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I 4 A SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1962 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON """Everyone in" Southern Oregon" -5i4..T.h Mail Tribune" gbifshrd Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North FirSl.. Ph.772-614l ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HFRB CREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mnt!. Editor FARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second clais matter at Med ford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 18H7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Daily and Sunday I year 91ft no Daily and Sunday fl moa 10.00 Daily and Sunday 3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Only One year $5.00 Single Copy (Mailed) 20c By Carrier And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year $21.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1 73 Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Carrier and Vendor Copy iuc Officii! paper of City of Mcdford Official Paper of Jaukion County UnftedFreM International Full Leased Wire U. P. I. Telephoto Newsplclurm m'mber ok audit" bureau" Advertining Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Officei in New York. Chi cago Detroit:. San Francisco, Los Angelei. Seattle. Portland. Denver. NATION A l EDITORIAL Asgc5T,gN 0" NIWSPAPH Flight o' Time Medio, d and Jackson Counly History from the flies of Th Mall Tribunt 10, 20, 30, 40 tnd 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 14. 1952 (Tuesday) Pupils in all public schools in Jackson and Josephine counties returned to their classes yesterday following the close of the annual South ern Oregon Educational con ference. Plastic yellow traffic mar ker discs arc being installed today every eight feet in the center ol Main st. from Riv erside avc. to Onkdalc avc., according to Public Works Di rector Vernon Thorpe. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 14. 1942 (Wednesday) Federal Judge James Alger Fee cts time for arraignment of four conscientious objectors in federal court here. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pol" column: "As soon as the government gets the 'man-power situation ad' justed to war production' as now under way, something should be done about regulat ing 'bullpower' In congress." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 14, 1832 (Friday) Teachers attending Jackson county teachers Institute vote against proposed merger of schools and against repeal of prohibition. Mcdford Community Chest announces it will be unable to aid in relief unemployment program; county and city ofll tials meet to discuss plans fur "taking up slack." 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 14, 1922 (Saturday) Largest number of hunters in history reported In Rogue valley as pheasant and quail reasons open. Congressman W. c. Hawley arrives in Medford to start campaign for reelection. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 14, 191 (Monday) Emil Seidel, Socialist party candidate for vice piosidoui, chedules speech In Mcdtord. Group of Mcdford suffra gettes travels to Rogue River in five aulomobiles to luke part in meeting with Hoguu River Suffragettes. What's Your I.Q.? Nint or Itn cerract Is luparlor; stvtn ar tight Is ucellsnl; fl at sia Is oed. 1. Is Sir Waller Raleigh, Christopher Coin nib u s. or Captain John Smith reputed to have been the first Euro pean to see tobacco? 2. Berne is the capital of which country 3. Is it correct to u.-o the term "movies'' in a formal rense? 4. Name the capital of the Dominion of Canada 5. What was Pilate's fust name? 6. The year 11)00 was, or was not, a Leap Year? 7. Is a hurdy-gurdy a form of transportation, musical In strument, or child's game? 8. Must 14, 10, or 9 ciphers be added to 1 he figure 1 to make a billion? P. Salt water does, or docs not freeze? 10. Is tripe obtained from iwlne, cattle, or poultry? Answars: 1. Columbus. 2. Swits trlsnd. 3, No. Moving plcturas. 4. Oilowa. J. Ponti us. I. Waa not. 7. Musical in strument, f, Nina. 9. Dots. 10. Cattla. J-ASSOCIATION He Should His detractors would be overjoyed we are sure, if we took a whack at Sen. Wayne Morse for what happened last week in a House-Senate conierence on the public Appropriations for cluding $zu,uuu ior a bureau or Keclamation of a project on the Umatilla because powerful Rep. approve them. He resisted, and got three other members of the conference committee to go along witn mm, according to because senator Morse had opposed an appropri ation for an aquarium Rep. Kirwan wanted in Washington, D.C. We have said that the Morse haters would like to see us whack him for this. We are sure of it because of their reaction to a recent editorial in which we asked whether Oregon, in view of the bad relations with the administration and many senators, could afford Senator Morse. IF WE thought from the facts available to us that Wayne Morse was solely responsible for the loss of appropriations for the four Oregon projects we would, you may be sure, say so. But the information we have does not permit us to pin the blame on him. Senators Morse and Maurine Neuberger per suaded the Senate to provide funds for the Ore gon piojects. The House had not approved the funds. This seems to make it clear that in con ference Morse had to persuade House members of the conference committee that they should do something that the House It would have been had he been able to get House to buy that one. THERE is another point. the only Oregonian who spoke against Rep. A m Kirwan's aquarium. Rep. Edith Green was asjFK strongly opposed to it and said so in strong lan-1 ,. hj.. J7-: i ;i ii... l. uimut:. ivii . rviiwan im(ik unhappy with Mrs. Green If Senator Morse and able to see far enough ahead to anticipate what would happen in conference on the public works appropriations bill should they have voted for Rep. Kirwan's aquarium? We think not. The easons Mrs. Green gave um appropriation were, So were Senator Morse's. District of Columbia committee which governs the District Sen. Morse knows very well the needs ot the District, lie said, As a member of, the District of Columbia Committee of the Senate, 1 owed a duty to the people of the District of Columbia to endeavor to get the $10 million that Kirwan wanted for an aquarium in the District of Columbia used instead to meet the school crisis we have in the District or for cleaning up the Potomac River which is the most polluted river of its size in the world." THE record shows that the people of the Dis- trict of Columbia have praised Morse repeat edly for his dedication problems. We would expect them to support his stand against the aquarium appropriation. We have said repeatedly that Wavne Morse has hurt Oregon by his rows with the administra tion and with other senators. We have seen no evidence that has altered our opinion on that score. But we will not kick the man for this. When he voted against the aquarium he could not foresee retaliation by Mike Kirwan. Had he known it was coming and the form it would take we think he still should have voted against mon- i'v for the armarium. We are unable to join Morse cnt.es on this . Pendleton Last Oregonian. j one Hail to Detroit While Americans are preparing to welcome some -100 new models of automobiles, the public owes a special dicer to an addition which each '(M car will have. That, according to the Auto mobile Manufacturer's Association, is a positive crankcase ventilation system or blow-by device, which reroutes unburned exhaust gases back into the engine to be burned. The device adds a bit of efficiency and, more important, it eliminates up to 10 per' cent of the hydrocarbon exhaust. California was first to nass a law on this automotive air pollution problem, but Detroit has not been slow to take the hint. We hope that on the new models, the tailpipe may shine along with the chrome. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Mississippi's Long Night . . . The Little Rock crisis ended in a victory, irreversible though partial, for equal treatment of all citizens; and Arkansas has come to ac knowledge that it is irreversible. Mississippi is a harder nut to crack. But it is notable that hardly any political leaders in neighboring states have chosen to support Governor Harnett in his ex treme stand. The administration can only hope that time will allow tempers to cool. It knows that the great hulk of Americans sees the movement towards true equality as both just and inevitable. It also knows that in the world nignt nas already done serious damage to Amer ica's name; many people will see only that men have killed to prevent a black man from sitting next to white men and women in a lecture room. Firm Federal action is the best proof that the killers and rioters are not a portent but a rem nant. Manchester (England) Guardian. be Blamed works appropriation bill four Oregon projects, in River, were turned down Mike Kirwan refused to reports from Washington, refused to do. something of a miracle the conferees from the Senator Morse was not n. ni;i m i. ur i n ws as as with Morse. Mrs. Green had been tor opposing the aquari we thought, well taken. As a member of the to solving their many outside, Mississippi's long! Waiting For Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (cl New York Herald Tribune Syndicate FAREWELL TO CONGRESS Congress which is just about to adjourn has, it seems to me. reflected as in a mir- rop what the people as a whole, want, what they do not want, and above all what they do not care about. If the function of Congress is 4wi p a U to reflect opin- Lippmann ion rather than to lead it and make it and shape it, then there is nothing much to complain abuut. If, however, we meas ure the mood and behavior of Congress against the new era in world affairs which is open ing up, there is much to worry about. a I OO NOT think we need to - worry about the refusal of Congress to accept the big Kennedy welfare bills. Many legislators who favor some or all of them in principle com plain that there were too many of them and that some of Hie bills, at least, were rather sloppily prepared and Ineffectively presented. More over, there was little popular presure behind the welfare measures. The country can get along without them for the immediate present. There are, I believe, two serious crilicisms to be made of the work of this Congress. The first is that it has inter fered unduly and contrary to I ho spirit of the constitution with the President's conduct of foreign affairs. The worst case of usurpation is the pro viso about Yugoslavia and Poland in the trade bills. This unconsidered clause will, if it is not repealed next winter, wreck our foreign yolicy in Kastcrn Europe. Foreign policy cannot be conducted wisely and effec tively by appeasing inflamed congl'dm in 'this proviso. It is true that in the world today foreign policy is deeply entangled with foreign trade and loicign aid and that, therefore, the House of Repre sentatives as well as the Sen ale is drawn into the making of foreign policy. But it is highly undesirable that Con gress, and particularly the House, which is so big that it Is not a deliberative body, should use Its fiscal power to usurp the President's initia tive in foreign affairs. VN EVKN mere serious fault arises from the fact that most of the senior members "Look at that riot of color and tha smrlll Wonder haw trios paopla in California can stand on linon all yar long ... I" The Other Shoe of both Houses are out of touch with the world as it is today, and with the new gen eration that is shaping it. In spite of the trade bill, which is on the whole a very good bill, the influence of Congress has been generally against the effort to adapt this country to contemporary world. This is not only the world in which we and the Soviet Union are the great rivals. It is also the world in which Western Europe, pursuing pol icies which Sen. Byrd regards as sin and damnation, is forg ing ahead rapidly while we continue to drift. rpHE deepest criticism one can make of this Congress is that with few exceptions it has shown no sign of being aware of the comparative sluggishness of the United States' economy which is threatening our position in the world and is darkening the prospects of the future. The fact that Congress is so unconcerned also so grave an American problem is a serious matter. As yet the unconcern of Congress reflects faithfully enough, I am afraid, the un concern of our people. The President has not been able to break through it, and the loudest voices that the people hear most often arc telling them not to face the fact that the United States and the world in the middle of the twentieth century are not what they were at the begin ning of the twentieth century. Editorial Comment LET'S CALL IT WINNIE Gov Mark Hatfield's cam paign staff has just put out a clever and impressive little folder listing the things the governor has accomplished and things he favors and wants to accomplish in the fu ture. Among those tilings he fa vors Is the "Winnamucha-to-the-Sea" highway -- meaning. presumably, extending the route from Winnomticca, New, all the way through Southern Oregon to the roast. But nowhere in the folder do we learn whclhrr Gov. Hatfield is in favor of proper spelling. Capital Journal, Salem. Matter of Fact (e) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate THE FINAL COMMITMENT Washington - The President has yet to make his choice, but there is more and more talk here of the need to take the most decisive step that the Amer ican govern- in e n t has taken since the Berlin y Aiinp ago. 11 i n i s step is taken, the U. S. will make the final commitment to defend Berlin alone, if need be, providing only that the West German government does not oppose. This is the piece that has been missing from the pattern since Khru shchev issued his first Berlin ultimatum, in November, 1958. In order to understand the decisiveness of this step, it is necessary to understand some of the complexities of the Al lied management of the Ber lin crisis to dale. In brief, Britain, France, and West Ger many are publicly commit ted, just as much as the U. S. is committed, to the defense of Berlin's freedom. Yet these Allied commitments are largely illusory, for several practical reasons. qpo BEGIN with, the toil some process of Berlin "contingency planning" has been going on for close to four years. Reams of highly classi fied paper have been covered by the planners. But the other three major allies have con sistently refused to commit themselves to Implementing the contingency plans (even supposing the plans are ob viously applicable) without further inter - governmental consultation after a Berlin challenge is offered. The British and French refusals have been particularly em phatic. The consequences of this rule of consultation can easily be predicted. Suppose these is a challenge on the vital Ber lin access routes, for instance, and consultation follows. It is a three-to-one bet that the British will then call for a summit meeting to negotiate. It is an even better bet that the French will pooh-pooh the challenge as not serious and unworthy of notice - which is the line they have been tak ing in all the minor crises in Berlin itself, desipte their vaunted advocacy of a hard line. Thus the British and French alone, without consid ering the West Germans, must at least be expected to delay the response to a Soviet chal lenge, if not to attempt to pre vent it. IN PRESENT circumstances, in fact, there is no way to avoid a considerable delay for frenzied inter-allied consulta tions, with the East Germans or the Soviets meanwhile blocking the access routes with perfect impunity. Such a delay can be fatal, in and of itself, even if the other West ern allies end by supporting strong American action. at Lies By ERIC SEVAREID The first, hot-blooded reac tion to Russia's military pres ence in Cuha has cooled down. 3 Careful polls confirm that Hie Great ma jor i I y of Amercans are Hiving the President t h e necessary ben of it of the rimiht and that w h i I p Cuha will influence the November voting, it will not be an overriding influ ence. This is an opportune tune for disabusing ourselves of various well-publicized no tions of the immediate past and for trying to foresee Hie immediate future. To begin with, the intcllcc luals argument over the Mon roe Doctrine is a hollow one. It is a mistake lo reason that n f 1 f J V 1 l- jZtl "isis began fc v.--:.- sir.j tour i :--iia i Sevarfld iimiinie was I'u-intaic.i , i unan sugar quotas, and whic'i on our agreement to keep out i demonstrate Latin sisterhood of the eastern hrmispnere. j by reliising haven to Cuba s that we have now intervened ! desperate refugees, will take with bases all over that hemis- j o action which will be to phere and that therefore we; even their temporary diad aie. in logic, powerless to act 1 vantage. They, not we. preju upon the doctrine. At the time dice the whole "Good Neigh of (he doctrine's promulgation per" policy. we were a liny nation, siiag- cling westward, with no hope or desire of establishing our non existent power in the oil 1 he comparison with our present baes and the Russian : hac in Cuba is faulty for the reason that we are installed in l'urkc. Pakistan and o t h e r count! ics to piescrve their sovereign independence, not j to absorb those countries by i By Joseph Alsop The reason for Ihis lies in Soviet psychology. If the Soviets make a grab, and meet with an instantaneous and totally firm riposte, they generally withdraw again without making an issue of the matter. But let the riposte be deferred. Let the thing grabbed be safety held in the Soviets' grip, even for as long as 24 or 48 hours. Then the Soviets, perhaps oddly, re gard their grab as, in effect, legalized; and the danger of a riposte is automatically mul tiplied by ten. For purely technical rea sons, therefore, the President desperately needs to be free to order the American forces in Europe into immediate ac tion, without long delays for consultation, in the event of the Soviet challenge at Ber lin, which now seems more and more likely. Yet this need is by no means the end of the story. AN AMERICAN move to gain this needed freedom has always been the missing piece in the Berlin pattern - and for a quite simple reason. Nikita S. Khrushchev is quite as well aware as anyone in Washington of the likelihood that the British will call for negotiations and the French will pooh-pooh the whole af fair, while he takes his first crucial slice of Berlin salami. The fact that Berlin is now defended on a committee sys tem has already helped Khru-1 shchev considerably. It must be the chief fact which has convinced him - if he is con vinced - that he can make his final Berlin grab without un due risk. Even if he believes the President's protestations about Berlin, in short, he must expect the President to be too entangled by the Allied com mittee system to do anything about a Berlin challenge when the time comes. CARRYING conviction with Khrushchev can be a great gain. Carrying conviction with the other Western allies can be an even greater gain. This is particularly true of the French, for Gen. de Gaulle, as of now, Is personally convinc ed that President Kennedy's protestations are false, and that the Berlin challenge will be ducked when and U it comes. Neither the French Presi dent nor Khrushchev can have further doubts about the in tentions of the American Pres ident if the American Presi dent tells his allies that he will go it alone at Berlin if need be. In the changed circum stances that will then result. the President will be whollv free to take all necessary ac tion wim utmost speed. Noth ing can stop him except an overt plea from Chancellor Adenauer not to defend Ber lin afler all - which is un thinkable. And in the changed circumstances, the President will also be far more likely to have serious Allied support than he has today. Ahead for U.S. Cuban Policy? our power or our system; Rus sia's purposes in Cuba ara po litically aggressive purposes. To make the comparative cae is to place the issue on pre cisely the grounds where Khrushchev seeks to place it; it is a disastrous falling in with his strategy. The stronger rase against the applicability of the Mon-j showdown struggle lo pin an me Doctrine is made by thine rntl 10 Castro. This would in whn rite the Rio agreement ! volve American permission and other recent instruments prucla lining non-intervention and mutual action. Hut it seems almost certain that in any practical test involving serious risks to our larger Latin allies, it will be these agreements that will lapse and the Monroe Doctrine that will prevail, out of sheer necessity. Governments whose most notable reactions to Castro have been to use him as a foil to get more American aid. to scramble for the unustd The elaborate shipping; squeeze on Cuba is designed j the fust instance to hurt c'aslro and in the second io icm KiKjian intentions. It , Khrushchev responds to a worsened internal crisis m Cuba by massive increases in i his own shipments, we will know that preserving and spreading communism in this hemisphere is more important to Russia than trying .be fool ish game of using its Cuban Try and -By BENNETT CERF- BILLY PHELPS, professor of English at Yale for many years, and remembered fondly by a whole generation of Eli graduates, could not always keep a note of sarcasm and disapproval out ot his voice. Asked for crit icism of a particularly atrocious two-line poem by a brash student, Phelps commented, "Not bad, my boy but don't you. think there are some heavy passages?" An other time a colleague described an overpraised actress of the day as "ut terly intolerable." "Intol erable, yes," nodded Phelps, "but that is her only fault!" Alfred Drake, famed for his portrayal In "Kismet," once parked his car directly in front of a fire hydrant, and found a. policeman writing out a summons at the very moment he reappeared upon the scene. "Hi, there, Mr. Drake," said the policeman pleasantly. "You are my wife's favorite actor. She's been crazy about you for years." "Thank you," said Drake humbly. "Does this mean you're going to tear up that ticket?" "Not at all," said the policeman, resuming his writing. "Yes terday my wife sued me for divorce." "Stop waving your arms like a semaphore and making horribla faces at me, sir," commanded Dentist Pullman. "I haven't even touched your infected tooth yet." "I know," moaned the patient, "but you're standing on mj bunion." 1962, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Festurei Syndicate In the Day's News By FRANK This is written on October 12. Why is that interesting? Well, 470 years ago this morning a man by the name of Columbus stubbed his ton on the little island of San Sal vador, in the Bahamas, at the edge of what is now known as the. Caribbean area-where we go for cruises in the winter season. San Salvador turned out to be an outpost of a NEW WORLD. IVE'VE been celebrating ' ' Columbus Day for quite a while - so long, in fact, that it has become a trifle old hat. I'd be willing to wager at least a couple of dollar bills that when you got up it never occurred to you that this is Columbus Day. And, it just might be that if somebody had jumped you be fore your breakfast coffee had cleared up the fogs of the night before, you might have been a little hazy as to just what Columbus day is. BUT this year things are a little different. Columbus set out to prove that man could navigate a sailing snip around the world to China. We're getting ready to prove that man can navigate a space ship to the moon. So Maybe we'd belter pay a lit tle special attention today to Columbus and his once fan tastic enterprise. COLUMBUS' big job was to FIND THE MONEY. He tackled most of the crowned heads of his day, but they turned him down. So he finally fell back on Spain's Ferdinand and Isabella. Fer dinand couldn't see it, but Isa bella, a handsome and intelli presence as a pawn in any "deal" involving Berlin. And we will know that the time has come for the next step. What should that be? There will be many who will press, for a really serious attempt to use Cubans as our proies in what will then become a and efforts for the establish. nicnlo fa Cuban government in exile. No one is unaware of the difficulty in getting any three Cubans to agree to any thing. But in the words of tlip late Henry Stimson, ' Yon can't expect men to be trust worthy unless you first give them trust.'' The necessity for some such Cuban authority in the imme diate period after Castro's ic- gime goes down which has to be our ultimate goal ; litical thrust in Europe or in could be discussed at leng'h. : C hina during the twenties and but would be premature. The j thirties, more pertinent virtues of such a government he in the realm j Few Americans seem to of propaganda, political war- grasp the enormity of the Cti fare, the morale of the Cuban . ban tragedy and whv free C,i underground, and quite posfi-' bans are willing to die fur bly in the realm of limited their country If. in imagine military action, designed to tion. we transpose the eventj hamper Russian shipments to Cuba by the intervention of Cuban owned planes and pa- trol boats manned by Cubans and under Luban official com- mand. The financing and weapons would have to Iv American; the physical site f the government might have to be American; but it is hard to see that there would he j more dancer of world war 'n su:h a pattern than has exist- led in lairly comparable pat-j Stop Me D mm - i r j i JENKINS gent young woman, got inter ested in it and agreed to baclt him. It isn't true, as generally alleged, that she pawned the) crown jewels to get tha money. She offered to, but tha royal treasurer, Louis de As tangel, got interested in her project and supplied the bulk of the funds out of the royal treasury. TTOW much did it cost? " You'll be surprised. All put together, the cost o! fitting out the little yacht-siza Santa Maria, the Pinla and the Nina was just about tha modern equivalent of $14,0001 How times have changed! lyE'RE geeling ready to go " to the moon. We estimate that it wiU cost about 20 BILLION DOL LARS to put the first man there. TTOW come that Ferdinand was so tight when Colum bus came to him with his idea of sailing around the world to the fabulous Indies? Well, he and Isabella had been fighting the Moors' and they were feeling pretty poor. Spain was IN DEBT, and Fer dinand hesitated to put any more on the cuff. TIMMMMMM. " One wonders what Ferdi nand would have said if some one had told him that four and three-quarters centuries later the United States of America would have THRE3 HUNDRED BILLION DOL LARS ON THE CUFF, bur wouldn't hesitate a moment to put twenty billion dollars more on the cuff to prove that man can navigate a space ship to the moon! This is indeed a New World. terns in many parts of the globe. It might take a long time. But so did the struggle in Greece and Korea and Ma. laya. and so has the struggle in Viet-Nam. Many Cuban might die, but by the thou, sands thry beg for the right i to lake that risk. We should have no illusion thai Castro is going to give us a pretext for direct inva sion by touching Guantanamo or by installing atomic mis siles or by any overseas ex peditions against Latin coun tries. He is trying to pu!I down Latin regimes by what continues to be a massive ex ercise in subversion. Belief that his own dreadful failura in Cuba will drastically weak en his subversive efforts and their effects is questionable. Mass misery and mass impris onment in Stalin's Russia did not slop the Communist na in Castro', Cuba to our com- trv with our population thu ' wlmld be the picture- about ' 5on.ono Americans jailed for political opposition: about u.- nun Americans executed- about S million American made homeless, In human terms. a in cold war terms. Castro is far more than a "nuisance " (Distributed 19S2 by Tht Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Rsrrd) 1
