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4& MONDAY. EveryoneTiTSoutliern Oregon Roadi ThMallTrlbun fubfi.tied Dally eept Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North Fir St.. h.J'J-"lii ROBERT W. RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advcrtl.ini Manager GERALD T LATHAM. u Mm ERIC W ALLEN JR , Mn. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRV CHIPMAN. Tle Editor RICHARD JEWETT. faporta Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Woman Editor DALE ERICKSONlrculatlon Mir ATTlndepandant Nlwipapar Entered aa cond claw matter M Madtord. Oregon under Act ex March 3. t807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 year 8.00 Daily and Sunday- mot. 10.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa. 3.00 Sunday Only One year 5 00 Single Copy (Malledl By Carriei-And Motor Route Dally and Sunday 1 year it 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. . Sunday Only 1 mo, a Carrlel andVendora j:opy 100 OTllcfaTPaper oY City of Medford Official Paperof Jack.on County United Preii"tnternatlonal Full Uated Wire O P 1 Telepholo Nawiplcturei BEMBER-OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlln RenrMentatlve: NELSON ROBERTS 4. ASSOCI ATES Of'icet In New York. Chi cago Detroit. San Kranclico Lot Angalea Saattla. Portland Denver. NATION A I "ITORIAt ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford nd Nekton County History from the filet ot The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 veart "flO- 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 3, 19S2 (Tuesday) University of Oregon Foot ball Coach Len Casanova was , the featured speaker at a ban quet honoring the Medford high football team last night. Sustained winds of 25 to 30 miles per hour, with gusts up to SO miles per hour, were reported In the Rogue valley by the weather bureau today. 20 YEARS AGO Doc. 3, 1942 (Wednesday) Sheriff Syd I. Brown an nounces local law officers will enforce war time speed regu lations calling for maximum of 35 miles an hour. Frnm Arthur Perry's "Ye KmnHc Pot" column: questionnaire four feet long was brought to Jigm ry con gress this week. The same day a federal bureau pro posed the size of newspapers be reduced to save paper." 30 YEARS AGO Dac. 3, 1932 (Friday) Residents of east Medford requested to donate one ar ticle of clothing to be given to persons less fortunate than they arc. Medford Salvation Army moves from old Methodist church at Fourth and Bartlott sts. to former site of minia ture golf course at 32 South Bartlett st. 40 YEARS AGO Dac. 3, 1922 (Saturday) Prohibition enforcement In Jackson county during No vember 1022, costs ?800. President W. Judson Old field calls annual meeting of Southern Oregon Chautauqua association in Ashland. SO YEARS AGO Dec. 3. 1912 (Mo.tday) Army officer appears be fore Medford city council to request a p p r o p r I ation of $1,000 to be used to help cov. cr cost of armory seating 3,000 persons. Whal's Your 1.0.7 Nina or tan correct U superior; even or eight it aictllanti live at tia U good. 1. What Is a Galling gun? 2. What President of the U.S. broke the precedent for bidding the chief executive to leave the country while In office? 3. Of whnt two metals is bronze an alloy? 4. Which has the greater number ot bones in Its skele tal structure, an adult or child? 5. From what plant is her oln made? 0. Under what range of mountains Is the Simplon tunnel? 7. What American city was nearly destroyed by nat ural calamity In 1806? 8. What famous character In literature signed a con tract with the devil? 0. What instrument it played by the "concert mas ter" of a tymphony orches tra? 10. What Is the English name for Paternoster? Aniwern 1. Early type machine gun. 2. Woodrow Wilton. 3. Copper and tin. 4. Child - lomt later futa together. S. Opium peppv. 6. Alpt - 64,971 ft. long. 7. San Fraajcitco. I. Fautl. 9, First rioun, 10. Our Father -Tha Lord's Prayer. l&(7wy puiishe$ DECEMBER 3, 196 Nuclear Diplomacy (Editor'! note: America's most distinguished, and respected columnist, Walter Lippmann, has been In Europe for the past several weeks. Last Thursday he spoke at the Anglo-American Press Association in Paris. The following is excerpted from his talk.) Since 1955 there have existed in the world two rival and conflicting nuclear weapons. They are in conflict at many points on the globe. They distrust profoundly each other's purposes. , . ' The essential and novel fact in the contem porary conflict, which distinguishes it radically from the great conflicts of the past as for ex ample that between Islam and Christendom is that the two coalitions possess nuclear weapons. These weapons differ from all other weapons, even those used as recently as the second World War, in that they carry with them not only a greater quanitity of violence, but violence of a radically different order and kind. In the wars of the pre-nuclear age which ended with the bomb on Hiroshima a victorious power was an organized state which could im pose its terms on the vanquished ... OUT after a full nuclear exchange such as the United States and the Soviet Union are now capable of there might well be over 100,000, 000 dead. After the destruction of the great ur ban centers of the Northern Hemisphere, with the contamination of the earth, the water and the air, there would be no such recovery as we have known after the two World Wars . . . A war of that kind would not be followed by reconstruction; it would not be followed by a Marshall Plan and by a new NATO. It would be followed bv a savage struggle for existence as the survivors crawled out of their cellars, and all the democracies would have to be converted into military dictatorships in order to keep some semblance of order ... If anyone wishes to understand the American position in the Cuban crisis and the American attitude towards military power in the world to day, he must remember that responsible Ameri cans do not dare to forget the reality of the nu clear age ... DECAUSE nuclear weapons mean mutual suicide, the paramount rule of policy in this age is that, as between the nuclear powers, there can be no important change in the status quo brought about by the threat of force or by the use of force. Thev cannot use nuclear war, as war has been used in the past, as an instrument of national policy. The Cuban affair has much to teach us about the nature of diplomacy in the nuclear age . . . President Kennedy was able to prevail be cause having the power to achieve a limited ob jective, he had the wisdom to narrow his objec tive to what he had the power to achieve. Thus, he had the power to deter the Soviet Union from attempting to Soviet naval action and nuclear missiles. But the President himself could not use America's nuclear power to bring about the overthrow of Castro and the liquidation of a Communist regime in Cuba. It was manifestly unthinkable to use nuclear weapons against Cuba. They had no relevance to the Cuban problem. It would have been an in calculable risk to invade and occupy Cuba at the risk of retaliatory military action against Berlin action which could have war. WHAT the President did was to adopt linut prl nhinetivna u-liw'li I'nulrl hp lichipvprl hv limited means. He demanded the removal of the Soviet strategic missiles. He did not demand the removal of the Castro regime or even of the Cuban defensive missiles. The President was able to achieve the ob jectives to which he limited himself. Soviet nu clear jiower was neutralized by American nu clear power, ami in the Cuban area, the United States had overwhelming land, sea and air forces which were quite capable of destroying or cap turing the Soviet missiles . . . Finally, and decisively, the United States, which had overall nuclear and conventional su periority around Cuba, was careful to avoid the ultimate catastrophic mistake of nuclear diplo macy, which would be to surround the adversary and leave him no way to retreat. WASHINGTON did not forget that while nu- clear war would be suicidal lunacy, it is an ever present possibility. Nuclear war will not be prevented by fear of nuclear war. For, however lunatic it might be to power if it is cornered, if it is forced to choose conditional surrender is likely to go to war. This is one of the facts of life in the middle of the Twentieth Century . . . and it is a fact which must be given weight in the calculation of national policy. It is a fact that was kept constantly in mind in the calculation of our Cuban policy . . . Those who do not understand the nature of war in the nuclear age ; those who think that war today is what war was in the past, regard those careful attempts of statesmen not to carry provo cation beyond the tolerable limits as weakness and softness and appeasement. There are a good many people in the West who do not understand the "nuclear ago, and they are forever charging us with appeasement . . . But prudence in seeking not to drive your opponent into a comer is not weakness and softness and appeasement. It is sanity and common sense aid a due regard for human life . . . coalitions armed with break the blockade by by the threat of Soviet escaladed into nuclear commit suicide, a great if all the exits are barred, between suicide and un MEDFORD "I Can't Come Out And Riot Tonight I Got To Study Civic" Strictly Personal By Sydney (c) Field Enterprises, Inc. WHAT'S IN A NAME? People keep confusing sometimes purposely au thors with their characters and quote a statement by the character as p r o o i mai, uie hu- S i thor is ex pressing his own view. One of the most com m o n exam- Harm pies of this perversion is the pnrase, Whats In a name? Shake speare is supposed to have "said" this but actually it was said by a 14-year-old girl named Juliet, who knew little about the world, and less about semantics. There is a great deal in a name; sometimes there is ev erything in a name. A rose might smell as sweet if it were called a pheffleburger, but it wouldn't be mentioned in so many poems and songs. During tha last war, for instance, that inimitable phrase - maker, Winston Churchill, in a radio broad cast rochriitened tha Local Defense Volunteers the Home Guard, Now "Local Defense Volunteers" is a cumbersome bureaucratic name with no emotional ap peal; "Home Guard" stiffen ed every Briton t spina and made him proud to be a member of it. Likewise, it was a stroke of inspiration to call it the Peace Corps. Had It been called the Overseas Techni cal and Medical Aid Asso ciation, it would not have captured the imagination of so many young people. 3 2& J In the Day's News By FRANK From New Delhi: India and Pakistan agree to seek an end to their bitter quarrel over Kashmir. The agreement will permit Indian military forces to concentrate on the Himalayan border con flict with Red China. The agreement with Pak istan for a resumption of the negotiations over Kashmir will strengthen India's hand in the event that the Chinese resume their invasion of In dia, which was halted by the recent Chinese cease-fire. Indian forces are being pulled out from the Pakistani border and concentrated on the Himalayan front. QUESTION: How did the ruckus over Kashmir get started? It's a long story. It began back in 1947, when the Brit ish gave up their control over their Indian Empire. Out of that came partition of India between the Hindu-control'ed Republican of India and the Moslem-controlled Dominion of Pakistan. In that division, the Hindu mahuraja of Kashmir turned Kashmir over to Hindu India. Its population, however was overwhelmingly Moslem. Hin du India naturally defended the deal that turned Kashmir over to her. Even since then, India has kept strong military forces on the Kashmir bolder. Pakistan has concentrated correspondingly heavy forces on the west border of Kash mir to defend her claim to the area. It 'HAT llas hPIcncd is that, ' facing the threat of Red Chinese seizure of ALL of Kashmir, Pakistan and India i have finally agreed to Join j forces to stand off the Com-1 munist Chinese threat. That's the story in a nut-i shell. I X SO MUCH for a big tragedy. ! Let's now turn our attcn-' MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON n 9 1 ( jf J. Harris Hitler shrewdly recog nised tha value of a nam when ha changed hit from Schikalgruber; and Stalin (meaning "man of steel") was a dramatic Improve ment over the clumsy and polysyllabic name the Rus sian dictator was born with. "Trotsky" was also an ef fective nom da guerre. Most propaganda thrives on the judicious use of "colored" name. If literal, factual, accu rate words were used to de scribe political positions and principles, the masses could hardly be roused from their torpor every quadrennium. It takes slogans, catch words, and phrases loaded with bias to stir the electorate out of its customary apathy. Ironically enough, the very word propaganda is a glaring instance of how much is in a name. "Propaganda" began life as a most respectable word; it is from the Latin, and signifies a college insti tuted by Pope Urban VIII in the 17th century to educate priests ior missions. Originally, it meant educat ing for the propogation of the faith. But in time the word "propaganda" itself took on an evil and ugly connotation; when we say, "That's only propaganda," we are giving a disreputable name to some thing quite useful and neces sary namely, the propagat ing of a belief by its adher ents. The word "dogma" has suf fered the same verbal fate; it means merely a code of tenets or opinions but calling our adversary "dogmatic" is a means of rebuffing him with out refuting his arguments. JENKINS tion a minor tragedy but a tragedy, just the same. It is described in this dispatch from Washington: IjMNDING his favorite lizard " hunting grounds taken for housing projects, 7-year-old Scott Peter Turner of San Diego took his pen in hand the other day and protested to President Kennedy. He embodied his protest in this hand-printed letter: "Dear Mr. President: "We have no place to go when we want to go out in the canyon, because they are going to build houses there. Could you set aside some land where we could play? Thank you for listening. "Love. Scott" OCOTT'S father, is an ac- companying note, said his son had gone to some previ ously open land to hunt liz ards, only to find that one area was occupied by a field restricted to ORGANIZED PLAY, and the canyon had been pre-empted by home con struction. The father added: "In building our progres sive world of supervised play and sterilized playthings, we seem to have forgotten that a youth needs trees and frogs and earth with ants In it . . . It's it nostalgically sad when, in an era of seemingly intel lectual advancement and highly civilized progress a little boy can't find a place to play?" IT IS. indeed. But. that's what happens when everybody in a whole big country WANTS TO LIVE IN ONE PLACE-which is what Is happening in South ern California. About all I can think of to suggest to Scott is that he come up here where there are paces that are still wide open. Come on. son. We'll do our best for you. Foreign News: Optimism for Declining Tensions By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Jfotes from the Foreign news cables: Declining Optimism President Kennedy warned Americans not to become overly-optimistic over the So- vietagreement to remove its missiles from Cuba. And other Western statesmen ad vised the Pol- lavannna nnt I VfjS! I to work their aLA49ll nPes 0 n'gn tBBaatV.avlteBBtl over n nn-ssi. Nawiom ble change of heart by the Kremlin after Cuba. Now 1he realities are beginning to sink in. Indica tions reaching Western capi tals from Moscow in the wake of Nlkita Khrushchev's Cuban backdown show no inclination so far on the part of the So viets to make any note worthy concessions. In Gen eva, too, the Russians to date have remained as unyielding as ever on disarmament and a nuclear test ban. The only note-worthy development at present is the absence of any Drummond Reports (Walter Lippmann tt In Europe. Roieot Drummond reports from Washington in hit absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune ln. HOW KENNEDY STANDS IN EUROPE ' London There is new re spect, trust, and reliance for the United States throughout Western Europe today. If Western Europe's polit ical leaders and people ex cept the Communists were called upon to register a vote today, John F. Kennedy would be elected head of the free world alliance. , It would be a clear verdict, a decisive vote of confidence in the President of the Unit ed States not just because the U. S. has the power to lead, but because of the wise and effective use of that power. This is the visible fruit of the President's confrontation of Khrushchev over Cuba, which most of Europe feared when It began, but which it now welcomes with a huge satisfaction and lift. The effect of this new atti tude, evident wherever I have been travelling in London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin Is to give Mr. Kennedy larger lat itude for Initiative and action if he wants to use it. There are two reasons why leadership opinion and public opinion have a new degree, a very marked new degree, of trust in the President. He used American power prudently and called into use no more force than was needed. It was successful. The Europeans liked it. They respected it. There is now a remarkable Increase of confidence in the President. THIS wasn't true at the be ginning of the Cuban blockade except in West German and in West Berlin where the almost universal re action was "At last." It was particularly not true in Britain where the govern ment was cautious and non committal immediately after the President's Oct. 22 speech and where the London press, with the single exception of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Ex press, was wringing its hands and crying, "Oh, dear, don't do this to us!" But the change in British press opinion was almost equally total. It is revealing to note how sharp and com plete that change was once it became clear that America's resolute confrontation was causing a Soviet retreat. Before Khrushchev capitu "Why. li t . . . Ne, it can be . . Richard Nixon . . . t" Fades; French Cabinet slated . . a-li ft -t D-J fL : n real pressure for a Berlin settlement, and even on this one Moscow gently needled the West again last week in notes to Washington, London and Paris. Khrushchev still may be making up. his mind on the next phase of the cold war and how it la to be pursu ed. But the optimists who have predicted a new era of good will In Soviet diplomacy are beginning to be less opti mistic. French Government The word from Paris is that French Premier Georges Pompidou's new government to be announced Dec. 6 is un likely to show any startling changes. Key posts such as those of foreign minister, in terior and finance will be filled by the same men who held them before a rebellious parliament toppled the gov ernment and forced President De Gaulle to go to the people for an overwhelming electoral victory. Guerrilla Warriors A couple of months ago, heavy weather forced a strange rubber-flotilla into a remote corner of Hong Kong, lated, the Daily Telegraph (Conservative) said that the presence of offensive Soviet weapons in Cuba was "not enough" to allow the U. S. to take the world to the brink. After Khrushchev backed down, it said: "The great thing is that we are now back from the brink and this we owe to the power of the Unit ed States and the persistence of its President." The first response of the Daily Mail (Conservative) was to call the President's action a "profound mistake," but later, as Khrushchev was step ping back, it concluded that the blockade was "justified and inevitable unless the President was to shirk his responsibilities." Before Khrushchev re coiled, the Guardian of Man chester (Liberal) declared there was "no shred of ex cuse" for what the U. S. did to the Soviets in Cuba, but after Khrushchev recoiled it found there was a difference between NATO bases' in Tur key and Soviet missiles in Cuba. - For a week the Tribune (far-Left Labor) attacked the American action and later candidly and handsomely ad mitted that it was wrong. And so It went with 98 per cent of the British press, at the outset bemoaning the risk and the praising Its success . ' BUT THE British press was out of touch with the Brit ish people, or, at least, failed in any way to reflect British public opinion. Well before Khrushchev gave in, that is. within two days after the American action became known, the National Opinion Poll found that 58 per cent of the British people endorsed the American action and 66 per cent wanted their govern ment to support the United States. Today British official and public opinion are united and the British press has come around. Today the highest officials of the British government, as on the continent, are high in praise not only of what the U. S. did, but the way it did it. They credit the President with great skill, resolve, and prudence, and feel that he brilliantly used the tools of power, diplomacy, and prop aganda to counter aggression the way Khrushchev uses them to promote it. Aboard were 44 young Chi nese men in top physical con dition, expertly trained in guerrilla warfare and carry ing a full complement of portable weapons. Their orig inal destination had been the Washington Report By William (ei United Ftaturt Syndicate . THE REMEDY Washington - The Ameri can . foreign a l d program needs a hard-boiled examlna- f". tion of a sort 1 it has never 11 a u uewi c. Away with those kind 1 y re-surveys by its friends, of which it has had so many and from .aitJJl so little has White come, txtra- ordinary as this sounds, It re quires now to undergo a clinical probe from among its enemies, who will look at its faults more in anger than in sorrow. . ' . ' ' Running foreign aid has be come the hardest and most thankless job in Washington. This, in a bleak sentence, ex presses the chill inheritance which now befalls David Bell as the newly appointed for eign aid administrator. He follows a long line of men, sturdy characters on the whole, who came in here de termined to straighten up the shop in three months but found that the task had neith er beginning nor end. The latest of these is the retiring Fowler Hamilton. mo David Bell, this column- ist offers a decent sym pathy and also two recom mendations which, though seemingly frivolous, are meant with total seriousness: 1. That as, his first act he stimulate a new look at for. eign aid by a committee of the crustiest bankers, bureau crat-haters and anti- foreign aid people he can find. From this panel he should auto matically exclude any person who ever remotely favored the program. Thus when the verdict from the new inquest does come in, it will at least be free of any public sus picion that the jury was load ed. This would appear a dan gerous recourse to. doubtful cures. But the fact is that the program, for all its manifold short-comings, has, in the past certainly, been enormously useful to the Free World. This correspondent believes a strictly hostile inquiry Into it would anyhow establish that 1 T-T Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, ' although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication Is permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Tha letters p.inted in this column do not necessarily represent the views of tha Daper: In fact the contrary is often the cate. Shelter for Animals To the, Editor: With' the coming of cold and often freezing weather, owners of, and those resnonsihle fnr nn. imals are particularly warned mat local law requires mat such animals be provided with shelter that is both nrnnpr anH adequate. This means warm, ary ana sunicientiy large. Penalties for disregard of this law are fiO ftavs in iail nr $100 fine, or both. This abom ination for rhany of these animals are smooth coated dogs, short chained day and night and therefore unable to keep warm through exercise Is the result of either a oH lack of humane education or just plain indifference. Many of the victims are hunting doss who. in common decency, deserve better treat ment consiaenng tneir serv ices to their owners. If you see such neglect, first warn wait a few days for Im provement, then rennrt tha case to the Humane Society or to the police. Please! tthel L. Marley Rogue Valley Manor Medford. Fair Criticised To the Editor: On rw a tha State Fair Commission has scheduled a meeting, presum ably to discuss storm damage, future nolicies. huHooi anJ who is to be next year's fea ture entertainer. Urscl Narver. rnmni,.i - vii1II30IVI1 Chairman, has recently m.. some interesting remarks in me omem statesman i Saf ety Valve". He sound a inn. like someone who believes that once he has said some thing on any subject, little or nothing more remain. k- said on the subject. I believe that a ereal tri more might ha um ti. statute creatine ih (,. i. .... ,e out dated and tn manv wavt. aV i plain foolish. It presumes, and in 1962 mind you, that Ore- coast of Red China. But for the unexpected storm, these nationllst Chinese agents would have wreaked their havoc on the Communists and the world would have been none the wiser. S. White much and moreover would have the great virtue of clear ing the air once and for all. JPIOR if every Instance of waste or overspreading or foolishness could be put out on the public record, by men not open to the faintest sus piclon of pro-aid bias, a be ginning could be made to. ward the real problem. This is to salvage all that is good and kick out all that is bad. 2. That Bell take a decision to deal in Congress hereafter to the farthest possible extent more with aid's enemies than with its friends. These friends are in combat fatigue. They have so long heard so many reproaches against the pro gram, sound or unsound, that they are now very defensive men, no longer really reliable either as its allies or as good potential critics. In this the new administra. tor would have nothing to lose - and just possibly some, thing to gain. Speaking gen. erally, the program's enemies are the tough types within the House and Senate Appro priations committees who for years have had to pony up the money for a policy they have never really understood and never liked because it has largely been in the hands of the Foreign Affairs commit tees. COME of their hostility -and it Is this hostility which is the vital factor in the whole business - rests on: these simple facts. Admitted ly, there is not the slighest assurance that when they un derstood the program better they will be any more gener ous toward it. Still, there is always the possibility that they will. For, show them a good investment - and strip away from it all do-gooding talk and considerations - and they just might respond. The point is that unless and until they are "sold," to use a plain, bald term which these fellows well understand, and convinced that this nation is getting Its money's worth, this thing is going to be an endless headache from which the patient will surely die in the end of chronic migraine. If the remedy is desperate, then so is the disease. gon's nearly two million peo ple are uneducated, unsophis ticated, and more than a littia bit back-woodsy. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Enough has been said about the potato peelers, pari mutual, massage chairs and general filth, so I needn't go into that here. The Commis sion last year put close to ona hundred thousand dollars into the most uninspired fair build ing I have seen anywhere on earth, little realizing that the same materials, labor and paint, could, with imagina tion build an interesting struc ture even for horse view ing. ; . If, as Mr. Narver has said, the Commission welcomes comments and suggestions for improvements, I would like to make the following general ones: 1 Gct active, experienced people to get out and promote all phases of the fair the year round. 2 Find some younger peo ple with timely ideas. Believa it or not, fresh ideas cost no more than stale ones. 3 Gear to a competitive basis with other selling and entertainment attractions. 4 Offer greater incentives for professional people and large firms to display. 5 Get rid of the idea that once you have seen the faif you needn't go again, or that it's just Salem's fair, not the State of Oregon's. 6 Study the possibilities of using the grounds for some other purpose the other 50 weeks of the year a com munity college for instance. If the CommUsion cannot find ways tn do these things, People should b found who can. Otherwise, close th place up and bury the dead hortc. Jeb Stewart 330 High st. SX. Salem, Ore,
