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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Sex, color or race, and citizenship
Marital status at time of death
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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."
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Herald Tribune Inc.
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