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MAIL TRIBUNE, MadforJ, Or. Thursday, Jan. 21, I960 - "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads- The Mail Tribune"1 Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir SU Ph. SP 2-6141 : JIOBERT W. RUHL, -Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager , GERALD T. LATHAM. Bus. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. 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 Med ford. Oregon,' under Act of . March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES -By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 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. Shadv Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. 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' - One Ashland youth- was given a 90-day jail sentence after he and four others were accused of stealing items . from a wrecked plane in which a man was killed. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 21, 1940 (Sunday) Russia warns Finland it will declare war unless Fins rUW weapons stolen from Itprt troops on Finnish tcrrl tory. Russia has been bomb ing Finnish cities for two months but never yet de clared war. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A poll in. Portland shows men (the brutes) are the best auto driver?, and the women (the smoothies) admit it. V). YZA23 AGO Jin. 21, 1330 rrud-7) Local cx-,ps need mors turkeys for shipment to Bos ton and more hofcj for ship ment to Portland, Dry enforcement chief rule "sanctity of th home must be observed in all dry raid3." 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 21. 1320 (Thursday) Expert tells people at Page theater last night that Trigon ia oil well will be producing oil in Medford within a year. City police arrest three high school boys for smoking and controversy, rages. 5Q YEARS AGO Jan. 21. 1910 (Friday) The 640-acre Dunlap place east of Talent has been .sold for $80,000; will be planted with fruit trees. Official of Pacific and East ern railroad predicts Med- ford's population will reach 25,000 by 1914. - What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is food. 1. Who was left at a river's brink in a basket made of papyrus? 2. Does the monotype ma chine cast one letter at a time? 3. Is a chimpanzee a mon key? 4. Who is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Represen tatives? ' 5- Apolygonis another name for a tadpole; true or false? - 6. What young girl led a French Army against the Eng lish? ' ' 7. Which of these does not have wings: mosquitoes, fleas, flies, bees? 8. In what country is the Thames River? 9. Who sought the Golden Fleece ? 10 Was' Thomas Jefferson President of the U.S. before or. after. John Quicy Adams? Answers: 1. Moses. 2. Yes. 3. No (an anthropoid apt.) . Sam Rayburn. 5. Falsa. 6. , t 1. F10SS.. "5- land. 9. The Argonauts, Befoxe. V: 10. A Sharp Contrast J'': There is a startling contrast between the think ing shown in pieces printed elsewhere on this page. 7"' . ' ' - ' . One is the article by, Walter Lippmann, one of America's most distinguished and best inform ed men, in which he cautions against the drift of this nation toward second-class status, or worse. He quotes Allen Dulles, head of the Central Intelligence .Agency,-as saying, "The uses to which economic resources are directed largely determine the measure of national power." : WR LIPPMANN'S point is that this nation is falling behind Russia in its rate of develop ment, and as a major force in the world. . And this is happening, he says,, because the nation as a whole is not devoting the necessary share of its economic wealth to the purposes of national power and development. Instead, it is devoting a greater share to priv ate romfort. convenience and desire. He says: "That is why the national power of li n i -1 t t c : l 1 .i it.. 1 tne soviet union is i urging aneau tu une uauuiiai power of the United States." . . ."'... THE other writing, which is in-such contrast, is from Wallace L. Lee, Portland president of "Volunteers for Constitutional Government of Oregon, Inc." : He is a supporter of the so-called 23rd amende ment, which has been discussed on this page rec ently. His letter is printed in full, despite the fact that it exceeds our usual limitation, so that our readers may judge for themselves the validity of his arguments. It seems to us the supporters ot the amend ment portray, with exquisite accuracy, the ulti mate in the sort of thinking which Mr. Lippmann deplores, which boils down to personal greed above national welfare. CAN private enterprise forge the national pur pose and the national power which is needed in today's cold world competition ? Can it compete with the "major thrust of So viet economic development and its high tech nological skills and resources" which are now JJ. J- ,1 4- n J innnilinni1 ir fllief VI 0 1 TnillfoT-lT and national power goals"? The quesuons are sen - In our view, the. 23rd but a political phrasing of the age-old, unthink ing complaints against government, "which in this nation still (thank Uod) himself concedes rather X7E DO not intend to comment on Mr. Lee's yy letter, except in regard to one or two points. He says: "You make the false charge that this amendment to the Constitution would eliminate foreign aid. This is absolute nonesense." Now, whom shall we believe Mr. Lee, or Mr. W1II13 Stone, the author of the amendment? In Portland, Ore., on Sept. 8, 1959, Mr. Stone delivered a speech in the Scottish Rite Temple. In thi3 speech he said (and the quotation is exact): "As the proposed 23rd amendment would also pre vent the taxing of the American people to pay, tribute for foreign powers, this would terminate the so-called foreign aid programs which have produced such hated of Americans around the world . . ." Is "private enterprise" going to take over this world-wide program, Mr. Lee, and do it better? Or would thi3 nation simply abandon its friends and allies? IT IS apparent that those who have been "sold" on the amendment are not entirely in agree ment on what it would do. Each likes to believe it would do what he wants done. Mr. Lee would like to see the United States government end its role as "absentee landlord" of 53 per cent of the land area of Oregon. Does he mention that most of this land is ad ministered by the. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management? That it is designed for the long-range welfare of the people of this state and of the nation? That it is a major contribution to the wealth and economic stability of all of Oregon? And that it MORE than pays for itself ? He also says this land was "confiscated." Doesn't he read history? , OIS other arguments' are equally specious. And all blink the this country owes a responsibility to it. We happen to believe that a patriot pays his taxes to support his government in what it is try ing. to do, and does it willingly, even if he hap pens to disagree with some of the details. We do not see it as patriotism to support a so-called amendment which would emasculate the government in its role as a world power the ONLY world power still able to face up to the threat of Communist totalitarianism. THE 23rd amendment, if ever enacted, would end all income, estate and gift taxes. . Well, who wouldn't like to have that money jingling in his own pocket? -' But isn't it better to live in a strong, secure nation, and pay these taxes, than it would be to have that money jingling in the pockets of a citizenry of a has-been, bankrupted nation? As a former Republican governor of Ore- fon wisely commented on the proposal, "23 kiddoo." E.A. - answering. amendment is nothing is , the people as Lee than a faceless master. fact that each citizen of Dennis the I GOTTA EATAti f?UM! SOfAS PSOPLB ABBMtMtf IKO TUB NEW HOUSE AN' THEV SOT A COOA TSCOISHION J Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE SECOND-BEST The President has been true to the principle he laid down in his first budget, which was submitted on Jan. 21", 1954. "We will reduce," he said six years ago, "the share of the national income which is spent by the gov ernment." He has done that. Although the Federal government is spending on the purchase of goods and services more than it did six years ago, this is a smaller share of the much increased national income. Even when we add the very considerab le increased amount .spent by local and state governments, the total is still, a smaller SHARE than it was in 1953, when the President was preparing his first budget. So the President is en titled to say that he has been faithful to the principle he laid down when he "began. During his term of office the American people have been enjoying a larger share of a greatly enlarged national in come. Never before in all history have so many people in any country had so much money to spend privately and as they saw fit. THIS would be an unalloyed delight were it not for the disturbing fact that during these years of private pros perity, the President has been presiding over the loss of American primacy among the greater powers of the world. There is no doubt that this country is still much richer than the Soviet Union. It may be, although no one knows, not any weaker than the So viet Union. But we have fal len behind and are not hold ing our own in terms of na tional power, In over-aU mili tary capacity, in the competi tion to pioneer in outer space. In the comparative rate of economic growth, and in edu cation, which is the life-giving principle of national power. Why has this happened? Why are we challenged in this way when, in fact, the Soviet Union has a gross national product which is less than half of ours and a standard of living about a third as high as our own? Why is this rich er country being pressed by a poorer country? The reason, at bottom, is that in this period of cold war, the President has ; ad hered to a principle which would probably no longer be suitable even in a time of total peace. He has adhered to a principle which puts pri vate comfort and private con sumption ahead of national need. The President has spent his seven years in office re ducing the SHARE of the na tional income devoted to pub lic purposes. The challenge of the Soviet Union has been demanding an increase, not a reduction, of the share of the national income devoted to public purposes. We are fall ing behind in the race because we are not allowed to run. . THE Soviet economy is grow ing at a rate which, esti mated conservatively, is 6 per cent per annum. Our economy has been growing at a rate of less than 3 per cent. The . So viet economy is half as big as ours but it is growing twice as fast. This means that this year's increment of increas- is about $12,000,000,000 in the U.S.S.R. and about $15,000, 000,000 in the U.S.A . But, as. this is the crux of the matter, the U.S.S.R. will use most, not alLof the $12, 000,000,000 increase for na tional purposes, for arma ments, for productive invest ment, for foreign aid, and for national education. We, on the other hand, are acting on the Eisenhower principle, and are spending a greater share of Menace Lippmann our $15,000,000,000 increase for private purposes, for the making of consumer goods and of the factories and facil ities connected with the mak ing and use of consumer goods. That is why the national power of the Soviet Union is forging ahead of the national power of the United States. - I HAVE taken this analysis of figures from several sources but chiefly from the brilliant 'and notabh. : testi mony before, the Joint Com mittee of Congress given last autumn by Prof. W. W. Ros- tow of the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology. The analysis is confirmed by the testimony of Mr. Allen W. Dulles, based on the findings of the Central Intelligence Agency. The concluding paragraph of Mr. Dulles's statement is one that we must all ponder and take to heart. It says, "Themajor thrust of Soviet economic development and its high technological skills and resources are directed towards specialized industrial, mili tary, and .. national power goals. A major thrust of our economy is directed into the production of consumer type goods and services which add little to the sinews of our na tional strength. Hence, neither the size of our respective gross national product nor of our respective industrial pro duction is a true yardstick of our relative national power positions. "The uses to which eco nomic .resources are direct ed largely determine the measure of national pow er." I HAVE emphasized the last sentence of Mr. Dulles's statement because it states, so it seems to me, the funda mental issue which the coun try must meet. The Presi dent's controlling principle -that the government should spend a smaller share of a growing national income-has as its consequence, in this age of cold war and national rivalry, that the country will have a smaller position of in fluence and power in the world. While it may be that the days of our primacy, which were brief, are ending, what must not be allowed to end is our parity with the greatest powers. For on it de pend many of the dearest hopes of mankind. Nobody can say as yet when the nation will become aroused to the realization that national duty must take pre cedence over private indul gence, that it is not possible to preserve our society by private affluence and public complacency. The voices that will serve this country, and indeed save it, will be those of stern men demanding hard things. They may not as yet do well in the Gallup polls. They will be listened to sooner or later. For they will shatter the belief, now so prevalent among us, that affluence is greatness. It is not." In the history of hu man society it has not seldom been the case that when rich es were devoted to luxury it was the mark of their de cline. : "" ' . (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Stayton Police Chief Candidate for Sheriff Salem - (UPD - The police chief of Stayton, Everett Nor fleet, announced his candi dacy Wednesday for sheriff of Marion county. He is the third person-and third Republican-to file for sheriff. Others are incumbent Sheriff Denver Y ung and H. (Tex) Shively, Salem. 23rd Amendment Advocate Calls Editorial Arrogant, To the Editor: Your editori al concerning the proposed amendment to the Constitu tion,, curently known as the 23rd Amendment, has been forwarded to me. by friends and supporters in your city. In your arrogant, conde scending attitude you use such descriptive words as silly, ab surd, asinine, unthinkable. I can think of no better words to describe your editorial dealing with a subject about which you know so little. After Willis Stone had giv en his testimony before a Con gressional Committee, Con gressman Ralph W. Gwinn of New York stood before his colleagues in Congress and made this statement: "I have found no one in Congress or Government who can dispute Mr. Stone's testimony." Democratic Governor Hick ey of Wyoming 'and Demo cratic Governor Daniels of Texas are enthusiastic sup porters of this Amendment. Both houses of both of these State Legislatures supported the passage of this Amend ment. The Association of American Physicians and Sur geons heartily endorse this Amendment.' Do you call the Newer, Deadlier Weapons in Plans of Both U.S.S.R., U.S. By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Hand-in-hand with talk of world peace goes the drive for newer and deadlier weap ons. Within the last several days, the two most powerful nations on earth, the United States and Soviet Russia, un veiled some of the details of their a r m a ment , plans for 1960. Neither . in dicated that Phij Newsnm settlement ot world tensions was just around the corner. President Eisenhower dis closed a military spending 'Spin the Democrat' Is Dick West's New Election Year Game By DICK WEST Washington-(UPD-This seems to be the season for thinking up new political games. Mine ls-called spin the Demo- I crat." It is variali'nn rt-f tiic uiu game "capture the delegate." The game is played on a board on which a race Dick West t r a c k is drawn. The track is divided into lanes with crossing lines which form squares. In the center is a numbered wheel. Four can play. Each player selects a campaign button labelled "Kennedy," "Hum ph r e y," "Symington" or "Johnson." The buttons are placed on the starting line, 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 Editorial Liked To the Editor: It was with considerable interest that I read an editorial from your paper dated Dec. 20, 1959. The title of the editorial was "There Was Music." Certain ly this fine report typifies the positive actions of an out standing music department in an outstanding school district. When so much . attention is being given to education in general, quality education, it is strengthening to read where thoughtful people are giving music education its due credit. . Jerry Weseley Harris, Editor, Oregon Music Educator, 2865 S.W. 120th, Beaverton, Ore. Morse To Deliver Demo Keynote Speech Salem -(UPD- The keynote speech for the Oregon State Democratic platform conven tion here will be delivered by Sen. .Wayne Morse (D Qre.). " Morse will open the conven tion Jan. 29th at 1:30 p.m. in the Marion hotel. . 8i - m Condescending'; Support Told members of this fine group of citizens silly, absurd and asinine?' - You make the .inference that only the Federal Gov ernment can sail ' ships, build dams, conserve the soil-doing everything that the American people have always done bet ter and cheaper in the Ameri can way. Now what is the Federal Government? THE PEOPLE. What is the Sov ereign Independent S t a t e? THE PEOPLE. What is Pri vate Enterprise? THE PEO PLE. Now if people can do things through the Federal Government, then they can do the same things through their State Government and through Private Enterprise. Experience proves that peo ple work together and do things together better within their Sovereign State and among themselves In Fr?e Enterprise than when direct ed by Federal bureaucrats. A Federal Government that be comes so big and powerful that it can give us everything we want is also big and pow erful enough to take every thing we have. The Federal Government with only two of its agencies has confiscated (sic) more plan totalling close to $41 billion, slightly more than last year. In the budget were three more nuclear-powered, Po laris-firing submarines, final- stage development of the 6,000-mile ICBM Minuteman, and an increase in the num ber of B-52 heavy jet bomber wings from 11 to 14. In Moscow, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev boasted of a "formidable" new weapon of "fantastic" strength. He sugar-footed that "an nouncement that Russia would reduce its present military force of 3,623,000 men by 1, 200,000 "in the course of one or two years." Would Be On Par The reduction, assuming it is carried out, would place which is formed by a row of question marks. The players take turns spinning the wheel and mov ing their buttons forward the number of spaces indicated by the pointer. This continues until they reach the square marked "news conference. The first two players to reach this square pick up cards marked "front runner" and follow an arrow pointing to "primaries." The other two pick up cards marked "dark horse" and follow an arrow pointing to "draft." Can Challenge The two players on the "primaries" lane continue moving their buttons until one reaches tne square marked "New Hampshire." This entitles him to "chal lenge" the other player. The other player may ac cept the "challenge" and move nis button onto tne "New Hampshire" square. Or he may bypass "New Hamp shire" and move on to the square marked "Wisconsin." The player on "New Hamp shire" is then entitled to pick up a "delegate" card. . If two buttons land on the same primary square at the same time, one must go back five spaces and forfeit his "front runner" card. Meanwhile, the two play ers with the "dark horse" cards continue to move their buttons along the "draft" lane. If they land on squares marked "opinion poll" or "grass roots," they may pick up a "delegate" card. Must Forfeit Cards But if either player stops on a square marked "Steven son," he must forfeit all of his "delegate" cards and is out of the game. The play continues until all the buttons reach the last square, which is marked "convention." Now three of the - players m u s t try to "block" the player holding the "front runner" card. They move their buttons into a circle marked "smoke filled room." . t The three players stay in the circle until one gets pos session of all of the "dele gate" cards held by the other two. This entitles him to leave the circle and pick up cards from the "favorite son" stack. - - The player holding the "front runner" card may now exchange it for a "band wagon" card, which is equal to three "favorite son" cards. This completes the rules of the game. All you have to do now u figure out who wins. than 40 per cent of the land area of America. This absen tee landlord owns 53 per cent of our State of Oregon. Our Governor is the Governor of only 47 per cent of the State. Do you like that? Would you like it better if he was re duced to being the Governor of only 27 per cent of the State? When the Federal In come Tax was passed the American people were prom ised that the tax would never be more than 1 per cent on incomes over" $3,000 and would never exceed 5 per cent on incomes of $300,000 and over. Now it starts at 20 per cent on incomes $600 and goes up to 91 per cent on higher incomes. Isn't this con fiscation by big Government? The bureaucrats take their cut off the top and tell the citizens to get along the best built up. The 23rd Amend way they can on what's left, ment will put foreign aid on forcing every citizen who em- a people to people basis rather ploys people to become their tax collectors. In the thinking of any sane and sensible per- son this is socialism going rampant. Do you like that and is that what you want? Well, we don't and that's vhy there is going to be a rough and militant political contest in 1960 and Oregon will be in the U.S. and the Soviet Union about on a par in the number of men under arms. The U.S. plans to have 2,488,000 men in uniform by mid-1961, just auuul u'n pieaeiiL level. lfidel?,1!:M?nh0Wer also f,r,-?2 dUon r;? u? of oiuu minion, io arm xne u.a. NATO allies with new weap- . , . , , . ine muiKing Denind the armament pians ot tne two iwuuiis nas important sum larities. Both are in the transition period from conventional armament to the new concept based on rockets and nuclear power. The manned bomber and fighter is taking a place of decreasing importance. Heavy emphasis is being placed on the nuclear sub marine, a floating submerged base for rockets almost im possible to detect and possib ly the most fearsome weapon ot ail. Remains Uneasy World ine U.S. expects to have the first of 15 submarines armed with a 1,500-mile mis sile combat-ready bv this fall A recent Swedish report said that Russia has a 2,500-ton nuclear - powered submarine now operating in the Baltic Out of all this comes the obvious conclusion that, de spite all talk of peace and world disarmament, this re mains an uneasy world in which potential antagonists intend to negotiate onlv from positions of strength. The West has good reason. For with all Khrushchev's talk of peace, in the same breath he threatens a separate treaty with East Germany which would cut off free West Berlin, and leave a disarmed West powerless to defend it. The Communists respect strength but they have never hesitated to take advantage of weakness. Korea was a classic example. And there has been no sign of yielding on the Commu nists' part to Western de mands that disarmament must be accompanied by adequate inspection. I IS AN UNENDING 1 1 1 QUAUTY WITH us Aoim turn the Cwrthoin RANK MOROAN - H At OlO SNODGftASS, FUNRAl DRfCTOtt DAY Ott NIGHT the front ranks. You make the false charge that this Amendment to the Constitution would eliminate Foreign Aid. This is absolute nonsense. The American peo ple have always believed in foreign aid to people. We have done more to relieve the suf fering of people all over the world than people of any oth er nation. Our founding fa thers never intended that the Constitution should be so mis interpreted as to force the American people to support Communist and Socialist Gov ernments, enabling these gov ernments to reduce their pub lic debt while we increase our national debt by billions. We are hated by other people of the world and are beloved no less than the Socialist governments that we have than politician to politician, who are trying to build each other up in a frantic ffort to make Socialism work, You take out of context from the 8th Section of Arti- cje I 0f the Constitution "Gen- eral Welfare". How can you arrive at such a ridiculous conclusion that our founding fathers deliberately set up for future generations a political convenience for evil men to make possible the same cir cumstance for which they were forced to fight a revolu tionary war? You sit safe, smug and se cure behind the freedom guar anteed to you in Amendment I of the Bill of Rights, a guar- ,tM n, roaAnm f ua Yet you maliciously attack an Amooni tv,- rn.iit Uion that spells out and gives the same force and affect in vo tA others. who buys your pape, who pays for your advert is- w makino it twiW f. r you to be in business In order that you can insult so many of the good patriotic people of your community and con tinue to enhance the socialis tic schemes of bureaucratic planners. Yours very truly, Wallace L. Lee, President, Volunteers for Consti tutional Government iD Oregon, Inc. 406-407 Governor Bldg. Portland 4, Ore. Editor's note: See comment in editorial column. For those who may have missed the amendment, here is its text: Sect. 1. The Government of the United States -.hall not engage in any business, pro fessional, commercial, finan :i al, or industrial enterprise ex cept as specified in the Con stitution. Sect. 2. The Constitution or laws of any State, or the laws of the United States, shall not be subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agree ment which would abrogate this amendment. Sect. 3. The activities of the U.S. Government which violate the intent and pur pose of this amendment shall, within a period of three years from the date of the ratifica tion of this amendment, be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected shall be sold. Sect. 4. Three years after the ratification of this amend ment the sixteenth article of amendments to the Constitu tion of the United States shall stand repealed and thereafter Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates, and or gifts. PHONE SP 2-6030