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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
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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.