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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
0;NoT.a9, 1947 (Wednesday)
Medford city council gives a
formal "go ahead" light to plans
of the California Oregon Power
company to install mercury
lights on Sixth st. bewteen Riv
erside ave. and West Main st.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Doctors
report they are busy arresting
colds. No policeman ever rolls
up his sleeves, and yanks out a
couple of tonsils."
20 YEARS AGO
Not. 19, 1937 (Friday)
The Jackson county budget for
1938 calling for a total on the
levy of $382,655.15 is approved
as printed at the public hearing
held today in the courthouse.
The nation's voluntary unem
ployment census will be con
cluded tomorrow, all returns to
be in not later than midnight.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 19, 1927 (Saturday)
The district road tax meeting
held Wednesday results in a five
mill tax being voted in the Sams
valley district. The funds ob
tained will be used for comple
tion of roads in the northeast
and northwest sections of the
district.
The remodeling program of
the Palmer Music House is rap
idly approaching c ompletion, the
latest step being the installa
tion of the new glass front.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 19. 1917 (Monday)
. All members of the interna
tional order of electrical work
ers in the employ of the Calif
ornia Oregon Power company
discontinued work this morning.
Company Seven- of Medford
has been transferred to heavy
field artillery and the command
is expected to be ordered away
to France soon.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Did Charles A. Lindburgh
hold any rank during World
War I?
2. Bible: Who founded Babel
(Babylon)?
3. No. 10 Downing Street is
the address of which high goy-
.' ernment official?
, 4. Can Congress, if it wishes,
sit in continuous session for its
. two-year term?
. . 5. Name the opposing generals
who fought a battle for the city
of Quebec?
6. Does the distance between
! the earth and moon vary?
7. What government did Pierre
Lavel head during World War
-II?
8. Mark Twain's "Becky
. Sharpe" was the sweetheart of
whom?
T 9. Does "virtually" mean "in
: essence or effect, or in fact"?
10. "I am not in the least
versed in the Chrematistic art."
Fielding. Does the saying refer
to making money, undertaking,
' or music?
- Answers: 1. No. He was too
young to serve. 2. Nimrod. 3. The
- Prime Minister of Grat Britain.
.4. No. 5. Gen. Wolfe (Br) and
Gen. Montcalm (Fr). 6. Yes. 7.
' Vichy government of France.
8. Tom Sawyer." 8. In
or effect. 10. Making money.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Wanted a Second Joan of Arc9
The most important sentence in President Eisen
hower's first "Sputnik" speech has, as far as noted
received no publicity whatever.
This is it :
"What we need more than a giant leap into space is
a giant leap toward peace."
And General Eisenhower, the hero of the allied
victory in World War II, is the man admirably fitted
by reputation, to lead that "giant leap."
But he won't.
He is not the crusader type.
In spite of fighting being his profession, he is not,
in civil life, the FIGHTING type.
He is, like Henry Clay, a great compromiser. He
refuses to join the extremists on either side. He' sticks
resolutely as he has so often said to the "middle of the
road."
IELL that route of restraint and moderation has
its advantages with the state of the nation and
the world in its present confusion and turmoil.
But it is not the type needed to do the job the Pres
dent says should ABOVE ALL, be done.
What is needed in such an effort is a genuine cru
sader. Not the Hamlet type always seeing the other
side of the question and musing over whether it is
"to be or not to be," but the extroverted, dynamic,
fearless "T.R." type who says "This has GOT to be
done and I am the man to do it." '
Yes, that, as we see it, is the crying need of the
world and the country today.
But where is there such a man, in public life at
least. There may be many with the vision and the
fighting heart, but at the moment we don't happen to
know of them.
CO THIS fight for world peace, because of the lack
of the required leadership as well as the spirit of
dedication and sacrifice, is as of .today going by de
fault. Strangely enough it is not the pacifists," the
apostles of Christian brotherhood and non-resistance
or the "do-gooders" who are so aroused over the dan
gers facing this country and the world.
It is men who, like President Eisenhower, have not
only devoted their lives to the profession of arms, but
would be the last ones to be accused of appeasement
who are most vocal at this time, pointing out the
extreme urgency of somehow, someway, avoiding war
and assuring world peace.
Gen. MacArthur is one for example.
There is General Omar Bradley also the "soldier's
General" who recently summed up the present situa
tion by declaring the challenge of our time is :
"How to employ human intelligence for the salvation
of mankind to concentrate human intelligence less on
earth satellites and more on this satellite, earth."
e '
THIS doesn't mean, of course, the abandonment of
research in outer space or disregard of the "Sput
nik" challenge; it does mean less emphasis on that
department, and more on ways and means of halting
this crazy rat-race to doom and, instead securing what
every reasoning human being on the face of the earth
WANTS an end to war and the establishment of
a generation, if not an eternity, of peace.
IT is so easy to say what should be done, but is with
" out this leadership and complete change in empha
sis, so difficult to do.
The suggestion that all nations instead of part of
them should be included in the "U.N." is a good one.
The end of militant nationalism is another. Then
there is the suggestion that the use of atomic weapons
be outlawed as far as individual nations are con
cerned, and their use delegated to the United Nations
ALONE. That has merit. Then there should be, of
course, agreement if such a U.N. change in member
ship were made, to devise a practical program of
gradual and universal disarmament.
TT takes no Delphian Oracle to see that something of
this sort SHOULD be done. It should not be done
"too little and too late". For the "alternative" is
equally clear that unless this crazy world can marshal
enough intelligence to take some such action, and SEE
what that alternative is, then this civilized world as
we have known it has no more chance of survival
than a band of sheep stampeding helter-skelter
toward a precipice.
70R as has so often been said, if World War III
should break out, there could be no winner, and
in all likelihood, there would be little difference in
the degrees of complete defeat for all.
OK then why don't we, as a people, show enough
common sense (if we lack the "mass intelligence") to
prevent such a catastrephe or at least do everything
humanly possible to do this before it IS too late? It
would seem, to a "man up a tree," the primitive in
stinct of self-preservation would be sufficient.
But to date there has been little indication of this.
So on and on the crazy rat-race goes.
"I17HEREUPON we come back to where we started,
" namely the crying need of the hour, is not only
a change in national, but in world leadership.
The "man of the hour" would be the man or a
woman like "Joan of Arc" who could lead a Twen
tieth, not an Eleventh century Crusade, and not to
rescue the Holy Land, from the infidels, but the land
of our "good earth" from those misguided leaders who
suffer from the delusion that the only way to save
civilization is to resort to a diabolical force that would
destroy it. R.W.R.
Tuesday, November 19, 1957
,'SkhowsW0 is? See HowDRYHEg UPS ARE?
ITHATS WHAT FEVER O&S TO YA "
War. Stockpile Hoard
Due For Investigation
By Congressional Quarterly
Washington (CQ) A panel
of 11 experts this month begins
a searching inquiry into Uncle
Sam's hoard of strategic war ma
terials, an accumulation so vast
it dwarfs even the bulging stock
piles of surplus farm goods.
As part owner of this $7.4 bil
lion inventory (your individual
share is worth slightly over $40),
ycu may wonder, along with the
experts:
Whether, in the age of nu
clear weapons, a five-year sup
ply of everything from abrasives
and agar through vanadium and
zinc should be kept on hand at
all times?
Why part of the stockpile,
representing a $217 million in
vestment by the taxpayers, is
not legally available to the
President for use in an emer
gency? Why, in the last half of 1956,
the Government spent three
times as much on purchases of
two metals already in adequate
supply as it did on meeting the
minimum needs for all other
stockpile items?
These are just a few of the
puzzlers awaiting the Special
Stockpile Advisory Committee
appointed Oct. 31 by Defense
Mobilizer Gordon Gray.
Confronting them is an accu
mulation of products and prob
lems so big it staggers the imagi
nation. Stockpile Contents
The hoard of minerals, metals,
rubber and other war materials
is worth half a billion dollars
more than the much-publicized
farm surplus. Its most important
component (85 per cent of the
total dollar value), the Strategic
Stockpile, contains 73 items like
aluminum, asbestos, bauxite,
copper, lead, magnesium, man
ganese, mercury, mica, nickel,
platinum, natural rubber, shel
lac, silk, tin and tungsten.
Also on store are such unex
pected goods as castor oil (an
ingredient of napalm fire
bombs), feathers and down (for
sleeping bags) and opium (for
medicinal purposes).
The 24.5 million tons of stra
tegic goods cover 23 million
square feet of private and Gov
ernment warehouse space,
sprawl over 1,377 acres along
side highways and railroads and
in factory lots and occupy 2
million barrels of tank space.
The stockpile's annual house
keeping bill is $26 million. A
physical inventory of its con
tents, now begun, will cost $15
million and take three years to
complete.
Stockpiling got its start after
World War II, which found the
United States short of many
vital goods and cut off from its
normal sources of supply. The
Stockpiling Act of 1946 gave the
go-ahead to the porgram, and it
was speeded up sharply with the
Korean emergency and passage
of the Defense Production Act
of 1950.
The original stockpile goals
are close to being met. The
House Appropriations Commit
tee March 15 reported that "81
per cent of the minimum stock
nile requirements are in the
warehouse or on order." But of
late, Congressmen and others
have been asking how realistic
the old goals are.
Chairman A. Willis Robert
son (D-Va.) of the Joint Com
mittee on Defense Production
July 30, saidr "It does not make
much sense for us to tie up bil
lions of dollars in what we call
strategic materials that could be
come scarce in time of a long
war . . . (when) many military
men think, if another war comes,
it is not going to last very long."
Chief Task
The Advisory Committee's
chief task will be to revise for
the sputnik age stockpiling poli
cies born in the Korean war pe
riod. The advisers also will be
asked to bring some order . out
of the chaos of overlapping laws
governing stockpile operations.
An official report lists nine
major statutes directly affect
ing the stockpile program, mak
ing it, one official testified, "dif
ficult . . . and also expensive to
administer.''
One example of this legal con
fusion came to light May 21,
when the Joint Committee on
Defense Production was told
that, even in an emergency, the
President has no authority to
take anything out of the $217
million supply of strategic goods
obtained from sale or barter of
farm surpluses unless Congress
passe a special law to permit it.
A bill to correct this over
sight was introduced in 1957 but
received no attention from the
Senate Agriculture Committee.
Another and politically tick
lish problem facing the Advis
ory Commtitee concerns charges
that some stockpiling operations
are thinly disguised subsidies for
the mining industry,
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Put Principle Above Party
To the Editor: A new pro
cedure has taken place during
this special session and the reg
ular session of the 1957 legisla
ture of using party caucuses in
determining decisions upon leg
islative matters before the re
spective assemblies. We have
both been critized for not ac
tively supporting this practice.
In the sessions we have at
tended prior to the 1957 session,
we do not recall where party
caucuses were held primarily
for determining how votes
should be cast upon bills to be
considered. We have contacted
other veteran legislators who
also say they have never seen
this procedure used until this
year.
We believe the indulgence of
party caucuses to determine leg
islative vote is a very dangerous
thing and a precedent which
would result in dire effects. It
is our concept of the three arms
of our constitutional state gov
ernment that each branch, ex
ecutive, legislative, and judicial,
should work independently with
out coercion or undue influence
from any other branch.
If there is a continuance of
this practice, it could readily be
abused and would defeat the
purpose of an -expression of in
dependent judgment by each
separate legislator. We believe
there is less chance of collective
error if each legislator would al
ways vote his own conclusions
without ever having the possi
bility occur where he might for
sake his personal beliefs for, the
sake of party harmony. It has
been our observation that the
great majority of the legislators
are conscientious in doing what
they think is right and if they
are subjected to pressures in
their party caucuses, there is a
human possibility that a temp
tation may exist where freedom
of expression may, in some in
stances, be abandoned. It is
wrong for either political party
to put its individual legislators
in the embarrassing position of
having to publicly denounce his
party's stand or relinquish his
own personal feelings of what is
right or wrong.
We have been criticized by
some of our Democratic brethren
because we have not constantly
followed the conclusions of party
caucuses, but we both felt we
could better represent our own
constituents by voting our per
sonal convictions as we saw
them as the occasions arose. By
doing so, we also believe we
have never been traitors to the
great, principles that the Dem
ocratic Party has promoted for
the-past 150 years. It is our
opinion that through the free
expression of every individual
person, our party, or any other
party; can remain strong and be
of good service to our State and
Nation.
Representative Katherine
Musa, .
Senator Ben Musa
The Dalles, Ore.
French-Algerian Trouble Poses
Problem for NATO French Allies
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The dispute over the arming
of Tunisia may lead to an im
portant review of United States-British-French
relations.
By sending
weapons to
France's form
er North Afri
can protector
ate, the United
States and Brit
ain angered
both the French
govern ment
and th French
Charles McCann people.
France was willing to send
weapons itself. But it wanted
Matter of Fact by Joseph ai$oP
KEEPING OUR OPTIONS
Belgrade, Yogoslavia This is
a moment of fairly desperate un
certainty about future Soviet
policy. At
home, Nikita
S. Khrushchev
may either
drown his peo
ple in blood or
choke them
with butter.
Abroad, by the
same token, he
may become
Joseph Alsop Hnrir ornnrl,,
venturesome or seek a period of
real pacification.
Throughout, iho
administration, American policy
has essentially consisted of a se
ries of belated and ffenerallir in.
adequate reactions to Soviet ac
tions. We have a ehanrp
do a little better. We have a
chance, in fact, to
Khruschev's eventual decision!
very greatly.
He is at least bound to h con
siderably sobered, if America re
sponds with clantv. vigor and
decisiveness to5 the ugly new
world situation 'now confronting
us. That must be the lone ranee
aim.
But it will still be a wait-and-
see business until Khrushrhpv
has actually made his choice. In
this uncertain moment, only one
actually made his choice. In this
uncertain moment, onlv one
thing is certain. Until Khrush
chev shows his hand, the Ameri
can nolicv makers reallv desner-
ately need to keep all possible
options, to retain the utmost pos
sible freedom of action, on
Khrushchev's side of the line that
divides the world.
AS a practical matter, this
means keeping our options
here in Yugoslavia and in Po
land. We have no real power to
act anywhere else on this side of
the world-dividing line. And
keeping our options means, in
turn, leaving the existing rela
tionships largely unaltered.
Aid, even much more gener
ous aid, needs to be given to Po
land. The rapidly tapering pro
gram of aid to Yugoslavia must
also be maintained, at least to
the extent of continuing the rela
tively inexpensive surplus wheat
deliveries which provide nearly
80 per cent of the bread for Yu
goslavia's cities.
Of course, these and other mat
ters will need to be coldly recon
sidered if the Yugoslavs and
Poles end by cheering Khrush
chev on, while he reinaugurates
Stalin's terror at home and em
barks on a campaign of still bold
er adventures abroad. But the
point is that the Yugoslavs and
Poles are not likely to cheer
Khrushchev on. They are much
more likely to do the opposite,
in which case their relationships
with the West will greatly gain
in importance to them and to us.
THEIR likely, reaction is illus
trated bv the Yugoslav re
sponse to Khrushchev's Stalinoid
destruction of Marshal ZhukoV.
On this head the combination of
two sets of facts has placed the
Yugoslav leaders in an embar
rassing position.
On the one hand, it has long
been the Yugoslav policy to sup
port Nikita Khrushchev by all
means rjossible in the inner strug
gle in the Kremlin. That is still
frankly admitted here.
On the other hand, it was cer-
tainlv Marshal Zhukov's long
visit to Yugoslavia that gave
Khrushchev the chance to ar
range Zhukov's destruction. With
Zhukov's hand so long removed
from the actual levers of power
in Moscow, his dangerously great
nnwers fell into abeyance. Thus
Khrushchev was able to prepare
Zhukov's removal from the De
fense Ministry in careful secrecy;
and then confront him with the
accomplished fact as he stepped
off his aircraft in Moscow.
The combination of these two
sets of facts have naturally
caused this reporter and many
nthprs to susDect that Marshal
Tito was actually Khrushchev's
accomplice in the plot against
Zhukov. But after careful inves
tigation on the spot, a rather
different, more complex but less
gly conclusion seems unavoid
able.
-
TO BE sure, the Yugoslavs
Haim that thev were only
supporting Nikita Khrushchev
gainst "Stalinists unnamed
and unidentifiable, which is real
ly too hard to credit after
Khrushchev s successful destruc
tion of Molotov and Kaganovich
last !July. Like the Poles, the Yu
first to get firm guarantees that
they would not fall into the
hands of the rebels in next-door
Algeria and Morocco which
like Tunisian is now independ
ent as in its own sphere of
interest. It wants no outside in
terference. The United States and Brit
ain took their action on the
ground that if they, or France,
did not give Tunisian President
Habib Bourguiba the weapons he
demanded, he might turn to Sov
iet Russia to get them.
It can hardly be disputed that
in taking their action against
France's wishes, the United
States and Britain intervened in
what is a problem for France
goslavs must surely have been
fearful that Zhukov's increasing
power would tend to break the
sacred monopoly of rule of the
sacred Communist party appa
ratus. They are not quite frank now
about their attitude to Zhukov,
one suspects, because they dis
like admitting they have had the
wool a little pulled over their
eyes, like so many others who
have had dealings with Khrush
chev. But the displeasure and even
alarm that one senses here also
indicate that the Yukoslavs cer
tainly did not expect Zhukov to
be utterly destroyed by a Stalin
oid plot. They hoped that his
overweening powers would be
reduced, perhaps by his promo
tion from the Defense Ministry
to the Soviet Premiership, where
the final levers of power would
not be in his hands.
OUT they also thought well of
Zhukov as an individual So
viet leader. They expected the
decencies to be preserved. They
wanted the Khrushchev-Shukov
partnership to continue, al
though on a more equal basis.
And they certainly did not ex
pect to be made to seem the will
ing catspaws of Nikita Khrush
chev in his brilliant, Byzantine
intrigue. This has made them
downright angry.
But what then was the Yugo
slav motive for supporting
Khrushchev in the first instance?
The motive was the new dubious
belief that Khrushchev promised
"liberalization" as they like to
call it, or in more honest words,
that Khrushchev stood for the
evolution of Soviet society in a
more human direction. The Yu
goslavs have been trying to in
crease their influence in the
Kremlin, in order to increase
their ability to encourage this
Soviet evolution. Hence they
have thought it worthwhile to
take several controversial steps,
such as their recognition of East
Germany.
One may question their judg
ment in these matters, but one
must give their good intentions
the benefit of the doubt for the
present. They now want Khrush
chev today to make humane and
peaceable choices, just as much
as we do. If he makes the other
kind of choice, which they now
fear, they will suffer more im
mediately than we shall. And
these are the reasons why it is
urgent to keep our Yugoslav op
tion, even if this requires the
Eisenhower " administration to
stand up to Congress for once.
(Copyright 1957, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Clergyman Arrested By
East German Communists
Berlin OP) The East German
Communists announced today
that a Protestant clergyman will
be tried for forming an under
ground organization of students
to plot a "counter-revolution."
Communist Leader Paul Froeh-
lich, writing in the newspaper
Leipziger Volkszeitung, said the
clergyman, Siegfried Schmultz-
ler, carried out counter-revolu-1
tionary activity among Leipzig
university students during the
Hungarian revolt. Schmutzler
was arrested April 12.
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27 NORTH HOLLY IT.
in its desperate attempt to keep
Algeria, last of its three North
African possessions.
Was Action Justified?
The question still remains
whether the action was justified
by the British-American belief
that it was necessary to keep
Tunisia from following the
course of Egypt and Syria and
thus giving Russia a foothold in
North Africa such as it has in
the Middle East.
French Foreign Minister
Christian Pineau has come to the
United States to confer with Sec
retary of State John Foster Dul
les. It is expected that Pineau will
first ask Dulles to get a guaran
tee from the Tunisian govern
ment that the weapons it is send
ing will not be permitted to get
to Algeria for use by the rebels
in killing French soldiers.
But Pineau undoubtedly will
seek American support for the
French policy in Algeria also.
The Algerian problem, specifi
cally the demand of the rebels
for outright independence, is to
be debated in the United Na
tions General assembly, possibly
next week. ,
Rebels Will Hare Support
The rebel cause will be sup
ported by the "neutralist" and
"anti-colonial" nations of Africa
and Asia. France will expect the
loyal support of the United
States and Britain for its policy
of ending the revolt by giving
Algeria a limited measure of
self-rule.
It is possible that, largely due
to the Tunisia dispute, there
will be a meeting of the Ameri
can, British and French foreign
ministers before the meeting of
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization countries in Paris
starting Dec. 16.
At a United States-British and
French meeting, or in separate
discussions with the United
States and Britain, France is
likely to tie up the Tunisian
issue with NATO. That alliance
pledges its members to give no
help to an enemy of any of
them and .the Algerian rebels
are enemies of France.
In the end, the Tunisia dis
pute may lead to a needed clari
fication of the relations of the
big three western allies.
Transit Company Makes
Change To Save $7,000
Portland (IP) The Rose City
Transit company said today it
has widened the running inter
vals on many of its routes to
save an estimated $7,000 per
month in operating expenses.
General Manager Raymond
Parkins said it was part of a re
duction to meet an added $11,
000 monthly cost of a November
pay raise for union employees.
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