long ad dress? 10. "Needles and pins, nee dles and pins, When a man marries his trouble" does what? Answers: 1. 11 p.m. 2. No, It is the name for deliberate burn ing of property. 3. No. 4. On opposing sides. 5. No, but the male bird is considered to have the sweeter song. 6. Johann Strauss. 7. The apple. 8. Robert Louis Stevenson. 9. Informal for a short addess. 10. Begins. A LOT OF LAW Chicago HP) Two subur ban policemen have the answer to teen-age "Rumbles" they make a rumble of their own for law and order. Patrolman Russell Hinds is 6 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 270 pounds, and Sergeant Joseph Jost is 6 feet ZVz inches, weighs 348. Km MAIL TRIBUNE Back to Alger Hiss A few wreeksago the "Nation," one of the oldest weeklies of independent opinion in the country and respected at home and abroad did an unusual thing. It devoted its entire issue to a review of the Alger Hiss case. The author of this opus wTas Fred J. Cook, a well knowTi New York newspaper man, who has made a specialty in reporting the criminal courts in Greater Manhattan. According to the editors of the magazine, Re porter Cook when he started his research, admitted he had a vague idea that Hiss was guilty as charged. But when he concluded his work, he had his "douts" which he summarized as follows: In the final analysis, it would seem that, if one Is to be lieve Alger Hiss guilty, this is the very minimum that one must believe: To believe Hiss guilty, one must believe that he was a Communist even though Chambers' testimony on the col lection of Communist dues circled in a maze of voluntary contradictions. To believe Hiss guilty, one must believe that there was a close and continuous association with Chambers until mid-April, 1938 even though Chambers backed away from a key angle of his own testimony, even though he is fur ther discredited by independent witnesses. To believe Hiss guilty, one must believe that Whittaker Chambers erred at least eight times in saying he broke with Communism in 1937 and that his final testimony, arrived at after the documents were produced, arrived at after many adjustments, was the true testimony. To believe Hiss guilty, one must believe that Whittaker Chambers was a virtual saint who would risk perjury on the witness stand to protect a former friend by denying he had the documents he had. To believe Hiss guilty, one must believe that he passed the documents to Chambers as Chambers testified that he did despite the implausibility of the typing, despite the evidence that he could not have had some of the documents. To believe Hiss guilty, one must believe that he would have been such a fool as to pass to Chambers his own hand written memos, such a fool as to hunt and find and produce the typewriter that would prove his guilt. There are many, many other details that one must ac cept merely on Chambers' word, and one must be able to ignore entirely the researches of Chester Lane into the identity of Woodstock No. 230,099 and the internal evi dence of fraud in the documents. If one can do all this, then one can believe Hiss guilty. But, if one cannot, one is vir tually forced to the conclusion that an innocent man was convicted. IT SO happens that the present writer attended the second Hiss trial in New York city and sent re ports almost daily to this paper. Chambers admitted he was a Communist spy for many years; he admitted he had perjured himself, both when he was a member of the party and after he resigned; there was something oily, soiled and suspicious about the man as a man. But the fact is or was his main story held up. 'Not that Hiss had ever been a communist or had at any time deliberately betrayed his country or became a conspirator against it; but that he had under oath not told the truth. And Author Cook seems to have forgotten this fact or never to have" been aware of it ALGER HISS was never charged with "treason;" the statute of limitations had run out. He was charged with perjury. And we fail to see how anyone who reviewed the trial carefully and sifted all the evidence could have denied that his guilt on such a charge was proved "beyond a reasonable doubt." ""THE testimony was conflicting, many of the con elusions summed up by the government, were far from justified, and often completely unconvinc ing. But time after time, it was apparent that under oath, for reasons known best to himself, Hiss did NOT tell the truth. However anyone still interested in this sensational and puzzling case should secure a copy of the "Nation" dated September 27th, for to any such per son it would prove extremely interesting. Our surprise is that any newspaper man who be fore making the research, had a VAGUE or any idea Alger Hiss WAS guilty; could at the conclusion have had any DOUBT. Not, as noted, doubt of the man being another "Benedict Arnold," but doubt of his veracity under oath. R.W.R. Just a "Guess And now with the permission of our former irate subscriber in Jacksonville wTe will comment on something we know "little or nothing about." That is the MILITARY significance of the Russian satellite. We would even go further and suggest that most newspaper editors and practically all politicians KNOW little or nothing about it, also. But they are all or most of them talking and writing about it, which is natural but not necessarily enlightening. Vice-President Nixon, for example, maintains that the "Moscow moon" represents quite an achieve ment in the area of interstellar-ballistics but has no military significance for as of now, he claims, this country is still ahead of Russia in that vital field. Is it? How does he KNOW? The answrer is he doesn't. This is a matter not for any layman to determine, but for the experts, men who have devoted years to the study of guided missiles AND their military significance. DUT the trouble here is that even the experts don't agree. We only know, as did the late Will Rogers, "what we read in the papers" but that has been suf ficient to demonstrate that in this field there has appeared to date no "Supreme Court." LJOWEVER we don't wish to leave things up in A A the air 500 miles so we will conclude with not Thursday. October 17, 1937 "bull LQV-vk$ Matter of Fact by THAT PRE-KOREAN SMELL Paris "There's a smell in the air nowadays that reminds me much too much of the months before, the Korean war." The speaker w a s w i s e, highly placed and admirably qualified by long experi ence to judge the interna tional atmos phere. As he hastened to ex- Josenh Aisnn dam. he did not mean that a shooting war was immediately likely. He meant, rather, that the masters of the Kremlin were once more reacting in their customary way to a favorable tilt in the world balance of power. Such a tilt in the power bal ance was both the prelude and the chief cause of the Korean war. The feckless Truman- Lewis Johnson disarmament program of 1949-50 very gravely weaken ed the West. It thus constituted an open invitation to aggression. Even the always cautious Stalin found the invitation irresistible. So he ordered the attack in Ko rea. It was as simpleas that. Today, the absolute power of each of the great world systems has grown incalculably, but the all-important balance between them has again been complacent ly neglected for five euphoric years. In general, the Western Alliance has shockingly deter iorated in this period. More specifically, the progress of American national defense has been ham-strung by the Eisenhower-Charles E. Wilson disarm ament program, and now we are beginning to see the hard, un mistakable results. ""OT long ago a French news paper ironically published in parallel columns the news of the second successful Soviet test of an intercontinental ballistic mis sile; the news of the latest un successful American missile test; and the news of Secretary Wil son's final order to sacrifice yet another combat division on the smoking altars of the holy budget. Since then, the bitterest contrast has been rammed home by the famous "Sputnik." If the present leaders of the American government are not guilty of flagrant public un truth, they must believe that this kind of contrast does not have much effect on the masters of the Kremlin. If this is their belief, they have forgotten the grim lesson of Korea, the costly war brought on in the sacred name of budgetary "economy." And they have also failed to notice the very numerous signs that the new masters of the Kremlin are again being embold ened by the West's weakness, just as Stalin was emboldened in 1950. what we KNOW, but what we surmise. Our guess is the victory of the Russians in the flying-missile department is no cause for panic, but should cause heeding of the "stop, look and listen" sign and result in radical changes in the administra tion's divided authority and attitude of complaceny which has undoubtedly allowed Russia to "jump the gun" and gain tremendous world prestige, and capitalize the latter not only in the realms of military advantage but in power-politics. In other words a "battle has been lost," and we can see no point in denying it. The war, cold or hot, has not been, and it is this column's conviction, that unless we go "soft" and fail to profit by the recent lessons we should have learned, it won't be. R.W.R. PERSONALIZED Christmas Cards order'now 35 ALBUMS TO CHOOSE FROM ON THE BALCONY OHV. tfe CALLED Joseph Alsop To be sure, the hideous in crease of destructiveness of the absolute weapons has made everyone, including even the Soviet leadership, much more reluctant to risk a shooting war, This -reluctance is an important plus factor in the situation which did not exist before. But there are also wholly new minus factors. FOR one thing, the man who launched the Korean attack was no lover of wild gambles. Then too, he was the absolute and unchallenged tyrant of the Soviet empire, with no need to worry about the stability , of his own power. But unlike Joseph btaiin, JNikita Khrushchev is very certainly a wild gambler. And Khrushchev also has many reasons to worry about the sta bility of his own power. In fact he has enough troubles at home to make a gamble for glory abroad more than usually at tractive. The region where Khrushchev is thinking of having a gamble is already pretty clearly mark ed out. For a few months after Suez, he was warned off the Middle East by the fine-sounding rhetoric of the Eisenhower Doc trine. Indeed it is now known that one of the main speeches of the famous Central Commit tee meeting in Moscow in June was an attack on Khrushchev by Dmitri Shepilov, because of the alleged timidity of Khrush chev's Middle Eastern policy. But this momentary caution has now passed, as was too clearly proven by the great for ward move in Syria. When the time is ripe, moreover, other Soviet forward moves can be looked for. Indeed, they are al ready very nervously expected by the American Secretary of State himself. For this reason, Secretary Dulles made the Mid- die East the main theme of his remarkable three-hour interview with his glum Soviet colleague, Andrei Gromyko. ACCORDING to authoritative -- reports,, uuiies was very solemn in his warning to Gromy ko about how America would react to further Soviet interusion into the Arab lands. In the same fashion, during the London visit of Khrushchev and Marshal Bul- ganin less than two years ago, solemn warnings were sounded by Sir Anthony Eden. Again, according to authoritative report, Gr,omyko's response to Dulles was just about as satisfactory as the response of Khrushchev and Bulganin, who literally laughed in Eden's face. For all this there is only one root-cause, the weakness of the West. Even as show of stern in tention to remedy the West's weakness with all speed and at all costs might yet be enough to sober the masters of the Kremlin. But they must find the statements currently com- BOOKS GIFTS RECORDS Egyptian Troop Movement Seen Political, Not Military, By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Egypt's action in sending troops to Syria appears now to have been a political rather than a military move. The an nounce m e n t that President Gamal Abdel Nasser had sent the troops caused a lot of excitement be cause it came Charles M. McCann while Syria and Soviet Russia were accus ing Turkey of aggressive inten tions. It was obvious, of course, that a few thousand Egyptian sol diers could hardly be of much value in event of a Turkish Syrian clash. Now, it seems quite clear that Nasser was thinking not of Tur- isey dux 01 nimseii ana Jttussia. t First. Nasser had been on the I sidelines during the savage Sy-j nan and Russian campaign against Turkey. Back In Act Secondly, Nasser has felt him self more and more shoved into the background by the increas ing importance of King Saud of Saudi Arabia in the Arab world. Nasser still aspires to be the leader of the Arab countries. By sending the troops to Sy ria, Nasser got himself back into the act, so to speak. But there is another interest ing and important factor in the situation. It is reported from middle eastern capitals, apparently ac curately, that one reason why Nasser sent the troops was to lessen the chance that Russia would send a big force of tech nicians to instruct the Syrians in the use of the weapons it has sent there. Nasser, according to these re ports, wants to get Egyptian in structors and techncians into Sy ria himself, and to keep the Rus sians out. This fits in with the persistent reports, first, that Nasser is get ting increasingly worried over Russian penetration of the Mid dle East, and secondly, that he would like to find some way to improve Egyptian relations with the United States. Joint Military Command In this connection,' Egyptian delegations are now negotiating with a British delegation in Rome and a French delegation in Geneva in an attempt to re store the economic relations which have been broken since Britain and France Invaded the Suez Canal Zone one year ago. Nasser sent "his trpops to Sy ria under the Egyptian-Syrian mutual defense treaty of 1955. This treaty established a joint military command for the two countries, with Egyptian Maj. Gen. Afif Bizri, Syrian comman der in chief, visited Nasser and Amer in Cairo on Sept. 11. At that time, Bizri showed he was sensitive over the charge that the present Syrian regime is pro-Communist. He said in an interview: "I am not a Commu Communicaiions Extends Thanks To the Editor: I would like to take this means of thanking all my good neighbors and friends, men. from the sheriff's office and from State Patrol, who so will ingly gave of their time and en ergy to help locate me while lost on a hunting trip. It's won derful to know you have so many good friends and I thank you all. A. C. Brisbine, 1847 Stewart ave., Medford, Ore. ing out of Washington even more headily intoxicating than their native vodka. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Life is a matter of knowing what to select and what to pass by. We haven't time for everything, so we should choose that which will count most for ourselves and others in the long run. What the world needs is a religion that won't put the bad straw berries at the bottom of the box. It is a great mistake to set up our own standards of right and wrong, or to yield to a wrong just because "others do it." Tomorrow is never an acceptable substitute for today. This is why the best intentions can usually be discounted at about 50 per cent of their face value. The millennium would be crowding us hard if the good things people intend to do tomorrow were done today. Grit. DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS nist and there is not one single Communist officer in the whole Syrian army." Nasser always has gone out of his way to assert that he is not pro-Russian. Today and By Walter BITTER TRUTHS A few days after Sputnik was launched, Mr. Dulles left Wash ington for a long week end at his island re treat. This was a sensible thing to do if it meant that, instead of mak ing statements, he was taking time out to think whether and how what Sputnik signi Walter Lippmann fies has affected this country's position in the world. He will not, we must suppose, have comforted himself, as did the President at his press con ference, ith the notion that Sput nik is a "scientific" achievement which has no serious "military" importance .He cannot entertain1 the crude idea that there are two separate compartments one for science and one for the military that there is some vast difference between launching a missile and launching a satel lite. Mr. Dulles cannot have any doubt that a nation which can launch Sputnik is very far ad vanced in science, in engineer ing, and in industrial capacity. Nor can he doubt that if this ad vance continues, or, as it might, if it is compounded and becomes cumulative, there will be a radi cal alteration in the world bal ance of power. TN THIS connection, we must remember that in world poli tics men commonly discount what they believe is the future, treating what they think will happen as if it had already hap pened. Thus in the few years after 1945 when this country had a monopoly of the atomic bomb, the world regarded us as more powerful than in fact we- were. Now, as a result of the success ful test of the ballistic missile and the launching of Sputnik, Russia looks enormously power ful. Almost certainly the truth is that she is not now decisively superior but that - if present trends continue in Russia and in the United States, she will achieve decisive superiority. The discounting of this expec tation by the rest of the world is having a profound effect on the American position. Mr. Dul- jles, in his island retreat, can hardly have failed to ponder deeply the consequences. For what he and his country are faced with is the disparity be tween our actual power and the positions to which we are com mitted, the objectives we have declared for, in our foreign policy. THESE are days when our peo ple, who have been hearing much bad news, are becoming of a mind to listen to some hard truths. One of them is that the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy is on many critical issues based on a wishful estimate of our own power and a self-deluding notion ' x . ! Gambit It seems that now, while they welcome Russian arms, neither Syria nor Egypt wants to see Russia take too big a part in Arab affairs. Tomorrow Lippmann that because our intentions are righteous, our hopes are destined to be fulfilled. Again and again, the Eisenhower-Dulles policy is a refusal to recognize the facts of life. A policy which is not grounded in the realities will , have objectives that are unat tainable and will produce con sequences that are unforeseen. Thus there is our China pol icy, which is based on the nation that if we ostracize the Peiping government, it will eventually coUapse, be overthrown, or sur render. While we wait for one of these happy endings, we subsi dize a Chinese government in Formosa which can never be the government of China, and is manifestly deteriorating. Be cause of this fundamentally false estimate of the realities of power in eastern Asia, our prestige has been declining since long before the launching of Sputnik. For our aims are no doubt righteous. But in the hard and sour reali ties of world politics, good inten tions are not a policy. UR German policy, which has been largely dominated by Dr. Adenauer, is based on the curious notion that Russia can be induced to surrender, to al low Eastern Germany to be swallowed by Western Germany, and to let a reunified Germany be incorporated as the strongest European military power in NATO. If there is a single re sponsible and informed man who, when he is off the record, believes in this fairy tale, I have never met him. Most of those who say they believe in it really believe that it is just as well if Germany is not reunified. A German policy which is so unrealistic and so ambiguous must in the nature of things crack up. Yet we have no other German policy. "UR Middle Eastern policy is based on the extraordinary notion that Russia, the greatest power bordering on the Middle East, can like Czarist Russia in the days of the . supremacy of Britain, be excluded. Because of this underlying fallacy, no pol icy we undertake in the Middle East can realily succeed. For Russia cannot be excluded, and what is more, the Arab states, who want to work both sides of the street, object to excluding her. The common characteristic of the China, the German and the Middle Eastern policy is the cru cial assumption that our power and influence are so great that our adversaries Russia and China will have to surrender.. Since they show no signs of sur rendering, since they show many signs that they are growing in power, we do not have negoti able policies. As a result, when an event like the launching of Sputnik discloses that we are far from being all-powerful, our prestige and influence are pro foundly shaken; (Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) REVIVAL Pilgrim Holiness Church 611 E. Pine St., Central Point Evangelist Rev. and Mrs. Rollie Schell From Indiana Specials good music. Services that will give you a spiritual uplift. Services 7:30, Oct. 16-27 Clarence Jackson, Minister
