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o 0 o o o I MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORL 4 Monday, July 21, 1958 MEDF0Rt&,TBIBUN5 Everyone in Southern tregoa Published Daily except Saturday by vrnr'i'Dn dotvttv rr oMrfve rtu llilVI vv 63 North Fir St Ph. SP.3-6141 ROBERT W RTJHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mer. BRIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor ale tmcKiiO.N, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 189'i SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mail In Advance: Cody 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday only One year 920 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. U0 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c ah lerms casn tn Advance Official Paper of City of Medford urnciai paper of Jacmon county United Pres -Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO. INC, Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. 3 C. fry NEWSPAPEt , PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCfAItdN J J 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 July 21. 1948 (Wednesday) ' Five men, representing the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, attended the an nual Hart mountain trek last week end. Approximately 750 persons attended a healing revival last night at the armory. 20 YEARS AGO July 21. 1938 Thursday) The Shakespeare festival's membership drive is off to a good start. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Insect life is reported plentiful in vacation spots. This refutes the belief all insect life mo bilized nightly at soft-ball games." 30 YEARS AGO July 21. 1928 (Saturday) Street signs are to be re painted on curbs at intersec tions since their absence for six weeks has caused annoy ance to residents from strang ers seeking directions. From Local and Personal aolumn: '"Landscape painting is my hobby and I'm going to Crater Lake today to paint it,' Henry Jaquet, pioneer farmer of Silverton, Ore., said here this morning. 40 YEARS AGO July 21, 1918 (Sunday) Major E. E. Kelly, signal corps officer from Medford, recently umpired a troop baseball game in France. "We're rarin to go," said 73 Jackson county draftees as they left for Camp Lewis this morning. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or gx is good. 1. What is the name of Gracie Allen's husband? 2. Is it true or false that the wind of a tornado can drive a straw into solid boards and tree -trunks? 3. In which South Ameri can country is the city of Caracas? 4. What is the antithesis of the color black? 5. Water can be taken into a locomotive tender while the train is in motion; true or false? "6. Name the capital of Greece. 7. The world's highest dam is in the United States; name it. 8. What is the D. A. V.? 9. What committee of the House of Representatives is investigating the activities of Bernard Goldfine, Sherman Adams and others? 10. How is Rocky Moun tain spotfed ievqg trans mitted? &gs0e45: 1. George Burns. 2. &re. . Venezuela. 4. iyhile 0. rue." 6. Athens. 7. fVee Dam, Colo. (726 feet). 8. Disabled American Veterans. . Sub-committee on Legislative Oversight. 10. By lickt. . Outdoor Recreation Survey The outdoor recreational resources of the Un ited States are in for men time, too. The congress recently completed action on a bill providing for such signed it, and some of mission who will do the Among them, appropriately, is Sen. Richard L. Neuberger of Oregon, one of the senate's staun chest supporters of conservation and the values of the outdoors. TTHE Eugene Register-Guard, in commenting on Neuberger's appointment by Vice President Richard Nixon, said it showed good judgment, and that "the senator, terested in conservation for many years, will be a trenchant spokesman for those who fear the day that the recreational potential of America's great outdoors is exhausted. The 15-man commission including four senators and four representatives, plus seven non congressmen to be named by the president will have a big job, and three They will have up to $2,500,000 to conduct the survey, and will be assisted by an advisory com mittee of the head of each of the federal agencies dealing with recreation, plus 25 persons appoint ed to represent geographical areas and citizen in terest groups. WHAT'S the purpose? 1 T Basically, it is to find out, authoritatively and for the first time, just what the U. S. has in the way of outdoor recreational resources, whether they are sufficient, and the years to come. Anyone who is at all of outdoor recreation there is increasing pressure on the rivers, streams, lakes, beaches, forests and mountains which so many of us use these days to revive ourselves from the strains of everyday life. Consider what it is now, with 174,000,000 population. Then consider what will happen in 1976 (population estimate, 225,000,000), in 2000 (population estimate 300,000,000) and so on. Consider what it will be as the four-day week succeeds the five-day week, and the three- or even four-week vacation succeeds the two-week vacation. And consider what will be the effect of the vast new network of good roads now abuilding, which will make the outdoors more accessible than ever before. 70R example : r In 1926, 6,000,000 visitors went into the na tional forests. In 1962 only 3 years away some 66,000,000 visitors are expected. The Na tional Park system was designed to handle 25, 000,000 visitors annually, but it had 59,000,000 last year, and expects 80,000,000 by 1966 the date for completition of its "Mission 66" pro gram to bring it up to a point to meet the demand. But the forests and national parks are not enough. They must be expanded, added to, and supplemented, if Americans are not to be as crowded in the outdoors as they are in the cities. (Oregon is fortunate in that the state owns all its ocean beaches. But of the 3,700 miles of the U. S. coastline along the Atlantic, only 240 miles are open to the general public.) jyiEANWHILE, there are many things that must be done before it is too late. The states must expand their systems of parks and recreational areas. So must the coun ties and cities, before the land best suited to that purpose is gone beyond retrieving- The areas we have now must be protected and preserved for future as well as present use. Anything less will be a betrayal of the people these local governments serve. The federal agencies, generally, are aware of the demands, and are doing what they can to meet them. Both the National Park service and the U. S. Forest Service have increased funds for recreation, and are using them to good advantage. But the appropriations are not, even now, ade quate to meet the need. If progress is continued for the next three years,' and the commission comes up with a sound, feasible program, there is hope that the nation's outdoor recreational needs will be met at least insofar as they can be in a land which already has lost forever much of the land most admirably suited to the need. E.A. t . The Creative Man What sets a creative individual aside from one who may be equally intelligent, but whose talents do not tend to creativity? A recent study by a University of Chicago re searcher indicates that drive and personality traits have much to do with it. The current Scientific American says: "The creative individual . . . tends to set his sights on more distant goals and to have a better mastery of complex ideas and personal relationships. He sees him self as different from other people; acts less convention ally, is more tolerant of unconventional behavior in oth ers. The creative scientist analyzes a problem slowly and -carefully, then proceeds rapidly with the solution. The less creative man is apt to flounder in a disorgan ized attempt to get a quick answer. The creative scien tist works longer hours and spends more of his leisure time on activities related to his profession. He places a higher value on creative effort and feels keenly any restriction upon its exercise in his job." The survey was among scinetists. But the an alysis would be equally engaged in other lines of endeavor, -whether it be art, business, teaching, writing, or just the prob lems of everyday life. E.A. , - - - a searching survey. And a study, the President the members of the com job have been appointed who has been deeply in years in which to do it, what will be needed m interested in some form (and who isn't?) knows valid if applied to those Dennis the Menace "foe m YEARS 70 LEARfi Matter of Fact WE ASKED FOR IT Washington The Truman Louis - Johnson disarmament program took only 18 months to nroduce the . . .-- Korean war More time and greater follies were needed to pro duce tne ca- t a s t rophe in the Middle East. Yet once again, the root Josenh Aison cause w . 3 complacent neglect of . the world balance of power by the American government. There is no other possible answer to the Middle Eastern catastrophe's central riddle. Why has Nikita Khrushchev dared to do what Josef Stalin never dared to do, even in his last, most belligerent and par anoiac period? That is the riddle. The cold war, remember, began in the Middle East with a sharp defeat for the Krem lin. In 1946, under firm An glo-American pressure, Stalin reluctantly withdrew the Red Army from the Iranian prov ince of Azerbaijan. From that moment onward, Stalin al ways left the Middle East strictly alone. He even resist ed the enormous temptations of the second Iranian crisis, when he was all but asked to intervene by the weeping Dr. Mossadegh. "TTANDS off ihe Middle East," was Stalin's rule, very obviously, because Stal in thought that probing in the Middle East would come too close to the bone. He took great risks blockading Berlin, ordering the Korean attack, sponsoring the war in Indo China. But he took no Middle Eastern risks, because the Western interests in the Mid dle East seemed to him too vital to safely be tampered with. The moment when Stalin's heirs abandoned Stalin's rule can be rather precisely dated. Gamal Abdel Nasser heard the first Soviet hint that he might be allowed to buy arms from the Kremlin in the pe riod just prior to the famous, foolish summit meeting at Geneva. But nothing "was set tled until Nikita Khrushchev and his party went to the summit ; meeting at Geneva. But nothing was settled until Nikita Khrushchev and his party went to the summit, to hear President Eisenhower and Sir Anthony Eden posi tively compete in their pro testations of peacefulness-at-any-price. Dimitri Sheplov was then sent to Cairo to sign the Sov iet arms contract with Nasser within a fortnight. The sum mit was the direct prelude to the abandonment of Stalin's rule; and very few expert stu dents of Soviet behavior any Try and -By BENNETT CERF- JAMES THURBER, visibly displeased with the way the world is going, announced the other day, "I often think it would be fine if the French poodles could take over. They've certain ly been more intelligent in the last few years than hu man beings, and they have more charm, grace and hu mor, too. I broached the subject to my own poodle. 'How about your species running- things for a while?'. I asked. My poodle, how ever, who is positively bril liant, promptly answered, The hell with it!" " Betty Primeau, in Ontario, Canada, reports this edifying conversation: First girl: I have a new Lautrec chemise. Second girl: What's it like? First girl: Toulouse .... A beautiful girl in Geo'gia was voted Miss Timber Queen at a re cent ceremony. She claimed it was because she never had been axed. C 1955, by Bennett Ctrl. Slimbuua By Xing feature! Syndicate. j 10 ws. Joev' By Joseph Alsop longer doubt that the summit meeting finally persuaded the masters of the Kremlin that Stalin s rule was out of date IN IHE same fashion, the two-months-long display of American feebleness in Leb anon was the direct prelude to the bloody coup in Iraq. You can trace this kind of contributing cause of the Mid dle Eastern catastrophe from the beginning to the grim end of the story. But these were only contributing causes, Dean Acheson's famous proc lamation of our lack of inter est in Korea was at best a contributing cause of Stalin's Korean decision. Without the Truman-Louis Johnson disarmament, the Korean aggression would never have happened, no mat ter what Acheson said or did not say. And no matter what nonsense was talked at Gen eva, or wnat weakness was displayed at Lebanon, the Middle Eastern catastrophe would never have happened if we had not also lost the American military lead in these last self-indulgent years. The lead was narrowing fast when President Eisen hower took office. He inherit ed a mass of ugly documents, in which the Truman Admin istration belatedly recognized the progress of Soviet weap onry and proposed a greater American defense effort to maintain our lead. Instead, the Eisenhower Administra tion shortly decided on a re duced defense effort Hence the Eden-Eisenhower protes tations at Geneva sounded de lightfully convincing to the Soviet auditors. SINCE then, Soviet power has i r n w n pnnfinnnnclv and Western power has con tinuously failed to keep pace with this growth. For Khrush chev, as for Stalin before him, the decisive factor in every calculation is his estimate of the existing balance of mili tary power. As the power bal ance has tilted in the Krem lin's favor, the Kremlin has regularly recalculated the risks that might reasonably be taken. And now the Krem lin has boldly risked the cli mactic stab at the Western oil- jugular in the Middle East. Today, the gravest decisions about the Middle . East must instantly be taken. Tomorrow equally grave decisions will have to be taken, about the inner relationships of the Western Alliance. But the de cision that is most important of all is the long range deci sion. The Middle Eastern ca tastrophe is a warning ten times more serious than the warning of the Sputniks It is a warning that we cannot save ourselves without an im mediate, massive and sus tained national effort to Stop Me Soviet Action Said To End Hope for Friendly Relations By CHARLES M. McCANN (CPD Foreign News Analyst Soviet Russia appears to have destroyed any hope that its relations with the United States can be put on friend ly basis for months to come. Its tactics in the Middle Eastern crisis have shown the complete pvnipicm ritVi McCann which the Kremlin conducts its foreign affairs. Any chance for a "summit" conference of the sort which has been discussed in recent months seems to have van ished. The meeting on the Middle Eastern crisis which Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev has demanded would not be that sort of summit confer ence. Summons for West Khrushchev's summons pretty well boils down to a de mand that the United States and Britain appear before him to defend their actions in Lebanon and Jordan. The alternative, he implies, might be an attack by Russia on the two allies. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has expressed confidence that, despite its dire threats, the Soviet Gov ernment will not resort to any military action against the United States and British dis patch of troops to Lebanon and Jordan. . There seems to be pretty good reason for Dulles' confi dence. One factor is the general Washington Report By William Washington One of the ugliest buildings in Washing ton, in an area locally known as Foggy Bottom, is the home of chronic 5 crisis and the object of con s t a n t criti cism. The State D e p a rtment like the elder ly ladies in the patent medicine ad WUlam S. White vertisements, in that it is prey to endless backaches and headaches. Indeed, this cen ter, of American foreign pol icy might be described as the most-lined and weary of all the six official faces of Wash ington. Nothing in the law or Con stitution says this must be so. Nevertheless, the State De partment in all administra tions, including the present one is always running a panting race with the shadow of unpopularity. And it is nearly always losing. If the Senate is not up in arms against the department, the House of Representatives will be. And on the rare oc casions when these faithful critics may be quiescent, one section or another of public or press will be in full cry against the denizens of Foggy Bottom. rpHESE characters, in oonse- - quence, have long since de veloped the most wary sensi tivity. All but the strongest tend to look for sinister un dertones in the most innocent of inquiries. Asked the time of day, they are likely to hes itate portentously, to ponder gravely, and at length to re ply in many rolling syllables to the effect that question re quires further notice: do you mean to elicit information having regard to the present hour in Washington; or is your interrogation directed to the relative position, as it were, of the clock hands in Moscow? This prolix and unduly careful attitude is often ex hibited before Congress. Though it is entirely under standable these "State" fel lows have been gun shy for generations it is also regret table. For it only strengthens the public image of the State Department that hostile poli ticians have so long fostered fuddy-duddy, striped pants, tea-drinking. This is an inexact and un fair image and one harmful to the interests of the United States. For this department conducts the first line of the country's defense and for the most pprt with great devo tion as it is doing at this moment in the Middle East. strengthen our defense and redress the power balance. There is no other way, un less we want the stab at the jugular to be followed, in a little while, by. a stab for the heart itself. 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. belief that the Soviet govern ment does not want a global war, which could easily be Caused by any rash action in the Middle East. Another factor is that the Soviet statements, threatening as they are, appear to be aimed chiefly at mobilizing world opinion against the United States and Britain a propaganda offensive. Russia is represented as the friend of peace, the defender of small countries against aggressive "imperialism" and "colonialism." It might as well be admit ted that this propaganda is likely to be effective not only in the Arab countries but in most of the newly-freed na tions in the world and among some sections of popular opin ion in allied countries them selves. But Russia's action in the United Nations has shown how brazenly a Communist government can change course. The United States and Brit ain sent their troops to Leba non and Jordan in response to appeals by legally-constituted governments. Their very life was threatened by rebellions fomented and actively aided by a foreign government the United Arab Republic of Pres ident Gamal Abdel Nasser. Supported in U. N. The allied action was taken under Article 51 of the U.N. to order the United States and Britain to withdraw their troops. The resolution was de feated by a vote of eight to one. Russia alone, voted for it. Sweden and Japan - ab stained. , " How different was Russia's S. White Still, there is a grain of truth in the stereotype. THE ' bureaucratic inertia and encrusted stuffiness of the State Department is un deniable. And it is not the top people who are to blame; rather it is those in the tiers below. These tend to a fusty solemnity in which no gaiety could raise its head and a certain gaiety is not always out of place in the solution of great problems. It is obvious that some thing about the system is not too easy to bear, even tfor those in it. The most recent ex-secretary of state, Dean Acheson, as far more strik ingly persuasive out of office than he was in. The explana tion is that he was so busy then on so many things that sometimes his public papers were prepared by others. They are infinitely better when, as now, they are self prepared. The present secretary, John Foster Dulles, suggests in his official appearances a dour Puritanism and consciousness of absolute personal Tightness on all occasions that is less than fair to him as a man. The truth is that the De partment of State and its chief must carry an immense ,burden that never light far the heaviest of any for eign office in the world. For not only is this nation the world's leader; it is also a very big and diverse country full of conflicting pressures from "national origin" groups wriich will simultaneously look upon our relations with other nations in vastly differ ent ways. Their competing demands must be to some ex tent accommodated. THERE is none of the homo geneity of the British Isles upon which Whitehall can base its actions. And there is non of the happy sit uation of the Kremlin, which is less than passionately con cerned with what the Russian public will think. Finally, because the State Department has so many things to do in so many places around the world, it is becom ing rather like a vast factory of high policy. It is not al ways too easy to think above the hum of the great machine. This machine occupies an eight-story structure func tional, rather modernistic and antiseptically g r a c eful. It maintains 279 listening posts abroad, has 12,500 American employees and about 10,000 foreign employees. Its cour iers travel 8,500,000 miles a year; the mail and pouch rooms handle 35,000 commu nications a day. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Do FALSE TEETH Reek. Slide or Slip? FASTEETH. an Improved oowder to be sprinkled on upper or lower plates, holds false teeth more firmly In place. Do not slide, slip or rock. No gummy, jooev. pasty taste or feeling. FAS TXETH la alkaline (non-acid) Does ot sour. Checks '"plate odor" (den tare breath). Oat FASTEETH at any drug counter. - attitude in the Hungarian crisis! Russia's action crushing with the utmost brutality a purely popular, purely in ternal revolt was condemned by both the Security Council and the General Assembly, in which all U.N. members are represented. Later the Assem bly called on Russia to with draw its troops. But the troops are still there. Now, the Soviet govern ment has organized and for mally staged demonstrations in which a riotous mob threw stones, bricks, ink bottles and other missiles at the Embassy and broke about 275 of its windows. Aside from any more seri ous aspects of the middle eastern crisis, it is hardly like ly that the United States gov ernment .will forget that soon. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS For some .time past people at home and abroad have been looking to President Eisen hower for leadership firm leadership, DECISIVE leader ship. Well HE HAS PROVED IT. What he has done in Leb anon is decisive. It has to be gone through with. Having put our hand to the plow in the Middle East, we can't turn back. Turning back would be fatal. TN Lebanon we are in the position of a man who enters a neighbor's premises for a WORTHY purpose such as closing his doors and windows to prevent damage from an impending storm. In the neighbor's yard there is a dog a big dog, an un friendly dog, a MENACING dog. The man has a choice. He can go ahead, or he can run. If he goes ahead he may be able to bluff the dog by a firm showing that he is there on legitimate business, that he knows his business and means to go through with it, and that he isn't scared. In that event,.. the dog may back off. But If the man runs, he is CER TAIN "to get badly bitten. TTAVING entered the Middle J"1- East, there are three things we must accomplish if we are to emerge from the adventure with the resnect and the con fidence of the world: " 1. We must prove to the world at large ;that our mo tives are pure. 2. To the Arabs, we must prove that we are not initiat ing a new imperialism with us as the boss imperialist. 3. We must make it plain to the Kremlin that if it starts shooting it will wish it hadn't. It is CERTAIN that we have alerted ALL of our bases that ring Russia on every side. At these bases there are bombers with nuclear bombs in their bays. All of these will be able to take off with in a few minutes after receiv ing the command to do so. THAT is to say: THIS IS A SHOWDOWN. We are prepared to go through with what we have started. The leadership the President of the United States is providing is DECISIVE leadership. We'll see what we'll see. Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) " mzf ' l - '''4t, ' "fit". :a vguatfL . . J fwm- ' ljgr FRIENDLY, Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit aU letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words The letters printed in this :olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. The Moral Way To the Editor: Like the British, I believe the Ameri cans can and will accept the moral responsibility for mil itary intervention in the Mid dle East. At the time of the Suez crisis, 58 per cent of the Brit ish agreed with the British government's sudden dispatch of military forces against Egypt. Gradually they re gained reason and objectivity. They disagreed with the ac tion of their government and the architect of the policy. Eden had to bow out. They accepted the rebuke of the world. Today it is probable that 58 per cent of Americans believe it was right to send our mighty military forces into Lebanon, ignoring that United Nations' authorized observa tion teams had been sent there by us and other mem ber nations to keep the peace. It is probable that events will follow the Suez pattern. Blocked by great power vetoes in the Security Coun cil, smaller states will take the initiative in the General Assembly emergency session next week. They will act swiftly to rebuke the United States. Once again the spread of war may be avoided. The General Assembly will express the moral pressure of mankind. Can we accept the pain and disappointment of the grave miscalculation of United States policy? ' We have much to gain if we can. American leadership can be restored in the United. Nations. We can go forward to help the United Nations de fine "indirect aggression," and establish methods "short of war" for restraining sub versive" forces. This could vir tually stop the "cold war," our greatest folly and costli est political blunder. Whether the intervention was to maintain permanently the government we want in the Middle East, or to stop the immediate threat of revolu tion only, it Is against our ways of the past. It divides the Arab states, preventing their natural tendency to unite and become able to take care of their own problems. If we were to stay permanent ly, to take Britain's place of colonial power, it would be costly beyond all estimates. So costly that our economy might go under. We must face the fact that it isn't as strong as we would like, due to military expenditures and waste, principally. : The United Nations way Is the moral way. It is right and costs less. It saves the need for the horrible expense to maintain great armies. The 6,000 Marines, 49 warships and two aircraft carriers, the paratroopers, have not solved a thing. We still have to search long and hard as a na tion for a policy acceptable to the Middle East and in ac cord with our own principles. Marie M. Bosworth, 2425 East Main st., Medford. PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT" HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
