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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files ot Th
Mail Tribuns 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 19. 1952 (Tuesday)
Mrs. J. W. Burba, 300 Oak
wood dr., has been named
head of the Medford Red
Cross blood program. She suc
ceeds Mrs. Leston Huntley,
2439 Lyman avc.
Oil on the highway above
Jacksonville was blamed for
the death of a 53-year-old
Ashland man driving a pick
up truck.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 19, 1942 (Wednesday)
Run-away weather baloon
excites Medford people who
think it is some sort of Japa
nese sabotage device.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "In the
report of hot spots in the
stale this burg leads all the
rest with 105 degrees. But it
was a dry heat here. Ten de
grees could be added and still
be cooler than Salem at 93."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 19, 1932 (Friday)
City officials are undecided
whether or not to move city
offices into the old county
courthouse left empty by the
opening of the new court
house. A man Identified as Carl
Talmadge, formerly of Med
ford, Is found murdered in a
railroad car In Alameda, Calif.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug, 19. 1922 (Saturday)
Ku Klux Klansmen deny
truth of charges filed against
them by Howard A. Hill, J. F.
Hiltson, Dr. Jouett P. Bray,
Bert L. Moses and Thomas
Goodie, who all suffered out
rages from nlghtriders.
Medford Postmaster Bill
Warner Is cited by National'
Federation of Postoffice clerks
magazine as best postmaster
in the state.
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 19. 1912 (Monday)
New York stock market re
ports advance of ,10 cenls to
$1 a box on Bartlett pears;
Bartletts sell at $2.50 to $2.75.
Central Point doctor is ar
rested and fined $150 for prac
ticing medicine without a li
cense. What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct it superior;
oven or eight it excellent; five i
lix il good.
1. What wood is considered
by archers to be the most
nearly perfect for making of
bows?
2. Which planet has the
same name as a famous sta
tue of an armless woman?
3. Did the betrayal of
Jesus take place before or
after midnight?
4. Correct the following:
"Jim Is the best of the two
men." I
5. In which Island group, j
made famous In WW 11 is I
Bougainville? I
8. Which two cities ire re
ferred to In "The Tale of
Two Cities"?
7. In what year was the
Panama Canal opened?
8. Which of Longfellow s
characters married Hia
watha? 8. Construction of the sen
tence Is a subject dealt with
in the study of English or
grammar?
10. Was the first hydroelec
tric plant built In Washing
ton, Wisconsin, Tennessee or
New York?
Aniwtrti 1. Ytw. 2. Vtnui.
3. After. 4. "Jim il the bttttr
, . ." 5. Solomont. 8. London
and Paris. 7. 1914. 1. Min
nehaha. 9. Grammar. 10. Wisconsin.
SUNDAY. AUGUST 19. 1962
Stop Fumbling Park Issue
About two years ago, a study compiled and
published by the Bureau of Municipal Research
at the University of Oregon was distributed to
city officials and members of the city council, and
planning and parks and
The study was entitled "Planning for Parks
and Recreation: City
pages long, contained four plates, and was in
tended to "provide background information re
lated to the development of a plan for parks
and recreation facilities (in Medford) and to
offer some recommendations.
At its April 17 meeting that year, the city
park and recreation commission accepted the re
port and voted to refer it to the planning com
mission with the recommendation that the pro
posed Medford park plan (now near completion
by City Planner Ned Langford) be prepared
"with the report as a guide."
Four months later, at
ing, the planning commission accepted and filed
the report. The city council is not on record as
having taken any official
LJOWEVER, this paragraph occurred on Page
m 13 of the study:
"At the present time
ment between the city
park and recreation commission, the city coun
cil and the Medford school district that parks
should be located adjacent to school sites where
possible, and that a large part of the city's re-
ciuirements tor recreation space can be met m
this way."
(It should be noted
of the city council were then serving, with the
execption of William Singler.)
On the strength of the "general agreement,"
certain members of the city administration, not
ably Ned Langford, opened lines of communica
tion with the school board concerning the pos
sibility of incorporating a city park with the
new senior high school, now being planned for
construction in northwest Medford.
The board was responsive to the idea, and
about a month ago sent representatives to a
meeting of the city council to discuss the idea.
Surprisingly, they found themselves confronted
with a council that was at best uncertain and at
worst downright confused about the whole pro
position. One member of the council, indeed, seized
the occasion to make some scathing remarks, pro
fessed bewilderment about how the idea of a
school-park got going in the first place, and said
he had never been in favor of the idea.
MONETHELESS, following a good deal ofwhat
. one might charitably term discussion, the
council voted unanimously to authorize the city
manager to seek appraisals and open negotia
tions to acquire property adjacent to the proposed
senior high school site on Roberts rd.
But almost immediately afterwards, certain
members of the council began to waver and
vacillate on their decision so much that City
Manager Robert Duff said Tuesday he has not
taken any action on the
rightly felt his instructions from the council
were not clear.
Duff said he felt it
do anything pending
council and the school board to discuss the mat
ter further. No such meeting has been scheduled,
however, he said.
THE proposal as it has been presented by City
Plniino. T in.vfi.i-,1 ..ilia' f,-,.. tli i.,'li, tn ,,.
chase about 22 acres adjacent to the property al
ready owned by the school district so that an in
tegrated school-park site could be developed.
1 his is not a revolutionary idea, and is actu
ally the must economical method of developing
parks within a municipality that is, if a city
wants parks at all, this procedure would seem
i t . 1 i 1 i n 1 1 'i
me oesi, least expensive way oi accompnsning u.
The Bureau study had this to say:
'TriA iliivi'lnnmrtnt nf ai'lmnla nnrl nir.c ml
adjoining sites has various advantages. Each fa-
cnuy ueneius nom me proximity 10 ine inner.
Thw Ic rwnnr'inllx; trim iirlmn tliji uMmnl nffi.'
tively integrated into
rpi ". i i..:..
iiifie itie it imi vi'iuiui t'ctiiHiiiut's id lie jjiiuieu,
mnintv in tlm ininl njp nn.l mumtiMv.ini'o nf fni'ili.
ties. Parts of the school
a recreation building
certain taciiities wnicn would otherwise nave to
be duplicated on the school grounds." j
I
IT is impossible to detail in this short space all'
iVi-i ..,;fi.i K.,.,f:i.. e... .,;c.,,.. ,.r iu,i '
uiu iiiniuivMU m ill ill? iui iur vui.inn vi nil u-
ford in such a plan, but we're confident that any-j
one who investigates the matter thoroughly as j
we hope we have will be equallv persuaded !
by it. ' I
The cost to the city for the purchase of the 22
IU'I'(K ( Ti A llcroti nf wllii'li U'nlllil hi IWiwl fnH
street development) would be about $50,000, ac-;
cording to Langford. Funds for such a purchase!
are available from the sale of the freeway right-of-way
through Hawthorne park.
There is considerable urgency involved in the ,
matter. The school district's architects are pre
paring to draw plans for the new high school. If
the city is to participate in the plans, they need
to know about it very soon, since two totally dif-
ferent designs would be involved.
We strongly urge the city council to stand by
their earlier decision to acquire the park site at
the earliest possible date, and to cooperate with :
the school district in developing a high school :
park site that will be a source of increasing pride, :
utility, and enjoyment to the citizens of Medford
for generations to come. G.H.B. i
recreation commissions
of Medford. It was 21
its Aug. 11, 1960 meet
action concerning it.
there is general agree
planning commission, the
that all present members
property vet because he
would be inadvisable to
a meeting between the
the design of the park.
:.. . . .. u. : i
may serve the purpose of
while the park provides
"Hold On To The Rein No, Not So Tight!
Watch The Road Look Our For
Those Other Chariots "
in the Day's News
By FKANK JENKINS
Last week, back in Massa
chusetts, the biggest bank
robbery In U.S. history was
pulled off by an eight-man
gang that hijacked a U.S.
mail truck near Plymouth,
The loot totaled up to a mil
lion and a half dollars in un
marked cash.
The money bconged to six
banks on Cape Cod, but when
stolen it was in the custody
of a U.S. mail truck. So it
must be assumed that ihe loss
was Uncle Sam's. At any rate,
Uncle's men are on the Job
this morning, and they are
planning the biggest man
hunt in history.
The purpose of the man
hunt will be to get back the
money and to find and pun
ish the persons responsible
for the deed.
AS this Is written, the Post
al Department's chief In
spector, Henry B. Montague,
is In Boston with a ten-man
team and has taken personal
command of the man-hunt.
He has gone Into conference
with William F. White, chief
inspector for the New Eng
land region.
On his arrival from Wash
ington, Chief Inspector Mon
tague tells newsmen at the
Boston airport where he
landed: "I have brought my
TOP investigators from
Washington, Pittsburgh, New
York City, Detroit and Flor
ida. In all, I have brought in
ten extra men."
Earlier, Regional Inspector
White had told the reporters
Matter of Fact
lei New York Herald
By GASTON COBLENTZ
(Joseph Aliop is on vaca
tion. During his absence his
column will be writlen by
reporters expert in national
and International affairs.)
GOLD AND THE
"CULTURAL LAG"
Paris - Never was there a
more impressively conveyed
devaluation denial than Presi
dent Kennedy's use of outer
space to restate the inviola
bility of the dollar. Yet. less
than a month after the Presi
dent reassured Europe via
Tclcslar, the gold market in
London is simmering once
more.
The current fashion in
Washington is to refer to this
simmering - the purchase of
gold In preference to dollars
ns a "cultural lug" on the part
of uninformed foreign capi
talists and assorted miscre
ants. They are pictured as
having dimwittedly failed to
grasp that the Administration
is making seven-league strides
in restoring the desirability of
the dollar bill.
Yet the miscreants perverse
ly go on being miscreants,
even after being advised that
they are victims of a cultural
lag. They study intricate sta
tistics disclosing I in p r o v e
menls in the U. S foreign
balance of payments (earn
ings abroad vs. expenditures
abroad) and continue to buv
gold.
flMllS has become a phenome-
non of such persistence
that il requires a better ex
planation than tile favorite
suggestion of Administration
economists that the South Af
rican gold lobby is greedily
keeping the pot boiling. Seen
from Europe, the South Afri
can mining interests are only
one of the players In this com
plex game.
There are simply loo many
Europeans, ranging from
erudite professors of economic
theory lo attitient bank execu
tives, who either favor an in
crease in the price of gold in
relation to the dollar and all
other currencies, or who do
not necessarily fHVor it but
believe that il will occur. In
one way and another, day m
and day out. they are at pres
ent playing a greater role than
South Africa in keeping t lie
gold issue In the foreground.
that the Post Office Depart
ment is prepared to use a
THOUSAND men, if neces
sary to find and take into
custody the clever gang that
was responsible for the
holdup.
'PHE gist of it all is that no
- stone is to be left un
turned in the search for these
persons who have misused
money in the custody of and
therefore belonging, for the
time being, to the govern
ment of the United States.
WELL, that's the way to go
about It.
We love our old Uncle
when he rolls up his sleeves
and goes into action like that.
It dramatizes for us the
power and the majesty and
the EFFICIENCY of the fed
eral government of the Unit
ed States of America.
It gives us a thrill of pride.
B
UT-
This thought inevitably
occurs:
Wouldn't it be WONDER.
FUL if all the boondoggling,
all the reckless extravagance,
all the unsound management
practices that have been re
sponsibe for the accumula
tion of a national debt of
THREE HUNDRED BILLION
DOLLARS had been dealt
with In the same prompt and
efficient manner as this hi
jacking episode back in the
state of Massachusetts?
Think how much better off
we'd be now if that had been
the case.
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
At the moment, they are In
a minority, but an articulate,
influential minority whose
arguments are sufficiently
forceful to disquiet the ma
jority. There is, in fact, prob
ably no other area of inter
national affairs in which high
ly technical argumentation
can create as much practical
turmoil as is being provoked
by the abstruse dispute under
way all over Europe in the
field of gold price theory.
llfHAT it comes down to is
' the contention of the gold
revaluation forces that the
United States is in basic error
in insisting on trying to free.e
the gold price at its pre-war
(since 1934) level of $35 an
ounce. Since international
credit is based on gold, they
argue that the U. S. is in this
way unnecessarily restricting
its own international liquid
ity, that is, the amount of
money it has available for
transactions abroad. They con
tend that, in doing so, it is
forcing a contraction of the
United States' power to meet
its responsibilities abroad,
among many other world-wide
consequences.
There arc powerful counter
arguments. One nf them is
that a doubling of the gold
price, by increasing the dollar
value of U, S. gold reserves
from $16 billion to $32 billion
and by raising the currency
value of other gold stocks in
the same proportion, would
i trigger a new wave of infla
tion. Arguments on either side
are being persuasively set
j fortli by outstanding ccono-
, mists.
The point is that. Telstar
1 notwithstanding, the existence
of a bona fide conflict on the
' merits of the issue lias recent
j ly gained much wider recog-
nilion. This strongly indicates
I that it will not be possible lo
dispose of the gold problem
i by blaming it on a cultural
i lag among tile unenlightened.
i.n increase in the price of
gold may be desirable, or un
desirable. However, the issue
wilt neither be clarified nor
; solved by hopeful Washington
I declarations that the dollar's
relation to gold is "immut
able." Few things in history
have proved immutable, cer
tainly not the value of the
dollar, as experience has sail
i ly shown.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
Drummond Reports
(Welter Lippminn if on vacation. Roscoe Drummond reports from
Washington in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
THE ALLIANCE
AND THE GENERALS
Salvador, Brazil - How
ever soon the United States
may recognize and resume
economic aid to Peru under its
military junta, this question
of dealing with Latin Ameri
can dictatorships will arise
again and again in various
forms in the coming months.
It is in the making again in
Argentina right now.
It is easy to argue that for
economic, financial, and stra
tegic reasons we ought to
work with any stable Latin
American regime, military or
not. It is easy to argue that
the United States cannot im
pose democracy on any coun
try and that on the basis of
practical politics we should
make any government that is
securely in power a working
partner in the Alliance for
Progress.
But there are strong coun
ter arguments. In the first
place, all Latin American
countries together with the
United States are now explic
itly committed to using the
Alliance for Progress to
strengthen "democratic insti
tutions." For myself, I am
more than ever convinced that
long-term economic develop
ment and needed social re
form can be achieved only
through a developing Latin
American democracy.
HERE in Salvador, the Con
ference on Tensions in De
velopment, attended by polit
ical leaders and economic ex
perts from the whole hemi
sphere, examined very frank
ly the role of the military in
the life of Latin American
countries and especially in the
task of economic growth and
social improvement. Although
much of the report was off-the-record,
I can report there
was wide agreement on these
five points:
1- Military governments are
usually a serious deterrent to
economic growth.
2- The oligarchical right
wing in many countries does
not hesitate to use the army
as a weapon of survival
through so-called preventive
coups.
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
I
A COLUMNIST who doles out advice of every sort to
readers in distress received recently tins poignant ap
peal from one of her male fans: ' I have been married many,
many years and feel the
time has come to make a
great sacrifice for my
country. If they want a
woman to go to the moon,
I will gladly send my
wife. She is very small
and could fit into the
cone of a rocket. Please
tell me if you pull any
weight with the people
who are in charge of this
project and what are my
chances."
Aline Mosby, attractive
single, and brilliant, has been covering the Moscow beat for a
press service for years and likes the Russian people better all
the time the people, not the rulers in the Kremlin. One Russian
man told her, "Of course. American men s hair looks neater than
oura. They comb It!" Another Moscovite declared, "Our Soviet
women never will ro in for those unhealthy shoes of yours. Yot
see, our women's feet aren't pointed like yours.'
O 1962. by Bnn'tt Curt. pilr-' tfi-- " .
The U.S.
By ERIC SEVAREID
Aspen, Colo. - From this
continental watchtowcr where
the tree line meets the grey
rocks and the
rocks mod the
sky, a m a n
can see, at
least in the
eye of t h e
mind, the im
mense spread
of the Amer
i ca n Great
Plains. One
i cannot put his eye or his mind
to this scene without an over
whelming awareness that the
great wheel of our history is
making another turn, so con
sequential that it marks the
end of one epoch and the start
of another.
It is possible that the most
important social phenomenon
of the past century was the
'tremendous migration from
Europe and the Atlantic sea
board inlo the American West
The millions who came sought
land, space to turn around in.
and they built, here and in the
true Midwest, a garden so
wide and fruitful that it could
virtually feed and clothe the
human race.
Space, soil and human in
genuity were able to do in the
American interior what the
same factors were unable to
do in the equally immense in
teriors of Latin America and
Asia, including Soviet Asia.
j But today contrary phenom
ena are occurring In these
, three open, interior land
masses of the globe. By official
pressures, many men are be
ling pushed Into the agricultur
al interiors of Asia. Many oth
i
3- The armaments race in
Latin America, encouraged by
a supposed need for hemi
sphere defense, although out
dated by modern weapons, ex
travagantly increases military
budgets at the expense of so
cial and economic needs.
4- Swollen military budgets
can and should be cut in or
der to build schools and pro
vide teachers for millions of
illiterate people and thus cre
ate the skills for a better in
dustrial and farm economy.
5- At times the generals may
be a moderating power, pre
venting national chaos and for
a time producing surface sta
bility. But military dictator
ships offer no durable solution
to social problems and unwit
tingly prepare tne ground for
the advent of Communism, by
conditioning the public to ac
cept repressions.
rpHIS later point is well ex--
pounded by Salvador de
Madariaga,' Spanish historian
and philosopher, in his new
book "Latin America Be
tween the Eagle and the
Bear," in which he says:
"The dictator and his coun
try's Communist party collab
orate in opposition to grind
out of exiotance the middle
way parlies.
"The longer the dictator
lasts, the stronger grows the
Communist party of his coun
try and the brighter its chanc
es of success when the dicta
tor falls.
"The case with which Cas
tro veered from a revolution
which he presented as demo
cratic to one the Communist
character of which is now un
deniable was due to the long
apprenticeship in totalitarian
ism inflicted on the Cuban
people by Batista."
Most of the participants at
the Salvador conference, in
cluding influential political
and intellectual Latin Amer
ican leaders, privately approv
ed the United States action in
suspending economic aid to
the junta in Peru. Further,
the seminar which dealt with
the role of the military, put
this conclusion on the record:
"The United States must un
derstand, and Latin American
Stop
E4- - '. v
r'"vr.vi- -
mm
Can't Do Everything,
ers flee the interior of Latin
America to escape starvation.
But here in the American
Great Plains hundreds of
thousands of their own free
'will are leaving the open
'spaces settled by their fathers
and grandfathers and moving
; into tiie incessantly growing,
increasingly congested cities.
Psychologically, at least in my
: opinion, men need space even
more than leisure, but it is
Icienr that what they want,
i above space and leisure, is
greater income and the great
I or stimulus of urban living.
I Figures help one to grasp
the scale of this reverse hum
an tide. There arc 433 coun
ties in the 10 slates of the
Great Plums region. Three
1 hundred eighty one of these
; counties have lost population
in the last decade. The coun
ties that have gained include
the 20 designated as "metro
politnn" counties, those domi
nated by a sizable city. Of the
10 slates, only Colorado. New
Mexico and Texas have in
creased in population, which
means that a great percentage
of the human movement is
right out of the Great Plains
region to the big cities of the
West Coast and the East.
So far, and happily, the ma
jority of titose moving from
the western spaces into the cit-
: ics have done will for them
selves. But a hard core minor
ity is doing badly because
they do not have the training
to get urban employment.
i which now goes more and
more to the skilled So this
current of uncniplnyabics
! from the western prairies is
i added to the main stream Of
,lhe unemployablcs pouring
Editorial Comment1
There is a well tested for
mula in the newspaper busi
ness. A good newspaper gets
readers and readers get ad
vertising. If a newspaper has the in
gredients that readers want
coverage of top local, region
al, state, national and interna
tional news, some good fea
tures and a strong editorial
page-it will gain and hold
circulation. The merchant is
interested almost entirely in
circulation when he considers
use of space in a newspaper
for advertising.
He may not like some of
the newspaper's policies and
he may disagree with many
of its editorial opinions but he
will overlook those factors if
the'newspaper will distribute
his advertising message to a
large number of homes in the
area from which he expects to
draw customers.
Although this is a well test
ed formula there are some
publishers who disregard it.
There are some who publish
the cheapest possible product.
Their emphasis is on cutting
costs without regard for what
it will do to their product.
There are others who are con
vinced that controversial edi
torials that displease some ad
vertisers will result in a re
duction of advertising lineage.
They either have an editorial
page that says nothing or they
don't have an editorial page.
They disregard the fact that
advertisers are newspaper
readers and that most news
paper readers want an edi
torial page that says some
thing. There are some people who
would lock the doors of those
newspapers with whose edi
torial opinions they disagree.
But they aren't businessmen
who must advertise to stay in
business. v
One of them recently put
himself on the record in the
United States Senate. It will
surprise nobody who knows
his philosophy that the man
was Sen. Barry Goldwater.
Sen. Goldwater has utter dis
dain for the opinions of all
who disagree with him. It
probably is his greatest weak
ness. He shows in so many
ways that he thinks those who
disagree with him are fools.
He has complete contempt for
them.
Sen. Goldwater was com
pletely in character when he
made it clear as he inserted a
document in the Congression
al Record that he would try to
put out of business those
newspapers that do not agree
with him. He may have been
surprised at the reaction of
the newspapers which he in
tended to benefit. We were
not surprised nor were many
other editors, we are sure.
The Arizona Journal of
Phoenix last week had this
countries realize, that to con
tinue to support military de
velopment is contrary to each
nation's welfare."
Diplomatic relations with a
military regime is one thing.
But it seems to me that mak
ing a military dictatorship a
working partner with the Al
liance for Progress is like
trying to make a creek run up
hill and is paving the way for
Communism.
into Hie cities from tile rural
South and from places like
Puerto Rico.
Competition for unskilled
jobs in the ant hill cities is al
ready severe and can become
ugly. Technological changes
may be the main difficulty,
but racial hostilities, on the
part of trade unions quite as
much as industrial manage
ment, add intolerably to the
painful pressures. Massive ac
tion on two fronts is clearly
imperative.
On one, retraining pro
grams, reaching down to in
clude basic education in lit
eracy, without which craft
skilly cannot be acquired, will
i have to be enlarged and in
tensified far beyond present
efforts. But training in which
specific skills'.' What kinds of
jobs and precisely where will
they be opening up? In
dustrial managements have
repeatedly denied this infor
mation to unofficial investi
gators on the grounds they
would be giving away busi
ness secrets and future plan
ning to their competitors.
Clearly, government author
ity must obtain and govern-
!ment repositories must hold
this vital information, with-
jout which retraining pro-
I grams will have neither chart
; nor compass.
On the second front, racial
discrimination on jobs has to
be broken down. And equal
rights to vote and to go to
j school adds little to a Negro's
life if he has no equal right
to work. Long overdue arc
: changes on those many trace
unions which vigorously ex
clude Negro Americans by the
'fiction that they are volun
interesting editorial on tht
subject:
"The New York Herald
Tribune and the New Yorlc
World-Telegram & Sun hive
rejected with some disgust a
speech inserted in the Con
gressional Record by Senator
Goldwater, calling on busi
nessmen to advertise only in
newspapers that reflect their
own views.
"The speech was made last
May by Donald I. Rogers, bus
iness and financial editor of
the New York Herald Tribune,
and was put into the Record
with approving remarks of
our Republican senator.
"Rogers had told a private
group in New York that they
shouid no longer advertise in
such liberal publications as
the New York Times and the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch; but
that rather they should sup
port business-oriented papers
like the World-Telegram, and,
ahem, the Herald Tribune.
"The Idea seemed splendid
to Mr. Rogers and Senator
Goldwater, but apparently it
did not quite catch on with
the editors of either the Trib
or the World-Telegram.
" 'It seems that one of our
department editors made a
speech last May,' the Trib ed
itorialized. 'It was off the rec
ord and entirely personal. But
Sen. Barry Goldwater, the Re
publican conservative from
Arizona, liked it so much that
he got it printed in full in the
Congressional Record last
week. That is not of Itself sur
prising. '"The remarks did not even
remotely reflect Herald Trib
une policy with regard to its
advertisers-past, present and
future.
" 'So let it be said clearly
what our policy is: We will
continue to seek advertising
by the strength of our product.
We, as well as our competi
tors, know that this is the only
way to get business and keep
it. . . .'
"The World-Telegram, ap
parently even less enthralled
by Mr. Rogers' dunghill ideas
on how to build a newspaper,
wrote:
" 'We certainly would like
more ads but this doesn't seem
the right approach.
" 'The World-Telegram ex
pects to continue calling the
shots as it sees them. From
time to time, this inevitably
will irritate some readers.
" 'But if we take a stand
only to avoid clashing with a
big advertiser, this would be a
real violation of what we
view as the function of a
newspaper in our free enter
prise system.
" 'A newspaper's policies
should be based on what its
editors think is right and de
cent. Then It's up to the read
ers whether they buy the pa
per or not.
" 'Even at the risk of miss
ing occasional ads, we must be
judged on what we believe in.
" 'We lose ads from time to
time because of editorial
stands, of course, but we want
to be something more than an
advertising handbill.
" 'The constitutional guar
antee that gives us the oppor
tunity to publish at all de
serves a fair shake on our
part.'
"Amen." - Pendleton East
Oregonian.
Anything
tary associations" like coun
try clubs or chowder-and-marching
societies.
I am not sure that labor's
right hand knows what its
left hand is doing. In the same
week that Negro groups put
organized labor on notice that
its racial barriers are to be
attacked, an official envoy of
the AFL-CIO told a cheering
throng of Jamaicans, now In
dependent of Britain, that his
organization would push for
quota-free immigration to the
United States.
More than a year ago, writ
ing from Trinidad, I pointed
out that the Immigration and
economic assistance buck
would be passed to this coun
try when the British West
Indies became independent.
This was, one must presume,
what Premier Macmillan had
in mind when he warned the
West Indies that Britain
would not be able to help
them much, when he shut
down West Indians' free im
migration into the United
Kingdom In spite of full em
ployment there.
Illiberal as this may sound,
we shall have to think care
fully about opening our doors,
in the names of those already
desperate in their search for
jobs. And as w-e consider
I this problem, our officials
might take a hard look at the
restrictive immigration pol
icies of Jamaica's fellow Com
'monwealth nations, sparsely
'. settled Canada and sparsely
! settled Australia. The United
; States has entered a new econ
omic era and can no longer do
anything and everything
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