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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. TUESDAY. JULY t. IIHO 4 A iion iirdaj by 13 North nr St.. Ph 8Pa-ell " nOBERfW RUHL. Editor RCnB GIU5Y Advertlilni Msnese -,. n r I 11-UAM Rub Mar ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor tilnnu UTOMAM Tataa FilltfIT RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women'! Editor LI A Li C ,n.lk,ivam,, v-iivuh""" ME An Independent Newspspi It Medford. Oreion. under Aot I ol ftiarcn a, lot,, SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy IOC Dally and sunflay i year tis H nn 8 00 4.25 Sunday Only One year 4 a an -Medford Aahland. Central Point Ea i fr i Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Rlv- er, Talent aril on motor routei Daily and Sunday I year S18 n( Dally and Sunday 1 mo 1.5C Carrier and Dealera copy 10c All Terma Caah In Advance "offlrial Paper of City of MedforeT Otflclal Papar of Jackwn CounW United Preu InternaHonal Full Leated Wire P.P.l Telephoto Newiplctures "TSEMBER OF AUDIT BITREATJ JCdvefTTslne Reorejentarlve: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC 1... In Man. Vn.h Chl.-I.fffl trolt. San Francisco. Los Ansel Seatue. porwana ai. luum lanta. Vancouver. BC At- EDITORIAI " U U Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and SO years age. 10 YEARS AGO July S. 1950 (Wednesday) City firemen said two brush fires in Medford yester day were caused by misused fireworks. Medford's Civil Air Patrol unit yesterday placed second in the western regional drill contest at Ogden, Utah. 20 YEARS AGO July 5, 1940 (Friday) A crowd estimated at more fhau 20,000 jammed every corner of space in Ashland yesterday to witness this city's big Fourth of July celebra tion. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The nation's birthday passed here without anybody getting In jail or the hospital, due to exuberance with gin or gaso :' line." 90 YEARS AGO July 5, 1930 (Saturday) A number of fish were found dead in the upper Bogue yesterday, apparently the victims of a dynamite blast, and fishermen are aroused. Five local youths celebrat ed the Fourth by climbing to the top of Mt. Pitt. 40 YEARS AGO July 5, 1920 (Monday) Medford's Commercial club Is taking steps to get a census recount for the city. Mrs. Rose Sehiefflin of Medford has been elected Democratic national commit- teewoman for Oregon. SO YEARS AGO July 5. 1910 (Tuesday) The federal government . started advertising today for a site on which to locate the $110,000 federal building which is planned for in Med ford. A Mail Tribune reporter writes from Reno, Nev., that there is a possibility that Jim Jeffries was doped before yes terday's championship fight which he lost to Jack John son; Elsewhere, race riots re sulting from the fight, have killed upwards of SO persons throughout the nation. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct fa superior; seven or tight Is oicellentt five or six is good. 1. In which New England Stnte is Saddle Mountain? 2. Does the New Testament specifically imply that salva tion is open to both Jew and Gentle alike? ' 3. Name the only State In the Union whose name ends In "k"? 4. In military practice what arc "combined operations"? 5. Is the "t" pronounced in hostler, hasten, or listen? 6. "My house is a c which the king cannot enter." Em erson. 7. Was the discovery that sulphuric ether when inhaled produced insensibility to pain, made in 1826, 1846, or 1866? , 8. One President of the U.S. Was born In Pennsylvania; Home him, 9. Name the former Secre tary of State who was award ed the 104S Noble Peace Prize. 10. Who was the Spanish American War hero of Manila Bay? Answorsi 1, Massachusetts. 2. Yes. 3. New York. 4. Those in which land, sea and air forces participate. 6. No. 6. ". . . castle." 7. 1846. 8. James Buchanan. 9. Cordell Hull. 10. Commodore George Dewey. : "Everyone In Souuiern Ore Heidi Tha Mall Tribune" JJ--' A$ SO C I ATI O M NATIONAl Unwisdom vs. Vindictiveness Last Saturday morning there arrived in the mail a plain, pre-stamped envelope of the sort obtainable at the post office. It was postmarked Portland. There was no return address. Inside was a green-mimeographed "news letter" from the office of Mrs. Edith Green, Ore gon congresswoman from Portland. We thought little about it except to wonder why it wasn't in the usual kind of envelope. Then we started to read it. It was full of satiric and exaggerated comment on politics and individuals. AT first we thought Mrs. Green had taken " leave of her senses. Then another staff mem ber pointed out the date June, 1959. Still it didn t make sense, and we got suspicious. So we asked Mrs. Green about it. When she learned what had happened she was upset understandably so. It will be recalled that in June, 1959, our two senators were engaged in a rather acrimon ious quarrel. There were other political activi ties which gave those close to them cause for unhappiness. AT that time Mrs. Green wrote the '"newslet ter," tongue in cheek, and mailed out a few copies 10 or 12 to members of her family and close friends. It was intended as a purely private, personal, tongue-in-cheek commentary on events of the day in which she was caught up, and, since distribu tion was limited to close personal contacts, Mrs. Green sort of let her hair down in a way nobody would in a public letter. It may have been unwise but who among us has not done the same sort of thing? MOW, however, the political situation has changed; Mrs. Green is up for reelection; Dick Neuberger is dead; the feuds of last year have quieted or ended. Thus it is easy to understand why Mi's. Green is upset that someone someone who took con siderable pains to remain anonymous and convey the impression that Mi's. Green's heavy-humored and privately sarcastic letter was genuine had mailed it out. How widespread the mailing is we have no idea, but it did not go to her regular mailing list. We presume it was mostly to newspapers. 1MRS. GREEN may be subject to some criticism for having authored such a letter in the first place although it was never intended for public consumption. Hyperbole and sarcasm are not her usual vehicles of expression. But how much worse, how really nasty and vindictive, must be the person who ran across a copy of the private letter, and attempted to pass it off as an example of Mrs. Green's public views. . , One can expect some pretty shoddy actions during an election year. But how low can you get? E. A. Glorious 4th! While we're on the subject of low-down char acters, how about the unknown individuals who set fire to the home in Portland being built by a Negro couple? Mr. and Mrs. Rowan Wiley have been sub ject to harrassment and discrimination ever since they began planning to move into what had been an all-white neighborhood. First of all, they were rebuffed by a build ing contractor. It finally took action by the Ore gon bureau of labor to obtain for them the equal ity of treatment to which they are entitled under Oregon law. MEXT, the municipal water district in which A" their prospective new home is located at tempted to condemn their property. This was stopped by a federal court order when it became evident there was no justification for such con demnation, and that it actually was designed to scare them away, solely because of their race. And, finally, several thousand dollars of dam age was done to their unfinished, split-level home last week end by the unknown, skulking arsonist. And this on the 4th of July week end, when we celebrate the origin of the Declaration of In dependence which declares it is "self-evident" that all men are created equal ! E. A. Added Evidence It's getting so that the best way to find a peaceful, quiet spot on a long week end is to stay at home. The Forest Service estimated that 17,000 peo ple were at Lake of the Woods Sunday. And, last year, it was estimated that some 50,000 people in all sought solace outdoors in one or another of the camping, boating, swim ming or picnicking placesin the county. IT may be, actually, that the law of diminishing returns is beginning to set in. Only a few boats and water skiers were in evidence on the lake above Savage Rapids dam Sunday, according to sheriff's deputies. And this may be because a lot of people expected over whelming crowds, and enough of them stayed away so that the crowds were relative small. But the situation over the week end is just one more added bit of evidence that the Amer ican people are taking to the outdoors in ever greater numbers. Ana if accommodations aren't provided for them, they'll provide their own to everyone's loss. -E. A. Dennis the rAOIUN' THE Matter of Fact By jo.Ph auoP A JULY FOURTH HURRAH Wcstport, N. Y.-This was the year when Ingemar Jo hansson and Dwight D. Eis enhower both made over seas journeys which were t r i u mphant successes, a s the President h i m self e x plained, e x cept for the tiresome b e- i t .r.npu iisnp UUVIUI ui from disinterested minorities. The comparison is James Reston's; but borrowing from a colleague is excusable in this instance, because the comparison tells so much about the stage we have reached. There are other In dications, too. There is the general opinion of respectable Republicans, for instance, that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller must be either a fool or a rogue, because he has dared to tell the plain conservative truth about the state of our de fenses and our economy. There are some other things, to be sure, that any American can honestly cele brate this Fourth of July. For example, the existence of hid den, currently untapped springs of national energy is plainly proven by the quality of the conceivable next presi dents. Whether the White House's new occupant is to be Nixon or Kennedy or Lyn don Johnson, one cannot tell. But one can certainly tell that this new man, whichever he may be, will be a -considerable, worthy leader of the United States. BUT all the same,' the first half of the year 1960 has been darkened by disaster and humiliation;, and these have been made worse by the tor rents of synthetic twaddle poured out to obscure the harsh outlines of the hard, harsh fact. Merely as a counter-demonstration then, it may be pardonable to celebrate the least synthetic thing that the United States has produced in 1960, which happens to be a book. "Felix Frankfurther Rem inisces" is a book without any close parallel, as far as this reporter can recall. The vol umes nearest to it are the books of "table talk" that were fashionable a hundred years ago - "The Table Talk of Samuel Rogers," for in stance, and the imitation of the Rogers book was based on the conversations of Justice Story. But these were pruned, dressed up, and dead as mut ton, compared to this new book of verbatim recordings of Justice Frankfurter's spok en recollections of his life. This book - one may as well say it boldly and plain ly - Is nothing more or less than a new American classic. It is a minor classic, because it is artless. Even the best talk is bound to be artless, un less retouched. It is classic, all the same, because It is hu man, funny, brave, noble, Myrtlewood Plant Burns at Delake Delnke, Ore.- IUP0 -Firemen battled for more than an hour Monday a fire which blazed through a myrtlewood factory during gusty winds at this beach community. Fire Chief Bob Ballard of the Taft-Nelscott-Dclake fire department said the blaze broke out about 2:30 p..n. Firemen managed to keep flames from spreading to a nearby service station. Gusty -23 mile per hour winds plus stored varnishes and thinners in the building made it difficult to put out the fire, Ballard said, The blaze, which attracted many holiday sightseers, caused an estimated $30,000 damage. The plant, Wolf's Myrtlewood, is located at the south end of Delake. Menace MZS tainlng, all In one splendcd jumble. rpHE stories are Incompar- able. There is the anec dote, too long for this space, about how the august Henry L. Stinson descended to call ing another man an s.o.b There is a later Secretary of War, Lindley M. Garrison, "a very nice man, very ill- equipped for his Job," who warned one of his assistants proudly: "I can assure you, once my mind is closed, It s closed! There is the wonderful de scription, by the wife of the senior Henry Morgcnthnu, of how her vain, pretentious but originally timid husband be came first accustomed to and then enchanted by the sound of the human voice when pub licly uttered by himself. There is Justice Frankfurter's own description of a famous American proconsul, descend ed from Ralph Waldo Emer son, through whom the blood of the Concord Sago "must have passed without stop ping." "He proved," remarks the Justice, "that being disinter ested and having a high sense of public duty doesn't always mean that you promote the public good." But the jokes and the por traits which are unkind are far less important In this book, than the opinions on public topics, so oddly pre sented with mingled sharpness and grandeur, and the admir ing, even loving portraits of towering figures like Bran- deis and Holmes, the two Roosevelts, Stimson and many others. AND these brilliantly life like portraits of great men from the crowded galleries of a rich and crowded lite are less important, in their turn, than the unconscious and un posed self-portrait of Justice Frankfurter, which is the whole book. Somebody from Columbia University poked a recording machine at him. With some reluctance, he talked his memories into the machine, not initially for publication but for the histr... cal record, The memories -wonderfully enrich and enliven the record Yet the best prize captured by the recording machine is the man himself who spoke Into It - a man brisk and courag eous and full of life, shrewd as a peddler but oddly inno cent too, sometimes uncon sciously comic .but never ig noble, and all his life pos sessed and guided by the highest, most truly glorious idea of Americas meaning and promise. As you read this book, you keep saying to yourscll; "This Is what this man thinks of our country, who came to these shores as a skinny, pen niless Jewish immigrant kid." Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF THE TELEVISION PLUG or "payola" under fire in Washington, was once dramatically exemplified on a Jack Benny show. "Rochester," commanded Jack, "pass mc my electrically heated Best Better Electric Blan ket" "Bossl Boss!" pro tested Rochester, "you ain't got no Rest Better Electric Blanket." Benny registered one of his meaningful pauses, then said, "I've got one NOW, Rochester!" e Howard Van Smith tclta of a farm family saddled with a backward son. One day they sent him out to mako a count of the chicken population. He returned sadly perplexed. "1 couldn't do It, Paw," he confessed. "1 count ed all of them up to 22 but there was one that kept running' around and I couldn't count him."- . , - Overheard In Los Angeles; "1 can't wait for them to finish shooting that baseball plcturo, Sum-toe or OnmpaneUa. O UM, by Burnett Cert. Distributed by King features flyndlctte Foreign Notebook: Polaris for Red Army By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: Summit Aftermath Tho iiilddlo-rimgo U.S. Po laris missile, requiring u mini mum of launching site, nuuie a deep impies- sinn on West G e r mini De fense Minister Franz - Josef Strauss w h o believes It Is just the thing to relnto rc e NATO's shield In dentil. How- iMiitNKWsii.M over, Strauss is unwilling to give Moscow further fuel for Us anti-German campaign and believes that NATO or some other member of the alliance should make the proposal adding Po laris to the list of NATO weapons. Meanwhile, in London, U.S. navel authorities predict that two American nuclear sub marines equipped with the Polaris missile may be attach ed to the U.S. 2nd Fleet In the Atlantic by lute this year. Later, another two probably will be attached to the 6th Fleet In the Mediterranean, they add. 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 lor publication Is permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters wllh a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed In this column do not necossarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Can Anyone? To the Editor: If personally conducted tours of diplomacy, like those we have been re galed with recently, are such a howling success, why doesn't Mr. Nixon, tlu Repub lican, an experienced "tour ist," come out and state: "We Republicans will carry on; will evangelize the world for freedoms as never before?" Surely the Vice President has his election to the top job cinched (so we are told) and consequently will have eight full years to put the commies to rout on the diplomatic and ideological levels. Isn't he supposed to fit the shoes of Ike; be like the Rock of Gi braltar In fibre? Of course Boss Mao Tse and his office boy Nikita (address Moscow) did vex and ruffle our diplomatic protocol a bit, but those slithery snakes could not be expected to be table broke. In fact, like their ilk, they Just love to "spill the beans" (as It were). Japan Is an ally, though. And Nikita was a virtual Prince Charm ing to our President while he was here. We can always tell a Demo crat . . . but we can't tell them much! They pretend to be set to do that which is necessary to retrieve our once greater nation's fortunes . . . but after each election, with decisive majorities in Congress. . . they seem to stiffen up , . . like a batter in a slump . . . and lose their tongues and their courage to act for the people who elected them. We are faced with an ac complished fact . . . that in four places we have been in sulted; assaulted (Nixon in Bolivia); dared (Cuba); and accused. Is there a man among It fills you with such pride that you want to stand at at tention, and it makes you wish that more men were as good Americans as Felix Frankfurter, who has so often been denounced as un-American. (c) 1960, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Strength; Missiles vs. Men Moscow wonl lo consider able lengths Inst week to re port government efforts to find suitable places 111 Rus sia's economy for her demobil ized army men. But while Moscow Is giving tho Impres sion of a continued reduction of armed forces, Khrushchev hus Issued Instructions to strengthen tho fighting power of the Soviet Union, lie told graduates of Soviet military academies It Is a "sacred duty" lo strengthen Russia's nrmcd forces In tho absenco of a disarmament accord with the West. Chief attention Is directed toward rockets. Do fonso Minister Rodlon Mnlln ovsky strongly hinted at the same time that training is being concentrated on new weapons while conventional forces are being reduced. Algerian Turmoil Contacts looking toward a cense fire finally have been established between the French government and the rebel Algerian "provisional government" of Premier Fer hat Abbas, but It Is a weak thread easily broken, Tho rob els a ro complaining bitterly that the preliminary contact Indicated the French want Abbas to come to Paris merely to surrender his guerillas and weapons lo the French, Tho rebels demand negotiations on equal fooling with President us that could cope with these four almost fatalistic nose dives In our American career? Certainly Nixon and Ken nedy, with a torn nation brought about by a singular election, will not be able to counter-act, let alone over come, our single purposed foe. Walter Gabriel, IIowclls, Neb. Semantics To the Editor: Recently, In an editorial In this paper the term "semantics" was used. The definition given was the meaning of words. This writer first heard the word about 30 years ngo, but none of his dictionaries re cords It. Possibly some later editions do. As it Is a word used in conjunction with brainwashing, It is handy to opinion molders in any cate gory; say, writers, lecturers, teachers, lawyers and what not. The technique Is especial ly handy to politicians. It is not so much the meaning of words as it is the connotation of words and phrases, expres sions that carry an emotional implication or impact. For ex ample: Home, mother and poor little children, rough neck, silk stockings, white col lar, communist, egg head, Mc Carthylsm, Santa Claus, capi talism, freedom, free world, democracy, -Iron Curtain, Hlt- lcrlsm. Our president Is very fond of the word "freedom." He uses it on all and each occa sion whether it is fitting or not. But to him It means what he wants It to mean, and as he is the president, well, you take the ball from there. He used the slogan bor rowed from the Russians: Peace and Friendship. Yet that did not suit him. He had to add to It. What did ho add? Did he say: Peace and Friend ship and Plenty for All? No. Nor did he mention "Dear Old Dad and Mom." Nor Health for the Aged. What he said was "Pence and Friendship In Freedom." As he was on his way to visit Democrats and Dictators, the meaning of his slogan is rather vague. But then he got to use the word and whatever It meant he got it said. No doubt the whole nation thrill ed. The term Is semantic. Richard Nixon, when run ning for the United States Senate in California, had Mrs. Douglas as his opponent, She was U. S. Representative at the time. There was nlso a communist-line representative from New York In the house then. Mr. Nixon In his cam paign against Helen Douglas used semantics in a geometri cal style. He argued that Mrs. Douglas voted the same way that Marcuntonlo the com-murilst-llno congressman did; therefore, as things equal to the same thing are equal to each other, Helen Douglas must be a communist. There we have semantics. By the same token it might be Im piled that as Richard Nixon drank to Peace' and Friend ship with the Russian hend man ho too Is a communist, Another case of semantics, Walter Recce, Gnllce rd., Merlin, Ore. Algerian Discussion De Gnullo and this ono Issue could stalemate Iho Issue for months. Ike Visit Sidelight In Tokyo, It Is roportod the Jispunvsu aucrut service learn ed shortly before President Elsenhower's scheduled visit to Tokyo Unit 40,000 ultra rightists were merging on Washington Report By WILLIAM CUBAN INFECTION Washington - While public attention Is fixed upon our domestic political drama, the 1 Info ctlon In Cuba Is reach ing tho point of Intolerable danger tu the free world In this hemis phere. This la not the Judgment nt m.r- K- Wlllum S. , . ,' " While ii'iuni M lavs- slonal "nntl-communlsls" who see Moscow agents every where. It Is the coolly consid ered conviction of elevated and truly liberal political leaders of South America with whom this correspondent hus talked. These leaders havo told our statu department plainly Hint Hdol Castro has permitted Cuba to become nothing less than a bridgehead for Soviet Communism within 100 miles of the United Stales. They have told the state depart ment plainly that Castro Is spending vast sums whether his own or Russian money they do not say -all through Latin America to destroy Washington's leadership In this hemisphere. And they havo suggested to the state department, polite ly, that the United States gov ernment has so far fulled lo explain the realities to the American people, of whom only a tiny minority hus any notion whatever of the facts of life in Cuba. THESE urgent representa tions explain. In part, why the state department has now at last publicly admitted that its soft line toward Castro is being abandoned. A more compelling reason for the chnngo, however, has been Congress itself. Congress has been many months ahead of the diplo mats in recognizing the true nature of the Castro menace. This has been due almost wholly to a single determined senator, George Smathcrs of Florida. The administration, for illustration, has now ac cepted what ll so long resist ed - the principle of reducing the large sugar subsidy we grant to Cuba. This small step, however -If and when actually taken -will be only the barest begin ning toward the development of a policy adequate to quar antine the Castro virus, e e IT remains clear that the United States can never af ford to take the slightest mil itary measure against Castro. World opinion would auto matically bellow "Imperial ism," even though Castro's open alliance with tho Soviet Union plainly indicates thai If anybody Is preparing ag gression, it Is surely not the "Yankee colossus," the United States. It is becoming equally clear, however, that the whole field of Latin-Amcrioun relations will be rc-examlncd by the new administration and new Congress arriving In January. Our ablest Latin - American Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred R. Brennan, C.I.A. PHONE SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE . AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. NATO; Tokyo lo be on hand for tha arrival, ready lo fight n pitch ed battle wllh the leftist Zengiikuron student organiza tion which opposed Hie visit. In Hie violence which might have followed, It wan feared the President's mid thn em peror's safely could nut bo giini'iuilccd. Thus, tho Inst minute cancellation. S. WHITE friends believe that In our own Interests (and admitted ly In their Interest, too) we must consider something Ilka a small Marshall plan for this hemisphere. Tho problem Is now reckon ed to bo similar In principle! lo the one wo faced In ICuropa Immediately after the war. Want mid chaos must be end ed lest communism uses want and chaos to entrench Itself. AS to the military side of tho problem, Senator Similiters' tireless recommen dations for a hemisphere se curity force under Iho organ. Izntlon of American stales are now making somo headway. They were once wholly Ignor ed. Now It ran be said Hint some men, both in the admin istration and In Congress, are showing a willingness at least to examine the proposnl, This Is a real gain. And so Is the fact that professional "liberals," who In the begin ning howled Castro up as a kind of secular snlnl, have ceased their syrupy eulogies of this bearded, this sensltlvo, this poetic lyncher. It Is even possible that for Iho first time In modern his tory the great complex of dlf. (lenity that Is Latin America may become Involved In the presidential cnmpulgn Itself ns nn Issue of consequence. It Is no longer possible lo look at this hemisphere ns a tow. priority foreign policy nren. 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