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T Pnl'ted Prew International ; PuU Leaied Wire , ' 0 P.I Telephoto Kewnplcturea ThEMBteR oTTrrBimiArr OP CmCITLATlONS ., Xdverrlalnj Representative: "WEST HOLIDAY CCj. INC Oi a. ft u- ekMieA flit. , entile Portland St Louis, At- '' ta"ta Vancouver B.C OMPg PUBLISHERS Vi-ASSOCIATION NATION At E0ITO HI Al in Flight b' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the fllei of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 30 yean ego. -: v 10 YEARS AGO ' April 2, 1951 (Monday) The Rogue Valley chapter of the Society for the Preser vation and Encouragement of : Barber Shop Quartet singing ' will present its first: annual 1 show here April 28. More than 120 delegates from the Sliklyou County Hlarnrtpal eocietv met at the Jacksonville museum, yester day. ; ' ;tX;'.';'Si-iV 30 YEARS AGO AprU a. 1841 (Wedneiday) ' The Medford s.city council last night authorized the pur chase of slightly m'ore than half of the 90 acres neces- on. n rtiniuav flivtAnalnn and enlargement lit the municipal fmm A4Viiiv Perrv'a "Ye Smudge Pot" column-. "This (yesterday) is All fooled (but nomore tnan usuay aay. SO YEARS AOO . April 2. 1131 (Thursday) : County road work is in full 'wing with projects .under way on Dead Indian, Lake Creek, Sams Valley and Ap plegate rds. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Frank lin of Medford yesterday were the? first .. motorists to reach the Crater Lake rim this year; they followed the snowplows up. ' ' 40 YEARS AOO Sprll 2, 1921 (Saturday) A five-mile strip of high way la currently being paved between brants Pass and Medford, which will complete this section of the Pacific highway. SO YEARS AOO April 2. 1811 (Sunday) Several lawyers in town are reported to be seeking ways of circumventing a new state law that prohibits com mercial fishing in the Rogue River. , Business at the' county clerk's office during March set a new record with more than $100,000 in taxes being collected during the month. Willi's Yoir I.Q.? Nine f fen correct li superior; ' seven er elihr Is excellent; five or lie la good. 1, If someone threatened to "pin back your auricular ap pendages," what would he be referring . to? 2, The opening words of which American classic are: "Four score and seven years ago"? 3, The s , , . h is an animal that sleeps upside down, 4. All states have the same Voting requirements; true or false? 6, During which season do We experience "Squaw win ter"? ; 6. The U.S. Post Office Do partment does, or does not employ women mail carriers? . 7, Formerly "plus fours," were widely worn by players engaged In which sport? . 8. Kaiser Wilhelm II fled to which country, where he was interned for the remaind er of his life? ' 9. Name the manager who piloted the New York Yankees to the 1947 world championship. 10. Who was U.S. President when the W. W, I armistice was signed? ' 1. Ears. 1. Lincoln's Gettys burg Add raw. J. Sloth. 4. False. S. Atttama, 9. Does. 7. Oolf. 8. The Nethtrlbnds. 9. Bucky Harris. 10. Woodrow Witaue. v. . SUNDAY. APRIL 2, 1981 ylj iWer Pause We'll have to confess that, we were getting all set to write a heated editorial for this column for today, laying about in fine style at what we consider to be some of the uglier aspects of life in America today. Then, the letter from Mary Williams; which is printed at the top of the Communications col umn today, arrived on the desk. It gave us pause. Easter Sunday, in which is implicit the promise cherished in the hearts of millions of p e o p 1 e, isn't the time to slay dragons. " - So we'll save the acrimony for another time, and content ourself today with thanking Mary Williams for her gracefully-voiced sentiments, and Arnold Eugene Jenny and his poets for their lovely Easter thoughts, and a warm sense of appreciation that Easter, and Spring, really are here. E.A. . , - Civic One of these days, the city of Medford is going to have to build itself a new city hall. And, as Medford keeps growing, the state of Oregon is going to need a new office building in Medford. It's building one in Eugene now. When the time comes for these, we hope the powers that be will go along with Medford city officials, and the planning commission, in ful filling plans for an attractive, centralized civic center around the west side park. THE PLAN, first dreamed up many years ago, began' with the courthouse. (It's too bad the library was built IN the park, rather than adja cent to it, but that's water over the dam.) , Anyway, we regret ment didn't eo alone witn tne proposal, ana lo cate its new office building facing the park. If anyone wants to plished, by combining attractive public buildings with attractive, green and open, park, let him look to Eugene. Medford, too, has all the ingrer dients. We hope the long-range plan doesn't die from just being ignored. E.A. Unified Approach Benefits . ;.j ,, n .i i neat- s ';.;j,,t ' , t-- ' Not lone aeo the 18 O & C counties of west ern Oregon organized to coordinate planning for roads and recreation purposes. Thev operated on the has a vital stake in roads ties : that tha counties and various state aerencies. and several of the federal agencies are all. work ing in this field, and that, rather than have each one go off on its own, there should be a coordi nated, sensible program for orderly development. They succeeded in getting the cooperation of everyone involved, and as a result there are high hopes that such a development will proceed. lORE RECENTLY, the e i g h t counties of r" southern Oregon and northern- California have been discussing a somewhat similar project. These counties ( Douglas, J osepmne, d ackson, Klamath and Lake in Oregon, Siskiyou, Modoc and Del Norte in California) are all inland, and, as far as tourist and recreational income are con cerned', are in "competition" with the coast. , There is much to be offered in this region. And there is every reason to believe that it could easily become one of the major "play grounds" for the ever-growing populations of central and southern California with a result ing substantial economic boost for this area. Seven of the eight counties have agreed to budget small amounts this year, to be added to contributions from private and business sources, to underwrite a modest start on a coordinated program somewhat similar to the O & C project. TTHIS IS not envisioned as a tub-thumping pub- licity project, nor even as a chamber of com merce type of operation. Rather, the thought is that an office could be set up on a modest scale, a good man hired, and then assigned to do three main .thirl gs: . 1. To keep in close touch with each of the eight counties, to know their resources and their needs, and to compile a coordinated program of development which would be of benefit to each. - 2. To work closely with the state and federal agencies involved. After all, more than half of the land, and most of the major recreational re sources, in this area are owned by the federal government, and no program which overlooks this, and the federal participation in such proj ects to which the area is entitled, is realistic. 3. To work with private industry in encour aging development and improvement of private-lv-owned ana operated facilities (resorts, lodges, ski-tows, and so on)xin the area. IP THESE counties could, through such coordi- nation, speak with one voice to the state and federal agencies, that voice would have far more authority than the counties scrambling, , alone, for what they want. The benefits of a unified approach have been proven time and time again. - . In this matter it offers a sound way of ob taining a program of recreational development which is the single most promising avenue for economic growth in this area. ' It should also be noted that in addition, it would also provide far greater recreational op portunities for the people of the area, too. And anyone with half an eye these days knows that (v.;- '" - arnli loottfli' E-A, Center that the federal govern see what can be accom theory that each county and recreational facili Dennis the Menace . "i - .in Ltsr jr i J i m - msMWra ; "NO. I HAVEN1! SEEM Matter of Fact LEADERSHIP REGAINED Bangkok - What did .not happen is one of the best tests to use in judging the just - finished SBATO meet ing here in Bangkok. Spec Ifically, the whole complex of forces resist ing -the Com- munist ad vance in Asia Aiiop : did not come apart like a rotten melon dropped from a third story window. s- , Precisely that result was quite inevitable before Presi dent Kennedy gave the meet ing here a wholly new basis. with his advance announce ment that he would fight for Laos if need be. 1 The anguish ed pleas for hard action, from Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan, and South Vietnam, clearly indicated what might have happened if . Kennedy had not responded. . . ,' In the United States, there is a general tendency to take countries like Thailand and the Philippines complacently for granted as "stoutly anti- Communist." So they are,- be cause they long ago pinned their faith on American lead- - But if their faith had been proven groundless in the pres ent crunch, they would have changed their national poli cies the -next morning. In fact it can be authoritatively stat ed that they were despairing ly getting ready to do so be fore President Kennody spoke out. : ' THE fact that Kennedy had spoken, the fact that the troop transports were steam ing towards the Gulf of Siam just in case they might be needed - these were the two keys. Given these key facts, the policies of the SEATO al lies in Asia were courageous and uncomplicated. The same formula cannot be truthfully applied to the policies of the SEATO allies in Europe, although they too were sharply affected by the same facts. The price of Brit ish support, to begin with, , had been Kennedy's agree ment to take his stand on the British proposal to Moscow for a ceasefire and negotia tions. He agreed to this before he took his stand. For many complicated rea sons deserving analysis in a separate report, this was per ilously weak ground to stand on. The Thais, the Filipinos had good reasons for being unhappy about it. -But the real moment of unhapplness between the British and Americans occurred for differ ent reasons. Just before this conference began, Prime Min ister Macmillan sent the Presi dent . a message, which was perhaps too high flown and loosely worded, but which at least seemed to indicate that he wanted the U.S. to go it alone In the Laos crisis. This message was the real cause of the Kennedy-Macmll-Inn meeting at Key West last Sunday. The misunderstand ing - if It was a misunder standing - was soon cleared up at Key West. Prime Minis ter Macmillan then promised that if the Cabinet approved, he would ask the Common wealth Brigade stationed In Malaya to join in any action in Laos if action proved neces sary. Word of the Cabinet's approval was received here while the SEATO meeting was going on. e THE Anglo-American part nership was thus restored before the SEATO conferees got down to business. But that still left the French to be considered. ' - , The Judgments, of the French on the scene in Laos have been gravely influenced by the emotions- of the dog -in the manger, who cannot bear for others to wield the influ ence he no longer possesses himself. The judgments of the French government in Paris have baa aauofe tnflnanrad MEDFORD ' - 710XP U&a white my By Joseph Altop - by : these ' local judgments But French "policy has also been influenced by the hank ering to use Laos as a lever to promote Gen, de Gaulle's favorite idea of a 1 "director ate.", The French president has never 'abandoned the notjon that the Western policy ought to be almost!? exclusively formed by a Franco-Anglo American "directorate," "He expressed' this notion when be took office, in a famous secret memoranda to his allies. He still holds the same notion. Therefore 'the F r e n c h ap proach to the SEATO meeting was decidedly negative. With elegant -disenchantment, French. Foreign Minister Couve ' de ; Murville argued through all the first part of the meeting for a meaningless result. In particular, he want ed 'no .suggestion that any action might be taken' with out further "consultations." As this, would have been tan tamount to a promise that action would be taken much too late or not at all, the rest of the conferees united against Couve de Murville. e 'e e " IN the end, somewhat to the surprise of many here, the French setUed for a resolution permitting 'rapid action if the need should arise, but ex pressing this permission in cool words. The Americans did not object to the toned down language, as more dra matic words had already been spoken, much more usefully and in private, by President Kennedy to -Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei- Gromyko. The results, then, was the unanimous resolution which has been published, which ef fectively favors military in tervention in L a o s if the terms of President Kennedy's press conference declaration are not met by the Soviets within a reasonable time. It is not a lurid resolution. It contains . none of- the old familiar language about the "world Communist conspira cy." But 'it is a workable reso lution which is also a living proof that American leader ship of the West, only a fort night ago in direct, immediate danger of final "bankruptcy, has begun to be regained by show of ' moral firmness which most of our allies had really ceased to expend. (Copyright 1961 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Sevareid Muses on Variations of Color By ERIC SEVAREID Trinidad, W.I.- - What is happening with the "under privileged" peoples on this 0f ii a earth, vlrtual- 1 ly of of whom 1 are, by giant Am. colncl d e n ce. "78 , ... aarK oi SKin, a is something happening in J side individ 'l ual breasts. It is for poets, eel nnvelfaht. art aavaratl ists - those who observe persons - to un derstand it; it Is not for econ omists or ideologists - those who observe people-however much they dominate the West ern approach to the phenom enon with their funds and mis sions and committees and propaganda. This much penetrated my own skin, calloused by years of exposure to the dry winds of sociology, after some trav els through Africa. Now, mov ing through the supposedly tranquil islands of the West Indies en route to see the new Brazil and Its tnasslve crisis, I can feel again the prickings ot this uneasy, ill defined awareness.:' v .... .-. . e .i,, ' . An American woman artist was talking on the verandah of her lovely villa on one of these jeweled "holiday" islands. She1 could see the Ngr fishermen itrotched in MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. Today & Tomorrow By Walter ON THE FIRST PHASE ; As I am writing a final article before leaving for few weeks in Europe, It is tempting . to look back and do a bit of general 1 z in g about the first two months of the Kennedy adinloit- tion. The general character of - Uppmana -tills first phase nas been, I would say, preliminary and preparatory. Unlike. 1933, there was no emergency when Mr. Ken nedy took , office, and the grave problems which he is committed to deal with do not call for crash , solutions but for careful planning and per severance over the years Thi is true' of the problem which is,- central , of almost all the others: the problem of overcoming the sluggishness which has characterized the American economy since the end of the Korean War. ' ' . . ' AS YET the Administration -r has made no frontal at tack on this problem, It has not done so because of a de liberate' decision that the country is not yet ready for it. Despite the unemployment and the. unused capacity,' the feeling that we are in bad times is spotty and local, not general and national, j Because of the likelihood that a kind of recovery, prob acy a shallow recovery, is just around the corner, the President has felt that for the present he must follow the Eisenhower economic Ideology which was the fiscal orthodoxy of the age before the Great Depression. Yet his principal advisers are,' so far as I know, unanimous in the belief -that a very consider able departure from' the Ei senhower ideology is neces sary if the American economy is to meet the needs of the Sixties: international, nation al, and local. But despite these opinions the Administration is operat ing within the Eisenhower slogans and sterotypes about the budget. This is not be cause the Kennedy men be lieve in them but . because there are a large majority in both parties who do believe in them. As between the Kennedy doctrine, which is being held back, and the Elsenhower doc trine, which holds It back, the crucial and central issue is not whether the Federal budget should be balanced. The Kennedy doctrine, which is stated but not heavily em phasized in last week's budget message, is that Fed eral revenues and expendi tures should be in balance ' over the years of the busi ness cycle"-about four or five years. The Eisenhower doc trine Is that, regarless of the business cycle, the budget should be in balance every year. If the budget is not in balance annually, even as now in a year of recession,- the Eisenhower ideology demands that politicians and editors should regard this as deplor able, and that the President should apologize for it. ' The true and emerging Kennedy doctrine is that in a year of recession there ought to be a deficit and that in years of boom there ought to be a surplus. When, as has been the case since the early 1950's, there is a chronic sluggishness In the economy, it Is an unsound fiscal policy to try to achieve a budget surplus. the strip of shadow beside their boats on the curving beach, the local taxi-man sound asleep in the front seat of his Chevrolet. Her domes tic servant, dressed in flow ing, antebellum garb, includ ing bandana, padded among us with the ice-cold daiquiris and slipped away with the silent submissiveness . of the British-trained black. When she was sure the serv ant, was out of hearing, the artist said, "They are all so quiet and pleasant. . They seem so contented, even grate ful. But I can feel it in them, the way you sense that another person is In ' a room even when you don't see him. I guess we'd never get anything like the Congo in these islands, but I KNOW it's there, this hatred. Last month, on the dock, a white officer of a sloop thought one black loafer had insulted his wife. He slammed the man up against a shed and - My God! every loafer on the dock had a shovel or a stick in his hand in a flash. The quick ness of itl Pure reflex action. The facts, the moral pros and cons didn't matter. The officer was white, they were black. That's all." I don't know, either, whe ther Congos, in miniature, will ever happen in the West Indies, many of them now fed erated on paper and moving ORE. Uppmaiin TO' MANY this sounds like . the grossest heresy. It shocks them to hear it said that when there is so much unemployment and when the economy is running 10 per cent below its normal capac ity, there ought to be a de ficit. But that is exactly what the great majority of modern economists are saying, partic ularly those con whom the Kennedy administration de pends, - But the President has not yet braced himself to' the ef fort of explaining to the pub lic the difference between balancing the budget annual ly and balancing it over the business cycle. Yet most of what he has promised to do, most of what for the long pull urgently needs . to j be done, depends on explaining tliis theoretical issue to the people.- v .-. -. - ' To explain it seems at times like trying to .explain : to a man that the earth is hot flat, as it seems to him but that it is in fact round. "It is flat," he can be heard to say, "wherever I have been." So with budget balancing, Say to a man that the Federal budget should be out of bal ance when the economy is in recession, he is likely to re ply that he and all Other de cent and honorable men live In the Day's News By FRANK ! Down In Yreka, the Junior Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a worthy project Discovery. Street Park, de signed to mark the site of the first discovery of gold in the area. The actual soot where the discovery was made is al ready marked by the Thomp son Dry Diggin's monument. -: The story is an: interesting one. Back in 1851, a packer by the name of Abe Thompson was heading from uregon City to Scott Bar, and camped for the night at a spot not far from the present center of Yreka. When he started to bridle one of the animals the next morning it wks chewing a tuft of grass. Pulling the grass from the mule's mouth, he happened to glance at the roots. Clinging to them were fair-sized GRAINS OF GOLD. Thomp son lost interest in Scott Bar right there, and started min ing operations. - .. . v It ; was known ' as Thomp son's "dry diggin's" because the nearest water was a back- breaking distance away. ' -'.'. did Yreka get its HOW 11 rather unusual name? There is an interesting, but apparently apocryphal, legend to the effect that it arose out of a bakery sign. The sign is said to have con sisted of a board carrying the word BAKERY, which had been cut in outline with a 'crude jigsaw. The story goes that a somewhat illu minated miner, leaving one of the saloons one evening, was struck by the odd notion that the B of the word bakery would make a fine pistol tar get. ; - '-'-' ; :' .' r So, it is alleged, he hauled his trusty six-shooter out of its holster and cut -loose. By the time his gun was emptied, the B had been shot away, leaving v o n 1 y the letters AKERY. AKERY, read back wards from the other side of the sign, spells YREKA. BECAUSE it sounds so plau sible, the bakerx sign story has' had wide currency. The historic truth of the mat toward Independence, but I have learned a few apparent principles of behavior among the "emercent" peoples. One is that the closer, not the farther away, the stand in relation to realization of the inchoate desires in their breasts, to release from their ancient frustrations, the more angry and violent they be come.'.'. ',' "Pure reflex action." We are seeing it now on a world scale. Centuries of white ra cism have produced the inevitable- black racism. It is racism, not Communism, that is likely to become the dom inant characteristic of this generation, and Russian Com munists will be no more able to escape its ravages, in the long haul, than Western dem ocrats. We have treated black men as a race apart so long that they are bound to act like a race apart, in spite of the ap peasements of citizenship and "civil rights." . ... It is too lake - many gen erations too late - to expect general integration save in terms of public institutions. It is so no longer because of the white man's racism only, but now because of the black man's racism as well. It is one of American his tory's bitter ironies that while the Supreme Court has thrown out the old southern "equal (By M-T Staff : We are inordinately proud of the news staff of the Mail Tribune, and now Is as good a time as any to say so. This thought occurred to us last week when we got to thinking about the work our reporters and ; desKmen ao, day in and day out, and often under terrific pressure, to bring our readers the news of within their income and why should the government be dis reputable? - ; It is a complicated thing to explain why the earth is round. It is a complicated thing to explain that the Fed eral budget is not only an accounting of revenues and expenditures. It is a 1 s o a great fiscal engine which as a matter of national policy has to be managed In such a way as to promote a stabil ized growth of the economy. It Is a makeweight which has to be swung from deficit to surplus and from surplus -to deficit to compensate for the ups and downE of the business is nothing sinister or mysterious in this Idea. But It Is a new idea, new at least to a great many people. (c) 1961 New York Herald Tribune Inc. JENKINS ter, however, appears to be that the name Yreka arose out. of the Indian word for Mount Shasta, which .-was IEKA. By more or less na tural process of corruption, this came in time to- be pro nounced Y-REKA. - IN Klamath, where this is written, we're inclined to be at least pale green with envy of the progress Yreka is making with its Discovery Street Parkr We too have a historic spot, - '- : It is the little flat up on the Williamson 'river where Highway 97 c r o s s e s the stream, just south of Chilo quin. This little flat is steeped in history. It was there that Captain 'Fremont fought his toughest battle with the In dians. It was there that he saved the life of Kit Carson by riding down with his horse Sacramento a brave who was drawing a bead with ihis bow and arrow , on the Intrepid fCOl't. U- - " ' s The real story, however, lies in what ' happened the night before the battle. That night Lieutenant Gillespie, the Marine, arrived with a message that he had carried to Fremont by a fabulous route. Leaving Washington, he traveled to Vera Cruz by a Navy warship. He crossed Mexico, on foot, .to Mazatlan. From Mazalatan, he went by sailing vessel to Hawaii. From Hawaii, he returned by sailing vessel to San Fran cisco.From San Francisco, he made it to Upper Klamath Lake by saddle horse. : ; THE secret message he car ried (it was so secret that on his way across Mexico on foot he committed it to mem ory and ATE the paper on which it was written) led Cap tain Fremont and Kit Carson and their party to make aU haste back to Sonoma, where they joined the rest of their party and in' company with American settlers in the Sac ramento valley raised the Bear Flag and proclaimed the Bear Republic. but separate'1 principle in re spect to public institutions, it is this very principle in all other respects that millions of Negroes now seek, in their hearts. It is not to be wondered at, I suppose, that, in the foreign policy gyrations over the Con go and Lumumba, "great num bers of American Negroes re acted as Americans second and as Negroes first. ' . I do not understand all the psychological mysteries in volved in man's reactions to pigmentation of the skin. But I am awa?e that even in coun tries like Brazil, officially un segregated in all realms of life, the blackest men gener ally do the roughest and dirt iest work; that the same is true in the all-Negro Repub lic of Haiti; and that in the rising rebellion against econ omic exploitation aU over Latin America the ideology of skin shading is a very real, If unacknowledged, force for hostility. - e But the age of the conquis tadores is long past. This is the twentieth century. One can hope, at least, that dark men in power in this age will prove more enlightened than did white men in power In their dark ages. (Distributed 1961, by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) I (AH Rights Reserved) and Contributors). the vaUey and the world. Oh, sure, they make mistakes -but that's because they're hu man, and if they weren't hu man, we wouldn't love 'em so much,.:,"."". U-..." .' - The same goes for a good many ot the folks who, at one time or another, have worked here, and then moved on to other occupations. The Mail Tribune has never begrudged anyone leaving to take anoth er job if he, or she, felt it ac corded better with their taste, or with their ambitions. Some find greater reward in other fields in other areas; some find it right here. Two of our more recent "graduates," for Instance, we couldn't be prouder of. One ot them Is Bob Walters, until re cently our regional editor and writer of a sprightly column entitled "Out on a Limb," and the other is Eric Wentworth, Who covered city hall for us. Both are how on the Port land Oregonian, and doing bang-up jobs, as we knew they would. . Bob started ' out there as night police reporter, but more recently has been pro moted to drama editor (for heaven's sake, Bob!), and now writes a dally column entitled Night Beat (maybe that's a hangover from his work in the police department; maybe' not). i It's a pretty gay , affair, which will be no particular surprise to anyone who reads his W-T column. For instance, the other day he was cover ing the Portland appearance of Tempest Storm, the nation's premier striptuese, or ecdysi ast, noted most particularly for her spectacular dimen sions. This is his lead;. . ; . "Tempeit Storm has blue yes. -"How's that for objective reporting?" '.. .; '', '-Si ,'' if Erie Wentworth is a differ ent kind of reporter, but in his own way as talented as Bob (and, no, we're not going to get into any invidious com parisons of talent and ability, either). Eric, too, started out on the Oregonian's police beat, but soon his talent was also recog nized, and he was named edu cation editor of the Oregonian. . In sober, detached and thor ough : fashion, : lie has ' gone about the business of learning; the ins and outs ot education al problems in Portland and the state and the nation, and has turned in some excellent copy, amply justifying the trust the Oregonian's editors had in him when they named him to fill the very large (hy pothetical) shoes of Wilma Morrison, who was one of the outstanding education editors in the nation. ' Last week, Eric departed a bit from the strictly educa tional' front, and did an im partial, objective job of tell ing a bit about the origins of the John Birch Society in Portland, as seen through the eyes of one of its founders. We don't see her anyone violent antl-Bircher or dedicat ed member - could find any thing about his series to criti cize. And that's a real test ot reportorial ability, particular ly when it is a job which goes into a subject in some depth and detail, . - In short, we predict these young men will hare dis tinguished careen in the newspaper field, and are glad they were Mall Trib une staffers for a while. Meanwhile, we are equally proud of those who have chosen to stay with the Med 'ford paper, devoting their considerable talents to do- ing a job for the Mall Trlb- ' une's readers. , r - : . .-. -.' Speaking of the John Birch Society, which has been the subject of a lot of nationwide publicity the last few weeks, we can't help but feel that a rough sort of poetic justice is being wrought. Some members of the soci ety have been mighty quick to throw the words "communist" and "pinko" and "left-wing": around at people who disagree with their own political views. Now that questions of their own methods and American ism have been raised, it is in teresting to hear their screams of indignation. "Why, we're patriotic, loyal Americans!" they cry in out rage. : ... Well, maybe they're finding out how other patriotic, loyal Americans have felt when they've been called "pinko" and "red," simply because they believe in a future for" America based solidly on an open society and on the Bill of Rights of the U. S. Constitu tion. .... -a e But. this U Easter, and that fellow E.A. across the ' page, and Mary Williams in ' the Communications col- -umn, lay we should be toler- ' ant and forgiving and thank- ful al this season of the; year. So we should.- I ; . Happy Easter, everyone. And you too, John Blrchers.
