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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 22. 1947 (Wednesday)
Health committee of the city
council last night was author
ized to conduct an inspection of
trailer camps in the city in re
lation to city ordinance provi
sions. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smuge Pot column: "Customers
who consider our waitresses un
civil ought to see the manager."
(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
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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 ...
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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.
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