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4 Tfiurteav. StBhmlier 91. ! MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. Medfordj-,Tribune "Everyone In Southern Oregon' Heads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MlUfUKU rlu.NIlNU CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. 8P 2-6141 ROBERT W. KtTHI Friitnr HERB GREY, Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Soorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at meoiora Oregon under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily -and Sunday 1 year $15.00 uauy ana Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4 SO. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year 118.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers e o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Offirial Paper of City of Medfer 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. iZflZZ NEWSPAPER E3 PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County HKtory from the files of The MsSI Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. IB TEARS AGO Sept. 25. 1948 (Saturday) The first in a series of fall model airplane meets is being sDonsored tomorrow by the Medford Prop Nuts. From "Side Glances": "City Attorney Frank Farrell mov ing a sewer halfway across town." 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1938 (Sunday) A magic show featuring Marquis the Magician has been scheduled at the Junior High school. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Sev eral hunters have returned from the hills, and report they had no luck outside of getting back safe and sound, of wind and limb." 30 YEARS AGO ....... Sept. 25. 1928 (Tuesday) The Red Cross has appealed to Jackson county for in- for Puerto Rico, Florida and the Virgin islands. Local Daughters of the American Revolution have unveiled a marker in. the Table Rock area commemor ating the signing of the In dian peace treaty between the Rogue River Indians and Gen. Joseph Lane in 1852. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1918 (Wednesday) State military police are shooting at the tires of any cars who do not heed their command to halt up in the Siskiyous in efforts to prevent booleggers traffic. Medford's fourth liberty loan bond campaign's goal has been announced as approxi mately $300,000. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five ci is is good. 1. What is the term of office for U. S. Representative? 2. When is All Saints' Day? 3. Kodiak is a U.S. naval base located in Hawaii, the Solomons, or Alaska? 4. The British Imperial gal lon is larger, the same as, or smaller, than the U. S. gallon? 5. Do jet-propelled planes use gasoline, or kerosene? 6. Complete the simile, "So ber as a -." 7- In the Florida Everglades live the Utes, Sioux, or Sem inole Indians? 8. Alexander Hamilton died after being wounded in a pis tol duel. With whom was the duel fought? 9. Under the U. S. Constitu tion, the President has the privilege of vetoing part of a bill without invalidating the whole; true or false? 10. Which northeastern State is the only State that, up to now, has held congres sional elections in September instead of November? Answers: 1. Two years. 2. Nov. I. 3. Alaska. 4. Larger. 5. Either. 6. "judge." 7. Sem inoles. 8. Aaron Burr. 9. False. 10. Maine. On Registered Voters The number of Democrats in Jackson county who are registered to vote is only about 1,000 fewer than Republicans the smallest margin ever recorded in this traditionally Republican county. And the aggressive head of the Democratic party here has set a goal of wiping out even that slim lead before registration closes on Oct. 4 a week from Saturday. In actual voting, a 1,000 lead in registration is meaningless, for many people, on both sides of the political fence, pay little attention to party affiliation in casting their votes. DUT the observable trend toward a Democratic majority in this county is NOT meaningless. It means that more and more people are suffic iently attracted by the aims, purposes and meth ods of, the Democratic party to choose it when selecting their party-of -record. Many factors enter into a voter's choice of party, and some factors outweigh others. National politics influence many voters m making their choice, while state politics are de cisive with others, and the local stuation and candidates with still others. We suspect that all these things have had a bearing on the Democratic trend in this county in recent years as well as the increase in popu lation of people who have no Republican party tradition to influence their thinking. "IXHATEVER the reasons, the Democrats, though still slightly behind, are forging forward at a faster rate than ever before in the county's history. It is, m effect, making a two-party county, rather than the "one-party" county it has been for so many years. Recent Democratic successes at the. polls here bear out .But that does not alter the iact that the large group of voters who class themselves as "inde pendents" even while registered as party mem bers still will vote on the candidate, rather than on he belongs to. That is shown by the . consistent success of some Democratic candidates, even back in the days when the Republican majority was big and unshaken. 'T'HE major item of concern today, however, is . (and should be to all conscientious citizens) the fact that an estimated 14,000 people in this county, out of a total population of some 72,000, still are not registered to vote. Some of them have never bothered, some of them "plan to" before the deadline Oct. 4, others probably think they are still registered when, in fact, they are not for reasons of moving, name change, or failure to vote in two past major elec tions. We suggest, strongly, to those who wish some voice in the running of the county, state, and na tion, that they make sure they are registered. But, as to those who don't care, perhaps it's just as well if they don't register. They probably wouldn't vote anyway, and if they did it would be apt to bea lackadaisical and uninformed vote. Uj.A. Misquotation As was pointed out in column on this page yesterday, a blooper was made in a recent editorial entitled "The Pill." The editorial writer carelessness in misquoting Dr. John Rock as to the Roman Catholic church's position on the use of the new development the result that his statement was exactly reversed. OOWEVER, as the editorial pointed out cor- rectly, the Catholic church has modified its position m recent years actively searching for methods, compatible with its doctrines, for limiting population growth, with Pope Pius XII himself expressing solemn concern over the situation, particularly m those already overpopulated portions of the world where a high and growing birthrate threatens famine and misery. The "population explosion," as it has been termed, is largely the result of scientific advances in medicine, hygiene and sanitation, which have in turn drastically lowered death-rates without affecting birth-rates. Ihe Pill may help those peoples who do not reject birth control methods. E.A. Latter-Day Anthropomorphism We wandered into the kitchen during the preparation of dinner the other night, and noticed an old slicing knife in the hands of the family secretary of health, education and welfare. Ihe knife was a familiar sight, for it has been in our family longer than regarded it wTith a sort of Now this is probably become attached to clothes, to automobiles, rug, or to an old knife. THE ancients had the in Alt in a ongiiwy uu.eieiii, maimer, iney uneii clothed trees or stones or mountains with special powers or other human called anthropomorphism. And If it appears to think whether or not you oDjecis to nave human attributes and notice particularly your lansTiaee when vou stumhle over a chair in the dark. this thesis. basis of the individual the basis of. what party the "Communications" was guilty of inexcusable as a contraceptive, with to the point where it is provide a solution among feel morally bound to we can remember. We sentimental fondness. silly, but people DO inanimate objects . to to a particular, chair or same feelings, expressed i. mi l characteristics. This is be naran and mi tinted. ever consider inanimate E.A. Dennis the Menace if lliliiU1 , ' Ur 'THE LIGHT K TrlE GARAGE Matter of Fact "TWO WEEKS AT MOST" Taipei, Formosa-The harsh moment of decision in the Taiwan Strait has moved an- other stage closer. Chiang K a i - s h e k's g o v e r nment has now form a 1 1 y warned the American gover nment that they will have to use their air pow er frt n los-ph Alsop J break the artillery blockade of Quemoy, unless another so lution is found rather soon. This official warning was given over the week end by the Vice President-Prime Min ister of Free China, Gen. Chen Cheng, to American Am bassador Everett Drumright. No time limit was officially set in Chem Cheng's talk with Drumright, who has been urg ing the Chinese Nationalists to exercise "patience and re straint" at the behest of the Washington policy-makers. Unofficially, however, Prime Minister Chen Cheng has stated that the immensely grave order for air attacks on the Communist gun em placements around Quemoy cannot be delayed for more than "two weeks at the most, and two week? is an outside limit." In practice, if the Washington 'policy - makers choose to use aU means of pressure and persuasion, this Chinese time limit unofficial ly set by Chen Cheng can probably be extended to three weeks or even four. Despite the blockade, the Quemoy garrison is certainly able to hold out until the end of October. ' ' A LL the same, the warning given Drumright by Chen Cheng ought to be taken as pretty decisive proof that the problem of the Quemoy block ade is not being solved, and cannot be solved by the pres ent system of blockade-running under heavy artillery fire. On this point, the Vice President-Prime Minister was specific and positive. As of now, the Free Chi nese Navy and Marines are getting three LSTs a night into Quemoy. Each LST car ries 17 small amphibious land ing craft. These LSTs are dis charged off the beach under fire. They swim to the beach and scuttle across it through a heavy barrage of shells. They are unloaded. And they return to their mother-LST the next night, always under fire, in exchange for another covey of sister-craft. By this method, a little less than 150 tons of supplies a night are now reaching the Quemoy garrison of about 85,000 men and the civilian population of about 47,000 people. By providing more LSTs, this type of supply in Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A SOUTHERN LADY staged a house party at her plantation, in the course of which she took all the guests on a fox hunt. The ladies had returnd to the manor house, and were enjoying their drinks, stretched out on divans in the drawing room, when a maid inter rupted them. "Pardon me, ladies," she said respectfully, "but have you any dirty habits?" "Until the guests realized the maid had been sent from the laundry, there was a bit of strain evident in the room! ' Composer Dick Rodgers once considered starring Mil ton Eerie in a TV original, and asked the -comedian what the tab would come to. Dick, I'm so flattered that you want me," Berle assured him earnestly, "that money will be the very last thing I think of before I go to sleep tonight." "The trouble with most of us," surmises Norman Vincent Peale, "is that we would rather be. ruined by praise than saved with criticism." O 1958. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, IS BURKED OUT J By Joseph Alsop put may perhaps be doubled; and random night landings of motorized junks may increase the total a litUe further. Thus the defenders of Quemoy can be provided with enough to keep body and soul together, and to maintain the military units in some sort of fighting trim. 1 TUT the Quemoy defenders cannot be provided with enough to fightback, simply by blockade - running. The American military authorities here entirely agree with the Chinese leadership that there is no way of giving the Que moy garrison real power to fight back, as long as the artillery blockade continues. The Chinese further maintain that no troops on earth can be expected to hold out in definitely under heavy fire, with no supplies except the small tonnages that can be brought across open beaches under fire, and with no means of fighting back. Once again, the Americans here unhappily agree. . These are the reasons why Prime Minister Chen Cheng maintained that improved blockade-running would not solve the problem of the ar tillery blockade of Quemoy, The fact that he conveyed the warning to Ambassador Drum- right is especially impressive, since he heads the group in side the Chinese government that has- thus far persuaded the reluctant Chiang Kai-shek to heed the American pleas for patience and restraint. The other chief members of this group are the Defense Minister, Yu Ta Wei, the chairman of the Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Wang Hhu Ming, and the new Foreign Minister, S. K. Huang, who is import ant because of his influence in the ruling Kuomintang party. Thus far, in other words, all the ablest, most respected and most disinter ested members of the Chi nese government have been on the side of "patience and restraint." pRIME MINISTER CHEN CHENG's official warning and his unofficially indicated time limit must be taken to mean that these key men, who have doggedly argued in fa vor of following Washington's advice, will swing over to the other .side in the fairly near future. Symptoms of this pro spective and vital change in the governmental balance have also been observed in other members of the group There are plenty of other ad visors of Chiang Kai-shek to urge immediate defiance of Washington's pleas to wait awhile. Their advice undoubt edly suits the President-Gen eralissimo's mood a good deal better than the advice he has received from men like Chen Cheng and Yu Ta Wei. Final- Stop Me Informed Observers See Red China As Communist Ideological Capitol Editor's note: Something dramatic has happened in the Communist camp an intense challenge by China's Mao Tse-tung of Nikiia Khrushchev's ideolo g i c a 1 leadership of the Commu nist world. Some very well qualified sources say it is more than a challenge and that Mao has already eclips ed Khrushchev. And with his powerful following in the Communist world, they say, Mao has maneuvered Khrushchev into a position of full support for China's position in the Formosa Strait crisis, with the result that Moscow has become a passenger in a car driven 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 aaper; in fact the contrary is often be case. Labor Conference To the Editor: On Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 27 and 28, Oregon AFL-CIO will hold an educational conference in the Medford Labor Temple, 24 South Grape st. The Conference will be under the direction of Thom as Scanlon, research and edu cation director of the Oregon AFL-CIO. He will be assisted by President J. D. McDonald, Executive Secretary James T. Marr, Director of Political Education George Brown, and Women's Director of the Com mittee on Political Education Zoe Wilson. Registrations start at 10 a.m., Saturday, with the general assembly 10:30 a.m. starting with an all-sections discussion on "The Local Union." Afternoon sessions will take up at 1:30 p.m.with pan els on (a) unemployment in surance, (b) workmen's com pensation, and (c) education and taxation. Sunday, starting at 9:30 ajn., panels will rotate and discuss the same subject matters. At 1 p.m., there will be a general assembly for summary, and adjournment at 2 p.m. Meetings are open to all union members, and especially to their wives; to the public; and to those people in the community who have been critical of Unions and organ ized " workers. All are most welcome to attend the meet ings in order to formulate opinions and gather data upon first-hand information. Pauline La Plane, Secy. Jackson County Labor Coun cil, 24V4 S. Grape St., Medford ly, the Generalissimo's high ly influential son, Gen. Chiang Chiang Kuo, has just returned from Quemoy with a report that the garrison's morale is excellent at present, but can not be expected to hold up in definitely if the Taipei gov ernment refuses to use all the means at its disposal to lift the blockade. An indicated above, that means the Chinese, desire to use all their air units. The Nationalists have only about 500 pilots, and their F-84s and F-86s are inferior to the Communist MIG-17s. But they are just bringing into opera tion a new squadron of F-100 fighters. And thus far the Nationalist pilots have proved very much better,' man for man, than the Communist pilots. Although they are heavily outnumbered, the Na tionalist airmen are openly chafing to do what they re gard as their power job. TT IS very questionable, of - course, whetheirair attacks on the strongly dug-in Com munist gun positions would in fact break the artillery blockade of Quemoy. The very weak Communist supply lines into Fukien could more easily be broken by sustained air attack. But this kind of sustained attack would probably re quire more planes and above all" more pilots than the Na tionalists possess. In other words, even if they use all the means at their disposal, it is doubtful wheth er the Chinese Nationalists alone can break the "artillery blockade. But their determ ination to make the attempt is plainly crystallizing, and the chances are very high that they will go ahead in the end unless they are offered some sort of satisfactory alterna tive by the American policy makers. There should be no de lusions, either, about the American government's pow er to hold the Chinese back if worst comes .to worst. The pressures that secured the evacuation of the Tachen Islands are most unlikely to succeed in the present situa tion. Chiang Kai-shek's gov ernment will take almost any chance to avoid losing the present battle. by Mao alone. Following is the first of two dispatches by UPI Diplomatic Corre spondent Karol C. Thaler on this important shift of power in the Communist world. By K. C. THALER UPI Correspondent London-flJPD-Is Russia pull ing the strings in the For mosa crisis? Or is it strictly a Communist show with Rus sia left with no choice but to support anything Peipipg decides to do? President Eisenhower's lat est exchange with Nikita Khrushchev indicates the United States, at least, is con- Who Gets The Credit? To the Editor: I must have about 100 former correspond ents in the Medford area and this is my only letter of this nature sent to any newspaper. I think that I may have put the Humane Slaughter Bill over, all by myself-with your cooperation. First, you must know that the senate stalled for several months before passing this bill, and you should guess why it was stalling. True, we have some good honest senators that money cannot buy-and then we have others. As to the Humane Bill, I cooperated with the Humane Societies just to be cooper ative, although I did not go for their plan at all (writing to senators in persuasion, etc.) I had my own "sure fire" plan and that was that the house wives had in their own hands the power to completely elim inate all brutality in the slaughter of our meat animals. Simply stop eating meatfor 30 day periods. I sent out 50 of these letters as trial tests explaining that I would eventually get to have over 8,000 printed and would I spnrl tr nvr R. 000 newsnaners f frfm fnact if nnact Ymti Vrtil must understand that the Hu mane Bill would apply to only about 500 packers via Inter state Commerce law and would, not apply to about 6,000 packers dealing in their own state only. So you see the Bill was more or less of a joker without penalties. And now we come to the finale. Did the packers accept the lesser of two evils? The first to let the bill be passed, and the oth er evil to let me reach 100 million readers, proving that these people had the elim ination of all cruelty right in their own hands if they would simply eat no meat for 30 day periods, etc? Now,, what I want to learn is "were my activities the di rect cause of the Humane Slaughter Bill being passed?" I am not stating that they were I am merely asking your readers' opinion. I would love to receive, the opinion of all Humane Christians. There is still lots of work to be done and I am confident that the packers will soon see the light and end all cruelty in all slaughter houses. John Jackson Tayler, co Gen. Del. Post Office, Valley Falls, N. Y. . WILL ADDRESS DINNER Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhower, once a promising West Point halfback, will speak at the first dinner of the National Football founda tion and Hall of Fame in New York City Oct. 28, the White House announced Wednesday. "What America needs is businessmen indeed all men and women not so much on their knees but on their toes, reaching up ever higher and higher to bring the laws of God down into, Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 vinced Russia can exert what ever pressure she desires on Communist China. But that view is not shared by many diplomatic sources here, particularly by Eastern European experts who are in an especially good position to weigh the stresses and strains in the Communist camp. These sources say Mao Tse tung already has sclipsed Khrushchev as ideological leader of the Communist camp in one of the most far reach ing power shifts in the post war history of the Red align ment. And they regard the For mosa Strait crisis as the most important, although not the first, manifestation of this dra matic change. Mean Business These sources are convinced the current Far East crisis is Peiping's work, that Peiping means business and that the Soviet Union is going along with Red China simply be cause there is little choice. They admit the military equipment used by the Red Chinese is almost largely Rus sian and that the Chinese mili tary effort could . hardly f go forward if Russia cut. off sup plies. But, they say, any such move by Moscow would be tantamount to betrayal of the "legitimate" aspirations of a fellow Communist nation and, more important, a betrayal Today & Tomorrow By Walter lippmann A MEDIATOR IS NEEDED As this is written, the War saw talks are proceeding in private. But all . concerned --- Russia and Red China, the United States and the Formosa gov ernment are loudly and noisily de nouncing any Vi a Cl O 4er n Walter curaP rumi&e Lippmann arrangement. On the Communist side, there are demands which sound, even if they do not quite mean it, as if Peiping demand ed that the whole Formosa area be evacuated immediate ly by Chiang and the Ameri cans. On our side, we have an American demand for a cease-fire at Quemoy before there is any : understanding about the future of Quemoy. And from Chiang, there are plain indications that he does not want any cease-fire be cause he is bent upon using the affair to entrap the United States in a full scale war against the Chinese main land. rpHERE is, it seems, a central and controlling fact on each side. On the Communist side, there is the fact that the blockade of Quemoy by artil lery fire, though not abso lutely tight, is quite tight enough to strangle the island within a fairly short time. The blockade cannot be brok en except by an air offensive against the Chinese main land, which would be war. Holding this military advan tage, the Chinese have no need to agree to a cease-fire which would in fact lift the blockade of Quemoy. They might trade a cease-fire for a substantial concession. But that is the most that can be expected of them. They know that President Eisenhower will think twice before order ing an attack on the artillery positions on the mainland. On our side; the controlling fact is that, having allowed Chiang to exercise a veto on in.! Jt and as a part of, the laws of man. Rabbi Louis of the man who more than Khrushchev is filling Stalin's shoes as the high priest of world Communist ideology. ' These sources are frank to admit their reasoning could be interpreted as an attempt to force the West and espe cially the United States to ac cept the view China's demands are hers alone and not part of a Moscow-fomented plot to plague the Western world with crisis after crisis. Centered in Peiping But, as one source puts it, "a fact is a fact, even if it is unpleasant to recognize, and it is difficult to deny the center of gravity In the Far East crisis is In Peiping and not Moscow." If this evaluation is correct, then there has indeed been a dramatic change in the Communist camp since the days when Moscow was the unquestioned mecca of Com munist ideology, whep the Kremlin's word was an article of unquestioned faith in the most distant outpost of Marx ism. When did it happen? It has been a gradual process, to judge from the evidence, since the death of Josef Stalin in 1952. But in retrospect, the turning point in the rise if not the ascendancy of Mao Tse-tung, appears to have been November, 1957. And the place was Nikita Khrush chev's own capital, Moscow. any political arrangement in the area, the United States has nothing to negotiate with. We cannot trade Quemoy and Matsu for a cease-fire because it is Chiang, not Eisenhower and Dulles, jnho has the pow er to determine what may be offered x in any negotiation. Mr. Beam in Warsaw is con trolled not by Washington but by Taipei. FOR this country, the cru cial fact in this dangerous situation is that the President and Mr. Dulles are not free agents, they are not in con trol of American foreign policy, they have mortgaged their diplomacy to Chiang. We must pay close atten-" tion to Chiang. For it has become brutally plain that Chiang thinks he has the op portunity, and is detennined to seize it, to embroil the United States in a war with the Chinese mainland. This has always been his ultimate purpose. For only in such a war could he conceivably realize his ambition to return to the mainland. The device which he is em ploying to entangle us is to insist which is true that the blockade of Quemoy can be broken only by bombard ing the mainland. But the snare for the gullible is to pretend that the Formosa Air Force can silence the shore batteries. We are being told that we should allow Chiang to attack the mainland and that he can do the job. But this is not what Chiang means, and we must not al low ourselves to be deceived. What he means is that if we allow his planes to begin the attack, we with our planes will then have to take on what he has begun. Let us not be taken for a ride. .- THE situation is in a bad deadlock, and it looks very much as if it cannot be re solved without mediation from several of the less en tangled powers. Copyright 1958. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Binstock
