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MAIL TRIBUNf, MtdforJ, Or. Thursday, August 6, 1959 MEDFORDiTBISUlfS Ivujom to Southern Oregon tteaa tn man lnpone Published Dnily except Saturday by DDFOHD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph SP 2-6141 DriDt "O T TXT C11UI Pitnr HERB GREY Advertising Manager CTPMSD LATHAM. Business Mgx EBIC W AXLEN JK Managing Kdrtor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor Btra a xn nranrrf Stvtpfi EHitnr OLIVE ST ARCHER Women'! Editor DALE EKiwKaoft tarcuianon oiy An Independent Newsoaoer Zntered as second class matter at Meal or union onaer an m March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES w Mai k In Advance. CoDV 10c. Da 11- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday O mos. 8-OC TJailv and Sunday 3 mos 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4.20 fjprlgp In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv r Tlnt and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Dally ano &unuay i mo. i-au Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City f Medfori Official Paper oi jacason county United Press International Fun Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU . OF CIRCULATION ' Advertising Representative: flees In New York. Chicago. De tmit San francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta, vancduver B.C. iSaOfl NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aucr. 6. 1949 (Saturday) Control of flying sawdust from local mills is a topic be fore the Ashland city coun cil. Nuggets and muzzle -load r are among relics' to be displayed at the Jacksonville Gold Rush Jubilee. 20 YEARS AGO Alio. 6, 1939 (Cunday) An arsonist sets 10 nres along Crater Lake. highway from Brookhurst orchard to 4ct ghnvs Trail. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudee Pot" column: "The tomato crop is coming along fine, and will soon oe ripe enough for a speech on their food value, by Peoria Bill Gates." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 6, 1929 (Tuesday) Women are asked to form an organization to oppose the WCTU. Mary Greiner and Edward C. Kelly are married. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. S. 1919 (Wednesday) Rogue valley fruitmen pro test a threatened nationwide rail strike. -A-jforest patrol air fleet is expected to stop at Medford. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 6. 1909 (Friday) M. F. Hanle7 obtains an in junction to keep Medford wa ter line workers off his land. , A "demented" y ng man causes a stir when he hops from an SP train in the Siski- vous and attempts to outwalk It, explaining the train's pace was too slow tor nis tastes. What's Your I.Q.? ki:. -tan correct is superior: save er eight is excellent; five et six is food. 1. Is commerce between the States called interstate or in trastate commerce? 2. Name the next two states to be admitted to the Union after the first thirteen. 3. Aries is one of the signs of the zodiac; what does the name mean? ' 4. What was the unit of value impressed on the first, gold coins minted by the U.S.? 5. Did the first U. S. Con gress (1789) meet in Wash ington, Philadelphia, or New York City? 6. Which one of these states leads in mineral production Nevada, California, or Colo rado? 7. Is a drone bee a male, or a female? 8. The original Taft-Hartley Act (Labor relations) was en acted in 1947 with President Truman's approval; true or false? 9. Give the four-letter time designation which has a pro nunciation, similar to a per sonal pronoun. 10. The U. S Government has not officially recognized the "State of Israel; true or false? iAnjwers: 1. Interstate; 2. Vermont and Kentucky; 3. The Ranv No valu hown; S Ntw York City; 6. Cali fornia: 7. Male; 8. False, rpaued ow to); 9. Hour (out); 10. False. . About 15 per cent Amer ican workers are accorded a daily coffee break. $50 for Litter A total of 485 new yesterday. One of the less-ncticed among them, but of importance nonetheless, $50 for disposing of litter within 100 yards of any stream, lake, reservoir or pond or channel thereof. . - , "Litter"-r-in case anyone doesn't know in cludes beer cans, paper paper cups and plates, packages and practically bage you can name. It's too bad that such is. It is to be hoped that it will be respected, or, at worst, enforced. E.A. The Debate in Art The formation in Portland of an organization entitled "Art for Oregonjans" is something which hardly could have happened 15 or 20 years ago. " The ptoud is dedicated to the proposition that art should be "beautiful," "recognizable," and "understandable." It came into oeing, at least ostensibly, as a result of the Centennial Commis sion's employment of "modern" and "abstract" art in the decoration of some parts of the Cen tennial Exposition. In addition, "Art for Oregonians" claims that undue emphasis on the modern trend was given in the exhibit of art work at the Centennial despite the fact that a goodly number of "rep resentational" works are included. NOW two decades ago a pretty good argument about "modern" vs. "traditional" art could have been worked' up. But it would have raged in fairly circumscribed circles. It hardly would have been the subject of ar ticles in the papers, of letters-to-the-editor, of petitions to the governor, or f or heaven's sake of a "mass meeting of protest" which last week attracted some 30 people (including, as the Ore gonian's story pointed out, "five spies from the Portland Art Museum"). It reveals graphically how art, in the form of paintings, sculpture and related media, has made a'Strong impact on the consciousness of an ever widening circle of people. Not long ago, very few people would have cared very much; now a lot of people care greatly. THE Medford Library reports that, this year alone, some 400 books concerning art in all its aspects have been published a total which is 100 more than the" number of similar titles pub lished 10 years ago. What the library didn't feel it necessary to note, also, is the fact that the older titles were largely for a specialized and connoisseurs while to a far wider public. A concomitant of this people than ever before themselves; actually creating, rather than just standing on the sidelines, IT IS this widespread can rage, in and out of realms, even, of politics ers maintain a nervous And so the debate proceeds. It uses a special vocabulary, too, such words as "representation al "Vo,-,tiAil ".or."Met; "ti-orlitirmol " CLiy. ucauwui) i caucus auu uxuu.xuj.uuux, on the one hand, and "modern," "abstract," "non representational," "impressionistic," "experimen tal," and pthers similar, on the other hand. (One should be cautioned: the words, as used in this debate, often have special meanings not listed in the dictionary, or common to the words as nsprl in nnnnlar disp.nni'se. THE debate is too arcane and esoteric (not to But there are a couple Such as the fact that the more intelligent of the modernists embrace the whole ivide field of art traditional and representational as well as abstract ai-d modern so The traditionalists grant grace. Their position might be stated, with some oversimplification and ness, m the old, old bromide, "I don't know much about art, but I know They do indeed. They also know what they don t like and it as what they cannot under stand, and don't want to understand. So the debate will continue. IT IS not a new one, but a different version of one which has a history stretching far back into the past. (Indeed, almost universally accepted today was the center of a hot controversy when it was new. Vincent Van Gogh, to list but one name, was challenged as a radical in his own As long as artists feel that well-established schools offer them little challenge; as long as tney leel a need to experiment in light, in color, in design, in form and shape and ideas, just so long will they produce controversial art. Some of it will wind up in history's waste basket. But some of it, the best of it, will be accepted, eventually will become commonplace And then new innovators will come along, and-the debate, will resume the same disagree ments but with difierent laws went into effect provides a fine of up to napkins, paper bags, facial tissue, cigarette any other trash or gar a law is needed. But it audience artists, critics the books today appeal is the fact that more are "dabbling" in art looking and talking. interest which furnishes, the press, and into the where the office-hold neutrality. of points worth noting. long as it is good art, no such wide-ranging perhaps a jot of unfair what I like. some of the art which is day, and died a pauper.) words. E.A. Dennis the sT . " "Ti' rj I""! j r - He's pact emr Qamz, part Irish set-up, an dad savs he's GOT A L0TTA PUOtXE IN HIM.7C0. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia' for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often Jh case. Keep Up the Work To the Editor: Don Faber has forewarded several of your editorials concerning the development of Southern Ore gon Oregon. Since I am a property owner in the Toio Area, I wish to express my approval of your efforts to cause immediate steps to be taken to retain the beauty of the area through planned growth of the community and use of Bear Creek for pur poses other than a sewage canal. Please keep up . the good work. T. Parker, ; P.O., Box 84, Alamo, Calif. . . . . Onjy Time Is Left , To the Editor: By way of redundancy, your collectivist thinking is approaching the extreme end. (Editorial, Mail Tribune, Aug. 4, 1959, ".Na tional Seashores.") After some 30 years, a com bination of communists, so cialists, and other assorted col lectivists, have succeeded in having the government enter and proceed to dominate the fields of: Communications, fi nances, producing food for the country, producing elec tric power, distributing inter state commerce, direction of education, and many fields of social welfare. All this has been brought about by more or less convincing the people the Federal government, of its nature must dominate these fields (a false doctrine); or that the people must be protected from the excess profits seekers known as pri vate enterprisers. Now these benevolent think ers are preparing the people to be convinced the Federal government must protect them from the "depredations of over-commercialism," in the field of recreation! Here we are then, a nation in a very curious predica ment ... In debt up to our ears, living, to a large extent off the potential productive capacity of future genera tions, and it "is" incumbent upon the government", to spend more of this future wealth in order to protect us now, from having to pay for a good time. Look, just this once, leave the field of recreation to the so-called excess profiteers try it . . . Maybe it will drive the people away from the beaches, away from the lakes and resorts, away from the forests, and drive them back into their homes, where they may. revert to that ancient clan known as the family; where there is real wealth, real criticism, real joy, real help. Where they don't have the government leading them around by the hand, insuring protection against all kinds of avaricious people running private businesses. The collectivists have had 30 or 40 years to prove a point. They have had a mini mum of 20 centuries of ac cumulated wisdom to draw from. Still, our country goes deeper and deeper in debt, and the moral fiber grows ever more decadent. Only time is left. Time is still mankind's one asset. - ' Use it ' Robert J. Howard, 838B West 14th St., Medford Communist Threat To the Editor: There is a seeming paradox that may prove of some practical im- portance. The communist myth is believed more ardent ly outside of communist-con trolled territories than within them. Within the Soviet do main there are, it is true, es pecially ' among the youth, some millions of total believ ers, whose minds and souls Menace v are shaped absolutely by the communist myth. But there is every reason to think that this is not true of the majority of the people. The outside world may be led tobelieve that workers rule in Russia; but the Russian workers know by life that they . are serfs and slaves. Comfortable American jour nalists can believe that Stalin liquidated counter-revolution ary kulaks as a class, bunRus- sian peasants know that he tortured and killed and robbed their families and starved neighbors. English and American preachers and diplomats can accept the confessions at the Moscow trials; and compla cently explain" them as ex pressions of the peculiarities of the Russian soul, but Rus sians who knew and worked with the" defendants under stand that the confessions are fables of the NKVD. French poets can rejoice at the unanimity of will, shown by a Soviet election; but Rus sians know how that unanim ity is obtained. ' . In 1939 the people of east ern Poland hailed the Red army as the liberator. But we know from much evidence that within a few months or weeks the welcome had faded. So in other dominated ter ritories of eastern Europe Alter the iirst tiusn it was not the myth, but the terror and fears, and hopes for berth in the very unmythical apparatus, that kept the peo ple, or most of them, under the communist whip. The communist reality blights the communist myth. The myth is powerful, but with the power of a compelling mira?e, not that of the substantial moun tains. The international, unique and very high among the pow er assets of communism, is the international organiza tion. No nation has at its dis posal any force remotely com parable. The international sec tions are an incomparable in telligence Dureau. They are the greatest propaganda body ever known or conceived; mey are a permanent pres sure group, and when neces sary, they can act, from with in, as a military auxiliary, They function, in addition, to forestall independent, non- communist mass movements, either by diverting or captur ing or crushing them. The Americans will have to organize to combat commu nists infiltrated in strategic spots in the nation. Mrs. Jean Reilly, 338 North Laurel st., Ashland, Ore. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The week's brightest story: .The Coiditream Guards sen try at the Buckingham Palace gate who took it as longas he could and then "shouldered arms, advanced three paces, executed a correct right turn on his heel and planted a pre cise and polished boot on the tender rear portion of a young woman tourist" who had been trying to trap him into break ing orders and protocol by twitiching an unauthorized fa cial ; muscle or turning his eyes from the prescribed front and center. UNMILITARY? Discourteous? Bad international relations? WELL, try sometime stand two hours at rigid atten tion on a hot day, clothed in a stifling uniform, wearing on your head a bearskin shako weighing maybe four pounds and, if need be, letting a fly Geneva Conference But It Did 'Clear the By K. C. THALER Geneva - (UPD - The foreign ministers' conference that ended here Wednesday achieved nothing concrete, but diplomats believe.it start ed a "chain reaction" that may soon ease explosive in ternational tensions. The conference produced no agreement on Berlin, Ger many,. European security, or Four Power summit meet ingthe chief issues it was called to discuss. . But despite its failure, it removed the immediate So viet threat to Berlin and temporarily froze East-West positions, giving the West at least a temporary breather. Helped Bring About Visits The deadlock in Geneva talks was responsible to no small degree for the historic decision to exchange visits be tween President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev this fall. Matter of Fact KHRUSHCHEV'S DIVIDEND Washington - President Ei senhower's invitation to visit the United States is Nikita S. Khrushchev's latest and most s u b s t a n tial dividend from the B'e r 1 i n crisis. Everyone is rejoicing over the great things to be gained by ex posing Khru shchev to our ?..nnVkln l.nh A Ion UW11 1UCUOU1C, all-inspiring charm and might. Hence, one does not want to be a spoil-sport. But the fact had better be faced that Khru shchev has got the American government to do what he has lone wanted, although the American government, Until very recentiy, did not want to do this m the very least. The record on this point is all too plain. From the begin ning of the Soviet agitation for a 'second meeting at the summit, Khrushchev has made it almost comically clear what kind of summit he preferred What he has always pressed for is just the kind of summit he is now going to enjoy - a face-to-face meeting with President Eisenhower, with no lesser nations represented at the table. AS WILL be recalled, the -f. official Soviet pressure for "a second summit meeting started when poor Nikolai Bulganin was still Premier of the U.S.S.R. Officially, with one eye on the so-called neu trals like India, Bulganin re peatedly proposed an enor mous and impossibly unwield- Iv rallv of a score or more of chiefs of state. Unofficially, meanwhile, walk all over your face with out moving a muscle. . You might BLOW UP, just as this one did. Anyway, it proves that even Coldstream Guards are hu- man beings under the skin. FARM program note: The department of agri culture today named 37 wheat varieties as undesirable because -of inferior milling or baking qualities. They will be discounted 20 cents a bushel in price support rates on the 1960 crop. , The discount is designed to discourage production of these varieties. HMMMMMM. .One wonders how well adapted they might be to STORAGE which appears to be the principal purpose for which wheat is grown these days. YOUTHFUL ambitions note: Cleveland McCarty, 26, a Denver dental student at Washington University in St. Louis, is four days ahead of schedule in his attempt to scale all 54 of Colorado's 14,-000-foot peaks in as many days. He has climbed 31 of the peaks in, 27 days. p ? ? ? ? ? All in all, it's probably a better idea than trying to see how many human bodies can be crammed into a telephone booth. nOVERNOR MARK HAT- FIELD of Oregon, who is attending a governors confer ence in San Juan, Puerto says: "I hope Khrushchev will be eiven a cross-section view of this country rather than a re inforcement of the Hollywood- Manhatten version this is so prevalent aboard." T KNOW what you mean, Mark. We newspaper people feel the same way about our busi ness. It gives us the scream ing meenies to watch a Hollywood-Manhattan version of the newspaper and how it operates. The state of Washington is as large as all New England plus Delaware. Nothing was solved in Gen eva, but the day-to-day nego tiations herecleared the way for . what may prove to be more important developments in the cold war and brought East-West differences into sharper focus. . The Four Power talks dem onstrated more clearly than ever the wide gulf that sep arate the West from the Rus sians, with no remedy in sight. -.- ' The chances of German uni fication are dimmer than they have been since the start of the cold war, witwh Russia increasingly intent on perpet uating the partition, unless West Germany is engulfed in the "socialist" camp. Rusiia's Aims Listed , ' . ... I Russia's overall aim, as it emerged from the Geneva ne gotiations, is to "win Western approval of the status quo in Europe., implying the perman Joseph AIsop Khrushchev, who already had most of the real power in his hands, was telling all and sundry a quite different story. He was saying that the only way to settle anything was for him and the President to get together alone in a corner. Khrushchev first put this proposition to certain eminent foreign personalities, like Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt and Eneu- rin Bevan, who were visiting Russia. They were of course expected to pass the word on to the State Department, and thev dulv did so. When there was no response ,to these feel ers, Khrushchev came out into the open at the Kremlin re ception on New Year's ' Day, 1958. In the toast he then of fered in the presence of the whole diplomatic colony, he again urged a bi-lateral meet ing between himself and Ei senhower. - IjVVEN this blunt, overt ap- proach got no answer from Washington. Khrushchev was not even informally asked just what he wished to discuss Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was then un- shakably opposed to any sum mit meeting. Dulles further more disliked the idea of a bi lateral summit most of all. At that time, too, 'the President fullv shared the views of Dulles, as he continued to do until just the other day. The first shift from this Dolles - Eisenhower position took place when Khrushchev first pressed the Berlin lever As soon as Berlin was threat ened. Secretary Dulles him self was forced to agree that a summit conference might possibly be desirable. He add ed. however, that such a con ference would first have to be "justified" by some progress at a meeting of the Foreign Ministers. He . did not even bother to add that a bi-lateral summit was out of the ques tion. For the record, it is still the American government's posi tion that a summit conference is desirable, but must first be "justified" by progress at the Foreign Ministers' level. But at Geneva, there was no pro gress at all. The second meet ing of the Foreign Ministers was worse than the first, if anything. And if the meeting dissolved in ' frustration a second time, no one could tell what would happen at Berlin. IN THESE circumstances, when all hope was fading at Geneva in mid-July, the idea of a White House invita tion to Khrushchev acquired all sorts of new attractions. It would reinsure the Berlin position, at least for the time being. It would give Khru shchev what he has always desired - a bi-lateral summit. It would avoid the appearance of any American climb-down from the position that a sum mit must be "justified," be cause the invitation could be presented as personal, in formal, and devoid of summit overtones. In this manner, Khrushchev got his dividend. Sober realism requires all the foregoing facts be borne in mind.-When the American government abandoned long held views under Soviet pres sure, it is an event worth not ing. At the same time, these facts do not necessarily mean that the original Dulles-Eisenhower views about a second summit meeting were correct views, even in 1957. Many very able men have always held other views. For instance, the American Am bassador to Moscow, Llewel lyn Thompson, has all along maintained that Khrushchev had something important to say, which he wished to say only in person and to Eisen hower alone. What this new Monster of Glamys may be, no one can be sure. But many others feel as Ambassador Thompson feels; and if Khru shchev has this special some thing that he wants to say, it is surely worth hearing. That alone justifies what has now happened. (Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Accomplished Little Decks' for Talks ent division of Germany and the recognition of Soviet dom ination of the captive nations of the continent. The Russians also want the West to give, up itS bases in Europe and elsewhere, aban don German rearmament and withdraw from Berlin. The Geneva tallks indicated that this is the price Moscow wants for a settlement with the West, though Russia is Today G" Tomorrow By Walter A DIPLOMATIC BREAKTHROUGH Mr. . Nixon's trip to Russia has proved to be muchjnore important than many of us expected it to be. In fact, it has produced a ; diplomatic breakthrough. This is not only because he has han dled himself skillfully and with poise, biit because he took with him to Mos cow a large and unexpected and appetizing concession to Soviet policy. This was the acceptance of the idea that peace can be maintained by direct discussion at the high est level between Moscow and Washington. This is a big departure from our previous position. Mr, Nixon was no longer insisting that there could be no dis cussion at the highest level until there was some sub stantial agreement by the Fireign Ministers. But most important of aU he negotiated the exchange of visits, and thus he acquiesced in the idea of by-passing the multi lateral Foreign Ministers and indeed the multi-lateral sum mit meeting itself by bi-lat eral 'contacts between the United States and the Soviet Union. Thus Mr. Nixon did not in duce Mr. K. in . Moscow to make concessions about Ber lin and about Germany which Mr. Herter has been unable to obtain from Mr. Gromyko at Geneva. What Mr. Nixon did was to propose to Mr. K something much more inter esting and attractive than the deadlock over Berlin. This opened the way to direct ne gotiation on global problems with the United States. This has long been a prime Soviet objective, and in mak ing the objective attamable, Mr. Nixon was assured of a good reception not only by the Soviet government but also by the Polish govern ment. THE exchange of visits, ar ranged by Mr. Nixon, is a far-reaching and sensation al event. It is a deliberate change of diplomatic strategy by the Eisenhower adminis tration. This is shown by the fact that our allies have been consulted and their blessing has been obtained before Mr. Nixon in Moscow opened the door to a visit by Mr. K. Our allies and we have moved a long way since May. Why? No doubt because we have learned at Geneva that we cannot get an agreement at the price that, coUectively, we are willing to pay. At the same time, neither- the Rus sians nor the rest of us have DiGNrr AND Asm tnm riw 'Walter Lippmann ' RANK MORGAN HAIOLD SNODGRASS, FUNHAl D ROTORS DAY OR NfGhT apparently prepared to pro ceed by slow stages. - Whatever the merits of the Geneva talks, authoritative observers believe they "clear ed the decks' and laid bare the conflicting positions from which neither side is ready to budge at present. These conclusions provide the background to the next round of discussions in Mos cow and Washington. lippmann any appetite for a showdown over Berlin. They are ready. therefore, to try something else and are supporting a new strategy arranged by Mr. Nix on, which is to change the subject and to aUow both sides to back away from a showdown. , WHAT we have backed away into is a round of popu lar diplomacy which draws its energy from the popular feel ing everywhere that a nucle ar war must be avoided. For the time being at least, the professional diplomats and the old chieftains abroad have been pushed aside by the pol iticians who are far more "flexible" than the diplomats ever dreamed of being. Perhaps if the diplomats had been allowed by the old statesmen to be flexible enough to negotiate effective ly, tlfty would not have been pushed aside by the young politicians. Dr. Adenauer and Gen. de Gaulle have deflected Mr. Macmillan and they have held Mr. Herter in an unne- gotiable position. But they have been unable to hold the Republican party in an elec tion year. For their pain, they have Mr. Nixon to deal with, and Mr. Nixon is not only running for President but is running on a. very popular line, which is to avoid war by seeing a lot more of the Rus sians. Pr MOST respects, Mr. Nix on's television address in Moscow was self-respecting and well directed to the Rus sians who heard it. But on one important point, his ex uberance took him onto soft and dangerous ground. This was in the implications of what he said about co-existence: that co-existence is not good enough and that we -should have not two worlds but one world. The implica tions of this passage were that Mr. K. would or could not detach the Soviet Union from its interest in and - its support of the great revolu tionary movements in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This is not possible, and it will not happen. The Soviet Union may not, or iinost cer tainly will not, give direct military support to any of the various revolutionary move ments. But it will help them by measures short of war, and because of that we shall not be living in "one world" of like-minded nations but in at least two worlds of co-existing but competing rival na tions. . It is unwise to let exuber ance create illusions, and to let the best, which would be universal harmony, become the enemy of the modest good which may be practicable. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. REVERENCE CewlfnuM PHONE SP 2-8030
