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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yeari ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 13, 19S2 (Sunday)
Richard Reeves, 15, of
Grants Pass, wins Rogue Val
ley Soap Box derby in Med
ford; 82 youths competed.
City of Ashland awarded
a special citation from the
Automotive Safety foundation
for its cooperation in the pro
tection and convenience of
pedestrians.
20 YEARS AGO
July 13, 1942 (Monday)
The Jackson County Cham
ber of Commerce asks peo
ple with rooms or houses to
rent to list them with the
chamber so it can accommo
date the hundreds of officers
and enlisted personnel arriv
ing at Camp White.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
cool morns of the past few
days have caused the wood
and fuel dealers to smile and
the older barbers to warm
their fingers down the necks
of customers.
30 YEARS AGO
A delegation of business
men asks the county court to
provide $1,000 to send two
chamber of commerce repre
sentatives to Washington,
D.C., to lobby for federal
funds for the railroad to
Crescent City.
Mcdford's Red MacDonald
Is dcclnred a likely starter at
end on the Oregon State foot
ball squad.
40 YEARS AGO
Friends of Sheriff Terrill
announce that they will file
an injunction restraining the
county clerk from calling a
special election.
The Ford power exposition
passes through Medford en
route to Ashland where it will
give a series of demonstra
tions. 50 YEARS AGO
Temperature reaches 94 de
grees, the hottest of the year.
Prof. P. J. O'Gara, recent
ly returned from a visit to
Crater lake, announces that
cars will be able to reach the
lake by the end of the week.
WM's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight Is eicellent; five or
sii is good.
1. Fill In the letters to
-R E E.
2. Is the dangerous quality
of an electric shock the volt
age or the amperage?
3. How many standard
time rimes are spanned by
the United States?
4. The caliber of a gun re
fers to the muzzle velocity,
or that speed at which the
bullet loaves the barrel; true
or false?
P. What Is the most abun
dant element In the earth's
crust?
0. In mounting a horse,
slvtuhl one first place the
ripht . or left foot In the stir
rup ?
7. What statue Is on Bed
loo's Island?
8. Within the boundaries
of which three states docs the
Cumberland Gnp National
Historical park lie'
9. Which book of the Old
Testament tells of Solomon
and the Shulamlte maid?
10. What American General
was nicknamed "Old Fuss and
Feathers?"
Answers; 1. Finland and
Greece. 2. Amperage. 3. Sev
en. 4. False (Diam, ol bore.)
5. Aluminum. 6. Left foot. 7.
Statu of Liberty. 8. Ky..
Tenn., and Va. 9. Song of
Solomon (Canticles). 10. Win
field Scott,
FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1962
A Show of
The Russian position
be likened to what someone has called a Bikini
argument: what it reveals is important; what it
conceals is vital.
For a number of reasons the World Congress
for General Disarmament and Peace being put
on in Moscow by the Russians and pacifist ultras
from other lands can hardly be viewed as any
thing but a show. One
Lord Russell
The Congress comes
to a resumption of the
talks at Geneva. If the
new and constructive to
save it for the international rostrum. The Geneva
sessions reopen July 15,
show closes.
THE West is reported
playing down the role
inspection and control
shchev is not expected to
before a new round of
hoped that they will find favor with the Geneva
neutrals.
The neutrals also obviously are being wooed
by the demonstrations in Moscow. As one U. S.
State Department spokesman puts it, the Con
gress is a propaganda mechanism to demonstrate
that "the Soviets are on the side of the angels in
fostering world peace."
However, more may
trals. Russian scientists themselves are reported
to be perturbed by the Soviet resumption of nu
clear testing in the atmosphere last autumn. They
are supposed to be particularly suspicious of gov
ernment explanations of the necessity for setting
off 25-megaton and 57-megaton devices.
lHRUSHCHEV has
ed a reputation for consistency. Nevertheless,
the Congress in Moscow poses a problem in re
gard to another round of nuclear tests that must
have even the Soviet Premier slightly flummoxed.
Washington Sovietologists find it hard to
understand why the Russians haven't already re
sumed testing in the atmosphere. If they open
another round in the near future, any postures
of peace and goodwill made at the Moscow Con
gress will be heavily discounted. (There is also,
of course, the possibility however remote that
the Soviets would renounce future testing in re
sponse to an appeal from the Congress.)
AS FOR Geneva, it would appear that the min
imum Vinno ia a horror nnrlprerunrlino amnno
the neutrals of the West's
ament; the maximum, real steps toward agree
ment. The common sense point of view has been
stated by Prof. Seymour Melman of Columbia
university: "The greatest safety for mankind is
to be obtained from the earliest, even if partial,
disarmament agreements which would serve to
reduce international tensions. Such effects would
facilitate, in turn, the extension of the scope and
workability of disarmament agreements, and
their approprite inspection methods." E.R.R.
Communism, Unionism
Marx saw trade unions as "schools of com
munism" in which proletarians would be trained
to exercise their promised dictatorship. Lenin
later noted that the development of the prole
tariat "did not, and could not, proceed anywhere
in the world otherwise than through the trade
unions, through their interaction with the party
of the working class."
It is too bad that neither Marx nor Lenin is
alive to contemplate the meaning of the seventh
world congress of the International Confedera
tion of r roe Trade Unions, which meet in V est
Berlin. This anti-Communist confederation con
sisted of labor organizations in 106 nations
with 56 million members in North and South
America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and
New Zealand. A 20-nicmber delegation repre
sented the AFL-CIO.
ftTARX and Lenin would be shocked to see
working class leaders meeting in West Ber
lin in order to demonstrate their "solidarity with
the persecuted peoples behind this wall and be
hind the Iron Curtain."
The two revolutionaries conceded, of course,
that not all trade unions, at all times and in all
countries, were good schools of communism.
Lenin even penned a diatribe against certain
western trade unions, which he described as
"craft-union, narrow-minded, selfish, unfeeling,
covetous, petty-bourgeois, labor aristocracy, im-perialLxtieally-minded,
and bribed, and corrupted
by imperialism."
But neither man could have foreseen that the
world trade union movement some day would de
velop such a broad and fervently anti-Communist
bent. E.R.R.
About Fallout
"There is no health hazard here in this coun
try, nor will there be from our tests." Thus said
President Kennedy in his press conference recent-
I ly in response to a question on fallout contamina
tion from nuclear weapon U.ting. E.R.R.
Disarmament
on disarmament might
of the ultras is Britain s
really as a curtain-raiser
17-nation disarmament
Russians have anything
oner, surely they will
the day after the Moscow
to be preparing new con-
of the United States in
of disarmament. Khru
buy these certainly not
nuclear tests but it is
be involved than the neu
never noticeably cultivat-
sincerity about disarm
"Quick Boil Loti Of Water"
Matter of Fact
(c) New York Herald
THE MORAL BALANCE
SHEET
Washington -The latest in
formation about the recent,
major redeployment of the
Chinese Com
munist army
c o m p letes a
strikingly in
teresting and
t e 1 1 ing pat
tern. In the
first phase,
large numbers
of additional
troops were
moved into
8 1 -
AlinD
the areas along the Formosa
Strait from which an attack
on the Nationalist-garrisoned
offshore islands might be
launched. The question
promptly arose whether the
intention was offensive, or
whether this was really a de
fensive movement, caused by
Chiang Kai-shek's frequent
public threats to attempt a
landing on the mainland this
year.
Now, however, additional
troops have been moved into
much larger area, extending
from northeast Kwangtung
province, up the coast to the
northern part of Fukien prov
ince. The inland boundary of
the reinforced area is a rough
arc. And this arc in turn
bounds the area within which
It would be practical for
Chiang Kal shek to give air
cover to a force being para
chuted into China.
ONE must always keep one's
fincers crossed in such
cases. But the new evidence
makes the redeployment of
the Communist army appear
even more strictly defensive
than was at first supposed.
Apparently this huge and
costly troop movement has
really been undertaken be
cause the Peking leaders are
afraid - afraid of a landing
by Chiang, but even more
afraid of their own people,
and maybe even afraid of
some units of their own army,
without whose help no Na
tionalist landing could suc
ceed. The Peking leaders do well
to be afraid. If this year's
Chinese harvest is as bad as
the last three, which now
seems quite possible, China
will be almost in the position
of the Soviet Union in 1921.
In 1920, the tax collectors
of the new Soviet Commu
nist state had even seized the
seed grain of the Russian
peasantry. In 1921, the weath
er was also unkind. Famine
stalked the whole Russian
land. And the Soviet commis
sars were driven to appeal
for help to the capitalist
world, through Maxim Gorky,
the great writer.
ITERUERT HOOVER and his
America Relief Organiza
tion responded to the appeacl.
They worked in the Soviet
Union for over two years. In
the end, they got official
credit from the Kremlin for
saving no less than many mil
lions of Russian lives. The
wiser students of Soviet his
tory also credit Herbert Hoo
ver and his American grain
with saving the Russian revo
lution; for the entire struc
ture of Soviet Communism
was falling apart under the
strain of hunger when Hoover
came to the rescue.
It is exasperating, nowa
days, to recall this long for
gotten exercise in misplaced
humanitarianism. For Imagine
the consequences if Hoover
had not hurried to the rescue.
The 17.000,000 persons mas
sacred by Josef Stalin in the
ten years between 1929 and
1939 would not have been
massacred. Hie countless mil
lions of others who languish
ed and died In the Sovie
labor camps would hav boon
saved. Poland, Hungary, and
the rest of Eastern Europe
would not be in chains China
might be a free, rather than
a slave, state. Russia too
would have built her nation
al power on a less ugly foundation.
I
L:
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
THOUGH exasperating, how
ever, it is needful nowa
days to recall Hoover's res
cue mission, for two excellent
reasons. On the one hand,
some leading officials of the
Kennedy administration lean
towards sending a similar
food mission to Communist
China, if the Peking leader
ship asks for it. Indeed, a:
shown in the last report in
this space, the government is
in a measure publicly com
mitted to do just this.
On the other hand, it is
silly to suppose that we can
make this kind of quasi-com-
mitment with complete safety,
looking generous before the
world with no risk of having
to meet our commitment.
If worst comes to worst in
Peking, as it may well do this
autumn if the harvest is bad,
the Chinese Communist lead
ers are perfectly capable of
following the example set in
1921. Lenin swallowed his
pride and controlled his hos
tile suspicions under dire
pressure of necessity. So may
Mao Tse-tung. Lenin allowed
U.S. supervision of Hoover's
grain distribution. So may
Mao Tse-tung.
TTENCE
the quite likely
nrnsnert of pnnthpr
bad
harvest in already-starving
China demands an immediate
new look at this half-or-three-quarters
committed posture
the government has partly
accidentally got Itself into.
The moral balance sheet
needs casting up.
Last time, millions of lives
were saved; everyone involv
ed felt big and generous and
humane; but Soviet Commu
nism was saved too, with in
calculably evil results. The
lives immediately saved
weigh very light in the bal
ance, in fact, against the lives
subsequently lost, or warped,
or spent in darkness because
the Soviet Communist system
was saved.
Do we really want to do
the same thing all over again,
when there will be a better
than even chance of the en
tire structure of Chinese com
munism falling apart if we
hold our hands? For if the
food request is made, it will
only be made because the odds
have turned heavily against
Mao, and because Mao under
stands the odds.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c- Field FntprprlKM Inc.
EDUCATIONAL PROBLEM
If you visit a first-grade
class, as I did recently, you
will find that the children are
bright eyed
and eager,
warm and re
sponsive, di
rect and spon
taneous. Then,
if you visit a
sixth- grade
class, you will
feel a distinct
difference in
the emotional
turn
and intellectual atmosphere.
The students are wary; their
reactions are calculated; their
answers are based on what
they think the teacher and
society generally wants to
hear, not on what they them
selves think.
One of the real needs for
educational research today
and one of the main objec
tives of a bill now in Con-
gross for
discover
that purpose is to !
how the teaching i
process actually works best,
arj how wc can prevent it
Crom freezing and formaliz
ing pupils so that their nat
ural curiosity and enthusi
ami is not dampened and ex
tinguished. The whole process of
communicating knowledge
in the most effective way
it 11111 largely a closed I
Franco's Nomination
Cabinet Makeup Noted as Significant
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Francisco Franco's nomina
tion of his successor and the
makeup of the Spanish cabi
net have been
described as
the most sig
nificant politi
cal move to
occur in Spain
since Franco's
rise to power
nearly 25
years ago. In
this case the
i
ml
New.om e x t r avagant
phraseology probably is justi
fied. In one strike Franco elim
inated the question "after
Franco, what?" and at the
same time eliminated a po
tentially dangerous split with
in his own government.
It was a victory for those
National Republican Citizens
Committee Points Clarified
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington-ll'Pli- To put the
new National Republicans Cit
izens Committee (NRCC) in
j focus, it is nec-
essary i o
know:
-NRCC was
not formed, as
advertised, at
the June 30
all - Republi
can co n f e r
ence which
assembled at
the Eisenhow
Wilson
er farm in Gettysburg.
-NRCC is, for the time be
ing, a headless horseman of
sorts.
U w ,t;j
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
lc) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
BUYING AND BETTING
The trouble with foreign
aid to countries like Yugo
slavia, Poland, and India is
that the rea.
sons for giv-
i n g it are
rather hard to
under stand
and are even
harder to ex
plain. Having .fol
lowed the de
bate for many
years I have
Lippmann
been asking myself what it is
that has really divided the ob
jectors in Congress from
both the Eisenhower and Ken
nedy administrations. Why is
it that the two Presidents who
have conducted foreign pol
icy have both wanted to have
the right to give aid to coun
tries which are avowedly
Communist or to neutral
countries which so often dis-
book to us. All we can be
sure of is that something
happens to pupils between
their kindergarten experi
ences and their emergenc
into high school and what
happens is too frequently
a loss of intellectual tone,
a cramping of Imagination,
a resistance to ideas.
I am absolutely convinced
that this is not a natural
development, but comes
from some perversion in
the leaching process. All
youngsters are normally
interested In painting and
music; they are fascinated
with words and with num
bers; they enjoy hearing
about strange countries and
ancient times. Indeed, the
whole curriculum of educa
tion is a matter of delight
to the inquiring young
mind.
The most important thing
in the whole learning pro
cess, it seems to me, it an
emotional component: the
continuing respontivenest
of the child. And what it it
precisely that lurnt a child
irom a eager receptor of
knowledge to a dull-eyed
reciter of factt he neither
cares about nor will bother
to remember after the class
it over?
This is by no means an
academic problem, but an in
creasingly vital one for mod
ern society. For as knowledge
becomes greater, and as the
utilization of knowledge be
comes more Imperative in
our national life, we find at
the same time that more and
more pupils look upon edu
cation as merely a tedious
preamble to "real life."
which moans earning a living
in the world.
The number of school
drop-outs is alarmingly high,
and rising. More than that.
the number of st'icients who
are graduated front hifch
school and even from college
without a rudimentary educa
ca- j
gh
tion is dooressingly hig
it.
Modern civilization, if it is :o j rest on the fact that countries
survive at all, calls exactly hke Yugoslavia. Poland, and
f,ir those traits of imagina-' India are, like most countries,
tion. creativity, and curiosity made up of many contending
which the schools seem to parties, sects, and persona!-di-ain
out of their studen's at j itics. No one who has ever
an early age. I been to these countries can
liberals Inside the regime
who overcame years of leth
argy and complacency to push
through Spain's stabilization
program in 1959 and who now
seek Spain's association with
the European Common Mar
ket. The new lineup still further
reduces the influences of old
line Falangists, Spain's only
legal party, who feared the
changes inevitable through
close association with a liberal
Europe.
Toward Reunion
As it has moved cautiously
but steadily toward a reunion
with the Western family of
nations, Spain has become a
member of the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and
Development, the World Bank
and the International Mone
tary Fund.
It is not a member of
The committee was organ
ized before the June 30 meet
ing with the blessing of for
mer president Eisenhower
The organizing energy and
brains were contributed by
Walter N. Thayer, president
of the New York Herald Tri
bune. The Herald Tribune is
self-styled independent Re
publican. It is coming to be
the accepted Eastern news
paper voice of the Republican
Party. Especially it is so ac
cepted since its voice became
so sharp that President Ken
nedy couldn't take it and can
celled all 22 White House sub
scriptions. A party voice
could not be more highly hon
ored. agree with us so much?
This is no issue between
Democrats and Republicans.
It is between factions within
both parties. Only a loose talk
er would say that the two
Presidents have been less anti-Communist
than the objec
tors. There is, however, one
clear difference between the
two Presidents on the one
hand and the objectors on the
other. The two Presidents
have been on the inside where
they have had to choose be
tween what would happen if
they gave the aid and what
would happen if they did not.
The objectors have been on
the outside, not responsible
for the choice and therefore
free to indulge their feelings.
BUT why, I have been ask
ing myself, have the two
Presidents found it so hard to
convey their own convictions
to the objectors In Congress
and to the wider public which
supports them? I wonder
whether the crux of the diffi
culty of explaining the policy
does not lie in the difference
between buying a horse and
betting on a horse race.
As I read the speeches of
the objectors they seem to be
saying that unless Yugoslav
ia, Poland, and India adopt
the American ideology and
follow American policy, we
are not getting for our for
eign aid what we are paying.
They do not object to grants
and loans as such. What sticks
in their throats is that while
we pay the piper we cannot
call the tune. This, as the ob
jectors see it, is not only a
waste of money but it is a
foolish underwriting of an un
American way of life and an
un-American line of interna
tional policy.
IiHE two Presidents and
their advisors and support
ters know that while it may
be possible, and occasionally
necessary, to buy corrupt and
weak little governments,
countries like Yugoslavia and
Poland and India have proud
national traditions and are in
a state of revolutionary pa
triotism which makes them
quite unpurchasable. The
mere suggestion that the ob
ject of American foreign aid
is to buy them would provoke
a violent nationalist reaction.
Therefore, the two Presi
dents had not said, cannot say.
and must not say that they are
attempting to buy influence
with t lie American aid. This
however weakens their case
with the American objectors
who cannot understand giving
out money without getting an
immediate tangible return.
The position of the two Pros-
idonts is that they need the !
right to make well-placed
bots, which might be lost, but,
if won, would pay off hand
somely in the general inter
est of peace and security.
ll'HAT is the nature of those
" bets" At bottom the bets
of Successor,
NATO, but, through its agree,
mei.t with the United States
provides invaluable air and
naval bases for Western de
fense. Mid-1959 found Spain al
most at the end of its financial
rope.
Its foreign exchange was
down to less than $60 million.
Then it devalued the peseta,
restricted credits, went after
a balanced budget and laid on
new taxes.
The result was a howl of
protest that the engineers of
the new economic look had
plunged Spain into her most
serious economic crisis in 20
years. It split the cabinet.
But its advocates held on,
and today Spain's reserves
total more than $1 billion.
Liberal Victory
Chief among the opponents
were the ministers of labor,
NRCC is a headless horse
man of sorts because it lacks
a candidate, a headman. Citi
zens committees need heroes
for whom to shout, parade
and contribute money. They
are organized for that pur
pose. Sen. Barry Goldwater
(R-Ariz.) was quick to protest
that the Republican Party
had no need for an adjunct
such as NRCC; that citizens
committees were for campaign
years when there was a presi
dent to be elected. .
The organizers of NRCC for
the most part are from the
party fringe far removed from
party discipline, such as that
is. The committee is suspect
by such as Goldwater and the
Congressional Republican
leadership on grounds that it
may have a candidate in se
clusion somewhere and one
whom the old line Republican
partymen will not want.
There is uneasiness, also, lest
NRCC dabble in party policy.
The Republican Congressional
leaders consider themselves
the policy-making, working
chiefs of the Republican Par
ty. They are making Republi
can policy in Congress and
they expect the party to con
form to the policy they make.
At that point, he Congres
sional Republican leadership
and the new NRCC are likely
to draw apart, assume aggres
sive postures of defense and.
shortly, to engage in a puDiic
political brawl. That will de
light the Democrats.
NRCC Formation
The new NRCC was not
formed or organized at Ike's
farmyard all-Republican con
ference. It just looked that
way. The six-page NRCC me
morandum appealing for
funds and naming the organ
izers was dated June 30, the
day of the conference, and
postmarked in the afternoon
of July 1 at Gettysburg. It
contained a covering letter
from Eisenhower to Thayer
dated June 28.
There was an implication in
the news stories from Gettys
burg on June 30 and on Sun
day, July 1, that the all-Republican
conference had cre
ated the National Republican
Citizens Committee. If so,
then NRCC would have been
partly the creature of various
regular party leaders there as
sembled, including House and
Senate leaders Charles A.
Halleck and Everett M. Dirk
sen. It did not come about that
way. It any pariy resuiais
were organizers of NRCC,
their names do not show in
the committee's literature;
not, that is, unless Ike can be
counted among the old guard.
have any doubt that they are
evolving or that tneir status
and their destiny are not fix
ed.
All of them must have aid
from the more highly devel
oped nations if they are to
imorove their own conditions.
The Elsenhower-Kennedy pol
icy has been to give these
countries the option of getting
aid from the West. This will
strengthen the hand of those
Poles and Yugoslavs who
want greater national inde
pendence and wider interna
tional connections. It will also
strengthen the hand of those
Indians who, though wishing
to remain unaligned, want to
work with the Western dem
ocracies
If those bets pay off It will
be profoundly in our interest
They are excellent bets. If we
win them, we win much. If
we lose them, the money wo
lose will be a trifling part
of the larger tragedy.
F WE lose the bet on India,
great free democratic Asian
state is unable to make a go of
it. it will be an historic cat
astrophe. Let us not, there
fore, give way to our irrita
tions. It will be no consola
tion if India breaks down
into anarchy to be able to
tell ourselves that we do not
like Krishna Menon and that
he got what was coming to
him.
industry and information and
tourism. They departed in tha
recent shakeup and have been
replaced by "Europeans,"
those who favor increased li
beralization of economic poli
cies and entry into the com
mon market.
Taking over as Franco's
designated successor is Gen.
Agustin Munoz Grandes, a
friend of the United States.
As vice premier he is expect
ed to ease the way in negotia
tions for a renewal of U. S.
bases agreements this fall.
Free elections is a require
ment for entry into the Euro
pean Common Market and
this could provide a bar to
Spain. It also could provide
a lever for political evolu
tion. Communications
Some Quettiont
To the Editor: I read in tha
paper it was not legal" to
charge $3.50 on water and put
it on the footage. Why not $2
to pay off a debt the Jackson
ville council made on a sewer
we haven't got and can't
until the debt for water is
paid and get nothing back.
Just like putting a gun to your
head and saying "open tha
cash register," put $2 on tha
water, and say pay or we turn
off the life blood of your body.
What is the difference?
They say when the bonds are
sold there won't be so much
tax this. way. They have a
bond issue of $250,000. What
insurance do we have that
they won't sell them all just
the same. Some 36,000 gallons
of water on the Britt proper
ty free and an old pensioner
can't afford enough for a pot
of flowers. If they knew they
wouldn't want it destroyed,
they were the kind to help
others.
I was on the board when
they voted Medford water. I
was ridiculed well. She is
gone, just a fly-by-night, but
God only knows how many
she helped put there. When I
was a kid, the latch string was
always out. Now it's money.
Money is everything, even
looking ahead to see what
they can gain by what they
plan to do. Don't matter who
they hurt, fight or go under.
Where are the beautiful flow
ers and the green lawns; gone,
never to return. I didn't think
the women should vote, now I
don't think the men should
either. Turn it over to tha
kids, they will do better.
What is the use of voting it
they can do as they choose
without the people's say? So
we will have to get the old
foggies back to set us straight
so we can get out of debt and
live in peace. Can we live two
more years like this, or will
we dry up and blow away?
Old Ghost Town, the home ot
their hallowed youth. Will
the ghost like the Arab fold
their tents and silently fade
away? I suppose you could
call me an old foggie. My
father's mother was Daniel
Boone's sister. My mother was
born at old Ft. Lane during an
Indian siege.
Bernice Janosky,
P.O. Box 143,
Jacksonville.
Offsetting Hospital Bills
To the Editor: A few days
ago I sent a letter to the edi
tor of the Medford Mail Trib
une to be published in tha
communications section; he
did. Thanks.
The context of this letter
was a suggestion to start a
state lottery to offset the hos
pital bills of which we all
dread-also a step to offset so
cialized medicine, of which
our neighbor, Canada, is ex
periencing at present.
Personally, I do not believe
in socialized medicine. Some
900,000 people in Saskatche
wan alone, are without a doc
tor. This is not good reading
material as I see it. Eventu
ally this will happen here also.
Too many of our fellow
Americans who have stooped
to a weak outlook in life.
would nod to anything that
would be socialistic. Work a
little and loaf for 20 weeks,
their leisure time is spent-,
either drinking beer at their
favorite tavern or hunting or
fishing in season, with one
slogan in mind: for today wa
live, tomorrow may never
come.
I'd say that this minority
group is inn per cent social-
istic. Tnis same group would
nod in favor of socialized med
icine, of which we sincere
thinkers do not want any part.
I would appreciate hearing
from any ol you politician,
regardless of party, in this
rrw.iter. In the past at voting
time we all have had a chance
to express our views with a
yes or a no on various sub
jects. There's still time for this
subject to be placed on the
coming elections ballot. Do
you. the peopie. favor a state
lottery to offset hospital bills?
Howard H. Brown,
807 Gilman rd.,
Medford.