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4 Thursday, August 14, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Medford-STkibune "Everyone in Southern weeon Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph. SP.3-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC 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 Medford . Oregon under Act of March 3 189"i SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy lOe. Daily and Sunday 1 year 115.00 Daily and Sunday 8 moa. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 moa. 4.33 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold HiU. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year f 18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Medfar4 Official Paper of 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 Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B C NEWSPAPER . PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL assocPatiQn Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO : Aug. 14, 1948 (Sartuuay) The Medford Safety Coun ' cil will sponsor a "Child Safety" campaign need month. The city park swimming pool will be completed by Sept. 15, officials hope. 1 20 YEARS AGO ; Aug. 14, 1938 (Sunday) The fourth annual Ashland Shakespeare Festival has set . a new record for attendance and quality of productions. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A number of local democrats attended a picnic in K. Falls today, where speakers stress ed the importance of continu- ing the present democratic , picnic." " 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 14, 1928 (Tuesday) Rogue River valley spokes men are boosting the idea of a cross-state railroad to help market local produce and products. The Ashland Summer Art school is to continue opera Ttions next year. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 14, 1918 (Wednesday) Fred C o w 1 e s, returning from Crater Lake with a car load of guests, discovered that surgeons tape from a first aid '. kit could be used to patch a punctured tire for a few miles at a time. A ball of fire dropped from the sky at Central Point Mon day night, and one woman claimed it was an aeroplane and that she saw it drop a bomb. Yhai's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or she is good. 1. Which veterans organi zation is abbreviated G.A.R.? 2. Coral belongs to the ani mal or vegetable kingdom? 3. Four of the States of the Union have names which end with "e", how many of them can you name? 4. Did Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands reign 25, 35 or 50 years? 5. In which Western State Is the Sequoia National Park, containing the majestic, tow ering giant redwoods? 6. Name the composer of our National Anthem. - x 7. a young hare is known as a cub, kit, leveret, or - chick? 8. If afflicted with ergo phobia, would you dread work, self-praise, or poison ivy? 9. There are four standard : time zones in the continental . U.S., of .which two are East- ern and Pacific; name the : other two. 10. A part of Pennsylvania : is bounded by Lake Erie; true : or false? ' Answers: 1. Grand Army of the Republic. 2. Animal Iting ; dom. 3. Delaware, Maine, New r Hampshire. Tennessee. 4. 50. 5. California. 6. Francis Scotl Key. 7. Leveret. 8. Work. 9. , central and Mountain. 10. True. Debating Society vs. War The United Nations is anathema to some. The national convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution, for instance, thinks the whole idea of a responsible international organi zation is subversive. Others also believe that the United Nations threatens the national soveriegnty of the U. S. And even the clearest-headed, broadest-minded people occasionally have qualms about plac ing the interests of this nation before an interna tional forum. THE biggest single idea behind the U.N. is the x prevention of war. And it is easy to say the U.N. has done nothing to prevent war. But to say so would be to tell an untruth. The U.N. has done a great deal to miti gate international tensions. And it is entirely within the realm of possi bility, even probability, judging by some of the situations of the past decade, that only the United Nations has made it possible to avoid all-out war. This,'of course, cannot be proved. One cannot prove that something which didn't happen would have happened if such-and-such had not been done. DUT as a moral force, as an "international de 1J bating society," if you will, as a forum of world opinion, as a place to take grievances, the United Nations has functioned to take much of the steani out of nationalistic disputes. In doing so it may have prevented a major war. We'll never know, and we'd better be darn glad we-won't. But even at its weakest and least effective, the United Nations stands as a bright spot in a trou bled world, a hopeful sign that perhaps, someday, man will learn to get along without the ultimate stupidity of nuclear war. ine western democracies learned, long ago, that as far as internal government is concerned, legislatures and courts (debating societies!) are far better solutions than battlefields. Why not in international affairs, too? E.A. Freedom to Spell Newspapers and wire services, which usually put considerable emphasis on correct spelling, have had a tough time of it since the focus of international news has been the Middle East. The Arabic tongues do not lend themselves well to transliteration, and it apparently depends largely upon the preference of the translator as to how names, particularly, should be spelled. bnould it be Shehab sal, Feyesel or Feisel? Bagdr.d or Baghdad? All, apparently, are correct. LIARRY Ferguson, executive editor of United Press International, discusses this problem in a letter to UPI subscribers, and comes to the con clusion that "the trick is to pick out one spelling and stay with it." He also pointed out that T. E. Lawrence (the fabled "Lawrence of Arabia") in his book, "Sev en Pillars of Wisdom," spelled names different ways in different places, and that the publisher, after the proofs were completed, wrote to Law rence asking about it. A selection from their correspondence, quoted by Ferguson, goes like this : Q. I attach a list of queries raised by F. who is read ing the proofs. He finds these very lean, but full of inconsistencies in the spelling of proper names, a point which reviewers often take up. Will you annotate it in the margin, so that I can get the proofs straightened? A. Annotated: not very helpfully perhaps. Arabic names won't go into English, exactly, for their conson ants are not the same as ours, and their vowels, like -ours, vary from district to district. There are some 'scientific systems' of transliteration, helpful to the people who know enough Arabic not to need helping, but a wash-out for the world. I spell my names any how, to show what rot the systems are. Q. Jeddah and Jidda used impartially throughout. Intentional? ; A. Rather! - Q. Bir Wadeida, was Bir Wadeidi. ' A. Why not? All one place. ' Q. Nuri, Emir of the Ruwalla, belongs to the "chief family of the Ruana.tf On slip 23 "Rualla horse," and slip 38, "killed one Rueli." In aU later slips "Rualla." A. Should have also used Ruwala and Ruala. Q. The Bisaita is also spelled Biseita. A. Good. Q. Jedha, the she-camel, was Jedhah on Slip 40. A. She was a splendid beast. Q. "Meleager, the immoral poet." I have put "Im mortal" poet, but the author may mean immoral after aU. A. Immorality I know. Immortality I cannot judge. As you please: Meleager will not sue us for libel. THE publisher gave up and the book went to press with this assortment of spellings. A We cannot escape a grudging admiration for this casual approach to spelling, a discipline which has always been one of our stumbling blocks. The good Lord knows that English spell ing is irrational enough as it is, but the rules stick with us time-consuming, illogical, finicky, and apparently permanent. E;A. Contrast There we were, sitting in the Shakespearean Festival theater last night, enjoying "Much Ado About Nothing." On the stage was the happy, complicated com edy, the gay costumes, the amusing dialogue. At one point we glanced up at the stars. There, brightening and fading, was the rocket of Sputnik II moving silently across the sky. From the drama of the Elizabethan play wright to the drama of today's cold war and scientific race,, all in the blink of an eye. It gave us the shivers. E.A. or Chehab? Feisal, Fai Dennis the Menace TM GONNA TRY TO CATCH A Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann THE ANATOMY OF DISCONTENT Last week, speaking as a man who is deeply concerned, Sen. Fulbright brought into open the dis may and anxi ety about our foreign policy which a r e so widespread in this country today. , There is, to be sure, no massive popu Walter Lippmann lar discontent such as there was, for ex ample, when the Korean war had degenerated into a bloody stalemate. But among the leading minds and spirits of the country there exists a sense of foreboding that much of the post-war structure of our policy is undermined and that we are in grave danger of losing control Over our affairs. It might not take more than one more spectacular, en tanglement and embarrass ment, like the present one in Lebanon and Jordan, to pro voke so serious a public reac tion that it might be impos sible to correct our errors and agree upon a coherent and ra tional policy. We must, there fore, take a close look at the discontent with our policy in the hope that it will throw light" on the problem. A MONG the discontented critics of the Eisenhower Dulles conduct of foreign policy, there are two princi pal schools of thought. The one holds that we could and' should be powerful enough to contain, and some would say to reverse, the revo lutionary movements which have their centers in Mos cow, Peiping, and Cairo. The complaint of these critics against the Administration is that it has starved our mili tary establishment, and that it lacks the courage and reso lution to intervene forcibly when, as for example in Iraq, a former ally of the West is submerged by the revolution ary tide. " THE other school holds that our foreign policy in the post - war era, though often constructive as in the Marshall Plan and NATO, has been in many ways vitiated by a very unsound estimate of the pow er available to the United States and of the forces at work in the contemporary world. Those of us who take this view believe that, while the United States must work to keep even in the race of armaments, it can never be powerful enough to contain, Try and By BENNETT CERF- DRESSED TO THE TEETH, a woman in a rather repulsive chemise model came through Chicago the other day, and was confused about a connection she was supposed to make. She tapped the conductor on the shoulder and inquired anxiously, "Do you suppose I should change here?" He took one look at her costume and replied, "If you don't, lady, I predict they'll mob you in Milwaukee." The parlor-game set, by the way, has revived the pastime of fitting odd words into sent ences.' Classic examples: One: Machiavelli. "My old manH Machiavelli good pair of pants for twenty dollars." . Two: Meretricious. "1 wish yez a , Meretricious and a Happy New Year." ' There's a huge truck parked on a New York side street every morning (and undoubtedly owned by a Democrat) that bears this sign in red lettering on the back: "We are" delivering golf balls for Ike." '.. O 1958. by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins; Features Syndicate. FALUN STAR or to push back, by military force the enormous revolution ary movement of the post-war era. We believe,- moreover, that the attempt to contain the revolutions by military force has led us to make a series of commitments .which cannot be fulfilled without inordi nate and incalculable risk. Our commitments about the off-shore islands, Quemoy and Matsu, on the China coast is, so we have been told, delib erately uncertain. But that does not improve it very much. An American defense of these islands is a strategic absurdity, and it does not en hance our prestige in the world to say that we may, though we may not, go to war about these, islands. An other such commitment was the promise to President Cha moun of the Lebanon that we would land Marines if he asked for them. As for ' the recent London meeting of the remaining Baghdad Pact countries, we are m the sorry position of not knowing what Mr. Dulles has promised to do in a part of the world which is strategically at the end of our reach. , WHERE .are, in brief, those who think that our troubles can be cured if we arm more heavily and intervene more readily. And there are those who think that the United States .has Decome overex tended, that it has promised to do more things than it can do, and that the way out of our difficulties is to reduce our military commitments in the Far East and in the Mid dle East, and to seek a'ccohi-. modations with the revolu tionary movements. , . This is, like deciding to diet nr to live not on credit but on income, a painful thing to do.' It is our equivalent in fact of what Britain and France have been going through in accom modating themselves to the fact that they are no longer the great powers in the world that they were -in the. 19th century. We are no longer so great a power in the world as we seemed to be in 1945 when Russia had been devastated by the war, China was in the throes of a civil war,, the Middle East had not yet risen in revolt, whereas we were intact, wealthy, and invin cible. , The period of American su premacy was, as we can now see, a passing phase in human affairs, , and our failure "to learn to live with this great fact of life, the persistence of the illusion among us of our own supremacy, is almost cer tainly the oot of our miscal- Stop Me Indonesia, y Troubles, But Shows Determination By ROBERT MONAHAN UPI Correspondent Jakarta UPD Indonesia marks its 13th birthday as an independent Republic Sunday and moves into a new period which its leaders hope will bring peace and prosperity to Southeast Asia's biggest na tion. On Aug. 17, 1945, two ded icated nationalists stood at at tention outside a private home in Ja"karta and watched Matter of Fact THE SIXTY-FOUR BILLION DOLLAR QUESTION Washington Before very long, the British and Amer ican governments are likely to have to an swer the final ugly . question raised by the catastrophe in the M i d d 1 e East. And to answer this question is a far more ur g e n t and Jos-ph Alsop wcisuvjr Jiuu- lem than any problem in volved in the bizarre debate at the United Nations. For the British government, this all-important question will take the following form: "Are you going to risk an open military occupation of Kuwait and the other little oil sheikdoms in the Persian Gulf, in order to keep at least enough Middle Eastern oil un der your own control to meet your national oil needs?" For the American government, the question will be whether to support such a British op eration, which Britain dare not carry out alone. AS REVEALED in the last report in this space, the rot in the Middle East has gone so far that Gamal Abdel Nasser's hand is already threatening to close on the British-protected oil skeik- doms. Through various friend ly embassies in Cario, the British have forwarded mes sages to. Nasser that they will resort to force rather than let these vital positions in the Persian Gulf fall under his control. Nasser has reportedly replied to these messages with arrogant defiance. Meanwhile, the American government support for a British military occupation of the Persian Gulf shiekdoms has already been condition ally asked for. A half-pf omise of such support has even been given to Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd ' by' Secretary of State John- Foster Dulles All in all, there may not be much time left before the final choice has to be made in London and in Washington. From the American stand point, the main factor in this' choice is quite simple. We cannot simply withdraw the hem of our garment, and say to the British, "No, we will not support you in this mat ter of Kuwait and the oil sheikhdoms." i TO begin where the trouble started, President Eisen hower incurred a clear moral responsibility by his interven tion in the Suez crisis. He prevented' our aUies from pro tecting their vital interests in the Middle East in the way that they thought best. His own plan for protecting those same vital interests has now failed catastrophically. The President cannot, in these cir culations in foreign policy. . : ...... r' IS the . reason why Mr. Dulles has gone around the world promising every nation that would accept" the prom ise an American, military guarantee. In this, Mr. Dulles has shown himself to be not a prudent and calculating dip lomat but a gambler who is more lavish than any otner Secretary of State has ever dreamed of being with prom issory notes engaging the blood, the treasure, and the honor of this country. The President who endorses all these promissory notes, is the man who, when they threaten to be cashed m, shrinks from the consequences and pulls back the country and Mr. Dulles from the brink. It all adds up to the kind of policy which Theodore Roosevelt used to denounce as "forcible - feeble." It is forcible in its promises and it is feeble in its deeds. That will not for long satisfy a na tion which respects itself and means to be respected aboard. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. "Puts Mosquitoes . Into A Tailspin" " nr IT4 A04 a Science 2nd greatest contribution to Miners. Just as enecovc ioay. Be Sure You Gef BUIIACH Sofa ly To Us tcoitomlcol on 13th Birthday, Plagued while the Republic's red and white flag was hoisted cere moniously for the first time. The two men were Sukar no, a Dutch-educated civil en gineer, and Mohammad Hat ta, a scholarly economist. - Sukarno (like many Indon esians, he has only one name) has served as the republic's president for the entire 13 troubled years of independ ence. Hatta resigned from the By Joseph Alsop cumstances, just tell the Brit ish to go hang. There is another, more practical reason, too, why the President cannot just tell the British to go hang. .The loss of all their Middle Eastern oil sources will menace the British with early bank ruptcy. British . bankruptcy will in turn quite fatally dis rupt the Western alliance, and in one way or another, just about all the vast Ameri can investments, in Britain as an ally, in NATO, in Western defense, wilj go down the drain if Britain goes bank rupt. These are the arguments for supporting a British mili tary operation in the Persian Gulf. The arguments against supporting such an operation are also formidable. In the first place, the West ern powers have now sus tained the kind of Middle Eastern defeat that can hard ly be remedied by hanging on to a final toe-hold in the area, however rich in oil the toe-hold may be. This is a time for facing facts and cut ting losses. The triumph of Gamal Abdel Nasser is a fact that has to be faced, however ugly it may be. TN THE second place, hang- ing on to a toe-hold in the Persian Gulf will be an im mensely dangerous and dam aging thing to do. At present, Gamal Abdel .Nasser is vici ously anti-Western, but he is not at all pro-Communist. At present, again, Gamal Abdel Nasser is beginning to experi ence grave difficulties with the local forces, in Syria and elsewhere, that tend to divide his expanding Arab empire, and normally these difficul ties will grow greater as time passes.' But let the British re sort to force to keep the toe hold in the Persian Gulf, and all this will automatically change, almost over night. On the one hand, this, kind of British operation will auto matically provide Nasser with precisely the kind of grievance he needs to hold his empire closer together, All the clashes of interest be tween one region and another will be forgotten in a hate B r i t i s h-hate-America cam paign of unprecedented feroc ity. Nasser himself will then be strengthened very greatly. On the other hand, and much more important, the contemplated British opera tion in the Persian Gulf, will automatically thrust Nasser and his new Arab empire into the waiting arms of the Krem lin. Nasser will need the Kremlin's support for all the measures he will surely take against the West, such as cut ting the Suez Canal once again. He will surely seek the Kremlin's support. The result ing danger of general war will be considerable; and in any case, the Kremlin's power in the Middle East will be im mensely strengthened. Thus the question arises, whether there is any way to escape from the horrible choice above-outlined. r The next report in this space will attempt to answer, (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. "I often wonder why people do not make more of the marvelous power there is in kindness. It is the greatest lever to move the hearts of men that the world as4 ever known greater by far than anything that mere inge nuity can devise or subtlety suggest." f Andrew Chapman Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT vice-presidency in December, 1956, and has since declined repeatedly ta rejoin the gov ernment. He remains, how ever, with Sukarno, a prin cipal hero of the independence movement. Successfully Quell Rebellion The last year, without oues- tion, has been the most cru cial and trying period "the young nation has experienced. A campaign to wrest con trol of western New Guinea from the Dutch focused, some times painfully, the spotlight of world attention on Indon esia and brought a fresh wave of economic problems as well. The campaign against the Dutch was followed by a re bellion in the outer islands which had chafed for years over grievances with the cen tral government. The untested .Indonesian armed forces succeeded bril liantly in militarily crushing the rebellion. But the main offensives and , the mopping up war that continues in the jungles of - Sumatra and the Celebes have put a further strain on the economy. The Republic s leaders ack nowledge that the country is faced with problems that would tax severely even the most stable of nations. But they are confident that these problems can be over come with the same spirit and determination that gained the island nation of 82 million persons its independence from The Netherlands. . Period of Survival President Sukarno- fre quently speaks of the "period f . oi survival any young na tion must go through. The next step, he says, is creation of "a just and prosperous so ciety." Economic troubles aside, Indonesia takes pride in gains maae since independence in Editorial Comment HIGH-HANDED It was the sort of sugges tion the loyal residents of Southern Oregon couldn't take lying down, and they didn't. In Portland the Ore gonian, after saying sweet things about Ashland's Shake speare festival, suggested that the festival be moved to Port land for a year, just for the centennial year. It would be a great attraction, opined the Portland daily. It sure would be a great attraction for Portland. The Medford Mail Tribune, pub lished hi the backyard of the famed Shakespeare festival, immediately took the Ore gonian to task. The Medford paper admitted only boredom at the practice of Californians who try to swipe Crater Lake, but intense irritation at Port- landers who want Southern Oregon's big show. Portland will have to strug gle along without the Ashland festival. It was a high-handed suggestion in the first place. The centennial year marks 100 yesrrs of statehood for all of Oregon, not just for Port land. Object of the celebra tion is that it be state-wide. Too ; many accusations that Portlanders want to steal the whole show for themselves have already been made.' Sug gestions, such as the Oregom- an's, serve only to make the rest of us suspicious of Port land's hoggishness. It should be made clear that the atti tude expressed by the Port land paper is not the attitude of the committees planning the centennial. Eugene Rtg- ister-Guard. About one-half of the sur faced highways in the United States now have painted di viding strjpes running down the middle of the roadbed. o - . PHONE" SP 2-8030 the fields of health, education and foreign affairs. Medical workers, assisted by international organiza tions, are waging a continuous battle against diseases like malaria and yaws. The ri- sults have been encouraging. ine nation can boast that now well more than half of its population is literate, while under Dutch rule only a Dare nandiul of Indonesians could read or write in the Lat in alphabet. Indonesia is highly conscii ous of its place in the Afro Asian family of nations. In 1955 Indonesia sponsored a historic unprecedented con ference at Bandung, West Java, where leaders of these nations assembled to talk aljout common problems and aspirations. The republic since its incep tion has hewed to what its leaders call an "active, inde pendent policy" steering clear of alignment with any major power bloc. The leaders say. this policy met its crucial test during the last year when Indonesia was thrust into the world spot light and subjected ' to pres sures from all sides. Communications Red Face To the Editor: Taking some. thing for granted can -terminate in embarrassment. That very thing happened to-me Aug. 11, and was my face red, when a strange but very pleas ing voice said over the phone, "You don't know me, but I did want to tell you there are others here who read the Graf ton, North Dakota, paper be sides you." She went on to say her paper had arrived and she had read an article I sent to the Walsh County Record, stat ing that I had sent to the Mail Tribune an account f the series of stories the Graf ton newspaper would carry soon, . titled "Know - Your North Dakota." Everything of interest about the state would be mentioned. To make sure it would im press the transplanted North Dakotans who would read the Tribune, I copied the Graf ton editor's article (verbatim), yes, it wasword for word. I surmise that it is against newspaper policy to reprint from another paper, and there fore the Tribune didn't print my letter, and my face is red because the ex-NJ). people who read both the Tribune and Walsh County Record may consider me a fibber. I will be forever grateful to the M. T. if this appears soon. Emma Lou Carpenter, 811 Sherman st., Medford. MONEY At Crater Finance you may borrow for any worthy while purpose on your v FURNITURE - AUTO SALARY and repay in monthly In stallments. You may choose the terms most suit able to you up to 24 months. - x Lean may ba paid in ad vane or in full at any timt. Crater Finance CORPORATION 135 Pine Street Central Point Phone NO 4-1273 Frank Wilkinson, Mgr. Convenient Parking
