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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.
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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
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