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Medford ancf'-Jeckson County
History from th tllei o The
Wall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 25, 1952 (Wednesday) .
Jacksonville schoolteacher
Is killed when car stalls' on
railroad tracks and is hit by
Southern Pacific freight train.
Some $300,000 worth of
paving projects eliminate dust
and mud from 4 '4 miles of
Medford streets during 1052.
20 YEARS AGO. ..
Dec. 25, 1942 (Monday)
Jackson county court names
Fred C. Holmes, Ashland, to
replace Frank Van Dyke as
county representative pro tem
in the state legislature; Van
Dyke prepares to leave Jan.
1 1 for service in the armed
forces.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Citi
zens have started wearing
neckties and puffing pipes
Santa Clans put In their
socks." . ..
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 25, 1932 (Wednesday)
Medford city police report
total of 37 automobiles were
stolen during 1032.
Interstate Commerce com
mission announces lowering
of freight rates for pears ship
ped from Rogue valley.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 25, 1922 (Thursday! .
Speaker at Medford Cham
ber of Commerce forum asks
protection for Oregon caves.
Postmaster William Warner
announces Medford residents
can cash in on 1018 war
savings stamps starting Jan. 1.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 25, 1912 (Saturday)
Medford post office robbed
for the second time In its his
tory; thieves make off with
five registered packages and
about $20 in stamps and cash,
according to Postmaster Ralph
Woodford.
Residents of Eden valley,
south of Phoenix, report pick
ing fresh peaches off trees on
their ranch for Christmas din
ner. Whzl's Your I.Q.7
Nina or ten correct If luparior;
itven or eight it eicellenti rive ei
lia il good.
1. Unscramble Ihes names!
of tools: plaster, cherwn, II
seek. 2. What Is a female sheep
called?
3 Rearrange TRECHA
CAH to spell a word meaning
moral demeanor.
4 How many heads does a
kettle drum have
5. Aboul how many feet
ran a porcupine throw his
quills when frightened?
6 What U the largest Is
land in the world?
7. Name the sea bird thai
never flies.
8. What Is the literal mean
ing of Renaissance?
9. What are the five lowest
prime numbers?
10. Which state generally
has the most below-iero
weather?
Answers: 1. Stapler,
wrench, sickle. 2, Ewe. 1,
.Character. 4. One. J. None:
hi can'l. 6. Australia. 7. Pen
guin. I. Re-birth, t. 1, 2, 3.
5. and 7. 10. Norlh Dakota.
X A.
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DECEMBER 23, 1962
Merry Christmas
For reasons hard to comprehend
At Christmas-tide there is a trend
To put one's greetings into verse;
A few are .bad, and some are worse.
Succumbing to this tempting call,
We wish, good times to one and all.
To those who labor for the poor,
Or combat liquor's fatal lure ;
To those who build and those who serve,
To those who beauty do preserve,
To all who cherish friendship ties,
And those who never utter lies.
The season makes our hearts feel warm
And bolsters Santa's rotund charm.
A smiling face, a greeting gay,
Make miseries just facie away.
So in this fine euphoric state
There is no need to compensate
For all the woes of all the world,
We'll keep the list of sadness furled,
And offer greetings of the season
To ev'ryone in sight in reason.
Republicans and Democrats
Will fret no boos nor alley cats.
The city's fathers, county court,
Will get no sly or sharp retort.
Our lecrislators, underpaid,
Are herewith bidden,
To make a graceful, courtly bow
And don't delay, but do it now.
We extend felicitations,
To all who write Communications.
To all who help put out the paper,
We wish a special Yuletide caper.
To one and all on TV screens,. ....
We wish a wreath of Christmas greens.
Announcers all on radio
We wish a cheery, loud hello.
To postmen, bending 'ncath their sacks,
We wish surcease from dogs' attacks.
May blessings of the season fall
Upon the teachers, one and all.
To salesmen in the stores, and clerks,
We wish them pleasure in their works.
To college students, home from school,
We wish a meal to make them drool.
We herewith speed a pleasant thought
To everyone who feels distraught.
To men who build the freeways wide, ,
A friendly wave at Christmas-tide.
And those who live upon the hill
In that big Manor, may they thrill
To all the joys of this fine place,
And wear their honors with good grace.
For men in blue, who guard our streets,
We wish a heap of Yuletide sweets, .
And pray they never have to fight
To keep our city clean and bright.
At Christmas time our thoughts go back
All through the year of woe and rack,
But on this day we should recall
The better things that did befall :
To help that's given Without stint,
The kind of news we like to print;
Of friendly people, charity,
Of kindness and fraternity;
Of those who think the rights of each
Must be protected from a breach;
Of those who serve both God anil Man,
According to our Maker's plan.
The verse is done, the well runs dry,
But one last couplet we
To everyone who plants
A joyous nineteen sixty
E.A.
Merry Christmas, John
Merry Christmas, John W. Snider.
We sinuie von out for this public greeting for
a number of reasons, all
Because vou are about to complete three
terms as one of the best,
courageous and effective
ever had and it s had
Because vou are completing a period of lead
ership in municipal affairs which took you to
the presidency of the League ot Oregon L ilies,
service on its board, and service on a committee
of the Amerian Municipal Association.
DECAUSLI, without you, Medford probably
would not have had the exciting and warm
experience of its sister citv relationship with
Alba, Italy, and the famous J elstar conversation.
Because 12 years as councilman ami mayor
is a long time for anyone to devote to largely
thankless and unpaid public service.
Because you also serve the state as chairman
of the Board of Aeronautics, as you once served
the Centennial Commission.
Because you are a kind and generous man,
with a wonderful family anil many loyal friends.
Because without your pixy sense of humor,
Medford would be far more drab than it is.
Merry Christmas, John. K.A.
unafraid,
shall try :
a tree,
- three.
of them excellent.
most reasonable, most
mayors Medford has
some good ones.
Matter of Fact
- (c) New York Herald
FROM RAMBOUILLET TO
NASSAU
Paris-Bcyond much doubt
the strongest influence on
Prime Minister Macmlllan's
Nassau meet
ing with Pres
ident Kenne
dy, . was the
Prime Minis
ter's unhappy
recollection of
his earlier
m e e 1 1 n g at
R a m b ouillct
with Gen. de
Gaulle.
Alinp
It is too early to say, as yet,
whether Rambouillct was
quite the decisive and de
pressing turning point that it
seems likely to prove. There
is always thq chance that
Macmillan will take Britain
into Europe on almost any
terms, despite the great risks
which this will involve be
cause of the Prime Minister's
deeply eroded political posi
tion at home.
Yet the French government
both hoped, and is inclined to
believe, that Rambouillct was
the beginning of the end of
the British attempt to join
the European Common Mar
ket. iFTER a scries of bad sct
backs in Parliamentary by
elections, and with more than
50 Conservative scats partly
dependent on farm voters,
the Prime Minister mainly
came to ask the French Presi
dent for belter terms for
British farmers. De Gaulle's
reply to Macmillan, it can
be slated on undeniable au
thority, was a glacially polite
negative.
De Gaulle did not speak
to Macmillan as a particular
ly enthusiastic European. In
deed, he indicated that his
Interest in Europe had sharp
ly declined, since Chancellor
Adenauer's promise lo retire
from office next year had put
a future term to the de
Gaulle-Adenauer brother act.
He merely said that better
terms for British farmers ran
counter to French national
interest.
The plain truth is that Pres
ident de Gnulle and most of
those around him are no
more eager to have Ihe Brit
ish join the European Com
mon Market than they were
last year. British entry is
now characterized as a "dilu
tion" of the European Com
munity, whereas the usual
Gaullist formula last year
was that British entry would
cause "Europe lo lose its per
sonality." That is I he only
difference.
VS LAST year, the French
recognize that they cut
not keep Britain out if the
British choice to p:iy the full
subscription fee of the Eu
ropean club. But Willi good
reason, the French believe
they can prevent the sub
scription fee from being pre
ferentially reduced. Til is they
still intend to do; and this
Intention was strongly reaf
firmed al Ramlmtiillet.
The outcome al Ramlmuil
let might well have been
quite different if Tiime Min
ister Macmillan had been
willing to sacrifice the Anglo
American partnership by of
fering nuclear partnership
between Britain and France.
Such an offer, of course,
would have run riiic.llv
counter lo British nuclear
commitments to Hie V. S. It
would have been welcomed by
Gen. de Gaulle, precisely be
cause it would hae involved
a brusque British change of
political partners
1UT THE British Prime
Minister chose not lo con
ciliate the French President j
by tearing up his stronc coin- j
niitmouts under the Am:lo- j
American nuclear exchange
agreement. The French half
expected M.tcniinao I d.
iust this, alter the " prox e,-.,.
lion" of the Skvbolt aftair. i
Instead. Macmillan put the
American partnership fnM ;
Such is the background '
against uliuli the Nassau
meeting most be seen Vt
Nassau, the President and the
PI
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
By Joseph Aliop
Tribune Syndicate
Prime Minister swiftly cast
the controversial Skybolt on
to the junkheap. The British
were then offered Polaris
missiles as a substitute.
This offer was conditional,
however, on British agree
ment to make their proposed
Polaris-equipped nuclear de
terrent a component of a fu
ture multi - lateral NATO
deterrent, when and if this
kind of NATO deterrent can
be brought into being. This
condition was accepted. The
Prime Minister is therefore
being bitterly attacked in
London for abandoning the
content of a fully independ
ent British deterrent.
AT NASSAU, 'Gen. de
Gaulle was also offered
Polaris missiles on the same
condition as the offer to
Britain. This did not give de
Gaulle what he wants, which
is to be placed on the same
nuclear footing as Britain by
the United States. It also call
ed on him to follow the Brit
ish in making the French de
terrent a component of the
contemplated NATO deter
rent, which is totally abhor
rent to de Gaulle. One must
assume, therefore, that the
offer to de Gaulle was made
with tongue in cheek
Add up all these facts. The
British effort to join Europe
has received another sharp
setback, although this might
have been avoided if the
Prime Minister had been will
ing to sacrifice the Anglo
American relationship. In
addition, that relationship
has been reaffirmed at Nas
sau in a way that has actually
deepened the Prime Minis
ter's troubles at home. And
under the guise of equal
treatment, w h at almost
amounts to a joke has been
played on Gen. de Gaulle -who
docs not like being a
butt.
in this pattern, it is hard
not lo see the British Prime
Minister clinging more than
ever to his American con
nection because he has begun
to lose hope of joining the Eu
ropean club. If this is the
right interpretation, the trou
bles between de Gaulle and
Ihe "Anglo-Saxons" tas he
calls Britain and the U. S.)
are only just beginning.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J- Harris
tc- Field Enterprises Inc.
WOULD WE CRUCIFY HIM?
If there should be, on
Christ iruis niuht, a second
cointnij - would there not be
soon a second
"J c r u c ifixii
And this til
ion.'
line,
n 0 t by t h e
Romans or
the Jews, but
t by those who
" ; 1 proudly call
, : t hem selves
j Chris tians? j
" I wonder. I i
wonder how
would regard and j
H.i in
we today
treat this man with his strange j
and frightening and "imprac-i
lu-nl" doctrines of human be-1
bai lor and relation ships.
Would up Relieve anil follow.)
auv more than Hie masses of'
people m his day believed and
followed?
a
Would not the militarists
amount us assail him as a
cowardly pacifist because
he urges ui not to resist
evil?
Would not the nationalists
among us assail him at a
dangerous inlernationel I t
because he tells us we ere
all of one flesh?
Would not Ihe wealthy
among us castigate him at
e troublemaking radical be
cause he bars the rich from
entering the kingdom of
haaven?
Would not ihe liberals
among us dismiss him as a
dream? vagabond because
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oapet: in tact the contrary Is often he care.
True Christmas
To the Editor: Once more
we come to the Yuletide sea
son. It Is a joyous time of
year. But how many of us
forget what we really are cele
brating? How many of us say
Xmas, which takes Christ out
of Christmas completely? How
many of us buy things that
are way out of our reach, just
to keep up with the Jonses?
How many of us think only in
terms of material things, in
stead of spiritual? After all,
none of us really know when
Christ was born. We presume
it was in the spring, as they
speak of tax time, but the
Bible says we are to celebrate
each day as Christ's birthday.
God has given us so many
gifts each day of the year just
for the asking. These include
freedom of worship, eyes to
see His gractousncss, love,
companionship, friend ship,
faith, hope, charity, health and
many more. But how many of
us turn our backs on these
gifts, as it would take work
on our part to pass them on
to others?
As my family gathers
around the dinner table on
Christmas for the bountiful
feast God has provided for us,
there will be no exquisite or
expensive gifts to pass to each
other, maybe no gifts at all.
just the brightly lighted tree
to show it is Christmas. But
we have been given the great
est gift of all. We have been
given Love, abundant enough
enough to share with all we
know each day we live. The
Bible says Christ is Love.
Without Love, there is no
Christ. When we bow our
heads in prayer, we have so
many things to be thankful
for, things money can't buy.
There are so many things
we can do each day of the
year to help out someone less
fortunate than us, that it's a
shame that it is all left un
done until one day of the year.
Let us all put Christ back in
our lives each day of the year
and not just at Christmas. For
get the expensive gifts, and
put our hearts into helping
others every day. God will
richly. bless you for your ef
forts you put forth if it is done
because you want to, and not
for the reward you feel God
will give you.
Clara Faye Pursel
1334 Beekman
Medford.
Christmas Story
To the Editor: Many people
wonder at this time of year,
why do we decorate Christmas
trees and give presents and
goodies to the children? I
guess the past is closer in my
family than most because al
though I am in my forties, my
maternal grandfather would
be 143 this year.
My Ma, who lives In Jack
sonville, is past 81 and her Pa
was 62 when she was born.
This story is one she heard
from him many years ago.
Many years ago in the
mountains of Germany the
people were pagans and wor
shiped many gods, one of the
most important of whom was
a god of the forest.
He was a vengeful and de
manding devil - god whose
spirit dwelt in a high fir tree
high In the mountains, deep
in Ihe gloomy recesses of an
ancient forest.
Every year in the beginning
of winter the chiefs of the
he advises us to take no
thought for the morrow, to
lay up no treasures upon
earth?
Would not the ecclesias
tics among us denounce him
as a ranting heretic because
he cuts through the cords
of ritual and commands ui
only to love God and our
neiqhbors?
Would not the sentimen
talists among us deride him
as a cynic because he warns
us that Ihe way to salvation
ii narrow and difficult?
Would not Ihe Puritans
among us despise and reject
111!!! tlCl'lllW,. hf Oil. anri
drinks will, publicans and sin-1 Sw?dl'h Y"' V1 ,
nets, preferring the company1 ,l0 ,he Editor: ule Is Ihe
of winebibbers and harlots to ! 0,(1 'v,hc ""'"e for Christ
that of "respectable" church ! mM 8,1(1 Sweden it was
members'' 1 celebrated for centuries in
Would not the sensual ' Prehistoric tunes to hail Ihe
among us scorn him because I r01urn ' he sun. The sun
he fasts for 4(1 davs in th 1 WM ,lle'r Rd. The word yule
desert, neglecting the needs of
the body
Would not the proud and
important among us laugh at
him when he instructs the
twelve disciples that he who
would be "first" should be Ihe
one to take the role of the
least and serve air
"ouin not me worldly-wise
and educated among us be
aghast to hear that we cannot !
be saved except we become as
children, and lhat a little child
shall lead us"
Would not each of us in his
own way find some part of
this mans saying and doing:
to be so threatening to our
ways nf life, so much at odds
with our rooted beliefs, thai
we could not tolerate him tor
le-ng
1 I wonder.
1
small mountain villages chose
a little innocent child from
each village who was taken to
the god's tree and sacrificed
as an offering to the god. This
sacrifice was believed by all
to allay the god's lust and
thereby Insure the safely of
forest travelers and wood cut
ters for another year.
Then one year a very saint
ly Christian missionary came
to this part of Germany, teach
ing of Christ, brotherly love,
the golden rule and compas
sion. He converted many of
the pagans to Jesus and soft
ened their hearts.
When that winter began the
villagers had meetings and
decided to send the bravest
and best woodchoppers to the
forest there to chop down the
giant fir, home of the forest
giant, burn it to ashes and
thereby destroy all his power
and evil forever.
They attacked the tree with
their axes, fired by their new
found belief in the God of
love and compassion, hacking
and hewing until at last the
tree came crashing down to
eartn.
Walking around the fallen
god in wonder and awe of
what they had done, they dis
covered in the broken and
decayed top of the old tree a
small green b e a u 1 1 fully
tormed young fir tree.
The old god's home was
burned to ashes. The wood
cutters took the small tree
back to the village and erect
ed it in a place of honor in
the square. They put many
lighted candles in the
branches representing the
new light that Christ had
brought into their hearts and
gave presents to the children
to show that good had re
placed evil,
Tim J. Horn
Box 146
White City, Ore.
Back Home
To the Editor: and hello
everybody.
Had a bad time convincing
'em I was well enough to go
nome; now I am trying to
prove it to me. I've made
stews, boiled eggs and made
toast so far, by resting be
tween times.
My Chihuahuas greeted me
with tails wagging.
Over 400 cards and letters,
many asking that I write to
this column every day. No,
I'm flattered, but I can write
all I know in 20 minutes. I'd
be an awful bore.
Yep, I was feeling a bit
sorry for myself but one of
the books sent me had a poem
entitled "Christmas Is in Your
Heart." Sure enough, it's here
a warm bundle of beautiful
memories of other seasons.
Thank you, friends, and I
thank God for sending you
to help me. None of us really
need to feel alone.
I stopped here to read Fri
day's letters. I am disappoint
ed on reading a letter against
the Sacred Heart hospital. In
any hospital comes times of
rush hours when many pa
tients arrive at the same time.
First arrivals must be served
first, especially if cases are
severe. Nurses do their best,
but someone must wail.
I was there last month and
I've never seen better service.
I am not a Catholic, but
each evening a kind Priest
and a very sweet Nun visited
me and they made a pleasant
place in an otherwise long
eve.
In hospitals, as in life's liv
ing, each must await his turn.
Since the lady didn't bleed
to death, I wonder if be
smirching the hospital's good
name made her get well
quicker?
Believe me, Dear, mud
slinging isn't quite nice. You
have done the Sacred Heart
a Rreat injustice.
Early in life, this gal learn
ed that "I'm not the only
pebble on the beach."
Yep unquote. My slop
dad said it.
Pearl Spackman
Box 3H
Jacksonville, Ore.
means wheel. The meaning
was. that the mn had wheeled
a turn around.
In the Seventh Century
word reached the Swedes
about "Hvite Kris'." (the
White Christ) and a daring
Swede trekked to Rome to
find out. After some years
ne returned to Sweden as
monk, authorized by the Pope
' Rome to preach the new
religion.
He took the name Ansgari
as. But the Christian religion
made slow progress for the
first two or three hundred
year in Sweden as the old
Xor.-e religion with the three
gods, Odin, Thor and Frcy.
was deeply rooted. Swedish
written history has little to
jiell until around the Ilih or
I lcth Century where writings
r
Washington Report
By William
(ei tinned featur syndicate
FILIBUSTER
Washington - Another in a
long series of sham battles
over the Senate filibuster is
about to open,
i for no better
reason than
all the other
ones. The
avowed pur
pose of the re
formers Is to
change t h e
rules so that
the filibuster
- the tactics
resistance in
whit
of prolonged
tended to prevent any con
clusive vote on some passion
ately resisted bill - can more
easily be broken by a gag de
vice called cloture.
It now appears that with
began to be practiced by the
priests and monies. Before
that the rune writing was
used, carved in wood or
hewn in stone. Of such writ
ing only the words written
in stone survive and naturally
only a few inscriptions of
such.
However In those pagan
days, Yuletide was cele
brated, not for one day only
but for two or three weeks,
by eating drinking, dancing
and carousals. I grew up in
that country and can well
remember 75 years back.
They had an old saying -"Tjugonde
dag Krut Dansar
Yulen ut."
Which means, Christmas Is
over on the twentieth day.
So Sweden remained Catho
lic for 700 years, until around
1520 when the then Pope
issued a rule lhat all priests
must be celibates, and that
priests who were married
must give up their wives. The
Swedish clergy rebelled and
the king ruled in their favor.
So the Pope lost his authority
in northern Europe and wars
were fought about it. But the
spirit of Christmas remains.
John E. Ring,
1049 West 11th st.,
Medford
Thanks
To the Editor: We would
like first to thank the editor
and staff of this newspaper
for allowing us this oppor
tunity to express our thanks
to the people of the Rogue
valley.
On the 29th of November
our house and everything in
it was destroyed by fire. We
are thankful that no one was
home and no one was hurl.
We'd like to thank those
that came to fight the fire,
and those that offered us
shelter. A special thanks to
the Amon Cathrins in whose
home we have lived since
the fire.
I'd like to thank each of
you personally, but many of
you I've never met, so since
that's impossible, we'll thank
you this way for the food,
clothing, linens, money, and
the men who came and work
ed on the dairy barn to "--.ake
il livable for us. And anyone
else who has helped us in
any way.
I give you, in the book of
Mathew, chapter 25. verses 35
to 40 of the Holy Bible. Verse
40 says, "and the King shall
answer and say unto them,
verily I say unto you, inas
much as ye have done it unto
one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it
unto me."
Merry Christmas and may
God bless you each and every
one.
The H. L. McCormicks
and Family
Thank You, Santa
To the Editor: It was the
Saturday before Christmas
and I couldn't find a onorf
parking place anywhere in
Medford. I finlly parked the
car with Santa's reindeers.
Donner and Blitzcn. Its a
good thing .1 left the car un
locked. While I was gone
Santa left a bic hox nf home.
made cookies in the front seat.
Now what do you think of
that? Thank you Sanla Claiu.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.
te3
Still The Cretlest Gift Of Alll
S. Whit
the arrival of the new Con.
gress. the Senate will allow
itself the luxury of struggling
at great length over this ques
tion: Shall the rules be changed
so that three-fifths of the
Senate, instead of two-thirds,
as at present, can shut off all
debate by cloture?
Maybe thev will he rh..
ed; maybe thev won't R
whether or not Ihey are chang.
cd, this will be a phonv war
For it will not and cannot
settle the real problem here.
THE REAL problem is how
sar ana now last the Sen
ate should go In adopting ex
tremist - liberal maac,,A
notably in the field of civil
rights, which to manv mnH.n.
ate people, quite outside the
souin, are ill-considered, vin
dictive and thus unsound. The
real need of the forces which
want to go very fast and far,
indeed, will not be met by
any change in the Senate's
rules.
Their true neepssllu 1. i
change not the procedures of
tne senate, but rather the
general mind of the country,
which is interested In n,.f.,i
solution of the race Issue but
not in the vehemently self
righteous and unattai
proposals of extreme libera.
Iism.
For even If the fnr.
were able to alter the rule lo
the supposedly magic three-
nttns formula, they still
would not be able to find
three-fifths willing tn .i .
gag upon opposition to ex
treme measures. Three-fifths
of the Senate will nnt ,nfA
any more than two-thirds of
me senate will vote, to si
lence the rest of the
upon anv bill which rannni or
length produce a favorable
public consensus In t h I
country.
ESSENTIALLY, the leading
aavocates of rules change
are motivated by a determi
nation to press upon an actual
maiorilv not a mere smith.
em minority of the Senate
legislation on civil rights
which this actual majority is
convinced would be both un
workable and unwise.
Reneatedlv MnahIp in rarnr
the Senate on the merits of
their case, they repeatedly
have rpeniirsp InsfpaH tn trv
ing to change the rules of the
game. Their troub e is not
that the rules are bad: their
trouble is that their bills are
bad.
The fillibuster is in fact an
almost-providential thing to
the liberal extremists Anri if
they ever managed totally to
destroy it, they would ba
Quite lost and most of thpin
never re-elected. For it is a
nandy alibi for their persis
tent incapacity to legislate ef
fectively. Thev can alwavs
say back home that they tried
awititty naro nut were lin
ished off by that dreadful
thing, "the filibuster."
rPHIS happily conceals the
- root fact that they never
could have won anyway, fili
buster or no filibuster, for a
very simple reason. This is
what a majority of the sen
ale (entirely outside the
south) distrusts, their violent
emotionalism, and is not in
any case prepared to permit
them to dominate public pol
icy on any issue so harsh, so
complex and so tragic as civil
rights.
The moderate and reason
able and controlling center
simply will not follow the
more or less professional civil
rightists and southbalers
men like Senators Wayne
Morse of Oregon. Joseph
Clark of Pennsylvania and Ja
cob Javits of New York.
This is not because this
controlling center is "op
posed" to civil rights. It Is be
cause this center understands
that the race problem in this
nation absolutely demands
careful and patient solutions
of a kind absolutely foreign
to the temperament of the
extremists.