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0 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Thursday, Jan. 14, 1960 "Everyone in Southern Oregon ' neaas ine M3U,.fripuw Published Daily except Saturday by JViautUHO rtUINTtNL. CO. 33 North Fir St Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor- HERB GREY Advertising Manager litnALU 1 L.A 1 ttAJVi, bus. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR., Mng. Editor jsahl M. ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN; Tele. Editor RICHARD JEWETT,: Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women's Editor dale ekickson. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newsoaner Entered as second class matter at Aiedford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION HATES ' By Mail In Advance. CopJ lOe Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 faunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier in Advance Medford .Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. 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Ad Liska, veteran submar ine pitcher of Pacific Coast league, will be player-manager of Salem ball club., . j : . 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 14. 1940 (Sunday) ; Russians bomb Helsinki in one of worst raids of war; British drop propaganda' leaf lets on Vienna and Prague. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Demo crats of the state arid nation feasted last Tuesday in honor of Andrew Jackson, while or ators tried to laugh off fail ures of new deal." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 14. 1930 (Tuesday) General offices of Standard Oil company to open here Jan. 27. Since Jan. 5, 21 inches of snow have fallen in city; citi zens urged to clear sidewalks and gutters. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 14. 1920 (Thursday) Rogue River fish bill fight abandoned by Jackson coun ty delegations after many compromises rejected. A cafeteria is planned for the high school. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 14. 1910 (Friday) The steamer Czarina with 25 men has foundered off coast near Coos Bay, 20 known dead, one survivor, four men seen lashed to mast and believed dead. Construction of a two-story. $40,000 business block at Cen tral ave." and Sixth st. will start soon. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or ix is good. 1. The Mediterranean and Red Sea are joined by what canal? '. 2. Is copper, or silver, the better conductor of electric ity? - 3. What color is alabaster? ' 4. Where are the hands placed when the arms are "akimbo"? - 5. Is Israel a member, of the United Nations? 6. Does any species of plant produce flowers that are ar solutelv black? :. 7. Is a bimonthly magazine isued once every two months, or twice a month? - ft. Which European coun tries are connected by the Rrenner Pass? 9. Is salt used in freezing ice cream to make the ice melt, or to keep it from melting? 10. Edward Teach is more popularly known as ? Answers: 1. Suex. 2. Silver 3. While. 4. On the hips. 5 yes. 6. No. 7. Once every two months. 8. Italy and Austria 9. To make it melt. 10. "Black- beard," the pirate. FtnsT WOMAN i Woman's suffrage was adopted in Montana In 1914 and the state was nrst to conn a woman to congress, Miss Jeanette R.apkin,in 0 Liberals and Every once in a. while, it seems, most writers of editorials feel compelled to attempt-to define the difference between a liberal and a conserva tive. f J- ' ' - Most recent such -attempt to come to our at tention was in the La Grande-Observer. ; . The editorial commented: "The average person who prides himself on being a liberal is likely to define his liberalism in this way: He is not afraid of change. He is willing to try some thing new if it promises to make things better." i -. Then it goes on to indicate that liberals have become, increasingly, advocates of governmental action to improve the condition of the country. I T ADDS: "Conversely the man who opposes government in tervention, or government control, or government reg ulation, is likely to be considered the opposite of liberal a reactionary." It also points out that by men seeking liberation from an excess of gov eminent controls and interference with individual lives..' . ; "Somehow, .unaccountably," the Observer says, "the definition of 'liberal' changed from one who wanted less government to one who con siders more government everything. Up to a point we can ers editorial. fXTE CAN agree, for instance, not opposed to change if a ising. We agree that the least government necessaiy is desirable. ..; We agree that the founding fathers liberal in their own way did seek a minimum of gov- ermental controls and interference. We agree that government is NOT neces sarily "the answer to just about everything." Where we arrive at a disagreement with the Observer is at the point it implies that an ex tension of government controls, aides and exten sion is, of itself and necessarily, a bad thing. . CONDITIONS in this country when it consisted f of. 13 under-populated colonies along the At lantic seaboard,, and conditions now, with 50 states stretching from Alaska to Florida, and Hawaii to Maine, with nearly 179 million people, are vastly different. he. problems are vastly different.. The solutions to these problems cannot be the same as the solutions to the problems of 185 years The needs of ; a . small, isolated agrarian re public are not those of a large industrial nation, intimately involved in the affairs of the world. " f : - CACH extension of governmental power and authority and "interference" has been in re sponse to a specific need. (Sometimes, it should be pointed out, when the need has vanished, the interference has remained tine in many cases.) Each of the departments of government was established to meet a specific situation, and the process is still going on. (It was only a tew years ago, for instance, the department of health, education and welfare was organized and given cabinet status.) : Most of the problems tension of federal prowers were those which could not be solved by private enterprise, by the states, or by any measures on a less-than-nation- al level. CO, WHILE we may agree with the Observer that a "liberal" is one who is not afraid of change, as such, we would add something to that. - ' We would say that a liberal is actively seek ing solutions to the nation's ills; that he would prefer them to be solved first, by the people in volved; second by local units of government; third, by the states. But, rather than bungle along with no solu tion at all, he is not afraid to seek federal leader ship for solutions at the national level. Too many people think of the federal gov ernment' as something which is remote; imper sonal, and, somehow, inimical to their interests. .; nrOO FEW see it for what it really is a po- litical extension of their own needs and desires ; an agency OF the people to do FOR the people what they cannot do, or do as well, for them selves. . : In addition, too few think of the federal gov ernment as an agency which, ultimately, is run BY the people, through their votes and their elected : representatives. Government, even big government, is not evil per se. It is only when it fails to be responsible to the needs and desires of the people it is design ed to serve that it becomes evil. i To put it another way, government, of any size, is good when the people are its master; gov erment, of any size, is bad when it is master of the people. E.A. The report on the Oiegon Dunes National Sea shore proposal, issued yesterday by the Oregon natural resources committee, is positive in ap proach, not completely negative, as was its first recommendation. One may take issue with details of its new report but it leaves the door open for negotiation and compromise which the earlier report didn't do. E.A. .2 , - Government the nation was founded :' the answer to just about agree with the Observ that a liberal is change is prom although this is not which resulted in ex Dennis the 'And iLnzMA nmsz Nice thing FIGHTS WITH DOGS ThfiTAPB WEAWN GLASSES. Matter of Fact KENNEDY'S DILEMMA Washington - Not long ago, the backers of Sen. Stuart Symington were cast down into the depths of gloom, and the camp of Sen. J o h n F. Kennedy was filled with a glow of hope, by a simple statement from Mayor Richard Daley- of Chica go. Joseph alsop m mis state ment, which got almost no na tional atention, Mayor Daley merely indicated that he would not be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Governorship of Il linois. The Kennedy backers had been praying for just this statement, and the Syming tonites ' had been praying, even harder, for a statement in just the opposite sense. They both had good cause to pray too. Mayor Daley was known to feel that it would be too much of a good thing to ask the Illinois citizenry to vote for a Catholic Democratic Governor and a Catholic Dem ocratic Presidential nominee as well. If the Catholic Mayor had decided to stand for the Governorship, in other words, the Symingtonites' claims to the large Illinois convention delegation might well have been made good. Instead, the Mayor's withdrawal opened the way for Kennedy in Illi nois. . . . SYMINGTON'S Illinois back ers, the downstate leaders John Stelle and William Pow ell, made a brief, convulsive effort to repair the damage by securing the gubernatorial nomination for another Cath olic candidate. But they were quickly over-ridden in the state committee. The commit tee decided, over the week end, to endorse the candidacy of County Judge tto Koerner, a big Illinois vote-getter, a war hero, and a Protestant. With Koerner and Sen. Paul Douglas heading his state ticket, Mayor Daley will now be ideally placed to give Kennedy the 45 to 55 Illinois delegates whom he will con trol. Later on, in short, the recent developments in Illi nois may add up to another break for Kennedy almost equal to his handsome gain in Ohio. But this potential break for Kennedy is a symbol, not just of his high hopes, but also of the grave risks that he must still run to gain the great prize. Mayor Daley is highly unlikely to make any com mitment until Kennedy has proven himself in the state primaries. Hence the battle for the highly important ma jority group in the big Illi nois delegation is likely to be decided, not in Illinois at all, but in Wisconsin's crucial pri mary. ON THE subject of the Wis consin primary, there is a deep split in the Kennedy camp. The two leading polit ical professionals who are pledged to Kennedy, Con necticut's Gov. Abraham Rib icoff and Democratic State Chairman John Bailey, have loner been insisting that Ken nedy must go into Wisconsin. The risk of losing there, they argue, is much less than the risk of making nonsense of the Kennedy- claim that he is ready to take on all comers in primary fights. Senator Kennedy's closest adviser, the head of his per sonal staff, Theodore Soren son,' is known to feel just the other way about the risks in Wisconsin. A poll in "depth" recently taken in the state on Kennedy's - behalf indicates the reasons, both for Soren son's caution and for Bailey's and Robicoff s willingness to gamble.' " In brief, the polls showed that Wisconsin's three' Con Menace about ruff: he nmt picks By Joseph Alsop gressional districts along the Minnesota border were almost sure for Sen. Hubert Hum phrey of Minnesota, who is making his major bid in Wis consin. It showed that Ken nedy might hope to take three more districts, yet could not count on doing so by any means. And it showed Ken nedy with a seemingly unas sailable lead in the four east ern, more industrial Wiscon sin, districts, including the Milwaukee area. . TTNDER the Wisconsin law, - each Congressional dis trict elects two convention delegates; ten more are elect ed by the winner of a state wide majority in the primary; and one more delegate vote is split between the state's na tional committeeman and na tional commi tteewoman These two are also split, one for Humphrey and one for Kennedy. Thus, if Kennedy carries five districts and gets a state-wide majority, he will win 20V2 Wisconsin delegates -enough to give him a solid majority, so Bailey and Rib- tcoff argue. The great risk is, of course, that Humphrey will carry all six districts where he has a chance. He is known to be making progress in Wisconsin and a Humphrey victory can not be excluded. Therefore Kennedy has lately been see ing a lot of Wisconsin's Demo cratic Sen. William Proxmire, who is thought to be sure to defeat Humphrey if he enters the primary as a favorite son Proxmire has disappointed Kennedy to date, however, by refusing to run as a favorite son favorable to Kennedy. Thus it is about a five to one bet that Kennedy will finally enter the hot Wisconsin pri mary fight. If he does so, just about everything will hang upon the issue, including the Illinois delegates, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Social Security's Future To the Editor: I noted with interest your informative edi torial on Jan. 4, ' concerning Social Security and taxes. I was particularly interested in the statement that "a notable lack of public squawking about increases gives support to Representative Aime J. Forand's (D.-R.I.) contention that people are willing to pay to get the benefits." It seems to me that if people were to stop and take a good look at what is happening with re spect to Social Security and what is to happen in the near future they would do a lot of squawking. . I wish to make it clear that I am not opposed to the Social Security program as such, but I am very much concerned about where we are going with it and what we are doing to the next generation. Being an insurance man, I know that the average young worker coming under Social Security can provide much better bene fits for his family if he were to die and for himself for old age by the proper type of planning and for the same amount of money paid in, than he can expect from So cial Security. : As the program was orig inally set up it wm a good thing- because it forced many people, who would not do so of their own free will, to pro vide benefits for their families if they were to die, and for their retirement. However, some were not satisfied with this , and every congressional session there are bills intro duced, such as the Forand Bill, , Philosophical Shoe Store Owner Finds Maxims and Axioms Aide in His Business By DICK WEST Washington - (UPD - Franz Richey, as far as I know, runs the only philosophical shoe store in America. The shoes I can't vouch for. having never been a Richey customer, but the philosophy seems sound enough. It falls into a category, or chasm, somewhere between Schopen hauer and Edgar A. GuesC to raise benefits and lower age limits. Since the program has not been in actuarial balance, even without any further in crease in benefits, the taxes paid by a worker and his em ployer by 1969 will be 9 per cent of the first $4,800 of earnings per year or $432 per year. As you pointed -out, it has been suggested that the maximum earnings base be placed at $9,000 per year so that the total tax paid on that amount of earnings in 1969 would amount to $810. The increased taxes each year are so small that they creep up gradually on us and the average worker does not realize what is happening to him. I think it is high time that we realize what is being done and call a halt to any further increases. Surely we have not forgotten how to be independent enough to do things for ourselves and not have to depend upon our gov ernment to do everything for us, when it has been proved that they cannot do these things in the most economical manner. C. W. "Bill" Abbott, Old Stage rd.y Central Point, Ore. Let Teachers Teach To the Editor: The enclosed cliDDin" is from the Kitchen er-Waterloo Record, Ontario, Canada, and I believe it sums up the educational system that is the rresent vogue among our educators and members of the P.T.A. Phil Motschenbacher, Box 265, Shady Cove, Ore. Editor's note: The clipping follows: Colleague Charley (Town and Country) Camige has fired a salvo at Twin City teachers over the fact that milk is no loneer distributed In local schools. Principals . and " teachers think it would be too much bother, Charley says, in urg ing parents to put on the pressure for classroom milk breaks. Charley Is obviously on sound ground in boosting milk as a necessity , for children. But it strikes us that there's a wider question involved. It's simply this: Are our schools to focus on teaching the three Rs and sundry asso ciated subjects, or are we go ing to continue the trend that is turning teachers into com bined babysitters, nursemaids, recreation directors, dieti tians, drama coaches and what not. Surely somewhere along the line parents are going to have to accept some remnant of re sponsibility for raising their offspring. We just can't keep foistintr it off on the schools in one breath, and then be moan the educational system in the next. Let's let the teachers stick to teaching, and give the job of child-raising back to we parents. And that includes re sponsibility for child diets- milk and all. It's about time we did some thing to restore schools to their their primary function, because day by day education is becoming more and more vital. What you don't know does n't hurt you? Wo, it doesn't not until you find out some body else is getting paid for knowing what you don't.- Sandy Baird. Payola Hearings To Begin Feb. 8 Washington-flJPD - Chairman Oren Harris has announced that his House investigating subcommittee will being radio-television payola hearings about Feb. 8 and that some disc jockeys "very likely" will called. The Arkansas Democrat told a news conference that the hearings, expected to last at least a week, would cover the "entire problem" of un decover payments to - disc jockeys, as well as charges of hidden plugs in radio-TV programs. Harris declined to give any further details of the witness list, the scope of the hearings,! or what type of information staff investigators have garn ered so far. FREEZING POINT -Boston -. Sea water will freeze at a temoerature of about 28 degrees Fahrenheit. Richey displays his philoso phy along with his shoes in a shop window on 15th Street about a block from the White House. Passers-by can see it chalked on a blackboard over a pair of sturdy brown ox fords or black-sling pumps. If they pause for a moment, they can read such pithy mes sages as "The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it." Then they can go on about their business feel ing uplifted, or perhaps sea sick. Began 5 Years Ago Richey conceived the idea of imparting sidewalk philoso phy to potential customers and the world at large about five years ago. He began the venture by investing 25 cents in a pocket-sized book of quo tations, including such gems as "The less men think, the more they talk." Almost before Richey could say "Aristotle, strangers started dropping into the store to nominate their own favor Congress By Reds, Within and By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor India's ruling Congress Party began its annual con vention this week, with Prime Minister Ja waharlal Neh ru under crit icism for his tardy recogni tion of the Com munist danger from without, and the party fae ing the threat Phi Nwsnm oi a damaging defeat by the Reds at home. There was, nowever, no danger either to Nehru's par ty or national leadership. Today & By Walter SYMINGTON REPLIES TO KENNEDY On Sunday on "Meet the Press" Senator Symington re fused to accept the challenge which Senator Kennedy had issued the week before. The challenge was to meet him in some P r e s idential p r i m a r i es. This challenge was based on the new and strange doctrine that no one deserves to be taken seriously by the nominating convention who has not entered and won a few primary elections. . To this challenge Senator Symington has replied, quite rightly it seems . to - me, that his own state, Missouri, does not have a Presidential pri mary, that in fact only about one -third of all the states have them, and that less than 10 per cent have primaries in which the delegates are bound to a particular candi date. . Thus if Senator Kennedy's rule is to become the unwrit ten law of politics, the con vention is bound to nominate not the choice of the delegates but the winner in two or three primary fights. This amounts to saying that the convention is not to be a deliberative body. It is a de mand that the convention sur render its judgement and abide by the outcome of hand-shaking contests in a few widely separated and ar bitrarily selected states. . rFHE Presidential primary - was invented with good intentions. It-was to limit the power of the state bosses and to give the voters a greater say in the nomination of can didates. But since 1905, when the Presidential primary was first used in Wisconsin, it has been adopted only in a few states and in various com plicated forms. It has never been adopted even by a bare majority of the states. In the states that do have primaries only a minority of them pro vide for binding instructions on the delegates whom the registered voters elect.- As a result, according to Edwin S. Corwin, there has been no convention at which the number of pledged dele gates amounted to a majority required to nominate a candi date. Yet Senator Kennedy's theory is that if Senator Hum phrey and he are the only candidates who enter the Presidential primaries, no one else, not Symington, not John son, not Stevenson, not Bowles, is entitled to serious consideration 1 Mil Walter Lippmann ite axioms and maxims for ap pearance on the blackboard. Some even bought shoes. Richey had to axe many of the axioms because they did n't meet the minimum for a maxim. For example, "Hate is a prolonged form of suicide" was rejected as unfit for shoe store philosophy. But he soon acquired so many acceptable contribu tions, such as "People will be lieve anything if you whisper it," that he was able to put away the quotation book and depend entirely on volunteers. Even changing the black board message every week, he has enough entries to last for two years. No Particular Philosophy Harry Van Pelt, store man ager who helps Richey select the philosophy of the week, said they were not wedded to any particular school of thought. They just let their fancy be their guide. Possibly because of the store's proximity to the U.S. Party Faces Even his opposition agrees that so long as Nehru is around, there can be no ef fective opposition party. And even though his reac tion to the Red Chinese men ace had been tardy, there was a general belief that only he could deal with it. But 1959 had been a crit ical year and this 65th party convention since- the party's founding in 1885 was one of its most critical. Industrial and agricultural de . elopment had not kept pace with the population. . ? Party Loses Prestige The problem of Red Chi nese aggression remained un solved, and in many areas, Tomorrow Lippmann VIHY, we may ask, if the ' Presidential primary is all that important and significant, do so few states have serious primaries to choose pledged delegates? For a number of reasons, no doubt, which have to do with the interests of the party machines. But a good and sufficient public reason is that the Presidential pri mary is an extensive and ex hausting ordeal which cheap ens the quality of the discus sion of national issues and puts an excessive premium on the arts of demagogy. Senator Symington has done the country a service by re jecting the idea that the can didate of the Democratic party should be chosen in two or three Presidential primaries At the best, these scattered and haphazard elections should be regarded, if and when the votes have been thoroughly analyzed, as sam pies of public opinion to as sist the convention in making its final judgement. They should never, as Senator Ken nedy proposes, be treated as decisive. For those who know poli tics know only too well what can be done in a primary by money and organized block voting: Copyright 1960, New York Herald Tribune Inc . A hn th RANK MOtOAN - HAROtO DAY OK NIGHT jj h " " 14 Treasury, they lean toward monetary themes - "Fun is like life insurance, the older you get, the, more it costs." "A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money." Another favorite is the ma trimonial maxim. "Why is it that success comes much fast er to the man your wife al most married?" "One good thing about being married, you can't make a fool of your self without knowing it." Van Pelt showed me a fold er containing several hundred contributions for future win dow display. "Dignity," read one, "is one thing that cannot be. preserved in alcohol." "A man completely wrapped up in himself makes a small package." There is one bit of philoso phy, however, that I was un able to find in the shoe store's collection. It suggests some thing to the effect that "a shoemaker should stick to his I own last." Threat Without the Congress Party had lost prestige. In a land were millions hover on the verge of starva tion, a full belly is more im portant than a political con cept. So, high on the convention agenda would be a reorgan ization plan to eliminate charges that some of the lead ership had grown fat and cor rupt in the face of joblessness ana want. The question of Red Chinw aggression against India's borders is just an added start er to other long-range prob lems with which Nehru and his leadership must deal in the coming year. On Feb. 1, an election will be held in the state of Kerala. In 1957; it became the first Indian state to elect a Com munist government. It lies at India's southern tip, far re moved from the Communist threat to the north. Literacy is high and income low among its more than 13 million peo ple who blamed the Congress Party for their hardships. Last July, the federal gov ernment ousted Kerala's Red regime after a serious of crip pling strikes and unruly dem onstrations. Reds Overcome Stigma United Press International Correspondent B. Tiwari re ported from New Delhi that three months ago, no one would have given the Reds a chance to repat in Kerala. Now even Congress Party workers refuse to predict the outcome. The Communists are on a door-to-door campaign . and have managed to overcome come much of the Red Chi nese aggressions by proclaim ing their support of Nehru in the dispute. They promise "equal oppor tunity for all' and a workers utopia. The opposition slogan that Communism is a menace is met by the Nndian equivalent of: "So what's new?" Ten years ago Nehru and his lieutenants realized that India's development toward democracy depended upon the government's ability to de velop an . economic program to feed the population. But, despite massive' efforts, In dia's greatest product still is people and still more people. Courthouse SNODGRASS, FUNERAL DKfCTCXS PHONE SP 2-8030
