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Newspaper Page Text4 Friday, February 27, 15 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. MnFORDTRIBUKE Ivervuoe u. Southern Orefoa Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MJU3FORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fii St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBEHT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREV Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing hditor KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women' Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter al iledforrt Oregon under Act ol March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Ml In Advance. Copy 10c. DaU- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. E a g 1 Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 ; Daily and SunJay 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City Medford Official Papei of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BTJBZAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of- fices in Ne York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, . Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. 0" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION EDITORIAL llACTgN Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from th files ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 27, 1949 (Sunday) Medford police arrest three bad check artists with the aid of a new telephonic check flash system. Medford's KYJC radio sta tion plans ceremonies for be ginning ABC network pro grams under a new affilia tion. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 27. 1939 (Monday) A new grand jury is drawn .from the jury list at the courthouse, but the list is so depleted by excuses that a special venire is called to pro 'vide a jury for a pending criminal trial. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The legislature now plans to quit and come home, the end of the week if they dare." , 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 27. 1929 (Wednesday) ' The county court prevents a petition to the government .to build a park atop Roxy .Ann. Pussywillows are in bloom . along Bear creek. '40 YEARS AGO Feb. 27. 1919 (Thursday) Dry agents are barred from boarding SP trains and search- ;ing for passengers' rum. A bill in the California leg !islature provides for the an .nexation of Klamath county to that state. '50 YEARS AGO IFeb. 27. 1909 (Saturday) ; Gov. Chamberlain resigns at Salem, and packs his bags for the journey to Washington ! where he will take up the m duties of U. S. senator. ! George- Putnam, Medford Tribune editor, is appointed to the state highway commis Ision to study whether the state should construct a rail- road across central Oregon. Vhafs Your I.Q.7 'Nina or ten correct it superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or lis is good. " 1. Turtles do, or do not, possess teeth? . 2. Who painted the Mona .Lisa? 3. Are Concord grapes ; white, dark blue, or green. 4. Harry L. Hopkins was a personal adviser and confi dant of which President of the U.S.? 5. In the account of creation in Genesis, on what day was land created? 6. Name the woman who had the "face that launched a thousand ships.' ' 7. By .what device were the details of how Soviet fighters shot down a U. S. plane on Sept. 2, 1958, learned? 8. At the present time, is the U.S. Navy more inter ested in building battleships or. aircraft-carriers? 9. On what river did Huck leberry Finn's adventures take place? 10. Name the capital of Missouri. Answers: 1. Do not. 2. Leon ardo da Vinci. 3. Dark blue. 4. F. D. Roosevelt. 5. Third day. 6. Helen of Troy. 7. Tape recording of Soviet pilots' radio conversation. 8. Aircraft-carriers. 9. Mississippi. 10. Jefferson City. NATIONAL The "Car" Problem "I have come to the conclusion that if sudden ly we had no more automobiles in the hands of teen agers from 15 to 18 our juvenile delinquency problem would decrease in a very short time al most 75 per cent." ? These are the words of Circuit Judge Charles H. Foster of Lakeview, in a letter published in the Klamath Falls Herald and News. Judge Foster has been handling juvenile court work in both Klamath and Lake counties for the past year. His conclusions are based on his observations during his juvenile court work. " 'J'HE judge makes these eight points : 1. The great majority of theft cases among juve niles over 14 is for theft of gasoline, auto parts, hub caps, or cars. 2. In many cases juveniles committing other lar cenies readily admit they needed money to maintain their cars. 3. A great majority of the stealing has been made possible only by the use of an automobile. 4. I find that the rather widespread drinking among ' some juveniles is made possible only because of the auto mobile and the privacy it offers. 5. I feel we would have greatly reduced sexual de linquencies if these teenagers did not have the unchap eroned privacy of the automobile to encourage it. 6. I find that increasing truancy from the high school actually is made desirable to those doing it principally because of the automobile and what they can do and where they can go when not in school. 7. Statistics taken by some high schools show an amazing correlation between low grades, lower grades, or failures, and the great use of the automobile. 8. I have found a great number of parents telling us that they never had any trouble with their child until he or she started running around in automobiles a great deal. It was then that the trouble started. JUDGE Foster's findings are corroborated by the observations of police officers, school au thorities and juvenile workers throughout the na tion. The automobile is the basis for their No. 1 problem. What's the answer? Raise the legal driving age to 18? This has been proposed, and a bill now being studied by the legislature would go -half-way toward this, making the legal full-license age 17. , Such action might help solve some of the prob lems involved, but it would be at a cost of depriv ing the decent, hard-working, law-abiding major ity of young people of the privilege of using auto mobiles at all. And, let it be known, it is a minority of young sters who get into trouble, care or no care. JUDGE Foster's letter was largely an appeal to parents. He said: "If some way the parents as a whole could be made to realize this great danger, and as a group clamp down on this increasing, unrestricted use of automobiles by so many juveniles, then the pressure generally on the juven ile to have or own a car would be taken off." That is the crux of the matter. How does one go about persuading a proud parent that junior's use of the car should be both supervised and re stricted? There might be possibilities in some plan whereby drivers' licenses for those aged 16 to 18 would be probationary, revokable for any driving or criminal offense, or when grade levels fall be low a certain point, or even when parents feel they have lost control of, a situation. In such a plan, the majority of "good" young sters would not be made to suffer for the derelic tions of the few. E.A. Beneficial Grouch William Ewald is an old grouch. The United Press International television critic, whose reviews of TV shows appear in the Mail Tribune when they discuss programs which are seen in this area, is a hard man to please. He minces no words when taking typewriter in hand to assess a show. He flails away, curtly but eruditely, at those he doesn't like (which seem to be an overwhelming majority), and occasion ally has a few kinds words to say about a show or part of one. THE TV people should thank him. (Some of them do. One network official last week said, "Ewald does an excellent job, even though he sometimes murders us.") Despite his acid and often rancorous views, he undoubtedly does stimulate TV viewing, and, by his continued carping, might even tend to stimulate producers to try a little harder to put out shows which are superior to the pretty sad average seen these days. Ewald is a super-critical critic, a' thorn in the flesh, a caustic reminder that all is not well in the nebulous world of the little black box. COMETIMES we agree with his comments; oth- er times we disagree ; always we find them interesting and provocative. For instance, earlier this week he tore apart the "Show of the Month" presentation of the Old Vic company's "Hamlet," a play we saw and con sidered one of the finest things we've ever seen on the tiny screen. We went along with some few of his -criticisms, but felt others were unduly labored or ill founded. But we read it, and by doing so found ourselves more interested in the play than we had been before. One may disagree with Ewald's acidulous re marks, but he is. at least a reminder that literate people can, and do, disagree. Which is a good thing. E.A. Dennis the lbW CAN V0U BEVIAD 4lREA0y? I JUST G0THBR5' Washington Report By WILLIAM THE GUARDSMAN Washington - Until the en trance of the United States into World War II the British for a hundred years had call ed the tune and provided the ulti mate leadership for the Atlantic community of nations. Dur ing most of that renturv it William S. . t. t, - white was tne Brit ish fleet that shielded the Anglo-American alliance in every ocean. But in the 15 years from Pearl Harbor until the other day, when British Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan flew off from London to Moscow, the American voice had been decisive. The British voice had fjlen to a mere echo of Wash ington. For the great shield from the end of World War II has been the American stra tegic air arm, and no longer the Royal Navy. Now, however, Macmillan s mission to Moscow has quietly turned upside down the diplo macy of the Allied world. To day at least, and possibly for a fairly lengthy tomorrow, it is British leadership that holds the initiative on the Western side. A series of unrelated but nowerful historical cir cumstances has put the Lon don government and not the Washington government domi nantly into the world's eyes. One circumstance is the ill ness of our Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles. Long and resolutely he had piped the air to which the British and all others on our side had danced. Another factor ,is the irre sistible growth in England of a belief that the United States has been too committed to a rigid policy in talking to the Russians. Somebody in the West, it has been felt, had to break the ice of the cold war. And a third reason why Macmillan is in Moscow is plain, down-to-earth domestic British politics. Mr. Macmil lan, as head of Britain's Con servative government, is go ing to call an election one of these days to determine whether he can stay in pow er or whether the Labor party is to come back to con trol. He is not compelled to go to bat with the voters until 1960. It is practically certain, however, that he really in tends to call an earlier elec tion. Any Prime Minister in the British system can do this at any time, before the formal end of his term, which he be lieves most favorable to bis side. AND when Macmillan does fall Vlte oloritinn Via nronip " ..... noiiw it to be impossible for Labor to say that he neglected any opportunity to come to hon orable terms with the Rus sians. The United States Govern takes this position; we have no objection to Macmillan's trip; but we are not in any way participating in it. The British Government, on its side, says the Prime Minister is not negotiating" anvthintr with the Kremlin, but is only teeiing out the ground. He intends, when he has finished in Moscow, to go to Germany and France to talk to our mutual friends there. And it can safely be predicted that he will be in Washing ton talking to President Eisen hower before two more months have gone. So much for the back ground. The net is that Mac millan in the real sense is representing all of us, even if this is not his intention or Washington's intention. What he has to DroDOse uDon his return obviously will have vast meaning to us all. So, Menace S. WHITE what sort of man is this upon whom so much depends? THE answer should not be frightening even to those among us who believe the British to be tricky beyonds words. For Macmillan is a sound, solid, truly conserva tive politician; no dreamer, no happy "one-worlder" asleep to the menace of imperialist communism. He is not an easy man to fool; half a generation ago he fought to the end against Britain's appeasement of Hit ler. He is a good, savvy trad er, man of extraordinary ability in face-to-face meet ings. He wants peace, of course, as do all rational men. But he has never con fused peace with mere weak ness and surrender. To talk to him is to dis card quickly the old Ameri can stereotype of the tea drinking Britisher moving about in his striped pants with woolly good-will and bland unawareness of the harsh facts of life. The Brit ish have sent no nice boy on a man's errand to Moscow. The slight, amiable-seeming fashion plate who has gone there is quite as tough as they come. He is (from World War I) a - thrice-wounded Guards officer.. And nobady, not even the justly famous American ma rine, is a better man than a Guardsman to have around, either in talking things over or, if it comes to that, in fighting things out. (Copyright, 1959. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Editorial Comment CAMP RILEA The Astoria-Budget says it has learned from a "reliable source" that Camp Clatsop, the National Guard training center south of Astoria, will be renamed Camp Rilea this summer. The name comes from Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, Oregon adjutant gen eral, who died recently. We hope the Astoria pa per's information is right. For the Clatsop name on the Guard camp is likely to cause confusion, now that Fort Clat sop, the winter campground of Lewis and Clark, is a na tional monument. It is unfortunate that the names of Lewis and Clark themselves are not more used for our natural phenomena or for our towns and camps. But the Lewis and Clark names don't belong on the Guard camp. General Rilea's name does. The general spent a life time in the service of the Na tional Guard and was com mander of the 41st, one of the outstanding Guard divisions in the nation. His predecessor, General George Ared White, is memorialized at Camp White near Medford. It is proper, indeed, that this guardsman's name be remem bered at the historic training center of the units he com manded. Eugene Register Guard. TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) FEBRUARY 27, 1913: Oregon ladies are show ing much interest in the ' "panlelet" dress which is already making its appear ance and is regarded as the newest thing in high fash ion. The dress, which fea tures an abbreviated skirt and long pantelets is daring in the extreme and is rais ing eyebrows all over the country. Clergymen and others distressed by the de plorable state of public and private morals have warned that the costume, if . not suppressed, may encourage Historian Disputes Monty's Version Of Normandy Fight; Cites Army Records By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery has written his piomoirs-to tell his side of the story of World War II and to keep the record straight. Like many generals be- afore him, K m a r- Montgomery's ltl version of ihtt Newsom wnai went on and what the record shows 1 Jr" 56- ? LA Ijfi Wilson Dispute's Celler's View of Communist Threat By LYLE C. WILSON Washington - (UPD - Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) was in character this week when he obiected to an American Bar Association (ABA) policy statement regretting bupreme Court decisions which have relaxed curbs against Commu nist subversion. 1 "This," said CeUer, "is a maligning of the Supreme Court , which is most irre sponsible." One man's opinion as to that, perhaps, is as good as another's. Celler, however, deprecated the internal men ace of Communism in the United States. He said mem bership in the Communist Party, USA, had been re duced to fewer than 5,000 persons and that these were In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Foreign affairs: . Russia's Mr. K. gets tough. He rejects the West's pro posal for a Big Four foreign ministers conference on Germany-saying it might have been worth while at the end of World War II, but is OUT now. He repeats his former warning to the West against ANY violation -by land, by air or by water-of East Ger many's frontier in the dispute over West Berlin. Any such violation, he intimates flatiy, would have to be regarded "as the beginning of war." And so on. . HE THEN dangles some bait before Britain's Macmil lan, who is visiting in Mos cow. He says the Soviet govern ment would be willing and lw tn nnnrlllde a treaty Of friendship and non-aggression ... . . i j with Britain, tie suggesieu could run for 20 years, 50 years-or MORE. His thought, of course, is that he MIGHT be able to split Britain off from the Western alliance. AT HIS news conference nnp Mr. Ike meets tough ness with toughness. He says the U.S. and its al lies are not going to give ONE SINGLE INCH in pre serving their rights and re sponsibilities in Berlin. He adds that we and our major allies have made plans to DEFEND OUR POSITION THERE. He repeats that if there is any SHOOTING over West Berlin, somebody else will have to START it. HE SAYS the U.S. must al ways be willing to nego tiate if there appears to be any reasonable hope of ac complishing something. But- He adds- If there is to be a negative answer from the Russians BEFORE AN ATTEMPT IS MADE TO NEGOTIATE he simply can't see much use in conferring. WHAT'S in the wind? Is shooting war near? Probaby not. It's a reason able guess that Mr. K is sim ply testing us out to see how far it is safe to go in running a bluff. And, of course, he keeps hoping it may be pos sible to split us off from our allies. "Divide and conquer" is an old maxim. It has worked often in the past, and Mr. K can't help hoping it might be made to work again. the more radical females to appear publicly in trousers. FEBRUARY 27, 1881: Francis Norbert Blanche!, archbishop of Oregon City, today read his letter of res ignation at St. Mary's cathe dral in Portland. Archbish op Blanche! came to the Oregon country with Fath er Modeste Demers travel ling overland and reaching Fort Vancouver on Novem ber 24, 1838. For the 43 years since that time the archbishop has served suc cessively as missionary to the Indians, organizer of the Oregon City See, bishop and archbishop. He plans to spend his remaining years in study and writing at St. Vincent's Hospital. are at variance The result has been some violent disagreement. And, so long as generals insist on fighting their wars over again in print, there'll be donnybrooks. Montgomery, without ques tion was one of the most bril liant military leaders of the last major conflict. He was a bright star in the Allied ranks. But the most consist ent thread running through his story now is the claim to have been aware of nearly every contingency in ad vance. under surveillance by the Federal Bureau of Investiga-j tion. That statistics of Commu nist Party membership prob ably is. erroneous. The latest reliable information on Com munist membership in the United States was in a state smen t by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on Jan. 1, 1957. Hoov er then estimated Communist membership in this country at 17,360. Membership since has declined. Celler Underestimates Total It is fewer than 10,000 to day but considerably more than Celler's 5,000. Celler's abrupt brushoff of the, intern al menace of Communism was to be expected although his home town is New York City where Communist activity and membership usually top those of any other American community. Celler is among those who have opposed the activities of the house committee on un American activities. On Feb. 24, 1953, Celler was one of two members of the House to oppose the appropriation to continue that committee's work. The other was Rep. Roy W. Weir (D-Minn.) The vote was 315-2. The ABA policy statement to which Celler objected con tained a direct answer to one phase of his complaint - that Communist membership is negligible and under control. The answer appears under the heading "current fallacies about Communism." The word fallacy means that which de ceives the eye or the mind. In terms of logic, a fallacy is any reasoning failing to satisfy the conditions of logi cal proof or violating the laws of valid argument. Here is what the ABA policy state ment had to say: Dedicated Few "So much misinformation is current about Communism that it is appropriate to ex pose some of the major fall acies (such as this one) that Communism in the United States is dwindling in power because the party is dwind ling in numbers. "This popular belief shows a complete misunderstanding of Leninism. Lenin's great contribution to Communism was his principle of the dedi cated few. He rejected the idea of a popular (numerous) party, and established the principle that no one should be given party membership unless he was under disci pline. "A substantial strength of Communism in the United States is the fact that for every Communist party mem ber there may be 10 non Communists who will do the work of the Communists." Hoover's recently published book, "Masters of Deceit." re lates that: "When the Com munist Party was at its peak in the United States (in 1945; membership 64,600) it was stronger in numbers than the Soviet party was at the time PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY of Southern Oregon presents in concert The Symphony Orchestra Soloist FRANCES THRUN, DRAMATIC SOPRANO Richard D. Werner, Musical Director and Conductor Sunday Afternoon at Three p.m., March 1 MEDFORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Adults $1.50 Students 50c Tickets on Sale at the Box Office f Capt. Martin Blumenthal, writing in a recent issue of The Army magazine, publica tion of the Association of the U.S. Army, cites chapter and verse to contradict Monty's claim to prescience particu larly in France. . "One of the most contro versial aspects of Montgom ery's generalship concerns his role in the Normandy break out," Blumenthal writes. "Ac cording to his memoirs, Montgomery figured out far in advance what was about to happen and then conceived and unswervingly followed a it seized power in Russia." That seizure was 1917 when Russian Communists number ed a mere 40,000. Communications Technocracy - To the Editor: It is no hush ed secret that news from abroad, including all oriental nations, are proclaiming a revolt in the onen labor mar ket of full employment. With out a shadow of a doubt the oncoming labor tensions will eventually reach the four cor ners of all industrial sections, like the momentum of snow ball proportions. At least we hope that Technocracv. the supposed great emancipator of numan ideologies, will come to the rescuse before the cata clysm emerges full speed on an unconcerned, innocent world. When natural evolution cre ates great changes, like aU ancient history points to from the remote civilizations, man kind must cone with emereen- cies and adjust his ways also, as modern methods force their conditions. Teddy Roosevelt once said. "We cannot turn progress of the clock backwards." Bert Kissinger, 580 Boardman, Medford Eagle Point, Toe To the Editor: Perhaps the fact that other schools in the valley, besides those in Med ford, took part in the annual hih school speech tourna ment, held at Linfield college, February 19 through 21, has not been called to your at tention. If so, may I please take this opportunity to state that Eagle Point made a very fine show ing, with a team of 10, bring ing back seven awards. Does this seem small? It is. However, Eagle Point is a small school; also, the. seven who placed were all first year speech students. As they were judged accord ing to merit, rather than school size, you will realize that these students were com peting against students from much larger schools, as David Douglas, Medford, Eugene, Grants Pass, Roseburg and Ashland. Their outstanding success is due only to their personal ability, and to the excellent coaching of the speech teach er, Mr. Simmons. As a whole, we of Eagle Point High are very proud of our school, and our speech students. Thank you for your kind attention. Miss Jean Messecar, Eagle Point y High School Editor's note: Word of Eagle Point High school's speech tournament success reached us several days late. It appeared in the Mail Tribune on Thurs day along with a report on Phoenix High school's results. the. master plan." Not so, says Blumenthal, a qualified military historian now employed in the office of the U.S. chief of military history in Washington. Monty's claim was this: "My master plan for the land battle in Normandy was to draw main enemy strength on to the British front on our eastern flank in order that we might the more easily break out on the western flank with the American 1st Army. I never once had cause or reason to alter my master plan. There was never at any time any intention of matin? the breakout from the brirl head on the eastern flank." Disagreement Sounded Blumenthal disagrees. "Despite Montgomery's con viction that his wav in thp way it happened, investiga tion ot tne record proves that the actuality was different from - and somewhat m o r complicated than -he would have posterity believe," he says. Blumnethal savs the basic ouUine for the Normandy in vasion was drawn un as thp Overlord Plan, devised by the U.S.-British planning group in 1942 under direction of Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan. When Gen. Dwight D. Eis enhower was named supreme commander in December, 1943, he ordered his subordi nate land, sea and air head quarters to revise the plan. As Ike's land commander of the initial invasion forces, Monty was responsible for getting the ground forces ashore. The modified nlan drawn up by Monty's 21 Army Group staff concentrat- ea on the landings. Beyond that, the overlord concent re mained in force. This plan envisaged that the Allies would overrun and seize a lodgement area bound ed by the Seine, Eure and Loire rivers in northwest France. From this, they would prepare a final thrust into the heart of Germany. Neither the Overlord Plan nor the 21 Army Group plan mentioned a breakout from the beachhead - since no one foresaw the deadlock that de veloped. Plans Attack "It seems clear, then, that Montgomery's master plan was not the same as the one prepared by the 21 Army Group," Blumenthal says. The British made long preparations for an attack in July, with Monty resorting to his famed tedious "tidying up" methods. They attacked on July 18, took Caen and had three armored divisions in the open country southeast of Caen. It looked like this might be the breakout. Montgomery reported to Eisenhower that he was "very well satisfied" to have caught the Germans off balance. There was a general feeling that Monty might be going all the way, and he apparent ly seemed enamored of the idea himself. But two days later, he halt ed the offensive. Eisenhower was disappointed. At Su preme Headquarters there was a feeling that Monty had not tried as hard as he might have. Finally, on July 25, 1944, the Cobra attack plan devised by Gen. Omar Bradley pene trated the German defense in the Contenin. Within a week Bradley exploited the break through into a gam of 30 miles- The Germans crumbled and retreated pell-mell across France to the Siegfried line. The pattern was generally that indicated by Montgom ery. But his claim to not al tering his master plan is somewhat overstated. The breakout came on the Ameri can part of the front, not the British.