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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
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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
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Fri., Nov. 29, 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Sun., Dec. 1, 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
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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
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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
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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.
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your clothes!
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