Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 08, 1962, Image 5

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Newspaper Page Texto o Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop (O New York Herald Trlbum Syndicate GEN. DE GAULLE'S EUROPE Paris - Towering, hieratic, enigmatic, the figure of Charles de Gaulle now looms above Europe like a monu ment of primordial grandeur. This stature he has already achieved, de spite the heavy handi c a p of his long involve ment in the Algerian war. For most na tional leaders. Alsnp e v t r i ntinj France from her bitter col onial dilemmas would have been task enough. But de Gaulle is by no means pre pared to please the Britisn Foreign Office and the State Department's egregious Dr. Bowie, who so much wish he would just go away after ending the tragic Algerian war. On the contrary, de Gaulle has made it very plain indeed that he regards the clearance of the colonial debris of the French past as no better than the clearance of a build ing site. Now is the time when he hopes to begin to construct the new, more splendid, more enduring Franco - European BRANCHFIELD Foi State Representative REPUBLICAN Dedicated to Jackson County Interest! Pd. Pol. Ad. Sam B. Harbison Chm., 201 U.S. Natl. Bank r--ail Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan it fr w 1 F. R. Brennan, C.I. A. MEDFORD INSURANCE Agency PHONE SP 3-7343 27 North Holly Street America's Preferred Bourbon THC OLD CROW DISTILLERY CO.. edifice which he has always had in his mind's eye. V WHAT, then, is the design " he has in mind? The an swer can be given in a single sentence, with extreme confi dence. De Gaulle wants to construct a new giant-power Europe, founded on the Franco-German partnership, and uncorrupted by the per nicious participation of "the Anglo-Saxons" - namely Bri tain and the United States. This means, to begin with, that de Gaulle most emphati cally does not want the Bri tish to enter the European Common Market. This is a fact of cardinal importance in itself. De Gaulle's objection to British entry is summed up in his formula, that if the British enter, "Europe will lose all personality." He thinks, in other words, that a Europe including Bri tain will lose the clear sense of direction and unity, the giant-power character, and the will to be wholly inde pendent of the U. S. (and even to defy and If need be humili ate Washington) which de Gaulle regards as the neces sary characteristics of a fu ture Europe with "person ality." rpo BE sure, Gen. de Gaulle A is glumly aware that he cannot keep the British out of Europe if they choose to pay the stated price. The Benelux nations and Italy do not as yet share the de Gaulle vision of the European future. Even the Germans can be balky. Because of his European partners, the Gen eral cannot veto Britain's en try into Europe. But he can work and will work to prevent any lower ing of the stated price of Bri tain's entry. This is summed up in the official French formula, that the "British must either give up the Com monwealth or give up Eu rope." This is the context in which to read Prime Minister Mac millan's recent statement that the Europeans must "make it easy" for Britain to come in, as well as the reports that the Prime Minister asked Presi dent Kennedy to use his influ ence to this end. At present President Kennedy has about as much influence on Gen. de Gaulle as Christina of Sweden FOR ALL YOUR INSURANCE NEEDS, SELECT A CERTIFIED INSURANCE AGENT. QUALIFIED There are Two Qualified Insurance Agents at I R N K FORT, KY., rfMuCKY STRI In the Day's News By FRANK Dr. Linus Pauling, Oregon born scientist, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in chemis try, said in an interview in Portland the other day he sees no reason why the Unit ed States should DEMAND of Russia an inspection system for atmospheric and ocean testing as a condition of agree ment on nuclear disarmament. "The inspection problem is not so serious a problem as we have been led to believe," he told a Portland reporter, adding: "The perfection of de tecting methods, especially of nuclear detonation in the at mosphere and in the ocean, has largely solved the inspec tion problem which has been had on Louis XIV. And de Gaulle's purpose is not to make it easy for the British, but to make it hard. r"PHE de Gaulle edifice of the - future therefore depends on the British refusing, in the end, to take the European plunge. If he is given this negative help-a very big if the rest of the de Gaulle de sign is easy to foresee. It has two keystones. The first is the Franco German partnership, which the policy-makers in Washing ton seem to be doing their best to strengthen at the moment. The second is the progressive liberation of the French army by the end of the Algerian war. This, in truth, is the new element that makes the design at least the oretically feasible. The term of French mili tary service will shortly be set at 18 months. This will produce an initial French force of over 700,000 men and an eventual force of rather more than 600,000 men. With this kind of French contribution, a purely Euro pean defense of Western Eu rope will become practically attainable. Europe's depen dence on American-dominated NATO can then be gradually liquidated, providing that one other condition is met. A GIANT-POWER Europe muct nrtt inlir hai.A enough divisions to oppose the Red Army. A giant-power Europe must also have nuc lear arms, like the two other giant powers. That is one rea son why de Gaulle has ob stinately continued the nuc lear program that everyone says France cannot afford perhaps. France cannot af ford a serious deterrent, but the Europe of the future en visioned by de Gaulle can easily afford it. There is the admitted ques tion, of course, whether the Soviets would regard the cre ation of this kind of Franco German - European deterrent as a casus belli. How that question will be answered is left vague. At this stage, in any case, the means by which de Gaulle may attempt to realize his design are far less important than the fact that this is the design that is now in his mind. Many virtuous persons will find the design hard to credit, and therefore will not take it seriously. But it is always un wise to be deceived by de Gaulle's air of being an an cient mammoth, strangely strayed out of a past long gone. The grand is real enough, but the grandeur also conceals the Macchlavel lian talents de Gaulle has shown in the tragic, intricate Algerian affair. Whether by opponents or by partners, de Gaulle's designs must always be taken seriously. ...... a GHT BOURBON WHISKEY. i !6 PROOF MEDFORD MAIL JRIBUNE, JENKINS a stumbling block between the two nations." WE HAT he means, apparent- is that when some na tion starts in testing atomic weapons it can no longer keep its tests a secret. By analyzing the air currents-much as a dog sniffs the air and learns what has been going on up-wind-we can find out what happened. We seem to have done that in the case of Old Kroosh's testing program last fall. Not only did we learn that Russia was testing nu clear weapons. We learned what kind of nuclear weap ons she was testing, and to some extent we learned what luck she had with the tests. That, presumably, is what Dr. Pauling means by his statement that the inspection problem is no longer as seri ous a problem as we formerly thought it was. Co- He nnnpars In think A nuclear disarmament agreement with Russia might safely be entered into without the inspection provision to which Russia objects so vio lently. QUESTION: Why does Dr. Pauling ob ject to nuclear testing? Well, in his Portland inter view he noted that our current testing program in the Pacific is rather small in comparison with what it might have been. But, he adds, "this rather small series of 1962 tests will have the result that about 2.8 million unborn children will be damaged so much that they will die, and 285,000, although they will live, will receive physical or mental damage from which they will suffer." WHICH is to say: Dr. Pauling believes that nuclear testing will Doison the air, thus resulting in great damage to future generations. That is why he protests against testing nuclear weapons-even to the extent of joining a banner-carrying group picket ing tne White House last week protest against U.S. re sumption of nuclear testing. He thinks the LESS testine there is the better it will be for future generations. IIHAT shall we do? Ahnut all for us to do is to listen to everybody we can hear, keep our fingers crossed and draw our own conclusions as to what WE must do - hoping meanwhile that the great na tions of the world . . . includ ing, of course, Russia and Red China . . . wlil come to the conclusion that nuclear warfare is too dangerous to be monkeyed with. T)UT l This mind: we MUST keep in If any despotically ruled nation (such as Red Russia or Red China) ever comes to the conclusion that it can DE STROY ITS OPPONENTS be fore they can strike back and thus gain mastery of the world it will use its nuclear arma ment to do just that. Mastery of the world has been the dream of crackpot despots since the world began. Our job is to stay strong enough to PREVENT THEM FROM TRYING to master the world. If, to do that, we must go on testing our nuclear weapons, we must go on test ing them. Washington Report By William S. Whit (01 United Feature Syndicate POLL-HAPPY Washington - Without ques tioning that public opinion surveys have their undeniably useful aspects, it still seems permissible to w o n d e whether this has not be come a slight ly poll happy nation. Any claim of what e v e r nature that may be made these days often is ex amined not on the old-fashioned test of whether it looks inherently sound or unsound. Rather, there is the simple touchstone: What do "they" and "they" means some un defined group of pollecs some-where-say about It?? Is a proposed high policy sensible or not on Its own essential facts? Any pollster firm will get you the answer, by asking unknown numbers of citizens, including nouse wives peering at the tele vision screen over the auto matic dishwasher and firemen momentarily at thoughtful leisure at the station house. THE replies are solemnly X added up and you have your answer: seventy-one and nine-tenths of the American people believe such ano such; eleven and three-tenths per (tvrnt believe so and so, and the rest excused. klndlyajjjed to be now many respondents know anything I abg' subject iOJhfr first MEDFORD. OREGON Drummond Reports (Waltet Lippman is in Europe. Washington injiis absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. RACE TO THE MOON Washington-Nikita Khrush chev seems to be getting skit tish about racing the U. S. to the moon. There are several reasons why the Soviet Premier is beginning to talk plaintively about the "burdens" of space exploration and to suggest he would like to call off the contest and make the whole thing a joint enterprise. Both a U.S.S.R. and a U.S.A. satel lite now lie alongside each other in the dust on the dark side of the moon. Another American Ranger craft will make the 2.18,857-mile jour ney this year. We now have the power and the accuracy to land. The crucial Soviet advant age has been the more power ful thrust of Soviet rocketry. The gap between Soviet rock et thrust and U. S. rocket thrust is being steadily closed. The Soviets are still ahead. Cosmonaut T i t o v has dis closed that the thrust which put him into his 25-hour orbit was 1.3 million pounds. The rocket which boosted astro naut Glenn into his five-hour flight had 360,000 pounds thrust. As yet neither side has power to orbit and land a manned spacecraft on the moon. But the powerful U. S. Saturn rocket, twice success fully tested, has a 1,500,000 pound thrust potential. In the judgment of American space experts the prospects of our overtaking the Soviets in thrust capacity is good. tOR more than a year a manned journey to the moon and back has had first priority among all our space projects. We have put this foremost because all our tech nicians concluded that this was the area in which we could be first. The government has already committed $400,000,000 to it. place? On this, the pollster's data are silent. And once all this tremend ously important information is in hand, the people respon sible for making high-policy decisions will go right ahead and make them, precisely as they would have done had polling never been heard of. Then there Is another form of polling-and surely the odd est of them all. The politicians in New York have lately taken to running polls frank ly described as "Republican polls" or "Democratic polls." Since these are paid for strict ly by the party involved, hard ly skeptics might suspect that the pollsters are not likely t oturn in results which will be deeply displeasing to the party that hired them. T)UT, putting aside all such " suggestions as unworthy of the graph-and-figures era which we live, what is actual ly learned from this extreme ly refined form of polling? Well, a recent "Democratic poll" in New York discovered that if only Mayor Robert Wagner would consent to ac cept the Democratic guber natorial nomination he would be favored by the voters over Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller by a current ratio I of 53 per cent to 41 per cent, with 6 per cent undecided. Now, in the face of these figures Wagner could readily hope to defeat Rockefeller not only handily but also massive ly. But what did Wagner then do? He announced his "final and irrevocable decision" not to run against Rockefeller in any circumstance - nor even permit himself to be drafted. SHORTLY, there appeared a "Republican poll." This one discovered that Governor Rockefeller had scarcely been hurt at all by matters like nis divorce, its central mes sage was that the governor could hardly do worse for re election this year than he did in his landslide triumph of last time. There was some suggestion that quite prob ably he would do better. Of course, it well may that Wagner is simply not inter ested in the governorship be cause he has other fish to fry. And it well may be that Rockefeller really believes the import of this latest "Repub lican poll," though it is hard , to suppose that no bloom whatever is off the rose of t his extraordinary popularity i of 1958. I At any rate, the Interesting i point is this: clearly, neither Wagner nor Rockefeller is himself profoundly moved by the poll made in his behalf. FISH WITH FISH Milwaukee, Mis. - H'PI) -Teen-agers David Mielke and Thomas Mader told this fish story Monday. They said they hauled In their 15th fish, a bass, at Lake Winneconne and put It on a chain stringer. When they hauled In the chain later they found a 25-lnch gorlhcrn pike had swallowed 1 the bass and got hooked. Roicoe Drummond reoorts from The total cost, including rock etry and support facilities, will not be !'; than $20 bil lion, may reach nearer $40 billion. No wonder Mr. Khrushchev wryly remarked to Gardner Cowles, editor of Look magazine, recently: "It will cost a lot to fly to the moon and back. We would welcome a joint project by the Soviet Union and the United States." We are both racing fur iously, but Mr. K. is showing some signs of running out of breath. Maybe this is only a maneuver to see if he can persuade the U. S. to slow down its efforts. I doubt if he will succeed. Dr. Wernher von Braun, di rector of the Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala., and one of the world's lead ing rocket authorities, said a few days ago: "We have the capacity to be first to the moon; therefore, we must be first." The word from D. Brainerd Holmes, the over-all chief of Manned Space Flight for NASA (National Aeron autics and Space Administra tion) is: "This nation cannot afford to lose by default at something it has the technol ogy to do." FTHE year 1970 is the fnrth est target date for the moon landing. Some believe that it can be done earlier. Next year the U. S. will put two men in orbit for periods up to seven days to get addi tional information on radia tion and weightlessness. Fol lowing these tests, we will experiment with a technique which may reduce the time to make a moon landing. This will be the "Rendezvous" by which a crew of astronauts will hitch themselves to an other vehicle already in outer space. One Saturn rocket, which will ultimately have a thrust of more than seven million pounds, will boost a trans-lunar engine into orbit. A second Saturn will send up the crew, plus the lunar land ing and return take-off equip ment. The crewmen would H 5eg Risnnni pnwnFR . fiQp I garden I t v IluJ KM I HJtfi wJBW W w"B wiiivbii -OZ ww w .. .'. tl I M in II "so0' Q'TIPS COTTON SWAHS 63C lSSM H - VICKS VAPO RUB 69c fjgtii 10 REG. MIHftlU OO. 77 i -...Til g ft llK3J Kj 1.98 HUHUin 200 TABLETS 1 itJl IM ' I 1 i :. 5 ILZ 41 II I I II fill II DPIl HI Rea. 1c 1.49 I It . 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Judging from past experience, I would ex pect that by the time we srvf.tr THAT SAVES JOIN IHI "C!ai OP SAFETY" CHECK TfOU CAI . J. R.'s WHITNEY TUESDAY. MAY 8. 1962 could reach such an agree-1 ment one or the other of us I ,.ATA PFtlCE THAT GAYS la, ' CHECK YOUR DRIVINO ... CHECK ACCIDENTS OLDSMOBILE, 415 would be on the moon-waiving to sign it. o ELECT RALPH A. JAMES Democratic Candidate for COUNTY JUDGE "Jackson County Residents Employed First" Pd. Pol. Adv. by James for County Judqe. Jean Mills, Chm. 924 Alta St. rf " l " i This beauty is turning emy into ownership at a rapid clip this year! For the Olds Dynamic 88 with iU crisp look of luxury, its fiery 280-h. p. Rocket V-8 power plant and its rond-hugging 123 inch wheelbase is youri for less than you'd guess! SEE YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED 0LDSM0BILE QUALITY DEALER So Riverside Ave.