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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNI "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mali Tribune Publishes Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-3141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One vear $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sundav Three mns 4.25 Sundav Only One vear S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Centra) Point Eagl Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rojrue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sundav One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail lerms casn in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. ENC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C. rfV NEWS PA P E K PUIIISHEIS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL IOITOIIAi ASSOCfA'ieN BimmmToni Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 13, 1947 (Sunday) Rep. Frank Van Dyke and Moore Hamilton discussed whether Oregon needs additional revenue which would be pro duced by a sales tax at a meet ing of the League of Women Voters. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Next year has only one Friday the 13th. It comes in February, which for the first time in four years has 29 days. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 13, 1937 (Monday) To date 242 cars, mostly Bart letts, have been dispatched to Willamette valley and California canneries and 269 cars consigned to eastern and export markets. An experiment in serving canned baked pears to its pa trons may be tried by United Air Lines. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 13, 1927 (Tuesday) Efforts made to secure per sonal consent of Col. Charles Lindbergh to appear in Medford as guest of honor for the Jubilee of Visions Realized. Children's playground will be opened soon on the site of the city auto camp on the south side of East Main st., across the Bear creek bridge. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 13. 1917 (Thursday) The choral society will pre sent a program at the Jackson county fair in the natatorium. Macadamizing of the Siskiyou section will be completed by this fall, officials report. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent: five or six Is good 1. Would a cartographer be engaged in compiling food rec ipes, making maps, or atomic research? 2. Which European country had a reigning family known as the -House of Hanover"? 3. Bible: Did the Israelites pos sess bows, javelins, swords and knives as instruments of war? 4. Is a yellowhammer a car penter's tool, an insect, or a bird? 5. Has the Duke of Windsor been married once, twice, or three times? 6. The Communist newspaper "L"Humanite" is published in which European country? 7. Which States of the U.S. are named for Presidents? 8. Is hominy made from oats, wheat, maize, or barley? 9. ' Kind-' is singular, and re quires a singlar adjective: Is is proper to say '"this kind of chocolates "? 10. '"The labourer is worthy of his hire." Is this from the Bible, Shakespeare, or Franklin? Answers: Making maps. 2. England. 3. Yes. 4. Bird. 5. Once. 6. France. 7. Only one, Washing Ion. 8. Maize. Yes. "Chocolates" used as a class is a singular. 10. Bible (New Teslamenl). MAIL TRIBUNE "Lest We Forget" For over 30 years the Mail Tribune has conducted a "Bargain Day" during the first part of September. Without fail during that long period, there have been requests that the bargain rate be granted AFTER the polls have closed. These requests have ranged in vehemence from threats to tears. But of course none has been granted. And equally of course, none will, or can be. CO WITH only two days after today remaining Saturday and Monday those who wish to take advantage of this saving are urged to do so. For Monday will absolutely be their last chance. fThis warning is given not this paper. Quite the reverse m fact. It is given for the benefit of those subscribers, who WISH to take advantage of "Bargain Day," but un less reminded, may fail to do so. R.W.R. Constitution a Bulwark The Constitution of the United States is under attack. This is nothing new at all, for it has been sub jected to a variety of attacks and attempted sub versions every so often during the 168 years it has been our basic charter. The attacks have come from all angles, and in many ways. Sometimes the executive department has attempted to stretch the provisions of the constitu tion; sometimes the legislative branch, sometimes the judicial. States, individually or in groups, have at tempted to negate many of the provisions of the Con stitution. PESPITE these, it has survived, and we are sure will continue to survive, the onslaughts of special- interest groups, just as it will the current attempted subversion by the governor of Arkansas. These thoughts are prompted by two things : first, the fact' that the week of Sept. 17 to 23 has been pro claimed as National Constitution week; and secondly by the results of a recent poll which indicated that substantial numbers of young people do not agree with many of the basic safeguards to liberty con tained in the Constitution, and more particularly in the first 10 amendments, the Bill of Rights. This latter is probably less a symptom of subver sion than it is an indication of youthful lack of under standing of what theh Constitution is, wha it intends, and how in 168 years it has served as a guarantor of the rights of Americans. THE Constitution when it was written was a revolu tionary document. What many people don't under stand is that it still is a revolutionary document. It proclaims the rights and liberties of the individual as opposed to the state, and sets up machinery to pro tect those rights and liberties. , The impact and implications of this are imperfect ly understood by many people, Americans as well as foreigners. 'The difficulty, in modern America, is that some of these guarantees seem "outdated" and "old- fashioned" to generations tyranny close to home. One amendment, for tering of troops in private ml . -I t i 1 mat simply cioesn t maKe sense to peopie who nave never heard of U.S. troops using private homes for quarters against the wishes of the owners. But it makes a lot of sense to Germans or Hungarians or Italians, who had exactly that problem in the recent past. A LACK of understanding of the Fifth Amendment, " which originated in the star chambers and tor ture rooms of the late middle ages, when confessions were extracted by force and then used against a man, has led to belief that such things "can't happen here.!' The Russian purge trials, and the Nazi concentra tion camps, should teach us better. Another, and related, difficulty in understanding, is the fact that in America today those individuals who are most apt to take advantage of the protections of the Bill of Rights are not usually admirable indi viduals, and probably deserve everything that's com ing to them. What is needed here is a realization that with only a slight shift in attitude, those guarantees might become the last bulwark of freedom for large minorities or even, conceivably, a majority in our population. HTHIS applies to the other rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, no matter how academic they may seem at the moment. The rights of freedom of re ligion, speech and press, the right to bear arms, the right of a speedy trial and with a jury, the right to a jury trial in civil cases, the right to be free from ex cessive bail, and from cruel and unusual nunishment all these are based solidly on experience wTith ty ranny m tne past, and are designed to protect against tyranny in the future. When these rights are eroded away for one indi vidual, or one class of individuals such as the Negroes, they are just that much less effective as protection for the rest of America's citizens. For if there is to be no equality before the law and ,this applies just as much to voting and the right to attend school as it does to other rights then the Constitution is gone, and Still a Part-Truth As a post script to the above, we have often thought that one of the best propaganda moves the United States could make would be to let it be known throughout the world just what the bill of rights con Friday, September 13, 1957 to increase the revenues of who have never had to feel instance, forbids the Quar houses in time of peace. 1 1 1 1 chaos will ensue. E.A. r .S Jnl III a mllMm '1 JUST WANTED To SEE HOW . A 'LECTRIC eiANKET!" G.O.P. Disorganization Declared Evident, 'From Top to Bottom' By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) Managing Editor Tom McCormick of the Burlington (Vt.) Daily News re ports that from his watch tow er, too, the Re publican Party appears to be d i s o rganized all the way to the top i Mc Cormick offers in support the experience in I.yle C. Wilson Washington of C. Douglas Cairns, who last March became the first Republi can m 20 years to be elected mayor of Burlington. Vermont is safe Republican territory in other respects. So was neighbor Maine until recent years when it began electing a Democratic governor. Good politicians know there is no really safe constituency. They also know that in politics it is the little things that really count. As, for example, the late Charles Evans Hughes' campaign swing snub of California's Gov. Hiram W. Johnson. Hughes thereby lost California and the 1916 presi dential election by, you might say, a handshake. For the in formation of those who came in very late, the winner was Demo crat Woodrow Wilson. Here's Writer's Story Harry Holden can take it from here. McCormick calls Holden the dean of Vermont newsmen, an oldtime political writer. In the Sept. 8 Burlington Sunday News, Holden reported: "Some local observers agree with writers of national repute that the Republican Party or ganization is disorganized clear to its top. 4 "Some of these point to the deal that Burlington's Mayor C. Douglas Cairns got on his recent trip to Washington. Cairns, they say, went to Washington well deserving a conquering hero re ception, politically speaking. "He had emerged from the business world and stepped into politics to defeat the undefeated to carry the state's biggest city for the Republicans for the first time in 20 years. Mayor Cairns might well have been considered worthy of a reward this is, by a well organized political machine." No Welcome for Winner There was no welcome for Cairns when he arrived in Wash ington, Holden related, such as, for example, top Democrats gave William Proxmire when he ap peared here fresh from winning a Wisconsin U.S. Senate seat. Cairns came to Washington to request that the site in Bur lington of a proposed new fed eral building be made available tains, and the fact that it tnis country. In too many places in the world the freedoms spelled out in the Constitution are non-existent. But they are understood. (Who understands better about he quartering of troops than the man whose home is occupied by troops? And who understands better the right to a trial by jury than the family of a man who has been summarily executed without trial?) IF THIS could be done, perhaps the millions of "neu- tral" and uncommitted people in the world, or even the additional millions now living under com munist oppression, would have a better conception of what we have in America that is so precious. " But -as long as we have race riots, and National Guard troops preventing Negro children from attend ing school, and night-riders and burning crosses all without punishment to the criminals perpetrating these outrages as long as these continue, how can we ever hope to convince the world that America is the home of the free and the land of the brave? As long as these things continue, that proud boast remains an unhappy part-truth. And a part-truth isn't much better than a lie. E.A. IT FELT TO SLEEP UNDER to the city for free parking. Congress had not appropriated funds for the new building. Some unoccupied buildings on part of the site would have had to be razed for parking purposes. Here's Holden again: "When the red tape "had been cut, the answer was no! "The unkindest rut of all was the crop conservation practiced by the government on some of the condemned lots that is, the carefully, nurtured rag weed." Holden wrote that Burlington Republicans contrasted their iriayor's experience with Wash ington's treatment of Vermont Republicans in what he called "the good old days." "Now," Holden wrote as the last paragraph of his story, "the prize for a winning Republican is a mess of rag weed." In the Day's News By FRANK As this 'is written, Governor Faubus of Arkansas- has can celled all his appointments and has gone to bed. One of his ap pointments was a 40 - station statewide radio hookup in the course of which he had planned to answer questions from his constituents about his use of troops to block integration at Little Rock's Central high school. It s too bad he didn t go through with it. Some of his con stituents might have told him to disband his troops and keep his shirt on that this presently ex plosive business of racial inte gration in our schools is one of those instances in which the sins of the fathers must be visited upon the children. THAT suggests two questions. 1. Who were the fathers? 2. What were their sins? IF WE are to answer these ques tions, we must go back some questions, we must go back some four and a half centuries into history. In 1516 King Charles I of Spain gave colonists and slave traders permission to take slaves into the Spanish colonies of the New World. The bulk of these slaves brought to America were African Negroes captured in their homeland and transported overseas like cattle. Their use became extremely profitable. So The slave trade soon spread from the Spanish colonies to other colonies in the Americas. The institution of slavery was thus fastened upon us. At the same time, the seeds of the does have real meaning in Syrian Excitement Abatement Among Week's Top News Stories By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: Official excitement over the Syrian situation died down with sursurprising suddenness this week. Presi dent Eisenhow er and Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles had shown acute alarm over the rise to power of pro-Russian Syrians. Unit- Charlei McCann ea Oiaies staged a dramatic airlift of weap ons to Syria's neighbor Jordan to strengthen it against possible Red attack. There was talk in Washington about the possibility the Eisen hower Doctrine against Commu nist aggression in the Middle East might be invoked. Dulles changed the entire situ ation at a press conference in Washington Tuesday. He said he thought the Syrian situation would work itself out. In any event, Dulles said, he did not think there would be any aggression if any aggres sion did occur "of a character which could not be dealt with by the states involved." The reason for the adminis tration's change in attitude seem ed to be that Arab countries generally were more perturbed over the United States excite ment than over the possibility of Syrian aggression. The United Nations General Assembly met in special session in New York to take action on a United States resolution con demning Soviet Russia's brutal intervention in the Hungarian revolt. U.S. chief delegate Henry Cabot Lodge had the support of 36 other countries as co-sponsors of his resolution. He hoped to get the approval of 60 of the U.N.'s 81 member countries when the vote came. The chief reason for the meet ing was to keep before the world the fact that Russia had crushed by military force an anti-Com- JENKINS COLOR PROBLEM were plant ed in America. It is that problem that we are trying to solve now. H OW shall we solve it? flatly: WE CAN'T SOLVE IT WITH GUNS. The Civil War proved that At the cost of millions of lives and rivers of blood and billions in treasure the Civil War ended human slavery in America, but it didn't end the color problem. That is still with us. The de scendants of the African Negroes who were captured in their homeland and brought to Amer ica are still with us. It is by no fault of theirs or of thein ancestors that they are here. But they are here. Their presence here creates the prob lem of racial mixture. Somehow that problem must be solved. THAT brings us back to Gover nor Faubus. I don't think any of us knows just how the problem of mixed races in America is to be solved. But this we do know: It can't be solved by calling out troops. That will merely add gasoline to the smoldering fires. IT WILL take tolerance. It will take TIME. This problem of integration of races in America has been near ly four centuries in the making. It can't be solved overnight. Six Take Oath as Delegates To UN Washington (IP) AFL-CIO President George Meany, movie actress Irene Dunne and four other members of the U.S. dele gations to the U.N. General As sembly were sworn in Thursday. Miss Dunne, an alternate rep resentative, told Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at the overflow ceremony "this is real ly a great day in my life.'.' Administration officials said the actress, wife of Dr. Francis D. Griffin, was chosen because she is regarded as an outstand ing American woman with a great interest in international affairs. Besides Meany, those sworn in as representatives were Her man B. Wells, president of Indi ana University, and Reps. Wal ter H. Judd (R-Minn.) and A. S. J. Carnahan (D-Mo.). UNLUCKY CLOVER Burlington, N.C. OP) Don't try to tell Gail Fletcher that four leaf clovers are good luck. Shortly after finding nine four leafers, Fletcher's washing ma chine went on the blink, a tire on his car blew out, and his garden tractor stopped running. munist uprising in a foreign country, and that Hungarian Premier Janos Kadar and his fellow Red leaders are supine Russian puppets. Semi-independent Polish Com munist leader Wladyslaw Go muka paid a visit to completely independent Yugoslav President Tito. The two leaders were expect ed to coordinate their policy as "national Communists," who continue to follow Marxian phi losophy but will not accept the domination of Ri ssia. However, the first factual de velopment from the meeting was Com m y n icatiomis 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 Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Cure for Faubus To the Editor: In regard to Governor Faubus of Arkansas, I'd suggest he be removed from office rather forcibly, by public spirited citizens and punished for his actions in the manner that colored people have been pun ished for alleged crimes in the past. Make a good example of him. Floyd R. McCabe, Mt. Pitt Star Route, Butte Falls, Ore. "Une Petite Histoire" To the Editor-in-Chief In re gard to Sept. 10 editorial entitled "Back to Jefferson Davis": Une petite histoire. Once upon a time ribbons of macadam led to a small village which we will (for allegorical purposes) call Fruitville. It's white and pleasantly brown peo ple lived in bicameral harmony. It was an exemplary commun ity with the usual habiliments: a sophisticated social facade, with the usual "hot-rod" "ex nihilo nihil fit" undercurrent. Fruitville's pecuniary sanity was attested by its mortaged man sionettes and its flaccid flats. Unlike many of her neighbors, Fruitville was orda.ined with a sage whom we will call "Muni cipal Interpreter of the News." From his podium of seasoned soap-box wood, impeccable ra tiocinations emanated with all the histrionic Jogic of his years. One day with all the choked emotion of "local boy makes good," he observed that his southern cousins of Cottonville were having something euphe mistically called "integration" troubles. The "Municipal Inter preter" could see no social con undrum of merely mixing Anglo Saxon students and a few stu dents of African descent. He was apparently unaware or un sympathetic with the deeprooted anthropological fear of miscegen ation. The ingenuous Interpreter shook his scribble scepter at the impropriety of his Cotton cous ins, and anathematized them with Wagnerian indignation for this "constitutional" blaspheme Fluently waving his "banner- on-a-little-stick" while the quixo tic milk of virtue white-beaded his forehead, he sent emissaries to Cottonville and beseeched that municipality to send investi gating teams to Fruitville in order that they - might see de mocracy enacted on a stage of rose petals and pearl seeds. In Fruitville integration was no Droblem. and all men were brothers. Impressed with the words of Fruitville's Interpreter of the News," and at the same time humbled, Cottonville told a le gation to proceed at once to this utopic state of equality. Several days after the great fanfare, which had greeted the legation from Cottonville had subsided, all Fruitville awaited the confirmation that this was indeed the best of all possible villages. When the legation fi nally spoke they said: "We have seen the pseudo- sophisticated similitude of our municipalities along with the in escapable vapor-trails of our youth. Incidently we have seen the successful integration of your white and pleasantly brown people . . . now if you please . . ." where are your black peo ple? , . The magnanimous Interpreter chuckled reassuringly and asked the black people to come for ward. With smiling optimism he sent a second call through the rose . petaled streets, after the first call had failed. With the second negative response the In terpreter began a search. He searched for days and days, but the only black inhabitants he ever found were the small cocker-spaniels with laughing ton gues. Don Demmer, 719 West 13th st., Medford, Ore. Presbyterians' Bell To the Editor: Your editorial of Friday, Sept. 6, entitled "The Vanishing Bell" is very inter esting and was read with appre ciation. Since the history of Presbyter- a statement of support by Tita for the establishment of the pres ent border between Poland and Germany, along the Oder and Niesse rivers, as the permanent frontier. This would leave a large area of Germany, which Poland has occupied since the end of World War II, permanent ly in Poland's possession. The West German govern ment at once protested to Yugo slavia against Tito's statement. It pointed out the present fron tier is a temporary one and said that a permanent solution could come only through negotiations between Germany and Poland. ianism in the Rogue River val ley will receive considerable at tention during the next few weeks, we send a short account of the bell now in use in the belfry of the First Presbyterian church at Ashland. All Presby terians are proud of their oldest church in the valley, the Mother Church, at Jacksonville, now pre paring to celebrate her one hun dredth birthday. The First Presbyterian church of Ashland, also organized by the Rev. Moses Williams, dates from Aug. 28, 1875 and was the second Presbyterian church to be founded in the valley. The cornerstone was laid on June 24, 1878. During the summer of 1879 the chapel was ready for use. On Friday, Aug. 29, 1879, the church bell was rung for the first time and it was the first church bell to be rung in the vil lage of Ashland. The population at that time was about 500 per sons. ' " This bell has been in use con tinuously since that momentous occasion and antedates the bell on the church at Jacksonville more than' two years. . We also invite you to visit is on a Sunday morning and will be pleased to have you ring our historic bell. -Imogene W. McCoy, 311 North Main st., Ashland, Ore. How About Racism Here? To the Editor: Apropos your editorial of Sept. 10, I am wholly in agreement with the views you expressed. To me the theory of white supremacy has always been completely unten able, and any group or nation which elects to follow it courts disaster. However, bef ore we start throwing stones at the misguid ed governor of Arkansas, let us in Jackson county pause to con sider the fragile, house of glass in which we dwell, for white supremacy is just as unlovely in Oregon as ever it was in the Deep South. Let us remember with hu mility that there are those re siding among us who make their boast that no Negro family will ever be permitted to live in Jackson county. Let us recall with shame that two years ago when little Willie Joe Haynes, grievously injured in an auto accident, was hovering between life and death in Sacred Heart hospital, his family were walk ing the streets of Medford pray ing God to find them shelter because the individual who first offered to rent them a house, was promptly threatened with arson if they were permitted to stay in it, and it was not until the city police and one of the local radio stations came to their aid that their prayers were answered. Let us recall with penitence that still more recent ly shots were fired and threats made against a Filipino family whose only offense was that they were attempting to live on their own property in our fair county and minding their own business. By all means, let us condemn Governor Faubus for his open defiance of constitutional gov ernment in his pll-out stand for white supremacy, but not until we have first heeded the words of . Jesus when he said "Cast out first fhe beam that is in thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the splinter that is in thy brother's eye. Grace N. Pearson, Rt. 2, Box 50, Jacksonville, Ore. Doesn't Like Cartoons To the Editor: Recently I sent you a check for $12 and maybe I misread your ad. I notice that the price by carrier is" $15 so I enclose herewith check for S3 to insure that the paper be delivered by carrier. I want to say that your car- loons about the President and Administration of the United States show insolence and dis respect toward the men who comprise the governing body of our countrys This is far from the high standard of the rest of your paper and I heartily pro test against it. G. A. Hubbell, Star Rt. 105, Trail, Ore.