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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUMI, M4fr4, Or. Thursday, Ne. 12, 195 MEDFORDtWTRIBUNX "Everyone t Southern Orecoa Reads The Mall Tribune- Published Dm1 except Saturday by Mi JJ FORD PRINTING CO 33 North rli St Ph SP S-S141 ROBI.HT W ROHL. Editor HERB GRE AdvertMn Manager GEP.ALD LATHAM Buainesa Ugt ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Mitor EAFrL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor -RICHARD JVWETT Sports Editor OIJVE ST ARCHER Women Edltot DALE ER1CKS'N Circulation Mr Aa Indeoendent Newspaper Entered as seennd class matter St Medfor Oreeon under Ae of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai In Adanc Copy 10c. Dall- and Sunday 1 rear $15 00 Daily and Sunday mos a 00 DallT nr Sunday 3 mos 4.23 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland. Central Point Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talnt and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily k) SunOcy 1 mo 1M Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms CasE In Advance Off!riJ Fpr of City Mfnt Official Paper ol Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices In Ne York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland St Louis. Al lan Vancouver B C. NEWSPAPIR PUtLISHERS Association NATIONAL EDITOtlAl 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 Not. 12. 1949 (Saturday) ''Steel industry moves to ward normal today after the most costly strike in steel history. Enthusiastic response made to the first day of the free chest x-ray survey being con ducted by the Jackson Coun ty Public Health association. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 12. 1933 (Sunday) Hitler attends funeral rites today for six men and a wom an killed in a bombing in which he was intended victim. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Citi zens poured up to Eugene over the week-end to see a football game, like they were getting out of dust bowl, and faster.. than they ever rushed to;' the,, polls on election day." 30 YEARS AGO Nor. 12, 1929 (Tuesday) New record low for all time reached on Wall Street mar ket. Mechancial trouble silences radio station XMED. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 12. 1919 (Wednesday) Trigonia Oil company is sued pamphlet reporting signs of oil in valley. Two federal judges hold prohibition law to be "un constitutional." 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 12. 1909 (Friday) . New two-room schoolhouse In Prospect has been complet ed at a cost of $2,300; classes start. The Mail Tribune will have no Saturday evening issue this week, but will publish Sunday morning instead. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er tan correct, is superior; seven or' ekjht is excellent; five et sis is good. 1. Professional football games run 5 minutes longer than do college games; true or false? 2. A fast pitched baseball travels to the cacher's mitt In about 310 of a second, 1 sec ond, or three seconds? 3. What was the first VS. regular coin to bear a por trait of a person? 4. What surname is borne by the largest number of fam ilies in the U.S.? 5. "Sunflower State" is the nickname of which State of the Union? 6. Edmonton is the capital city of which Province , of Canada? 7. Who wrote "The Cricket on the Hearth"? 8. Do fish have vocal chords? 9. Complete the saying, "The hand that rocks the cradle ..." 10. To what colors are par tially color blind people most frequently insensitive? Answers: 1. False. 2. 310 of a second. 3. Lincoln penny. 4. Smith. 5. Kansas. 6. Alber ts. 7. Charles Dickens. 8. No. 9. " . . rules lhe world." 10. Red and green.. Draft Re-Study Imperative It's past time for a complete re-study of the United States' selective service requirements. : The system still in use is little changed, ex cept in details of administration and the number of young men called, from the wartime draft which started about 20 years ago. Times have changed. Needs have changed. But still the old system continues. ' . : There are three principal reasons. for re-thinking the draft program. CTRST, it no longer meets the needs of the armed forces. In this nuclear and missile age, soldiers, sail ors, airmen and Marines must be more highly trained and technically competent than ever. . Even the wartime "GI" the infantryman must now be in many ways a trained specialist, for he handles weapons and equipment of ever increasing complexity and potency. A draftee, in for a two-year hitch, is hardly a highly trained, dedicated fighting man. OECONDLY, it is unfair in application. . In this country, for instance, there are prob ably several hundred draft-eligible young men in each one-year age level between 18y2 and 26, the draf table ages. And yet, with current draft calls, only four or five or six are called each month. Some are de ferred (quite properly) to complete their educa tion, either high school 'or college. A few get de ferments for dependency or professional reasons. But the few still are drafted while others, with equal eligibility, never are called into service. This is just plain not fair. THE THIRD reason a change is needed is be cause of the destructive influence the unfair ness and uncertainty of the draft has on the lives of young men just on the threshhold of their life "work. Consider, for instance, the plight of a young man, a recent college graduate, aged 22 years, who is now employed in a temporary job, and is seeking permanent employment. He has written to a number of firms, citing his qualifications (which are excellent), but honestly pointing out his draf t status. He says: "I am registered with county local draft board No. 1. "Currently the draft quota for the county is one a month. ' "During the past three months no one has been called because of volunteers for the draft. "No one is being called for physical examinations be fore the age of 22, and I will be that age on Jan. 7. "The clerk at the draft board says I am 13th on the list, but I have no idea how many of the men in front of me are draft eligible. For all I know, I may be. first on the list. "From all indications,.! definitely will not be drafted until February, but I have no idea how soon it will actually be. There is a possibility that I may not be called for a whole year, or not even be called at all. But neither you nor I can plan on tfiat. "I have decided if I am not hired by (your firm), I will probably go to work in the woods near home and then join up or volunteer for the draft to get this mili tary situation straightened out . . ." OERE IS A patriotic young man, perfectly will- ing to go if the armed forces need him, but with no way 'of knowing when, or if, lje will be called. His state of mind can be well imagined. He is, in effect, lost as a productive member of society until his doubts are resolved. And no one knows when this will be. Any prospective employer will think a long time before investing the time and money re quired in hiring a new employee under such cir cumstances." This is particularly true in a small company, where qualified employees are scarce, and the. training time is important. Losing an employee after three or six or nine months, or one or two years, is one drawback. An equally serious one is the obligation to find a replacement, knowing that in two years an em ployment obligation will be owed to the returning draftee. .v. . i IT IS A miserable situation, both for the young . man, and for the employer who genuinely wants to hire him, but cannot because of his ob ligation to keep his operation stable and produc tive. And it is not an isolated situation. It is true all over the nation, in every county and in every draft board, high school, college and university and in thousands of companies looking for bright young men to hire. No one is more aware of this situation than local draft boards, who are helpless to do any thing except follow the law and the policies. It is shameful, wasteful, unfair and unjust, and ought to be corrected at the next session of Congress, either by making the draft application fairer and more predictable, or by making serv ice sufficiently attractive to entice .volunteer career men to fill the ranks. E.A. Whence the Optimism? The respected Oregonian of Portland "en gaged in some optimism in its editorial columns the other day. It said: - - "The Reds (referring to the Russians in space explora . tion .and ICBM development) are not magicians; their only (sic!) advantage over the United States in rocketry is that they had the wit to start sooner and work harder than we did. Now that we have realized our error and are determined not to repeat it, we can be confident that the , gap between the two nations in space research can be -kept so small that it need not worry us." . There's only one trouble to this bit of Polly-anna-ism. Where in the world did the Oregonian get the idea that the United States has "realized our error, and is now out to recoup lost ground There has been mighty little evidence of any such determination from Washington, D.C. E.A. . Dennis the Menace 1 lir- I 'OPEN THIS DOOR! VA HEAR ME V Rockefeller, Nixon Differ on Few National Issues, Washington -(CQ)- What issues, if any, divide the pros pective contenders for the Re publican presidential nomina tion, Vice President Richard M. Nixon and New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller? It is not quite accurate to say there are none. But a careful search by Congres sional Quarterly of the rec ords of both men has failed to locate a single significant question on which they have taken flatly contradictory po sitions. Instead, the study turned up numerous differences of em phasis in their approach to public problems - any one of which could become the focus of their contest for the nomi nation. , Manyfof the seeming differ ences can be laid to the fact that Rockefeller has spoken as a governor, while Nixon has spoken as an official of the national administration. There are virtually no "in evitable" issues that will arise, for the simple reason that there are virtually no is sues on which the two men are deeply committed to dif fering points of views. Instead, each of them is lagrely free, as the campaign develops, to choose particular issues on which he wants to challenge his rival. Areas of Conflict Labor and taxes seem the most likely areas of 'conflict on the domestic scene, but there is no certainty they will be. RockefeUer has stated his "forthright opposition- to so called right-to-work laws. Nix on has never announced how he voted in the 1958 Califor nia right-to-work referendum. Nixon said the "tough" Lan-drum-Griffin labor reform bill passed by the House in 1959 was "very constructive" legis lation. At about the" same time, Rockefeller signed into law a state labor reform biU that did not go nearly as far as Landrum-Griffin in regula ting internal union affairs. Rockefeller's first action as governor in 1959 was to push through a sweeping tax in crease. He also has said he does not "see any chance for reduction of federal taxes" at this time. Nixon, on the other hand, has never been prominently identified with a tax increase; on the contrary, he has advo cated the use of selective tax reductions to combat reces sions and stimulate invest ments. But Nixon, like Rockefel ler, has said that tax-cutting must take second place to the financing of adequate military defenses, and both men favor shaping tax policies to pro mote economic growth. In the sensitive civil rights field, both men have identi fied themselves with the cause of attaining equality of opportunity for Negroes. Rockefeller has advocated more advanced legislation than Nixon-a ban on discrim ination in multiple-dwelling private housing, for example but this proposal ' was de signed for New York state, not necessarily the whole na tion. Foreign Affairs In foreign affairs, the two men are virtually indistin guishable in their advocacy of increased free world trade and economic aid to underde veloped countries. Rockefeller ' is . currently identified with a "hard" line on U.S.-Russian relations. He was pointedly cool to Soviet Premier Nikita "Khrushchev and has warned sharply of the "serious dislocations" in creased East-West trade could cause, if "conducted on Com munist terms." Nixon, on the other hand, is popularly identified with the new era of personal diplo macy, symobilzed by his own trip to Moscow- and Khrush chev's tour of the United States. ' SHE HEARD Mf But even in this field, the two aspirants are not locked in inevitable conflict. Rocke feller has stated his '"confi dence and trust" in the Presi dent's decision to invite Matter Of FOCf Bv Joseph Alsop HARDSCRABBLE DISTRICT Hongkong - This is the bi zarre story of Hardscrabble District in Big Remittance county in the w -it S year oi iiu ; nese Commu- nism's "great mJ leap f or- by Chief 1 Clerk '.Cheng. For. neces sary reasdhs, all the names are invented. -Iosph Alsnp But the sharp, witty young man I have called Cheng had just abandoned, his Chief Clerkship when I found him here. He had no inducement to invent or, ornament. He was closely questioned for six solid hours without falling into any discrepancy. And so I believe his tale, although it strikes-almost the note of the first part of Joseph Mitchell's classic, "When Fascism Came to Black Ankle Country." -Just to finish introducing him, Chief Clerk Cheng was a Fukien man the son of one of the home dwelling wives of the overseas Chinese, whose remittances to their families used to make up a big per centage of the local income. Being rich, mother Cheng had a large house. Being large, the house attracted Hardscrabble District's Party Secretary Li. By , grace of this eminent boarder, young Cheng got a job in Hardscrabble District's combined T?arty - and - govern ment office as soon as he fin ished school. TJERE five Communist ac tivists, with a staff of nine others, ruled over Hardscrab ble District's eight villages of about 50,000 people in all. Here Chief Clerk Cheng was first introduced to the glories of a full scale party effort, when the "blooming of the hundred flowers" led to the "anti - Rightist campaign of 1957. The year of the "great leap forward," 1958, opened aus piciously for Hardscrabble District with a brand new "anti-superstition campaign." In that flat part of coastal Fukien, the people have no where else to put their dead, so they have always buried them in tillable land. Now the grave mounds ' were to be flattened for tillage. Those who wished to keep their an cestors' bones somewhere else were graciously allowed to buy large pottery jars for the purpose, but no families that did not get remittances could pay the few cents the jar cost. "The people minded the graves being taken as they minded food being taken," said Chief Clerk Cheng. "But Party Secretary Li and his deputy both came from anoth er district - the Party Secre taries 'always do and Li had his target to fulfill." So the militia were ordered to force the desecration of the graves at gun-point. The unhoused bones were burned for fertiliz er. The local temples of the earth godlings were thrown down for good measure. And Hardscrabble plunged onward into its next high - powered campaign, to collect for the state all the thin gold and poor silver ornaments of the people. . ' Y THEN the spring was passing, and it was time for Hardscrabble District's mightiest contribution to the great leap, the grand cam paign to make iron and steel in the backyard. Even Party w y Soviet 'Weakness' Theme of De Gaulle's Theory; China-Russia Conflict Foreseen Bv PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor President Charles de GauUe of France, without saying so in so many 'words, has advanced the interest ing theory that Nikita K hrushchev's intense desire for a summit confer ence stems in part from weak hess. Phil Newaom To this, at least publicly, Khrushchev may be expected to take strong exception. Other leaders in the West also may not agree whoUy with De Gaulle's analysis, But since De Gaulle is rec ognized as an astute observer with a number of successes in his record and since his conclutions - offer another side to a question usually clouded by missiles, nuclear CQ Says Khrushchev to this country, and Nixon has warned that "we are not going to change Communist policy with a smile or a handshake." (Copyright 1959, Congressio nal Quarterly Inc.) Secretary Li was somewhat aghast when he got his secret instructions Hardscrabble had a little source of iron ore, so his target was set horribly high. But when he called the I people to the work, he boldly announced that they would "overfulf ill this target by 160 per cent." And nothing, lit erally nothing, was spared for this purpose from the first day when the County govern ment sent down its alleged ex perts to show Hardscrabble District how to build its own blast furnace. With bricks from the graves and ruined temples, the fur nace was painfully built. The generator of the District rice mill was seized upon, to drive the furance's fan. "Counter revolutionary" elements werej made to work for endless ex tra hours, cutting and carting the District's last . stands of wood for fuel. Doors, window frames, even house beams were added to the fuel pile. As an extra touch, the an cestor tablets were used to start the slow fire that con verted the wood into charcoal. Through all the daylight hours, most of the District's women dug ore from the ore source and cleaned it and broke it Up. Iron bedsteads from the rich-housed, door knobs and nails from the houses of the poor were all collected. For three months the people worked at little else in daytime. Thus the fields were mostly ploughed and seeded and cared for in darkness, by the light of lamps. "Even so," said Chief Clerk Cheng, "Party Secre tary Li was not really con tented. He never overfulfilled his target by more than 130 per cent." AND how was this target overfulfUled? At this question, Chief Clerk Cheng Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF TTHILE A BIG MUSICAL COMEDY was going through its W tryout period, the star thereof snatched a bite of lunch in a Boylston street beanery. Catching the arm of a fleeting waiter, he asked with de ceptive calm, "Isn't Bos ton the city where they threw the tea into the' harbor?" "It is," agreed the waiter. . - v "Aha," snarled the actor, hjs voice rising to a shout. "I sflggest that you now do the same with this coffee." ' Critic Gilbert Seldes has a fine idea for TV sponsors. "If one of them," says this dreamer, "would put his - v show on the air without a single commercial I'm sure he'd sell four times the amount of his product!" In Purdue they're claiming a coed who's so unpopular her phone doesn't even ring while she's in the bathtub. O 1959. by Bennett Cert, Distributed br Kins Features Syndicate. It's Time to Order! Your Personal Name Imprinted CHRISTMAS CARDS Over 40 Albums to Choose from f on the Balcony at ( t&rji 1 B00I(S ' GIFTS ' REC0RDS 1 1 weapons and vast armies, they are worthy of review. De Gaulle Outlines Theory De Gaulle's main points were these: . -Soviet Russia has not been able to win over the countries of Eastern Europe which it dominates by force alone. These populations, if given a free choice, would reject Communist control by an "enormous majority." -Moscow recognizes- that another world .war would mean "general annihilation." -The Communist regime in Russia is aging and has lost some of its initial drive, Most interesting of all, be cause of its timeliness, was De Gaulle's comment on re lations between Russia and its junior partner, Red China. Russia "can do nothing whatsoever in face of the yellow multitude which is China," he said, "a people numberless and poverty-ridden, indestructible and am bitious, building up by force of effort a power which can not be measured and looking around it at regions into which it one day must ex pand." To the Chinese, in De Gaulle's opinion, Russia is a white conqueror and there fore has no place in a doc trine calling for Asia for the Asiatics. ' . Much has been written and said in recent weeks of mounting speculations about Soviet and Red Chinese re lations. There are two schools of thought. . See Soviet-Sino Conflict One could be wishful thinking, held by those who see a possible Soviet-Sino Red conflict as an escape from burst out laughing. Tons of steel, tons of iron, and tons of cast iron were called for. The "steel" ingots were those made by melting down the bedsteads and the like, with not much mixture of other metals. The "iron" and "cast iron" were made by crude smelting of the half-cleaned ore and adding any other sub stance that had a metallic ring to it. When just about all the metal and all the fuel in the entire district had been con sumed in this manner, "Party Secretary Li said the great success must be celebrated. A parade was. formed to carry the output of the furnace to the County government office, with children with drums and banners leading the way." After that, "Party Secretary Li made another speech say ing we must now turn to even more important work; and the blast furnace was forgot ten, and so were the bits of, metal it produced. In fact they were still piled up outside the County government building four months later, when I saw them there." Thus Chief Clerk Cheng ended that part of the story. The great leap forward had already cost the Hardscrabble people their ancestors' graves, their bits of jewels, their temples, and a good part of their summer harvest, which was half-ruined by enforced neglect. But that was only the beginning, for Hardscrabble District had already become a "People's Commune" before the tragic-comic little parade to celebrate the blast furnace's simultaneous success and abandonment. (c) 1959 New York ' Herald Tribune Inc. pressures which have kept the West on edge for nearly 15 years of cold war. But on their side is the indisputable fact of Red China's exploding population problem and accompanying fact that these people must ex pand somewhere, or be erad icated. Russia's vast Asian holdings present a natural target. .. , On the . other side of the thinking are those who be lieve Russia and Red China are playing deliberately plot Drummond Reports (Waller Lippman is again traveling abroad. Roscoe Drumond reports from Washington in his absence.) 'STOP. LOOK; AND LISTEN' Washington - Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor has the credentials to raise the most sober and searching warnings abouj the state of the nation's defenses and to question whether it is either sensible or .safe to put nearly all our military eggs in the one big basket of Massive Retaliation. What ' General Taylor is saying - and I think he de serves to. be listened to atten tively by Congress and the country - is that it is urgent to take a new look at the now "old look" of the Administra tions whole defense program. He seriously doubts that it fits- today's world of nuclear stalemate and he contends that we are mired in a defense philosophy and a defense bud get which have been outdated by events and experience but which we have had neither the boldness nor the flexibil ity to change to fit the facts of life. rpHESE considered views JU cannot. I think, be Ilffnuy dismissed. General Taylor had a 4rilliant war record on the European front. He led the U.S. forces in Korea at the climax of that frustrating war. He has just finished serv ing four years as Chief of Staff of the. Army He has the knowledge which comes from filling the highest military posts and he has the indepen dence which comes from re cent retirement. He is neither out of touch nor constrained by official position. It seems to me that General Taylor is raising the right question at the right time in the right way. In his current series of three articles in "Look" magazine" afid in his forthcoming book, "The Un certain Trumpet," soon to be nublished' bv Harper's, he is writing with candor,. with di rectness, but without 'any per sonal rancor. He is deeply convinced that we are making a grave mistake jeopardiz ing our security, courting lim ited aggression, and weaken ing our diplomacy - by such massive reliance on the capa city for Massive Retaliation and that the instant need is to question critically where we are headed and do some thing about it. Here, as I grasp it from this magazine series and from his book, is the essence of General Taylor's "Stop, Look, and Listen" aDDeal to his col leagues, to Congress, and to the public: HE ARGUES . against the militarv stratesv of Dre- Darinff almost exclusively to deter and fight a general nu clear war, since ,these prepar ations will not cope wiin um itd war which he considers by far the greater possibility. In view of the tact tnat, as ass ing years have taught us much ' about the habits, n m We Ao-ms from th I Si RANK MORGAN - HAROU) SNODGRASS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT ted roles, placing the world in a huge squeeze between an avowed peace-maker and a trouble-maker, and profiting as the world is buffeted be tween the two. These also hold that Rus sia still is the senior partner, with a measure of control over its Chinese ally. In any event, whether Khrushchev talks from weak-? ness or strength, it seems best for the West to keep its pow der, dry. between the Soviet Union ahT the U.S., there is now a "mutual-deterrence" in nuclear power, he contends that it is extremely important to be able to cope quickly with lim ited aggressions since, if un opposed, they will undermine our whole world position and, if resisted with inadequate means, may expand into a general nuclear war we are most anxious to avoid. In other words, nearly ex clusive reliance on Massive Retaliation, without balanced strength to resist limited ag gression, is an invitation to., limited war which, he argues, we are not equipped to countr er. GENERAL Taylor cites what he deems three basic fal lacies of the doctrine of Mass ive Retaliation. 1 - The false premise that in any future aggression, par ticularly if Soviet forces were involved, we would use atom ic weapons but not be the first to use them. What, then, do we do if the enemy doesn't use atomic weapons? 2 - The false premise that weapons of mass destruction greatly strengthen our limited-war capabilities. But do they, since past experience in Korea and Indochina shows the greatest political reluc tance to employing atomic weapons? 3 - The false premise that atomic weapons reduce the need for manpower. General Taylor' holds that it is abso lutely untrue, that while man power in forward combat areas could be cut, atomic , weapons require more trained" personnel to the rear. .'. " rpo REPLACE the concept of A Massive Retaliation, Gen eral .Taylor advocates the strategy of Flexible Response, which would require strength ening of limited-war capabil ities so that we would not have to yield to local aggres sions through being able to." fight only the Big War." I am not qualified to say that General Taylor is unqual ifiedly right, but I am con vinced that he is right in rais ing these questions with the greatest energy and earnest ness so that we can make sure that we are not carried along on a wrong course by the mo mentum of past -decisions, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Postal Receipts In Portland Down Portland - (DPD U.S. postal receipts in Portland were down $36,661 last month over the same month in 1958. The drop was 2.91 per cent. Less airmail also was han dled in Portland last October than in October, 1958. If customs, likes and dislikes of our neighbors, respect them. Courlheut PHONE SP 2-8030 r