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4 " rOTJR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, January 9, 19SS i Medfordtribune "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by - 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-8141 ROBERT W. RtTHT. Editnr HERB GREY. Advertising Manager v.ruiiL j. rirt.i, x? us in ess igr. ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor ninAnu jtwiii, sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Societv Editor DALE ERICKSOX. Circulation Mgr, An IndeDendent Newsoaner -Entered as second class matter at ; Medford Oregon under Act of - March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Conv 10c . Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 moa. 8.00 - Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 . Sunday Onlv One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford . Ashland. Central Point. Eagle - Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, ; Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv- - er, laiem. ana on motor routes: - Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford oincial paper of Jackson County "United Press Full Leased Wire . MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative : WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC.. Of fices in New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver, B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassocITat rN p.mm.wa.-imu "The Gentleman from Mars 9 At the moment we are not as interested in landing on Mars as having some Martian land on the earth preferably near enough to Washing ton, D. C, to take a taxi to the U.S. congress. Then after a few days there we would like to have his impressions of this particular planet and what is transpiring thereon. COR what would he find? He would find a nation abhoring war, de ciding to go-for-broke preparing for it. He would find a nation desiring, above all else, peace, doing practically nothing to secure it. This would severely jar his preconceptions for he had always heard Americans were a highly civilized, rational and particularly practical people. But democracy he would suppose meant the rule of the people, and yet here is a free govern ment representing the people, rushing hell-bent 0 do precisely what the people do not wish to be done, namely: preparing for a war instead of try ing by every conceivable means to prevent it HOWEVER, if the Martian decided to stick ai uuiiu tx w 1111c jai cnuia.i ij i uaniing aiuuuu he halls of the congress, he would find a ready explanation for what seemed to him contradic tory, inexplicable and suicidal. In a word that answer would of course be So viet Russia. Flight '0 Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 yean ago. Of 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 9, 1943 (Friday) ' More than 3,000 cans food for people in Europe had been brought to local chools up to noon today for the relief ship drive sponsored by the local Elks lodge. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "A Brit ish cool votes Secretary of State Marshall the greatest Santa Claus the world has even known." 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 9, 1938 (Sunday) : Purchase of the Klamath Natural Gas company and plans to merge the utility with the Southern Oregon Gas company of Medford are an nounced. , Postage receipts at the Med ford Dost office reached a new all-time high figure in 1837, Postmaster Frank De Souza announces. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 9, 1928 (Monday) : The demand for Copco pre ferred stock has nearly ex ceeded the supply, according to the company's investment department. : A 15-gallon tank of moon shine hidden in the top of Studebaker touring car was eized last month. IIE WOULD quickly be told that this commu nist country is entirely responsible for Ameri ca's wild stampede toward its own and world de struction, that if Russia were not armed to the teeth and did not arrogantly aim for world con quest there would be no such mad rush to protect our security and our liberties. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 9. 1918 (Tuesday) : An auto collision at Fir and West Main sts. knocked mother and baby into the street, but they escaped ser ious injury. ; No more free porch lights will be permitted Ashland people, according to the Ash land city council. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior even or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Did President Hoover de clare the bank holiday in .1932 or in 1933? 2. Bible: Is the Apocrypha between the O. T. and N. T. in all Bibles? 3. Name the common veg etable that is supposedly noted for its coolness. 4. At Cooperstown, N.Y., is a "Hall of Fame" for great men of which sport? 5. Is the word "dollar" of American or British origin? - 6. Radio waves travel at i velocity of a p p roximately 1,860, 18,600, or 186,000 miles per second? : 7. Was the German surrend er document of World War II aigned May 6, 7, or 8, 1945? . 8. A vixen is a female bear, fox or rabbit? : 9. Did President Truman serve two or three terms? - 10. According to mythology, Jupiter turned Io into a ewe, yixen, or heifer? Answers:!. No. (President Roosevelt did, in 1933) 2. No. 3. Cucumber. 4. Baseball. 5. No. (Bohemian). 6. 186,000 per second. 7. May 7 (in a little zed brick schoolhouse in Re ims. France). 8. Fox. 9. No. just short of two terms), 10. Heifer. - Nampa, Idaho 0P Fire which destroyed several build ings housing a 35-bed hotel, a medical clinic and two busi ness firms in Nampa's down t o w n district Wednesday damage estimated at $410,000. TTO THE surprise of everyone in the congress, however, the "Gentleman from Mars" was not impressed. It seems that on a previous flight he had visit ed Russia, and the bosses there told the same story. THEY were the ones engaged in a wild stam pede toward national and world destruction be cause of the terrible menace of rich and imperial istic America. A capitalistic land which would never halt its unholy determination to wipe Com munistic Russia and all communism from the face of the globe, if it took their last red-penny to do it. . "CO" THE visiting Martian continued, "you two would-be cosmic champs are in the same boat neither of you say you want war, but both of you are engaged in a wild armament race, on and, sea and in the air, which eventually accord ing to the history of your planet, can only bring it." If you can't arouse any national common sense why can't you yield to what is supposed to be the strongest instinct of your earthly, race, namely: the instinct of survival and self preser vation? Taking your bearings why don't you stop this crazy rat-race to mutual destruction and talk things over with a view to mutual survival. AT THIS point of course Secretary Dulles would enter the picture, looking more like John Calvin in one of his more pious, platidinous and sanctimonious moods than ever. "That can't be done !" he would declare, "Rus sia simply can't be trusted. We have tried it re peatedly and repeatedly failed. That is out !" The "Gentleman from Mars" showed for the first time, some slight annoyance. He said "Haven't you an old adage that goes something like this: 'If at first you don t succeed, tiy, try again'! Well that is what we did. When Jupiter threat ened to wipe us off the celestial map, it took pa tience, time and a lot of hard forensic work bui eventually we found this out: Jupiter, after all, was only what you people call human. He had no love for us, he had no love for God, peace, cosmic or otherwise. He couldn't be trusted as far as you could throw Taurus by the tail. But he DID have a great love a high regard tor his country and himself. And after much talk and persistent argument we Martians finally persuaded the "old boy" that while to him honesty is NOT the best policy, keep ing the peace, in view of the pulverizing and in escapable power of modem armaments, lb. IT TOOK some doing but we did it. 1 . To a man up a tree or up on another planet I see no reason why YOU can t do it. Don t worry about Khrushcnev ne doesn t want to commit suicide any more than you do. Even on my brief visit to your interesting globe, I find I am not alone in this view of what should be done. There is Lord Kussell, tor ex ample, your English cousin, who recently stated and I entirely agree with him quote : I suggest, Sirs, that you should meet in a frank discussion of the conditions of coexistence, endeavor ing no longer to secure this or that more or less sur reptitious advantage for your own side, but seeking rather such agreements and such adjustments in the world as will diminish future occasions of strife. I be lieve that if you were to do this, the world would ac claim your action, and the forces of sanity, released from their long bondage, would ensure for the years to come a life of vigor and achievement and joy sur passing anything known in even the happiest eras of the past. J-R.W.R. I WW j a p n Inl II 11 NOW WE'LL ADO SOME HOT WATEf? AN' wUf got a tfAtt smm pool ; Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann ARMS AND THE MIND The returning Congress will be more than willing to vote. indeed it will be insistent up on a substan tial increase in military ex p e n d i t ures The President can have the money he asks for, and as matter of fact, he is likely to be criticiz- waiter Lippmann ed because he has asked for too little rather than because he has asked for too much The relization has struck home that in the race of arm aments the Soviet Union is moving at a faster rate than we are, and that the time is in sight when the balance of power will be decisively against this country. What is not so certain is whether the country has been made to realize that the in security in which we are be ginning to live cannot be overcome by weapons alone that, to put it concretely, our insecurity cannot be cured in the Pentagon alone, no mat ter how it is reorganized, streamlined, unified, and fin anced. The fact that we have fallen behind in the race is the result of a decline in our intellectual activities and of our public energies. rjiHlS ominous default can- -"- not be corrected by a crash program in which it be comes our supreme, national purpose to acquire a supply of missiles. For if we whip ourselves into an hysterial fixation on missiles, we shall jusi. as surely as fate itself alienate the allied coun tries in which the bases for the missiles would have to be placed. We can achieve security, which we now believe to be threatened, only if our military effort though firtn and decisive is part of a much larger revival one which includes our dip lomacy and our education and the intellectual, life of the nation. We shall have missed the point of the challenge to which we are are put if this Congress, having voted an in crease in the military budget, turns its back on education and research, and settles for some trifling and timid con tribution. The American crisis today is the result of a long accumulation of errors and neglect in the field of educa tion. And while it cannot be cured by money alone, it can not be cured without money, without much more money. It cannot be cured without a change in the popular at titude toward the support of education. - By existing stan dards this would constitute a break-through to a new and higher level. demonstration that we have read the meaning of the Sput niks, not as frightened men rushing excitedly for weap ons, but as lucid and honest men, unafraid and unashamed to admit their failings. Noth ing, morever, would do so much to restore the confi dence of mankind in the Unit ed States, and to dissipate their fear that we have lost our nerve. But that will not be enough We shal? have to reappraise some of the principal aims of our foreign policy in view of the fact that our military pre ponderance has ended. For let us have no illusions. If we do everytnmg recommended m the Gaither and the Rockefel ler reports, we shall at best maintain the balance of pow er. We shall still be only one great power competing with an equally great power. The days of our military suprem acy were brief and they have ended. rpHE decay of our foreign policy is due to the ina bility of those who make it to recognize or to accept the fundamental fact that the United States is not the para mount but is only an equal power. Yet in the Far East, in the Middle East, and in Germany, the official aims of our policy are those of a para mount power. These aims can be achived only by . the un conditional surrender of China and of Russia. This underlying contradic tion is the basic cause of the decay of our foreign policy, and incidentally, it is the basic cause of the fabulous unpopularity of Secretary Dulles. We are struggling stubborly for results that we cannot hope to achieve, and this impetus, especially when is covered with moral preachments, is alienating the people we are trying to lead. (Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) 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. Matter of Fact By Telephone Project To the Editor: In behalf of the Medford Kiwanis Club wish to thank you for the very substantial contribution of the Mail Tribune and staff in making possible our "Santa Telephone" project during the Christmas season just passed We know that many young hearts were warmed by the calls and you many be sure that those of us who partici pated experienced some heart warmings, too. We trust that the same satisfying reward is yours for your fine help in the project. Again we thank you for your ready and generous co operation. Kiwanis Club of Medford By Paul Hornbeck Lighting Contest To the Editor: Ai chairman of the Medford Junior Cham ber of Commerce's 1957 res idential Christmas lighting contest, I wish to express our gratitude for the help and cooperation you extended to us. Your assistance played a large part in making this pro gram the success it was this year. We feel that this contest helps to beautify Medford during the Christmas season and fosters the feeling of good will in the community. With this in mind, we plan to con tinue this as an annual event, which we feel will surely grow in stature through the years. John C. Amcker, Jr. Medford Jaycees n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Grist from the rumor mill: Whether or not Russia had launched a MAN-CARRYING MISSILE remains a $64 ques tion as this is written. First reports, unconfirmed from any official source, said the Sov iet Union had sent a man 186 miles into space and brought him back alive. V", jl Stewart Alsop IKE ON THE DEFENSIVE Washington Has the Pres ident's brilliant political in stmct. which has been es sentially a n instinct for re- f 1 e c ting the u n d erlying mood of the country, sud denly deserted him? The quest ion is suggested by the Presi dents r e p c- tions to the new situation in which he finds himself. The answer may be provided by the tone and content of the Presiden't forth-coming State of the Union message. tor uie Presidents reac tions in the last few months have been surprisingly out of tune with the mood of the country 'as that mood is sensed by virtually all the re turning members of Congress His reactions have been con sistently defensive. A symptom has been the President's anger at the wide spread publicity given to the Gaither report, calling for a major national effort to avoid future catastrophe. It was ab solutely inevitable from the start that a report with such sensational implications, in which so many people of known views from outside the Administration participated, would become known in substance. YET the President, accord ing to reliable report, is furious about what he con siders "leaks" from the Gai ther Committee. "Ike's so angry about the leaks," one of his subordinates has re marked, "that he's hardly got around to considering the sub stance of the report." This Presidential reaction certainly inspired Press Sec retary James Hagerty's state ment that the Gaither report raised no question about the American defense posture "at this time." The statement was so obviously specious that, again entirely predictably, it had precisely the opposite effect than that intended. All the President's own public statements in recent months have been similarly defensive in tone. There were, for example, his press con ference remarks brushing off the Soviet ICBM tests and the Soviet satellites as of little consequence. And there were his two "chins up" speeches, Stewart Alsop rockefeller Fund has done If one supposes General of the Army Dwight D. Eisen- sower doing these things, it is obvious on the face of it that the defense issue would be of remarkably little use to the Democrats. Why, then, has he not done such things? There are sev eral possible reasons. To take such a stand would involve at least an implicit admission of past error. Although ad mission of error is rarely poli tically harmful, and can even be a popular move, there is a natural human disinclination to admit mistakes, perhaps especially In a man unused to criticism. TT IS also entirely possible -- that the President does gen uinely and whole-heartedly accept the George Humphrey theory that any markedly greater national defense ef forts will "destroy the free enterprise system." Former Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, after all, liked to call his budgets "Ike I" and "Ike II," and to claim the Gen eral's support for his policy of cutting the gizzard out of the national defense in the name of economy. Perhaps, finally it is just not in the nature of the Presi dent to take such a stand Perhaps the President so faith fully mirrored the mood of the country when that mood was easy-going and unworried because it was natural for him to do so; and now that the mood has changed, it is no longer natural for him to re flect it. One thing, at any rate, seems sure. If the President s State of the Union message is filled, like his "chins-up" speeches, with complacent re assurances, he will be hand ing the Democrats a winning issue for 1958 and 1960. And that is precisely what the Democrats (who are them selves by no means invulner able on the defense issue) hap pily expect him to do. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. NOTHING would so stimu late this country as the Atlas Launching loped for Friday Cape Canaveral, Fla. (IP) --Weary scientists, prevented from launching the intercon tinental Atlas missile Wed nesday because of high winds, hoped today a break in the weather would let them fly the nation's biggest "bird" on Friday. Chill, gusty winds appar ently made a fourth test flight of the giant missile too risky Wednesday. Today, activity at the cape seemed not directed toward any launching. There was no official word at this security conscious mis sile test site of when the next attempt to launch the 5,500- mile range Atlas was sched uled. But observers guessed scientists would relax today from the tensions of Wednes day and try again Friday, WnrlH cnionTictfl ui'pwpH the ... . . i j in nrllfnh lirVlllA FlfrtW ICITI ff trt rumors witn reserve ana saia ww, ..... It's remarkable if true." give tne;TOUgn wun xne smootn, ne gave a greai aeai of smooth and precious little rough. If only as a practical poli tical matter, taking this de fensive stand was . precisely calculated (as Vice President Nixon immediately sensed) to do the prestige of the Eisen- IT'EEP your fingers crossed. it could be true. In these modern days, al most anything can be true. B in- Let' s not ge scared. Americans have met every challenge yet-and there have jStto been some erim ones. Per sonally, I refuse to believe that our people have lost their courage or their resourceful ness. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A"YOU-ALL" MISS enjoyed her first visit to the Hayden planetarium. She was particularly fascinated by the tele scopesomething she never had seen before. "WelL now I understand how you won derful astronomer boys dis cover new stars," she cooed to the guide, "but I still don't see how you find out their names!" A kind-hearted judge was commiserating with a much put-upon wife. "Tour husband really is a problem," allowed His Honor. "Has he ever tried Alcoholics .Anonymous ?" "I reckon he has, judge," she nodded sadly. "That man '11 drink anything!" "Some government officials," admitted Will Rogers, "are honest as they come. It's when they're leaving that you have to watch 'em." a 1358. br Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kins Features Sradieata-i.- the President himself, the maximum of harm, rr GAVE the Democrats, and indeed all the President's MORE from the day's news critics and opponents, an op as reDorted bv the portunity to take the offen clicking teletype: sive to belabor not only the Every day about 800 East Administration s past errors Germans (East Germany is a ana inadequacies, dui aiso its T?nian sntPim cross into present iacK oi a sense oi West Germanv. fleeing from urgency." Thus the Admini- communism. They trick armed stration's defense policies have guards, minefields and barb- become, for the first time, a ed wire to get away from the major national issue, and the "people's paradise." uemocrats count neaviiy on Death stares them in the it lor ootn tne 1958 ana lSoo . , in I i eve at every step, out stm elections, thev seek to GET AWAY. Suppose that the President, instead of. reacting so deien- jiurt a long ume, tne com- gively, had marched to the A munists adopted a SO head of the parade and seized WHAT attitude toward the the banner of national de refugees, declaring that their fense. Suppose he had really departure was good riddance given "the rough with the that most of them were smooth," suppose that, instead elderly, sick and generally oi 0f complaining about "leaks, no value to communism. he had used the Gaither re But the picture is changing, port to support his case for a First the farmers, driven out great national effort, suppose by collectivization schemes, he had told the country of Its and now the young men, on danger as publicly and frank- whom the communists have iy as the recent report of the pinned "their hopes, are flee ing westward. After 12 years of communist indoctrination, designed t o turn school children into flag waving, slogan-chanting auto matons. East German youth is still unconvinced. They show it by taking to their heels, crossing the heavily guarded border where armed "people's police" patrol with dogs and guns. - . TT IS an ancient saying that "the proof of the pudding is the eating thereof. After 12 years of eating it, the people who are compelled to live under communism JUST DON'T LIKE THE PUDDING. That' s weakness the Krem lin can't laugh off. hains Necessary On Timberline Road Salem (IPI Four inches of new snow made chains a necessity for travel to Tim berline, the State Highway department reported today. Chains were also required at Warm Springs junction with two inches of new snow. Plows were operating in both areas and roadside snow had reached 154 inches at Timber line. Icy spots were at Cascade Locks, Detroit, Siskiyou, Wil lamette pass, Chemult, Mea- cham and Seneca. There was ground fog at Roseburg, Grants Pass, Med ford and Ontario. German Recovery Shown in Supply, Quality of Food By JOSEPH FLEMING United Press Correspondent Berlin (in A visitor to West Berlin ordered a break fast of one egg with toast at a sidewalk cafe on the city's fashionable Kurfuer stendamm. The waitress told him she was not allowed to serve less than two eggs. That, more than soaring production graphs and the smoking chimneys of the Ruhr, is a testimonial to West Germany's post-war recovery. Ten years ago in Berlin you couldn't get an egg for love or money in any restaur ant that wasn't a black mar ket hangout. And anyone who had an egg could sell It for love or money, or both. Cigarettes were even bet ter. A pack of American cig arettes sold for the equiva lent of $10. Today on the black market they cost one mark 50 pfennig, or 37 cents a pack, 50 pfennig less than tobacco shops charge for a pack of German cigarettes. Yes, Germany has risen from the ruins and Germans are putting on weight again. During the 1948-49 Soviet land blockade of the city, a Berliner for his Sunday din ner ate peas, dehydrated po tatoes, and canned meat. Feature Whipped Cream Cafes now serve huge por tions of whipped cream with or without cake or ice cream. Many Germans just order the whipped cream. Doctors warn housewives they are ruining their hus bands' health with huge por tions of sausage, sauerkraut, noodle soups, fried potatoes, and the famed German kartof felkloessee, a sort of round mushy potato dumpling the size of a Softball. The word "kueche" will never replace "cuisine" to de scribe the culinary art but Germany is no place for any one on a diet. The food is very cheap, too, by standards in New York, London, Paris or Rome. On Kurfuerstendamm, the city's main street, you can get a thick vegetable soup, a fried pork chop, three large boiled potatoes, string beans, and a small piece of cake with whipped cream as big as the cake for 75 cents. A filet steak in the best restaurant in town costs be tween five marks ($1.25) and . six marks ($1.50). And that includes french- fried potatoes and a vege table. A glass of good strong beer to go with it will cost no more than 20 cents and in some places it will only be 12 cents. BBSSSSBBSsBsBHSsSsHSJSISE Buster Brown Shoe Store Will Be CLOSED ALL DAY Tomorrow, Fri., Jan. 10 PREPARING FOR A Sale of All Shoe Sales SALE STARTS SATURDAY at 9 a.m. STOLEN MEDALS FOUND Milan, Italy OP) A 70- year-old noblewoman today got back a valuable collection of medals and coins stolen from her mother 46 years ago. A worker digging a founda tion in nearby Bollate found a coffer containing the med als and coins. A check of po lice records showed it was the some collection stolen irom the late Marquise Luiso Sor- mani Busta in 1912 and never recovered. MAKE A WILL! As Funeral Directors we know only too well how much confusion, heartache, and even fi nancial distress can be created by the lack of a will. Where only small amounts are involved, it Is even MORE important that both husbands and wives make a will. If you haven't made yours, don't delayl DAY OR NIGHT -PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS
