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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6. I960 4 MEDFORD &TRIBUNI "Evuryune 10 Southern Oregon . Ren The Mitt Tribune" Published Dilly except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 NorUiFlr JU Pll 8P 2-14t ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bui Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng Editol EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMATeleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Wttor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr An' Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter Mcdford. Oregon, under Act 01 March 3. tB97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Uy Mall - In Advance. Copy lOo Dilly and Sunday-I year 15 00 Dally and Sunday moa son Dailv and Sunday 3 mos 4.23 Sunday Only-One vear $4.20 By Cairier-In M'"S0f-rMi'i Ashland Centra Point E agle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Mill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Rlv er Talent and on motor '' Daily and Sunday vear ! 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Medford's city water de partment is undertaking stud ies to determine the advis ability and feasibility of add ing flouride to the city's drink ing water. 20 YEARS AGO Herb Moore, deputy sheriff, has denied he is an aspirant for the Dosition of postmaster at Ashland. He said, Instead, (l,ni ho will he an annlicant only if the present postmaster vnrnlpa hla nost. From Artliur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pol" column: "uon grcss will be called upon to consider a 'selective immigra tion' bill. There may be some need also for a selective de portation bill." 30 YEARS AGO A "monster eagle" that has roosted on Roxy Anne peak for many years was killed yesterday. Due to the financial straits of some persons, local stores are displaying "practical" Christmas gifts. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 6. 1920 (Wednesday) Coach Otto Klum and the Blnck Tornado football team will be guests at a victory banquet tonight. Rain, sunshine, sleet, snow and a 30-mlle-an-hour wind have all been seen by Med- ford residents during the past week. 50 YEARS AGO Dec. 6, 1910 (Tuesday) Samuel Rosenberg, Seattle, has purchased the Bear Creek Orchards from John D. Olwell for $300,000, which is $1,200 an acre. The Rogue River Electric company has asked the city of Mcdford to advance them the money to purchase and In stall 47 new arc street lights In the city. The city council is expected to reject the re quest. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine si fen cornet Is lupatler: seven or eight ii xcellenti flva as lis it good. 1. What state is partly di vided by Chesapeake bay? 2, In what country is the city of Hanoi? 3. An electric motor will not operate in a vacuum; true or false? 4. When you order a dinner in a restaurant, by the dinner are you orderln'g table d'hote or a la carte? 5. What color shirts were worn by Hitler's original fol lowers? 6. Name the cjpi'ol of Ar kansas. 7. A contest in which two teams try to spell words cor rectly is called a spelling ? 8. In which European city is the Picadilly Circus? 0. Spain is bounded on the west by the Atlantic ocean and what country? 10. "The Flying Dutchman" opera was composed by whom? Answers: i, Maryland, 2. Indo China. 3. False. 4. Table d hole. 5, Brown shirts. 8. Lit 11 Rock. 7. Bee. I. London, England, 9. Portugal. 10. Rich ard Wagner. On Higher Education In common with some three-score other resi dents of the Pacific Northwest, we recently com pleted an intensive course of study on higher edu cation and its relationships with the federal gov ernment. First there was a textbook a stout volume crammed with information on the subject. Next there was a three-day series of discussions. Finally there was a half-day meeting at which a report and summation of the discussions was gone over, word by word, and hammered into a shape acceptable to all, or almost all. TTHE first thing we learned was the fact that the federal government started giv'ing aid to higher education in 1789 the year the constitu tion was adopted. And it has been doing so ever since. The present question, thus, is not "Should the federal government aid higher education?" but rattier, "Snoum tne teuerai government continue and expand its aid to higher education It is, we discovered, ramifications and facets, tremely general way, cannot be answered yes or "no." The answers tend to become ones of degree and kind, with WE believe that the final summation of the ormfprenno ua nrtpnrlprl last, wpek find is a good one, in general wide public attention. Meanwhile, we would like to record a few of the impressions we ings and discussions. One of the strongest was the satisfying feel iner that there are a lot of highly intelligent, sin cerely dedicated people concerned with higher lems busy people, mostly, who were willing to , 1 n 1 . . , ,1 f 1. I I L a ! tane iour days out or tneir scneauies u conuiu- ute their own thoughts A NOTHER impression was of the democratic "process itself. In this context, by this we mean people of widely differing political and economic philosophies, sitting down guing out their differences, finally arriving at a general overall consensus. The president of a big department store sat across the table irom a tanned rancner irom eastern Washington, and as the days wore on their fundamental disagreements were whittled away as their mutual respect grew. Down the table a tew and conservative businessman, while directly across from him was a liberal member of the po litical science faculty of a major university. A HIGH educational administrative official sat next to a veteran newspaper writer ; a college president sat near an attorney; a businessman technician, president of his own company, sat next to the editor of a And so it went. There were disagreements aplenty. But the exchanges, while sometimes a bit heated, were courteous and respectful, and each man knew that all the others were there in the sincere belief that this business of higher education in America is vitally important to the nation, and that it is going to take the best efforts of a lot of people to do the job that needs TTHERE was general agreement as to the impor- tance of an expansion of hitrher education. not only because of the of students now beginning to reach college age, but also because of the them who will seek education beyond the high school level. Education in the sciences and technologies of today's space age is needed, in part because of our position of leadership of the free world in the cold war with communist imperialism, and in part for the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. In addition, broadly available higher educa tion of high quality is important for the develop- ment of leaders in all fields, and for the develop ment oi rollowers in portant citizens who keep commerce, government, and education turning. FINALLY, and in the most important, a general high level of edu cation for all who can benefit thereby is increas ingly vital in a world which is increasingly com plex and interdependent. In America, where the people are sovereign and make the ultimate political decisions, we must have citizens who telligent solutions to the today; who have sulncient background to make sound decisions; and whose understandine and interest extend beyond the mundane affairs of the moment and into the future of the state, the nation, and mankind. The conferees were agreed on these objec tives; it was on how to provide the needed facili ties and personnel that disagreements arose. THE role of the federal government in aiding higher education, long established m legality, in tradition, and in public policy, must change and broaden if this challenge is to be met. There are hazards in this. And some of the people with the most urgent sense of the needs of education were those of those potential hazards. The conference wrote no "blue print" as to how the problems could be solved, but they did arrive at a general consensus, which will be pub lished here tomorrow. E. A. a question with many and, except in an ex many qualifications. terms, and deserving of gained during the meet in the Northwest who are education and its prob and beliefs. in good faith, and ar seats was a successrul weekly newspaper. doing. vastly increased number increased proportion of all tields the highly im the wheels of industry, service functions, science final analysis perhaps the can and do seek for in pressing problems of with the most acute sense Dennis the - - W I 'I'm not feeun'so hot. Could i just have my pie 'n ice cream an' go to bed ? 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 ail 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. History and the South To the Editor: In the re cent editorial "We Might Be Cave Men the author ojfers the idea that because of in ferior schools in New Orleans there exist race riots. I find this an indefensible argument. New York has the highest rated educational system in the United States, yet race riots are far from being un common there. He goes on to say, "If the New Orleans schools taught history as it is there would be no flaunting of a pro-slav ery flag." By this he makes obvious his own ignorance. To assume that all who fought for the South under the Con federate flag were pro-slav ery is as erroneous as assum ing that all who fought with Castro are anti-American. Therefore to assume the Con federate flag is a pro-slavery emblem is an invalid assump tion, I think the author of the article is employing the same sorl of ignorance he supposed ly deplores by identifying the presence of a Confederate flag as any indication of current pro-slavery sentiment. A basic premise of Southern protesta tion in the 1860's was State Rights. It was for states rights, not slavery, that many were rallying. Today, there is a constant fear that the federal govern ment is encroaching upon the power of the stales, a trend toward socialism. This is clear ly shown by the government stepping into education, a field specifically delegated to the states in the United States Constitution. What's next? Socialized medicine? Then what? Perhaps the people of New Orleans were decrying the socialistic trends of the fed eral government with slate's rights banners. Certainly no one would be so naive as to think they are advocating slavery. It is granted that the ac tions of the people of New Orleans are nothing to be proud of, but neither are the actions of the people of Cicero, or Chicago, or Detroit in simi lar situations. (People who have very fine schools at their disposal I might add.) Judging the population of New Or leans, a city of 600,000, by the actions of a few people is not very sound reasoning. I do not condone what lias taken place in New Orleans any more than the next American, however, I feel an injustice has been done the people of the South, the peo ple of New Orleans, and the people who read the article, since they were subjected to trite, groundless assertions, loaded language, and an irra tional argument. J. M., (Name on file) University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore. Overiinselfication To the Editor: Would it not be entirely appropriate for us all to encourage each local merchant to set aside a cer tain portion of window dis play or other advertising space for conveying, or at least keeping alive, something of the real spiritual message of the first Christmas? From its beginning, all his tory converged on the solstice of the first Christmas. The boundless joy emanating from the celebration of this feast centers around the manifesta tion that man could once again begin to share in that life of the supernatural order (the denial of which presup poses the absurdity that life has no meaning). The ovcrtlnselfication re- Menace suiting from the extreme com mercialism of today, succeeds in distracting our minds from the true meaning of Christ mas. Only by concentrating on the true message brought by Christmas can we enjoy a deep and everlasting joy, rather than the commercial and discouragingly transient joy that is so thoroughly "dissipated" as the "Holiday Season" ends. Many social evils increase in proportion to the increase of the materialistic approach to the meaning of Christmas (overcommercialism lends greatly to this desertion of moral purpose) whereas, when our minds are turned toward the Central Figure of all his tory, these same social evils have a remarkable tendency to vanish, leaving unburdened consciences and skeptical minds to indulge in a munifi cient love that grasps tightly the hungry and aching human heart, filling it with unspeak able delight, ever increasing its pounding, pulsating rhythm until the whole being reverberates with a never ending breathlessness! Christian Family Movement by Robert J. Howard 828B West 14th si. Mcdford Early Season's Greetings To the Editor: Here's wish ing you a Happy-Fourth o' Ju New Year, for I won't be scribbling much, if any, the rest of this year, for I am even more busy than that nice ol' polecat who bowed his head and said "Lei us spray." This is a timely season for us to do some earnest praying for if my guess is right, our enemies must be happy about the word-wars going on within our country's once proud bor ders between fast-color darkies and unchristian off- color whites, between trained elephants who are trying to push people's pet donkeys off the earth and so on-and on. As we pray let us thank God that we aren't worse off than we are, we could be, you Know. I want to remind you if you want a beautiful memory of this season to stay in sight ever so long, buy your tree with roots on. If well protect- ed from air you can keep it above ground for over a week, then set it in the background of your home. Not too close to the house. If you rent, plant it anyway Be like Johnny Appleseed who planted for others. Since I joined the Fifty Plus club and the Senior Citizens' Orchestra I have learned a "heap" about doing for others. It makes all work seem like a very pleasant game. How about a small Colorado blue spruce or an incense cedar? The tree nurseries must have them. Better purchase a new ac count book, too. There are so many new year resolutions wc ve got to jot down to erase later. Pearl F. Spacliman, P. O. Box 33, Jacksonville, Ore. Swan Scofflaws To the Editor: There ap pears to be some speculative comment concerning the kill ing of the rigidly protected swan3 that come to sanctuary along the quiet and isolated reaches of Rogue River. And it is not all local, for word seems to be filtering among returning duck-hunters from the south Klamath Lake wild fowl gathering waters of big white waveies shot down there. Like the two duck shooters near the California line: One heard the heavy beat Red Threat in Latin Worse Before It Gets Better, Is By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst A safe prcdiction'for 1961 is that in Latin America things will get worse before they get better. The reasons are both short and long-term. Out of the just - conclud ed and closely guarded sum mit meeting of world Com munist lead ers in Moscow came reports thatLatin hiiilnewsom American Reds had lined up with Red China in advocating the vio lent overthrow of govern ments and invitations to revolt. Washington Report By WILLIAM "BIG Q" . Washington-With immense care the coming Kennedy ad ministration is preparing to meet head-on early in the new year the gravest prob lem confront ing the allies west. The "Big Q" - the great question - is thic- Whpfhpr William (. .. whit to arm tn e West's indispensable military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with a common pool of atomic weap ons under common control of all the NATO countries. The ultimate decisions have, of course, not yet been made. But already weighty advice if being given by asso ciates to President-elect Ken nedy for taking the plunge and genuinely sharing the weapon with the people who must share the dying if the ultimate disaster of war with the Russians should come. Advice wholly to the con trary is being offered to Mr. Kennedy, or at any rate shortly will be offered, WHEN, after his inaugura tion Jan. 20. he does make the final and lonely presiden tial determination, it will be a determination hardly less fateful than that made by President Harry S. Truman to use the first atomic bombs over Japan. Oversimplified a bit for the sake of brevity, the basic situation is this: NATO is the one shield of true and actual military power, the one shield of iron reality, of the free world. But of NATO's 15 member na tions only two, the United Stales and Britain, are truly strong atomically, each in its own right. France has explod ed two weapons, but has a long way to go - perhaps even 10 years - to become a capi tal atomic power, acting on its own. The atomic weapons now available to the NATO com manders are the physical pos sessions of, and he under the strict control of, the United States alone. Under our laws, severe barriers are placed upon handing over any of our atomic weapons to ai.y other nation or group. Speaking broadly, 15 nations are pledg ed to fight all for one and one for all; but only one of those nations has the right to say when and how the big weapon of wings ovt.head, jerked his shooting-iron for a quick shot upward. His companion, not to be outdone in whatever was be ing shot at, swung for a quick on. Luckily, only one of the big black-billed birds came tumbling earthward with wild cries of distress. Unfortunately, no state po lice or game-warden was wit ness to the illegal shooting as the killers scampered away from the dying swan. Just why ordinarily decent men will bring disgrace on the hunting fraternity, will never be fully explained. But it might be well to warn such scofflaws that the killing of a swan brings a fine of a min imum $25 with 30 days, or a maximum of six months in the county jail and $500 fine, depending on the judgment of the official empowered to levy same.. F. J.Clifford, Route 2, Box 200F, Central Point, Ore. Broke To the Editor: A recent headline in the Mail Tribune says: "Forty million to be spent on new freeway in the Rogue River Valley." In 1912. ven Aye vas driv ing d e r old Brushvagen around 'or Rogue walley. Yackson county spent $44.95 taking some uf der vashboards out of her Siskiyous and dor cotton pickin' county vent broke. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. This is identical to the line adopted by Cuban Finance Minister Ernesto (Che) Gue varra in his visit to Red China which was climaxed by an nouncement of a $60 million Chinese loan to Fidel Castro's Communist controlled Hav ana government. The conclusion must be that Cuba and Red China not only see eye to eye but also that in 1961 Castro's most export able product in the western hemisphere will be revolu tion. Economic Problems Militarily, the United States already has taken steps to blockade this type of Cuban export, but there are other factors more difficult to counter. Chief of these is the imbal- S. WHITE may be used. FRANCE, the geographic heart of NATO, likes this not at all. And there is rising resentment among some in Britain at the American "monopoly" of certain weap ons, which, in case of war, would after all be fired from British soil, among other places. Now some earnestly believe that any sharing of the atomic weapon would only be to spread the possibility of nu clear holocaust. Others, of whom this correspondent is one, believe we must now fish or cut bait. We must con sent to give NATO a collec tive atomic capability, or ad mit that we are preparing to let NATO go down the drain. And if we are going to give NATO atomic weapons for use under its common civilian authority, a great congres sional battle is sure to come over the new laws that will be required. For these reasons arming NATO will be resist ed in Congress: pride in our exclusive possession; fear of the intentions and sense of re sponsibility of this or that allied nation. BUT how long can you ex pect to keep effective al lies if you go on telling them that they will be allowed to carry the pistol while big daddy alone will carry the machine gun - having in mind that most of them simply can not make a machine gun on their own? Politically, the outlook is plainly this: the sooner Mr. Kennedy grasps the nettle the less likely it is to sting him overmuch. Profound legisla tive changes such as this, though at no time easy, will be the harder to bring off the longer he has been in office. The hour to move, there fore, will be while the nettle is still small and the rose of his popularity as a new Presi dent is in full bloom. (Copyright, 19G0, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK As this is written, the pop ular vote for President in 32 of our 50 states has been of ficially counted and certified. In the remaining IS states, completion and certification of the vote is near. The dis patch containing this informa tion adds that only a relative handful of votes remains to be officially counted and cer tified. With approximately 68 mil lion votes officially counted and certified, Kennedy's lead is just under 141,000. TTERE'S a thought: " You may have wondered at times how important, in a big election, let's say a NATION AL election, your single vote can be. Maybe you're busy. Maybe you're tired. You've had a hard day. The polls are due to close in just a few min utes. Is it worth while for you to rush down and vote? LET'S put it this way: At the moment of writing this, I'm unable to find ex actly how many voting pre cincts there were in the United States on the 8th day of November, 1961. But it was in the neighborhood of 160,000. Which is to say: If just ONE MORE VOTER in each precinct in the Unit ed States of America had vot ed for Nixon, he would have won the POPULAR vote for President. You see Your vote IS important. It is conceivable-although, of course, highly improbable -that your single vote might determine who would be the winner of the popular vote for President of the United States. America Due To Get ance of Latin American econ omies. A good example is Venezu ela, where President Romulo Betancourt apparently has succeeded in quelling the umpteenth attempt to over throw his government. On the hillsides surround ing Caracas and in the lush country-side away from the capital's gleaming skyscrap ers and the swimming pools of luxurious tourist hotels, the majority of Venezuela's population live in poverty and illiteracy. These people are the nat ural targets of the Castro agi tators and the Communists. The Betancourt govern ment, dedicated to preserva tion of democracy, is trying for a more equitable distribu tion of Venezuela's great nat ural wealth and has launched a massive educaion program. Experience Heeded Yet, before the child can run he first must learn to walk. Matter of Fact bv j0,ePh ais0P THE NEED FOR SOMEONE Paris - If President-elect Kennedy does not intend to devalue the dollar, as one may be certain, he hardly needs to name his Sec retary of the Treasury without much further delay. He also needs to name ST - -rSTJ I the right kind hi NwajC-f o f Secretary I 'wpj of the Treas- ' ury. The ap joseph Aisop pointmcnt o f the most frequently mention ed candidate, Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, "would half solve the prob lem there and then," accord ing to one of the highest French authorities. In any case, it is essential to find a man like Dillon, whose view point and abilities will com mand the confidence of the international banking com munity. There are two reasons for this. First of all, the Euro pean central banks, and espe cially the Germany, French and Italian central banks, now hold large parts of their re serves in dollars. They are of course in duty bound to ex change these dollar reserves for gold if they think deval uation is possible. If they do this, in turn, devaluation will become inevitable, under the present antiquated American currency laws. NORMALLY, there would be no danger of this kind of action by . the European central banks. But a man is now needed to restore confi dence, alas, because the man wa have has done so much to undermine confidence. That is the second reason for quick action. The impression produced by Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson in Bonn was bad enough; the impression he produced in Paris was even JENKINS THAT brings us back to the , seeming absurdity of our electoral college system -I under which it is possible for I the LOSER of the popular jvote to be the WINNER of I the electoral vote. Your may wonder how the electoral college system came to be embodied in our Consti tution. The truth is that the Founding Fathers - sincere, able, patriotic, dedicated men -FEARED the populace. Perhaps they had reason to. Our Constitution was framed nearly two centuries ago. At that time our people-most of them immigrants from the Old World-had had little training in democracy. In gen eral, the countries from which they had come were gov erned by hereditary mon archs. The average level of education was not too high. The educated, experienced, patriotic Founding Fathers feared that the people of that day were not competent to govern themselves. TTENCE the electoral college system - undei which a smaller number of men, ex perienced men, competent men, PATRIOTIC men, could handle the situation. That's about the long and the short of it. Pope Plans Annual Message on Dec. 22 Vatican City-IUPD-Pope John XXIII will broadcast his Christmas message to the world the night of Dec. 22, earlier than any other year, for the convenience of the press and public. An announcement Monday niu me rupe will read niS speecn ai n a.m. trai) over the world-girdling Vatican Radio. View The peasant unacquainted with modern agricultural methods will not learn over night even though he be given his own land and his children are sent to school. In the next four years, the government plans to spend nearly $1 billion on agrarian reform. It also is pressing a large industrialization pro gram. But these are long-range plans, while part of the prob lem is immediate. Betancourt recognizes the "ferment of discontent" among the millions of the poor and the "skilful exploi tators" by the Communists of the financial ills inherited from the recent dictatorship. He has called for and prob ably will receive additional U.S. financial aid. But to demands that he out law the Communist party, Betancourt replies that it would be contrary to the ideals of democracy. worse. As Anderson made his presentations here before very large groups, word of his apparent panic has spread far and wide. Add to this such symptoms as the recent article in "Le Figaro," by the brilliant yet sober Raymond Aron, discus sing dollar devaluation as a definite possibility. The end result could be a real crisis of confidence. Although such a crisis is still unlikely, the risk is ser ious enough to demand prompt preventive a c ti o n. The simplest action is for Ken nedy to confer effective re sponsibility "on someone who does not seem to have lost all confidence, both in his cur rency and in himself." In that event, according to the same high French authority already quoted, "The dollar problem will soon cease to be dra matic." CURST of all, there are all sorts of technical meas ures that can be taken, with Important short term effects. These range all the way from firmer handling of the Lon don gold market, to closer co operative . arrangements be tween the central banks con cerned. And there are also longer term technical meas ures which can be very useful indeed, like the reform of the American currency statutes recently advocated by the senior partner of the Mor gan Bank, Henry Alexander. Then too, it is obviously possible to make rapid, confidence-inducing cuts in the American government's swol len expenditures overseas, without doing any political or strategic damage at all, A vast, enormously costly mili tary aid group in Bonn is not really needed to teach the Germans how to fight. Nor is it really needful to fly the children of American depen dents a couple of hundred miles a day in a special air plane to. teach them their ABCs in extra comfort. Other examples might be cited. The more permanent and far reaching remedial meas ures that may be required are too complex for discussion here. But it should certainly be noted that the real cause of the dollar crisis is a change in American business habits. American exports are current ly "adequate" to pay for all American imports plus all government e x p e n d 1 1 ures abroad on a very big scale; and this capital outflow, plus the outflow of hot money and money seeking higher interest rates, are the real causes o the present trouble. lOR President-elect Ken nedy, this trouble can be very grave indeed - if it is unwisely neglected. One o his most urgent political tasks is to revive the spirit and the hopes of the Western Allies, now at an all-time low. And besides all its other embar rassments, a neglected dollar crisis will sadly limit Ken nedy's power to lead the West for the crudely practical rea son that America's wealth is the fount of America's power. As Raymond Aron sug gested in the article already cited, the devaluation of the dollar is by no means un avoidable, "but the American authorities are working hard to render it unavoidable." Aron went on: "Will the President-elect resign himself in advance to this result for which his pre decessor will really be re sponsible? I cannot believe it. But in that case, it is an ur gent task to dissipate all doubts." The first step that must be taken for this purpose had already been indicated, (c) I960. New York Herald Tribune Inc.
