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O O irou mzdtod (Oregon) "Everyone la SouUiern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published De.il; Except Saturday bj MDFOD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-l41 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN Jit Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JSWITT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHIR Society Editor DALE fcRICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Indapendent Newspaper Entered aa socona Class maixer ai socond class matter at Mediora Oregon under Act of Marcn s. ia SUBCIPT10 RATES By Mail In Advsnce- Per Copy 10c Daily snd Sunday One year SIS. 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Roeue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "A number of the horticultural set report they want to go south but are stuck in the north." 20 YEARS AGO ov. 17. 1937 (Wednesday) Ordinance regulating bicycle traffic adopted by the city coun cil. Regular and volunteer fire men and their wives and friends attend a meeting and get-together in fire department head quarters. 30 YEARS AGO Wo. 17, 192f (Thursday) L. Niedermeyer and associates announce they will build a new theater building at the corner of Sixth and Holly sts. One new case of typhoid fever the first one in several weeks, reported by County Physician L. D. Inskeep. ) YE1.R9 AGO Uov. 17. 1917 (laturday) Public ervice commission or ders Pacific arid Eastern rail road, s result of a hearing upon complaint of citizens of Derby, to build and maintain , passenger waiting room. Iegtning Bee. 1, Market days .ft the public market will be held Wednesday and Saturday. Whil'i Yew I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six is good. 1. What is the source of the inscription on the Liberty Bell: "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabi tants thereof"? 2. Arthur Vandenberg repre sented which State in the U. S. Senate? 3. Bible: Which Book treats Hvith the establishment of Chris tian churches in the Roman Em pire? 4. Which is the smallest in area of the five Great Lakes? - 5. The principal religion in Luxembourg is Episcopal, Lu theran, or Roman Catholic? 6. Is Latvia north, east, south, or west of Lithuania? 7. Who was the hero of the novel "Anthony Adverse"? 8. In which State in New England i Profile Mountain, known as "The Old Man of the O Mountains"? 9. How is the suffix in "litera ture" pronounced? 10. "I remember, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the rtin" did what? I Answers: 1. The Bible (Leviti-; taft is XXV. 10). 2. Michigan. 3. facts. 4. Ontario. 5. Roman Cath olic (93 per cent). 6. North. 7. Anthony Adverse. 8. New .Hampshire. 9. "chur" (not lure). JJ. "Came peeping in at morn." Hoed. mail tribune A Rose for the "Statesman " The Salem Statesman always reminds us of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette when it was presided over by the inimitable, greatly missed and deeply mourned William Allen White. Lest this be taken as a too-fulsome compliment we make no comparisons except in one special area, namely the difference between the editorials in both papers during presidential elections and between them. President Roosevelt commented on this in one of his "swings around the circle" when he greeted the Emporia editor from the back platform, somewhat as follows : "Hi Bill, how are you?" And then as an aside, "Bill is always against me at election time, and for me at all other times." Bill's reply was, "I am be, Mr. President." CO WITH the Statesman. We can't recall a time when that paper editorially failed to support the Republican party in any important election, but "between drinks" so to speak, it is one of the most liberal and objective political commentators m the state. This fact has been called to mind by a recent Statesman editorial commenting upon the present plight of the G.O.P. and what should be done to bring good old Jumbo out of his tail-spin. Editor Sprague continues as follows : "What seems to me of prime importance is for the party to get sense of direction. It is uncertain or divided over which way it should go.The danger is that the party manipulators will devise a program of expediency rather than principle and hope by piecing together groups of special interests to be served and those with animosities to satisfy they can win a majority of voters. For this type of political machination Vice President Nixon seems par ticularly skilled." What does "machination'' mean? Well, according to our it is defined as follows : "Evil or artful plotting, decocting a cunning scheme." We doubt if Harry Truman could do better than that himself. And it is all true and of our Republican mends have bitterly resented calling the one-time subsidized Senator from Cali fornia "Slick Dick" and the Artful Dodger." TJOWEVER the point we wish to make is that this diagnosis of the Republican dilemma is not only exactly correct but comes from one of the leading and most highly respected Republican papers m the state. And this insistence between elections of consist ently placing what is true cally profitable is what has high on our list of favorite years. In fact, though the Statesman may vigorously deny it, no paper on the coast more consistently follows the leadership of Oregon's senior senator to always place "principle above party" than the oldest morning paper in the capital of the state. We mean between elections of course. R.W.R. Is a US. Sputnik Mandatory? Tn his second sneech "on Snutnik". President Eisenhower as is often his the "middle-of-the-road . The Prpsident declared at stake, no blind worship of a balanced budget should interfere. That indicated that everything needed to make this country strong and free would be done, even if the extra expense SHOULD unbalance the budget. In many quarters this was taken to mean that the administration would, because of the present serious crisis, approve a raising of the national debt-limit. r B UT later on General Eisenhower went into reverse. Hp strnnp-lv intimated expense of overtaking or trying to overtake Rus sia, certain proposed expenditures in other directions, desirable but not essential, would have to be cut out entirely, adding: "This will be one of the hardest and most distasteful tasks that the coming session of congress must face." . THE "Oregonian" is convinced this means eliminat ing all multiple-purpose federal projects in the Columbia basin, including presumably along the Snake and other tributaries. .Well, considering the present administration's "fixation" against all public-power projects and its infatuation with "Big Business" the bigger the better there is good reason to believe tne ure- gonian" is right. And so understandably, its favorite solution which "regional agency either under federal incorporation or interstate compact, which could finance, build and operate such projects as John Day and within a few years atomic power projects etc., etc. WE HAVEN'T studied the Oregonian proposal suf ficiently to have formed any definite opinion, but IF this program WOULD give this state more power at cheaper rates which wTe have always held is Oregon's outstanding need and especially if it w7ould do this in a shorter time then the Mail Trib une would certainly not be against it. But, while on the subject, there are a few points about multiple Federal Power projects and their rela- Sunday, November 17, 1957 (Franklin not Theodore) better than I deserve to desk abridged dictionary scheming against authority, many yards wide. Yet some above what may be politi put the Salem Statesman newspapers for so many custom, took his stand in when national security is that because of the great the Oregonian puts forth is the formation of a If ya dionT want it QFOKe.xx) should sought a flASTC COOKIB JAR1.' jAJ WHAT I StfOULOA SAID,' Today and By Walter Concerning Mr. Stevenson Mr. Dulles, having turned to Mr. Stevenson for help, has been promised less than he hoped for but as much as he could reason ably have ex pected. Mr. Steven son will not undertake t o formulate the Admin istra Walter Lippmano tion proposals for the NATO meeting at Paris in December. How could he? He is a private citizen. These proposals will have "to be a compound of what can and will be done by the Pentagon, the Treasury, the Bud get Bureau, and the State De partment. Nobody can formu late these proposals who is not in the inner circle of the Ad ministration, indeed who is not vested with the authority of the President himself. All that an outsider, no matter how eminent, can do is to com ment, to criticize, to support or to oppose what those who have the power of decision propose. For the outsider to attempt to do more, acting as if he himself had authority, would be a pre tense, and to participate in it would be a reflection on his own judgment. MANY in recent days have mentioned, as if it were a precedent, the action of Presi dent Roosevelt on the eve of World War II in appointing two Republicans, Stimson and Knox, to be the civilian heads of the armed services. It was a wise and fruitful move, a guarantee to the country that the coming war could not be exploited for partisan New Deal politics. But it is useful, to recall that before Stimson accepted the enormous responsibility, he laid down conditions which he be lieved would give him the nec essary power to meet the re sponsibility. He stipulated that he would become the Secretary of War only if he had the un conditional right to appoint his own subordinates. To this Roose velt agreed and Stimson appoint ed a brilliant group of Repub lican whom he knew and trust ed. The included Robert Pat terson, John J. McCloy, Robert Lovette, and Harvey Bundy. The moral of this example is that Stimson, who understood fill tions to a stronger and more secure America which the present administration, THERE is the initial cost, for example. True, many millions are required, but unlike millions and billions spent for weapons of war, not only is all the money eventually paid back to the government, but year after dends in greater security, growth and increased all being. In this critical business building up Uncle Sam's power and resistance, should such an asset be overlooked? Apparently the present administration thinks so. Moreover, President out, or defer, "complete categories of federal activi- les so the administration put its own Sputnik into months late! ")NCE more, assuming the is correct, then it is the ment that the President has his sense of values mixed. As we see it, matching Russia's "Sputnik," "too little and too late," would be desirable but NOT essential; while strengthening our national economy by using not our money, but only our credit in power develop ment, should be placed near the top of our essential emergency list. There is some reason next congress does, meet there will be a careful con sideration of the President's sense of values just what he considers "desirable but not absolutely essen tial" and what he considers Tomorrow Lippmann politics and government, knew that if he was to work success fully with the Roosevelt admin istration, he must secure his own power within the depart ment he was invited to head. He knew better than to indulge in the pretense that just because he was a prominent Republican, he could, naked and unarmed, do what was supposed to result from the appointment of a Re publican by a Democratic Presi dent. IN his statement on Tuesday, Mr. Stevenson said that "in view of the gravity of our situa tion in the world, I have both the desire and the duty to assist our government, regardless of partisanship or personal con venience." There is. no doubt about it. The situation is grave and it is everyone's duty to assist the government. The only question is how each per son can best assit it, and par ticularly if he is Adlai Steven son. We shall mislead ourselves, I believe, if we suppose that our situation is like that in war time when in order to have unity in action it is necessary to forego debate and dissent. The real issues in our present situation do not turn primarily on the capabilities or the intentions of the Russians to wage war. They turn upon our own capacity and willingness to make the efforts to meet the challenge of Soviet competition. ' This involves a truly agonizing reappraisal of our policies and of our attitudes at home and abroad. TN such a -reappraisal the loyal - opposition has a great func tion to perform. It is not to do the work of the Administra tion. It cannot do it. It is not to be the salesman and the lob byist of the official line. It is to analyze fairly, generously, but firmly, the official policies and actions and to offer alter natives so that there can be choice and an enlightened de bate. For the underlying fact of the situation today is that nobody in authority or in opposition now has a clear and systematic view of all the things that need to be done. We shall have to hammer out such views on the anvil of debate. (Copywrite 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) . we believe, overlooks. year it pays annual divi greater comfort, greater - around community well- of national security and Eisenhower intends to cut can, among other things, outer space six or eight Oregonian's assumption judgment of this depart to believe that when the BOTH. R.W.R. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial tor 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 National Parks To the Editor: From San Jose de Costa Rica comes news of the creation of a national park along the route of the Pan-American Highway. This reserve will in clude an outstanding example of a giant oak forest, also a typi cal forest area of mixed broad- leaf trees, likewise a bog-and- swamp in which cyad-like ferns grow. The report indicates plans are being made to control the for ests through which the Pan- American highway will pass. One senses this follows the tech nique originally developed by Save-t h e-Redwoods League. Same has preserved, for all fu ture generations, the magnifi cent Humboldt and Del Norte sequoias. Is it not fascinating to note how U.S.A. efforts of yester year become models worldwide? The National Parks concept of the late Stephen Mather is an example. He poured his borax millions as "pump priming" to educate Congress. Now we see ever new parks as Uganda's Queen Elizabeth II National Park. It shoulders Belgian Con go's King Albert National Park. The King and his Crown Prince were our guests, under Ranger Naturalist guidance, in Yose mite N.P.'s "Back of Beyond." C. M. Goethe Seventh and J Streets Sacramento 14, Calif. S.P. Explains the "Daylight To the Editor: Your editorial of Nov. 13 contained a statement that the Southern Pacific a few months ago tried to abandon the Portland to San Francisco "Daylight." You have been mis informed because no attempt has been made or considered to abandon the Shasta Daylight. Our proposal was, in order to reduce the overall passenger deficit, that this train be op erated on an every-other-day schedule between Labor Day and the middle of June with daily operation during the summer tourist season, holiday periods or at any other time traffic would warrant it. During the off-peak season, this modern streamlined train having an overall capacity to handle 560 people has a daily average of slightly over 200. I would like to remind you that the Shasta Daylight is made up of the most up-to-date equip ment, the original cars having been- purchased for approxi mately five million dollars in 1949. Since that time, we have placed in this train additional coaches and a dome-lounge car. When this train was placed in operation, we established the lowest coach rate for train travel in the United States. In order to attract as much business as possible to this train, this rela tive low coach rate is ' still in effect. B. S. Quayle, ' S.P. Passenger and Public Relation Manager, 622 Pacific Bldg., Portland 4, Oregon Matter of Fact sy Joseph am? BLOOD OR BUTTER Belgrade An anxious hush has fallen over political Belgrade since the destruction of Marshal Zhukov. Hav ing been clos er to Nikita K h r u s hchev than any oth ers outside Russia, the Yu- g o s 1 a v s are now wai ting more nervous ly than any Joseph aisod others to see which road Russia's new dictator will choose. The Yugoslav leaders who are willing to be forthright with a wandering reporter admit quite frankly that there are only two roads open to Khrushchev. One is the road of Stalin. The other may be described as the road of the people's welfare. Blood or butter are his alternatives. Khrushchev must take one road or the other in the near future because, as one key fig ure put, "He cannot just stop there after destroying Zhukov." A choice of Stalin's road is hint ed at by Khrushchev's latest speeches. There was something really ominous in his routine mention of butter, his extra sharp attack on national Com munism, and the profuse apolo gies for Stalin by the man who new gathered all Stalin's former powers into his own hands. THE reasons why Khrushchev cannot "just stop there" have already been suggested in this space. In the Soviet Union, Mar shal Zhukov had a unique per sonal standing, as the one true national hero, as leader of the officer corps of the armed serv ices, and- as btaiin s most emi nent surviving victim. Furthermore, the meteoric rise of Zhukov in the years after Stalin's death was a practical symbol of the upward surge of the vital new elements in the Soviet ruling class. These in clude industrialists, agricultur POTlUCK (By M-T Staff and ConrributioB) Memorandum to the lady who is concerned because one M-T staff member persists in calling a year-old black and white dog a "puppy": We have been told that a dog's age, relative to that of a human, is about one to seven. Therefore, the black and white dog is aged about 7, in human-equivalent age. We would call a 7-year-old child a child still; thereore be liee it correct to call a 1-year-old dog a puppy. And, turning to Webster's sec ond definition of the word "pup py," we find that it applies far too frequently in the case at hand. The definition says: "A conceited, impertinent, or empty headed youth. . ." And that's one reason we suppose, we're so darned fond of him. A city police office, who lost an inch-long strip of skin from a finger, blames televi sion. On the practice range last week he was practicing the "fast draw" technique so much in vogue on TV "adult" westerns, and in doing so sliced his hand open. Mary Beth Lockington, in grade 6H at Lincoln school, writes on "Our Prize" in the Lincoln Legend, as follows: Our room won third place in the race to sell carnival tickets. Our prize was four dollars. We sent two to CARE and two dol lars to Unicef. Linda Sue Wilkes and Sue Spencer were chosen to write letters to go along with the money. They both wrote very nice letters. Mrs. Hohensee told us this was the third year in a row that her room has sent their prize money to an organization like Unicef and CARE where it is used for children who need food and clothes and medicine. - - One staff member, a rather saturnine individual anyway, observed the Christmas decor ations going up last week, more than two weeks before Thanksgiving, and remarked gloomily, "I guess commercial ism isn't even going to let us be thankful for what we have before it indoctrinates us into a spirit of joyful giving." V Time was when youthful males had ambitions to be firemen, or cowboys, or train conductors, or doctors, or pilots. , Now we must report on' the ambitions of one of the younger generation today: He wants to be the man that puts those boxes of soap powder in the new auto matic washing machines. The neighbors of our Jack sonville operative, Mrs. Bette Hoskins, may have had a bad moment recently if they over heard her admonish her hus band, "Don't let 'Sputnik' go in the basement." If they had visions of celestial orbs cas cading into subterranean Jack sonville, they can be at ease. The name was applied to a Stray cat which recently ar rived at the house, and until then had been nameless. An alert reader points out that, despite the tragic accidents which have occured at the SP ists, educators and many other kinds of powerfully placed pro fessional men besides the num bers of the officer corps. Thus Khrushchev has a dou ble problem. On one hand, the structure of the Soviet govern ment does not at all reflect the enormously altered structure of Soviet society. The change in social structure have above all rendered obsolete the tradition al monopoly of rule of the very Communist party apparatus that Khrushchev Jieads. On the other hand, Khrushchev also has to safeguard his personal power aft er a grim and devious intrigue whose brilliant success was the destruction of Russia's only na tional hero. TN MARXIST terminology, A these are formidable "contra dictions." By the end of Stalin's lifetime, Soviet society was al ready bristling with the gravest contradictions. But until Stalin died, the contradictions were al ways dissolved, so to speak, in the icy acid of pure terror. When the terror ceased, ,the contra dictions instantly crystalized and at once began to cause trouble. One choice for Khrushchev. therefore, is simply to try to re- dissolve the contradictions in that same icy acid. But although he may have the technical means to start a perfect holocaust of terror, the risk for him will be considerable. For one thing, he lacks Stalin's terrible per sonal authority, which caused Stalin's terror to be dumbly ac cepted, as one accepts very bad weather. For another thing, Khrushchev's Soviet society is a much more complex and less predictable organism than the society on which Stalin fixed his ruthless, iron grip. Thus the Yugoslavs hope that Khrushchev will still keep his often-repeated promises to Mar shal Tito. This means they hope he will choose the road of the people's welfare, or offer butter instead of blood, or . "continue the process of liberalization," as crossing at Stewart ave., it has been overlooked that neither cars nor trains have the right of way. At least, she says, according to a nearby sign, which says: "Caution. Horses have the right of way." Another staff member (not the saturnine one; this one was merely being cynical) re- -marked that while the color orange doesn't go "with the red and green of Christmas, there will probably be plenty of . shoppers who will be seeing it - on parking tickets, of course. A recently-married couple we know set up housekeeping in a small house with a wood stove. The bridegroom offered, in a gentlemanly sort of way, to take charge of the stove, but his of fer was laughed at by his bride, a small-town girl, who wanted to know what her husband, a "big city boy," knew about wood stoves. So then the weather turned cold, and guess who climbs out of bed in the dark, frosty morn ings to light the stove? And .vho is the only one able to get it going? Just about any husband you ask can give you the correct answer. A young man who disdains to wear a hat admits that the heavy downpours of last week strained his instinct for law abidingness. How many hat less people, he asks, can stand on a corner until the signal says "walk" during a drench ing storm? We wish we'd been around to watch the other day when our fearless farm editor started out to take a photograph of what he said was a publicity hungry tur key. He snapped a shot of the big bird, then, not knowing what sort of reaction he'd get, backed rapidly away. The gobbler fol lowed. Our farm editor snapped another picture. The bird still came on. He snapped a third, and was just starting to meas ure the distance he'd have to leap to get over the fence when the turkey suddenly decided that was enough photography for one day, turned, and strutted proud ly away. t - Speaking of turkeys, they , get into all sorts of trouble,' one turkey - raiser reported. And he declared, "They gabble about all the time, making a lot of racket like a bunch of women." That's what the man said. If turkeys are near the bottom of the animal intelligence list, pigs are near the top or so claims the proprietor of a local piggery, or, as he prefers to have it called, a pigaro. He declares he has trained them to come for their food when he honks the horn. And so adept are they, he swears, he has to constantly change the feeding spots so that they won't mob him before he. has a chance to get the feed off the truck for them. they oddly like to call it here. Theoretically, this choice by Khrushchev is also conceivable. A REALLY bold program of A "liberalization," sufficient to safeguard Khrushchev's new power by popular appeal, has a single, central requirement. This requirement is a drastic revision of the hallowed Soviet order of priorities. After Stalin's death, Georgi Malenkov in fact attempted just such a revision of priorities. He glowingly prom ised production for the people's needs and comfort. He swor that military and heavy indus try would now yield pride of place to cpnsumer industry. On this very issue, Malenkov was forced to step down from the Soviet Premiership. Molotov and the old Stalinists instinctive ly opposed his break with sacred traditions. For Khrush chev, Malenkov's demotion was the second phase (the first was Beria's, liquidation) in the pa tient process of . eliminating rivals. But Zhukov and the army leaders also threw their weight against Malenkov, no, doubt for the very simple reason that Mal enkov's program required heavy reductions in military expendi tures. Soviet generals, being less denatured than American gen erals, naturally oppose such re ductions. WITH the armed forces brought to heel, however, Khrush chev is now easily able to make just that revision of priorities which he denounced Malenkov for attempting. Perhaps Khrushchev could even manage to combine 'lib eralization" with a very cautious purge of the armed forces, to remove those elements most loyal to Zhukov. But no real compromise is possible between the two roads now open to this strange, complicated and remark ably guileful new Soviet dic tator. And if his recent . speech can be taken as a signpost, it points down the road of blood. Copyright 1JJ57. New York Herald Tribune lac
