Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 17, 1957, Image 4

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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
40 year ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 17. 1S47 (Monday)
A ski to-w t Crater lake is to
be installed Friday and placed
In operation Sunday, park serv
ice office reports.
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.
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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.
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