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Newspaper Page TextI 4 Thursday, November 13, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. MEDFORDtifTRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Read! The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ER!C W ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports 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 E Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 425 Sunday Only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Pnoenix. 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: 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. NEWSPAPER PUBllSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 'assocUtiQn U J uHlirlliil 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 Nov. 13, 1948 (Saturday) The Central Point branch of the First National Bank of Portland plans to move into its new building. Medford Gun club' has cor ralled a number of turkeys and other delectable items as prizes for tomorrow's shoot. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 13, 1938 (Sunday) Frequent rains and snows are predicted for this week. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Elks tom-cat was awake long enough the past week to catch a mouse. If this feline had an auto, he would lash his kill to the front fender, and start a non-stop drive around town." 30 YEARS AGO Nov, 13. 1928 (Tuesday) Thousands of wild geese fly low over town, their honkings loud enough . to waken light sleepers, includ ing hunters. Thomas Culver catches an eight-pound steelhead on a No. 10 hook. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 13, 1918 (Wednesday) Mayor Gates anonunced he will lift the influaza-inspir-ed ban on publ?c meetings Nov. 27. Eleven Klamath county boys called in the last draft are on the southbound train today, en route home. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five of six is good. 1. In the gay 90s, our grand mother used antimacassars; were they placed on the din ing room table, th floor, or sofa and chair backs? 2. British-made automo biles, desiened for use in Eng land, have the steering wheel on the left, or right, side? 3. During the American Revolution, were the Tories loyal to the colonists, or to King George III? 4. If vou had a eherkin. could you wear it, eat it, or ride in it? 5. Cape Cod extends east and north from the southeast corner of which New England state. 6. Does a tailwind increase, or decrease, the ground speed of an airplane? 7. Name the first three books of the Bible. 8. How many "bits" are there in a U.S. half dollar? 9. Which one of these ele ments is the heaviest ura nium, osmium, platinum? 10. Trees are the oldest liv ing thing in nature; true or false? Answers: 1. Sofa and chair backs. 2. Right side. 3. King George III. 4. Eat it. 5. Mas sachusetts. 6. Increase. 7. Genesis, Exodus and Leviti cus. 8. Four. 9. Osmium. 10. True. TO SEE CALLAS Scheveningen, Holland -(UPD -Holland will get its first look at fiery opera singer Maria Callas during the Holland Festival here next summer, festival officials announced Wednesday night. Alcohol Several Oregon newspaper writers have touched on the problems of alcohol in recent days how terrible it can be when one becomes a slave to it; the fact that Oregon isn't as "drink ing" a state as some, but, despite that, Oregonians are drinking more than ever before. Alcohol the kind that comes in bottles and is intended for human consumption has always been a problem, and probably always will be. It is a problem which has some pure blacks and whites, but more shades of gray. t THE Eugene Register-Guard reports on a dis- cussion one of its writers had with a "lady drunk," a woman who recently joined Alcoholics Anonymous and found much help in her straggle against the compulsive pull of the bottle. She wanted to organize an AA chapter solely for women, the Guard reported, and added that the alcohol problem is probably worse among women than is generally realized the women who wait until their husbands have left for work and their children for school, and then pull down the blind and start working on a bottle. She had found as have most other sincere members of AA that the group offers one of the few constructive routes to sobriety, because the members understand the plight that all mem bers face. "Nobody understands a drank like an other drunk." rOWN in Coos Bay, an editorial writer on the "World," gave a little "lecture on temper ance," in which he rejected the recent claim of the nation's tavern-owners that they make a "sig nificant contribution to the American way of life." Tavern owners are celebrating the repeal of prohibition this month, which the World called "the ignoble experiment .whereby the American people were told by the bluenoses that they couldn't take a drink unless they paid a racketeer for the booze and bribed the cops for the privil ege. - The World said that taverns "are nice places to go if you're inclined that way," and even if not, they must be recognized as a "necessary evil." But it added : "It's time, we think, for a few old-fashioned lec tures on temperance, even though they might not do too much good. The average (if there is such a thing) citizen is drinking too much especially if he is caught in the organization and the organization is lo cated in a city. There's no moral or immoral cause of over-idulgence. It's just that more people are trying to escape from something they can't identify." IT ALL boils down to the true saying that alco- hoi, by itself, is neither evil nor good. It de pends on what men and women do with it that makes it good or bad. The Protestant Episcopal church, during its recent convention in Miami, recognized this fact. It hailed the benefits of an occasional relaxing drink, but decried the intemperate use of all al cohol. , Automobiles are a boon and also a danger. It depends on how they are used. The same is true with a whole host of drags and medications. The same it true of food, or And it is true of alcohol. It is both a pleasant and relaxing drag, in moderation, or a virulent, degenerative poison when used in excess. Too many people don't know where moderation ends and excess begins. E. A. Regeneration - Some day probably not too soon if a human being loses an arm or a leg, it may be pos sible for him to grow a new one. This moderately fantastic possibility is seen in experiments on salamanders and frogs, which indicate that the ability to regenerate lost mem bers can be induced. Some animals now can grow new tails or new legs when they lose them. Salamanders can re generate a missing leg or tail. Some animals, such as frogs, can do so in their younger days, but past a certain age they lose the ability. IN ALL animals, including man, there is a certain regenerative ability. For instance, if a man loses a patch of skin, it grows back. Bones grow back together after being broken, and other con nective tissues can repair themselves. Some of the internal organs, such as the liver, the pancreas and the salivary glands, can regener ate lost tissues. But the more complex organs, and the ap pendages, cannot. Once lost they are gone for ever. DEGENERATIVE ability has long puzzled re searchers. As long ago as 1768 they were pondering whether or not the ability could be extended to the higher animals, and to older ones. Eventually it was noticed that regeneration depends upon the nerve supply at the site of am putation, according to a can article. iiXpenments, in which additional nerve fibers were brought to the site of the wound, showed that in such cases, a new limb would be gin to grow. The article concludes : "These experiments appear to strengthen the possi bility that ways will be found of inducing regrowth in still higher forms of life. Should the expectation of obtaining this advantage for ourselves be considered entrely 'chimerical'? It is probably safe to assume that every organ has the power to regrow lying latent within it, needing only the appropriate treatment to bring it out." e.a: tobacco. recent Scientific Ameri Dennis the Menace IMl call this om 'QeeoRz'. ' Matter of Fact bv EISENHOWER GAUGES THE GAP Washington - For the first time since he took office, President Eisenhower has been giving many hours of his own time to a personal review of the defense pro gram, project by project and in detail. In previous years, the President has always left Jospb AlSOD the burdensome task of de tailed review to the various sectors of his staff. This year, hovever, apparently at the behest of Budget Director Maurice Stans, the President decided to tackle the job in person. He began it weeks ago, long before the campaign reached its climax. Much of the President's spadework was therefore done when his Secretary of De fense, Neil McElroy, was ab sent from Washington on his long foreign tour. Secretary McElroy was away during the whole period when the most crucial budgetary decisions are normally taken at the De fense Department. Even now, in November, the really big decisions, as between compet ing missile projects for ex ample, have not yet been made. . THESE" facts alone are enough to suggest that the new defense' budget is an un certain quantity. In addition, there is the fact that the prime motive of the President's per sona! intervention has been to find ways to cut the de fense budget as heavily as pos sible. For the present, there fore, there is no assurance at all of the slight increase in defense spending, to the $41,- 800,000,000 level, that high Department sources have been talking about as virtually as sured. As one sample of the char acter and gravity of the is sues under consideration, there is the behind-the-scenes controversy about the tempo of development of the solid fuelled ballistic missiles. This is really a controversy about whether it is worth gambling large sums, with fair hope of success, in order to shorten the so-called missile gap-the period when the Soviets will enjoy a heavy predominance in missile striking power. To make the controversy understandable, it necessary to begin with the unhappy fact that the Thor, Jupiter, and Atlas ballistic missiles are all thoroughly unsatisfactory weapons for this . country's 3rmory. Liquid-fuelled mis siles such as these are im mensely valuable weapons for a nation like the Soviet Un ion, that can strike the first blow. But if the privilege of striking the first blow is con ceded to. the enemy, liquid fuelled missiles like these three have very little value. THEIR launching sites can not be effectively protected against the enemy's first blow. As anyone who has read about the Cape Canaveral count downs must realize, these mis Files also take a very long time to fire. A quarter of an hour is the maximum warn ing that can be expected if the enemy strikes.. Hence such liquid-fuelled missiles, with launching sites that can not be "hardened," will not greatly add to this country's retaliatory capability - which is the kind of capability we desperately need to strength en! Modest programs to build at least some of these missiles are essential, for the time be ing, for the sake of training in the art: The program to build the Titan liquid-fuelled missile is also justified, be cause Titan launching sites are capable of being "hard ened." But the missile gap will not really end until the j United States has in its ar Joseph Alsop mory adequate quantities of solid-fuelled ballistic missiles, which will, require no count down and can be rather cheap ly provided with completely "hard" launching sites. With just thisfact in mind, the Congress last year appro priated an additional $600, 000 000 to extend and inten sify the Navy's Polaris mis sile program and its related program for Polaris-carrying submarines. Perhaps even more important, the Congress also appropriated an addition al $90,000,000 to speed up the Air Force's Minuteman pro gram. Polaris is, to all intents, an already proven missile. Min uteman, an intercontinental ballistic missile using the new type of solid fuel developed for Polaris, is still a decided gamble, but the best authori ties believe that the gamble will pay off. If the gamble is taken and does pay off, in turn, the missile gap can be closed in 1963, instead of ex tending at least through 1964 and probably through 1965. fNE has to say, "if the gam ble is taken," because the additional appropriations vot ed by the Congress . were im mediately frozen by the Budg et Eureau. Thus the first ques tion is whether they will un freeze these sums already ap propriated during this fiscal year of maximum effort on Minuteman and Polaris. But if these sums are unfrozen, then very much larger sums will also have to be included in the new budget now being prepared In the case of Min uteman, for instance, the higher tempo of development vould increase the required appropriations from $100, 000.000 to as much as $400, 000,000. In short, there are things that can be done to shorten the famous gap and otherwise reduce its danger to this coun try, just as there are things that- can be done to save money by eliminating super fluous or excessive weapons programs. It seems a bit omi nous, however, that the Presi dent has reportedly been studying the defense budget with no aim except money cuts in view. Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc. EASE DRUG RESTRICTION Washington -(UPD- The gov ernment plans to make it easier to ship wonder drugs behind the Iron Curtain in Europe. The Commerce De partment's bureau of foreign commerce said Wednesday it will now consider approving export licenses for such drugs as penicillin, streptomycin and sulfa. The relaxation does not apply, however, to Com munist China, North Korea or North Viet Nam. Try and By BENNETT CERF- THE BANQUET ending the shoe manufacturers' annual con vention had been a lollapaloosa, and the next morning a few of the last delegates to disperse were trying a few hair-of-the-dog remedies in the hotel bar. One reached for a double martini with a shak ing hand, looked at it lov ingly albeit bleary -eyed, and murmured reverently, "There's nothing makes me happier on mornings like this than watching the whitecaps on a stormy mar tini." Poor Mr. Henpeck was sil ting alone and neglected in a comer of the club banished from home on the eve of a big holiday. "For Pete's sake, Sam," asked a friend, "what do you and your wife always fight about?" "I don't know," admitted Sam helplessly. "She never tells me." . New silly from the juvenile set: "I don't give a darn who you are, you pot-bellied character: git them reindeer off my roof!" O 1958, by Bennett Cert, Distributed by King Feature Syndicate. Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (This is the third of four articles written after a re cent visit to Moscow.) THE SOVIET CHALLENGE I. In almost all the talks I had in Moscow, not only with Mr. K. but with other offic ials and with Soviet editors, I was asked what could be done a'b o u t better rela tions between our two coun tries. The question Walter 15 a nara one Lippmann to answer. For the basic issue between us arises from the fact that the Soviet Union, and now along side it Red China, are well on their way to achieving the leadership of Asia and of Africa. At the root of the pro found and abiding suspicion which each of us has for the other lies this bid for leader ship and its challesge to the Western position and to West ern influence. There is no reason to think that the suspicion which di vides us, and makes even modest and . partial solutions difficult, can easily be talked out of existence. Although I am one of those who hopes earnestly that the rivalry can be kept below the boiling point, I am, nevertheless, con vinced that even this wUl re quire a lot more than mutual expressions of good will. rPHE cause of the bad rela tions is the suspicion, felt on each side of the Iron Cur tain, that the other side in tends to commit aggression. The suspicion arises from a belief that in the long run neither side can tolerate the other. The Soviet Union is now entering upon the cli mactic years-the next seven or ten years-in which it means to surpass the United States, not in the material comforts of ordinary life but in productivity per capita. The Communist leaders- are cer tain that they can achieve this goal, the great mass of the poorer and undeveloped peoples will rally to them, No doubt, wherever they can, they will promote this rally by propaganda and by infil tration and by subversion. But we delude ourselves if we do not realize that the main power of the Communist states lies not in their clan destine activity but , in the force of their example, in the visible demonstration of what the Soviet Union has achieved in 40 years, of what Red China has achieved in about 10 years. The inner moving force of Soviet suspicion is the belief that the United States and the governments of the non-Communist countries will, unless compelled to do so, never al low Russia and China to con summate the revolution which they are leading in Asia and in Africa. In Moscow, and no doubt also in Peiping, they do not believe us when we insist that the rearming of Germany and of Turkey and the maintenance of a ring of air bases are defensive mea sures against military aggres sion on their part. IOR they are certain in their own minds that they will win the primacy of Asia and of Africa not by going to war but by avoiding a war that would ruin their eco nomic achievements. They are, like most men, self-centered and they cannot believe that we really think they will com mit military aggression when they themselves are so sure that they must avoid a war. So when we talk about defen sive armaments they think we are deceiving them, that our military policy is to surround them in preparation for an at tack on them in order to halt Stop Me M their revolutionary rise to world leadership. I am reasonably sure that this is' the way they see the military issue between us. Moreover, this is what the prophet Lenin prophesied, and in the soviet Union the au thority of Lenin, as currently interpreted by the powers that be, is treated as infallible and more than human. Our policy of military contain ment with its forward posi tions on their own borders is in their minds conclusive proof that Lenin was right. They suspect us profoundly, and that is why they are stub bornly reluctant to negotiate any concession which would give us even a slight tactical, much less a strategic, advan tage in case of war. ETHIS resistance to agree .lAnf witli ne tVnir aro helped by many provocative and bellicose things that have been said at one time or an other by the talkative brass in the Pentagon. They are hardened also in their convic tions, it must be said, by the propensity of Mr. Dulles, and in lesser degree of the Presi dent himself, to treat the con flict, not as one of empires and great states but as a re ligious war in which the con tending positions are abso lute. For this confirms their view that we are bracing our selves for an ideological or re ligious war, that this war will take place unless they make themselves so powerful that it cannot take place. The corresponding suspic ion on our side arises, as we know, from the belief that in sofar as the Soviet Union and Red China gain in military power, they are certainly bound to use it as an instru ment of policy in order to complete their domination of Asia and of Africa. This sus picion is, I have no doubt, well founded and it is a con clusive reason for making sure that we do not lose the race of armaments. Our problem here is not whether we can afford to keep up the race. It is absurd to say that we cannot afford it Nor does the problem arise from any irreparable techno logical inferiority on our part For us, the crucial problem of armaments is political and psychological: how to keep the American and the West European democracies ready and willing to support arma ments without their becoming so obsessed with weapons that they have neither the means nor the understanding nor the will to meet the real Soviet challenge in Asia. The Soviet oligarchy can spend on armaments what it wants, and no questions asked. With us, the necessary appro priations cannot be had, or so our political leaders think, without a great scare cam paign. But this scare campaign offends and alienates the pacifists and the neutralists who are the overwhelming majority in the rest of the world. .. II. NO ONE can doubt that the Soviet challenge is very formidable indeed. Even to a casual visitor it is evident that the only safe assumption is that the Russians have mas tered the modern technology and that their bureaucracy, directed by a powerful gov ernment and working on an obedient population, is capa ble of achieving what they have set themselves to do. Theirs is a grim and pur poseful society, in which one who is used to the American air finds it hard to breathe. No doubt the vast machine does not work perfectly and there is private discontent and some cheating and much fixing and blackmarketing. Nor is the tenure in office of all the individuals who are now at the top of the govern ment fixed and settled for the rest of their lives. None the less, the Soviet system is a going concern, and it would be rash to underestimate its power or to count upon any radical change of direction, much less on a counter-revolution. I have come, home con vinced that the issue is the Russian and Chinese challenge for the leadership of Asia and of Africa. If we are to meet it with reasonable suc cess, we must, I am sure, aban don the notion that the Rus sian and Chinese revolutions can be reversed or that the THE DANMOORE HOTEL 1217 SW Morrison Si. PORTLAND, OREGON All transient guests. All thota whs come, return. Rates not high, net lew. Free garage, TV's and radios. Reputation for cleanliness. Reservations by long distance phone refunded en request upon arrival spread of Communism In the surrounding countries can be contained by giving arma ments to the local military commanders and by establish ing our own bases. WHAT we need is an agon ' izing reappraisal of our own habits and notions. We must learn to keep ourselves armed without working our selves up into a frenzy of threats and of fear. This is not easy for a democracy to do, but it is necessary and, once the reason for it is under stood by the leaders of Ameri can opinion, it can be done. We must learn also to win friends without asking them to be our military allies. This can be done only by encour aging them to follow the neu tral course which their in stinct tells them to take. The policy of military pacts to contain and push back the Communist revolution is not only incapable of working suc cessfully. Its effect is to an tagonize the masses of the people and so to assist the ex pansion of Communism. We must, I have been con vinced, reappraise and re view the policy of foreign aid. As it is now practiced, it is fair to describe it as a program of subsidies to gov ernments which are threat ened with the rise of Com munism among their people. Without meaning to say that, all or even that some of these subsidies should be discon tinued, I submit that we shall not meet the Soviet challenge unless we stop looking at the underdeveloped nations as military bulwarks and bas tions and adopt a new and different objective in the un committed world. I'HE communists are ex- JL nanrlinl? in Asia hpransp they are demonstrating a way, at present the only obviously effective way, of raising quickly the power and the standard of living of a back ward people. The only con vincing answer to that must be a demonstration by the non-Communist nations that there is another and more hu mane way of overcoming im memorial poverty and weak ness of the Asian peoples This demonstration can best be made in India, and there is little doubt in my mind that if we and our Western partners could underwrite and assure the success of In dian development, it would make a world of difference. It might be decisive in turn ing the tide. It would put an end to the enervating feeling of fatality and'" of inevitabil ity, to the sense that Com munism is the only wave of the future, that there is only one way of internal salvation, and that the West is impotent and too lazy-to do anything but let the future go by de fault. There are a number of rea sons why I think India is the key country. It is, for- one thing, a very big country known to all of Asia as a land of deep poverty. To' make a showplace of a small island like Formosa or for that mat ter of Puerto Rico is a good thing to do. But it is not con vincing. For the Communists are proving their case in big countries like Russia and Chi na. We shall have to prove our case, that material prog ress can be had with civil liberty, in a big country. For another thing, India has the necessary structure, including a civil service with a good tradition - something which does not exist in equal measure elsewhere in Asia, except in Japan. B UT in my mind the clinch ing reason for making the Ours is the Understanding born of Experience hahd JLoduavu Aeow from tf CourtttouM FRANK MORGAN . HAROIO SNODGRASS, FUNERAL MKCTORS Day or night jM Airport Lighting System Completed Ft. Jones, Calif. An auto matic lighting system at the Scott Valley airrort was in augurated this week. The system lines the 4,000 foot paved runway and was installed with volunteer labor of Scott Valley Airmen. Siski you county furnished mater ials for the work. Scott Valley airport is the third in the countv to h lighted. Others are Mott air port near Mt. Shasta and Montague. The lights at Scott Valley automatically turn on at dusk and off at dawn. demonstration in India is that the spiritual heritage of which Gandhi was the great teacher, is of all the ideologies of the world the most radically dif ferent from that of Lenini Yet, though it is different, it is, iiKe communism, address ed to the suffering masses of the people. I know there is a. notion among many Americans that the Indians are more than halfway along the road to being Communists. That no tion is based in part on the fact that the Indians mean to become a social democratic state. In the main the notion that they are half-Communist is based on the fact that on many issues of foreign policy tne Indian government differs from ours and makes great ef forts to keep on good terms with the Soviet Union and with its powerful and danger ous neighbor, Red China. Nevertheless, the Indians who are indoctrinated in the Gandhi tradition are acutely conscious of the gulf between tne Soviet system and them selves. They are not totalitar- lans. iney are not materialis tic determinists. That is more than can be said with the same confidence about quite a number of the other peoples who are not yet within the Communist orbit. If there is any other way of meeting the Communist challenge in Asia, I have not heard of it. The tide is running in favor of Communism al most, one might say, by de fault. Russia and China are making a demonstration to which the West is offering no alternative. I do not know where else a non-Communist alternative can now be dem onstrated, given the fact that only in India, outside of the Communist orbit, could a suc cessful demonstration carry conviction to the ereat masses of the people who are looking for a better way of life. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. MONEY At Crater Finance you may borrow for any worth while purpose on your FURNITURE - AUTO SALARY and repay in monthly In stallments. You may choose the terms most suit able to you up to 24 months. Loans may be paid in ad vance or in full at any time. Crater Finance CORPORATION . 135 Pine Street Central Point Phone NO 4-1273 Frank Wilkinson, Mgr. Convenient Parking PHONE SP 2-8030 '''''''Sifiilic''