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I . MAIL TRIIUNI, Madfare", Or. A Thuradiy, April 21, 160 MEfiPORDTEIBUia , Tvtrycra In Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Dally exeept Saturday by 38 North Fir St., Ph SP 2-6Mj HOBRBT W" RTTh!. IMitnr KERB GREY Advertising Manager gerald t Latham, bui. Mgr. KRIC W. ALLEN JR Mn. Editor z.nu n AUAM9. citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN TUo Viitnr RICHARD JEWETT, Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women'i Editor dale EKiUKSON. Circulation Mgr An" tndeDendent NewsoaDer Entered i second el Bis matter at meaiora. Oregon, under Act ol Mnrch 3. 1B()7 subscription rat. By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c juany ana sunaay l year sin in Dally and Sunday fl moa. 8.00 Dally and Sunday 3 moi. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.30 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland. Central Point Eagle roini, jacKsonvine, i.oio mil Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Rlv er. Talent and nn mobir rniitet. Dally and Sunday 1 year 11810 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1 B0 Carrier and Deal an copy JOe ' u Tcrmi uajtn in Advance bfficla! Paper of City of Medfoflf Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire ' U.P.I. Tclephoto Newsplctures "MEMBF.R OF AUDIT RiTREAtT" OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of flees In New York. Chicago. De trolt. San Francisco. Los Armeies. SeatUe, Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver, B.C. NEWS PA PER PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford nd Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 21, 1950 (Friday) Rogue River voters defeat a proposed $115,000 school bond issue for a new grade school by a 156 to 154 vote. Contracts for construction of a new $350,000 library and classroom building at SOC will be let next week. 90 VFRB tflO April 21, 1940 (Sunday) The Standard Oil company of California will close its ''Medford district office April 28 after 16 years of operation, due to lack of local need, company officials said. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Herr Hitler is mad at Herr Goer- , ing, and has ordered him with no back talk, as his de clslun has been made, to 'annihilate the British fleet, -Just like thai!" 30 YEARS AGO April 21, 1930 (Sunday) Fishing good in Four-Mile lake, poor in Rogue. H. Fluhrer, Medford, takes top honors In speed races here. 40 YEARS AGO April 21, 1920 (Wednesday) City employees given $13 per month raise because of high cost of living. At least one Democrat has filed for every office possible in the Jackson county pri mary. ' SO YEARS AGO April 21, 1910 (Thursday) ' ; Medford Commercial club li rounding up 300 cars to meet Portland businessmen visiting the city next week ana give tnem riae tnrougn valley. Pacific and Eastern rail , road changes schedule of Eagle Point limited so If will leave Medford at 5 p.m. In stead of 3 p.m., giving EP patrons more timo for shop- plng here. What's Your I.Q.? Nina er ten correct It auparlars even or eight Is excellent; five ar in Is good. 1. Who invented the radio telegraph? 2. Is the population of Asia , larger, or smaller, than that of Europe? , 3. Montevideo Is the capital of which South American country? - 4. What li a C.P.A.? ' 5. Which is the older, Har- ' vard University, or Yale Unl ' verslty? : 9. Which Amendment to the ! Federal Constitution guaran- tees the right of people to peaceably assemble to petition for the redress of grievances? 7. Do the trade winds blow . toward the east, or toward the west? 8. A person traveling under an assummcd name is snld to be traveling I ? 9. What famous poet held the post of editor of the New York Evening Post for 52 years? 1 10. In the nursery rhyme the Old Woman who had so many children she didn't know what to do, lived where? Anewersi I, Marconi. 1. Larger. 3. Uruguay. 4. Certi fied Public Accountant. S. Harvard. 6. First Amendment. 7. Toward the West. I. Incog nito. 9. William Cullen Bry ant. 10. In a shoe. NATIONAL EDITORIAI Hr'y"rfWmiini'.n.'.inJ Cheap, Silly, Irreligious The activities of the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution, in national congress assembled, usually are fairly predictable. One expects them to take the most conservative possible position. This, in the land of the free and the home of the brave, is their privilege. But we were flabbergasted, to put it mildly, to see them or at least some of them join in a discredited, and discreditable, attack on some of the. larger and most respected religious denomi nations in the nation. At last report, the DAR convention hadn't passed the resolution in question, but the fact that it was on the agenda is a disheartening thing to anyone who holds freedom of religion to be precious, and ignorant and vicious attacks on an other's religion to be deplorable. DO NOT, frankly, understand the motiva- tions of those who attempt to blacken the National Council of Churches with allegations of Communism. The attack is so utterly ridiculous that it is Gelf-destroymg to anyone But there are some groups to which anything, any hint, of liberalism in religion is anathema, and which, for reasons unknown, try to translate the idelogical converse of (In this context, we Times editorial which is this page.; ONE reason we find v' ' Christianity so difficult to understand is that it is directly in line with the eftorts of Com munism, as an international conspiracy, itself. One is temnted to conclude fas at least one friend of ours has concluded), that this attack is organized by Communist the ultra - conservative, groups in the nation as an unwitting front for their own attack on religion. What the DAR will do remains to be seen. ... But if it, as an ostensibly patriotic, withal con servative, organization, goes along with this neolothic smear on the National Council of Churches, and its constitutent denominations (in cluding Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Lutherans, several of the Baptist conventions, Brethren, Congregationalists, Christians of sever al denominations, Friends, and others less well known) then it will brand itself in the words of the New York Times as ' cheap, silly and irreligious." E.A. Where, and How Col. Boyd .Yaden called us on the 'phone the other day, first to compliment our reporter on a good story about the colonel's talk at the cham ber of commerce roundtable Monday, and sec ondly to correct two minor errors in the story. The corrections first : a top speed of some 90,000 to 100,000 computa tions per second, Colonel Yaden said, not 140,- 000 as the story said. And his engineering firm, in additional to' general engineering work, does photogrammetric engineering, not "photographic." With these details out of the way, Colonel Yaden waxed enthusiastic or computers to help solve municipal planning problems which was the burden of his Monday talk. IESPITE his enthusiasm, Colonel Yaden made a point of importance by emphasizing tha,t, despite the potentialities of computers, they are, only "tools, and that the basic ingredients for good planning are intelligent, forward-looking people. . The colonel admits to on planning; for he has burgeon in the post-war the r e s u 1 1 i n e metropolitan "complexes," the growth of "fringe areas," these developments swelling the already overbur dened services of smaller those in Jackson county. He maintains (as we we don't get cracking on gent planning, we (and county) will be regretting e IE WERE pleased to gineer friend, who to Jackson county, that Mings just drift, the idea of planning (and the necessary "tools" that go with it, such as zoning, subdivision ordinances, to catch hold here. Only a few weeks ago the first area-wide meeting, calling together representatives of the county and of the cities in the valley, was held, and it was decided to proceed in setting up a framework while we still have a chance to see that what is left of our undeveloped land is de veloped for the benefit of the majority, and not grow into a hodgepodge of conflicting uses. Computers may be of assistance in this pro cess sometime, perhaps sometime soon. But they, as tools, are less important than (1) a general realization that we've got to figure out where we're p-nine. and (2) to put our brains to work figuring out how best to with half a mind. ultra - conservative church that into Communism, organized Christianity. recommend a New York reprinted elsewhere on this attack on organized agents, who are "using" ultra - fundamentalist Modern computers have about the capabilities beinp- a sort of "bue" watched several towns explosion of cities, with and the backwash of communities, such as have for years) that if overall, unified, intelli that s all of Jackson it for years to come. be able to tell our en- is a relative newcomer after years of letting and so on) is beginning get there. E.A. Dennis the I OIONT 'SPECT tOU TO MXIATt LIKE A 'BIRD Today & Tomorrow By Waller THE UNAVOWED UNDERSTANDING The omens are now more favorable that at the summit meeting in May there will be no serious cri sis over the German ques tion, no irrec oncilable con flict between the Russians and ourselves, no real quar rel between the British and West Welter Llppmann Germans. The prospects are that there will be much talk but no negotiations about the German question and there is a fair prospect of an interim working arrangement about West Berlin. Something, it would seem, has happened to change the climate. The public thing that has happened is that Mr. Khrushchev has been to Paris, has had talks with Gen. de Gaulle, and that while noth ing concrete was agreed upon, Mr. Khrushchev went home In a good humor. As we know that Gen. de Gaulle is a hard and resolute man who gives away nothing he thinks he wants to keep, and as Mr, Khrushchev is a tough and persistent man, why is it that the confrontation of these two men has been followed by such an improvement in the atmosphere? MY GUESS is that on the German question there is now, as between France and the Soviet Union, a basic parallelism - that It is most likely that Mr. K. has now at last realized it. He has re alized too, we may assume, that on the German question Gen. de Gaulle is in a posi tion to speak for the West. The basis of this parallelism of policy is that in neither camp is there any serious in tention of proceeding towards the reunification of Germany. On both sides there is a fear of the power of a reunit ed Germany. This is the basic understanding which, while it cannot now be publicly avow ed by either side, makes it likely that there will be no collision at the summit. Both sides realize that In the long run German nation alism will not accept gladly the present dismemberment. But for the short run which may be at least a few more years, the partition is accept able. Indeed unavoidable as long as the occupying pow ers are determined not to risk a war over the German ques tion. The Germans are not strong enough to unify themselves and the United States has no intention whatever of going to war in order to unify them. On the other hand, a deal be tween West Germany and the Soviet Union at the expense of Poland and the West, though a theoretical possibil ity, would now be enormous ly and intolerably dangerous. e THOUGH there Is no agree ment between the West and the East, a decision has In fact been taken to keep Germany divided. On both sides, the decision Is masked by official formulae. On the Soviet side the formula is to say that East and West Ger many are "free" to work out their own reunion. On the Western side the real decision If masked by the repetition of the demand that the two Ger manys should be reunited by a free election. Beneath these formulae, which are really fictions used for propaganda and for the sake of appearances, the real ity is something like this. The Soviet Union means to raise the standard of life in East Germany to a level where East Germany can stand com parison with West Germany. Moscow believes Uiat this will Menaee USE A fORK. MOW 6410 llppmann greatly reduce German popu lar pressure for reunification. The West, with France as its leader in this matter, is determined to give the West Germans prosperity in the common Market and status in NATO; it is determined to give the West Germans every thing they want except the reunification of their country. Mr. K. would like to im prison and Isolate the West Germans. The French intend to elect them to their clubs, and to bind them by self-inter est against the lures and the snares of reunification. SEEN from Europe, there are now five Germanys West Germany, East Ger many, West Berlin, the lands beyond the Oder Neisse which are annexed by Poland, and Austria. Only once in modern times have all these been united under one gov ernment, and that was under Hitler from 1938 to 1045. On ly from 1870 to 1945 were the Germans minus Austria united under one government in Berlin. So, seen from Eu rope, the division of the Ger mans, which has resulted from the dismemberment of Hitler's empire, Is more "nor mal" than is their unlon.l The Western allies are firm ly and unanimously agreed in Insisting upon the separate- ness of Austria. They are for all practical purposes, unani mous in regarding the lands beyond the Oder- Nelsse as permanently lost to Poland. When we speak of reunifica tion, we mean the reunifica tion of East and West Ger many with its capital in a re united Berlin. Though we all speak cf It more or less, the fact is that France does not want the re unification. Britain does not want it. While we have some yearnings for it, we accept the partition. And Adenauer's Germany opposes the parti tion in principle but is auite willing to live with it in fact. ALL THIS narrows the German question down to the question of West Ber lin. For on the future of the various Germanys there is a working understanding be tween East and West. There is some reason to think that the new flexibility, which the Russians had hint ed at recently, may be due to their having had some second thoughts about Berlin. It was easy to say that the allied oc cupation of West Berlin must end. But what if the impos sible happened, what if the allies did in fact surrender West Berlin to Eastern Ger many, what would happen If Berlin became the biggest city in Eastern Germany? r or West Berlin would have to be united with East Berlin and the result would be a quarrelsome city of 3 ',4 million people as the capital of a country of about 18 mil lions. The Berliners are a lively lot, and in trying to swallow them, the East Ger man state might well be bit ing off more than It could chew. We do not know this, but it is not at all Improbable that Mr. K. may be thinking it would be safer if Berlin remains undivided, and if West Berlin Is Insulated from Communist Germany. Thus, it may well be that a working arrangement, which leaves intact the substance of Western rights, is possible If we can bring to the negotia tion sufficient resourcefulness and ingenuity. (c) 960 New York Harald Tribune Inc. SOUNDS WARNING Wishington-tlTD-The presi dent of American Airlines, biggest air carrier, warned Wednesday that airliners might have to go back to fed eral subsidies unless they re duced route duplication. Dear Children: I'm Not Really Former Supreme Commander West Confesses By DICK WEST Washington-UITO-There is a book on the market now en titled "The Father" which is a collection of letters from famous men to their off spring. I have been glancing through some of the letters in hopes of picking up a Dick wait lew up on how to communicate with my own progeny. I mean there are some things children should know that I had rather not tell them in face-to-face conversations. It would be easier If I could go off some place and send them a letter, i However, the1 book wasn't much help to me in this re gard, mostly because the au thors of the quoted letters, being famous men, didn't have my kind of problem. No War Hero I wouldn't be so presump tuous as to suggest that some future anthologist might want to publish one of my letters. But if anyone is getting up a collection of kinder-type let ters written by unfamous men, I just happen to have Editorial Comment An Attack on Religion Two thousand years ago the Christian religion was con sidered so subversive that Its Founder was put to death and its followers driven underground. Times have changed since then, except in some of the Communist areas. Yet, a bitter and ignorant attack is now being made on a Protestant organization, the National Council of Churches, on h ornnnH that It 1 infiltrated bv Communists and other Left-Wingers. The attack was brought out into the open when the Air Force withdrew, with apologies, a training manual which made just these charges. If anyone will take the trouble to read the New Test ament, or certain parts of the Old Testament, he will find that the prophets, including the Man of Nazareth, had Indeed little reverence for riches or the possessors of worldly power, and had, on the contrary, a deep pity for the poor and the afflicted. All through the centuries the Christian church in all its phases and divisions has had a social as well as a religious message. Like other great religions, Judaism in cluded, it has been repeatedly stirred by social reform move ments. In this light we may look again at those fantastic mental ities who attack "the freedom of the pulpit." So far as there is anything beyond a moronic vacuum In these attacks, they are really directed at all efforts to reconcile our society with the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. An intrachurch struggle is no doubt going on and in this dispute the general public outside the affected denominations need not take part. We have a right, however, to object to any attempts to Intimidate the ministers of any religion. The symptoms of the present antl-clerlcal campaign are recognizable in their sim ilarity to other discreditable incidents over many decades and even generations. .. v , ",',, They are cheap, silly and irreligious. -Naw York Times Communications 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 Dublication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed In this column do views of the paper; in tact Any Suggestions? To the Editor: Our town of Jacksonville now has a dog law In force, which I suppose is O.K., if the owners will water and care for the dogs while tied up. But we have an existing condition that is worse for property owners than a few loose dogs, and that is the condition in which some of the homes are kept. The town is potentially a beautiful residential district if It were cleaned up. Trash and junk are in abundance over most of the town. Is it any wonder the San itation Co. selected a site near here for a dump? From the looks of some of the proper tics here It would be difficult not to believe the dump ex tends down through the town. Some have scattered about their places old truck and car bodies, parts of old trailer houses, rotted down shacks and cabins, old refrigerators, hot water tanks, oil barrels, tin cans and much other gar bage, all of which not only lowers the values of property but furnishes a breeding place for rats and other pests. I think most of us have some time off from our regu lar work that could be spent cleaning up, and it seems it would be profitable as well as make a more pleasant place In which to live. I am sure our visitor and tourists don't care to make a long drive Into this section of the country to see some of the cluttered yards and trash collections. Does anyone have a solu tion? Jacksonville city coun cil, or others, please speak up. A Taxpayer Jacksonville Happier Families To the Editor: Referring to your editorial "Who is Guilty?" on the subject of juvenile and parental delin quency, I offer for considera tion the following suggestions. Suggestions for happier family living: 1. Loam the loving ap a specimen handy. . "Dear children, "You are rapidly reaching the age when you will need to know some of the facts of life. I could take the easy way out and let you dig them out of comic books. But I do not want you to get a dis torted view of something that is essentially find and good and beautiful. So I will ex plain them to you myself. "First of all, as you grow older you will come to real ize that your father was not the supreme commander of all the Allied military forces in Europe in World War II. I gather that you were begin ning to suspect this already. Otherwise you would not keeD asking 'but who was Eisenhower?' Kitchen Police "Remember when you used to climb upon my knee and beg me to tell you about my experiences during the war? Well, old dad didn't think you were bie enough then to un derstand technical terms, such as 'kitchen police.' So he took a few chapters of 'Crusade in Europe' and paraphrased them in the first person singular. "If this gave you a slightly misleading Impression of my role in the war, I'm sorry. "Now about that old foot- not necessarily represent the the contrary is otren ine case. proach, love has "the wit to win." Censure and strife breed hatreds. 2. Translate wishful think ing into action. Family living Is happier because of doing things together. 3. View family troubles ob jectively, constructively, and without bitterness. It is not so much the troubles but the way we take them that counts most. 4. Cultivate your sense of humor. Do not take yourself and other members of the family too seriously. 5. Analyze success stories; keep inspired. 6. Read good books on hap pier family living. 7. Include Bible reading and prayer; "the family that prays together, stays together," 8. Discover that back of every Ideal lies the sacrifice of dedication, and make that sacrifice. 9. Study families that you know are achieving happi ness. 10. Be patient: God has so much of every, thing, And has such love for you That when you operate through love He gives you heaven too. (Used by permission of the American Mothers Commit tee). Mrs. William T. Jeffery, 521 Mayette st, Medford. OLDEST ACADEMY GRAD West Point, N.Y.-IUPD-West Point's oldest living graduate, Maj. Gen. Henry Clay Hodges, celebrated his 100th birthday Wednesday with a party at the academy attended by 2.500 cadets. Fellow alumnus President Eisenhower extend ed "a special salute to a fine soldier and distinguished graduate" . In a letter to Hodges. Pittsburgh - CTl) - George Shradle. 63, labor editor of the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph for 23 years, died late Tues day night at St. Clair Memo rial Hospital. ball in the attic. It does not necessarily mean that I was an Ail-American. When I used to tell you about it, you possibly didn't catch the phrase 'high school.' I guess the attic accoustics are not all they might be. "Finally, it is natural for children to be. curious about what their fathers do for a living. I have tried to explain the newspaper business to you Matter of Fact uy j0.ePh auop THE FIGURES SPEAK Charleston, W. Va. - The figures speak, only too plain ly, about the dominant role that religious prejudice is thus far playing in the crucial West Virginia Presidential prim ary be tween Sen. Hubert H Humphrey of Minnesota and Sen. John F, Kennedy of Massachusets Reports of this role have have been Joseph ai'kop challenged by Senator Humphrey, who is the beneficiary of the prejudice, although by no means its pro mother. Here, then, is clear proof that Senator Humph rey's complaints are self-serving and unfounded. In a very complete poll oi Slab Ford, in Raleigh County, Senator Humphrey ran slightly behind Senator Ken nedy. In this mining camp which is a prosperous going concern, there were 27 Humphrey voters. Of these, 13 specifically stated that they were influenced by their dis like of the Catholic church., In another very complete poll of Layland, in Fayette County, Senator Humphrey ran very far ahead of Senator Kennedy. In this mining camp which is tragically abandoned, three-quarters of the houses were boarded up, and the sample was necessarily smal ler. There were 13 Humphrey voters, of whom four Specifi cally stated that they were Influenced by dislike of the Catholic church. ' N STILL another very, com plete poll of the indicative Fifth Ward of Huntington, the main city in the west-central part of the state, Senator Kennedy ran one vote ahead of Senator Humphrey, There were 35 Humphrey voters, of whom 17 specifically stated that they were influenced by dislike of the Catholic church. In a quick poll of the small Industrial town of Chesa peake, In Kanawha County, Senator Humphrey again ran far ahead of Senator Kennedy. There were 14 Humphrey voters, of whom no less than nine specifically stated they were influenced by dislike of the Oitholic church. To those who have not studied the strange act of opinion-testing, the totals of voters given may seem small. In fact, however, the two polls with smallest samples, those in Chesapeake and Layland, covered more voters than the inquiring Dr. Gallup questions in the whole state of West Virginia for one of his nation al polls. The results of these four tests are in fact decisive, for two reasons. THIRST, no one was marked as influenced to vote for Humphrey by religious pre judice who did not admit the influence in so may words. Over-aU, 44 out of 89 of these pro-Humphrey West Virgin ; y iiiiHii halei rMoktuaw tarn Hm lha CaxAam " Htm MOIOAN - HUOIO INOOOtASS, KJHUAl DSHCTCa 0AV OH NIGHT in a wholesome way. But I apparently did not make It clear when I used the term 'editor' that I was speaking of my boss and not of myself "This, I think, Is all you need to know for now. In my next letter I will explain about those old boxing gloves in the closet and why you shouldn't tell other children that 'my father can lick your father'." ians made a positive admis sion of prejudice. This, in itself, was astonish ing. Prejudice is often detect able by doorbell-ringers, but it is usually impossible to get, voters to say they are swayed by prejudice. Assuming there were also a few people who were so swayed but were will ing to admit it, as is normal, Senator Humphrey owes to prejudice well over half his support in the four places polled. Second, the places polled were far apart, geographically and in general character. They formed a good cross-section of the southern half of West Virginia. Yet the same pattern, appeared with minor varia tion, in all four places. Only tragic Layland gave a solid majority of voters who chose Humphrey for the right rea son - the economic reasons which he claims are the chief source of his support. THE evidence, then, is clear, at least for southern West Virginia. The same situation is reported to exist, though in somewhat less extreme from, in all the rest of the state ex cept the panhandle district close to Pittsburgh. If these reports are correct, It Is un arguable that If Senator Humphrey wins the West Vir ginia primary, as he well may do, he will owe his victory to Ku Klux Klan-minded voters. He will also win with pow erful help from an admitted ex-Kluxer, Senator Robert C Byrd. He will further win with an organization full of people like the West Virginia co-chairman of the Humphrey-for-President Committee, Walter Jacobs of Parkersburg, who has Incautiously stated that he is really for Adlal Stevenson first, probably for Sen. Stuart Symington of Mis souri second, and only for Humphrey third. On the stump in West Vir ginia, Senator Humphrey has' of course deplored religiously prejudiced voting. One can be 1 sure he Is sincere, for he is the very opposite of his new ally, Senator Byrd. But that hardly alters the ugly predic ament he has got himself Into, owing to an almost Harold Stassen-like case of Presi dential fever. Senator Humphrey Is not merely being used in West Virginia as the tool of other Democratic candidates. He will not merely fail to ad vance his own Presidential ambitions by a primary vic tory owed to religious preju dice. He will also quite inevi tably, hurt himself badly in Minnesota, where he is up for re-election. At least half the normal Democratic vote in Minnesota is Catholic, and the national Republican or ganization is already thinking about running a Catholic candidate against Humphrey for the Senate. For the Dem ocrats, In truth, this West Virginia primary can turn out to be a tragic business, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. 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