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Denver. -: iy . yitk PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL TX7 ASlSpCfMTICVN Z) J L rrn ''Tl7l If Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Th Mail Tribune ,10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 Yean Ago Oc5. 4, 1952 (Saturday) Gerald Macomber, elusive escaped convict, exchanged shots with two state police officers early this morning, and got away. A 32 -year -old California man was fatally wounded last night in a deer hunting accident in the vicinity of the Butte Falls junction on the Crater Lake highway. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 4. 1942 (Sunday) Medford school children tr.rn in 14 truckloads of scrap at Army's scrap metal drive headquarters at Camp White. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A Cali fornia hunter has been wound ed for a duck. It wasn't re vealed whether he wus fly ing or Just honking. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 4, 1932 (Tuesday) Oregon slate highway com mission assures Jackson coun ty officials that quick action will be taken on relocation road from Ashland to Siski you summit. Moore Hamilton elected president of Jackson county Young Democratic organiza tion. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 4. 1922 (Wednesday) Story on prohibition agent testing liquor taken from lo cal still says, "The agent look a" drink before the jury and crowded court room," pro nounced it moonshine and was still alive this morning. From Central Point item: Prof. Jewett of the local high school is seen driving a new Ford. SO YEARS AGO Oct. 4. 1312 (Friday) Dr. Anna Shaw, noted wom an's suffrage enthusiast, speaks before large Medford audience. Star theater in Medford of fers moving pictures of Theo dore Itoosevelt's trip to Port land "for the pleasure of Med ford photo fans." Whafs Your I.Q.? Nino or ten correct it superior; seven or eight It excellent; five 01 six Is good. 1. Is a bi-weekly magazine issued once every two weeks, or twice a week? 2. What is the capital of Belgium? 3. Did Alexander Graham Bell discover the telephone? 4. Certain kinds of birds' nests me used as an article i ui toon in wnai country: 5. The Itoman numerals MC.M indicate what Arabic equivalent? 6. Is it true that snow never falls in Florida? 7. Name the ancient phi losopher who drank hemlock. 8. Is Florida an Indian name? 9. In what card game does one peg 31 holes to win? 10. How soon after a de cision is rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court docs it become effective? Answers: I. Once every two weeks. 2. Brussels. 3. No. He invented it. 4. China. 5. 1900, 6. No, 7. Socrates. 8. No. (Spanish). 9. Crlbbage. 10. im mediately. I The Brazilian Election Brazilian nolitical narties are pragmatic rath er than ideological. This day for most otfices, excepting tnat 01 rresicient, will be largely a matter of personalities. The three major parties are the Social Demo cratic, the National Democratic Union, and the Brazilian Labor. A real political power, though denied legal status since 1947, is the Communist party. Indeed, party-liners boast that no major candidates can be elected without Communist support. Although a millionaire landowner, President Goulart elected as Vice President but allowed to succeed Janio Quadros after the latter's curious resignation in August 1961 twice had Com munist support in national elections. Goulart, originally ultra-radical, had been more or less a middle-of-the-road President but recently ap pears to have swung far to the left. QUADROS resigned seven months after his inauguration, issuing vague charges of "pres sures." Actually, he was unable to get Congress to carry out his social and economic reforms. He is running now for governor of Sao Paulo, but there are some Brazilians who will bet that he will replace Goulart before the next presidential election in 1965. TODAY Brazil has 74 million people and a population growth of 3.1 per cent a year, one of the highest rates in the world for a major country, accordintr to the Population Reference Bureau, bhe has half the American continent, and is the eighth most popu lous nation in the world. By the year 2000, if present birth and death rates hold up, Brazil will have a population of 239 million. Vast wealth and grinding poverty live side by side in Brazil, and the landed oligarchy so far has shown little enthusiasm for the kind of land reforms called for by the Kennedy Alliance for Progress. Brazil's other ailments include what Goulart calls "agonizing" inflation 45 per cent last year unemployment, low relative productivity ture despite an astonishing economic growth rate of 6 to 7 per cent a year flight of capital, corruption, speculation, disease, and sub-standard housing. THESE are some of the reasons Brazil is a much mAi'fl u f .tiro tornrnf f ri rrm mnnicm tVi n n IMUl C UVl)LU.Vl Itt-lfly 1U1 vuiiimmiD'lll niun Fidel Castro's relatively puny Cuba. The Bra zilian Communist party has an estimated 25,000 to 40,000 hard core members supporting many front organizations, daily and weekly newspa pers, bookstores, and publishing houses. Goulart's regime last November restored diplomatic rela tions with Soviet Russia. Quadros, who still has a very real following, shortly before his resignation wrote a piece for "Foreign Affairs" in which he rather proudly cited Brazil's U.N. vote to include on the agenda the ouestion of the representation of China. This position, he predicted, would have its logical consequences." Discouragingly enough, the logi cal counter-balances to the Communists in Brazil are the politically-minded militarists. E.R.R. Western Water The most important and complex water strug gle in the history of the the hupreme Court on the lirst business day or its now term Monday. At issue is apportionment of the water from the mighty Colorado river. On the Justices' final decision rests the economic development of a region covering portions of seven states 21 2,000 square miles of the most arid land in North America. What brings the matter before the court is disagreement between California anil Arizona on the division between them of 7.5 million acre feet of water allocated to the lower basin states in 1929 by the Colorado River Compact. "THE Supreme Court is the trial court for suits between states and. back in 1955, it appoint ed a special master, Simon II. Rifkind of Now York, to hold hearings on the California-Arizona controversy ami recommend a decision. Three years and lOli witnesses later, Rifkind filed a 433 page report recommending that California be al located 1.-1 million acre-feet of water a year and that 2.8 million acre-feet he sol aside for Arizona. Nevada was allocated 300,000 acre-foot. But California, which first tapped the Colo rado river 85 years ago, has been taking 5.1 mil lion acre-foot each year for existing projects and contends that those should have priority over new projects in Arizona. THE Supreme Court heard a record 16 hours of arguments on the case last January but on Juno 4 it set the case down for a dav and it half in i carminioiii uus ueionor. tine reason wny uio court put the case off was that only six Justices were qualified to take part in a decision last June. Chief Justice Earl Warren, a former California governor, had disqualified himself; Justice Felix Frankfurter was in the hospital: and Justice Charles E. Whittaker had retired since the Janu ary argument. Rifkind's report maintains that there will be plenty of water for all existing projects in Cali fornia. California officials say this' will bo true only if the upper-tier states iii the basin do not increase their use of river water to levels allowed them. In the long run, most water experts agree, the supply problem in the arid West can be re e , I ' . . i lieved only by bringing more water to the critical areas through channeling, better storage, or methods yet to be perfected. E.R.R. is why the vote on Sun population ol the Latin illiteracy, tax evasion, in industry and agricul West goes back before j -v , , i Higher Education in Mississippi COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the ncme and address of the wrltor, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this colur.in do not necessarily represent the views of the oaper; In fact the contrary is often Tunnel Consideration To the Editor: In regard to the freeway discussion in Sis kiyou county, and continU' ance of same into Oregon. Before too much of this project is completed, I think it would be wise to give some consideration to the tunnel through the Siskiyou mouiv tains which has been pro posed. I do not have a contour map of the area but it appears to me the highway from the south should be routed up Cottonwood creek from Horn- brook via Hilt and when Sec tion 31, Township 40 S, Range 2E is reached a tunnel should be started northeast to Sec tion 21 in the same township in the upper end of Emigrant creek and thence to approxi mately follow the old high way via the Klamath junc tion south of Emigrant lake. I am thoroughly aware this would be a very expensive project, but it would speed traffic into and out of Oregon and save an infinite amount of fuel and wear on trucks and cars traveling between Horn- brook and Ashland. A little thought on the matter will show a great deal of fuel Is used in going over the Siski you mountains, which would be snved by the building of the proposed tunnel. I wouldn't hesitate to say one thousand gallons of diesel and gasoline fuel would he saved each day. A lot of trucks only make five miles per hour or less going up the moun tain and there have been a lot of trucks and cars wreck ed coming down the grade on either side. I would suggest the slate establish a toll booth at one end of the prooosed tunnel, to pay for the proposed project. Floyd R. McCabe, Mt. Pitt Star Route, Butte Falls, Ore. Sponsors Candidate To the Editor: The views nf nor Ipffishltivp canHiri.-itivi on problems of government are so unnormiy statesman like that we would like to vote for them all. Just to keep the competitive spirit alive. 1 respectfully sponsor Candidate X. who, like Brand X on TV. ends up second-best. His slogan: "A vote for ine is a vote for full employment and prosperity - for me." Ex rerpls from the speeches of Candidate X: Attracting industry to Ore gon: "So, if industry wants to come here, all right. It's a free country. Some jobs are good, some aren't, some are of a relatively less desir able stature, economics-wise." "There's a fellow here surveying voter apathy concerning the gubernatorial electiot,. What MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON the case. Fiscal responsibility: "If we need new hospitals, roads, schools, let's build them. I don't like these worry-warts who all the time want to be farsighted, and tell us our children will be saddled with our debts. So let them; we supported them long enough; besides, it teaches them re sponsibility." Education: "Let's take the frills out of education, like building schools and paying teachers. These kids don't ap preciate all we do for them. An education will mean some thing to them if they work for it first, say to age 40." Taxes: "I favor a sensible, progressive, modernistic, con structive and streamlined tax program, because it's un American to be unprogres sive, unmodernistic, etc. I'm not sure what these taxes would be, but the legislature can eppoint me to a self renewing committee to find out and report back in six or seven years. If we run into financial difficulties before then, the State can always go to the friendly folks at the personal finance company and consolidate its debts. At heart, governments are just like peo ple - that's the trouble." George W. Rode, Fluhrer Building, Medford Pictures of Meredith To the Editor: I see we get the picture of James Meredith every day in the paper as a Negro hero. But why have we not seen the picture of Drum mond, the Negro spy. Do we have a state or federal law that would make it a crime to put a Negro criminal picture in the paper just because he is a Negro. I see in the paper where Gov. Hatfield asked the Presi dent to cut off federal funds, including postal service, from the stale of Mississippi. Al most half of the state's popu lation is Negro. Would the government want the Innocent Negro to have to suffer tne same as the white people? Or would he want the federal government to segregate the Negroes in Mississippi from the whites and give the Negro federal service? Some of the best white peo ple and Negro people live in Mississippi. Just because school kids demonstrate, why cut federal aid off from the state? The Negroes are dem onstrating somewhere just about all the time, and the fed eral government gives them what they want. They get more all the time, not less. J. W. Kimbrcll 515 Western Ave. Medford l gubernatorial election?") South Vietnamese Go Over to With Help of Thousands of Americans By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Newt Analyst In a command headquarters near the edge of Saigon last summer a South Vietnamese colonel used a pointer to locate on military wall map the town of Ban Meth out. "H e r e," he said, "is where a year ago the Com munist Viet Newiom Cong intended to cut South Viet Nam in two. "Since the coming of the Americans that plan has been abandoned." Ban Methout is a kev road Junction close to the Cambo dian border and almost ex actly midway between the rich rice-growing delta to the south and the 17th Parallel which divides South Viet Nam and Communist North Viet Nam. The colonel explained that militarily the plan had been first to sever South Viet Nam In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, there can be no question as to what is the big story. At this mo ment in history, the big story is what is happening in the state of Mississippi. What IS happening in Miss " issippi? It is something very simi lar to what was happening in South Carolina about a century and a quarter ago. South Carolina was strongly opposed to large federal pow er, and demanded state's rights and free trade. In 1832, the Clay Tariff Act was adopt ed by the congress. South Carolina then adopted what it called the Ordinance of Nullification, which declared the Clay Act to be null and void in the state. Secession was avoided only by com promise. Finally, in December of I860, with slavery the issue, South Carolina adopted its Ordinance of Secession, and became the first state to secede from the Union. It isn't necessary to recite here what followed. That story is imperishably written in blood and suffering. The point is that South Carolina DEFIED the author ity of the federal government. IN MISSISSIPPI, Governor Barnett has DEFIED an order issued by a FEDERAL court. In effect, he has de clared that the order is NULL AND VOID in Mississippi. He has been backed in his declaration by 500 uniformed and steel-helmetcd Mississippi state troopers. He is obvious ly backed by a majority of his state's citizens and stu dents. So far, the federal govern ment is relying on marshals, which are civil police. But if the marshals are unable to accomplish their purpose, which is the carrying out of a formal order of a federal court, it must be assumed that federal troops will be called in. rpiUS is the big issue in -a- Mississippi: In a clash of opinion, which shall prcvail-federal law, or state law? That was the issue in South Carplina a century ago. Where do we go from here? That is what will have to be decided in the next few days. But here is a thought that can't be ignored: Unless the authority of the federal government is upheld in the final clashes when there are SHARP CLEAV AGES of opinion-as there is in Mississippi now and as there was in South Carolina a century ago-it will become possible for our great nation . . . for our UNITED States of America . . . for our Union . . . to break up into inde pendent small nations, as is the case in Latin America. The power and the majesty of the UNITED States of America would then be gone. rpiIAT thought must have been in President Lincoln's mind when in August of 18H2 he wrote to Horace Greeley: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union with-' out freeing any slave. I would i do it; and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves. I would j do it; and if I could do it by I freeing some and leaving ; others alone. I would also do that " Condition of Banks As of Sept. 28 Asked Washington - it:ri - Comp-1 troller of the Currency James ; J. Saxon today issued a call (or condition of all national banks as of the close of busi ness Sept. 28. at the midway point, then to bring pressure on the capital of Saigon from west, north and south, and finally to force upon South Viet Nam a Communist-style neutral govern ment. This week, President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Viet Nam announced that his troops had gone over to the offensive against the Communists. It is an offensive of air borne thrusts in an operation called "clear and hold," mean ing that it clears out pockets of Viet Cong resistance and then sends in administrators whose task is to educate the people and attempt to hold the land thus won. In this sense, then, the South Vietnamese have gone over to the offensive and vast American aid, which includes thousands of American ad visers, has upset the Commu nist timetable of conquest. But a Communist advant age is their ability to shift quickly from one pressure point to another, whether it be political or military. Fur thermore, they regard South Viet Nam only as one portion of a war theater involving the whole of Southeast Asia, Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris lc- Field Enterprises Inc. PURELY PERSONAL PREJUDICES Everything we have, in cluding life itself, is simply on loan to us; and the great est mistake, creating the greatest mistery, is to regard such as permanent posessions "belonging" to us by right "belong" to us, as possessive parents quickly discover. There is no such thing as "freedom" for the indi vidual; freedom is a social good, not a personal one, consisting of a right rela tionship between persons; Robinson Crusoe had no freedom. Men of affairs who look down upon artists should keep in mind the trenchant remark made by Paderewski, who was both Premier of Poland and a master pianist: "Piano play ing is more difficult than statesmanship; for it is harder to awaken emotions in ivory keys than it is in human be ings." The hypochondriac, con trary to popular belief, is not somebody who wants to be ill, but somebody who wants lo be well; and he is continually testing his health to reassure himself that his physical integrity has not been impaired-like the driver who keeps racing his motor at slops, lo make sure it is working properly. When a woman is young and romantic, she thinks she can make a man out of a fool; as she gets older, she learns it is much easier to make a fool out of a man. There are two kinds of envy: envying the good for tune of others, which most of us can repress; and feel ing a little pleased about the bad fortune of others which most of us secretly do; and when someone says, "I'm not an envious person," he is talking about the former and not the latter. It's a sad commentary on our modern nighway system that the only time there's any scenery to enjoy is wnen we're forced to take a detour. There is a great differ ence between the polite ness that comet from strength and the politeness that comes from weakness; the former is a virtue, while the latter is only a strategy. No common universe exists for all of us; the dishonest man lives in a world of sharp ers, the gloomy man lives in a world of shadows, the anxious man lives in a world of accidents; each of us is the center of his own solar sys tem which he has created and set in motion. And it is this conquest of false "space" be tween person and person that is the ultimate task of hu manity. Almost everything said about money, both pro and con, is true and not true; for money has a dark side, like the moon, which no one can see without going there. Burns Creek Proposal Back in Committee Washington-ITI -The Burns Creek proposal was back in a House committee today fol lowing a 223 130 vote late Wednesday that killed the Idaho project's chances this session. The House earlier tenta- lively approved construction of the project on a 109 to 106 standing vote. The reversal meant the project would not be included in Congress' Om nibus public works bill. including Thailand One goal is to force the United States into another Geneva conference as the one which set up the still ques tionable neutrality of Laos. To this end, the Communist directed "national liberation front" sent a delegation to Jakarta where it reportedly obtained from President Su karno of Indonesia endorse ment of their "just" war against American imperialism. Coffer of Fact (cl New York Herald CUBA ON CARDIFF STREET Los Angeles - The little, green - embowered, gimcrack houses are prettily painted in bright colors. The people are pleasant and friendly. Cardiff and Bagley streets, Gracia street, and LaPetite Court posi tively exude the cozy but anonymous Alsnp peacefulness which seems to be the hallmark of modest, semi-suburban neighborhoods in this sprawling city. Yet when Tom and . Joan Braden of the Oceanside Blade-Tribune and this report er came to these quiet streets to ask about the California election, we found a mood that was almost the opposite of peaceful. We also found a trend of voter opinion that was much more favorable to the Guber natorial candidacy of former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon than the state-wide polls and the views of the lo cal experts already reported in this space, VET as simple news, pride - of place must still be giv en to the fact that large num bers of quite ordinary Ameri cans - and Americans, at that, with a solid though humble stake in life - are now decid edly war-minded. The Cuban affair, quite plainly, has be gun to cause a general loss of patience. Take Mrs. Margaret Harri son, a pretty young woman with a pretty baby and a nice little house, whose husband is a gradate student in physics. She voted for President Ken nedy last time, and she would do so again if he were mak ing another race against Nix on. She says Kennedy has been "a good President." But she adds: "Kennedy ought to have been more decisive about Cuba; I can't get away from that feeling. I'd go to war, if that's the only way to clean up the Cuban mess." Or take Richard Koch, a milk driver, who is a real Kennedy enthusiast. Remem bering that Castro had come to power under President Eis enhower, he remarked that "Cuba had been bungled from the start." Remembering also Khrushchev's g u a r a ntee to Cuba he said gloomily that "it was a mighty touchy busi ness." "All the same" he conclud ed "I'd go to war if need be. The Russians took cer Czech oslovakia, after all." AS THESE two fragments of interviews suggest, the new feeling generated by Cuba is not partisan, in the sense that it is quite as com mon among Democrats, in cluding Democrats strongly for Kennedy, as it is among Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF JOHN" WHEELER tells about a daring speculator named Charles Flint who operated in Wall Street at the turn of the century. Once he found himself in serious financial straits, and knowing J. P. Morgan, the elder, slightly, he approached him for a loan. Mr. Morgan consented lo take a stroll with him to the Battery. He talked polite nothings, however, the entire time. Finally, after about an hour, Flint blurted, "But, Mr. Mor gan, how about that mil lion dollars I want to borrow?" Morgan held out his hand to say goodbye and answered, "Oh, vou won't have any trouble getting it now that we have been seen together." Little Wilbur had been having trouble with his spelling-, so his mother wrote a note to the teacher asking if her son s spelling was getting any better. The teacher wrote back a two-word comment: "It's emproving." a Nanette Fabray was describing; the son of an acquaintance who had "freckles as big as nickels" "81!: deal," scoffed her companion. "Lots of kids have freckles aw big u nickel" Mist Fabray raised her eyebrows. "With. BUFFALOES on them?" she asked. Nothing Improves your drlvine-. points out Maueiaine Hurlock, like being followfd by a pellcfn-an. C 1 by Bennett Ctrf. HisUibuteO. 'by Jving Features Sj-nllcat Offensive Further the Communists quickly endorsed a request from Cambodia that another Geneva conterence be called to guarantee Cambodian neu trality. Complicating the situation further is the irritation of Thailand over U.S. promises of military aid to Cambodia. The Thais hinted that their own strong pro-Western stand may in the future also switch to one of neutrality. Nothing could please the Reds more. By Joseph AIsop Tribune Syndicate Republicans of all colors. It is also widespread among E- publicans, however. Typical of these is Roy Piston, a youngish stockbroker. "We ought to invade Cuba and cut out this cancer," ha said. "I'll go if I have to." Among those with Cuba up permost in their minds (which means about half the people we talked to), there was also another smaller group, again bi-partisan. The people of this second group said they were "ready to leave it to the Presi dent," or they volunteered that "Cuba wasn't worth a war." But even these people plainly shared the basic griev ance of one of the war party, a young clerk, J. Lovett. He also voted for Kennedy in 1960, but he now remarked bitterly: "With all the national au thority and strength that we have, we're acting as though we were Guatemala. Let's do what we need to do, and if the Russians don't like it , let them not like it." A FEW score interviews in a couple of Los Angeles precincts do not reveal na tional public opinion. But the people of Caridff street and LaPetite Court were only saying, with particular vivid ness and freedom, the same things that are reportedly be ing said all over the country. Inquiries were made on this point after our own miniature poll was completed These in quiries showed that as yet unpublished national polls have found the same reactions we found. If these are not flash-in-the-pan reactions (which they may be), the feeling about Cuba on Cardiff street marks a new phase in America's re sponse to the challenge of the cold war. The first phase, no ble and hopeful, was the phase of the Marshall plan. Then followed the ignoble Mc Carthy phase, when the bur dens and dangers of the cold war were idiotically blamed on a home-brewed Communist plot, rather than on the Com munist masters of the Krem lin. In the third phase, under the leadership of President Eisenhower, most people tried to forget that there was such a thing as the cold war. But in the fourth phase that now seems to be opening the long enduring fact of the cold war is once again on everyone's mind; and a sense of endless, intolerable frustration is lead ing to demands for victory, even at great risk. It is dangerous to exagger ate. But it is impossible not to be deeply impressed when you hear a solid, hard-wjrk-ing family man pointing to his neat little house, and saying: "I know the policy I favor might mean an A-bomb right there. But I'll risk that. It's worth it to win." Joan Braden heard just that, and each of us had nearly comparable experiences. r c' t
