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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "One of the leading opponents of the late Sales Tax in Oregon has re turned from California where he paid It." 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 31. 1937 (Sunday) Community Chest head quarters announces list of firms which made 100 per cent re sponse to the current campaign. Girls' Community club board of directors announce plans for winter program. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 31. 1927 (Monday) Members of the city water board state that $20,000 allowed the commission this year is for a sinking fund. City police warn that all boys and girls 16 years of age and under must be in their homes by 9 p.m. Halloween. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 31, 1917 (Wednesday) The decision of Judge F. M. Calkins in circuit court Tues day confirms acts of the Talent irrigation district board; also insures construction of Talent project. Preparations are being made for a Jackson county campaign Nov. 11 to 19 to raise $5,000 for the work of the YMCA in the present war. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six is good 1. In China, are surnames al ways written first? 2. Bible: Does the Old or New Testament, or the Apocrypha contain the most references to immortality? 3. Did Cleopatra die as the re sult of drowning, poison wine, or by an asp sting? 4. Is April 25. 26, or 27 the latest date on which Easter can occur? 5. Will the Post Office De partment redeem slightly soiled or torn stamps? 6. How long after Easter is Ascension Day? 8 Is it true that there are no mahogany forests? 9. Name the six most common surnames used in the U.S. 10. What is the Parthian shot? Answers: 1. Yes. 2. New Tes tament. 3. Asp sting. 4. April 25. 5. No. 6. Forty days. 7. The Harmonium. 8. Yes (average of two trees lo the acre is a good stand). 9. Smith, Johnson, Brown, Williams, Miller. Jones '(according to Social Security board). 10. A missile discharged while in retreat cr flight. HOOLIGANS JAILED London (IP Prague Radio said today that "hooligans" ar rested earlier this month for staging demonstrations against the Communist Czech regime had been given jail sentences. The broadcast heard said two defendants received three-year terms, five others two years each and four others got two week detention periods. The men, arrested in downtown Prague Oct. 12, were described as "hooligans,"' "drunkards' and "rowdies." . MAIL TRIBUNE Back To Machiavelli We don't blame Secretary Dulles for admitting he doesn't know whether the replacement of Gen eral Zhukov as Minister of Defense is good news or bad. How can he? Or anyone else, who has been unable to sit in at the secret meetings at the Kremlin. In fact that line coined by Sir Winston Churchill that Russia, under the Soviet dictatorship, is incom prehensible an enigma wrapped in a puzzle or vice versa still holds. We believe nothing quite like it has been existent in international relations since the days of Machia velli, who died nearly a hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. TN fact, the more we read and hear about Stalin's successor the more we are convinced the dumpy, but far from dumb, Communist boss is a "throw back" over 400 years to the original inventor of the diplomatic double-cross, and the international crooked deal. The only difference between them and their political philosophies is that Machiavelli admitted his lack of all moral scruples in the realm of state craft, while Nikita Khrushchev doesn't. Also the former was imprudent enough to write a book, and we are quite sure the wily Soviet dictator never will, at least a book of confessions. In fact, as far as we can recall, this "envoy to the Borgias," born before Columbus discovered America, was also a convivial, genial soul in his per sonal relations; did not shun the grape when off duty; but when ON duty he was as hard as nails, as ruthless as a panther on the prowl, and as blind to all moral considerations, as the late Al Capone. A LSO, one of Machiavelli's first commandments noliticallv. was never in poker parlance, "tipped his hand." He always kept the enemy guessing, and getting him off his guard would strike for the kill. He was, also like Khrushchev, a contradictory character, a sort of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." He could, when he wished, charm the birdies and the ladies out of the trees, and when he DIDN'T wish, could cow his subordinates with unbridled wrath, be at once both eloquent snd obscene. 17ELL, we trust "Nikita" won't sue us for libel. " And we admit the characteristics of these two men, living so far apart in space, time ajid culture are not identical. But there is a striking resemblance. This is particularly true in the complete absence of candor, sincerity and what we like to regard as the corner-stone . of political and diplomatic .re lations in a democracy, a common, garden-variety of fair play and HONESTY. It was Machiavelli's guiding principle, that morals have some place in personal relations al though he PERSONALLY did not observe many but none whatever in public tween states. We are not so naive as to believe this non-ethical standard has been entirely discarded in modern times; but it is no longer accepted as standard rou tineas it was in Italy at the end of the Middle Ages and is in the Kremlin, today. "THE other night, over the air, some broadcaster summed up the difference between the USA and Soviet Russia, by terming the former-a "land of opportunity" and the latter a "land of opportUNISM." That is an example of over simplification, but it does stress an important point. They do play-by-ear in the Kremlin. Everything is extemporized. As conditions change, their policies change, their guiding principle is to have no prin ciple. . COR example, only about a week ago, Khrushchev was cocking his sawed-off shotgun, shooting off his big mouth, accusing Turkey of plotting war against Syria at United States instigation, and threatening the former with annihilation. A few days later he was drinking toasts in rapid succession to peace and amity; denounced any nation that would consider upsetting either, and with his arms around his pals, not in the Kremlin, but in the TURKISH EMBASSY, he proclaimed his devotion to the Biblical injunction of "turning swords into plough shares". DUZZLING? Another understatement of the week. It is completely baffling and not only to any "man in the street," but to trained diplomats and states men like Messers Churchill and Dulles. All that anyone outside of the Kremlin can abso lutely KNOW at this time, is that for reasons UN known, Nikiti Khrushchev decided that talking war a week ago was to Soviet Russia's interest, and talk ing peace last Tuesday, was also in that category. And that, as was also true of Machiavelji, is the only point they consider. These two men, in short, had one virtue in common they were, and are, entire ly devoted to what they believe and believed would advance the fortunes of their respective states. CO today the trouble is this nation and free demo- cratic nations as a whole don't go back to Machiavelli for their standards of behaviour in the field of international relations. Therefore a confusion outside of Russia is worse confounded. However, there is one consolation, as we see it. Those nations that do go back to Machiavelli as mod ern histoiy indicates, have in their policies the seeds of their own ultimate destruction. R.W.R, x. Thursday, October 31, 1957 to tell the truth. He never relations particularly be 'MSA8BR WHEN ALL 1 CDULD GET OUT OF THIS THING was Afpy . Matter of Fact OLD ORDERS AND NEW Warsaw In this strange city where the flame of freedom still boldly flickers almost in the shadow of the Kremlin, one finds one self oddly haunted by the memory of Prince Metter nich, of all people. He was not a fool al- Joseph Alsop though he looked one, this vain, painted astute defender of Europe's old order. "The principle of legiti macy," meaning the right to rule of those who have always ruled, was the motto on Metter nich's battle standard. Under that standard he fought his long rear guard action for monarchy and aristocracy, against nine teenth century Europe's new or der of capitalism and democ racy. Ironically, one remembers Metternich because "the prin ciple of legitimacy" can also be seen from Warsaw, inscribed upon the banners of none other than Nikita Khrushchev. Khrushchev too is fighting for an old order, the rule of the So viet Union by the annointed apparatus-priesthood of the sacred Communist Party. And the dis missal of Marshal Zhukov as Soviet Defense Minister looks very much like one outcome of Khrushchev's fight. Like Metternich, Khrushchev is resisting the emergence of a new order, in the form of the Soviet Union's massive new classes of officers in the armed services and industrialists and agriculturalists and scientists and other able men in positions of authority, who are party members but not appointed Com munist priests. THESE huge social classes were formed by Joseph Stal in as humble servants of the Soviet state. While Stalin's ter ror endured, their humility en dured. But now the terror is over, and the question arises whether the state's servants will become the state's masters. The question has taken human form in the person of Marshal Zhu kov, the first Soviet citizen ever to achieve full membership in the sacred Party Presidium with out rising through the ranks of the apparatus-priesthood. It is a useful corrective to pic ture the strange movements in the Kremlin in this manner. Be fore he was relieved as Defense Minister, Zhukov had certainly attained vast power. He had in his hands the great lever of pow er of control of the Soviet armed forces, and quite possibly the further . enormous lever of sub stantive control of the Soviet po lice. But Zhukov's dismissal is a reminder that legitimacy, which Khrushchev has had on his side as head of the Commu nist Party apparatus, is also a most important source of power in all societies. If you doubt this curious, un armed and intangible power of legitimacy, just consider the story of the first Roman imperial dynasty, founded by Julius Cae sar and Augustus. After Augus tus' death, no less than four em perors, including two perverted iunatics and one aged cripple, were needed to make the Roman legions realize that their real power could make an emperor who did not belong to the deified dynasty. So one has to ask oneself whether the principle of legiti macy will not retain its old spell and strength, in this same fash ion, in the Soviet Union for quite a time to come. And against this key question, one must balance the other key question, whether the men of the new Soviet or der, men like Zhukhov, have the ambition and resentment that are needed to make them challenge successfully the old order. Here the evidence is fragmen tary but dramatic. There is the eye-witness account of the bitter resentment in the face of Zhu kov, just returned from postwar exile, when he stared down Stalin's ex-collaborators and re- j peated our Ambassador Bohlen's By Joseph Alsop famous Kremlin toast, "To jus tice." THERE is the authentic story of Khrushchev's greeting to Marshal Rokossovsky at the mo ment of crisis in Warsaw in Oc tober a year ago. To the Soviet viceroy of rebellious Poland, Khrushchev's first words, "You are not a Marshal but a (word utterly unprintable)." There is the further fact that Zhukov brought back the dis honored Rokossovsky from Po land to Moscow and made him Vice Minister of Defense. And before he was dismissed as De fense Minister, Zhukov placed this same Rokossovsky in com mand of the Soviet armies in the Caucasus. Surely it means some thing that - Zhukov's first inter vention in Khrushchev's Turk ish crisis was giving the vital border command to a man who must have been at least strongly inclined to take orders from Zhukov rather than Khrushchev In so doing, Zhukov may have initiated his own downfall. In any case, Khrushchev and "the principle of legitimacy" seem to have triumphed again, at least for a time. Khrushchev has tri- umphed in part thanks to the ac tive support now being given him by those natural legitimists, the leaders of the Communist parties here in Poland, in Yugo slavia, and elsewhere beyond Russia's borders. But Khrush chev and ltgitimacy have cer tainly faced a serious challenge, and may do so again. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. 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 Really Investigate Schools To the Editor: As a parent and as a teacher I should like to re ply to "A Medford Parent" who had a letter in the Communca tions column. First of all as a public school teacher for 14 years I have yet to tell any student to instruct his parents, how to v)te, and I have yet to be told by any ad ministrator that I was to do so. It is my view that parents are responsible for informing them selves. I have no need to "brain wash" anyone. The high school, designed for 800 and now housing 1100, with another increase of 200 expected next year, is hardly lavish. And with such crowded conditions facing us I do not believe the bond issue to be ill-timed, ex cept that I think it is TOO LATE. Most of us who have an in terest in the schools have read the article referred to, in the Readers Digest and I for one agree whole-heartedly. I believe the school officials do also, as they have issued a pamphlet ex plaining to all who are interest ed that they are instructing the architects to use local products wherever possible and to keep costs to a minimum. As to who makes the estimates of building needs, the Board of Education elected by the people, holding open meetings, surveys these needs, publishes their find ing in the public press, and the taxpayers are given every op portunity to acquaint themselves with the facts, before being ask ed to vote. . I do not believe any reliable official of the schools has ever told a group of people that vot ing for bonds won't cost money. Everyone knows that this is not so, and that the schools must be paid for. In fact, at every meeting I have ever attended I have heard to the best of any one's ability to know, just what the increase will be. It is true that sometimes the estimates of pupils don't "pan out" but so far we have never had a situation of erecting buil dings that were not needed. The ! population is not shrinking, it's expanding, and the kids will be in the school rooms. As a parent I want my chil- Today and By Walter THE BIG EVENTS As this is written on Monday morning, there has been no news out of Moscow which explins the Zhukov affair. The action, which must have involved much plan ning and ar ranging, was carried out in perfect secre cy. Nobody got wind of it, not the for Halter Llppmano eign intelligence services, the diplomats, the newspapers, the Communist parties abroad. It is not probable that any of the satellite governments had any advance knowledge. Since we do not know what has happened, or why it has hap pened, we can only guess, and not very confidently at that, about what it may mean. In the old days, a change in the top of fices of the state usually meant a change in the policy of the Soviet government. Thus Molo tov replaced Litvinov at the For eign Office not long before World War II began with the sig nature of the Hitler-Stalin pact. After .Stalin's death and the execution of Beria, there came a decided relaxation of the in ternal terror of the Soviet state. It is natural to wonder then whether this affair which de prives Zhukov of his adminis trative control of the army means that Khrushchex intends to follow a policy which Zhukov opposes. TT IS conceivable and even prob able that this is true. But to say this does not take us very far. For we do rot really know what are Zhukov's policies in Eastern Europe and in the Mid dle East, and what are Khrush chev's. If we think of Zhukov as the traditional Russian soldier and Khrushchev as the success- ful politician on his way up, it is probable that the old soldier is more interested in holding on to the Russian strategic position in Eastern Europe, and that he is not willing to risk much to ex tend the Russian position in the Middle East. Khrushchev, con ceivably, has the politician's in tuition which tells him that East ern Europe can be kept within the Russian military system only by accepting the national Com munism of men like Tito and Gomulka. Moreover, Khrush chev may think that in the Mid dle East he may be able to win a great political victory one dreamed of but never achieved by the Czars and by Stalin of opening the Mediterranean to Russia. All this, I hasten to say, is mere guesswork, with no hard fact to support it. It is another example, it may be, of our hu man propensity to insist on hav- dren to have a chance at being educated in a school where the teacher has classes of reasonable size. As a teacher I'd like to be able to teach classes again of reasonable size not for my self, but for the children's bene fit. It hurts me to teach geo metry classes of 35-40 pupils when I can't get around in the hour to all who need the help. It is not we teachers 'who suffer so much, it's the children who are denied the opportunity to have more of our help. So I ask "A Medford Parent" to investigate definitely in vestigate don't take things on faith, come and visit the high school, stay with me a day, and see how it is necessary to slight some of the youngsters who need help because of sheer lack of time to reach them all, and then vote as your conscience dictates. James A. Johnston, 912 Newtown, Medford, Ore. "The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done." DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Tomorrow Lippmann ing an opinion when all that we are entitled to have is an open mind. rpHE Zhukov affair has distract--- ed from the Eisenhower-Mac- millan meeting in Washington. I am afraid that this was not dif ficult to do in view of the fact that the only acknowledged news on the conference was a long communique, composed of all the old tired generalities strung together with a little bit more than the normal rhetorical elegance. These generalities, it seems, mean much to those who, being in the know, utter them but not very much to those, be ing on the outside, read them. However, on Sunday. Mr. Res ton of the New York Times had a dispatch which really does throw light on what lies beneath the generalities. It is that if the NATO alliance is to keep up with the race of armaments, there will have to be "a major review of United States military expenditures and overseas com mitments." Mr. Reston's report indicated, if I read it correctly, that what we have to decide at home and with our allies is this: if we are to keep ahead with the new wea pons, we cannot also subsidize at their present level the mili tary establishments of all our allies in the whole network of pacts with which we are involv ed. A GREAT deal has been said about pooling and coopera tion, and it is hardly arguable that in the field of basic science and technology, the more pool ing a.nd cooperation there is the better for all concerned. But this general idea, when it is applied to the race of armaments, con tains within it certain political and military implications which may be very far reaching. For when the scientists and engi neers pool their knowledge and cooperate in the designing of the new weapons, like the big mis siles with nuclear warheads, the crucial fact is that all, or almost all, of the hideously expensive devices are going to have to be financed and produced in the United States. This means that we cannot also be expected to maintain con ventional forces, or forces with tactical nuclear weapons, of de cisive importance, and at the same time to subsidize balanced military establishments from Korea and Japan and Taiwan to Pakistan and -Turkey and Wes tern Europe. The inescapable corrolary of cooperation is a di vision of labor an understand ing, in short, as to what we are to attend to and what the other allies are to attend to. TT IS impossible for the United - States to recover the lead in the race of armaments without a very considerable increase of ex penditures. This will necessitate not only more appropriations for the Defense Department but also a re-allocation of the military ob jectives of the Defense Depart ment. : .. ,. As Mr. Reston, whose sources are no doubt unimpeachable, in dicates, we shall be moving to wards a division of responsibili ties within the alliance in which we specialize even more than we do now in strategic deterrents, calling upon our allies to assume the main responsibility for. what are, by global standards, tactical defenses. There will be much to talk about at the NATO meeting in December, and in the budget conferences here which are al ready under way. All ihis has been precipitated, one may say, by Sputnik, by the demonstra tion that, with our energies and resources dispersed all over the globe, we are losing the race of armaments. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune, Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS According to figures just made public by William M. Tugman, of Reedsport, chairman of the ad visory committee of the state's tourist promotion agency, Ore gon has entertained 3,539,000 out-of-state visitors so far dur ing 1957. This contrasts with 1,839,000 in 1948 an increase of approx imately a million and three-quarters, or 92 per cent, in the ten year period. In this total, Mr. Tugman explains, only out-of-state cars remaining in the state three days or longer are in cluded. He adds: "Some states project their tour ist total on the basis of all out-of-state vehicles, even those staying only one day, whether or not they carry tourists. Still others regularly include in their an nual tourist figures the travel within the states by their own people. Oregon feels, however, that a better picture of the con tribution of tourist travel to the state' economy can be obtained by counting only those cars that remain three days or longer." TT IS CERTAINLY a more real- istic picture, for it must be assumed that the number of busi ness visitors coming to Oregon is roughly balanced by the num ber of Oregonians going to other states on business. If we are to regard the tourist business as a net contribution to the economy, we must deduct from the total of those coming to the state the number of residents of the state that go to other states. If, as Mr. Tugman sug gests, we were to class as "tour ists" people who merely travel around in their own state, we would be kidding ourselves, for the money spent by INTRA-state tourists remains WITHIN the state. It isn't NEW money. nriHAT, of course brings up the money that is spent by resi dents of the state vths go to OTHER states. The money they spend while away from'liome is taken out of the state in which they live and so, presumably, it is deducted from the state's total economy. So This question arises:. Does Oregen gain or lose in the exchange involved in tourist travel? 'r; AS TO THAT, we can only guess, for the figures do not take into consideration the num ber of Oregonians who travel to other states. But we can safely assume from the total of more than three and a half million tourists who have visited Ore gon during 1957 that Oregon has gained in the exchange. Oregon's population is only approximately a million and a half, so all of our people would have had to go out of the state TWICE to balance the number of outsiders who have come here this year. It seems quite safe to assume that in Oregon the tourist busi ness is a profitable business. 270 Horsepower AMBASSADOR By Rambler :;:IS-; NowAfM LEA MOTORS 5th at Barrlerf . SP 2-618S tor
