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) FOUB -HRDFOIB (OKZGOK) "Iveryone In SoutbeMi Orego Reads Th Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-0X41 ROBERT RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GF.RALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Man'-' Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAJV ie.e.u,jn Edltee RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act a March 3. 1897 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advanae: Per Copy 16c. Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mot 4.25 Sunday Only On vear $4.20 By Carrier In Aavanca Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rotu River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The UN sessions at Lake Success were not, by any means, and now the lake itself is running out of water." 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 5, 1937 (Sunday) Bronze tablet unveiled and a new park dedicated near famed spring on Pacific highway this side of Rogue River. Automobile driver's school eponsored by Earl Snell, secre tary of state, to be inaugurated here, Ward McReynolds, state examiner in charge of the south ern Oregon district, announces. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 5. 1927 (Monday) Freezing weather last night and this morning factor in the city officials deciding to do no more street paving until next spring. Ashland armory being trans formed into housing for the Lith ian carnival which opens today. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 5. 1917 (Tuesday) The first sale of timber by the United States land office depart ment from Oregon and Califor nia railroad grant lands in this district concluded at the Rose- burg office Monday. From Local and Personal col umn: The Medford Knights of Pythias have contributed their quota of the $500,000 war fund being raised by the order, ih roii eh a one dollar contribu tion from each knight in the United States. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good In the Army, which is the next rank above private? 2. Was "The First Passover (John 2:13) the first passover in the life of Jesus? 3. Steel is an alloy of iron and what? 4. What was the name of the Duches of Windsor before ( she married the Duke (Edward)? 5. An aileron is the name for firedogs, a bird's wing, or part of an airplane? 6. Where is the Army post named Ft. Benning? 7. Name the oldest of the fol lowing cities: Santa Fe, N.M., Plymouth, Mass., Jamestown, Va., St. Augustine, Fla. 8. What words are attributed to dying Julius Caesar as spok en to Brutus? 9. Are U. S. cruisers named after states, cities, or fish? 10. Are "black or white pri mary pigment colors? Answers: 1. Private, first class. 2. No. It was the first of His ministry. 3. Carbon. 4. Mrs. Wallis Warfield. 5. Part of an airplane. 6. Georgia. 7. St. Aug ustine. Fla. 8. "El Tu Brute." 9. Cities. 10. No, Red, yellow and blue are. . MAIL TRIBUNE Back the High School Band Anyone who has heard the Medford High School band play at the Shrine game in San Francisco or here at home for that matter will surely agree that it is one of the best High School bands on the coast. Because of its all-around excellence, it has been in vited for several years to the Shrine East-West game, until its attendance has become a tradition. But today, as during those years, it has taken money to send them. And the only money available must come from private subscription. IT IS hardly necessary to add that this is a tradition that it is to Medford's self-interest to maintain. It is really worth while publicity, and a contribution to betterment of inter-state relations. There will be a band concert on Sunday, the pro ceeds of which will go to this expense fund. Aside from any monetary consideration it will be a musical treat for all who can attend. If E SUGGEST that those who can attend, buy their tickets now; and those who for any reason, can't, buy their tickets anyway and distribute them to friends who can. Incidently these kids on the band boys and girls not only make good music, but they have good man ners. We happen to have this information direct from a manager of one of San Francisco's better hotels, where they have stayed. He said: "We don't cater to teen-agers of any group, they are usually a headache; but these nice kids from Medford they are welcome ANYTIME!" So if vou have an extra buck, hand it over. It is a worthy and beneficial cause. R.W.R. "The Indispensible Man " As every newspaper man knows one of the occu pational hazards of the business is to be misunder stood. We refer particularly, to the editorial department, although the risk has to be taken sometimes in others. The basic cause for this is, we believe, the Ameri can passion for speed. Everyone is in such a hurry, more so today perhaps with "S p u t n i k" shooting around the earth every few hours, than ever before. A ND while there are exceptions; by and large not only is speed essential in getting out a newspaper if you can't meet a "deadline" with decent regulari ty you better quit but the same haste is regarded as necessary by a large majority of its readers. In a few departments which especially interest them, like so ciety or sports, subscribers may read these articles carefully. But where they have no such special inter est, many of them far too many in fact from the newspaper standpoint only skim the headlines, look at the pictures' especially the cartoons and "funnies", and let it go at that. (Unless of course and this is a big "UNLESS" they want to buy or sell something. Then they really pore over the display and particu larly the "want-ad" section for long periods of time.) LL of which adds up to That, being aware of we were not greatly suf prised at some of the reactions caused by a recent editorial entitled Ike the indis pensible man?" Not only had most of the critics failed to note the question mark in the title, but they had read little or nothing beneath it. For almost without exception they ridiculed and a few smeared the idea, scoring this department for hav ing the effrontery to maintain that the present occu pant of the White House is "INDISPENSIBLE." One of the communicants even maintained Adlai Steven son, Speaker Rayburn or any other good Democrat could handle the crisis in foreign relations "far better", today than the President could either today or any time in the past. r)K,OK,but That is where we can't agree with them. We thought we made it clear that the point we wished to stress was not that President Eisenhower was such a "peerless leader", so skillful in diplomacy, an elder statesman of such wisdom, that no one in the present crisis could successfully take his place. It was not his superior talents we were talking about. It was the place he occupied and occupies not only in this country but abroad as a symbol a sym bol of success in "war, devotion to peace, good will to man and personal integrity. It was our contention then and it is now that because of this world-wide confidence and trust in him, he was in that sense "indispensible" as the rep resentative and spokesman of this country at the com ing Paris conference. Why? Because ANYone who might take his place could not enjoy anything like his prestige, standing and influence in the free world. CO, AS was, we thought, clearly stated, if the Presi dent's recovery should prove to be as complete from this attack, as from the other two and as of this writing it appears to be even more so he should cer tainly NOT, as so many urged, resign his office and retire. This would not necessarily mean he would HAVE to make the trip to Paris, it would only mean he would have to remain President of the United States, as long as he is able and to remain its spokesman as long as he and the present world crisis endure. It is not that if unfortunately he SHOULD be in capacitated NO one could possibly take his place someone would. It is only to maintain that because of his extraordinaiy standing and reputation in the world today, no one could do the job as well. R.W.R. Thursday, December 5, 1957 this : this occupational hazard if ii 'PSSST! I'M RS4DYF0R BREAKFAST IF.WI ARS' Today and By Walter THE DECICION TO MUDDLE THROUGH A decision of great moment was taken in the White House last tyeek. It was that once again, as on the two other occasions when the Pres ident was dis abled, it will be possible for the govern ment to mud d 1 e through somehow 'until the President has recovered. Walter Lippmano The hard whether he issue which was should for the period of his convalescence dele gate his powers, was avoided. Instead, the President and his intimate advisors decided that he would perform token actions symbolizing the activity of a President, such as signing a few official documents or attending meetings, while the real powers of the office were exercised by various individuals and commit tees. The country has twice accept ed this method of dealing with the disability of the President. It is not at all sure that the country will accept it this time, and there are signs that there is a big change in the public mood. It can perhaps be described by saying that in the past there was an overwhelming popular desire that Eisenhower should continue to be President of the United States. Now there is a mounting anxiety and insistence that some body should be President of the United States. ' The nation is deeply disturbed by a growing realization of the painful situation into which it has been allowed to drift. It will not long put up with the ap pearance of leadership. It will demand the reality, and it will be acutely conscious of the dif ference between acting and play-acting, between the for malities of power and the sub stance. rpHIS does not mean that the country disbelieves the Presi dent's doctors or that it does not devoutly hope that he will have the full recovery which the medical bulletins indicate. It is that even before the Presi dent was stricken this time, the country had already become in creasingly aware that he was a partial invalid in partial retire ment, and that he was not equal to the full demands of his of fice. It is because his energies had already failed so much that his third illness is having such a deep effect on the public mind. This is the hard truth of the matter, and the White House will best serve the country and the President himself by exam ining it with sympathy and with courage. If it is true, as I be lieve it is, that the country will not now accept token leadership, we shall by trying to muddle through be heading into a great political storm when Congress reconvenes. The Administration will be taking enormous risks if it conies to Congress with a budget, with eign policy, and with military plans which, though offered in the name of President Eisen hower, are known . not to be genuinely his own. There will be a disorderly search for the men who are in fact responsible and there are ominous signs that there will be appointed scape goats from inside the White House. THE crucial problem, which is created by the President's health, is that while he retains the responsibilities of his of fice, he is unable in any full and adequate sense to exercise the powers of his office. If the tactic of muddling through won't solve the problem, there is a choice between resignation and the pro cedure, unprecedented but in dubitably legitimate under the Constitution, of . delegating to the Vice President the powers1 Tomorrow Lippmann and duties, but not the office, of the President. There is in Washington a re markable body of opinion which holds that all things considered our situation in the world and the President's failing energy the right course is for the Presi dent to resign. This cannot be ruled out as the eventual solu tion. But it is drastic and ir revocable, and there are consid erations which warrant trying at first the moderate compromise of merely passing the powers temporarily to the Vice Presi dent. "NE of these considerations is that if, as the nation devout ly hopes, the President makes a very good recovery, the coun try is entitled to have the Presi dent which it elected. Another consideration is that Mr. Nixon, whose position cannot be easy no matter what is done, might be better off if he were allowed some time to make his peace with the opposition and to gain the confidence of the country. It is, of course, true that it will be trying and difficult for him to be the temporary Acting President while the elected President is still in office and living in the White House. But Mr. Nixon has shown the neces sary tact and delicacy. On the other hand, as this is a period when critical decisions must be taken, it will be better to have them taken by him with legal power and legal responsibility, openly and with public account ability. In the meantime, the President, freed of responsibil ity and the worries that go with it, would probably have a bet ter chance of a good recovery. This solution, let it be said again before it is scornfully dis missed by Mr. Hagerty, is the one recommended last spring to the Congress by Attorney Gen eral Brownell and by President Eisenhower himself. (Copyrighted 1957 by New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot 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 Wanted Faith To Live By To the Editor: I was surprised and disappointed to hear that they have taken "Faith For To day" off TV. I don't happen to have a TV in my home. But when I visit my son's family we enjoy it very much, especially the children. They also love to watch "Grand pa Fisher' and his family, put on by the Presbyterian church and one by the other churches. I work in elderly people's homes and notice they often en joy watching these programs. It seems to me there is a vari ety beside that to please every one. I do hope they keep our Chris tian programs on, until such time we get too many of them, if that is possible. "Give them a faith to live by!" Mrs. Perry Case, 305ii Edwards St., Medford, Ore. Safety Fair To the Editor: The success of the Southern Oregon Safety Fair was, in a great part, due to your efforts in publicizing the event. As you may know, all con cerned with the event feel that southern Oregon proved. a fair of this type can do a great deal to make all of us more safety conscious. We appreciate the time and effort the staff of the Medford Mail Tribune gave to this en deavor. You have helped make this community a safer place in which to live. Russ Jamison, Publicity chairman Southern Oregon Safety Fair. Tito, Gornulka Boycott Publication; Relations By CHARLES McCANN United Press Correspondent Both Yugoslavia Jind Poland apparently have deemed to boy cott a proposed new internation al Communist publication. Dispatches from Eastern Europe say that plans to start the pub lication were approved at the recent confer ence in Mos cow of Red Charles M. McCann leaders from aU over the world. It would be sponsored by Com munist Parties in free countries as well as in those under Com munist rule. Soviet Russia failed in an at tempt to win support for a bid to form a new international Com munist organization, which it would have sought to dominate. Both President Tito of Yugo slavia and Communist leader Wladyslaw Gornulka of Poland were among those who refused to agree to the setting up of any such organization, -s Now both Tito and Gornulka seem to have refused to take any part in the new propaganda pub lication. Won't Risk U. S. Relations i The reason is that the mate rial used in the new publication naturally would be bitterly anti western. Neither Tito nor Gol mulka wants to lend his name to anything of that sort and risk antagonizing the United States. Gornulka in recent weeks has patched up some of his differ ences with Russian Communist leaders. He is in a difficult situ ation, under attack in his own country by his fellow Commun ists who oppose his attempt to keep Poland free from Kremlin domination and by Communists and others who want a complete break with Russia. For that reason, Gornulka sign ed the anti-western manifesto which was issued after the Mos cow meeting of Red leaders. Tito, after suffering a conven ient attack of lumbago which caused him to cancel his plan to attend the Moscow meeting, or- Editorial Comment LONE SURVIVAL THINKING This -deep seated opinion against American economic and militarv assistance to weaker na tions standing against the Com munist tide is based, we be lieve, partly on misapprehension of the program, partly on dema gogic statements by members of Congress and others seeking a political horse to ride. It re flects, however, a disturbing re birth of isolationist, or nation alist feeling. It seems to indicate that despite the Soviet scientific successes, many Americans con tinue ,to think that the United States can depend entirely on its own strength. It wholly fails to take into consideration the probability, or possibility, that the Communist Empire may pre fer to continue to agitate small wars rather than commit itself to total war. President Eisenhower as did President Truman before him has done his best to stem this anti-foreign aid feeling. The na tion has been bemused, how ever, by attacks in Congress. Better leadership in the legisla tive branch is needed. Port land Oregonian. ALL PART OF THE GAME Hollywood (IP) Georgia peach Joanna Moore says she means it when she insists she'd dye for her movie career. In three pictures her hair at pro ducers' orders has been honey blonde, dark blonde, peach blonde and, currently, golden blonde for "The Dark .Shore." ' .-,MU.J "TRANSPORTATION" Someone in your family may have the wish to be sent "back home" for burial, when that time comes. Or, someone away from Medford may have the wish to be brought back here. If you know that, some day, you will have the responsibility of carrying out that wish, now is the time to find out just what is going to be involved ... in arrangements, details and costs. Or, easier yet, we'll do it for you. DAY OR NIGHT - PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS dered his own delegates to re fuse to sign the manifesto. There is increasing evidence that relations between Tito and the Russian . Communists are pretty bad. In this connection, a report published in London says that the real reason Tito refused to go to Moscow was that Nikita S. Khrushchev, the Soviet Com munist elader, tried to censor a speech he intended to make. According to this report, Tito sent the draft of his speech to Moscow in advance as a matter Matter ot Fact By Joseph Alsop THE OIL BOMB Rvadh. Saudi Arabia A new off-shore oil concession to Japan ese interests, which closely re sembles a sry large time bomb, is wait ing for King Saud's final ap proval as these words are writ ten. The conces sion is import ant, as s nnt- Jeseph Also. tern tfc Jt gives the Saudi Arabian eovern- ment 56 per cent of the profits ot the Japanese concession-holders. Thus it decisivelv altprs th existing Middle Eastern pattern oi a 50-50 split between govern ments and oil companies. J! urthermore, it really shatters the existing pattern by giving King Saud's government a Rfi per cent share of all tho nrnfits of the Japanese company, which promises an "integrated opera tion. This means that King Saud's participation in the prof its on his oil will extend from the bowels of the earth to the Japanese comnanv's filling sta tions in Tokyo, if any are estab- lisned. Anyone who doubts trip evnln- sive potential of such a new and pattern-setting oil deal in this oily and explosive Dart of the world should think back a few years to the- famous, nioneerin? 50-50 contract between the Sau di government and the Arabian American Oil Company. rpHAT time, the American pol- icy makers quietly warned the British that a new pattern was going to bet set here in Saudi Arabia. The British gov ernment nonetheless failed to bring the Anglo-Iranian Oil Com pany into line. The first result was the nationalization of Iran ian oil. There followed the long, ugly Iranian crisis presided over by the weeping Doctor Mossa degh, which nearly ended in Iran's transformation into a So viet satellite. The time is about ripe, more over, for another first-class government-oil company row here in the Middle East. Even Aram co is now engaged in a bitter dispute with the Saudi govern ment, and other local situations are, if anything, even more touchy. To be sure, the weakening world .market for crude oil ironi cally strengthens the bargaining position of the oil companies, Yet the danger has to be taken seriously. Any prolonged row between any Western Oil com pany and any Arab government will greatly increase the tension everywhere in the Middle East. And in this troubled region, there is more than enough ten sion already. - SUCH, then, is the real meaning of this Japanese concession which King Saud must now ap prove or disapprove. The conces sion has already passed the Japanese cabinet, which has for mally undertaken to release the necessary hard currency. Besides King Saud, the concession must also be approved by the Sheikh of Kuweit But the Sheigh has al ready undertaken to approve any deal accepted by King Saud. New Said Bad of courtesy. It was returned, the report says, with drastic dele tions and revisions made by Khrushchev. The London dispatch reported also that Tito told his Moscow delegates to try to find out just how strong Khrushchev is in his present leadership. The delegates went home, the report said, to tell Tito that Khrushchev's position is un stable because powerful ele ments in the Soviet Communist party still want to revert to Stalin-type rule. The Sheigh of Kuweit's ap proval is needed because the concessions area is located in the offshore sector of the so called neutral zone between Ku weit and Saudi Arabia, in which the two governments hold what amounts to an undivided inter est. On shore in the neutral zone, the Getty Oil Company has now proven a fantastically rich oil field. Just to the south of the prospective Japanese concession and offshore, Armaco has also proven the great Saff aniyeh field. Thus both the Saudis and the Japanese regard the venture as the opposite of speculative. This is why the Saudis have overlooked the relative small- ness of the original Japanese in- vestment fund. This fund of under $15,000, 000 has been guaranteed by a consortium of leading Japanese industrial oil consumers. These large industrial companies are in turn represented by the Jap anese Oil Trading Company, formed for the purpose. The chief negotiator has been the leading Japanese businessman, Taro Yamashita. THE Saudi Arabian negotiator has been the astute and de termined head of the Saudi gov ernment's Department of Petro leum and Mines, the American trained Sheikh Abdullah Tariki. The agreement embodies Sheikh Abdullah Tariki's highly contro versial view that the- govern ments of the oil producing com panies, instead of taking a mere share of the oil company profits made in their own territories. In line with this theory, the Japanese company promises the Saudi government 56 per cent of its profits, not just on crude oil production, but also on oil-refining, oil transportation and oil marketing. To prevent undue in flation of costs at the expense of profits, the Saudis are given one-third of the places on the company's board of directors and one-half of the places on a committee on investments. All in all, this is quite unprecedented government-oil company rela tionship. The Saudi government share of the profits is to be paid in rhard currency or gold; but even so, the Japanese should achieve a very great saving of dollar oil if the concession is approved and the company's operations are successful. Getting oil paid for in yen instead of oil paid for in dollars has been the guiding Japanese motive, which makes this concession pretty special. Even so, Sheikh Abdullah Tariki makes no secret of his convic tion that it also will have far reaching general significance. "What we wanted from Aram- co," he says cheerfully, "we just' put into this agreement." .. (Copyright, 1957, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) HELP US! We Need Clothing, Shoes. Dishes and Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring 2-4230
