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4 Thursday, November 6, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORO. ORE. MEDFOKDtTBIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. ECHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Met ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION PATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.15 Sunday Only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Paint. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Ptioenix, 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 Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WE3T-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 PUBLISHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOOATrdN J Flight ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 6, 1948 (Saturday) The final if' unofficial tally of how Jackson county voted in Tuesday's election shows Dewey led Truman by nearly four thousand votes. The 20-30 club reports ne gotiations are under way to present in Medford a second Broadway production, "John Loves Mary," with cast of Gotham professionals. 20 -YEARS AGO Nov. 6. 193& (Sunday) Medford high, school and the city s traffic safety coun cil are cosponsoring a safe driving school for adults and students. From Arthur ferry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Stock men have begun to fret how they will get rid of their hay If they will be patient, they will get a bulletin from O.S.G suggesting they -feed it to their cows." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 6, 1928 (Tuesday) Heavy voting in Medford and Jackson county raises hopes of a turnout as high as 80 per cent. Boy Scout buglers sounded assembly at the city's polling places at 8 a.m. today. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 6, 1918 (Wednesday) Jackson county has appar ently elected the entire Re publican ticket. . A new war drive to raise ,$31,275 in Jackson county for united war work is to start Nov. 11. . . What's Your I.Q.7 'Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or ,six is good. 1. The human body has 10 12, or 14 pairs of ribs? " 2. Which American - made automobile, currently manu factured, bears the same name s the surname of one of our Presidents? J 3. Flag is a name commonly applied to which one of these ilowering plants-dahlia, iris, peony? 4. In connection with the Cyclops, a Greek mythological xace of giants, what peculiari ty was supposedly evident in the forehead? ' 5. "Old Ironsides" is a nick name for which U. S. Frigate? ' 6. Name the movie actor who portrayed the "Judge Hardy" role in the "Andy Hardy" series? : 7. Identify, the radio team who are noted for their char acterizations of the operators bf the "Fresh Air Taxicab Company." 8. According to the Bible, how many commandments are there? 9. Reykjavik is the capital of which island near the Arc tic Circle in the North At lantic? 10. Was the dictionary com piled by Noah or Daniel Web ster? Answers: 1. 12 pairs. 2. Lin coln. 3. Iris. 4. A single eye. 5. U.S.S. Constitution. 6. Lew is Stone. 7. "Amos 'n' Andy. 8 Ten. 9. Icelamd. 10. Noah. Post Mortem In every election there are disappointments and gratifications for practically everyone. If anyone in Jackson county voted exactly the way that all the races finally came out, we don't know who it is. But in the case of Tuesday's election, the grati fication we feel exceeds the disappointment. By and large we are pleased with the overall results, despite the fact that some of the candidates and measures we supported lost. Probably everyone feels that way. fYUR chief gratification came from two races. One was in the congressional contest between Charles 0. Porter" and Paul Geddes, a race in which we thought (and said) unfair campaign tactics were used against Porter. '. The congressman was returned to office not by any overwhelming majority, but by a larger majority than he received two years ago when he defeated Harris Ellsworth. In 1956 he lost Jack son county by more than 1,700 votes; this year he carried it by several hundred. THHE other race the outcome of which pleased us cpnsiderably was that for state representa tive, where Bob Duncan led the Democratic tick et, gained the most votes of any candidate for the legislature, and increased his margin over the next-highest candidate from about 1,300 in 1956 to about 1,500 this year. In both cases we feel that the result was not only a vote of confidence in good men, but also a repudiation of campaign tactics and practices which discredited themselves. IN ALL other cases, candidates we supported, or whom we did not support but of whom we ap prove, won. Mark Hatiield, while we think he will not be the governor that Bob Holmes has been, is a hard working and, we believe, sincere young man, not too different in political philosophy from Holmes. We feel sure he will grow in the job, and wish him well. " Dr. Dumo, who at this writing appears to have won Jackson county's state senate seat by a slim margin from Gordon Hudson, has ability and in telligence. He hasideas (particularly along the lines of what is needed for older citizens of the state), and we believe that with his election, he will assume his duties with determination and be a credit to this county. MRS. EVE Nye should and Duncan are of differing political parties, we feel certain that both have the temperament and intelligence to work together constructively on matters concerning Jackson county, despite what ever philosophical differences they may have. '. Marvin Madden is a Dersonabler. intelligent young man. After Indoctrination into the duties of the county clerk, we expect him to do an excel lent job. Chet Wendt with another term as county com missioner, Earl Miller as county judge, and Joe Walsh as sheriff we expect to serve the county well. None are flamboyant nor boastful, and we expect good, solid, productive performances from each of them. We are particularly hopeful that Wendt and Miller can work together with Ralph James to develop a much-needed and well-rounded parks and recreation program for Jackson county, now only in a formative stage. X MONG the measures, it was particularly grati- fying to see the county home rule measure ap proved so substantially, both in Jackson county voting and throughout the state as well. It will change nothing as far as county govern ment is concerned. But it makes it possible to do so in the future, if in the minds of the legislature, and of the people of the county, it should eventu ally be done. v The measure passed almost 3 to 1 in the county, and by a substantial margin in the state, demonstrating that people are becoming aware of the drawbacks of county government as now constituted. - "YREGON'S voters apparently cast their ballots against measures which would (or, . which they thought would) increase taxes. We have in mind particularly the capital improvement mea sures on the ballot in Portland, the modest in crease in legislators' pay, and the veterans loan measure on the state ballot. The way the ballot title was worded voters could have thought the loan proposal might raise taxes although in fact it w-ould not have ; it might actually have saved a little money for the state. The teachers obtained their objective, that of being able to serve in. the legislature and then return to their jobs without sacrificing half of their legislative pay. We Teachers should be able ture, although we thought this proposal was a singularly inept way to might cause unforeseen MO, BY and large the And it certainly demonstrated to perfection a thesis we have long held that voters are not bound by party loyalties. They are probably in fluenced by them, but are far from bound. A state with a Democratic majority elects a Republican governor; a county with a Republi can plurality votes for a controversial Democratic congressman ; the largest single vote for a local candidate goes to a Republican candidate for sheriff and the second-largest to a Democratic candidate for the legislature. That's the way it should be. E.A. make an outstanding have no great obiection to serve in the legisla go about it, and that it problems. election turned out well. Dennis the Menace Matter of Fast Washington In the c a m paign that has now merciful ly come to an end, the most i n t e r e s ting single feature has been the role of Vice President Rich ard Nixon. Despite all the stir Nix on's campaign paigning has caused, very few people how much he really did. For example, he must be credited with raising more than $1,000,000 for his party, and this at a time when the Republican campaign committees all over the coun try were suffering from acute financial anemia. His pulling power brought over $260,000 into one $100-a-plate dinner in Indianapolis; and a . single half-hour Nixon pep talk to only 20 Chicago fat .cats pro duced checks totalling more than $35,000. Again, Nixon's persuasions as well as Nixon's example played a big role in propelling President Eisenhower on to the rostrum as a "fighting campaigner." The President's distaste for his highly un characteristic appearances as a tub-thumping partisan is a matter of common knowledge. But Nixon and the Republi can National Chairman, Meade Alcorn, got Eisenhow er to go through the unpleas- ing motions all the same. rriHESE achievements were wholly secondary, more over, to the Vice , President's main effort as his party's chief stump speaker. It was a most extraordinary effort. Nixon took the stump in earnest at the end of Septem ber. From then until voting day, he hardly paused for breath, criss-crossing the country to answer any call for help, bursting into New York where his help was not exactly hankered for by Nel son Rockefeller, and general ly driving himself to the naked verge of physical pros tration. The first thing to note about this truly demonic perform ance is that it represented a total change in the Vice Pres ident's own plan and strategy. The original Nixon script for this election called for a much slower-paced effort and a very much less down-to-earth ap proach. He was to campaign, of course, but he was to cam paign as one somewhat above the dusty struggle as a Re publican statesman rather than a Republican partisan. THE motive for this earlier strategy was obviously to conserve and strengthen the marked gains the Vice Presi dent had . previously been making among independent voters. According to those who are closest to Nixon, the old strategy was torn up and Try and .Insepb Alsup realize jusi -By BENNETT CERF- THE ARGUMENT in Toots Shor's famous New York chop house had been proceeding for some time now. "You ask him! You're the one he smiled at when he came in." 'TV.r' 1u cillir Tnn Vral ' do it. No man can resist an innocent looking blonde." "All right," conceded Joan and marched up to the subject of discussion. "Mr. Hemingway," she said, "please don't think us silly, but we've been argu ing about your beautiful beard. My friend thinks you sleep with it outside the covers. I'm sure you're the kind of man who tucks it inside. Which is it?" "Young lady," said Hem ingway firmly, "I sleep on my stomach." . ...... The driver of a car full of students coming: home from a football wingding registered anguish as one of the songsters hit a particu larly sour note in the rendition of "Stardust." "Here, Tom," he begged, "you drive. You're too drunk to sing." 1958, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Feature Syndicate. Joseph Alsop a wholly new script was writ ten at the moment when the Vice President began to sus pect, that his party was likely to suffer a really demoralis ing defeat. According to the same per sons, the real key to the new Nixon approach, and the real key to the revised Nixon plans for I960, is to be found in the Vice President's many admiring references to Presi dent Truman's campaign in 1948. To the extent that this was possible, all these refer ences to President Truman were designed to put heart into the Republicans this time. But above all, they were de signed to persuade the Repub licans that even if they suf fered a disaster this time, they could rely on Nixon to win for them two years from now with a real two-fisted, no-holds-barred attack. TO this reporter, the wide spread Democratic charge that the Vice-President has been campaigning in the gut ter seems decidedly exagger ated. His brief renewal of the old charge of disloyalty in the State Department raised ghosts of a repellant past. His California speech on national defense was both a flat denial of his own excellent defense record, and a thoroughly ten dentious presentation of the ugly facts of our national stra tegic situation. . It was easy easy enough to be shocked by this sort of thing, especially because it was so inconsistent with the style Nixon had adopted during the last two years. Yet even the two cases 'cit ed, though they alienated a good many people who had been impressed by Nixon's change of style, did not great ly transgress the limits the same people have allowed Nixon's opponent in campaign-time. Furthermore, Nix on's entire campaigning per formance has left him in just, the situation he aimed fori Most Republicans who will have a say at the 1960 con vention are now convinced that Nixon is one man with whom the party can hope to win. ' One thing, and one thing only, can break this image the public opinion polls which, as Nixon so often says, "beat Bob Taft." But judging by the isolated polling : tests this reporter has made be tween the Vice President and Sen. Jack Kennedy of Massa xiusetts, tne ' single danger that now besets Nixon can still be very formidable in deed. (Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) ' Congress failed to appropri ate funds to support West Point in 1815. Its superintend ent, Maj. Joseph G. Swift, bor rowed $65,000 on his personal credit to keep the academy open. Stop Me 'Dr. Zhivago' Not Strongly Anti-Red; But Some Passages Must Ire Communists By JACK V. FOX UPI Correspondent New York -UPD- This Rus sian novel, "Dr. Zhivago," the one that won the Nobel Prize. What does it have to say that could cause such frothings of hatred and indignation in the Soviet Union? Only 200,000 copies of Bor is Pasternak's book have been printed so far in the United States so it figures that only .about 1 out of 800 Am ericans have read it. For those who haven't: "Dr. Zhivago" is the story of a physician, a sensitive and well educated man, whose life disintegrated in the chaos that followed the Bolshevik Revo lution in 1917. Most readers will find' it heavy going. It is a rambling book in the sweeping style of Tolstoy's "War and Peace" with a bewildering cast of characters. Its plot line is hard to follow; Zhivago's love of three women is rather aca demic. Recites Post War Events What must make it "trea sonable" in Communist Rus sia is its absolute candidness, its honesty, its calm recital of shattering events and scenes from Moscow and in the Urals in the years after World War I. , If the reader were not aware what a furore Paster nak's work has wrought in the Soviet 'Union, although never published there, he would be hard put to judge the book particularly anti-Communist. Roscoe Drummond Reports . . . (Drummond is substituting for Walter Lippmann, during the latter's trip to Russia.) PASTERNAK VS. KHRUSHCHEV New York The invective and violence with which the Soviets are reacting to the No bel award to Boris Pasternak for his great novel, "Doctor Zhivago," is a fair measure of the way the Kremlin still feels it must barricade the minds of the Russian people. To assess the fear and trembling with which the So viet dictatorship- views the Pasternak novel, it is neces sary to realize that "Doctor Zhivago" is gentle and muted criticism "compared with the slashing indictments of as pects of American society in the works of such U. S. writers in the 'twenties and 'thirties as Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos and John Steinbeck. "Doctor Zhivago" is not anti-revolutionary; it is pro-revolutionary. It is anti-Czarist and it is not pro-capitalist. It does not attack the aims of Communism, but some of its methods. It speaks for intel lectual integrity and human freedom. And the Kremlin finds it not only unsafe for the Rus sians to read it but unsafe for them to view Pasternak with anything but loathing if the Kremlin can put it over., . WHAT do the Soviets fear from Mr. Pasternak and his example of fearless hon esty? - They fear that if Pasternak goes unchastened, unsmeared, and unpunished, too many oth er writers and intellectuals will assert similar freedom. They fear that Pasternak's example of independence will be catching. They fear that in light of what has happened in Hun gary and Poland any further growth in intellectual free dom, tentatively allowed dur ing the de-Stalanization per iod, might spread and under mine the regime itself. Therefore several hundred obedient writers and artists are called together to pass res olutions without even read ing what the condemned au thor has written since his nov el has never been published in Russia condemning his work as a "malicipus squib," as "traitorous" and "reaction ary slander." The Russians must remain content or at least remain looking out the barred win dows of their iron curtain while free peoples elsewhere acclaim and devour the superb historic novel by a Russian whose only crime is that he breathes the spirit of freedom. It must wound the pride of many Russians that the only way they can know about the masterpiece of one of their literary greats is through the accounts broadcast over the barrier of Soviet jamming by HELP US! We Need Clothing, Shoes, Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring 3-7335 When, for example, Zhiva go. returns to Moscow after being wounded in army ser vice, Pasternak writes: "His friends had become strangely dim and colorless. They had been much more vivid in his memory. He must have . overestimated them in the past. Under the old order, which enabled those whose lives were secure at the ex pense of others while a ma jority led a wretched exis tence, it had been only too easy to mistake the foolish ness and idleness of a privil eged minority for genuine character and originality." Sums Up Feelings But Zhivago's feelings later are summed up: "I don't know a movement more self-centered and more removed from the facts than Marxism. Everyone is wor ried only about proving himself in practical matters, and as for the men in power, they are so anxious to estab lish the myth of their infal libility that they do their ut most to ignore the truth. Pol itics doesn't appeal to me. I don't like people who don't care about- the truth." Pasternak's book has a re curring religious theme, but it is more an exposition of the frustrations of attempting to lead a simple life, in one passage, Zhivago asks the book's heroine what ruined her marriage. "Ah, it isn't a matter of in dividuals, of being alike or different in temperament, or loving and not loving," she the Voice, of America and Ra dio Liberation in the Russian languages. The "Voice" will soon broadcast a six-part ser ies drawing heavily from the novel. "T.OCTOR ZHIVAGO" is " not primarily propagan da. It is the cry of a brave and honest man's soul against the betrayal of the- Russian peo ple's revolution against Czar- ist repression and the substitu tion of a more evil and per vading repression, in its place. At one point Pasternak writes: "If the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats any kind of threats, whether of jail or of retribu tion after death then the highest emblem of humanity would be the 14on tamer in the circus with his whip, not the prophet who sacrificed him self. But don't you see, this is just the point what has for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but an inward music: the irresistible power of unarmed truth, the powerful attraction of its ex ample." And a character in "Doctor Zhivago" muses: - "When the revoltuion woke him up, he decided that his century-old dream was com ing true his dream of living on his own land by the work of his hands, in complete in dependence and with no ob ligations to anyone. Instead, he found he had only ex changed the oppression of the former state for the new, much harsher yoke of the rev olutionary super-state. Can you wonder that the villages are restless and can't settle down." So today Boris Pasternak lives alone outside Moscow not knowing what will happen to him next. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Popularity depends on your ability to get along with people, and the better you learn to adjust to each situation the more easily you will make friends. You will find that you can make those adjustments more successfully if you have yourself well in hand, and the only way to get yourself in hand is to know yourself, to turn yourself inside out as you would an old pocketbook shake out the dust and tidy up the contents. . . t Betty, Connell : ' . - Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse W -. Frank Morgan - Harold; Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 replies. "All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined." Could Take Exception And Khrushchev and Co. could certainly take excep tion to one of .the final pas Redstone Missile Test Cape Canaveral, Fla. - (UPD Five years of research by German and American scien tists came to an end " Wednes day night with the 34th suc cessful flight of the Army's "workhorse" ' Redstone mis sile. ' The Army announced after the weapon blasted off that the Redstone was now "fully operational" and "has been in the hands of NATO troops in Europe since last June. The Army said the 250-mile Morse, Neuberger Wire Hatiield Portland - (UPD - Both of Oregon's Democratic senators sent messages of congratula tion to Republican governor elect Mark Hatfield. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.l whose attack on Hatfield high lighted the closing days of the campaign said: "The supreme court of the ballot box has rendered its verdict. You win. Congratulations." Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), told Hatfield he ex pects to continue to cooperate fully with the state adminis tration, under your governor ship, in all matters and oc casions which may call for the collaboration 'or coordination of federal and state action Factory Layoffs Decline Sharply Washington-OIPD-The Labor Department has reported that factory layoffs fell sharply in September - a month when they usually hold steady. The department said Wed nesday that layoffs dropped from 19 for each 1,000 per sons employed in August to 14 in September. Total Wrings exceeded total layoffs, tesignations and dis charges in September for the fourth consecutive month. TTWM9K . I want to'thank the many friends who w-orked for and supported me in my campaign for the office of County Judge, and to ex tend my congratulations to Mr. Miller uppn his victory. Scott Hamilton sages: "In all this time something definite should have been achieved. But it turns out that those who inspired the revo lution aren'.t at home in any thing except change and tur moil, they aren't happy with anything that's on less than a world scalet For them, tran sitional periods, worlds In the making, are an end in themselves." Successful tactical weapon that vanished in a heavy overcast was the last that would be fired in the research and development phase of the Redstone project. Future firings, officials said. would be handled by troops in training. The Redstone has become known as the booster for the- famed Jupiter-C, which put the first American satellite into orbit last January afterr Russia had accomplished that feat twice. Communications Letters to the Editcr must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer- itain circumstances the use of a Den name or initial for miblica- tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the rieht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Bite Once, Bite Twice To the Editor: When Mr. Mcrse made his untimely at tack on Mark . Hatfield, he probably had one of two things on his mind. Either he felt that he is held in such high esteem by the people of Oregon that he can say any thing he pleases (in .which case he certainly learned very quickly that he was wrong), or he has decided not to run for the Senate again when this term has expired. Either way he has done Oregon a great service. In one speech he did more to show the type of man he really is than we could have done in lour solid years of campaigning against him. , And since I can never re sist tossing a moral into any given subject, may I remind the Democrats of that old Chi nese proverb "Dogee that bitee once will usually bitee twice even the hand that feeds it!" Mrs. Ann Hamilton . 905 Grant St. Medford
