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MONDAY. MEDFORDJTRIBUNB """"Everyone-in Southern Oregon Readi The Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MbOFUKU rHIPITINU LU, 33 North irSt., Ph.77a-.3141 " ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertlilng Manater (j EH ALU T. LATHAM. BUI. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City tailor Harry chipman. Tele Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'i Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent NewiDBDer Entered as tecond claia matter at Med lord, ureyon, unaer aci oi March 3. 1697 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Rv Mail In Advance. Daily and Sunday 1 yearflBOO - Daily and Sunday 6 mot. 10.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moa. 9.00 Sunday Only One year $5 00 Single Copy (Malted) 20c By Carrier And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year $2100 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 175 Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Carrier andVendora JJopy 10c Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Preia International Full Leaied Wire U. P. I. 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From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The government Is now after the packers for alleged removal of price ceilings on meat, so the old cow could jump over the moon. Legal steps have been taken to determine if cither one or both has a beef coming." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 3. 1932 (Sunday) Jack Stevens' G 1 e e m e n make debut in dedication cer emonles of new Jackson coun ty courthouse. County prisoners moved to new courthouse but Jailer O. W. Dunford announces they will have to eat prepared meals because county court does not feel justified to spend $500 to equip the jail kitchen. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 3. 1922 (Monday) County Jailer E. D. Collins Is clubbed twice on the head but manages to prevent pris oner awaiting arraignment for car theft from escaping; dazed jailer wrestles club from pris oner's hands and forces him back Into cell. Mayor Gates ia Informed that fire conditions in Med ford are "very bad." 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 3. 1912 (Wednesday) Chinese laundryman Indict ed for murder by grand Jury in Medford following testimo ny of "white slave girl" asso ciated with him What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior) seven or eight Is eicellint; five ei sis is good. 1. Which Is the heavier copper or steel? 2. The earliest forms of measurement were related to what? 3. Where is Churchill Downs? 4. Would you guess that 1.0UO, 000,000 dollar bills would stretch around the world 3, 4, 5, or 6 times? 5. Milk Is heavier than cream; true or false? 6. Name the fifth President of the United States. 7. Icebergs are approxi mately 5 9ths. 7'9ths, or 8flths under water? 8. In miles, what Is the ap proximate diameter of the earth? 9. After which war did the observance of Memorial Day originate? 10. The Revelations of Joseph Smith led to the found ing ol what religious faith? Answers! 1. Copper. 2. The body. 3. Louisville. Ky. 4. Four. 5. True. 6. James Monroe. 7. 8'9lhs. 8. 8.000 miles. 9. War Between the States. 10. Mormon. Piltfhurgh About 400 mil lion gallons of paint are sold to amateur painters yearly. 4 TO SEPTEMBER 3. 196a Big Schools Medford's hizh school is too small. The com munity has decided to build a bigger one, rather than to add another to the system. Reason: Big nigh schools are more efficient, offer the student better educations. This doesn't square friendly little high school where everybody knows everybody. Yet, school officials make a good case for it. Curriculum in a large high school can be more varied, providing better for the ex- , i : 1 ..i i l . r 1 1 i cejjuunai Biuueiii eiuier me one wno is excep tionally smart or the one who is exceptionally siow. IT IS not economic, for example to organize a class in advanced mathematics in a high school of 1,000. Perhaps only five or six students would show up. But in a as many as 15 might sense, and the students wouldn t have otherwise. So with foreign languages. A fourth year of German or Latin might in a small school, or in a large school, it is more The big high schools critics say, it's too hard ognition. He's lost in the be a valid, or somewhat balance, large schools seem to make more sense. -bugene Register-Guard. Court Decisions Supported Following Is the text of a statement adopted last month by the Council for Christian Social Action at Its meeting in Nashville, Tenn. The Council for Christian Social Action of the United Church of Christ the United States Supreme Court in its decision in Engle v. Vitale for the following reasons 1. Ihe decision upholds the principle of church-state separation. The Council for Chris tian Action believes that because the New York State Regents' prayer was created, adopted, and administered by state officials and used as a re ligious exercise in the public schools, it violated the establishment clause of the first amendment of the federal Constitution. The fact that the prayer was non-denominational and its recitation voluntary does not alter the fact the state pre scribed a particular form of prayer to be used as an official activity. Thus the state was carry ing out a function which is not its business to perform. 2. We believe that ligious education and church and home where performed. Significant - e -.! l "ll. oi cieep religious iaim ana conviction wmun can not be appropriately expressed corporately in a public school setting where there is a wide variety of belief and non-belief. 3. There is nothing in the decision which bans private prayer. Nor is there anything in the de cision which restricts teaching about the contri butions religious leaders, movements, and ideas have made in the shaping of our history and cul ture; and we would encourage the public school to do this more effectively. The Council for Christian Action calls upon the members of our churches to support the Su preme Court decision . . . God in Russia Thirteen American churchmen now visiting the Soviet Union as guests of the Russian Ortho dox Church will find a hardy core of believers whose faith has withstood the manifold pressures of a totalitarian state. Not the least of these harassments is the jocular derision emanating from Premier Khrushchev himself. In his cele brated interview with C. L. Sulzberger of the "New York Times" last September, Khrushchev told of sending cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aloft to find out if there was a paradise in outer space. "Its pitch dark there, he (Gagarin) said; no Garden of Eden, nothing like heaven. So we decided to send another. We sent Gherman Titov, and told him to fly for a whole day. After all, Gagarin was up there only an hour and a half. So he might have missed paradise. We told him to take a good luck. Well, lie took off, came back and confirmed Gagarin's conclusion. He report ed there was nothing there." lHRUSHCHEV'S primitive and negative view 'of the religious experience is not shared by all Russians. Latest membership figures of the Rus sian Orthodox Church, supplied by Russian churchmen before their acceptance into the World Council of Churches in New Delhi, India, last November, put the number at 50 million one-quarter of the Soviet Union's population. Still, about 1,500 churches were reported closed in the Soviet Union last year, partly because of cocercion by Communist Party authorities. The Communists' current anti-religious campaign has fallen with particular severity on Russia's three million Jews. The Russian Orthodox Church has managed to survive either by supporting Soviet policy, if pressed, or by divorcing itself from moral assess ment of non-religious affairs. Many Red clergy men see the more spiritual approach to religion as a means of avoiding a choice of sides in the struggle between two forms of socio-economic organization. But Communist leaders will always fear and resent the survival in their midst of a body worshiping an authority higher than the State. E.R.R. with the folklore of the school of 2,000 or 2,500 show up. It makes more get an opportunity they be out of the question two small schools. But in feasible. is criticized because, its for a student to get rec sea of faces. This may valid, criticism. But in declares its support of the responsibility for re worship belongs to the it can be most effectively prayer is an expression 1 i- "And Where Are You Timber COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves tha rtght to edit ell letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Tha letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; In fact the contrary Is often the case. Modern Occultism To the Editor: A Christian worker In calling upon homes in a certain place was met by cold reserve by the lady in one house. The con versation, however, seemed to invite the lady's confidence, and soon she explained her bitterness toward all religion. The government, during the war years, had sent her a tele gram, stating her husband was missing in action. She waited long months with no word. Then well-meaning friends urged her to try and contact her husband through seance, for they felt that he must be dead. She complied with their wishes and to her amazement the likeness of her husband appeared. His voice was recog nized and they talked over many personal things . But some months later her husband, alive and well, walk ed unannounced through the front door. He hadn't been dead nor ever seriously wounded. This disillusioned woman became bitter toward religion because of the ad vantage taken of her sorrow by wicked and lying spirits. Another lady I know of had her "missing" son "appear and he told her to quit study ing the Bible that it was not true. Reminds me of the "spirits of devils working miracles" told of in Rev. 16:14. A personal friend told me that he once saw King Gus tavus Adolphus in a a seance, and a lady recently wrote me that she had visited with a number of her dead relatives through the seance. Now some of your readers may wish to comment on these Items. When King Saul sought out an answer to his problems through a seance, was It actually Samuel who appeared to him? Or was it an evil Intelligence playing the part of Samuel in psychic drama forbidden by God? In a book, "Practical Occul tism," by F. F. Morse, he says on page 85: "The phenomenal aspect of modern spirttul'sm reproduces all the essential principles of the magic witch craft and sorcery of the past. The same powers are Involv ed, the same intelligences op erating." Very revealing. Isn't it? I say this with kindness, but according to God's word these spirits which appear and claim to be our dead loved ones, are not dead people. They are fallen angels mas querading In the form of loved ones. It's time we began study ing our Bibles. Henry Johnson Jr. 23 IS Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. Women of the Future To the Editor: The habits of our teenagers are discussed far too much, but I have Just had a revelation that I feel needs shouting from the housetops. Teenage girls have always been a delight to me. But sometimes when 1 have seen them In knee knockers and bare feet, discussing eye shadow and lipstick. I have been guilty of wondering whether they were accumula ting the necessary common sense to be our future cradle rockers. This was before I saw a half dozen of these same girls In action for week They, with no expectation of any reward except their own sense of accomplishment, did an In credible amount of work. They helped to guide a group of 45 youngsters, ranging in age from 2 to 12, through a hectic and beautiful time of learning. They assembled and served . 230 lunches. They washed i MEDFORD MAIL Going?" Aaked The Wolf rcme and address ot the writar, dishes, mopped up spills, washed little hands and wiped tears from baby eyes. They also helped color, paste and cut when things were diffi cult, hunted lost articles, ran errands, kept attendance' rec ords and helped with the music. They held little ones and softly closed their eyes to help them learn to pray. All this they did with wonderful patience and high good humor and with no attempet to draw attention to themselves. At the same time they were baby sitting and helping their moth ers at home. If these girls are any indi cation of our future home makers, and I believe they are, we need have no more worries about those homes. If they can accomplish the things I saw them do in a Bible School, then I am sure their own homes will be filled with love, understanding, beauty, reverence, joy and a wonder ful sense of humor. Being the mother of sons, I confess that I have wonder ed if the teenage girls were developing Into capable help mates for the men of the fu ture. Now I shall spend even more time trying to prepare my sons to take their places alongside the women of the future. (Name on File) Gold Hill, Ore. Murder Is Murder To the Editor: The 1,700.000 residents of the state of Ore gon have committed a murder. I do not condone the actions of the victim which were the cause of his murder by the people of Oregon. After all, there is evidence that he, too, committed murder. But do two wrongs make a right? Ab solutely not! How many of those who read the Mail Tribune, have done something which had a legal penalty, but which they were only too happy they weren't caught? It may have been failure to see a stop sign or it may have been infinitely more serious. Now if the combined 1,700,- 000 people of Oregon can com mit murder then why can't 1? 1 know several who would not be missed by the world. In fact, I have a more or less faint idea I should get a medal for their removal. Of course, I must concede, they have as much right to life as anyone else. It did no one any good, the people of Oregon, collectively, the dead mother and her little boy, the district attorney, sheriff, state police, circuit court judge, Jury, or anyone else. Not even the taxpayers. If and when a measure ap pears on the ballot in the fu ture, to abolish capital punish ment, you may rest assured I shall vote yes. Floyd R. McCabe, Mt. Pitt Star rt.. Butte Falls, Ore. Burke Sees Threat In Red Shipments San Diego, Calif. -rt'PP- Re tired Adm. Arleigh Burke, former chief of naval opera tions, said Sunday that ma terials recently shipped into Cuba from Communist coun tries posed a threat to the United States. "The material going in is surely intended for an at tempt at the destruction of our social order." said Burke at a news conference aboard the guided missile destroyer Henry B. Wilson. Burke also said he hoped that the new chairman ot the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Gen. "carries out Maxwell Taylor his responsibilities with a great deal of restraint." TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Foreign News: Exodus From Algeria; Euro-Market Fears; German Peace Pact By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Exodus French officials fear the latest threat of civil war in Algeria will spur the remain- 1 n g 330,000 Eur o p e a n f there to flee to Francs. The French govern m e n t says it can IX.- I nanaie me in e I flux, although -JXLJj it will cause Nawsoin and employ ment difficulties. But officials fear It will spell economic disaster for Algeria and the Washington Report By William (e) United reature Syndicate TOUGH COURSE Washington How an op position should behave in the delicate field of foreign policy - neither roll ing over and playing dead nor yet taking up a harshly critical 1 i n'e d e s t ructive both of na tional unity and national interest is gravest prob lem before any minority party. The Republican party in this slowly expiring Demo cratic Congress has met and solved the problem decently. It has found a way to offer constructive criticism of the administration without giving aid and comfort to those forces abroad which don't In the least care who is a Demo crat and who a Republican in their simple, total hostility to all the United States of America. All session long, and all last session too, the Republi can congressional leaders have loyally followed a tough course of responsibility and self-restraint. They have gone the last mile in support of the President whenever in con science they could. WHEN, on rare occasions, the last mile has been reached and passed and they could go on with him no long er, they have declined the easy opportunity to take small partisan advantage of this country's difficulties by adver tising these national differ ences to the world. They stood with the Presi dent in the lost invasion of Cuba and, more important ly, they did not go about shouting "I told you so" when It failed. They have backed him all the way in his gen erally strong stand over Ber lin. They not only supported him in his resumption, at long last, of nuclear testing. They also consistently urged him to make that decision in the first place, against all the mutter ing and hissing of the peace at - any - pricers here and abroad. Most of them have given him decisive and indispensa ble assistance in his efforts to shore up the United Nations wtilt- In the Day's News By FRANK As this is written, it looks like the Russians, betting their shirts on the admittedly su perior power of their booster rockets, made an effort the other day to beat us to the vicinity of Venus, but FLOP PED. fTiHE story? It boils down to this: Our scientists say they have definite evidence that a Rus sian space shot failed. They report that four fragments of a Russian rocket were tracked in a slow orbit around the earth. By Saturday morning, they add, one of these pieces of space trash had re-entered the earth's atmosphere and disappeared, apparently burn ed to ashes by the heat of friction. The others are expected to be short-lived in space. rUR scientists say they had " no indication from these objects in orbit what the pur pose of the shot was, but they think it is highly probable that it was a Venus shot be cause of the very narrow "time window" available for such events. In space language, a "time window" means the period of time in which Venus and the earth are close enough to each other to make such a shot possible. They add that they have been unable to find any Russian object headed for any other planet. So They deduce The Russians took a long end of any possible economic and technical cooperation with France. Cross Currents British negotiators are con vinced now that, despite words to the contrary, De Gaulle opposes British entry into the European Common Market and they fear that West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is moving closer to De Gaulle's position. In any event, the British con cede privately that there Is no hope of British entry be fore the end of the year and probably hot before the mid dle of 1963. Meanwhile, the delays and foot-dragging are having a paralyzing effect on over-all policy decisions at home and abroad. Britain may S. White financially. This they have done even though they are sorely troubled at some of the attitudes of the organization. This they have done even though their own views as to what our positions should have been on many UN mat ters have not had the slight est acceptance at the White House. NOW, they have presented to President Kennedy a proposal that we loose a worldwide p r o p a g a nda-of-truth offensive against the infamous wall which a year ago the Russians raised in Berlin. They suggest that while America knows that the wall was built not to keep people out but to keep people in within the slavery of East Berlin, the world at large may not be so well aware of its central meaning: "Without walls, without barbed wire, without guns and without terror, the Commu nist regimes, wherever they be, cannot thwart man's flight to freedom." Since year upon year Com munist stooges and dupes have endlessly picketed the West, not excluding the White House, why cannot the free world now do some worldwide picketing, parading and peace ful protesting of its own against the wall of Berlin? This is what the Republican leaders ask. And why not, indeed? THIS is a reasonable plan. a- in no way partisan and in no way encroaching upon the President's due authority. The administration would be wise not to thrust it casually aside. For it comes from Republican politicians, notably Sen. Ever ett Dirksen of Illinois, the Republican Senate leader, to whom this administration and country owe much for their self-denial and sense of na tional responsibility in the hard times through which we pass. No fair man could deny that Dirksen, who is up for re election this year, could have profited much in selfish, par tisan terms and kept his name in high and useful headlines had he taken the route of damning the administration for every American weakness and setback everywhere in the world. And so easily this could have been done. JENKINS chance to beat us to the vicin ity of Venus and FAILED. TF SO Their faces are red. It will be interesting to see what comes of it all. THAT brings up something - else: What cooks in Cuba? TT IS beginning to look like the Russians are in the process of establishing some kind of base there. As this is written, a report from Wash ington says: "One reliable intelligence estimate indicates that Khrushchev has given the green light to his military leaders to use Cuba as a test ing ground for their newest "jamming" devices . . . These jamming devices can be used to interfere with U.S. aircraft guidance control and ground-to-air communication systems throughout the area . . . This could be the beginning of an attempt to establish air con trol over the Caribbean for Castro's growing jet air force. IF SO, what should we do a bout it? It might be argued that we have bases all around Russia so what grounds do we have for objecting to Russia's es tablishing bases in Cuba? The answer to that is that Russia has no Monroe Doc trine. We DO have a Monroe Doctrine. The basis of it is that we will retard any at- , tempt on the part of nations make a new approach to Euro pean leaders behind the scenes soon to try to quicken me pace. Peace Treaty ' Informed observe In West Germany are speculating that East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht flew home from Russia with a firm com- Drummond (Walter Lioomann b en vacation. Roscee Dnimmenal reeeifi I WasMneten In his absence.) (c) 19e2 Hew Vera Herald Tribune Inc. JFK'S TROUBLES WITH CONGHESS-I Washington - There is no doubt in my mind that Sena tor Kennedy was absolutely sincere in telling the Ameri can people in the 1960 cam paign that, if they would elect Democratic President to Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises Inc. WOMEN AND HAIR What would women do without their hair? Ionesco has written a playlet called "The Bald headed So prano," but I haven't seen It, so I don't know his ap proach to the subject. But it occurs to me that taking care of their Harris hair is almost a way of life to most women. Not one woman in a thousand is actually satisfied with her hair in the way that God gave it to her. It is either too straight or too curly, too fine or too coarse, too limp or too un manageable. A man doesn't think about his hair at all, ex cept when he is losing it; but a woman spends a huge pro portion of her time, energy and (husband's) income on the upkeep of her tresses. "I can't do a thing with lr.y hair" ia the universal lament among women - but it's not for lack of trying. American women will try to do everything with their hair, changing ita contour, length, texture and lint at least every three months, in their Utopian search for hirsute happiness. For girls who are rela tively dateless, "washing my hair" occupies a good many otherwise empty eve nings. This procedure, ap parently, can be stretched out for about thrje hours or about the time it would take a man to wash three full-siied automobiles. This feminine preoccupa tion with hair, I feel sure, must be an unconscious dis guise for something else on ihe part of most women. Hair actually isn't that im portant to a woman's looks; despite the commercials, men don't go into raptures because a woman's hair is soft and glistening with high-lights. In fact, unless the hair is obviously dirty or unkempt, men scarcely notice it. A wife, in fact, can re arrange her hair every week, and her husband would not know it until she brought it to his attention. Other women would notice immediately, however, be cause all of them are ob sessed with hair-dos. In my naive youth, I used to think that a woman got a permanent once every three months, and that was that. Since then, I have learned that nothing is more tempor ary than a permanent: it needs to be supplemented by "sets" and curlers and rinses and lotions and bandanas and sprays and whatever other illusory device some rannv manufacturer put on the mar- Kei. Perhaos all this hair hi. ness is what the psychiatrists can a "displacement. Women know they can do little about their other natural HpfoM. bad legs, flat busts, indiffer ent features. And so they dis place their anxitv imwoivi. to the hair, in the desperate nope tnat a stunning coiffure will comDensate for rfofiHon. cies elsewhere. But a man ia alwavi in tm deep water when he tries to analyze a woman' mntiv- and maybe many a wife's nocturnal preoccupation with her tresses is simply a way of keepins her husband mil nf her hair. of the Old World to plant their systems of government in any part of North America . . . as dangerous to American peace and safety. The presumption is that if such an attempt is made we will go to war. if necessary, to prevent u. That makes a lot of differ ence. mitment from Nikita Khrush. chev for an early signing of; a separate bast uerman-Soviet peace treaty. In anticipation of this treaty, it Is expected that the Soviet puppet leader will demand transit visas for all road traffic to and from West Berlin in a further move to promote diplomatic recog nition of East Germany. Reports give leadership to a Demo. cratic Congress, all would go wen. Ana ne was aosolutely wrong. Mr. Kennedy Is now near. ing the end of his first tva legislative years, and it is onlv factual to report that this 87th Congress has been one of tha most uncooperative, unre sponsive, unproductive Con. gresses since the end of World war 11. The record is not in disDute. Last year this Congress re. luseo. me rresiaent 80 per cent of his 277 legislative re- quests and thus far this year, according to the Coneression. al Quarterly, it has rejected more than 80 per cent of hii ZB3 legislative requests. This is the quantitative record. Measured against tha assurances that a Democratie rresiaent cooperating with a Democratic Congress would really "get things moving," it is woetuuy deficient. With respect to the Prest. dent's major legislation, tha record is gravely in default. This Congress has defeated medicare and the bill for creating a Department of Ur ban Affairs. It has mutilated the farm bill. It hasn't even taken up the promised, civil rights legislation and tha promised aid to the public schools. The tax bill is being cut away. WHY? Why. has. this 87th " Congress, w.th ita larga Democratic majorities in both Houses, been so uncoopera tive, unproductive, and un responsive to the leadership of a Democratic President? Most of the answers seem to me to miss the point. Mr. Kennedy is criticized for not "going to the country" suffi ciently to put pressure on Congress and he is criticized for putting too much pressure on Congress. He is accused of twisting the arms of Congress too vigorously and not vig orously enough. He is accused by Democratic conservatives of not being willing to com promise enough and he is ac cused by Democratic liberals, as in the satellite communica tions filibuster, of compromis ing too much. ; You can slice these argu ments anyway you wish, but in my judgment the bleak record of the 87th Congress and its failure to enact much more than a token of the President's legislative pro gram do not stem from an personal or political deficien cies on the part of Mr. Kern nedy. The responsibility o e I much deeper, and it is little) related to the personality of the popularity of the Presi dent. 'TO BLAME the President fof t h e unresponsiveness of the Democratic Congress over looks the political realities of nearly a quarter-century. If you look at the pattern of events spanning this period you will find, 1 think, that it justifies these conclusions: . 1-The least productive Con gresses - except in war of acute national emergency . have been Democratic Con gresses serving under Demo cratic Presidents: 1939 - 40 under President Roosevelt, 1949-52 under President Tru man, 1961-62 under President' Kennedy. 2 - The most productive series of Congresses have been the Democratic Congresses serving under a Republican President: 1955-60 ur.der Pres-. ident Eisenhower. 3 - Since there has been only one Republican Congress, serving under a Republican; President for only two of tha past 30 years, this is hardly' enough experience to Justify a firm judgment. The short period that Mr. Eisenhower had a Republican Ccr.sress produced a good deal of con structive social and fiscal leg islation, but more experience) would be needed to decida whether that was exceptional or a foretaste of more to come. What is clear is that tha political arrangement which had produced the most ba.Ten legislative periods of a quarter-century is a Democratie Congress under the leadership of a Democratic President President Kennedy is hav ing no more trouble - but no less - than F. D. R. had in tha last two years before the war or than Mr. Truman had after he succeeded in electing a Democratic Congress in 1948. I am not advocating the merits of divided government; I am simply pointing out the fact. 4
