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o 4 frid.y, July 18, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtifTRIBUNE "Everyone to Southern Vyregon Published Dly except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 83 North fir St. Ph.SP .2-6141 . ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HFRB GREY Advertising Manarei GERALD LATHAM. Business M?r. BRIC 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 of March 3. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES . By Mail In Advance: Copy lOe. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 4 mos. 8.00 Daily acd Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $430 By Carneg In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er TaJer.t, and on motor routes. 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From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The nobler optimists are all felon iously claiming they enjoy the heat, and likea lawyer, being polite to opposing counsel, don't mean a. word of it." r-i 30 YEARS AGO July 18. 1928 (Wednesday) A new Catholic church will be erected at fhe southwest corner of Oakdale and West 10th sts. ' . From Local and Personal column "Hornets and yellow Jackets in the late afternoons ar reported to be a serious menace to motorists driving '. on the Crater Lake and Pa- ', cific highways." 40 YEARS AGO July 18, 1918 (Thursday) The public is invited to visit the Butte Falls trout hatchery and inspect restocking work on Jackson county streams. "Literally a flood" of dona . tions has been received for ,5omorrow's entertainment for county draftees. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. The vibrissae of a cat would be its feet, meows, or whiskers? 2. In Tabor relations par lance, forcing an employer to hire and pay more men than he needs is called what?- 3. Elephants can, or cannot, swim? 4. Drake is the name of the male of which swimming bird? 5. Madame Marie Curie was the co-discoverer of what? 6. The present Pope at the Vatican is Pius XI or XII? 7. Name the smallest Cen tral American republic. 8. November 5 is the an niversary of the discovery of the Guy Fawkes' gunpowder plot to blow up which govern ment building in London, England? 9. When an auto is travel ing, forward, do the passen gers lunge forward, or back ward, when the brakes are applied suddenly? 10. Acorns are the fruit of which tree? . Answers: 1. Whiskers, 2. Feather bedding. 3. Can. 4. Duck. 5. Radium. 6. Pius XII. 7. El Salvador. 8. Parliament. 9. Forward. 10. Oak. " TIRED OF SACK LOOK San Francisco (UPI) El eanor Moses, Miss Alaska in the Miss Universe contest to be held at Long Beach, says she doesn't go for the sack look. The 20-year-old Atha baskan Indian from Fairbanks, ' who paused here long enough to buy a kimono, explained: "My people have been wear ing sack dresses for genera tions. The kimono is prettier.'.! Rx: Shakespeare 1 The annual Shakespearean Festival, which opens in Ashland next Monday evening, affects different people in different ways. There is a touch of midsummer madness in volved for some mostly the active participants, the actors, stage crews and technicians who find in the festival something more than simply an op portunity to improve their skills in the theater arts. I hey also find glamor, excitement, comrad ene, intellectual stimulation the mystique of the stage ana tne magic music of applause. Sensitive members something of this aura. stars, they can become music, color, action and the timeless poetic in sights of the world's greatest playwright IN A MORE prosiac vein, the Festival has other things to offer other people to the hotel and motel proprietor, to the restaurant operator, to the merchant and service-station ma,n. For the festival has come to be one nf Ore gon's major tourist attractions, ranking only be- ninci tne Kose festival, tne Fendlton Koundup, Crater Lake and the Oregon coast. As such it draws thousands of people into the valley, and once here,' they furnish the county's economy witn its third-greatest stimulant, tourist dollars. . In cold cash, it is a major asset to the county, to all of Oregon. And, if for no other reason, thus deserves the support of all local people. DUT it is something more than just a source of "rr economic stability. As man does not live is he wholly motivated tions. And the festival has gone far to give Jack son county, and specifically Ashland and Med ford, something of a reputation as a cultural cen ter. The Festival itself, of course, is the core of this, but as the reputation grows, other types of artistic activity are attracted and stimulated. For the arts and humanities the things which make men a little something more than merely dull, workaday creatures thrive and feed on each other, for all are related to man's instinctive desire for finer things. OERE is a suggestion to those in this county who have never attended a Shakespearean Festival play: Try it, just once ; give it a chance. And, who knows, maybe you will find something in it 'for you. . It may be the enchantment of what goes on on the colorful stage j it may be bemusement that a large number of highly intelligent people find it worth while to sit ior hours in the night air to watch young people perform; it may be the simple pageantry to which , the productions lend themselves. ' x You may find it's not your dish of tea. But, until you've tried it, you'll never know what you may be missing. E.A. Death for a Globe Trotter We can still hope that Gene Burns isn't dead and that he isn't the first American casualty of World War III. For the State Department says that reports from Iraq of his death at the hands of the rebel mob are unconfirmedf Somehow we weren't surprised to hear that Burns was on hand for America's latest brink. He began as a college teacher but left the old Albany College (now relocated in Portland and called Lewis and Clark) to become an Associated Press correspondent. When Pearl Harbor came, Burns was in the Pacific to call the shocking news to America. . D URING the war he and he has never stopped. Making his living by writing a syndicated nature and travel column, he has been dashing around the globe since 1945. He has been in or near most of the hot spots of past years and has had plenty of close calls. Visiting hot spots isn't something required of a naturalist, but Burns also is an internationalist who always has been intensely interested; in world affairs. He-was in Iraq first as a columnist and second as a representative of a group attemp ting to open the area to increased tourist travel and therefore greater common understanding. If he has truly reached the end of his travels, it's in the line of what he would have considered his duty. Capital Journal, Salem. Good In a debate before wanis club Rep. Wayne Giesy of Monroe said he favored Oregon's capital punishment law. One of the reasons was that murderers are often par oled, and "killing is often repeated by the con vict. On the contrary, Mr. Giesy will find if he checks the records of Oregon's parole board or any other parole board, murderers are among the best of. parole risks. There may be habit-forming crimes, such as check nassinp- But murder is not in this category. Only rarefy does a paroled mur- Jl 1 J "I 1 I aerer violate ms parole Dy committmg a new crime. This is not to arene for lenient narole nolipies toward murderers. But it l f i t i tionai ana misleading argument m tavor of the present law. Register-Guard, Eugene. of the audience, too, feel In the fresh air, under the captivated by the lights, by bread alone, neither by economic considera was constantly on the go Risk the Emerald Emrnre "Ki- is to dispose of an emo- - - ... Dennis the Menace l HAD A TATTOO ONCE. 0UT Mid-East Crisis Deepens During Week; Sequence of Events Told By CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign News Analyst The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: The Middle Eastern situa tion erupted this week in one of the gravest international crises since the end of World War II. It started with a revolt in pro - Western Iraq by sub versive army elements f r 1 e n dly to McCann mal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic, who aspires to the mastery of the Arab world. In a dramatic series of con sequent events, the United States landed Marines in Lebanon- at the request of the Lebanese government . . . So viet Russia demanded the United States withdraw at once and threatened, if it did not, to "take the necessary measures" . . . United States paratroopers landed in Tur key, adjacent to Lebanon . . . British paratrooprs landed in Jordan on the appeal of King Hussein, "who had united his country with Iraq as the Arab Federation . . . Russia an nounced military maneuvers, land, sea and air, adjacent to Iran and Turkey. The Iraqi revolt broke with startling suddenness on Mon day. It shocked Allied govern Political Undertow: Republicans Suffer From Differences By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington (DPD The po litical undertow: Political developments in and New York California worry Nixon f o r-President boosters. The Vice President is far in front of the pack for the 1960 R e p u b 1 ican n o m i n ation. He could be hurt, how- tyie c. Wilson ever, if Demo crat Pat Brown beats Repub lican William F. Knowland for Governor of California in November, which is what party professionals believe is likely to happen. The remark able vigor and achievements so far of Republican Nelson A. Rockefeller's campaign for Governor in New York also is bad news for Nixon. As governor of New York, Rocke feller would control the state's 1960 nominating convention delegation. It is assumed that he might oppose Nixon. Republican conservatives in Congress are unhappy. They are talking about ' making a new statement of party policy in an. effort to force the Ei senhower Administ ration away from what they regard as its New Deal-Fair Deal tendencies: Some congression al Republicans who helped obtain the 1952 Republican nomination for General Eisen hower now wish they hadn't. They will tell you frankly that they were for Eisenhower in 1952 because they thought he could win, not because of his political principles, with which they were unfamiliar. Many Republicans worry out loud about the rising tide of labor influence and money in U. S. politics; wish they could get some help from the MY MM WASHED IT OFF. ments, which realized at once that it might mean disaster to their entire Middle Eastern situation. It was known the revolt was brief, bloody and success ful. Later, day by day, the details leaked out, including the murder of 23-year-old King Feisal, his uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Illah, ' and Pre mier Sami Es-Solh, one of the foremost statesmen of the Middle East. President Camille Chamoun of Lebanon, fearing his gov ernment might face the fate of Iraq's appealed to the Unit ed States, Great Britain and France for immediate military help. President Eisenhower, after day-long conferences with ad ministration and congression al leaders,- called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council. On Tuesday, United States Marines landed, in a perfectly-executed amphibious opera tion from units of the Sixth Fleet, on the beaches of Beirut, the Lebanese capital. They occupied the airport and other key positions under the eyes of the friendly public and made friends with admir ing children. The U.N. Security Council met. United States Chief Dele gate Henry . Cabot Lodge Jr. asked the U.N. send a police force to Lebanon to preserve its independence, replacing the American troops. Russian Delegate Arkady A. Sobolev Justice Department and the White House to curb the union leaders. Their big bad wolf: Walter P. Reuther. Best current news for Re publicans is the word from Pennsylvania. The well-informed believe now that they can elect Republican Arthur T. McGonigle to the governor ship. His Democratic oppon ent is Pittsburgh's Mayor David L. Lawrence. Pulse feelers believe the Republi cans may lose one seat in the national House of Representa tives. In contrast to what seems about to be in New York State, modern Republi canism Was licked by the regu lars in, Pennsylvania's nom inating primary last May. Harold E. Stassen bucked the party organization in a los ing bid for the gubernatorial nomination. Old news but still good for the Republicans is that farm prices continue at better levels. The Agriculture De partment reported this week that during the first six months of 1958 net farm in come was 22 per cent higher than in the same months of 1957. It was an unforeseen farm revolt which gave Harry S. Truman his surprise presi dential election in 1943 at the expense of Thomas E. Dewey. The Liberal - Conservative split in the Democratic Party is bigger and angrier than the Conservative-Modern Republi can division. Republicans get few dividends from such Democratic difficulties in con gressional election years. It could be different in 1960 when one or more southern states may again break away from the Democratic presi dential nominee to support their own. Another southern bolt to a Republican presi dential ticket is not likely soon. Matter of Fact MUNICH? OR SARAJEVO? Washington These words are written in the chill mo ment of uncertainty, between the discussion and the deci sion. When they are print ed, the deci sion will be known. An operation will have been launched t o rescue Iraq from the hands of the Jospb Alsop blood-stained Baghdad plotters. Or the Western powers will almost surely have lost the chance. Iraq is everything, the Le banon nothing. Lebanese For eign Minister Charles Malik has frankly admitted to all who would listen to him that the American landing in Bei rut will be a fruitless, foot ling gesture, unless the larger problem of Iraq is simultane ously solved. Iraq, not Leba non, has been the chief sub ject of aU the anguished con sultations between the Bri- demanded the U.N. order the United States forces to get out forthwith. On Wednesday, the Soviet government reacted. It deliv ered to United States Embas sador Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr. a blisteringly angry state ment. It catted on the United States to withdraw from Lebanon at once. Otherwise, the statement said, Russia "reserves the right to take the necessary measures dic tated by the interest of peace and security." King Hussein of Jordan ap pealed to the Big Three allies for help. On Thursday, the news came that United States para troopers flown from Euro pean bases had landed at the North Atlantic Treaty Organ ization air base at Adana, in southern Turkey, during the night. A few hours later, British paratroops landed in force in Jordan. Russia announced its mili tary . maneuvers, and Soviet troops were observed moving close to the frontier of Iran. In the Day's News . By FRANK JENKINS The Lebanon ruckus in a nutshell: The Marines have landed and the situation is SO FAR well in hand. .That is to say: There has been no shooting YET. EGYPT accuses the U.S. of "making the biggest blun der in its history." The gov ernment - dominated Cairo press caUs the United States the NUMBER ONE ENEMY of Arab nationalism. Egypt joins Russia in call ing the landing a "flagrant violation of the U.N. charter." But Russia has so far sent in no "volunteers." F OTHER words: Russia isn't YET ready to go to war. That knowledge is worth something. THIS morning's dispatches tell us that in Western Europe the reaction to Ameri can intervention in Lebanon can be summed up in these words: GENERALLY FAV ORABLE," BUT WORRIED. The British and -Turkish governments were the only ones to announce complete approval of the American ac tion. In other NATO capitals, officials are taking a hands off view. They seem to regard the landings as a necessary evil in which they prefer not to be involved. Their idea appears to be: "Let Uncle Sam do it, but count us out." It is worth re membering that that is the way our European friends and allies felt about Korea. HERE at home, stocks in New York rose fractions to more than three points in a vigorous extension of Tues day's late raUy. The financial wires report that the rise, taking in virtually all sections of the market, reflected evi dent approval of the strong Middle East stand, along with a-number of favorable busi ness news developments. The grain markets, which swung upward early in the week, are tending to ease off. On general averages, over the long years, the stock markets tend to fall off and the grain markets tend to rise on news indicating that shooting war is imminent. HERE'S a guess: I think the American people agree that probably it had to be done, but they wish it hadn't. They are getting tired of policing the world. By Joseph Alsop tish and American govern ments in these last agonizing days. While the decision of the leaders of the West is breath lessly awaited, it is at least worth while setting down the pros and cons. They are pros and cons unlike any that have been argued since the end of World War II, even in the tense days of President Tru man's Korean decision. In truth, this is the most crucial turning point since the cold war began. The cold war, re member, has been nothing more or less than an unremit ting Soviet effort to upset the world balance of power, which has been opposed by a very much less continuous Western effort to maintain the world balance of power. The balance of power in turn depends upon the outcome in the Middle East. And in pres ent circumstances, the out come in the Middle East de pends upon the outcome in Iraq. MALIK'S admission above quoted may seem very curious, indeed, coming from the representative of the Le banese state. But it too is a simple statement of fact. The presence of the Marines may permit a new President of Lebanon perhaps Gen. She hab to be peacefully elected. It may permit President Cha moun to serve out his legal term. It may allow all the other outward signs of Leba nese independence to be de cently preserved. But Lebanon's alleged inde pendence will not last long. It will hardly be worth a dried fig, if the independence of Iraq is not also restored. Neither will Kuweit or Ba hrein or Saudi Arabia or Jor dan, be worth a dried fig. If Gamal Abdel Nasser's conspi ratoria1 attack on Baghdad is permitted to succeed, every friend of the West in every Arab land is quite certainly doomed. Even the cheap ex pedient that is popular in London holding the little oil-rich Persian Gulf sheik doms by naked force, if need be will be more expensive and less fruitful in the end than a direct attack" on the heart of the problem, which is now in Baghdad. rpHE rot will not end there, either. A neutralist Iran, a neutralist Pakistan, a Tur key moving back to the posi tion Turkey chose in the last war these are further items in the price that will have to be paid. And it will not end there, either. For the thrust will be felt in the very heart of the Western Alliance, when the Middle Eastern oil jugular is cut by Nasser. Such are the reasons for taking bold action in Iraq. Most of the reasons for not taking action are mere twaddle Hammarskjold twaddle, world opinion- twaddle. When the knife is at the jugular, it becomes easier to teU twaddle from reality. Hence the twaddle-reasons have been received signifi cantly little attention in the recent exchanges between Washington and London. There is in fact only one real reason for not taking ac tion in Iraq f ear of what the Soviets may do about it. The Kremlin has hastened to rec ognize the insurrectionary government in Baghdad. If we respond to a call for help from King Hussein of Jordan, who has inherited the legiti mate leadership of the merged Hashemite states, the Soviets want us to think they too will respond to a call for help from their Baghdad friends. riNLY a fool would say, at " this juncture, that the So viets will not respond in this manner. If the Western na tions take no action in Iraq, this crisis will be far worse than Munich. But if the West does take action, this crisis can be another Sarajevo. There is no use wrapping up that black fact in pink cotton wool. There are two things to be said about that fact, however. If the Western nations act with iron resolution and ut most speed (and it is already almost too late), then one can hope the Soviets will only huff and puff and finally do nothing, as we did in the very different case of Hungary. But let a double standard of behavior be established, preventing us from having our say about any situation on their side of the line di viding the world, but leavng them to have the final say about situations on our side of the line. After that, the cause of freedom wiU be los already. After that, the road to the final catastrophe will go by easy stages. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. INTEREST RATES CUT Frankfurt, Germany (UPI) West German banks have dropped their savings interest rates from 3V& per cent to 3 per cent. The reduction, an nounced Thursday, was blamed on the sharp increase in savings. Washington Report By William Washington A time of danger but of grandeur has replaced in Washington a time of yam- 1 mering and 1 nattering, of j division and r e crimination I? and of a prog ressive weak- ening before i n ternational communism. The United wiiiam s. white States has en tered upon a historic moment of truth. At last we have acted rather than talked. In Sending the Marines into the Middle East we have returned to the decent uses of power which had been so largely re pudiated in the partisan after math of the Korean War. And we have reassumed the world responsibilities so largely avoided so long. Lebanon is the first case in which President Eisenhower has responded to a military crisis with all the vast thrust that is latent in his office. It is the first example of a Presi dential decisiveness so clear that Mr. Eisenhower's bitter est critics can not say of him that he has abandoned lead ership. All over Washington there is a clean, strong taste in the atmosphere. For the long re treat has ended, and with it the muzziness and the muggi ness of yesterday. A MASSIVE bipartisan pha lanx is drawn up in sup port of the President's action for the free West. Some criti cism is rising in Congress, it is true, and there wiU be more. But it should be clearly understood that this criticism, however decent in motive, is from the Congressional fringes. The real centers of Congres sional power in both par ties are standing like rocks with the President. It is not too much to say that a new day has . dawned here a day of anxiety, but also a day of promise and hope. This is the scene: 1. Swept away, for now at least, is the preoccupation with vicuna coats and can celed hotel bills. The Eisen hower Administration may or may not have been "taken off the hook" in the affair of, the Presidential . assistant, Sher man Adams. But whether it has or has not, the eyes of public men are lifted from all that is little to all that is large and urgent in public issues. 2. The President, by simply saying "this is the way it is going to be," has done more than restore national unity in the face of foreign peril He has redeemed faith in the majesty and vitality of the office he holds. 3. The Western alliance has been preserved, whereby American inaction it surely would have been all but des troyed. Two years ago the United States joined the Rus sians in opposing the United Nations an invasion by the British, the French and the Israelis that was intended to reduce, if not to break, the trouble-making evil of Egypt. THIS restraint upon action left Egypt stronger than ever. And thus it was not the evil of Egypt that was broken. Broken instead were many of Try and MWA -By BENNETT CERF- "TiRADER HORN" was an old prevaricator whose dubious L - "autobiography" scored a whopping success here is lis thirties. Horn's long, grey beard, picturesque cape and sombjs- ro, and infinite capacity for liquor added luster to the legend. Horn, who referred to himself as "Zambezi Jack," autographed thousands of copies, of his book for de votees. When his manager pointed out that he was sap ping his strength needless ly, he made a reply that has become famous in publish ing circles. "It's been my experience," - he declared, that nobody ever lends an autographed book!" A lady whose husfcana had gotten rich In a very great hurry waJ taken to her first country club luncheon. As her car drove Into th grounds, she took off her fur piece. Her mentor aavisea, -.eep ic on, Tillie. If you're going to put on the dog, now is the time to do it. "Dog!" cried the lady, "these are my best ables! 1 . O 1958. r Bennett Cert Distributed by King Teaturei Syndicttt JL East Main Si. DAIRY - Nowhere in this whole wide wonderful world will you find Larger, Fresher Eggs,, not -jven in Hammerfest, Norway. I. While the intimate human bonds between the indispensable al lies, th United States and? Britain. What hn nrt Visnrun"M wrw "uKtugu has perhtps not reclaimed th partnership in all its old com plete trust. ut a long be ginning has been made. Washington has now nit it plainly that we will not ner- mit the Middle East to fall into the wide sink of Commu nism. Made clear, too, is that we will not ellow Western Europe to be shut off from the Middle Eastern oil h must have. Her alternative, in that eventuality, would have been to buy here the til for which she has not the monew. in dollar, to pay. This sort of thina would? have destroyed the precarioui economic balance of our al lies. And the bill for the re sulting American economic relief thi altogether apart from the stnateeic issues in the Middle East would have been very high. : SUEZ is no longer a sore point betweCn 1 o n d o n and Washington. If all has no been forgotten on both sides, much has now been forgiven. And in the long and diffi cult UN negotiations over the Middle East that may come, the position of the United States will be incomparably stronger for our having taken the risk in Lebanon. There is high authority for this prediction: This country and its friends will now be able to marshal the two thirds Assembly vote that may become necessary to turn the policy job in the Middle East over to willing and an effective UN force. It is not only the Marines wh stand at the shores of Tripoli; a reinvigorated West stands there, too. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Ine.) Communications Stand Behind President To the Editor: Now that our government has taken this de cisive action, we will be able to see how deeply the Com munists and their ideology are entrenched in our country. Those that are hot "for" us are "against" us, and let us remember that every Com munist is a trained saboteur, with a following of stupid fanatic egotists that are ready to do their dirty work for them. They will use all means of communication, the press, TV, newspapers, and especially the churches to mold public opin ion that we were wrong to go into Lebanon. , Anyone that upholds our President's action will be classed as a war monger. . Things have happened so fast that they are evidently still waiting for their direc tions from Moscow. Let us not delude ourselves that they wiU take this lying down. Let us show them that vft stand behind our PresRient and that we stick together. Leila Morrow, 531 N. Bartlett gt., Medford. Stop AAo SMITH at GentMM
