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4 Thursday, August 7, 195S MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtTRIBUNE "Everyone ia Southern 'regoo Published Dally except Saturday bj MEDFORD PRINTING CO 83 North Fir St. Ph. SP-2-SU1 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manapei GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr KMC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act or March 3, ibi SUBSCRIPTION RATES Fy Mail In Advance: Copy NJe. Dally and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Dally and Sunday mom. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Talent end on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 130 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper ef Jackson Connty "United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisuo. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. 3 C. NEWSPAPEt . PUBLISHERS 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I association U W 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 Aug. 7. 1948 (Saturday) Medford women are consid ering joining a state-wide Consumers' Crusade against the high price of meat. Eleven members of the Ash land Riding association have returned from a 109-mile trek along the Rogue river from Galice to Gold Beach. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 7. 1933 (Sunday) Jackson county farmers en joyed the annual Pomona Grange picnic last Sunday at Jackson Hot Springs. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Sixth st. is being rehabilitated, and when completed, gives prom ise of producing some new speed marks, in drivers get ting to work before they started." 30-YEARS AGO Aug. 7. 1928 (Tuesday) Ashland summer school of art will close its session this year with an art exhibition by students. The Medford school board has leased the First Methodist church building on North Bartlett st. to handle over flow from the junior high school this fall. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 7. 1918 (Wednesday) Twelve more Jackson coun ty youths leave for Camp Fre mont, Calif. The state highway commis sion has decided to proceed at once with paving Ashland hill rd. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; rive or six is good. 1. There is a limit to the number of TJ. S. pennies one may use to pay a debt; true or false? 2. Which is heavier by weight, volume for volume coffee cream or whipping cream? 3. A deep orange color may be produced in canaries by a special diet; true or false? 4. Is it the male or the female black widow spider that is harmless to man? 5. How many guns make up a salute for the President? 6. In Greek mythology, the Cyclops were a race of giants noted for what particular peculiarity? 7. Some of the present day Big Trees of California were growing before Christ was born; true or false? 8. Who wrote "A Christmas Carol;" the story in which Abenezer Scrooge is a prin cipal character? 9. How many yards apart are the opposite goal posts in a college football game? 10. Is the god of sleep Or pheus, or Morpheus? Answers: 1. False (All U.S. coins are legal tender for debts); 2. Coffee cream; 3. True; 4. Male; 5. Twenty-one; 6. Having only one eye; 7. True; 8. Charles Dickens; 9. 120 yards; 10. Morpheus. Salem WD The state board of control has approved expenditure of $10,000 for wrecking the old heating plant at the state penitenti ary, j Why "Repeaters What creates a hardened criminal, a repeater or, in the words of the social workers, a reci divist';? Will Turnbladh, director of the National Pro bation and Parole association (who is known here from his earlier visits in connection with the campaign for the juvenile detention home some years ago) has prepared a nation-wide study of gives some of the reasons. UE entitles it "Recipe How to make sure that first offenders be come hardened criminals." Here it is: A proved recipe for society to use if it wants to guar antee that the person who commits his first offense will go on to commit others is: 1. Place the offender in "cold storage" in an under staffed detention home (if he is a child) or a jail which has no trained staff and no program before he is tried and sentenced. This will confirm his idea that society has no faith in him. 2. Have the social or presentence investigation of the first offender done by untrained or overworked proba tion officers who, for lack of skill or lack of time, can only make a superficial stab at uncovering causes for and backgrounds of the delinquent or criminal act the basis of sound sentencing. 3. Have the judge accompany his sentence with ad monitions or threats; have him decide on the sentence without the individual study necessary to determine whether there are underlying behavior problems which may grow into serious or dangerous behavior. 4. If you place the offender on probation, assign him to an untrained or overloaded probation officer who can give him only nominal supervision and guidance which is nothing more than ports to the ofiice, or the probation officer spends a couple of minutes at the offender's home once a month or once every two months. This will not only fail to help the offender help himself, an inherent feature of proba tion, but further distorts his already misshapen idea of the law and its agents. 5. Commit the offender to an unduly long period in a correctional institution so that he loses incentive, and arrange for him to be released only after he has reached the peak of his response to the correctional program. 6. Give him a perfunctory five- or ten-minute parole "hearing." If, as a result, he is not released, the super ficial procedure is sure to demoralize him; if he is re leased, the parole board has obviously not calculated the risk very carefully. 7. Assume that an untrained or overworked parole officer can give the parolee the guidance and reinforce ment he so critically needs during his first few months back in free society, where every day he must make de cisions for which he was "deconditioned" in the regi mented routine of the institution. 8. Encourage his pals, neighbors, or fellow employees to shun and distrust him so that he can't find his way back into the stream of normal life. There are other ingredients, of course, but these are enough to turn out a recognizable dish. And the hard fact is that we are using this recipe in a great many com munities and states today. TTHIS, obviously, is the opinion of a man who A is devoted to the rehabilitation theory of punishment, as opposed to the punitive theory. But there is much to be said for the practical ity of his views. If it is a convicted person like a net gain for society both in terms of the cash-on-the-line which must be paid for long prison sentences, and in terms of wasted productivity. There are some criminals for whom the only safe solution is a long term in prison unsatisfac tory as that may be for everyone concerned. This applies to first-offenders, But if a first-offender a goodly proportion of them can be, as has been proven then everyone is ahead. E.A. Colored Money Paper currency in Canada, an editorial in the Astorian Budget notes, different denominations. Some banks which issue travelers' checks-also use the color system to 10s, 20s and so on. Lookmp- into our battered wallet after tav- CD day, it is impossible to we have all Is, or a 5, or The color system is prevent handing someone a $5 when you in tended to give out a $1. Who knows, with logic behind it, the day may come when we refer respectfully to the "long red" as well as the "long green." E.A. West-Russ Religious Talks Maybe they are under the Kremlin's thumb, says the World Council of Churches, but they are still our brothers in Christ. So the World Council of Churches has scheduled, in The Netherlands on Friday, Aug. 8, talks with Russian Orthodox church leaders on "closer relationships." The World Council, formally founded at Am sterdam in 1948, is the chief international body promoting the so-called ecumenical movement. This is the attempt to join Christian churches now separate into a whole through their recognition of a common faith. Orthodox churches from several countries of eastern Europe are already cooper ating with the Council. fJNDER Khrushchev the Soviet Union has ab- andoned some of the open hostility to the church that characterized Stalin's regime. Even back in 1954 and 1955 Khrushchev laid down a take-it-easy line on suppressing religious activi ties and leaders. All the same, the Soviet government continues its promulgation of atheism among young people. And all the evidence indicates that the church is tolerated behind the Iron Curtain only as long as it is "good" that is, supports the Govern ment's political, economic and foreign policies, or at least refrains from opposing them, E.R.R. 99- a statement, based on criminal repeaters, which for More Crime," or "mollycoddling" to treat a human being, it is also too, on occasion. can be salvaged and has different colors for - ' distinguish between 5s, A a tell at a glance whether even a 10 or 20. logical, and would help Dennis the Menace WOULO YOU PLEASE Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann A DULLES FORMULA While we do not know much about the meeting in Peiping over the week end between the Russians and the Chi nese, we do know that it has added a new compli cation to a sumrnif meet in g. Khrush chev's original proposal had the great prac Walter Lippmann tical advantage that it looked to the Middle East without raising the problems of the Far East. On this essential point, Gen. de Gaulle's pro posal took advantage of what really was an important con cession, and offered to meet at the summit without Red China participating. But our own counter pro posal which insisted upon im bedding a summit meeting in the Security Council meant not only that Mao was not to be present but that Chiang had the right to be present and in case there was any vot ing under the Council's pro cedure ,to" exercise a veto. Now Mr. Dulles has missed the bus, and if there is to be a summit meeting at all, we mustexpect that in one way or another Mao will have a part in it. TN MY OWN view I am un I happy and apprehensive about the way we are being pushed backwards with our minds confused into a summit meeting. For judging by Mr. Dulles' press conference last week he has not cast himself in the role of -a statesman who knows that to make progress towards stability in the Middle East he must give as well as take. He is playing the part of a litigat ing lawyer who hopes to win an argument. He is out to prove first, that the interven tion' in Lebanon and Jordan was legal. Having been done at the invitation of the legit imate governments, it is not, therefore, aggression. This is undoubtedly true. And second, he means to turn the table, and charge the Russians and the United Arabs with "indi rect aggression." If someone had tried to de vise a formula most likely to set off a rhetorical explosion which will poison the air, he could not have found a more sure-fire mischief-maker. . SOMEONE to whom the Pres ident will listen- should warn him-, that he will make a great mistake if he thinks that he can dominate the sum mit conference with changes of indirect aggression. For the Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A GLAMOUR GIRL whose escapades are faithfully chron icled in the best gossip columns confided to one scribe that she always jumped out of rays shone into her boudoir. She neglected .to add that her boudoir window faces west. A lady investor explained the secret of her stock opera tions to a gentleman friend. "I just look at a company's an nual balance sheet," she stated. "If the total assets and the total liabilities are exactly the same, I know everything's all right" v Two actresses who make be lieve they love each other dear ly were dining' together at the Algonquin., 'Tve just reached the dangerous age 30, you know," admitted one coyly. "How amazing," reacted the other. "What delayed you?" The marriage of a prominent sports magnate has reached the nip-and-tuck stage: he takes the nip and she has to tuck him into bed. O 1838, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate. BLOW UP YOUR CHEST truth is that indirect aggres sion that is to say, propa ganda, infiltration, bribery, subversion is an old instru ment of power politics, and in our time it is the way the cold war is fought. Both sides use it when they think they can do so to their own(advantage. It would impair, not enhance, the President's moral credit if he were to become blindly self-righteous and were to tell a knowing and skeptical world that we do not resort to what he calls indirect aggression and that only our adversary ies do. Panama will be sitting on the Security Council; a living reminder of how the United States obtained , the Canal Zone in order to build the ca nal. Guatemala was only re cently the scene of .a suc cessful coup, publicly ' ap plauded by Mr. Eisenhower himself, to oust an anti-American and fellow traveling gov ernment. The President will be reminded of what hap pened in Iran when Mossa degh was pushed out. Over the whole of the Pres ident's denunciation of exter nal interference against exist ing governments will hang the Dulles theory of the libera tion of Eastern. Europe, and the obvious fact that if we knew a way to overturn the existing governments without the enormous risks of war, we should be only too happy to use that way. j THE central fact is that in the cold war today, the op portunities open to our adver saries are much greater than those open to us. For we are opposing three big revolution ary movements the Russian, the ' Chinese and the Arabs which have a potent appeal to the intellectual leaders and to the masses of backward coun tries. Not all countries are vulnerable to these revolu tionary movements. But a great many countries are, and it is in them that indirect ag gression works. Governments are not easily overthrown from abroad unless there is already within the country a strong disposition to encour age and to receive external aid. The thesis, propounded by Mr. Dulles and accepted . by Mr. Eisenhower, amounts to a demand that in the weapons of the cold war, our adver saries shall disarm, and in ef fect acquiesce in their own military containment, as for example, by the remaining members of the Baghdad Pact. Mr. Dulles is telling the President to demand the im possible and national policies based on impossible demands Stop Me bed the first moment the suns life Communications From Cancer Society To the Editor: Another Can cer Crusade by the Oregon Di vision, American Cancer So ciety, has been successfully concluded, thanks to a gen erous public, thousands of dedicated volunteer crusaders and the great support of ths press, radio and television. The Society's prime concern is to save lives through re search and education. Because of the vast amount of space and time you devoted to the crusade, the people of Oregon responded generously when solicited by volunteers for contributions to continue fi nancing of the Society's life saving program. Our sincere thanks for your help. James B. Nibley, State) Chairman 1958 Cancer Crusade 1325 S.W. Morrison st. Portland 5, Ore. Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop KHRUSHCHEV'S EVERLASTING PEACE ' Washington There is one thing you can say. for certain about Nikita Khrushchev's 73 l.o n g meeting 1 with Mao Tse- tung. Their com munique c o n t ains the most threaten i n g language that has ever a p p e ared in C o m m u n ist s i a tement of Jos-Dh Alson ciiaidcici. -i- "The aggresive bloc of West ern powers," says the com munique, ". . . (are) bringing mankind to the brink of a war catastrophe. They should know, however, that if the imperialist war maniacs should dare to impose war on the people of the world, all countries and peoples who love peace and freedom will unite closely to wipe out clean the imperialist aggressors and so establishing everlasting world peace." Those words, being inter preted, are a threat to "wipe out clean" the leading nations of the free world, and so establish a! Communist world empire. They reflect the change in the balance of ter ror (as the great Churchill used to call it) which has been flaccidly permitted by the present American lead ership. THERE is also another thing that you can say, with at least a high degree of cer tainty, about this Khrushchev Mao get-together. The an nounced presence of the Chi nese and Soviet defense min isters, Marshal Peng Teh-huai and Marshal Rodion Malinov sky, means that important military topics were on the agenda. If the meeting's only purpose had been to keep the Chinese happy, about the famous summit meeting that is supposed to relax tensions, the two Marshals would not are very unwise indeed. They are likly to lead a country into a dilemma where it must choose between a retreat which is humiliating and an advance which may be disas trous. MR. DULLES is concerned, and rightly so, by the progress of tne revoiu tionary movement in the Mid dle East. But he is indulging1 in a legal day-dream, and is in the highest degree unrealis tic, if he thinks, the President can induce Mr. Khrushchev, or the United Nations, to agree to a legal prohibition that is more than a pious plat itude. It is a startling footnote to Mr. Dulles' thesis that hav ing i announced his doctrine about indirect, aggression on Thursday, he followed it up on Saturday by recognizing the revolutionary government of Iraq, presumably a product of indirect aggression. The real problem of the Western statesmen is to find the ground on which an ac comodation can be reached with the revolutionary move ments which now dominate so much of Asia, and are reach ing into Africa. That ground is not easy to find. But Mr. Dulles, it appears, is not ser ously looking for it. He is too busy, too tired, too discour aged, too stale. What Mr. Dul les is doing is to resist and then to retreat, as Generals do when they have no better option than to fight. a series of rear guard actions. ' It is beginning to look as if the President, who has to be carried along by his ad visors, needs the help of some fresher minds. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. HELP US! We Need Clothing, Shoes, -Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring 3-7335 Pi T ' JSr Russia Seen Pushing Red China For World Power Recognition By JOSEPH W. GRIGG UPI Correspondent London (DPD There are signs that the Communist bloc is readying a full dress cam paign to force recognition for Red China as a world power. , For years the Kremlin has tried unsucessfully to get the Chinese Nationalists booted out of the United Nations. Moscow wants their perma nent Security Council seat switched to Red China. -That at least would insure that Russia would not always find herself in a minority of one in that body. But the Communist cam paign now appears to be push ing for something bigger. Quite simply, Communist China is trying to stake a have been asked to join the party. The Peking talks were be yond doubt an event .of the utmost importance the kind of event that positively de mands to be interpreted. The two points above, concerning the language of the communi que and the presence of the Marshals, are the only solid ground on which an interpre tation can be based. But why this sudden, extreme threat? And what military topics were the Marshals there to talk about? There is at least one intense ly disagreeable but quite pos sible answer to both questions. The Marshals may have been chatting about another at tempt on Quemoy and the Matsus the little off-shore islands the Chinese Commu nists threatened to take in 1954-'55. THREE years have , passed since the Kremlin switched the Communist pressure-hose from the Far East to the Mid die East. By now, the pressure- hose has pretty well washed out every vital Western posi tion in the Middle East. The State Department is not ad mitting it yet in public but it has privately acknowledged that Nasser's most recent sue cess in Baghdad has at least thoroughly undermined all the positions that virtually seem to remain, in Saudi Arabia, in Jordan and Lebanon, and in the Persian- Gulf Coast sheikdoms. In this same period, the last three years, the balance of terror has also been al lowed to tilt periously far in favor -of the Communist bloc. And at the climax of this pe riod, in the recent ' Middle Eastern crisis, the Western powers have talked big; but they have also let their feeble ness and lack of resolution show alj. too plainly, between the mouthfuls of big talk. AH these parallel develop ments have the utmost mean ing for the very exposed posi tions, like Quemoy and the Matsus and Berlin too, for that matter. Nothing what ever has defended these posi tions except the appearance of American resoluteness plus the balance of terror. llHEN the Chinese Commu " nists were last threaten ing to seize the little islands off Formosa, Secretary Dulle's announced policy was to "Keep them guessing" about what our .response would be. They do not need to guess very hard now, to know that the American government, in the new and far more un favorable balance of terror, is not going to use H-bombs to save Quemoy. Since, then, moreover, the Chinese Communists have; completed every imaginable military preparation for an attack on the off-shore is- "True friendship is ever fine and beautiful, but it is not accomplished with handshaking. There must be an exchange of something rich and sweet, something that will enliven the heart with. happiness. There must be , some service, no matter how small, that will endure." . ' - Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse ' Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 28030 claim for herself as a world power with a finger in the global politics pie. Like it or not, the Russians are having to push Peiping's campaign. That appears to have been one of the main results of Nikita Khrushchev's hush-hush conference with Mao Tse-tung last week end. Reds Warn Britain The first tip-off on Red China's new claims came early in the Middle East crisis, The British charge d'affaires in Peiping was called in and handed a note from the Chi nese Communist government ordering Britain to get out of Jordan immediately and warned that the results would be "grave" if she did not. Mystified British officials wondered whether Red China was planning a Far East diver sion to help out Moscow at a moment when both the United States and Britain were fully" occupied' in Leb anon and Jordan. The more pessimistic view was that Red China might even launch an attack against Hong Kong or Formosa if the West be came seriously involved mili tarily in the Middle East. But Peiping's move took on a wider significance following Khrushchev's visit to Mao. The Soviet leader's note to the. West on Tuesday killing all prospects of a summit meeting remarked pointedly that the UJST. Security Coun cil includes "instead of the legitimate representatives of the great Chinese people's re public, the representative of the political corpse, Chiang Kai-shek." Hints No Accident The notes also remarked "this great power exists, grows stronger and is developing in dependently .of whether it is Improvement Bill On Portland Ballot Portland (DPD A "pack age" long-range capital im provements measure will go to Portland voters in the No vember general election. ine $39,555,000 measure calls for both tax levies and sale of city bonds to finance projects including park im provements, traffic, control, sewer 1 repairs, sewage dis posal facilities and recreation al projects. The city council Wednes day decided to put the mea sure before the voters without amendment. ' WERE THEY SURPRISED! Johnson City, Tex. (UPD The sheriffs office here re ceived a call Wednesday from Brown County Sheriff Ray Masters, saying he was hold ing one of their prisoners 125 miles away. The Johnson City authorities admitted they didn't know the man had es caped. land or, indeed, an attack on Formosa. Fukien Province, which used to be empty and cut off from'China by its sur rounding mountains, is now dotted with air fields and fully opened up to support a major operation. Meanwhile if you leave out the H-bombs, our forces in the Pacific are now far weaker than they were when the Korean agres sion took place. It is a pretty frightening pattern. As yet only" & small minority in the U.S. govern ment thinks that Khrushchev and Mao talked about exploit ing this pattern at their re cent meeting. But if something is not done to change the pat tern, it will be exploited next time, if not this time. Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune . Inc. o recognized or. not by certain governments." One thing is certain these pointed hints did not appear in Khrushchev's notes by ac cident. Diplomats here are convinced they are the open ing wedge in a new Soviet drive for recognition of Red China. Taken in conjunction with Peiping's "warning" to Brit ain, they seemed also to indi cate a new point of departure in Red Chinese policy. Hither to, the Chinese Communists have shown direct interest in world politics only where the Far East was involved for example, in Korea and Indo china. Now they have pushed their claims further afield into the Middle East. Editorial Comment SHAKESPEARE IN OREGON William Shakespeare, great est of all playwrights, never heard of Ashland, but it's a town that's continuing the greatness of his name. This is the month of night ly performances which make up the annual Oregon Shake spearean Festival there. This 18th event includes 39 con secutive performances of four of Shakespeare's great plays, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Troilus and Cressida and Merchant of Venice. For anyone who has not seen one of the performances at Ashland, it should be a must. True, the plays appeal mostly to the dilettantes of the arts, but the experience of seeing a slice of another age and country makes it worthwhile for even the cas ual drama acquaintance. Several staffers from The News-Review attended the festival on -its opening night last week. From the annual Feast of the Tribe of Will in Lithia park to the outdoor performance of "Much Ado About' Nothing" the authen ticity made me feel like I was rubbing elbows with the Eliz abethan in "merrie olde Eng land." - Authenticity is the byword of the festival, and it is be cause of it that Ashland is now a month-long cultural center of the world, ranking with Stratford, Shakespeare's home town, and Salzburg. The plays are presented from an authentically con structed stage in the Eliza bethan manner. The audience sits under the stars in a sprawling enclosed area, sur rounded by pennant bedecked walls. Shakespearean students from all over the country take part in the 100 or more roles involved in the rotation of four plays. Whether a' person is an art lover or not, he will come away from an interesting eve ning with plenty- to talk about. And a little culture never hurt anyone, I found.' I think it's a mark of dis tinction that Oregon, a1 state which is still considered by many in the United States as a place for cowboys and In dians, should gain interna tional note for its cultural center in Ashland. Roseburg News-Review. THE DANMOORE HOTEL 1217 SW Morrison St. PORTLAND, OREGON All transient guests. All those who come, return. Rates not high, not low. Free garage, TV s and radios. Reputation for cleanliness. Reservations by long distance phone refunded on request upon arrival Beverly Coleman.
