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G FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) urns "Iveryone to Southern Orel on ...-ana lip man x ripune Published Dally Except 3aturtay br UKU fK-UNTANCi CO 87-29 North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT w RiTtn KERB fiRFV iriirti.ir,a m GERALD LATHAM Busines Manager tnn. uLLt.t jr. Managing Editor EARL H ADA M? r-i rj,,.-.. HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor n.nAHu jew t n Snorta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 By Mail In &Hvanr 0 fm Ito Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4-25 ounaay umy one year 54.20. By Carrimr Tn A n ironra MmAtrA Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. jacKsonvuie. Uold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent Daily and Sunday One month 1-50 wmer ana Dealers 10c per copy AH Torm rnch 1 AA Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OK AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION WEST-EOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, ae troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles oearue Portland St. Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. O NEWSMrEI PUBMSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EOlTOtlAt !a$$ocFai"3n miimimH'iHi Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO JJov. 25. 1947 (Tuesday) A 17-y ears-old juvenile, In a jKgtied statement, admitted he prowled the Nesbitt Bottling company at 306 South Fir st. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Sunny days in November has caused a recurence locally of spring fev er." 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 25. 1937 (Friday) Turkey growers of Jackson county, numbering about 200, will meet Saturday to discuss threatened union labor restric tions against turkeys shipped from this section unless they wear a union label. A weird game of golf will be played in the snow on the rim of Crater lake Sunday for a Universal reel of odd events. 30 YEARS AGO ' Nov. 25. 1927 (Friday) Gov. I. L. Patterson will be In Medford to open the Better Homes Exposition scheduled In four days. Bert Rippey presents a bounty claim atthe county clerk's of fice today for nine coyotes he killed near his ranch. , 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 23. 1917 (Friday) Cap. Washington Rawlings, Civil War hero, 83, formerly of Medford, died at his home near Meldrum station. E. N. Vilm of Anna, 111., and "NT. M. Vilm of Wichita. Kan., brothers, purchased the Nord- wick flour mill from H. O. Nord wick for about $8,000. Whafs Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good 1. Who customarily adminlst ers the U.S. Presidential oath of office? 2. Bible: Which son of David, according to Matthew, is the an cestor Mary, mother of Jesus? 3. Since 1923 the capital of Turkey has been Ankara what was the capital before that year? 4. What capital city was built on the city of ancient Byzan tium? 5. Who composed "Rhapsody .in Blue?" 6. Is air elastic? , 7. IsoRobert Browning, Omar Kyam, or H. Heine author of "Rabbi Ben Ezra?" 8. "Content lies oftener in cot tages than in p s"? 9. Are fish and ice-cream eat en at the same meal likely to cause indigestion? 10. Is "the Girl of the Golden West" a comic or light opera? Answers I. Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. 2. Sol omon. 3. Constantinople (renam ed Istanbul). 4. Constantinople. 5. George Gershwin. 6. Yes. 7. Robert Browing. 8. Palaces. 9: No.. 10. Grand opera. Nationalist China Paper Condemns Kuomintang ", Taipei (IP) Nationalist China's most outspoken news paper has condemned the ruling Kuomintang and called for for- . mation of a strong opposition political party on Formosa. The editorial was written by publisher Lee Wan Chu. whose daily Kung Lun Pao is the only paper owned by native For mosans. It appeared on the eve of the Kuomintangs 63rd birth day anniversary Sunday. MAIL TRIBUNE On Freedom There is a vast difference between teaching com munism and teaching; ABOUT communism. And we are delighted that this distinction has at long last penetrated the top echelons of the American Legion. For years this largest of all veterans orgamza tions has hewed to the head-in-the-sand philosophy that communism should hardly be mentioned in polite society let alone studied. On the other hand, the that the more one knows IT J ill" a Die one is to cope witn mm. THHE battle between freedom and totalitarianism is a battle for the minds today and the young minds of those who are tomor row 3 citizens. Political freedom is based on freedom of thought And if the teachings of competition, there s something wrong. An intelligent person, the comparative values of fail to choose the road of is based on knowledge of both, he is far, far better equipped to argue and even fight for democracy than he would be if he knew nothing of the enemy's position. TTHE ultimate strength of this nation is not based on guns and ships and planes or even missiles important as these may be as a deterrent to war at the present. The strength of the nation lies in its people, and their intelligent approach to the problems of living on one planet which is chopped into little pieces by more than 80 national boundaries, more than a thou sand tongues and dialectsr and by a multitude of ideologies and philosphies We hold our beliefs to they are, for us. But we must recognize that other peoples are entitled to seek their destiny in their own ways and through their own understanding of these communism, the greater meaningful contribution eventual pasting peace. "THE Lord knows there are enough influences at work today to try to nibble away our freedom of choice and our freedom of From a thousand sources, from the palaces of Park Avenue through the dictates of the fashion world, and the latest attempts of the book-burners, to the current meeting of the Anti-Egghead Chowder and Marching society, we are told to conform, to act and one else. Why should we? It's a free country, isn't it? The action of the Legion's Americanism com- mission, approved by tne mittee, in lifting its objections to studying ABOUT communism, is a small ray after all, a free country. A Le Down in Lincoln county Room 6 of the Cannon school were lined up and their eyes were checked. Those with blue or hazel eyes were put into one group ; those with brown eyes were put m another group. The two groups were each other. Group 1 used fountain, but Group 2 was he basement. This little experiment one day. But we have a Room 6 will remember it A CTUALLY, what is so inn- of n r? nnf c -Pm fTi a nrArw r.-P flimi DUOO mn A color of their skins White southerners and other segregationists will ell vou there is lots of difference that a "way of if e" is involved ; that the differences also are of in ;ellieence. morality, sanitation, and so on and on. They are, of course, right. For, in very general ;erms, these differences do south, and elsewhere too. But what these arguments fail to note is that these deficiencies are not inherent. They are correctable. And how can they be corrected? By giving the two races equality in both rights A PEOPLE burdened and hampered by lack of of bettering themselves economically, can hardly be expected to rise to equality in intellectual or moral stature or a standard of living which makes them "ac ceptable" to others not similarly burdened. Time and again it has been shown that, given only the advantages necessary for peoples can- rise of their own volition to a level of equality in any given area of human activity. Color of skin, of and difference than color of eyes. We hope the students 11 -W m esson , wen. it is a lesson heart. E.A. nsurance to Cost More San Francisco (IP) Western motorists got some bad news Sunday from the National Bu reau of Casualty Underwriters. Motorists will 'have to pay more for auto liability insur ance in California and seven other Western states next year. There is no alternative," the bureau said, reporting that in Monday, November 25, 1957 of Choice realists have maintained about an enemy, the better of men the adult minds of democracy can't stand the raised to consider freely two ideologies, can hardly freedom. And if his choice and beliefs. be right and very likely methods. The greater our divergent ideas, including is our chance to make to understanding, and to thought and action. cajoled and pressured and dress and buy like every national executive com of hope that maybe it is, E.A. sson the other day, students in not permitted to talk with the classroom drinking told to use the fountain m in segregation lasted only hunch that the students of for more than a day. different between segregat set apart tne races m tne and opportunities. dignity and self-respect, by itself, makes no more in Room 6 learned this mm we all could take to for Westerns 1956 companies suffered a loss of 7.9 per cent an auto liability insurance, or more than $64 million. Tjhe bureau, a rating organ ization with a membership of 122 firms that write casualty insurance, said the increased cost of settling accident claims is to blame, for the increase. lit ASKUM.MtW- GeORGB, CD THS ITCH ?' Matter of Fact By Stewart Alsop CUTLER AND CANDOR Washington It does not really matter very much whether Pres idential Aide Robert Cutler was silly enough to say that "A v i a t ion Week" was "t r easonable" for publishing what the Rus s i a ns already knew that our radar in stallations had stewait aisod Dicked ud sure evidence of Soviet missile pro gress as early as 1955. But Cutler himself does matter, as a sv mbol of what has gone wrong with the American government For Cutler has been a Vpv figure in the Eisenhower ad- ministation's "Daddy knows oest' policy. And the extent of .tne soviet lead In weaoonrv. which threatens the United States as it has never been threat ened before, is a direct out- growth of that policy. The story goes back to the montns immediately after Presi dent Eisenhower's first inauera tion. In those months, the Presi dent Eisenhower's first inausura. were suddenly nd brutally ex posed to the accumulating evid ence that the Soviets were threat ening to surpass this country in air-atomic power, which had previously been an American monopiy. The presiden't first instinc tive reaction was that the Amer ican people ought to be appraised of the danger, so that a united country could prepare to deal with it. On the President's in structions, a plan known as "Operation Candor" was pre pared. T ATER, Cutler himself wrote smugly about the demise of Operation Candor. "The thesis was," he wrote, "that the Ameri can people could take bad news; officially apprised of the facts they would be more self- reliant, i m o r e understanding. more ready to bear the costs of defense. . .things progressed so far as sketching out an operation known as Candor. But other and, I think, wiser counsels prevail ed." The wiser counsels were large ly the counsels of Cutler him self. Cutler's chief allies in the killing of Operation Candor were ACE Chairman Lewis Strauss and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey. Strauss shares with Cutler a mania for secrecy even when the supposed "se crets," like the rate of Soviet missile-testing, are certainly not secrets from the Soviets. Humphrey sincerely believed, and no doubt still does, that high spending and high taxes are a greater threat to American sec urity than Soviet hydrogen bombs. He was quite aware that, if the people were "officially ap prised of the facts" they would demand a far higher level of de fense effort. pUTLER, Strauss and Hum- phrey, all of whom had great influence with the President, thus , persuaded him to drop Operation Candor. And once the decision to be less than candid had been taken, it was never reversed. On the contrary, Opera tion Soothing Syrup was substi tuted for Operation Candor. When, for example, the radar installations described in "Avia tion Week" picked up irrefutable evidence that the Soviets were years ahead of this country in their missile program, every ef fort was made to hush up this fact. And all sorts of pleasing pap about how the military posture of the United States had "never been stronger" was put about. Those who attempted to ex amine such claims in the only context in which they had mean ing the relative strength of this country and the Soviet Union were dismissed as "pro phets of gloom and doom," an arbitrary defense spending limit was established, and the budget thus given a clear priority over national security. The Congress, like the eople, had never been 'officially appraised of the facts," and it began hacking merrily away at the already in adequate defense budget. 1 IHE Sputniks, four years late, Jiave acted as a substitute for Operation Candor. But four years late may be too late. And sup pose that the President's first in stincts had prevailed over the "wiser counsels" of which Cut ler smugly boasted. It is then simply- inconceivable that the Congress or the country would flaccidly have permitted the Sov iets to gain the lead in weaponry which is now a pistol pointed at all our heads. The lesson Is surely clear. It might make life simpler for high officials like Cutler if the Amer ican people were obedient sheep who unquestioningly obeyed the orders of daddy-government. But the United States is not the Sov iet Union. It is, instead, a society in which the government derives its authority from the people. And such society is instantly in deadly danger if the essential facts on which to reach a rea soned judgment are concealed by the government from the people, (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News 'By FRA.NK JENKINS Hopeful note in the news: A New York grand jury has indicted GARBAGE KING Vin cent Squillante and his brother Nunzio on extortion charges. The indictment stems from a senate probe into New York City's 50 - million-dollar-a-year garbage collection business which appears from the testi mony heard by the senate com mittee to be badly racket-ridden. The Squillantes are charged with intimidating a garbage col lector into giving them about $4,000. WHY is that a hopeful sign? Well, Russian scientific and industrial progress is posing a challenge to us to get efficient OR ELSE. These racketeers the Squillantes, the Anastasias, the Capones and all their filthy tribe have long been a smirch on our national honor and a dis credit to our American way of life. They, are MORE than that. They are saboteurs who throw monkey wrenches into the ma chinery of our national econ omy. Maybe we could afford them in the past. But we can afford them no longer. If we are to win the race for survival that seems to be facing us, we must be COMPLETELY EFFICIENT. Racketeering and efficiency just DON'T mix. rNE more word: Good government is es sential to national efficiency. Government that tolerates racketeering ISN'T good. COMMON sense note in the news: Retired General Lucius Clay, whose wise and efficient admin istration as military governor of Germany in the critical years following the end of World War II put Western Germany back on its feet and made it into per haps our most valuable West ern European ally, warns today that . the United States should not swing into a crash program to launch satellites at the ex pense of our missile program. He says that prior to the launching of the Russian satel lites the U.S. DELIBERATELY gave satellites a low priority be cause we didn't want to slow down our missile progress. He adds: "Russia's two satellites do not prove the Soviets are ahead of this country in missiles. The United States is NOT behind the Soviet Union and could fall be- hear . . . Rey jQCc schisler MISSIONARY EVANGELIST COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH 4th and 'Alder - Central Point Schedule: Wed., Nov. 27, 7:30 pm. Fri., Nov. 29, 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Sun., Dec. 1, 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Mon. through Fri., Dec. 2-6, 7:30 p.m. Sun., Dec. 8, 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sputnik Political Crisis Shows Nixon Knows How to By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington OP) The po litical crisis which burst around the Eisenhower administration when it was caught with its Sputniks down is proving again that Vice President Richard M. Nixon knows the game of politics and how to play it. That is a I.jle C. Wilson matter of considerable import ance because Nixon is likely to be nominated by the Republi cans for president in 1960. Po litical know-how of a high order will be necessary if the Republi can nominee is to be elected. Sputnik I soared into space on Oct. 4. The high orders of Nixon's political, know-how in this crisis first was indicated on Oct. 16 when he took the first reasonable opportunity to sound the alarm. Initial White House reaction had been Press Secretary James C. Hagerty's statement on Oct. 5 that the Russian satellite "did not come as any surprise" to the administration. Four days later, the President told a news con ference the successful launching did not raise his apprehensions by "one iota" about national se curity. On Oct. 15 White House Chief of Staff Sherman Adams ridi culed the Russian Rocket effort as a play for "high score in an outer space basketball game." Nixon Reverses Parry Line The next day, Nixon warned a San Francisco audience against any brush-off of the Russian achievement in rocketry. He called Sputnik I "a grim and timely reminder" of the great Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ol a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Money Madness To the Editor: The Roosevelt Bank Moratorium marked the beginning of lend and spend which began with Dumbarton Oaks and Breton Woods and rendered the United Nations into an impotant mess by reason of credit control. The annulment of O.P.A. changed millions to billions, mortgaged the future of the American consumer and necessitated foreign investments and the start of the cold war of economic competition. The utilization of Germany, Italy and Japan with their ad vantage of cheap labor and cur rency to meet lower levels, forcing other NATO countries out of the market cannot meet the goal of profit expectation or enrich the lives of the rni- proverished masses since the mo tive is purely financial gain and the cost is greater than profits obtained. A guided missile with a war-head can never reach the target of foreign affairs or do mestic economy, being only a dud in the futility of effort, the anguish of time and the uncer tainity of its ending. Peace requires no war, con tains no price structure or artifi cial law of supply and demand, intent only in the flowering of youth, the solace of age and the welfare of all mankind. There are 12 natural indus trial mathematical economic lar's that govern the universe and 12 natural industries that constitutes a world economic system and industrial form of government. Ignore natures laws and the wrath of the universe will fall upon those that violate them. Tom Caldwell, 408 Laurel st., Medford, Ore. t DONATION Syracuse, N. Y. (IP) A thief "donated" a $5,113 check to the YMCA. Police said the thief stole the check, made out by the Community Chest, from YWCA bookkeeper Helen Davis, evi dently thought it over and then mailed back the check to the YWCA. However, the thief failed to return the $273.50 in cash he stole along with the check. hind ONLY if the American government permits its satellite to GET IN OUR WAY." pHAT is to say: L Satellites are not essential. Missiles ARE essential. Let's do first things first. magnitude of the Soviet Union's scientific and industrial capa city. That became the new admini stration party line on Sputnik I and II, with Laika aboard, made it even more emphatic. How seriously the administra tion now assesses the meaning of the Sputniks is indicated by talk of diverting farm, housing or veterans' benefit funds to stepped-up U.S. rocketry The political heat is on. It has been on since the first satellite went up and the administration now is well aware of that fact. During the fortnight or so that the White House seemed unim pressed by the Russian achieve ment, the old timers around town were remarking that seldom had so few been out of step with so many. The "so many" were the public whose imaginations and fears had been plumbed by the beginning of the space age. There were some pious Demo cratic pledges that nobody on their side would try to make political hay out of the Sputnik crisis. But they were demanding to know, too, the whys and President's Speech Texts Not Written By Him Personally Washington, D.C. (Special) The texts of President Eisen hower's current exhortations on new defense problems receive, of course, his final revision and approval before he delivers them. But it is no secret that in the first instance the texts are pre pared by others. Those original compilers are supposed to be adept enough in writing and phraseology to make the presidential appeals really appealing to his listeners, viewers and readers. And that skill has shown itself in a great many passages in the first two of the President's "Wake Up, America" broadcasts, from Washington on Nov. 7, from Ok lahoma City on Nov. 13. These particular passages were terse, clear, simple, easily understand able even by Americans whose schooling may have been limit ed and whose vocabularies may be narrow. For example: In the years ahead we could fall behind. We will ... get on with the job to be done. There was once a dictator named Hitler who also said he would bury us . . . Not enough people took him at his word. We shall not make that mistake again. Defense today is expensive and becoming more so. The armed forces and their scientific associates have on the whole used this money wisely and well. We need scientists. In the ten years ahead they say we need them by thousands more than we are presently (now?) planning to have. One thing that money can not buy is time. On the other hand, certain other passages were couched in somewhat more complicated phraseology than necessary and although not quite qualifying for the Washington definition of "gobbledegook" still might well have gone over better for some viewers or listeners if phrased more simply. Whether these passages had been simpler originally and somewhere along the line had been transmogri fied (now, there's what the late Alfred E. Smith used to call a "two-dollar word") possibly by legal minds, is of course not public knowledge. For instance: There has been also a high level of expenditure. That is: We've spent much money. One of our greatest and most glaring deficiencies li the failure of us in this coun FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home v Phone SP 2-6675 Play Game whos of responsibility for the failure to have a U.S. satellite in the air. Truman Blames Ike Former President Harry E. Truman, who knows a good po litical thing when he sees it, said the Truman administration missile program was "broken up after I left." Nixon counter-attacked last week with a charge that the U.S. trails Russia in missiles because of a "calculated decision" dur ing Truman's administration. Republican National Chair man Meade Olcorn immediately followed the Nixon lead in speeches delivered last week in Maine and Pennsylvania. Alcorn came up with spending figures designed to show that it was Truman, not Eisenhower, who cut back the missile program. .There is going to be a big elec tion year dispute in 1958 about rocketry, missiles and national defense. Nixon and Alcorn are moving now to compel the Democrats to answer charges of neglect in stead of making such charges against the Republicans. try to give high priority enough to scientific educa tion. In other words: One of the worst things we've done is to hold back on scientific education. The second immediate re quirement is that of greater concentration of effort and improved arrangements with in the government in the field of science, etc. Translation: The second thing the govern ment must do at once is to work harder and better on science, etc. Accelerating the disposal of Strategic Air Command to ad ditional bases. That is: Put ting the Strategic Air Com mand in even more bases. . Also compelling is the fac tor of efficiency in our armed forces. Meaning: Our armed forces also must be efficient. If the project has some ulti mate defense value, its urgen cy for this purpose is to be judged in comparison with the probable value of compet ing defense projects. Transla tion: We've got to figure whether this one will give as much defense as other proj ects. A President's style sometimes can, sometimes can't be fore told from his career. Woodrow Wilson's eloquence and gift of phrase were perhaps to have been expected from a college professor reared in a minister's household. President Harding was a newspaper publisher, but his message and speeches cried for blue pencilling. President Coolidge was a lawyer, but his phraseology was almost always unlegally simple and readable. Herbert Hoover's talks car ried more "punch" after he had left than when he inhabited the White House. The effectiveness of F.D.R.'s talks was due largely to their superb delivery. And Harry S. Truman was never more successful than when he discarded his scripts and "gave 'em hell" off-the-cuff. Let ut put new sparkle into your clothes! 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