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Tuesday, Match 22, 1960
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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
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schools and colleges, to
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citizens oi tne coming generations.
RESPONSIBILITY is
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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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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.
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