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4 Monday, March 2, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. MedforpTeibuni "Xveryone is Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" published Daily except Saturday by MHDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North fir St. Ph. SP 2-8141 ROBEF.T W RUHL, Editor KERB GREV Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Buiineia Mar ERIC W ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor pALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter al Medforrt Oregon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES gy Mail In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail" and Sunday 1 year 913.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4-23 Sunday Only One year $450 Sy Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv. er. Talent and on motor routes. Dail7 and Sunday 1 year 118.00 Daily and SunUay 1 mo. 130 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Papr of City -t Medford Official Papei of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices In Nev. York, Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver B C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION M ATI O N A t EDITORIAL lAsfsbcE&TifolN U Flight ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO J4arch 2, 1949 (Wednesday) The Ashland hospital's op eration, given up by a group of local doctors, is taken over by a group who operate the Koseburg sanitarium. Revised schedules and routes for Evergreen Bus Lines are approved by the Medford city council. 20 YEARS AGO March 2, 1939 (Thursday) Kenneth Murray's sow pro duces a litter of 18 - count em - 18 piglets. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: 'March came in like a lion' - like the British lion at Mu nich, after two European dic tators were through twisting its tail." 30 YEARS AGO March 2, 1929 (Saturday) A plan is reported to re duce pear picking charges this coming season. Violets and daffodils are blooming in many yards un der -the influence of warm, spring sunlight. 40 YEARS AGO March 2. 1919 (Sunday) Hundreds gather at Med ford's depot to hail the return of homegrown soldiers from the war. The new game code closes streams to winter fishing. 50 YEARS AGO March 2. 1909 (Tuesday) A carload of telephone poles arrives as Pacific Tele phone company prepares im provements for local service. Politics in Central Point are at fever heat as W. C. t t,i w. J. Freeman square off for the office of mayor. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct ii superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good i in which state is the famous "painted desert" of the Southwest? 2. Iran was formerly known by what name? 3. What unit , of measure denotes 12 dozen? 4. Is the Amazon river in Burma, Korea, or South America? 5. A farthingale is a species of bird; true or false? 6. Is nationality determin ed by Federal or State law? 7. In what country were the Hukbalahap guerrillas ac tive? 8. Is Goucher College, Balt imore, Maryland, a school for men or for women? 9. Which high U.S. govern ment official recently fell and cracked his ribs? 10. Is it the East-front or Woct-frnnt of the U.S. Capitol that is being re modeled? Answers: 1. Arizona. 2. Persia. 3. Gross. 4. 'South America. 5. False (hoop skirt). 6. Federal law. 7. The Philip pines. 8. Women 9. V.P. Rich ard Nixon. 10 East. Pioneer Decorator Dies Rock Hall, Md. - 0TO -ti unctnirlc. rjioneer in- ter'o- decorator and former resident of the American In stitute of Decorators, died Sunday at her home here. She What Is a 'Technicality9? The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is in danger of attack again by an organization as powerful and as responsible as could be-invoked the American Bar Association. A committee report favorably if somewhat belatedly pre sented by the association's board of governors and due to come before the House of Delegates at this week's meeting in Chicago carries weight because the bar association has not lent itself to indiscriminate attacks on the court. Indeed, the board of governors last May denounced the Jen-ner-Butler court "reform" bill as "a threat to the independence of the judiciary." This was one reason why that bill was tabled in the Senate last August by a vote of 41 to 40. The report now submitted pays tribute to the Supreme Court and "an independent judiciary" as "the ultimate guardians of the Bill of Rights and the protectors of our freedom." It goes on, however, to charge that "many cases have been decided in such a manner as to encourage an in crease in Communist activities in the United States." TT ADDS the disquieting indictment that "our ' internal security has been weakened by tech nicalities raised in judicial decisions which too frequently in the public mind have had the effect of putting on trial the machinery of the judicial process and freeing the subversive to go forth and further undermine our nation." The principal citation here is usually that of Steve Nelson, con victed of seditious activities under a law of the State of Pennsylvania and given a new trial on the theory that sedition had already been taken care of by Federal legislation. The bar association report suggests a number of issues that have worried persons who see Communists under every bush. The report sug gests that states should enforce their own laws against sedition, which would take care of the Nelson case ; that the Secretary of State be given broader power to deny passports to persons he considers subversive; that Federal employees in "nonsensitive" agencies be put through the same doctrinal wringer as those in the "sensitive" agencies: that the Smith Act be broadened to remove the distinction between "theoretical advo cacy" of sedition and action," and that the charter of the Committee on Un-American Activities be more "precisely worded" obviously a response to the Supreme Court s requirement that a witness needn t answer questions unless they are "pertinent" to the purpose of the inquiry. THESE suggestions are not necessarily criti- cisms of the court. In some cases, indeed, the court itself has expressed a desire for more precise expressions of tions. We do believe, however, that an assembly of distinguished lawyers should think twice before condemning "technicalities" as of small impor tance. Lawyers use in their own pleadings all the technicalities they man's technicality may erty, liberty or life. We live m a time dangers, of a great Nevertheless, the basic not those of governments, or of any agents of government, but of the individual. And the ulti mate act of treason is to despise those rights and undermine them, just as the ultimate loyalty is to protect them and carry forward the great tra ditions of democracy. New York Times. Senator Neuberger Returns It is good to know that Senator Richard L. Neuberger, after a long and courageous fight against cancer, is back in the Senate. Soon after his election in 1954, Mr. Neuberger became known as a staunch advocate of increased feder al support for medical research. More than ever now, quite naturally, he desires to "stand in the Senate as a symbol of medical research." That is a worthy and appropriate goal. This is the land -where billions are spent an nually for cosmetics, liquor and tobacco while medical research goes begging for funds. The Senator from Oregon is entitled to full support in his effort to do something about it. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In Like a Lamb If the old superstition is correct, we're in for a doozy of a storm on March 31. For never have we seen March "come in" so lamb-like as it did yesterday. The weather bureau reports the maximum temperature Sunday was a balmy 65 degrees. The sun was shining. In our. neighborhood the birds were twittering just as though it were May, not March, with winter still showing on the calendar. MOT only was it warm and sunshiny, but there was enough of a breeze "light airs" would be a mariner's poetical description to blow away most of the smoke and haze which too frequently prevent one from seeing the hills across the valley. Everyone, it seemed, took advantage of the weather, donned sport shirts or light blouses, and drove around enjoying it. If March does "go out like a lion,", yesterday will have made it all worthwhile. E.A. actual "incitement to the lawmakers inten can. Why not? One be another man's prop of great stress, of great necessity for discipline. rights of our society are Dennis the hi -I PICKED 'EM JUST FOR OU, MARGARET ' THEY'RE CALLED STJNK WEEDS. Matter of Fact AGAINST TWADDLE Offutt Air Force Base, Oma ha, Neb. - This is a place no thinking American can visit without strong national feel ing. Simple as a place, it is dreary. Until just the other day, it had no role in his tory. But now it is the nerve center of the 4n-!nh aisod prouaesi, most powerful, most complex, and most efficient fighting force that this republic has ever brought together. It may seem very odd in deed to use the word beautiful in connection with the Strate gic Air Command. . But al though great aircraft have re placed the lances and the gon falons, this S.A.C. has some thing of the beauty of "an army with banners." It his an other beauty, too, as a vast, marvelous, superbly function al product of men's minds, as perfect as it is terrible. And it has still another beauty, as the sword and buckler of the imperilled cause of freedom. . It is necessary to say these things because it is also neces sary to face an ugly fact con cerning S.A.C. The fault does not belong to the men of S.A.C. But the ugly fact re mains: the once-sure power of the American deterrent is now quite rapidly declining. THE causes of this decline, anrl iha rpmpHiAC fliat ran be applied, will be examined in subsequent reports in this series. What must first be done is to try to dispose of the false and self-serving argu ment that is being used to justify the decline in S.A.C.'s deterrent power. The argument is often heard nowadays in the highest quar ters in the Pentagon . and at the National Security Council. It takes the form of what is called the theory of "minimum deterrence." This theory is based upon a cruelly ironical feature of modern strategic weapons systems. In brief, a few big dirty bombs will kill a great many millions of the enemy. But very considerable numbers of bombs, extremely precisely laid down, are need ed to destroy the complex, many-targeted structure of the enemy's nuclear striking pow er. It is easier, in other words, to massacre half the popula tion of another nation, than it is to prevent that nation from striking back in its agony. Many fewer aircraft or mis siles are needed for the first purpose than for the second. It is cheaper, more budget-balancing, and in every way more attractive to the peculiar cast of mind that regards the rich est nation in history as too poor to defend itself. SUCH, then, are the fairly macabre origins of this theory of " minimum deter rence." The theory itself may be briefly stated. If the enemy strikes first with his rapidly growing power, he will de stroy most of S.A.C. But he cannot count on destroying all of S.A.C. The S.A.C. remnant will be too small to touch the still-intact structure of the en emy's striking power. But this remnant can still be directed at what are euphemistically called "political and demogra phic targets." If the enemy knows that S.A.C.'s remnant will be used in this manner, he will not dare to strike first. Thus minimum deterrence will be achieved at minimum cost. Q. E. D. There are two fatal defects in this grisly theory. In the first place, it glosses over what may be called the prob lem of Marshal Biriusov, the artillery officer who heads the Soviet Air Defense Com mand. For 13 years, this sep arate Soviet command has ab sorbed between 18 and 20 per cent of the gigantic Soviet defense budget. What then can Menace 5-2 By Joseph Alsop Marshal Birivsov reply, if he is told, "Our first strike will kill all but a remnant of S.A.C, and your only task is to repel the wretched rem nant." He must surely reply that the assignment will be easy. The S.A.C. commander himself, Gen. T. S. Power, has rightly pointed out that the ef fectiveness of our deterrence depends upon what the enemy thinks about it, and not on what we think about it. YET the theory's second de fect i s even more fatal. To see what tills defect is, you must imagine the position of the President of the United States after the enemy's imag ined first strike. The Presi dent's own structure of retal iatory striking power will lie in ruins. The remnant that re mains will not be enough to cripple the enemy's structure of striking power, which will still be untouched and ready to strike again. But his rem nant will still be able (if Mar shal Biriusov is wrong) to kill several millions of the Russian people. Will the President then use his remnant, as the much tout ed minimum deterrence the ory would require him to do? Or rather, how could he use his remnant in this manner, unless he was both irrational and inhuman? There would be no means to halt the enemy's second and third strike. Most of our peo ple, remember, would still be alive and healthy in no dan ger, after an enemy first strike solely aimed at military tar gets. The price to be paid for a few million Russian deaths would therefore be many more millions of American deaths. Would any but a madman or der such an exchange, with no true military purpose? The answer is obvious. The theory of minimum deterrence is not common, everyday twaddle. It is time to stop twaddling, and to start talk ing in hard terms about the hard requirements of true na tional security. Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Loaded Firearm Bill To the Editor: I am inform ed of a vicious bill in the leg islature, HB 466, introduced by Representative Robert Elf strom of Marion county, which has been referred to the house committee on fish and game. This bill would prohibit possession or carrying of a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle on a public highway, particularly during hunting seasons. I believe the unsuspecting public should b e informed more fully of this. Briefly I would like to men tion a few things regarding it. Sportsmen should decide if a safety measure is design ed to give enforcement offi cers a search and seizure de vice. I understand that up wards of 15 million persons secure hunting licenses annu ally in this country. Should all these be jeopardized be cause of the criminals? Pure carelesness heads the list of accidentsT' Despite failure of attempts to disarm the crim inal by statute, fresh at tempts are made each year to strengthen these laws. Also despite the painful history of such firearms legislation in every country where it has been tried there are still those who pretend to believe that state firearms laws in the U.S.' will divorce the gun from the criminal. It is also reported that the FBI has pub lished a list each year of the 10 leading factors affecting Khrushchev Not Bluffing, Berliners Convinced; Two-Germany Plan Editor's note: United Press International Foreign News Editor Phil Newom is on a tour of Europe and the Middle East. His for eign news commentary col umn will be filed from those areas in coming weeks. By PHIL NEWSO.M UPI Foreign News Editor Berlin -UPD- There is abso lute certainty here that Sov iet Premier Nikita Khrush chev is run ning no huge Russian bluff in his ulti m a tu m on Berlin. i. m -I He means it, and on May 27 the Russians will hand control TTT i. n Phil Newsom Ol wesi xei- lin's lifelines over to the East German Communist regime. Simultaneously, the West will face, its deadliest crisis since World War II. But there also is no expec tation here that any Berlin blockade will erupt the first 1, Jk. m Washington Report By WILLIAM AGREEMENT DANGER Washington - The frequent ly brutal dogmatism of the Russians, who often conduct foreign p o 1- icy negotia tions in the tone of en raged long shoremen me diating th e i r wate r f r o n t d if fere n c e s, sometimes has its uses to the free world. At Geneva since last Oct. 31, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union have been conferring for a "con trolled ban" on nuclear wea pons tests. At every point when it has appeared that some agreement might be in sight, Soviet spokesmen have broken up the game with quite impossible demands and accusations. Their unreasonableness has served them right-and served us well. It has been almost providential for us, if such a term can be used in such a connection. For the longer such an' agreement is defer red, the better off the United States will be. And if it never comes at all, short of a genu ine and general disarmament running all the way down to infantry divisions, we shall be better off still. IN A WORD, if we are to be saved from entering into an arrangement of the greatest danger to our security, the enigmatic idiocy of the Rus sians themselves may well be the saving force. Nearly everything in the atomic-hydrogen field lies -and necessarily so - under the cover of hush-hush. More over, to seek to understand what is going on even in a crime rate in any community. They do not mention of the impact of firearms regulation on crime. A further study of the prob lem brings out more against such legislation and it is urg ed that objections be made to the state legislators. Most of us aim to promote public safety, uphold law and order and are for national defense. The present method of registering a gun with the sheriff's office to carry loaded in a car for personal protect ion seems satisfactory to me. L. H. Valentine, 401 North 5th st., Jacksonville. Defends Carter Choice To the Editor: In recent weeks I have read with inter est the various comments re garding the appointment of Sprague Carter of Pendleton as director of Selective Serv ice. I would praise his appoint ment on the basis that he is (1) a civilian and (2) that he has had prior experience on the Umatilla County draft board. My husband was the State Director of Selective Service during the years of World War II, and I believe that I have a better-than-average ac quaintanceship with the prob lems and functions of that of fice. I personally feel that this selection of a civilian director was wise. During the early days of selective service some of our finest citizens served on the county boards. Mr. Carter, like all the others, served without pay. If this makes a man a "politician" I am in favor of more "politi cians" in government. Mrs. Elmer V. Wooton 1048 Bellevue st. Salem, Ore. William S, White day or even in the first month of the changeover in controls. The belief here is that Khrushchev is playing ' for higher stakes' than Berlin alone. The real objective, so this theory goes, is the permanent division of Germany. With the German question settled to Soviet taste, the Western world must face the fact that history has been altered and Russia's recognized sphere of influence pushed out beyond her own borders halfway across the face of Western Europe. With the Russian rear pro tected and East Europe sta bilized, Khrushchev then is free to press his seven-year plan and eventually his am bitions for world domination through economic force alone. But Khrushchev does not want a war because the strength of his plan depends upon continued Soviet indus trial growth. So the immediate future -again according to the theory here will be a mixture of Soviet threats and promises. S. WHITE high-policy way requires a layman to traverse a vast and forbidding swamp of techni cal jargon. All the same, in quiry here establishes some central, and most unpleasant, facts. For months at Geneva the West actually has been run ning a terrible risk that the Russians would suddenly be come sensible enough to go along with some so-called "reliable" test suspension. If they should, the consequences to the West could not be less than damaging, and they might well be catastrophic. "Damaging" would be the word should we then take the first of two alternatives -that is, hurriedly to back out at the last minute from such an agreement. In this case, of course, we should suffer a se vere worldwide propaganda defeat. But "catastrophic" would be the only word should we decide to stay with the agreement. "T'OR THIS would mean that the free world, which is vastly outmanned and out gunned by the Soviet bloc, would be on the way to los ing the one form of superior ity which has thus far kept an uneasy balance of mili tary power. This is our atomic-hydrogen superiority. Take away this edge and the mas ses of Russian divisions, the "conventional" forces of war that still can kill a great many people, would over whelmingly outnumber those of the West. It would be much as though an inland sea power in the old pre-atomic days had nego tiated itself into a pojition of agreeing to fleet limitations while its larger land antagon ists remained free to call up unlimited numbers of troops. Even a two-year halt to nu clear testing would tend to disperse the irreplaceable technical forces we now have working in the weapons field. Too - and this is much grim mer we have in fact already made enormous mistakes in certain of our supposedly foolproof scientific assump tions underlying dete c t i o n methods. No man can possibly say for certain that any fu ture detection method pro claimed as absolutely un reachable might not quickly turn out to be quite some thing else again. . "TONALLY, it can be stated " responsibly that American leaders know perfectly well that any suspension agree ment would involve an ob vious, an undeniable, mili tary risk in exchange for highly generalized possible gains. These possible gains are called "imponderables" -meaning, maybe, some ad vance in the worthy purpose of easing cold-war tensions. But it cannot be denied that the risk is all too ponderable, indeed. The burden of proof lies with staggering and fate ful weight upon those who would suspend, tests. They have nowhere near proved their case. They have proved their great decency and their good intentions. (Copyright. 1959, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With Little Worry Eat, talk, laugh or sneeze without fear of Insecure false teeth dropping, slipping or wobbling. PASTEETH holds plates firmer and more com fortably. This pleasant powder has no gummy gooey, pasty taste or feeling Doesn't cause nausea. It's alkaline (non-acid). Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FASTKETH at ny drug counter. A first step would be to demonstrate that transfer of controls to East Germany does not necessarily mean any change in free access to West Berlin. Would Demand Inspection The next step in the plan would have three phases. First, the East Germans would demand the right to inspect Allied cargoes and place their stamp upon them. The stamp itself would, in fact, be a sort of recognition of the East German govern ment. The next step would be visas to be issued from a post along the highway. And, ' finally, the highway post would be abolished and visas would be issued only through formally established State Department, Congress, At Odds On Money, Pools By FRANK ELEAZER Washington - (UPD- A former State Department official, now safely off the public payroll, recently told Congress to its face what he claims a lot of diplomatic types have been saying behind its back right along. The quotation, approximate ly, was that congressmen are a bunch of clowns. Charles B. Marshall, who indicated he didn't necessar ily share the view himself, testified before a House For eign Affairs subcommittee the other day. In the opinion of State De partment bureaucrats, he said, "what emanates here (from Congress) is a sort of neces sary nuisance, never to be understood, to be tolerated mainly because there is no op tion, and to be appeased by minimal accommodation wher ever necessity leaves no way out." No Swimming Pools Well, let's face it. It does look like the State Depart ment, in its dealings with Con gress, sometimes gets the burnt end of the stick - like right now. Another subcommittee, in a hearing unrelated to the one at which Marshall appeared, is considering some of our problems abroad. With ambassadors and the like all over the world, they need houses and offices for one thing. The department hopes to build and buy them for $100 million during the next five years. The Foreign Affairs Com mittee, in general, knows this has to be done. And it plans, eventually, to approve a bill to allow it. But first, Rep. Clement J. Zablocki (D-Wis.) wanted to know if any swimming pools and tennis courts were plan ned. "They are not," snapped Loy Henderson, deputy under secretary of state, "and that I regret!" Henderson, with an undip lomatic fire in his eye, said the military builds pools and Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) Erf? " a t 4 I Perl 4cSlif?. FRIENDLY. Visioned East German government of fices. The last and logical step would be formal recognition of an East German govern ment permanently split from the West. The " fear here' is that Khrushchev may begin to be lieve his own propaganda and make a mistake leading to World War III. Among West Germans there is also the fear that the United States neither has made its determination plain enough to the Russians nor made it clear to the people of the United States that war is a possibility. But there is no lack of un derstanding here. And there is a determination that no East German inspector ever will place his stamp on an Allied cargo. tennis courts for its people all over the world, and no body complains. But when the State Department suggests them, it is accused by Con gress of fostering riotous liv ing at public expense. "And, if you don't mind my saying so," he went on, "even some of the congressional buildings have swimming pools!" Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D Ohio), who was presiding, then proved once more that the State Department can't win. He said on a visit to Khar toum, in the Sudan, when the mercury stood at 120, he found the ambassador was away and slept in his house. He was happy to learn that the place had a pool. But he was shocked to see it wag empty. "They said it was cracked, and that the repairs would cost $600," Hays recalled. "I said, 'Get it fixed. If I come back here next year and there's no water in that swim ming pool there's going to be some heads rolling'." MONEY At Crater Finance you may borrow for any worth while purpose on your FURNITURE AUTO SALARY and repay in monthly 5n s t a 1 1 m e n t s. You may choose the terms most suit able to you up to 24 months. Leans may be paid In advance er in full at any time Crater Finance CORPORATION 135 Pine Street Central Point Phone NO 4-1273 Frank Wilkinson, Mgr. 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