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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, Match 22, 1960 MEDFORDegiwrBIBUNB "Everyone in Southern Oregon ' xwaas ine mail i n Dune Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St Ph SP 2-6141 HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bus. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR., Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS, Citv 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 Medford. 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 818.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U.P.I. Telephoto Newspictures . MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS 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.:. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI i s - - ASSOCtrATIOh F3. w w Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 22. 1S50 (Wednesday) City council last night pass ed ordinance approving day light savings time; will go into effect here April 30. Medford's board of water commissioners last night ask ed city council to approve $2,- 800.000 bond issue to con struct a new water line from Bi Butte springs. YEARS AGO March 22. 1940 (Friday) prominent 68-year-old Table Rock resident is missing and presumed drowned in the Rogue river; police drag river after hat found near bank. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The song of the lawnmower is heard in the residential dis tricts, but the operator of the contraption is not singing." 30 YEARS' AGO March 2 1930 (Saturday) Sportsmen plan to close Rogue river to fish canneries. Ashland defeated Baker 39 26 in state basketball consola tion game at Salem. 40 YEARS AGO March 22, 1120 (Monday) Trigonia oil well in Fern valley is now down 60 feet. Chamber of Commerce starts new drive for members. 50 YEARS AGO March 22, 1910 (Tuesday) Poor voter turnout at elec tion here yesterday to amend charter so gas plant franchise can be issued by city. Measure approved 112-4. Minnesota financier arrives in Medford at 10:30 a.m. and by 4'pjn. same day has pur chased $10,000 worth of or chards and still buying. Wbat's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Is a lizard a mammal, a reptile, or an amphibian? 2. Complete the title of this well-known motion picture; o How Green Was -"? ' 3. In 1889 Nelly Bly com pleted what was then a not able feat of travel; where did she go? . Who wrote the "Canter bury Tales"? . "Queen of Battles" is a name bestowed upon whom, or what? 6. Who composed "The Hungarian Rhapsody"? 7. What are Tennyson's 14 poems of Arthurian legend "led? 8. In what sport is the term Australian crawl used? 9. What-is the motto of the U.S. Marine Corps? 10. "Love" denotes how many points scored in tennis? Answers: 1. Reptile. 2. . My Valley." 3. Around the world. 4. Geoffrey Chaucer. 5. The infantry branch of the Army. 6. Liszt. 7. Idylls of the King. 8. Swimming. 9. Sem per Fidelis. 10. No points scored. Fairness Guaranteed By Jurors' Names Clveland - After rejecting many prospective jurors, the two lawyers trying a case in common pleas court, finally selected a panel. Two of the jurors were naturals.. One's name was Honesty and another's was Justice. Responsibity Think about the word "responsibility." We believe it is one of the most important words in' the English language. As a word, it is only a symbol, of course, but what it symbolizes is the answer to a lot of problems. Looking it up in the Oxford Universial Eng lish Dictionary we found, to our surprise, that it s a relatively new word But many ancient civilizations must have had comparable words, for "responsibility is the crux of good government and, good citizenship. AN APPOINTED official is responsible for his "job performance and his conduct to the ap pointing authority. An elected official is responsible to his con stituents. . . An individual citizen is responsible to his fellow-citizens for his peaceable conduct. And each human being is responsible to him self, to his conscience, to his God, for his own performance of those duties which he knows are right, and avoidance of actions which he knows are wrong. " WHEN responsibility at best, confusion; responsibility is exercised, nothing can go too far wrong. The concept of responsibility is ancient. Lack of it is epitomized in Genesis, when Cain asks "Am I my brother's keeper?" The message is a double one. Not only is each man his brother's keeper; more importantly he is his OWN "keeper," responsible for his own actions, and answerable for them. No man who fails in that responsibility is worthy of respect. E.A. Is Many Things Responsibility is many things. It is, for instance, an orchardist spending con siderable sums of money to purchase less-smoky orchard heaters to replace the old, reliable, but smudgy ones he's used so long. Lack of responsibility is, for instance, an or chardist continuing to burn rubber tires and the rest of the public be damned. DESPONSIBILITY shows up:in little things, and. in big ones. -- It is involved in care when driving a car, and in navino- taxes without cheating, and in ack- j o nowledging that another States has as much right to live where ne wants to as you do, not matter what his ancestry. Responsibility is informing oneself on the nppds nf the communitv and state and nation. and then voting as conscience dictates, to obtain the best government possible. Tf. lips tnrv in snnnnrtinp and navino- for the - - J 7 - schools and colleges, to i l il ? citizens oi tne coming generations. RESPONSIBILITY is o-m A 11 1 e f iTT r vf In i n o e a ailU LX UOl V UX KAUAI V-'OO- It is a willingness to of the burdens of self-government both in time and in treasure. It is a sense of participation in the affairs of men, in our neighborhoods and the world. It is all of these, and more, and no nation, no people, no race, can hope to escape its own re sponsibility its own accountability for its own conduct and still remain intact and successful. E.A. A Higher Education When he comes to think of college this spring, a high school senior is liable to think first of his own career. That is normal. But an occupation is only one key on a grand piano. A lifetime tune played on one note is a dull song indeed. . A college education is a four year ride on an observation car. A student is asked not so much to participate in as to have a good look at the world. Education is a process of becoming conscious that "... the world is so full of a number of things." "THROUGH books and lectures the student be- gins to see the geographical reaches of his planet. No longer can he feel that Medford or Central Point or Portland is the only place on earth, although he may retain an affection for his home town above all others. The student moves in thought through years of human experience. He comes to realize that what is here did not drop from heaven in its present form. He begins to understand that the arrange ment of things today is not necessarily the best simply because it exists. The history of ideas opens wide. Through the window of books the student learns of philosophy, religion, ethics, economics a multitude of theories and beliefs, built upon each other, changing each other. IN FOUR years -a student is able to do little more than grow aware that the world is wide, that time is long, and that ideas are restless. " Of what value is the awareness? It teaches that all things are related to and involved in things past. And it teaches that under standing must precede judgment in the world of men, institutions and thoughts. (By va recent university graduate.) in iiiiglish. is ignored, the results is, at worst, chaos. When citizen of the United O i 1 CD educate the students, honesty, and integrity, assume one's fair share Dennis the He's NCTa mutt GOOD AS THAT lAOy Sieve-Brained Reporter Finds Census-Taker Exam Is a Snap By DICK WEST Washington (UPD I never won $264,000, or even a five year supply of floor wax, on a tele vision quiz show. But I have a brain that soaks up in formation like a sieve. I always figured this kind of talent was war th Dick west something and now I know what. It is worth $13 a day for two weeks every 10 years. I mean I am a natural born census taker. I discovered this hidden aptitude after reading in the newspapr Jast week that Teddy Nadler, the biggest! winner in TV quiz history, had flunked his test for a cen sus job. Nadler, according to a dis patch from St. Louis, failed to answer the necessary number of qustiohs in a quiz given to persons looking for work in the 1960 census. Reporter Takes Test Curious to know what could have stumped the man who could reel off the names of the eight countries that straddle the equator, I pre Washington Report By WILLIAM BUTLER AND KENNEDY Washington - The only poli tician around who can put both feet into other men's mouths, Dem ocratic Nation al Chairman Paul Butler, is doing far more harm than good to his favorite for the presi dential nomi nation, Sen. John F. Ken nedy. Indeed, the biggest single potential check to the rolling Kennedy bandwagon is Paul M. Butler and his excessive partiality toward the young Massachusetts senator. It is Butler's future significance not his past-that is really im portant here. His ill - concealed violation of all semblance of a proper neutrality in pushing Kenne dy over the rest of the Demo cratic aspirants was always bad form. It is now also bad news to Kennedy himself. For Kennedy's greatest strength as a candidate has lain in the fact that no large party faction-including the south-has up to now really wished him m. WORSE yet, Kennedy needs Butler's overly - eager "backing" about as much as a successful field general whose troops are moving for ward on all fronts needs a psychological warfare "ex pert" to show him how to do it. He has, of course, stirred all the other Democratic presi dential hopefuls. But far more damaging, Butler has now managed to give the Republi cans the opportunity they wanted to try to alienate Ken nedy's very considerable sou thern and other conservative party support. Kennedy's whole stance has been that of a reasonably and calmly liberal politician who nevertheless had no wish to read the conservatives out of the party or to promote any kind of party division. But ler's whole course as national chairman has been to present himself as a good, very liberal guy constantly attacked by bad, old - fashioned "politi cians" who didn't want the party to be "forward - look ing." His clear and constant White Menace An' he sounds as IN THERE sented myself at the census office here and asked to take the test. Twenty-five or 30 other contestants were seated at tables around the room when I entered and was handed a two-part test by a lady quiz master. - She didn't say whether the questions came from the locked vaults of the Treasury Department and I didn't ask. We were given an hour to complete the test with no in terruptions for commercials. Th first part had 30 ques tions dealing with reading comprehension and word definition. The second part had 16 questions requiring us It was the second part hat It was the second part that way-laid Nadler. Census offi cials said he apparently got mixed up on the difference between East and West. Explains Directions That can happen to anyone and I might have made the same mistake except that my group was I hate to say it coached. The young woman who conducted the test told us in advance that the top of the map was north, the right side east and the left side west. She didn't say where south was and this caused me some trouble. Luckily, only one S. WHITE purpose has been to open a north-south civil war within the Democratic party. BI what is "forward-looking" is distinctly not the Kennedy definition. And now Butler has contrived to associate Kennedy, for campaign argu ment purposes, with the ra ther frantic and unimportant splinter wing for which But ler himself speaks. The GOP has naturally leaped with joy at this chance to picture Kennedy as a kind of rich man's Paul Butler. It does not follow that this tac tic will wholly succeed. At best, however, it will surely do Kennedy no good. And it might, unless Butler is some how shushed, do him a great deal of harm by convention time and later. The Republican National committee people have al ready sent out a memo tying Kennedy right in with Butler into what the Republicans call a "down-with-the-south power grab." They accuse Butler, moreover - and some of the charge rubs off on Kennedy -of preparing a "radical" civil rights plank to be thrust upon the south by "carpet-baggers." VTOW this sort of purple ' language is standard oper ating procedure on each side in a presidential year. But what is anything but standard procedure is this: Kennedy never in the world would have been in this particular line of fire if Butler had not put him there. Kennedy, on the present showing, needs no convention "rigging." And surely he needs no Butler to announce his policies for him. Finally, there is the deli cate but absolutely vital point that Butler in any event is the very last man to be trying to identify himself so inti mately with Kennedy. : Why?-Becase Kennedy is a Catholic and is doing his best to keep religion out of the argument. But Butler, too, is a Catholic. And whenever and wherever he lays himself open to charges of improper use of his party office for another Catholic he is inescapably piling up ammunition for those who wish to make relig ion at least a sub-surface issue. (Copyright, 1960, by United Fealure Syndicate, Inc.) Military Strategy Mixed Up With Latin American By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Beginning with the west ward tip of Cuba and extend ing eastward and southward in a 2,000-mile arc to Trini dad is a string of islands which sepa rates the At lantic Ocean from the Car ibbean Sea. Lying close to the center, vhn Newsom at uuDa s east ern tip, is the great U.S. naval base of Guantanamo. Eight hundred miles to the south of Guantanamo is the Panama Canal. Five hundred miles to the east is the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Each of the three looms large in U. S. defense strat egy, both at home and for the Western Hemisphere. In each of the three, the United States has its difficulties. question required that know! edge and I got it with a wild guess. When I handed in my pa per, I was told I had reached one of the highest plateaus- only two wrong answers, both in the first part. Fifty per cent is passing. Let this be a lesson to Nad ler and any other interested parties: If you vant to work for the government, don't clutter up your brain with a lot of knowledge. Matter of Fact by "CALIFORNIA CASTS 60 VOTES' Washington In ap pearance, the Democratic pre convention campaign is grow- t in hottpr bv d t h e moment. Before long, Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri will announce his candidacy. In ! reality, the most interest- joseph alsop ing aspect of this formal revelation of a flagrantly ill-kept secret. Over the week end, one branch of the Symington high command was still insisting that the timing of the grand announcement remained un certain. The other branch was equally insistent that the an nouncement would have been made last week, if certain lit tle organizational details did not need straightening out first. In fact, however, the an nounce m e n t evidently im pends; and it is also being made substantially sooner than was originally planned. A Symington announcement at this time has some obvious disadvantages. For instance, it leaves the Missouri Senator with no good answer to in convenient questions about the Indiana primary. Here, after all, is a big mid-western state where Symington has important organization sup port, and just the sort of state, too, which the Symington backers say Sen. John F. Ken nedy of Massachusetts can never carry. Then why does the Symington announcement so emphatically not mean that Symington will fight the In diana primary against Ken nedy? THESE disadvantages are apparently outweighed by the need to raise a Symington standard to which all good men can repair. Until now, being "everybody's second choice" and, planning for a convention deadlock, has been the Symington strategy. But this semi-dark horse strategy is not worth much, if another candidate is the first choice of too many delegates. The possibility that Senator Ken nedy may attain this enviable position has obviously spur red Senator Symington to an nounce now. This motive is of course denied by the Symington man agers, who claim to have a "list of 900 delegates who will never vote for Kennedy no matter what." But the denial is unconvincing; and it is therefore necessary to look for some hidden feature of the political scene which has alarmed the Symington high command. California is one likely place to look. The list of California dele gates has already been drawn up by the state's Democratic leaders. The 81-man delega tion, the convention's second largest, is committed to . give a favorite son vote to Gov. Pat Brown. And Brown and the Californians have always been just about the most vital elements in aU the other can- ,didates' plan to stop the front- running Senator Kennedy dead in his tracks. N .- 4 x ' Nationalism in Caribbean Area Granted Base in 1901 Of most immediate concern is Guantanamo. The constitu tion providing Cuba Republi can form of government grant ed the United States a naval base in Guantanamo in 1901, shortly aftei.- the Paris treaty in which Spain gave up both Cuba and Puerto Rico. Guantanamo Bay is a sharp indentation on Cuba's south east coast. The base lies at the bottom of a saucer-like formation of hills which roll steeply back into the moun tains of Oriente Province. It was from these hills in Ori ente Province that Raul Cas tro, brother of Fidel, made the raids in 1958 hi which he kidnaped U. S. sailors and marines as a show of strength against the United States. It also was from these hills that the Cuban rebels, before their victory over Batista, cut off fresh water supplies to the U.S. base. Charges Discrimination Recently, the semi-official Cuban newspaper Revolucion published claims of discrimi nation against the ill-treatment of Cuban labor at the base. Just how far the Cuban government intends to go in its harassing attacks against the United States now cannot be foretold. The Revolucion attack might be just one more in stance of pin-pricking or it might be a hint of things to come. There have been reports for months that a decree lies on Castro's desk awaiting only his signature to take over Guantanamo. Since the U.S. Navy already has served no tice it has no intention of Joseph Alsop TY THE SAME token, these plans are all but certain to go wrong if the chairman of the California delegation rises before the end of the first ballot, to announce a change of heart. "California now casts 60 votes for John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts." s (Rising tempo, last syllable shrieked) could be a hideous bugle call, ending the drama almost there and then. This is precisely the nightmare, one suspects, that is now haunting the Syming tonites. There are some reasons for the nightmare, too. In the words of one of the two or three men who should know best, "Pat Brown doesn't con trol the California delegation well enough to buck a trend, but he can do wonders to pro mote a trend." In other words, if the trend is still to Ken nedy at convention time, Gov. Brown can play the largest part in putting Kennedy over the top. As yet, there is no certainty that Gov.. Brown will do any thing of the sort. But once again in the words of the au thority above-quoted, there is a new "atmosphere." There is even a "tendency towards an understand ing" between Brown and Kennedy. The at mosphere grew perceptibly warmer, the tendency towards understanding grew somewhat stronger, when Gov. Brown was recently in Washington. Brown's closest advisor and political chief of staff, Fred Dutton, also came to town, and devoted a notably long portion of his visit to confer ences with the Kennedy man agers. This was especially meaningful, since Dutton used to be marked anti-Kennedy. I F KENNEDY stumbles real ly badly in Wisconsin or West Virginia, these signs and portents can quickly lose their meaning. But if Kennedy wins these two crucial pri maries, a most important side result can be rather confident ly forecast in California. Such, at any rate, is the con clusion of the Symingtonites and this after their chief field- worker, Representa tive Charles Brown of Missouri, had his own chance to ex plore the future with Fred Dutton. While firmly claiming rock like solidity for their anti Kennedy legion of 900, the Symingtonites also admit Ken nedy "can have 58 to 60 Cali fornia votes" after victories in Wisconsin and West Virginia. These facts in turn explain why the Wisconsin contest is growing more bitter by the hour, and why some people think the normally unimpor tant West Virginia primary may be the nastiest in this century . (c) 1960, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Dog Bite Problems Solved by Mailman Hattiesburg, Miss-Mailman Clement Saucier has develop ed his own method of pre venting trouble from dogs along his route. He is accompanied daily by a big German shepherd dog which commands the- respect of all the dogs he encounters. giving up the base, it would be the straw that broke the back of U.S.-Cuban relations. Nationalism Is Cause Just as anti-U.S. events in Cuba demonstrate a Castro type of Nationalism, so Na tionalism also is at the root of difficulties in Panama and Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican Nationalists once plotted to assassinate President Truman. But, while they are violent, they are a Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and addrss 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. Capitalism and Prejudice To the Editor: The May, 1954 anti-segregation decision of the United States supreme court is not the cause of the violent racism now spreading throughout the south. By or dering an end to segregation in tne schools, the court mere ly brought to a head a condi tion that has long been fes tering. This condition is rooted in economics. Racism survives in this country because some people derive an economic benefit from it because it pays. Whom does it pay? Does it pay the white workers of the south? The Socialist Labor party has the answers to these key questions. To answer the second question first, segrega tion and racism do not bene fit the southern white worK ers although at first glance they may seem to do so. It is true that racism tends to keep Negroes in the least desirable jobs, reserving the better jobs for the whites. But the gen eral level of white workers' wages in the south, well be low the national average, re veals how dearly this ad vantage" is bought. The only beneficiaries of low wages are the capitalists, and it is the capitalists who nave a material interest in keeping the working class di vided on racial lines, hence in keeping segregation alive Northern corporate inter ests are spending money in an effort to keep prejudice alive. They have invested cap ital in the South, in" part at least, to take advantage of the low wage scales brought about largely by the racial di vision among the workers. Therefore, race prejudice has its roots in the capitalist economic system. Capitalism and race prejudice are inex tricably bound together. What is to be done? The So cialist Labor party maintains that this is a question that must be dealt with by all en lightened workers, not by Negroes alone. For it is plain that for prejudice to be wiped out in America, capitalism must be supplanted by a so cial system whose emphasis is on human beings rather than on corporate profits. Some day-in the day be yond superstition there will be no such ridiculous and ma licious thing as race prejudice. That day awaits the advent of Socialism, the next logical de velopment in the evolution of human society. Henry R. Korman 2640 Garfield st. Longview, Wash. On Throwing Rocks To the Editor: I have been reading with interest the let ters concerning our new neighbors, the Smiths. Strange, the different atti tudes concerning this small incident. The majority of peo ple accept the Smiths with no change in their daily sched- Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan - - life r""" I Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLIY ST. small minority with no real voice. Panama nationalism is deep and growing, and cen ters its wrath upon the United States' perpetual hold on the canal. Panama Nationalists charge the United States gives un equal opportunity to Pana manians, takes a dispropor tionate share of revenue from the canal and say that some day the U. S. must turn the canal over to Panama. ule, while a few remind ne of a boy I once knew who. while waking in the dark, used to fear what he couldn't see and would throw rocks in all directions. J. O. Rector would have the editor move to another area, for the editorial he has written. Mr. Wilson would have people of different races live only where he designates. What would happen if the Indians decided to take back the land that once belonged to them? Where would every one go? John 15:17, "These things I command you, that ye love one another." The Bible doesn't mention only those with white skin, and the com mand applies even if they had green or blue skin, as th editor so aptly has 'written. Mrs. Delbert Casey, Route 1, Box 531, Central Point, Or. A Square Shake To the Editor: A flood of communications to th Editor of the Mail Tribune leaves me with a strange feeling that we have somehow lost a. bit of our face, and, with incalculable chagrin, are trying to brazen it out, come what may. The recent "black plague," scare which shouldn't even have merited passing notice in a healthy community, was re ceived as delicately as an im becile eating hot potato. How many of us r bi enough to admit our guilt?0 How many of us. were first line prosecutors, judges, and jurymen, trying an innoce human being whose only "aiii" is having a little more msiajM per square inch in his eki than the average MedfordiU or a citizen of Nijni Novr od? Of course, the problem V not solved. And kicking ifc around serves no purpose but to rub salt into the wounds ok our better-than-thou-ism. Let us walk in the sunlight! Do we blame God for cre ating a "Nigger"? Do we hate our next door neighbor's kids because they are red-headed? The answer to both questions must be the same. Either yes or no. My friends, fervent souls are working overtime to rem edy some of the vestigial in delicacies of the human soul. Fervid disciples of man's ul timate destiny have shed their blood for less. The down-trodden minori ties of mankind are not ask ing for blood - just for a square shake. How about it? George Distell 156 Vashti Way Medford. OFF KEY London - (UPD A Chinese actor named Wong Keye has been hired to play the part of a piano tuner by the makers of the movie "Song Without End," the Sunday Express re ported Sunday. EVEN DDT WONT HELP! But we can assist you in elimi nating SECURITAS 1NADEQUA TUS (deficiency bug). Most households have this expensive pest so be sure to see us soon. it: Bill Fish
