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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 24, 1948 (Sunday)
The measure to exceed the
6 per cent levy limitation in
the combined budget of Jack
son county rural school dis
tricts passed by a majority of
six to one.
Padgham Glass and Mill
work company's new sash and
door plant at Camp White has
started operation.
20 YEARS AGO
April 24. 1938 (Sunday)
A Chinese pheasant flew
into the windshield of an
automobile on the Pacific
highway near Central Point
early Saturday evening,
smashed the glass and sent
the driver to the hospital.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Lilacs
and butterflies came out the
past week."
30 YEARS AGO
April 24, 1928 (Tuesday)
The grand jury this after
noon at 3 p.m. returned 10
new indictments against Dis
trict Attorney Ne"wton C.
Chaney, 'charging larceny of
public money.
From local and personal
column: "Only men who have
been discharged from the
army less than three months
are now eligible to join the
United States army, accord
ing to Sgt. Grover Owen."
40 YEARS AGO
April 24, 1918 (Wednesday)
The sum now needed to
make up the guarantee of the
banks in the Liberty Loan
drive is $20,000.
From local and personal
column: "The A. W. Walker
Automobile company will
move into its new quarters
on West Main st., and the
Power Auto company will oc
cupy the vacated quarters.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Does a cubic foot of water
weigh more than," less than,
or the same as a cubic foot
of ice?
2. How long did it take
Noah to build the Ark?
3. What does the word poll
tax mean? .
4. What is the principal ag
ricultural crop of Egypt?
5. How many ciphers added
to the figure one produce the
cardinal number quintillion?
6. Which State of the Union
was once known as the Terri
tory of Orleans?
7. On which famous docu
ment is John Hancock's sig
nature the boldest?
8. Which animal can sleep
suspended upside down?
9. Which day of the week is
named for Thor, the Norse
God of Thunder.
10. Which sign of the Zodiac
is for persons born between
June 21 and July 23?
Answers: 1. More; 2. 100
years; 3. Head tax; 4. Cotton;
5 Eighteen; 6. Louisiana; 7.
Declaration of Independence;
8. The sloth; 9. Thursday; 10.
Cancer the Crab.
RAILROADER DIES
Washington ID Ernest E.
Norris, 76, former president
of the Southern Railway sys
tem, died Tuesday night in
his sleep. He became presi
dent of Southern in 1937 after
a long railroad career which
he started as a telegrapher.
The Race for Survival
For several years we have received thousands
of words from a Mr. Alfred Kohlberg of New
York City, who at one time was a sort of press
agent for the Chinese lobby.
But recently he ventured into the area of
atomic warfare and took on Bertrand Russell,
the elderly but extremely acute and knowledge
able British writer and philosopher, on the issue
of disarmament in the nuclear field.
The epistolary interchanges have been very
interesting and characteristic. Mr. Kohlberg in
general adopting the conventional "Joe McCar
thy" line, considering all who disagree with him
as communists; and Lord Russell being content
with a few brief comments, sharply and tellingly
phrased, eschewing the conventional and realis
tically facing the facts the facts as he sees them
at least.
IN ONE of his recent letters the polemical and
A pugnacious Mr. Kohlberg, took a brief para
graph from' one of these Russell letters and pro
ceeded to tear it to bits and cast the remnants into
his "100 American" incinerator.
Here is the Russell declaration, quote :
"I am in favor of Britain disarming unilaterally
if negotiations for general nuclear disarmament prove
futile. If it can be secured that only the US and USSR
have nuclear weapons I favor negotiations between
them for abolition of nuclear weapons by both sides.
I do hold, however, that if all negotiations prove futile
and no alternatives remain except Communist domi
nation, or extinction of the human race, the former
alternative is the lesser of two evils. You, I gather,
do not hold this view."
MEEDLESS to say Lobbyist Kohlberg didn't!
Here he decided was an opening big enough
for a truck to run through, and crying "Give me
liberty or give me death," he consigned the vener
able British iconoclast to the hades of spineless
appeasers, cowards and red-tinted Pacifists.
TX7ELL while waiting for the applause to die
" down might we suggest that this rejoinder,
however melodramatic and heroic it may sound,
failed to answer Mr. Russell's very "ify" question.
His Lordship did not declare the alternative
is between Russian domination and Mr. Kohl
bergs willingness to die, but between Russian
domination, and not only
ness to die, but his willingness to be responsible
for the execution of his family, his children, his
grandchildren, his friends, m fact the entire hu
man race and this without their consent.
HTHAT we believe is a different kettle of fish
and a pretty big order !
There are literally millions of Americans who
would rather die than' be slaves of theh Kremlin,
and would gladly grab a
to agree to die when such a sacrifice would mean
the extinction of the human race, we believe
even the combative Mr. Kohlberg would hesitate
to sanction. '
And that is the premise Mr. Russell makes,
and the alternative he posed.
'
ALSO as in his other
general nuclear disarmament proves futile. The
futility of such an effort has not yet been demon
strated. X7ELL, this has been the general pattern of this
long-distance debate and as we see it his
Lordship has made rather mince-meat of Mr.
Kohlberg's thesis. The main reason being Ber
trand Russell digs deep, and the gentleman from
New York merely skims the surface.
LJOWEVER, we do not wish to give the im-
pression we go along with Lord Russell 100
per cent. We don't.
We don't believe, for example, the fundamen
tal issue lies between Russian world domination
or racial extinction. No't yet at least.
, It lies as wre see it between, mass-intelligence
and mass - stupidity, between civilization and
chaos ; between international self-interest and in
ternational self-destruction.
The main issue we think is as simple as that.
And finally we have a strong belief, that the
people of the world including the people of Rus
sia, will soon, if they don't already, realize the
issue IS as simple as that. With this realization
the strongest instinct of the genus homo should
be released and start to function and that, the
instinct of self preservation should save the world
from the fate Bertrand Russell fears, and Mr.
Kohlberg -ignores. R.W.R.
Who Missed the Point?
Unless an important principle is involved we
don't believe the people are much interested in
what one newspaper thinks of another.
So we shall try to be brief in our comment on
the fact the Oregon Journal thinks this paper
"missed the point" in our comment upon the strik
ing contrast between the way the Republican
press treated Senator Morse's deviation from the
Republican party line some years ago, and the
recent deviation of Senator Neuberger from the
Democratic.
The Journal we fear has, unconsciously per
haps, adopted the Russian technique of charging
an opponent with a crime, that it has itself com
mitted or intends to.
For the Journal in its
ly miss the point.
Mr. Kohlbergs willing
musket to prove it. But
"ify" question "B.R."
editorial DID complete
Dennis the Menace
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Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
ON THE RECESSION
Washington There is as
yet no very general popular
pressure for stronger meas
ures to reflate
the economy
than the meas
ures which the
Admin istra-
tion is taking.
It does not fol
low, however,
that stronger
mt'izm measures sucn
Walter Lippmann as a tax cui
and larger
public works, should not be
prepared and made ready for
early adoption. For the criti
cal fact is that in the business
cycle remedies do not work
quickly. The sooner they are
adopted whether on the up
swing or on the downswing
the less strong do they need
to be.
It is evident enough today,
for example, that in the up
swing between 1955 and 1957,
the authorities waited too long
to check the inflationary' rise
of consumer credit and capital
expenditure and wage and
price increaSes. In reverse, it
is probable that we have al
ready waited too long before
acting against the recession
which began last summer. In
fact, during the autumn when
the slump was already evi
dent, the Administration was
actually cutting down expendi
tures in the Defense Depart
ment. The moral of it is that pub
lic opinion is not a -sound
guide in the management of
the business cycle. When the
inflation of 1955-'57 was un
derway, the politicians and
the public resisted measures
to restrain credit and the rise
of the wage-price structure.
When the cycle turned after
the middle of 1957, the poli
ticians and the public were de
manding retrenchment which
would have been very suitable
18 months earlier. Indeed it
may be regarded as a working
rule that for the successful
management of the business
cycle, the responsible authori
ties must be ahead' of public
opinion and prepared to take
measures which cannot be pop
ular until their delayed re
The point and the only point was that the
Republican press as a whole consigned Senator
Morse to dishonor, disgrace and obliquy, for his
wandering party eye and has been extravagant
in its praise of our junior senator for the same de
viation, only in favor of the GOP.
We fail to see how anyone could deny the in
consistency here, and a perfect example of, to
what absurd lengths 100 per cent partisanship
can go.
"THE Journal seems to think because it never
condemned Wayne Morse for deserting the
GOP and only opposed him for being a grand
stander and making "outlandish personal attacks
on President Eisenhower," the charge of extreme
and inconsistent partisanship fails.
What Senator Morse's parliamentary man
ners, or his opinions of President Eisenhower may
be have nothing whatever to do with the case. In
fact the barrage against Morse for his lack of
party regularity by GOP Higher-Ups started be
fore General Eisenhower was inaugurated.
THE plain fact is and the only fact we at
tempted to make clear was that in politics
it depends so much upon whose ox is gored. We
noted the treatment accorded our senior Sena
tor when he refused to follow the straight and
narrow Republican line in favor of the Demo
cratic and when our junior Senator, did precisely
the same thing, only against the Democratic party
and in favor of the Republican. '
It ISN'T a matter of world-shattering impor
tance, it is essentially a theme for Gilbert and
Sullivan, just another example of what fools we
mortals in politics can be ! R.W.R. j
sults are experienced. The au
thorities must not wait to be
pushed but they must lead the
way, be it to deflate a boom
or to reflate a slump.
SPHERE are reasons for think-
ing, so it seems to me, that
we are at a point where a turn
for the worse is so distinct a
possibility that it is the part
of wisdom and prudence to
anticipate it. It may, of course,
be true, as Secretary Weeks
and the President hope and
believe, that we have reached
the bottom and that in a few
months the recovery will be
under way. But it could be
true that we have not reached
the bottom of the recession
and that if our policy is to
wait and see, we may be de
pressed to a deeper bottom
from which it will be still
harder to rise.
Is this alarmist talk which
undermines confidence? In the
bold days when banks were
often in trouble and faced
with a run by their depositors,
the best way to stop the run
was by such a powerful guar
antee of the bank's solvency
that nobody wanted to draw
out his money. The same prin
ciple is applicable, it seems to
me, to the current phase of the
recession. To say that prosper
ity is just around the corner
is less likely to restore confi
dence than it would be if the
Administration and the Con
gress set in motion such strong
measures that confidence in
the maintenance of employ
ment and of profits is restored.
rpHERE are at least two'rea-
sons for thinking that we
may not be at the bottom of
the recession. For one, there
is no good reason to suppose
that there will soon be a rise,
instead of the present decline,
of what business men invest in
plant and equipment. Unless,
however, there is a reason
ably prompt and substantial
rise in private capital expen
diture, there is no good pros
pect of a recovery without
compensating outlays of pub
lic capital in defense and pub
lic works and subsidized hous
ing and other facilities.
The second reason for being
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
GRIM CALCULATIONS
Washington United Na
tions debate about the opera
tions of the Strategic A i r
C o m m and
would be posi
tively useful,
if it only
served to re
focus atten
t i o n on the
state of this
country's de
fenses. The real ef-
Josph Alsop ieci oi o p u l
nik, just to begin at the be
ginning, was quite different
from what the country has
been carefully misled into
supposing. Pre-Sputnik, Presi
dent Eisenhower was actually
planning to cut another five
billion dollars from the de
fense budget; post-Sputnik, it
did not seem wise to leave
the country with no more
than the hollow pretense of a
serious defense. So the plan
ned cuts were not made after
all. That was the real result
of the Sputnik.
The grave warnings of the
Johns Hopkins, Gaither and
Rockefeller reports were still
ignored. A little more was
done, but not a great deal
more. The proof is clear if
you look at the very heart of
the American defense struc
ture, at the program for the
nuclear deterrent.
THIS program has to be
different but related develop
ments abroad. One is the
Sputnik, which revealed the
massive growth of Soviet nu
clear power. The other is the
constantly increasing u n r e-
liability of our overseas bases,
largely due to the nolitical
effect of the Sputnik on our
allies abroad. "?n one sense,
the second development is
more significant than the
first.
An air force's striking
power is measured by its
sortie rate that is, the num
ber of sorties it can throw at
the enemy at a given moment.
A great deal more than half
of the aircraft in our Strategic
Air Command are medium
range B-47 bombers. The B-
47s are designed to fly from
overseas bases, and this char
acteristic can only be partly
overcome, even by the fullest
use of air-refueling. In truth,
tne denial of the overseas
bases will automatically cut
a. a. u. s sortie rate, and
therefore S. A. C.'s striking
power, by at least one-half.
Any military dan that is
&u per cent deDendent on
bases which are highly un-
vigilant and alert is that there
are many signs that, as re
gards the depressed durable
goods, the consuming public
are in a mood to save their
money and to make do with
what they have, to scale down
their debts, to buy at second
hand, and to keep ther affairs
as liquid as possible. Why? Be
cause they are afraid of un
employment, of part-time un
employment, of declines in re
tail purchases and profits.
There is a danger here, psy
chologically not unlike the
state of mind which used to
lead to runs on a bank. "A
decision," said Prof. Slichter
recently, "of consumers to cut
their debts rapidly could be
dangerously deflationary."
This is a very vulnerable
point, and a policy of wait
and see is dangerous. There is
no use preaching confidence,
there is no use expecting a
man to buy an automobile he
does not have to have, if he is
worrying about whether he
may lose his job. What he
needs to restore his confidence
is the sight of the government
preparing to do as much as is
needed, to reflate the econ
omy. IN the debate about these
matters there is an underly
ing issue of economic philos
ophy. There are those who be
lieve with the classical econo
mists that a recession is a nec
essary readjustment after an
inflation of prices, wages, and
debts. It is a painful readjust
ment. But 'it is necessary to
the ultimate health of the
economy.
On the other side, there are
those who believe, as does for
example Mr. Marriner Eccles,
that humanly and politically
it is impossible for a modern
democratic society to endure
and to tolerate the severe de
pression which would really
"readjust" wages, prices and
debts. .
They are. I believe, right,
and that it is better, as Mr.
Eccles said, to accept the
present price, wage and debt
structure," to support it by a
reflation, than to take the
enormous risks of a "readjust
ment" by a depression.
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
FINE NAMES FOR FINING
Birmingham, Ala. (IB
Fines for speeding were paid
here by James R. Quick, Col.
L. Hasty and Harold P. Early.
Eight Free
Form Anti
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Eight African countries have
formed a bloc which may
cause some new trouble for
France and
other colonial
ist" powers.
The countries
involved are
Tun isia, Mo
rocco, Ghana,
Libera, Egypt,
E t h iopia, Su
dan and Lib
ya. They are
the only inde
pendent African nations ex
cept South Africa.
The participants met for
likely to be available when
tne crunch comes, is a strict
ly phony plan. This would be
the first fact to be faced, if
the Administration were
eady to be honest with itself
and the country which it is
not.
BUT there is another fact
that Tiac in Vi fmorl inn
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S. A. C.'s truly reliable strik
ing power has not only been
cut in half by the political
trends inside the Western Al
liance. It has also been deep
ly effected in another way,
by the massive growth of So
viet nuclear striking power.
Here the calculation must
begin with the- general ac
ceptance of a purely retal
iatory role for S. A. C. What
ever John Foster Dulles may
say, S. A; C. is not going to
strike the first nuclear blow.
S. A. C. is nnlv onina in Viit
. --
back if and when the Soviets
have hit first. This means, in
effect, that the striking pow
er the Soviet war planners
have to worry about is what
ever may survive of S.A.C.
after the first Soviet nuclear
strike.
The S. A. C. high command
is basing its plans on the sur
vival of one-third of its total
force. That is the real mean
ing of the order which now
keeps one-third of all S.A.C.'s
aircraft fully, manned and on
a 15-minute alert basis. The
warning systems will enable
these planes and crews to
take to the air before the So
viet blow can reach its tar
get. This third of S. A. C.'s
whole power is all that can
be really depended upon for
the retaliatory strike.
TOW consider the mathema-
tics. S. A. C.'s total strik
ing power must first be de
valued by 50 per cent, because
of the political situation of
the overseas bases. The half
of the old planned striking
force which thus remains
must then be divided by three,
for only the aircraft on 15
minute alert will surely be
available for retaliatory use.
So you come out with the
ugly result that the Soviet
war-planners really only need
to worry about one-sixth of
the seemingly vast power of
S. A. C. that the Administra
tion is always boasting about.
That is the realistic situa
tion, already glumly accepted
by the more honest and cour
ageous Pentagon planners. It
is made- worse by a further
ugly fact. This one-sixth of
S. A. C.'s whole striking
power that can be surely de
pended upon will have to
penetrate a most powerful and
rapidly improving Soviet air
defense system, greatly su
perior to our own. .
There are a lot of things
that could be done, such as
stepped up purchases of jet
tankers, that would change
these grim calculations. But
they are not being done on
any serious scale, despite the
awesome succession of re
ports desperately urging that
these things must be done
with utmost urgency.
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
1 WV
Charles M.
McCann
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Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass
- . FUNERAL DIRECTORS
African Countries
- Colonialist Bloc
eight days in Accra, capital
of the former British Gold
Coast colony.
In a resolution adopted at
their final session Tuesday,
the eight countries proclaim
ed themselves "the vanguard
of the complete emancipation
of Africa."
Aid to Algeria 1
They pledged specifically to
devote "all possible efforts to
hasten Algerian independ
ence." In pursuit of that aim,
they formally recognized the
rebel Algerian liberation front
as representing the people of
Algeria."
The resolution proclaimed
"the right of the African peo
ple to independence and self
determination" and promised
"appropriate steps to hasten
the realization of this right."
It also pledged the partici
pants to seek to "uproot for
ever the evil of racial dis
crimination in all its forms
wherever it may be found."
It looks as if the first re
sult of the conference will
be increased aid to the Al
gerian rebels who have
bogged France down in a cost
ly war for 3Vfc years.
All Africa Affected
But if the participating
countries follow up their dec
laration, it will mean active
encouragement for any move
toward independence in all
French, British, Belgian and
Portuguese colonial posses
sions in Africa.
The declaration on racial
discrimination was aimed
chiefly against South Africa
and its drastic segregation
laws.
How well the new bloc will
work out remains to be seen.
Five of its countries Egypt,
Sudan, Libya, Tunisia and
Morocco are Arab. Ghana,
Ethiopia and Liberia are
Negro.
At least, they have one
thing in common they are
all "anti - colonialist" and
would like to see white rule
in Africa ended.
Egypt, Tunisia and Ghana
may be expected to stir up
any trouble they can in Brit
ish, French and other colonial
territory.
Nkrumah Host
Prime Minister Kwame
Nkrumah of Ghana was spon
Communications
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The letters printed in this
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sent the views of the paper, in
fact the contrary is often the
case.
Reviving McCarthyism
' To the Editor: This letter
is a result of a letter to the
editor in last Sunday's paper
which was signed by Ann J.
Lynch. Her letter was both
unjustified and frightening. I
certainly hope the supporters
of Mr. Porter's opponent are
not going to adopt the Nixon-
McCarthy approach m this
campaign. Blanket accusa
tions of "flirtations with com
munist groups" is an approach
exactly like Joe McCarthy
used.
A congressman not only has
the right but also the duty
to question any military
strategy he feels is a threat
to world peace. Shortly after
Mr. Porter pointed out the
danger of carrying atom
bombs, and was scoffed at,
an atom bomb was accident
ally dropped on a small South
Carolina town. Thank God it
didn't explode us into World
War III!
Mark Norton,
Phoenix, Oregon
sor and host for the confer
ence. Since his little country was
freed, he has lost no oppor
tunity to air his personality..
Among other things, he has
had his own portrait instead
of that of Queen Elizabeth II
put on Ghana's postage stamps
and coins.
Nkrumah was somewhat
disappointed at the delega
tions which attended the
meeting. He had issued invita
tions for a "summit" confer
ence of the leaders of all
eight countries. Only Presi
dent William V. S. Tubman
of Liberia and Emperor Haile
Selassie of Ethiopia showed
up. Foreign ministers led the
delegations of other countries.
But whether of "summit"
level or not, the conference
is likely to increase the pres
sure of all African colonial
possessions for independence.
Vole for James M.
MAIN
for
CIRCUIT
JUDGE
Position No. 1
JAMES M. MAIN
is qualified by his
broad background
BEN
DAY
Says
"James M. Main has a broad
and understanding background.
His early experience with agricul
ture, his work in the timber in
dustry and in transportation give
James M. Main a basic under
standing of Oregon's people and
their economy. This understand
ina. toaether with legal ability and
judicial experience, is essential to
a judge in properly handling legal
problems concerning our Oregon
people and their economy."
Signed
Ben Day
Gold Hill
(Note, ask anyone who haf ap
peared before Judge Main as a
juror, witness, litigant or attorney.
about his qualification.)
Ben Day, Chmn., Gold Hill
Pd. Pol. Adv.
Paid Political Adv. by .
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