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Hlslory from the files of Th
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 8, 1951 (Monday)
Imminent possibility of at
tack by Russian bombers and
submarines has roused trie ra-
cific coast from Mexico to
Alaska, a United Press survey
showed today.
A total of $315 was raised
here in a one-day effort to
raise funds for relief of Ko
rcan refugees Saturday.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 8, 1941 (Wednesday)
There are 5,706 registered
voters in the four wards of
Medford eligible to vote in
the special airport bond elec
tion Jan. 17.
. From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
President, in his dramatic
and masterful address to Con
aress. urging aid to Britain,
declared: 'As a nation we lake
pride In the fact we are soft
hearted; but we cHnnoi anoro
to be soft-headed.' Neither can
the nation afford to be 'soft-
soapcd'-much-ln the serious
months to come."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 8. 1931 (Wednesday)
A special prosecutor has
been named by the governor
to conduct the probe Into the
Reese creek liquor raid death
near here.
The county court Is consid
ering a proposal to levy a
dog tax.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 8, 1921 (Saturday)
Oil speculation In the Mon
tague, Calif., is booming and
an oil well Is now being drill
ed. The federal government has
launched an investigation Into
the Pacific Northwest lumber
Industry.
SO YEARS AGO
Jan. 8. 1911 (Sunday)
The cily now has over 20
miles of sewers and water
mains; 8' 2 miles of paved
streets; 29 miles of sidewalks
and most of it was done last
year.
Business at the Medford
post office during 1010 In
creased by 65 per cent over
the previous year, a good In
dication of the city's amazing
growth.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine et fen correct is suesrler:
seven of eight is excellent! five el
ill is good.
1. Who was lite author of
"Jane Eyre"?
2. The new Queen of Bel
gium Is a native of what coun
try? 3. What persons settled and
built Salt Lake City?
4. Is the ladybird a bird,
beetle, or worm?
5. "Pelican Slate" is the
nickname for which state?
6. Who created the fictional
character "Tarzan"?
7. In Poker the chances of
Rotting three of a kind (noth
ing wild) are 12 to 1, 16 to 1,
or 46 to 1?
8. All tissues of,thc body
are completely renewed every
seven years; true or false?
9. How much does a cubic
fool of water weigh?
10. Which country In the
world is the largest producer
of etiffee?
Answers: 1. Charlotte Bron
te. 2. Spain. 3. The Mormons.
4. Beetle. 5. Louisiana. 6. Ed
gar Rice Burroughs. 7. 48 to
1. 8. False. 9. 62.4 pounds. 10.
Bra.U.
All Sorts
There are all sorts of tragedy.
There was one here last week. Everyone con
cerned with it was hurt. .
A small girl (while she was unharmed physi
cally) received a shock which may remain with
her for many years.
A man who is known to his friends as kindly,
decent, a good husband and father, succumbed to
unnatural desires he could not control and was
arrested.
The widening circle of tragedy affected the
family of the little girl, who was completely inno
cent; and affected the equally innocent family of
the man in question.
TTWO STORIES concerning the incident ap
peared (as they should have) in the paper.
But they were not quite complete, were suscepti
ble to misinterpretation, and as a result did not
give an accurate description of the situation. .
The word "molesting" was used. Technically,
it was correct, but gave the implication of physi
cal action, even violence, which wasn't so.
The complicated procedures of our legal ma
chinery went into motion. It was the decision of
the then district attorney to bring the man into
district court on a misdemeanor charge, rather
than into circuit court on a felony charge.
IT WAS also the district attorney who failed to
1 inform the district judge that the man had
been questioned regarding similar incidents be
fore, and the judge did not find this out until af
ter the case had been disposed of.
The authority of a district judge is limited. In
this case, he knew the man needed medical and
psychiatric help so that he might once again
become a good citizen without danger to society.
But the district court cannot commit a man to
the state hospital, where he could receive the
treatment he needs.
.What the judge did
He placed him on
years. Under the terms
report each two weeks to
ficer, is prohibited from
child, and is required to obtain psychiatric treat
ment (at his own expense), with the medical re
ports to become part of his probation report.
TTHE ONLY other choice was to commit him to
jail for a maximum of six months. And what
good would that do anyone?
lhe three bases for
rehabilitation of the offender: (2) protection of
society, and (3) retribution.'
It seems to us that the judge has, within his
authority, satisfied all three although in the
nature of the ' event s the penalty . is worse for
friends and family than anyone else"'
(The $5 mentioned by several correspondents
was not a line at all, and
to the $300 (plus $5 court costs) paid for a dif
ferent violation ; it is simply court costs, assessed
all district court violators.)
a
THUS the tragedy:
A om oil vJ il irif Vi i cli
n. oiuuii ft"1 vviwi a 3.i.i,iiii initials iuliu-
ory; her parents justifiably hurt and angry; a
man struggling with impulses he cannot control;
his family subjected to anguish; his livelihood
damaged, perhaps beyond repair; a community
upset; the processes of justice questioned.
Other communications
received we shall not publish. They are in a vein
similar to those already printed.
We are sorry about
the Mail Tribune's perhaps unfortunate part in
it; sorry for the girl and her parents; sorry for
the man; sorry for his desperate family; sorry
for the judge who has
And sorriest of all that we live in a still-im-
perfect society where such tragedies can still hap
pen. E.A.
Here s How To Burn
Mr. Robert C. Ingalls, Editor
Corvallis Gazette-Times
Corvallis, Oregon
Dear Bob:
Congratulations on
what disorganized,
Sounds like fun.
Come to Medford next
Here the Moosr lodue
gets its members and other volunteers, including
Boy Scouts, to go around
the curbs along all Medford streets. Our used car
dealers help by loaning pick-up trucks, and other
truck owners, including
pitch in to help.
lhe trees are taken
of town, and burned at
dark. Quite a blaze they
And the ln einen stand by.
Perhaps best of all, cooperating householders
in an envelope on their old trees containing a
donation (from a few cents up to one generous
$200 check this last time) for some charity.
Results: The trees are burned, the firemen
are happy to get these potential hazards out of
homes, the Scouts, Moose and other volunteers
have fun doing a community job, those who like
to watch big fires have a fine time, the garbage
company doesn't have to worry about trees on its
regular pickups, and a worthy cause benefits.
Sacred Heart Hospital's building fund is
about $1,000 bigger as a result, this time.
It's a grand way to do it, Bob, aif?l we com
mend it toAou, We're proud of the folk that do it.
of Tmgedy
do was this:
strict probation for two
of his probation he must
a supervising parole of
being alone with any
court sentences are (1)
should not be compared
rinL-1 n rr unlin m-it m
on the subject we have
the whole incident, and
been criticized, unjustly.
Trees
your impromptu, some
tree-burning after Christmas.
year.
oroitnizos the thintr. It
picking up trees left on
the garbage company,
to a haiulv spot outside
a public gathering after
make, too !
fMlllTMOUBi
Dennis fine teiomsoa
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151
dAODy, 1W DO 1 ASK
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
THE RULE OF MAJORITIES
In each House of Congress
there are formidable ob
stacles to the rule of simple
m a j o r i lies,
and the ques
tion is how
far these ob
stacles are to
be reduced or
removed. But
the problem
in the House
is diffe rent
from the prob-
Lippmann
1 e m in the
Senate, and the difference in
volves an important differ
ence of principle, and indeed
of the spirit and the intent of
the constitution itself.
The problem in the House
of Representatives does not,
as it does in the case of the
Senate, arise from the power
of a minority to prevent leg
islation by a filibuster. The
House does not have unlimit
ed debate. The problem there
arises from the fact that the
Rules Committee has almost
absolute power of life and
death over bills before they
can be voted upon. There may
be a majority in favor of a
bill. Unless the Rules Commit
tee permits it, the majority
cannot bring the bill to a
vote.
IN RECENT years the Rules
Committee has had twelve
members-eight of (hem Dem
ocrats and four of them Re
publicans. But two of the
Democrats, Howard W. Smith
of Virginia and William M.
Colmcr of Mississippi, have
formed an alliance with the
four Republicans, thus divid
ing the Committee six to six.
This prevents it from acting
affirmatively, and enables the
conservative coalition to block
not only civil rights legisla
tion but all manner of so
called progressive legislation.
It is Impossible, I think,
to defend this arrangement on
lhe ground of principle. For
the House of Representatives
represents the people of (he
United Slates and its spirit is
that there lhe simple numer
ical majority shall ' prevail.
The bi-partisan deal in the
Rules Committee is in fact
a usurpation of power, depriv
ing the majority of its rights,
and thwarting the will of the
people. The House can, and
we may hope that the House
will, break up the deal and re
cover the right of majority
rule.
THE problem of the Senate,
on the other hand, involves
questions of high constitution
al principle. The crux of the
question is not whether the
majority should rule but what
kind of majority should rule.
Shall it be a simple numerical
majority of the Senators pres
ent and voting? Shall it be
two-thirds of all the Senators
elected? Or shall it be some
thing between the two?
Here lies the crux of the
argument. What kind of ma
jority shall have the right to
end debate in the Senate, and
therefore to bring about a
vote? The kind of majority
that has the power to do this
has the power to legislate.
rMlE recognition that there
- may be various kinds of
majorities Is deeply Imbedded
in the constitution. Simple ma
jority rule-one more than half
of a quorum-is by no means
the general principle of the
constitution. Cons titutional
amendments, the expulsion of
members, the over-riding of
the President's veto, require
two-thirds of nil the Senators
elected. Treaties and Impeach
mcius require two-thirds of
those present and voting. Why
these variations? Because
these are questions which in
volve the whole nation, it
may be tor war. the constitu
tion requires that surh gftve
decision!! ghQI have a large,
i 1 0 t:3a i '0'$ majoriga
SO MANY QUESTIONS ?
lippmann
N MY view it is important
ties, to preserve the principle
that for great issues, for is
sues that affect deeply great
regions or sections of the na
tion, there should be required
more than a simple majority.
For we must never forget that
majorities are not always lib
eral and that they may be
quite tyrannical. It is, I have
always thought, a short view
of history to equate simple
majority rule with the defense
of the civil rights of Negroes.
The civil rights of all Amer-'
leans will be safer if within
the Senate, which represents
the Federal principle, we do
not give absolute power to
simple majorities.
The practical conclusion
which I draw from this is that
the question of cloture in the
Senate is not one of this or
that but of more or less. Be
tween the two extremes of a
simple majority of a quoroum
and of a two-thirds majority
of all the Senators elected,
there is plenty of room for
compromise.
The proper point at which
to make the compromise is
where moderate Southerners
like Lyndon Johnson and Sam
Rayburn can live with the so
lution, and feel that they are
not being dragooned and over
ridden. For nothing good can
be done by persuasion and ed
ucation if the moderates in the
South feel that they are co
erced. (c) 1961 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
We've broken off diplomat
ic relations with the Castro
government of Cuba - a step
fully justified under the cir
cumstances. Not only has Cas
tro been calling us every foul
name he can lay his tongue
to. Not only has he been mak
ing reckless and inflammatory
statements, Including absurd
charges that we are planning
to invade Cuba within a mat
ter of hours.
lie is also making it plain
that his purpose is to make of
Cuba a communist MILITARY
OUTPOST IN THE. WEST
ERN HEMISPHERE. That, of
course, we can not and must
not tolerate.
We have every possible jus
tification for taking the step
we have taken.
ripHE BIG question:
X
NEXT?
AN
tlon comes from South
America, where in Argentina
and Brazil there is talk of a
special hemisphere-wide con
ference to deal with the situ
ation created by the break.
Raynumdo Padilha, chairman
of the foreign relations com
mittee of the Brazilian cham
ber of deputies (correspond
ing roughly to our house of
representatives) says this
morning:
"Cuba has placed Itself out
side the Pan-American system
and has become a COMMU
NIST BRIDGEHEAD AND
STRONGHOLD In the Hemis
phere. The Organization of
American States should call
an immediate meeting and
take a collective stand against
Cuba."
'IMIAT makes sense.
It taRes us out of the po
sition of the Big Shot who.ln
sists on running everything. It
makes of the Castro business
in Cuba, with Its dangerous
background of communist in
trigue, a matter of mutual
concern to ALL OF THE
AMERICAS.
0
NE MOT5.E question:
What of Guantanamo?
I ERE IS Its background:
Aloffer of Fact
THE YAWNING DRAIN
Washington - On more than
one occasion, the outgoing Ei
senhower administration has
invited the in
coming Ken
nedy adminis
tration to be
come its Dart-
M ner in manag-
:S ina lha rricic
-3f?M in Laos. The
most recent
invitation took
the form of a
Alsop suggestion of
a joint statement accusing the
Soviet and Vietnamese Com
munists of military interven
tion in Laos.
The projected statement,
when finally issued last Tues
day, bore only the Eisenhower
administration's sig n a I u r e.
This was because the invita
tion to joint action was refus
ed for obvious reasons and
with many precedents. But
the overtures which have
been made to the future sec
retary and under secretary of
state, Dean Rusk and Chester
Bowles, are significant and
revealing, nonetheless.
In particular, they reveal
the desperately grave estimate
of the situation in Laos which
now prevails in the inner cir
cle of American policy
makers. The truth is that this
remote but crucial situation
now shows all the signs of
getting wholly out of control
It has been a sorry story.
TTS m o s t recent chapter
"originated, apparently, in
the embittered, dog - in - the -
manger attitude of the French
in Laos. The almost pathologi
cal results of this attitude
were seen long ago in South
Vietnam, when the French
there tried to push out Presi
dent Ngo Dinh Diem and re
place him with the local AI
Capone, the leading Saigon
gangster, Bai Vien.
to war with Spain. Our imme
diate provocation to war was
the sinking of one of our bat
tleships (the Maine) in Cuban
waters. We charged that the
Spaniards did it. Our REAL
reason was to free Cuba from
j Spanish misrule.
The war to liberate Cuba
lasted 113 days. After the lib
eration, Cuba was ruled for
several years by American
military governors. In 1901,
what was known as the Piatt
Amendment (to the army ap
propriation bill before the
U.S. congress) demanded from
Cuba a lease of Guantanamo
as a naval base. It included
other conditions too volumi
nous to be gone into here.
The Cubans objected to the
Piatt Amendment, but finally
gave in and included it in
their constitution, which was
adopted in 1901. We finally
repealed the Piatt Amend
ment in 1934.
That is the background of
our claim to the Guantanamo
base.
rpHIS should be added:
Back in 1901 we were
planning the Panama Canal.
If built, it must be PROTECT
ED. The navy was then our
big weapon of defense for the
Canal. That made Guantan
amo highly important to us.
The situation has changed.
First war in the air and now
MISSILE warfare are our
weapons for defense of the
Canal. Under these circum
stances, Guantanamo is less
important.
T.UT-
-' We can't stand by and
permit Castro to take Guan
tanamo and then TURN IT
OVER TO THE COMMU
NISTS as a base of operations
from which to extend commu
nism throughout the Western
Hemisphere.
Lf- Jt i
Leadership: Democratic Sine Qua NonT
By ERIC SEVAREID
Brussels in the early after
noon - ten thousand Belgian
socialist strikers marched and
''lfWSSJ chanted In the
SjfSMk'l chilly streets,
ifBSSiB' 3 j and the usual
swarm ' of
.hoodlum
j sharks attract
' cd by move-
tJM U1CIH lUIXL-U II
'"STwl with mounted
ponce, news
Doured in of
sv...d paradcfi shllt.
downs, scuffles in Mons.
Liege, Ghent. Half a nation
was paralyzed hy unarmed,
semipassive political insur
rection. In the late afternoon a
stocky little man with tired
but angry eyes marched - it
is the appropriate verb - into
his office to see me, gripping
his brief case like a club.
An old picture flashed
through my mind-the photo
graph of the same tough little
man, gripping the same brief
case, marching off his plant
in Lcopoldville last June. This
time too he was positive that
he was right - the brief case
is full of facts - and that the
sea of human events boiling
around him was wr-QK,
should flow away.
..and
This was
fO-t.m Fyskrns. I
is min
That attempt failed, since
the French had little remain
ing leverage in South Viet
nam, even in 1954. They still
retain leverage in Laos, how
ever, in the form of a military
group officially charged with
training the Laotian army.
Perhaps because this offi
cial French responsibility has
survived in Laos, the trans
fer of the main responsibility
to the United States has al
ways been reseated with spe
cial violence. In any case, it
now appears to be well estab
lished that the "neutralist"
coup d'etat of the paratroop
commander Kong Le was
launched with French sup
port. Kong Le's initial success
in turn left the chief Western
allies hopelessly divided.
ri'HE French thesis, sup---
ported by the British, was
that a neutralist govern
ment in Laos ought to be wel
comed. The American policy
makers more realistically re
plied that it was ridiculous to
hope for a truly neutral gov
ernment in disordered Laos, if
the government was to be half
neutral and half pro-Communist,
with all the strong men
on the Communist side.
On this basis, the Ameri
can government intermittent
ly but effectively supported
Gen. Phoumi and Premier
Boun Oum. In the end, Phou
mi and Boun Oum drove
Kong Le and the neutralists
out of the two capitals of
Laos, Vietiane and Luang
Prabang.
But the success of Phoumi
and Boun Oum in turn pro
duced a result which Wash
ington had not foreseen. The
Soviets and North Vietnamese
quite flagrantly intervened in
Laos, to restore their pawns
Co power.
rpo this sharp challenge, Vthe
-- first American response
seemed forceful enough. The
SEATO pact, which covers
Laos, was invoked. The U.S.
forces in the Pacific were
alerted. There was discussion
of counter - intervention in
Laos by the Thai army, with
American support.
But this first impulse to re
spond directly to the Soviet
challenge now seems to be
petering out. Instead, the
present impulse is to hand the
Laos problem over to the In
ternational Control Commis
sion, under suitable condi
tions."
This means, quite simply,
that the drain now yawns for
Laos. The Control commission,
set up at Geneva in 1954, is
composed of an approximate
ly neutral Canadian, plus an
Indian and a Pole, who will
be the opposite of neutral.
The commission's mere com
position is indicative enough.
In addition, if the commission
re-enters Laos, it will do so
after a hurried American re
treat from .a firm position.
These two factors, taken to
gether, are likely to insure
Laos going down the drain in
the end.
SUCH an outcome in Laos
will be comparable, in a
smaller way, to the German
occupation of the Sudeten-
land after the Munich agree
ment. The Geneva division of
former French Indo-China in
1954 was always structurally
similar to the Munich settle
ment. With Laos finally going
down the drain, the Diem re
gime in South Vietnam will
be in the exact position of the
a m p u t a ted Czechoslovakia
which briefly survived after
the Sudetenland was seized.
And after South Vietnam, the
turn of the rest of Southeast
Asia will surely come.
What threatens in Laos, in
short, is a major disaster.
None of the Western govern
ments involved has played a
creditable role. But if this dis
aster materializes, the root
gians. (Prime minister at
least as this is written.) He is
tough as hard rubber, bellig
erent when roused, a born
party leader. But his behavior
in the Congo crisis and in this
strike crisis raises long
thoughts about the nature of
true leadership in the com
plex, individualistic societies
of the Western world. The
tight little federation of quite
differing peoples that makes
up Belgium is not normally
an arena of anarchy. These
are literate people and
shrewd. But twice within six
months they have been dis
organized like an ant hep by
sudden shocks.
All the modern arts of com
munication are at the disposal
of their government. But they
were not given the slightest
inkling last summer that the
vast stretch of Africa which
made them an empire, an area
their leaders knew more
about than even Congolese
leaders, would blow up in
total anarchy. Their sovtrn
mcnt had triM, to deal ith
an Immcnsst composite e at
simple ct.
Now it has essentflly r.
pcated the same error. It trial
a total reorganization of
gium's public financiO In
single legislative bill passed
I at the Parliament. The bill is ;
more than & hundred n? Wtn ri mnt i,r, an in.
35:
fYlUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Whether or not something is
funny often depends on wheth
er you're on the outside look
ing in or the inside looking
out.
So, when the lock on the
men's room broke last week,
leaving Wire Editor Harry
Chipman effectively locked in,
it was hilarious to some un
feeling souls hereabouts, but
Harry wasn't terribly amused.
Until a bit later, anyway.
This minor disaster occurred
just at the tail-end of the noon
hour, when many of the staff
were out of the office. And it
was just as deadline-time was
approaching, and Harry was
needed in the shop to super
vise Uie make-up of Page 1 of
the M-T's first edition.
After several minutes of
pounding on the door, some
one heard him, and rescue op
erations started.
They didn't get anywhere
for quite a while. The handle
to the door was removed, but
still the pesky thing stayed
firmly closed. Efforts to take
the door off its hinges failed,
and before long three or four
people were gathered around,
fretting, fussing and fuming,
prying with an assortment of
tools, and finally deciding the
door would have to be "jim
mied" open.
During the confusion, some
one decided that the efforts of
the staff weren't adequate,
and (of all things) called the
fire department. A truck
drove up in front, and two
polite but slightly amused
firemen, equipped with wreck
ing bars and other ominous
looking tools, wandered in.
Meanwhile, several other
staff members were yelling
through the door at Harry,
asking him about his plans for
the first (and second, if need
be) edition, scurrying the copy
down to the back shop, editing
the stock list, and generally
trampling over each other's
feet dong the chores which
Harry does calmly, quickly
and efficiently.
Well, it all turned out all
right. The door was jimmied
open, and Harry resumed his
duties in time to get the sec
ond edition to the press room
in good time for the printing
run. The firemen departed,
their tools unused.
The sad part of the whole
affair, of course, was the fact
that Harry was a perfectly in
nocent party, but is the one
that had to take the kidding
which invariably accompanies
situations of this kind.
There were vulgar head
lines written purely for his
benefit. And the back-shop
jokers thoughtfully made for
him a great, big key and hung
it around his neck. Made him
look like a wine steward.
And, there's a new door
knob on the door now, with
what is supposed to be a fool
proof, unbreakable lock.
.
Our women's editor was
as amused as anyone at
Harry's plight. But she got
the shivers just the same.
, "If that happened to me,"
she declared, "I'd just stand
there and scream."
There was another npnasinn
a year or so ago, when another
stall member was in the ele
vator when it malfunctioned
and for a minute or two he
cause will he this Wcfm
weakness, originating in the
Eisenhower defense policy,
which invited the arrnirant
Soviet-North Vietnamese in
tervention. The Korea lesson
might have been remembered
for ten years, but it was not.
(copyright 1961 New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
uct of economic science. It
affects virtually everyone in
the country from postal clerks
and their pension payments to
bankers and their transactions
taxes.
The defiant Mr. Eyskens
bangs his desk and declares
that the overhaul is right,
overdue and will benefit all
in the long run, including the
striking workers.
And he is probably right.
But the lump was indigestible
in that form. His regime did
not try to educate people
about it. Eyskens resorted to
simplicity to explain complex
ity - "It means austerity only
for the state, benefits for the
people, jjui it was Just as
easy for the Socialists to do
the same in reverse. "The loi
unique." they shouted to the
union, "is the law of misery."
Since only a nation-wide sem
inar conducted over a period
of weeks would have clarified
the bill's effects, people sim
ply rescted for or against ac
cordinj to their temperament
soW tStir vwliticil affiliation.
In ill !ir coiritfi the
twj'ii tf gublif efrtir
irufir.iri 1J HOSSite ofiDremifr nnr its tins ia,-rn,
tft t4 bu. tot,, j
prchcM them. Mir techniques
for Oeducaiic
spn-v flnnisacpyices for future SB ns.
deepen. : it Is.-omc hslrtfer
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was hung, up eerily between
iiuors.
It didn't bother him too
much, for there was plenty 0(
air, and an escape hatch- if
necessary, and he hopefully
believed that somebody could
ngure out now to get the ele.
vator going again-as happen,
ed.
But our women's editor, on
that occasion, remarked, -it
that happened to me, I'd just
stand here and scream."
See what we're up against?
Occasionally, anyway. Let's
just hope she never gets
trapped.
During the late (we hope)
and unlamenied hassle be
tween the two limousine
companies over their respec
tive airport licenses, one
city official (who shall re
main nameless) came up
with a solution. Cancel both
licenses, he said, and use
city police cars for airport
limousines and taxi service.
That would end lhe dispute,
and besides, the city could
use the money,
We wonder if some peopla
felt sort of a nostalgic thrill
last week, when it was an
nounced that much of Howard
Prairie lake had frozen over,
that the north end of it was'
suitable for ice skating, and
that certain f;iriHlin: mnM u
in operation there?
Ice skating is largely un.
known to the younger genera,
tion in these parts, partly be
cause of our salubrious cli.
mate, and partly because they
just don't know how In skai
or where to go. '
It was not always thus.
There's a Utile lalro i
much more than a pond, real.
iy - orf the road which winds
up toward the Dead Indian
country. It Is called Ice Housa
Lake, due to the fact that be
fore electric refrigerators
were develonprf th pro 1r3t? -i n
ice house there, which fur
nished ice for ice boxes in the
valley durine winter mnnth
and on into the spring.
lucked down in its canyon,
it was well shaded, and slay
ed frozen much of the year.
And fiaV VOUtlff hlnHnc frnm
Medford and Ashland strapped
on ineir blades and away
they'd go across the ice.
More recently much of tha
surrounding timber has been
cut, and while the lake still
freezes, it isn't nearly as good
for skatinc as it user! in h
although we understand a few
iiaray souis sun try it from
time to time during the win
ter months.
Anyway, we hope that How.
ard Prairie lake is a success
as an ice skating lnr-afi nn aii ft
that the ancient and honorabia
sport is revived. If it is, wn
have a hunch that it might
well be some of the folk fur
ther along in years than olh.
ers who make it popular, for
thev are the ones uhn Vnn,
how.
And it may even be that
there are snmp irr v9i.
hanging in some attics, which
can oe taken down, sharpen
ed, polished, and put to tha
use for which they were in
tended. Our photographer some
times is handed pictures
which have minor flaws for
retouching, so they will ap
pear more natural when
they show up in the paper.
He was handed one such
last week, wilh the request
that he "doctor up the eyes
a bit." He accepted the
print, then quietly remark
ed. "I think I'll put up a
shingle and open a practice
for eye, ear, nose and throat
treatments."
pie, upon which democracy
must rest. And so, baffled
men everywhere look for a
single human being to make
up their minds for them. If
they cannot offer informed
scrutiny and criticism, they
can offer simple trust. So tha
great personalities come up,
the Eisenhowers, the Aden
auers, the de Gaulles. And the
smaller personalities such ai
Gaston Eyskens find they
cannot fashion events, but ira
fashioned by them. They can
not lead, even when their
path is the proper path.
The nagging thought re
curs: Can any modern, com
plex society be truly govern
ed any more through the dem
ocratic institutions a thousand
years of blood have produced,
without the presence of that
simple, pre-democratic insti
tution of leadership - tha
strong, appealing, single hu
man personality?
Like the Belgians, Ameri
cans must deny the private
sector of their economy in
order to refashion the public
.soctor. Unless our new Prcsi-
oent acquires th moral au-
inority that neither Belgium J
quired. I much doubt Ameri-
9a s canity to make present
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trll Syndicate, Inc.)
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