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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
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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. '
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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
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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
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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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