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WEDNESDAY. 'Everyone In Southern Oregon ReadjjriwMaU Tribune Kbiuned Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North Firjl- Ph.jnl ROBERT W RUKU "' HERB GREY Advertmns Manasel GERALD T LATHAM. Bu Mr ERIC ALLEN JR. Mne Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARR CH1PMAN. Teleg Editor SlCHARD JEWETT. Spo'ru Editor OLiVE STARCHER Women ! Editor DALE ER1CKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent N'w'P'P" Entered lecond claaa matter it Medlord Oregon under Act ol Mnrch S. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance Daily and Sunday 1 year B OO Daily and Sunday moa 10 00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa. 3 00 Sunday Only One year IS.00 Single Copy (Malledl 200 By Cainei-And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year Ml. 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1-73 Sunday Only I mo. 60c Carrlei andVendora j:opy 100 Orftctil PP of City of Medford Official Paper of Jachaon County " United Presa International Full Leafed Wire U P 1 Telephofo Newsplcturei "ifEMBER OF AUDIT" BUREAU" " Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSOrT ROBERTS i ASSOCI ATES Ol'icea In New York, Chi rago Detroit. San Franclico. Loi Angein. Seattle. Portland. Den'-er. NATIONAL EDITORIAL Ll'f'.lQ'.'l!! NEWSPAPER PU1LISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the tiles of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50' yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 13. 1953 (Wedneiday) General Petroleum compa ny and Signal Oil company both announced 1V4 cent per gallon increases in wholesale gasoline prices today. A tank and pumper combi nation fire truck arrived in Medford Monday and was be ing tested today on Barnett rd. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 13. 1943 (Monday) , County Engineer Paul Ryn ning to seek government ap proval for asphalt to complete paving of Table Ttock rd. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "New Brass is coming up. If the predicted food shortage gels worse people can scare up a soup-bone and a hatful of It and make out a meal some how." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 13, 1933 (Wedneiday) Jackson county promised maximum of $25,000 a month for relief needs. Law requiring three days residence in Oregon before marriage licenses arc grant ed expected to hit Jackson county finances because of -large number of persons com ing here from California for quick marriages. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 13. 1923 (Thundiy) "Cowboys" round up some 5U0 head of cattle being graz ed in Table Rock district. Deputy stale vehicle inspec tor warns that cars with 1922 license plates will no longer be allowed on public high ways. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 23. 1913 (Saturday) City of Giants Pass fails to sell SOO.OUO in bonds for pro posed Grants Pass to Central Point lailroad. Jackson county's assessed valuation placed at $36,682, 124 by tax rolls completed by County Clerk Gardiner. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina or ten correct li superior; even or eight ii eicellant; tire or lix il good. I. Without looking - how many noics arc there in a tele phone dial? 2. What (ypes of fish arc found in Great Salt Lake in Utah? 3. Which President of the U. S. wrote the first t e n amendments to the Constitu tion? 4. What sea disaster was partly responsible for causing the Spanish-American War? 5. What was the first major league team to win a World beries? 6. What was Simple Simon doing when he met the pie man? 7. What was the promised land to which Moses led the Israel lies? 8. Do the Green Mountains of Vermont belong to the Ap palachian or Bitleiool range? 9. The Ganges river empties into what body of water? 10. We've heard It did but is it a fact that London Bridge once fell dow n? Aniwara: 1. Ten. 2. None. 3. Jamei Madison, 4. Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine. 5. Red Sox. 6. Going to the fair. 7. Canaan. 8. Appalachian. 9. Bey of Bengal. 10. Yei, in 1091. FEBRUARY 13. 19S3 Who Will Buy the Fords? Yesterday in this space, we set forth some of the views of an engineer - the future of the nation more widespread. Today we report some leader, also given at last Assembly at Lottage Urove. The labor representative is Irving limestone, administrative assistant to dent of the United Automobile Workers. He was rather less optimistic about automation than some of the speakers and painted a gloomy picture unless some startling and radical changes are made not only in our economy, but essentially in our way of life. LJERE ARE SOME of the signs and portents Mr. Bluestone recounted: Production has gone up 28 per cent since 1953, but the number of workers doing the pro ducing has declined 7 per In the automobile with 1948, there were 2(J trucks produced, but 22 employed. In steel, 1901 compared with 1948, produc tion was down 2 per cent, but employment was down 22 per cent. In rubber, same years of comparison, pro duction was up 96 per cent but employment was up only 11 per cent. In electronics, production was up 116 per cent, but employment was a LIE PUT IT another way: "The number of man days lost from unemployment in the past 11 months was more than has been lost by strikes in the past 35 years of American history." He also recounted one grim -little joke, per haps apocryphal. It seems that Reuther was be ing shown through a brand-new Ford Motor Com pany plant, where many of the operations were automated with great and complicated ma chines doing the work of many men. The manager turned "Well, Walter, how are you going to collect union dues from these machines?" Reuther replied, "Frankly, that's not what worries me. You tell me going to buy Ford cars." IT IS THE studied belief of engineers, econo- mictc inrl nel eiul icte unrl nfViorc in tlio fnvnf rnnt of the new technology that, within the next two decades, it will be possible to do almost all pro duction work in this nation with automated equipment machines which not only do the man ual labor involved, but which do most of the non creative thinking involved, not only in produc tion, but also in accounting, bookkeeping, record keeping, and minor decision-making. Some of the resulting unemployment can be, eventually, absorbed into service occupations, which in recent years has been among the fastest growing parts of the economy. Still, before this can happen, there will be a drastic toll of human misery and worry and fear unless we prepare for the transition. RUT, IF THE dimensions of the problem are not overstated (and we do not believe thev ire), an even greater problem remains. What will happen to those who do not have the skills and education needed to work in the service indus tries? What of those who, because of sheer num bers, eaitnot find other employment? A corrolary to the assumption that machines can do all or almost all of the production is that the wealth thereby created would exceed that be ing created today. But, if half the labor force is unemployed, who will, who can, buy? Somehow a device for throughout the populace ancient ami honored wage-salary system must be devised, not only for will have no jobs, but economy going. THERE ARE other problems. Tw .1 , 1 , 1 ! I i. 1 i-nnimv ill uiaiiiiiwn ii fil ing lutti. till: iiiiiiiuua ilii- out jobs are fed and housed, and provided with the wherewithal to continue being consumers of goods, the human desire to be needed and help- iul and productive must somehow be satisfied. Few people will want to spend their lives collecting a government check. Most people must be doing something ami doing something which gives them the inner satisfaction of knowing that it is in some manner useful or productive. Vast new amounts of leisure time will be available to millions. What to do with it? AT THE ASSEMBLY, those present kept com ing back to education continued, intensive, broad, and universal education. One speaker speculated that up to half the population could be involved in education and in what he termed "exploring" not only the earth and the seas ami the siiace around us, but also exploring the human iinnu ami psyene. These concepts are startling to a generation raised in the old tradition that work is a positive virtue, and that idleness is, somehow, reprehens ible, and that anyone not living on money earned is a social parasite. Hie tradition is so linnly ingrained that it will be most difficult to change. lint the r-inns all point to the conclusion that machines soon will lie doing the bulk of the labor now done by people, and that new attitudes to ward work, leisure, education and productivity are going to bo necessary if we are going to con tinue to be masters of our own destiny, and not pawns of a mechanistic determinism. E. A. industrialist concerning as automation becomes of the views of a labor week s facuic Northwest Walter Reuther, presi cent. industry, 1961 compared per cent more cars and per cent fewer workers up only 23 per cent. to Keuther and asked, how these machines are snreadimr this wealth a device to ronlace our the benefit of those who also simply to keep the fli.il I It 1 1 1 1 .-.no utilli "Idol Mutt Have ...Communications... Wrong Tangent To the Editor: "Never speak out in print unless you are standing on firm ground." Reading this sentence makes me approach the writing of this letter with a certain de gree of trepidation. But then I remember Elmer Davis's ad monition, "Don't let them scare you. Having about the normal supply of human conceit, I will say that I had most philo sophical and human facts straight before I commenced reading Communications in the Medford Tribune. Other wise I might have been brain washed. The purpose of this letter is to lake issue with those letter- writers who extol the virtues of HCUA, that monstrosity born and bred out of hysteria, and which is a poor reflection on the American dream. It started with the Palmer raids after the first World War, then continued with McCar thyism in the 50s and is now firmly established in the HCUA. For every person caught with a slight taint of Communism, there are ten who are unnecessarily har- rasscd and whose lives are ir revocably wrecked by the ir responsible methods of this branch of government. In combatting Communism, is it necessary to adopt the meth ods of the communists? To further bolster my con tention that we are taking off on a wrong tangent, I would like to present three quotes from the book. "The Sixth Column," by Roger Burlin game. The first is by 137 Cali fornia ministers: 'Any group or individual, however well 1 n t e n tioucd, that promotes a program of hatred, suspicion and distrust of our free American institu tions ... is unwittingly serv ing the cause of those who would destroy those institu tions." The next two quotes arc from Reverend Father Cronin; "In many parts of the coun try, hysteria and suspicion arc becoming increasingly evi dent. A virulent form of dis unity is weakening us In the world struggle against com munism and performing this disservice in the name of mili tant anticommunism. Many Americans are confused and bewildered by the whole trend . . ." "Those who would have Americans concentrate on a minor threat of domestic sub version and ignore subversion and communist pressures in Europe. Asia, Africa, and Latin America are misleading the American people. What ever their motives, they arc effectively aiding the Com munist cause." Carl Hjordahl P.O. Box 343 Medford Safety in Tralf'r To the EdiU ;: So v ery j sorry to read of another dis- ' astrous traffic accident on tile bridge. If you will print this in your paper, maybe we might save a life. You know. I have thanked the Lord many times, and J knocked on w ood for the good luck I have had in traffic I ; have driven a car about a mil-: lion miles in 4S years and have injured not a single per son. I have been caught in bad situations and almost al- , ways pulled out lucky: a few mashed lenders, had my car bumped in the rear once or , twice. I have nrvrr turned a car over; nine had to leave the road and run down the ditch, and once ran up the bank and dow n behind a car ! that came at me head on, on ' a turn. He took all the road 1 on my side j I have always tried hard lo Human Sacrifice" avoid traffic trouble. My pol icy has always been, don't drink and drive, and watch for all the road speed signs. Where it says 30 I drive 30; 45-50-60 or 70, I don't aim to run over the limit. When I come to a highway or street from the side, I watch and wait until I am quite sure I have plenty of room and time to enter, and when the party behind me begins to blow his horn to rush me, I just ignore it and let him worry. And another thing, when I am on a highway where traf fic is fast, sometimes from 60 to 80 miles, and we come up behind a truck, one has to be very careful if you attempt to pass the truck. It may be going 50 miles in the same di rection and way down the highway is a car coming to wards you. There seems to be lots of room to pass, but don't forget that gap between you, and that other car com ing towards you may be trav Today & Tomorrow By Waller tc 1 irt:t. Th ON THE CUBAN QUESTION TODAY 111 the past week, the ad ministration has gone to ex traordinary lengths to win the country s confidence in the reliability of its informa tion about the military situa tion in Cuba. Since the Oc tober confron tation, there can, of course, be no lack of Lippmann confidence in the President's courage and determination to protect American interests once the facts of a threat arc established. The crisis of confidence originates in what happened in the six weeks before the October confrontation. Dur ing the month of September and into October, the admin istration was insisting that the Soviet Union had not brought offensive weapons into Cub.i. Senator Healing was insist ing that they had. When he was found to have been right, there occurcd a loss of confidence in the ad ministration's i n t e lligcnce services which it is still strug gling to repair. U'lTH ' first others. I have had t hand experience which enables me to under stand how difficult it is to restore confidence once it j has been shaKcn. On two oc i casions it was explained to me by high officials how re liable was our photographic surveillance of the island and how certainly we could detect the exact nature of the woa onus being installed in Cuba. These private explanations came after the President had said categorically in his press conference of Sept. 13 that "these new shipments do not constitute a serious threat to anv other part of the hemi sphere'' Some two weeks la ter, on Oct. 3. the u" ter soere tiny of state. Mr Ball, save lo a congressional committee a summary of the intelligence infnrnvit"vi which c;ime fro'll the CIA- The point of the sum merv w as that there were no offensive weapons in Cuba. Put in fact there were. A week '.iter, on Oct. 10, Sena tor Keating inited that there were intermediate rinne mis siles in Ci'ha. and five days later the President received the photographs which con firmed the charge. 'HIS is how Sonalor Keat won the rich! to be ing listened to. and this is the administration has belatedly, made the why now. right i move, which is to arrange for rv MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Disarmament Talks Drag On and On, As Agreement Seems as Far Away as Ever By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Newi Analyst If ever a man would seem to have a lifetime job, that man is William C. Foster, head of the U. S. Arms Control and D i sarmament Agency. Fos ter is a Re publican who has spent a large part of his time doing important jobs for Democrat MWMBB ic presidents and this week he resumed talks with the Russians in Geneva on world disarmament. The setting is the 17-nation conference on a nuclear test ban and disarmament, but for the 15 others present it is mostly a courtesy role with a vote to count only when or if the United States and the U. S. S. R. first reach agree ment among themselves. If chances of success are to eling 70 and you also travel ing 70, and the truck is mak ing 50; that gap' is closing at the rate of 190 miles an hour, and you may not make it. I am sure it is situations like that that cause many head-on collisions, due to poor judgment, and not re alizing how fast that gap is closing. Now days on the highways and in towns, there is such a pitiful little bit of common courtesy that you, if you expect to live long, must be very careful and take care of yourself and passengers, if any, and don't let the nut behind you try to rush you into danger by honking at you, and remember it is not the old, dilapidated cars that are dangerous; it is the nut that holds the steering wheel that keeps the traffic death rate high. And, obey those road signs, they are there for your protection. James L. Cook P. O. Box 123, Marysville, Calif. lippmann Washington Post consultation and an exchange of information between Sen ator Keating and the CIA. This should put an end to the unseemly controversy about who is telling the truth between a senator of the Uni ted States and the President of the United Stales. But I am not sure it will repair alto gether the damage done to public confidence by the mis leading information given in September and October. The administration may well have also to make a full explanation of what went wrong in September and early October. EXAMINING the remark able intelligence briefing by Mr. John Hughes of the Defense Department, I find myself quite convinced that our photographic intelligence is now reliable. But I am struck by the fact that there was a blank space in Mr. Hughes' testimony for the period from Sept. 5 to Oct. 14. Photographs taken on Aug. 2!) of the San Cristobal area and on Sept. 5 at Sagua La Grande show positively that no missile sites had been built. The next photograph referred to by Mr. Hughes is that of Oct. 14. It shows inter mediate range missile sites being erected. This is the photograph which precipi tated the international crisis. here, we arc bound to ask, was our photographic in telligence between Sept. 5 and Oct. 14? That was when the administration was telling the country that there were no offensive weapons in Cuba. This is the source of the in fection which will have to be removed if full confidence is to be restored. ... 1 1. WING said this. I would say that there is no rea son to doubt the thorough ness or the reliability of our photographic surveillance of Cuba and of the sea around it. The situation is extraordin ary. Wc arc depending on be ing able to fly dally photo graphic reconnaissance planes at high and low altitude. In Cuba, there are a large num ber of tile latest anti-aircraft weapons manned by Soviet soldiers. Wc may say, how come? Vp to the present - knock on wood - the Soviet anti-air-era a gunners arc not aliacs, tug our reconnaissance planes. They must be under orders from Moscow, where it is well-known that if the plants were attacked there would be an immediate reprisal. Li UT WHFKE docs this leave us.' It leaves us with a fiKile revised version of t he original Khrushchev Kcnne- dy agreement. In the key let- ler of Oct, President Ken be measured in terms of prog ress over the last IS years, then Fosters'! job truly is of liftetime duration. This is a tragedy of the times because this very repe tition leads to boredom and to a sense of futility. This in turn leads nations still not possessing "the bomb" to a belief that agreement never will be reached and that there only safety lies in their own ability to destroy. Occasionally attempts are made to recapture the urgen cy which the problem de mands. One such attempt came in the wake of the Cuban crisis and for a time it appeared progress might.be made. Nikita Khrushchev sudden ly agreed to two or three in spections on Soviet soil each year to check suspected un derground nuclear test blasts. Wrote Khrushchev to Presi dent Kennedy: "We believe that now the road to agree Matter of Fact (cl New York Herald DE GAULLE'S REAL DESIGN Washington - A high pro portion of the worst mistakes of American policy-makers arise from what may be called the Pearl Harbor error. The Pearl Harbor error consists of disreg a r d ing or down g r a d ing the hard evidence Aimp ot a loreign government's intentions - in the Pearl, Harbor case, the broken Japanese naval codes -because those intentions look altogether too irrational from the special angle "lsion f Washington. The returns are not yet in from the reappraisal on the highest lcvl v.- " h the Presi dent ordered aft-r tl.e whole situation of the Western alli ance was abruptly transform ed by Gen. de Gaulle's brutal, solitary act. Yet it is n- too soon to ask whether the Pearl Harbor error i- not about to be committed once again, and on a t ' grandiose scale. It is clear, at any rate, that the hard evidence concerning the real nature of Gen. de Gaulle's design for Europe is currently being downgraded, if not absolutely disregarded. This is the case although the broad outlines of the de Gaulle design are clear enough. A N EXCLUSIVE Europe, dominated by the Franco German partnership, and led by dc Gaulle himself, as the awe-inspiring senior partner -these are the main elements. The chief, indeed the only real obstacle to full realiza tion of this design is the German-American relationship. Gen. de Gaulle could not have scored such a shattering initial success with his design if the Kennedy administration had dealt more wisely with the German-American rela tionship. The pros and cons of the President's dealings with de Gaulle are eminently arguable. But if dc Gaulle was to be crossed, opposed, and enraged, it was sheer folly not to do everything pos sible to maintain Dulles-like tics with Chancellor Ade nauer. There can be no argu ment about that. But although the German American relationship has been impaired, and although this impairment gave de Gaulle the needed opening for his Franco-German pact, the old relationship's solid base is still very much there. The American military pres ence is the chief defense of Western Germany. ... ET. some time in the fu- ture. Gen. de Gaulle rath- nedy accepted the folloying terms of settlement: The U S S R, would remove offensive weapons systems under "United Nations obser vation and supervision." When this was done, the Uni ted States would end the guar antine and would "give as surances against an invasion of Cuba." The U S S R, removed the missiles and the U.S.A. ended the quarantine. But Castro would not permit United Na tions' observers to come to Cuba, and, consequently, the United States would give no assurances against invasion. What we have now is a sub stitute for the original agree ment. We arc able to carry on photographic reconnais sance without interference from the Soviet anti-aircraft weapons. And Cuba is jot tnm. in lieu of a United States' guarantee against in vasion, a build-up of its de fensive capabilities Both Moscow and Washington know that this strange work ing arrangement cannot be upset deliberately without bringing on a much mightier confrontation than that of last October. ment is straight and clear.' The United States original ly had demanded 20 on-site inspections, whittled it to 12 and now said it might setUe for eight. The United States had agreed that unmanned seismic stations to record under ground disturbances might in some cases replace human in spection teams. It believed that at least a dozen of these stations should be on Soviet soil. Khrushchev said three would do. Then, suddenly, the Rus sians broke off talks which had been progressing in New York and demanded that they be returned to Geneva. The way obviously was neither so straight nor so clear as Khrushchev had pro fessed to believe. But Foster sees a ray of light. He says: "We are both interested in preventing the destruction of the world." By Joseph Altop Tribune Syndicate er plainly hopes to remove this obstacle to his grand de sign, by the simple expedient of forcing the withdrawal of the American troops from Eu rope. The bard evidence that this is his real intention is being ignored in Bonn, as well as downgraded in Wash ington but it is there none theless. The strange French effort lo drive English out of the German schools and the Ger man general staff is symbolic of Gen. de Gaulle's purpose. The device by which he hopes to achieve his purpose - ap parently before the defense sensitive Germans really grasp what is happening - is an attack on the highly vul nerable U.S. balance of pay ments. The attack has already begun, though without suc cess thus far. As previously reported in this space, de Gaulle tried and failed in Paris to secure a flat German commitment to give French sources absolute priority whenever buying amis abroad. The French Embassy in Bonn is keeping up the pressure for German arms- buying in France rather tnan the United States, "in the spirit of the Paris pact." As already explained here, this is a direct French assault on the German-American "off set agreement," which is such an important factor in the re cent improvement, insuffici ent yet significant, of the U.S. balance of payments. But the assault on the offset agree ment is not the end of the story, by any means. rpHE U.S. trade negotiator. - Gov. Christian A. Herter, has now returned from Eu rope with grim forecasts of a sharply exclusive European policy towards U.S. farm product exports. These now amount to over $1 billion a year. Hence a "drastic reduction of our farm exports to Europe might be enough, in itself, to provoke the gravest kind of balance of payments crisis. Once again, the French are in the lead in the assault on the farm export flank of our payments - balance. Yet the French are well aware that the maintenance of the U.S. forces in Europe will become desperately difficult, if not absolutely impossible, if we run into a really bad balance of payments crisis. Such is the evidence. Most American policymakers can not believe the evidence means what it seems to mean, because Uiey say Gen. de Gaulle "cannot be mad enough to wish to deprive Germany and France, too, of their only serious defense." But those who say this leave out of account Gen. de Gaulle's apparent estimate of the value of his home-made nuclear deterrent, which will be examined in a third re port. lUte Hint Jf, I 'EMPIRE UNE" I 'K. 1 Vl Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris c Field Enterprises. Inc. WISHING MANKIND Unlike all other animals, man is distinctively a "wish ing" creature. The bear and the bat, lha wolf and the walrus wish for nothing but what their ancest ors had - the same home, the same food, the same ev erything. It is no accident, I fairy stories Harris think, that (which always reveal the deepest needs of man) are so concerned with wishes. Read ing a book of such tales to the children the other nighl, I was struck with the preva lence of "three wishes'" run ning through so many of these stories. But while man may be de scribed as a wishing creature, this does not mean that wish ing is easy. On the contrary, may many of our dilemmas not come from the fact that we do not know what wa properly should wish for? In the fairy tales, the first two wishes are always vain or foolish; even a child, who is a bundle of desires, does not know what to wish for. In his superb essay on "Man iht Technician," Or tega y Gasset made the point that "desiring is by no means easy." He remind ed us of the quandary of the newly rich man. "With all wish-fulfilling means at his command." Ortega points out, "he finds himself in the awkward situation of not knowing how to wish. At the bottom of his heart he is aware that he wishes nothing, that he him self is unable to direct his appetite and to choose a m r n g the innumerable things offered by his en vironment." Such a man has to look for a middleman to orient him. He gets an expert to help him select fine paint ings. His wife hires an in terior decorator for the new house. The current fashion, the latest rage, the predom inant wishes of other peo ple, determine these choices. In a sense, he en trusts others with wishing for him. The first things the newly rich get are better automo biles, newer television sets, electric razors, mixers, and so on. But these are not gen uine wishes; they are what Ortega calls "the ficlure and the gesture of genuine dc sire." They have not been thought of originally and for oneself, but are repeated blindly and automatically, because that is what the cul ture calls for. Then Ortega, as usual, strikes to the heart of the matter: "Every wish for this or that particular thing is ul timately connected with the person a man wants to be. This person, therefore, is the funamental wish and the source of all other wishes. I a man is unable to wish for his own self because he has no clear vision of a self to be realized, he can have but pseudo wishes and spectral desires devoid of sincerity." What he calls "a crisis of wishing" may be upon us to day. The world offers us al most limitless choice, but if we lack this clear vision of a self to realize, the more our wishes come true, the mora we recede from happiness, and become instead merely drunk with the fulfillment of pseudo wishes. -4. SKnppe
