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MONDAY. AUGUST 15. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Drummond Reports (Welter Lippman is on vacation, from Washington in his absence.) A VALUABLE TREATY Washington - The 21 votes which were marshalled against the Antarctic Treaty just eight short of enough to block it-shows how perilous ly near we can come to hav- Ing important foreign policies ruled by minority opinion. The fact is that the consti tutional requirement that a treaty can come into force only by a two-thirds vote of the Senate today operates to exactly the opposite effect it was originally intended. Certainly the purpose of the two-thirds rule was to make sure that major foreign policy commitments would rest upon overwhelming pub lic and Senatorial support. But the effect of the two thirds rule in today's world is that it is always within the reach of a small minority to determine some major U. S. course in foreign policy. This may sound paradoxical but I think I can demonstrate that it is true. HERE is the reason: Take the Antarctic Trea ty in which the United States joins with 11 other nations to make the subcontinent an area free of military bases in spectable without veto, and devoted exclusively to scien tific exploration. This treaty represents a sig nificant venture in relations between the Soviet Union and the free world. It provides an experiment in unlimited in spection and free access. It provides that the Antarctic will be a peaceful preserve to be studied for the advantage of the whole world. It guar antees that there will be no nuclear testing under, on, or above its surface. The treaty surrenders no territorial claims by the United States to any other country and pre vents the Soviets and others from making territorial claims during its duration. Now, what I am suggesting is that there are two courses of action which the Senate could take and that either one is a tremendously important decision. The Senate could reject it. This would mean that he Unit ed States would be leading the world away from an op portunity to try out a signifi cant, veto-less agreement with the Soviet Union. This course of action would have very far reaching consequences. The Senate could approve U-as it did. This means that the United States is helping the world carry forward the patient and painful negotia tions on which we have been working on many fronts for several years. We will soon be able to see whether a safe aereement with the Soviets will be a workable agreement THE point I am making is that either decision-either rejection or ratification-commits the United States to a very meaningful course of ac tion. Reiection would commit the U. S. to a reversal of the Get a bigger slice of living . . . open a savings account with us! Slice your income any way you want . . . but put one slice, regularly, in a savings account with us. Here your money will earn more money for you . . . and get you more of the good things of life. Twenty-five million savers are getting a bigger slice of living the Insured Savings and Loan way. Why don't you? CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE 4 PER ANNUM FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan 29 North Ivy Street Roicoe Drummond reports whole effort to negotiate with the Soviets and to try to reach useful enforceable agree ments. Approval commits the U. S. to carry forward its efforts to reduce and resolve the con flicts between the Soviets and the free world. Either decision is a very large commitment. But under the two-thirds rule the commitment of doing something must be approved by a majority of 2-to-l while the commitment of doing nothing, which can have equally far - reaching conse quences, can be made by a minority of one-third of the Senate plus one. UNDOUBTEDLY the time was when it did not mat ter a great deal that a one third minority of the Senate could prevent a nearly two thirds majority from author izing American initiative in foreign affairs. But in the kind of world we are living in today the consequences of inaction are as great as the consequences of action. This is why it is no longer wise or safe, it seems to me, to invest so much negative power in the hands of so few members of the Senate. This time a valuable treaty narrowly escaped death, (c) 1960, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Unemployment To Be Program Topic Who pays for Oregon's un employment insurance pro gram? More than $312 mil lions have been paid to job less workers in the state since the program began zs years ago. Who pays? The answer will - be on "Dateline State house" tonight at 10:45 o'clock over KBES-TY. Appearing with regular moderator Bob Richter will be Don I. McKennan, tax di vision supervisor of the Ore gon department of employ ment. They will discuss the nature of the state's jobless pay program, its scope, value, and how it is conducted, with a specific look at the employ ers tax. Each week on "Dateline' different agencies take turns reporting on their operations and services, in an effort to in form citizens how state gov ernment in Oregon works. Mae Murray Remains In Serious Condition Hollywood - IlIPD-Mae Mur ray, silent film star who gain ed fame in the 1927 movie "Merry Widow," remained in serious condition today at the Motion Picture Country hos pital. Miss Murray, described va riously as 61 and 71, entered the hospital Wednesday suf fering from a stroke. New York - IUPD - Dr. John Garb, 70, associate clinical professor of dermatology at New York University Medical center died Saturday. Assn. of Medford Robert F. Kyle, Manager Foreign Notebook: Italian Split; ROK Discontent; East German Food By WILLIAM J. FOX United Press International From the foreign editor's notebook: Italian Communist! The Italian Communists may use the situation in the Congo as a weapon in an at tempt to split government supporters. The Communist press has bitterly attacked the Italian government for ab staining in the United Nations vote on Katanga. It claims the abstention was ordered by Foreign Minister Antonio Seg- ni against the will of Premier Amintore Fanfani. The semi- fficial explanation for Italy's abstention Is that Rome want ed to be nice to Belgium for the sake of NATO unity and because of the large number of Italian miners working in Belgium. But the Social Dem ocrats and Republicans, who support the Fanfani govern ment, are known to be un happy over the move, which they see as a concession to Belgian "colonialists." And the Communists have lost no time in trying to widen the rift. South Korean discontent Another place where the government seems certain to be in new trouble is in South Korea, where popular discon tent is expected to develop Im mediately with the new re gime. Some sources predict possible new demonstrations such as those that toppled the Syngman Rhee forces. The reason: Many Koreans are dis gusted, or at least disappoint ed, with the bickering within the Democratic party over the posts in the new government. In fact, it's already being said the new regime will be little different from the corruption oi the Rhee government, and that kind of public attitude is not one to promote stability. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Modern business note: The University of Chicago planning to use an elec tronic computer in an effort to find out WHY stocks go up and why they go down. Hmmmmm. D'ya reckon the igger will also WHEN they're going to go up and when they're going to go down? If so, it would be a handy gadget to have around. M ORE modern world stuff: communications satellite that puts us one up on the Rus- skies, is whizzing around the earth about 1,000 miles out. Its speed, the dispatches tell us, is 15,442 miles per hour. It takes it only about two ticks of the clock longer than two minutes to circle the earth. Note to highway speed dem ons: You might sa well give up and slow down. You can't beat that record. OVER in' the John Day coun try of Eastern Oregon the other day, Congressman Al Ullman of the Second Oregon district suggested to a com mittee of miners that the fed eral government should make INCENTIVE PAYMENTS to encourage domestic produc tion of gold as an increasing ly possible answer to the mounting problem of gold withdrawals from this coun try. The monetary nature of gold, he said, "has created a bottleneck in the solution of the gold problem because only the banking and currency has jurisdiction over the problem Meanwhile, our gold keeps slipping away while our gold miners remain idle. TJE ADDED: "As a member of the house interior committee, which has jurisdiction over mining mat ters, I plan to have legislation Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A PATRON got out of a beautiful special model of a Euro pean sports car at a swank Miami Beach hotel, handed the doorman a $50 bill and threw over his shoulder, "Take good care of this buggy, Buster. They're not easy to come by." "I know," said the doorman respectfully. "I've got one just like it." The great Shlophonnes Wound up his piano recital in a blaze of glory and the audience there because the host was also the boss of the town's only factory applauded manfully. At the reception that followed, the foreman, who couldn't tell classical music from the clanging of s hot water pipe, you sUnk!" The boss elbowed him away no attention to that lug, Mr. everybody else tells him." C1M0, m Beaattt CrL Air Defense The recent defection of a North Korean MIG 15 jet pilot posed the question of whether the South Korean air defense system is adequate. Military sources in Seoul say indica tions at this time are that it may not be. These sources say that when the MIG landed on the east coast of South Korea on Aug. 3, it was 40 miles south of the demilitarized border zone and was on the ground before its presence in the south was known. The sources say the plane first was reported by children who passed the abandoned airstrip on which it landed. They add that military authorities, who claimed to have tracked the plane into South Korea, ac tually did not know about it until notified by police. Food Shortage Look for Communist East Germany to seek a way out of its current food shortage troubles through "unlisted" imports from Hungary and Ro mania. The institute of Ger man industry says the two latter Communist nations have been ordered to send their "crop reserves" to East Ger many. To avoid having the transfer show in statistics, East Germany, will not pay for the imports. It simply will balance them against aid given to Hungary after the 1956 re volt. Hungary will reimburse Romania for the same aid fund. The purpose is to con ceal how much East German farm production has dropped since the collectivization drive earlier this year. Party Split Don't be too surprised if there is a split soon in the Liberal - Democratic party in Japan. Some political sources in Tokyo say a small group within the party will split off to form a pro-Russian seg- ready for introduction by early next year to implement this approach (meaning the in centive payments approach) to the problem. It would offer a great boon to the small min ers of the West and would make feasible many mining operations now lying dor mant." mHAT calls for little ex -S. Dlanatfnn. The price of gold, as fixed by the federal government, is 35 PAPER dol lars per ounce of the yellow metal. At that price, It is no longer PROFITABLE to mine gold, because on the average it costs more than $35 to get an ounce of gold out of the ground. So, as Mr. Ullman says, gold mining lags and our sup ply of monetary gold is. no longer augmented by produc tion from our mines. Mean while, as he says, foreign de mands on our gold supply are Increasing. TJERE is our State of Jef 11 f ferson, we can't help turn ing an interested ear toward his 'proposal. A century ago, the miners looked off into the blue distance and ' muttered there's gold in them thar hills." There's STILL gold in them thar hills. But it doesn t interest us MUCH because we know by sad experience that it costs more than 35 paper dollars to get an ounce of gold out of the ground. Maybe, if the price of gold was raised to say 70 paper dollars for an ounce, we'd again reach for our picks and our shovels and go after it. But here in our State of Jefferson we are inclined to realists. We find it hard to be lieve that doubling the price of gold in terms of printing press money could add any thing to our PERMANENT 0-iS announced honestly, "Sblophonni indigently and pleaded. "Don't py Shlophonnes. He ony repeats what fitju-ttnittl by JUif rattens trasJesU ment. Theres some specula tion this new grouping then might try to form a popular Aging Process Stumps Experts San Francisco - Two thou sand of the world's experts on the aged spent last week com paring notes-and then agreed that they simply do not know for sure how to keep them selves from growing old. The experts had lots of ideas. But none could prove his theories to the satisfaction of everybody. The disagreements concern ed everybody from what to eat, what medicines to take and how long to sleep. The experts presented re ports to each other at the third triennial congress of the Inter national Association of Geron tology. About the least controvers ial advice they could offer was summed up by Dr. Louis Kuplan, the association presi dent. He said that a person's attitude means as much-and possibly more than anything medical science can do to halt his aging. To live long, he urged main taining a constant, active in terest in life, rather than "let's give up" attitude. As examples, he cited Grandma Moses, who is still painting at 98, and Tommy Manville, who recently mar ried his 11th bride at 65. Kuplan wasn't endorsing the Manville method, but men- 406 E. Main finAfiAnAfifiAfin i H3 1 llf 3i Shortage front with leftists after the ex pected national elections this fall. tioned him as a person with "motivation." Grandma Moses, he said, was always looking forward, never look ing in the past. In the body, he said, "we don't really know what the process of aging is." 4-H NEWS Ruch Livestock The meeting of the Ruch Livestock club was held on Aug. 10 at Cantrall's house. Mrs. Cantrall checked and helped us with our record books. We talked about buy ing a wheelbarrow for the 4-H county fair, and decided to do so. We also talked about the barn duties and decided Mrs. Cantrall should make out the list. Thursday, Aug. 11 was clean-up day at the Jackson County fairgrounds. After our work was done at the fair grounds the sheep and dairy members from Ruch went around to the various stores and finally purchased a red and white wheelbarrow. Kathy Larson, Reporter AUTOMATIC WASHER lint Remover Tub Selective Water level Control lid Shut off Switch Unbalance Switch Swirlaway Draining Famous Maytag Gyrafoam Washing Action CONSUMER REPORTS' RATE MAYTAG FIRST IN AUTOMATIC WASHERS - LARSON APPLIANCE CO. Street Back Stairs: Presidential Callers By FRANK ELEAZER Washington - IUPD - Back stairs at the White House: Presidential callers are con sidered fair game for White House reporters. In fact, if re porters ever quit badgering White House callers, the de mand for audiences with the President might fall off con siderably. Sometimes I get the im pression that most of the Pres ident's guests, after the proper show of modesty and reluct ance, simply can't wait to be interviewed. Take Sen. Everett McKlnley Dirksen of Illinois, the gray maned, sad-faced Senate Re publican leader. He and Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, the business-like GOP leader of the House, call on Ike every Tuesday to talk things over and in the process to garner some headlines and a few moments of free TV time by submitting themselves after wards to the press. Called Interviews These sessions are referred to loosely as interviews. What they tend more to be is speeches. Dirksen is generally con ceded to hold without chal lenge clear title as the Sen ate's most oleaginous orator. His intimate, kindly, melliflu ous delivery would put the average mortician to shame. Well, after this week's White House breakfast for the GOP leaders, he came forth for a few pleasant words with the press. These words stretched out benignly for some 40 minutes or so. It would not be correct to call this a question and flitiei mm rzi Halo-of-Heat DRYER - J $0088 I Exclusive Halo of Heat Revolving Disc lint Filter Reverse Air Flow Safety Door Automatic Timer Safe, Low Heat OUR POLICY DURING THIS SALE All Maytag merchandise advertised in this ad carries full Maytag factory warranty and is warranted by us to be new equipment. Delivery and normal installations will be made free. Equipment delivered in the crate, if preferred. Our usual liberal trade-ins will be offered. This offer good on merchandise in stock only. Please do not phone, come in if you can. 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He allowed dolefully that this question put him in mind of a fellow who approached President Lincoln with a new and better mousetrap. If Lincoln would only en dorse his invention, the fel AND WATCH FOR TCL L"JJjQTS X rm m low said, he could sell a mil lion of them and get rich. Lincoln's Endorsement President Lincoln, accord ing to Dirksen, said certainly he would do this small favor. So he took up his pen, Dirk sen said, and wrote his en dorsement as follows: "For the sort of people who want this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing that that sort of people will want." Leave 'em smiling is Dirk sen's motto, and he did. NAMED JWV HEAD Miami-fflPD-The Jewish War Veterans named I. L. Feuer, 60, of Youngstown, Ohio, as national commander at the close of the group's annual convention Saturday. Feuer, director of the Mahoning County Welfare Department, will preside for one year. Ralph Plossky, 42, of White Plains, N.Y. was named na tional judge advocate, that JWV's second highest position. Phone SP 2-5302
