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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "An upstate controversy raging over the le gality of the legality,' is headed for the high court, and the voters next year." 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 24. 1937 (Sunday) One of the outstanding fea tures of the 1937 Armistice day celebration will be the annual Armistice ball and floor show, according to those in charge of the program. Jacksonville PTA announces a big Hallowe'en carnival to be held at the gymnasium there Thursday. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 24. 1927 (Monday) . Following several weeks of quarantine by the city officials as a precautionary measure against infantile paralysis, Med ford has returned to normal con ditions since the quarantine was lifted Friday. A safe Mowing early yester day morning at the Beck bakery on North Riverside ave. netted $135, according to city police. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 24. 1917 (Wednesday) Six miles of the new road around the rim of Crater lake was graded this year, leaving only six more miles to complete the circuit, according to the en gineering party. "The dangers of an abnormal food supply," will be the sub ject of the lecture by J. E. Elliott at the First Methodist church to night. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six is good. 1. Is "celesta" the name for a vestal virgin, a planet, or a musi cal instrument? 2. Is the city of Waltham irf Massachusetts, Rhode Island, or Connecticut? 3. Bible: Is the New Testa ment 13, ', or M as long as the Old Testament? 4. Persons born between April 20 and May 20 are said to be in fluenced by which zodiacal sign? 5. What is the name of the Paris (France) stock exchange? 6. Is Istanbul the capital of Turkey or Iraq? 7. What was the middle name of President Warren G. Harding? 8. Is the Champs-Elysses a famous statue in Paris or Mar seilles? 9. Is the possessive of pro nouns written with an apostro phe followed by an "s" or just an apostrophe alone? 10. "God is Mind, and God is infinite; hence all is" what? Mary Baker Eddy. Answers: I. Musical instru ment. 2. Massachusetts. 3. One third. 4. Taurus, the Bull. 5. Bourse. 6. Turkey. 7. Gamaliel. 8. No. it is a famous avenue in Paris. 9. Neither, (hers, its. his, yours, etc.). 10. "Mind." MAIL TRIBUNE They No Longer "Life Ike " Some time ago we commented upon the end of the Eisenhower honeymoon. There was, at the time, considerable evidence to sustain it. But there was no evidence then the marriage was heading for .the rocks. Yesterday however, we re ceived evidence of the latter and from an unex pected source. TOR many years we have received marked copies of the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard - Times, from its editor and publisher, Basil Brewer. No doubt many daily papers throughout the coun try have also. Publisher Brewer is one of the outstand ing spokesmen for ultra-conservative Republicanism in New England. And we judge, is not averse as some newspaper publishers ARE to publicity. THIS time, however, the editorials were not marked, but the complete text of a speech delivered by Mr. Brewer at the "Robert A. Taft Memorial" dinner at the Statler Hotel in Boston sponsored by the highly respectable and 150 G.O.P. organization, known for many generations as the Suffolk County Republi can club. Publisher Brewer was the principal speaker. Head ing the list of honored-guests were Senator Knowland of California, recently announced candidate for the governorship of his state; and "Mr. Republican of Massachusetts," Senator Saltonstall.. In other words this was as representative a group of the dominant wing of the Grand Old Party, as any Taft Republican could have hoped to assemble. AND what was the theme-song of this "keynote speech?" Briefly, it was an impassioned plea for a return to "OLD FASHIONED REPUBLICANISM." It was a repudiation of the U.S. Supreme Court, particularly its anti-segregation decision and a searing blast at not only Attorney General Brownell, for his part in this case, but for President Eisenhower for the quality of his appointments to the court and his "Modem Re publicanism". Last, but not least, Vice-President Nix on was brought into the line-of-fire "as one of the most prominent if not the most distinguished mem bers of the National Association For The Advance ment of Colored People!" TN SHORT it is hard to imagine any more complete and unqualified denunciation of what President Eisenhower, at the start of his second term, entitled "Modern Republicanism," than contained in this prin cipal speech before one of the oldest and most highly respected G.O.P. organizations east of the Rockies. Even more significant than the content of the speech was the way it was received. Not only was the speaker (amid cheers presuma bly) given the annual "Taft award" but on Page 1 he is shown warmly greeting the smiling Republican Senate Leader Knowland. Finally here are Publisher Brewer's closing words, quote : Lincoln, in almost his last hours, called for "binding up the nation's wounds." Who is this who calls for reopening them and at such a time? If this be modern Republican ism, I am for the old-fashioned kind, which began with Lin coln in 1860 and will have ended with Taft in 1953 unless others such as my good friends Senator Saltonstall and Senator Knowland CHn revive find sustain it, It has been said the elephant never forgets, but we would hazard the, prediction the day will come when Nast's famous "Jumbo" will tiy hard to forget THAT one. Imagine calling on the name of Abraham Lincoln the "Great Emancipator" to justify his own party's present repudiation of the principles of freedom and race equality he died for. R.W.R. "On the A few wreeks ago we predicted there would be a split in the Democratic party over school segregation with the formation of another "Dixiecrat" ticket probable. But if this meeting in Boston is at all representa tive of G.O.P. sentiment regarding the present admin istration and we can't believe it ISN'T then there will also be a hot time at the Republican convention 3 years hence, with a battle between "Modern" and "Ancient" Republicanism, that might well be termed "ROYAL". "IITE CAN'T believe, for example, it was entirely coincidental that at this Taft dinner honoring Senator Knowland, the speaker of the evening took a left-handed swipe, at the White House "heir-apparent" Richard Nixon, as the most prominent if not the most distinguished member of the Negro organization known as the "N.A.A.C.P." This organization, according to the speaker is try ing to open "the nation's wounds" instead of healing them, and the implication is "Poor Richard", as a member in good standing, is aiding and abetting them. DUT even more striking is the "drum-fire" through out this oration against everything contained by the present administration under the heading of "Modern Republicanism," and the impassioned plea for a return to the good old fashioned political prin ciples of the Taft era not only Senator Robert A. but we conclude, President William Howard also ! "THIS nostalgic yearning for the "good old days", as " has often been noted in this department, is typical of far more members of the Grand Old Party today than most observers realize. Another thing. There are far more Republicans who sympathize with Governor Faubus of Arkansas, and oppose racial equality, in this country, than could be revealed by any Gallup poll. For this racial prejudice while strongly held is Thursday, October 24, 1957 Rocks" i "MeXT TIME I SUBAK VA SOME LIVEf?. AT T fc VOH'T DRAG ITAffOUN'THE ROCWj MClttQr Of F OCt HOW MUCH IS THE PRESIDENT TOLD? The unhappy events of recent weeks have raised a couple of very solemn questions. How much is the President really told by his subordinates? And to what extent is Dwight D. Ei senhower really serving as a Josepb Alsop Stevrait Alsop full-time President of the United States? These questions are raised by the President's Coue-like ten dency to assert that everything is really quiet all right, when everything is so obviously all wrong. The President has said, for example, that he has granted all the funds for missile develop ment he has been asked to grant. Literally, this is true. But it is also a measure of the extent to which the President is screened from the unpleasant realities by his subordinates. For it is quite obvious that the President was never told of the black despair of the Ameri can experts who saw the Ameri can missile effort lagging be hind the Soviet effort for the lack of a few millions of dol lars. And it is certainly possible that the sharp cut in research and development funds, which the powers that be in the Penta gon tried so hard to conceal from the public, was concealed also from the President. Other wise, unless the hard evidence available to the government of Soviet technological ' progress was. hidden from the President it is almost inconceivable that he would have approved the cut. rpHE blunt truth is that there - are plenty of. reasons for be lieving that the President is in adequately informed, and that the Presidency now operates on a part-time basis.. A most dra matic example,' which can now be revealed for the first time, is the true story of the Ameri can vote in the United Nations on the final Anglo-French evacu ation of Suez. That single vote did more harm to Anglo-American rela tions than all that had gone be fore. It was cast after the Brit ish and French had already agreed in principle to the with drawal from Suez. An Afro Asian resolution called for with drawal "forthwith" without any prior commitments whatso ever from Egypt. A Belgian amendment merely called for early withdrawal. By this time, Sir Anthony Eden had fallen ill, and the British government was, in ef fect, in the hands of a commit tee, composed of R. A. Butler, Harold Macmillan, and Lord Sal isbury. It was a tense moment in Anglo-American relations. On the eve of the U.N. vote, Rob ert Murphy, Deputy Secretary of State, telephoned from Wash ington to inform Winthrop Aid rich, then American Ambassa dor in London, of the instruc tions just given to the leader of the American U.N. Delega tion, Henry Cabot Lodge. Mur seldom admitted, and where colored population is slight or absent, the issue of course is seldom raised. DUT if, in Boston the other night, there was any thing but approval and enthusiasm for the speak er's direct and indirect attacks on President Eisen hower and his administration, and the Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court, there were no in dications in the New Bedford Standard-Times; and if hoots and hisses interspersed with a few ancient eggs and a few over-ripe tomatoes HAD been a fea ture we are quite sure some of the wire-services would have noted it. So there you have it. Not only is the Eisenhower honeymoon over, but as far as the ultra-conservative Taft wing of the G.O.P. is concerned the marriage IS on the rocks. R.W.R. . By Joe and Stewart Alsop phy said that Lodge had been instructed to vote for the Bel gian amendment, and if it was defeated to abstain from voting on the Afro-Asian resolution. ALDRICH passed on the mes sage, and he and the British leaders went to bed rejoicing. Then and here was the pang of the arrow that stayed in the wound the British leaders and the American Ambassador read in the morning papers that Lodge had blithely voted m fa vor of the Afro-Asian resolution. Aldrich was so angry that he almost resigned on the spot. When inquiries were made, Lodge denied that he had re ceived "instructions." This was technically true, since Lodge has cabinet rank and cannot be "instructed" by anyone but the President himself. As to what really happened, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles himself is the authority. According to ' Dulles, Lodge wanted to please the Afro- Asians. By-passing the State De partment, he therefore tele phoned the President's chief of staff, Sherman Adams, saying the matter was critical. Adams told Lodge that the matter was still not important enough to justify "bothering the Presi dent." But Adams boldly au thorized Lodge to defy the State Department and follow his own inclinations. . The story may be denied, but it is authentic in every detail. And there have been too many other proofs that the American government has been virtually headless for long stretches of re cent time. For instance, there was the .urgent personal message to the President from the unfor tunate Eden, which Eden hoped would lead to joint action to prevent the Suez crisis. The President said at the time that he had never received the mes sage, which was true enough. In order "not to bother the President" the message, although addressed personally to the President by the British Prime Minister, had been held in the State Department. AGAIN, there is the known fact that Adm. Arthur Rad ford advised Gen. Nathan Twin ing not to accept the Chairman ship of the Joint Chiefs without some guarantee of reasonable access to the President. The rea son given was that neither Rad ford nor even Charles E. Wil son himself had been able to see the President on business alone for a year. There is plenty of evidence, in short, that the President is being wrapped in cotton wool and saved from "bother" by the usual persons Gov. Adams, Security Council Secretary Rob ert Cutler, Press Secretary Hag gerty and the rest, ""he members of the cotton wool brigade are, in a sense, prisoners of their own past actions, since they vir tually assured the President that, if only he would run again, he could solve all America's prob lems in a semi-miraculous, quite effortless manner. But it is surely obvious by now that there will be no mir acles, and that Dwight D. Ei senhower has got to take per sonal charge, full time. Then, one can be sure, the American government will recapture " its old spirit and vigor. (Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Zhukov's Visit to Tito No Hint of Dispute in By CHARLES M. MeCANN United Press Correspondent Marshal Georgi K. Zuhkov's treatment on his visit to Yugo slavia may indicate that he is SWnot really a contender for top Soviet lead ership. Certainly, it seems to indi cate that Presi dent Tito who ought to know does Charles m. Mccann not regard him as a rival of Nikita S. Khrush- Today and By Walter A FULL TIME JOB The Queen's visit to Washing ton has, as everyone knows, been not only a popular success but it has pro vided the occa sion for the President to show his own interest in the alliance. It was, of course, a mere coinci dence that the date of the Walter Lippmann visit w h i c h was fixed long ago, happened to fall so soon after the launching of the Sputnik. But the coinci dence must have had much to do with the prompt and apparently rather sudden agreement on an immediate visit to Washington by the Prime Minister. AH this was reflected in the President's toast to the Queen at the White House dinner in which he called for close cooper ation within the NATO alliance. This would not have been said, at least not have . been said so fervently, were it not for the dis may and embarrassment of the Sputnik affair. THERE is a question which hangs over the talks that are being held -this week between Mr. Macmillan and Mr. Eisen hower. It is not whether "the free world's assets" are as great as the President says they are. Undoubtedly the "assets,"" as well as the science, the technol ogy and the productive capacity of the non-Communist world are very great indeed. Nor is it the question whether it would be useful and desirable to cooper ate in research and development. It is idiotic not to cooperate in research and development. The question is whether the Presi dent and the Prime Minister are able and willing to give the time and the energy which it takes to bring about and to keep moving such cooperation among two or more countries. Both of them have known at first hand during the World War what it took to keep working to gether the two bureacracies, the two military establishments, the politicians, the scientists, the businessmen and the masses of the people on the two sides of the Atlantic. It took, to put it briefly, a Churchill and a Roose velt, in a close and continual contact, each with an eye on every important ' undertaking, both working long hours every day of every week. They did this, too, in a time of desperate war when the sense of urgency was strong in most men. THE crucial point, it seems to me, is that a true cooperation of the kind the President was talking about in his toast to the Queen, depends entirely on the heads of the governments. The decision to cooperate cannot be made by the heads of the gov ernments and the carrying out of the decision delegated to com mittees and joint boards. There have, of course, to be committees and joint boards. But unless those involved feel, as did the DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across' from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS chev for the No. 1 spot in the Kremlin. Zhukov went to Yugoslavia in his capacity of Russian defense minister. He was returning a visit made to Russia by Gen. Ivan Gosnjak, Yugoslav state secretary of defense. Officially, at least, Zhukov was treated as the defense mini ster of any other country would have been. During his 10-day stay, Zhu kov saw Tito just once. That was when he went to Tito's summer home in the Slovenian mountains for a day of hunting and for a reception. Tomorrow Lippmann members of the war-time agen cies, the brooding presence of impatient men like Churchill and Roosevelt, they will drift into the doldrums or become snarled up with jealousies. And so, when the Prime Min ister and the President part after their meeting in Washington, the question will be how deeply is each of them engaged personally to watch over and to drive for ward the big projects they will no doubt decide upon. If the an swer to this question is negative or doubtful, we shall have to in fer that the profound signifi cance of the Soviet achievement has not been understood in the highest places, that the proposal to pool our resources and our talents is not a seriously consid ered project but a device in pub lic relations to quiet popular dismay. (Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Cold war stuff: The powerful U. S. Seventh fleet (stationed in the Pacific and counting more than 100 ships, some of them aircraft car riers with bombers armed with atom bombs) is standing by to go to the back door of Suez in case of a Mediterranean (Middle East) war. Its commander, Vice Admiral Wallace Beakley, says "If Turkey were attacked, we'd be in it up to our necks. A "very high" U. S. naval official says Russia would be "hit from every available point of attack if she should fight Turkey." Every "available point of attack would include our fleets in the Meditarranean and the Pacific, our bases scattered all over the world and our long range Strategic Air Command bombers stationed in the United States. THAT is rough talk. But it may be assured that it is no inadvertent slip of the tongue on somebody's part. It is said on purpose. . ; WHY is it said? This is a fair guess: Since Sputnik, Russia has been talking pretty big. She has been intimating that ALREADY she has intercontinental ballistic missiles ready to fire. She has been going all out on a propa ganda offensive designed to frighten the neutral nations, big and little, into coming over into her camp. So It may be assumed that we are calling her bluff with the idea that NOW is the time to find out whether she has the missiles to back up her tall talk. We'll see what we'll see. REDS TEST JET-CAR London (IP) Designers of the Gorky Auto Works on the Volga are working on a jet-powered car, Moscow Radio reported to dav. A first test model reached speeds of more than 125 miles per hour during trial runs, the broadcast said. Today Is Ours JL ode odav is ours with chance to smile And make the day a day worth while, To speak kind words of hope and cheer To those cast down with care and fear; To check the frowns that only mar . And leave upon our brow their scar. Our trivial ills will come to naught If other's sorrows claim our thought. Today is ours to bodly dare To meet our justice and be fair In all our dealings all we say. Now is our hour, now our day. Only today we may call our own; Today is ours, and today alone. Laura Harney Rathbone in Gives Kremlin 1 The rest of the time, Zhukov was entertained in Belgrade as the guest of Gosnjak and other high officers and was taken for a tour around the country to in spect military installations. It seems entirely unlikely also that Tito would have paid so little attention to a man who, ha thought, was breathing down Khrushchev's neck in a bid for leadership. Zhukov, of course, is as much a Communist as Khrushchev is. He also is a member of the Com munist Party Presidium which rules Russia. Zhukov's support probably saved Khrushchev in the Krem lin dispute which resulted in the ousting of Georgi M. Malen kov, Vyacheslav M. Molotov and Lazar M. Kaganovich from the government at the Presidium. At that time, Zhukov was promoted from alternate to full member ship in the Presidium. There have been reports ever since that Zhukov, in command of the armed forces, was the real power in the Kremlin and that he might supplant Khrush chev as No. 1 man in the Soviet collective leadership. Perhaps Non-Political These reports may prove to be correct. But Zhukov's visit to Yugoslavia did nothing to sub stantiate them. The routine man ner of his reception brings to mind the insistence of Russian experts before the Kremlin dis pute that the Russian armed forces were not involved in poli tics and that Zhukov had no pol itical ambitions. Belgrade dispatches reported before Zhukov's arrival that he " would try to sell Tito the idea of making Russia his sole source of arms, instead of getting wea pons from the United States, and that Tito would refuse. After Zhukov's visit, the dispatches said that he seemed to have ac complished little if anything in negotiations. It is true that during the visit Tito recognized the Communist puppet government of East Ger many. But that hardly was a mat ter with which Zhukov was con cerned. One interesting thing about Zhukov's visit is that he went from Yugoslavia to Albania, the little Communist satellite coun try on the Adriatic sea. Russia has built up a formid able naval base there, at Sasebo, including facilities for submar ines which could operate in the Mediterranean. It is possible that the visit to Albania ranked with or surpassed in importance the visit to Yugoslavia. Pussey Footing around for a Loan? Borrow the AMERICAN WAY LOANS $25 to $1,500 Auto Salary . Furnitur American Finance Corp. Phone SPring 2-8886 123 W. Main Medford Ilinois State Journal.
