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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.)
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