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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files ol Tha
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7. 1952 (Friday)
Employment In Jackson
county remained al a high
level throughout October.
Some 20 men were sent to
reenforce firefighters on a
300-acre blaze in the Apple
gate district of the Rogue
River National forest today.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7. 1942 (Saturday)
Medford city employees
electrocuted when loose pow
er wire falls across Jackson
St.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Nim
rods have started running
over to Klamath county to
bring down a goose and take
a chance themselves on
coming down with pneumon
ia."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7, 1932 (Monday)
Medford Mayor E. M. Wil
son apparently reelected as In
complete returns give him a
lead of 360 votes; county re
turns .show Earl Fehl ahead
for county Judge and Gordon
Schermerhorn leading f o r
sheriff.
East Side Improvement
league formed; plans to widen
East Main St., put In new
street lighting, cover aban
doned street car tracks and to
get all property owners to
modernize and improve store
fronts.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7. 1922 (Tuasday)
George Dunn, Ashland, gets
largest majority in Jackson
county in bid for election as
state senator.
Medford Mayor C. E. Gates
proclaims Armistice Day ob
servance in Medlord.
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7, 1912 (Thursday)
Serbia issues defiant an
swer to Austrian note; "prob.
ably precipitates general Eu
ropcan war."
Special Grants Pass Commit
tee recommends that saloons
in thai city have only one
entrance, not be allowed lo
have tables or chairs, and pay
an annual license fee of
$1,500.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten carracl It superior
seven or eight ii excellent! fiva at
sis Is good.
1. What does an octagonal
highway sign always mean?
2. When does a bill be
come a law?
3. From what is rum made?
4. What republic was form
ed by freed American slaves?
5. What did the ugly duck
ling turn Into when he grew
up?
6. Which of the National
parks was first established?
7. Has a Vice P-esident
ever been tried for treason?
8. In music, what Is a chro
matic scale?
9. Who wrote Ihe Ameri
cans Creed?
10. What is the square root
of one?
Antworii 1. Full Hop. 2.
Whan signed by President. 3.
Farmantad molasiai, 4. Li
beria. 5. A twan. . Yellow,
ilona National Park. 7. No.
8. See. a including all half
tonas. 9. William tylar Page.
10. Ona.
NOVEMBER 7, 1982
"Bubbleheaded Inspiration "
Yesterday's election was the 18th we have
been involved with as a working newspaperman.
There were a couple of others in which we were
involved politically. In almost all of them there
have been last-minute flurries and cries of
"smear," "fraud," "unethical tactics," and so on.
Therefore it came as no particular surprise
to see the same thing happen Monday night.
It took the form of a long anti-Morse TV ti
rade from two representatives of the Rogue Basin
Flood Control and Water Resources Association.
The best description of it was provided by
another director of the association, who called it
a "bubbleheaded inspiration."
IT ALL stemmed from an advertisement which
appeared in southern Oregon newspapers the
last days of the campaign, pointing out that Sena
tor Morse had been instrumental in obtaining the
authorization for the Rogue Basin project.
The ad reproduced a letter from the president
of the association, thanking Morse and praising
mm lor nis work. Ihe ad also (and we must con
fess we thought this was stretching a point) re
produced the sponsoring organizations of the As
sociation, most of which
non-political.
The advertisement
nce-seeker claiming credit for what he had done
for his constituency. There was no implication
that the sponsoring organizations supported
Morse. Indeed, any normally-bright person could
see that the Granges, chambers of commerce, and
otners, would be violating
such support.
H!
OWEVER, some members of these groups felt
that there was such an irnnlicaMnn. and snno-hr.
to counter it. as thev have
T (
aid so via acis in tne urants rass courier.
(The Mail Tribune came in for criticism because It did
not accept similar ads because its deadline was past. The
criticism is unjustified. Our Advertising Director reports:
"The only approach for space, to my knowledge, was a
call from Grants Pass simply in the form of an inquiry.
No further comment was offered when the caller was
informed that It was too late. There was not the slightest
indication of urgency, no request to disregard deadlines
. . i We would certainly have made an exception in our
deadline rules if any side at any time feels an Injustice
has been done and would seek an advertising outlet for
rebuttal.")
So far, so good.
Then came Monday night's nroeram durincr
which F. I. Bristol tore into Morse for listing
these non-political organizations thus involv
ing them in politics far more thoroughly and
parusaniy man tne aa
A SIMPLE disclaimer
isations would have
to draw them into an all-out
was something else again, far more serious than
the mere listing of their names on a letterhead.
(We also mildly resented the criticism of the Mail
Tribune's story about the affair because it gave Senator
Morse's side of the question, as well as that of the pro
testers. Presumably Bristol would have been happier If
we had printed the one-sided handout - which was pre
pared at county Republican headquarters, incidentally -without
change and without addition.)
Thus this "bubbleheaded inspiration" had
two results :
1. To involve far more than thev alreadv
were the non-political organizations in partisan
pomics, ana,
2. 1 o effectively place
Control and Water Resources Association in stri
dent opposition to the man who had been so in
strumental in obtaining authorization for the
project they have sought.
MOW that Senator Morse has won reelection by
A" a substantial margin, and will be joined by
Democrat Bob Duncan in the House of Represent
atives representing the
does the Association propose to do now?
As Bristol himself pointed oiit, authorization
of the Rogue project is only one step. Appropria
tions must be obtained from the Concress.
We hope this last-minute partisan attack in
the name of the Association will not influence
Morse against the project, but it still is not the
best argument for him to go out of his way to
aid the Association in its quest for construction
money.
i in oUiuMAK I , Morse may nave stretched a
point in listing the Association sponsors in his
advertisement although
tioe in a hot political contest to do this sort of
thing.
But it was inexcusable for Bristol and a few
others to bring the Association and its sponsors
into what was patently a
hatchet effort at the last
the ad as an excuse.
Unless we are sadly
considered action has jeopardized the Associa
tion s enectiveness, and has certainly put an end
to Bristol's usefulness to the group. E.A.
Uh --Fellas..,
The Oregon department of motor vehicles
announces that, in 1964, it will change Oregon
auto license plates to three letters and three
figures. They re running out of usable combina
tions of figures.
The telephone company is switching from let
ters and numbers to all numbers. They're running
out of usable combinations of letters and num
bers. License department, meet telephone compa
ny; telephone company, meet license department.
-LA,
are non-partisan and
spoke for itself an of-
their own rales to offer
pvpw nVhr. in rln. TVipv
. ' J
ltseir aia.
from the offended organ
been annronriate. But
anti-Morse clambake
the Rocue Basin Flood
Fourth District, what
it is not unusual nrac
Republican "net-Morse"
possible moment, using
mistaken. Bristol's ill
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contrary is often the case.
Autumn Leaves
To the Editor:
I walked In the autumn wood
land, As the leaves came drifting
down,
Clad In their gala costumes
Of red and gold and
brown.
A few days before in lively
green,
They fluttered and danced
in the breeze
As if all their purpose in being
Was to cling to the par
ent trees.
But now they have broken
the tie
And t-iey seem not to worry
at all.
As in golden drifts they lie
In their lovely dresses
of Fall.
Is it their life's full duty
As with each other they vie,
To reach the 7enlth of beauty
In the moment that
they die?
Is it thus wilh human leaves
As they flutter and dance In
the sun,
To attain their greatest glory
When their earthly life
is done.
L. G. Weaver
301 Haven
Medford
County Fair Thoughts
To the Editor: May I sug
gest all persons interested in
Jackson county lair ciicck
with the Douglas county fair
people. They have a lovely
layout and when we lived at
Winchester, five miles norm
of Roseburg, last year, we at
tended the show every eve
ning, and we all agreed we
enjoyed it more than the state
fair. The cost was reasonable
and parking Just a step away
from the gate, not a mile
away in two inches of dust.
We got our money's worth
In free shows, rock and agate
exhibits, the 4-11 division, old
timer cars and many other
typical county show doings.
Their buildings were in use
every month in the year with
home shows, new car shows
and even big sales promotions.
such as the recent Moonlight
Sales here. With access to
the nearby freeway, the pass
ing tourists were there in
force too.
There are many places near
the new freeway through
Medford with access to the
freeway. Barnett road is near
the old fairgrounds. Why
can't the ground in between
be used? Bear Creek could be
diverted to form a lagoon or
small lake with picnic areas.
The local garden clubs could
plant and maintain flower
beds in view of passing traffic
for a permanent advertise
ment of a town and county
proud of their local fair.
Elsie S. Johnson
4069 South Pacific Hwy.
Medford.
From tha Oliva Grova
To the Editor: Some of my
friends perhaps wonder if
I've taken off for Siberia. No.
not quite. Just got tired of
looking at pears and decided
on olives for a change.
Out in the orchards some
one rancd me for being a
Wehfoot. They also let me
know that the rain which had
caused t h c unprecedented
quagmire in the olive groves
was Oregon mist and had
missed Oregon. I soon put my
native son friend on the right
track. They were told that
the webs between my toes
were what was keeping me
afloat in the sea of California
mud. Also that this wet of
of the wettest earlv October
storm had come from the
south. The hundreds of bent
over trees leaning north were
ample proof.
But believe it or not, the
breeres have been from the
north, and hat do you know?
Vet vjbdU days in this usual
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
TaS (arAaasWaaaVr
bear in nam and addrasi of
ly sun drenched Sacramento
valley have felt like home - in
Medford, that is. You see it's
been foggy. But it's been 60
per cent fog, much unlike the
29-32 degree variety up Rogue
valley way.
No, I haven't gotten rich
down here but the wife told
me by phone that our proper
ty tax was due. Really, I feel
so generous that I'd love to
walk into the Jackson county
courthouse with my money
and free olives fresh off the
trees for everyone there. It's
an idea. Maybe I'll really do
it. Eating olives fresh from
the tree is an unforgetable ex
perience. Those who have
eaten only the canned ones
little dream of what they have
missed. The growers here al
low us pickers to eat all we
can eat while we are picking.
So to my friends, I'll bring
back a supply to pass around.
Of course it might be well
to wait till after election. In
the sheer enjoyment that
comes with eating unprocess
ed tree-ripe olives one might
vote for the wrong candidate.
In fact, you might even vote
the opposite than what you in
tended. Ground up fresh
olives put in fresh water
make an eye opening drink.
See you all up there soon.
You can call me at 482-2105
for free fresh olives. I'm not
selfish.
Henry Johnson Jr.
1405 North st.
Corning, Calif.
Daisy's Back
To the Editor: I'm sure
most of us are sorry to see
John Snider vacate the
mayor's job.
However, I'm also kind of
glad! It means that, (and
haven't you notice?) Moo-o-os
and Musings are back and
better than ever,
H. D. Crofoot
2339 Hillside dr.
Medford.
Editor's note: Amen!!
Lumbar Industry's Dilemma
To the Editor: Before Gif
ford Pinchot appeared on the
U. S. forests horizon, RR rob
ber barons and lumber looters
of the public domain held full
sway. They scorned Pinchot,
feared and hated him. Mil
lions of square miles of U. S.
lands had been stolen. The
halls of congress. U. S. Land
Offices. Courts were havens
for and bedlams of political
corruption. The Great Lakes
states' forest were a shambles
and or the land a scorched
earth.
Some of the looters moved
West and continued forest de
struction. When Pinchot pled
and fought for National For
est Reserves for future use,
he was booed and insulted
by private special Interest
lumbermen. They chanted and
printed, "America's Inex
haustible Forests" to the
world. Some of them still say
there's plenty of timber in
federal holdings, and Insist
that it be thrown on the
open market at bargain
prices.
It is Ihe people's heritage
and those sayings show how
little privale special interests
groups care for the welfare of
America or her people, pres
ent or furture. Read the N Y.
Times editorial on this sub
ject. Read Secretary of Agri
culture Fre.-man's talk to the
Western Pine Assn., S;pt. 14.
1962.
In seeking a solution to
this lumber industry's dilem
ma, might it not be well to
keep In mind, constantly, that
we are dealing with the same
elements that George Wash
ington mentioned in his Jan.
IS. 1779. appeal to Patrick
Henry to "come forth and
help save Ihe Colonies from
the pertinacious persistent
selfing special Interests ."
Ignatius Donnelly warned
the U. S. Congress 100 years
ago when h said. "IUa un
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WllineSeiVeUa I dWlll& III IllUld
Of Korean
BY PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Nawa Analyst
It was 12 years ago, a little
later in the year than now,
that the Chinese Communists
undertook their first great
military ven
ture beyond
their own
boundaries. It
was Korea
then. Today,
it's India. But
the front line
reports trick-
ISSU
1 1 n g down
from the Him-
Newiom alayan peaks
reveal no great change in Chi
nese tactics In those 12 years
Then as now, the most ef
fective Chinese tactic was the
human wave assualt which
moved relentlessly upon its
objective regardless of the
cost.
Many an American veteran
of the Korean Punch Bowl
the Bowling Alley, Pork Chop
Hill and the Iron Triangle re
members those Chinese.
tha writer, although under
bridled greed of big business
and Its corruptive influence
on politicians is causing the
masses of the people to not
even vote and seek relief in
communism."
Gifford Pinchot's pleadings
and fights were against some
of the same characters named
in "Looters of the Public Do
main," still fighting the rights
of the people.
President Theodore Roose
velt's appeal, charge, demand,
to all state Governors and
600 big-business men, May 13,
1908; was: "The states nor
the federal government
should allow any more cut
ting of timber except it be
with a provision that the next
generation shall see the tim
ber increased instead of di
minished." John E. Gribble
139 Kenwood
Medford, Ore.
Word of Prophecy
To the Editor: In your edi
torial section you supported
those who say that much of
the Bible is fable. As a patrio-
tic American, I am glad for
the freedom of press which
gives you the right to express
your thoughts either for or
against the truth of the Bible.
I firmly believe that truth will
stand more convincingly as it
is challenged and will give its
own answer to those who dili
gently and with a pure heart
seek for It.
First off, we ought to con
sider what the Bible itself
says about the fable question.
I wish to quote the words
which God spoke through the
Apostle Peter as he was look
ing forward to die for the
truth:
"Knowing that shortly I
must put off this tabernacle,
even as our Lord Jesus Christ
hath shewed me. Moreover I
will endeavor that ye may be
able after my decease to have
these things always in remem
brance. For we have not cun
ningly devised fables, when
we made known unto you the
power and coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ, but were
eyewitnesses of his majesty.
For he received from God the
Father honour and glory,
when there came such a voice
to him from the excellent
glory, This is my beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased.
And this voice which came
from heaven we heard, when
we were with him In the holy
mount, we have also a more
sure word of prophecy; where
unto ye do well that ye take
hoed, as unto a light that shin
eth in a dark place, until the
day dawn, and the day star
arise in your hearts: Knowing
this first, that no prophecy of
the Scripture is of any private
interpretation. For the pro
phecy came not in old time
by the will of man: but holy
men of God spake as they
were moved by the Holy
Ghost. But there were false
prophets also among the peo
ple, even as there shall
false tachers among you, who
privily shall bring in damn
able heresies, even denying
the Lord that bought them,
and bring upon themselves
swift destruction." (Second
Peter 1: 14 to 21 and 2: 1&2
Peter said that the "word
of prophecy" was more sure
than what he saw.
Thrlma Malott
1691 South Peach st.
Medford.
It THAT What Wa Said?
To the Editor: Your incred
ibly fertile imagination has
once again taken a contem
porary world situation (with
respect to Cuba!, and produc
ed a fantasy, conforming to
your mechanistic idea of w hat
the United Nations should be.
According to your Oct. 31,
1962 editorial. Cuba was a
dangerouj situation because
President Kennedy had to "let
off steam" and fortunately the
U.N. was available to act as
a safety vslvt. Alas! you have
J.
War Which Began 12
They came out of the morn
ing mists like ghostly sleep
walkers, advancing almost
shoulder to shoulder. They
seemed to come out of the
ground Itself and, like rice
shoots, when one fell another
took his place.
The arms they carried were
simple ones. They liked the
Russian burp gun. It wasn't
much more than a barrel with
a trigger attached, but at fair
ly close range it sprayed bul
lets with deadly efficiency.
The winter months of 1950
51 were not happy ones for
the Americans In Korea,
fighting a new kind of enemy
in miserable terrain, against
unfamiliar tactics and in bit
ter cold.
Before the United Nations
forces there were to be weld
ed into one of the world's
most magnificent fighting
machines, costly lessons were
to be learned.
The Chinese soldiers ad
vanced like deadly automa
tons but they had not been
trained to improvise nor to
take advantage of sudden op
portunities.
Bob Gibson was a UPI cor
respondent who lived through
one of those human wave as
saults. The vivid dispatch he
filed told how one Chinese
soldier walked straight
through an overrun American
machine gun post, simply
kicking the gun aside as he
continued his slow pace for
ward. In a surprise night attack,
the Chinese captured a U. S.
artillery position complete
wih guns and amunition. Two
weeks later when the Ameri
cans recaptured the position,
the guns still stood with their
muzzles pointed north, ready
for use and with ammunition
still stacked neatly nearby.
This correspondent recalls
a Chinese soldier horribly
burned by napalm. For two
weeks after his fellows had
fallen back he had hidden in
a Korean pig sty, clinging to
life and stolidly ignoring his
pain.
This is the nature of the
finally realized the U.N. is not
the "world's greatest hope for
peace." In your own words it
is merely a "safety valve" for
letting off steam.
Well, you have the situa
tion in very clear perspective:
President Kennedy demon
strated great courage and
even statemanship in agreeing
to let U Thant go to Cuba
to work out a system of dis
mantling and removing offen
sive nuclear weapons.
While all that proceeded
this-President Kennedy call
ing to Washington his top mil
itary aides and cabinet mem
bers, congressional leaders,
etc.; declaring the quarantine
on Cuba with notice to the
whole world and the Soviet
Union, that no offensive nu
clear material would be allow
ed through to Cuba and what
was already Installed must be
removed; the fact that the
President and Secretary of
Defense moved and prepared
the Armed Forces for possible
action; the fact that almost
immediately after the Presi
dent declared himself he had
all of South America pledging
support, with England and
France and our other allies
doing likewise (many of these
countries had ships andor
material affected by the quar
antine); the fact the President
had the imr.-.sdiate support of
virtually all responsible
Americans and especially the
support of his political oppo
sition; the fact that President
Kennedy had demonstrated
traditional courage, faith, de
termination, r e s p o n sibility
and will; the extremely im
portant fact that Khrushchev
subsequently, in the face of
this concerted demonstration,
quickly backed away, re
treated (momentarily though
it be) - all this, and more, in
the humanistic eyes of Eric
Allen was nothing more than
an effective method of gener
ating dangerous steam!
Aah! But I have not even
mentioned the United Na
tions. Perhaps I should -Hooray!
for Eric Allen's "safe
ty valve."
Robert J. Howard
702 Beekman St.
Medford.
Gantle Explanation
To the Editor: and Mrs. Ray
Doran. With Ihe kindest re
gards for you and your deep
concern over the plight of the
Southern Negro shown in
your letter (M.T. Oct. 11) may
I explain to you as gently as
possible that the 1954 deseg
regation decision, which ap
plies only to the state of Ar
kansas, is not "the law of the
land." But even if It was. the
tragic invasion of Mississippi
with federal troops Is a brutal
and Indefensible violation of
state's rights, the 10th Amend
ment, and Ariticle 4. Section
4 of our Constitution. You see.
the states created the Consti
tution and the federal govern
ment, and they did not dele
gate to the central govern
ment the power to send
armies to crush Its creators.
Bear in mind that the ter
rible result of this illesal In
vasion, at stated by eyewit-
1 I m J!a
enemy which now faces the
outmanned and outgunned In
dian fighters in the high Hi
malayas as the Red Chinese
move for domination of the
whole of Asia.
American arms are flowing
into India to bolster Indian
defenses.
Indian women are contribu
ting their gold trinkets.
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(ct Field Enterprises, Inc.
SYMPTOM AND DISEASE
Like a dilatory patient who
goes to see the doctor six
years after the onset of
hacking and chronic cough,
the human
race is con
cerned only
with symp
toms and not
with diseases,
only with
cures and not
p r e v e ntion.
We are now
looking for a
, Harris pill to cure
our cosmic cancer.
"What can we do about
Cuba?" asks the worried citi-
ness students, was the shoot
ing of several students by fed
eral marshals; one shot in the
arm; one shot in the stomach
with a sawed off shot gun;
and one of whom, shot be
tween the eyes, died. (Smoot
Report, Oct. 15). If this can
happen in Mississippi, it can
happen again, at any time, in
any state, endangering the
rights of all citizens, including
Negroes.
It may come as a shock to
you that the majority of Ne
groes do not favor race mixing
and integration. As a whole
they do not welcome physical,
psychological, educational, or
matrimonial intergration with
the white race. In Atlantic
City housing projects they in
sisted on racial segregation
when allowed to choose the
project where they desired to
iive. Also Los Angeles, Chi
cago, and New York City,
where every desegregation
law that can be dreamed up
by political demagogues has
been passed, are all fast be
coming the most segregated
cities in the nation. In these
and other great cities of the
North many Negroes hold
good jobs. Their children are
in school. They drive good
cars and live in good homes.
But they are segregated. And
here where the big white
churches are wide open to
them, Negroes seldom go to
white churches. They go to
their own.
Those who would force race
mixing and destroy the white
and black races by throwing
the blacks and whites together
will never succeed. For it is
contrary to nature. It was not
the South that started segre
gation. It was Almighty God
who made the human race
yellow, brown, white, and
black and put them each on
a continent by themselves.
And His determination to pro
tect His people the way they
were created will prevail.
L. C. Powell
316 S. E. Eighth St.
Grants Pass, Ore.
Pear Utilisation
To the Editor: Now that
election is over maybe we can
all start thinking of other
things. In other words we
must always keep looking
ahead, so many things need
ing to be done, and goodness
knows there's a plenty.
So what's on my mind Is
this pear business. So hard
to see these tons and tons
of our Rogue valley pears
dumped here and there, big
piles of them, to rot. My ques
tion is, why can't there be a
group formed to start tip a
WW'MW1 -iff m :
"Maybe 11 1 tha 'ltt-down' after a campaign. Mayba
it's tha feeling you could have dona mora whan your
man loses. 1 den t know but 1 always gat Ihe post
alactlon bluat ... I"
DaimimI
IXCIIIIIIU
Years Ago
But neither can make up
soon for India's lack of pre
paredness. And over the week end
came conformation of a fact
already suspected.
In the hour of crisis, Nikita
Khrushchev's proclaimed
friendship for India counted
for less than kinship in com
quest with his Communist al
lies. J. Harris
zen - and there simply is no
satisfactory answer any more.
Six years ago, or more, when
the corrupt and repressive
Batista government was ruin
ing the country, we asked no
questions about Cuba.
When it was perfectly evi
dent that Hitler was about to
overrun all of Europe, we ask
ed "What can we do about
the Nazis?" The only answers
were war or surrender; the
disease had progressed to far
and too fast.
Nobody was much con
cerned about Germany in
tha years between tha Arm
istice of tha First World
War and tha Depression
years when tha Nazis war
making tha most out of Ger
many's impoverished con
dition. Likewise, by tha
time tha Bolsheviks took
over Russia in 1918, it was
already loo lata for tha
world to do anything but
fight or accada to it.
Pravantitiva medicine has
grown enormously in tha
last few decades; but there
still is no pravantiva states
manship, no inoculation
against tha virus of war and
tyranny and revolution.
We supported, both act
ively and passively, Batis
ta's rotten administration in
Cuba. Anyone with a grain
of political sense could hav
foreseen that tha pendulum
would tome day swing to
tha other extreme - that a
Castro it tha logical out
growth of a Batista, as tha
terrible excesses of tha
French Revolution followed
the axcatsea of tha French
monarchy.
In physics, every schoolboy
knows that "action and re
action are equal." The same
is true in the political life of.
mankind. The repressive Czar
ism was followed by the even
more repressive Bolshevism;
indeed, no nation wilh a his
tory of democracy has ever
voluntarily became totalitar
ian. Both communism and
facism have succeeded ONLY
where liberty had never been
known before.
Cuba is a symptom, not a
disease; Berlin is a symptom,
not a disease; Korea and Viet
nam and a half-dozen others
are all symptoms and not dis
eases. And there is little that
one can do about a symptom
while the disease persists.
They are all symptoms of
the world's neglect, its indif
ference, its narrow self-interest,
its unwillingness to faca
the obvious fact that preven
tive statesmanship is the only
way to keep the peace. What
ever we "do" about Cuba to
day will be wrong.
new business among our local
people to experiment in vari
ous ways, such as pies, can
dies, jellies, juices, gum
drops, and see which group
can come out best. Or put
on a fall pear festival and
give prizes for best methods
to use up this surplus wasted
product.
Ncvah Clifford,
Route 2, Box 200F,
Central Point, Ore.