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V FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE - "Zveryone In Southern Oregon -Z Readi The Mail Tribune" published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO - S3 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor 3tERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. URIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor -EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor 2IARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor -RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor -OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor 3 ALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. Z An Independent Newspaper - Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES -By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Z Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 - Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 - Sunday Only One year $450 ;33y Carrier In Advance Medford . Ashland. Central Point. Eagle - Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, ; Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv--i er. 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NEWSPAPER PUBllSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Z7 U KJ Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. -10 YEARS AGO :Jan. 23. 1948 (Friday) Efforts to get Veterans ad ;ministration action on use of iCamp White hospital as a rdomiciliary are mainly sty "mied by opposition of the -chief VA medical director. 3 Egbert Liles, assistant Jack ;son county assessor, stated ap praised valuation of new prop erty in Ashland is expected to ;double this year over last ryear. ;20 YEARS AGO Jan. 23, 1938 (Sunday) Z Oregon newspapermen hon ;or Dean Eric W. Allen of the University of Oregon school Zol journalism In recognition Zot 25 years of service to jour nalism in the state. - From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The unemployment census 1 chief rfears a too rapid business re covery, and so informed a senate committee. This is most horrible to contemplate, and Should not be tolerated." 80 YEARS AGO fjan. 23, 1928 (Monday) " J. W. Wenzel, who arrived Ztiom Reno, Nev., last year and Reopened the famous Green back mine near Grants Pass, 3s making a few days' stay in this city. - Newcomb Carlton of New -York city, president of the Western Union Telegraph company, arrives here to visit 3iis sisters, the Misses Helen, IMildred and Mae Carlton, and Jiis brother, Eddy Carlton. -40 YEARS AGO :Jan. 23, 1918 (Wednesday) ; From local and personal "column: "Within a few days 'the first number of the Jack- son County Agricultural News "of which C. C. Cate is editor, will be published. It will be produced under the auspices of the county agricultural . council. - Several new ice caves and strange geological formations have been reported discovered In the Lava bed district. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. : 1. Which State of the Un ion is sometimes called "Little -Rhody"? 2. Bible: Was the first edi tion of the N.T. with the pres--ent division into chapter and fverses printed in Geneva, Rome, or England? ; 3. Does the U. S. Govern :ment have a system of retire ment for Civil Service em--ployees? 5 4. What is the proper name ;of the star called the "Dog :Star?" ; 5. Name the English auth or who used the pseudonym :'Boz." 6. Name the capital of Yug oslavia. 7. Paul Lawrence Dunbar rwas a Negrocomposer, invent or, poet, or actor? 8. Which of Canada's three Maritime provinces have been "omitted? 9. The inhabitants of the Philippines are called? :; 10. During World War II fwhat German General was nicknamed "The Desert Fox." Z' Answers: 1. Rhode Island. 2. Geneva. 3. Yes. 4. Sirius. -5. Charles Dickens. 6. Bel grade. 7. Poet. 8. Prince Ed ;ward Island. 9. Filipinos. 10, -Erwin RommeL What Price Hatfield? Here is some more news. A Republican friend of ours we still have a few asked us the other day to explain the en trance of Secretary of State Hatfield into the G. 0. P. Primary, opposing state treasurer Sig Unander, for the gubernatorial nomination. That a member in high standing in the Re publican party should ask the editor of this paper to give the "low down" on what is, and has been going on, within the inner circles of the Portland Arlington club the past few weeks, is NEWS. If the Upper Bracket Republicans don't know the answer, this department certainly doesn't. From the first announcement by Secretary Hatfield, that he would oppose his good friend for the G.O.P. nomination after solemnly and emphatically declaring he would not this sud den "flip flop" has been a complete mystery to this department. ONLY know something very unexpected and extraordinary must have happened with in the upper echelons of the state G.O.P. between the time Mr. Hatfield said he "could conceive of no circumstances that would induce him" to run against his close associate and the time he reared up on his hind legs and heaved his hat into the ring- v What WAS it? We don't know and as far as wTe have observed no other paper in the state, regardless of party, does know. At least if any of them do, they have not to date publicly announced it. IKE the late Will Rogers, all we know is what we read in the papers. There was Secretary Hatfield's official an nouncement, for example. Here are some salient portions of it, quote: "In recent weeks, I have been beseiged by sincere people who believe that it is my duty to give the Republi cans of Oregon a free choice in an open primary. "Their interest is in a candidate who can unify and energize the Republicans of the state; who cannot be charged with alliance to any special group or interest; who would wage a hard, fighting campaign; and who would bring to the Governorship positive leadership with legislative experience comparable to my six years in the House and in the state Senate. i "It is time for leadership that has financial responsi bility and integrity; that will reversfe the policy of build . ing and protecting unneeded surpluses of tax money that are an open invitation to reckless spending. "It is time for leadership that will renew the confi dence of business in state government and in Oregon's future so that expanding present industries will spread the tax load while they create new jobs and better jobs to make individual tax. bills easier to pay. "It is time for leadership that offers the working peo ple and the young people of Oregon understanding and action instead of political bait and a sagging economy." That statement is ok, for the final campaign which Mr. Hatfield, a keen political observer obviously assumes will be our present Governor. But it is hardly necessary to add that this isn't the final campaign. It isn't a contest between Governor Holmes and whoever wins the G.O.P. nomination. It is a contest between two highly regarded and respected members of the Repub lican party. In other words, are the voters to assume Sig Unander couldn't do the job as well as Secretary Hatfield? Does Hatfield mean to say his oppo nent CAN be charged with alliance with some special group and interest? These seem strange charges for an old friend and associate to make against another Repub lican. Also wouldn't it be fair to assume that Mr. Unander would wage as hard a campaign that would offer "as much for the working people and the younger people of the state understanding and action instead of political bait and a sagging economy" as would Secretary Hatfield? IN OTHER words what IS wrong with State 1 Treasurer Sig Unander anyway? He is well and favorably known to the people of the state, he has an excellent record for effi ciency and integrity. More important he was first to enter the race. And when he did (as remarked above) he was not only endorsed by Mr. Hat field, but at that time the Secretary of State could CONCEIVE of no circumstances that would in duce him to run against his highly regarded con temporary on the State Board of Control. Then WHY didn't Hatfield pass up the pri mary? Mr. Hatfield is young, has an important state job now, which he can hold with many years of opportunity before him. What we wonder were the points made by those "hordes of sincere peo ple" who beseiged Mr. Hatfield so urgently to repudiate his public pledge, that he proceeded in a surprisingly short time to do it? A YE, there is the $64,000 question! We wish we could accommodate our Re publican subscriber and answer it, but we just don't know. Our only guess is somewhat as follows : For some reason or reasons not made public, the Republican party in this state, or at least those "Upper Bracket" gentlemen who really control the party, decided that Mr. Sig Unander probably couldn't beat Governor Holmes, and Secretary Hatfield could or at least had the better chance. And so the fateful decision was made. For that is what the HigherUps are really interested in. They don't care about WHO the suc cessful candidate is, all they care about is that he is a Republican and ISN'T a Democrat! R.W.R. i Thursday, January 23, 1958 against Robert Holmes ' 'At. MnWELL.'rtXR MFg AND YOUR LITTLE VEU, ANYWAY, XJUff Wlf IS OUT HgRE J Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop NEGOTIATING WITH THE KREMLIN At first hearing, the cur rent debate about negotiating with the Kremlin seems to ITTHi verse on sheer lunacy. Not o n e of the Western leaders means one word of all the in n u m e rable words they have spouted on the sub- Joseph Alsop jecx of & a s x- West talks. As for those who sincerely advocate n e g o tia- tions, most of them are wish- thinkers of the Left whom you can hardly tell apart from the wishthinkers of the Right who used to plead for "doing business with Hitler." Tehse are the reasons why the State Department spokes men keeps squawking "just propaganda," like a repeti tious, self-righteous parrot, between representatives of the two world blocs. But in fact this Kremlin campaign for East-West talks is a very serious business. It needs to be analyzed carefully, not just squawked about. As is the Kremlin custom, the Soviet leaders are plain ly pursuing two different ani mals at the same time. If they do not catch one, they hope to get the other. What the Krem lin is after is analyzed as follows by the leading West ern experts on Soviet be havior. THE minimum .objective, first of all is to exploit the fears inspired by recent Sov iet successes in weapons dev elopment. Everyone in Britian and Western Europe now has a vivid sense of being under the gun ( or rather under the missile with hydrogen war head). The result is a blind impulse to negotiate just for the sake of negotiating. No one is strong enough to com bat this unreasoning impulse because of the present bank ruptcy of Western leadership. Thus the Soviet leaders can toss off intellectual abortions like Polish Foreign Secretary Rapacki's scheme for un policed, un-policeable "denu clearization" of Central Eur ope. No Western leader makes the effort to point out that theHapacki scheme will mere ly deprive the Western arm ies of nuclear weapons, while the Soviet and satellite forces will of course be secretly supplied with nuclear wea pons more powerful than ever. - ' Instead, the abortion is taken quite seriously, even in Prime Minister Macniillian's recent formal reply to Pre mier Bulganin. The Mac millan government, one must add, is in especially hot water with its public opinion. WITH the West in this flabby and maudlin condition. one can imagine the character of a big East-West meeting with every Western represen tative looking over his should- . 1 11 V . 1 er ax tne ioiks uacK nome. Such a meeting would have a fair chance of splitting the West for good. And the hope of splitting the West is the sole motive for the Soviet de mands for such a meeting. The Soviets have always used large international con ferences to make political trouble. Otherwise, they have always regarded such confer ences as totally useless. But within the drive for a big East-West meeting, there is another, far more interesting drive for a quiet Soviet American dialogue. This kind of talk in a corner is what the 'Soviets always seek, if they mean to negotiate in ear nest. The drive for a big meet ing is in some sense acxing as a lever to force a dialogue. Secretary of State John Fost er Dulles is perfectly aware what troubles a big East-West meeting would probably bring. Hence he must natural ly be tempted to accept a dia logue as an alternative. A major question remains about the motive of the Sov iet drive for a dialogue. The Allied distrust of Secretary Dulles is both deep and bit ter. If Dulles ever begins private talks with the Sov iets, every other Western for eign minister . will take the next plane to Moscow, to start private talks of his own. If this happens, Western unity will end by looking like a rotten melon dropped from a fifty-story window. A SOVIET - American dia logue will thus be des perately risky while John Foster Dulles is still at the State Department. Yet the leading Western experts do not believe that the drive for a Soviet-American dialogue is just another splitting opera tion. They think the Kremlin genuinely desires to get down to business on certain very important points, such as the horrible problem created for the U.S.S.R. as well as the U.S. by the continuous devel opment of continuously more horrible armaments. In these circumstances, it seems too bad that the United States should be virtually de barred from testing this sup posed Kremlin desire to get down to serious business. And the regrets will be all the deeper if and when the pre sent period of negotiating about negotiation merges in to a new period of acute dang er arising from new Soviet forward moves in the Middle East, Soviet pressure on Ber lin, and so on and on. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Manned Satellite Only Money Matter, Space Expert Says By B. J. McFARLAND United Press Correspondent Phoenix, Ariz. (IP) Cir cling the globe in space with in the next five years is simply a matter of money, in the opinion of a noted outer space scientist and former German general. Dr. Walter R. Dornberger, technical advisor to the presi dent of Bell Aircraft Co., told the United Press Wednesday night this country is consid erably behind the Russians" in outer space travel. "Man can be flying around the globe at an altitude of 200,000 feet in a roomy rock et the size of conventional air planes now flying all over the world," the scientist said. "I call this type of vehicle a satelloid. "But the government must get going in financing such a project." Dornberger, here to attend a classified meeting of private industry outer space scientists and electronic engineers, said the only problem now con fronting the United States re garding man's trip to outer space is how to get him back. "It is my belief we can get him back in a rocket ship that has capacity to glide," he said. "The gliding effect is ne cessary to slow him down on the return journey, allowing him to maintain control of the ship and land it on an airstrip in a conventional manner. Dornberger said the United States can learn just so much from ground experiments and tests with dogs in world-circling artificial moons. "Man is the necessary fac tor for outer space travel . . . a dog can't do much except provide some scientific data of what effect atmospheric conditions would have on a living being," he said. "We can simulate many of outer space conditions on earth to provide us with the answers the Russians sought Adenauer Towards Russian Negotiations By CHARLES M. MeCANN United Press Correspondent Chancellor Konrad Aden auer has made the first defin- ite Allied move toward open- ing secret talks with So viet Russia on easing world tension. In a letter to Soviet Pre mier Nikolai A. Bulganin, the 82-year-old West Ger- cnaries ax. inj Mccann man leader offered to turn the current Russian-German trade nego tiations in Moscow into talks on East-West issues. Alternatively, A d e n a uer said he was prepared to agree to "any other promising point of departure" to try to elim inate Russian-German ten sions. But he added that he was ready to take up the whole range of disarmament and security issues, with which all Allied governments are concerned. Strategy Seemingly Changed A few days ago, it looked as if the United States might make the move through Llew ellyn E. Thompson Jr., its am bassador in Moscow, who has been ordered to Washington to confer with President Ei senhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. It seems certain, however, that Adenauer made his offer in agreement with the United States and other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization, President Eisenhower, in his letter of Jan. 12 to Bul ganin, said that secret diplo matic negotiations should pre cede any formal East-West talks by foreign ministers or heads of government, However, the President's comment was made in gen eral terms. Adenauer's pro posal was specific. He asked Bulganin directly to agree to start the talks going. Wants Summit Meeting London dispatches quote Communist diplomats as say ing that the Soviet govern ment still msists on a " sum mit" meeting. Not only that, but the Kremlin is represent ed as wanting to hold a jum bo conference which w.ould include Allied, Communist and neutral leaders. 'It is obvious that the Rus sians hope that by insistent propaganda, they can bring sufficient pressure on the United States, Great Britain, France and West Germany to agree to such a conference But if there are two men in the whole diplomatic world who are unlikely to be swayed by such propaganda and such pressure, they are Adenauer and Secretary Dulles, who represents Eisenhower. The Soviet government cer in sending a dog up in their second Sputnik. Dornberger, a native Ger man, was critical of U.S. de lays in the outer space pro gram in testimony before a congressional committee Jan. 9. He said the military of this country "should restrict them selves after finding out what they need," then turn the pro duction over to private indus try under government con tract to provide the vehicles for outer space travel. Dornberger began missile research in the German army in 1930. He was a two-star general in charge of the Ger man Air Force at the close of World War II. Communications Letter 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. Grange News Appreciated To the Editor: At their first meeting . in 1958 Phoenix Grange voted unanimously to send a letter of thanks to you for the space you have given, not only to the news of our Grange, but also that of all the Granges in . the county. Your cooperation in this is in deed appreciated. Mrs. Melvin Lattie, Sec. Phoenix Grange 779. HELP US! We Need Clothing, Shoes, Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring 2-4230 Makes First Move tainly made a big and effect ive show with Bulganin s let ters to heads of government of countries all over the world. May Be Too Smart But there are indications that the Kremlin may out smart itself. Bulganin's letters were timed to get publicity just before the meeting of the NATO allies in Paris, which Eisenhower attended, and Ei senhower's State of the Union message to Congress. The Soviet government fol lowed this up with a state ment on Tuesday, timed to rouse suspicion over the mo Babson's Gravity eories Expounded By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. For some years I have been con tributing large sums to the Gravity Re search Foun dation of New Bos ton, N.H. We have been trying to learn what gravity is whether it it can be con trolled. Gravi ty inf luen c e s Roger W. Babson e v e r y t hing from the lightest feather to the heaviest metal. Thus far, no insulator has been found for gravity. To hold anything up against the force of gravi ty requires force. Some believe that every thing including thoughts, prices, morals, ambition, and faith are being constantly pulled down by gravity. I surely believe that such gravi ty has a constant downward pull on the stock market. As constant force is needed to keep up an airplane, kite, or balloon, so constant buying is needed to keep up prices. Force can raise prices as it can raise a load in an eleva tor. Furthermore, prices will fall as soon as this force is removed. Sir Isaac Newton's Law of Gravitation will be found to apply to the actions of the stock market. We hear much about "value lines," "Dow Theories," and various statistical formulas to forecast markets; but I be lieve they are all helpless to keep stocks up, or make them rise, except as they increase buying. By the law of gravita tion, prices of all kinds, in cluding real estate, bonds, and interest rates will fall unless supported. Thus the success ful investor usually need only wait until the artificial sup ports are removed and he can then get stocks at his own price. This is why General Electric, General Motors, and other good stocks sold for only a few dollars per share in 1932. They kept declining until support came. This will again repeat itself. Outlook for War Newton's Law of Gravita tion will determine the future of international affairs. Con ditions will continue to be come worse until some nation falls. This need not be Russia. This fall will shorten the cold war, and either hasten peace or World War III. What Sec retary Dulles, or Churchill, or the Pope may say has very little bearing. What nation will be first to fall we do not know, any more than we now know which of our big corpo rations will be the first to fall. It will be the first one from which support is withdrawn. The same fact applies to our national politics. Every political party in power, re mains in power until the pub lic withdraws support. Then, by Newton's Law, it falls whether its principles are Go to Church! In time of sorrow, as well as other troubles, there are none so lost and alone as those who have no faith to hang on to, or a minister to turn to for consolation. Go to church if only for the selfish reason of building a founda tion against troubled times, and to become friendly with a minister. There will come a time when you will need both! DAY OR NIGHT -PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS tives of Dulles in deciding to attend next week's meeting of the Middle Eastern Treaty Organization allies in An kara, Turkey. , It seems reasonable to sug gest that this bombardment of such obvious propaganda statements may already have reached the poipt of diminish ing returns, to use a phrase sometimes applied to high tax ation. In any event, the Kremlin now has from Adenauer a direct and concrete proposal to get started by means of secret diplomatic talks if it really does want to find a way to reduce world tension. right or wrong. As the seed corn naturally falls to the ground so does everything else good and bad. England and France won World War II because of the support of the U.S. The outcome of World War III, if it comes, will likewise depend upon the support of our present allies. Gravitation of Morals When I was a boy in church and Sunday school, I was seriously taught about a "per sonal devil" who was con tinually pulling me down morally. Now this "personal devil" has gone out of fashion in most modern thinking; but we are constantly being pull ed down morally nevertheless. One great trouble with our nation today is that this "per sonal devil" is no longer popu lar and a few preachers have given us anything worthwhile in its place. They should frankly tell us that "gravita tion" is constantly pulling us down morally as it is pulling us down physically. It finally pulls us into the grave. All the above means that there is no ultimate protec tion in any stocks, bonds, mortgages, real estate, or any thing else, but constant super vision, proper diversification, and courage to age. Hence, the rule is "from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three gen erations" for those who neg lect such support. Nature does not provide security for any of us. It is impossible to "re tire" without rotting away. Constant struggle against evil is necessary for self-preservation both for individuals and nations. This law of gravita tion not money, missiles or other military equipment will decide our future. Chlorination of Wafer Ordered Portland Iff) The State Board of Health Wednesday ordered operators of four Oregon water supply systems to begin , chlorination pro grams by June 1 or face abate ment proceedings. The order went to the Southwest Lincoln County Water District, Waldport; the Zig-Zag Summer Homes As sociation, at Mt. Hood; Cove water system in Union coun ty; and the Rhododenron Summer Homes Association, also in the Mt. Hood area. Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer, said all four systems get their water from surface supplies but have failed to comply with accepted standards of purity for drinking water. Dr. Erickson said the four were cited only after "repeat ed efforts to obtain voluntary compliance with state laws re quiring chlorination of all surface public water supplies." inlhe Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS Dwight Eisenhower holds two jobs: 1. President of the U.S.A. 2. Titular head of th GOP. Job No. 1 calls for state- manship. Job No. 2 calls for politics. He worked at both of them Monday. In the morn ing, in Washington, he de livered to the congress a re port on the economic health of the nation, with" recom mendations as to what should be done to preserve and im prove our economic health. He then flew to Chicago, where he spoke at one of 44 fund-raising dinners held around the nation to raise funds to carry on the Repub lican party's campaign in this election year when it will be determined whether the con gress will be controlled by the Republicans or the Demo crats. AS OF NOW Nothing is more certain i than the Democrats will win control of the congress this year and will win the Presi dency In 1960. The only thing that can change that present certainty to an uncertainity is the quality of LEADERSHIP Ike is able to provide and the de gree of success his leadership achieves in straightening out the difficulties that now face us. WHAT Ike said in Chicago where he drorJDed his role as President momentari ly and assumed the role of leader of his party won't matter too much. These are times when deeds count more than words. What he is able to accomp lish in the way of leadership that will GET AMERICA OR GANIZED AND WORKING BEHIND HIM will be every thing. Dwight Eisenhower prob ably commands the personal faith and loyalty of more peo ple than any other leader in the world. That is why his leadership job is going to be so terribly important. IT SEEMS to me, as one In dividual American citizen, that he did a pretty good job in Chicago. He did a pretty good job because in his pol itical speech he was JUST HIMSELF. He wasn't trying to be anything else. He advised the GOP lead ers to choose top caliber men for their candidates .He warned them against making the nation's security a par tisan political issue AND he said he intends to PAR TICIPATE PERSONALLY in the job of reorganizing the defense department which he is better qualified than anybody else to do. Those, I think, are the things people wanted to hear from him, speaking both as the President of the United States and as the leader of the Republican party. SPECIALIZED BUSINESS SKILLS COMMAND ' BETTER PAY . TRAIN TODAYI CA 3-3137 "VAX rr. .......... , M
