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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. 4 Thursday, August 28, 1958 ' ; MEDFORDtJTRIBUJiE "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune- Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. IRIC W. ALLEN JR., Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Aledford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er, Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper oFlcity of Medford Official Paper of Jac kson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative : WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices in New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. y'My PUBUSHE1S V-ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 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 Aug. 28. 1948 (Saturday) Barbara Taylor, queen of the Jacksonville Gold . Rush Jubilee, received a screen test yesterday in the old county court house in Jacksonville, after a scene for "The Last cf the Wild Horses" was film ed. Full scale picking of Bart lett pears is scheduled to start tomorrow. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1938 (Sunday) The local Women's Chris tian Temperance union will celebrate its 50th anniversary this week. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "School will open a week from Tues. and Maw's kids and school ma'ams can hardly wait." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 28. 1928 (Tuesday) Col. Charles A. Lindbergh left for Portland today after a "business conference" yes terday at the home of Nion Tucker and Harry Scott on the Rogue river. The newly-organized Britz Opera company in Portland includes two local light opera stars, Ed Andrews and James Stevens. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1918 (Wednesday) Thirty-five more Jackson county youths depart for ac tive duty at Camp Lewis. Thirty draftees -from Ne vada who passed through town this morning ; relieved the tedium of their train stop by drilling with picks and shovels. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Bouganville is the name ofvan island much in the news during the Pacific campaigns of World War II; in which group of islands is it? 2. Do you connect - the name Max Factor with hair styling, foot treatment, or theatrical makeup? 3. Who is Rocky Graziano? 4. A Kerry Blue is what breed of dog? 5. Is it possible to vaccin ate dogs against rabies? 6. The opera "Aida" was composed by Mozart; true or false? 7. How many years is three score and ten? 8. What does the name Cos ta Rica mean? 9. Do like magnetic poles attract, or repel, each other? 10. Do you associate the word "ceramics" with funer al garments, pottery, or stage lighting? Answers: 1. Solomons. 2. Theatrical makeup. 3. For mer middleweight boxing champion. 4. Terrier. 5. Yes. 6. False. (Verdi). 7. Seventy. 8. "Rich Coast." 9. RepeL 10. Pottery . Criticising the Court The United States Supreme Court has long been a target for criticism. Charged with inter preting the U.S. Constitution, the court often must step on toes, and when this happens, it is assailed (depending on the period and the point of view) as being far behind the times, or; as too leftish, and so on and so on. In the 1930s, for example, the liberals of the country criticized the "Nine Old Men" for putting the brakes on some of the social legislation of the New Deal. Today, conservatives condemri it for its "so ciological" decisions, or for failing to protect states' rights. -1 i CURRENT criticism of the court is widespread. In Pasadena, the chief justices of the su preme courts of 44 of the states, by a vote of 36 to 8, accused the high court of assuming the role of "policy-maker" rather than limiting itself to interpreting the laws and constitution. The resolution cited a lack of unanimity in court decisions, and was critical of ;what it said is an invasion of states' rights by using its judicial power to transfer authority to the f ecfieral govern ment. ' 1 Charles A. Sprague of Salem, a long-time ob server of government, as an educator,1 newspaper editor and governor of Oregon, declares the reso lution was "exceedingly presumptuous." Pointing out that state courts themselves fre quently submit divided opinions, he said they would do so even more often "if they were faced with the constitutional issues which call for hair line decisions." M1 R. SPRAGUE adds: - "The core of the Court lately has been called on to decide an unusual number of cases which have gripped public attention and on which emotional attitudes have been positive. One was the issue of school integration. Too bad that had to be decided in a court. But that decision was unanimous, as I hope the critical justices will rctcall. Other decisions have dealt with Communists and svith powers of Congress in the conduct of inquiries. The cases arose in the period when hunting down subver sives was in order. But both laws and procedures have - had to square with the Bill of Rights in our constitu tion, and it became the hard task of the Supreme Coutrt to apply the constitutional tests. If the state justices refer to this as a government of laws and not of merj, I would respectfully refer them to another fundamen tal: the rights of minorities, and the guaranties they1. have in the Bill of Rights. Sustaining them is the high duty of the courts, all the courts ... "While the state justices walked around the inte gration issue, their scolding of the U.S. Court can't help but add some fuel to the fire now burning in the V South, which is a defiance of the Supreme Court,, long regarded as the sheet anchor of our liberties. Hence , it seems to me ill-timed as well as unjustified." THE liberties of Americans are based solidly on I x - f it. j? ai. - j; j i i guarantees oi me ngnis oi uie maiviauai not of state governments; ernment; not even of the majority or the minori ty, but of the individual. If that is whittled away, all else follows. The court's recent decisions have been based on the philosophy that individual rights are para mount in this free nation. What the critics often lose sight of, in their preoccupation with the various other things they feel to be important, is-that the rights of individ uals cannot successfully be divided into classes. If they are long denied to one, then the liber ties of all are threatened; the guarantee is no longer effective for anyone. E.A. Navigating y Birds How do migratory birds find their way on the thousands of miles they fly each spring and sum mer? Ever since mankind first started observing the regular flights of the birds, this has been a puzzle. A series of experiments conducted by a Ger man ornithologist, E. G. F. Sauer, has revealed that some species, at least, use an art little sus pected in this connection celestial navigation. rR. SAUER, writing in the Scientific American, reports: "Numerous theories have been x advanced in ex planation of the remarkable ability of birds to fly nearly halfway around the world, much of the distance being covered at night, and yet hit their target on the nose. Various theorists have proposed that the migra tions were guided by the earth's magnetic field, by the Coriolis force arising from the earth's rotation, by landmarks, and so on. But more and more ornitholo gists have, been driven to the conclusion that birds must rely mainly on celestial navigation-the sun by day and the constellations by night." Experiments with birds bom and raised in captivity, in closed, soundproof chambers, show ed they had a sort of inner "clock" to tell them the seasons of the year, although they had no ex ternal references at all. EXPERIMENTS with birds placed in a glass , topped cage which showed the sky, and oth ers with an "artificial" sky created by a plane tarium, proved conclusively that the direction of the birds' flight was determined by the positions of the stars. One of Dr. Sauer's experiments was described this way: , "In one test we suddenly shifted our sky to the longitude of Lake Balkhash in Siberia.. At first the birds were deeply disturbed. For a full minute they stood irresolutely. Then they turned due west, heading directly for their usual migration starting point in Germany." The discoveries constitute a milestone in the study of animal instincts. But more and deeper mysteries remain. How can such a sophisticated knowledge of the stars be bred into a tiny bird so that he flies in the right direction although he's never seen the stars before? That is a real mystery. E.A. matter is this: the Siupreme not of the federal gov Dennis the Menace Communications 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 ax view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the oaper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Pour It Onl To the Editor: I have cer tainly been enjoying "Com munications," lately. First the one' by Floyd McCabe. Good for him! But I would hate for him to think he has an ex clusive on bad roads. Try the South Fork of Little Butte creek. Remember the boastful campaign advertisement that you could "go anywhere in Jackson Co. on a hardtop rdad"? You can, as long as you stay on Highways 99 and 62. The tourist that Medford worships so will certainly get "shook-up". if he should hap pen to take a side trip out of the shopping area. Next, I enjoyed all three communications in Sunday's paper, especially Ivan Camp field's on fruit-picking. So true! I know a family of five, all picking pears. Between them all, they picked as many as 182 boxes in one day at 14c ,$25.48. They could buy two grift boxes of pears for that, I imagine, if they didn't have to buy school clothes for three kids, besides eating. I also iruagine that $25 wouldn't buy gasoline for a "Fruit-King's" Caidillac for a week. iLast, but not least, I liked Lai:ry Turner's letter on Ro deois. So true, too. Let the Cha'smber read that over sev eral times. I know of dozens of piepple who would have liked; to have gone to the ro deo, ; but remembered last year, ioo well. Since it would have tfost our family $22 to even ijet into the bleachers, and mot counting , refresh ments, .we all stayed home. Think of the attendance they would have had if people could afltord to go. . What iirofits are some-one making, while the contestant risks his nisck for a mere $100? Yes, I iave enjoyed the communications, lately! Let's poue it on 'em! Mrs. Giirrel Millard, Box 391 Lake Cre ek, Ore. i None Withou t Sin To the Editpr: In regard to the disparaging, defaming and outrageous grtlss remarks by one H. R. Bulman in regard to the women's ami girls' bathing garbs: I wish to say ; that I detest such slurs by an:? man against the opposite sex; - even a male dog shows high rsgard for the female of his kind and seldom if ever shows them contempt or fights them. Therefore a dog is superior4o siome of the men in that vital oespect. I say the question of garb is a matter of opinion, mot an act Try and Stop Me : -By BENNETT CERF GEORGE FUERMANr tells of a fabulously wealthy oil man who took for his seventh wife a spectacular girl twenty five years his junior. . Hert taste ran to paintings, but just one of many she purchased pleased her husband: a picture ofa country cemetery. When thte inevitable breakup de veloped, the husband saidA "You can have the house, the plane, the yacht, the art collection everything. Just send me that painting of the graveyard." In due course, the wife sent him the painting he craved. First, however, us ing indelible ink, she wrote his name on the rump of a donkey in the foreground of the picture and the names and wives on seven tombstones. V " Most ostentatious Texan yet has batoi found in the neighborhood of the King Ranch. He sports a ball-pen branding iron. m C ISfiC by Beaaett Cerf. Distributed jy Kins Features Syndicate. Y0UA4L BUM?" to be judged as any flip be haviour. Yes, the Bible says, "The ungodly know no shame;" neither do the inno cent know shame, for they look through a pure vision. Yes, the mystery of iniquity doth already work in some men's minds, and accuse the women of exhibiting their forms to vamp the men. I judge there would be a very very small percentage of women that.ever think of such a thing. Why not give them the benefit of the doubt? '. Please don't anyone waste their sorrowful feelings on me; save that for yourself and other mamma's boys, for I adore nature's beautiful forms, whether all out or oth erwise, whether men or wom en, and I don't avoid bathing pools and beaches or cut street corners to avoid my fellow beings on account of their par ticular apparel, for naked forms have no ill effect on my mind or body, and if they were offensive to me I would not look upon them; there's nothing compulsory about it. .There's nothing sweeter than a little nude human be ing, and if older ones wish to don scant garb for comfort why not glance on them with the reminisence that they, too, were once beautiful and hap py babes. Although some may have strayed from the narrow path of life, they still are some mother s babe. The Good Book says, "None are without sin." Joe F. Riley, Jacksonville. Russell Frink Tractor Champ Russell Frink of Central Point, beat out his older brother, James, by 1.2 points tp win the championship in the tractor driving contest at the recent 4-H and FFA coun ty fair. The contest includes tract or inspection, serpentine, backing a two-wheeled im plement, driving skill, time and safety. Junior division winners are Russell Frink, Central Point, first; Gregg Schmidt, Phoenix second; and Ronald Willcock, Phoenix, third. Senior division winners are James Frink, Central Point, first; James Scott, Phoenix, second; -Gerald Reneau; Tal ent, third; Bob Kuest, Central Point, fouFth; and David Christensen, Applegate, fifth. 'marriage dates of his seven Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann LAW WITHOUT POLBCY With the schools about to openj the country finds itself committed to the principle of integration. Yet there is no policy for carrying out inte gration. There is no policy, there is 'no program, no guidance, no rules on how how to pro ceed. For the Federal gov- ernment, 1 which has the duty of reali zing the prin ciple, has ab stained from the effort of working out ways and means for realizing it. Thus, Congress has, as we know, avoided any responsi bility to do anything about the problem of reconciling the principle of integration with the resistance of the people and the state govern ments in the deep south. The courts are not really equip ped to deal with the practical problems of integration, as they were exemplified during the past year in the Little Rock school. In reversing Judge Lemley's order to sus pend integration for a while, the Circuit Court of Appeals took the view that "it is not the province of this court in this proceeding to advise the (school) board as to the means of implementing integration in the Little Rock school. We are directly concerned only with the legality of the order under review." . rpHIS avoidance of the prob lem of implementing the principle was followed by the President's press conference last week in which he dis avowed any responsibility for dealing with the substance of the problem. He professed to believe that his whole duty is to "execute" the law, leav ing it to the court to deter mine what the law is. We are in a position, there fore, where the Federal gov ernment in all its majesty is calling for a revolutionary change in the social life of a section of the country. But the courts are unable, the Congress and the President are unwilling, to assume the responsibility of dealing with the hard substance ,- of the problem- which is how to get the principle accepted with out a grave civil conflict. The integration of the pub lic schools of the deep South poses the most difficult inter nal problem which has ap peared in this century, and the President's conception of his role in dealing with this problem is so abstract, so generalized, and so unrealis tic that he will not even say whether he believes in the principle which he has used Federal troops to enforce. TLfR. EISENHOWER'S rea son for refusing to say what he thinks of the law he is sworn to enforce is that he "could disagree very violent ly with a decision" but that if he so expressed himself, his duty to enforce the de cision "would be much more difficult to carry out." This is a weird view of his own office. If, in fact, he dis agrees with the decision of the court, his duty is not only to enforce that decision but also to propose legislation" or a constitutional amendment which will correct the deci sion he disagrees with. The notion that the Presi dent has no duty to deal with the substance of a great na tional problem would have horrified all his predecessors, all at least since Buchanan. MOREOVER, it is reason ably plain from his pub lic statement that President Eisenhower has no clear con ception of what is the prob lem of enforcement that he faces. He thinks of it as the problem of maintaining law and order against mob vio lence. But that is not the problem in Arkansas or in Virginia or in any of the other states of the deep South. In the ordinary practice of the American system of gov ernment, Federal troops have been used where the state and local authorities have not been able to cope with vio lence. But what we have to day in Arkansas and else where is the defiance of Fed eral law, not by mobs but by the state government, backed by a large majority of the qualified voters. What happened in Little Rock a year ago was that Gov. Fau bus called out the National Guard to prevent the Negro children from entering the school which was willing to admit them. THERE exists, in short, a conflict between two sov-ereignties-between the state government and the Federal government. This poses prob- Walter Lippmann Russia, China Stepping Up i-Tito By K. C. THALER UPI Correspondent London-IUPD-Soviet Russia and Red China have stepped up their anti-Tito campaign in new concerted moves to assail Yugoslav revisionism from within and without.., Yugoslav reports said Mos cow has refused to supply wheat due under a long-standing agreement, despite the bumper harvest Russia is ex pecting this year. Red China in turn was re ported to have cancelled con tracts for Yugoslav tobacco, an important export item in Belgrade's precarious trade balance. Moreover, Peiping has car ried the anti-Tito campaign into the very heart of Yugo slavia and, despite strong pro tests from the Belgrade gov ernment, has declined to halt its propaganda war inside Yugoslavia. The signs were that once again Red China was forcing the pace in the campaign against Belgrade with Russia following suit. New Phase Begins Several fresh develooments have marked a new phase in the campaign which was fore shadowed by the official com munique issued at the end of the Sino-Russian secret talks in Peiping some three weeks ago. In outright violation of dir lomatic privilege, the Red Chinese Embassy in Belgrade has recently been circulating pamphlets in the Russian lan guage inside, Yugoslavia which assailed Marshal Tito for his independent socialist line. , . Yugoslavia is being bluntly attacked in these pamphlets for its alleged "treason" to the Communist cause, and Tito for having allegedly "sold" the country for Ameri can dollars. The publication, named Druzba, and printed in Peip ing by the Chinese-Soviet Friendship Society, has been widely . distributed recently throughout the country. Protests of the Belgrade government in Peiping have apparently had no effect; this was. held to reflect Peiping's determination to carry its campaign against revisionism to the extreme. Try To Embroil Russia - The pamphlets also contain reprints from attacks on Tito in the official Soviet press. This was seen as a calculated attempt of the Peiping regime to drag Russia into the quarrel more deeply and-to commit her irrevocably. lems which go far beyond and are quite different from, the problems of dealing with lawless mobs. They are prob lems which are insoluble by exhortation, or by Federal injunction and law suits in the Federal courts. For the essential issue is the refusal of lawful state governments to accept the validity of a Federal law. , Conflicts of this kind can be resolved in one of two ways. There carl be -a resort to overwhelming force to crush the resistance, which, of course, is ruled out. And there can be what is in fact internal diplomacy negotia tion between the Federal au thorities and the resisting state authorities aimed at some kind of compact about when, where, how much, how fast, by what means, the prin ciple of integration is to be applied in the deep South. If such a negotiation is to take place, it will have to be initiated by the President, and the leading members of Congress will have to partici pate in it. (C) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. "To stand strong graciously, to smile sincerely, to love always and to seek understanding - these are the worthy ambition of a life worth living' Esther Freshman Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP2-8030 Propaganda Fire Once again Peiping thus ap peared to be forcing the pace in the war against revision ism. The reports also said Red China has cancelled contracts for Yugoslav tobacco, which would hurt the country's econ omy that has been channel Matter of Fact (Joseph Alsop is on vaca tion. While he it away, his column will be written by Rowland Evanc Jr.) . MUSKIE VS. TRADITION China Lake, Me.-The Dem ocrat who is trying to break all tradition down here is tall a nd slender, in appearance s o m e w here between Jim my Stewart and Edward R. M u r r o w. His quick, friendly smile is touched uriVi a ci i done. Rowland Eyani " jr. tion of shy ness. A rather angular, de termined jaw puts out a bit. He stood there, hands thrust deep into the pockets of his jacket, talking earnestly to a couple of hundred silent se rious Democrats. He stood on nothing much more than a soapbox, hung with a tattered old flag and placed on the edge of a windy high school athletic field. The place was Biddeford, and for four hours' they had waited out the afternoon for Ed Muskie, patient women wrapped in their Sunday shawls, tired old men pulling on their pipes and gangs of children tossing balloons in tireless, noisy exuberance. TjINALLY, the last of the lesser Democratic candi dates finished and Gov. Mus kie took up his stance on the soapbox. r. - . He spoke for less than 20 minutes, defending his two term record as Governor against the principal Republi can charge in the campaign so far-that he has not re versed the economic decline in this state. By all the rules but one, this 44-year-old Democratic wonder-boy ought to be a shoo-in on Sept. 8 when the voters, in the last of their fa mous September .. elections, pick a United States Senator. In 1956 he was elected Gov ernor by 180,000 to 124,000. Muskie has endless charm, in telligence, a quiet dignity and, by any fair yardstick, an ad mirable record as Maine's first Democratic Governor since early in the New Deal. But weighing against these assets is a single clear liabil ity. For an unbroken stretch of 47 years, not one Democrat has been elected to the United States Senate from the state of Maine. . - rTiHIS year the Republicans 4- have moved firmly to stamp out the seeds of party disharmony that were scatter ed ' in 1952 when Frederick Payne, the incumbent Repub lican Senator running against Muskie, beat Owen Brewster for the Republican Senatorial nomination. Brewster's pres ent contribution to the new unity of the Republican Party must be treated in a separate report, along with Payne's un fortunate loan of $3,500 from Bernard Goldfine, the friend of Sherman Adams and most everyone else. Muskie has not mentioned Mr. Goldfine or the $3,500 i his campaign against Payne and has no intention of doing so, but it already is the chief unspoken issue of the cam paign. For one, Muskie thinks mmwrnVt ling much of its exports to Communist camp nations. The Russians, inturn, were said to be refusing to supply some 200,000 tons of wheat which they undertook to de liver annually to the Yugo slavs under a long standing agreement. By Rowland Evans Jr. the subject should be beneath ; his formal notice. For another, the reputation he has careful ly fostered as a man of high honor, a man above the purely partisan dint, might tarnish if he tried to capitalize on Payne's use of Goldfine as a mortgage bank. Muskie needs Republican votes, a lot of them, to get to Washington. He is not going to risk losing a single one on any below-the-vicuna attack on Payne.. . . What then is Muskie's cam paign? The answer is breath takingly simple-a campaign of self-exposure. "I know there's nothing new in this, since Kefauver's done so much of it," he says. "But I've decided to do a lot of handshaking. I figure that in the last four weeks I've shaken 30,000 hands." VTOT BAD when you consid er that less than 250,000 voters turned out in the last off-year election down here.. Muskie's policy of refusing to engage in the personalities of others, but spreading his own as widely as possible, is really the heart and soul of his campaign for the Senate. If you chauffeur the Gov ernor from Biddeford, where he spoke from the soapbox up here to China Lake, north of Augusta, and just let him talk, you begin to see how he de fied tradition and got himself elected twice in a row as Gov ernor. Beneath the surface charm is a fundamental po litical philosophy that govern ment's obligation is to govern. His simple charge against the Eisenhower administration is that instead of finding ways to use the Federal power, the Administration seeks ways to avoid using it. The fact is, however, that Eisenhower is not really part of this cam paign at all. The campaign is strictly provincial. - - When you finally pull up on this late evening drive at a small cabin on the edge of China Lake, you meet the other half of the "campaign team," dark, vivacious and very pretty Mrs. Muskie. Like other wives of the new crop of Democratic glamour boys, she talks politics with the zest of an old-fashioned ward heeler. But even with all this, Gov. Muskie is still running against tradition and, although the odds and the polls are now on his side, tradition is a stub born opponent. If Muskie does win, one of the most obvious reasons will be found in the small comment of a Scotch American who scrutinized the Governor intently during his stump talk in Biddeford. "Sociable lad," he said, "very sociable." (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Vacation at End For Crew of Nautilus New York UPD It was back to work toaay for the men of the USS Nautilus. The crew of the atomic powered submarine that crossed under the North Pole was given a tickertape pa rade up . lower Broadway Wednesday, climaxing a threeday welcome to the city. The crewmen were due back at the Brooklyn Navy Yard this morning to take the Nautilus to her home base of New London, Conn.