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THURSDAY. MAY It. 1111 FRUIT COCKTAIL PINEAPPLE TIDBITS SOLID TOMATOES 303 Can 211 Size Chunks or Crushed ... - Add a pinch of Cres- . & e & i i cenr jweet diiii ror . Color and Flavor. Vp-31 STEWED TOMATOES 303 Can PINEAPPLE-GRAPEFRUIT DRINK29 .uce MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON '"A v 'V a ft (ff BABY RUTH Uir BUTTER FINGERS M N t A ... vf: V- , i K 'fi I -., KrmswtL- LEERY OF CAMERAS - To Dennis Catalonl of the Hyde Park section of Boston, Mass., all cameras, big and small, spell X-ray machines, doctors and hospitals. When asked for his picture on his third birthday, his reaction is understand able. At the age of five months he lapsed into a coma. A hole was found in his heart and it was patched. Since then he has been in and out of hospitals. When Dennis is five years old he will undergo open heart surgery. (UPI Telephoto) Many Object To Birch Society's Surreptitious Means ... . t- -4.ui : . u.. wpt.EN B. SHAFFER (Ediilorial Renarch Reports) Washington When mem bers of Congress, and finally the general public, began to hear about the John Birch So ciety a few months ago, curi osity and amazement were the initial reactions. Who was John Birch and ' what was his society? How could anyone believe, as the leader of this organiza tion was said to do, that Gen eral Eisenhower was a Com munist or that Chief Justice Warren should be impeached? As it turned out, belief that the former President had Red proclivities was said not to be shared by many of the follow ers of the retired candy man ufacturer, Robert H. W. Welch, who founded the John Birch Society. But the rain of letters descending on Con gress indicated surprising dis trust of the Chief Justice. All this got the society a lot of publicity. And it soon came out that John Birch was a missionary . p.onmio jhn had been Alum murdered by a Communist in China, and that tne society bearing his name had been started over two years ago. Un Imnnrtant. it aDDeared that the group had drawn support from citizens ot pro minence over the country. ti Thn nirnli Society is r AUC JV.1I... " tMAntlv fntarpsted In root ing out any tendencies to ward communism in tne unit ed States. But many persons 1H riatrrihp its vleWS S3 tO what constitutes or borders on communism as fanatic, u u.iic fnr pvnmolp. for repeal of the federal income tax and the social security laws, for withdrawal of this country -nrn th TTnited Nations and NATO, and for termination of foreign aid. Atnerlrim wnilld Chal lenge the right of individuals to propose any oi mese things. But many Americans object to the John Birch So ciety's seeking-by surreptiti ous means to shake public nniiHnnm in sovernment leaders and to weaken sup port of policies closediy re lated to national security Earlier Societies Secret societies have flou rished in America for a long iima Mmt nf them have been formed to promote good fel lowship or to satisfy a xasie for elaborate ritual. The se cret societies with political objectives that crop up peri odically often are organized Viv ninl with atronK opin ions who are too Impatient to try to get them into eiieci Dy ordinary political means Perhaps the earliest secret Atptv tn mule a bis dent in American political life was ik Cnn nf Liberty, orga nized in colonial times. It agi tator! for indeoenaence in httetarnu. WAV that intimi . dated British officials and RritUh colonists on edge. In the mld-1850s the Nnthinai. really se cret patriotic society called the Order oi tne oiar span gled Banner, gained political atroncrth hv PYololtinff nti- Catholic, anti-Immigrant and aggressively pro-American be lief. The Kn Klu Klan and Its famed night riders became a powerful influence in ine Smith during Reconstruction days. When revived after World War I, the Klan had an Inglorious career excoriating Negroes, Catholics and for eigners. The decade preceding WnrlH War II ffavp hirth tn ostensibly pro-American orga- niTiitinnR sprrpt.lv ripvntpn tn the cause of Hitlerism, but investigators exposed most of them before Pearl Harbor. When hot war gave way to rnlH war. congressional . in quiries centered on Commu nist groups. Their activities were so thoroughly gone into hv Cnnffrpju and the courts that not much was left of the secrecy that once shrouded Red methods of espionage and nhvpreinn Unless a secret society con spires to overthrow the gov ernment by force,' unless It cites to riot, or unless it com mits anmp nthpr nffpnse against law and order, there is little tnat a democratic government can do about It. The rights of dissent and free association are protected by the Constitution. It doesn't matter that a secret society may have ultimate goals ini mical to the public good. No other politically moti vated secret group Is subject tn cnntmla as sever as those put on Communist organiza tions, une internal security Act of 1950, still in litigation, requires Communist groups to register with the Department oi justice ana to suDmii iun information about themselves. Various states have laws re quiring organizations of other kinds to disclose membership rous ana aetaus oi tneir ii- nancing. Disclosure laws used to be uniformly sustained by the Sunrpme Cnurt. hut the Court took a new tack in 1958. A de cision that year relieved the Motlnnal Assnclatinn for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple of having to disclose names of its members in Ala hama This rullne. throwing out an obviously harrassing regulation, was widely nauea for the protection it gave to freedom of association. On the other hand, some nprsnns think the lonff-rance i . Hanffpr nrpspntpH hv nnlitical action groups operating in semi-secrecy demands strong er measures oi pumic control than now exist, strong enough at least to force groups like the John Birch Society to work in the open Drugs May Be Used For Cancer Cure Notu Vnrlr -flTPIV- Dr. Aus tin Smith,' president of the Pharmaceutical. Manuiaciur pra association, has oredicted that a drug will be the cure tor certain types of cancer. "In the next two decades viwrt the dm industry to develop agents which actully will cure cancer, ne saia. it cannot be forecast that all tvnea of cancer will be sub ject to cure by drugs, but many of them win. TV Sirinev Farber. a cancer specialist at Harvard univer sity, noted tnat tne time nas come for research center! to treat all cancer victims with medicinals as well as with surgery and radiotherapy. 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