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COITORtAl NEWSPAPER PUILISHEM ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha files of The Mail Tribun. 10, 20, 30, 40 nd 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 10, 1953 (Sunday) 1 Early action on an applica tion for construction of a tel evision station to serve the Medford and Grants Pass areas was forecast today in a stoiy in the Grants Pass Courier. Men who constructed the new Mercy Flights, Inc., hang ar at the Medford airport, and firms which donated or sold at cost materials used to build it. were honored at a dinner last night. 20 YEARS AGO Fob. 10, 1943 (Friday) Medford VFW post decides not to hold annual program commemorating sinking of battleship Maine because of travel difficulties brought about by war. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Espee train from the north was on time the first of the .....1. 1 IL. . I 1 .If 1 , (VCCA, anu mo Jllijatjv an uui occurred again the last of the week." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 10, 1933 (Sunday) Jackson county Lincoln club votes confidence in all county officers and "wave of agitation" in county is de plored. Oregon stale game code is changed to allow anglers to keep "little" fish. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 10., 1923 (Monday) Medford moving picture theaters announce plans to show pictures of proposed new armory building. Local group opposes plans for construction of new high school building. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 10. 1913 (Wednesday) Rogue valley Socialists 2 J..... fin,. ntti iwn'd "capitalists, war, taxes and the gold standard." Local post office officials report heavy mail load be lieved caused by approach of Valentine's day. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten corracl ts superior; seven or eifiht is escsllettt; five or sis it good. 1. Name the three former ly independent Baltic states that were incorporated Into the Soviet Union. 2. In what manner did Ju das Iscariot commit suicide? 3. What is the capital of New Zealand? 4. Docs one set or sit In a chair? 5. In which state Is the an nual Belmont Stakes run? 6. Who was President of France when the Nazis ob tained French surrender? 7. Where is the United States gold depository? 8. In which of Browning's works Is there a priest Ca ponacchi? a. i lie name mpiaay is as sociated with what hymn? 10. Four siates of the U S. have names that begin with the letter "w"; can you name them? Answers! 1. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. 2. Ha hanged him self. 3. Wellington. 4. Sit. S. New York. 6. Albert Lrbrun. 7. Fl. Knox, Ky. t. "Ipa Jtlrj and the Beck." 9. "J-oc' tl Ages." 10. VrtNngton, 'A'ett Virginia, Wyoming, Wiscon 4 A - FEBRUARY 10. 1963 Perfidious England, America "It is just not true to of Europe. There are today in lieigium enougn British craves to prove the contrary." The voice is that of Theo le Fevre ; he speaks for that other burope which remembers Verdun and the Maine, Dun kerque and Caen and the Ardennes, not for the "Europe of fatherlands" envisaged by Gen de Gaulle. To de Gaulle Britain is the Trojan Horse which would represent the United States in the . Common Market, swinging it around to "Anglo-Saxon" control. of France and certain sections of the trench press, "Anglo-Saxon," "insular," "maritime," and "Atlantism" have become dirty words. It is not too much to suggest, as the "Financial Times" of London has done, that de Gaulle has encouraged "anti-Americanism" in France. I ITTLE more than a week after the explosive 1-1 Jan. 4 news conference, the French govern ment television system broadcast a program trac ing the "special relationship" between the United States and Britain, questioning the reliability of the United States as an ally, and depicting Amer icans as uncultured and insensitive. And Prime Minister Georges Pompidou on Jan. 24 contributed to the anti-American theme by indicating that restrictions may be imposed on U.S. investments in France. Very real fear of American encroachment into the European Common Market was engendered by the recent deal by which Chrysler increased its holdinirs in the Simca automobile works from 25 to 63 per cent. General Motors and Ford al ready are heavily represented in West Germany. rE GAULLE'S distrust iroes far back; it may imagined mistreatment in World War II. In a press conference of November, 1959, he present ed what James Reston of the New York "Times'" calls an "apocalyptic vision" of the United States and the Soviet Union each its missiles at the mam itself be spared." The French President ture of Western Europe destroyed from Moscow and Central Europe from Washington. "And who can even say that the two rivals, after I know not what political and social upheaval, will not unite?" This is more than "anti-Amerieanism, more than suspicion. As applied to an ally, it borders on disloyalty. And it disregards the tact that the United States has stationed 400,000 ot us tinest troops in Europe who would be squarely on target in the holocaust dc Gaulle envisions. It ignores too, the massive U.S. contribution to the Atlantic shield, while the r rench contribu tion remains niggardly. TXE GAULLE'S anti-Americanism, as a prac tical matter, puts the whole Western Alliance in jeopardy. It has opened the terrifying possi bility of a French-led Europe turning to Russia to spite the "Anglo-Saxons." The French govern ment already has had to deny a report in an Olso newspaper that de Gaulle had offered Soviet Pre mier Khrushchev his own demilitarized, NATO-less The uazet van Antwerpen has at least tne Belgian answer to the threatened dilemma: "If a choice must be made . . . we still prefer to be placed under the wings of a powerful America rather than the influence of France, where no body knows what will happen after de Gaule has gone." E.R.R. Retraining and A start is being made flaw in application of ment and Training Act lC.Qngress, the jet provided ( hat nl training be lon-reiaieo ; no explicit, provision was macie ior basic reading, writing and arithmetic courses. Most local and state officials thought this meant that Washington would not allow them to offer literacy training. But it soon became clear that such a limitation made it impossible for the training program to reach the hard-core unem ployed. About half of those out of work have too little schooling to pass aptitude tests that would qualify them for training projects. MOW, officials have announced they will soon start a pilot program in the District of Colum bia built upon basic education. Some 12,500 resi dents of the District are unemployed, and the vast majority of thorn are functionally illiterate. To start with, 50 jobless men and women will be trained for service and maintenance jobs. Four fifths of their time will be spent in the classroom learning to read and write and do simple arith metic. Federal officials have given unofficial assur ance that such a program will be acceptable un der the act. They have decided that basic cduea tion is job-related; a waitress must read a menu, writp down an order, add up the bill; a Piaid has to take telephone messages and read grocery lists. The District of Columbia example may en courage other states to put larger doses of basic education in their retraining programs. Who can doubt that basic literacy is a prere quisite to successful training for even the simplest jobs in a technologically advanced society? There is a lesson here for educators. Former Labor Sec retary Arthur Goldberg once noted that the flow of poorly prepared people into the labor force must be halted "at the source the schools." E.R.R. say Britain is not part Belgian Prime Minister Indeed, to the President of the United States stem from his real or "deciding not to launch enemy so that it should went on to draw a pic "grand design" for a Europe. the Three R s on rectifying a serious the Manpower Develop of 19(52. As passed by MEOFORO "Come On How About Dismantling Them?" Matter of Fact (c) Npw York Herald CHADAAEYEV AND "VALERIY" Washington - A book every one should read is "One Day in the Life of Ivan Deniso- vich" by Al exander Solz henitsyn. This is the deep etched, darkly terrible and pitiless por trayal of life in one of Sta lin's p r 1 s o n camps, which has been pub tisnp lished in Russia by Khrush chev's direct permission. Two English versions exist. One is the handiwork of the outstanding young English scholar. Max Hayward, who so admirable translated "Dr. Zhivago." The other was pre pared in Moscow by the Eng lish quasi-defector, Ralph Par ker, whose wife is a she-col onel in the Soviet secret po lice. These facts should be suf ficient to determine the choice of version. In one version or the other, the book should be read, not just because it is a literary work of great power and truth, but also because it is a highly significant political event. Khrushchev's decision to permit publication was, in itself, a political act, akin to his macabre decision to re bury Josef Stalin. T IKE the public inquest on "the past that culminated in the re-burial of Stalin, this permission to publish - was also an act of some daring. The book, like the inquest, in fact raises grave questions about the inner nature of So viet society. Its author's bold intention to raise such ques tions may be judged from the symbols he uses. Considers the prisoners' construction of a "socialist community devel opment," in which the first stage is putting up an encir cling barbed wire fence. Yet one must not be mis led by the approved appear ance of this astonishing book. It means that intellectual life in the Soviet Union is more free, but it docs not mean that It is truly free. The right balance is sug gested by another case that is due to make considerable noise before long. A member in good standing of the So v,1"!'. .."Titers' union, vas been given the Western pseudonym of "Valeriy," has now joined the ranks of So viet authors who have smug gled out their works for pub lication in Western countries. "VALERIY's" bitter novel, ' "Bluebottle," which con cerns a disillusioned philoso pher, differs from Solzhcnit syn's book in the souse that it is a direct, frontal attack on the Soviet system as run by 0 cx.rtifttmtitea 'T In 4 -C "It's good having the world beck to normal erery body has a grand design te achieve power. It's like the good ole pre-war riyil" MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate Khrushchev. It even contains a long chapter dealing mainly with a certain "Apostolov," who is pictured as a cynical Communist careerist. Aposto lov is, in fact, an obvious pen- portrait of Nikita S. Khrush chev himself. The pseudonymous "Val eriy" not only defied the re gime by smuggling out his manuscrips; he also took few pains to conceal what he has done from the authorities. He has now been dealt with by the simple expedient of de claring him to be insane and sending him to a lunatic asy lum. He Is the second overly- critical Soviet writer to be disposed of in this manner. The other is Essenin Volpin, th illegitimate son of the great poet of the early post revolutionary period, Sergei Essenin. But although "Val eriy" is only the second So viet writer to be rewarded for excessive outspokenness with a padded cell, he belongs to a larger company of Russian writers. INDEED, his case almost ex actly parallels that of the early nineteenth century wri ter, Chadaaeycv, who publish ed a bitter attack on the Rus sia of Czar Nicholas I. Nicho ls's police also took the easy way out, bundling Chadaacy ev off to the madhouse on the ground that he could never Jsave written such things un less insane. But in Khrushchev's time, as in the time of Nicholas I, even the threat of the mad house is not enough to con tain the ferment. Consider, for instance, the case of Syn tax, the clandestine literary journal published by a group of young intellectuals con nected with Moscow Univer sity. It was suppressed, after an indignant snort in Izvcstia about the impertinence of good-for-nothings who at tempt to climb Mount Par nassus." But the dead Syntax came to life .again as Boomerang; and when this second clandes tine journal was also sup pressed, it loo came to life again under the appropriate title. The Phoenix. The Phoe nix may perhaps be dead by now, although according to last reports it was still circu lating its officially disapprov ed poetry and prose. All of .lion sugx-sts a truth of great political as well as intellectual signifi cance. The truth is that there is nothing more difficult than finding a half way house be tween the total silence of to tal terror and the total out spokenness of total freedom. It is pleasant to think, at least for a moment, about Khrushchev's coping with this prubicin, if only as a change from thoughts of Gen de C'.aulle. OREGON In the Day's News By FRANK Big question: What's really going on in Cuba? When we told the Russians back in October to take their deadly toys and GO HOME and take their nuclear mis siles with them did they do it? Or are they finagling? JT'S hard for us ordinary J- citizens to say with con viction. The reason it's hard for us to say and to be SURE that what we're saying is RIGHT is that the whole Cuban ques tion is so heavily loaded with politics. If the Russians DID get out taking with them the whole kit and kaboodle of their of fensive nuclear armament it was a great victory for the Kennedy administration. If they DIDN'T if they hid a considerable part of it out, in caves and elsewhere, where it can't be seen by our spies in the sky it will be very damaging indeed to the Ken nedy administration. That's the politics of it. WHOM shall we believe? Well, Secretary of De fense McNamara, a former" in dustrialist who is undoubtedly anxious to get out of politics as soon as he has finished his mission there and get back to the good clean business of making a good product and selling it to people who want it and thus making a profit for his company's sharehold ers, lays it on the line. H E SAYS: "I believe beyond reason ai" Vai w 1 1 1 1 Protests Park Proposal To the Editor:. Owners of unoccupied land near the lakes in the Oregon Dunes Seashore Park are no doubt delighted by the news from Washington, D.C., that the lakes and most of the adjacent land will not be included in the new legislation. The public should not be delighted. The public loss will be immense private gain. This land's value will now soar even faster than previously and its use will be confined to the very few people who are rich enough to buy land there. The late Sen. Richard Nou- berger, with whom I worked in Congress on the formation of the Park, would not have been delighted. On the basis of our studies and hearings, including the advice of the best qualified experts in rec reation planning, we conclud ed that the Park had to in clude the lakes and the land around them. Governor Hatfield, after a thorough study, publicly en dorsed our legislation which included the whole area. The Dunes themselves are already publicly owned and devoted to recreational use. Under the proposed "com promise" the only changes would be in the agency of con trol (Park Service instead of Forest Service) and in adding a strip of land on both sides of Highway 101 and includ ing cptp frontage on the west side of the lakes. Such a "compromise" scut tles the park both as to ca pacity and versatility. And why? To avoid taking homes, we are told, although that was never contemplated in the De Gaulle By ERIC SEVAREID If Charles dc Gaulle is crowning his giant's career with a gigantic mistake, it "TJ5fva win oe oc ! cause 'lis sense ot time, not timinc. is out of joint with that nf his contemp oraries. H i s mind inhabits the far distant past and the far distant ytSaTS, "Wfift TP! future. He wishes to resurrect the European hegemony of the Mediterranean culture which passed with Napoleon's defeat. He envisages the end of the cold war and the rap proachment with Soviet Rus sia, although most of the cur rent evidence surely means that what he has now done to the W?sl's Grand Design will encourage the Russians ;o intensify the cold war in order to expand the breach. Near the tap root of de Gaulle's cosmic thinking lies a profound distrust, not only of Anglo-Saxon civilization as a civilization, but of the Anglo-Americans as states men. As translated from de Gaulle's past writing!., this means, simply, that Dritain and the United States will al ways, in tlic test, combine to gether, whatever the loss to Frame. And what he has now done Is surely to bring about what he dislikes the mo in JENKINS able doubt that ALL offensive weapons systems have BEEN REMOVED FROM THE IS LAND OF CUBA and NONE has been introduced there since." That's pretty flat and, coming from a businessman who wants to do a good job for his country and then get back to his own job it has to be given respectful atten tion. That's about the long and the short of it up to now. FROM Salem: Th ftrct nf nncuihlu 1Hn million worth of highway bonding proposals came to light in the 52nd Legislative Assembly last week a $37 million proposal that would spread improvements over seven highways and a number of legislative districts in the state. It is expected that this will be the first of a series of spe cial highway bonding propos als that may reach up to a total approximating $100 mil lion. T ET'S hope it gets nowhere. Let's hope NO BOND ING PROPOSAL gets any where in this session of the Oregon legislature. Here in Oregon, let's PAY OUR WAY AS WE GO from here on out even if it hurts like a sore thumb. The federal government is a bad enough example of what happens when putting it on the cuff and leaving PAY MENT up to future genera tions comes to be the accepted rule. Let's keep Oregon solvent. 1 1 U 1 1 1 W U bills Dick Neuberger and I filed. This misrepresentation persists and even finds sup port in Washington. I don't oppose compromise. It is the essence of our sys tem of government. But why retreat in the face of an at tack by unarmed enemies to a position that isn't worth holding? I hope editors and other citizens will speak up in protest while there is .still time' to establish an Oregon Dunes Seashore Park that will truly be an Oregon and a national asset worthy of its uniquely wonderful site and worthy of the memory of its principal advocate, Richard L. Neuberger. Charles O. Porter 858 Pearl st. Eugene, Ore. Something For Nothing? To the Editor: The almost full-page ad in Wednesday's M-T by the proponents of con solidation of Districts 549C and 4 is a good example of the 'something for nothing' think ing currently displayed in Washington, D.C. Why should a district oper ated on a sound fiscal policy tie itself to a heavily bonded district? Of special interest in the ad were items No. 1 and No. 6. No. 1 says no increase to tax payers, No. 6 says "would im mediately set in action plans to construct a second high school." For free maybe? Marble halls with superflu ous courses do not necessarily turn out intelligent, capable, wage earning citizens. Charles B. McGarvic, P. O. Box 28, Rogue River, Ore. Seeks to the post-war pattern of align ments. This attitude was crystal lized in 1942, when de Gaulle concluded with resentment that Winston Churchill had decided, once for all, to bow to the imperious necessity of the American alliance ("War Memoirs of General de Gaulle The Call to Honour"). Mac- millan's compliance at Nassau in December with the Ken nedy nuclear plan for Europe merely confirmed de Gaulle in his conviction. But he did not deliver his blow to Britain because of this, or because his treaty with Germany was signed, or because Russia's fall-out with Red China has been crystal lized, lie did it when these things had happened, as he has always serenely expected them to happen. No doubt, he i now waits with equal serenity I for the fulfillment of his prophecy that America will I leave Europe. This thought is ! the child of a wish, and his actions to come will be chil ' dren of the thought. He will i do his best, in many ways, to bring this about. What we had forgotten about General dc Gaulle was his capacity, as former Sec retary Dulles once privately put it, "to wait." And so we are surprised and shocked at his smashing blow at Britain's hopes. Yet, two and a half years ago I wrote in this space and I could not havebcen Today & Tomorrow By Walter (c) 1963. The THE MESS WITH CANADA The critical mistake in our affair with Canada was to make any public statement about the ne gotiations be tween tne two govern ments. How ever provok ing Mr. Diet enbaker's dis closures about c o n f idential matters, this was a t i m e Llppmanb when a wise government would have remained silent. It would have been well to remember that it is not neces sary to win every argument, and whoever made the final decision in Washington should have known that this contro versy was one which should resolutely have been handled by quiet diplomacy. He should have realized that this was an especially bad moment to engage in a public contro versy. Our dealings with the Can adian government have no doubt been complicated. But the crucial issue is the same one which has disrupted our relations with France and shaken the whole Western Al liance, and has alienated us from General de Gaulle. It is how to reconcile the Ameri can nuclear monopoly with the sovereign independence of our closest allies. It was a thoughtless decision to em broil us with Ottawa in a rel ative minor aspect of the great issue which is posed from Paris. General de Gaulle L I w I S What Kind of Man? To the Editor: What kind of human being is this man who on a cold winter night could (and did) leave a de fenseless woman in the moun tains to die? E. W. Bradbury 6050 Old Highway 99 South Ashland Comments on Statements To the Editor: It is really astonishing, in considering the school consolidation issue, to read the great amount of mis information contained in the "Communications" letters from District 4. One letter suggested the 4-H club program would be lost through consolidation, when in fact, the 4-H club program is an extra curricular activity ana would in no way be af fected by consolidation. Another statement, un founded in fact, suggested a lack of library facilities in Medford's elementary schools in contrast to the elementary schools in Phoenix. There are librarians and library facili ties in all' of Medford's ele mentary schools. And, as for Phoenix-Talent children being "lost" in a big ger system-this is nothing but propaganda and leads this writer to feel that some peo ple have little faith in their children's capacity to make the'r way in a bigger school and in a bigger "world" out side. Such an attitude would deny to their children the ex posure to a bigger and better school experience in both school facilities and curricu lum. There is no question in my um Resurrect Europe alone "what Gaullism im plies for the West is almost total repudiation of the Grand Design for peace and security as conceived and labored at for 15 years." I added that if de Gaulle's "Europe des Patrics" means anything dii- j fcrcr.t from the old sv stern that was the affliction on Eur ope and the world, it is hard to see what it is. It remains quite as hard to day, for there is no implicit rpason to helipve the French German aiiiance is made of more durable stuff than the American alliance with Eur ope; no overwhelming reason to think that France will not again become politically dis orderly when de Gaulle de parts, or to think that France can permanently lead a Eur ope that contains the German race, fundamentally more dis ciplined and more militant than the French. In a sense, de Gaulie still uses weakness as a weapon, a stratagem of which he proved himself master in World W'ar II. At one point, quarreling with Britain over the Levant and East Africa, he broke off relations between the Free French and his allies, though he possessed but a few battal ions, supplied by his allies, ex isting through their agree ment. At another point in those quarrels, he threatened to take the Free French out of all fighting and use then to Llppmann Washington Pott was quite sufficient. We did not have to take on Mr. Diefenbaker as well. WHAT went wrong in Wash ington was that the final decision to scold the Canad ian government was not seen in the context of our foreign policy as a whole. Who does see our foreign policy as a whole in all its ramifications? This deplorable and annoyed episode has raised again tha question of how to organize the control of foreign policy. The question cannot be ans wered by saying that X rather than Y should be Secretary of State. The heart of the prob lem is that, in the post-war era, so many departments ot the government are involved in foreign policy that no Sec retary of State can direct all of it. a IN PRINCIPLE, only tha Chief Executive can con duct a foreign policy which is in fact formulated and admin istered by State, Defense, Treasury and Intelligence. But in practice, no President can do it because the decision is so complicated and he has so many other things to do. What has in fact developed is the conduct of our foreign policy by committees of which the President is tha chairman, and on big ques tions the final arbiter. This committee system fills what would otherwise be a vacuum. Without it, there would in practice be no way to make the decisions by which the great chiefs of the govern ment departments work out a consensus. We must ask ourselves what system would work better. An omniscient Secretary of State advising the President'. The fact is that there can be no Secretary of State who is omniscient enough. For this country is involved deeply in all five continents, and ines capably, whatever the formal titles, there will in practice ba several Secretaries of State. We are not alone in this. In Great Britain, Lord Home is the Foreign Secretary and Mr. Heath handles relations with Europe. MY OWN impression of the committee system today is that the level of intelligence among the principal figures is high. But it has its defects, and they have become vividly manifest in the aftermath ot the Gaullist explosion. Like all committees, whether they run a government or a news paper, they tend to favor a consensus over creation. What is most obviously needed in Washington at this moment is original thinking. General de Gaulle has shattered the post war structure of United States' foreign policy, and w are launched on seas for which the old charts do not show us the way. It is easier, 1 know, for an outsider to say it than for the President to do it. But what is needed is an infusion ot fresh and unfrightened minds, not to replace the men who are there but to refresh them. mind Uiat a vole for consoli dation is a vote for better schools and a vote for a better education for our children. R. H. Travis 1100 Mira Mar McdfciH hold down French territories he believed the British laid covetous eyes upon. A man that bold is a man bold enough for anything. He un derstood perfectly well his own operation; it was not purely emotional reaction, as many then thought, but cold ly conceived. In one passion ale interview with Churchill, he made it plain. His memoiri include this passage: "We spoke of Roosevelt and of his attitude toward me. Don't rush Ulings!' said Churchill. 'Look at the way I yield and rise up again, turn and turn about.' "You can,' I remarked, 'because you are seated on a solid State, an as sembled nation, a united Em pire, large armies. But I! W:here are my resources? And yet I, as you know, am re sponsible for the interests and destiny of France. It is too heavy a burden and I am too poor to be able to bow'." On? cannot czl this strsic gem irresponsibility; d e Gaulle is quite convinced that his present ends fit the tide of history. But it remains true that the manner of his doing what he has now done is a manner available only to a small power. This is why President Kennedy, tacticailv weakened by the inescapable responsibility of great power, cannot act against de Gualle in like manner. (Distributed 1963 by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Reserved)