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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" vfublihea Dailv Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO . 27-29 North Fir St- Phone 2-g41 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GFRAXD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Manasine Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN TeleeTaph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER 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 Mali In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year 115 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mo 4.25 Sunday Only One vear $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. 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(Sign reported seen in a res taurant.) 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 22. 1937 (Friday) Dr. Charles T. Sweeney, prom inent Medford physician and surgeon, will be installed tonight as president of the Oregon State Medical society. Supreme Court Justice Hall S. Lusk gives an eloquent eulogy of southern Oregon and an ex planation of highway problems as part of the Siskiyou highway dedication in Ashland Wednes day night. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 22. 1927 (Saturday) The Eagle Point town council is working on a system of water works that will furnish the town with an adequate supply of wat er. Announcement was made this morning that additional subscrip tions yesterday to the play ground fund had brought the total to slightly over SHOO. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 22, 1917 (Monday) Medford high school girls in the domestic science class have pledged themselves to cooperate with food administrator Hoover in his efforts to economize. A large and intensely inter ested audience attended the opening lecture of the Chautau qua health course in the Meth odist church last night. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct ts superior; seven or eleht Is excellent: five or six Is good 1. Was the famous "Old Iron sides"' (the U.S.S. "Constitu tion"), a sloop, frigate, or cor vette. 2. On Sept. 1, 1939. World War II was started when Hit lers troops invaded what coun try? 3. Bible: Who was Noah's grandfather? 4. How many feet are in 60 fathoms? 5. A carillon is a form of square dance, a kind of antique cannon, or a set of bells tuned to play the full scale? 6. Kemal Pasha was the first president of which Republic? 7. In which U.S. city is the Kenny Institute for the treat ment of poliomyelitis? 8. Sofia is the capital of which Balkan country? 9. Which is the principal vow el in "acclimate"? 10. 'If I were a Cassowary' On the plains of Timbuctoo. I would eat a missionary Coat and bands and hym-book too." Did a churchman, student, or playwright write this epigram? Answers: 1. Frigate. 2. Po land. 3. Methuselah. 4. 360. 5. A set of bells tuned lo play the full scale. 6. Turkey. 7. Minne apolis. 8. Bulgaria. 9. "i." 10. Churchman (Bishop S. Wilber force). BATTLE DOES BATTLE Oklahoma City (IP) Whafs in u name? Joe Kenneth Battle. 21. was fined S12 Monday for disorderly conduct and assault ing an officer. MAIL TRIBUNE The Imponderable in Football Of course it was bound to happen. Sooner or later it always happens. But it happened sooner than expected this year. And we are sorry Oregon State had to lead the victims. But that's the way football goes. And most sports also, but that imponderable called morale or "will to win" is, we believe more of a factor in this great outdoor sport of autumn, than any other. TT was particularly noticeable in that Illinois-Min-nesota tussle as seen over "T.V." Minnesota looked more like a champion football team in their all-white costumes and their pre-game air of an elite-corps. But the game had not progressed more than five minutes before it was apparent that Illinois, the "home coming" team was way "up" for the game and the visitors, never quitting and playing hard all the time, just were NOT. And when there is such a difference in that above mentioned "imponderable" it is practically always the "up" team that gets the "breaks" and the "down team" that doesn't. "11TE would almost go so far as to say that the coach who can most often get that nth power "will to WIN" permeating his squad will be "the coach of the year." He has to have good material of course. But by and large the various college teams in any particu lar league are not far apart in raw physical potential. They have to know the game. And there, the coach is of tremendous importance, of course. But equally important, if not more so, is that ability to arouse the team to play the game on each vital Saturday just a little -harder and better than they know how. The late Knute Rockne at Notre Dame was, in his day, the supreme genius in this direction. He not only knew how to teach football, he knew even better how to inspire his teams to play it, week after week, to the hilt AAE only heard the O.S.C.-UCLA contest over the radio, so could not get such a clear picture of the difference in SPIRIT, but the game "sounded" as though the California boys were way, way UP, and the lads from Corvallis tried hard but like the Gophers, just couldn't make it. We know it wasn't Tommy Prothro's fault for be fore the. game his final word over the air was, "the team that WANTS to win most WILL do it." We have a hunch it was that Memorial Stadium atmosphere, the Oregon inferiority complex, the roar ing crowd, all for the home team, and Red Sanders ability to cash in on all that with his boys, that DID it. In short, once more venturing into a field wTe know "little or nothing about," we conclude that in this rame of football amateur and "pro" the successful coach has to know the game of course, but to reach the top, he better have better than a "C" grade as a rdiunuiAJijrKsi. xv.vv.n. Sputnik arid U.S. Schools Yes. as everyone knows, it is an "ill-wind that blowrs no man good." So this cosmic whirlwind-over the Russian satel lite, in spite of its ruinous effect on U.S. prestige and pride, promises to provide certain collateral bene fits. One of them, of course, will be less pride and more humility. Uncle Sam will not be so inclined to consider himself superior in every field including the "conquest of space." He will henceforth (or SHOULD) be far more disposed to take nothing for granted and to avoid the sands of delusion as he faces the facts. WHICH, needless to say, will be all to the good. But in another direction we believe the net after-effects will be beneficient, so far as the U.S.A. is concerned. We refer to the pressing problems of better schools arid better education. WE have been particularly impressed by the com ments of Dr. Vannevar Bush than wThich, to our mind, there is "none-such," in the field of science and particularly and especially in the area of atomic warfare. He is today Chairman of the Board at M.I.T., and during the second World War was heading over 30, 000 physicists, chemists and aerial engineers in the critical business of perfecting an atomic bomb. HE maintains that Russia's "Sputnik" victory was principally due to the superiority of Russian edu cation, particularly in the field of science. Here is a portion of his statement in the current "News Week," quote : "We'd better tumble to ourselves as the Russians have done. Not so long ago the Russians were considered back ward in the sciences, now if there is a youngster with a talent for science they make sure he gets all the education he can take. We still have bright boys in this country who can't afford to go to college. There ought to be some kind program to make sure our boys get all the education they can take. In Russia if a boy flunks out he is put in the army. In America he is put in the army anyway. This is too serious (a matter) to adhere to the old principle that all must sac rifice equally (and in the same way) in the service of their country. Many secondary schools in this country have teachers who have had no science training at all. Also we don't pay our teachers enough. In this country a full pro fessor gets two-and-a-half times the income of a laborer; in Russia he gets eight times. This same point has been stressed by every Ameri- i educator who has recently visited Russia. can 'HE consensus appears educate our youth too Tueiday, October 22, 19S7 definitely to be that we much to make money, and , ' J TOU) HIM TABASCO SAUCE WAS HOT'. Matter of Fact By WERE WE IN A RACE? Washington In the wake of i Sputnik's launching, all the high-1 est Administration officials, from the President on down, be gan fervently protesting that "o u r satellite program has been regarded as a race with the Soviets." These protesta tions may be stewait aisop sincere, nut the fact remains that they are simply not true, as this reporter can testify on the basis of an odd personal experience, Because it casts a certain light on the present, this small episode from the past may be worth re counting. The story begins on May 25th, 1955, when a report appeared in this space describing the heated debate then going on in the Administration about how much money and effort should be expended to get a satellite in to space. The report cited various pro satellite and anti-satellite argu ments, and noted: "The most cogent pro - satellite argument can best be understood in terms of a couple of headlines: Soviets Claim Supcessful Launching of Earth Satellite and U. S. Radar Confirms Existence of Soviet Sat ellite." At the time, of course, these headlines were wholly im aginary. rpHE report continued: "It does -- not require much imagina tion to foresee the impression that a successful Soviet satellite launching would make on the world. To knowledgeable men in every foreign office and mili tary establishment it would mean just one thing that the Soviet military technicians had gained a commanding lead over their American opposite numbers in the race for the ultimate wea pon." The article, which appeared on a Wednesday, had an unforeseen sequel. For on the next day, Thursday, May 26th, the National Security Council met, chaired by President Eisenhower. The main purpose of the meeting, it turned out, was to settle the de bate about the satellite. By sheer coincidence, the pro satellite planning paper before the NSC used the same pro-satellite arguments, citing the same then amaginary headlines almost word for word. Perhaps the coin cidence was not quite all that sheer, since this reporter and his partner had been proselytizing all their acquaintances in the Government on the need to beat the Soviets to the satellite, us ing the imaginary headlines to bolster their case. Possibly some Government official had prac ticed a little justifiable plagar ism. I N ANY event, when the Presid ent read the NSC planning too little to be of greater service to their country and the state. Before someone yells "state control of education," we suggest they read this article in the October 21st "News Week." Dr. Bush has no such idea in mind. He merely wishes a change of emphasis in the Ameri can system of education as it exists. Such a change more and better schools, better teachers will take a lot of money. Unless "we the people" fail to profit by the lesson "Sputnik" has taught, the Eisenhower administration will see that the revised School Bill to be presented at the next session of the congress will not meet the fate a simi lar measure did in the last. R.W.R. RUSH-HOUR STROLL I New York (IPI Britain's j Prince Philip learned quickly j Monday how to solve mid-Man- j hattan's evening rush-hour traf-' fic problem get out and walk. Philip was riding to the Waldorf-' Astoria hotel when he was caught in a typical home-bound traffic jam on Lexington ave nue. Told he was five blocks from the hotel, the Prince said to his companions, '"'Let's get out and walk." AccomDanied by a State Department official and j five security officers, Philip ! walked the rest of the way with- j out being recognized. ' Stewart Alsop paper, he blew up. By chance, he had read the Wednesday column and he assumed quite incor rectly that it was based on ac cess to the highly classified plan ning paper. It was bad enough, the President was later quoted as having said, to read classified information in the Alsop column after an NSC meeting, but it was downright intolerable to read about what the NSC was going to discuss even before the NSC met. The President's fury seeped down through the lower levels of the Government, and in official circles this reporter and his part ner were regarded as even more leprous than usual. It took a brave official to be seen speak ing with us, and the more timid showed a marked tendency -to turn pale green and duck under the nearest sofa when they en countered us inadvertently. It even got to the point where two old friends, with whom we had never discussed security matters, were forbidden to attend a long planned weekend reunion. Despite these painful aspects, there was a certain humor in the situation too. The notion that we spent our evenings pouring over illicitly obtained classified pap ers (which we never see, and would not wish to see if op portunity offered) became al most an article of faith in the Government. And yet we owed this reputation of evil omnisci ence to simple coincidence. "DAINFUL or humorous, this small episode casts a certain light on the preset solemn of ficial contention that the Amer ican government never cared a pin whether or not the Soviets were first into space with the satellite. Of course the respon sible officials knew we were in a race and cared who won it they should have been fired out of hand if they had not. For it took no special acuity, or even any access to secret papers, to forsee the global consequences of the kind of headlines, also no longer imaginary, as those cited above. As these reporters also wrote at the time, the decision to push the satellite project was "plain common sense, in these days when our technological lead over the Soviets represents all the security we have left." But the Government went ahead with the satellite project, as with the whole missile program, on a pinch-penny, budget-first, business-as-usual basis. And thus our "technological lead" has been lost, for all the world to see. Complacent and disingeneous claims that we were never in a race with the Russians anyway, that the Soviet satellite does not mean much, that the Soviet ICBM probably does not exist, and so on, are not going to bring it back again. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Quake Af Mid - GEO. N- TAYLOR, Wheaton, III. Down in a deep dungeon, with their feet fast in the stocks, Paul and Silas were praying and singing praises unto God. It was midnight and the prisoners were lis tening. Suddenly there was a great earth quake and the very foundations of the prison were shaken. The jailer, awakening out of his sleep, saw the prison doors open and the prisoners chains fallen off; yet not a prisoner moved to escaDe Thru th riark. the jailer saw all this and drew out his sword to kill him self. Then Paul's voice came up thru the floors "Do your self no harm; we are all here." The jailer now called for a light and went down to Paul with "What must I do to be saved?" Acts 16:25-34 tells of the hard-boiled jailer and his being saved. Also to grow read 1st Peter 2:2 5:9. This Message by God's people who want you to know. Yugoslavia When It Recognized East Germany By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent President Tito of Yugoslavia may have blundered in recog nizing the East German puppet g o v e rnment. In recognizing a regime which owes its con tin ued exist ence solely to a Soviet Rus sian army of o c c u p a tion, Tito deliber ately aff r o n t- Chailes M. McCann ed West Oer- many. He helped Russia and indirectly helped Communist Po land, which now occupies 38,900 In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Note of sanity in the news: President Eisenhower plans to propose to British Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan this week a broad scale POOLING of the scientific resources of the Western allies. He will do this in a determined effort to win clear superiority over Russia in all phases of weapons development and of peaceful research. LET'S take a realistic look at ourselves. We're good. We're AWFUL LY good. But we aren't neces sarily God s little cnii en. mere are other peoples who are good. Especially along the lines of SCI ENTIFIC inquiry and achieve ment which, since Sputnik, are being thrown into such sharp focus in everybody's thinking. ND- PARTICULARLY in these days Scientific inquiry and achieve ment having to do with weap ons development are supremely important. In this cold war era, weapons development is all tied up with the basic issue of SUR VIVAL. It comes down to this: If the Russians beat us out ,in the race for new and better weapons, we're goners. WHAT President Eisenhower is proposing is that we take our friends and allies into the lodge, so that we may share our thinking with them and they may share their thinking with us. That is the way scientific progress is achieved. IlfE have some pretty able friends and associates. The British first put radar to work. They used it to spot Ger man submarines at night. We took hold of it and developed it farther. But the British thought of it first. Getting out of the field of weapons, it was an Englishman (or. to be exact, a Scotsman, ! James Watt) who invented the steam engine and thus brought on the Mechanical Revolution. It was the Germans who were our enemies then, but by the strange processes of history are our FRIENDS and allies now who invented the GUID ED MISSILE which presently dominates the weapons thinking of the world. They started with the rela tively clumsy and ineffective buzz-bomb and went on to the V-2 rocket that might have won the war for them if they had perfected it a little earlier. EVEN THE presently futile French are no slouches in the field of science. It was a French man, Louis Pasteur, who got the first inkling that diseases are spread by germs. He founded the science of bacteriology and thus made it possible to pre vent the spread of infections. It was Pasteur who discovered among other things, that rabies is spread by the bite of a mad dog. His discoveries in chemistry and biology have saved count less millions of human beings from untimely death. THEN there is the atom bomb. Its origins go back to a the ory advanced by Albert Einstein in the early 1900's. He suggested that matter and energy are not distinct, but can be changed ; into each other. Einstein was born a German. He later became a Swiss. He became an American citizen aft er he had been driven out of Germany by the Nazis. Men of MANY nationalities aided in the development of atomic energy whose grimmest form is the atom bomb. The first chain reaction . in Night May Have square miles of German terri tory and wants to keep it for good. Tito also, by recognizing the puppet regime as a legitimate government, dealt a blow to the hope of reunifying Germany. Just what Tito's motive was Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Bring Schools Up to Date To the Editor: These days we hear so much of scientific achievement, of efficiency ex perts, coordinators, etc., etc. We are told our schools are inadequate, especially for the long term ahead. Yet, I know of no organized effort to make more efficient use of what we now have. The one shift school day, the hours of attendance, the time of year and duration of vacation time was established when 95 per cent of our population were farmers. Modern machinery was un heard of. Should not an effort be made, calling qualified experts, experts n efficiency, taxes, the abilities of our people and how to best use those abilities, to make ad justments that would be bene ficial, perhaps socially, economi cally, and in many other ways Our newspapers, civic . clubs parent-teacher groups anr. many other groups, could, and I be lieve should, start a movement to assemble the best, "unbiased" information possible on this sub ject, and submit their findings to the public. A trial run in some selected locality might cause a better ar rangement to be considered on a broader scope, possibly nation wide. J. D. Bowdish 616 West Jackson st. Medford, Ore. The Dove Slaughter To the Editor: The fearless hunters who stalk- the poor little mourning dove should hang their heads in shame. They ex terminated the passenger pigeon, j which bountiful nature gave us, by tne million, and now they can't wait to shut off the plain tive, beautiful call of the mourn ing dove more beautiful than the harsh sounds from the throat of a human being. The greatest white hunter in the world, Syd Downey, at Nairobi in Africa, advises his clients to make it a photographic safari. Syd even has names for his lions Louise for one leaves her babies with the males to save them from the hyenas. A brother of the Shah of Iran killed one of the best male specimens left in Africa a member of the pride Louise be longed to. Wonder what Syd would say if he knew they were stalking mourning doves? .Jim Dowdall 532 South Fir st. Medford uranium was produced by a group of scientists that included an Italian, Enrico Fermi. We took over the atom bomb and ; developed it because we had the resources to do the job. WE got snooty and SECRET TIVE about the atom bomb. We wouldn't share our knowl edge fully with anybody even the British. In time the Russians STOLE THE SECRET and so our secretiveness did us no good. IKE, I'm sure, is RIGHT in his proposal that we POOL our scientific resources with those of our friends and our allies. Many minds are oetter tnan few minds. DISCUSSION is better than se crecy because discussion pro motes the growth of ideas, whereas secrecy BOTTLES UP ideas. Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan SSl - -if ft' I f . p -, f It JltZrf ' 1'f ' v I - " ' Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. Blundered remains uncertain. One thing is sure, however he did it in what he thought was his own interest. West German Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer's retort to Tito's action was to break off diplo matic relations with Yugoslavia. In doing this, Adenauer made good his threat, which he had made known to the world, that he wrould break relations with any government that recognized the East Germans. But it is evident that Tito did not expect Adenauer to make good his threat. This has been shown clearly by the pained sur prise with which his action w as received in Belgrade, Tito's capital. Now Tito seems to be worried about the future of Yugoslavia's trade with West Germany and the substantial trade credits which have gone with it. West German-Yugoslav trade totalled S96 million in 1956. He is wor ried also whether West Germany will annul the agreement un der which it contracted to pay Yugoslavia S72 million for dam ages that country suffered in World War II. Incidentally, it was reported from Washington immediately after Tito's recognition of East Germany that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles intended to make a reappraisal of his policy of granting aid to Tito. Some Question Move There are some in West Ger many who question Adenauer's decision to break relations. But it is hard to see how he could have avoided it. The position of the West Ger man government is that any country which recognizes the East German regime is recogniz ing the existence of two Ger man governments and thus mak ing unification harder. Adenauer also was afraid that if he let Tito get away with it, other countries might follow suit, including especially the Asian "neutralists" and some Arab countries. Adenauer's breach of rela tions certainly seemed to make it likely that these countries would think carefully before they followed Tito's example. West Germany Is the most prosperous country in Europe. It's trade and its ability to grant trade credits to needy countries are important. However slowly it is rearm ing, West Germany also is po tentially the most powerful country in Europe outside of Russia. Tito is a smart man. It re mains to., be seen, however, whether in recognizing East Ger many he hurt Adenauer more than he did himself. Pussey Footing around for a Loan? Borrow the AMERICAN WAY LOANS $25 to $1,500 Auto Salary Furniture American Finance Corp. Phone SPring 2-8886 123 W. Main Medford Though wind or fire destroy it, No matter how or when, That welcome check, You'll collect, Helps bring it back again. Bill Fish '3. :. "At '-4
