MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
TUESDAY. OCTOBER SO. 196
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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
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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.
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All types of games have been
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and refreshments will be
served.
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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
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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.
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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
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return to sanity, they would
to that extent be useful. 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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