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MAIL TRIBUNI, MEDFORD. ORE, 4 Thursday, October 2, 1958 MedfordSvTribune "Evrrvone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RLTHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. w. Ji.r.- j it.. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAJI. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Soorta Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ekicksu.n. Circulation Mgr. An Independent NewsDaoer Entered as second class matter at Med ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year 115.00 uaiiy ana aunaay fi mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday B mos. 4.25 Sunday only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle j-oini, jacKsonvuie. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United pfess International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCJLATION 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. NEWSPAPEt . PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL' EDITORIAL C3T8N ASSO Flight 0 Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. . 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 2, 1949 (Saturday) A total of 2,975 Jackson county men have registered for the peacetime draft. A group of Medford square dancers won first place in the Southern Oregon competition at the Josephine county fair grounds. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 2, 1938 (Sunday)' Mrs. Maud Morse, extension specialist in parent education, conducted two meetings for Jackson county parents last week on "The Common Prob lems of Parents." From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "It rained Wed., setting some of the dust, the football teams hereabouts have started to bite." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 2. 1923 (Tuesday) Two Medford nurses have embarked on a 2,500-mile hike to New Orleans. An all-around vaudeville program is scheduled for to morrow at Hunt's Craterian theater. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 2. 1918 (Wednesday) Woodmen of the World schedule meeting here. The state militia company will drill on the streets to night instead of at the base ball grounds, and will be dis missed early to enable the members to attend the Griz zlys dance What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; seven er eight is excellent; five 01 sis is good. 1. "Flickertail State," is the nickname of Wyoming, North Dakota, or Idaho? 2. Name the noted author who wrote "Treasure Island," and "Kidnapped." 3. Was the "Full Dinner Pail" the Republican slogan in 1896, 1900, or 1904? y 4. What is a prince consort? 5. Into what sea does the Danube flow? 6. Name the first Negro ever to pitch in a baseball World Series. 7. Which two composers are most famous for fugues? 8. What transaction was nicknamed "Seward's Folly"? 9. In what book is this pro verb found: "A house divided against itself cannot stand "? 10. For which fall flower is -'mum" a nickname? 1. Noith Dakota. 2. Robert Louis Stevenson. 3. 1900. 4. The husband of a female sov criga. 5. Black Sea. 8. "Satch el" Paige. 7. Bach and Han deh 8. Purchase of Alaska. 9. The Bible. 10. Chrysanthe mum. 1 The Silly Season The silly season is upon us. The election campaign in Oregon, which has been pretty quiet up to now, is beginning to warm up. And part of the warming-up process, inevit- aoiy, is the Hinging of charges and counter charges by opposing candidates. This effect has been most noticeable in the race for governor, and for congress in the first and fourth districts. It hasn t yet penetrated -to the more localized races, at least insofar as we've been able to discern. TMOST of these charges are pure political fluff. A few of them may be of substance. Mark Hatfield and Bob Holmes, the Repub lican and Democratic candidates for governor, have been tossing brick more than a week now, sounds remarkably like two small boys, squared off in the comer of the school-yard, yelling "You're a such-and-such!!" and "You're anoth er!" at each other. The fact is that neither of the candidates have as yet developed any real issue. Both are basical ly decent, friendly men ; both are intelligent; both are of a liberal cast of mind. It's too bad they can't find something more worthwhile to argue about than campaign tactics. It s a disappointing COME small amount of political noise has been issuing from the first district, where Con gressman Walter Norblad,. the veteran Republi can incumbent, is in a race with Democratic At torney General Robert Y. Thornton for the con gressional seat. The loudest blast heard so far has been Thornton accusing Norblad of violating security when he told a women's group about the X-15, the proposed new American man-carrying space rocket. This was promptly refuted by Norblad, with a strong assist from some supporting news papers, by pointing out that what he had said had all been widely publicized throughout the coun try for the past many months. Maybe some other issues have come to light in the first district, but if so, we've not been made aware of them. . IN THE fourth district, Congressman Charlie Porter has been making the rounds of open houses, coffee hours, mills, and pounding the streets, telling his constituents that he wants to be reelected on the basis of his record. . His opponent, Paul Geddes, has been mak ing the same rounds telling the voters he wants to be elected, and bases his case largely on Por ter's record. But they can't be talking about the same rec ord. Porter is talking about what he believes in and what he has done, ing aboutwhat he seems and has done. Somebody's wrong. DORTER happens to believe that Red China should be recognized as an existing, operat ing government (which it is) by this country. He extends no hand of friendship, but he believes that we are being blind by trying.to pretend that if we don't recognize that nation, maybe it. will go away. Geddes has twisted fectly logical and supportable, whether or not one'agrees with it; to make it sound as though -r-v n , ,1 -il y-1 J. f orter is mendiy to the Chinese ommumsi re gime something which "just ain't so." Porter has called for an end to testing H bombs a position supported by many scientists and other thoughtful men sia agrees to do the same. Geddes has charged he (Porter) has advocated ending them with no assurance that Russia would do likewise an assertion which is, at best, based on misinforma tion. Porter voted against the so-called "omnibus farm bill" on the floor of congress, but voted for a "rule" to permit the bill to be brought to the floor, on the grounds that the house as a whole should have the chance to debate it and vote on it. Geddes has charged him, incorrectly, with voting for the bill which speaks-poorly of his understanding of congressional procedures. "THESE are samples of what's going on in the . fourth district congressional race. There are others. Up to this point, we think Porter has all the best of it. He .has signed the non-partisan fair campaign practices code, and called upon Ged des to do likewise. And he has pointed out nine instances, some of them mentioned above, where he believes Geddes has already violated the ban on using misrepresentation, distortion or other falsification. Geddes' strongest point, so far,- is his claim that he would devote his time to representing the fourth district, and, in effect, would let others worry about the questions of war and peace, of diplomacy and our relationships to the other na tions of the world. 9 IF HE means what he says, he is promising to neglect one of the most important duties of a congressman. For what issues are of more im portance in these troubled times? And his allegation that Porter has neglected the district won't hold water, either. Porter's ac complishments, his interest in all phases of the economy of the district, his aggressive and effec tive work on its behalf, all can be documented and proven. Thus is our thesis for the day substantiated: The silly season is upon us. E.A. - bats at each other for and from this distance it show, so far. and Geddes keeps talk to think Porter believes this stand, which is per 1' and WriJN Kus Dennis the Menace 'ftjfF woke a& up. He thought the tfcuse ws oh FJ&r Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann MR. NIXON'S SHOCK ' On Saturday, Mr. Nixon is sued a statement saying that he had been shocked when he read the morning papers. There had been a news story carry ing the infor mation that out of about 5,000 letters r e c e ived at the State De partment, 80 per cent were Walter Lippmann critical of the Administration's policy at Quemoy and Matsu. Mr. Nix on was shocked because there was so much opposition and he was even more shocked that the bad news had been published. In fact, he was so shocked at the publication of the news that he promptly accused the subordinate official who gave it to a reporter of a "patent and deliberate effort . . . to sabotage" the policy of the Secretary of State. TVHIS is a very serious charge, and it is one which cannot be passed over light ly. For here we . have the Vice President denouncing as sabotage what was in fact a truthful answer to a legiti mate question asked by a re sponsible reporter in the course of quite normal and standard newspaper practice. On questions of wide public interest it is a very common practice of the American press to ask the White House, the Departments, and the members of Congress what their mail shows about pub lic opinion. Yet suddenly Mr. Nixon professes to be so shocked at such a news story that he can think of no ex planation except to accuse a helpless official of what, were there any truth in the accusation, would be a high crime against his country. So we must ask whether Mr. Nixon presumes to say that the reporter had no right to ask the question about the State Department's mail. He will not presume to say that. Then what does he think was the duty of the State Depart ment official? Should the of ficial have refused to answer the reporter's question? Or should he have lied to him? Mr. Nixon must not make such reckless and unfounded accusations against innocent men. They are a reminder that there is still with us the old Nixon, whom the new Nixon is supposed to have outgrown. For it was the practice of the old Nixon to imply that those with whom he did not agree were on the verge of treason. AN THE substance, it is, of " course, true that foreign policy cannot and should not be conducted by counting the letters which reach the gov ernment. It is true that the right policy is often unpopu lar and that governments which let themselves be gov erned by opinion polls are weak and are very often wrong. But it may also be true that the policy of the aovernment is wrong and that those who criticize and oppose it had better be lis tened to respectfully and carefully. That happens to be trr this case. For no one ca. etend that the Admin istration has so clear a policy on the offshore islands that the policy is not open to genu ine debate. The policy is, in fact, not yet determined and in the country, especially among the informed and experienced in foreign affairs, the debate is proceeding. All the signs point to a mounting convic tion that the Administration has blundered into trouble, and that it needs help to ex tricate itself. Mr. Nixon says that "what is at stake ... is the whole free world posi tion in the Far East." That may be true. But if the whole free world position in the Far East has come to be at stake in Quemoy, then they have much to answer for to the American people and at the bar of history who al lowed the whole free world position to be staked on so absurd a thing as the offshore islands. TF WE look beyond the an- A gry words which are being exchanged, the actual situa tion has for the moment at least been stabilized. There is no evidence that the Com munists mean to invade Que moy. There is good evidence that we do not mean to allow Chiang to draw us into an attack upon the mainland Our immediate policy is to help Chiang run the block ade.' which probably means that there will be no decision at Quemoy for some time to come. Thus there is going to be time for mediation to work. If so, there is also going to be time for a debate in this country on whether and how our China policy should be revised. The debate will turn first of all on how to disen gage Chiang's army and our selves fronv the oiisnore is lands, and then on what is to be the future of Formosa, once our military and politi cal commitments have been reduced to Formosa itself and the Pescadores. As Formosa is invulnerable to military conquest by the Red Chinese, as it can be taken only by a coup from within, the problem of For mosa unlike the problem of Quemoy is a political prob lem. It is a problem not for the United States alone but for the whole international community. (c) 1958. New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Editorial Comment LEGAL KILLING COSTLY Most callous and one of the most questionable arguments advanced by supporters of capital punishment is that it is cheap: A convict can be dispatched neatly for a few dollars cost t o the s,t a t e whereas his board and room in prison costs taxpayers more than $1,000 a year. A logical extension of this argument is, of course, that penal costs would be even cheaper if more crimes were covered by the death penalty But no responsible body of citizens is seriously advocat ing such an economy meas ure. Actually, there is irrefut able evidence that application of the death penalty is an ex pensive business. A death sentence invariably results in a series of appeals, for which the state must pay its share. It has already cost the State of California several hundred thousands of dollars in a vain attempt to bring Caryl Chess man to execution. A cell block full of prisoners could be maintained for. years on a comparable amount. The cost of administering death penalty also appeals to the accused, who must finance appeals. Thus, the rich or tal ented, like Chessman, are fav ored. This is one reason why famed criminologist who is well known in Portland, has written: "Until capital pun ishment is abolished, there is little hope of even-handed justice in murder trials." Portland Oregonian. Little Difficulty Foreseen In U.S.-Japan Treaty Talks By EARNEST HOBERECHT UPI Correspondent Tokyo -(DPD- The United States anticipates no really great difficulty in negotia ting a new mutual defense treaty . with Japan and the first formal exploratory talks will begin here within a few days, authoritative sources told United Press Internation al today. It is expected the old se curity treaty signed Sept. 8, 1951, will be replaced by a completely new document. Matter of Fact by QUEMOY REALITIES .Taipei, Formosa - It is en couraging to see Quemoy for yourself, as this reporter has just done, simply be cause the re ality looks better than the statistics. There is nothing wrong with the sta t i s t i c s. The Chinese Com munists have more than a lostph Alsop indeed fired third of a million shells into Quemoy and its dependent smaller islands. A largely effective artillery blockade of Quemoy has indeed been es tablished by heavy bar rages on the landing beaches. The Quemoy garrison and population are indeed being supplied by mere limited blockade running; and the Quemoy position cannot be indefinitely defended in this manner. , But when you actually see Quemoy and its defenders, you learn two additional facts of cardinal importance. In the first place, in startling contrast to their performance in Korea, the Chinese Commu nists have thus far done a pretty miserable job with the military means at their dis posal. And for just this rea son, in the second place, the problem of Quemoy is not quite so urgent as one might suppose. THE poorness of the Com m u n i s t performance in this fighting has been both startling and mystifying. The most dramatically bad show ing has of course been in the air. The Communist air force outnumbers the Nationalist air force by very nearly five to one. The MIG-17s that the Communists chiefly rely on are also at least marginally better aircraft than the F-86s which the Nationalists have sent up against them. By any reasonable standard, the Communists ought to have been able to count on smash ing victories in the air. Instead, the crack National ist pilots have inflicted a series of really dramatically humiliating defeats on the Communists. There have been three major and several minor air battles thus far. In all, the Communists have lost 25 air craft certainly and seven or eight more probably, as prov en by American study of the gun cameras' photographs. The Nationalists have mean while lost two aircraft in combat. In other words, the confirmed loss ratio has been close to 15 to 1. WHERE has been nothing ac- cidental about this really staggering loss ratio, either. It has been consistently main tained. While this reporter was still on Quemoy, the Com munist air commander made a desperate effort to retrieve himself, sending up 100 MIG- 17s against only 36 Nationalist F-86s. The result ' was the biggest Communist air defeat to date. As a practical matter, these Nationalist air victories do not directly encourage Que moy's defenders we on Que moy had no idea that a wild air fight was going on several miles above our heads. But they have to be thought about in connection with a related factor in the situation. Despite the immense weight of metal thrown, the Communist artil lery- has also been pretty wretched until now. You might suppose that very small islands which have received something like 100,- 000 tons of shells in about a month's time would show the effects rather gravely. More than half of the enemy fire has fallen on Little Quemoy and the two really tiny is lands, Ta Tan and Erh Tan. Allowance has to be made for the much heavier damage suffered by these positions which no reporter has yet been able to see at first hand. But even after making this needful allowance, no visitor to Big Quemoy can feel very much respect for the Commu nist gunners. TVHE physical damage they J- have done is negligible, mainly because they have been using airburst and super.-quick-fused shells. The casu- This is the Japanese desire, and it was understood the Am ericans wiU approach the problem from that angle.- U. S. Ambassador to Japan Douglas MacArthur II will head the American negotia ting team in the talks with Japanese Prime Minister No busuke Kishi and Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fu jiyama. Has Special Problems UPI was told the United States will seek to work out a new treaty instrument be tween Japan and the United Joseph Alsop alties are very small in com parison to the enormous num bers of anti - personnel shells fired. The one solid accom plishment has been the ar tillery blockade of the beach es. And although this artillery blockade has become the key feature of the whole problem, it is still not tight enough so that the blockade cannot be run by the resolute National ist Marines in their small am phibious landing craft. The reasons for the aston ishing decline in the Commu nist military performance since Korea are really any one's guess. This reporter Tvould guess that this remark able phenomenon has two causes. First, there are many reasons, convincing to anyone not absolutely stultified by the odd mystique of Chinese Communism, for suspecting the existence of a moral-political crisis inside China. This would be automatically re flected in the armed forces. There are signs that confirm this suspicion, too. Quite pos sibly, for instance, the Com munist pilots are ill-trained because they are not trusted with enough fuel for long flights. Second, the Peiping leaders evidently went into the Que moy fighting as Stalin went into Finland, with delusions of invincibility. The pattern of the fighting suggests that they even hoped Quemoy would go down like the walls of Jericho, at the sound of the first great artillery bar rage. NONE of these encouraging fantc m Don lnM M -..vU "i-ui. iui vnc 111 u- ment that the Quemoy prob lem is not desperately dan gerous. The distribution of Communist artillery fire olain- ly suggests a possible landing attempt, either on Little Que moy or the Tan islands. Even if the American policy mak ers hesitate, such an attempt Mrill 1 i: Tl ' "i automatically mean a widened war; for the Nation- alists will then send all their air power against the main land targets which they have not hit as yet. urthermore, t the Commu nist artillery blockade is bound to produce the desired result in the end, all by itself, and even if blockade - run ning is much improved, a blockaded position under fire cannot be held forever bv men who have no means to fight back. But the fact that the Communists have done a poor job, so far, at least means that the garrison can be relied on to hold Quemoy much longer than the statis tics suggest. - The leaders of Chiang Kai- shek's government have been talking of using their air pow er to the utmost within no more than a fortnight. But a full month can probably be allowed, with reasonable pru dence, for diplomacy and ex perience to convince the Pei ping government of the un wisdom of persisting in its Quemoy venture. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God. But it isalso a book which teaches man his own in dividual responsibility, his own dignity and his equality with his fel low-man. Daniel Webster Chapel Mortuary - Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 States v along the lines of those which America has with its other allies. But at the same time, the Americans will take into' consideration Japan's special ' problems, such as her post-war consti tution which is interpreted as prohibiting the stationing of Japanese troops abroad. The Americans were said to feel it will take some time to reach agreement on all de tails of the ' new treaty but were described as approach ing the . talks .with an open mind and a desire to achieve results which recognize the equality and partnership of the two countries. The Japanese have not yet given the Americans any de tails of what they want in the new treaty, the sources told United Press Internation al. Grounds Recognized They stressed there was no connection between these treaty talks and the current Formosan crisis. Neither, they said, is the remission of the treaty con nected with the Japanese re armament problem. The United States has not attached any conditions such as speedier development of the Japanese defense forc es as a basis for consider ing the new treaty, United Press International was told. The Americans recognize Japan has grounds for want ing to revise or replace the old treaty, the sources said. They pointed out, for one thing, the . present treaty ac tually does not obligate the United States to defend Ja pan. Of course, they said, the United States had troops here and would have defend ed Japan if Japan were at tacked. - Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Gold "Nuggets' ? To the Editor: Here are "nuggets" for the scrap book collector. Gold is one of the first pre cious metals mentioned in the Bible. The ' records indicate that gold has been known to mankind since before 9,000 B.C. There is not a month of the year that someone throughout the wide world is not search ing somewhere for the stuff. Nearly all nations in the world have produced some gold, or trace of gold, at least. Alluvial gold has been found in ancient glaciers. While all races have recognized the in trinsic value since' time im memorial; the priests of Tibet and Nepal used the precious metal for roofs on their mon asteries. It has been said that gold is one of the most elusive me tals. A native of Arabia who once owned a beautiful horse, 'tis said, refused to sell, his horse after being offered its weight in gold, for he rea soned he could not carry the burden away in the desert, without his horse again. Bert Kissinger . 520 Boardman, Medford Different Viewpoint To the Editor: I've, read your editorial in answer to my letter in regard to using gaso line tax money for tourist ad vertising and would say you have definitely missed the point. I'm sure you could un derstand much better if you were to get another Viewpoint. And to aid you in that re spect, I invite you to take a ride over one example of our In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Far East stuff: Secretary Dulles tells the reporters at a news confer ence he would be willing to meet with Red Chinese Pre mier Chou En-Lai if there were reason to believe some thing could be achieved to ward solving the Formosa crisis. But, he said, he doubts the wisdom of such a move now. Then He added . He sees IMPROVEMENT in the crisis over the past two weeks, and believes the like lihood of open warfare has diminished. AS TO Dulles, ,.he is either "stubborn or he is confident. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt. I think the na tion's postmen, who are sup posed to have a lot of ex perience with canines, will agree that the only way to handle a menacing dog is to betray no signs of fear. We must at least remember that the President of the Unit ed States and his secretary of state have available intel ligence reports that the rest of us do not have. Decisions, if they are to be right, must be based on accurate informa tion. It must be presumed that the information upon which the responsible officers of our government are acting is such as to justify the course they are following. BUT this, I think, should be added: There have been intima tions from Washington that of ficials of our government feel that the American people are not backing the administra tion as strongly as they should in this Formosa straits busi ness. We DON'T want to weaken the hands of our government. But We know how we feel. We know we don't want to go to ' war over a couple of little islands that are within gun shot of the Chinese mainland and therefore, by long inter national custom, may be re garded as a part of a main land China. Nor do we want to go to war to back a chim erical drive by the Chinese Nationalists to reconquer the mainland. ' I have a rather strong feel irtg that under such circum stances the American peop"? should let their feeling be known. THERE is another interesting tale in the news. It seems that the Chinese Nationalist fighter pilots have been using American Side winder air-to-air missiles ' in their aerial dogfights with the Red Chinese pilots. Russia comes through today with an excited protest that if that goes on the devil can be to pay. The inference is that our Sidewinders are pretty hot stuff. Hmmmmm. If we have new weapons THE COMMIES FEAR, there is less likelihood of war. CARRIER RETURNS HOME Mayport, Fla. -UPD- The aircraft carrier Saratoga ar rived back at its home base here Wednesday after an eight-month tour of the Med iterranean. county roads in the cab of my truck. I consider it a duty of yours to do something about roads such as these. A little pressure from your paper, in the right places would work wonders. After the shakeup you'd get on the aforesaid ride I'm sure you'd agree with me. Floyd R. McCabe, Mt. Pitt Star Route, . Box 80, Butte Falls, Ore.
