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r i MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Friday, Dee. 18, 1959 MEDFOWHiWrEIBUWB "Everyone Hi Southern Oregon Reads The Mali Tribune" Published Dtii except Saturday by MiJJFOrtn PRINTING CO S3 North tit St Ph SP 2-Ml ROBi.P.1 W RUHL Editor KEKB GRE Advertitfre Manager GEPALD LATHAM Business Mr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Urtitor EAf(L B ADAMS. 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Vancouver B C ZSal NEWSPAPER i PUBUSHEIS "ASSOCIATION NATION At EDITORIAL ASfebcfcAThQ Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30." 40 and SO years aflO. 10 YEARS AGO Removal of U. S. deputy marshal from Medford to Klamath Falls is under1 con sideration by department of. Justice. Copco's Toketee falls power generator, dedicated last Thursday, is first of eight units to be constructed. 20 YEARS AGO . Crew of German battleship, Graf Spee, scuttle ship out side of Montevideo harbor. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "This week end it seems, would be a good time to launch the 1940 Christmas shop early cam paign." SO YEARS AGO Dec 18, 1929 (Wednesday) Federal building at Ashland among those planned in state. Valley orchardists to spend $30,000 during coming year for planting pear trees and Installing spray systems. 40 YEARS AGO Dec 18, 1919 (Friday) Drill for Trigonia oil well -to be in city in few days. Price of food up 10 per cent In Oregon over last six months. SO YEARS AGO Dec. 18, 1909 (Saturday) Plans are under way for $125,000 Catholic hospital. in Medford. . Ashland grocers in dispute with creameries over poor quality butter. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; fiva at is is good. 1. Is the outside of a sphere concave or convex? 2. Alligators are hatched from eggs; true or false? ' 3. Is a chamois a bird, a fish, or an animal? 4. Who or what are the Hopi? 5. In music, what sort of Instrument is a tympan? 6. Name the author of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." 7. Since 1878, has the popu lation of the United States been less in any one year than the year previous. 8. Are Greece and Turkey members of the North Atlan tic Treaty Organization? . ' 9. What is the "distaff side of a family? 10. Is the principal grain crop in Kansas rye, wheat, oats, or corn? Answers: 1. Convex. 2. True. 3. Animal. 4. U. S. In dian tribe of S.W. 5. A drum. 6. Robert Louis Stevenson. 7. No. 8. Yes. 9. Female branch. 10. Wheat. North BendMair Hurt in Collision Biloxi, Miss.-UPD-James D. Bell, 20, North Bend,- Ore., was "recovering satisfactor ily 'in Keesler Air Force base hospital today from injuries suffered in an automobile ac cident. Bell was a passenger in a car which collided with an other Dec. 6 four miles east of Gulfport, Miss. No one was killed in the accident. -.. Bell is stationed with ..the 3380th supply squadron r at Keesler. -.' The American Paradox "What a mixed up society!" laments the Ore gon statesman of Salem. It is, too. Here's what the Statesman has in mind: "We provide youngsters with lessons in crime on television. Then we restrict the teaching of moral ethics in schools if they are tied to a religion. We pro vide countless activities for children to drag them out of their homes, and then ask parents to spend more time with them. "We rant about their irresponsibility, but then we grant them full use, at age 16, of one of our most lethal weapons, the automobile. . "To paraphrase a recent quip, anyone who thinks he has an answer to the situation just doesn't under stand the problem." IF WE think the younger iiuw vaii we uieuiic tuciii, wucji uie uiuci gen eration eveiy day confesses to even greater con fusion We preach freedom and liberty in the midst of a society which demands conformity in think ing and action, and which reserves its severest strictures for those who hold their consciences inviolate. We prate of freedom of religion, and then abuse those who take religious freedom seriously enough to make an issue . We boast we are a and progressive nation, the taxes and chanties means to put chanty and We brag of the Declaration of Independence, which says "All men' deny some 14 million of their color. IITE DEMAND "better dren, then vote down school budgets and bond issues. We hold human life thousands on the highways. We build a tradition at Christmas time, and then turn it into a Roman carnival of spending, drinking and commercial! zation. We deplore the condition of the people in un developed nations, then program. We boast of our science and technology, then when Russia surpasses us our underpaid scientists teachers and viciously demand why. . AMERICANS, in short, are inconsistent, and iTrr. oil litro in f Vi a TYiirrcf rs-P rnncf nrf on4 nfii nal paradox. We are a nation which pays a teenage cater- wauler more than the States. We spend more on liquor and cigarettes than on education. - We spend more for research into the cause We pile up Diiiions Eluses while half the ungry. It is any wonder that confused? Or that foreign nations view us with wonder and dismay? E.A. A Brush With Death Often it happens that gloomiest about things, something happens to restore our faith in humanity in general and peo ple in particular. Just after the pessimistic piece immediately above was written, we received a telephone call from an old friend of ours injured but intact, from death. Here he was, in the discomfort if not actual pain, and he took the trouble to telephone to repeat a complimentary reference he had heard. "IXE WERE pleased and touched. - To cover our embarrassment we asked alsout the accident in which he escaped death by the narrowest of margins. H-? described it in some detail, then added a comment to this effect: "You know, they say that when you're drowning, your whole life flashes through your mind. This didn't exactly happen to me, but it's amazing how many things you can think of in a few seconds. "Anyway, since I didn't cash in this time, I've got to thinking that until I do cash in, I'm going to devote whatever skill and energy I have to doing the things I believe should be done in this world. "It is amazing how coming close to dying can change your attitude toward life." THOSE weren't his exact words, but they con " vey the idea he was expressing. In a world so full of woe, and unfilled needs, and unsavory contradictions, men of good will who give their time and energy and skill to the things they believe are right and just and good are badly needed. There are many who do feel an obligation to their fellows. And because this is true, one does not alto gether despair for the nation and the world, but, rather, one hopes for an increase in this band of men who hold that service to their fellow man is the highest calling of all. E.A. Department of Correction and Amplification : The Crater Lions club (Bless 'em) has already agreed to provide a wading pool at the new West Side city park a project suggested here yester day as an appropriate "living1' memorial for the Veterans Allied Council. The principle is un changed however; a usable memorial is more worthwhile than a tomb or monument. E.A. generation is confused of it. charitable, "Christian" and then complain about which are the necessary progress into effect. are created equal," then citizens equality because education" for our chil- sacred, then slaughter of love and good feeling protest our foreign aid in one field we turn on and technicians and - President of the United cosmetics than we do for and cure of diseases. 01 dollars in iood sur- world's population goes youngsters today are just when we get the who recently escaped, a nanow brush with hospital, in Considerable Dennis the Menace VOU SfILL -A SHAVHj Matter of Fact Bv Joseph THE "COMMENDATORE" Paris - The giant, myster- ious, and glacial figure of Charles de Gaulle towers over the . Al- v$ 3 v. c 41 C M MA here, rather in the awe-in spiring man ner of the statue of the C o m m enda- tore in Moz- art's "Don G i ovanni." A Joseph alsop good many even fear that de Gaulle will end by dragging the Western alliance down into ruin, as the statue of the commander, come to life, ended by drag ging Don Juan down into hell. The factor is excessive, yet it begins to be urgent to pen etrate the mystery and to see the motives of the man him self. The best clew perhaps lies in de Gaulle's habit of Speaking of himself some times in the first person and sometimes in the third. In his superb memoirs of the last war, this peculiarity is carried so far that a single sentence describes a crowd cheering Charles de Gaulle" and "taking my hand." A friend once asked him to explain this strange gram matical construction. He re plied "simply that the people in the crowd were not cheer ing de Gaulle the individ ual. They were cheering the image of Charles de Gaulle which had come to stand for France's hope and France's freedom. Hence the third per son in this passage. But the hand they shook belonged to Charles de Gaulle, the indivi dual, all too human man. Hence the first person in this passage." i T HAD BEEN a great and humbling shock, de Gaulle continued, when he, a simple, Brigadier General, first dis covered the power of the im age of himself that the war was creating, since men, Charles de GauUe-the-image had always been a heavy bur den for Charles Marie Andre Joseph de Gaulle-the-individ- ual. But the burden had to be borne honorably nonethe less. There is no exact parallel for the curious mixture of personal modesty and deep, unshakable sense of mission which the foregoing story re veals. It also reveals the rea son for the extreme touchi ness which American leaders have complained about from Franklin Koosevelt to Dwight D. Eisenhower. De Gaulle" is quick to resent any light treatment not as an individu al, but because any supposed affront to Charles de Gaulle-the-image constitutes an in direct affront to France her self. There is another trait that increases the seeming mys tery, too. Rank for rank s sake is not important to most Americans, but it is deeply important to de Gaulle. Per haps that is because he was formed in the intensely hier archial French army. At any rate, since de Gaulle is so r a n K - conscious, any failure to accord France her traditional rank as a great power drives him into rage that may seem irra tional to us but is entirely rational to him. No doubt there is something of this in de Gaulle's habit of referring to the NATO commander, Gen. Lauris Norstad, as "ce General americain qui me gene." Norstad does not trouble de Gaulle as an indi vidual. But de Gaulle is cer tainly troubled by the impli cation of national rank in the choice of an American to com mand all NATO's forces. If this seems petty, and not without reason, there is still another element in the de Gaulle mystery which has a certain grandeur. His sense and view of history are grand i" Alsop in the most literal sense of the word. He thinks about the historic process, not in petty current terms, nor even in terms of mere decades, but always in terms of cen turies and millenia. Nations, he plainly considers, are the great actors in this process. Equally plainly, he believes that nations endure while political systems wither and disappear. . IHUS there are many signs that de Gaulle regards the Communist system as a mere episode in the history of the great Russian nation. Intermittently, indeed, he al most seems to regard the Unit ed States as a gigantic acci dent in the history of the British nation. Instead of the "British and Americans," he almost invariably speaks of "the Anglo-Saxon powers." Thus it would be very un wise to laugh off such things as the now-famous passage in the memoirs, in which de Gaulle speaks of a Franco Russian understanding as po tentially useful, not merely as a safeguard against Ger man aggression, but also to counter "the Anglo-Saxon at tempts at hegemony." De Gaulle does not look at the modern world through the same eyes as the other West ern leaders. If driven too far, he is also capable of actions that would downright horri fy, not merely the other West ern leaders but also most ot his own people. These facts about de Gaulle have to be faced, because they are facts. At the same time, de Gaulle's judgments have been right too often. The man himself is too big, too courageous, too superb in his general style. As the long awaited political expression of the brilliant rebirth of France, he is, very simply, too important. For all these reasons; petty irritation, pa tronage, mockery, and self pity under harassment, are aU equally out of place in Allied dealings with de Gaulle. Troubled these dealings surely will be, until a more vigorous American govern ment can initiate a profound re-examination of the strate gic basis of the Western alli ance. But if and when tnis sadly overdue re-examina- tion is finally made, one may hope de Gaulle will be, not the ruin of the Alliance, but one of its great strengths. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Wall Street Chatter New York (DPB T h e year 1959 is closing with profes sional Wall Street more opti mistic than it has been for months, Business Reports Inc., points out in its latest market letter. The optimism stemst techni cally, from the strong manner in which the market has weathered the severest steel strike in history, and economi cally, from expectations of a good automobile year in 1960, heavy steel output to make up for shortages, and con tinued record spending by con sumers, the letter notes. The firm admits, however, to viewing the future with a feeling of nervousness. "We have found, from long exper ience that the time to be care ful is just when . . . the out look is crystal clear." Meanwhile, Bache & Co. be lieves there still appears to be more of a disposition to liqui date stock during periods of weakness than to make com mitments when the averages rise. "Until this situation is reversed we expect the pat tern of irregularity to continue." Communications Letters to the Editor must beai rhe name and address ol the writej although "nder cer tain circumstances tne use of a pen name 01 initial for publica tion is pe-missible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to ed:4 all letters with an eye to elariticatinn ana condensation "Letters submitted for publica tion must nnt exceed 400 words A Word of Explanation To the Editor: Because of some inquiries as to how and by whom the judging of the talent was done at the DAV Talent Show, I am presenting this short letter to inform all concerned that the judges were imported from across the Green Springs Mountains and were neither of them per sonally acquainted with any of the contestants in the show. The judges were Mrs. Mary DeLap, junior past depart ment commander of the DAV auxiliary, and current nation al executive committeewo man, Lloyd DeLap, comman der, 5th district, DAV, and Daniel Johnson, commander of Dewey Powell chapter No. 12, DAV. Jackson county chapter No. 8, DAV, herein wishes to thank all those who assisted in making this one our very best annual . amateur talent tournament. To all contest ants, judges, and our depart ment commander of DAV AUX, Mrs. Hazel Rawls, who was present and assisting, a Merry Christmas. Pat Graham Chairman DAV Talent Show Medford Saves Trouble and Work To the Editor: In view of the approaching Christmas season and the decorating of homes, businesses and city streets with trees and portions of trees, I wonder how most of the people who are doing so can justify their action in the light of the Bible. In the Book of Jeremiah, chapter 10, verses 2, 3, 4 and 5, say: "Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the hea then are dismayed of them, "For the customs of the people are vain; for one cut teth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe, "They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammer: that it move not. "They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: They cannot go. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot- do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. We use no Christmas tree at our house, considering it as a foolish eesture. Besides, it saves a lot Ol xrouDie ana work). I have, as yet, found no evi dence in the Bible, at any place, which gives us a cause to use such decorations. Nor have I found any authoriza tion to consider "Christmas" as the Birthday of Christ. Those who have pursued the matter have found over whelming evidence that Jesus Christ was born in summer. Evidently we are not sup posed to celebrate the coming of Christ. True, I have not studied the matter, much, my self, but I do feel it is a "hea then" practice. Floyd R. McCabe Mt. Pitt Star rt. Butte Falls, Ore. Program a Success To the Editor: The members of the Travel Study club of the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs would like to thank the Medford Mail Tri bune for the space give'n them for their "CARE" program for Greece. The project was very suc cessful and gratifying due to the splendid cooperation giv en by the press and the people of Medford. Mrs. Clay M. Lee President of Travel Study club, Medford, Oregon Federa tion of Women's Clubs Bird Count To the Editor: I want to thank the readers of my Bird watcher column who respond ed so well to my request for information about locating owls or other birds for our Christmas count on Dec. 29. We have heard now of sev eral places where barn owls may be found, and have some leads toward a great horned owl, too. We also got informa tion about the whereabouts of a pileated woodpecker and some smaller birds. One good turn deserves another. Has anybody spotted a place where robins, star lings or tri-colored blackbirds are roosting in considerable numbers? Thanks again. Thomas McCamant 300 Oakwood dr. Medford Singers Scheduled To the Editor: On Monday, Dec. 21, at 5:30 p.m., a tele vision program will be pre sented on KBES-TV which I feel should have special men tion and which will add a great deal to the enjoyment of the holiday season for all those who view it. 0i The Madrigal Singers of't Herter, Man-of-the-Week, Has Difficult Dilem ma to Solve By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The man - of - the - week: U. S. Secretary of Stale Christian A. Herter. The place: Paris. The quote: "We have a strong impression of a gen eraWdesire for peace among the Soviet people." In Paris this week, the U.S. secretary of state found him self on the horns of a dilem ma. On the one hand, as ad vance man for President Eis enhower, part of his job was to conv i n c e the reluctant French and West Germans pwi ncwsdd i n a i enough of a thaw had occurred in the cold war to warrant a summit A .'-a&SJ France's De Gaulle Is Thorny Problem In NATO By LYLE C. WILSON Washington -0JPD- Reading between the lines of the NATO news from Paris will si induce eye strain, at least. At most, it will induce head ache, heart ache and, per haps, an un easy sense' of fear. NATO is Lyle C. WUsoo me iNortn At lantic Treaty Organization. NATO represents the com bined first line of defense of the allied Free World. The free allies are annoyed now, each with the other. And, Frenchmen, especially, are annoyed at hints that France deliberately is not doing her share of the NATO job. There are more than mere hints about France. American officials . assert that . NATO nations, especially France, are weakening the mutual de fense alliance by shirking their military obligations. Gen. Charles de Gaulle, the French President, has re fused to permit the French Air Force to participate in the integrated NATO tactical air command. - Medford High school will be presented on the regular pro gram of the Jackson County Tuberculosis and Health asso ciation as a Christmas remem brance to the people of the Rogue valley. The program will include some of the best known and some of the newer in Christ mas music as well as a read ing with choral accompani ment to be given by Mrs. C. Ivan (Frankie) Burton. Under the direction of Lynn Sjolund, the Madrigal Singers, . which include ap proximately 16 of the best voices in the school, have at tained almost professional perfection. Those who have heard them state they are on a par with many of the well known professional groups. They are a great credit to our community and it is a privi lege to have them on this pro gram. This is the fourth year the Medford schools have assisted with the Health association's Christmas program," which re places the usual medical panel done in cooperation with the Medical society and KBES- TV. Janet C. Guches Route 4, Box 368 ' Medford Ideal for Christmas! Here is a bunkbed set that . will make a hit with your children. Use as double beds or double decker. Complete with mattresses. $g995 ONLY BURN RITE LOGS 6 Pack 69c 10 Pack 89c Phone SP 2-621 1 conference with Soviet Rus sian Premier Nikita Khru shchev. On the other, he had to convince the foot - dragging members of the North Atlan tic Treaty Organization (NATO) that the time had not yet come to relax Western defenses which, in fact, must be strengthened if the West were to be able to meet any surprise communist attack. Convinces French, Germans As part of the first point, he had to convince both the Ger mans and the French that the United States would not sac rifice Berlin to the Commu nists for the sake of an over aU settlement. "We are determined," he said, to protect the freedom of West Berliners. He said the "acid test" of Soviet desires to relax tensions would be its attitude toward Berlin and Meetings De Gaulle has said he would withhold the French Mediterranean fleet from NATO in time of war. He balked at basing U.S. missiles or nuclear stockpiles on French territory. American officials have stated the U.S. case that France is the weak spot. Survivors of the World War II scene fJin Washington or Western Europe - ill not be surprised that France poses her allies a delicate diplomatic problem. Delicate diplomatic problems were forecast with confidence when General de Gaulle be came head "man in France. That was in Jue, 1958. The French have a word for him. Formidable! That is de Gaulle. Vain, touchy, ego tistical, stubborn and proud were other descriptions of de Gaulle in the chit-chat of the Washington cocktail cir cuit, and in the hush-hush, off record wartime conferences which the top civilian and military brass were forever having with newsmen. We heard a lot about de Gaulle from, such as. Gen. George C. - Marshall, Adm. Ernest J. King, and from FDR, himself. "Explosive, handle with care," was their tag for the Frenchman. Some just called de Gaulle "stuffy" and let it go at that. There was respect for him, however. Now that the United States may have to deal with de Gaulle in matters of life and death for both France and the United States, there is comfort in the fact that he and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower got along well. "I happen to be one of those who liked him," the President said at a news con ference when de Gaulle be came premier. The free peo ple of the world can only hope that de Gaulle liked Ike, too. If French ruffled feelings are to be soothed and France brought into NATO as a satisfactory ally, it prob ably will be up to Eisenhower to effect it. Washington old-timers will indulge in at least a chuckle at French complaints that criticism of their military performance had leaked from supposedly secret meetings of NATO military commanders. France had almost a copy right on diplomatic leakage in the years after World War I. French diplomats were so 'THE BUILDITORIUM' that Khrushchev had been so informed. He added that the United States expected negotiations to continue through numerous meetings, from the summit on down. So far as NATO was con cerned, Herter's task broke down into two categories. One was to convince the United States' prosperous fellow-members that they now must bear more of the finan cial burden. The other was to convince them that, with NATO one- third below strength, they must meet their manpower commitments to the defensive force. Since both would cost in dividual nations more money, his task therefore became doubly difficult. Scandinavian Speaks Bluntly A Scandinavian member put it bluntly when he said his people knew only what they were told, and they were told that tensions were relaxing. Therefore, they asked, why were large defensive forces necessary? Herter's reply, In effect, was that only with strong forces behind them could Western negotiators hope to reach suitable agreement with the already strongly - armed Russians. The central figure remains President Charles de Gaulle of France, the man who in sists on a NATO veto but re fuses to commit his forces to it. He would be for President Eisenhower to tackle. For the arthritis - burdened Herter it was yet another in the unending trials that beset an American secretary of state. Herter, then new to the job, demonstrated at the for eign ministers conference in Geneva that he could be tough and patient. 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