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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON TUESDAY. OCTOBER SO. 196 A 5 Communications Tr Dtlltnbick j To the Editor: John Dellen-1 back is conducting a campaign for reelection as representa tive of Jackson county in the Oregon Slate Legislature. Medford Is fortunate to have an editor who has look ed into the qualifications and knows the potential of every candidate for the legislature. We are editorially informed that every candidate in this race would likely be an excel lent public servant. Our editor's reasoning in the past, and in his current recommendations, has stress ed the value of experience. Oft quoted has been the posi tion that a qualified incum bent deserves the vote of the public he serves. There seems to be no question that the diligent and intelligent work of incumbent John Dellen back has been most effective in attacking problems dealing with education, taxation and desirable public services as advocated in the Medford Mail Tribune editorials. Should not the reader chide an editorial voice which aban dons a high principled posi tion by omitting a positive en dorsement well earned by Jackson county's incumbent, John Dellenback? Jim Johannson 2133 Dellwood ave. Medford. Muddled Minda To the Editor: I sometimes read "Letters to the Editor" for Ideas about sentence structure and grammar, as well as tor the logic express ed, or for examples of garbled thinking. A recent letter concerned Wayne Morse. The content was emotionally expressed, the thinking was illogical, and the ideas and material garbled. Here is one sentence: "A party which doesn't support freedom of the press in its philosophy, believes in gov ernment control of communi cations." Yet, this same per son puts forward the idea that a person should start running If his name is placed on some sort of list - a list that is supposed to frighten people, a list that may arbitrarily and without any sort of hear ing label people and organiza tions "subversive." Either America ts a free country, or it isn't! Free jpeech and free thought are permitted and encouraged, or they are suppressed, and puni tive measures are visited upon those who still believe that the Bill of Rights is the back bone of American law. A "list" that is supposed to send people scurrying to cover, frighten them into remaining silent over "controversial" is sues, or cost them their jobs, is anything but a Constitu tional guarantee of freedom of speech, press, and thought! The same letter attacking Senator Morse's candidacy IOSTON LOS ANGELES LONDON CHICAGO Interesting Accurate Complete latoiaehonel News Ceverese The Chrtitlon Science Monitor ' On Norwoy St., lotten 15, Mast. Send your newspaper for the timt chtckod. Enclosed imd my chock or money ordtr. Q 1 veof $22. menrhi SU I montht $S50 Crty ED BRANCHFIELD for State Representative Vote for three, t4. !. At.. IrsncMitU f contained a paragraph men tioning the "Institute of Pa cific Relations", a "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications'-arbitrarily list ing organizations as "instru ments of Communist policy", and "Who's Who in America (volumes from 1934 through 1952)." This wooly paragraph, after mentioning these vari ous ideas and references, con cluded with this reference: ". . . . lists Wayne Morse as a member." Member of what? Member of the "Institute of Pacific Relation s"? Member of "Guide to Subversive Organ izations and Publications"? Member of "Who's Who in America volumes from 1934 through 1932"? It is obvious that people who write and think in such a muddled fashion will never get Into "Who's Who"! Peo ple who expect others to start running when someone men tions a "list" are very mud dled thinkers, ignorant of the meaning of English, as well as of the Bill of Rights; or else as contemptuous of the principle of free speech and press as they are of Consti tutional rights for anyone who holds these ideas which differ from those of very mud dled minds! Kenneth F. Osthimer, 3761 South Pacific Highway, Medford W Naad Mom. To the Editor: How anyone who is concerned with the welfare of this nation could now contemplate sending any one but Wayne Morse to the United States Senate from Oregon is beyond me. We need him now more than ever before. The knowl edge he has gained during 18 years in the Senate will be of incomparable value during the coming months. His ex perience as chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Latin American' Affairs and as a long-standing member of the Foreign Relations commit tee will be invaluable. In making their choice be tween the two candidates for U.S. Senator the voters should evaluate both men with the utmost care; compare their qualifications and consider how much each can contribute to his state and nation in these dangerous times. Personal likes or dislikes should have no bearing upon a decision of this magnitude: the welfare of the United States should be the sole con sideration. A truly objective appraisal of these men will, I m sure convince the vast majority of voters, Republicans and Dem ocrats alike, that Senator Morse is the only possible choice. Phyllis Christian Wagner Creek rd. Talent, Ore. Streams and Horsea To the Editor: I heard a New Frontier Senator say, "Now ain't the time to change horses In the middle of the stream." Now don't tell me the New Frontier stubbed their toe and fell in the creek faster than the New Deal. The New Deal fell into the creek just before every election and started yelling, "Now ain't the time to change horses." You can't get re-elected by just jumping into the creek. You gotta have an emergency. WELL! We got one. We've had it for years, but it took a sud den turn for the worse. It got bad right in the middle of a campaign speech and the New Frontier rushed back to Wash ington and started yelling: "Now ain't the time to change horses." I do not oppose the blockade on Cuba, but it should have been done a year ago, not just a few days before election. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. 099 Point Group Plans Halloween Party Eagle Point - A family Hal loween party will be spon sored by the Eagle Point Jay cees and Jayceettes for mem bers and invited guests Wednesday, Oct. 31 from 8 to 10:30 p.m. at the Community building. Costumes are in order, but not required, It was reported. All types of games have been planned for the youngsters and refreshments will be served. Effective, Responsible Leadership including me Hoe. tmm., Sam Heriiien, Chmn., 2121 Orchard Heme Dria. Try and By BENNETT CERF- TPT C. FIELDS was host one evening at his Hollywood hacienda to a group of convivials that included Rob ert Benchley, Roland Young, and Jack Barrymore all past masters at the gentle art of bending an elbow. The liquor supply gave out scant wonder and the party decided to move on to another oasis down the road. Fields' swimming pool lay in their path. "Let's walk across," suggested Mr. Fields. The entire gathering thereupon walked solemnly into the pool, sank like plummets, and were rescued from drowning by kindly and totally unsurprised neighbors. Veteran raconteur Harry Herehfleld tella of a dictator who ordered one of his rictimi to receive fifty lashes on his bar back. The victim bribed the lash-wielder to take rt easy. For forty-nine strokes, the wielder stuck to his bargain, but tha fiftieth stroke waa so wicked that it sent the victim ratling. The victim screamed; "You broke your bargain! Why?" The wielder told him, "I wanted you to realize what a bargain you got!" The late Sam Hoffenstein once sent these fine to a lady love who waa beginning to bore him: "When you're away, I'm restleea, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only Here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are near." e 1M, by Bennett Cert. Siotnbuted by Kmc raaturea 3rchcU Matter of Fact jo..Ph au. (e) Nw York Herald Trlbuna Syndlcat THE CORNER Washington In the breath taking Cuban crisis, one fact is already beyond dispute. Having hoped to take tha United States by surprise by the rapid clan destine instal lation of of fensive m i s sile bases in Cuba, the So viets t h e m- Alint selves were taken by surprise when the U.S. caught them at it and re acted firmly and boldly. If the Soviets' hopes had been fulfilled, their gain would have been past calcu lating. On the cheap, with the medium and intermediate range missiles which they have been producing in great quantity, the Soviets would have created the same strate gic unbalance that they might have created if they had paid the heavy cost of quantity production of their earliest in tercontinental missiles. It is easy enough to see why they wanted to gain the same advantages, by this last-minute trick, which they would have gained from the famous missile gap, if they had been shrewd enough to invest in a wide range in long-range mis siles when they had that op portunity. But it is not at all easy to see why they thought they could get away with this last-minute trick in Cuba. IN part, beyond much doubt, the answer to this riddle lies in the peculiar character of the Soviet Defense Minis try. Imagine a Pentagon wholly controlled by higher military officers, all of whom serve until they drop. Ima gine a Pentagon, furthermore, in which the scientists have almost no say, because there is no Russian Robert McNa mara or Robert A. Lovett to back them up against the rul ing phalanx of aging marshals and colonel-: enerals. Such a Pentagon, we may be sure, would make all sorts of backwards-looking m 1 s takes in practical military judgment. Generals who have won a great war are always, so to say. encapsulated in the epoch of their victories, un less there are rude civilians ready to break the capsule. And the Soviets have had just this kind of Pentagon since the last controlling civilian, poor old Bulganin, was forced to resign as Minister of De fense to make room for Mar shal Zhukov. Thus it is reasonable to sup pose that the Soviet military planners considerably under estimated the all-seeing effi ciency of modern, scientific air reconnaissance. It is pretty clear that thia underestimate, if made at all, was powerfully reinforced by another under estimate of quite a different character. Stop Me IT is that pretty clear, in fact, the Soviet military planners underestimated the strength of will of the U.S. They supposed, In other words, that even if their Cu ban trick was revealed to the U. S. by air reconnaissance, the U. S. would either do nothing at all about it, or at any rate would only begin to do something about it after the upset of the nuclear bal ance was a safely accom plished fact. A high satellite source recently said to this reporter: "Before this, you Ameri cans have always been slow to act. Before you did anything, you have always had to con sult so many people, and to persuade so many allies. What happened this time?" Great caution must always be used in weighing responses from satellite sources in Washington; yet the rather plaintive question above' quoted has a convincing ring. So, too, does a query, again from the Communist-bloc sources, about the basic moti vatlon of the attempted trick in Cuba. According to this theory, the decision to defy every So viet precedent by emplacing offensive missiles in Cuba really originated in the dlS' pute inside the Kremlin about the risks at Berlin. For months it has been plain that the majority of the Kremlin's military and political plan ners were operating on the as sumption that the U. S. and its Western allies did not have the guts to defend Ber lin's freedom in a crunch. A Kremlin minority, per haps including Nikita S. Khrushchev himself, has probably been saying, mean' while, "Have a care! This Ber lin crisis can be very dan gerous business!" If the the ory already mentioned is cor rect, the Cuban trick was re garded by both Kremlin fac tions as in the nature of a preliminary test of the Ber lin risks. On the one hand, U.S. pas- sivity in the face of the trick in Cuba would have been taken as proving the Kremlin majority's thesis about the essential flabbincss of this country. On the other hand if the nuclear balance had been successfully upset by the trick in Cuba, the Berlin risks would have been great ly reduced. Either way, Soviet success Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brendan mm LAiU f. R. Brennan, C.I.A. MEDFORD IIISURAIICE Agency PHONE 773-7343 27 North Holly Street Strictly Personal ly Sydney J. Harm (c field Enterprises Inc. THE TWO TIMES The strange, nightmarish quality of living in the world today comes from the odd jux taposition of two kinds of S 3.4 time. Foi are living af'! in "real" time. For we gboth time and in "psy-cholog-i c a 1" ime. In terms of "real" time, we are living Harrii on a globe no bigger than a walnut, and just as easy to crack. Or, to change the metaphor, modern science has packed us all into a tiny rowboat in the middle of a arge sea, and a hole drilled under anybody's scat will drown us all. But in terms of "psycholog ical" time, most of use are still living in centuries past, stirred by ancient grudges, controlled by obsolete preju dices, driven by buried fears. What brought this shock ing contrast most vividly to mind was a recant Ham in the nawipapara about riots between tha Flemings and tha Walloons in Belgium. When I read iha Item. I fait lika Mark Twain's Yankee pulled back abruptly into King Arthur's Court, Thia bitter dispute ba lwaen iha Belgians of Dutch ancestry and thoie of French descent seams as unreal and irrelevant as tha fight be tween the Guelphs and the Ghlbellinei. or tha Yorkists and the Lancastrians. In "real " time, it Is not only far loo lata to ba a Fleming or a Walloon (ex cept on commemorative oc casions), but it is too lata lo be a Belgian. It is almost loo late to be merely a Eur-opean-and Europe is just get ting around to that idea in "psychological" time. In an article not long ago, a scientist remarked that he had been accidentally locked up all night in a museum room with exhibits of dead crabs and lobsters. The experience so unnerved him that when the guard opened the door in the morning, the scientist em braced him, saying, "Thank God-you don't know how good it is to see a vertebrate again!" It Is too lale to be anything but vertebrates, but members of a species called homo tap-iens-the only species that seems bent upon its own de struction. We now have the tools to do what no other liv ing creatures have ever been able to do before: to arrange our own extinction. This is the prime fact of "real" time today; in the light of which, the rioting Flem ings and Walloons seem as an achronistic as the Battle of the Frogs and Mice. Mankind is haunted by its past-like a neurotic patient, it cannot throw off its bondage to in fantile memories, and remains fixed in an attitude of childish antagonism - living compul sively in psychological time, and unaware that real time is fast running out on all of us. with this Cuban trick would have led, very rapidly, to a brutal confrontation at Ber lin. One may also hope that the converse will be true if all goes well. As these words are written, we are very far from having got round the Cuban corner. But if we do get round this crucial corner, every pros pect will be altered, every calculation will need to be done over again. Above altf the prospects at Berlin will change, both radically and favorably. FOR ALL YOUR INSURANCE NEEDS, SELECT A CERTIFIED INSURANCE AGENT. QUALIFIED There era Two Qualified I murine Agents r sXn?VT-M t Washington Report By William (ci United feature Syndicate Washington To many. the forest is being hidden by the trees. Preoccupation with t h e dramatic details of dai- 4 ly moves and fcounter- moves is ob s c u r i n g the t0 profundity of this govern ment's new, hard, all - na tional policy wmie in the cold war. What it amounts to is a world-wide test of strength and determination with the Soviet Union, a test postponed through a decade and a half of trying by every means to avoid a showdown. Sovietized Cuba is the im mediate area of this immense struggle. But it is not the cen tral theater because there is no central theater. The cri sis is universal, and it is be ing dealt with by President Kennedy and his advisers pre cisely on these limitless terms. JOHN Donne wrote centuries ago that no man is an island to himself. Now there are no islands of any kind. There are no degrees of crisis. For it is. simply and exactly, a total crisis everywhere, de manding and receiving from American leadership a capaci ty. for solitary decision which has no counterpart in man kind's long life. Thus it is that the voices of the second-gucsscrs, whether of ordinary people here or of allied statesmen and United Nations officials, are now only the voices of men shouting down the empty rain barrel of history. What they say may be interesting, but now it is largely irrelevant. The wheel of fate has turned and there can be only one of two ends to the crisis. The Soviet threat of nuclear aggression, which has Cuba as its immediately discernible focus but which In fact Is spread across the globe, will be brought under control. Or there will be war. Thus, United Nations nego tiations are helpful in a small sense but can never be deci sive. If such proposals should provide some forum sum mit conference or otherwise in which Khrushchev might '' IJL "aa.Mai Middleweiht that loads like the oil mat. Now Ford Fairlane has hardtops and wagons! 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But if he does return to sanity, It will be in but not because of that forum. TJ ATHER, It will be because he has recognized that the power of the United States is too great for successful challenge. Intermediaries may be useful: they may provide house room for the making of decisions. But a hundred UN resolutions in support of the United States in the hishly unlikely event that the UN will ever do more than give bare and partial under standing to our problems of survival will solve nothing at all. Khrushchev will bend. If he does bend, because he has recognized that the United States has at last put its true trust in honorable power hon orably used for the ultimate and unarguable purpose of self-defense. Seen in this light, the new Kennedy doctrine Is far more than a sanitization of Cuba, as it is far more, even, than a signal of a confrontation in the cold war everywhere. In vasion of Castro Cuba to clear out the Soviet missile sites would be only an incident in a vastly bigger design. Even the proclamation to Khrush chev, "thus far and no far ther" docs not tell the whole story. LX)R this is a turn in nation- al policy dwarfing in both danger and grandeur the na tional decision of the late '30s away from Isolationism. This is a conscious reversal of what since the sadly inconclusive end of the Korean War has been an American rejection of the whole concept of pow er, even power rightly used. Even if others will not see it, America sees at last that the present world cannot be saved by good intentions. This is a new and true internation alism of responsibility. In sav ing ourselves we shall save those who still believe it pos sible to talk the world away from that abyss toward which international communism has so long been pushing it. Death, it is true, is some times the companion of risk; but life without risk is possi ble no more. 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