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1 MAIL TRIBUNE, MriforJ, Or. I Tliarsiav. Seat. 17.' 19S9 "Everyone la Southern Ores on Diaili Tha bail Tithwr Published Dnily except Saturday by . 33 North Cb St Pb SP 2-6141 ' KERB GREY Advertteing Manager Ofcl'AUJ LATHAM BUSUMSS aaar . CRIC W ALLEN JR Managing Kditor . ' . CARL. H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teles Editor RICHARD JWETf Sport Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women' Editor , PALE EKICKSON Circulation MT ' An Indenendent Newspaper - Enterea ms seraind elass matter at Mediorrt Oregon tinder Act f ; March 3. 1897 Bv Mai W In Advance. Codv IOe. DaQ-' and Sunday -1 year $19 00 i Daily and Sunday mo. Dailv and Sunday 4 mot. 4.29 , Sunday Only- One year $430 - By Carrier In Advance Medford. i Ashland, Central Point Eagle 9 Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill J Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv- ' Xail7 and Sunday 1 year $18 00 .. uany ana suncay l mo iji Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms cast m Advance I Official Paper of City ef Medford Official Papet of Jackson County United Press International Pun Leased Wire MEMBER OP AUDIT BtTREAU OP CIRCULATION , Advertising: Representative: flees in New York. Chicago. De troit, San Praneiseo. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland St. Louis. At lanta Vancouver BC. - NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION RATIONAL E0ITOIIAI Z a Z 1 I . r a Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County l-Hstory from the files of Tha Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40 nd 50 years ago. r 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 17, 1949 (Saturday) ' A memorial flower fund is a li:.uhj 4V' .sATl4aBi flnruape lor funerals of Camp White veterans' domiciliary mem bers. A demonstration of water skills from ballet to life-saving is held at the Medford YMCA. . , 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 17. 1939 (Sunday) A Medford unit of the Asso ciated Employers of Oregon, Inc., is reported in the precess of formation. From Arthur. Perry,s.-"Ye Smudge .Pot" . column: "It looks like war -was - just around the corner, where Prosperity has been for ten long years." . 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 17, 1929 (Tuesday) L A. Banks takes over op eration of the Medford News. Residents of Rose ave. are frightened by a low-flying plane. ' 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 17, 1919 (Wednesday) Local Elks plan to dedicate a new picnic ground on the Rogue river next Sunday. The move to make smoking a crime in Oregon gathers momentum. SO YEARS AGO Sept. 17. 1909 (Friday) 1 Hundreds of men are to be put to work in rushing con struction of the P and E rail road. Much copper raining activi ty along the Rogue river di vide is reported. What's Yoar I.Q.? Nine a ten correct is I even or eight is excellent; is t-perfocj I lent; five at us is good. 1. About whom did Bruce Bartin write ''The. Man No body Knows"? 2. Which State is nicknam ed "Keystone State"?.' 3. All years equally divis ible by four are Leap Years; true or false? 4. How far does the North American Continental Divide extend? 5. Can salt water be frozen? 6. The soujee of the poison that Socrates was condemned to .drink is supposed to have been what? 7. In what sport is the term slalom used? 8. How many ciphers must be added to the figure one to represent one quintillion? 9. Tripe is obtain from cat tle, swine, or poultry? 10. In what town did John Brown's insurrection take place? Answers: 1. Jesus. 2. Penn sylvania. 3. False. 4.' Arctic Yes. 6. Hemlock. 7. Skiing. 8. Eighteen. 9. Cattle. 10. Harpers Ferry. " Kennedy's Oregon. Itinerary Incomplete . A V iWw committee for Sen. John Ken nedy (D-Mass.) said Wednes day that although the dates of his November visit were set, the .itinerary was not completed.. . The senator will be in Ore gon Nov. 6 through the 9th. A tentative visit Oct. 20-21 also is planned. , DAPtianri iiikij ine ureKun Ethics of Public Debate . This is being written Wednesday's election on the consolidation of the Talent and Phoenix school districts became known. And this is not to and cons of consolidation although it seems to us that the advocates side than did the opponents. But both before yesterday's election, and prior to the similar election last May, it seems to us that there was a lot of misinformation, packed in emotion and being tossed around. . 1X0ULDNT it be wonderful if the American T " people could conduct their affairs with sweet reasonableness; ..... ' That probably is too much to expect, for whenever a public controversy arises, the emo tions get involved in the debate where facts and thought, and orderly debate, should govern. Differences of opinion are both understand able, and, to an extent, desirable. Oftentimes each side is partly right in the threshing out of of the matter become proper solution. . DUT challenging people's motives, casting per sonai aspersions, ana attempting to sway votes on an emotional basis by last-minute tactics are something else again. (One is reminded -of George Bernard Shaw's remark, "Mankind, being for the most part in capable of politics, accepts vituperation as an easy and congenial substitute. ) As to the circuit court complaint filed regard ing the school dispute, again we say nothing as to its merits. But its timing it was filed two days before the election makes it appear. to be a de liberate attempt to swav the outcome of the election. THE realities of the situation indicated that the Phoenix and Talent or later, will be reorganized or consolidated, one way or another. Yesterday's election may or may not have accomplished But whatever the outcome, it is to be hoped that school patrons in tha areas involved will accept the results in : good grace, and . then pro ceed to work for the betterment of their schools without the bitter dissents and unmannerly dis putes which have marked the discussions and elections thus far. E.A. , " " . " 'Didn 't Know it Was Loaded9 The often-tragic phrase, "I didn't know, it was loaded," is too well known to need explanation. But the biggest "I didn't know it was loaded" story we've heard lately, was about the fighter pilot whose plane," unknown to him, was armed with missiles, and who as a consequence. t The pilot who did later called himself "the world's biggest knot head," and we're inclined to agree. , DUT the point is not that one pilot made a too- cursory inspection of his plane on one flight. The point is that such a thing could happen at all. It tends to lend point to Congressman Charles Porter's warning that, in an age of H-bombs and missiles, it is within the realm of possibility that a war could get started by accident, r Humans are fallible. The pilot (a lieutenant colonel, by the way no inexperienced kid) proves that. If a plane-to-plane missile, despite all pre cautions set up by the Air Force, could be fired, shooting; down a f riendlv is there that a ground - to - . ., ... 1 . missile wim a iiyuiogen waiiieau, caimuu ue sim ilarly fired by accident? . - THE present leaders of the nations of the world agree, if on nothing else, on the fact that war today would be unthinkable. . They speak from knowledge, of the weapons which are stored in the world's arsenals. They know that, once unleashed (whether on purpose or by accident makes no difference), these .weapons would end civilization as we know it, and might well end life, human and otherwise; on this shrunken globe. They know "the gun is loaded." This, basically, is what is behind the Eisenhower-Khrushchev exchange of visits. It is the reason that even the most provocative incidents have gone without reprisals. And it is what the saber-rattlers and super patriots choose to ignore when they demand, either explicitly or implicitly, that we stand up and fight. . DATRICK HENRY once remarked "Give me liberty or give me death." In the context of the times this was bold, cour ageous and patriotic. And it still is. But those who cite his declaration as applying to international relations today ignore the fact that our choice is not between liberty and death not yet, anyway. " The choice is between continued life for the world, and death for the entire race. If we are smart enough, bold enough, work hard, enough, and are patient enough, there is no reason why we cannot continue living-and in freedom. - But one of the preconditions to this is that the guns be unloaded and the planes disarmed. On both sides. E.A. before' the outcome of . comment about the pros had more logic on their coated with bitterness, and partly wrong, and the differences, the "facts known, thus permitting a school districts, sooner this. shot down a fellow pilot the unintended shooting plane, what guarantee ground, or air-to-ground i i j. -L : Dennis the Menace USTBH, MflPGA&T. IFXPUSty 'OW-OltiK' ASAH ... Matter of Fact iuoP THE WHITE TZAR Washington On a gloomy evening in Moscow in Feb ruary, 1956, with the doors of tne pompous Kremlin Hall locked against all outsiders. gmi Nikita Sergey g V ' III IUU - chev deliver ed the most ' s e n s a t ional speech of our times to the JostDb Aisno i w e n 1 1 etn Congress of the Soviet Com munist Party. This speech attacking Josef Stalin's memory marked a critical stage in the career of the squat, vital, ruthlessly en ergetic heir of Stalin who is now our guest by virtue of his crude threat to our posi tion in Berlin. In intself, more over, this Krushchev speech became a powerful force in modern history, leading direct ly onward to the change in Poland, the tragedy in Hun gary, and much else besides. Rereading the speech, with its unadorned record of Sta-: lin's Byzantine cruelty, su spicion, treachery, and self deification, is like experienc ing a walking nightmare. But now that Khrushchev is in our midst, grinning, back-slapping, orating, and hand-shaking like any backwoods candidate for Congress, it. is worth experi encing the waking nightmare once again. For the Khrush chev speech unmasking Stalin also unmasks Nikita Khrush chev. - '.. . . - :. rIE Khrushchev thus un masked . is by no means the monster that Stalin is shown as being. Here . is a man, to be sure, unrelenting ly and. ruthlessly ambitious for power. For did he once protest against the endless, blood-drenched horrors that he so plainly records? Only once, is the. answer, when Stalin's egotism was about to condemn an entire Russian Army Group to destruction by the Germans, in the fight for Kharkov. - And while all Russia ran with rivers of innocent blood, did not Khrushchev himself rise higher and higher in the hierarchy of power? Of course he rose while others perished, is the answer, i be cause he danced the gopak, and did his assigned tasks without protest, and com plied in all things with the tyrant's, whims. SUCH, one must remember, was the training and for mation of the President's lat est dinner partner. If Khru shchev is not a monster , (and you will not think him so if you reread the speech), it is because he has a kind of earthy pragmatism, a rough humor, . a knack of human contact, which somehow sur vived the dark, Byzantine years. He has too (again the speech shows it) a powerful, clear, and orderly, mind. And this mind is, inspired by an in tense and burning Russian pa triotism, which positively glows out in the passages on Russia's suffering and victory in the last war. But the main thing the fa Power Lines Seen Inadequate Soon Ithaca, N.Y. -TOPD- Present estimates of America's elec trical power needs indicate that within 10 years most of the power lines serving metro politan areas will be inade quate. Cornell University research ers say they are looking for a type of cable that will bring more"electric power to con sumers at less cost. , , --. One such system being de veloped could supply a city the size of Toledo, Ohio, plus Grand Rapids, Mich., through a single circuit consisting of three cables, the . university said. r A V ;7 ' mous speech reveals has to do, not with Nikita Khrushchev's character, but with his be liefs and outlook. The very words that unmasked' Stalin, in fact, also show Stalin's un masker as a devout and con vinced Stalinist. For 'it must be understood that the famus speech con tains no word of criticism of Stalin's basic policies. The fearful decision of 1929, to plunge the people into abject misery, in order to industria lize the state more rapidly; the conscious massacre, in the early '30s, of something like 5,000,000 simple peasants the most enormous human hecatomb ever offered to the power of any state on earth; the constant, grim totalitarian tyranny of the state over the people's lives; the hideous sacrifices - of the immediate post-war years," solely im posed to finance Sputniks and Luniks all this the speech approves and holds to be "positive," , while of course passing over the means that Stalin used to attain his tow ering ends. : STALIN is criticized, not be- cause ne was a swumsi, but because he was a bad Sta linist. The fate of the Rus sian people is not deplored What is deplored and de nounced, rather, is the fate of the. Communist hierarchy, of the Soviet ruling class, when Stalin's egomania and suspi cion had became obsessive. The years of the peasant mas sacres are passed over. But the years of the party's purges. 1937-1938, are exam ined at terrifying length. In addition, the post-war purges in-" the hierarchy are more lightly touched on; and there is a . long attack on Stalin's war-time leadership, with a bow in the direction of the then-useful, now-destroyed Marshal Zhukov.- Such is this - extraordinary document, which holds the main keys to the mind of Ni kita Khrushchev, It presents Stalin as a "Black Tzar," in the Russian phrase as a ereat ruler, a mad, inhuman genius like Ivan the Terrible, whom the Soviets have offi cially rechristened Ivan the Great. It reveals Khrushchev's ambition to be a "White Tzar" a ruler like Peter the Great not much less truly terrible than Ivan, even more danger ous than Ivan to Russia's enemies, but not mad, not in human, not death-loving. In stead life-loving as well as power-loving. Such, in fact, is jNimta Khrushchev, as the dead boys of Budapest and poor cheated Zhukov, and many other witnesses mutely testi fy. In dealing with such a man, far more will be needed than - good will, good inten tions, and a belief. in a bal anced budget (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- C'RITIC PERCY HAMMOND once dismissed a star who per- ferred the bottle to the footlights with "So-and-so repeated this performance so often he now can play it in his sleep which is what he did last night." Another distinguished critic, George Oppenheimer, is the author of a play called "Here Today." One of its scenes, was on a bathing beach. The producer sent away to the seaside for 40 tons of sand - and then the opening tryout was sched-" uled for Atlantic City. "That," commented How-' ard Dietz, "is what I call carrying sand to Atlantic City." ...... - Advices Pat Kraft: ;.- "II you don't want stage fright, At least not for ages, - My system is simple: . Just stay off the stages." '. 0 1339. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kiss Feature Syndicate Despite Warnings, Optimism Seen Rising Over Outcome of Ike-Khrushchev Talks By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor , Despite all notes of warn ing, there' seems to be on all sides a - rising note of opti mism that the talks between P r e sident Ei- sennower and X"? Tl Soviet Pre mier Nikita "m vjv Z n..-M if. aiuaiy will herald the be ginning of the end of the cold w a r. Official Phil Newsom Washington seems to have maintained its equilibrium. Many newspaper editorials have pointed, out that on the basis of Khrushchev's record alone, any broad meeting of the minds seems possible. k-s.-x: v.- . Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE MOON SHOT In choosing this moment to shoot the moon, Mr. K has taken, we must presume, a calc u 1 a t e d risk. For among the dangers of his visit the great est apart from a pos sible accident - is that noth ing will come of it all, that the mountain will have labored and brought forth a mouse. In signalling his arrival by such a spec tacular scientific and techno logical triumph, he has to think' of his departure, and whether his visit, which has started so big, is to peter out at the end. . If one could feel sure that Mr. K. has realized what the moon shot is as propaganda in the present situation, it would be reasonable to as sume that he is coming here with something important to say. After such a crashing overture, the way has been prepared for something more than the Khrushchev - Nixon dialogue at the Moscow Fair, or an oral presentation of Mr. Gromyko's speeches and dip lomatic notes, v-;.. The overture promises to prepare the . way for some move ' which inaugurates which does not throw cold water upon, serious negotia tions. . ' IlfHILE CONCEIVABLY " may be the case, I find it hard to believe that Mr. K, has given such importance to the visit if he does not have some serious business in -mind, Mr. K: is-nobody's fool, and he cannot be" deluding him self with the fantasy that that there can be any marked change in the ' American atti tude towards the cold war without a change of substance in some of the critical issues of the cold car. There is no more chance of his beguiling and seducing us with speeches and gestures than of our con verting him to the Declaration of Independence and the BiU of Rights with the sight of supermarkets or what have you. In the end everything will denend on whether in his private talks with the Presi dent and his closest advisors, a way is found to continue the talks when the President goes to Moscow. The public hullabaloo will be interesting to watch. But in the absence of serious talks, what Mr. K. thinks of the U.S A. and what the American people who see him think of Mr. K. will no more change the course of his tory than the moon shot has Stop Mo 1-17 Walter Lippmann "Yet the optimism persists. Outside the United States, it is especially notable. In Britain, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan bases part of his chance for success in the forthcoming general elec tions on the fact that he went to Moscow first and thus can lay claim to establishing the groundwork for the present Eisenhower-Khrushchev meet ing. Float on Clouds - United Press International dispatches from Moscow tell of Muscovites floating on rosy clouds of anticipation, n UPI correspondent Robert J. Korengold reported: "Soviet citizens seemed to be sure that Khrushchev's trip and the return visit of Presi dent Eisenhower were steps Lippmann changed moon. the course of the IN SAYING all this, I do not mean to suggest that the talks will be serious only if Mr. K. agrees with us. The essense of the stalemate about Germany is that there can be no German settlement, and not even an agreed truce, un less a new formula however limited and provisional - is introduced into the deadlock. There is some reason to think that we, in company with the British, would ex amine carefully and with an open mind a new formula. As the Soviet Union has the dip lomatic initiative in the Ger man question, the new form ula will have to come from Mr. K. It cannot come from President Eisenhower who has to think about his conti nental allies. . ' (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. GomwicMiMS Letters to the Editor must bear tha name ana' address of the writer. although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia' for publication is permissible. Tha .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 Appreciates Police To the Editor: Today some thing terrible happened to me. ' While I was taking a- piano lesson, my bicycle was stolen. I , went back to my piano teacher in tears and in 10 minutes there was a police man there to ask me some questions about my bike. I appreciate Medford's po lice force and I just hope that everyone else does, mat s why I am writing this letter, In less than three hours that same- police officer brought my bike to my house. The police watch over our homes when we are away, They come at once whenever we call them, whatever the occasion is. They are always kind and polite to us. This is my way of thanking the Medford police depart ment for the nice things they do, all the year thr6ugh and for being such nice friends to us all. Bruce L. Stewart, (6th grade) 1817 Siskiyou blvd., Medford. Candy Sale Success To the Editor: We would like to thank everyone for the kind ; reception and support that was given our candy sale You have made it possible for us to give $243.52 to the crippled Children's Hospital School m Eugene. Children from all over Ore gon attend this school. Anyone wishing more information can call Marjorie Peterson at NO- 4-1748. All chapters of Epsilon Sig ma Alpha in Oregon help sup port the school, and last year gave $11,549.91, and with your generosity we expect to donate more this year.. , Epsilon Sigma Alpha Alpha Lambda 616 Betty Harrison (Corresponding Secretary) - - Potatoes and Famine To the Editor: Fawning courtiers were puzzled when once a King of. i ranee ap peared at court dinner with a potato flower boutonniere. All seated, he remarked: "This evening a soup of what you all, a week ago, would have said 'poisonous.' If it be poi sonous, let us die now, instead of by the mob." All present knew hungry masses were murmuring against excessive taxation, yet ostentatious lux ury at court. The King then said: "The potato flower has the same form as that of deadly night shade. Because of, this, men supposed New World's potato should be grown only for ornament. One of my sub jects, chemist Parmentier, convinces me, from his own toward increased cooperation and peace. "The ; difference between the atmosphere in Moscow to day and at the height of the Berlin crisis a few short months, ago was breathtak ing." Since the sentiments of the Soviet man-in-the-street large ly are under control of the state, his present feeling of optimism obviously has been whipped up by the state. And that should constitute a real warning against over-optimism among the Western nations. Khrushchev has taken out a sort of double-indemnity in surance. V If a better understanding does develop, it wil have been accomplished by Khrushchev, the man of peace. If disap pointment is the only outcome, it will be because the war planners of the West once again have blocked interna tional Communism's drive to ward world accord. . Major Issues Discussed Basically, Khrushchev must come to the United States with three things in mind. They are Germany and the question of Berlin, disarmament and increased U.S.-Soviet trade. Eisenhower already has an nounced the West will not abandon two million West Berliners. Since it is unlikely the Communists will give up theu- bargaining point on Ber lin, the best that seems like ly is a stalemate. Disarmament presents a pos sibility, in that East and West might come together on the point of an inspection system connected with a ban on nu clear tests. But so far as aban donment of Western ' bases around Russia is concerned, there is no chance at all. So far as trade is concern ed, the Soviets principally need our help in such indus tries as chemicals and heavy goods. The Soviets recognize neither copyright nor patent laws. Give them one machine and they can produce thou- the case. . . eating of its tubers, this plant not only is not poisonous, but is highly nutritious. This man has wisdom far beyond most of you here tonight. His ear is close to the ground. He grasps that we near a bloody revolu tion, preventable by food. Po tatoes are grown as a garden flower throughout France. We shall save their 'eyes for a muchly-expanded new crop, The rest of them shall be eat en. You tonight will have some in what I have honored with the name 'Potage Par mentier'." The King was shrewd. The court circle next day wore potato - bloom boutonnieres. Within a week, shopkeepers bid against each other for a single boutonniere flower. That winter the potato saved the dynasty. Next year saw crops from the English chan nel to the Pyrenees, from Brit tany's teapot tip, across France, to Mont Blanc. Will it not pay to also "re duce U.S.A.'s biological illit eracy?" C. M. Goethe, Seventh and J sts., Sacramento 14, Calif. His '.... J--,T-'-' 't?'' ':f!l,fv e wfjf f Wmpsm v 0v&& - A Aot fron WANK MOtOAN - H AX 010 SNODGHASS, FUNHAl DSSCTOB DAY OR NIGHT SRI sands. U.S. industry won't buy that either. In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: Premier Nikita Khrushchev, beaming, waving his hat and gesturing to President Eisen hower with his hands, arrives for a fateful 13-day visit that could turn the course of the cold war - for better or for worse. . ; WHAT DOES he want? . " That's a tnncrh nimctinn o It prompts other questions. ; VUHY DID HE take such " meticulous pains to land a Russian rocket on the moon on the EVE of his visit'to us? Suppose I'm coming to visit you. Suppose, before starting, snap a six-snooier arouna my waise and go out in sight of all the world and stage an exhibition of how fast I can draw and how straight I can shoot. What would you think? - , ' - "W"OW ONE from Moscow: The Russian people were so sure the trip would end the cold car that their excite ment and almost PASSION ATE HOPES reached near hysteria by the time his plane took off for America. Russian newspapers have warned that the trip was only a beginning, but to Russians it MEANT PEACE. SUPPOSE it doesn't mean peace? What will happen then?. Will the collapse of their passionate hopes for peace fill the Russian people with ha tred of US? Or will it disil lusion them as to their own leadership? There are so many ques tions. t A FINAL ONE from Wash ington: When President Eisenhower met Premier Khrushchev at the bottom of the ramp, a red carpet was rolled out, a 21 gun salute was fired, an honor guard snapped to attention and the first of eight bands began to play. But aU the pomp and cere mony still left hanging the question of how the man in the street would greet Russia's leader . --. on his - parade. . into Washington and his transcon tinental tour of our country. . HW SHOULD we act? r The answer is simple. He's a guest. He was INVITED here. As an invited guest, we owe him courtesy. Clear back when Neanderthal man invit ed another Neanderthal man into his cave, he acted hos pitably. He shared his food - with his guest. Down through the ages, that hasn't changed. 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