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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, January 14, 19S8 Medford-Tribune "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dailv except Saturday by . MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. rRIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at . - Medford Oregon under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. -. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 8 moi. 8.00 . Daily and Sunday 3 mot. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, - Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er, Talent, and on motor routes: "Daily 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 Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC., Of- f ices in New York, Chicago, De- " troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, - Seattle, Portland. St. Louis, At- ianta, Vancouver, B. C. NEWSPAPEI PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION U V Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. Post-Mortem 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 14. 1948 (Wednesday) Srjeakers for the "town . meeting" will discuss univer sal military training at meet ing in the high school audi torium. From Arthur Perry! Ye Smudee Pot column: "This department is still at grips with la grippe, hence the bobbed condition of today's offerings." t0 YEARS AGO Jan. 14. 1938 (Friday) Roundi of blasting last night came from dynamite charges in the Sterling mine 10 miles from Ruch. Annual exchange of stray cattle takes place at Caster ranch on Hill rd. between Eagle Point and Ashland. 80 YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1928 (Saturday) Feud between the city plan ning commission and E. G Silliman, merchant, will go to court. Argument is over Silliman conducting a store In the front part of his home across from the high school on West Second st. From local and personal column: "Every civic organi zation in Grants Pass is pro testing the construction of a dam on the lower Rogue since it would greatly reduce the fish population." 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1918 (Monday) Total rainfall during the past 24 hours was .30 of an inch. Medford Choral society to give concert at the Page thea ter; three Canadian officers and veterans of the western front also will be on the pro gram. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; rive or six is good. 1. Is Detroit or Battle Creek the capital of Michigan? 2. The Bible: Were the books in the N. T. produced Independently without special reference to each other? 3. Roquefort, Chedder, Ed am, and Camembert are names of varieties of what common article of food? 4. Name the American author who is best known for his Leather-stocking Tales. 5. "Big Top" refers to what part of a circus? 6. Are more men, or more women, color blind? 7. What particular facial characteristic did the mytho logical race of giants, known as Cyclops, have? 8. Correct the following: "There was no one there but him." 9. Penquins do, or do not, fly? 10. Which amendment to the U. S. Constitution repeal ed Prohibition (18 amend ment)? Answsrs: 1. Neither (Lan sing is the capital.) 2. Yes. 3. Cheese. 4. James Fenimore Cooper. 5. The main tent. 6. More men. 7. They each head one eye. 8. "There was no one there but he.". 9. Do not fly. 10. The twenty-first amendments To the Editor: I too was interested in the loud ap plause that greeted President Eisenhower and tried to explain it as you did in your Sunday editorial. Only I reached a different conclusion. However, you may be right and I may be wrong or we may both be right. Who knows? Anyway, this is the way I explained it. It was all due to Sputniks 1 and 2. Had there been such a world wide shock a year ago there would have been 39 in stead of only five interruptions then. That is: I mean the country suffered a terrible sur prise and shock second only to Pearl Harbor. The members of congress naturally responded to that shock and went to listen to the President in a high emotional state, and I think most of them plain scared. They wanted most of them to be reassured, to have their national pride and self-confidence restored and when "Ike" said anything that contributed to this restoring their self-esteem and faith that "God'g still in his heaven all's right with the world" they applauded, cheered and, I think I detected a few whistles. I don't deny the affection for Ike and his show of courage after his three serious illnesses were factors, but the main reason for all that enthusiasm was, it seemed to me, an emotional relief from apprehensions. This is just for your information though I have no great objection to printing it, but please don't sign my name. I guess I am sort of publicity shy, I have the courage of my convictions but I just don't like argu ments, particularly over the phone. Subscriber (Name on file) We are giving top-billing to the above for sev- j era! reasons the principal one being it is JNhWb. in mebe paiiuua umea we ttiinuot ucvci get comunications, particularly regarding editorials, which deal in anything more relevant than name calling. Rarely does the communicant answer anv of the statements contained in the offensive offer ing, make any serious attempt to refute any of them, but is contented to enter a blanket indict ment, ornamented with a few rhetorical cobble stones and dead-cats. THE author of the above, however, apparently not only read the editorial in question which is something but concedes there may be some validity to it, though his or her own explana tion is naturally preferred. This reasonable and conciliatory attitude m our communication department, as far as editon als are concerned, is as rare, unusual and unex pected as the well-known Charles Dana example of man bites dog. In fact, if our memory serves correctly some man in Hoboken, N. J., did bite a dog a year or so ago. So that makes this offering even more NEWS' worthy. AND perhaps equally remarkable we agree en til Cl VVXlvll UU1 tUi J. VOUllUvllU We don't know that the high emotional de sire for a "shot-in-the-arm" and reassurance from on high," was the dominant factor in the en thusiasm of the congress, but it was undoubtedly an important element m that reaction. Moreover it may very well have been more determining than the bi-partisan wish to pay tribute to our aging but "Happy Warrior", who so plainly was standing there on the firing line, determined to carry out the mission for which he had been chosen, regardless of what the consequences might be physically to himself. THERE was another factor of course. A year ago the election was over and there was a natural emotional let-down. This year not only had there been the two Sputnik" shocks, but there is a congressional election in the offing, and perhaps subconsciously but nevertheless ac tually, there was a determination on the part of the Republicans assembled therein, (modern AND ancient), to leave no doubt as to where they stood, when it came to their greatest political asset in over half a centuiy General Dwight D Eisenhower ! UNDOUBTEDLY there were other elements in that vociferous reception picture but we shall leave further details, as indicated before, up to the psychiatrists. Sufficient for the present is to again remark that as we viewed it, that almost continuous wave of applause was not in any sense universal agreement with or reaction to, what the President said, but was a sort of spontaneous non partisan expression of good will, respect and af fection for the man ! R.W.R. A Very "Ify" Question' The final reason for choosing the above as a ext for today is the fact that it brings up what we regard as a very important question, namely: There is no doubt that what the members of he congress and the American people as a whole WANTED from the President was re assurance but there is some doubt in fact considerable that at this particular time a dose of soothing-syrup of "God's in his Heaven, all's right with the world" was what the nation need ed or should have had. "fcufe SUC LUCKY! RSOPLE CAN'T IOOK IN fOUR ' In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This screwball world again: As this is written, a series of mysterious radio signals has the world biting its fin gernails. The signals are heard chiefly in Europe, al though a ham radio operator in Rhode Island claims to have picked them up. Experts at the powerful monitoring station at Darm stadt, Germany, describe them as an irregular beep beep, similar to the voice of Sputnik. The Darmstadt mon itors say the frequency of the beeps appears to be decreas ing, as would be the case if the transmitter were MOV ING AT GREAT SPEED AWAY FROM THE EARTH. They deduce that maybe the Russkies have a new space ship and are heading for the moon. Ike's Proposal for UN Charter Observance Challenges Russia By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent President Eisenhower has proposed to Soviet Russia a practical and logical solution of all Cold Political Crossfire Rages on Missiles IT ALL depends of course upon what the situa- tion between this country and the USSR real ly is and what it isn't. And the disturbing truth in that area, as we view it, is really "NO ONE knows." It is a matter for the Department of Intelligence and the nu clear experts to decide. But did the U.S. Intelligence know anything about the Sputnik flight BEFORE it was launch ed? Does it know today in any detail what Russia really has in the field of nuclear war equipment including the "ICBM", moon - rockets and the like? If it does and has not informed the govern- Washington (IB Top Dem ocrats and Republicans flung new charges today in a rag ing political crossfire over President Eisenhower's missile-age leadership. Sen.. Hubert H. Humphrey (D- Minn.) declared that "no amount of political hokum and bunkum" will convince Americans the Eisenhower administration "has adequate ly taken care of national de fense." Humphrey said one of the administration's first acts five years ago was to trim $5 bil lion from former President Truman's defense budget and $2 billion from foreign aid. Counters Martin. Knowland The Minnesota Democrat's charge apparently was aimed at countering a broadside fired Monday night by Sen ate Republican Leader Wil liam F. Knowland and House GOP Leader Joseph M. Mar tin. They asserted in a joint statement the Truman admin istration must bear most of the blame if the United States is trailing Russia in missile development. But in New York, Truman said Monday night they were trying after five years "to pass the buck" and it was a little late. Truman started the running fight in an interview by say ing Eisenhower was a great military leader because "he had someone to tell him what to do." But Truman did have one work of praise for the Presi dent. He told reporters Mon day, Eisenhower had written a "good" reply to Soviet Pre mier Nikolai A. Bulganin. Has Voice, Brains Vice President Richard M, Nixon told a lunch audience Monday that Eisenhower had shown last week that he "has the voice and the brain and knows what to do for the United States." Knowland and Martin re acted with much greater vio lence in a "public memoran dum" addressed to Truman and replying to his "incred ible remarks." They said expert testimony from scientists and military leaders showed that "if today we are behind the Soviet Union in some respects in the race to perfect the weapons of the future ... a consid erable part of the blame lies on the doorstep of your ad ministration." University of Portland Dormitory Approved Portland (IP) University of Portland officials said today the Federal Housing and Home agency had approved plans for a men's dormitory and a dining hall at the school. Total cost is estimated at $1,480,000 ment then it should be kicked out of office lock, stock and barrel and not tomorrow but NOW ! I F IT has had and still has such information and kept the government informed during the post-war era, then the government has been dere lict and irresponsible to an appalling degree. For this would mean that the present administration knew what Soviet Russia was accomplishing in the entire nuclear field, and yet sat supinely by year after year and did nothing about it. who knows? We don't. And we don't know anyone who does or if they do who have the courage to speak out about it. , IT IS all right to refer it all to the "experts." But among themselves, but many of them don't agree WITH themselves. Several of them, for example, said one thing at the time of the Second Sputnik and are saying something entirely different today. So it all adds up to the confusion and doubt worse confounded. If as some of the "experts" claim, the USA is still ahead of Russia, there is no cause for alarm, thanks to the, Sputniks we have awakened in ample time, and without endangering our econ omy or even unbalancing the budget we can con duct business as usual, and keep the Muscovites completely in check also have 1958 as prosper ous and secure "as was the BANNER year of 1957" why fine and dandy relax, strike up the band, let joy be unconfined. DUT IF, as other "experts" claim, we are so far behind Russia we can never catch up ; the con trol of "outer space" is threatened ; the USA faces the greatest peril in its history and we can't have business as usual if we expect to escape the loss of our position as a No. 1 world power THEN Well that, as the saying goes, is entirely an other "kettle of fish". Who is right? v Who is wrong? We don't know. And we don't know anyone who does. DUT this is for sure : IF the prophets of "doom and gloom" SHOULD be right THIS time, then that cheering vigorous and reassuring speech on the "State of he Nation, last Thursday will be linked in his tory, in the same bracket of diplomatic failures and surrenders with that of Premier Chamberlain of Great Britain, who instead of calling for "sweat and tears as Winston Churchill later did, pro claimed majestically he had secured "PEACE in our time." R.W.R. llfHAT'S happening? ' I wouldn't know. But I wouldn't put it beyond old Kruschev to have a radio sta tion hidden out somewhere in the brush sending out the beeps to scare the pants off the rest of the world. If such were the case, he'd figure that if he could get us badly enough scared he could handle us. N FANTASTIC? Wait a minute. You haven't heard anything yet. RADIO Moscow said yester day Russia's Sputniks of fer man his first opportunity to verify the late Albert Ein stein's theory that high speed space travel might lengthen men's lives. The broadcast said: "In a space ship traveling at a speed close to the veloc ity of light (186,000 miles per second) time would pass 70 TIMES MORE SLOWLY THAN ON THIS PLANET . The slowdown would tend to PROLONG HUMAN LIFE in such a ship to the same ex tent, opening up enormous opportunities for man to ex plore the remotest parts of the universe. Charles M. McCann fFHAT is to say: JL One might LIVE FOREV ER if one could just go hur tling through space long enough at high enough speed Practical question: WHO WOULD WANT TO? Not I, for one. TTERE in the mythical state AA of Jefferson we are realistic and practical tribe So let me offer some realistic and practical advice: Let s forget all this moon shine and go on living our lives from day to day. Let's get our big stands of pulpwood developed, so that their conversion into paper and other fiber products will provide us with increasing payrolls. Let's complete the develop ment of our great rivers in cluding the Klamath, which is the No. 2 power stream of the American Pacific coast and the Rogue and the Ump- qua and the Trinity. And so on. LET'S LIVE IN THIS GEN ERATION instead of try ing to live in far distant gen erations that are still to come. Let's leave preparation for these distant coming genera tions to the scientists, the spe cialists, the thinkers. That will TAKE TIME. Meanwhile, we shall all need to eat, to clothe our selves and to shelter ourselves from the storms not to men tion keeping our jobs and keeping our businesses going. We'll be happier that way. 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. From Far-Away Troy To the Editor: To show the many humane friends in Med ford the falsehoods we are ad vised of in our humane ef forts, two veterinary doctors at Wisconsin got space in the Wisconsin papers stating that they had inspected 167 slaughter houses there and could find no cruelty, etc." Clippings from the papers were sent to me here at Troy, N. Y. There are 431 newspapers in Wisconsin and as I had al ready made a tour of many of these houses and with the truth so much more powerful than fiction, you can be sure that I gave the people there the brutal cruel truth. You might write to the Capital Times at Madison, Wis., issue of Nov. 25, for this story, (send dime) and get yourself a good laugh at this false whitewash, specially when you learn what important positions these two vets hold and how I handled the situation. John Taylor, 1477 5th Ave. Troy, N.Y. War differ ences between the East and West. It is simply that the So viet govern ment, after more than 12 years, start to make its obli gations under the United Na tions charter the basis of its foreign policy. ( There has been some com plaint, both in foreign coun tries and in the United States, that there was nothing dra matic or even new in the letter the President has sent to Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin. There is considerable feel ing in allied as well as in neu tral countries that Bulganin, in the letters with which he has bombarded countries . all oyer the world, has won the diplomatic initiative. Made Some New Proposals Eisenhower, in his replies to the two letters Bulganin sent to him, did make some important proposals of his own. One of them was that nu clear - powered missiles be launched only for peaceful purposes. Another was that a "sum mit" meeting on Cold War issues might be held if secret diplomatic exchanges, then a meeting of foreign ministers, showed that there was real hope of agreement. But the President put his greatest emphasis on the fact that the U.N. charter, if Rus sia ever started to observe it, would make a summit meet ing unnecessary. Eisenhower cited the char ter on six specific points in his letter. He said that the charter provides for the collective se curity which Russia says it wants, and makes the U.N. Security council primarly re sponsible for maintaining it. But he pointed out that Rus sia has used its veto power 82 times in the council. He reminded Russia that the charter authorizes region al treatment for self-defense such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which the Soviet government de nounces as aggressive. In reply to Bulganin's proposal that the big powers respect the independence of Middle Eastern countries, and renounce the use of force in settling issues there, Eisen- Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop DISORDER OF THE WEST Paris There is only one word for Premier Bulganin's latest suggestion of a meet ing at the sum m i t so en larged that it would resem ble a prayer !meeti ng, or perhaps a gar den party. It is grotesque. Being trans parently gro- JoseDh aisod xesque, more over, Premier Bulganin's lat est fusillade of letters can only be regarded as an open mark of Soviet contempt for the present disorder of the West. The reasons are not far to seek, if you take a hard look at what has been hap pening in recent weeks. In the first place, Premier Bulganin has already enjoyed one great epistolary triumph, with his earlier fusillade of letters fired off just before the grandiose NOTO meeting of Chiefs of State. Often be fore, the Soviets have tried to intrude upon the councils of the West in just this way, Never before has the attempt met with anything but cold rebuff. This time, however, the in trusion was brilliantly suc cessful. The NATO really had been called to strengthen the West's defenses. Just prior to the meeting, with his usual inimitable timing, Secretary of State Dulles had published an article roundly condemn ing any over -hasty resump tion of negotiations with the Soviet Union. BUT the demand for re newed negotiations in Bul ganin's letters was a main topic among the NATO con ferees. Although the measures they took to strengthen the West were decidedly modest, the conferees replied to Bul ganin that they would just love to negotiate. And Secre tary Dulles assented with a frozen smile. At the NATO conference table, certain limits were at least laid down. Any mention of a meeting at the summit was sedulously avoided. Nego tiations for the sake of nego tiations, paper agreements for the sake of agreements, were piously and unanimously con demned. In sum, a kind of line was traced beyond which no one was to go. The line did not last long. The first breach occurred when French Prime Minister Gaillard casually spoke up for second summit meeting at an early date, in the course of an otherwise tough and sen sible interview. The second and even bigger breech was made by British Prime Minister Macmillan, with a proposal, for a so-called non-aggression pact between the Soviets and the West. This was just about on a par with the Kellog Pact to "outlaw war" the previous high water mark of what may be des cribed as wishful - thinking ' diplomacy. . MEANWHILE, the agitation was also going on in favor of Polish Foreign Secre tary Rapacki's scheme for a denuclearized zone in cen tral Europe. The Rapacki "de nuclearized zone" is most em phatically not to be policed or controlled, at least on the So viet side of the line. A child of three ought to be able to see the hookers in such a scheme. But it has been taken, and is still being taken in creasingly seriously in both Paris and London. In these circumstances, it is not enough to say that the fears of the post-Sputnik era have given the peoples of the West a gnawing appetite for self delusion. As far as it goes this is true; and Premier Gail lard and Prime Minister Mac millan have both been very frankly catering to this public appetite. But an almost total lack of trust in American present leadership is just as significant a factor as the post-Sputnik fears. And im portant western leaders like Gaillard and MacmiUan would not be riding off in all direc tions, if there were a remain ing shadow of real western unity. Nor is this the worst of it, by any means. The subjects everyone is earnestly discuss ing the Bulganin call for a garden party at the summit, the Rapacki scheme and the Macmillan version of the Kel log Pact are all obvious phoneys. Every responsible western official and every re sponsible Soviet official knows they are phoneyi. "DUT while this endless con- versation about phoneys is carried on, no one says a word about the only serious question raised by recent So viet diplomacy. This is the question raised by the repeat ed and more and pressing So viet invitations to a Soviet- American dialogue. Such a dialogue is in fact the only form of East-West negotiation for which the men in the Kremlin give a snap of their fmgers. The Soviet invitations to begin such a dialogue therefore constitute a delicate and vital problem, needing most careful discussion among the allies. But this problem cannot be discussed; it cannot even be mentioned, once again be cause of the almost total lack of trust in the present Ameri can leadership. Altogether, the West's disorder has now reached an unprecedented point. And the disorder will not be cured, either, even if the permanent NATO council suc ceeds in its present endeavor to persuade the member na tions to speak (or mumble) with one voice in their ans wers to the Soviets. (c) 1958. New York Herald Tribune Inc. j hower pointed out that the charter covers that situation like a blanket. As to Bulganin's- propo sal for a non-aggression pact, Eisenhower pointed out that the charter contains a pledge against aggression. On Bulganin's proposal for a pledge that the United States, Great Britain and Russia promise not to use nu clear weapons, Eisenhower pointed out that the charter pledges U.N. members not to use any weapons at all against the territory or independence of any state. Finally, as to Bulganin's proposal for development of friendship and cooperation, Eisenhower reminded Bulga nin that the charter calls for that. Certainly it is true that there was nothing dramatic in the President's citation of the charter. But it is pretty certain that his detailed re view of charter obligations will appeal to a lot of coun tries in Latin America, in Asia and even in Western Europe which would like to see the U.N. made the bul wark of peace which it is sup posed to be. UP Writers Predict Headlines For Future Events United Press correspond ents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Boil President Elsenhower is boiling over Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin's success ful attempt to blot out over seas the importance of his "science for peace" proposal in his State of the Union mes sage to Congress. Even the friendly foreign nations showed more interest in Bul ganin's call for a "summit" meeting on tensions. The President's angry reaction strengthens Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in his op position to any meeting until he gets iron-clad assurance of Russian good-will. Presiden tial adviser Harold E. Stassen had been pitching for a more moderate approach to Mos cow. Hoffa Hits Back The lines have been drawn in Michigan for a battle be tween the AFL-CIO and James R. Hoffa. At stake is the merger of former AFL CIO state organizations which AFL-CIO President George Meaney has ordered. Hoffa's election as president of the teamsters clinched his union's ouster from the AFL-CIO. Now Hoffa is ready to retali ate. Michigan is his home state, and he has powerful support there. He is expected to do everything he can to block the merger. Callas Soprano Maria Callas real ly started something when she left the stage after the first act of "Norma" at the Rome Opera house. Insiders say the Italian government is preparing to crack down on "puffed-up" stars, greedy agents and ticket scalpers who have long plagued the state-supported and money losing Rome Opera. In an swer to a plea for a higger subsidy, the government al ready has told the manage ment to chop down on big sal aries. Washington (IP) Rep. Barratt O'Hara (D-Ill.), sug gested today that President Eisenhower's proposed five- cent postage stamp for out-of-town letters carry a picture of two pirates. Barratt favors a three-cent stamp. Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan ECONOMY FAMILY SIZE That's our new modern car insurance. Tailored to pro vide broad coverage for the entire family. Let us show you how the FAMILY SIZE POLICY will stretch your insurance dollar. 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