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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. TUESDAY. AUGUST 30, 1960 "Everyone In Southern Oregon Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St.. Ph SP 2-6141 HERB OREV Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bus Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mne Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor Iinni. I wiirmn.1, .tics RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor DALE EK1UKSUK. circulation mp Entered as second class matter at MeOIOra. Uregon. unnei nvt w. March 3. 1897 f....r'r-ti TTlTTrHl D1TTQ By Mail In Advance. Copy I0c Dally ana aunaay i yew Daily and Sunday 6 moi 8 00 Dallv and Sunday 3 mos 4.15 Sunday Only One year S4.J0 By Carrier In Advance Medlord Ashland. Central Point till Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv. er Talent and on motor routes. Dally and Sunday 1 year 118 00 ' Dally and Sunday 1 mo ISO Ca'rlcr and Dealers copy too AllJTermsJsJiJndyanca "Ofticlal Paper of City ol'Medford Official Paper of Jackson county United Press international Full Leased Wire U.P.I. Telephoto Newspicturea "TilEMDER OF AUDIT BUHEAfT" OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices In New York. Chicago. De. trolt. Son Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta. , VancouverBjC . NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION N ATI O N A I EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files ot The Mail Tribun. 10. 20. 30, 40 and 50 years 9- 10 YEARS AGO The Rogue valley pear in dustry is blaming the Euro pean cooperation administra tion and its financing policies for the reduction of European purchases of valley pear since WWII. The major portion of the valley's Bartletl pear harvest will be in by the end of the week, and the harvest of D'Anjous has already begun on a limited scale. 20 YEARS AGO Defending Champion Eddie Simmons fired a one-under-par 60 to lead qualifiers at the annual Southern Oregon Northern California golf tour nament at the Rogue Valley golf course today. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Con gress is considering the Trulh-in-Fabric' bill. It will stop all yarns made out of whole cloth." 30 YEARS AGO Walter Holmes, 11, who has been sitting in a tree on West Main St. came down after 777 hours aloft yesterday, and will start to school tomorrow. Donald Clark defeated Bob Hammond Jr., 3 and 2 Sunday to win the southern Oregon golf title. 40 YEARS AGO The Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce recommend eri after a special hearing yes terday that the county court house be moved from Jack sonville to Medford. Deer Season opens and the city is depleted of able-bodied men. ,50 YEARS AGO Aug. 30, 1910 (Tueiday) Telegrams from Eastern friends and relatives of Med fordltes are pouring into the local telegraph office by the hundreds; apparently Eastern U.S. newspapers have this city all but annihilated by the for est fires that have been burn ing hereabouts during the past week. The Medford Commerclrl club has raised in one day $5,000 of the necessary $10, 000 to help finance a proposed $100,000 Sister of Providence hospital here. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or fen eorreel It superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five ei six Is good. 1. Are black and white pri mary pigment colors? 2. Is helium or hydrogen the lighter gas? 3. The Hawaiian Islands were formerly named S Islands? 4. Who was the last Vice President to succeed to the office of President? 5. Name the English King who could neither speak or write English. 6. Which province in Ire land bears the same name as a man's overcoat? 7. Is Uncle Abncr a detec tive of fiction, a comic strip character, or an old time actor? - 8. Is the prairie dog a small, large, or medium-sized dog? j ; 9. Which State is nick-l named "Garden State 7 : 10. Who said, "No man is born an artist nor an angler"? ' Answers: 1. No. 2. Hydro gen. 3. Sandwich. 4. Harry S. Truman, 5. George I. 6. Ulster. 7. Detective of fiction. 8. No. A ground squirrel. 9. New Jer ley. 10. fiaak Walton. 1 The Uses of Government What is government? Is it a necessary evil, to be tolerated uneasily, feared, and kept as small as possible? Or is it, as one writer put it recently, " a use ful instrument by which elected representatives can wisely manage the public's business"? This question is pretty basic, and probably more than any other is the dividing line between the "liberal" and the "conservative." WE HESITATE to use those words, for they jjr.o wifVi mamr rlifftoronf rr.Danir.fra Ma 1 VUUVU II 1VII I11UJIJF V'l VI lllbUlllllgU whatever meanings the user (or listener) wishes to place on them. In this regard, they semantically-charged words words which have come to have connotations to some people, and connotations which are not in the dictionary. socialism is such a word. And it is awfully easy for a "conservative" to throw charges of "socialism" at those who be lieve that government IS a "useful instrument" for the management of the public's business. SOCIALISM, by definition, is the public own- tribution. There may be a few advocate- such a theory United States, but they between. So, when the conservative uses the word to describe the political philosophy of those who believe that government is a useful tool, and should be used as such, and misleading. They are also a little less than completely honest. E.A. And the Loss of Freedom The "conservative," in his fear of govern ment as such, cites such horrible examples as Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and other totali tarian governments. True these governments were and are hor rible examples. But to say that all goverment is evil because of these examples is a little like say ing that all men are criminals because a few men are. Democracy is an experiment in government, and a young one at that, judged in the whole context of history. We cannot yet say that it is an unqualified success. But we should not cut our selves off from the hope of success by the fears of those who oppose change simply because if is change. THE conservative, in arguing against current liberal and experimental trends in govern ment, will unfailingly cite the "loss of freedom" which we have suffered in recent years, specific ally since the beginning of the New Deal. All right. That's fair enough. But it's also fair enough to ask for examples of what freedoms we have lost as a result of the growth of the "welfare state." One "freedom" which all will agree has been lost is the ability to spend ALL of our money just wc we'd like. A pretty sizeable chunk of it is taken by taxes. DUT aside from paying the bill for the services of government (the biggest of which is the national defense, by the way), just what free doms have been lost to us? The freedom to cheat your neighbor through shady stock market manipulations? The freedom to starve to death in old age? The freedom to live in sub-standard housing? The freedom to go hungry when you lose your job? The freedom to grow up without a decent education? If these are the "freedoms" which have been lost, good riddance! A ND if it is other freedoms which the com "plainers are sorry to have lost, what are they? The beauty of alleging the "loss of freedom" is that you seldom have to be specific. And we're still waiting to hear what they are. To the contrary, in our view true freedom has advanced right along with the expansion of the state's attention to the welfare of its citizens. Certainly the elderly couple, now managing to "get by" on social security, are far freer today than they would have been 25 years ago when they had no choice but to starve or accept alms. THE same is true in a dozen other fields. When the instrumentality of government is used to protect its people from crime, from dis ease, from destitution, from chicanery, from for eign enemies, it is fulfilling its highest purpose. And, up to this point, the American form of government has been able to make significant advances in all these fields without damage to tne basic, individual freedom of men. What's so wrong about that? And what freedom have vou lost, lately? E.A. Election is a time for many persons to decide whether to be loyal to prejudices. Sherman County Journal. are like a lot of other people left who still for employment in the are indeed few and far they are both inaccurate their thinking or their Dennis the 'Loot:, Mom dad's cookm' a NfocB 0fiAKfAsr WITHOUT PLUeeiN' IN A SINGLC WING I Matter of Fact PROBLEM FOR NIXON Washington - In the South ern states, the election is vis ibly beginning to produce an outburst of anti-Catholicism on the scale of 1928. If the signs do not mislead, the new attack on the Roman Catholic church will make Sen. John F. Ken nedy's experi- joskfh alsop ence In the West Virginia primary look like an inter-faith tea party. These are unpleasant facts to have to report, and they are also facts that many worthy citizens will wish to shove under the nearest rug. Yet they arc facts, nonethe less. Consider, for example, the following excerpts from a recent sermon by the Rev. Dr. W. A. Criswell, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas. "Roman Catholicism is not only a religion, it is a politi cal tyranny. (It is) a political system that, like an octopus, covers the entire world and threatens those basic free doms ... for which our fore fathers died. ... If you have ever seen the symbol of the Pope of Rome, he has two keys; one is the key of re ligious supremacy and the other is the key of sovereign political power. He claims to posses both .... (Even) if Kennedy wins with strong em phasis on the separation of church and state, then the door is open for another Rom an Catholic later on who gives the Pope . . , recogni tion of one church above all others in America. Then re ligious liberty has also died in America ... as it has died wherever the Roman Catholic hierarchy has the ablcness and power to shut it down and destroy it in death." D R. CRISWELL had a lot more to say about the Pope and "the Roman Catho lic from Massachusetts," as he called Sen. Kennedy; but the foregoing is enough to give the general tone. Further more, as the name of Dr. Criswell's church indicates, he is no backwoods ranter. He is the pastor of one of the largest and most prosperous congregations in Dallas. The openness and the out ward respectability are the features that differentiate the anti-Catholic agitation that is now beginning in the South from the tide of religious prejudice that Kennedy had to breast in West Virginia. As everyone knows, anti-Catholic feeling played an important role in the West Virginia primary. But in West Virginia, there were no signs that this feeling was even locally or ganized, and it was not en couraged, either, by commu nity lenders of the character of Dr. Criswell. According to Dr. Criswell's staff, "hundreds of thousands of copies" of his sermon have already been i sent out at the request of "preachers, busi ness groups and other peo ple" for circulation in the south. Dr. Criswell is by no means a lonely crusader, cither. Dr. Ramsey Pollard, pastor of the Bellevue Baptist Church of Memphis, and President of the Southern Baptist Convention, has given his public approval to minist ers who wish to preach as Dr. Criswell preached. Inter viewed by telephone. Dr. Pollard explained: "Senator Kennedy has a perfect right to believe as he chooses; but the Roman Catho lic church is more than a re ligion. It is a political state. 1 protest against the Roman Catholic church's bigotry and persecution. I am against Ken nedy because he represents the Roman Catholic church. I have said this outside the Menace . jrnwa i. .-law Ts- rWil By Joseph Alsop pulpit, and I shall say it in the pulpit." QJUCH expressions from in- dividual clergymen like Drs. Pollard and Criswell are not the end of the story, how over. Circles of Protestant ministers, jointly vowed to make the anti-Catholic fight together, are forming in a good many localities. One such, comprising about 25 preachers, has been formed in the last week, for instance, in the small town of Danville, Va. The leader, the Rev. Mr. Carey Moser, also interviewed by telephone, said that be sides preaching, the members of his group would "circulate literature, but not that Knights of Columbus oath; they only used that down in North Carolina." In the same manner, cer tain Methodist clergymen are reported to be organizing on a state-wide basis in South Carolina, A clergymen's circle like Mr. Moser's has been formed in Dallas, though not by Dr. Criswell. A fairly sleazy, wholly unauthorized Republican lame duck is cir culating through Texas, try ing to stir up more preachers, and somewhat naively ex plaining that he hopes he will eventually get a State Depart ment job. Such is the general charac ter of the problem for Vice President Richard M. Nixon that is rapidly taking shape in the South. Nixon has just issued a gen eral directive forbidding all his campaign workers even to discuss the so-called religious issue. He has nothing what ever to do with the anti-Catholic agitation that is now growing stronger by the day. But since he is the intended although wholly involuntary beneficiary of this agitation, it still constitutes a problem for Nixon which will be ex amined in another report, (c) 1960. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eve to clarification and condensation Letters submitted fnr mihltm. Uon must not exceed 400 words The Irish To the Editor: Recently, a news commentator was at tempting to explain the tran sition of the Irish statesmen of today, with the "shanty" Irish, to the "lace curtain" Irish. and to what the Harvard stu dents call the "cut glass" Irish. Like all races, the Irish race has been in transition, from their early pagan Druid ways, subject to the repeated raids by the Norsemen and other Scandinavian pirates; to the Anglo-Norman invasion; to the inhuman suffering of the English, with their "pitch caps." Nevertheless, the sons of Ireland have repeatedly serv ed other nations as prime min isters, judges of supreme courts and generals of armies. Today, 500 Irish soldiers are in the Congo, as a part of United Nations armed forces, for peace. The Irish owe much to the Scotch and the Presbyterians. According to a history of the Irish race, Ireland was once known as the "Isle of Scotia." and the inhabitants were called "Scots"; while Scotland was known as the "Isle of Elba," and the inhab itants were called "Picts." In the 6th Century the "Scots" of Northern Scotia (Ireland) invaded and con quered the "Pictdom," and proclaimed the Isle as "Scot land." St. Patrick was a Scotch man, according to Catholic Encyclopedia; the first pesi- dent of the Republic ofTErte Red China Votes; Afro-Asian Strength Still Grows By K. C. THALER London (UPD - Red China is busily collecting friends among the newly emerging nations of the African contin ent. For months past Peiping has courted African leaders in outright rivalry with Soviet diplomatic approaches to the new nations. Lately, the Chinese strategy has gained momentum cul minating in a decision even to send a government observer to the important African lead ers' gathering in Leopoldville in the Congo. West Warns About Political Hazard: Friendly Handshake By PICK WEST Washington (UPD The Na tional Geographic Society re cently published an essay on the origin of the friendly handshake with which I wish to take friendly issue. According to the Geogra phic, the cus tom probably began in an- Dick west eieni limes when people would extend the right hand to show they held no weapons. I hesitate to quarrel with so learned an. organization, but this explanation seems to overlook the fact that the handshake is itself a sort of a weapon. In the wrong hands, the handshake can be almost as dangerous as tne nana grenade. . For expert testimony on this point, I can refer you to Vice President Richard M. Nixon, whose fingerbones must still be aching from a gripping experience in his of fice Monday. Mine certainly are. The occasion was the forma tion of a Dick Nixon sports committee, some members of which called on the vice presi dent to wish him well in the presidential race. I was on Hand (an expres sion I use advisedly) to wit ness the event and made the mistake of introducing myself to the committee chairman, Bob Rynolds of Los Angeles. I did not realize until I felt my knuckles being crushed that this was the same Bob Reynolds who was a two-time (Ireland) in 1938, was the son of a Presbyterian minister, a Presbyterian himself, and Thirty-third degree Mason - Sir Douglas Hyde; and the first Premier, in 1938, was born of a Spanish immigrant father from Cuba, in 1882 at Brooklyn, N.Y., and christen ed Eamon de Valera. The greatest and most hand some Lord Mayor Ireland s capital city of Dublin ever had was the famous Jewish Lord Mayor, Robert Briscoe (1958- 59), not forgetting that Rome Italy, had a Jewish Lord Mayor from 1904 to 1910. A Presbyterian minister and Catholic priest were co- founders of the University of Michigan in 1817; namely, the Rev. John Monteith and Father Gabriel Richard. Fa ther Richard is the only priest to serve in the United States Congress (1823-25). An "atheist," some one has said, is a person who can watch a Notre Dame vs. Sou thern Methodist football game, and doesn't care which team wins. "God is good to the Irish, but no one else: not even the Irish." (O'Malley Epigram.) Stephen E. Gillis White City, Ore. Job and Satan To the Editor: They say there is no Devil, there is no Satan. If this be so how do we account for the happenings to Job? For it is written that the Lord said to Satan "Where have you been?" Satan said "To and fro and up and down the earth." Meaning that he could tempt men with evil do ings and they would do his will, and they did. And the Lord said unto Satan, "Hast thou considered my servant Job. that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one that feareth God, and cscheweth evil? And still he holdeth fast his integ rity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause." And Sa tan answered the Lord, and said, "Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face." And the Lord said unto Satan, "Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life." All of Job's wealth was taken from him, his children killed, his wife and friends turned on him and called him a liar and a hypocrite toward God, he was taken with sick Courting Ostensibly designed to back the Africans against so-called "colonialists" and "imperial ists", the Peiping strategy has a deeper meaning. Out for UN Votes Red China is out to gain the votes of the new nations in the United Nations General Assembly, and the signs are she is succeeding. The United States, with considerable support from its allies and friends in the Unit ed Nations, has been able to keep Red China out of the world organization thus far. A majority has so far also All-American football player at Stanford University. He played, I can assure you, tackle. When I had retrieved my pulverized paw, Reynolds in troduced me to another com mittee member. Although the pain was blinding, I was able to identify him as Frank Gi- ford, a professional football star. Gifford is known, for good reason, as a clutch" player. I was counting my fingers to make certain I had not been dismembered when in walked Harmon Killebrew and Jim Lemon, two sluggers on the Washington baseball team who evidently mistook my hand for a bat handle Greet Vice President At this point, the entire troupe trooped into Nixon's office and began shaking hands with the vice president, I was surprised that the Secret Service, which has charge of protecting him, didn t stop it. Nixon, however, absorbed the manual mauling manfully smiling all the while. I gave him credit for a great display of stoicism. As I was leaving, I paused to shake hands with a you..g woman, thinking that her touch might be soothing to my throbbing fist. She, alas, turned out to be Wiffi Smith, a champion golfer. I can't tell you much about the committee's political plans because, being temporarily disabled, I couldn't take notes, But I can give you a word of advice. If you happen to meet them on the campaign trail this fall, look out for Wiffrs overlap ping grip. ness until his body stank and he prayed God that he could die. But he held fast to his faith and God made known unto him some of his Glory and wonderful works. And Job said, "I see that all the good about me is like filthy rags in Thy sight." And the Lord had mercy on Job and gave him double that what he had before and he lived to see four generations. And the reason that few men ever suffer the things that Job did is that Satan need not apply that much effort to gain his ends with most men. As Vice President Nixon said, "I am not concerned whether we be with God, but that God be with us." God has always been with us but we have not been with him. I search my heart and find this is true, I'm no exception. T. M. Sletten Route 1, Box 224 Rogue River, Ore. Not Many Rocks To the Editor: You sure have an abundant crop of gifted preachers that must have gotten their documents out of slot machines. Each knows all the routes to two places, and are caught in such a stream of traffic that they are ever so apt to be swept in the wrong lane. "They that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundations of the world; To him that overcometh will I give a white stone and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth, sav ing he that receiveth it." I don't see many running around with rocks in their I hands and few of the others I with any marbles either. Amos Keeto 148 West 10th st. Medford American vs. American To the Editor: On the sub ject which will not down, re ligion in politics, it is well to bear in mind that the Dem ocratic party is meeting the issue head-on for the second time; which proves that it is truly a democratic party. ! The Republican leadership,, much to its credit, is trying to muffle the issue of religion, but forces are at work to keep j it before the voting public until election day. This is deplorable. It arrays American against American at j a crucial time in world his- tory, when' we shoum be ' New Nations for UN blocked the annual move from Red China's friends to have the question of her ad mission to the U. N. placed on the agenda. The signs are that Peiping is now quietly gathering fresh votes in the assembly, en couraged by the changing pat tern of the United Nations. Sixteen more, nations are expected to join the United Nations organization this year, bringing the total to 98, or nearly double the initial membership of 15 years ago. Nearly all the newcomers are Africans, and there are more to come. The change of character and even more in voting strength of the world organi Washington Report By WILLIAM Washington - Amid a series of gloomy private advices coming up from the South to party leaders, a decision has been made to keep the Dem ocratic presi dential cam paign in Dixie strictly a thing apart. The effort lh.r. iiMll V.A Whit ' d e li b e rately and wholly different, in tone and in human terms, from what will be attempted all over the rest of the country. Elsewhere, Senators John Kennedy and Lyndon John son will run a tough, aggres sive race, asking no slightest quarter from the Nixon-Lodge Republican ticket and offer ing none. But inside the South the keynote will be expressed in these terms: "Take it easy . . . don't crowd anybody . . . sell it soft." Outside the South, Kennedy is bypassing or at least sup plementing the old-line regu lar Democratic organizations in many states and cities. In side the South, the campaign will be geared 100 per cent into the traditional organiza tions of the established south ern leaders - governors, sena tors, legislators, sheriffs, and so on. , TOOTHING will be done on ' behalf of the Democratic campaign in any southern state until it has been "clear ed" by that state's Democratic chieftains. No new "Kennedy Johnson committees," for ex ample, from outside these hierarchical ranks will either be set up or allowed to func tion. This strategic approach is largely the work of Sen. George Smathers of Florida, who has been chosen by Ken nedy and Johnson as field marshal for the southern and border states as well. Smath ers' objective, speaking realis tically, is not the impossible one of holding every single united against the threat of Communism. Surely no one would want to be guilty of giving comfort to the enemy. David Frisch P.O. Box 292 White City, Ore. He Passes To the Editor: Mr. Marshall H. Waggoner's letter, "Come Again Brother," uses too many words to say so little. He says he knows that 2 times 2 equals 4. Well good for you brother. You can now pass on to the second grade. William Helpher c'o Addie D. Grain, Route 2, Box 312-A Gold Hill, Ore. Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance-Fred Brennan Fred R. Brennan, C.I.A. PHONE SP 3-7343 MEDFORD IIISURAIICE Agency 27 North Holly Street zation has been startling. When the United Nations assembly first met in 1946 the Americas accounted for 43 per cent of voting strength. : Today their combined vote is below one-quarter of the total. The Afro-Asian bloc In turn will command a total of some 40 per cent of the total U.N. assembly vote this year, and up to half the total in the near future, though the bloc is not necessarily unanimous on all major policy issues. The West European and North American nations must er only a total of 19 votes, the Communists 10, including Yugoslavia. S. WHITE one of those states. It is, ra ther, to keep Republican in roads to the irreducible mini mum. Because he could not do so, he does not seriously attempt to hide the fact that the Dem ocrats are deeply frightened about the South. Confidential estimates from that area vary in detail and emphasis. They all, however, include the som ber word "trouble." "We are in real trouble now," some run. "We are ex pecting real trouble," run the others. . THE so-called "Catholic Is sue" - that Kennedy is a member of the Catholic faith -is endlessly repeated in these messages. Another factor men tioned again and again is the Democratic convention's markedly liberal platform, which already has been repu diated by nearly every im portant Democratic politician in the South-including Smath ers himself. Operation Dixie, therefore, will proceed on this pattern: national Democratic party speakers will not go into tha South without Smathers' prior agreement. No party handbill, no party pamphlet, will be circulated without his knowl edge and concurrence. No ef fort whatever will be made to defend the Democratic con vention platform. Rather, the purpose will be to ignore that platform when ever it is possible. Wherever there are overpowering local demands that it be discussed, the Southern Democratic cam paign reply will be this: The) Southern leaders never accept ed that platform. Instead, they would point out that any convention can write a plat form but no convention can make any platform into law. Only Congress can do that and the South, no matter what happens in November, will still have power in Congress. , THIS doesn't mean that Ken niHw nr .Tnhnenn will hapl up an inch on the platform. It only means that the South ern campaign will frankly leave Kennedy and Johnson on this point. The heart of the Smathers plan, in short, contemplates these things: 1. Policy of noninterference in the South by Northern Democrats. 2. A minimum of talk about who is the Democratic presi dential candidate and a maxi mum of talk about the South'S old allegiance to the Demo4 cratic party as a collective institution. 3. No harsh attacks on bolt ers or potential bolters, on the theory that the more such people are pushed, the more they will broaden the bolt by soliciting other resentful Dem ocrats. (Copyright, 1SE0, By United' Feature Syndicate, Inc.) FOR PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE SERVICE CALL A CERTIFIED INSURANCE AGENT "Certified Insurance Agent" is a designation conferred by the Oregon Association of Indepen dent Insurance Agents to de note professional standing in the business. Call a "C.I.A." Medford has five such Profes sional Insurance Agents.