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o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Ireryon la Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribun" Published Daily Except Saturday br MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERA-LD LATHAM Busineaa Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as aecond clan matter at Mediard Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday Ona year $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4-25 O Sunday Only One year $4.20 Lamer in aoviDtv mvuiuiu. " Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent end on motor routes-. Daily and Sunday One year $18.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York Chicago, ae trolt San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUtUISHEKS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL lOITOIIAt ASSOCM-feN Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sot. 21. 1947 (Friday) Becaue of his brilliance, com parative youth and courage, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York ranked highest among seven in Q Republican presidential nomi nee preference poll conducted this week by the Mail Tribune. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot colunfh: "It is time again to report the Older Girls are again mincing matters for mince meat for Thanksgiving. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 21, 1937 (Sunday) Flood waters threatened to do substantial damage in and around Medford yesterday but strenuous work held actual loss to negligible proportions, reports indicated. Ten-pound gift boxes of Rogue valley pears may be shipped to the Atlantic seaboard for 50 cents, to Chicago for 45 cents, and to points on the Pacific coast for 35 cents. 30"YEARS AGO Jov. 21. 1927 (Monday) Under the direction of Lee Hamilton, 1,737 pounds of rab bits are being canned today at the Rogue River cannery. The need of a municipal land ing field hs been brought to the attention of Ashland resi dents and investigations are be ing made. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 21. 1917 (Wednesday) Members of the Russian mis sion, due to pass through Med ford tonight, are touring the country for purpose of making the United States acquainted with the true story of Russia's sacrifice in the war. At its meeting last night the city council, after much discus sion adopted the 1917 tax budget in practically completed form The levy is 12.6 mills, being quite a reduction over last year's levy of 14.6 mills. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six is good. 1. How many teats does a milch goat have? 2. Bible: The "Ephod" con tained two jewels called what? 3. What is Petrol? 4. Is the covering of footballs generally horsehide, pigskin, or cowhide? 5. Who is the author of the novel "The Razor's Edge"? 6. Is steam an invisible gas? 7. Who is the creator of the fictional character "Babbitt"? 8. The famous balcony scene is in which one of Shakespeare's plays? 9. Is it proper to say "I learn ed from him via the newspaper? 10. "Thirty days hath Novem ber" finish the rhyme? Answers: 1 Two. 2 Urim and Thummim. 3 Gasoline. 4 Cow hide. 5 Somerset Maugham. 6 Yes. What is commonly called steam is water vapor. 7 Sinclair Lewis. 8. "Romeo and Juliet." 9 No. "in" not via is correct. 10 "Aprijp June, and September, February hath twenty-eight alone, and all the rest have thirty-one,'1 MAIL TRIBUNE Silly, But Also Sad If the Ironic Fates above are still in business they must be getting a lot of laughs these days. That is if any of them read the Republican press in this state. For seldom has there been a more amusing and amazing example of political inconsistency and utter ly blind partisanship, than supplied by the comments regarding Mr. and Mrs. Musa of The Dalles, during the recent special session of the Legislature. Headed by the (almost) always faithful Oregon ian, one G.O.P. paper after another, has lauded the re fusal of this politically harmonious couple to stand loyally by their party and instead go over to the oppo sition, and by their votes defeat their party-leaders' program. Fine work they have agreed in loud chorus. The Oregonian indeed pins on a double-accolade as follows: "It is a weak-kneed legislator who will submit to such party discipline if he honestly disagrees ...... Several members including the Musas refused to surrender their own judgments to the' party rule in the special session. Other Legislators gaining more experience are likely to reassert their independence." IN other words if a couple of Democrats assert inde 1 pendence of THEIR party and go over to the Re publicans THAT is just dandy! DUT what if Oregon's senior Senator, Wayne Morse, does EXACTLY that, then what is the G.O.P. verdict? Our senior Senator is then an apostate a traitor, an untouchable a blankety-blank "no-Good," a pub lic scold and a national nuisance. He should somehow, be at once retired from public life to save the great state of Oregon from needless humiliation, bank ruptcy and dishonor, etc, etc, etc. Again assuming the Ironic Fates do follow the Re publican press in this state we feel sure, while the above isn't a tape-recording, they will agree, it fairly represents the average G.O.P. "Hate Morse" reaction. (In fact it might be stated, en passant, that the usually temperate and judicious Oregonian printed a report from Washington at the time Senator Morse did not agree with certain leaders of the Democratic party on civil rights that our senior senator was what was only a few years ago regarded as an unprintable epithet, namely an "S.O.B.") f "IIELL so it goes. " We grant such partisan childishness should not be taken too seriously but it is we think worthy of comment especially in the area of comic relief. It is really laughable as well as sad how year after year in the "high church" party circles it all depends to the point of boredom upon whose ox is gored. The office-holder bearing a Democratic "brand" is is weak-kneed" wicked and pusillanimous if he doesn't vote Republican. But when the G.O.P. brand is at issue, then the incumbent who jumps the reserva tion and votes Democratic as above indicated should be ridden out of town on a rail and be forever shunned, by decent and lawabiding citizens. 17E TRUST no one will try to use that"HONEST" " disagreement term as an alibi. For no informed person regardless of party, would deny for a minute, however mistaken Wayne Morse, may or may not be, he always is absolutely honest m his decisions, and never m public or private lacks the courage of his convictions. Ever since he entered public life Senator Morse has told the people of Oregon that he would, where the issue was between principle and party stand up for the principle regardless of the party. And that he meant exactly what he said is demonstrated by the fact he has stood for what he has believed best for his state and country, regardless of whether the Repub lican or the Democratic party opposed him. If that isn't "independence" what is it? But for thus, in the words of the Oregonian "AS SERTING his independence" no paper in the state has more violently and viciously assailed him. There are times when the blind biogtry and rank injustice of such an attitude tends to make one lose sight (momentarily) of the humor. R.W.R. Hang Together or Separately? In the "King and I" one of the best light musicals in this generation the King in a mood of regal frus tration sang a song expressing his confusion and puz zlement. He was suspicious of foreign alliances which promised to benefit him for fear they would "benefit" him out of all he owned. " And yet, he solilquized, if no nation trusts any other nation then in spite of all our "wishes" there will be nothing left on earth but "Fishes." A very profound truth particularly in this stage of the cold war which seems to be rapidly getting warmer. . THERE 'must be some international TRUST or everything is lost. This observation appears time ly because of the distrust reported in western Europe regarding the United States. Mobs in Paris are storming the American Embassy in protest against the sending of U.S. arms to Tunisia? A revolt of several European members of NATO, against accepting guided missiles from the United States is threatened. , .. "ANGELS and Ministers of Grace defend us!" If in addition to distrust of the nations of the Communist World we can't trust the nations of the "Free Democratic World" where does that take us? The heading is our answer. R.W.R. - Thursday, November 21, 1957 'YOU GOT A mTOR,M0Ml Matter of Fact Raising Gooseflesh A good deal of time has now passed since the Sputnik be latedly shattered the false American com placency of the last five years. All the returns are not in yet, but the rest of the world has al ready made its own rough judgment o f Joseph Aisop the Eisenhow er administration's response to the new situation. For an American, it is a mel ancholyand alarming judgment. The anxious meetings in Wash ington, the gyrations of Secre tary of State Dulles, the soothing speeches of the President, have neither reassured our friends nor impressed our enemies. The parallel will raise goose flesh on onyone with a good memory. All the same, , the American government's response to its recent rude awakening seems much too like the British government's response to the rude awakening of the Austrian anschluss in 1938. In the Republican administra tion in America in the '50's, there have always been echoes of the Conservative administra tions in Britain in the '30's. The President has often been Baldwin-like (and too many people have forgotten Stanley Bald win's fantastic contemporary popularity). The similarities be tween John Foster Dulles and John Simon are too numerous to need underlining. Until Neil McElroy took over, it was really very difficult to remember whether the Secretary of De fense was called Charles E. Wilson or Sir Kingsley Wood. ABOVE all the economic and world views of former Sec retary of the Treasurer, George Humphrey, that dominating fig ure whose opinions still hold sway in Washington, very closely resembled the views of Neville Chamberlain. Here has been and here is the real rub. To be sure, except in the brief disastrous moment of the sum mit meeting at Geneva, the Eisenhower administration has never hoped to do business with the Kremlin as Chamberlain and company hoped to do busi ness with Adolf Hitler. But the leaders of the Eisenhower ad ministration have always shared most of the other characteristic beliefs of the British leaders of the '30's. Above all they have shared the belief that budget problems must come first with defense problems a very poor second. Similar beliefs produced sim ilar actions and similar failures to take action. In particular the Eisenhower administration fail ed to do nearly enough to halt the grim, progressive unfavor able tilt of the world power balance, in many ways so com parable to the tilt of the Euro pean balance in the Hitler years. And now, as in 1938, the true state of the power balance has been suddenly, brutally and un mistakably revealed. THIS is the true significance of the Sputnik, that it has told us and it has told the world exactly where we stand. We can not any longer go on believing in the myth of an "American lead" miraculously maintained without effort or sacrifice. The world has certainly ceased to believe in this "American lead," and now instead believes in a Russian lead. Politically, there fore, the Sputnik has been an unqualified catastrophe, for the world's belief in the American lead was our greatest remaining PERSONALIZED Christmas Cards ORDER NOW 35 ALBUMS TO CHOOSE FROM - ON THE BALCONY COMB ON IN, f?UFF By Joseph Alsep foreign asset. The world has waited, as the country has waited, to see how the Administration would re spond to the challenge so brusquely presented. The situa tion was not and is not by any means hopeless. Our allies, our enemies and the uncommitted nations all alike undestand America's vast reserves of pow er. A general conviction that these reserves are being deter minedly mobilized will be en ough to alter the whole atmos phere and trend abroad. But in order to save the sit uation in this manner, two things are needed. New men with new ideas are needed, to strike a new note of vigorous, disinter ested leadership. And a new call to effort and sacrifice is needed to show that America's reserves of power really are being mobil ized in dealy earnest. TNSTEAD the world has been informed that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles means to remain on the job forever in order to organize a new, more intimate unity of the Western Alliance. This seems a little odd, since Secretary Dulles has been chief architect of Western dis unity. But even this seems far less odd than the omission of any real call to sacrifice of ef fort in the President's speeches. For this must surely mean that the old beliefs are still being obstinately clung to, and the old order of policy priorities, which begot the present danger, still remains obstinately unchanged. The world had cocked an ear to hear the not familiar but al ways overwhelmingly impres sive sound of the United States of America getting down to busi ness again. That sound has not been audible as yet. Instead, there have been sounds all too like the sounds made in Britain in 1939, when Neville Chamber lain launched his budget-first "rearmament" program that left German power forging ahead of British power rather faster than ever. Maybe this is a safe, sound and sensible approach to the present world crisis. But history says the opposite, and the whole foreign audience of the Amerl can policymakers, whether friendly, hostile or neutral, very strongly agrees with history. ' Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribunt Inc. Singler Elected Kiwanis President William A. (Bill) Singler will serve as president of Medford Kawanis club in 1958. Singler is proprietor of a serv ice station and an auto supply business on North Central ave. He will succeed Dr. Abner Clark, who becomes a member of the board of directors. Kiwanians held an election of officers yesterday. Dr. Tom And erson, optometrist, was named vice-president. Chosen directors for two years were Charles Champlin, Ray Johnson, Harry Barker and Darrell Miller. Dr. Merle Foland was elected to the board for a one-year term. Paul Hornbeck and Vernon Thorpe were tied in the voting for an other one-year director term and a run-off will be held next Wed nesday. Dr. Bill Blackstone and Rob ert Voegtly are holdover dir ectors and Singler and Ander son have served on the board this year. Speaker at the Kiwanis lunch pon at Roeue Valley Country club yesterday was John Bar nett, Portland manager for the small business administration. New African Republics Of Russian Penetration By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia is developing its attempt to penetrate Africa by seeking trade agreements with two more of the contin ent's new re publics. Egypt al ready has tied its economy dang erously close to Russia. Now Russia is trying to Charles McCann establish footholds in Ghana, on the west coast of Africa, and the Sudan, Egypt's neighbor on the south. Today and By Walter Anatomy of the NATO Problem It is well understood that with in the NATO alliance there is a crisis of confidence. This crisis has been m the.making for some years. But it has been brought to a head since the launching of the Sputr niks more specifically by t h e demon stration that Walter Lippmano the Russians are substantially ahead of the United States in the development of rockets, and ahead, therefore, in the race of armaments. We must ask ourselves why, long before the Sputniks, there was in the making a crisis of confidence. The answer, I think, is that when NATO was founded, certain deep and dangerous is sues, which have since caused great trouble, were in the inter est of harmony more or less de liberately glossed over. NATO, we must remember, is a pact for the defense of all the countries of Western Europe which lie west of the iron cur tain, excluding only Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland and Spain. Algeria is included in NATO, being treated as a part of France. The pact is con cerned with military aggression against the territory lying inside the lines on an official map. This is a crucial point. For the pact says nothing about any other area of the world noth ing about Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, South Asia or Africa. Yet almost all the great pow ers in NATO have interests, some of them very important, some which they regard as vital, beyond the boundaries of the official map of NATO. There is France in North Africa. There is all of Western Europe vitally interested in the oil of the Mid dle East. There is the American interest in Korea, Japan, For mosa. ' IN this lies one of the great causes of misunderstanding within NATO. Each of the great powers is disposed to feel that in the outside areas where it is most concerned, it is entitled to expect the support of all the other NATO allies, whether or not they are directly concerned. There has been a strong feeling in the United States that in re gard to Korea, Formosa, and our own boycott of Red China our NATO allies have not played the game. The same kind of feel ing -fexists today in France, be cause we do not underwrite the whole of French policy in North Africa. The same feeling exists in Britain, as well as in France, that we acted contrary to the spirit of the alliance in the Suez affair last year. These conflicts of interest have played an important part in producing the crisis of confi dence. They are compounded Things You SHOULD Know . . Lost week in this space were listed things you MUST know in order to supply information necessary for a death certificate. In addition, here are things you SHOULD know in making funeral arrangements: Names, addresses, and relationship of, immediate survivors Number of grandchildren and great grandchildren, if any Date and place of marriage Church membership of deceased DAY OR NIGHT - PHONE SP 2-8030 V Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTOR A Soviet mission arrived in Accra, the capital of Ghana, on Tuesday to bid for an economic agreement and possibly for the establishment also of formal dip lomatic relations. For several weeks, the Soviet embassy in Khartoum, the capi tal of the Sudan, has been angling for a similar agreement. Ghana, the former British col ony of the Gold Coast, attained its independence on March 6 last. The Sudan, formerly ruled jointly by .Britain and Egypt, became independent on Jan. 1, 1956. Britain has close economic ties with both countries. Russia has just promised to "aid Egypt in building up its national economy." This com- Tomorrow Lippmann by a dual doubt on the one hand, whether we might drag Europe into a war which broke out in Asia; on the other hand, whether if war broke out in Europe, we could be counted upon in the age of ballistic mis siles to risk the destruction of New York or DetrcV in the de fense of, say, West Berlin. "DEDUCED to its simplest ele ments, this is the anatomy of the crisis which is to be dealt with at the NATO meeting in Paris in December. Is NATO a regional pact for the defense of Western Europe? Or is it the core of a world alliance for the containment of Communism? These are hard questions to an swer specifically, and the real policy of the NATO powers has been not to spell them out in advance but to deal practically with separate cases as and when they arose. The NATO powers do not know, and have not thought it the part of wisdom to try to say what would happen in, for ex ample, Iceland which is within NATO, if we had to go to war to defend Iran, which is outside of NATO. We have an obliga tion to Iran. But what is the obligation of Iceland to Iran? ON the general rule, that hard cases do not make good law, we shall be hoping, I take it, that at the Paris meeting a way Tonight, Ilov. Entitled "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: ITS MESSAGE OF LIBERATION" by Elbert R. Slaughter, C.S., of Dallas, Texas Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church, of Christ, o Scientist, in Boston, Massachuetts at First Church of Christ. Scientist 100 Windsor Ave. Medford 1 Block South of East Main Nursery Facilities Available EVERYONE IS WELCOME Club or society War service record, if any Favorite hymns or songs of deceased Any additional personal data for obituary purposes Targeto Attempt mitment was made in Moscow, where Maj. Gen. Abdel Hakim Amer, Egyptian war minister, was given red-carpet treatment when he went there as Presi dent Gamal Abdel Nasser's envoy. Nasser is represented as wor ried over Russia's tightening hold on his country's economy. Egyptian delegations are nego tiating with Britain and France in an attempt to restore normal trade relations with those coun tries. At Nasser's request Eugene Black, president of the Interna tional Bank for Reconstruction and Development the so-called World Bank has undertaken to act as mediator in negotiations for payment by Egypt of com pensation to stockholders of the Suez Canal which Nasser seized. Hence it may be that Nasser will use the Russian promise as a bargaining point in an at tempt to reach favorable eco- nomic agreements with the United States, Britain and France. Just what success Russia will have in its bids to Ghana and the Sudan remains to be seen. There seems good reason to believe that as regards the Su dan, Russia's new attempt at penetration may fail.' ' Prime Minister Abdullah Bey Khalil is quite friendly toward the United States. will be found not to define and decide the hardest questions. For NATO cannot be transformed into a world alliance, capable of taking a united position on all great world questions. We shall do very well indeed if we can restore confidence in NATO as an instrument for the security ' of Europe. ; My own view, which I know is not widely held, is that the O inner conflicts within NATO will cause it to disintegrate not next year but. in the course of time unless the NATO powers can agree on a common policy which is pointed towards an eventual security agreement with Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In other words, I doubt whether NATO 'can have a common policy in Asia and Africa. But it could conceivably have a common policy to defend Europe by an overall system of security. 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