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Medfoid and Jackson County
History from th tiles ot The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. S, 1952 (Sunday)
Wilhin the past week, two
women annoi need their in
tention to file for the office
of mayor in two Rogue val
ley towns: Mrs. Kathryn
Stnncliffc, Phoenix, and Mrs.
Myrtle Lee, Jacksonville.
The 1053 campaign for
funds of the Greater Medford
Community Chest, which be
gins tomorrow, has been
named "Operation Human
ity" 20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 5. 1942 (Monday)
Medford city council slant
work on curfew law provid
ing "stiff penalties'' for par
ents of children who are on
city streets between 10:30
p.m. and 6 a.m.
From Arthur Perry's "Yc
Smudge Pot" column: "The
wolves back of Trail ai d the
curbstone quarterbacks have
sturted to howl."
30 YEARS AGO
Oel. 5. 1932 (Wedntiday)
Secretary of 'ate announc
es Jackson county to receive
38,045 from license plate
sales.
Weather bureau reports
September, 1922, was the
first September in 22 years
without any rainfall.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct, 5. 1922 (Thursday)
From Central Point items:
Moore Hamilton left last
week for Corvallis to take up
his studies as a freshman at
OAC.
Five United Stales Army
de-llBVihmd airplane, land at
Medford en route to San
Francisco from Eugene,
where they have been on
forest patrol duty during the
summer.
SO YEARS AGO
Medford city officials an
nounce they will grant 50
voir franchise to persons will
ing to construct street rail
way service here.
Prohibition, Bull Moose and
"Standpat" candidates for
congress arrive In Medford
for series of debates.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nint or ten conett la meatier;
aeven pr eii ht is excellent; fiva at
sii Is good.
1. Name Ihe first Secretary
General of the United Na
tions. 2. Necrophobia Is the exag
gerated fear of what?
3. Arc Trappisls Alaskan
hunters, geometrical figures,
or an order of monks?
4. In the Bible, why did
Testis come from Galilee lo
Jordan, unto John?
5. Was Al Capone convicted
for hijacking, beer running,
murder, or evasion of Income
taxes?
6. At the time of the South
African Boer War. who was
on the British throne?
7. In what Pacific naval ac
tion in WW II was Ihe aircraft
carrier "Lexington" sunk?
8. In Bible history Ben
jamin was the youngest and
favorite son of whom?
9. Sir Henry Bessemer is
best known for his commer
cial development of a pro
cess for what?
10. The young of elephants,
whales, moose, and hippopo-
pot ii mi are all called what?
Answers: 1. Trygvt Li.
2. Of death er horror of In
dead. 3. Order of monks. 4. To
b bapliiad. S. Tax evasion.
6. Quean Victoria. 7. Battle
ef th Coral Sea. I. Jacob, 9.
Making steal. 10. Calves.
4 A
NATIONAL
OCTOBER 6. I9bl
Final Statement
With the publication of the following letter,
all eight candidates for the state legislature from
Jackson county have presented their views as to
the needs of higher education, and their thoughts
on problems of paying for them.
We express our gratitude to the candidates
for providing these timely and important state
ments. The one which follows is by Henry F.
Padgham Jr., Democratic candidate for state
senator. Others have been presented by State Sen.
L. W. Newbry, Republican incumbent, and by
house candidates Charles Craiy, James Redden
and AI Bradford, Democrats, and Al Dumas, Ed
Branchfield and John Dellenback, Republicans.
Mr. Padgham's letter:
To the Editor: "Questions for Candidates," Mail
Tribune, July 31, propounded five problems which the
Fifty-second Legislative Assembly must resolve. It is
obvious the questions are of one category, how to meet
the cost of education.
Our obligations to our youth and their education
cannot be side stepped. We must, however, carefully
evaluate the requests and decide which procedures
will give us the greatest benefits in the education field
for our tax dollar.
An Increase of over 10 per cent in college enroll
ment this fall would seem lo justify the $19 million
increase in Higher Education requests for operational
funds. This increase in attendance and related opera
tional and capital outlays should give us cause to
contemplate the many tax dollars lost in providing
expensive higher education facilities for so many
"drop-out" college students. Less than 20 per cent of
our college enroliees complete their four year courses.
To overcome this vast waste of instructors, facili
ties and dollars, adequate planning and programming
for junior colleges in Oregon is Indicated and desirable.
Our universities should become institutions of
learning of the highest caliber. This can be effected
by transferring Junior college functions TO Junior
colleges, and by further development of regional four-
year degree granting colleges as we have in Southern
Oregon, Eastern Oregon and Portland State colleges.
This program would permit concentration of the
university resources on advanced undergraduates, pro
fessional and graduate education and on research.
The junior college obviously does not provide the
social glamour and prestige of the "old line" univer
sities but it does serve those students who could not
fulfill the requirements of advanced education but who
do need and desire education beyond the 12th grade,
I believe that orderly changes in our higher educa
tion procedures, as outlined above, would effect sub
stantial savings in our cost of education and would at
the same time provide more realistic training for more
of our young people.
Several methods and combinations of methods
have been proposed by our lax consultants to obtain
the increased revenue which obviously will be re
quired for the next blennium.
Carefully planned adjustments In our stale lax
procedures should enable us to hold a greater portion
of our lax money in Oregon instead of putting it in
the federal coffers. This is desirable and will provide
us greater benefits from the taxes we pay.
With the probability of a greater tax load facing us
next year, I would like to recommend serious consid
eration of financing a large portion of our capital
expenditures for buildings and equipment by the sale
of state bonds. Our present bond obligation is rela
tively low and we would have a favorable interest rate.
Building now, with borrowed funds, would provide
for existing and anticipated needs. This procedure
would materially reduce our general fund demands at
this time and anticipated Increases in state income,
plus normal inflationary trends over Ihe next two
decades would go far toward absorbing the interest
costs.
Henry F. Padgham Jr.
2707 Springbrook rd.
Medford.
XE HOPE these discussions have proved valu-
able, not only to readers and prospective
voters, but also to the candidates themselves, who
devoted time and thought to their preparation.
I he issues of education and finance are not,
of course, the only ones of importance in the cam
paign, but they are, in our view, the most impor
tant, and probably the most difficult of solution.
With higher education enrollments running
10 per cent above last year's record-breaking
registration, it is obvious that the state of Oregon
is going to have to do some scrambling to keep
up with them. E.A.
UPI Conference
San Francisco was quite a place to be the first
half of this week. Specifically, the Fairmount
hotel was a place of much excitement and inter
est, for here were gathered several hundred edi
tors and publishers, and a number of the top wire
service newsmen in the world, editors and re
porters for United Press International.
Adding to the general climate of interest were
the events in Mississippi, the successful orbiting
of our astronaut, and (of overriding importance
in the Bay City), the Dodger-Giant playoff.
A press room set up at the convention head
quarters kept a flow of news and pictures coming
for the information of the delegates.
iVTANY of the sessions were devoted to matters
most particularly of interest to newspaper
men, but others were of more general interest.
Among the speakers were Admiral Harry I).
Felt, commander of all U. S. forces in the Pacific
area, whose calm and confident talk and de
meanor makes one feel better about our defenses
to me west; ur. hciwnrd leiler, who disclaims
the title "father of the H-bomb," but whose work,
both in theoretical physics ami in public discus
sions led to its development; Pierre Salinger,
President Kennedy's press secretary, who de
clared that his boss is doing better than some
people give him credit for, and Capt. Eddie Rick
enbacker, an authentic hero who appeared a bit
pathetic in that his hour-long talk sounded like
a rewrite of the Blue Book of the John Birch
Society.
The high point of the conference, though, to
us, was the much publicized debate between
Richard M. Nixon and Edmund Brown, who are
contesting the governorship of California.
We speak, confessedly, from rank prejudice,
but Tricky Dick still sounds like Tricky Dick, the
"New Nixon" to the cortrarv notwithstanding.
E.A.
. . He Took Water and Wahed Hit Hand
Before the Multitude . . ."
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The Mail Tribune reserves th right to adit all leliors with a view lo clarification and
condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Th letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent th views of th paper; in fact th
contrary it often th case.
Fluorid Facts
To the Editor: Soon the peo
ple of Medford will have the
opportunity of expressing
their choice on whether or
not to fortify their water by
the addition of ideal amounts
of fluoridation. The number
of letters appearing lately in
this column in opposition to
the proposed measure makes
it clear that the people need
factual Information on several
points:
1) Yes, this is the same pro
posed program of adding
fluorides to our fluoride-deficient
water which, after adop
tion by nearly 2000 cities in
the United States, has result
ed in reduction in tooth de
cay by approximately 65 per
cent.
2) Yes, the 1900 towns with
naturally fluoridated water
have 23 fewer cavities and
the adults have lost one-fifth
the teeth of those in fluoride
deficient communities.
3) No, there is absolutely
no difference in naturally
fluoridated water and that
which has been fortified by
addition of fluorides, except
that It can be delicately con
trolled when added.
4) Yes, the American Den
tal Association, the American
Medical Association, the
American Academy of Ped
iatrics, the American Public
Health Association, the Na
tional Research Council, the
Association of State and Ter
ritorial Health Officers, the
United States Public Health
Service, etc., etc., all still do
endorse fluoridation and, so
far as we do know, none ot
these reputable organizations
are suspected of communist
infiltration, of profiting in
some unscrupulous way, or of
conspiring to undermine our
social structure. We believe
their only motives are to al
low the people to profit from
the proved benefits of the re
sults of 30 years of scientific
research and survey. The re
sults are absolutely free of
adverse effects.
5) No, there will be no
change in the taste of Med
ford s marvelous spring
water.
8) Yes, Ihe next weeks we
will be deluged with scare
talk of rat poison, aluminum
sludge deposits, rusty radiator
pipes, communist plots, and
rambling
pseudo scientific I
bio-chemical discourses. Wc
will attempt to present 111
factual background for t lie
confident assurance that this
measure Is in the best inter
ests of the people of Mediord
Committee for Better
Dental Health
David P. Engleson,
D.D.S.
24 Crater Lake avc.,
Medford
Politics
To the Editor: II seems lo
me that Ralph James must be
a pretty good man, if the only
thing that Earl Miller could
use to try and discredit him
,,11, , ll,A i,n,,t..., a..,-.,,
of the Food Surplus "store s
supplies for needy families. """if 'm 5J"U'
When the Food Surplus This had the effect of incrcas-
Program was first announced, 'ng income taxes by millions
Miller slated that he did notof dollars particularly at the
think It was necessary to expense of those families w,th
make the food available to fveral children who often
J.rka.m mnntv re.lrient.. ,oimd themselves facing a sur-
whleh was a "mistake" on his
part rectified by other mem
bers of the county court.
Miller's comments on Ihe
Food Surplus operation
proved nothing except ihe
fact that Miller is scraping
the bottom of the political
mud slinging barrel to try and
hold on to his job.
V. H. Walker
P. O. Box 283
Jacksonville, Ore.
To the Editor: To me Mr
Schausten's leiler to the HHT
9-27-82, makes a poor defense
for Sig L'nander s policy on
the medicare bill. I agrre with
Mr. Schausten that the KA
Willi lllAlb
bill is inadequate, still its pas
sage would have been a step
in the right direction.
While the GOP in both
houses made the same ex
cuse, that it wasn't broad
enough, they could have put
a few amendments on it to
make a good workable bill,
one at least as good as the one
that is now giving Senator
Dirkson hospitalization for
free.
Mr. Schaustcn says that
there would be 2V4 million
ek'erly that would not be elig
ible for medical aid. An
amendment would have taken
care of that situation and
there would now be 20,000,-
000 who would be eligible for
medical care which they
should have as a matter of
right.
While Mr. Unander agrees
that a medical care bill is a
must, he says it must also
have a voluntary feature. Now
just what does he mean by
voluntary feature? If Mr.
Unander is so concerned with
the problems of the aged, why
did he run over lo Bend and
blast the KA bill to the Tri
County Medical and Bar asso
ciations convention?
Yes, I read some but I have
failed to read of any speech
that Mr. Unander made to any
Senior Citizens club, and I am
sure that they would have
been glad to hear him outline
any good plan that he lias in
mind for a good workable
medical plan. They would
have been more than pleased
to know that one lone Repub
lican had something good for
them In mind and is very
much interested in their prob
lems. No, Mr. Schaustcn, the' el
derly are not buying the few
sweet words that Mr. Unan
der is throwing rthem over his
left shoulder. The elderly are
fully aware of the fact that
Mr. Unander Is bought and
paid for by big business and
the AMA in particular.
John R. Schumpf
Route l. Box 312
Central Point, Ore.
Branchfield Corrected
To the Editor: My attention
has just been directed to a
letter appearing in your issue
of Sept. 10, written bv Ed-
ward Branchfield. wherein he
plays fast and loose with the
facts concerning Oregon's in
come lax history from 1955 to
1958.
Mr. Branchfield staled that
the 1955 Republican legisla
ture was faced with a finan
cial crisis. He might have add
ed thai Ibis crisis was one
created by a Republican gov
ernor and his politically cci
Irolled tax commission. He
stated that Ihe 1955 legisla
ture "solved" the problem by
passing the unwelcome 45 per
cent surtax. He should have
added that in addition to the
infamous surtax, the 1955 leg
islature also reduced personal
jmPi 8 " l.ricPcnd:f
tax of several hundred per
cent.
In 1957, Governor Holmes,
upon convening of the Demo
cratically controlled legisla
ture, took immediate steps to
repeal the surtax and restore
personal exemption and de
pendency credits to $800. This
was done, but unfortunately
the governor did not immedi
ately replace the Republican
lax commission with a new
one. The legislature was told j
bv the tax commission that wci
stilt faced a financial crisis.
For this reason income tax
rates were not reduced at the
'.957 regular session as much
as they might have been
i
i OlUUllUi illbLfi tfUVi OlllttasSlI
Algeria Owes Much to Soviets, Nasser,
But Also Plans To Retain Ties With West
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
When, within the next few
days, Premier Ahmed Ben
Bella leads a newly Independ-
e n t Algeria
into the Unit
ed Nations as
its I09th
member, h e
will do so as
a man owing
a large debt
o f gratitude
both to the
Soviet Union
Newsum
and the Unit-
cd Arab Republic.
The Soviets equipped his
"liberation" army and Presi
dent Abdel Gamal Nasser's
U.A.R. supplied the Algerian
exile government both with
hospitality and money.
But Ben Bella also is a man
heavily dependent on con
tinued close tics with France.
From these conflicting in
terests have developed other
seeming conflicts, including
Ben Bella's promises that he
would:
In the summer of 1957, aft
er the legislature had adjourn
ed and the 1958 income tax
returns were all tallied, the
tax commission discovered
that the 1955 rates had pro
duced revenues far beyond
their former expectations.
They also discovered that if
the rates established by the
1957 regular session contin
ued, a greater surplus would
result in the summer of 1958
after the 1957 returns were
filed and tallied. They even
discovered a $12,000,000 cash
balance item that they had
previously overlooked.
Governor Holmes, upon be
ing informed of this situation,
called a special session of the
legislature to further reduce
the take from the income tax
and thus avoid further un
called for surpluses.
The 1957 special session by
its action REDUCED income
taxes in Oregon by roughly
20 per cent. Mr. Branchfield's
statement to the effect that
under the rates established by
the 1957 special session, "Most
people paid, and now pay,
more taxes than under the
1955 rates, even including the
surtax," is at complete vari
ance with the facts.
Clarence Barton
Stale Representative,
Coos County
Coquille, Ore.
He That Endureth
To the Editor: Thanks for
the fine editorial, "Headline
Indigestion." The front and
editorial pages of 21 news
papers and most all bad news.
I read them too. Bradwood,
Ore., a town of 250 people
killed with lumber imports.
A law-defying governor and
general bring blood and death
to our streets. Juvenile delin
quency, what else can we ex
pect with such leadership?
These are only symbols of
things to come. I read 78 per
cent of the criminals appear
ing before Ihe French courts
are there because of alcohol.
More than 65 per cent of the
inmates of the French asylums
are victims of alcoholism. Last
year alcoholism killed twice
the people that died in traffic
accidents, and over 50 per
cent of the traffic deaths were
caused by alcohol. The cost of
treating alcoholics in hos
pitals and asylums was four
times the amount raised by
liquor taxes. Vienna, with its
1,700,000 people, has four
times as many alcoholics as
New York with its 8,000.000,
but we are gaining ffist. Ques
tion: Why will a nation, a city
or a person permit anything
so deadly to come into their
lives, while we are teetering
on a missile with an H-bomb
tip, as we look at starvation
famine and strife every
where? Truly what is the
use? The salt of the earth can
always see through the black
est cloud. Love for God and
our fellow man will not al
low hope and faith to be
quenched utterly.
Harold J. Reith gave the
answer in M.T. of 930 when
he said: "Let us look to Him
who gave his life for you and
me. Today He stands with
outstretched nail pierced
hands pleading to all." "Look
unto me and be ye saved all
the ends of the earth." dsa.
45:22) It was He who created
this earth in perfection, and
it is He alone that can save it
from utter destruction. (Acts
4:12: Rev. 11:18).
His book, the Bible, is a
perfect book. It opens with a
new heaven and a new earth
with perfection everywhere
and it closes the same way. As
we study it, we know we are
"ear the end. Jesus said: "He
that endureth unlo the end.
shall be saved."
F. E. Beverly
112 Geneva st.
Medford
Turn Algeria into a social
ist state in the United Nations.
Institute agrarian reform in
the style of Fidel Castro, a
favorite pin-up boy in libera
tion army barracks.
But he also:
Assured President Charles
de Gaulle that he heartily sup
ports the Evian agreements
which led first to an Algerian
cease-fire in the war with
France and finally to "inde
pendence in cooperation with
France."
Assured the European busi
ness community in Algeria
that there is "room in Algeria
for a free and capitalist econ
omy" alongside the socialism
he plans. Socialism, he said,
is the "liquidation of privil
eges" and he has no intention
of nationalizing all private
business.
For the moment at least, it
would seem that the realities
of his situation will dictate
that he maintain both his
agreements with France and
his ties with the West.
France retains for at least
15 years the air and naval
base at Mers-el-Kebir, as well
as rocket and nuclear testing
installations in the Sahara for
five years. She retains the
right to maintain armed
forces in Algeria for three
years.
Her mining rights remain
untouched and France and Al
geria will share on a 50-50
basis the exploitation of
Sahara resources.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises Inc.
HUMAN NATURE
Mentioning seat belts on
cars, as I did the other day,
reminded me of an incident a
few months
ago, when I
was picked up
at an airport
on my way to
a lecture. The
man who
picked me up
fastened
his seat belt
as soon as he
Ham, slipped be
hind the wheel, and I prompt
ly did the same. He iooked at
me with some gratification
when I remarked that I had
belts on my car. too (I failed
to add that I hardly ever used
them).
"I'm glad you feel that
way," he said. "You know, it's
a funny thing about these
belts - a lot of people don't
want to drive with me after
they see them."
"Why is that?" I asked.
"Well, it puzzled me for
a while." he said, "but af
ter I asked a few people,
and got evasive answers, I
figured out the reason.
They think I must be a bad
driver, or a dangerous one,
to need the belts."
"Thai's a curious alti
tude." I observed.
"Thy could understand
It." h said, "if I didn't use
th belts around town, and t
only fastened them when
taking a long trip on the
highway. This is what most
belt-owners do. The rest of
th tim th bells ar just a
sort of St. Christopher's me
dal, to protect lhm by ma
gic." "I know it," I confessed.
"That's th way I foel about
mine - once I had them in
stalled, it didn't seem neces
sary to us them. They're
sort of a good luck amulet,
a way of placating the
gods." '
H nodded. "Actually, of
cours. most auto accidents
occur not more than a doi
en blocks from th driver's
hous. and at speads less
than 35 miles an hour. And
most fatal accidents, too.
tak place on ordinary
streets, not on superhigh
ways." "I'm aware of that," I nod
ded, "but it seems a little
prissy for me to fasten my
belt when I'm jus' tootling
down lo the drug store."
"It docs at first." he said,
"and that's what bothers peo
ple about my invariable habit
of fastening them. They seem
lo think I'm inviting disaster,
or else that I'm such a bad
or nervous driver that 1 need
them. Oddly enough, they
think the belts have potency
only when they're not being
used - as soon as you fasten
them, they ask for trouble"'
"You're right." I agreed.
I "It's like patients getting mc
idicine from a doctor and
keeping it on the medicine
shelf; its presence reassures
them, but they won't take it
regularly for fear" it might
make them sick."
"We can t even give our
friends lifts home from par
ties." he shook his head sadly.
"They'd rather go with some
reckless driver than with me.
Safety, it seems, makes them
nervous. 1 guess it reminds
them of what might happen -and
nobody wants lo think
about that."
Algeria also must depend
Drimarily on France for des
perately needed technicians
and capital, trance already
has an investment in excess of
Washington Report
By William
(ci Untied Feature Syndicate
BARNETT'S MISTAKE
Washington - Amid all the
many possible political impli
cations of the tragedy in Mis
sissippi, two certainties and
. one strong
, probability
? nnw aland
I out. The first
certainty i s
that the life
j43f of the mod
ern SOUinern
p o 1 i t i cians
has been
made immens
ely more dif-
tirult bv Gov. Rosa Barnett's
defiance of the courts in the
integration crisis at the Uni
versity of Mississippi.
The second certainty is that
Governor Barnett has isolated
himself from the nationally
responsible politicians of the
south as no other man has
done in modern times.
And the strong probability
is that if, as many southern
ers suspect, he plans to use
the incident at Oxford to
reach the United States sen
ate, he will never actually sit
in that body, even if the vot
ers of Mississippi should send
him there.
rPHE judgment of senate
- sources of utmost relia
bility is that a heavy major
ity there would deny Barnett
a seat in any case. Tbe senate
has the exclusive power to
judge its own membership. It
is a power most recently ex
ercised in barring its doors in
1947 to another Mississippian,
Sen. Theodore Bilbo, even
though he had already served
there and was, this time,
merely returning as a re-elected
member. Speaking for a
bipartisan majority, the great
conservative and pro-southern
Republican senator, Robert A.
Taft of Ohio, successfully de
manded that Bilbo "stand
aside."
It is not necessary to find
an applicant guilty of crime.
It is only necessary to find
him unfit to serve.
The next senate vacancy in
Mississippi will fall in 1964,
when Sen. John C. Slennis
comes up for re-election. Even
should Barnett engage and
defeat Stennis, he would un
doubtedly be challenged with
in the senate itself. Its south
ern members could not save
him, if they would. For a mas
sive northern majority would
be arrayed against him.
AlOREOVER, any genuine
southern effort in his be
half could not be counted up
on for a moment. For nearly
all of these men, while whol
ly opposed lo the direction
taken by the courts in Missis
sippi are also wholly commit
ted that public officials can
not in the end disobey the
decrees of the courts, agree
with them or not.
This can be seen even in
their current reactions to
events in Mississippi, in an
hour of passion and crisis. As
southern politicians, some
have felt compelled to offer,
in public, some indirect and
generalized defense of Bar-nett-though
some have not
even done this. But as sena
tors of the United States, they
strongly disapprove his course
in private. And as men, they
bitterly resent the harm he
has done to the reputation of
the south as a law-abiding re
gion and Ihe enormous em
barrassment he has brought
to them personally.
The southern delegation in
the senate privately stands in
overwhelming majority
against his defiance of the
courts. This columnist per
sonally can so testify, on evi
, j
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"Comrade, as a 'technical adviser' you're a disgrae
Olympus to th historical fore of dlaltcttcal ma
terialism . , ,1"
$20 billion in Algeria and has
promised more at the rate of
nearly $1 billion per year.
But the help depends on
Ben Bella staying in linp.
S. White
dence that is neither guess
nor hearsay.
pOR these men have, for the
most part, long since made
those painful personal adjust
ments looking toward an ac
ceptance of inevitable inte
gration; they only hope It can
be held to a slow and gradual
pace. For the most part, they
have long been bound in an
unspoken gentlemen's agree
ment not to traffic in demago-
guery among or against each
other on an issue which they
know they cannot control.
Thus they feel that Gover
nor Barnett has let them
down-not for opposing inte
gration, as they do, but for
defying the courts, as they do
not and cannot do. After all,
half a dozen southern states
already have accepted the
very gradual integration in
volved in Mississippi. Their
leaders have not been cow
ards, but rather the reverse.
They are not happy at Gover
nor Barnett's implication that
only he still values states'
rights.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
There is stark tragedy in
the news as this is written.
In Oxford, Miss., two men
are dead, and at least 75 oth
ers are wounded. The beauti
ful campus of the University
of Mississippi, where classes
should be starting for another
school year, is an armed camp.
At this moment, no one knows
what might happen next - for
tension is high and tempers
are hot.
In our nation, an ancient
wound has been opened up at
a time when we are facing a
grim foreign enemy who is
bent upon our destruction. At
a time when we should pre
sent a united front, we are
torn by the dramatic revival
of an ancient schism.
TT IS HARD lo escape the
conclusion that too much
haste on the part of the Su
preme Court is at fault for
what has happened in Missis
sippi over this tragic period.
Tolerance had moved a long
way in the course of the near
ly a century since the end of
the War Between the States.
There is reason to believe
that if given TIME ENOUGH
the growing tolerance on both
sides of the Mason and Dixon
line would have brought
wholly peaceful settlement of
the color issue in tyie South.
Time is a great healer.
rrTTE ORIGINAL mistake, of
- course, was when the first
shipload of slaves was brouht
to Free America.
That set the stage for ev
erything that has happened
yHO is wrong now?
' ' It is hard to say.
The issue was crowded by
the governor of Mississippi.
There can be no doubt as lo
that. He FORCED THE IS
SUE at a time when it should
not have been forced. He cre
ated AN INCIDENT, at a time
when true patriotism called
for the AVOIDANCE of inci
dents. This is no time for the stir
ring up of ancient antagon
isms and ancient intolerances.
What has happened in Missis
sippi has given our nation a
bad IMAGE throughout much
of the world.
AND
Of course
There may have been too
much haste and too little tol
erance in Washington.