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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. SO and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10. 1947 (Monday)
"Two Bits" a Terrier dog be
longing to William H. Ziegler,
forest service fire guard, who
gained national fame in tumb
ling two times off an 800 foot
cliff, is not as spry as he used to
be, according to District Hang
er Loren Cooper.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "A local
wanderer has returned from
roughing it for two weeks on a
dude ranch of the great South
west at $125 per week."
20 YEARS AGO
qNov. 10. 1937 (Wednesday)
Advance buying of Rogue
River valley turkeys for the
Thanksgiving trade has started,
O with a low price of 21 cents to
23 cents per pound being offered.
Medford Corporation success
ful bidder for 2,200,000 board
feet of sugar and ponderosa pine
In Rogue river national forest
about 10 miles east of Butte
Tails.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10. 1927 (Thursday)
Public schools budget for next
year's expenses provides for only
a 7Vi per cent increase over the
budget of this year.
Armistice Day celebration in
Medford scheduled to begin at
9 a.m. tomorrow with street
stunts and outdoor vaudeville in
the business section of the city.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10. 1917 (Friday)
Local Red Cross chapter to
make 210 more Christmas pack
ets for soldiers and have them
ready by Dec. 1, it was an
nounced. Local and Personal column:
H. E. Crowel of the VaUey Can
ning company of Newberg, who
is in the city in the interest of
his company, sees a great future
for fruit growers of this section.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. The hevea tree yields what
important commercial product?
2. Is the Dardanelles a group
of Turkish islands?
3. Bible: Is the Asmonaean
Kingdom - the same as the Has
monaeam Kingdom?
4. Of which ation is Pre
toria the capital?
5. The small crabs sometimes
found in oysters, are, or are
not, edible?
6. Are both the ostrich and
rhea incapable of flight?
7. Which country has the
largest number of automobiles?
8. Does the color blue in the
American flag symbolize cour
age, liberty, or loyalty?
9. "Jack, Jim and John were
sick; the former was the first
to get well." What is wrong
with this sentence?
10. ' From Eastertide to East
ertide . . . her patient knees
Engraved the stones the fittest
bride Of Christ in all the
diocese." J. Davidson, in his
"A Ballad to a" what?
Answers: 1. Rubber. 2. No. it
is a body of water. 3. Yes. (Apo
crypha Period). 4. union oi
South Africa. 5. They are edible.
6. Yes. 7. The United States.
8. Loyalty. 9. "Former" should
never be used to refer to three
or more. 10. Nun.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Doesn 't Everyone Feel Better?
Well, we feel much better, thanks to "Sputnik,"
"Muttnick" and President Eisenhower.
We include the Russian "nicks" for if they had
not been launched, and awakened the American peo
ple to the realities of the Communist menace, we
doubt if Thursday night's speech wrould ever have
been delivered.
It was this wave of apprehension, fear and doubt
sweeping the countiy that triggered the White House
decision to advance the date of a presidential re
assurance by two weeks, and there seems no doubt
that the assurance that was promised was given.
"THE chief reason for this, as, we see it, is the com
plete confidence the American people have in our
leading "World War II hero," when questions of mili
tary preparedness or national security, are involved.
He is their authority in this field.
They also never question and with reason the
President's devotion to what HE considers the na
tion's best welfare, and his complete absence of
"double-talk" and guile in any public utterance he
may make.
In short, they trust him, and particularly when he
speaks about things he knows about, involving the No.
1 problem in the world today, "War and Peace."
CO, ALTHOUGH as this is written it is too early
to be certain, it is this department's belief that
this one speech has materialy changed the nation's
atmosphere, overnight so to speak, and what seemed
a week ago to threaten panic in some quarters, has
largely, if not entirely disappeared. This is an out
standing achievement.
"XfE DON'T mean to say everything has been cleared
T f up.
Only a few hours before the President's broadcast,
for example, a member of his administration, Assist
ant Secretary of Defense Paul C. Foot, told a House
subcommittee, quote :
"The U.S. missile program is four to five years behind
Russians and it is going to be hard to catch up."
It is fair to assume this is correct for President
Eisenhower did not deny it directly or indirectly, in
his speech.
He did say this:
"Scientists assure me we are well ahead of the Soviets
in the nuclear field both in quality and quantity and we
intend to stay there."
QF COURSE the "nuclear field" is not the "guided-
missile" field. And as far as this "ultimate weap
on" is concerned, the President admitted the inter
continental type is needed but had. not as yet been
perfected.
Soviet Russia claims theirs has been. Not only that,
but Khrushchev says it can be guided to hit any target
desired on the surface of the globe.
A pretty tall order!
And two or three weks ago the American reaction
would have been "So what? you can't believe a thing
they say."
With "Sputnik" No. 1 and 2 still sweeping around
the globe there will probably be less tendency to join
in such blanket repudiation as there has been hereto
fore. e e e
CO THERE are still some flies in the amber from the
American standpoint, but all in all, the major ones
have been removed.
And President Eisenhower should be given credit
for removing them. It is unfortunate he did not lay
all his cards - on - the - table before the "Sputnik"
achievement, instead of after, but after all sufficient
unto the day are the blessings thereof.
And here are a few of them :
1. The wasted time and motion, the silly rivalry
and duplication between the 3 services in the missile
field, will be ended.
2. The entire missile problem will be under the
control of an expert in the field, James R. Killian
president of M.I.T., aided by a committee of the best
scientific brains the country can produce.
3. Doubt about a solution by this country of the
problem of guiding a missile and hitting the desired
target 'intact within a range of a thousand or two
thousand miles, has been removed. We have such a
weapon.
4. So long as our airbases remain intact in western
Europe, this short-range missile now in production,
will prove effective against any attack by Russia.
5. Instead of being inactive or indifferent regard
ing the importance of better American schools and
education, particularly in the fields of basic research
and science, the administration promises to take an
active part in the next session of the congress, in push
ing f orward such a program, and rectifying the errors
of omission that have been made in the past.
6. At least a billion dollars more than previously
pledged to bridge the gap between this country and
Russia, particularly in the area of ballistic weapons,
will be requested of congress at its next session.
o
(XF COURSE what the President asks of the con-
gress is one thing, and what congress does may
be another.
But there is reason to believe that the country as
a whole has been sufficiently scared by the Sputnik
twins, to place the welfare and security of the U.S.A.
above party politics for a time.
It would be too much to expect this when the cam
paign for 1958 really begins but there should be time
for a lucid interval and considerable accomplishment
before then. R.W.R.
Sunday. November 10, 1957
Vtow savs he cm em, but all
Today and
By Walter
THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECHES
In speaking to the country the
President is bound to be very
conscious of the fact that the
times have
chan g e d. Al
ways, since he
was first nom
inated for
Preside nt,
even during
the pause in
1954, the gen
eral m o o d of
the co untry
waiter Lipomano has been bull
ish. He himself has teen the
symbol and the carrier of a gen
eral confidence that as the coun
try was growing and expanding
all things were bound to come
out right.
While this was the mood of
the country, he himself, as com
pared with any other President
one can remember, was peculi
arly and uniquely invulnerable.
He received the credit for all
that went well and was never
held personally accountable for
what went wrong.
That mood has passed. The
President himself is very much
aware of this fact, and that is
why he is making a series of
speeches. He finds it necessary
"to stimulate the faith and con
fidence" of the American people
in their defenses, their foreign
policy, and their economy.
IN ORDER to stimulate the
faith and confidence of the
people, which he feels is want
ing, he will have to convince the
people that he is addressing him
self lucidly, resolutely, and with
perseverance to the things which
have disturbed faith and confi
dence. What are they?
There has been a lot of bad
news bad news about the
Sputniks and ballistic missiles,
about Little Rock, about the
Middle East, about NATO, about
the American educational sys
tem, and about the state of
business and employment. Why,
we must ask ourselves, are so
many things going wrong for us
in so many different ways?
MY OWN notion is one which
I cannot prove in a short
space and perhaps could not
prove at all. It is that the com
mon factor in these diverse and
many troubles is to be found in
the disparity between the offi
l
Matter of Fact
SIX LITTLE INDIANS
Ankara, Turkey N i k i t a
Khrushchev's brilliant, sinister
triumph over Marshal Zhukov
is an event of extraordinary
drama and significance. The
whole history
of modern
times has noth
ing to show
that is quite
like this.
It is an
event, more
over, which
casts a reveal
ing light on
Joseph Aisop the character
of the man who now holds in
his stubby hands, fantastic pow
er, of which Sputnik II is a sym
bol. For Khrushchev, one must
now conclude, combines a re
markable and ruthless political
talent with the genius of a great
actor.
The coarse peasant's appear
ance, the rough, hearty peasant's
appetites, the salty peasant
speech these qualities com
pose the picturesque and homely
facade that has deceived the
world and his rivals. All the way
from the ablest Western diplo
mats, who used to feel so sure
that Malenkov was far the abler
man, to Marshal Zhukov him
self, who evidently felt a danger
ous measure of contempt for his
jolly little friend whom he saved
from utter destruction in June,
everyone has under - rated
Khrushchev.
"M"0 DOUBT Khrushchev active
ly wished and contrived to be
underrated. After all, it is very
useful indeed to be regarded
v-
ivg ever heard him co is
Tomorrow
Lippmann
cial and the popular promises,
expectations, policies and com
mitments on the one hand, and
on the other, the resources and
the efforts which we as a people
have been able or willing to ex
pend upon them.
There is, for example, the bud
get for defense and foreign aid.
It is big, as compared with what
the American taxpayers have
been allowed by their leaders to
think they ought to pay. But it
is quite insufficient to do all the
things that the taxpayers have
been taught to think that the
country ought to do. We have
set out to win the race of arma
ments in the big new weapons,
and at the same time to main
tain a big military establishment
of conventional weapons; we
have promised to underwrite a
military alliance which runs
around the world from Japan to
Norway.
Surely, the reason that the
Soviet Union is ahead of us in
the missiles is, first, that her
efforts have been concentrated
while ours have been dispersed,
and second, that the Soviet
Union has put not only defense
but science and public educa
tion above a high standard of
private consumption.
IlfE HAVE promised to do
' much more than we have
asked our people to pay for. Mr.
Dulles has been very tough
when he talks to the Russians.
But Mr. Eisenhower has been
very soft when he talks to the
Congress about appropriations.
There is a great disparity be
tween what has been promised
and what has been provided. Be
cause of it crises are breaking
out in our defense establishment,
in our alliances, and at home in
such critical matters as educa
tion. These crises are disturbing the
faith and confidence which the
President hopes to restore.
Whether he is to succeed will
depend, so I venture to think, on
whether after a reappraisal of
his policies and his promises, he
will take his stand firmly on the
principle that the time has come
to tell the people, as they have
not been told for many long
years, that they must put the
public need ahead of their pri
vate profit and their private
comfort.
(c) 1957 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
By. Joseph Alsop
as a comic character, if your real
purposes are the very opposite
of comic.
And so the surprised rivals
went down one by one, like the
little Indians in the old song.
First Beria was executed. Then
Malenkov was demoted. Then,
after a long period of the most
intricate maneuvering, Malen
kov counter-attacked with Molo
tov, Kaganovich, and Shepilov
to help him, and all four were
destroyed with the essential help
of Zhukov. And finally Zhukov,
whose powers had also been vast
ly increased by this grisly elim
ination contest, has been cooly
eliminated in his turn.
So there are no more little
Indians hanging on the wall.
There is now Nikita Khrushchev
alone. He has at his bidding the
Party organization, as before.
And now he has gained control
of police and army too, by his
swift and savage attack upon his
savior of last June.
TN SUM, Khrushchev now has
all the dictatorial instruments
that Stalin had. But he does not
yet possess the dictatorial au
thority, the grim, terrible but ac
cepted personal aura that Stalin
also had. And Khrushchev's So
viet Union is in many ways a
very different country from the
Soviet Union of Josef Stalin.
For these reasons, Nikita
Khrushchev's last gamble is in
some ways his biggest gamble.
He has broken Marshal Zhukov,
agilely seizing the chance to
strip Zhukov of his seemingly
invincible power when this pow
er was in abeyance because of
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
This is written on the 40th an
niversary of the Bolshevik revo
lution which was the door
through which the modern insti
tution of communism entered
the world. That brings up an in
teresting point.
The Bolshevik revolution
couldn't have succeeded if it
hadn't been for the Russian
army. Back in 1917, the Czarist
army was starving and freezing
and dying in the World War I
trenches. It was inadequately
clothed, inadequately fed, in
adequately armed and inade
quately led.
It revolted against the Czarist
government, and the Bolshevik
revolution followed. The revolt
of the army gave the Bolsheviks,
who were the immediate prede
cessors of the communists, the
strength they needed to take
over.
ON THIS 40th anniversary, of
the revolution, the commu
nist dictatorship of Russia, led
by Krushchev, is riding high,
wide and handsome. It is blow
ing the propaganda trumpet as
the propaganda trumpet was
never blown before since history
began. It is backing up its propa
ganda campaign with some defi
nite and tangible scientific and
industrial achievements that
can't and MUSTN'T be laughed
off.
There is a skeleton in the
Krushchev closet.
The skeleton is ZHUKOV.
TI1ARSHAL Zhukov is (or shall
we say was) a popular mili
tary hero. He was so important
that a while back Krushchev
had to take him into the lodge
presumably to make sure of the
Red Army.
It couldn't have been Zhukov'
ALONE that Krushchev felt he
had to have on his side. He must
have known, or at least felt, that
back of Zhukov were other mili
tary leaders who could be ex
pected to support Zhukov in
whatever objectives he may
have had in the way of influen
cing the destinies of the commu
nist state.
Krushchev must have NEED
ED these leaders of the Red
Army, or he wouldn't have made
the conciliatory gesture that
was involved in his giving to
Marshal Zhukov the title of
minister of defense.
W
In some manner whose de
tails are not known to the world,
he double - crossed Zhukov and
broke him and threw him on the
scrap heap..
I think it must be assumed
that Zhukov's friends and asso
ciates and co-workers in the Red
Army must be displeased with
what has happened (to their
leader! They must be apprehen
sive. They must see in Zhukov's
disgrace and degradation a men
ace to their careers and perhaps
to their lives.
That thought at least makes
sense.
rTHIS is the Kremlin's big day
-- and Krushchev and his crowd
are making the most of it. They
are putting on quite a show
and it can t be denied that the
rest of the world is immensely
impressed.
But
I think we can safely assume
that on his day of days, Khrush
chev's mind isn't entirely at
ease. In the back of his crafty
and scheming brain must lurk
the memory that without the
Russian army the Bolshevik
revolution could not have suc
ceeded when it succeeded.
That must 'prompt the thought
that if the Red Army is still
secretly loyal to Marshal Zhu
kov all of Krushchev's crafty
schemes to glorify h i m se 1 f
MIGHT GO TO POT.
Zhukov's absence from Russia
But Khrushchev has not
changed the fact that Zhukov,
the only national leader without
the blood of the Stalin years on
his hands, was also the only Rus
sian national hero in any real
sense of those words. And he has
not changed the fact, either, that
a vast majority of the immediate
ly important Soviet officer class
must feel the most lively sym
pathy for Zhukov in their hearts.
TT IS one thing to name old
Molotov, with marvelous
irony, as Ambassador to Outer
Mongolia. It is quite another
thing to make the great Zhukov
the commandant of a minor mili
tary school or something else of
that sort. The risk is immeasur
ably greater. The temptation to
reduce the risk by renewing
Stalin's terror is also immeasur
ably greater.
Hence this is a breathless mo
ment. The Soviet Union and the
world must wait to learn wheth
er Khrushchev's final triumph
will be celebrated with a heca
tomb of human victims.
The general probabilities point
that way. The only available
specific evidence points the
other way, however. It comes
from the Poles and Yugoslavs,
who decided together at Bel
grade to support Khrushchev
against Zhukov by all means
possible. In Warsaw, this decision
was authoritatively explained to
me on the ground that Khrush
chev represented the best hope
of continuing "liberalization" of
Soviet society.
Perhaps Khrushchev has fool
ed Tito and Gomulka as he has
fooled so many others. But even
if they are right about him, let
no one suppose that the prospect
POTLUCCC
(By M-T Staff and Contribution)
We wonder if there is a woman
driver in a certain Medford
household. If there is, she could
well be gloating.
Pnline records show that a
Medford High school student, a
boy, was given a citation Oct.
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Veterans Day
To the Editor: On this 39th
anniversary of the signing of the
Armistice that ended World
War One's hostilities, we of that
war, marvel that a whole gen
eration has come into being who
do not think of the Day as
having any significance.
True, it has been properly re
titled "Veterans Day" to make it
all-inclusive, as a day for proper
respect to veterans of all of
America's conflicts.
But to veterans of the war
that occurred in those long past
years, 1917 and 1918, there is
nothing left but our memories.
And the veteran of World War
One has to withdraw to himself
to trot out the image of Kaiser
Bill, Hindenburg, Ludendorf and
the rest. They were so important
then," that who would think their
imprint on so many millions
would grow so dim as it is to
day?
But much was accomplished
by that fracas called World War
I. Although the world was not
"made safe for Democracy" as
the aim and purpose was de
clared, our nation, from that
Armistice Day, definitely em
barked on a course that led to
world leadership. A turning
point in our thought came with
our victory on the Nov. 11 morn
ing when the guns were hushed
on the battlefields of France.
To change the name to Vet
erans Day from Armistice Day
seems appropriate, because .the
old name was a misnomer. Peace
was never realized on a world
wide scale from that day to this,
but the fact remains that Nov. 11
is a day of commemoration of
the bravery and sacrifice of
many young Americans of years
ago. The suffering was just as
intense then as it was on any
other battlefield, before or since.
Veterans of World War I of
the USA is an organization five
years old. In that time it has
grown by leaps and bounds. The
reason 'for- prganization is that
heretofore WWI has been the
only war without an exclusive
organization. The objective, as
well as reminiscence of the serv
ice 40 years ago, and the plea
sure of each other's company, is
welfare and rehabilitation work
for and with each othher. There
is a special drive on now for
eligible veterans to join the local
VWWI Barracks.
Pat Graham
Adjutant and Service Officer,
Chapter No. 8
Disabled American Veterans
The Balfour Declaration
To the Editor: Nov. 2, 1957
was the 40th anniversary of the
issuance of the Balfour Declara
tion by which the British gov
ernment expressed itself in
favor of the founding of a Jew
ish National Home in Palestine.
Certain years of climax in the
history of the Jews are propheti
cally prefigured in the Bible.
Such years as A.D. 1878, 1914,
1917, 1918, 1925 and 1948 are
among those years.
The Balfour Declaration of
Nov. 2, 1917 and the capture of
Jerusalem from the Turks on
Dec. 9, 1917, are both evidences
of Jehovah's returning favor to
the Jews.
The Bible Indicates that there
is more trouble ahead for Israel
but that finally Israel will dwell
in peace and abound in all good
things. See Amos 9:14,15; Jere
miah 30:1-24; Zechariah 14:1-12;
Romans 11:1-26.
Jesus Christ, among other
things, said: "salvation is of the
Jews." John 4:22.
A. R. Stewart
67 Ocean st.
Dorchester center 24
Massachusetts.
is very much more reassuring.
"POR "liberalization" means
A letting in more air, which is
the most dangerous thing of all
in the airless Soviet society. It
means radically changing all the
most long standing priorities, in
cluding military investment
priorities, to give the people a
better life. Above all, it means
continuing to give free play to
the huge, increasingly strong
new groups in the Soviet ruling
class, whose challenge to the
monopoly of rule of the sacred
Party apparatus was typified by
Zhukov.
Thus the second giant nation
wholly in the hands of a bril
liant, cool and calculating gamb
ler who has triumphed over all
his rivals by his appetite for.
risk. Great difficulties confront
him at home. Great opportunities
glow before his eyes abroad. And
by our own fantastic, self in
dulgent folly, we have created a
situation in which this man must
in our divided world is now
inevitably believe he: can most
easily strengthen himself at
home by success abroad. .
31 for failure to obey a traffic
signal at the corner of Main st.
and Central ave., and that the
following day his father was
cited for a similar offense at
Central and Jackson only a
few blocks away.
Both penalties were paid the
same day.
The price of hubcaps being
what it is, a staff member
tenses a certain tragedy in the
fact that they are sometimes
stolen. He even went so far
as to declare that the old nur
sery rhyme about the "poor
little kittens who lost their
mittens" should be replaced
with something about the "kid
next door who lost his hub
caps." It doesn't rhyme,
though.
A young man in our office
suspects that some restaurants
are in league with the dentists.
He claims that the container
of toothpicks, which used to be
handily placed next to the cash
register, in many cases has been
replaced with a container of
mints.
We have been iold about a
minuiei n auuuici iuwq w no,
in common with most of man
kind, has certain frustrations
in his job, who takes care of
them by going to a golf course."
lining up a group of golf balls
in a neat row. names each one
after a troublesome parish
ioner, and then knocks them
as far down the fairway as ha
can.
Some weeks are worse than
others in the newspaper busi
ness. Last week had its share
of trials and tribulations and
errors at the M-T so much
that at one point the women's
editor was threatening, half
seriously, to jump off the near
est bridge, and the superinten
dent of the printing department
was wandering around mutter
ing "You can't win 'em ail; you
can't win 'em aU!!!" '
It appears that this happens
elsewhere, too. Like at another
Oregon newspaper which printed
a rather elaborate story about a
wedding. There was a tiny hole
at the bottom of the column
under the story, and a hurried
printer inserted a "filler" which
said, "Our classifieds get re
sults." We're told the bride's father
called up the publisher, the .edi
tor, the managing editor and the
society editor somewhere around
midnight when he saw that, and
let them know in no uncertain
terms what he thought about
any "lousy, stinking . sheet that
would pull a trick like that, etc.,
etc., etc.
One of our co-worker has a
prescription as to when a wom
an should keep her mouth
closed. He reports that a menv
ber of the fair sex was talking
on the telephone the other
day. and poking the tire in we
fireplace at the same time,
when suddenly a hot coal
popped out of the fireplace and
right into her mouth. Some
husbands (but none around
here certainly) might be
tempted to say it just goes to
show . .
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In a certain police depart
ment in a certain west coast city
there is a girl who is records
officer, and who is engaged to a
young man on the police force.
In their discussions, he as
sured her that if he ever had to
choose between doing her a
favor and doing his duty, he'd
have to do his duty. ,
Well, she was driving along
not long ago and heard a siren,
and pulled over to the curb. The
officer, her fiance, walked up
to the car, and politely, but
formally, requested to see her
driver's license. She handed it
to him, and he noted she had
failed to sign it, as the law re
quires, .and duly made out a
ticket, handed it to her, nodded,
got into his car and drove away.
The last we heard, the two
were still planning to get mar
ried, but the young woman is
swearing she'll get even even
if it takes 40 years.
The backshop philosopher
stoutly claims that the rings
of Saturn are nothing but a
whole bunch of burned -out
Sputniks.
The state department of motor
vehicles last week reported the
true story of the pedestrian who
had been stopped too many
times by cars which blocked the
cross-walk. The next time it
happened, he calmly opened the
car's rear door, punched the
driver in the eye, walked through
the car and out the opposite
door, and down the street. The
driver was too startled to do
anything.
Another pedestrian, in the
same fix, walked right over the
offending car up on one fend
er, across the hood, onto the
other fender, down and away.
And on the other side of the
driver - pedestrian war, the de
partment tells of the time dur
ing a busy rush hour when a
jaywalker wandered out into
heavy traffic. A driver brought
his car to a screeching halt,
alighted from the car, and with
exaggerated courtesy escorted
the jaywalker to the curb, much
to his embarrassment. " -