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(VOUK MtQTOWB (OllIOOR) eda Th Mall Trigone" published Daily Bxceat Satta-rlay to MEOFORD PRIKTEtG CO 7-a North fir t. Phone -41 ROBERT ftUKU Uit CR GRrY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Iibim Manager RIC ALLAN J. MaaBging Editor kARL H ADAI5. Cito Editor jtARRY CHIPMAN. Tetepraph KdiW KlCHARD JEWSTT toorts Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor gL CUCKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Stared mg sacond atas matter at asediatd Otwobl under ot 1 March I. 1897 J5CrPT10 KATES My Hail In Advance- Par Copy IOe. " Dally and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday -Sin monthe 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mot. 4-25 - Sunday Only On year S4-20 My Carrier In advance Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville Cold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove. Rojru Rive. Talent and ot motor route' Dail?- and Sunday One year S18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Ofealer 10c per copy All Terms Cash tn Advance Official Paper f tke City ef Medford Official Paper of Jackeoa County United t-Tesa full Leased Wire MEMBER O AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Repriaaitatlve: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPATT tNC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit. San Francieoo. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NIWSPAPE tUIUSHEIS ASIOCIATION H A T I 0 MA I I 0 1 T 0 1 1 A i V5V TT AIIOCU'ieN JEBSS rllH'UM u Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and (0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO to. 14. 1947 (Friday) Careful planning is most effec tive answer to problems con fronting cities of this nation, ac cording to Dr. Shelby Harrison of New York City, former head ol the Russell Sage Foundation, Jpeaking at Rogue River Knife nd Fork club. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Reports from the clothing industry say the lengthening of the fair sex skirts used up more cloth than was saved during the war by re moving cuffs from men's pants." 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1937 (Sunday) The Jackson county grand jury returns a true bill charging George Marshall Hearn, 20, Eli Lee Cagle, 23, and Stanley Hugh Borden, 19, Oregon Normal School at Monmouth football squad members, with robbery by force and violence. Professor W. F. G. Thacher, who teaches magazine and short story writing in the University of Oregon, in Medford to organ ize class for writers. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 14. 1927 (Monday) A shrine luncheon at Medford hotel with the Imperial Poten tate of Shriners, Clarence Dun bar of Providence, R. I., was preliminary to Hillah Temple ceremonial program at Ashland. A deal whereby West Coast theaters will assume one - half interest in the George A. Hunt Amusement company, operators of moving picture theaters in this city. Grants Pass and Rose burg, closes today. 0 YEARS AGO t of. 14. 1917 (Wednesday) Congressman W. C. Hawley, of Salem, after a day's visit in Vedford, said the United States will have a million troops, at the battle front in Europe by June. V. C. Hammatt, engineer in charge of the investigations un dertaken by the Medford irriga tion district, has completed a re port on various features of the project. Uktl't Tsvr I.Q.? Nine- or tea correct tt superior; atven or eight ts excellent; five or six is good. 1. Palm Sunday is observed by Christians one week before -hat Sunday? X What is a maitre d'oeuvre? i. Bible: In the Authorized Version is the Apocrypha sub joined to the Old Testament or tb New Ttstament? 3t. llary Livingstone is the fljfif of which film, radio and TV comedian Did Aaron Burr die as a result of -wounds received in a il with Alexander Hamilton? . Senator Sparkman, Demo crat, represents which State in th U. S. Senate? T. Is th larger part of the Turkish Republic in Europe or in Asi Minor? 8. Do spiders have wings? 9. Was Rembrandt a noted ar tisan or composer? 10. "To me every hour of light anrf dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a" what? Walt Whitman. Answers: 1. Easter Sunday. 2. Master of work a foreman. 3. Old Testament. 4. Jack Benny. 5. No. Hamilton died as a result of lhat duel. 6. Alabama. 7. Asia Minor. 8. No. 9. No. An artist (painter). 10. "miracle." MAIL TRIBUNE Why Try to "Match" Russia? That the people are still bothered by Russia's vic tory in outer space is indicated by reactions in certain educational circles. One eastern educator over the air the other night for example predicted it would take five years to catch Russia in "the Sputnik race" and 50 years in the edu cational marathon. The speaker did not exactly say this meant the doom of democracy, but it was certainly implied. This, we think, is another example of running scared TOO scared. "IX7E HAVE previously expressed our real concern v over Russia's increased power and prestige, as a result of placing Sputnik One and Two into an orbit around the earth within a few days of each other. It was, as remarked, a stunning American defeat in the first battle of space but not a defeat in the war. And while, needless to say, we can't qualify as an authority in this interstellar field, we think there is good reason to believe, that it won't take anything ap proaching five years, to match Soviet Russia, as far as earth-satellites are concerned. EDUCATION, however, is another matter. And from what we have learned of the Russian system of education, this "land of the free and the home of the brave" won't MATCH the totalitarian system in 50 years if ever. And for a very simple reason. The Russian system of education is as fundamen tally different from ours, as is their system of govern ment. In both cases the latter absolutely rules and there is no individual freedom in either. In Russia the young man or woman who wishes to be a doctor, lawyer, a scientist, business executive or what have you, can't be trained as one unless the government agrees. The government herds the young people together in each district, a special official, informed by the Kremlin of the government's special needs, makes his selections accordingly; and on this basis they are con signed to various institutions of learning where they better make good or else. And in this case the "or else" means if they don't make the grade they are sent to the army. And the Russian armed forces have battalions of women as wrell as men! "IX7E DON'T deny this educational system has its advantages. As they used to teach us in Govern ment I a "benevolent dictatorship is far more EFFI CIENT than a free democracy." But it wras also stressed that "efficiency" is not everything in this life. And it was carefully noted that however benevo lent a dictatorship may be when it starts, the benevo lence never lasts long. Finally as histoiy pretty well demonstrates eventually absolute power means abso lute corruption. So "in the good old days" dictatorships, in spite of their high efficiency potential, were even in academic circles pretty well discredited and discarded. "II7E DON'T believe American public opinion has v changed veiy much with the passage of the years, in this particular direction. This doesn't mean that our educational system can't be improved. It can be, and MUST be. But it does mean that to improve it at the expense of freedom, to exalt an autocratic conformity at the sacrifice of personal liberty, should not be done. And we feel sure the American people will never, in the forseeable future at least, consent to it. CO THIS talk about "MATCHING" Russia in edu- cation leaves this department cold. It not only can't be done in less than 50 years, but it shouldn't be done at all. There should be more and better schools; there should be more attention paid, and time devoted, to the exceptional child, and less to routine grading; there should be more emphasis upon brains and less on brawn and "bop" where our institutions-of -higher-learning are concerned; and above all and in general our scale of values in the entire field of education, should be radically changed and bettered. DUT this doesn't mean we have to "MATCH" Rus sia in the field of education or in any other. It does mean, as the world's leading democracy, the time has come for an "agonizing reappraisal". 'We need a realistic and down - to - earth "taking of stock", an end to glossing over our shortcomings and instead admitting them and then setting about to correct them. Finally it means, waking up to the facts of life from a cosmic as well as an earthly standpoint, and a determination nation wide, to demonstrate what this department feels convinced is demonstrate able that with the proper cooperation, effort, self sacrifice and will, this free democracy can prove its superiority as a "way of life" for the genus homo to day over any other that has as yet been devised. And where HUMAN values are taken into account, includ ing "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," a free democracy is the more efficient. R.W.R. Navaho Missile Is Fired in Florida Cape Canaveral, Fla. OP) One of the last Navaho low alti tude intercontinental missiles in the Air Force stock pile was I fired Wednesday from the test center here. The Defense Department in Washington confirmed that the projectile which roared up from its launching pad shortly after noon was a Navaho, but said nothing about its performance. To observers on beaches, how Thursday. November 14, 1957 ever, the firing was a success. The Navaho is capable of fly ing about three times the speed of sound, but at a lower altitude than ballistic missiles such as the Atlas and Jupiter. The Air Force contract with North American Aviation, Inc., which manufactured the Nava ho, was cancelled last July and Wednesday's projectile appar ently was one of the "left-overs." " Ys ' -C I III I ISO LONG, SLAVES!"' oday and By Walter THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH In his speech last week the President had a long introduc tory section (over two columns of newspaper print) which was addressed to the irration al fears of the least informed part of our people. This is the notion that with the Sputniks the Russians have Halter Lippmann achieved a decisive military su periority. To knock over this straw man the President mar shalled a long array of facts which show that as of today we have a powerful military es tablishment. Then at last, but with the ut most understatement, he came to the outer edge of the real problem: "I must say to you in all gravity that in spite of the present over-all strength and the forward momentum of our de fense, that it is entirely possible that in the years ahead we would fall behind. I repeat: We could fall behind unless we face up to . certain pressing re quirements and set out to meet them promptly." To call this an understatement is itself an understatement. For the indubitable fact is that in the field of the longer range missiles and in the penetration of space, we have fallen behind. The ques tion is not now whether "we could fall behind." It is when and how we can catch up, and the President will never restore the confidence of the people un til he gives them the confidence that he is telling them the full truth. THE speech shows that the President has recently been listening to scientists and edu cators. But the main comrrn of the authors of the speech was to dampen down and to soothe, rather than to awaken and to arouse, our people. That is why they emphasized the false issue of our present strength and mini mized, if not worse, the far reaching significance of the growing strength of the Soviet Union. What the Russians are demon strating is that in the science and the technology which deter mines the balance of power they have achieved a greater forward 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 Avait City Tax Ruling To the Editor: It is noted that your paper has made numerous references to the fact that if businesses subject to the busi ness license tax do not comply with the ordinance by Nov. 15 1 that a penalty will be-imposed. It is common knowledge that a test case is now before the City Judge Noreen Kelly on this matter to determine its legality; and, as long as the validity of the ordinance is in question, it seems to me that all businesses should be accorded the courtesy of not being threatened with penalty until after the matter is decided. I ask if the ordinance is de clared invalid will the city offi cials voluntarily refund the license money or will it be nec essary that legal steps be taken to regain their property? In view of the questions raised in the court test it seems very obnoxious to me to be threaten ed prior to a ruling which is promised to be made known about the same time that a dead line has been set. An editor's note in regards to the above would be appreciated. Ray O. De Marrs 139 North Central ave. Editor's note: Our correspon dent is correct in that a ruling on the validity of the ordinance in question is due this week. 1 Tomorrow Lippmann momentum than our own. In the race of armaments they have come from behind and are now out in front. This does not mean that they now have a decisive superiority. But it does mean that we are threatened with a growing inferiority, which will be registered and discounted in advance in all the Foreign Offices of the world. "ESTIMATES differ as to how great is their lead in missiles and devices for outer space. But their lead is, it would appear, a matter of years perhaps as much as four to six years. This would mean that even with the utmost acceleration that it may be some years before we arrive where they are now. In the meantime most probably they will have moved on. Something similar, though in reverse, has happened here to what happened to nuclear weap ons. There we had a lead of sev eral, years, and although the Russians began to catch up with us by 1949, there is a good prob ability that we are still well ahead of them in quality and in quantity. In these technological matters, it is like running to catch up with and to pass some one who is in the lead and run ning faster than you are. THIS can be done. But it can not be done by government as usual, by business as usual, and by playing all the usual rec ords about how rich and how free and how invincible and how efficient and how lovable we are. We are in a situation which, for us, is entirely unusual, that we may become, as compared with our rival, the weaker pow er. As long as this is the prospect, we shall have to learn how to defend ourselves in the world by a wise diplomacy. We must prepare our minds not so much for what is conceivable but im probable, such as a sudden at tack on the Pearl Harbor model. We must prepare for what is most probably coming that the Soviets will have operational missiles capable of neutralizing the Allied bases in Western Eu rope and the Middle East. If this comes to pass, there will have been undermined the con cept of our foreign policy as conceived under Truman and Acheson and developed by Eis enhower and Dulles. This is the concept of the containment of the Communist states by mili tary encirclement in the hope that this will in the end compel them to accept as the terms of a settlement the equivalent of an unconditional surrender. WE HAVE been taught by the official propaganda to sus pect any terms of settlement in Germany, in the Middle East, and in the Far East which are short of unconditional surrend er. This is a great and, it might be, a fatal error. If we cannot correct it, if we cannot learn to live without illu sions of grandeur in the real world where there is a rival as powerful as we are, we shall find no matter what the Penta gon is now able to do that our power and influence will con tinue to decline. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Full Restoration of Bonneville Power Set Portland (IP) Bonneville Power administration said today that recent rains would make possible the full restoration at midnight Saturday of interrupt ible power supplies to 17 indust rial plants in Oregon, Washing ton and western Montana. The power will replace that received from other sources, in cluding Hungry Horse dam in western Montana which has sup plied 292,000 kilowatts. PACIFIC Am- INDUSTRIAL 16 S. Central Phone SP 3-5308 Vast Sahara Developing By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The vast Sahara region of Northwest Africa is developing into a new source of trouble for France. Al g e r ian rebels have extended their opera tions into the area and put a further strain on the French forces which have been fighting them for more than Charles M. McCann three years. At the same time Morocco, which obtained its, in dependence in 1955, has set up an "Office for Saharan Affairs" to emphasize its claim to a part of the territory. Involved in what seems cer- Matter of Fact THE VIEW FROM KHATTUSAS . Bogaz Koy, Turkey Even a new earth satellite, complete with dog, even Nikita Khrush- cnev, complete with all pow ers of Josef Stalin, cannot alter or dimin ish the view from the Lion Gate of Khat tusas. The city was mighty in its dav nparlv Joseph Aisop four millenia ago, in our troub led world's first era of great power wars. But this mighty capital of the Hittite power that sacked Babylon and drove Tu tankhamun's feeble viceroys out of northern Syria, was still no more than a vast, battlemented fort. Its rough, gigantic walls, girding the highest pinnacle of this high, tawny mountain, en closed arsenals well stored with weapons, soldiers' dwellings, palaces of kings and generals, but probably little else. Through this very gate, per haps, between the crude, brutal yet majestic sculptured lions, came the triumph of the Hittite king after the famous fight at Kadesh, when the young Rames es' and old pharaoh's chariotry swerved back in sudden terror from the blood-redened river. Fiery horses, stronger than the soft breed of the South, iron weapons, the first man ever used in war, and a rough soldier aristocracy, were the sources of the Hittite power. But even the king's horses must have been sadly winded by the long, cruel pull up the steep, enormous slope of mountain-face. STANDING by the Lion Gate, one thinks of those winded horses, and of that crude, tumul- Ex-Ashland Man Gets Montreal UP Post New York HP) Dennis Land ry, chief news executive of the British United Press in Canada for the past nine years, has been transferred to the Pacific Divi sion of the United Press, Pres ident Frank Bartholomew an nounced today. Landry will be succeeded at the headquarters of British United Press in Montreal by Wil lard D. Eberhart, executive news editor, who was transferred to Montreal as bureau manager seven years ago from a similar U. P. post in Honolulu. Eberhart joined the U. P. in Portland, Ore., In 1937. He served during World War II as Washington State-Alaska man ager with headquarters in Seattle and was transferred to Honolulu as Hawaii manager in 1945. He has carried out assignments in Australia and has visited U. P. bureaus in Paris and London. He is a journalism graduate of the University of Oregon and is a former city editor of the Ash land, Ore., Daily Tidings. Things You MUST Know... If you are faced with the responsibility of making arrangements for funeral services, here are some of the things you MUST know in order to supply the necessary information for a death certificate. Full name of the deceased Last legal residence Date, place and time of death Sex, color or race, and citizenship Marital status at time of death Usual occupation and in what industry DAY OR NIGHT -PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Region in NW Africa Into NewTroubleSpot tain to become, in time, an angry dispute is an area that contains immense resources in oil and other mineral products which France is starting to exploit in a big way. Algeria is 850.000 square miles in area. Of this total about 724,000 miles lie in the Saharan region, the so-called southern regions. In its attempt to end the Al gerian revolt, France is willing to give that country a great measure of self-rule. But the offer extends only to northern Algeria, which con tains only about 126,000 square miles. If serious negotiations with the Algerian rebels ever become possible, France is prepared to offer Algeria a part of the riches of the southern territories. By Joseph Alsop tuous triumph, and of Rameses also celebrating the still more pompous but more empty tri umph for the usual propaganda purposes. Here, from this pin nacle, history seems to stretch out, forward and backward, a dark, illimitable, ever-changing prospect all mingled iron and verdure, gold and blood. The real prospect is breath taking enough, for no empire in all history so magnificently placed its capital city. Khattu sas's Lion Gate stands "upon the utmost peak of a wild mountain wall with flanks copper-stained and iron-stained in vast, alter nate patches of green and crim son. And this fantastic mountain wall curves in upon itself, alto gether enclosing a wide, rich plain of little fields and little streams so infinitely far below that the autumn-gilded poplar trees lining the stream banks seem less like trees than golden feathers. But this real prospect, with aU its present beauty, is also a worn parchment on which his tory has written and rubbed out, written and rubbed out, written and rubbed out, a long succes sion of different human stories. From these heights the plain be low shows as from an aeroplane, with marks of past as well as present. That dimple in the earth there, over by the remotest stream was it, for example, a village site lived in and loved by men 40 or 50 or 60 centuries ago? IT MAY well have been, for here in Turkey all of history has just been rather drastically revised by a little digging in just such an earth dimple at Hacilar in south central Anato lia. The man who did the digging was a young British archeolo gist, James Mallert. He found pretty red and yellow pottery; and rough images of the great mother goddess; and grains of wheat and barley and a kind of pulse; and a child's toy in the image of an ox; and bones of sheep and goat, pig and cattle A few drawers in a museum will hold the lot, but Mallert's sherds still tell a stirring story. In just such villages as these, neolithic man originated what we perhaps too flatteringly des- scribe as civilization, by the sim ple act of producing more than could be instantly consumed., Of such villages, up to now, there has been Jericho, oldest of all, in Palestine; and the sites in Egypt and Mesopotamia; and Mersin on the edge of Anatolia; and finally Sesklo in Thessaly, the. Greek site where civiliza tion's story begins in Europe. Now, half way between Eu rope and Mesopotamia, there is also Hacilar. The sherds of Haci lar are the direct line, or so the greatest experts say, between the sherds of Grecian Sesklo and the sherds of Mersin and of Mesopotamian Hassuna. And by this suddenly provided link, the date of Sesklo is moved back a thousand years, to something like five thousand years before Social security number Name of spouse (maiden name if wife) Date and place of birth War record, if any Father's name Maiden name of mother But it is evident that it will In sist on keeping firm control over that area. As for Morocco, that country has put in a claim to a big part of Mauretania, in French West Africa adjoining Algeria on the southwest. Morocco Opposing France Morocco's establishment of an office for Saharan affairs is a retort to France's action last summer in setting up a new "Ministry for the Sahara" which is to have control of the exploi tation of oil and other resources. So far all the incidents re ported have been small. But they seem symptomatic of big scale trouble ahead, not only in the Algerian rebellion but in any attempt to reach an over all solution of the Algerian problem. our Lord; and thus the history of European civilization has sud denly been lengthened by a full millenium. TO HACILAR andMersin, Ses klo and Hassuna the same end came. Neighbors or new comers wiped them out at last. So also ended the story of that earth-dimple in Khattusas plain, if it even had a story. So also" ended the story of this Khattusas of the Hittites, which was the capital of the first true state ever organized by one of the Indo - European people, those various tribes with a common tongue out of the misty past who were the ancestors of Eisenhow er and Khrushchev and Nehru too. So here, under Khattusas walls, '-one thinks of the long succession: the neolithic peo ples; the Sumerians trading into Anatolia for copper; and the Hittites pushing in from the Russian-Asian steppes; and all the strange welter of tribes Xeno phon found on his road to the sea; and those Gauls who were Saint Paul's Galatians; and Phry gians and Lydians and Greeks; and Medes and Persians and Ar menians; and Romans and By zantines an Turks. All these and many more, this Anatolia has seen grow great and be humbled in the end. Remembering all this, one re members too the lines of tha Polish poet, Antoni Slonimiski, written when freedom made its new start in Poland: "Only the free and fearless thought of man can justify the long survival of this ignoble jungle which we call our world." (c) 1957 New York , Herald Tribune Inc. Good Reading for the Whole Family News Facts Family Features The Christian Science Monitor One Norway St., Boston 15, Mass. Send your newspope-f or the time checked. 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