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4aUft. TMUM, H.dfard, J A Tkeiader. Miy 2, 1W Everyone In Southern Orefon Readi The Mall Tribune'; HSlilheifBiiiy 'wot saiuriy ar MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 Northjyrt., PhSP J-1L ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Munefer CERAX.0 T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr IRIC W. AIXEN JR.. Mn Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telef. Editor WCHARD JEWTTT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHTR. Women ! Editor PALE ERICKSONCIrculatlon Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1867 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mall In Advance. CopT 1 Rally and Sunday I year IIS 00 Daily and Sunday S moi. 8 00 Daily and Sunday S rooa. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4 20 m- In Advance Medford Ashland. Cen;ral Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Hold Hill Phoenix. Shadv Cove. Rogue Rlv. er. Talent and on motor rnutee, Dally and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. I SO Carrier and Dealera copy 10c All Term! casn mAovanco frlclaTPaper of Cltv of Medford Official Papsr of Jackson ConntT " United Press TnternatlonaJ Full Leased Wire U.P.I. Teephoto Newsptcturea "TlEMBER OF AIIDlf "BtmiAlT- a J.utlilns nenresentatlve WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of. flcej In New York. Chicago. De Run FrnncKcn. Lol Angelei, Seattle. Portland. St. Loulf, At lanta. Vancouver. B.l. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha flies of The Mall Trlbuna 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 vears Q0. 10 YEARS AGO May 26, 1950 (Friday) Legal tangle evolves around four Ashland youths who took five cases of beer from a Medford warehouse; youths were caught in Ashland and It is not known whether Ash land, Medford or county au thorities should prosecute. There is still "flood" water available in Talent and Med ford Irrigation district canals and orchardists should take advantage of it. 20 YEARS AGO May 26, 1940 (Sunday) '. Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company tells PUC hearing here that five-cent toll on calls between Medford and Jacksonville is necessary If company is to keep from operating at a loss between the two cities. ' From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "In the light of events last week, '30,000,000 Frenchmen can't ,b wrong' less 15 'purged' Trench generals who failed to function on the Mouse front and were a great help to the foe (Germans)." SO YEARS AGO May 26, 1930 (Tuesday) George W. Joseph, Republi can nominee for Oregon gov ernor, is among attorneys re cently barred from practice jot law In stale following verbal attacks on stnte su- rreme court. Sportsmen association will fight plans for a power dam on the lower Rogue river. 50 YEARS AGO May 26, 1910 (Thursday) In an extremely light vote, the city voted 78-1 yesterday to annex the territory located west of Oakdale ave., and youth of the Jacksonville rd. The city council voted to pay M. F. Hanloy $2,000 for a right of way across his property for a water line from Little Butte creek; work on the new gravity water sys tem to resume at once. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan corracf Is suparior: savan or eight is excellent; fiva or sis is good. 1. Hoover Dam harnesses what western river? 2. Seven generals later be came U. S. presidents; how many can you name? 3. What and where Is the Matterhorn? 4. When docs the U. S. Gov ernment's next fiscal year be gin? 5. Who was the last Presi dent of the United States to be inaugurated on March 4 6. Which of these lakes I largest in area - Michigan, trie, superior? 7. Is the capital of Swltter. land Zurich, nasle, Berne, Ge neva, or Lausnnne? 8. What device on an auto mobile has the function of mixing gasoline with air? 9. Does a dermatologist spe cialize In diseases of the eyes, xeei, or sum? 10, In what part of the world la tha Gobi desert?, Answarst 1. Colorado rWer, I. Washington, Jackson, Har rison. Taylor, Grant. Garfield, Eisenhower. 3. A steep moun tain in the Alps (14.7(0 ft. igh). 4. July 1. 1M. 1. franklin D. Roosevelt. (. Lake Superior. 7. Barn. I, Catkw reior. a. skin. 10. Genital What Is Prejudice? What is prejudice? Why do many people what Webster defines as "preconceived judgment or opinion; unreasonable predilection or objec tion; esp., an opinion or leaning adverse to any thing without just grounds or Defore sufficient knowledge"? Why, in particular, do conceived adverse opinions of certain groups, based soley on their color, or their religion, or their racial characteristics .' a TNE of the best examinations of these questions we've seen recently appeared in the May 24 issue of Look magazine, written by Dr. Marie Jahoda, until recently associate director of the New York University Research Center for Human Relations. Dr. Jahoda demolishes a lot of preconceived notions, particularly in the field of race. Is prejudice instinctive? No, she replies, it is learned. ( One is reminded Pacific : "You've got to be taught to be afraid of people whose eyes are oddly made . . .") What is the source of prejudice? Usually a hate compulsion, stemming from the inadequacy of the individual, Dr. Jahoda replies coolly. X7HC is likely to be prejudiced? Prejudice is mon frequent among the poorly educated, she replies. But it also varies according to loca tion and individual situations. Don't intelligence tests show that Negroes are less intelligent than whites? No, Dr. Jahoda de clares flatly. Inherent ability differs little be tween ethnic groups. Apparent differences are almost always the result of environmental factors. Can prejudices be changed? Yes, Dr. Jahoda reports, in four ways: By social pressures against prejudice; by public opinion and a community's standards; by psychotherapy, and by direct per sonal experience leading to a realization of the fallacy of blanket judgments about groups of people. a a a a IS PREJUDICE widespread? Is it "inevitable"? Dr. Jahoda replies: "Prejudice of one kind or another has existed for thousands of years. Let us not forget that, two thou and years ago, the early Christians served the Romans as scapegoats, that Protestants were often made the scapegoats of Catholics, that Catholics became the scapegoats of some Protestants, and Jews the scape goats of Nazis and Fascists. "Tha fact that prejudice is so old and so wide spread a social disease does not argue for Its 'inevit ability.' Millions of people on this earth manage to live without this ugly crutch. "Children can Just as easily learn that no one group of people consists entirely of saints or devils, that there are good and bad people in all groups and that it is wrong to judge any man, let alone con demn him, because of his race or color or faith." X7E COMMEND the entire article to thought " ful readers who wish to read more than the few short paraphrases and quotations here. bach of us, no matter how enlightened, probably has deep within him some dark spots of prejudice and bigotry. We know we do, and we're not proud of it. It is a long, slow process for mankind to lose its hates and fears, and the prejudices and biases based on them. But a readintr of history will show that, little by little, bit by bit, here and there, prejudices and hates can be ameliorated. Perhaps, some day, our descendents will be able to judge a man for what he is, not by the color of his skin, the name of his great grand father, or by what gods or saints he invokes. E.A. "Boo - We were greatly honored the other day. A writer on another daily newspaper devoted a whole column to making fun of "E.A." It may be recalled we ploring any revival of the marked the relationships Ashiand, our charming city. And we concluded advised comment that calling Medford "Smoggy Bottom" doesn't change the fact that Medford and Ashland people have been working smoothly and amicably together for the common good iii recent yeai-s. (Chamber Manager Don McNeil, anyway, thinks the comment was ill-advised.) t X7ELL, our column-writing colleague jumped ' all over that one.. "Yes, E.A.," he said two-thirds of the way through the column, "I believe you have pulled a boo-boo. When I refer to Medford as Smoggy Bottom not more than eight or ten thousand (sic) folks read it . . . But when you print Smoggy Bot tom down there where the condition exists, you may have opened Pandora's box." The fact is that for some years the Mail Trib une has been complaining about smog and other forms of air pollution, and has screamed to high heaven hoping something could be done about it. And things are being done. Slowly, to be sure, but progress is being made. If tht Ashland columnist would pitch in and help, instead of wasting newsprint belaboring "E.A.V poor judgment on nicknames, or print ing ancient editorials fi 'oni the earlv diivs of citv rivalry, who knows what for the Jackson county in this country display many people hold pre of the song trom bouth Boo wrote a little piece de silly rivalry winch once between Medford and and progressive sister with the perhaps ill- could be accomplished community? E. j Dennit the THEY HKE TO PUNISH M. MAKES 'BfA KBlBIGl Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann WHAT NEXT? We must begin by remind ing ourselves where we are now. Curiously enough, if we jaw ai look Denina i m Iho rprnrrl It- I self, we find ff that both sides proclaim their desire to re sume negotia- 1 inn W p $'J find, too, that ..aV!t-Br it C C D Walter . , " ' uppmann and the U.S.A. have both made substantial concessions, designed to make possible a resumption of ne gotiator. There is a great gap between the action of the gov ernments, which are on the record, and the motions drum med up by propaganda and by counter-propaganda. Thus, after Mr. Khrushchev had insulted the President and demanded the break-up of the conference, the West ern allies issued a communi que which concludes with the statement that "they (that is to say, Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and Miicmillan) remain un shaken in their conviction that all outstanding interna tional questions should be set tled not by the use or threat of force but by peaceful means through negotiation. They themselves remain ready to take part in such negotiations at any suitable time in the future." Mr. Khrushchev, for his part, suggested that "the best thing to do was to post pone the conference for six or eight months until the dust has settled, so to speak." The record shows too that during the break-up in Paris the President conceded that the U-2 flights had been stop ped and would not be re sumed. Mr. Khrushchev, a few days after the break-up when he was in East Berlin, conceded that he would not disturb the status quo in Ger many before the next summit meeting. MUCH for the record. The first thing to be said about it, it seems to me, is that it won't be at all easy to resume negotiation, and that what has occurred is a break-down not of diplomatic relations but of diplomatic communications between Mos cow and Washington. The dif ficulties of restoring commu nications, although they are not Insuperable, are very great indeed, and until there is communication there can be no negotiation. It is evident that Mr. Khru- shchev's time-table-a summit meeting in six or eight months -is quite unrealistic. He docs not seem to understand the mechanics of the American political system. Six months hence Mr. Eisenhower will still be President and the President-elect will, of course. have no power to do anything Eight months hence, the new President will just be taking office, and it is inconceivable that he would or could go to a summit meeting before he had organized his administra tion and entered himself into negotiations to prepare for a meeting. Moreover, Mr. Khrushchev should learn to understand that after his treatment of Mr. Eisenhower personally no President will go to a summit meeting without a radical change in the atmosphere and without reliable assurances that the area of negotiation has been made precise and that the issues have become negotiable. JOK these reasons, it is, I think, conservative esti mate to say that negotiations t the summit, if they are ever resumed, cannot take place much before the sum mer of H1. XUw icy tit torn i mx Menac I' will rejoice in this prospect. But the sober and responsible view is, I submit, that with the failure, or at least the in definite postponement of sum mitry, there is an urgent need to restore communications through quieter and more se cured and protected means. For the United States and the Soviet Union cannot take the risks of being unable to com municate effectively for a long period of time. This would produce intolerable risks of miscalculation which would be a threat to all man kind. What is more, it is an il lusion to imagine that the alliance of which we are sup posed to be the leader will stand fast and hold its breath and clench Us fist indefinite ly. The strain of watching the two giants glowering at each other and unable to com municate would be greater than the alliance could en dure. fOMMUNICATIONS will have to be restored by quiet diplomacy in which our allies will have to play a principal part. This could, perhaps, be supplanted by making a new use of an old idea. As originally conceived when the Charter of the Unit ed Nations was written, the Security Council was to be attended regularly by the For eign Ministers themselves Fifteen years ago it seemed inconvenient, and perhaps not too important, for the Foreign Ministers to cross the ocean once a month to attend the meetings of the Security Council. This was probably the main reason why, except In time of crisis, they do not attend. By now, It might do much good if they did come once a month for at least a few days. Then it would not be necessary for them to have so many special meetings in various parts of the world. When they were at the U.N. in New York City on regular business, they could discuss anything they liked. The meet ings would be normal and routine and therefore much quieter and more effective. In addition, they would be assisted by the extraordinar ily efficient Secretariat of the United Nations. This would provide the great powers with a means and with an adequate reason for communicating officially and unofficially with the So viet Foreign Minister. IF T Is THE affair of the U-2 disposed of amicably, which, as the record now stands, it ought to be, it might be a good idea for Secretary Herter to go to New York, assuming that Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Couve de Murvllle came too. He might go there to dis cuss our open skies proposal disarmament, and above all what have you. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Body of Portland Nurse Recovered Lewiston, Idaho IWD The body of a Portland, Ore., nurse was recovered from the Clearwater river in east Lew iston Wednesday, more than a month after the small car she was driving plunged Into the river. The victim was Alice Bur kett. 27. An employee of Pot latch Forests, Inc., saw the body in the company's mill pond near here. Miss Burkett disappeared April 17 while en route from Kamiah in Portland following A visit with her fiance. Continuing Troubles Nears Independence By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor At the end of June, the Belgian Congo is scheduled to emerge as the newest and richest of Africa's inde pendent na tions. It is about one-third the size of the United States, and its mines the world's biggest sup pliers of co Phil Nrwfcnm balt, second largest suppliers of copper, producers of tin and manganese, and vast but secret supplies of uranium. Under the Belgians for 75 years its administration was praised as a model of colonial rule. In 1955, it was described as a region unique in its ef ficiency and tranquility. But in the intervening years, the nationalistic fires sweeping all of Africa reached the Congo. The pains which accomp anied the birth of other Afri can nations may be especially severe in the Congo. Nation alist leaders rebuffed Belgian attempts to slow the march to ward independence until na tive administrators could be trained. They are divided anions themselves as to whether an independent Congo should be a federation of states or a centrally controlled nation with a president elected on a nation-wide basis. Leopoldville, the capital, is a European city on the edge of jungle. 7w 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 pub lication 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. Christie School To the Editor: I was one of a group of men from Med ford who met in Portland May 12, to start a two day tour of child care agencies. The tour captain, Tom Ness, asked each man to make a brief report on a certain agency, mine being the Chris tie school. This school, established in 1908, located in Marylhurst, Ore., is operated by the Sis ters of tile Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. The school offers care, protection and education to emotionally dis turbed girls of ages 6 to 16. Through a group care pro gram featuring a special school program and extensive social work with the girls and their families, nearly 350 girls a year benefit from the Christie program. Sisters who are experienced teachers pro vide schooling and supervision on a 24 hour basis. Trained social workers and a psychol ogist give professional serv ice. Psychiatric consultation Is available. Any Oregon girl in need of this type of care is eligible, regardless of race, creed or economic status. The emphasis is upon gentle, un derstanding care of each child's special needs". During our tour through these different child care homes, the thought came to all of us-just what In the world would we do without these homes! It certainly is gratifying to know we have people so dedicated that tney will work for so little pay to help these unfortunate, but very wonderful, children. In many of the homes visited, you suddenly found a lump in your throat and very moist eyes. If it were only possible for every man and woman in this area to go through these same homes, it Is very likely they would give to the Med ford Crusade, a supporter of these agencies, without being asked. Yes, there are children from our county being cared for by these agencies. Jack W. Mitchell, 718 King St., Medford Kids In Danger To the Editor: I always read your communications column and enjoy it very much, espe cially the letters sent in by Everett Acklin. In regard to Chief of Police Charles Champlin's "warnings to motorists." I wish he would also warn parents that streets are not safe playgrounds for children. I had a frightening experi ence today at noon which left me angry with the laxity of parents that let their children play in the streets. I was driving East on Ste vens st. toward Marie St., at about 10 m.p.h. There were numerous children playing along the street, in the street, and all about. I was driving carefully lest one of them should dash in front of the car. About half way up the street I saw a child's wagon across the yellow line. I step ped on my brakes and as I lowly : went by 1 glanced! Under Belgian rule, troops preserved the peace among the tribes, but as Belgian rule has slipped, jungle warfare has increased. In January of this year, Belgian colonial troops were flown to Kasai Province to prevent i "war of extermination" between the Lulua and Baluba tribes. Scarcely a day passes with out new reports of violence, and without new evidence that the Belgian Congo is far from ready for independence. This week returns were coming in from voting for a national government and pro vincial councils. They climaxed weeks of campaigning in mud hut vil lages and along crocodile-infested rivers. Among the campaigners none was more active than a reed-like man more than six feet tall named Patrice Emergy Lumumba. The Belgians released him from jail so he could attend a recent Brussels conference which finally determined June 30 as the independence date. He and his leftist national Congolese movement are the unquestioned masters of two of the Congo's six provinces and he has sold himseli to his followers as the messiah of Congo freedom. So strong is his hold that he is able with impunity to show his contempt for Belgian administrators even before the independence date, and even countermand successfully the orders of Belgian officers to their native troops. He once was convicted of embezzlement and the Bel- down and saw a boy of about three years in it. If I had been attending to my own children in the car at that particular time I might have hit the wagon and hurt or killed the child. How can those mothers rest at ease in their homes, or wherever they may be, with their children playing in the strets? Do they think this is a safe playground for chil dren? It is the same story at al most any hour on Stevens St., and all the way down Marie st to Jackson. Can't some thing be done about this? Mrs. Jack Pech, 1235 Poplar dr., Medford. Wants New Vote To the Editor: Would like to back R. L. Brantley on the dog control "swindle." Am a registered Republican voter. Thinking I was voting to have my 20-pound terrier allowed to be my right hand man, I voted no on dog con trol. He (Gus) knows the boundary of my five acres: he does not like trespassers to come in unannounced, and says so. Have had him with me several years. He can do any thing but talk. Have seen him retrieve balls and sticks and small peaches for four kids at a time. He will climb a 10 foot ladder or a leaning tree, and is a darn sight smarter than the man that drew up the bill that passed last week The new law is going to be crammed down our necks un less a lot of other misguided voters enter a protest, and soon. Will toss in a ten spot to have a petition circulated to have this thing appealed and a new vote taken, to see how manv of us were fooled by this thing. Never before have I seen a bill passed when the voter marked his ballot no. They say this one did. Enough persons protesting and a good attorney can stop this thing quick. Who is with me? Charles Edgar Rose, 643 Pierce rd.. Medford. Confusing Dog Vote To the Editor: The letter in your paper published in the May 23 issue over the sig nature of R. L. BranUey, Route 3, Box 59B, Medford, hit the nail on the head. I heartily agree with him. It was confus ing. The cities voted on the ques tion of dog control for them selves and the county. If the cities wanted control, that is their business and the rest of the county outside of the cities should have the same right as to control. Then after the vote it came out in the paper some people were ex empt from the law which is discrimination, to my way of thinking. H. W. Steelrntn, 107 Lozier Lane, Medford, -u Foreseen as African gians call him an opportunist I who has used Communist I Mat t er of Fact y joePh aimp ON FOLK-DANCING Paris - America's friends in France, and throughout the whole Western alliance, have r"5 received t h o 'k j news of the jjinipen aing Congressional i n vesication I fi nf tho IIO ri,. with a groan of r e s i gned horror. The horror has been tern- oseph ai.sop pered, to be sure, by the report that the investigation is to be conduct ed by Senator Fullbright. The chairman of the Foreign Re lations committee has a well established reputation for moderation and good sense. He will, it is hoped, avoid the worse excesses of Congress ional inquiries into contro versial matters in election years. But the question is still being asked, with a kind of damp discouragement: "What on earth good can this do? Isn't the row in the U.N. enough?" In happier days, this would not have mattered as much as it matters now. In the past, none of the Western allies doubted the superiority of American power. In the past, too, there were far fewer doubts about the good judg ment of America's leaders. In that period no great harm was done, as a leading French diplomat put It to this report er, "par les danses folklorl ques de votre politique inter ieure" - "by the folk dances of your domestic politics"! IN OTHER WORDS, while there was still general con fidence in America's strength and America's basic wisclom. we could afford to make fools of ourselves from time to time in our own peculiar way. But it cannot be too much empha sized that the remaining West ern reserve of confidence in America - at least in Eisen hower's America - has now dropped well past the danger point. Anything which will cause a further drain on the reserve of confidence is genu inely dangerous, both to the world position of the United States and to the unity of the West. Even after making full al lowance for the prudence of Senator Fullbright, it is hard to see how any investigation of the U2 case can fail to cause such a drain on the re- serve of confidence. The known facts themselves prove, only too clearly, that further inquiry can do no good and may do much harm, these facts fall into two parts. N PART ONE, there are the facts concerning the U2 over flights. The overflights were started more than four years ago. No sensible American can fail to admire the courage and good sense of his fellow citizens, as yet unnamed, who originated this project. For four years and more, these flights continued with out incident. Probably from the beginning, and quite cer tainly for at least two years, the masters of the Kremlin have known that American planes were overflying the Soviet Union at altitudes above the reach of the Soviet air defense system. Their ra dars told them the news, and so did their spies. At his mon strous Paris press conference, ' imtm Inm IJtSK MOJAN . MUOIO CAY OS MGHT taaaaatawaaivajmNitKgt' r. , Mil ' , - '- ? r-Kr.v vv ' Ask ui about tha OREGON FUNERAL INSTANCE PLAN w which we heartily recommend and endorse. as Congo State funds to help finance his cam. paign. Niklta S. Khrushchev himself quite openly admitted that he knew about the American overflights when he met Presi. dent Eisenhower at. Camp David. In all this time, the Soviets made no protest against the overflights because they could not do so without an appalling admission of weakness. They could not say, after all: "We know you're overflying our territory, and we can't stop you. But you must stop anyway!" After such a long record of success without hazard, the safety of the overflights was obviously taken for granted. This was perhaps an error of judgment on the eve of the summit. But it was not an unnatural error, on the order of not turning off the elec tricity to prevent short cir cuits when unusually inflam mable materials are tempor arily in a house. THE SOVIETS captured the - U2,' in any case, because some sort of quite unforesee able mechanical failure caused the plane to lose about half its normal operating al titude, and thus to come with in reach of the Soviet air de fense system. Clearly, any needless airing of names and facts in this first, purely op erational part of the U2 story will be both fruitless and flat ly contrary to sound prece dent in matters having to do with that unpleasant neces sity, espionage. As for part two of the U3 story, this is the part which contains the explanation of the American government'i reaction to the Soviet an nouncement that the U2 and its pilot had been captured. The disclosure of the U2 proj ect, the public proof of the overflights, did the U.S. little harm and considerable com pensating good abroad. But very great harm was done by the way the American govern ment reacted to this disclos ure, with a series of ill-digested and contradictory state ments. It may be historically inter esting to find out who pre pared what draft of which statement. But public breast beating about the sudden mal adroitness of our own di plomacy at a moment of acute international importance will certainly serve no practical purpose. It will also greatly increase the harm already done. Just as the executive branch needs to learn that it does not always have to make a state ment, the Congress should remember that it does not al ways have to make an investi gation. Such, at any rate, is Uie prayer of our friends abroad, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. experienced Paint Salesman Seeks Employment with Medford Firm Exparience in paint and wail papar and automotive finishas, also wholesale buildinsj sup plies. 40 years old. References can ba given. To contact, write Tribune Box 3235-D Am Camdmn SNOOOtMI. 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