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t1AMh!?Jy' 0eb' 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDsTRIBUIiE "Everyone tn Southern Oregon ReadTheMailTribune" ub5i?;i? except SaturdFby MEDFORO PRINTING CO - 33 North Ftr St. Ph. SP 2-6141 w'nnRrTjT n.nTT n . -y v " - aunu, tailor fR?w" a,,V'-;V. Mgr. " - ,1X1., Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HJXSHT?& Tele,. Editor " y-r-ju.i. circulation Mgr An Tnrim-anrf... t . ncHiudper entered as second class matter at Oregon unaer Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES HT Mail Tv A - Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 uuuos viujf une year 54.ZU. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv- 1 oi"- uu nioior routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 DailV SnH Qnnflflu 1 , r n Carrier and Dealers copy 10c 'w vasn in Advance Official Paper of City of Med ford Official PapeojJacjtsCoiinty United Press International run Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU tlKCULATION Advertising PnnraeAntaVl,...- WEST-HOL1DAY CO. INC, Of fices in New York, Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, .Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver, B.C. ?V NEWSPAPEI . PUBLISHEIS "ASSOCIATION NAIIUnAl 3EU NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOcfATlQw U U Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 9, 1948 (Saturday) California Gov. Earl War ren, GOP vice president can didate will pass through here by rail Oct. 16 and make a platform appearance. KYJC plans a special pro gram today marking its first anniversary of operation here. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 9. 1938 (Sunday) Street sweepers are out in force to gather up autumn leaves, and motorists are jvarned not to park their cars on paved streets between 1 and 5 a.m., as cars so parked interfere with the sweepers' work. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "It's only a month till election. The minority will note, and the majority go duck hunting, in dications indicate." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 9, 1928 (Tuesday) The Foots creek PTA plans a stunt night this month. A "puncture plant," capable of puncturing . automobile tires and cows,' stomachs, has been found near Ashland and is on exhibit here. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 9. 1918 (Wednesday) A Chinese pheasant eager to read the Mail Tribune over Edwin G. Trowbridge's shoul der banked into the window of Trowbridge's house, was stunned, and has since pro vided the Trowbridge family with a fine feast. " The local liberty loan bond campaign is now $68,000 short of its quota. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. The King of the Hellenes is the King of which country? 2. Who was the author of the "Fourteen Points." 3. Do vertebrates, or inver tebrates, have backbones? 4. The Babcock test is used to test what? 5. Complete the title of the John Fox novel, "The Little Shepherd of " 6. Which is the lighter gas, hydrogen or helium? 7. A sampan is a cooking utensil; true or false? 8. What famous surrender occurred at Appomatox, Va.? 9. A cubic foot office is heavier, lighter than, or weighs the same as, a cubic foot of water? 10 Is a cassowary a cook ing utensil, a bird, a priest's robe, or a propneiess: Answers: 1. Greece. 2. Pres ident Woodrow Wilson. 3. Ver tebrates. 4. Butteriai in num. . nr:..ilnin Come." 6. Hv drogen. 7. False (Oriental boat). 8. General Lee s sur render to General Grant. 9 Lighter. 10. A bud. Screw-Balls and Freedom Insanity, or as it is more frequently called these days mental illness, is a tragic, heart wrenching thing. it is onen the case that the sick person is un aware of his or her sickness, and believed that the efforts of relatives and friends to see that he or she obtains effective treatment is a form of per secution. Violent resentments can braid up in the sick mind resentments which make the journey back to health and sanity a more diffi cult one. Sometimes, and fortunately not frequently, a sane person who may be "odd" or "unusual," is suspected of being mentally ill, and efforts are made for a commitment - MOW there are safeguards against such a thing happening. But on occasion, despite the safe guards, it happens. When session of all his faculties is locked up as men tally ill." It is difficult ling situation. ' . That this happens any less appalling when These thoughts were motivated "by recent news from the state of Washington that a man named John Patnc has state mental hospital at Sedro Woolley after a period of confinement for observation, but only after he had demanded and obtained a jury trial to establish his sanity. According to the one (the wire services outside ignored the decision despite Patric s notoriety) it took the jury just 10 a foreman, and vote Patnc free. DATRIC is an eccentric. He wears a beard. He cares little for money, as such, as long as he has the basic necessities of life. He doesn't give a tinker's dam for the conventionalities of life. If he thinks you're a stinker, he'd just as soon tell you so to your face as behind your back. He becomes irritated at some of civilzatiori's minor stupidities, like the rest of us do. But unlike the rest of us, he does something about it. Irri tated by the volume of unwanted mail from cer tain members of Congress, sent out free under the "franking" privilege, Patric started "franking" his own mail sending it only with his own sig nature in place of a stamp. He added insult to injury by mailing such things as dead birds and f ishheads to the objects Haled into court, he fense, and the judge dismissed the charge. PARLY this year he spent an hour or so in this " office, discussing with us his recent activities, and those he planned. His current objectives are to make life miserable for officialdom in his home town of Snohomish, where he declares the forces of corruption and evil are in charge. When Patric sets out for someone, he does an other things he printed a little newspaper, in which he flayed the police chief, the mayor and sundry other officials. It was out of these activities that the insanity charges stemmed. He was jailed, later sent to the hospital, and only recently obtained his release when the jury termed him sane. JOHN Patric is an exceptional man. He has friends throughout the United States. He is an author ("Yankee Hobo in the Orient," "Repair men May Gyp You," and other books, and articles m the Readers Digest and he has worked as a reporter and photographer, he has traveled widely, and wears no man's collar. He is a thom m the side of stupid officialdom ; he is the enemy of hypocrisy; he is an. upholder of virtue as he sees it. But he sees these things differently than other men. He is a free man, and pities those of us who are slaves to conformity, to a job, to many of civil ization's mores which he regards as asinine. - DUT it is not yet a Crime to think freely, and do as one wishes so long as another is not un justly injured thereby. For this reason we were delighted to see the jury act so quickly in setting free this free spirit once again to poke around the odd comers of the world, again to wage his campaigns for what he believes is right. Crazy? Sure, John Patric a self -termed "screw-ball" may be crazy in the addled think ing of those who believe that sanity equates only with doing as one's neighbors do. OUT he's a. mighty sane man all the same, for he has the balance, the courage and the moral fortitude to set up his own goals in his own way, and then to seek them, regardless of what the world thinks, and regardless of the enemies and even of the friends he makes in the process. If there were many more John Patrics, society probably -would tremble from the shock. But if there were any fewer if Patric were still in the "hell-hole" of ward 4 the world would be the poorer. E. A. Who To Believe? Joe Alsop (this page, today) ;" . . ..the strictly military factors m u s t . certainly have weighed most heavily in Peiping's decision to make this . . . cease-fire announcement . . ." Walter Lippmann (this page, today) "The move by the Chinese Communists ... is a spec tacular reminder that the game at Quemoy is pri marily political ..." When two well-infonn'ed, literate columnists disagree diametrically, is it any wonder the rest of us are confused? E. A. to an institution. it does, a person in pos to imagine a moi'r appal rarely does not make it it does happen. been released from the account we have read Washington apparently minutes to file out, elect of his irritation. conducted his own de to make life miserable effective job. Among National Geographic), ; Windows are mw th ings Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann THE LATEST GAMBIT The move made bv the Chi nese Communists, which is to order a cease-fire at Quemoy for seven days, is a spec t a c u 1 a r re minder that the game at Quemoy is primarily po 1 i t i c a 1, and that the Pei p i n g govern- Walter . m e n x, wnicn LiDomann holds the hi ah cards in the offshore islands, Knows how-to Dlav them skill fully. Since thev hold the military initiative at Quemoy, they can xurn on tne bombardment or turn it off, as if it were a water tap. By turning off the bombardment without wait ing to negotiate a cease-fire, they have nut Chians? in thp position where he can hardlv refuse to supply the garrison and civilians on Quemoy, yet must ao tnat only as a favor granted to him by Peininf? This is, and no doubt this is intended to be, a very drama tic way ofl demonstrating to the Chinese on Formosa that Red China is militarily pre- aominanx in xiie area of the offshore islands. " THE Communist gambit be- Dulles acknowledged publicly that the United States would not carry the war to the main-. land , in order to raise the ar tillery - blockade' of Quemoy. The real issue here is not al ways well understood in this country. All the talk about "defending"- Quemoy and about not "retreating" has contained a large dose of naivete in view of the real attitude taken by the Admin istration. What we have been erittine our teeth and clenchine our fists about was the decision to defend the island against an invasion. There are no indi cations that the Red Chinese have intended to invade the island. Our declarations and defiance have never meant, however, that' we would de fend Quemoy against the bom bardment itself - that we would authorize Chiang to lead us into an aerial strike against the artillery positions in Fukien Province. The- fact of the matter is that the President and Mr. Dulles have been willing to accept the bombardment of Quemoy and to answer it only by measures to run the block ade. Their decision not to make war against the mainland gave the Red Chinese the initiative at Quemoy. It is this initiative which Peiping is now exploit ing politically. HTHE political objective of - the Communists is to con vince the Chinese in Formosa that their future lies with the mainland and not in continu ing to be a client of the United States. The cease-fire, which they have just instituted, is accompanied by an offer to negotiate with Chiang about a settlement of the offshore islands. It is probably implied in the staiement that Peiping wishes to negotiate with the United States at Warsaw about the specifically Chinese American issues. The offer to Chiang follows closely upon, and is no doubt related to, what was said by President Eisenhower and Mr. Dulles at, their press con ferences last week. They said a lot. They knocked out the idea that Chiang will return to the mainland, and in doing this they destroyed the fiction that he is in truth the legiti mate government of China. For sovereign who has no hope of governing is like a king who has lost his throne. Peiping has been quick to point out to Chiang and to the Chinese on Formosa that their choice is between exile in For for cieanim' up a room j mosa and a deal with the mainland. rpHIS does not mean that there will soon be a deal between the two Chinese fac tions. There will be much maneuvering, no doubt, both publicly and privately. But it does mean that the ground has been prepared and the seeds have been planted for a Chinese deal. This should sur prise no one. It has long been most probable that as we were playing the game with Chiang, the end would be a deal' in which we would be left on the outside. The fatal error of our poli cy has been refusal to see that the military threat to Formosa was negligible, given our in disputable command of the sea but that Formosa could not be saved from absorption by the mainland if we staked everything 'on Chiang. With out a policy disengaged from Chiang and designed to main tain some kind of autonomy in Formosa after he departs, we have no tenable policy of our own. We are tied to Chiang and what happens to our interests will, be deter mined by Chiang or his suc cessors. . OUR misleading preoccupa tion with th military de fense of Formosa has been and is a grave handicap to lucid thinking in this field. The President, for example, has no legal authority to use American power in Quemoy except as he can say with a good conscience that what happens at Quemoy is related to the military defense of For mosa. Mr. Dulles tried for a while to construct a legal po sition for him. The President was to say that although Chiang had "foolishly" locked up so many troops in Que moy, "Chiang would be lost if the troops surrendered. There fore the United States must prove its courage and its reso lution, no matter how negli gible and foolish the reason which occasioned it. ; As for the United States having to prove its courage, or to lose all its friends, I would say that what we do about Quemoy is a test of the cour age of the United States only if we announce to the world that we reeard it as a test of our courage. The world knows that we have fought three Dig wars in the past 50 years and the world, friendly, hostile and neutral, will have no doubt about the courage of this country. OTHERWISE, the problem of Quemoy is a practical problem which could and should be treated not as if we stood at Armageddon but coolly, calmly, and with com mon sense. Quemoy is not like Berlin any more than it is like London, Paris, or Washington. Evacuating Quemoy is not like the appeasement at Mu nich. For Czechoslovakia was an independent nation which was set up by a treaty and guaranteed by the Allies. Que moy is an island of no politi cal significance 'within a har bor on the Chinese mainland. Czechoslovakia was a country which contained the strategic bastion of Central and East ern Europe. Strategically, Quemoy is negligible. It is negligible for the defense of Formosa. It is negligible for the defense of the mainland. It is merely a minor nuisance, (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Assistant Manager of Roseburg Bank Dies Roseburg - (UPD - Andrew Broddus, 58, assistant man ager of the Roseburg branch of the U. S. National bank, died Wednesday in a hospital here from complications fol lowing major surgery. Communications "People'! Choice" To the Editor: In a recent Communications column, an objection was voiced to the selection by the Democratic Central committee of defeated candidate Sheehan to replace Earle Fichtner, the successful candidate in the primary elec tion for the office of sheriff. It so happens that Sheehan is a former central committee chairman and was touted by that same inner circle to car ry the party banner in the general election. Surprisingly, however, the Democratic vot ers nominated Fichtner, so the party brass poured on the pressure, Fichtner convenient ly withdrew and at their di rection chSnged his registra tion to Independent, thus opening the door to the cen tral committee for the ap pointment of loser Sheehan. To quote a phrase, the author of which escapes me, "They (The Democratic Cen tral Committee) naturally be lieve in their own ability to select the most suitable can didate for public office, and they take a dim view of the preferences of uninformed outsiders" (The Democratic Voters). By such action the primary election procedure, the basis of Democratic selection, as we know it in Oregon, is rele gated to a farce - a meaning less gesture to be set aside at the whim of the party slate makers. It seems to me the electors in November have a choice the people's choice or the party's choice. I, for one, in tend to vote for the candidate who is not only eminently more qualified, but who is representative of the will of the majority of the "people" rather than the minority of the "party". My vote goes for Joe Walsh-not Larry Shee han. Bill Schulz Eagle Point, Ore. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Wars and rumors of wars . . . International ruckuses that can so easily lead to war unless statesmanship of the highest order miraculously in tervenes to keep the peace . . . Politics and the canards and the roorbacks and the stratagems and the ' schemes and the hoopla that accom pany politics. Let's forget 'em all and turn for a moment to an Interesting little tale that has clicked off the wires. It goes like this: WORLD War I has finally ended in the tiny moun tain republic of Andorra which lies high up in the Pyrenees mountains between Spain and France. By a slip of somebody's foot, Andorra got into World War I. Its participation in that bloody struggle didn't amount to much. Its army numbered only seven men, and an army of that sizs is no great shakes in a big war. So Andorra was forgotten, and throughout the war to make the world safe for democracy, no shot was fired in anger within its bor ders. Nor has any shot been fired in anger since. When Kaiser Wilhelm was finally licked, the nations of the world eot 'together at Versailles to put together a peace. Somehow Andorra was OVERLOOKED. It signed no treatv of Deace. and so it re mained technically at war. THE little republic remained at war for 44 YEARS be fore anybody noticed it. When the fact was discovered a little while back, the presi dent of the 24-man council that governs Andorra called the council toeether and they CALLED OFF THE WAR. Now for the first time in 44 years Andorra is of ficially at peace. gUMMING up: Andorra went ( to war 44 years ago and then forgot about it. Since then, the great na tions of the world that signed a solemn and formal treaty of peace at ' Versailles have been into war and out of war goodness only knows how many times. But Andorra, of ficially' at .war all this time, has fired no shot in hatred at an enemy. It has -had no diplomatic crises. It has just gone ahead and sawed wood and said nothing. It hasn't even demanded foreign aid. A thought: Maybe we'd better . DE CLARE WAR ON EVERY BODY -and then forget all about it and go ahead piously and peacefully with the busi ness of enjoying life. H, me. We can't do it. WE'RE TOO BIG. I sometimes wonder if big ness and all that goes with it isn't the CURSE of the modern world. Overconfidence by Democrats Seen One Favorable GOP Omen By RAYMOND LAHR UPI Correspondent Washington (UPD M a j o r spokesmen for the rival poli tical parties' appeared in agreement today that over confidence on the part of Democrats provides the GOP with at least one favorable omen for the 1958 election campaign. Vice President Richard M. Nixon is seeking to buoy Re publican spirits by attribut ing overconfidence to the Democrats ' in the congres sional campaign. Former Pres ident Truman is warning his fellow Democrats to be on guard against it. Starting his second cam Matter of Fact VICTORY? v San Francisco For any one who has seen Quemoy at first hand, the sudden Chi nese Commu nist announce m e n t of a week's cease fire in the fight for the off - shore is land has an exciting smell of approach ing victory. Ti joi.pb aisop A- cer tainly premature to start the celebrations. It may be that this Communist maneuver is designed to conceal some dark new military design or com plex new political scheme. Yet the strictly military factors must certainly have weighed most heavily in Pei ping's decision to make this altogether unexpected cease fire announcement, which was not even hinted at in the most recent Warsaw talks. And if you study the military factors, there really is no way to explain the cease-fire ex cept as a portent of victory. The central fact in the pic ture is the immense value of the cease-fire to the National ist garrisons defending the little islands. After six weeks of shelling and five weeks of fairly effective artillery bloc kade, the garrisons are grant ed a week's respite, not. just to lick their wounds, but to repair damage, receive sup plies and - reinforcements without hindrance, and re store and improve their .situ ation in every possible-way. - NOTHING could be more important than this sud denly granted opportunity. As this reporter indicated, the strange inefficiency of the Communist military effort has left Big Quemoy with no more than superficial damage. But nearly half the entire Commu nist effort has been directed against the other, smaller is lands in the Quemoy group, Little Quemoy, Erh Tan and Ta Tan. And here the damage has been by no means super ficial. While the artillery block ade continued, there was no means of re-supplying the smaller islands except by air drop. Troops could only be sent in, and wounded could only be taken off in small boats crossing from Big Que moy by night. Little Quemoy has a sub stantial civilian population, and Little Quemoy's people were dangerously short o f food when the cease-fire was granted. On all three smaller islands, the basic ammunition reserves needed to repel a landing had begun to be dip ped into. On one of the two Tan islands, only a single well was still usable. In a week, if the Communist cease fire promise is not broken, all these deficiencies can be rem edied on Little Quemoy and the Tans. Sufficient stocks of MEET YOUR CANDIDATE! Hedrick Junior.. High Gym FRIDAY,. OCTOBER 17th at8 P.M. - League of Women Voters CANDIDATES' FAIR Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse ; Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 paign swing, Nixon told a GOP dinner at Philadelphia Wednesday night he had found encouraging factors for his party during his stops last week in Indiana, Illinois, California and Oregon. He said these included the fact that "Democrats are over confident" in each of the states and Republicans know "they are underdogs and are waging an all-out flight for votes." Warns Against "Deweyitis" Nixon said the Republicans, fighting to regain control of Congress, have the ingre dients to reverse the 1948 sit uation in which Truman scored an upset victory over By Joseph Alsop ammunition can also be rush ed into Big Quemoy to sus tain a serious counter battery fire which has been impos sible hitherto. In short, just about every thing the Communists have achieved with not much less than half a million rounds of shelling will be sacrificed by this cease-fire. Unless the Communists' long range mili tary planning has been really fantastacally bad, moreover, it is not possible to attribute the cease-fire to supply diffi culties. TO be sure, the much earlier two-day cease-fire obsten sibly granted by the Commu nists "to give the Quemoy garrison time to reflect," was almost certainly attributable to a supply problem. All the evidence suggeststhat Peiping began, the assault on the is lands expecting them to fall like the walls of Jericho, at a blast of the trumpets. The first week of intensive artil lery fire appears to have ex hausted the stock of shells on hand, at the end of this first week, the rate of shelling de clined very sharply. Then came the two-day cease-fire, which was immediately fol lowed by more days of very intense firing. But all this happened five weeks ago. The communist positions in the Quemoy area are served by a road and a railroad, which cost the Com munists something like 300,- 000 human lives to build. The road and railroad together have a daily capacity of at least 4,000 tons. The rate of supply expenditure, by shel ling and in other ways, has been well below 4,000 ton a day. One cannot imagine that the Chinese Communist ar mies are short of artillery am munition in the rear areas, Hence it is really impossible to believe that they have stop, ped the shelling because they are short of shells at the front. Rule out the supply explan ation. Consider the great ad vantage to the Nationalists of a week's cease-fire. Logically, you are then forced to , con clude that Peiping is think ing about abandoning the at tack on the off-shore islands. And if this is indeed the case, it wiir be time to cheer the success won by the stoutness of the islands' garrisons and the firm- policy of Secretary of State Dulles. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Just 60 Seconds is all we have tonight at 7:30 on Television to make a startling announcement. BARKER'S Thomas E. Dewey. Truman, who begins his third 1958 campaign swing today with a speech at Chero kee, Iowa, as part of a mid western tour, repeatedly has warned his party to guard against "deweyitis" meaning the overconfidence shown by the GOP in 1948. , Nixon said another simila rity, between 1948 and 1938 was an economic upturn which he said had contributed to Truman's victory. The eco nomy is moving up now, he said, and "the people do not vote against the national ad ministration in good times." Sen. Alan Bible, who heads the Democratic Campaign Speakers' Bureau, denied overconfidence could hamper the Democrats at least in the Far West where he has bedri since Congress adjourned. Bible told a reporter the Democrats were "running scared" in his state of Nevada. He said the same was true of senatorial nominees in Cali fornia, Arizona and Utah and even in Washington and Mon tana where Democratic in cumbents are heavily favored to win reelection. Attacks GOP Record There were these other political developments: At Hays, Kan., Demo cratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler attacked the Republican record on helping elderly Americans as "noth ing short of a national scan- dal." He told a Democratic Party rally the GOP has con sistently come out either in flat opposition to programs to help the aged or in favor of cutting back Democratic pro posals. At Baton Rouge, La., Ca mille E. Gravel was ousted as Louisiana Democratic nation al committeeman at a stormy session of the state party's governing body on the ground that he was "out of step" with the state party on segrega tion. Gravel calls himself a "moderate" on the racial is sue. A- Democratic National Committee spokesman in Washington said the Louisi a n a Democratic committee had no power to oust Gravel. He said party rules clearly state that only the National Committee can expel one of its own members. Nixon moves on' today to Columbus, Ohio, where he will deliver the keynote ad dress tonight to the GOP state convention. CORN BREAD WEEK Atlanta -(UPD- Gov. Marvin Griffin has signed a procla mation making this official corn bread week in Georgia, to commemorate "the ancient and honorable industry of corn milling and the making of corn bread." IT Builders Supply jfw QUALITY lllr BL0CKS 11 .JSpi Bricks, Flues, VJi Drain Tile -I I I 727 l W. McAndrcws Ph. S? 2-4107
