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MAIL TRIBUNE. MeJferJ, Or. Tuesday, Aug. 25, 1959 MedfordcTribune "Everyone ic Southern Oregon Reads fhe Mail Tribune" Published Dh11 except Saturday by 33 North fii St Ph SP 2-gl41 ROBi-RT W RUHL. Editor EZRB GR Advertising Manage GErALXJ LA I HAM Business MgT ERIC W UiN JR. Managing x.ditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRV CHIPMAJ) Teleg Editor RiCHAHD JHWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women Editor DALE ERiCKSPN Circulation Mgr An Indeoendent Newspaper Entered a second class matter al VedfoT'1 Orecon under Act ox March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bt Mai In Advance Cody 10c Dall- and Sunday 1 year $13 00 Daily and Sunday mos. . 8 0(, DaiK and Sunday 3 mos 4.23 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold MiU Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday I year 118 00 Daily and SunUsy 1 mo 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Casr in Advance Official Papor of City f Medford Official Paper ot daemon uonniy United Pres? International Full Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRtTJLATIOJI WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of- t K am Vnrk rlitnaffrt De troit, San Francisco. Lo Angeles. Seattle. Portland St Louis. At- lan'q vancouvei a i d NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL i ;hj Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. . 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 25. 1949 (ThuTday) Central Point approves a contract with Medford for joint use of the Camp White sewage treatment plant. W. J. Harms "fogs" Med ford's park to demonstrate the effectiveness of an insecticide. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 25, 1939 (Friday) Construction of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company's addition to house new dial central office equip ment for Medford is scheduled to begin next week. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column-(by Dick Applegate): -"On the first week of a new hat Arthur presents an incongruous picture-clothes by courtesy of the Western Jute and Hopsack mills, and a natty hat to crown the effect." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 25, 1929 (Sunday) The horse racing program for this year's county fair is completed. Scores of Medford residents journey to the Applegate to pick wild blackberries. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 25, 1919 (Monday) A score of Eagle Point resi dents make a trip to Union Creek for huckleberries. E. C. Faber of Central Point returns from a trip to San Francisco. 50 YEARS AGO Aug. 25, 1909 (Wednesday) Prof. C. H. Gilbert of Stan ford university arrives to sort out and classify Rogue river's piscine populace. Talent is hailed as the fu ture peach center of the north west. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct it superior? seven or eight is excellent; five of sis is good. li Which two South Ameri can countries have no sea coast? 2. Is pure water always soft water? 3. In Spanish countries is a midday nap called a siesta, or a fiesta? 4. What have the following in common: clove hitch, bow line, sheepshank? 5. Is the Balkan peninsula in Europe or in Asia? ' - 6. Of what country was King Farouk the reigning monarch? 7. What is the largest des ert in the world? 8. Which of these is largest in area-Australia, Green land, New Guinea? 9. What Carthaginian mili tary leader crossed the Alps with elephants in his army? 10. Complete the saying: "A word to the wise . . ." 1. Bolivia and Paraguay. 2. Yes. 3. Siesta. 4. They art knots. 5. Europe. 6. Egypt. 7. The Sahara. 8. Australia. 9. Hannibal. 10. ". . is suffi cient." ' APPROVES PAYMENTS Washington -DPD-President Eisenhower Monday signed into law a bill authorizing the payment of $5,387.98 to the government of Iceland in full ottiement of claims arising from accidental damages while U.S. troops were sta tioned there. The Frightened Magazine The American Mercury is the most frightened magazine we know. It is afraid of communists, mostly. It is frightened of almost anything appertain ing to communists in any form. Its current sweat is raised by the program of "cultural exchanges" under way between this country and the U.S.S.R. In an "advance proof" of a story prepared for the November issue of the magazine, we are warned to beware of this danger. THE danger, it appears, is generated because A easy-going Americans, in viewing the artists sent here by Russia, are apt to be hornswoggled into forgetting the threat that international com munism poses to this country. ' The theory, it seems, the Bolshoi ballet, for instance, one becomes en tranced by the performers, decides that they may be human beings after all, instead of genuine communists with horns and tails, and thus auto matically thinks that all communists must be hunky-dory. We rejoice that the frightened men of the American Mercury are not the policy-makers for the United States. THEY display the most appalling lack of con- fidence in this country, in its people, and in their ability to do a little constructive thinkng for themselves. Because we might like the music of a Russian composer, does it follow that we are to be taken in by the propaganda of a Khrushchev? The Mer cury appears to think so. It's the same sort of head-in-the-sand non sense that led us, in. World War I, to label sauerkraut "liberty cabbage" and to look upon a performance of the works of Beethoven or Wagner as somehow un-American. It is not only asinine, but it is craven, uncer tain and unimaginative thinking. I ET us grant the obvious to the Mercury, that " communism is dangerous. It is dangerous to us in the form of manpower, submarines, new land based weapons, and, most dangerous of all, in H-bombs and the missiles to deliver them. It is dangerous in its sometimes-successful at tempts to infiltrate and And it is dangerous that we run to the nearest hidy-hole whenever it is mentioned. Aren't Americans made of a little sterner stuff than the Mercury Aren t they able to distinguish between the naked threat of force or subversion, and the alternative of peaceful (or non-hot-war) competition? A ND are Americans so wishy-washy, so un- skilled, so inept and fearful, so subject to propaganda, that by taking one look at a ballet performance from Moscow, they'll swoon into the arms of Khrushchev? Buck up and get ahold of yourself, American Mercury. We refuse to believe stupid and impressionable And we do believe pride in its own contributions to the "cultural exchange contributions which might tend to dispel the Hollywoodish, impression of America far too prevalent abroad. We can despise communism without being afraid of it. Stop being so scared. E.A. Mercury and McCarthy Speaking of the American Mercury, that pub lication is today a far cry from the day when it was the vehicle used by at the boobs and stuffed scene. It now appears to be ultra, ultra far right the the others who would tie for progress and political promise m rea tape, security oaths, security clear ances, and all the rest of the spooky folderol of the police state. Its heyday, we hope, is past. It no longer is a much considered organ of opinion, and prob ably wields less influence, in its own field, than The Nation and The New Republic do at the other end of the political spectrum. McCARTHY, of course, is dead. In his case 1T1 we find it difficult to heed the admonish ment, "De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum" of the dead speak nothing but good. He capitalized on the fears and insecurities of Americans, and came close to turning us into a nation of cowards the kind the American Mercury would apparently have us become. Much will be written of McCarthy in the years to come. Much of it will be unbiased and non partisan. But it is probably too soon for such ob jectivity today, for his memory lingers. f)NE recent book, "Senator Joe McCarthy," by Richard Rovere, makes no pretense of objec tivity. Nor, indeed, does Charles A. Sprague, whose column reviewing the book appears else where on this page. Readers of this review should know that Mr. Sprague is editor and publisher of the respected Oregon Statesman in Salem, is a Republican, and is a former governor of the state. E.A. is that if one watches take over other countries. if we get so afraid of it gives them credit for? that Americans are so as you fear. that America can take H. L. Mencken to slash shirts of the American the spokesman of the neo-McCarthyites and up the American genius moderation and com- Dennis the Menace 7 j I OONT LIK0 6UTTERE0 CAKRORS, AN RUFF DONT" UKB 'EM, SO I tfAOtO PUT "EM NMy POCKET i Matter of Fact FLOWERS FOR THE HOST Washington-Nikita S. Khru shchev has now followed his acceptance of the President's invitation t o the White House with an open dis play of con tempt for his future host. There is no other way to read the new Commu n i s t 4osph aisoo aggression in Laos. The situation there can become very serious indeed, touching . off another Far Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the write? although "nder cer tain circumstances tne use ot a pen name ni initial for publica tion is pe-missible 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 Air Pollution Meeting To the Editor: I would like to thank everyone who came to the meeting on air pollu tion for attending. It would have been nice if the auditorium could have been filled to capacity, but considering the other activi ties going on and people leav ing for the week end, I think we had a pretty good turnout. Also, a very special "thank you" to Mr. William Dorn bach. Without his help and the time he spent contacting officials and interested per sons, our meeting would not have been possible. I enjoyed Mr. McQueen's talk very much. He expla'ned what their mill is doing to utilize their waste,, and in vited everyone to see their display at the Kiwanis Fair. It was very interesting to see the different types of residue and how they can be used. If all the mills were this progressive there would be very little problem. If other mills are doing the same thing, I think they should take it upon themselves to inform the public. Only through good public relations can the people understand mill - management problems and with understanding comes tolerance and patience, until the problem is solved. They would also avoid be ing unjustly accused of not caring about the needs or wants of the community. We are all for the progressive mill operators. But, for those who aren't-there will be no let up in our asking that they bring their operations up to date, and make an honest effort to alleviate the smoke and cinders coming from their burners. Mrs. Leonard Matheus, 1124 West 10th st., Medford. f Help Needed To the Editor: We have in our city of Medford a mother with six little children and expects the seventh one in less than a month, whose hus band is in the penitentiary, sentenced by Jackson county. Because she has not been here a specified time, all help has been refused her by the wel fare, by the Red Cross, by the Salvation Army. What kind of laws do we have and what kind of organizations do we support that refuse to help little innoncent children who would actually have starved, if a few God loving compan ion people had not helped them and are stiU doing it. It's a heavy burden on these few. But Jesus said what you do unto the least of these little ones you do it unto me. They are in need of food, clothing, bedding, a bed and linens, money for rent and utilities, and hospital ex penses. Mrs. Beulah Dusenberry, 721 East Jackson st., " Medford Phone SP 2-2439. Bv Joseph AIsop Eastern crisis of Quemoy-like intensity. If the Communist aggression is not repelled, moreover, all the neighboring countries -South Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand-will at once find themselves in danger. Nonetheless, the indication of Khrushchev's contempt for President Eisenhower and the nation he leads is probably the most disturbing feature of the very disturbing Laotian trouble. On this point, the facts speak for themselves. TN BRIEF, the President's announcement of the com ing Khrushchev visit was made on Aug. 3. Very nearly simultaneously, the attack on Laos began. The attack took the form of border-crossings from Communist North Viet nam into Laos by Communist infiltration units trained and armed for the purpose by the North Vietnamese. Such ob scure guerrilla movements in those jungle-clad mountains can hardly be precisely dated. Yet the major border cross ings quite certainly began aft er Khrushchev's mil-July ac ceptance of the President's in vitation, even if some oc curred before the public an nouncement. , The timing of this opening of the attack on Laos is ines capably significant. Yet a good many of the people around the President who had pinned their hopes on the Khrushchev visit, are still trying to escape the meaning of this timing of the Laos at tack. "It is Peking's enter prise, not Moscow's," they ar gue. ON THIS point, too, howev er, the facts speaks for themselves. The attack on Laos was hardly under way, when Khrushchev received the organizer of the attack, the North Vietnamese Com munist boss, Ho Chih Minh, for an extended state visit in Moscow. While Ho was in Moscow, an obviously planned series of statements was issued. First Ho's government in Hanoi blamed the trouble in Laos on the presence of a 150-man American mission to train the small Laotian army. Then Mao Tse-tung's government in Peking virtually threatened war unless the "U. S. military bases" in Laos were instanta neously abolished. Finally, Khrushchev's own govern ment in Moscow spoke out in clear terms, refraining from direct denunciation of the United States, but strongly supporting the North Viet namese - Chinese Communist position in Laos. From these facts, it may be possible to argue that the prime impulse for the attack on Laos came from Mao Tse tung. But whoever was the prime mover, it is certainly not possible to argue that Khrushchev was anything but a knowing, willing accomplice in the Laos enterprise. The Ho visit to Moscow and the subsequent Moscow statement are the clearest proofs of Khrushchev's active complic ity. Khrushchev's purposes can be variously interpreted. The Communist interpretation was given by a high official who told this reporter "It's the old tactic of the carrot and the stock." (When ' asked what was the carrot, he replied, "why the Khrushchev visit" which seems an unattractive sort of carrot!) KHRUSHCHEV'S aim per haps is to extract from the President in the White House new terms for Asia as well as new terms for Berlin. In this, it must be added, Khrushchev is likely to have the indirect help of the Brit ish and Canadian govern ments. Both are not merely summit-drunken but fixed in their idea as well that every thing in Asia will be rapidly Washington Report By William S. Whit HOPE IN LATIN AMERICA Washington -The United States now has sound hope for working its way out of a most a w k- ward situation in Latin America. We have been caught be tween the devil of "Yan kee imperial ism" and the rlgfn cpq n f white Castroism. Fidel Castro, the bearded revolutionary demigod in Cuba, has stirred up the whole Caribbean. Plots and counter-plots for and against this or that regime in Pan America has been hatched, sometimes on U.S. soil. Seem ingly comic-opera "invasions," involving only handsful of men but in areas where handsful are enough to over turn a government, have been popping up in Caribbean waters. Basically, our national in terest in all this is simply the maintenance of order and re sponsibility in this hemis phere. Ideally, too, we want to promote democratic re gimes - but not if these can be obtained only through out side aggressions by self-ap pointed bnngers of the true gospel, of the Castro kind. TTIOST OF ALL, we seek to -"A avoid any wide spreading of the possibly well-intention-ed irresponsibility of Castro ism. If this unintentionally assists in maintaining un democratic regimes, such as that of Trujillo in the Domini can Republic, this obviously is part of the price of non intervention as a doctrine. For the United States, poised on the brink of fateful cold war negotiations with Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union, simply cannot afford the risk of violent up heaval in this hemisphere. We cannot, now or later, act baldly and alone to keep the hemisphere peace, either with our own troops or through economic sanctions against the disorderly ones. That would be "Yankee im perialism,", indeed. And aU this sort of thing we dis- fixed up if we are just a little nice to Mao Tse-Tung. In any case, the contrast between this5 time and last time is horrifyingly strong. Last time Khrushchev talked with the President of the United States, in 1954, he paid for his ticket of admission with the liberation of Aus tria, and the dramatic though temporary restoration of nor mal relations with Yugosla via. This time, crude threats to Berlin paid for the ticket; and is soon as the ticket was in Khrushchev's pocket, Laos was attacked. No one who is not absolute ly flannel-headed can see in this pattern anything but a display of the most profound, unalloyed and arrogant con tempt. Whatever its sources, Khrushchev's contempt is a desperately serious political phenomenon. The sources need urgent investigation. But no search for sources' is afoot, no doubt because careful search would reveal a distin guished soap manufacturer pouring out soft soap, while still constricting the Ameri can defense efforts two years after the Sputnik, under strin gent orders from budget-obsessed higher authority. (Copyright 1959, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Retired Railroad Publicity Man Dies Oceanside, Ore.-flJPD-James L. Hays, 60, retired director of public relations for the Union Pacific railroad, died Monday following a heart at tack. Hays joined the railroad's advertising department in 1923 and came to Portland in 1927 as assistant advertis ing agent. He started his ca reer as a newspaperman and worked for the United Press in Lincoln and Omaha, Neb. Hays also had served as publicity director for the American Legion National convention, the Pendleton Round-Up, the Pacific Inter national Livestock exposition and the Oregon Winter Sports association. ANY MAIL FROM BARKER'S? New Book Sets Out To Prove McCarthy 'Bold Seditionisr' The late Joseph R. Me Carthy, a United States Sena tor from Wisconsin, was in many ways the most gifted demagogue ever bred on these shores. No bolder sedi tionist ever moved among us -nor any politician with a surer, swifter access to the dark places of the American mind." That is the first paragraph in a book "Senator Joe Mc Carthy" by Richard H. Ro vere Washington journalist. He then sets out to prove his thesis. Today McCarthyism seems only a bad dream, but it was real and intense while it last ed. The Wisconsin senator who terrorized the State de partment, held two Presidents captive, in Rovere's phrase, "or as nearly captive as any Presidents of the United States have been held," and who claimed and held the national stage from 1950 to 1954 was a political meteor. He flashed briefly, but nis eclipse was complete. He is fast becoming only a memory -and a bad dream. McCarthy was an opportu nist politician who managed to defeat Robert LaFollette, Jr. in the Republican primary in Wisconsin-LaFollette had left his Progressiv party to run again as a Republican and the Wisconsin conservatives, who had never ceased fighting him or his deceased father, compassed his defeat. In 1950, in the wake of the conviction of Alger Hiss, McCarthy rather accidentally stumbled avowed two decades ago in the good - neighbor policy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The only solution, there fore, lies in the collective ac tion' of the American repub lics themselves in support of states that will be at least responsible and, we hope, pro-democratic In tone. THIS SOLUTION has been precisely provided for in the recent decisions of the In ter-American Foreign Minis ters Conference in Santiago, Chile. The "Declaration of Santiago" amounted to a manifesto against revolution by export, along with a gen eral statement in favor of democracy as a way of life. What has been agreed upon in a nutshell is this: The Inter-American Peace Commis sion is now to be a genuinely strong agency able to act col lectively against any aggress ion by one country against another. It will keep strictly hands off in cases of truly local revolution. It is not to attempt to mix in anybody's internal affairs, not even to halt subversion so long as it is not subversion by way of outside attack. This is not an anti-Communist movement as such. It is simply a pro-responsibility, pro-public order movement. It is not an anti-Castro move ment except in the sense that anybody who carries irrespon sibility around Pan America wUl necessarily be a Typhoid Mary to the new collective security. Castroism is not re garded as communism; it is only regarded as disorder. rpHERE is sober belief in X very high quarters here that this new arrangement wUl really work. According ly, there is no present pros pect of Administration sup port for the establishment of a new Pan - American peace army under control of the Organization of American States. Some of long experience in Latin - American affairs, no tably Sen. George Smathers of Florida, are urging such a force. Vice-President Richard Nixon, among others, is un derstood to have encouraged Smathers in this proposal. The State Department is not hostile to it in principle. But the department is aware that the Latin Americans in gen eral are not ready to go quite that far. There is a Latin American fear that it might be pretty much a U.S. show. So the present intention is to depend upon the inter mediate way involved in the newly strengthened Inter American Peace Commission, which is a triumph for Secre tary of State Christian Her ter. Indeed, his first sortie into inter - American diplo macy seems to have been a considerable success. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) - on the "pay dirt" of "Com- mumsis in government." in a speech in Wheeling, Va., in February 1950, he asserted that the State department was "f uU of Communists." he used the figure 205, which . later underwent numerous changes -81, 57, "a lot." Challenged in the Senate on his charges he merely repeated them and amplified them when he found he had caught the ear of the public. But McCarthy never proved his case against a single Com munist in government employ. One of the cases he seized on was Owen Lattimore, a pro fessor in Johns Hopkins Uni versity who had been consid ered something of an expert on the Far East and Mongolia. McCarthy carted around with him bulging briefcases and shuffled many documents-"I hold in my hand .... ." but he never laid out the papers to prove his charges. The singular phenomenon was not just Joe McCarthy himself but the delusion he created in the public mind. The times were, ripe for his performance. Alger Hiss had been convicted of Commu nism. The Reds had overrun continental China-and Repub licans were eager for cam paign ammunition to use against the Democrats. They found it in the ultra-liberalism of the Roosevelt New Deal era and McCarthy ex ploited it with special refer ence to China - we "lost" China because of "Reds in the State department." Charging Truman appoint ees with being "soft on Com munism" McCarthy soon had Democrats cringing and many Republicans applauding, and political Neanderthals like Texas millionaires supporting him financially. Opposing him became costly business as Senator Tydings, Benton Lucas and MacFarland found out when they ran for re election. He had President Truman boxed in through his assaults on Secretary of State Dean Acheson, President Eis enhower avoided any clash with McCarthy, and in the pre-election campaign delet ed a passage praising General Marshall from a speech at the behest of advisers fearful of offending McCarthy. Secre tary of State Dulles virtually capitulated to McCarthy by letting Scott McLeod handle State department personnel matters. The Army nearly "surrendered'" to the impor tunities of McCarthy, but the latter's crackup came when he pressed the Army too far. There folowed the famous Army hearing in 1954 which provided more drama than fact, yielding no credit either to the Army or to McCarthy, McCarthy survived four in vestigations by four commit tees but the fifth inquiry was his undoing. In December, 1954 the Senate, under the lead of Sen. Arthur Watkins of Utah voted to condemn McCarthy for conduct con trary to senatorial ethics which tended- to bring the Senate into dishonor and dis repute. That virtuaUy ended McCarthy. The McCarthy phenomenon invites an analysis to find out how he gained such quick fame with so little to support it. A demagogue is not un usual even in America. Huey Long was one, but Long left a subst antial record of achievement in Louisiana in improved roads and 'better schools. McCarthy had no program other than exciting fear of Communism a dread enough spectre, but a danger already under control before he burst on the scene. Rovere offers this conclusion on Mc Carthy: "His talent as a demagogue were great, but he lacked the I Counsel With c Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phona SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. most necessary and awesomt of demogogic gifts-a belief in the sacredness of his own mission." McCarthy, in Rovere's opin ion, lacked conviction in the cause he exploited so shame lessly. But this rates him an unmitigated demagogue, a. pure political opportunist.- As such he surely has entered the gallery of political immortals in American history and I hope we may not soon see his like again. - Charles A. 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