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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 29, 1947 (Monday)
Residents and visitors at Dum
fries, Scotland, continue to ad
mire the Memorial Chapel of
the Crichton Royal Institution,
which was erected by William
; Laing, Medford architect.
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-
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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
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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."
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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.
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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.