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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, September 29, 1957 UNE "EVnI!1'Un ?u.thr?? Oreeon ami lnpune -J29NorthFlr St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W Rimi HERB GHEV i r.. f1:!) LATHAM Business Manager Ydi Y"U. managing toitor ARL H ADAMS City Editor RAYDH,1JMAfl Telegraph Editor 2 JEWETT Snorts Editor t.X? JHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper E?,tei? d as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES BJ Mail -In Advanr- Par r,n in Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 aunaay only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month U0 t-amer and Dealers 10c per cosy All Terms Cash In Advance fUliai Pap" "e City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Coonty IJnited tress Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C. I aaX NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOIIAt I A$TbcfAlN Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mai Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 29, 1947 (Monday) City police called to investi gate burglarizing of three build' ing, two of them on the same street. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Rain is badly needed to start fall grass growing on the hillsides and un der feet. It would also make the flower garden weeds easier to pull." 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 29, 1937 (Wednesday) Charged with selling liquor to Indians, 11 Klamath county men will appear in federal court here. The Townsend meeting Fri day night will be conducted by the ladies' auxiliary. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 29. 1927 (Thursday) Rancher of Trail district in critical condition at Sacred Heart hospital with a bullet wound through the abdomen as a result of a moonshine raid at his ranch. Emergency ordinance passed by the city council closes schools, theaters, places of amusement and public thor oughfares for an indefinite pe riod for children under 16 years of age to protect them against danger of an infantile paralysis epidemic. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 29, 1917 (Friday) First annual convention of the Southern Oregon Christian Endeavor societies scheduled Saturday and Sunday. The Ashland Record contains a "pipe dream" of an alleged meeting between the mayors of Medford , and Ashland at the county fair on Ashland day. Whal's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent: five or six fs good , 1. Did the Germans occupy Denmark during World War II? 2. ASPCA is an abbreviation for which humane society? 3. Bible: Matthew calls "his own city" the one place which always took priority during the ministry of Jesus. What is the city? 4. At low altitudes, the boil ing point of water is 212 degrees F.; would it require a higher or a lower temperature to boil wa ter on Pike's Peak? 5. Hair does, or does not, grow after death? 6. Does the U.S. Constitution prohibit the election of a Presi dent and Vice-President from the same State? 7. Persons born between March 21 and April 23 are born under which zodiacal sign? 8. Name the former ex-Nazi chief in Paris who hanged him self in his cell in Cherches Midi Prison in February, 1948. 9. What is the English pro nunciation of "halfpenny"? 10. "The pride of the peacock is the glory of God." Is this reference to vanity from the "Book of Proverbs" or "Psalms"? Answers: 1. Yes. (April. 1940 jo May. 1945). 2. American So ciety for Prevention of Cruelty o Animals. 3. Capernaum. 4. Lower, ii would require a tem perature of only about 188 de crees F. 5. Does not. 6. No. 7 Aries the Ram. 8. General Otto von Siuelpnagel. . 9. H pen-i. 10. No. "Proverbs of Hell by William Blake. . Why Kid Ourselves? Running through many of the comments, official, editorial and otherwise, regarding the situation in Little. Rock, is a strong implication that while the law regarding school segregation should be obeyed, the Supreme Court made a gross error in its interpre tation of the Constitution, concerning it. Those who take this view, we think, should spend a few minutes reading the Constitution, and spelling out exactly wrhere they believe the Supreme Court erred. , i MO. 1 : They could hardly deny that in Arkansas, and many other southern states, laws have ' been passed, or official actions taken, which would deny equal rights to school children because of their race and color. On the ground of color, and that ALONE, they would place all the whites in one set of schools and all the blacks in another. Now if that isn't a direct violation of the XIV amendment and of the. entire spirit of the American freedom and tradition then what is it? The XIV amendment clearly declares : "No state shall make or enforce any laws which shall abridge the privileges . . of the citizens of the United States . . or deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Were the privileges of those colored' citizens of Little Rock who wished to send their children to the Central High school "abridged" or weren't they? Were their children given equal protection of the laws, or by force did the Governor of Arkansas refuse to grant that protection? The answer in both instances, appears to us, obvious. MOW the opposition to such an interpretation in the "Deep South," where, in at least one state, the blacks outnumber the whites, is quite understand able. But such opposition on the basis of the CON STITUTION of the United States IS NOT. In other words, instead of the southern "Nullifi cationists" asking that the Supreme Court change its decision, it should ask that the U. S. Constitution be changed. Let the 14th amendment be repealed as the 18th was.. Let the people of this country and the world, know that this is no longer a land where all citizens are. equal regardless of "race, color or creed;" but where the white race is supreme, and where the non- whites are welcome, so long as they behave them selves and willingly accept a curtailed and "second Class" citizenship. m m m -m v WHY kid ourselves ! Or our friends abroad. That is in a few words, what the South wants, and what manyof its most prominent leaders today express a willingness to "fight and die for." So why not be honest about it: Instead of picking on the Supreme Court and de manding its change and reconstruction, why not face he facts and pick on the "letter and the spirit" ot he Constitution and see that by due process of law, both are CHANGED. THAT, we grant, would require a major operation. T3,n4- oc -Pol no fViQ "RIoaL- RnntVi ia pnncprnpn that. LJllb GO iai dO Lilts J Wl, - vvwvviuvuj would, we should think, be preferable to the present ii i i 'ii; j? i pretense and nypocnsy, ana tuning oi our uauuiuns of "freedom and equality betore tne law'' by nuiim cation. R.W.R. The Fulton-Faubus Hook-Up The only prominent figure in the newspaper, radio or "T.v. Held we nave read or neara, wno agrees with Governor Faubus, is Fulton Lewis Jr. We don't know whether the Arkansas Governor heard Lewis over the air the other night, and decided to follow his "line," or whether he thought up his scurrilous attack on the Eisenhower administration Lhimself . In either event here are a couple of ideological Siamese twins as far as the duty of upholding the fundamental law of the land is concerned. As Lewis pointed out, in effect, it is up to a state whether or not it wishes to enforce the Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court. Also whether it wishes the National Guard a Guard supported by the government to turn against the Government and prevent the enforcement of its laws and decrees, or the reverse. ' ' IT was a most inflammatory and subversive harangue, truly shocking, to come from such a supposedly re sponsible and conservative source. It should lead to the dismissal of Lewis from the nation's airways, or at least the withdrawal of his sponsors, but we don't suppose it will result in either. We so soon forget! "THE Arkansas Governor followed the same line, compared the calling out of U.S. troops, and the taking over of the National Guard, to the abuses of Hitler's storm troopers in France, and the Kremlin's use of tanks to mow down unarmed and defenseless opponents of Communist tyranny in Hungary! The Faubus speech was' a smoother effort, deliv ered in an exaggerated tone of pious self -righteousness and martyrdom. But buried beneath that appe tizing hunk of-"oratorical ham" the sharp jaws of the "bar-trap" were open. If that demagogic appeal ob viously triggered especially for home consumption, doesn't lead to further rioting in Little Rock, it won't be because the Arkansas chief executive didn't TRY. "TO anyone who has been in the newspaper business for any length of time, the Faubus type is very familiar. This type has no regard for facts, no interest in ; " OKAy IF 1 LEAVE Aty F30 IH TUB POCKET? Matter of Fact by Stewart Alsep THE DRAGON IN THE BOX Little Rock, Ark. One native of this unhappy city used an odd phrase to describe the situation here. "It's kind of like you put a dragon in a wooden said. "That dragon is sure as hell gonna escape." In the last few days here, the dragon has ii x i i Stewait Alsop an too visioiy escaped from the box. For what has happened here has revealed, with awful clarity, the bitter ten sions that unaerly tne placid surface of American life. Little Rock is,fter all, a rath er typical American town throughout the crisis, life has gone on here much as elsewhere, with fall bargain sales and bridge teas and meetings of the Optimists Club. Little Rock is not even a real Deep South town want a fight, by God they'll get a fight." ' , Even the optimists admit that the ugliest sort of racial violence is still possible here, whether in the city itself beyond the reach of the troops at the school house, or at the school after the troops have been withdrawn. But even if the optimists are right, and the dragon is safely nailed in the hog-box here in Little Rock, what has started here is unlikely to end here. For it is grimly significant that even his bitterest enemies agree that, as of today, Orval Faubus is a hero in Arkansas. If an election were held tomorrow, he would win hands down against all comers. The Faubus formula for political success might read 'as follows: Defy the Federal government, an . thus create a situation in which mob violence and Federal interven tion are inevitable, .and bask thereafter in the warm glow of popular approval. The meaning Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the rame and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reseives the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation, Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Favors Esperanto To the- Editor: Americans should not sit back and expect the international language prob lem to be solved by the rest of the world's learning English, one of the .most difficult of languages. This attitude fosters more ill will abroad than most pf our complacencies. Esperanto, already long proven and widely used, is the logical choice for an international "auxiliary" lan guage. While the Esperanto move ment stresses Esperanto now for the convenience and pleasure of those who wish to widen their international interest and con tacts, it also looks to the event ual aim of teaching it to school children universally. One government, possibly our own, might initiate the move ment in the United Nations. Then, when a generation of in terlinguists grows up to take its place at the helm of world af fairs, the - use of a neutral, simple, but richly expressive in ternational language will permit the closer sharing of common interests and concerns. The language barrier, now more effective than an Iron Cur tain, will have been surmounted. Mrs. Lee W. Gibson , Route 1, Box 13, Mulino, Ore. in Washington, D.C., and there is nothing here like the solid Ne gro city-within-the-city you find in Philadelphia or New York or Chicago. Little Rock's - race ' relations have been uneventful in recent years, and the racial extremists have found no support in the press, which is not true in some other Southern towns. The Na groes vote here in important numbers, and the Little Rock in tegration plan is rriore symbolic than real. of the Faubus stripe. T?OR such reasons, knowledge- able people have J advertised Little Rock's integration in ad vance as a model of what peace ful integration ought to be. In stead, the dragon of racial vio lence has escaped, leading to the greatest constitutional crisis since the Civil War. And the end, almost certainly, is not yet. To be sure, Orval Faubus, Ar kansas' devious and ambitious Governor, let the dragon out of the box. The point not to over look is that the dragon was there all the time, lurking be neath the calm exterior of this seemingly typical American city. The unreasoning fears and frustrations and ugly hates which surround the race issue and not only in the South have boiled horribly to the surface. You could read them on the contorted faces of the house wives screamifig outside the high school on Monday morning, or in . the sheepish-secret-s ullen faces of the crowds retreating Deiore neaerai bayonets on Wednesday. A LREADY, moreover, the ex- tremists have achieved blackmail power in a good many parts of the South, so that it takes real courage to take moderate stand in public. Inter view a moderate on the integra tion issue in Little Rock today. and you are almost certain to hear the timid, meaningful phrase: "But don't quote me." On the other side of the ledger are the good sense of the major ity of Southerners, and the rec ognition by responsible Southern leaders that violence is a sharp cutting, two-edged sword. But Little Rock makes one thing clear. If the dragon is not to escape from the hog-box again. and in an even more terrible way, President Eisenhower must achieve a near-miracle of na tional leadership, at once boldly firm and infinitely cautious. For no one who has witnessed the ugly events in Little Rock in the last few days could doubt that there is in the racial issue the stuff to tear the country to pieces. (Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. rpHE optimists believe that Presidents Eisenhower's in tervention has nailed the dragon in the box again. It will, in the words of one optimist, "restore the doctrine of inevitability." Even the most passionate extre mists will' recognize that some degree of integration is inevi table, and when the Federal troops are withdrawn, local po lice will be able to protect the Negro , children in the high school, and maintain order. Others are notsd sure. In the streets around the school house on Wednesday morning, you could hear muttered phrases in the sullen crowds: "They're gonna iave to pull out those sol-, diers some time," or "If they Editorial Comment FEDERAL FORCE AND INTEGRATION One wonders whether Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong's quick and extreme reversal in his ex pressed feelings about President Eisenhower and the U.S. gov ernment carries with it regret over having popped off in the first place. Last week Satchmo called the president "two-faced" and said the government "can go to hell," because it had not intervened with force in Little Rock. Now that, it-has, everything is just dandy, the ' president is wonderful, and . Satchmo may change his earlier decision not to go to Russia in behalf of the government. '-. - ; . One can understand why Arm strong and other prominent Ne groes, some of whom also sound ed off against-the. president, are deeply disturbed over the Little Rock situation. But there ought Suspicious of 'Termites' To the Editor: So the termites have pulled in their horns. The giant had begun to stir; he was awakening; that is to say the 'inarticulate public' was begin ning to mutter. The county 'subdivision' jdea was shelved for the moment. The termites would wait for another chance when the mut tering ceased. Then it would be put over secretly and the foul deed would be 'A fait accompli'. Cunning, are they not? , Shall the public go back to sleep? If it does, it deserves all the termites can hand out, which will be plenty. Why. are they so anxious to 'put it over',? There must be a very potent reason. Let's see. Must be that there is a goodly bunch of 'simoleons' in sight somewhere. ' ...... Oh: yes, a good sized bunch of officials will be needed, with goodly salaries. Also, 'business' must get a finger into the pie somewhere, or 'business' would NOT be interested. So we can take things for granted: Who is slated to pay the bills? Why, the . fool taxpayer, of course, who else? The taxpayer should know, but likely does not, that a tax once levied is seldom gotten off his neck. It is intentionally put there , for keens, barring his awakening to the facts of life and politics. We, the people who must foot ALL the bills of government, must stay awake. Who knows, another damnable sneaky attempt to foist an addi tional- load upon us may be in the making at " any time. Just like the "subdivision plan that so nearly succeeded, and would have done so, except for an un intentional leak from the above mentioned termites. It would seem, to a man up a tree, that we should, at the next election, choose men for our county, offices who will truly have the interests of the man who pays the bills under con sideration at all times, and not just his own desires. Especially when it adds to the burden of the common man. Why not retire, permanently, the present incumbents, consti tuting the County Commission ers, AND the County Judge? Let us not give them another chance to 'put over' something we do not want, now or ever. Andy L. Unger, 634 Pennsylvania ave., ' Medford, Ore. Mistaken Identity To the Editor: We were some what surprised this morning when we learned from our Med ford Branch that the Medford Mail Tribune had published in its entirety a letter from Dana McBarron of Rogue River ad dressed to the writer. Upon re ceipt of Mr.- McBarron's letter of September 23rd we immediately checked on Baker Ferguson and just this morning received in formation that, he is an officer in the Business Development De partment of The First .National Bank of Portland. A. V. Pullen, Assistant Manager, Grants Pass Branch United States National Bank. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Aid Is Appreciated To" the Editor: As we look, back to the past week end when the Centennial of this church was celebrated, we realize that there were many people whose assistance helped to make the occasion such a great success. We felt that we were most ex cellently served by the Tribune, both in the special feature ar ticle and photographs, the follow-up announcement and the illustrated reoort of the actual proceedings. We feel that both Miss Hutchinson and the pho to?rapher deserve high commen dation for the way in which they handled this assignment. We are grateful to you, and with our thanks come our best wishes. Robert T. Bridge, Minister First Presbyterian Church, Jacksonville, Ore, Deer Season . To the Editor: Again we see an instance of the tail wkgging the dog. Clark Walsh of the game com mission, assistant director, said to add a week to the season woud necessitate. lots of. adjust ments, and would necessitate a special commission meeting. . Were the men aopoiuted on the commission so important that they can and do disappoint the three or four hundred thousand We've heard of the "face in the fog' but the "face in the smoke" was a new one, until last week. If you still have a copy of Tuesday's pa per on hand, hold Page 1 up to the light, and look at Pho tographer Bob Vroman's ex cellent forest fire picture. The pixie face of a rag doll in the pattern on Page 2 appears. peering through the smoke. A Salem newspaper reports on the mystery of the missing milk. A part-time farmer complain ed to the sheriff's office that each ' morning, after returning home from his night work, he'd go to milk his cow, and find she'd already been milked. This had been going on for a couple of weeks, and he wanted the deputies to apprehend the culprit. The deputies checked around the neighborhood, and found a neighbor who reported his calves didn't seem to be hungry when ne ted them. At the suggestion of the deputies, he agreed to keep them penned up at night, and the case of the missing milk was solved. , A staff member noticed that a publication entitled "Dig," . dealing with teen age music, is on sale locally. He was moved to inquire if that shouldn't really be the name of the morticians' trade pub lication. During the cool, pelting rains of Wednesday and Thursday, a staff member recalled that last Sunday he was amazed to watch a group of enthusiasts playing tennis energetically, despite the 96-degree heat. He added that when it cooled off to 93, even more tennists appeared on the baking, courts. Not only is County Agent Ben Tucker a man of con servative tastes; he also picks food appropriately. Recently, when he and . others in the extension office were playing host to some visiting farmers from Chile, the group stopped for ' a Latin-American type meal. Other members of thex staff picked out the hottest type of food a la Mexicana, but Ben was seen eating a chiliburger, naturally! Practice makes perfect, they say, so there's no reason to be upset about the Medford High School band, which usually is deer hunters that expect them to so well-drilled as to be letter- see that we .set the full benefit of the short season X allowed us ow? .', Just because it would necessi tate a special meeting of the five high and mighty. ' , Charles E. Rose, , fi3 Pierce rd., ; Medford, Ore. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS the truth. Its only interest is what will stir up the animals and bring in votes. The demagogue appeals, therefore only to the fears, prejudices and hates of the people, with no regard for what may happen to his community or state, so long as he escapes and re tains power for himself. : And the type, almost invariably, has a great gift of gab, a shrewd sense of mob-psychology and timing, and the subtle specious persuasiveness of speech akin to that of a gold-brick salesman, y; . . Finally, as experience here in' Southern Oregon has often demonstrated, the sad fact about this ex tremely dangerous demagogic type is that so many people who, by education and experience, SHOULD know better, fall head over heels for it. Fortunately, they are not going to "fall" here in Oregon. But we greatly fear too many of them will in the Deep South and particularly in the ill-fated state of Arkansas. R.W.R. ' to be equal understanding of the president's reluctance to take the extreme step which he finally did in ordering U.S. troops there. That the federal government has the power to enforce inte gration with troops has been obvious, but nobody will be very happy if that is the only way it can be accomplished. President Eisenhower and all other respon sible, sober-minded people have been hoping that this drastic step would not be necessary. There needed to " be a real demonstration that is. was neces sary. Agitators and hoodlums in Little Rock gave that demonstra tion. It was sufficient ta outrage the decent people, in the South and to prove to them that fed eral - intervention had to come. Many of them who would other wise have strongly opposed the use of federal troops are con ceding the president had no oth er choice. Southern newspapers are ' a courageously voicing this view. ' . In the long run, the success of integration depends on its ac ceptance in the minds and hearts of the people. President Eisen hower knows federal troops can not force this acceptance. His only purpose in ordering them to Little Rock was to prevent anarchy. His action held grave risk of inciting wholesale hos tility in the South. It was a risk that many responsible Southern ers are seeing it in this light is a hopeful sign. Oregon Jour nal, Portland. Business note No. 1: Thecommerce department re ports that consumer buying con tinues to climb to record highs while business spending is ex pected to level off at about its current RECORD rate. The de partment says record retail sales of 17 billion dollars in, July and 17.7 billion dollars in August were well above the same months last year. Higher prices accounted for part of the increase, but more than half of the rise represented higher physical volume. That is to say, more THINGS were sold flOOD news? VJ The answer is YES. Here's why: Inventories have been piling up at the manufacturing level the wholesale level and the re tail level. When inventories pile up too high, production has to be cut down. When production is cut down, workers have to be laid off. When workers are laid off, payrolls decline. When pay rolls decline, prosperity suffers If people can keep on buying, inventories will decline and pro duction will again pick up. . TJUSINESS note No. 2: v Japan is bargaining with the United States to purchase some 47 million dollars Worth of surplus agricultural products Japanese foreign minister Fuji yama has opened talks with our secretary of agriculture Benson on the deal. Payment for the surplus prod ucts would be in JAPANESE YEN. THAT raises this question: What would we do with Japanese yen? Our manufacturers and mer chants wonH take Japanese yen for their merchandise. ."' THE answer is simple. The only way we can use Japanese yen is to BUY JAPANESE GOODS WITH THEM. When we buy Jap anese goods our producers of similar, competing goods howl like wounded wolves. . What to do? . It works out like this: The more goods we buy from Japan, the more goods JAPAN CAN BUY FROM US. If we can work out a way whereby we can sell Japan a big chunk of our perfect in its formations. , t -But during one early-season appearance, part of the drum section fouled up slightly, and instead of the formation spell ing out "MHS," it came out "MIS." Sort of a near-miss. ; The father of a family. In trigued by one of the small, foreign - made cars, received the word from his wife, to wit: "You bring that thing home for your family to ride in and I'll throw it at you. Last week's rains caused a great bringing-in and storing of patio and lawn furniture and such, but it didn't bother one Medford family, who habitually eat their meals out-of-doors in the summer, using a fully equipped al fresco kitchen to do so. The other night, in the midst of the rain, a friend of ours saw them in the back yard, rain coats on and electric heater go ing, eating their evening meal. A Salem newspaper colum nist declares now that fall is here you will start seeing next summer's TV shows for the first time. Down in Coos Bay, an edi torialist on the World reports the end of an era. In the front window of a record shop he saw sign which said: "All Presley records : two bits." So be it, said the editorialist. We agree. A brand-new husband, con fronted for the first time with the age-old problem of the tooth paste tube squeezed in the wrong place, solved it recently. He bought two tubes, . and labeled one "His" and the , other "Hers." surplus agricultural products which Japan needs our stored- up surplus of farm products will be reduced and will hang less menacingly over our agricultur al markets of the future. In this business of trade, one hand tends to wash the other. ANOTHER word on the curtsy. Tt'o rVTTTI It happened like this: Washington's unofficial social arbiter a Mrs. Carolyn Hagner Shaw decided it is too risky. Digging back into social history, she dredged up the case of a plumpish dowager who got aH, snarled up when she tried to curtsy before the Duke of Wind sor at a Washington affair and FELL FLAT ON HER FACE. So it has been decided in the upper echelons that when Queen Elizabeth comes over to visit us next month a HANDSHAKE will be de rigeur. It's probably just as well.
