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History from the files ot The
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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.)
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