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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The gov ernor named a new state "color ed and flavored in woodchips board Saturday." 20 YEARS AGO Dec 1. 1937 (Tuesday) Medford and? Jackson county have been doing their part in helping to solve the unemploy ment problem and can count cn the continued cooperation of the works progress administration, E. J. Griffith of Portland, re gional WPA administrator. The 52nd annual meeting of the Oregon State Horticultural Society offers southern Oregon growers the unusual opportunity of hearing leading horticultur ists of the Pacific Northwest here Thursday and Friday. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 1. 1927 (Thursday) The Palmer music house will throw its door open tomorrow after over six months of exten sive remodeling. Saturday afternoon the Mail Tribune will broadcast the play by play returns of the Medford McLoughlin high school football game at Milton-Freewater over its KMED station. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 1. 1917 (Saturday) When the rainfall ceased this morning and the sky cleared up, the sun coming out strongly, the valley presented a beautiful ap pearance with the foothills and mountains covered with snow. The Seventh company pictures taken by Captain Vance during the months which have elapsed since the company left Medford, as previously announced, are to be shown next Monday and Tues day evenings at the Page theater. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent: five or six is good. 1. Name a slang work mean ing "jail." 2. Bible: In which book is the classic passade beginning "Where shall wisdom be found"? 3. Thomas R. Marshall was Vice - President under which President? 4. Are warts caused by hand ling toads, snakes, or lizards? 5. About how many workers in the U. S. are under Union contract? 6. Which President first re fused his birthday to be cele brated by State balls? 7. What is a "colleen"? o 8. What mammals are protect ed, in their breeling grounds, on the Pribilof Islands? 9. Who was the first British Labor Party Prime Minister since World War II? 10. During which war was "John Brown's Body" a famous marching song? Answers: 1. Housegow. 2. Job (28) 3. Woodrow Wilson. 4. No. 5. About 15.000,000. 6. Thomas Jefferson. 7. Girl (Irish). 8. Seals. 9. Clement Atlee. 10. The Amer ican Civil Wax. MAIL TRIBUNE The Point of No, - Advance Prime Minister Nehru of India is a good example of Kiplings well known dictum that "East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet." We believe Nehru understands the United States far better than the United States understands Nehru, but the fact remains neither entirely understands the other. Which, of course, is unfortunate, for India holds the key to the final fate of Asia. OOWEVER, we fail to see how any American can A fail to understand the Indian Prime Minister's "Thanksgiving Day" appeal to the four major powers : England and France and United States and Soviet Russia. Here is the appeal in brief: "Halt all nuclear tests and reach a disarmament agree ment to save mankind from the pit of disaster. The very ex istance of the human race is threatened by the weapons of mass-destruction now in the hands of the major powers. Tomorrow it may be that other countries will possess them and even capacity control will then become outside the range of human power ... It is in the power of Russia and the United States to solve this crisis. I urge cooperation of all nations, Capitalist, Communist and those committed to neither." EXCELLENT! And we only wish Jawaharial Nehru were the "Joan of Arc" to lead such a critically-needed world crusade. But quite obviously he isn't. He is essentially a man of thought, rather than action. He is more the philosopher than the leader. More important as between Russia and the United States he is an honest neutral. As a result he is not liked by either side. The average American dismisses him as a sort of "fellow traveler" which, of course, he definitely is NOT while in the Kremlin his type of "socialism" is no more welcome than Trotsky's. CO, AS we see it, Nehru is out at least as a leader of a world-wide crusade for peace. But not his proposal. That is as sound and urgent as the law of gravity or the human instinct of self-preservation. DUT how about that "instinct of self-preservation"? An instinct which is generally placed at the top of the "genus-homo" imperatives? Just how "IMPERATIVE" is it? ")NCE upon a time we saw a couple of drunken dock workers rolling in the gutter along the San Fran cisco Embarcadero. They were doing their best to kill each other and each was in constant danger of being killed. Was the primitive instinct of "self preservation" functioning there? Hardly stmct of annihilation of conquest of what Neitz che liked to call "the will to power". And what saved those two bums from mutual des truction? A couple of husky policemen, not at all back ward about using their night-sticks. o CO WE return to the point of no-advance which was reached a few days ago. It is easy to see what SHOULD be done, but it is so gul-durned HARD to DO it. There should be such a conference as Prime Min ister Nehru suggests and not held some distant day in the future, but as soon as preliminary arrangements could be made. But what chance is there of such a meeting being called, and if called, anything constructive or helpful coming out of it? About as much chance, as we see it, as the well known snow-ball. For the above mentioned "will-to-power" dominates Ivan Ivanovich as completely, as the determination to halt tht power compulsion dominates Uncle Sam. They are not rolling in the gutter as yet, nor would we in spite of Nikiti's somewhat shady reputation suggest that either is intoxicated or could be accurate ly described as "bums". But no objective observer would deny we think they ARE in a conflict some times called a "cold-war", and when nations, like in dividuals, are in conflict, they are not disposed to be very restrained or think things over very carefully, or rationally if at all. CO WHAT? Well rather clearly we believe, the $64 question as of now is "where, oh WHERE are the cops?" That is the rub there is none. (Or "are" if you prefer.) - The United Nations were supposed to act in that capacity that is a police force to prevent war and keep the peace. But while that organization is no doubt doing what it can in that direction, it can't without the international equivalent of night-sticks (with a six-gun and the army and navy in reserve) DO much about it. CO WE return to another point of no advance. It is easy to see what should be done. To wit arm the United Nations just as we arm our police, and disarm the individual nations of the world except in so far as force may be needed to maintain domestic law and order. Ok? - But it isn't so easy not easy at all to see how, facing the world and the facts of life as they are, this can possibly be done. Whereupon for the third time we return ... to the final front of "no advance". The $75,000 question is where to find a Joan of Arc or a JOHN of Arc who refuses to be neutral regarding war and peace, a fearless, dynamic leader who is willing to fight, and if need be die, for the latter, and who in the face of the almost universal cry that "it can't be done" to proceed, go out through the highways and the by-ways of this countiy and the world AND DO IT! R.W.R. Sunday, December 1. 1957 is was the primitive irir M CANT PLAY BASKETBALL. Vermont Said Tull of Baloney1 by Writer New York Vermont is "more full of assorted baloney, hokum about unspoiled Vermont, snob bery about ancestry, guff about noble Vermonters, maple syrup, and Calvin Coolidge" than any other state with the possible ex ception of Virginia. This is the opinion of Miss Miriam Chapin, a sjxth-genera-tion Vermonter who says in the December issue of Harper's mag azine that the Vermont of leg end "and there never was much of it" has been con ouered by the cities. Tourist Bait "Its present citizens use the slogan of quaintness as tourist bait, and collaborate with the conquerors," she writes. "Ver mont is a fief of Boston and New York. It is about time Vermont ers came out from behind the maple sugar bush, out from un der the covered bridge, took off their patchwork quilts and looked themselves in the eye." She continues: "Vermont has problems of power development, rural slums, city ones too, low wages, uneven taxation burd ens, management-labor relations (there have been terrible strikes in marble and granite) which it has not yet begun to look at squarely. "Part of the reason is that they are screened behind the cloud of 'unspoiled Vermont' va porings. Too many Vermonters Today and By Walter THE PRESIDENT'S ILLNESS Most unhappily, the President has been stricken again, and this time at a very grave moment indeed in the fortunes of this country ! and of the whole West ern world. It is a time which tries men's souls. It is one when the demands upon the Pres- Walter Lippmann ident of the United States are exceptionally severe. Even the most robust President would find them a fearful strain, and for one who is an invalid they must be just about intolerable. To all his other burdens, there has now been added the burden of deciding what is his duty, given the stark fact that for some time to come he must be spared hard work and that he will not be able in fact to do what is demanded of him. In a formal and narrow sense of the words it is no doubt true, as Mr. Nixon said at the White House on Tuesday, that the President is fully capable of making neces sary decisions. But that is a long way short of being capable of formulating the policies which come up for decision, and of the leadership which is needed to carry them out. At the best, we are told that the President "will require a period of rest and substantially decreased activities estimated at several weeks." These are the very weeks when the policies must be lormea ana xne Duag etary decisions taken which will constitute the response of this country and of the Western alli ance to the challenge of the So viet Union's technological achievements. How is this to be done while the President is rest ing and when his activity is sub stantially diminished? THIS is the most necessary of all the decisions that must be made. There are three choices. One is to let the powers of the President be exercised in fact, though not in name, by the White House staff, by some of the more powerful members of the Cabinet, the military chief tains and the Vice President. This is what was done during the President's two previous illness es. It is government by a com mittee which in effect means that the heads of the depart 30BVl 6ufe TOO SHORT!', are bemused by their own pub licity, flattered into complacen cy. Poems about the pure clear air of Vermont, read into the Congressional Record, printed in the papers, vials of said air sniffed by Vice President Nixon for the newsphoto men, don't do a thing for the little matter of sewage disposal. Many a Ver mont stream is a stinking, filthy, open sewer, and the air above is not clear or fresh." Miss Chapin also criticizes one of Vermont's most cherished in stitutions, the Town Meeting, "celebrated as the epitome of democracy." The fact is, she says, town meetings "are al ways rigged, to the best of my memory going back 50 years." Hit Poll Tax Another target for her barbs is Vermont's poll tax. "Because Vermont has a poll tax which may run as high in some towns as eight or nine dol lars and what was all that hul labaloo we were hearing about the iniquities of the poll tax in the South? those residents who can't or won't pay are disfran chised in any election. About 1 per cent come under this ban. They can't get a license to drive a car either. Not in this cradle of democracy they can't. Before issuing a new card in some pub lic libraries, the librarian will inquire softly, 'May I see your poll-tax receipt?' " Tomorrow Lippmann ments are subject only to a veto, exercised in the President's name, by the insiders at the White House. This can be made to work at times when nothing much needs urgently to be done. But it is most certainly not a system which can form new policies and meet the demands of the critical time in which we are living. THE second course open to the President is to resign, basing his decision on his pledge at the press conference of March 7, 1956, that unless he "felt ab solutely up to the duties of the Presidency," he "would no long er be there in the job." This would be an unavoidable de cision, were it not that there is a third and much 'less drastic and tragic course open to him. That is to pass to the Vice President temporarily and only for the period of his con valescence the powers and duties of his office, but not the office itself. Mr. Eisenhower would remain the President of the United States. But for a period, and at his own discre tion, the Vice President would be the Acting President. ... IF MR. Eisenhower does this, he will be putting into effect the relevant part of the plan, which Attorney General Brow nell with his approval, laid be fore Congress last April. Section 2 of the Eisenhower - Brownell plan meets the present situation exactly. It reads as follows: "If a President declares in writing that he is unable to discharge the nowers and duties of his office, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President. This section authories a President to an nounce his own inability and al lows him to do so, knowing that his powers and duties will be restored to him when he recov ers." I know of only one serious ob jection to this procedure. It is that the Vice President would be in a hard position, not knowing how long he was to act as Presi dent and therefore compelled to guess whether the President, when he recovered, would ap prove of what he was doing. This might be particularly diffi cult in case he had to make ap pointments to the senior Cabinet posts. ... THOUGH there is weight in this objection, the question is In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Message from Washington: "The President had another good night's sleep and is in fine spirits this (Thanksgiving Day) morning. His progress continues to be excellent." The report (issued by White House Secretary James Hagerty) added: "The President stayed up un til 10:30 last night to watch a television show and arose short ly before 8 this morning to have breakfast." SO, YOU see., there IS some thing to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day of 1957, the Year of the Sputniks. BULLETIN from London: Elder Statesman Sir Win ston Churchill has sent a get well message to President Eisen hower. The message is interest ing because in June of 1953 Churchill suffered a serious stroke and today is WORKING HARD AT THE AGE OF 83. T ET'S take a look at another oldster Konrad Adenauer. Although he is well past the Bib lical mark of three score years and ten, he is working like a horse at his job of bringing Ger many back from defeat and des truction and putting her on her feet again. From time to time, we hear reports of Adenauer illnesses, but he comes out of them and goes on with his labors. There's our own Herbert Hoover, now in his mid-eighties. His mind (MINDS are what real ly count in this world) is clear and sharp and accurate. Don't write the old men off. AT HIS news conference White House Secretary Hagerty de clined to comment on a pub lished report that a substantial number of top Republicans be lieve Mr. Eisenhower should RE SIGN. Vice-President Nixon, taking note of the same tale, tells Wash ington reporters he wants to "scotch" all such reports. No one in the President's official family, he adds, is even considering such a possibility. SHOULD Ike resign? Let's take a poll. YOU feel about it? How do IF YOU want my vote, let's leave it to Ike. I think everyone in the world TRUSTS President Eisenhow er's integrity and his dedicated devotion to the welfare of his country and mankind at large. If he feels that he should re sign, so be it. He knows his con dition better than anyone else. But if he feels that he can carry on, the deep faith and trust and personal confidence in which he is held throughout the world will make him a leader of PRICELESS value to his coun try even if there should be days when he would be unable to sign every paper that comes to his desk. Matter of Fact by SHOULD IKE RESIGN? Washington "When I believe I am not capable, I will not be there, and that is all there is to it." The speaker, of course, was President Ei senhower, and the occasion was a press con ference a a year and a half ago. The statement is 1.1 n: , Stpwaif Alsop worm recalling in the light of the President's latest misfortune. As far as any serious and permanent impair ment of the President's health is concerned, meaning is clear. In that case, the President will take advantage of the con stitutional provision permitting him to resign and hand over his 'powers and duties" to the Vice rresident. For the President is of course aware that the chief of state these days cannot be a whether the third course is, nev ertheless, not preferable, on the one hand, to government by a kind of self -constituted and anon ymous regency, and, on the oth er hand, to the momentous and irrevocable act of resignation. I think it would be the best choice among choices of which none is anything but unpleasant. For Vice-President Nixon, who has been maturing successfully, has in the past year shown that he has the vigor and the boldness to go in the direction that Mr. Eisenhower himself would go if he had the necessary vigor of mind and body. There is another reason why it would be a good thing for the President to take this course. It would establish a necessary and useful precedent as to what can be done under the Constitution when the President, though dis abled, is still capable of judging that he is disabled. This, to be sure, solves only part of the problem of Presi dential disability. There would remain the problem, of what to do if the President is unconscious or irrational. But it -would meet the most likely situation, and in fact it would have met all the situations of Garfield, of Wil son, and of Eisenhower himself which have in fact presented themselves. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. PQTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contribution) "If I'm killed on the way home, telephone my husband and tell him the turkey's in the washing machine," one woman was heard to remark to a co worker the day before Thanks giving. (The explanation: It was a frozen bird, and she wanted it to thaw, but not too fast, and the washing machine on the back porch seemed the most logical place.) . An observer standing in the lobby of a Medford theater the other evening saw a girl aged about 14 go up to the bigger-than-life picture of Elvis Pres ley and slowly rub his cheek lovingly several times. The observer couldn't quite decide whether this was affection or affliction. . A publication entitled "The Papoose" is put out by students at the Forks School, in Forks of Salmon, Calif. (Medford people will remember a few years ago when a group of the youngsters visited here, the first time for many of them to come to a "big city," and were wide-eyed at such innovations as elevators, po lice cars, fire trucks, ice cream sodas, and so on.) The editorial in the current issue is worthy of reproduction here. It follows: "Again, we hear from our dear old friends, the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. It was through their efforts and generosity that our first school trip to Medford was such a grand success. Then came Eureka and then Sacramento, but we firmly believe that Medford city threw her arms open just a bit wider to welcome us than did the others. We are very grateful to them, as both Somes Bar School and Sawyers Bar School fol lowed suit in making trips. So to the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce goes the good will of the people on the Salmon Riv er for having opened the door of adventure and different ex periences to our Forks School children, and indirectly to two other Salmon River schools. Jackson County Chamber' of Commerce, we thank you!!" . ... "The Papoose" is remark able in other ways, loo. Evi dently it is the only news paper of "general circulation" in the entire community, and has news items of broader in terest than just school news, although one story recorded the fact that "The Forks School is in a bad way. Skunks must be seeking an education as they have moved in under the building." . There was also an obituary of a citizen of the community. The Sports Section reads, in full, as follows: Stewart Alsop permanent semi-invalid. But if as everyone hopes, and as now seems far more like ly the President's stroke is mild and he recovers fairly rap idly, there will still remain a question in some minds, and quite possibly in the President's own, about what he ought to do. It is always painful to speak frankly about the physical mis fortunes of a well-loved human being. But in some circum- stances it is better to be blunt. rpHE President is approaching -- seventy. He has suffered three diseases in the last two and a half years, all extremely serious, all capable of recurring. Can a man in such circum stances be expected in fairness to bring to the terribly burden some task of the Presidency all the needed vigor and vitality, througta the three long hard years which stretch ahead? No President in American his tory has ever resigned his office. For President Eisenhower to do so would instantly create politi cal and constitutional problems so numerous that there is no space to list them here. It would also mean, of course, at last the partial loss of the President's domestic unifying influence and world prestige, which are still major national assets. Yet there are also reasons why the question should at least be asked. Some of the reasons be come - apparent if you examine the difference between the situ ation today and the situation which existed after the Presi dent's heart attack in September 1955. TO ni START at the lowest, or political, level, there is one obvious difference between the situation then and now. In 1955, Dwight D. Eisenhower repre sented the Republican Party's major hope of holding the White House in 1656. Now, Vice Presi dent Nixon represents the Re publican Party's major hope of holding the White House in 1960. Nixon's chances will obvi ously be enormously enhanced if he is then the incumbent Pres ident, with a solid record of achievement behind him. This political element in the equation is, as a practical mat ter, an important one. But there are also far more important dif ferences between 1955 and 1957. In the weeks that followed the. "Nearly everyone is having good luck deer hunting and fish ing. There have been very good runs of Salmon and Steelhead in the Salmon river. Almost every one has caught fish this year. There were quite a few bucks taken this hunting season, also a few bear." There was an entire section entitled '"Community News," and which reported that a mail carrier found a man who had broken his hip in a fall, and this is the reason the mail was late; how some students gathered a winter wood supply for a woman of the town; church service schedules; and there's even a want ad, offering a gasoline powered electric plant for sale. And, amid several columns of news about comings and goings and deaths, we find the follow ing: 8 "We are sorry to say that we do not have well-mannered bear in this country. For example, they went through the roof at the Gibbon place and messed things up in general. That not being enough, they wrecked all the bee hives at the old Lake place . . . Let's blame it on Sput nik!" ... With the advent of cold weather, a couple of dog-owners we know got to discussing the best way to keep their pets warm enough at night in their dog houses. They finally decided that a light bulb would give off sufficient heat to do so. But how can the pup sleep with all that light all night? Our farm editor is a great one for "boosting local agricultural products. And in the few months he's lived in Medford, he's be come a strong advocate of more and better pear salesmanship, and more and better merchandis ing of all sorts of local crops, in cluding turkeys. He has one big complaint, though that local products aren't purchased in adequate amounts for local use. "Like charity," he declares, "salesmanship should start at home." . . . A young man had com work to do at the office Thanksgiving morning, and arrived home in early after - noon to a confusion of sensa tions the smell of turkey roasting in the oven, and the sound of Elvis Presley singing Christmas songs. City police recently received a teletype bulletin about a man wanted in California for theft. It took IVi hours to complete sending the item, and used up about seven feet of teletype roll paper. . Our city hall reporter said it wouldn't take the A.P. or UP. machines that long to send such an item. But he said all the officers would reply was some sort of mumble about how long it took to send the message and how much paper it used up. ... We are told of the teen ager who thought the movie. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," was about an injured football player. President's heart attack, the government was run by an infor mal regency. But the regency's task was not an imnnssihlv rfif- ficult one. For in these days, the I : l x ti j, I sumes ui ueneva lingered on. and there was an eye-of-the-hurricane calm in the interna tional storm. The policies of the government had already been established, and it was only ne cessary to continue to do what was already being done. The President's third illness, by contrast, has occurred at a moment of major crisis, when the basic foreign and defense policies of the government are in a state of flux. The crisis, moreover, is not a temporary one, to be rather quickly re solved, like the Suez crisis of last year. It is an underlying crisis, caused by the imbalance in the world power balance of which the Sputniks have served as a symbol. According to the authoritative Gaither Report, the balance cannot be restored, and the crisis abated, until 1960 at the earliest. . TN THE three hard years that loom ahead, finally, even as suming a rapid recovery from his stroke, the President must be doubly careful to avoid extra ef fort or fatigue. Even before his stroke, the "periods of rest and recreation" which the President warned the country he must have, had become longer than ever. And those who surround him, and have over-protected him in the past, will be more zealuous than ever in their ef forts to wrap him in cotton wool. Despite all this, it is probably better that the President, short of a permanent impairment, re main on the job to which the country elected him. But in the wake of this third illness, the President can hardly be fairly expected to be more than a part time President. And that, in a time of great and continuing danger, is not a happy prospect, and there is no use pretending that it is. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune lac. o
