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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 23. 1948 (Friday)
Eight travel editors from
eastern newspapers, touring
Oregon' scenic spots, arrive
here tomorrow.
Despite a reported rush
elsewhere, army enliAments
here are norftal.
20 YEARS AGO
July 23. 1938 (Saturday)
Standard Oil of California
is distributing color pictures
of Crater Lake, providing
publicity for the lake.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
millhands battled at softball
Thurs. eve. There was a large
and enthusiastic crowd of peo
ple and mosquitoes present
30 YEARS AGO
July 23, 1928 (Monday)
A French "75" cannon des
tined as a war trophy for
Medford is expected to arrive
this weeR.
"Medford Ice ad Storage
company plans new cold stor
age plant.
40 YEARS AGO
JMy 23, 1918 (Tuesday)
Motorcycle Speed Cop Mc
Donald plans to crack down
on motorists driving without
tail lights.
Tickets for a $100 Liberty
bond have netted the Sacred
Heart hospital $461.50.
What't Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
teven e) eight is excellent; five er
six tsQood.
1. Who was the last baabe
lor King of Great Britain?
2. Is the gross income of
business greater or less than
the net income?
3. Senator John Kennedy
represeiOs which State in the
U.S. Senate?
4. Tho was the primary
author of the Declaration of
(. What was the shortest
vfjr in which the U.S. active
ly jfi?ticipated?
$. Kame th two branches
ctfie British Parliament.
Oft Cribbage is a framework
? logs, a game, or stored farm
produce?
q &. 1here was the first cap
ital of the Confederate States
of sVmerica?
. Of what Kingdom is
Sbflul Azziz Ibn Saud the
10. Istanbul was formerly
rned what
nsiers: 1. Edward VIII.
Qfrg Duke of Windsor. 2.
Greajer. 3. Massachusetts. 4.
9timis Jefferson. 5. Spanish
Cipajrican War. 6. House of
Lords $nd House of Com
mons. 7. Game. 8. Montgom
ery, fci. 9. Saudi Arabia. 10.
Cogtjtttinople.
Applications Being
Taken for Positions
Applications for clerical
positions in Federal agencies
in Oregon, Washington, Idaho
and Montana are now being
accepted, according to John
M. Young, regional director of
the Civil Service commission.
Additional information may
' be oHHained from the Civil
Service commission office in
the Medford -post office.
The "Taste"
Is the "taste" of today the preferences of
Americans in art, literature, furnishings, recrea
tion and what have you "appalling," as is al
leged by a writer in (of all places!) the current
Saturday Evening Post?
Speaking on an over-all average basis, and
considering all 174,000,000 of us, probably he's
right, that the general level of taste IS appalling.
Any society which will permit movies such as
"I Was a Teen Age Werewolf" to be a success;
which will endure and even encourage the gen
eral run of soap operas on both radio and TV;
which will make a millionaire out of a third-rate
hillbilly music-gargler; which will make "Confi
dential" and "Whisper" and such tripe the best
selling magazines of the day any such society
must, indeed, have appalling taste.
HTHE author of the article, a writer, poet and
educator named Randall Jarrell, is appalled
by other things, too. Among these is the fact that
most eighth graders cannot identify Charle
magne, that Shakespeare has been "rewritten" to
be more readily understandable by youngsters,
and that a great body of knowledge and experi
ence and background, which once held our cul
ture together and formed the basis for mutual
understanding, has been frittered away in the
wake of Life Adjustment Courses, the .Reader's
Digest, John's Other Wife, and Kiddie Kartoon
Karnivals on television.
All right, is Mr. Jarrell a snob?
Probably. And he's
tnrougnout nistory, has
tive and sensitive thought, who serves "to make
people more conscious of the difference between
what is good, bad or mediocre, who do their bit
to banish slovenly, lazy
to attune his listeners and
right and aware concept
right.
AND yet, despite these
Tr- t ii
cans, ivir. jarren
mat an is not lost; not
there are signs of awareness and appreciation of
.J 11 . !! 1 -
many oi tne tnings wnicn
oi mere creatures ' creatures whose only motiva
tion is excitement, or comfort, or oblivion.
And he acknowledges that his complaint is a
timeless one, that each age has complained of
the "appalling taste" of
said "What kind of a time is this when one must
envy the dead and buried !", and that it is entirely
possible that the people
look upon the mid-20th
we never had it so good.
He cites the steadily growing acceptance of
the "good" paper-back book, the increasing pop
ularity ot quality music, the lerment and excite
ment in the experimental worlds of painting and
sculpture, the growth and improvement of much
of today's architecture.
IT'S A 'funny world. And perhaps we should
1 permit ourselves to be bitter, to be appalled, to
be outraged, about those
people find atrocious and
We could get stomach ulcers that wav. And
our ulcers would not improve, by a iot or tittle,
the condition of mankind.
Nor will the condition of mankind be im
proved by waving a wand, nor by exhortations.
It will be improved
the home, and continuing in the schools and col
leges; it will be improved only when people are
ready for it.
And, m part, it will
Randall Jarrell, who, while captious, still serves
to point the way. Even the Saturday Evening Post
can help, by printing such articles, which, if
nothing else, serve to make one ponder on man
kind's taste and condition. E.A.
Political Flip-Flop.
Bill Henley Jr., in his column in the Ashland
Tidings, describes his irritation at one of the
political flip-flops of the year, an irritation we
share with him.
He points out that Robert G. Danielson, who
filed his candidacy for district judge this spring,
then moved from the county before the election,
came back after the election, in which he received
the most votes.
At that time he told the Tidings (in words al
most identical to those he told the Mail Tribune) :
". . . All votes cast for me in the primary will not
count, in my opinion, and Roy Bashaw won the nomi
nation and his name should be placed on the ballot .
for the November election."
(Before the election, he wrote the secretary of
state asking that his statement in the voters
pamphlet be withdrawn as he was no longer a
candidate.)
JATER, he wrote the county clerk as follows :
"You know there has never been a withdrawal filed
by me in your office and you should not believe the,
newspapers which had taken upon themselves the de
termination of my intention. I have at all times known
the law regarding withdrawals and had I intended to
avail myself of rich provisions of the law, the same
would have been effected."
And Henley comments, "That was the way the
printer's ink flowed. Now it remains to be seen
what happens when the bailiff's gavel raps."
Maybe as the attorney general opined,
Danielson is in fact a proper and legal candidate.
Only court proceedings can determine it finally.
But it is not the kind of perf ormance which
gives one confidence in a man seeking a judicial
office. E.A. 4.
of Today
the kind of snob who,
nad an influence on crea
patterns of thought, and
readers to a more forth
of their cultural birth
indictments of Ameri
i t
concedes, and we agree,
everyone is a stumd oaf:
maKe men men instead
the time, that Goethe
of the age to come will
Century and moan that
things which sensitive
demeaning.
only slowlv. starting m
be improved by men like
I
Dennis the Menace
WtUZOHS GOT A BRAND
FEATHER DUSTER f
Compromise Soughtin Lebanon
Political Turmoil by
By CHARLES M. McCANN
UPI Foreign News Analyst
The Lebanese situation is
entering a new phase. The 66
member single-chamber Leb
anese Parliament was due to
meet Thurs
day to elect a
new president
for a six-year
term.
The big ques
tion had been
whether, if
the meeting
had been held
Tuesday, op
position mem
Charles M.
McCann
bers would boycott it. There
was almost no chance they
would attend.
It is now announced that
the meeting has been post
poned, probably until next
week.
There are indications that
the postponement may have
been decided upon in hopes
that agreement could be
reached on a candidate to suc
ceed President Camille Cha
moun. '
The election of a president
is the issue that lies behind
the entire Lebanese crisis.
Under the Lebanese consti
tution, a president is ineligible
for re-election. .
Chamoun, however, decid
ed in mid-April to ask Parlia
ment to amend the constitu
tion so that he could run
again.
He did so because he be
lieved his re-election was
necessary to keep his little
country out of the clutches of
President Gamal Abdel Nas
ser of the United Arab Repub
lic and to continue its present
pro-Allied policy.
Opposition Protests
Chamoun's decision caused
an explosion of protests by op
position elements.
From it stemmed the Leb
anese rebellion that started
on May 10 and now, with the
pro-Nasser rebellion in Iraq
and the landing of American
and British troops in Lebanon
and Jordan, has caused a
grave international crisis.
Lebanon's political situation
is singular.
It's population consists of
about 675,000 Christians and
557,000 Moslems.
Because of this, religious
balance, it was decided when
Lebanon attained its inde
pendence from France in
1944 that the country should
have, traditionally, a Chris
tian president and a Moslem
prime minister.
The rebels are Moslems.
They are disorganized. They
have four principal leaders,
who are united on only one
thing: They want to throw
Chamoun out now.
Chamoun and his Moslem
premier, saim es-boin, are
firmly pro-Western and firm
ly against Nasser's attempt to
make himself master of the
Arab world
When the rebellion started,
Chamoun appealed to the
United States for support. He
did so because the rebels were
getting aid in weapons and
men from Syria, now merged
with Egypt in Nasser's U.A.R.
At first, Chamoun and Solh
wanted support through the
United Nations, to seal the
frontier.
But when the situation got
critical, they asked for direct
American help.
Shocked by the sudden,
murderous revolt in Iraq, the
United States started landing
Marines in Lebanon July 15.
Before that, Chamoun had
decided he could not be re
elected. Premier Solh had an
nounced the government
would not change the consti
tution for him. On July 9,
Chamoun announced definite
ly he would not run. But he
said he was determined to
serve out his term.
NEW GADGET 1D CLEAN HOtgej
The Marine landings had
the effect both of strengthen
ing Chamoun against the
rebels and of alienating some
of his own supporters.
In hope that some compro
mise could be reached to end
the rebellion and insure the
peaceful election of a succes
sor to Chamoun, the United
States sent Deputy Undersec
retary Robert Murphy, ,a
noted diplomatic trouble
shooter, to Lebanon.
Matter of Fact jpi.
KUWAIT. BAHREIN
AND AL-HASA
Washington The best
measure of the Western de
feat in the Middle East is the
character of
the remedies
that were dis
discussed by
Secretary of
State Dulles
and Foreign
Secretary Sel
wyn Lloyd.
'In brief, the
American gov
ernment has
Jos-pb Alsop
now three-quarters bought an
idea that has always been pop
ular in the British government
the idea of using the un
peopled oil-rich area at the
head of the Persian Gulf as a
kind of desperate hole-card in
the desperate Middle Eastern
game. Superficially, the hole
card looks attractive.
Even with no oil flowing
from either Iraq or Iran, the
entire British and Western
European oil requirements
can quite easily be met by the
wells in the three little gulf
coast sheikhdoms, Kuwait,
Bahrein and Qatar. All three
are British protectorates. Ku
wait in turn " adjoins Saudi
Arabia's eastern province of
Al-Hasa, while the island of
Bahrein lies just off shore.
And the vast majority of the
oil wells of Saudi Arabia is
concentrated in this one prov
ince, which also contains the
Dahran headquarters and re
finery of the Arabian-American
Oil Co.
TN OTHER words, the West
ern oil-jugular cannot be
cut, so long as the oil flow
from this single area at the
head of the Persian Gulf is
not interrupted. Britain fur
thermore maintains a consid
erable garrison on Bahrein,
and Bahrein is also the base
for British naval units operat
ing in Persian Gulf waters.
The United States also has
some military forces in the
area, at the Dahran air base
close to ARAMCO's headquar
ters and refinery.
To complete the temptation,
Bahrein is the only part of the
area that is inconveniently
over-populated. Al-Hasa prov
ince is all but empty, except
for the workers ARAMCO has
brought in from all over the
Arab world. The native popu
lation of Kuwait is only 35,000
although more than 150,000
non-Kuwaitis also live and
work there now. Qatar was a
mere village sheikhdom be
fore the big oil strike. Even
Bahrein has only a million
people. And although Bahrein
is riddled with pro-Nasser sen
timent, the place has been
calm since the Sheikh of Bah
rein locked up the committee
of Nasser sympathizers who
used to lead the agitation
there.
fTHE British idea is simply
-- to hang on to the Gulf
coast sheikhdoms by military
force if need be. There would
be no great difficulty in doing
this, if the most important oil-
producer happened to be Bah
rein, where British troops are
already stationed. But thel
Bahrein wells are of minor im
portance, and Kuwait and
Qatar are the real prizes, with
Today fir Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
TIME FOR DIPLOMACY
For the moment, there ap
pears to be a pause with
something of the nature of a
military standstill in the Mid
dle East. It
is precarious,
and most cer
tainly it is
temporary.
But it rests,
so it would
seem, on a
recognition in
both camps
that the status
Walter Lippmann quo c a n n 0 t
now be altered by military
means without inordinate and
incalculable risk.
The three Western powers
have agreed that they will
not invade Iraq in order to
make a counter revolution,
and that they will not permit
Turkey or Jordan to march
against Baghdad. On the oth
er hand, it is reasonably clear
that Nasser and Khrushchev
will not now move their mil-
Leaders
Murphy was called out of a
Senate committee hearing the
day after the Marine landings
and told to leave at once. He
did not even have time to
pack his bags. His wife packed
them and sent . them to the
State Department, where he
was being briefed.
Murphy has been consult
ing Lebanese leaders of all
political leanings.
If a compromise is found,
it will be a victory for him
Kuwait by far the biggest
prize of the two.
What Selwyn Lloyd asked
for in Washington, therefore,
was the promise of American
support for military occupa
tion of Kuwait and Qatar, if
Nasserite agitation in the
sheikhdoms' make this step
necessary. According to reli
able sources, John Foster Dul
les at least three-quarters
committed himself to give the
British moral support, provid
ing the legitimate govern
ments of the sheikhdoms ask
the British to aid them with
troops.
This in turn gives special
interest to the sudden appear
ance in Damascus of the pres
ent ruler of Kuwait, Sheikh
Abdullah As-Sabah. The
Sheikh of Kuwait was appar
ently vacationing in the Syr
ian capital when Gamal Abdel
Nasser flew in from Moscow.
Hence the recent meeting be
tween the Sheikh and Nasser
may perhaps have been acci
dental. But taken in conjunc
tion with the Sheikh of Ku
wait's earlier visit to Cairo, it
was "the sort of accident that
makes you think," as one
American policy-maker re
marked.
AT PRESENT, however,
most of the real power in
Kuwait is in the hands of
Sheikh AbduUah Mubarrak.
This uncle of Sheikh Abdullah
As-Sabah is now Kuwait's act
ing ruler. It is thought that if
the ruler himself strays to
wards a deal with Nasser, the
acting ruler can be relied on
to do whatever may be need
ful. Besides the danger in Ku
wait, the danger in Saudi
Arabia cannot be overlooked.
King Saud's virtual abdica
tion in favor of Crown Prince
Faisal has by no means stabil
ized the situation there. A
Nasserite conspiracy to seize
control of the Arabian govern
ment is just as likely, in fact,
as a Nasserite grab for Ku
wait. If this danger material
izes, the British will surely
press the American govern
ment to try to detach and hold
Al-Hasa province. And this
project looks fairly feasible,
if it wins the support of the
virtually independent Gover
nor of Al-Hasa, Sheikh Saud
din Jaloui.
There is, indeed, only one
difficulty about the Persian
Gulf hole-card. In the present
state of the Middle East, the
mere dispatch of British
troops to Kuwait would have
the approximate effect of a
big bomb in a crowded movie
house.
(c) 1958 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Tfu&VUfcuje
DAIRY-SMITH
East Main St.
Nowhere in this wide wonderful world will
you find a more satisfying Ice Cream, not even
in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. .
itary forces against the Amer
ican Marines and the British
paratroopers.
During this momentary bal
ance of power, it is the turn
of the statesmen and the dip
lomats to take over.
A COOL assessment of our
position is the essential
basis of a constructive diplo
matic policy. What happened
in Iraq, the keystone of the
Baghdad Pact and supposedly
the one firm and reliable pro
Western Arab country? Was
King Faisal's government the
victim of external aggression
as were Czechoslovakia and
Poland and Hungary?
It was not. King Faisal's
government was overthrown
swiftly and totally by a con
spiracy of Iraqi officers. What
is most significant is that the
Iraqi army supported the rev
olution immediately and "that
this revolution is manifestly
popular in the country. So,
we would be deluding our
selves if we believed that the
friendly government of Iraq
was subverted by foreign
agents acting contrary to the
national sentiment of the
country.
There is, therefore, no rea
son to hope that there will be
a counter-revolution which re
stores the old Iraqi regime. It
is plain that no kind of mil
itary intervention for exam
ple, by King Hussein of Jor
dan backed by the British and
the Americans would have
any chance of success. It has
been said that what restrains
us is the fear of Russian inter
vention in Iraq. That is not
a bad reason for restraint.
But it is not the only, or even
the final reason. For even if
Russian neutrality were guar
anteed, which it is not, no
Western military intervention
in Iraq could succeed in es
tablishing an independent
Arab government in Baghdad.
There could be only a puppet
government, dependent on the
British and American forces,
an H rlnnmpd to destruction if
they were ever withdrawn
This is another way of saying
that the popular revolutionary
movement of the Arabs can
not be overcome by Western
arms.
THE same fundamental truth
A applies to our present po
sition in the Lebanon. We
cannot successfully entrench
ourselves there in hostile op
position to the Arab move
ment. In fact, we cannot as
sure the independence ol tne
Lebanon with the forces that
are now at Beirut and on tne
beaches nearby. The mae
pendence of the Lebanon can
be assured only if the civil
war is ended and the new
Lebanese state is then guar
anteed protection.
Now, it is almost certainly
true that while the Marines
can protect President Cha
moun against a palace revolu
tion like that in Bagnaaa, tne
Marines are a liability wnen
it comes to making a lasting
settlement of the civil war,
For any Lebanese government
which owes its existence to
the Marines is doomed to de
struction when the Marines
leave. Moreover, the longer
the Marines stay on, the great
er will be the popular oppo
sition to them in the Lebanon
rpHIS leads me to think that
-- our Lebanese policy, as we
have presented it to the U. N.,
is too thin, is lacking in dip
lomatic vitality, and may be
quite sterile. We have said
that the Marines will go out
when a U.N. force replaces
them. As the chances are not
good that the U.N. will set up
a force to replace the Marines,
we are in danger of having to
leave the Marines in the Leb
anon for the indefinite future,
to leave them there not only
without the hope of with
drawal but without the hope
of accomplishing anything
while they remain.
It seems to me that we
should, therefore, come for
ward soon with a large pro
posal for the political future
of the Lebanon. It would nave
to begin with the settlement
of the civil war, perhaps by
the good offices of Mr. Ham
marskiold. The settlement
would be followed by the
neutralization of the Lebanon
under the guarantee of the
U.N., which would include
the interested powers.
We must seek, I think, to
eive Russia and Nasser a po
litical interest and a juridical
reason for allowing the Leb-
at Genessea
GOP Seeking Hexr
Issues, as Old
Ones Dead, Dying
By LYLE C. WILSON
UPI Correspondent
Washington (DPD Peace,
prosperity, government econ
omy and the mess in Washing
ton are four well-tested issues
which seem
not to be
a v a i lable in
this election
year to Re
publican can
didates. Events whol
ly or largely
beyond ad
m i n i stration
Lyie c. wusoa control have
foreclosed all four. The issues
of peace and government
economy were victims of the
cold war in general and, more
specifically, the peace issue
faded with the landing of
U.S. Marines in Lebanon.
Substantially increased un
employment and false alarms
of depression did in the pros
perity issue. The mess in
Washington folded as an issue
under weight of the Adams
Goldf ine serial story.
A congressional election of
fers no routine opportunity
to formulate a statement of
party policy such as the plat
forms which are drafted in
presidential years. Some Re
publican conservatives, there
fore, have talked of drafting
a statement of party prin
ciples. Trial Balloon on Labor
Such a statement would not
be binding It could and might,
however, point up some sub
stitute issues and inspire some
Republican candidates to
make a hard fight on them.
The Republican Senate Policy
committee staff sent up a trial
balloon issue last week an
analysis of organized labor in
politics entitled:
"The Labor Bosses Ameri
ca's Third Party."
Some old pros among Re
publican strategists believe
that the moneji power and the
political ambitions of some
leaders of organized labor of
fer a rewarding issue which
would have natoinal applica
tion and significance. Some
other Republicans would
deem such an issue outright
political suicide. All hands
would agree that it could lead
to dangerous ground.
The staff of the Senate Re
publican Policy committee
was aware of these conflict
ing points of view among Re
publican senators. The com
mittee report contained an
escape hatch for any Repub-
anon to exist as an independ
ent state. There Is no other
way, short of unconditional
and unlimited war, to prevent
indirect aggression while pop
ular feeling is what it is in
the Middle East.
A NEUTRALIZED Lebanon
would not be the end of
the Middle Eastern problem.
But it might be an auspicious
beginning of a settlement.
For it would establish the
principle, which is essential
to any settlement, that the
Soviet Union and the Nasser
confederation have interests
in the Middle East and that
we are prepared to work out
an accommodation.
There will be some, perhaps
many, who believe that an ac
commodation of interests is in
the bad sense of the word, the
Munich sense, appeasement.
For myself, I do not think
that it is appeasement, that
Nasser's part in the Iraqi rev
olution is at all like the dis
mantlement of Czechoslova
kia by Hitler.
Nasser is Nasser, not Hitler,
and while he is difficult and
unfriendly to the West, he is
not the master of a great mil
itary machine, and while we
deal with him, we can keep
our composure. We must not
become the victim of our old
stereotypes, seeing all big in
ternational events in terms of
"Munich," or "Yalta" or
"Pearl Harbor," and there
fore never seeing clearly and
freshly the events themselves
as in fact they are.
(c) 1958 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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of the report rad this note:
Can Be Repudiated
"Neither the memben of
the Republican Policy com
mittee nor other Republican
senators are responsible for
the statements herein con
tained, except such as they are
willing to endorse and make
their own."
Such statements as, for ex-,
ample, this one:
"The hold of the labor
bosses on the Democratic
Party has, for all practical
purposes, rendered respond
sible Democratic leadership
impotent . . . The ultimate
goal of the labor bosses is not
merely to take over the Demo
cratic Party, but to eliminate
it along with the Republi
can Party as a decisive
force in American politics."
Such statements are a mat
ter of political opinion or,
even, of prejudice. Of more
substance as a political issue
might be a question of law
which the staff committee re
port raised in detail. The ques
tion of law was simply this:
Whether the spending of
hundreds of thousands of dol
lars by labor unions to educate
union members politically
during campaigns for federal
office is, in fact, a violation of
the Corrupt Practices Act.
A federal court in Michigan
recently held that such ex
penditures were not in viola
tion although the act relates
to labor unions equally as it
relates to banks and other
corporations. The implications
of the report are thathe Jus
tice Department, now in Re
publican hands, could bring
that issue alive by lert and
vigorous action to challenge
union campaign spending. The
department, however, did jiot
even appeal the Michigan
case.
Communications
Sand-Bum
To the Editor: An ob
noxious North American an
nual herb, franseria acanthi
carpa, the name of the com
mon sand-burr, according to
Webster's New International
dictionary, seems to be thriv
ing in North Medford, espe
cially west of Riverside ave
nue, to as far south as Bartlett
and Fifth streets. It is most
noticeable on vacant lots and
sidewalks that have a park
row. The city power mower
is quite effective where the
sand-burrs are in reach of the
sickle on level ground, and is
a temporary relief to a few
plants.
Name on File,
Medford.
Pierre Renoir, the French
impressionist who died in
1919, produced more than
6,000 paintings.
OSCAR FRALEY
An All -American writer on
all sports is Oscar Fraley, of
United Press International.
His column, "Today's Sport
Parade" and his reports from
ringside and press-box and
sideline win favor with fans
the country over. To get the
most from the sports you like
best, read Fraley daily in
Medford
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