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OUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. Febraary20, I9S8 j MEDFORDtTRIBUNE ""Everyone In Southern Oregon ' Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MIUJ UtlD frti-N ILVli u 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing 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 of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy lOe - Daily and Sunday I year f 15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 425 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle foint. jacKsonvme. jOia mu, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv . er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year 118.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 - Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City ot Medford Official 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- - iron, san rrancisco. Los Angeles, ; Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At- lanta. Vancouver. B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCll-ATCdN ri i u u Flight o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. JO YEARS AGO Feb. 20, 1948 (Friday) : Little change in the county welfare picture is indicated by reports submitted at meet ing of welfare commission. Rogue Valley chapter, Mili tary Order of the Purple Heart, and its auxiliary hold banquet at the Jackson hotel 20 YEARS AGO ;Feb. 20, 1938 (Sunday) ; Three classes of high school students and one class of dults were organized at the iirst meeting of Medford's safe driving school. ; From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The iweather tha past week has en- countered difficulty in mak ing up its mind what it wants to be." 0 YEARS AGO jFeb. 20, 1928 (Monday) Public invited to attend dinner and reception for the governor's intra - state good ?will caravan tonight. From local and personal column: "A bounty warrant fwas issued by the county clerk's office today to Bud tShule of Rogue River for rthree bob-cats." 40 YEARS AGO ;Feb. 20, 1918 (Wednesday) ; Jackson county has not only gone over the top in the gov 'ernment crop and labor sur vey, but tops all Oregon coun ties in the number of ques tionnaires turned in by farm ers. " City council raises salaries of several city officials; fire men's pay increasd by month. $5 a : What's Your I.Q.? -Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. : 1. What is the birthstone lor June?? gj--- 2. Bible: Was Moses a mem- ber of the tribe of Levi, ;Judah, or Benjamin? : 3. Is Bolivia on the At lantic or Pacific coast? I 4. Which nation was form erly nicknamed "Land of the Rising Sun?"Mr .v -. ; 5. What type of Navy ves iel is nicknamed "pigboat"? tooat"? : 6. Blitzkrieg, means .what? 7. Is Alcatraz, the Federal prison, located in San Fran cisco or San Pedro? ; 8. What is the singular Jorm of the word "criteria"? I 9. How many fluid ounces !are in a liquid quart? ' 10. When a convention is iield quadrennially, how many many years apart are the con tentions? H ; Answers: 1. Moonstone (al though some prefer the .Pearl); 2. Levi; 3. Neither (it 3s' a landlocked republic); 4. Japan; 5. Submarine; 6. "Lightning war"; 7. Neither, pn an. island near San Fran &5co; 8. Criterion; 9. 32 fluid Jounces; 10. Every four years. FRENCH PAPERS BANNED -Tunis OP) Tunisian pqthorities have clamped a Jiationwide ban on the sale bf. four conservative Paris Jie'wspapers. The government brider issued Wednesday ap? plied to France Soir, Paris i'r.esse, Aurore, and Parisien Jjbere. Also banned was the weekly publication, Jour de Trance. Jumbo Has a Tummy Ache Some weeks ago we asked that someone ex plain the entrance of Secretary of State Hatfield into the Republican gubernatorial primary against his fellow - member and friend on the Board of ControlT-State Treasurer Sig Unander, It seemed a reasonable request and we thought some nice Republican preferably a newspaper editor would answer it. But wre have waited in vain for any answer. ,Now just to make confusion worse confounded State Senator Warren Gill, another highly ranked G.O.P., throws his hat into the ring against his fellow party members Messers Hatfield and Un ander. What is all the internecine shooting about? QUR only explanation of the Hatfield launch- ing was that certain well-financed interests in the Portland G.O.P. wanting above all else, no second term for Governor Holmes or any other Democrat decided that the chances of Mr. Un ander beating the Governor were slim, and the chances of our personable and energetic Secy of State were considerably better. So they decided they would go ' all-out for Hatfield.. "IX7ELL that made sense to us at least. And the entrance of the combative and congenitally recalcitrant "Lion of Lebanon" tends to sustain it. For the veteran of Salerno, irked by the Ore- gonian's dictum, that a man without "money-bags behind him can t be Governor of Oregon, issues a sizzling manifesto that Portland's highlv re garded morning daily is talking through its hat. lhe (Jregonian, he declares, is sore because he filed for the nomination without securing the OK of that "eastern-owned" newspaper, and with fire m his embattled eyes he concludes m part as followsquote: "I challenge the cliques of money-bags in Portland who have been calling the tune in Oregon politics too long . . . Thank God we can depend on the news serv ices and our own local home-owned newspapers and radio stations throughout the state to tell us the truth as they see it unshaded by prejudice and unaffected by slights to a Big-Shot complex." So there we have one prominent Oregon Re publican telling the Oregonian and the state that two other well-known Oregon Republicans and gubernatorial candidates represent not the people of Oregon, but the "Big Shots" in Port land, who have been sitting on their money-bags, he thinks, all too long and telling the people of the state where they must head in as far as poli tics is concerned. - 0 t ( f 9 IF THAT searing blast had come from Governor Holmes or any other Democrat it would, of course, be dismissed as the same old Democratic line , of demagoguery and inciting class-against-class, so dear, it has been claimed, to the ears of the donkey, ever since the days of tobacco-chewing Andrew Jackson. But coming from a Republican in good stand ing, a member of the state House of Representa tives as well as the Senate, a veteran of World War II, a respected member of the Oregon bar and it is said an all-around good egg ; we fear the Republicans throughout the state will find it a bit hard to successfully combat such a militant offensive at least along their traditional party lines. SO AGAIN what is all the shooting about? What ? Wall least a clearer view of the situation than we had before Senator Gill's manifesto. Our guess now is history, in Oregon at least, is repeating itself. There is a revolt against Big Business domina tion of the GOP, not only within the Democratic party, but within the Grand Old Party itself. If this theory is correct, then we, were mis taken when we assumed a well-heeled group in Portland persuaded Secretary Hatfield to run against Secretary Unander. It is more likely the former and a few of his closest political friends, made the decision themselves. This decision, we believe, comes under the general heading of "Modern Republicanism" op posing Ancient Republicanism. T h e Hatfield group regarded Secretary Unander as too conser vative, too closely linked to the same old "Port land crowd," they wanted and they believed the people wanted, a more liberal and progressive leader of the party in the state and particularly. in the state house in Salem. 'sufcE I'm a oooo bo! mAlWAYSA&xoeaf. OH. I DON'T SAy M PERFECT, BUT.... Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann 4 ft -u IN OTHER words, historically, the revolt of Mark Hatfield followed in a general and limited way, the nation-wide revolt of Teddy Roosevelt against William Howard Taft to the tune of "On ward Christian Soldiers" over 40 years ago. "T.R." did not want the Republican party handed over lock-stock-and-barrel to "Big- Business" which he repeatedly stated would be the case if President Taft were given a second term in the White House. So he ran himself on the Bull Moose-Progres sive ticket. Unfortunately for him Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey led the Democrats on a veiy similar anti - conservative and progressive platform, with the result that with the Republi cans split, Woodrow Wilson became the 28th president of the United States. But that did not end the progressive revolt WITHIN the Republican party. "T.R." returned to the fold, but Senator Robert La Follette did not SOVIET POLICY After a diligent reading of tne recent speeches and letters from Russia and China, to- gether with some inquiries among those who might know what they are talk ing about, it is reasonably clear to me what is the Huidine nrin- VV alter Lippmann ciple o their current foreign policy. It is that as between East and West, the tide is now running in their favor, that what is wanted is not an attempt to settle the substantive issues but, on the contrary, relaxa tion of the tension and of any serious effort to interfere with the course of events. - Thus, while they want to talk at the summit, they look upon such a meeting as useful to quiet the emotions and to allay resistance and anxiety about what, if nobody inter feres, is going to happen. What is going to happen, they j confidently believe, is that the Western system of alliances will disintegrate before the Communist alliances disinte grate. , As Marxists, they are. of course, determinists and therefore disposed to believe that, history is with them. But though their current foreign policy suits their Marxist ways of thinking, Krushchev and company are practical men who remain very close to the earth. Wtih,N luirusnchev says that peace can best be preserved by recognizing the status quo, he means more than that a divided Germany is better than a united Ger many, and that the satellite empire is better than a neu tral belt. No doubt he be lieves, as do so many in the West, that the reunification of Germany and the libera tion of the Eastern nations on any conceivable terms would be far more dangerous than the situation as it now is. But that is not all that he be lieves. He believes, too, that the Warsaw Pact is more dur able than NATO because it is not only the stronger power but the more resolute. It fol lows, he must believe, that the Western system will be the first to come apart. There is no evidence, so far as I can see, that he is toying with the notion of using overt military intervention, nor even that he is counting upon achieving a decisive military superiority. His policy as sumes a continuing military stalemate, such a balance of power that neither side can compel the other. What he counts upon is the durability of his system in comparison with the instability of the Western democracies and their internal complications arising from the diseased remnants of the old European empires. IF this is correct, then the fundamental question for the Western democracies is whether they can afford to base their policy, like Khrush chev's, on the principle of the status quo. In fact, though not in name, the maintenance of the status quo is what we stand for in Germany, in Al geria, in Cyprus, in the Middle East, in Southeast Asia, in Formosa, in Korea. The dif ference between us and Khrushchev is that we stand for the status quo because we are afraid of the risks of dis turbing it; Khrushchev stands for the status quo because he is confident that it will evolve in his favor. If, by chance, Khrushchev is right in what he expects, how convenient it must be for him to find Mr. Dulles, Dr. Adenauer, and Mr. Macmillan working to prevent the West from taking any serious ini tiative aimed to alter the status quo. How convenient for him, since he does not want to take the Red Army out of Eastern Germany and Poland, to have so many ele gant advocates in the Western world arguing against any initiative that might disturb his occupation of German and Polish territory. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Poland Pushing Surprisingly Hard for European Atom Ban McCann By CHARLES M. McCANN United Pren Correspondent Communist Poland is push ing its plan for a ban on nu clear weapons in Central Eu rope with sur prising per sistence The United States and other allied countries have frowned o n the plan un der which nu clear weapons would be bar red from Poland, Germany and Czechoslovakia. They realize it would weak en the defense or western Europe because of Soviet Russia's enormous superiority in conventional weapons But Polish Foreign Minis ter Adm Rapacki, sponsor of the plan which now nears his name, shows no sign of discouragement. He has handed the allied ambassadors in Warsaw a formal note urging discussion of his plan, with the note, he presented an "aide memoire" or "memoire" or memoran dum outiining it fully. In his latest move, Rapacki also has launched an attempt to draw the West German government into discussions of the plan. Has No Relations West Germany has no dip lomatic relations with Poland. So Rapacki asked the Swed ish ambassador to relay the note to West German Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer and proposed, in making the re quest, that Poland and West Germany start direct talks on it. Whether Adenauer will agree to tnis is uncertain. The probability seems to be against it. But the Rapacki proposal has roused considerable in terest in West Germany. It also is interesting that the allied governments, as well as the West German government, have made it known that they will "study" Rapacki's latest note and memorandum. Previously the tendency had been to dismiss the plan outright as unacceptable. The feeling now seems to be that the Rapacki plan, while unacceptable in itself, might aid in breaking the present deadlock between the Western Allies and Russia on disarmament talks. -Russia Favors Plan - Russia naturally enthusias tically favors the Rapacki plan. There seems to be little doubt that Rapacki is work ing closely with the, Soviet In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Business note in the news; The New York Stock Ex change figures it will take an average seven billion dollars per year through 1956 in new stock issues to foot, the corpor ate bill for new plants and equipment. President Keith Funston says the figure has been re vised from a prior prediction of six billion dollars. He says a total of 45 billion dollars will have to be raised be tween now and 1965 to keep American industry efficient and up to date. II THERE will the " c money come from? The answer is plain. It will have to come out of the savings of people who buy shares in American industry. There is nowhere else for it to come from. IS THAT bad? No! It's good. If it comes to pass, it will be WONDERFUL. TTERE'S how it works: You save up some mon ey by the process of spend ing less for things that are less important so that you may have MORE money to put into the things that are MORE important. When you have saved up enough money (it doesn't take and waged his battle against the "Malefactors of Great Wealth" on what wTas then even a more ad vanced and militant program of political and so cial progress than T.R.'s. His role is now being played by the hard punching "Lion of Lebanon". So we have 2 aggressive and hard swinging factions within the GOP fighting against the "Old Portland crowd" represented by Sig Unander for the gubernatorial nomination and leadership of the Grand Old Party in this state. Whether or not history will repeat itself as far as a Democratic victory in November is con cerned, remains to be seen. But while we have had no word from Gover nor Holmes in Salem, we believe it highly likely, that as he observes from a safe distance this "Kil kenny Fair" routine within the ranks of the oppo sition a smile might be detected on his visage closely resembling that of the well known cat after swallowing the canary.R.W.R. much to make a start) you in vest it in shares . (which are also called stocls) in Ameri can business enterprises. You then become a PART OWNER of these industries. As they prosper, you re ceive your share of the profits. government on it. But it has been reported that the plan really is Rapacki's own brain child. While Rapacki tries to draw West Germany into ne gotiations, Russia and the East German Communists still are actively trying to soften up Adenhauer's refusal to recognize East Germany in any Way. In a new move, East Ger man Communist Leader Wal ter Ulbricht proposed in a ne.wspaper interview last week that as a first step to ward possible eventual reuni fication, East and West Ger many enter into a sort of fed eral agreement. In this, the two German regimes would organize a cooperative coun cil in which each would have equal membership. It is too early to tell whether anything can come out of the Rapacki plan. In its present form, it is obvious ly loaded against the Western Allies. But, as suggested, there seems to be a possibil ity that it could be made the basis for some kind of East West negotiations. Matter of Fact bv ROOM ON A RIVER London The room is col orlessly comfortable, without character except for the su perb view of the Thames thro ugh the side windows. The room's in habitant sug gests a par ticularly spry bird. The nose is beak like; the shock of Joseph Aisop wniie nair is a superb crest, and even the voice, high, dry and some times a little harsh,' is de cidedly avian. Such is Lord Russell, at the age of 85 and in the midst of his inexhaustible career's new phase as a most powerful influence on British and world opinion. No one with any sense of history can first encounter Bertrand Russell without a spasm of downright incredu lity. There he still is, you say to yourself, yet he said his ABCs to the man who moved Britain's reform bill of 1832 and reached the Prime Min istership before Palmerston. The grandfather, Lord jonn Russell, bore the largest sin gle share of the responsibility for ushering England into the new democratic age; and in order to do so, he helped drive from office the men who beat Napoleon. The grandson has been a dozen things great philosopher, great logician, First Worm War pacifist, Second World War anti-Nazi, and always a passionate libertarian and & passionate anti - Communist. But now his life and work are dedicated to a vigorous cru sade to ban the nuclear weap ons at all costs. . AGE has not dimmed the nower of his mind or in censed his appetite for self delusion, either. What sets Bertrand Russell altogether apart from the vast majority Joseph Alsop of his fellow crusaders is mainly his honesty in facing hard facts and hard choices. "I am for controlled nuclear disarmament," he says brisk ly, fixing his caller with an eye that is almost hypnotical ly sharp. "I am for any nego tiations, any first steps, any efforts that may promote un derstanding anything, in short, that may bring con trolled disarmament a little nearer. What is at stake is simply the survival of the hu man race; for if we go on as we are going, we risk a nu clear war, and the human race; will not survive such a war." THERE is something in him something perhaps of those "ancestral voice prophe sying war" that Coleridge heard in his dream that makes one reluctant to inter rupt the flow of his explana tion. But the question has to be asked: "What if the So viets cannot be Induced, by any , . imaginable effort, to agree to controlled nuclear disarmament?" "Then," he says, with sharp emphasis, "I personally am for unilateral nuclear dis armament. It is a bitter choice. I have thought much about it. and I do not think I deceive myself about is na hire. Unilateral disarmament is likely to mean, for a while, Communist domination of this world of ours. "As you know very well how I feel about the Commu nist system, my choice may surprise you and mind you, I speak only for myself, not for anyone I am working witn, and with little hope of per suading others. But if the al ternatives are the eventual extinction of mankind and a temporary Communist con quest, I prefer the latter, it would be inexpressibly hor rible, but it would not en dure, anymore than Genghis Khan's altogether horrible empire endured. And the end Portland Ahead of , S. F. in Language Portland OPl Portland schoolmen today looked on with amused patience as a San Francisco high school drew national attention for in stituting a Russian language course in its curriculum. They pointed out that Port land teen-agers have been familiar with the "da, nyet" lingo since 1944 when the first Russian course was started here by Mrs. Marjorie Mc Donald at Washington hieh school. Three schools now of fer the course and a fourth will begin March 3. The first class started when the daughter of a Portland physician said her father was having language difficulties with some of the scores of Russian sailors who were in the city and had come to him for treatment. The first phr ase learned by Portland's first Russian class was: "Gdyeh bol?" where Is the pain? . . , Linfield President To Speak at Portland Portland OPl Dr. Harrv L. Dillin, president of Lin field College, will be princi pal speaker Saturday evening here when 600 newly-naturalized citizens will be honored at the Portland Americaniza tion Council's 37th annual reception. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- THIS business of ownership of American industry ought to be better understood. Because it isn't as well understood as it should be, self - seeking demagogues are enabled to MUDDY THE WATER, making people think they are being EXPLOITED by big business. The truth is that modern big business makes it possible for every thrifty person in our country to BECOME A CAPITALIST on his own account. LONG-SUFFERING HUSBAND of an erratic to put it mildly lady driver handed her two loaded bags-one large, one small just Deiore sne sew " journey. "The big bag," he v . FOR example: General Motors (Ameri ca's biggest business corpora tion and probably the world's biggest) has more stockhold ers than employees. The day when a few captains of in dustry wearing plug hats and Prince Albert coats owned American industry aU by themselves is GONE. Where has it gone? It has gone where the dino saur went when the world changed so that dinosaurs could no longer exist. told her. "contains a nam- mer. Every time you run into something or some body, I want you to prom ise me you'll pull out the hammer and hit yourself on the head." "What's in the little bag?" demanded the wife. The husband said, "As pirin." - Choleric business tycoon wa havine a tough time calling .teady itoam of abuse upon the defenseless tong-distence operator Fmany ne yTued. "Get me the supervisor! What am I around her, a third-class citizen, an idiot, or what. "Sorry, sir," purred the operator sweetly, "but we are noi allowed to give out that information." O MM, by Bennett Cert Distributed by K.ng Feature, Syndicate. of the human race on earth is, after all, an absolutely ir reversible event." He mused for a while after stating his ultimate choice.. Then he began to set forth his arguments that "sane men among the Soviets must be just as disturbed as sane men on our side to find themselves in this prison of the balance of terror." IlfE HAVE not really tried, "he kept repeating; we have not really tried to reach agreement by sensible stages and equal concessions. And so he fell to analyzing;' in great detail and with much shrewdness, the various schemes for first disarmament steps, disengagement in Eu rope, closing the nuclear club, and all the other expedients now so much discussed. At the close, he was asked another question, whether he did not think that it was bet ter to maintain the "balance of terror" until the Kremlin gave stronger proof it was ready to negotiate. And to this he replied again, "I tell you, if we go on as we are going much longer, we risk the end of the human race." As one left the simple room, the mind's eye held a vision of the grandfather's time Wellington's dispatch rider driving furiously into London with the Waterloo won standards of Napoleon's guards poked out of the car riage window. And to make the contrast in time, the mind's ear held the echo of the drv. precise old voice of the grandson, setting forth his alternatives for the H-bomb age as he grimly perceives them. You mav think his advice altogether wrong, as does this reDorter: but this was still a voice deserving to be heard and carefully considered m the final judgement. . Copyright 1958. New YoiK Herald Tribune Inc. The Saar has 991 square miles and about one million people. HELP US! We Need Clothing, Sheet, Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring 2-4230 ANEW day has dawned. Tn this new riav more money is needed to finance American industry than can be provided by a few tycoons. The immense sums of money needed to keep Ameri can industry GOING FOR WARD in these modern days can be provided ONLY by pooling the savings of ALL THE PEOPLE and investing these savings in the buildings and the machinery that mod ern industry must have if it is to go on expanding to keep pace with modern develop ments. 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