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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
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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