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MaD Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 1. 1947 (Sunday)
Local residents were asked to
day by postmaster Frank De
Souza to plan their Christmas
shopping schedule now to per
mit early mailing of Christmas
cards and gifts.
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"?
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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.
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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
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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.
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