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I o O G FOU MEDFORD (OREGON) Medpobdw&.Trib UNB "Everyone In Southern Oregoo Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dailv Except Saturday by MZDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manage! ERIC ALLEN JR MM'"ini Editor ZARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN XeleKraon Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos -Z5 Sunday Only One year 1420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The fresh pork and hominy season has Urted in the rural regions and pronounced the most adhesive of 11 rib-sticking nutriment." it YEARS AGO Ze. M.-1I37 (Wednesday) Eugene Thorndike, Medford manager of the First National Bank of Portland and active civic worker, named chairman of com mittee In charge of annual -President's Ball," 'through which funds are raised for war on infantile paralysis. Petitions signed by rural resi dents of Jackson county protest abolishing the bounty system in favor of government hunters. S8 TEARS AGO Dec. 3. 1927 (Wednesday) Air of mystery surrounds ses caion cf committee of Elks which ia in charge of staging the an nual Elks New Year's dance G Saturday night. "The Chamber of Commerce can not function on money alone it needs man power above all," Ted Baker says at the Lions club luncheon. 0 T3 40 YEARS AGO q Dc. 29. 1917 (Saturday) Southern Pacific keeps special policeman on southbound pass enger train between Ashland and Redding to keep order among drunks. o Russia is out of it as far as the present war is concerned, ac cording to an opinion given by Dr. George Rabec, University of Oregon. 0 What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent: five or six Is rood. 1. In what field of activity is ine name ui nuuci i .c. rcaij fa mous? 1 G2. Bible: Was Vespasian a gen eral, procurator, or tax-collector in Palestine? 4. Who wrote 'Penguin Is land"? 5. When does the U.S. Gov ernment's fiscal year end? 6. In Greek mythology, who was Zeus? 7. In the Navy, what is a "Yippy" boat? 8. In a political campaign, what is a "roorback"? 9. The Colosseum in Rome was used for circus exhibitions, glad itorial combats or burlesque shows? 10. Can viruses be seen O through an ordinary microscope? Answers: 1. Explorer. 2. Gen- eral (appointed a.u. d;. j. Al ter IIS Carnage oy iue uuiuij uub Var of 1812. 4. Anatole France. 3. June 30. 6. Chief of the gods. A Yard Patrol Craft. 8. A Very concocted to discredit the (ipaosition. ..but., which ..recoils jon its circulators. 9. Gladilor JUl combats. 10. No. MAIL TRIBUNE "Simmer Down, Simmer Down " Uncle Sams middle name is NOT Moderation. The old boy still dotes on extremes. For example: We are now informed by one of the top-bracket nuclear physicists that the "land of the free and the home of the brave" has become decadent. To prove this he cites the utterly non-functional and flambouyant 1958 motor cars. They have he says, more power than is safe, more colors and chrome than are proper; and finally the utterly USELESS "fins" the sole purpose of which he thinks is to tickle the owners vanity, and provide him the childish delusion he is driving an airplane OFF the ground instead of last years model with a new coat of paint and its face lifted, ON it. The nuclear physicist has a point there, but we doubt such evidence really establishes the fact of our national decadence. jMOR do we go along with our Apostle of Science in another point he makes " this point, incidently, is what first drew our attention to his outburst. He believes the only way to save our system of education and therefore the country is to cheer, honor and make heroes of our "Magna cum laude" students, especially in science, and stop cheering, honoring and making heroes of the students whose only claim to notice lies in their abilities to kick a football, knock a baseball over the fence, or run a hundred yard-dash in less than 10 seconds." In short, unless we put brains at the top where they belong in any modern educational system, and brawn at the bottom where IT belongs (if it should not be discarded entirely) there is no hope, we are told, of fat, pleasure-loving, self-indulgent Uncle Sam ever catching up with "Ivan-the-Terrible" and his Sputnik, as it soars high above, a symbol to all the world, of superiority, supreme outer-space achieve ment, and an educational system that is tuned to the tide of the future, instead of being hoplessly mired "in the scumy and discredited traditions of the past." "Hmmm quite a mouthful !" Well, again our Apostle of "Doom and Gloom" has a point, but only a point, and his general thesis is so extreme and so completely out of line with the facts, that, as we see it, it properly comes under the general heading of "Sputnik panic." THERE is no doubt we need a more vigorous, effec- J i 1 ; 1 T7I-VTT7IXTCITTTT71 uvc, ujj-iu-ucue anu inclusive aisu HiAr oi V j ) educational system. There is also no doubt that our educational standards of values need reappraisal and readjustment. We have for years placed too much emphasis upon athletic prowess and superiority; and too little on prowess and superiority in the intellectual and tech nological field. There should be more emphasis on the latter and less on the former. But that should not mean that we must place OVERemphasis in one department by UVhKemphasis in another. If we understand our super-scientist correctly, he would do just that in order to escape the ignominy of "decadence." But that we believe would be an example of our national weakness, namely going from one extreme needlessly and undesireably to another. In other words why not follow "Ike" in this par ticular department and take the "middle-road?" A FTER all didn't the Duke of Wellington say the " "Battle of Waterloo" was won on the fields of Eton?" And as for over-emphasis on athletics how about our Russian friends? They don't confine their speed to Sputniks. Russia won the 1956 Olympics, didn't she? And they have a hockey-team touring Canada that hasn't, to date, been beaten. Both boys and girls are going in for outdoor sports in a big way over there and they get cheers and medals for it. They wouldn't if the Kremlin didn't see some national interest served thereby. And of course there is. Just as there is in an educational system that real ly EDUCATES better adjusted to the needs of the new "air-age" and breaking away from the past. "17HICH, in a general way, brings us back to where we started from namely: Uncle Sam is too prone to go from one extreme to another, and vice versa. We should give more money and even more im portant more careful attention and thought to our educational system and especially in the area of basic science and the conquest-of-space. But that does not mean we should go overboard, try to drill cheering-sections and pep-rallies for the members of Phi Beta Kappa or raise our intellectual eye-brows over the spontaneous enthusiasms of the student body when Johnny Doakes scores a touch down after running and dodging 90 yards through a broken field. In short we should and can have BOTH. Decrease the emphasis upon one, increase it on the other, but abandon neither. AS PRESIDENT Eisenhower remarked to his ex citable press-secretary a few days ago "Simmer Down, Jim, Simmer down!" We would say the same to our equally excitable nuclear physicist particularly in viewing what hap pened yesterday; will happen today, and is scheduled to happen New Years! On the gridiron we mean. R.W.R. Sunday, December 29, 1957 rto. I'M AH RIGUT! Mm Today and By Walter Towards the end of .the tele vision report on Monday even ing, the President said that "to bring about such an easing of tension we believe that clear evidence of Communist integrity and sincerity in ne gotiation and action is all that is requir ed." The ques Walter Lippmann tion is what would be clear evidence of integrity and sin cerity in negotiation? If we look at the record, ex amining it objectively and with out preconceptions, the evidence shows, I submit, that some agree ments negotiated with the Sov iet Union have been observed very well and that others have been violated. It is not true, as some among us like to say, that the Soviet Union always breaks its agreements, and it is not true, of course, that the Soviet Union always keeps its agree ments. The problem is to discern what is the difference between agree ments that will work and agree ments that will not work. If we can define that difference, we shall have a practical yard stick, something more than our own subjective wishes and fears, to determine how "clear" is the "evidence of integrity and sin cerity." A STUDY of the record will show, I believe, that the agreements which have worked best have been those which fixed definite boundaries beyond which military forces may not advance or to which they must withdraw. On the other hand, agreements to do this or that behind or across the military boundary lines have proved to be highly unreliable and have usually foundered in tedious and frustrating debate. The Yalta agreements, for ex ample, have stood up quite well insofar as they fixed the bound ary lines between the Soviet forces and the Western military forces. But the Yalta agreements about the character of the East European governments behind the lines of the Red Army have been entirely nullified, as have also the original agreements to unify the four zones of occupied Germany. The Austrian treaty, which required the military evacuation of Austrian territory and Its military neutralization, has worked. But the ambiguous formula about the unification of Germany which was adopted at Geneva has not worked. I my self cannot believe that Mr. Dulles, who of course, knows the record, can ever have imag ined that he had really reached an agreement about Germany with Mr. Molotov. If he did imagine that, as he now says he did, he was much more gul lible and fare less astute than we all know him to be. IF THERE were time and space in gin If Viai-a T UaKa.tM 14. fcV ViW ib licit, A UClltVC It could be proved in great detail that the agreements which work are those which deal with, as we may put it for short, the de velopment of organized military forces; the agreements which work badly or not at all are those which require collabora tion and depend on general no tions, which are hard to define, which lend themselves to double CHURCH ASKS UNITY London (IP) The Russian Orthodox church appealed to re ligious leaders the world over Saturday to strengthen Christian unity and work for world peace. The appeal, broadcast by Ra dio Moscow, came in a New Year's message signed by Patri arch Alexins of Moscow and other leaders of the church. It said the Russians were alarmed "that the threat of a new war continues to keep all nations in a state of profound alarm every day." h r 71 SENDS va to bed if va Tomorrow Lippmann meanings, such as unity, lib erty, democracy. A decisive reason why agree ments on the development of forces are workable is that there is no problem of enforcement by inspection. The Red Army is out of Austria, and it cannot come back without all the world knowing it instantly. There is no need of a corps of inspectors to wach whether the agreement to evacuate Austria is being ob served. Military forces of the size needed for an aggression by invasion are too big to be hid den. For this reason, it can be said that agreements on military deployment are self-enforcing. TN MY view, therefore, the 1 thread to take hold of in this tangled skein is the suggestion from Moscow that there be a limitation of nuclear arms in, and perhaps even a military evacuation of, a great area of Central Europe, covering the two Germanys, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Nobody knows whether Moscow is serious about this, or that it would negotiate seriously about it. What we can know is that this is the type of agreements which, if it were arrived at, would be likely to be workable. On the other hand, there is little prospect of a successful negotiation and a reliable agree ment, be it on the Western terms or on the Soviet terms, about disarmament in general. The whole disarmament busi ness, in fact, is on both sides more propaganda than anything else, and the more elaborate and complicated our programs be come, the more certain we can be that nobody is really serious about them. If, therefore, we are ourselves sincerely looking for evidence of Russian sincerity in negotiation, we Shall look for. it in some concrete issue having to do with the deployment of forces. We shall undertake a careful dip lomatic exploration of some specific and limited aspect of the Soviet proposals to do some thing about the weapons, and the armies, that are stationed in he hear of Europe. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK This is written on the day after Christmas. And Some 220 people died violent ly on the highways between Christmas Eve and Christmas midnight. Y? It's absurdly simple. Too many people REFUSE TO DRIVE CAREFULLY ENOUGH, HMMMMMMMM. Glancing over the news this morning, it appears that there was althogeter too much wickedness in the world yester day especially in view of the fact that it was Christmas Day. Why? Well, I reckon it must have been because too many people refused to be as GOOD as they should have been. WHAT to do about it? I wouldn't know. But I have a notion that if EVERY BODY IN THE WORLD decided all of a sudden to be a little BET TER in the future than he has been in the past it would quick ly become a better world to live in. CONTINUING along this line of the less admirable aspects of Christmas Day 1957, Former President Harry Truman was out for his daily walk in New York City yesterday when he was jumped by the newsmen for his opinion of the Eisenhower-Dulles report on the recent NATO conference in Paris. He replied that the report was "a lot of gobbledy-gook." He added that the joint telecast Matter of Fact CAN WE AFFORD SURVIVAL Washington The mere exist ence of the now-famous Gaither report creates a hideously pain- f u 1 dilemma for the Admin istration. For the report real ly amounts to a damning in dictment of the Admini s t r a tion's basic na tional security policies over the last five Stewait Alsop years. Thus if the Administration re fuses to publish the report, or at least the grim facts on which it is based, it will be accused, with reason, of concealing essential facts from the nation. But if it does publish the report or the facts on which it is based, the Administration will be, in effect, publishing a confession of its own tragic past error. The Gaither report examines in detail the basic theory on which the Administration's na tional security policies have been founded since 1953 and firmly labels this theory nonsense. The chief author of the theory was, of course, former Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, who sincerely believed that high taxes and high spending were much more dangerous to the United States than Soviet mis siles or hydrogen bombs. ACCORDING to this theory, the country simply "can't afford" to match the Soviet de fense effort. Humphrey sold the "can't afford" theory to Presi dent Eisenhower and the domi nant Administration figures back in 1953. One result has been that spending for defense, as a pro portion of the total national economy, has dropped steadily throughout the Eisenhower years. Another result has been that the Administration, in order to justify its policies, has consis tently given the country a re assuring but totally false picture of the real balance of military power. For the most part, with a few honorable exceptions, like Sens. Stuart Symington and Hen ry Jackson, the Democrats never seriously challenged this picture. Like Adlai Stevenson in 1956, they reasoned that, because of the President's aura of military prestige, there was "no mileage in the defense issue." Thus for five long happy years, while the country enjoyed pros perity and tax cuts, the real facts were successfully shoved under the rug. The real facts came as a profound shock even to such knowledgeable persons as the members of the Gaither Committee. "T FELT," one of them has re marked, "as though I was spending ten "hours a day star irtg straight into hell." At least two members of the committee became physically ill as a result of the experience. For the hell they were staring into was the clear and predictable prospect of a world dominated militarily by the Communist bloc, with the United States reduced, at best, to an isolated second class pow er. Having stared straight into this hell, the Committee began asking itself the obvious ques tions. Is it really true that the United States "can't afford" what may be required for sur vival? They consulted leading economists. They examined the facts including the startling fact that the Soviets spend 25 per cent of their national product for defense, whereas In the Eis enhower years the percentage JENKINS had been "fixed up by a lead ing New York advertising firm but even so they didn't do a very good job." MOW, now, Harry! You know perfectly well that if you had been President in these ticklish times and had come back from a conference like the NATO one at Paris you would have made about the same kind of report that was made by Ike and his secretary of state. The heads of our gov ernment just couldn't come back from Paris and admit that no thing tangible was accomplished. You sound too much, Harry, like the Pharisee who gave thanks that he "was not as these others." These are parlous times, you know, and in parlous times even gobbledy-gook is some times better than too much pes simism. ALL these things are culled from the news of yesterday which was Christmas Day. They sound worse for that reason. But I think They prove a point. The point is this: In this modern world as, probably, in the world of the past BAD NEWS TENDS TO GET MORE PLAY THAN GOOD NEWS. The good news in that of our 172 million people (accepting the census bureau's latest guess) at least 171V millions lived de cent and respectable and quite admirable lives on Christmas Day of 1957, as they do on other days. By Stewart Alsop here has dropped from about 13 per cent to less than 9 per cent. ' After examining such facts, the Committee decided that the "can't afford" theory is simply not true. On the contrary, they concluded, the United States, with its immense resources, can certainly match and surpass the Soviet defense effort, while maintaining an acceptable stan dard of living. THIS was the unanimous con clusion, not of the "long hairs" George Humphrey liked to denounce, or of radical New Dealers, but of such exceedingly practical businessmen and im peccable Republicans as Robert Lovett, John McCloy and Wil liam Foster. What, then is the Administra tion to do? Such former Hum phrey allies as chief Presidential aide Sherman Adams and Na tional Security Council secretary Robert Cutler (who, ironically, first suggested to the President the appointment of the Gaither Committee) are certainly all for a policy of "top secret and no comment." Vice President Nixon, who never bought the "can't afford" theory anyway, favors biting the bullet and either publishing the report in substance, or the facts on which it is based. So do a number of able people at the middle Administration level. So do most of the men who worked on the report with the proviso that it is not bowdlerized beyond recognition. Nixon is said to'belive that a policy of candor, even though it clearly entails an admission of past error, would be good poli tics in the long run and Nixon is no mean judge of political con sequences. But the issue with which the Gaither report con fronts the Administration of course far transcends politics. A policy of "top secret and no com ment" would mean no 'essential change in policy, and continuing on the road to hell. A policy of candor would mean a basic change in policy, with the "can't afford" theory relegated to the ashcan, and with the world be latedly confronted with the al ways impressive spectacle of the United States really rolling up its sleeve. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of 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 tight to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Mice Bui No Rices To the Editor: Down In Cali fornia, they raised a lot of rices Then they started raising mices The mices ate the rices With the rices, in the mices Makes a crisis Now they got no rices ' All they got is mices Down in California. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. Doesn't Like Herblock To the Editor: This letter is to protest the cartoons published in your paper, those by Herblock to be exact. The one in today's (Dec. 24) paper Is one of the most revolting I've seen. They all make every effort to ridicule and discredit the president of the United States. President Eisenhower has brought dignity and respect back to the White House after an ad ministration very lacking in these qualities. Although Mr. Herblock will doubtless always have a market for his malicious material, surely a newspaper that claims to be non-partisan po litically, could find cartoons a little better suited to this prin cipal. At the very least, you should have sufficient respect for the office of President of the United States to refuse to use such slanderous material. Mrs. Leonard Andrews, Route 1, Box 13, Gold Hill, Ore. City Salaries Too High! To the Editor: According to an article in your paper Dec. "26th on page fifteen: "The Medford cost per capita is second high for cities of from 10,000 to 25,000 population." "The city operation figures were the highest for any city in the 10,000 to 25,000 population bracket." A few figures from the 1957 1958 budget will show you why. The city pays a city manager $11,200. His -assistant $5,140. A part time purchasing agent $2, 040. His secretary $3,960. A part time clerk-stenographer $1,365. They paid several hunderd dol lars to bring a consultant here to tell them how much wages they should pay city employees. The secretary or stenographer could have used a couple of 3 cent stamps and found Medford is paying their fire and police chiefs more money than Salem, a city with twice the population of Medford. In addition Medford pays into two retirement funds for them, which Salem did not do. Eugene, also with twice the population of Medford, pays their assistant fire chief $5,832.00 while Medford pays $6,180.00 also with two retirements. The Medford scale for firemen in the budgets for 1953-1954 was $300.00 to $350.00 per month; POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) One of the county's agricul turalists recently bought a new car, and was going to show it off to Portland relatives Christ mas. But shortly before the fam ily got ready to leave, transmis sion trouble developed. While the new car was being repaired, the company loaned him another car his old one. A staff member went to Portland on his day off re cently, and in preparing he checked water, gas, oil. chains and even washed the wind shield. He was all set to go. he .thought. But the next day when he got behind the wheel to start, he found several muddy paw prints of a cat on the driver') side of the windshield. Christmas decorations at rrmn Medford homes this year vrs beautiful, and several peojlsj took evening drives to see them. But many of the best display were on dead-end streets, nI some drivers found it hard to turn around with a line of carf ? behind them". Seen north of Grants Pass on Highway 99: A Volkswagen traveling slowly along the highway carrying a "Wide Load" sign with no vehicles behind it. A Salem paper reports that a man, upon hearing of the ex plosion which wrecked the Van guard satellite, commented: "The Moon is Blew." A staff member was dining in Portland recently when the lights went out. Because of recent storms which occasion ally caused power outages, the owner just got out candles and lamps and distributed them among patrons. Since the ovens were oper ated on gas. the only problem confronting the owner was opening the electrically oper ated cash register. County Judge Rodney Keating being a practical man about Christmas time, gave County Clerk Bereth Hopkins a box o$ dog food for her dog. Among the gifts the judge received was ft large toy worm with apples gn pears attached. The night before Christmas, so the poem goes, "Not a crea ture was stirring, not even a mouse." But we wonder, since sections of the stale have been plagued with field mice. ' There seems to be a surplus of football tickets for the Rose Bowl game this year. On several oc casions, we have heard of some one with tickets which can not be used by the owner. Porter To Seek Resolution for Oregon Centennial Washington, D.C. (IP) Con gressman Charles O. Porter (D Ore.) has asked the House of Representatives Judiciary com mittee to "give the earliest pos sible consideration" to legisla tion authorizing the President to issue a proclamation commemor ating the Oregon centennial In 1959. In his letter to Judiciary Chair man Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.), Porter noted that the Senate had passed the necessary legislation on Aug. 30, 1957, its final day in session. Adjournment of Con gress the same day prevented transmittal at that time of Sen ate Joint Resolution 131 to the House, Porter said. The resolution, introduced by Senators Neuberger and Morse, should reach the House Jan. 7, 1958, the first day of the new session. However, to safeguard against any delay, Porter said he would introduce an identical res olution on the same day. Porter told Chairman Celler that the Oregon Centennial com mission had been hampered se verely in many oits official ac tions due to the lack of the Pres idential proclamation. "Passage and signing of the proclamation will be invaluable to the com- mission in its planning," Porter said. "It will be greatly appreciated by all members of the Oregon congresional delegation and the people of Oregon if the members of the Judiciary committee give this resolution the earliest possi ble consideration," he said. 1957-1958 was $300.00 to $370.00. Please note the small wage in crease for the older firemen with the starting wage remaining the same. Yet, the fire and police chiefs have been raised according to the budgets from $4,075.22 in 1950-1951 to $7,080.00 in 1957 1958. A study of other departments would show more such mis-man agement. The men have received little wage increases while the depart ment heads and yes men have really been paid off at the tax payers expense. Cleo Canoose, 55 Ross court, Mediord, Ore.
