Medford mail tribune., March 13, 1960, Image 4

MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or
Sunday, March 13, 1960
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 0
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 13, 1950 (Monday) '
Illinois Valley High school
students return to classes af
ter one-day boycott in protest
over school board firings of
entire teaching staff, effective
next year.
A federal meteorologist will
arrive in Medford March 15
and nightly fruit frost fore
cast will start soon after.
20 YEARS AGO
March 13. 1940 (Wednesday)
j A Jackson county inmate of
the state hospital in Salem
strangled three patients yes
terday and then bled to death
from self-inflicted fingernail
wounds.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Secre
tary of the Interior Ickes
claims Thomas E. Dewey,
GOP presidential hope, is not
equipped for the White House.
For that matter, neither is
the accuser equipped for a
cabinet post."
30 YEARS AGO
March 13. 1930 (Thursday)
Fire sirens at Main and Fir
sts., and Sixth and Holly sts.,
tested today.
40 YEARS AGO
March 13. 1920 (Saturday)
Public invited to attend the
first drilling at the Trigonia
oil well in Fern valley to
morrow afternoon.
50 YEARS AGO
March 13. 1910 (Sunday)
After two days, Crater Lake
highway commission has $13,-
400 worth of pledges signed
for proposed construction of
highway.
Local Elks lodge planning
to float $40,000 bond issue to
build new lodge on North
Central ave.
What's Your I.Q.I
Nine or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five er
lis is good.
I. 'Which mid-western state
is noted for its cheese-making
Industry?
' 2. In what year will the
next popular election for Pres
ident take plact?
-3. Who wrote the novel "The
Call of the Wild"?
4. On the. N.W. coast of
North America, Indians set up
carved posts in their camps
called what?
5, What part of the Ameri
can' mainland did Spain cede
to England in 1763 in ex
change for the island of Cuba?
6. What did the 21st Amend
ment of the U.S. Constitution
provide? .
7. Broccoli and cauliflower
are; forms of what common
vegetable?
8. From what Shakespear
ean play is the quotation:
"That which we call a rose by
any other name would smell
as sweet"?
9. A teacher had five apples
in a bag. How could she give
one to each of five children
and still leave one apple in
the ; bag?-
" 10. Who was the "Manassa
Mauler"? . .
Answers: 1. Wisconsin. 2.
1960. 3. Jack London. 4. To
tem poles. 5. Flori4a. 6. Re
peal of the 18th Amendment.
7 The cabbage. 8. "Romeo
and Juliet." 9. Give to
each of four children; give
the fifth and bag to a fifth.
10. Jack Dempiey. (Ex heavy
weight champ.)
4A
There sa Choice To Be Made
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smith are moving to
town. He's here now; she and their small child
will move here this week.
Now this sort of thing happens all the time.
The Smiths are coming because he was assigned
here by the U.S. weather bureau. He didn't ask
for this duty, and Medford didn't ask for him.
So far, this is nothing new. But in the case of
the Smiths, something new (for Medford) has
been added. The Smiths are Negroes.
MOW this poses something of a challenge and
a choice to Medford.
There are those here who have liked to think
of themselves as "unprejudiced," yet who, when
confronted with the reality of facing, and talking
to, and seeing, people with black skin, may find
their lack of prejudice is pretty thin, after all.
There are those, too, who make no bones
about their prejudice.
phones have been pretty busy, with the expect
able anonymous phone calls, and the "tut-tut-
mg and tsk-tsk-ing one can expect when one
gets out of the realm of reality into the realm of
prejudicial emotion.)
ONE hears:
"Let one Nigger family come to town, and
pretty soon we'll have ; a whole colony. And
THEN watch out for your property values."
This sort of reaction
of course, but some people actually believe it.
Let s, for a moment,
ment such as that we
marks, for the very good reason that we have
Heard it, or something
J? irst of all, the word
slang of a derogatory
ney" for Jew, "dago"
Frenchman, red-neck
man" for Protestant Irishman, "square-head" for
Scandanavian, Oakie
for Arkansan and all
dictionary of defamation
time or another, have been in a minority.
it. - . A ND nrpt.tv sonn we'll have a whole
- i i x j
,. colony."
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
rained people. The majonty of Negroes, in to
day's primitive age, are
he Rogue valley, there is little . to attract a
"colony" of Negroes to
It may be that a couple of families, or a half-
dozen, or twenty, may eventually find employ
ment here. But in the nature of things, Negroes
are going to remain a small minority.
AS" FOR property values, unless uneducated
" and emotional minorities ("other" minori
ties) scare the majority,
to happen. Property values are a thing of sur
roundings, and of attitude, and of inherent worth.
And these, in turn, depend on the wholesomeness
of the neighborhood.
If a majority in. any
calm, intelligent, and rational, property values
will not drop, no matter WHO moves in.
Make no mistake. If
Negro family (like the Smiths) moves next door
to you, no one s property values will go down
UNLESS the neighborhood gets stupid and
panicky. ;
..-.
HTWO more things:
A 1. The legalities of
2. The morality of the matter.
Oregon law guarantees the Smiths a break :
in Medford as in any other community.
It doesn't force you to like them. It doesn't
force you to be nice to them (although you'd
feel a lot better if you were a decent human
being and xWERE nice).
But it DOES force you to accept them in
public places, in housing accommodations, and
in other transactions. It DOES protect their rights
as citizens and residents.
The penalties are pretty stiff for violation.
And, it should be added, the Medford police de
partment is thoroughly cognizant of these laws,
and of its responsibilities.
AS FOR the morality of the matter
Those who make anonymous and threaten
ing telephone calls simply brand themselves as
cowards and neo-fascists at worst; or as stupid
and obdurate at best.
The Medford Human Rights Council, com
posed of a group of sincere, dedicated people
who want to see each human being get a break,
no matter what his or her color or religion or
background, is attempting to be of some small
assistance to the Smiths.
- Those who villify them on this account simply
don't know what the score is today, in the 20th
century. They convict themselves as . ignorant
boobs, and vindictive to boot.
''.'
IT ALL boils down to a matter of conscience.
If one believes in the precepts of the Bible,
in the Declaration of Independence ("all men
are created equal"), in the teaching of most of
the churches, in the lessons of common decency,
in the laws of the state, there is no problem.
If, however, there are those few who are in
clined to give the Smiths a "bad time" because
of the color of their skin, or to spread slander
about those who would see the Smiths get a de
cent welcome, then let them reckon the con
sequences. The choice for Medford is clear: human de
cency against unfeeling indecency; Americanism
against a particularly nastv f orm of subversion :
right against wrong or, to put it in another, and
slightly ironic way, black vs. white. E. A.
(Already, some tele
is unmitigated eyewash,
try to analyze a state'
have put in quotation
like it, said.
Nigger." It is slang
sort like the word "shee
for Italian, "frog" for
for Catholic, orange
for Oklahoman, Arkie
the rest of the shameful
of those who, at one
.
are educated, highly
not. In the economy in
the community.
no such thing is going
neighborhood remains
a decent and intelligent
the matter.
Dennis the
oo i miyoa motto wear
Matter of Fact
Havana-In the past week,
this turbulent city has heard
the explosion of a munitions
ship, howls of
political
i n d i g n a
tion, screams
of anti-Amer
ican fury, and
a good many
other loud
noises. But
perhaps what
has not been
joseph alsop happen ing
has been more noteworthy
than all these noisy events
The foreign firms doing
business in Cuba have not be
gun to be taken over. The
moment had come when the
oil companies , and rubber
companies, and all the rest
were no longer willing to
bring $6 million to $8 million
of raw materials into Cuba
each month without getting
paid for them in negotiable
money. This was the moment
when the government of Fidel
Castro expected to take over
the foreign firms, wildly
shouting the slogan, "Cuba
for the Cubans!"
Instead, the National Bank
of Cuba, headed by Cairo's
most left wing associate, Maj.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, has
begun making dollars avail
able to pay for current raw
material imports. The deci-
sive step down the road to-
wards radical, Communist-
style reconstruction of Cuba,
which Guevara is supposed to
desire, has thus been avoid
ed or at least deferred.
THIS evidence as to the
ultimate aims of the Castro-Guevara
regime is admit
tedly negative, and therefore
unreliable. The other evi
dence this report has been
able to secure here in Cuba
is far from complete or fi
nal. But the echoes of Cairo
are remarkably persistent and
loud, here in Havana. They
at least justify the guess that
the right way to understand
Castro and Company is not
to search for Soviet agents,
but to remember Gamal Ab
del Nasser and his junta of
young Egyptian officers.
This guess that Fidel Castro
is a Caribbean Nasser may
be called a middling gloomy
judgement of his aims and
purposes on the one hand, if
this judgement is correct.
Castro's Cuba is not now a
Soviet base in the Western
hemisphere, and is fairly un
likely to become a Soviet
base.
Castro, like Nasser, is do
ing business with the Soviets.
Castro, like Nasser before the
Iraqi revolution, is using the
local Communists for his own
purposes. Castro, like Nasser,
has been greatly influenced
by Marxist ideas; and it seems
quite possible that among
Castro's inner circle Gue
vara, at least, was once a
member of the Communist
party. But it is wholly incor
rect to regard Nasser's Egypt
as a Soviet base in the Mid
Try and Stop Me
-By BENNETT CERF-
"OILVER DOLLAR" Tabor,
- O gay 90s, built the town's
ornate, gingerbread affair, and
fancy brick and chande
lier. One item displeased
him, however: a portrait
of William Shakespeare
in the gilded lobby.
"Take that thing down!"
roared Tabor. "Who is
William Shakespeare,
and what in hell did he
ever do for Colorado?"
From Ashley Cooper's
Dictionary of Charleston
ese: ARGON: state north
of California. ... BALKS:
a container, as tn match
balks. ... BALL: to heat a
liquid until it bubbles. . . . BRAID: what you make.toe-st from,
to go along with a-iga for brake-fuss. . . . FAINTS: something'
you bild around the house. . . . HONE: something on an au-to
which you blow. . . . ICE-COOL: institution of learning half way
between grammar school and college.
Menace
when voutakea bath?4
By Joseph Alsop
dle East; and if Castro's na
tionalism is like Nasser's na
tionalism, Castro will not
willingly transform Cuba into
a Soviet base in the Carib
bean. This may happen in
Cuba, as it may happen in
Egypt, because of miscalcu
lation and foUy. But it will
not happen by intention.
IN THIS degree, the Castro-equals-Nasser
theory is a
hopeful theory. Yet it must
still be called middling
gloomy because it quite cer
tainly means continuing and
often acute trouble for Unit
ed States.
In the Nasser-Castro type
of fervently nationalist, anti-
colonial revolution, there
seems to be an inherent, in
escapable need for an enemy
If Israel and the sinister
Anglo-Saxon powers did not
exist, Nasser would have to
invent some other target for
his paroxysms of vilification
If the United States did not
exist, Castro would have to in
vent some other target for
HIS paroxysms.
This need for an enemy Is
not especially mysterious, and
it is not a symptom of inher
ent wickedness. The radical
transformation of a corrupt,
complacement, ill organized
semi-colonial society is a hard.
difficult task. It can only be
carried through on a strong
tide of national emotion. The
easiest way to generate this
tide and to keep this tide
running is to choose an en
emy, and then to stage a non
stop drama of national recon
struction boldly carried
through despite this enemy's
sly plots and subterranean
sabotage. This system has
worked for Nasser. It may
work for Castro. But it is
mightly disagreeable if you
are the chosen enemy; and the
United States has been alloted
this ungrateful role by the
Cuban revolution.
A GREAT power that Is
justly or unjustly cast in
the role of the enemy of a
small country's fervently na
tionalist revolution has a
choice between two courses
of action.
The great power can squash
its denouncers by force if
need be. Or the great power
can remember that although
the means employed by the
revolutionists, being appeals
to hatred, are inherently ig
noble, means, their may still
be very much more admirable.
In the latter case, the rule
to follow is, "Sticks and
stones may break my bones,
but words will never hurt
me."
Such a course demands fore-
bearance. The course of
squashing the denouncers de
mands energy and ruthless
ness. National interest alone
can determine the choice be
tween these courses. But na
tional interest also forbids any
halfway course inspired by
wounded vanity.
a Denver millionaire In the
first oprey house. It was an
Tabor the tycoon loved every
pT!LUe
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
It's been quite a week
for the Potluck editor.
First we had our first
ride on a jet airplane, and
as a result got so far be
hind on our work we
haven't caught up yet.
Secondly, the death of
Sen. Richard Neuberger
was, to us, the loss of a
long-lime personal friend.
As a result we don't
much feel like trying to be
funny today. So today's
column is the work of (A)
a contributor, and (B) an
other columnist we ad
mire, Vic Fryer of the Sa
lem Capital Journal.
The contributor is first.
He wrote:
Dear Pot-Lucky:
Man from Phoenix, and
your horse-car p r ob 1 e m s,
move over!
Once last week I read In
your newspaper that some
body had turned a bicycle or
something "into" the police
station.
Tonight, as the clipping
shows, I note that women
are turning "complaints into
policemen."
All of this, of course, might
revolutionize the whole police
concept if it continues. Po
lice stations cost money, and
good policemen are scarce.
If boys can turn bicycles into
police stations and women
can turn complaints into po
licemen, who can say what
economies might be wrought?
May I suggest that you turn
your police reporter into a
back room and have him turn
into a grammar book to the
page on which it explains
that "in" and "to", while they
can sometimes be correctly
turned into a word, can also,
on occasion, be used correct
ly when turned into two?
V.W.
We have changed the re
sponsible reporter into the
.editor in charge of chang
ing into into in to.
Someone saw the story
which appears elsewhere in
this issue of the paper and,
digging far back into his
memory, came up with a song
which he used to sing in col
lege days. It goes this way:
Down under a hill
There's a little still
CommunDcaf Sons
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 a
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 paper; in fact the contrary, is often the case.
To Clear the Record
To the Editor: This Is writ
ten in reference to a letter by
Hugh Jennings that appeared
several days ago in this col
umn. In reply to questions asked
of me, and to forestall any
further questioning regarding
this story, I wish to state that
the opinions expressed by
Hugh Jennings are solely of
his own making. I regret that
my name appeared witnout
my knowledge or consent.
Jim Zack,
1540 Jasper St.,
Medford.
Cats and Birds
To the Editor: It's a must, a
trip over Sam's Valley way
for a low-down for the Mail
Tribune's humorous f air m
writer, R. E. Nealon. Just re
cently he wrote as how, and
when, the cat population gets
to the saturation point, he
starts working on the tom
cats, being simpler and surer.
Now we have been around
a bit longer than this wel
comed writer of the M.T. But
we do confess to .a lack of
knowledge that he outlines so
easily. Just this last spring we
started in on a super-duper
strain of barred-rock egg lay
ers. The setting hen came off
with her brood that disap
peared by one and two till
but one lone chick remained,
that found sanctuary in kin
folk flock. My indignantly
protesting wife, got a glimpse
of the last one, with plaintive
calls from the fanged jaws of
a dark form that left in air
borne leaps over the picket
fence. Direct death was set
aside, as the . law says that
cats and dogs are protected
wherever they . chance; . to
roam, they having no knowl
edge of home boundaries, and
that damages can be had for
injury to said cat and dog.
More than that, good neigh
borly relations . made so by
kindly acts at critical oppor
tune times, would be surely
damaged.
Strangely enough, the egg
layer has no protection at all,
save in a cat and dog-proof en
closure. So our well laid plan
of a super-duper egg layer
died abornin. With much
shouting and stone heaving,
we've made our -home and
Where the smoke goes
Curling to the sky.
And you can tell
By the sniffle and the smell
There's liquor in the air
Close by.
And here are Vic Fryer's
unwitting contributions:
You know how, when you
apply for a driver's license
renewal, there's a place ask
ing if there has been any
change in your general phy
sical condition since you re
ceived your current license?
Well, one woman decided to
break down and tell all when
she applied this week. Her
statement read:
"Well, here's my confes
sion. "Fine print has forced me
to wear glasses while read-ing-my
black hair is gener
ously sprinkled with white
my blue eyes aren't quite so
blue-my teeth aren't the ones
I had when I learned to drive.
Emotionally I'm a mess be
cause of approaching birth
day. Expect to be normal on
February 1. My hearing is
fine tho'-in fact, my husband
thinks I'm equipped with
radar.
"All in all, I'm in pretty
fair shape for my fifty (there,
I said it!) years."
.
Seeing the movie, "On
the Beach," in which all
the world's population is
dead or doomed because of
an atomic war that was
touched off by mistake, re
minded me of a poem re
printed from a recent issue
of the Harvard . Crimson,
the school newspaper.
It was in an ad sponsored
by a "Committee for a
Sane Nuclear Policy." It
goes:
"Don'lcha worry, honey
chile,
Don'tcha cry no more;
It's jest a li'l ole atom
bomb
In a li'l ole limited war.
It's jest a bitsy warhead,
chile.
On a li'l ole tactical
shell.
And all it'll do is blow
us-all
To a li'l old lim'ted
hell."
acres quite a sanctuary for
song birds that are a real help
in keeping down the foraging
insect tribes. But the pesky
sparrows are raiding my bur
geoning garden peas, but by
emulating the practical farmer
who puts in a corn seed for
the worm, one for the crow
and one for himself, the peas
were planted plentifully, by
touch in lieu of dimming sight,
so there should be plenty to
harvest for ourselves and fam
ily and friends who do appre
ciate the sugar-sweet kind
fresh from the vine.
F. J. Clifford,
Route 2, Box 20CF,
Central Point, Ore.
Route Carriers Praised '
To the Editor: We are sorry
to learn that we are losing
our Mail Tribune carriers of
many years, Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Kingsley, although we realize
time marches on and event
ually younger folks must take
over some of the duties of all.
We wonder how many peo
ple really appreciate just
how rugged it must have been
to deliver the paper some
times? In weather so . foggy
many considered themselves
lucky to get to and from work
without mishap, and stay put
when they got home, over
frozen roads, so very danger
out for travel - imagine what
it must have been like to have
to find, without error, the
many, many paper boxes on
the route, no visibility at
times, and never, in all the
years they delivered it to us,
did they once miss, to our
knowledge. Twice substitutes
did, but considering the fact
our box is . not the regular
yellow but an inconspicuous
white, and is off the road to
avoid being a casualty again
of those travelers in a great
hurry, we consider that a very
fine record.
We remember the times, in
the wee small hours when
they had to turn out in foul
weather to bring us our Sun
day paper -and HOW that
paper would have been miss
ed if they hadn't made it! We
remember the time, too, a year
or two ago, when the tempera
tures were unusually high,
mid summer, that they had to
stand in the boiling hot sun
and heavy homeward bound
traffic to reset a number of
boxes and posts which some'
Senator Neuberger's
Death Casts Pali
Over U.S. Senate
By YVONNE FRANKLIN
Mail Tribune Washington
Bureau
Washington - The pall
cast over the Senate cham
ber by Sen. Richard L. Neu
berger's death was plainly
visible. Faces made haggard
by sleepless nights of an
swering quorum calls were
yet more drawn by the un
happy news many had just
heard early last Wednesday
morning.
One by one they rose to
express their feelings, until
half the Senate member
ship had spoken. They spoke,
for the most part briefly,
but eloquently. Their words
had a ring of genuineness.
Men sat absorbed, chins
in hand. Sen. Richard Rus
sell, the respected leader of
the southern filibuster, and
a man who differed strong
ly with Neuberger's politi
cal liberalism sat through
most of the 3 Vi hour eulogy
without speaking. Other
men came and went; many
waited patiently for a
chance to speak, but Russell
listened impassively.
The accents were New
England h-arsh, southern
soft, briskly western or non
descript, but the quality of
feeling was the same. Very
few spoke of Neuberger's
liberal point of view, but
all spoke of his qualities as
a man-one they admired.
Many spoke of his part
nership with his wife and
praised their marriage. Sen.
Jacob Javits of New York
said, "Maurine " was" his in
separable companion and
partner. She was good to
him, and dedicated herself
to the same purposea that
he was dedicated to. The
most apt term that could be
applied to Maurine is that
she is a person of 'loving
kindness'." ; '
Sen. Paul Douglas said
"Neuberger was highly eth
ical in his public and his
private life. He was every
thing a man should be. My
wife and I love Dick and
Maurine very much; we
were close and dear friends.
We admired him."
Sen. Frank Lausche spoke
most vividly .of Dick Neu
berger's love of the out
doors, and his fear that the
forest of this country
would be replaced by for
ests of smokestacks. "He
wanted to give to posterity
a bit of the primitive beau
ty that was our heritage,'
Lausche said.
Sen. Margaret Chase
Smith of Maine praised
Neuberger's nonpartisan at
titude. Her voice broke as
she described her admira
tion for the senator and his
wife and she had difficulty
finishing her remarks.
Sen. Hubert Humphrey
also showed emotion and as
he concluded, his voice wa
vered and there were tears
on his cheeks. Humphrey
said of Neuberger, "He was
concerned about life and
about living. He was con
cerned that all should share
in the good and abundant
life. A man who has this
concern never dies, he goes
on to other rewards."
Sen. Young of Hawaii read
from Neuberger's book "Ad
ventures in Politics" in
which he says that he and
his wife did not agree with
the Greek notion "old men
for counsel, young men for
war." The Neubergers be
lieved, said Young, that
youth should have more to
say about their destiny and
inconsiderate and thoughtless
housemover had knocked
over and left in the ditch! No
pleasant task for young folks
-many wouldn't have done
it! We remember the many
happy smiles and waves when
we were outside when they
came. We shall miss them and
we wish them happiness and
relaxation in their deserved
retirement from the route.
Adios! ,We know our new
carriers will do a good job,
too. To them -welcome and
good luck!
Mr. & Mrs. C. P. Gilberson
1132 Ross Lane (west)
Medford.
Tribute lo Senator
' To the Editor: I am a citi
zen of Medford and am now
attending Georgetown Law
Center.
While under the late Sena
tor Neuberger's '. patronage
here in Washington I noticed
that his human warmth and
kindness always made him
stand out above the ordinary
public servant. In the busy
halls of Congress he was never
too busy to stop and chat with
an elevator operator or to
cheerfully greet a colored
maintenance man.
It has always been one of
should play a more active
role in politios.
Senator Ernest Gruening
told of having been the first
editor to print a Neuberger
article. In 1933 he was one
of the editors of The Nation.
The youthful Neuberger
freshly returned from a
trip to Germany came into
his office with an article
describing "The New Ger
many." As Gruening said,
most magazines and news
paper stories about Ger
many at that time were su
perficial and laudatory, but
Neuberger's story had in
sight into the far-reaching
consequences of Hitler's ac
tions. He accepted the story,
it became a sensation, and
Neuberger was on his way
toward a sucessful journal
istic career.
Senator Case of South
Dakota said that Neuber
ger "treated others as he
would have them treat
him."
Dominant in the words
of sentiment was that these
senators had found Dick
Neuberger to be a man of
kindness, gentleness, toler
ance and consideration in
addition to his evident gifts
of intellect and courage to
stand for what he believed
in. So many similar expres
sions, movingly expressed,
must have been deeply
meant, coming as they did
from men of such various
shades of political ccjora-tion-in
a place, where feel
. ing runs high at the mo
ment. Finally, toward the end
of the session, Sen. Richard
Russell arose. His words
were especially meaningful
because of who he is. He
said:
"I was tremendously im
pressed that he possessed to
a high degree two traits of
character that are of great
importance to anyone in
public service, and which
all too often are lacking. No
honest men could live long
with Richard Neuberger
without being impressed
with his sincerity of pur
pose and his political cour
age. We often voted against
each other, and we have
great differences in political
philosophy, but I came to
respect and admire him.
"I have seen a great many
senators who professed to
be liberals or conservatives
and others who didn't care
how they were labeled, but
I considered Richard Neu
berger was a true liberal.
There was nothing spurious
or synthetic about his lib
eralism. "He didn't feel it was nec
essary to make a speech on
the floor of the senate every
few days to impress those
who may have contributed
to his election. He was no
demagog. He was tolerant
He was a liberal who actu
ally admitted that he might
not know everything about
the issues before the senate.
He confessed that there
might be validity in the ar
guments of thoae who op
posed him.
"He was gentle and kind
ly; he was incapable of hate.
He loved all God's crea
tures. But he had the cour
age of a lion! He was one of
those rare types who advo
cated higher taxes to pay
for the liberal programs he
favored.
"He didn't deceive him
self, and he didn't attempt
to deceive others. I shall
miss those characteristics,"
Russell concluded.
the marks of a great man how
he treated those beneath him.
The working men and women
of this country truly had a
champion in Richard Netfber
ger. Today, on the floor of the
U.S. Senate one after another
of his colleagues on either
side of the aisle payed elo
quent tribute not only to Neu
berger, the statesman and leg
islator, but also to Neuberger
the courteous, courageous and
charitable human being.
As an instance of his kind
and generous nature I remem
ber one day when I was work
ing in his office. I mentioned
the fact my Siberian husky,
"Lupo," had run away from
the Maryland farm where I
boarded him. Senator Neuber
ger immediately became con
cerned. After my attempts to ,
recover the dog had failed he
offered to put up reward
money for the dog's return.
Luckily, I got the dog back
and shaU never forget the
kind, unselfish manner of the
United States Senator who
helped me do it.
John De Zell
128 "C" st, N.E.
Washington, D.C