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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, September 22. 1957 Mew?omTribune "Iveryone m Southern Orefon Rgdi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily ExceDt Saturday by MLLilr UKD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-C141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAAJ Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clase matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4.25 Sundav Only One vear (4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shadv Cove Rogue River Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sundav One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Kress Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPAN7 CNC Offices In New York Chicago de troit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NEWS PA PER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOtlAi 1 AssocTA-ieN munnmiu'iiM 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. 22, 1947 (Monday) Southern Oregon college de velops new type teacher training program In which students are sent to full-time teaching jobs using emergency certificates. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Several valley hunters have returned from the California timber, where they sought the elusive deer. All report no luck, out side of getting back." 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 22. 1937 (Wednesday) George W. Porter, Medford mayor for the past three years, resigns office due to press of pri vate affairs. Defense witness In trial of lo cal pinball agent testifies that a fair degree of skill is exhibited by pinball players. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 22, 1927 (Thursday) Carrier pigeon lost from Sperry company for a week tries to get into local post office. Of about 20 women interview ed here, all but four thought Gene Tunney should win over Jack Dempsey in tonght's fight. 40 YEARS AGO County Fair closes with a jazz orchestra playing dance music. Sept. 22. 1917. (Saturday) A benefit for Sacred Heart hospital will be given at the Ri alto theater next Wednesday. Whafs Your 1.0.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or elsht ts excellent: five or fix ts good 1. The Military Order of the Carabao is an organization of those who fought in China. Phil ippines, Cuba, or Puerto Rico? 2. For what is the chemical element helium named? 3. BIBLE: Turkey, Iran, and USSR boundaries join at which famous "Mount?" 4. Did Soviet Russia sign a non-aggression treaty with Hit ler Germany in 1937, 1938, or 1939? 5. Prior to the Civil War, which two States, in addition to South Carolina, voted unani mously to secede from the Union? 6. Asuncion is the capital of which outh American country? 7. Name the author of "Sha dows on the Rock." 8. In which State is the lowest point in the United States? 9. Replace the correct word for the incorrect one in the fol lowing sentence: "Whereabouts do you live?" 10. "Goose, bee, and calf gov ern the world." J. Howell: "goose" means pen; "bee" means wax. What does "calf" stand for? 1. Philippines. 2. Helios (Greek for "the sun." 3. Ararat. 4. 1939. 5. North Carolina and Tennessee. 6. Paraguay. 7. Wil ls Cather. 8. California (Death Valley). 9. Where (not where abouts). 10. Parchment. (Mod ern: "Then pen is mightier than the swfcrd.") ' 'Stra ight" Twaddle We are indebted to a subscriber for sending us two copies of a feature in "Farm & Ranch" entitled "Straight Talk." In a note accompanying the gift, the writer thinks the offering will interest us because it represents "quite a different view" from that expressed in this department. Well, after reading the articles, we would say this is the understatement of the week. The topic is the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court that racial segregation in our public schools is un constitutional. We haven't read so many wild ir responsible statements regarding this national issue, since the hectic days and nights of the Ku Klux Klan. We haven't the space or inclination to try to answer all the nonsense, but will pick out a few to give some idea of what "Straight Talk" thinks about the Supreme Court, and its racial integration decision. MO. 1 : It claims the Supreme Court in that decision, failed to uphold the Constitution of the United States, while Governor Faubus of Arkansas and his fellow nullificationists acted to sustain it. The South, it seems, is right when it calls out the NATIONAL not the STATE Guard to prevent a few defenseless colored children from enjoying public school privileges to which the local school board had declared they were entitled, as had the Federal and Supreme Courts. THE Supreme Court moreover, "Straight Talk" A claims, was not only packed with political lawyers by Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry Truman, but also by President Eisenhower, who is alone respon sible for Chief Justice Warren's court. This court, like its predecessors, is made up of left-wingers which now makes and unmakes the laws, being no better than the "combined creatures of New Dealism and MODERN REPUBLICANISM, bent on changing our constitutional government into a centralized all powerful, socialist labor-welfare state." (Sic!) THERE are two full pages of this sort of whang doodle, including the sober dictum that the Su preme Court should be limited to judges who have served at least 10 years on "Circuit Courts of Appeal," they should have a tenure of not more than 9 years, and should be allowed to issue no majority opinions, only those supported by a two-thirds vote. (How many decisions would ever be reached on that basis? ) Finally, as the congress has the right to oust Su preme Court judges who have not (presumably) come up to its standards of good behaviour, "Straight Talk" would have them curbed by the President or congress, and if this failed to attain the desired results, why "kick the rascals out. In other words, put the U.S Supreme Court head over heels into politics! THE item, however, that intrigued this department most was calling in Abraham Lincoln to support the Southern segregationists. IT SEEMS that when in 1860, the Supreme Court 4 upheld slavery by the Dredd Scott decision, Presi dent Lincoln, according to "Straight Talk," issued the following "challenge" : "We propose so resisting it as to have it reversed IF WE CAN, and a new judicial rule established upon this subject." DUT "Straight Talk" fails to add that President Lincoln also followed the present course of the Governors of Tennessee and Kentucky and while be lieving the decision wrong, made no criticisms of the Supreme Court, advised no changes m its pro cedure or composition, but told the country that the proper judicial tribunal had decided what the law is, and that everyone should obey it until a reversal from the same court, if possible, had been secured or the constitution changed. There would be no quarrel with Governor Faubus, or anyone else, if they now pursued a similar course of "Due process of law." But they insist upon calling out the troops to defy the court and nullify the constitution. A LL of this is probably a waste of time and space. It is a kind of twaddle mass emotional reaction which can't be dismissed by reason, but like the Hurri cane Esther, MUST blow itself out. Our excuse for taking "Straight Talk" seriously enough to quote it, is to give an idea of what ex tremes the "Black South" and their sympathizers, have gone on this "White Supremacy" question. To bring up the words of Abraham Lincoln, prob ably the greatest ANTI-racist in the history of the country, and uttered nearly 100 years ago, to support the use of armed force to keep Negro children from our public schools today, strikes this department as surpassing by several leagues any conceivable ra tional limit. R.W.R. l? MY 040 FINOS IT. HEU TAKE IT OUT IN TAB BACKYARD AND BVZY IT I Matter of Fact A Correction In our recent comments on the school segregation problem in Arkansas we quoted the following: "Your huddled masses yearning to be free." An alert subscriber asks if that quotation should not be "Your huddled masses yearning to BREATHE free." "Alert subscriber" is right. We quoted from memory a line from the inscrip tion on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor and it should have been "breathe" instead of "be." "A. S." might be interested in the entire inscrip tion which, with the aid of John Bartlett. reads as follows: ! "I NOTHING KNEW" Warsaw In Poland, the old political labels have been chang ed in a pretty unsettling way. A. "cons e r v a tive" is a be liever in the old - style au thoritar ian C o m m u nism which repre sents the ex- ! treme "left" in the West. And a "leftwinger" Joseph Aisop here is a Com munist who also strongly be lieves in freedom. Fryderyk, as I shall call him, is a good specimen of this new Communist "leftwing." He is a tninnisn, blondish, rather in tense young man wno holds a fairly high professional position. When I met him in one of the crowded, shabby but wonder fully lively professional clubs of the Polish intelligentsia, he seemed only too pleased to ex plain his views. "The whole history of the Communist Party in Poland," he began bitterly, "has been the history of a struggle for inde pendence from Moscow." Both' this opening and Fry deryk s bitterness became more understandable when he explain ed that a close relation of his had been a Polish Communist leader before "1938." That was the year when Josef Stalin in vited the whole leadership of the Polish Party to Moscow for a "fraternal meeting," and then briskly murdered almost all his guests. Fryderyk's relation had been among those extirpated. AS MOST of the murdered men and women had been of Jewish blood, I asked Fry deryk whether he too was Jew- isn. ino, ne replied, ms was a Polish working class family from the old Warsaw workers' quarter of Wola. He added proudly, "Our Wola district has always been very struggling." (His Eng lish was like that, fluent, odd but all the more emphatic for its oddity.) "The Wola workers nave always Deen in tne van guard since the Polish rising against the Russian oppressors in 1831." The bloodstained story of Po land s unending fights for free dom is the passion of all Poles. If you want to make a bar-full Tax League Official To Speak at Luncheon Mrs. Josephine Kittredge, Klamath Falls, chairman of the Klamath County Non-Partisan Tax League, will speak Monday noon at the meeting of the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce roundtable. The public has been invited to the luncheon meeting at the Jackson hotel. The Klamath tax league was formed several months ago to create taxpayer interest in local, state and federal taxes and to seek tax reform of local and state taxes, according to Bob Balk, chairman of the round table. Interest arose in other sec tions of the state and Mrs. Balk has been urged to form a state organization with affiliated chap ters in all Oregon counties. Her talk at the roundtable luncheon will include progress in forming a state organization, what citizens' tax groups can ac complish, and how individual counties can form such groups and become affiliated with a proposed state body. By Joseph Alsop of strangers into warm friends, just give the toast, "To Grun wald" Grunwald having been an early medieval battle in which the Poles utterly annihi lated the united armies of the Germans, the Russians and everyone else in this part of the world. So Fryderyk could not resist recounting the Wola workers' other fights for free dom, right down to the last ditch guerilla resistance to the Nazis in 1939. "I remember it exactly, I fought then," he said. As he looked like a college boy, I re marked that he must have been a rather babyish front fighter He answered quite seriously Uli not so very young. 1 was born in 1930, so I was easily able to carry water and ammu nition to our men." Having reached the ripe age of fifteen in 1945, Fryderyk of course fought in the tragic and terrible Warsaw uprising. And having been a Communist by family inheritance, Fryderyk was of course delighted when the party began to rule Poland. By the age of seventeen in fact when he was accepted for Party membership, Fryderyk was convinced Stalinist Communist. "I had doubts in 1949, when Tito was condemned," he said For a long time I could not believe Tito was an imperialist agent, but I made myself be lieve. We all made ourselves believe then. For instance nothing knew at first hand of the ways of our secret police but of course I heard rumors And I made myself believe that these rumors were spread by imperialist agents." POLAND'S plunge into misery during the ultra - Stalinist years; the sudden exposure to young people from the West at the Warsaw Youth Congress such things as these had already started Fryderyk asking himself uncomfortable questions when the famous Twentieth Party Congress was held in Moscow. As Party Secretary in his pro fessional organization, he was the first to receive the famous Khrushchsv speech painting Josef Stalin in his true colors And this finished iryderyk as a Communist-by-religious-faith. "It was a terrible moment for me, he said, l am young, l sleep well. But that night I could never sleep until the sun came. After that, I began to see all quite new." So it went on, this curious in ner history of Fryderyk, through Poland's time of rising ferment that ended in the glorious Octo ber days, when he and others like him, young and old, workers and intellectuals, joined togeth er to free their people. "Those days," said Fryderyk simply, "were the best in my life." Fryderyk is still a Commu nist. But he not only wants complete individual freedom, which largely exists in Poland now. He also wants complete press freedom, which does not exist, plus a substantial free sector in the industrial and trad ing part of the economy, which the Gomulka government is dead against. In these ways, Fryderyk by no means repre sents the ruling Party apparatus in Poland. , But Fryderyk is representa tive in two other ways which have a good deal of importance. He represents the young Polish Communist generation who must, after all, some day take over from the older genera tion. And he represents the many millions of Poles who will surely fight for the limited free dom they have already won if anyone tries to take it away. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Here's a little tale from far away France. If you get the point of it, it's worth reading. "TOR 200 years a colony of bea A vers has lived contentedly along the Rhone river, which flows southward through a part of France that is so charming that for centuries it has been conceded to be the most delight ful area of Western Europe. The valley of the Rhone, which ends where the great river flows into the dreamy Mediterranean not too far from the place where the romantic French Riviera be gins, has long been celebrated in song and story. These beavers, it appears, fell into the way of life that is char acteristic of the Rhone valley. It is an EASY way of life. The fundamentals of food, shelter and clothing are not too hard o get there. s- In the slow course of time These beavers QUIT WORK ING LIKE BEAVERS. There was bark aplenty for them to nibble. There was warm, lovely water aplenty in which to swim around. All this - went on throughout the year, for in the equable climate of the valley of the Rhone there was no pressing need to store up in the summer what one would need in the winter. YTNDER these conditions, these beavers ceased to be EAGER beavers. They became LAZY beavers. They even quit building dams. Why build dams to back up wat er in which to store food for the winter? Why work when work wasn't necessary in order to eat? rFHEN All of a sudden Life CHANGED for them. corps of engineers came along and started to build a dam. The beavers were in the way, so the engineers moved them over into a little river called the Tave that flows into the Rhone. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contribution) What does one do with an un occupied rabbit hutch? Why put a dog in it; silly question. The rabbit pen in question be longed to a Medford family, but the rabbit was chased by anoth er dog and died, we are told, of sheer fright. This pretty well broke up the 10-year-old son of the family who had been caring for it. The next day a lap-sized, wiry- haired, mahogany - eyed pug- faced, licking-friendly dog, which could be mistaken for an Irish man if he had a curved pipe in his mouth (the family says), -ap peared on the scene sort of out of nowhere, as dogs sometimes do. He was dubbed "Whiskers," adopted, and installed in the rab bit pen. At last report he was playing with the neighborhood kids day times, sleeping in the pen at night, turning his nose up at canned dog food, and lapping up any assortment of table scraps. Overheard, one Western Electric company striking pickeler to another, after the first hard eight hours on the picket line: "I hope this thing ends soon. My feet are killing Some people are, occasionally, late for appointments; others are early. This apparently is the sea son for the early ones. Don Faber, mayor of Central Point and a Kiwanis club mem ber, carefully arranged his va cation trip with particular care so that he could attend a North west District Kiwanis meeting in Canada, at the end of his jour ney and before returning home. He arrived at the Canadian town for the meeting, only to find he was a week too soon. Dr. Abner Clark, another Ki wanian, incidentally, and also a fight fan, showed up at the Craterian theater last Monday night to see the closed-circuit TV .broadcast of the Robinson- Basilio fight, which is scheduled for tomorrow night. And Bob Vroman, the chief photographer on this paper, on assignment to cover the 100th anniversary celebration of the Jacksonville Presbyterian church today, showed up there last Sunday. The old saying, "Better late than never," needs some emen dation in these cases. rpHAT DID it. The beavers took a long, hard look at these dam-building hu man engineers and realized that after a couple of centuries of the life of Riley THEY HAD COM PETITION. So they went to work like mad, building a dam of their own. They cut down trees. They rolled stones. They dug chan nels. They brought branches down the creek and put them in place and cemented them with mud and moss and leaves until the dam was water-tight and be san to back up the waters of the Tave. Then they started cutting down more trees and cutting them up into manageable lengths and storing them in the backed-up waters to provide food for the coming winter in case it happened to be a hard one. A woman we know recently began dabbling in sculpture a a hobby. We now have the re port that she's gradually run ning out of kitchen utensils. Such things as flour sifters have been used to strain out plaster or concrete, pots have been used to mix plaster or other batches of sculpture type goo. ladles and knives have been used in ways In which good kitchen utensils should not be used. And she's afraid if this sort of thing keeps up, she's going to need to restock her entire supply of utensils, The Jackson county court and the county planning commission discussed last week the proposed subdivision ordinance which the court referred back to the com mission. After the meeting,, someone submitted a pamphlet to the court entitled: "Fun at the Meeting Place." The county court also found last week that it isn't much fun traveling a long distance to a meeting, if there is no meeting. The court went to Grants Pass to attend a Rogue River Flood Control and Water Resources association meeting, but found it had been can celled and ihey had not been : notified. Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann I N short These beavers GOT COMPE TITION. When they got competition, they took a look at their hole cards and went to work. Reports' from the scene of ac tion are to the effect that they are HAPPIER THAN THEY HAVE BEEN FOR THE PAST CENTURY AND A HALF. Work has its rewards. Advisory Group Is Named for '59 Fair "Give me your tired, your poor, , Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door." We think it would be a pious idea if more Ameri cans particularly members of the congress,' read that short poem more frequently at least frequently enough, never to forget the spirit of the message to the world, that the flaming torch in the Statue of Liberty's hand symbolizes. R.W.R. Portland Efforts to attract major foreign country and in ternational trade participation in Oregon's Centennial Exposition and International Trade Fair of 1959 moved ahead last week with the appointment of a four man advisory committee of top foreign trade leaders in this area. Members of the committee, appointment of which was an nounced by Floyd Maxwell, managing director of the centen nial exposition, are J. Carter Brandon, manager of the foreign trade department of the Portland chamber of commerce; Harold K. Cherry, manager of the Port land field office of the U.S. de partment of commerce; Arthur Farmer, manager of the Port land chamber of commerce; and Thomas Young, director of far east sales for Fiberboard Prod ucts, Inc. Maxwell said the advisory group would assist the present centennial staff in formulating plans for the international trade fair, an integral part of the 1959 centennnial exposition. International exhibits from foreign countries, firms and as sociations, as well as United States groups engaging in inter national trade, will occupy part of the 65-acre exposition area which will be developed for cen tennial use at the site of the Pa cific International Exposition building, Maxwell stated. Oregon's 100th birthday will be celebrated throughout the state in 1959 while focal point of the centennial will be the ex position and international trade fair to run starting June 10, 1959, for a period of 120 to 150 days. THE ISSUE IN ARKANSAS Apologists for Gov. Faubus have been quick to exploit an unclear sentence in the Presi dent's state- Haiier Uppmano ment about the conference last Saturday at N e w p ort. In the sen tence the Pres ident said that he recognized "the inescapa ble responsi bility resting upon the Governor to preserve law and order in his state." This is said to mean that the Gover nor has a right and a duty, if he thinks it necessary in order to preserve law and order, to use the National Guard to keep the Negro children out of the Little Rock public schools. It is not possible that the President meant to say any such thing. For if he had meant to say it, he would have been giv ing consent to an extraordinary precedent that if a Governor of state says that he thinks that the enforcement of Federal law will provoke disorderly protests, he may use military force not to put down the disorderly protests but to nullify federal law. The President cannot have meant to approve armed resist ance to the enforcement of the Constitution he is sworn to up hold. Yet the sentence is open to the construction which the Gover nor's apologists' have put upon it. The sentence is obviouslv an echo of the Governor's own at tempt to justify his action. The sentence would never have been in the statement at all had not the President, who in principle had gotten the Governor to back down, wished to give Mr. Fau bus a little consolation and something to save his face. What he gave him were some words which befog the issue. THIS being the issue, the Gov ernor has gotten himself into a crack. If he bows to Federal authority, he must reverse his order to the Arkansas National Guard, and he must recognize his responsibility to enforce the law, not to nullify it. Then, he will, no doubt, be a gone goose with the irreconcilable segrega tionists. If, on the other hand, he does not bow to Federal au thority, he will have to be made to bow to it. The President could not, no matter how lenient he wished to be, let Gov. Faubus win the argument. For the pre cedent established would be dis astrous. The best solution, even for Gov. Faubus himself, will be a clear and conclusive decision ar rived at by due process of law on the question of whether the National Guard may be used, as in Little Rock, to nullify the law. It will be best for Gov. Faubus not that this is the most important consideration because since he must bow to some authority, it will be easier for him to bow to the Court. More importantly, it will be best for the South. For it will reopen the road towards accom modation which was opened in the Senate this summer. This is the only way that the South and the rest of the nation can hope to live with the problem. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. MH5 Graduates Attend College Orientation Class UNFORTUNATELY, the Gov- - ernor has precipitated an issue which does not lend itself to compromise. The issue, let us remember, is not where and when, how fast and how much, the white public schools shall be opened to Negro children. Inte gration is bound to be a long and slow process, and no good can come of impatient, uncomprom ising attempts to force the pace. But the issue forced by Gov. Faubus is whether a community like Little Rock, which has con sented to a very moderate de gree of integration, may be over ruled by the Governor and pre vented from observing the law. The issue, in short, is whether a Governor may use the Nation al Guard to enforce segregation. This is not an issue that can .be compromised. Either he can or he cannot. If he can, the hope of proceeding slowly and by con sent, as in fact was happening in Arkansas, is extinguished, and the sinister question of armed resistance to the Constituion is posted. ' About 38 1957 graduates of Medford High school attended a four-evening college orientation session held Sept. 9 to 12 at the school. ' Sessions lasted from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The first evening, a panel of eight Medford high graduates who attended colleges last year offered suggestions bas ed on their experiences. Panel members included Stan Culy, Willamette university; Dick Arnold, Lewis and Clark college; Marilyn Olson, Stanford university; Mike DeVore, "Loren Jacobs, and Sue DeVoe, Univer sity of Oregon; and Mary Kay White and Macy Overstreet, Ore gon State college. Vocabulary Course Mrs. Edna Stewart, high school English teacher, conducted a course . in vocabulary the next evening. Students were inform ed of the types of tests given by colleges at the third session. At the fourth session, Miss De- lie M. Whisenant, head of the remedial instruction department ana testing department in the high school, conducted a review of English fundamentals. The school will contact many of the students who attended early in November and ask them for suggestions on improving such an orientation program.