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Newspaper Page Text4 Thursday, September 18, If 58 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFGRDtKTEIBUNB "Everyone to Southern Oregon Beads The Mail Tribune" published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RlXHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ZRIC W. ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SDorta Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women'i Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Indeoendent Newspaper Entered at second class matter at Mecxord Oregon under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year 115.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. s.uu Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Pnoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sundayj-1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International 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. r NEWSPAPER .ssssB PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassocIiat :3T8N 7 Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson .County History from the filer of TWe Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 18. 1948 (Saturday) Southern Oregon college in ducts more than 200 freshmen today. The Oregon Medical society convention ends today. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 18. 1938 (Sunday) Lester L. Lewis, govern ment hunter, trapped a huge timber wolf on Red moun tain, the first in .Jackson county in several years. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Fall overcoats showed up in dis play windows last week, and the mercury promptly soared to 99 and 100. Popcorn wag ons have also started winter operations." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 18. 1928 (Tuesday) A local Red Cross drive has begun to aid hurricane vic tims, in Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin islands. Medford Business college . opens fall term. . 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 18. 1918 (Wednesday) People in Medford and Jacksonville are up in arms against S. S. Bullis' proposal to halt operations of the rail road between the two cities. The Jackson county Red Cross chapter has been desig nated a collection center to receive fruit pits and nut shells which are used in the manufacture of gas masks. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; fire or six is good. 1. What is a drone airplane? . 2. The names of eight States of the U.S. begin with the letter M; name them. 3. In which country was gunpowder invented? 4. On what river is Stalin grad? 3. Who wrote: "Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet"? 6. Into which ocean does India extend? 7. What was the real name of Stonewall Jackson? 8. Polio is an abbreviated name for what disease? 9. The Audubon Society was organized for what purpose? 10. Van Dyck was a por trait painter, genre, or histor ical painter? Answers: 1.. One flown by radio control. 2. Maine, Mas sachusetts, Maryland. Missis sippi, Missouri, Minnesota. Montana, Michigan- 3. China. 4. Volga. 5. Rudyard Kipling. 6. Indian Ocean. 7. Thomas Jonathan. 8. Poliomyelitis. 9. Protection of bird life. 10. Por trait painter. Nixon Will Speak In Portland Oct.' 3 Portland (IJPD Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon will speak at a $49.50 plate din ner at the Masonic Ballroom here Friday Oct. 3. Alan Green, Jr., chairman of the Multnomah County Re publican Central Committee, said the balcony of the ball room will be reserved for high school and college stu dents who will hear the vice president but not have to pay for the dinner. Generalist vs. Specialist "The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should. all be as happy as kings." So goes the old rhyme. It IS full of things so many things it is im possible to keeD un with them. No man. sadlv can pretend any more to all thje signiticant happenings in the world. All he can do is straggle to keep abreast, if i l n j j. i x. j . i ne cares at au ; or w jusc till 1 1 up with tnose in wnicn ed. pHOUGHTS of this nature are constantly in the back of the mind of a conscientious news paperman, for it is his job to try to bring as much of the world to his readers as he can. It is impossible to do the entire job. The best that can. be done in the field of daily newspaper- dom is to skim the cream off the top of the news, hoping and trying the most significant, the most immediate that is publication. To complicate the job, the interests of more of his readers are broadening. THERE was a day and not too long ago, eith er when a daily newspaper which chron icled the political happenings of the day, the accidents, and some of tivities of mankind, could be said to have been doing its job. Today that Today people are interested in art, in science, in the humanities. They want to know the whys and wherefores of the news, as well as the whats, wheres and whens. This is all to the good. It bespeaks a more literate and more thoughtful readership and citi zenry. But it complicates the paper tries to be, all things to all men. It makes it, in fact, an impossible job. COME papers come closer to it than others. A few of the really and the Christian Science Monitor, which is in a class by itself, devote much space to drama, art, music, literature, science, education, government, religion, sports, travel, ing, business and finance, movies and television virtually eveiy facet " A smaller newspaper this although it strives for a balanced coverage of the important news in each field. But even the big ones do not cover the field completely. Nor can the "general" news magazines, even with more time to select, condense and interpret. As a result a host. each of these subjects, can newspapers or news i IN THE field of "general" news .alone, there is a wide diversity of Take, for example, the front page of last night's Mail Tribune alone. There were stories from Taipeh, Formosa, St. Louis, Mo., balem, ban Francisco, United Nations, N.Y., Washington, Portland, Jackson Lake, Wyo., Klamath Falls, Detroit, Little Rock, Ark., and Atlantic City, N.J., as well as 10 stories which originated in Jackson county. They dealt with such far-separated subjects as the possibility of a U.N. seat for Red China, to the agreement to end a strike by Ford Motor Company workers, to a badly-needed new car pet for the mayor's office in the city hall. - IT IS fun, and a challenge, to sift through the thousands upon thousands of words . which flow into a newspaper office each day, to weigh and eliminate, to write and inquire, to check and confirm, to report and discuss. . But in today's world the "number of things" have grown to such staggering proportions, it is a task and a challenge which is never complete ly fulfilled, nor can it ever be. The "complete man" of the Renaissance the expert in all fields of human knowledge is an. impossibility. The scientist, the artist, oftentimes the writer, is bound up and limited by his own specialty, his own compartment of knowledge, in which he may be an expert. But he is only an outsider, a "layman," to the other specialists. yHUS the problem of communication is compli- cated. 1 Sometimes the nuclear physicist cannot talk to the biologist except in general terms, despite the fact that both are classified as scientists. The artists sometimes fails to communicate with the businessman and in the case of the abstract ex pressionist, with the classicist. Where, then, is the "generalist" as opposed to the "specialist"? Where is the "universal man" in whose ken the world's knowledge lies? at DERHAPS there never again can be such a uni- versal person. But it appears to us to be the job of the educated person, who is aware that the world of ideas is fully as important, perhaps more so, than the physical world, to make an attempt to be a "generalist." It can't be done fully and effectively, any more than a "small town" paper can hope to bring to its readers the full and exciting story of what is going on in the world. But the intelligent .layman can hope to skim the cream, to keep at least a nodding acquaint ance with the world, just as the smallest daily paper contrives to bring to its readers what it conceives to be the most important, significant, immediate and interesting news each day. Both tasks may be impossible. But, we repeat, it's fun trying. E.A. be fully informed about go amp ana iry w Keep ." ne is particularly interest to make sure that it is most interesting, the obtained and selected for the more spectacular ac is not enough. job of being, as a news big metropolitan papers, homemakmg and cook of human endeavor. cannot hope to equal of magazines deal with far more completely than magazines. subject matter. Dennis the Menace But if i oion't interrupt i'o never set to sayawwag." Matter of Fact CHIANG SPEAKS OUT Taipet, Formosa Sept. 15 Chiang Kai-shek today con demned as "no solution" the mrll .Cr' convoy sys tem by which the American command here hopes against hope to break the blockade of Quemoy. The Presi dent - General issimo prom- icpH in Vi na- Jnwnh ilknn tient. But he added firmly that if the blockade contin ued, he would soon be forced to order his air force to at tack the Chinese Communist artillery positions that are now keeping the Quemoy beaches under heavy fire. Whether or no this strangest war enters this new and much more inflamed stage, will ap parently depend upon the first results of the Warsaw talks.' The American policy makers plan to seek an in formal cease-fire at Warsaw. If obtained, a cease-fire will automatically... lift the artil lery blockade of Quemoy. The U. S. government has therefore begged the President-Generalissimo to wait and see what happens when the Warsaw talks begin. While Chiang Kai-shek ex pressed the sharpest distaste for the Warsaw talks them selves, he said he was willing to wait because he "under stood how important it was for President Eisenhower to prove to the world that he was sparing no effort to pre serve the peace." On the other hand, Chiang Indicated " that he could not wait very long. YOUR people and ours are working closely together to improve the convoy sys tem," he said. "The Americ ans want to help us, and I am grateful. But it is no solu tion. You cannot supply 130,- 000 soldiers and civilians by improving the convoy sys tem, when all supplies have to be landed on open beaches under heavy fire. That is the present problem at Quemoy: "There's only one real so lution to the problem to at tack it at the source. It's hap pened before. The last time the Communists attempted a really big artillery attack on Quemoy was Sept. 3, 1954. When we retaliated by at tacking the Communist gun positions with our .planes, ar tillery attack on Quemoy was stopped at once. "In my opinion, the same thing will happen again. Cer tainly we are going to have to do the same thing again if the blockade continues. I can not leave 130,000 of my peo ple blockaded as they now are, without using all my re sources to retaliate and to break the blockade." THUS the President-General-.! issimo confirmed his wide ly suspected intention to take the crucial step which almost all the Chinese leaders wish to take at once. The Com munist air force has been im mensely strengthened since- 1954. The American command here does not agree that Na tionalist air attacks on main land targets will produce the same result as in 1954. An immediately widened and per haps uncontainable war is the result now forecast. Yet one got the impression that Chiang Kai-shek would be hard to hold much longer. He received me at one of his unpretentious country re treats, where he goes from time to time to make his de cisions in peace. Curiously enough, he seemed younger than he did on the last such occasion, after the evacuation of the Tachen Islands. Then he looked ill, old and defeat ed. Today, he was all firm ness and serenity; the fine head was finely born; the slender figure was graceful and erect: and ones- first By Joseph Alsop thought was, "How kind the years have been to him! The President - Generalis simo's apparent serenity hard ly arose from complete satis faction with recent American policy-maneuvers. When he was asked about the mounting and increasingly bitter criti cism in the Chinese press of the ineffectual convoy sys tem and other American ac tions, he replied shortly, "Facts are facts." He then added that he did not join the criticism, ,because he un derstood the difficulties of President Eisenhower's posi tion better than most people here. TN THIS matter of just what to say about President Eis enhower, indeed, the Presi dent - Generalissimo seemed much at ease than in the more grave matter of what to do about the Quemoy blockade. It was evident that he had been much disturbed by the slight hint in the President's speech of some sort of deal with the Communists concern ing the offshore islands and by the subsequent interpre tations of this hint in the American press. '.'I have read President Eis enhower's speech," he said, "Its spirit is firm. It takes a clear and definite stand. I cannot find in it any implica tion of neutralization of or demilitarization of Quemoy and the Matsus. More than once, indeed, the President stated that he would not be a party to any arrangement which might prejudice the in terests of his allv This should leave no room for doubt. "As to the resumption of talks at Warsaw, it is a loss, Yet I feel that the United States, . with due regard for its position, is only trying to find a peaceful settlement. This desire deserves under standing, instead of opposi tion or objection." Again, the President-Gen eralissimo said that anyone who suspected President Eis enhower of desiring neutraliz ation or demilitarization of Quemoy and the Matsus was guilty of "misinterpretation in fact, malicious conjecture This is not only slanderous of the President but also an in sult to Chinese territorial sov ereignty." THERE were other such strong assertions that the American government cannot possibly be thinking about what several Washington cor respondents have said the government is thinking about. They were no doubt intended to serve warning, in a polite way, that any attempt to make a deal about the islands in Warsaw will meet with the most ferocious and de termined opposition here. Yet in the. context of the local military situation, this warning was. distinctly less important than Chiang Kai- shek's simpler military warn ing of forthcoming air action to break the Quemoy block ade if the blockade is not soon lifted. "We can't. sit idly by and let the Communists enforce a tight blockade of Quemoy," he said. "We can't abandon our people on the islands. For the time being, we are exer cising great self-restraint. We have not attacked their gun positions, supply lines and coastal bases. But when and if the critical moment comes, we'll have no choice except to exercise our 'right of self- defense. And I firmly believe that once we retaliate in force in this manner, then the Com munists will back down as they did before." (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. There are 4.5 million two car families in the United States and the auto industry estimates the number will in crease to about 70 per cent within the next 10 years. Communications Letters to the, Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the saper; in fact the contrary !s often the case. From Red Cross To the Editor: On behalf of the Board.of Directors and the membership of the American Red Cross, we wish to thank you very much for all the help you and your staff gave us in putting out our annual report. Your cooperation and pa tience are much appreciated, and we have received many favorable comments on the newspaper report. (Mrs.) Helen A. Wilson -' Executive Secretary Jackson County Chapter American Red Cross Duncan's Reply To the Editor: I have writ ten the enclosed letter to the indicated officials of the Re publican party. You may con sider it worthy of publication in your communications col umn. Robert B. Duncan . State Representative Medford Mrs. Lester Adams, Chairman Jackson County Republican -Womens Club Mr. Don Stathos, Chairman Jackson County Republican Central Committee ' Dear Mrs. Adams and Mr. Stathos: I have read with interest the account in Tuesday's Mail Tribune of the recent meeting at which apparently my rec ord as a legislator was the main topic ' of discussion. I am flattered to receive such attention, and agree that any candidate for reelection must and should run on the record which he has made. I am more than willing to run on mine as it is and not as it was said to be at ybur meeting. I assume that your group is seeking accurate informa tion on which the members can decide which of the candi dates will make the best rep resentatives, and not seeking merely to defeat an incumbent at any price, simply because he does not bear your party label. In the interests of fair ness, both to myself and to your members, I ask that I be permitted tQ- review my rec ord before your women's club at their next meeting, and that comparable press cover age be provided. . Your favorable considera tion of this request and early reply will be appreciated. Robert B. Duncan Speaking Course To the Editor: Men who can think straight, speak fearlessly and listen analyti cally are needed as leaders in every phase of life. The Jackson Toastmasters club, seeking to . aid in the development of men for serv ice to the nation and to their own communities, takes pleas ure in announcing a special course in public speaking, to start Sept. 29 and continue for four weeks. This is a short, comprehen sive course on the fundamen tals of speech,' designed to give quick help to the inex perienced speaker and to as sist the man who has had some training and experience in speech. The instruction will be given by members of the club, who will base their teaching on practical experi ence, reinforced by careful study. The club meets at Dad's Hideaway restaurant on Mon day morning at 6:30 a.m. You will find in the meeting a group of representative men of the community who will welcome you as a fellow stu dent. You will not be em barrassed by being called upon to speak before you are ready, but you will have a chance to talk when you wish. Your participation as a speaker will depend upon your own wishes. The cost of the course is only the price of the break fast. If further information is desired, call Harold Soballe at SPring 2-9126. Jack V. Cummings, Administrative Vice President for Jackson Toastmasters Volunteers Bureau , To the Editor: Why doesn't some organization, group, or individual with the welfare of the community at heart, set up a volunteers bureau for Medford and Jackson County? Every meeting of every or ganization I have attended in recent days has stated an urg ent need for volunteers to per form various needed duties and services. Without much doubt, considering the num ber of retired persons and the number of newcomers in this general area, the volunteers exist but what is desperately needed is a clearing house where those willing to donate time, and their individual ca pacities and preferences for work can be matched with the existing needs. Seems to me some group like the Junior Service League might undertake such a pro ject and possibly either the C. of C. or the Red Cross might be willing to provide office space. How about a little editorial izing on this vital subject? . Grace N. Pearson, ' Route 2, Box 50, Jacksonville. Recreation Takes Work To the Editor: It seems everyone has forgotten or left behind the problem of recrea tion for the youngsters. Mr. Bunn hit very close to home. I'm sure he'll be glad to learn that we have no such problem here in Central Point-there's Girl Scouts and Boys, F.F.A., 4-H and church organizations. The fact that there are not enough people to go around for the children who want to attend the first makes no difference - our children are much too busy with all these things, right through the sum mer, that they just wouldn't care to have a swimming pool or adjoining recreational building. As for a skating rink -how you do jest! Of course, someone has bought land and asked for annexation for po lice, fire protection, which was promptly turned down by our city council. There are not enough mothers, fathers and others who care about getting to gether to start such a project and ask for and get volunteer help and labor. People turned out to build .a new gun club and other communities have come to gether and provided such fa cilities, but, of course they cared. How about you, Mr. Bunn, are you and others interested enough to work at it or are you going to let "George" do it too? It will take willing, hard-headed and soft hearted, interested people to put it over here, since we don't need it and besides all the other reasons I was given, the ex tended school year will take care of it. Now, I don't know when that's going to be-but it was interesting to find that the P.T.A. just could not, un der their rules, start or even participate in such a project. How many in Central Point want this? Let me know or your club, lodge-what a project for vet erans' club, Lions, just any!! It can be done and many are interested so far, just voices in the wilderness. I understand if one gets enough voices together it can become a choir. Mrs. J. W. Stevens, P.O. Box 966 Central Point. That Registration Hassle (Editor's note: The follow ing is another in a series of letters exchanged in recent weeks between the chairmen of the Democratic and Re publican parties in Jackson county, which have been published as a matter of gen eral public interest). Mr. Don Stathos 220 South Central ave. Medford Dear Don: In reply to your published letter to me, our entire regis tration team, as well as the general public, are quite dis appointed by your apparent attitude on registration. We had anticipated, especially be cause you so claimed in a front page story, that you would put on a registration drive this fall. It was your object, according to your press release, to reach every un registered voter in Jackson county by Oct. 4. i To date, there has been no - Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann LEADERSHIP AND LITTLE ROCK During the oral arguments before the Supreme Court several of the Justices put searching but friendly ques t i o n s to Mr. Richard C. Butler, who appeared as attorney for the Little Rock School Board. In waiter these ques LippmuD tions and in Mr. Butler's answers we have for the first time an official definition of the real issue posed by Gov. Fatibus. "This conflict," said Mr. Butler, "has resolved itself, as we see it as a School Board, into a head-on collision between the Federal and state govern ments." The conflict is not, as the President has usually de fined it, a collision between mobs and the lawful authori ties. There is no hope of re solving the conflict unless the real issue is correctly de fined. The questioning which de fined the issue was begun by Mr. Justice Harlan. He said that he had no reservations about the good faith of the School Board. He pointed out that the School Board had in augurated "a plan of integra tion." He then asked Mr. But ler whether the conflict had not arisen by "the action of the state . . . designed to frus trate the good faith of the School Board." Mr. Butler agreed, saying that the School Board which is "an arm of the state government," has been "ordered to do one thing by one court, and by its employ er .. . the state of Arkansas, is ordered to do something else." Later on in the questions by Mr. Justice Frankfurter it came out, with Mr. Butler agreeing, that the people of Little Rock would have ac quiesced in the School Board's plan of integration, had the authority of the state, mean ing Gov. Faubus, not incited and led the movement of re sistance and defiance. A YEAR ago, had Mr. Eis enhower understood the real issue, he would have challenged the use by Gov. appreciable activity on your part. Could it be that Repub lican service to the public is limited to "lip service"? On the tax issue, also men tioned in your letter, you in dicate dissatisfaction with Oregon's tax program. Let me point out that Governor Holmes is the first Democrat ic Governor in 20 years, and the program you attack is a result of 20 years of Republi canism. Governor Holmes has made one substantial change -he has, with the help of a Democratic House and in spite of certain Republican senators, lowered taxes an average 20 per cent from the 1955 (Republican) level. He is the first Governor with the courage to call a special session of the Legislature to dispose of a surplus via a tax cut, and this in spite of Re publican politicians who first criticized the idea as "im prudent" arid then attempted to embarrass the administra tion in the special session itself. Not only do we need Bob Holmes for another four years, but a Democratic House and Senate as well. But for now-how about your "massive" registration drive? Jim Redden, Chairman, Democratic Party of Jackson County - . ' 4. " "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of . kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over." ' James Boswell. m Faubus of 'the Arkansas Na tional Guard to prevent the School Board from observing the law. This act of defiance,: backed by armed force, was the real offense of Gov. Fau bus distinguishing it from all the other forms of resist ance practiced in the South ern states. ' rpHE country will , await with great interest the full opinion of the court. But, as things stand now, there is deep reason for thinking that the national government is not doing its full duty. An honest and law-abiding School Board in Little Rock is pre vented by the Governor of Arkansas from admitting a few Negro children to a high school. The Federal courts say that these children should be admitted. But the Federal government does nothing as the school year begins to overcome the resistance of the Governor, the Legislature, and a majority of the white voters? In despair, the School Board asked for a breathing spell, which is denied by the Supreme Court. This leaves the School Board under ob ligations to admit the Negro children and also under the irresistible power of the state government which forbids their admission. As Federal troops cannot be used to open and operate the schools that the Governor has closed, the Federal gov ernment is left with an unat tractive prospect of law suits to get the Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional the laws just recently enacted by the Arkansas Legislature. What makes this so unattrac tive is that, having defied the Supreme Court on the orig inal issue, there is no Teason to hope that Arkansas will not also defy it on a subsidiary decision. THE fundamental vice of the situation is that the problem of enforcement, of overcoming the resistance of the Southern states, is not one which can be handled success fully by judicial decrees ad dressed to local authorities. The problem of the enforce ment of a law requiring a" great social change belongs not to the courts alone but to the legislative and execu tive branches of. the govern ment as well. It is not possible for the courts to direct and to pre side over the negotiations and the planning which are necessary if the basic decree is to be translated into con crete action in the Southern states. Integration, being a Federal principle, is a Fed eral responsibility, which can not be left to the Federal courts alone. The issue posed by the defiance of Gov. Fau bus is a challenge to Presi dent Eisenhower, and as he cannot crush the defiance with force, he must negotiate for a workable compromise. That ought not to be im possible. For there are inte grated schools in Arkansas, and in principle Arkansas is not one of the states which is opposed to integration as such. At the same time, the integration which was actu ally proposed by the Little Rock School Board, of some nine Negro children among 2,000 whites, was merely . a token integration. There is, therefore, room to negotiate, and what is lacking is serious and resourceful leadership. Copyright 1958. New York Herald Tribune Inc. . About 70 per cent of all the rubber used in the United States today, is synthetic, made from crude oil cr nat ural gas.