4 Wednesday, Nov. 12. 1958
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 12, 1948 (Friday)
Standard Oil raises its price
for automobile gasoline here
and others are expected to
follow suit.
Medford firemen attend the
first in a series of training
classes given by Gordon
Barker.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 12. 1938 (Saturday)
Advance membership sales
for the Southern Oregon Con
cert association indicates a
sell-out house for next week's
presentation by the San Fran
cisco Opera ballet.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "There
is a rumor another gas silo
will soon arise from the
weeds of a prominent corner."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 12. 1928 (Monday)
C. C. Hoover attends the
horseshow in Portland, where
he enters an exhibit of the
well known bulbous blue
grass. Jackson county votes for
Hoover exceed the total of
registered Republicans by
more than any other Oregon
county.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 12, 1918 (Tuesday)
The Medford Council of De
fense withdraws all restric
tions on the sale of gasoline.
Company F of the state
militia was to hire a special
railroad car to get home from
the festivities in Ashland.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five et
sis is good.
1. During the recent ballot
ing for the new Pope was it
black or white smoke which
indicated that the new Pope
had been selected?
2. Name the Emperor of
Ethiopia.
3. Tides in the oceans of the
earth are caused mainly by
the attratcion of the sun, or
the moon?
4. The Po Valley is in which
European country?
5. What is the uvula?
6. The first naval vessel of
the revolting Colonies was
named the A .... d?
7. With what subject did the
Volstead Act deal?
8. What monarch fought the
Spartans at the pass of Ther
mopylae? 9. The most famous steam
boat race on the Mississippi
River was a contest between
which two boats?
10. Roger Williams was re
sponsible for the first settle
ment of colonists in which
New England Stae?
Answers: 1. While smoke. 2.
Haile Selassie. 3. Moon. 4. It
aly. 5. The soft palate. 6. The
Alfred. 7. Enforcement of pro
hibiten. 8. Xerxes. 9. Nalchex
and Robert E. Lee. 10. Rhode
Island.
BARGAIN AUTOMOBILE
Hcndon, England lUPD Da
vid Lalor didn't know what a
bargain he got when he pur
chased an old car for 10 cents
last week at a dealer's give
away sale. Cleaning the car
Tuesday, Lalar found eight
cents inside it.
Why Shakespeare?
Tonight marks the opening of a campaign to
raise $275,000 for the Oregon Shakespearean Fes
tival Association, so that it can build a new thea
ter, and open its nineteenth season next July.
Three questions immediately present them
selves '
1. Why $275,000? That's a lot of money.
2. Why now? Wasn't the old theater good
enough?
3. Why should we contribute? What's in it
for us?
THESE are legitimate questions.
First, $275,000 IS a lot of money. The answer
lies in the nature of the building. It is not a home ;
it is not a business; it isn't. even an armory or a
warehouse. It is a theater, with special needs and
special problems, which run the price up far high
er than ordinarv construction.
It must have storage
properties, for lighting equipment. It must nave
dressing and make-up and rehearsal rooms so the
actors can prepare themselves for the stage.
It must be, in this case, authentic. The new
stagehouse will be a replica of an original Eliza
bethan theater, and in this lies one of the unique
boasts of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival. It
is one of the few places in the world (the ONLY
one on the West Coast) where Shakespeare's
plays are presented just as h& wrote them. To do
this, an authentic stage is required.
ASIDE from these specialized construction
costs, the one largest single expenditure will
be for lighting equipment. The plays are present
ed after dark for audiences up to more than 1,000.
The plays range from the lightest and froth
iest of comedies to the darkest and gloomiest of
tragedies, and the demands on lighting to make
the whole visible, alive and intelligible to aud
iences are fantastic.
Stage lighting alone will be i major expense
in the new building, and the electronic control
equipment, which will make it possible to change
the "set" of lights from one carefully planned
series, in one scene, to an entirely new "set" in
the next, and all at the flick of a switch, is ex
pensive. These then the basic but unusual construc
tion plans, plus the lighting equipment, plus a
certain amount of ground work to go with the
whole account for the high cost. (It could be
noted that a Shakespearean theater is being built
in Texas at a cost of more than $1,000,000. Those
who are experts in such matters feel that the
Shakespeare Festival here is getting a bargain.)
THE second question, "Why now?" is answered
in the fact that the old stage structure, built
on a piecemeal basis over the years, has been con
demned by the state fire marshal.
Because it did not endanger the audience, the
festival association was allowed to use it the past
three years, but with increasing reluctance on
the part of fire and safety officials.
This year was the last.
to go. It was unsafe for the actors and technicians,
and increasingly unsafe for the audience.
AS FOR question No. 3, "Why should we con
rriVinto?" fVio onewar -fQlla lnn ivrr narrc
One part is addressed
thusiastic about the festival for reasons of enjoy
ment those who like Shakespeare in the "Ash
land manner," and who would hate to see the
festival come to an end
The other is addressed to those who don't
give a tinker's dam for Shakespeare, actors, the
stage or anything connected with theatricals in
any form. It is enlightened sell-interest.
To avid festival patrons, their question is self
answering. They will contribute because they
wish to see this unique and pleasurable event
continue, now at the height of its success.
THE second part is just as straightforward, but
slightly more complex.
The "self-interest" involved is money.
Ralph Hensley, a student at Southern Oregon
college, this spring did an investigation of the
economic impact of the Festival on the Ashland
area (which includes all of Jackson county) in
1957, and wrote a paper about it for his econom
ics class. i
Excerpts from this paper tell the story better
than we can. In part, it said :
"The Oregon State Highway Department estimates
the average tourist expenditure at $5.20 daily and the.
average length of stay 6.36 days . . . Thus, it may be
estimated that tourists attracted by the Shakespearean
Festival spent $246,662 in the Ashland area during
August of 1957, an average of $8,279 daily . . .
"The number of times a tourist dollar turns over
before it becomes a final investment is estimated to be
12. Thus, the 'real value' of money spent by tourists in
this area during August, 1957, would reach an esti
mated sum of $3,079,944. Again, it must be noted that
this is considered to be a conservative estimate, as the
California estimate of 'real value' of the touoist dollar
is almost twice that of Oregon's."
IN THE past five years the Festival itself has
spent $226,000 in the area. It is estimated
that the same amount would be spent in the area
in the next three years, entirely aside from the
new construction. This too will circulate 12 times.
Thus, on the most conservative of estimates,
the Festival is. worth almost $4,000,000 per year
to the valley Ashland, Medford and way points.
A less conservative (and more realistic) estimate
would double this about $8,000,000 per year.
This is big business. This is "new" money.
This is a large segment of the county's future
prosperity.
. And giving to build an even bigger and better
festival is plain "enlightened self-interest,"
whether the motivation is the charm of the thea
ter, or cold, hard cash. E.A.
space, for costumes, for
The old stagehouse had
to those who are en
for that reason.
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Matter of Fact
THE DEMOCHRISTIAN
PARTY
Washington-In the fascinat
ing and fearful election re
turns, there is one more symp-
Wl trim that is
really too f as
cinatingto pass over. The
p e rf ormances
turned in by
D e m o c ratic
candidates be
longing to
the Catholic
church made
losepn Alsop a remarKawy
striking pattern. You can even
argue that the pattern fore
shadows what can be called
a strong Demochristian trend.
Of course the word, in, its
European context, has a mean
ing that it could never have
here. But in many states, after
this election, the Democrats
will certainly tend to prefer
Catholic candidates, simply
because Catholic candidates
are plainly more likely to
bring home the bacon.
' Pennsylvania and California
elected their first Catholic
Governors. Maine and Minne
sota elected their first Catho
lic Senators. So far as this
reporter can discover, only
one important Catholic Demo
cratic candidate was, beaten;
and Thomas D'Alesandro's de
feat in the Maryland Senate
race must be entirely attribut
ed to the Baltimore Mayor's
personality and record.
MORE significantly still,
didates ran ahead of their
tickets in a remarkable num
ber of cases, ranging from
Gov.-elect Pat Brown in Cali
fornia right across the Union
to Sen. Jack Kennedy in
Massachusetts. Besides Mayor
D'Alesandro, indeed, the only
important Catholic candidate
known to this reported who
did not run ahead of his ticket
was Sen.-elect Eugene McCar
thy in Minnesota.
The McCarthy case, more
over, is the kind of Exception
that proves rules. McCarthy
was running in a strongly
Lutheran state, where being
a Catholic ought to have been
a really heavy handicap. Yet
there was no sign that Mc
Carthy suffered more than
marginally for this reason.
The entire difference between
the vote for McCarthy and
the votes for the other Minne
sota Democrats can be very
easily explained by a single,
simple' fact. McCarthy's op
ponent, Sen. Ed Thye, was the
only respectable Republican
nominee for major office on
the Minnesota ballot.
MEANWHILE Catholic Sen.
elect Philip Hart did no
ticeably better than the im
mensely popular Gov. Soapy
Williams in Michigan. In the
New York Senate race, Catho
lic Frank Hogan racked up
a cool 400,000 extra votes
that were not given to Averell
Try and
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-By BENNETT CERF-
IT ISN'T EASY for a 9-year-old kid to spell "s-t-r-a-i-g-h-t
but one lad in a Las Vegas school made the grade. "Good,"
said the teacher. "Now tell us what it means." The kid an
swered promptly, "Without
soda or ginger ale."
A blase Englishman shad
ed his eyes from the sun and
looked up at the Empire
State building. "Interesting
edifice," he conceded. "I
take it it was designed to
give the impression of
height?"
Dick Powell stumbled
over an old gravestone in
western Texas that bore this
evebrow-raisinff enitaDh:
Here lies a man in perfect bliss.
Ain't nothin' in this world he'll miss.
The Injuns killed old Sam Gettson.
They took his scalp, but left his Stetson.
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THEM'
By Joseph AIsop
Harriman in the race for the
Governorship. Catholic Sen.
Kennedy not only ran a mile
ahead of anyone else in Mas
sachusetts, but also got a
share of the; vote-75 per cent
on final returns-without any
recent precedent in a big
Northern state of mixed popu
lation. And other instances
might be cited.
Two reasons for this phe
nomenon are clearly appar
ent. On the one hand, Catho
lic candidates have the power
to swing back to the Demo
crats the many Catholic vot
ers, especially voters of Irish
and Italian origin, who have
strayed into the Republican
Party in recent years. On the
other hand, the church is a
conservative symbol nowa
days, even in the eyes of non
Catholics; and thus a Demo
cratic candidate who is also
a Catholic is generally im
mune to charges of "radical
ism" and "left wing tenden
cies" that Republicans like to
hurl at their enemies.
rJiHE second advantage of
Democratic candidates wno
are also Catholics can be ex
pected to endure. The first
will not be enduring,' since
it belongs to a happily transi
tory phase in the develop
ment of our American society,
Catholics will not go on vot
ing so heavily for their fel
low Catholics, after they
cease to feel that their church
is the target of political dis
crimination. When there is
no memory of discrimination
to prick them, Catholic voters
will no doubt judge candidates
by their other qualifications,
without regard to their religi
ous affiliation.
But in the present phase.
although there is no longer
any obstacle to the nomina
tion of Catholic candidates for
major offices, the memory of
the former obstacles still rath
er strongly survives. That is
why a Catholic, like Frank
Hogan, can attract thousands
of votes that a Protestant,
like Averell Harriman, cannot
attract. The situation is the
same in state after major
Northern state.
By the same token, the
rural Protestant prejudice
against Catholic candidates
has at least greatly weakened,
as the Minnesota results sug
gest. If a candidate is a Catho
lic, in short, his religion is
no longer a serious disadvan
tage with any large sector
of the voting population, and
it is an important advantage
with one large sector. All of
which would make this year's
election returns rather cheer
ing to young Sen. Kennedy.
Copyright 1958. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
NIP REVOLT ATTEMPT
Accra, Ghana -tCPD - Police
arrested 43 persons Monday
night to break up an attempt
to assassinate Premier Nkru
mah and overthrow the gov
ernment, officials announced.
Stop Me
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter lippmann
A TALK WITH MR. K
(PART II)
I.
The reader who has fol
lowed the story to this point
will surely be asking himself,
as
I did ask
f myself, during
, JfeW me -interview,
believed that
the United
States was
. pnntpmnlatintf
a war asainst.
A- m i i e .. j
Walter J"c. " v f e
LtpDmann Union. For
while his attitude towards
West Germany and towards
Turkey was threatening, it
was also clear that he was not
thinking of attacking them
first with his military forces.
It was clear to me because I
could detect no doubt in his
mind that the United States
would intervene and no doubt
at all that he regards the Unit
ed States as a military power
to be treated with the utmost
respect. His talk about what
he could do to Germany and
to Turkey, and indeed . to
England, France and Spain as
well, was meant, to put it in
military terms, as the threat
of an offensive-defensive in
case the Soviet Union was at
tacked by NATO.
What, then, makes him
think that the NATO powers
might attack the Soviet
Union? His answer, if I may
put it in my own words, is
that if the United States finds
that it is going to lose the
Cold War, it is likely to re
sort to a hot war.
.
rpHAT is not what he said,
but I came to think that is
what he meant after an inter
esting passage in which he
talked about the American
fear and hatred of Commu
nism.
Communism, he said, is in
deed a great danger to you as
an ideology and as a doctrine,
but it is not a danger to you
as a military policy of the So
viet Government. The Com
munists do not want to shed
their blood or the blood of
others to extend their fron
tiers. And each country
should defend itself against
Communism within its bor
ders, if it sees fit to do so
(This I took to be an echo of
the talks he had had with the
Egyptian Field Marshal in the
preceding days about Nasser's
treatment of his local Com
munists ) But, nevertheless,
after these quieting state
ments he said rather solemnly,
"we" the Communists will
cause you, the Americans,
more trouble each year.
TJOW? The trouble for the
" West will come from the
continual "multiplication of
benefits" received by the peo
ple of the Soviet states. At
present, he said, the United
States is the richest and most
productive country in the
world. But it is living "the last
years of its greatness." Why?
Because shortly the U.S.S.R.
will surpass the United States
in productivity per capita. He
was referring, it was evident,
to the coming Seven Year
Plan. When that Plan is
achieved, the people (of the
poor countries) will "be con
vinced by their stomachs."
That is your danger, he assert
ed, not our hydrogen bombs.
Here lies the answer to the
question of why he thinks we
might make war against him.
It is an article of his faith,
which descends from Lenin,
that if the Soviet Union
forges ahead in technology
and productivity, attracting
into its orbit the old colonial
territory of the European em
pires, the West will attack
rather than lose the contest
for world leadership by de
fault. Against this type of pre
ventive war by the West, Mr.
K. believes that he has found
the solution with the interme
diate range missile. As for
Turkey, for example, he as
serted that in case of a gen
eral war, the NATO forces
would arrive in Turkey too
late for the funeral. He added
in passing that our action in
Lebanon was "playing at
war" and that the Soviet
Union would not concern it
self with "fleas" like Lebanon.
II.
TTIS central thesis, then, is
that the Soviet economy
will in the near future surpass
ours in productivity per capi
ta, and that this achievement
will cause the poor countries
of the world to turn to the
Soviet Union as an example
and for material help. I asked
Mr. K. whether he believed
hat the Soviet system could
be made to work in truly
backward countries since the
system called for a high de
gree of technological compe
tence and also of administra
tive efficiency. i
He replied that 40 years
ago Russia was a very back
ward country, and look what
Communism had already
achieved. I said, yes, much
had been achieved, but there
had been great Russian scien
tists before the Revolution-
and Russia was not a back
ward country compared with
many in Africa and some in
Asia.
I did hot feel that he was
willing to face this somewhat
speculative question, and he
put an end to this discussion
by insisting that Indonesia
would do much better if it
adopted the Soviet system,
and that India could easily
feed itself without limiting its
population if it had the kind
of government and the kind of
economy which was capable
of enterprises like converting
tht vast jungles of India into
arable land. He was quite
evidently thinking of his own
grandiose plan to grow wheat
in the virgin lands of Asiatic
Russia and touse the fertile
lands of the Ukraine for
dairying and vegetables and
more divetsified crops. But he
never came to grips with the
question of whether such
grandiose plans could be car
ried out in countries with a
feudal or a tribal order.
III.
THIS led me on to China,
about which I had heard
from others in Moscow com
ments which varied between
awe and anxiety at the rapid
progress of the Chinese Com
munists Several times before
I saw Mr. K I had been told
by Soviet citizens that the Chi
nese rate of advance towards
Communism, was more rapid
than the Soviet's. I asked Mr.
K. whether with the long Soviet-Chinese
frontier, with the
expanding population of the
Chinese and the comparative
emptiness of Siberia, he was
not concerned about the fu
ture of Soviet - Chinese rela
tions He indicated that he had
heard that question before and
he dismissed it with some im
patience, saying that those
who took this view did not
understand the nature of a
socialist society. I had heard
that answer before from oth
ers in Moscow. But when I
asked the others to explain
what they meant, they usual
ly answered dogmatically that
socialist states will not and do
not go to war.
Mr. K. had a different line
of argument. It is that in a so
cialist society there is no eco
nomic limit on productivity
as there is in the case of our
farm surpluses, wheh amused
him considerably. China, he
said, had only begun to ex
plore and to exploit its natural
resources. There werein the
north of China vast reserves
of virgin land which could
support a very much larger
population.
Be that as it may, Mr. K
was in no mood to admit that
within the Communist world
there were any of the con
flicts that have haunted the
rest of the human race since
the beginning of history. Mr.
K. has for the most part a
pragmatic and earthy tem
perament, and he is not much
given to Utopian speculation.
But he has in him also the
basic revolutionary faith that
a new history has begun, and
that a Communist man is a
new kind of man. Along with
this, he has an infinite faith
that technology and applied
science can solve all human
problems.
IV.
FINALLY, I must tell about
what Mr. K. had to say on
the subject of disarmament.
He came to it before some of
the passages which I have al
ready reported, but it has
seemed to me less confusing to
the reader if I left it to the
end. He had been talking
about Turkey and asserting
that our military policy in the
Middle East was based on ig
norance of the real military
situation, especially upon the
idea, which he attributed spe
cifically to General Norstad,
that NATO could go to the aid
of Turkey in the sense of land
ing forces there in time of
war. Once again, he was re
ferring, of course, to the com
mand of the short range mis
siles, and this led him on to
say that all talk about inter
national inspection and con
trol of missiles was "ridicu
lous." Then he paused to say that
the Soviet Union had always
believed that it was possible
to detect nuclear explosions,
and that it was in principle
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Thanks From Christian
To the Editor: At this time
I would like to take this op
portunity to thank the many
people of Jackson county that
worked and supported me in
the recent campaign. While I
didn't win at the polls I did
win in the personal contacts
and the many new friends
gained.
Thanks again!
Frank Christian,
Talent, Ore.
Cars and Tires
To the Editor: When I was
going to High School in Ash
land, I drove an old car with
pasteboard body and doors.
The car was equipped with
high pressure clincher tires.
Everyday we had a boom and
bust. They got worse, we had
more booms and busts than
anybody. We did something
about it. We installed hard
rubber tires.
Now hard rubber tires and
wooden wheels don't go to
gether like a horse and car
riage. When we1 got the car
it had round wheels and
square fenders. In no time at
all, it had square wheels and
round fenders. That's when
the doors started falling off,
but we kept the hard rubber
tires on the car. It was much
easier to change doors than
tires.
Touring in a car with cord
uroy tires over a corduroy
road, in the pumice dust was
something to write ' home
about. Many people rode in
this old car with me, and I
can't live it down. Lately,
several people have asked me
how many miles I got out of
these tires. I never kept any
accurate record, for I never
had a barrel equipped with a
speedometer, but I've done
better with the seat of my
pants, rolling down the barn
roof in a barrel, in old Placer-
ville.
Everett Acklin"
Ashland, Ore.
agreed to work out a system
of detection. At this point he
turned to me and asked, did I
have any suggestions as to
how Soviet - American rela
tions could be improved? To
this I replied that while there
could be no solid improvement
until and unless solutions
were agreed to about . Ger
many, the Middle East and
Eastern Asia, a success at the
coming conference on surprise
attack would probably do
more than anything else that
was possible to relax the ten
sion in America. I reminded
him that Pearl Harbor had
had a profound and lasting
effect on the minds and feel
ings of Americans.
TIE REPLIED that he under-
" stood this. But the psy
chosis that was the word
used in the translation is
being kept up by American
militarists so as to promote
the manufacture of new weap
ons, and thus to make profits
I might say in parenthesis that
in my experience in Moscow
the belief is a universal dog
ma that profts are the com
pelling motive in American
armament. Mr. K. added with
a slightly mischievous smile
that even soap manufacturers
Ike Mr. McElroy seemed to
make profits out of arma
ments. This American psy
chosis, he continued, is kept
up because Dulles and the
militarists would not other
wise get their appropriations
from Congress. Like a snake
with a rabbit, the American
people are so scared that they
give the military all the
money they want.
Against this background he
returned to the question of
inspection and control in re
lation, not to nuclear explo
sions but to surprise attack
and the reduction of arma
ments. Why, he asked, do you
begin with inspection and con
trols? Why do you not begin
by taking seriously our offer
of a treaty of friendship and
non - aggression? I said we
wanted some tangible evi
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Chairmanship of
Great Decisions
Wally Iverson, 1316 Queen
Anne ave., Medford, has ac
cepted the job as chairman of
the Great Decisions . . . 1959
program, it was announced
today.
Great Decisions, which is
in its fifth year in Oregon,
encourages the formation of
informal groups to study
United States foreign policy.
The 10-week nation-wide
program, which begins Jan.
25, is sponsored by the For
eign Policy association, a
non-partisan group establish
ed to encourage citizen par
ticipation in foreign policy.
The FPA finances publication
of the Great Decisions fact
sheets which are the basis
for the discussion groups.
Two Discussions
Iverson said present plans
call for the first two discus
sions in the coming program
to deal with the state of Ore
gon and the following eight
to deal with U. S. foreign
policy, providing "more in
formation in greater depth
on foreign policy issues."
Jackson county residents
interested in forming discus
sion groups will be invited
to an introductory meeting in
January. An estimated 400
persons took part in Great
Decisions . . . 1958 in Jack
son county.
Iverson said committee ap
pointments will be announced
dence that an agreement
would be carried out.
HE REPLIED that the Soviet
Union could not agree to
inspection and control until
confidence, which is now lack
ing, has been established. You
want control first, he said, we
want confidence first. Sup
pose, he argued, that you and
another man , start to make
frienas, and the first thing
your new friend says to you
is: give me the key to your
house. You would think it im
pudent of him, and when the
United States asks for the
keys to our house, we say "go
to the devil." Here he looked
at my wife and apologized for
using such language. Your de
mand for the keys of our
house is the way you might
talk to a weak and dependent
country, not to the Soviet
Union. It makes us suspicious
that you want the keys of our
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treaty of friendship. This, he
continued, is "elementary,"
that a treaty of friendship
must come before inspection
and control.
I asked him then whether
the treaty of friendship should
come before a settlement of
the Germany, question. His
answer was that the treaty is a
question of good will and that
this never hurts a negotiation
of other issues.
V.
THIS concludes my report of
the interview with Mr. K.
I must remind the reader that
it is not based on a transcript
but on my memory and on the
notes taken by my wife and
myself. It covers all the topics
discussed in the interview, and
I have adhered as strictly as
I can to the rules of the jour
nalistic profession which call
for a rennrt anr! interpreta
tion of what Mr. K. said, un
adulterated by my own opin
ions. In the two succeeding ar
ticles, I shall set down some of
my own views of what I
learned and observed in the
Soviet Union.
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Herald Tribune Inc.
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