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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 24, 1947 (Friday)
Plans for development of the
Medford airport as suggested by
CAA officials and state aeronau
tic board engineers are being
worked out by Vern Thorpe, city
superintendent.
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.
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