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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Lance Offenbacher of the Apple- cate towned Wed. to get a haircut and two plowshares sharpened." 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 3. 1938 (Monday) A. Frederick Stennett begins 28th year as foreman of the Mail Tribune compos ing room. On the last two days of last year, about 50 citizens collect ed bounties on coyotes and bobcats, according to county clerk. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 3, 1928 (Tuesday) Three Rogue Rive- high school students and their science teacher climbed Battle mountain 15 miles north of Rogue River. b. Double holiday of Sunday iand Monday which ended last night made the people of Med- ford unusually befuddled to -day as to their dates. -40 YEARS AGO ', Jan. 3. 1918 (Thursday) The Applegate Lumber company in 1918 plans to use :3,500 cars of logs, 16,000 -irom Jackson creek and 7,500 -from Butte Falls. From local and personal column: "Chief of Police Hitt- ,on warns Medford dentists Ho lock up their .gold supply -as it is about time for the an nual raid of burglars on the .dentistry offices in this city. I What's Your I.Q.? JSine or ten correct is superior; seven er eight is excellent; five or ix is good. - 1. Name the author of "The : piuebird"? r : 2. Bible: Who was the fa : ther of Cush, Misraim, Phut, : Canaan? r 3. The American Red Cross - was founded in 1861, 1881, or ; 1901? - 4. Is a person capable of us ; "ing both hands with equal fa- . cility known as amphibious, '. -ambiguous or ambidextrous? - - 5. The Pilots association is " a union affiliated to the AFL ' or the CIO? ; 6. Does the common house ' fly have 8, 10 or 12 legs? 7. What famous automobile engines are built at a plant "in Derby, England? 8. During World War II, F. Von Papen served as Nazi ambassador to which coun try? 9. Complete Ben Franklin's famous couplet: "Early to bed and early to rise." 10. Who wrote "The Song of Marion's Men?" Answers: 1. Maurice Mae terlinck. 2. Ham. 3. 1881. 4. . Ambidextrous. 5. AFL. 6. No. (six). 7. Rolls-Royce. 8. Tur key. 9. "Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." 10. Wil .liam Cullen Bryant. THE DREAMERS Paris HP) Penal author ities reported today that the books in French prison li braries that get the most wear ere travel books. The Losing Team Wins Time marches on. But sometimes it sprints. This is what Time did between New Years Eve and New Years night. On New Years Eve the Oregon football team wasn't rated in the First Ten college teams at all. In fact the sport-scribes in Los Angeles declared its Rose Bowl date with Ohio State, was one of the greatest mis-matches in football history. Oregon, they cried in chorus, rated no better than third or fourth in the coast conference, and if the conference had not adopted some silly back-woods rules, the University of Oregon would never have come closer to the Pasadena classic than Petaluma. AS FOR the smart-money boys in the coast " metropolis, they would not look at Oregon, unless they were given anywhere from 19 to 21 points. Practically the only money that did back the "Webfoots" came from a few Eugene fanat ics, who wrere supposed to have more enthusiasm and college loyalty, than sense. OUT what a transformation 24 hours later! Assuming that as advertised the Univer sity of Ohio was the No. 1 college team in the country, then by unanimous vote those who saw the game either "in person" or over the air, would agree Oregon could be rated no worse than No. 2. In fact many perhaps slightly prejudiced would point to the net-yardage and first downs gained, and stoutly maintain that the best team on New Years Day at the Rose Bowl at least, lost for as everyone knows the final score was 10 to 7 in favor of the eastern visitors. UOWEVER that may be, all the people of Ore- gon are justly proud of their 1957 football team, and the people of Medford have a special reason to feel proud, for one of the stars of the team all season was a local boy, and former stand out on the High School football team, Jack Morris. It was tough luck Jack missed that goal from the field. But he did more than his share in other directions and even "Woody" Hayes the famous coach and "good sport" of the Buckeye aggrega tion said he thought the goal was good so it must have been powerful close. THE undersigned has seen many football games " but we can't recall any important one where the losing team received such universal acclaim and enthusiastic praise as was tendered the Ore gon, boys by friend and ended Wednesday afternoon. As was indicated by Coach Casanova the credit for this tribute should go partly, at least, to the sports-writers of the time the "Ducks arrived, heaped scorn and ridicule upon them. The Oregon boys did were the underdogs , but there is a great differ ence between being called an underdog ' and being kicked and cuffed "Okkie" pooch. The boys from Eugene DIDN'T like it! And undoubtedly when they ran out on the field that typical "Sunny California" afternoon they were determined to show it. They did And How! All credit to them. Oregon will not soon for get probably it never played Oregon s fighting Rose Bowl team of Nineteen Fifty Eight ! R.W.R. New States in the World It's called the British Islands; it gets going the first Governor General is installed in of fice; it holds its first elections on March 25; and already it has a quarrel with the United States. This is about our active air and naval base on the northwest tip of Trinidad, at Chaguaramus, near Port of Spain. Another U. S.-Federation-British conference about it has been set for Jan. 13. We got the base in 1941 'on a 99-year lease from Great Britain, as part of the payment for 50 overage destroyers. The Federation says it must have the base because this is by far the best site for its new capital. We say our title is per fectly legal and just, so we want to be reimbursed if we build a new base to replace our present one. THE Federation is composed of 13 British is- overpopulated and poverty-stricken. The largest and most important are Jamaica (sugar and baux ite) and Trinidad (oil refining). On the main land, British Honduras and British Guiana de cided to stay outside the new Federation for the time being, as did the British Virgin Islands. The islands hope that will mean less competition among themselves in exports. Maybe they can now go more effectively, too, after the U.S. tourist trade. However, certain aspects of foreign relations, currency and defense remain with London, as represented by the Gov ernor, so full Dominion status is something for the future. E.R.R. BRITAIN RATIFIES PACT Geneva, Switzerland (IP) Britain has become the first country to ratify the new forced-labor convention, the International Labor Office an nounced today. The conven Friday, January 3, 1958 foe, when the contest Los Angeles, who from not need to be told they around like a flea-bitten will as long as football is West Indies Federated formally today, when their new political unity tion, which will go into effect one year after the second rati fication is deposited, was adopted at the June, 1957, international labor conference here after two years of preparation. ' Don't tell mom wme Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann THE FUNDAMENTAL CHALLENGE The American people are at the beginning of what is certain to be a year of the highest d r a- ma. The theme of the drama will be wheth er our gov ernment and our so c i e t y can rise to the great chal lenge which - jtoat a - wife i , Walter Lippmann naS now been put to them. The challenge lies in the fact that, as compared with our great rival, we are a declin ing power, destined if we do not meet the challenge to know the frustrations and the insecurity of nations which have achieved and have then lost their sense of mission and of greatness. rpHE true nature of the challenge has been defined with brilliant insight in an article in the current 'Tr- eign Affairs," written by Lloyd V. Berkner of the Pres ident's Scientific Advisory Committee. I hope 1 am not distorting Mr. Berkner's arti cle in the following summary of his central thesis. Military power, he says, has tended to become abso lute in its destructiveness and yet relatively easy to acquire. "Both the United States and the .U.S.S.R. have acquired the power to destroy a people and all its wealth by a single blow." Such absolute mili tary power is so dangerous that it cannot be used, as has military power in other days, as an instrument of foreign policy. cAt the same time, we are living amidst the rise of the nations of Asia and of Africa to a new sense of what they need and are entitled to have. "Two sources of capital or its equivalent seem open to them: from the West, with its traditional system of free en terprise, or from the Communist-dominated Soviet bloc." But, he goes on to say, "The methods of Communism are suspect because they substi tute a new form of even more drastic slavery for the old imperialism. Foreign invest ments by the West is also suspect, not only because it is reminiscent of imperialism, but also because historically it has been used as an instru ment of policy." nPHIS brings Mr. Berkner to A his main point, one which no one else has as yet, I think, so clearly grasped. "In view of the reduced effectiveness of both military power and national wealth as instru ments of policy, a kind of power vacuum has appeared. Clearly, the side that can ef fectively develop a new in strument will enjoy a power ful advantage. The Soviet Un ion, seems to have found one in scientific achievement as a basis for claiming intellec tual leadership." At this point, Mr. Berkner pauses to point out that "the potentialities of intellectual leadership which we enjoyed after World War II were never fully recognized or ex ploited. The most conspicu ous example of this failure was .m connection with the extraordinary development of nuclear energy out of the most abstract processes of hu man thought coupled with su perb experimental skills. The discovery captured the imag ination of men everywhere, coming as it did at a time when the world's sources of fossil fuels were dwindling. But we did not understand the political significance of this intellectual attainment and failed to capitalize fully on the opportunities. The dis covery of nuclear energy could have brought a flood of leaders and students from abroad to the feet of our teachers, and thus could have va got it provided unbounded oppor tunities to developments in a shroud of secrecy, imposed by our preoccupation with ture of the Administration has also changed markedly since the days of the Humphrey-Wilson j u n ta, which ruled when you left. A lot of good new men have been brought into the Administra tion it begins to seem pos sible, for example, that the soap industry has miraculous ly given this lucky country a first-rate Secretary of De fense. But the change has only been a half-way change. The old cliche about the country being ahead of the govern ment has never been more true. The theory that has colored all policy in the last five years that we can't afford the price of survival lingers on. So does Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, stubbornly convinced that he alone possesses the key to na tional salvation. Finally, there is the central question whether the Pres ident, a good man, but a man who is old now, and has been very sick, has the energy to lead the country in the direc tion it so clearly wants to be led. And yet I think it is too early to discard that other theory, that the United States will always do what it cannot do. The next few months, per haps even the next few weeks, will tell the tale. As ever Stew. (c) 1958 New York Herald, Tribune Inc. Electric Group Plans State Agency Salem Oregon voters will have an opportunity to vote in November on crea tion of a state power agency if plans of the Oregon Elec tric Consumers Council ma terialize. With the announced objec tive of seeking "more power for more jobs for Oregon," OECC today filed with the Secretary of State an initi ative measure designed to au thorize the agency. OECC President James T. Marr said the council will begin collect ing the more than 35,000 sig natures necessary to place the initiative on the ballot, as soon as the Attorney General supplies a ballot title. "The proposed Oregon Power Development commis sion would consist of three members elected by the peo ple," Marr explained. "It would have authority to de velop new sources of electric al energy by constructing dams and transmission lines, and to purchase power from federal dams and sell energy to new and expanding indus tries and public and private utilities." "Because the federal gov ernment is not providing ade quate power supplies for new industry for Oregon," Marr declared, "a state power ag ency is needed now to pro vide low cost power to new and diversified industry that will help solve the state's des perate unemployment prob lem." The OECC president com mented that the proposed de velopment commission "will, insure that the power de mands of Oregon consumers will be met. The initiative measure will provide the com mission with adequate au thority for multi-purpose and full development of the state's water and power resources for the benefit of the people." WELL. IT'S LIKE THIS . . . Rushville, Ind. P Mrs. Gerald Gilbert has a twin boy and girl whose ages are separated by a year. She gave birth to a daughter 12 min utes before midnight New Year's Eve. Three minutes after midnight she gave birth to a son. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Opposes TV for 'Home' To the Editor: Just read an article in Sunday Mail Trib une about the new juvenile home. I think if the children there have a good home and plenty to eat and someone Jlo keep them out of trouble, some good books and some clean games is all the recrea tion they need. It was televi sion and guns and dirty shows that put them there. Keep the television and guns out of the juvenile home for the sake of our little children. Emma Perkins 243 North Holly st. Medford Band Supporters Thanked To the Editor: On behalf of the Citizens' Medford High School Band Booster club, I should like to thank all of the loyal supporters of the Medford Senior High School Band for their contributions that sent the band to the East West game in San Francisco. All those who saw the band in action were proud of their fine performance which was made possible by the contri bution oi their many friends. So once more, a sincere thanks from the Citizens' Medford High School Band Booster Club and from the students and faculty of the Medford Public Schools. Glenn L. Linn, Secretary, Citizens' Medford High School Band Booster Club. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS It's now 1958. WHAT of 1958? I have a notion that if we do our work efficiently, play just enough but not too much, worry as little as pos sible over things we can't do much about, treat our friends and associates with courtesy and consideration and manage our personal af fairs with reasonable wisdom and foresight 1958 won't turn out too badly. A LONG with Sputnik, 1957 brought a new problem PENGUINS and what to do with 'em. Here's a thought: If the penguins had been LEFT ALONE down at the South Pole, where they be long and where they un doubtedly WANT to stay, all would have been well with them and we wouldn't have to be worrying (and spending tax money) about how to keep them alive and partially healthy. TVf ORE New Year stuff: xix The census bureau says there are about three million more persons in the U.S. than on New Year's Day. 1957. It has worked out this way: About 8,200 persons were born every 24 hours during the past year. There was a birth every 7V6 seconds, There was a death every 20 second. A new immigrant ar rived every two minutes Some person left the country every 20 minutes. It all tots up to about 172, 800,000 persons in our coun try. Good? Or bad? It has possibilities of both. ALL these new people will need food to eat, clothing to wear, houses to live in and gadgets to make life pleas anter and easier. If they are io provide these things FOR THEMSELVES, they must have jobs. If we can manage our national ec onomy so skillfully and so wisely that EVERYBODY WILL HAVE A JOB, our fu ture will be rosy. Everything will be lovely and the goose will hang high. But If we listen to the economic crackpots and go chasing will o' wisps through the some thing - for - nothing swamps, thus throwing our economy Women's Minimum Wage Now 75 Cents Salem IP) Oregon State Labor Commissioner Norman O. Nilsen said today that a minimum wage of 75 cents an hour has become effective for women and minor em ployees of laundry, dyeing and cleaning plants. The new wage floor adopt ed by the state wages and hours commission will go to 80 cents an hour in six months, under Nilsen's order. Overtime pay is also required for time worked beyond an eight-hour day or a 44-hour week. Constitution Doesn't Word About Democracy in U.S. By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) Among the bogus ideas which befud dle the citizens is the belief tnat back there in the 18th Century the founding fa thers set up the United States with de mocracy as its form of gov ernment. The Found ing Fathers did no such . Lyie c. Wilson thing. There is, in fact, no good word in the United States Constitution for the political system known as democracy 'in which the tellers count all the heads, empty or not, and give the de cision to the most numerous. Political orators and others, even including editorial writ ers, continue, however, to sound off with such deathless phrases as: This great democ racy, and so forth. Democracy Was Rejected The Founding Fathers de liberately rejected democra cy as undesirable and estab lished the United States as a representative republic, spe cifically guaranteeing to each state a republican form of government (Article IV, Sec tion 4). In contrast to the demo cratic or head-counting polit ical form which the Constitu tion rejected, the Republican form is properly defined like this: A state in which the sover eign power resides in the peo ple (qualified voters) and is exercised by representatives elected by them. James Madison was effec tive in steering the Constitu tion away from democracy. He expressed the fear that democracy favored the self seeking maneuvers of factions or blocs within a political party. Not Bad In Itself Thejournal of constitution al discussion indicates that the authors did not reject democ racy because it was bad of itself. They rejected democ racy more because it was deemed unsuitable to a nation already so large in area and numerous in population as the combining 13 Colonies. These facts are intimately related to the national and congressional discussion ex pected this year seeking more satisfactory processes of nom inating and electing presi dents of the United States. There has been national dis- saiisiaction witn tne presi dential elective process and agitated discussion of it for many more than 100 years. In establishing the present Electoral College process, some of the authors of the Constitution felt that they had disposed of the most difficult of all the problems confront ing them, but without much confidence that they had done it well. out of kilter, there won't be jobs enough to go around and we'll have to support mil lions of jobless persons on re lief. That's about the long and the short of it. Good, Bad News of Week Is Balanced By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: The leaders of the United States and Soviet Russia in terrupted their prosecution of the cold war to exchange friendly New Year greetings and express the hope that 1958 might bring better rela tions between them. For Soviet Russia, Presi dent Kliment Y. Voroshilov, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Communist leader Nikita S. Khrushchev said: "We express the hope that the forthcoming year will be year of strengthening of friendship and cooperation between the peoples of the Soviet Union and the United States of America." For the United States, Pres ident Eisenhower replied: "I earnestly trust that the new year will bring a firmer and better understanding be tween the citizens of the So viet Union, the American peo ple and those of other na tions." In addition, Khrushchev in warmly toasting the United States at a new year recep tion in the Kremlin said: "If the Soviet Union and the United States can get to gether and reach agreement, most of the world's problems would be solved." The mothers of three Ameri cans imprisoned by the Chi nese Communists as spies flew across the Pacific to see their sons. The three men are among The direction of discussion in recent years has been gen erally toward more democra cy and less representative re publicanism in the election of presidents. There has been considerable support for aban donment of the Electoral Col lege and for a direct popular vote. A direct popular vote for U. S. senators was established Matter of Fact by REPLY TO A SAD LETTER Washington Dear Joe: This letter, in reply to yours of a couple of days ago, is a difficult let ter to write. For in a way, all I can really say is: "Dear Joe: I agree with you." Like you, I have for the first time a f o r e b oding Stewart Alsop feeling that the unthinkable defeat for the United States has suddenly become think able. Like you, I have never had this -feeling before, even in the dark early period of the war, when every day seemed to bring some fresh disaster. Like you I have al ways proceeded on the as sumption, which has been basic to all our thinking, that "the United States will al ways do what it can not do." Now, like you, I am no longer sure. The other day, I was leafing through some of our old columns, and I came upon one published in May, 1954. In it we predicted "first tests" of "guided missiles of intercontinental range ... in 1957-58." We also noted that the Soviets were "ahead of the United States in the im mense task of guided missile research," and pointed out that "thus the Question is raised whether the Soviets may not be the first to achieve an intercontinental missile with hydrogen war head." a a THE column (you wrote it, incidentally) has stood the test of time better than most such ephemeral efforts. In the very limited field of the new weapons, at least, we can paraphrase Winston Church ill's modest boast, and claim that "we have not always been wrong." But there is one way in which we have been dead wrong. We always assumed that so obvious a warning of a clear and present danger to na tional survival as a first So viet ICBM test would be a signal for a tremendous out pouring of American energy and inventive genius, spurred on by America's leaders. In stead, when last June, I re ported the first Soviet ICBM test, the report was elaborate ly pooh-poohed by the Penta gon. And when it was con firmed a few weeks later in Moscow and Washington, all our leaders, from the Presi dent on down, joined in tell-1 ing the country tnat it changed nothing, and not to worry. The country, wmcn does not like to worry, glad- the last six Americans known to be under detention by the Reds. Long ago, the Chinese Com munist government invited relatives of all six prisoners to make the visit. But the State Department had refused permission the United States is still technically at war with Red China because of its in tervention in the Korean War. There was no hint that the Chinese intended to free the prisoners. If ,they did, it would be a most important gesture. It might prove to be the first move toward even tual American recogniiton. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announced that he would fly to Ankara, Tur key, to attend a meeting of leaders of the Middle East ern Treaty Organization . the so-called Baghdad Pact on Jan. 27. The alliance in cludes Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Grea Britain. The United States sponsor ed the alliance, formed to combat Communist aggres sion and subversion, but re fused to join it. TfueVLEtorje DAIRY-SMITH East Main St. Now We Have Brown Eggs, too Contain by the 17th Amendment in 1912. They had been chosen by state legislatures. That may indicate a trend. Regard less of the 17th Amendment, however, and talk of direct election of presidents, there is no doubt what the Consti tution's authors thought of political democracy. They did not trust it and they were against it. Stewart Alsop ly obliged The story does not, praise be, end there. In your letter you referred to the dramatic scene in which intelligence chief Allen Dulles briefed the frightened Senators on the real facts of our situation. When the Senators asked Dulles why our own defense effort had been cut back in the face of such facts, Dulles replied, in effect: "Thank God for the Sputniks." a a a WE CAN indeed thank God for the Sputniks, in th same way that we can thank God for such other rousing disasters as the Korean ag gression, or Stalin's rape of Czechoslovakia, or even Pearl Harbor. At first, the Admini stration tried to pooh-pooh the Sputniks, as it had pooh poohed the Soviet ICBM. But this time, especially after Sputnik II which still races above us, carrying the bones of its pathetic passenger the country would have none of it. You know the way you have to smell the atmosphere of a country really to sense the trend indeed, ' that is why you choose to become our foreign correspondent. The smell of the atmosphere here has changed in a way I think you would immediately recognize. You remember in the old days how everybody wonder ed why we wrote such a lot about such dreary dreamstuff as missiles. Now everybody is writing about missiles, and everybody is thinking about missiles.' Indeed, missiles have become one cf those curious obsessions which seize this country from time to time. The obsession has its ob vious danger. But it is also true that, when we have one of our obsessions, we tend in the end to do something rather startling about it. a AN OBSESSION about mis siles, of course, won't avert the dangers you out lined. What is needed is bold, imaginative, energetic execu tive leadership to exploit the country's new mood. The na military security. Although the secrecy has gradually been lifted, the opportunity for us to exercise real leader ship in this field has mean time been seriously limited." rpHEN Mr. Berkner goes on A to say that the Soviet Un ion has seen "an ODDortunitv for leadership based on rec ognized intellectual stature- It has already expanded its science teaching and its re search institutes, an action that the West misinterpreted as relating solely to military po ver . . . Leaders of the Soviet bloc are not capitaliz ing on intellectual leadership as a means of acquiring an essential element of what Milovan Djilas calls i'the in herent need of those in pow er to be recognizable proto types of brilliance and might.' Their ready political and propagandistic exploitation of the great achievement of So viet scientists upon launching the first earth satellites il lustrates clearly their recog nition of the advantages that scientific leadership can con fer." a THIS describes the funda mental challenge. The challenge is not whether we can maintain or restore the balance of military power necessary as it is to do that. The challenge Is whether we can restore the intellectual greatness of the West, if not to its old preeminence, at least to a new equality. This will not be easy to do, and we cannot expect President Eisenhower to be- come the leader and inspirer of an American renascence. The renascence will have to come from men of learning of the stature of Mr. Berkner, men who know, because they live the intellectual life, what a renascence would be. Copyright 1958. New York Herald Tribune Inc. at Genesse
