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WEDNESDAY. MEDFORIVi&i!iTRIBlJNK ''Everyone In SoutherrToVegun Kcada TheMailTrlbum! tubli'.h.-d Dally except Saturday by MKUFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St.. Ph.772.614.l ROBERT W RUHL. Editol HERB CRKV Advertllng Manage! GKRAI.D T LATHAM. Bui Mgr FRIC W ALLEN JR . Mng Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP-MAN. Tcleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sportu Ed tot OLIVE STARCIIER Women'a Editor DALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mgr An" Independent Newspaper Entered a, second cla matter it Mcdtoid. Oregon under Act 01 March 3. 18!7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mall In Advance .,,. 'Daily and Sunday 1 yearJB O0 Dailv and Sunday 6 mo 10 00 Daih and Sunday 3 mos 3.00 Sundav Only One year 5 .00 Single Copy (Malledl iOC By CaiTiei And Motor Route Dailv and Sunday 1 year $.11.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. Ija Sunday Only 1 mo. 3"c Carrie! andendurs Copy 10c Official Paper of City of Mrdford Official Paper of Jacknon County United "PrWlnternatlonal Full Leased Wire U. P 1 Telephoto Newsplcturei 'memberof audit" bureau of circulations Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES OfMcea In New York. Cnl IV go Detroit. San Francisco. Loi AncHra , Seattle. Portland Dc-rrer i NEWSPAPER TPUBUSHl VASSOc:iATI IERS CIATION NATION A L EDITORIAL ASftpCMTIQN C6TI miiMi..u.'.i in Flight o' Time Mcdlord and Jackson County History from the files ot Th Mail Tribun. 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 26, 1952 (Thursday) Medford High school band attends annual Shrine -sponsored East-West all-star loot ball game in San Francisco; said a credit to city. Oregon 19-year-olds may be called up to meet stepped up draft needs; largest quota cull ed since Korean conflict. 20 YEARS AGO Doc. 26. 1942 (Tuesday) Plans for 125-unit Federal Housing administration proj ect in Mcdford started by architects. From Arthur Perry s "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Farm ers now report they need port folios, like lawyers tote, to .,.,,.. hnif n mile of govern- ment questionnaires they have to till out. 30 YEARS AGO Doc. 26. 1932 (Thursday) Jackson county court an nounces some county em ployees will receive cuts in waxes. Rogue Valley fruit men seek immediate reduction in freight rales to east coast. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 26, 1922 (Friday) Four cases of diphtheria re ported ill Mcdford by Jackson county health officer. Rogue Valley Scandanavian society schedules annual "feast for New Year s day" at Central Point. 50 YEARS AGO Dec. 26. 1912 (Sunday) Talent post office robbed of small amount of stamps ana cash; robbery attributed to sumo persons who burglarized Metllord post office. Mrs. Sarah A. Anderson, 78. dies in Rogue River; had been a resident of Die Rogue Valley since 1857. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten coriect Is superior seven or eight is excellent; live oi six is good. 1. Which nation's name Is In the plural at all times? 2. To what state does the Is land of Nantucket belong? 3. Mow many square rod;, are there in alt acre? j 4. It) what three cities are the United States mill's loca-1 ted? 5. Are the OlympL Moun tains East or Wrst of Pit gel Sound tin the West Coast ' rj In what year did the Bos Inn 'lea Party occur? 7. To what industry do the fallowing terms brlnm,: skid cler, staler, fuller, and swamp er? 8. When taking the oath of office before Ihe - twhoml the President of the U. S. places his hand on the llihle. fl. Though called green backs, U. S. paper money also cotilains the colors red and blue; where? 10. Are winds named for Die direction toward which they blow or from which they blow? Answers! 1, Tht Nether lands. 2. Massachusetts. 3. 160. 4. San Francisco, Denver and Philadelphia. 5. West. 6. 1770. 7, Logging. 8. Chief Justice of U. S. and Led. 9. In silk threads. lV From which they blow. 4 A DECEMBER 26. 1962 An Automated Society With the warmth and joy of Christmas be hind, and the frenetic gaiety of New Year's still to come, there is a sort of pause, a hiatus, in hu man affairs a time for looking both backward and forward, for revaluation and contempla tion. Looking backward can be more productive, if done constructively, than looking forward, for the crystal ball is always foggy. But looking for ward is more fun, and educated guesses as to what the future holds can help prepare the way. For instance, in its 18-month look ahead, For tune magazine sees a rising tide of prosperity, with the gross national product rising by $50 bil lions to an annual rate of $615 billions in mid 1904. TTHIS may well be true. Fortune has called the turn before. Still, however, lessons of the recent past lead one to doubt just how widespread and general this prosperity will be. Will it spread to the un employed coal miner, jobless because a machine can do his job better than he? Or will it spread to the youngster who, for whatever reason, never finished school, and with out learning and without trained skills, finds himself unwanted and unneeded. WHAT of the millions of elderly people at tempting to live in comfort and dignity on tiny incomes, or on the contributions of their chil dren? Or the "Arkies," beating the unfamiliar pavements of Chicago in vain search for work? The list goes on. It is a miserable list in this richest and most affluent nation in the world's history. Is it beyond our social ingenuity to cre ate the kind of society where no one need go hun gry, or have to depend on grudging welfare hand outs for necessities and creature comforts? Call it bleeding-heart do-goodism if you will. The fact remains that a tremendous effort will be needed if we are ever to reach a point where no one has to wonder where his next meal is coming from. 'T'HE words automation and cybernetics are rel- atively new ones. It is our belief that their significance has yet to become fully realized. The industrial revolution, by substituting ma chinery for muscle power, created technological unemployment, but it also created an expanding economy which, in the long run, in turn created more jobs than were eliminated. There is reason to doubt that an industrial civilization based on the computer, the automatic control, the one-man factory, is going to create new jobs at the same increasing rate new jobs needed for our rapidly rising population. COME thoughtful men, indeed, envision a soci- ety where there is a desperate demand for a few highly trained, highly skilled technicians, but virtually no need for anyone else, in the pro ductive industries. If anything approaching this kind of society comes about, it will require a sharp revision in our traditional ways of thinking about work, leisure, productivity, and social necessity. It may even be come necessary to subsidize unemployment, not merely as a way of easing a man over a short, difficult period, but as a matter of economic and social policy. It is not a pleasant situation to contemplate, in large measure due to our ingrained respect for work as such, for the "dignity of labor," and our traditional contempt for non-productive mem bers of society. DUT if a computerized, automated society docs bring the widespread technological unem ployment, more or less permanent in nature, that some men believe, it will result in a real revolu tion, not only in our way of life, but in our way of thinking. There are signs that it is on its way. A level of unemployment which ranges from -i 1 2 to 0 per cent of the work force, ami shows no signs of diminishing, is one such sign. So is the reduc tion in the number of rural people, as automa tion of a sort machinery and chemicals has reached the farm. So are certain recent labor disputes among the Railroad Brotherhoods, the Longshoremen and others which are over the issues of auto mation and fcatherbedding. The recent Kaiser steel labor proposal is another straw in the wind. THE challenges of an automated civilization are formidable, but they can be met. They can, that is, if they are faced with calm and with rational thinking, and with facing of facts as facts, not as disturbing hallucinations. A largely automatic industrial base could be so productive that it could support the entire population in comparative luxury. But it would not do so as long as we continue to view work as an end in itself, and non-employment as scine thing faintly reprehensible. MEW concepts of education, recreation, and all other phases of non-productive activity will be required if such a society is to come about peaceably. So will new concepts of the role of work. And the actual, physical readjustment of millions of people to a radically new social en vironment w ill be wrenching. In the loner run, however, we feel that the op portunities afforded by a wealthy society, with much leisure lime and the facilities to make intel ligent use of it, could outweigh the potential evils. It remains to be seen if this hypothetical au tomated civilization is just around the corner. But there are manv j&'ho believe it is inevitable E.A. MEDFORD "Announcing A Subtitute Hurler " Strictly Personal By Sydney (o Field Enterprise!. Inc. THE PUBLIC PAYS I was talking about the high cost of automobile in surance to a friend of mine from Calif- ornia, who happens to be an Insurance broker. "It's a vicious c i r rln." be said. -SI 5-, A 1 "and nobody ' really knows arr1s i how to stop it. man w ; im u seems as if Harris almost every body is what I call an insur ance thief." "What do you mean by that?" I asked. "Well," he explaicd, "I hap pened to hit a car slightly last year. The damage was negli gible to both cars, but the oc cupant of the other car claim ed grievous bodily and mental injury, and sued me for a con siderable sum. "He knew I was heavily covered by insurance, and did not want to settle for a fair amount. He also knew that juries tend to give large awards when they are aware that an insurance company is paying for it." "Is this wholly the dis honesty of the motoring public?" I asked. "Frankly, no." he re plied. "In the beginning, I suppose, it was the hardnos ed altitude of the insur ance companies-lhey paid out as little as possible, af ter delaying as long as poss ible. There were a lot of in justices toward honest claimants." tit iff . tii. f Political Leaders Worrying About 1964 Candidates Washington - lUMi - Even before new governors and members of Congress have been sworn in, political party leaders have begun to worry about nominating "attractive candidates" fur 196-1. Practicing politicians have talked with increasing ur gency fur the past decade about the need to recruit what are called attractive candi dates, particularly for chal lenges against incumbents. Now they will bo more con cerned than ever about find ing handsome, youthful-looking candidates. This increased emphasis on attractive candidates has de veloped because of the appar- Hunt lor Wartime Friend Concluded Had llersfeld. Germany-iim - When Kenneth W. Note boom of Salem. I) re., was a CI. I. stationed in Find llersfeld at the end of World War II, a little Germany girl named Mimika used to visit him every d.iy and he shared his chewing gum and chocolate with her. Nntebooin often wondered what happened to the ti-ycar-old girl since then and launch ed a search for her. He sent a picture f Monika to Bud llersfeld Mayor Werner lies? mer, who asked local news papers to publish it. The cx-Oi I i search ended w hen Mrs Anna Rrie.elbach. 83, recognized the little mrl as her ! and. laughter. Mrs. Monika Ites.-l.-r. 24. of Hann over Monika. her husband and their two ear-old sen spent i Christmas in West Perlin and j there learned of Notelni.n's search. MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON J. Harris "How long could that go on?" I inquired. "Exactly," he nodded, "It went on just long enough to prove ihe old axiom that injustice always boomer angs on the perpetrators. The public felt that since the insurance companies were offering a third of what was right, they would ask three times as much as they expected. "It finally grew into a mischievous game between the accident lawyers and the insurance companies but the motoring public, of course, pays the price in end. because auto insurance rates are pretty much based on how much the compan ies have to pay out In claims each year." "Can anything be done about it?" I wanted to know. He shrugged. "I don't know what. The motorists lie about the injuries they suffered, the garages connive with them in padding repair bills, and ev erybody seems involved in a gigantic conspiracy to defraud the insurance companies on the theory that unless you ask for a tremendous amount, you won't get anything." "I don't suppose passing 8 law will make any differ ence." I ventured. "It's not a matter of law," he said, "it's a matter of pub lic morality. Injustice breeds more injustice, and everyone's caught up in it. Meanwhile, as usual, the lawyers get fat, and the public pays the pi per." ent depreciation In value of the party label In national elections. Growing numbers of voters have become addict ed to ticket-splitting. Noted in 1956 Ticket - splitting was most conspicuously deinonstr a t e d in 1856 when the Democrats won control of Congress while Dwight D. Eisenhower was be ing reelected to the White House by a landslide ma jority. There was another unusual demonstration in 1960 when the GOP gained 21 House scats while President Ken nedy was winning the White House for the Democrats. Ticket splitting was again common in the elections last Nov. 6. Among 27 states which elected both governors and U.S. senators, 12 elected a governor of one party and a senator of the other. Outside the South, where : the Democrats arc still domi- mint despite a growing Re ! publican challenge. 12 of 23 . states elected a governor from I one party and a senator from i the other. j Michigan Splits Ticket Another state. Michigan, chose a Republican governor ; and a Democratic congress man elected from the state at ; large. j The 1964 election offers the GOP its best chance in six ; years to cut down the big i Democratic majority in the i Senate, which is now divided 67 Democrats to 33 Reptibli ' cans. Of the 33 Senate scats at stake in 1964. 24 are held by . Democrats and only nine by J Republicans Only a handful of the Democrats who must seek reelection in 19(14 are from safely Democrat :c terri tory Hence the GOV could gain Scn.Ue seals in 1964 even if President Kennedy wins reelection. Dominican Toward Democracy i By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst A United States experiment combining an odd mixture of gunboat diplo macy and a hard-sell on tha vrlrtiiAC nf W, f. I aemoc racy, I ii'-t I " u c c essful'y I nas Passec "s Amk S lire! iloDa I 4jas I 1 missile whose Uarilaaal second or Newiom third stage firing may fail despite suc cess of the first, this U. S. ex periment has a long way to go. The reference is to the re cently completed Dominican elections, first to be conduct ed freely in nearly n years of what used to be Trujillo land. The fact that it went off practically without vio lence is a tribute to advance precautions and to the Do minican people themselves who demonstrated both an af fection and a longing for dem ocratic processes. Victor in the election' was president-elect Juan Bosch, a man with a finely chiseled face which can break either into a wide grin or a fero cious scowl. Bosch has sppnt half of his In the Day's News By FRANK Question for today: (As this is written, there is no BIG news on the wires.) Where does the regional name DIXIE (as applied to the Deep South) come from? TUHS inquiry is suggested by an Englishman, Sir Wol stan Dixie, who broke into the news last week with the statement (made in London) than an ancestor of his, John Dixie, landed in New York with the Dutch in 1638 and tried to grow tobacco in what is now Harlem. He adds: "That didn't work out, so he took his people to Caro lina and Georgia. He and his family had marvelous names as employers, and that was why everybody talked about DIXIE'S Land." THERE appears to be some thing, at least, to his claim. William Rose Benet, in his Reader's Encyclopedia, says of Dixie: "The term was popularized by the song DIXIE, written by D.D. Emmett, and first sung by Bryant's Negro Min strels in New York City in 1859 Originally, how ever, Dixie referred not to the South but to Manhattan Is land, and this use of the term was said to be current for about 50 years before the song was written. "According to the account usually given. Dixie w a s a slave-holder of Manhattan Is land who removed his slaves to the Southern states where they had to work harder and fare worse, so that they were always sighing for their old home, which they called 'Dix ie's Land.' rpilE World Book Encyclo--- pedia which, by the way, rates high enough in the in tellectual world to be chos en as the authority for an swers asked in the popular TV shows College Bowl and Password suggests another version of the origin of the term Dixie. It says: "A Louisianna bank once printed ten-dollar bills bear ing the French word DIX, which means TEN. According to one story, people called Pope Praises God For Lack of Wars At Christmas Time Vatican City-'IPI'-Pope John XXIII praised God today for the first Christinas in many years without wars or threats of war and asked Catholics to pray for an ever more solid peace. The pontiff, 81, In high spirits despite stomach trouble believed to be a bleeding ulcer, addressed an overflow crowd of 1.300 Ro mans and pilgrims in a week ly general audience In the Vatican s Clementine hall. Grace of God "Tuesday was the first Christmas in many years perhaps 30 on which there were no wars or imminent dangers of war anywhere In the world.'' he said In his im promptu speech. "This is a great grace of God. especially considering that only two months ago there was a most grave dan cer, which was dispelled also through the far-sightedness of statesmen." The Pope's words w ere hul third public tribute In five Free Elections First life in exile and is described as an anti-Communist leftist. In this he has the company of other Latin American lead ers, including President Ro mulo Betancourt of Venezue la and former President Jose Figueres of Costa Rica. At one point in the cam paign, Bosch threatened to withdraw from the election altogether, contending that his candidacy had been dam aged by a charge that he was a Marxist-Leninist. He suc cessfully fought down the charge and the United States has announced he will have its support. A land unused to democ racy still must face many pit falls before it can be said that democracy safely has been established. The Dominican republic has a strong Castro element which was, however, badly split by revelation that Castro had extended hospitality to Soviet missiles. But the new government must contend with the usual ailments of Latin American nations, not the least of which is great poverty and a high rate of Illiteracy. For the United States, the stake in a democratic Domin ican Republic is perhaps high er than it should be. But great efforts have been expended to JENKINS Louisiana DIX'S Land, and then shortened the term to Dixie. In time DIXIE came to mean the entire South. In the early 1800 s, it was a term which showed the longing of Negro slaves for a place where people were thought ful of others." T'HE World Book, however, does give a nod to Sir Wol stan's claim. It adds: "According to still another story, a man named Dixie, or Dixy, who lived on Manhat tan Island, was good to his slaves. He had to send some of them South, and they became homesick for 'Dixie's Land.' "From this use, Dixie came to mean any place where Ne groes were treated with kind ness and consideration." TiHERE S still another ver-- sion. Some people contend that the name given Mason and DIXON'S line in some way started the use of the term Dixie. Everything considered, however, it doesn't sound too plausible. Both Mason (Charles and Dixon (Jeremiah) were Eng lish surveyors. In the 1 700's a boundary quarrel arose be tween Pennsylvania and Maryland. They agreed to set tle the dispute by having the land surveyed. They called in Mason and Dixon, who sur veyed the line betweeen the years 1757 and 1763. The line was named after them. Before the War between the States broke out, an imagin ary lengthening of this 1'ne came to be thought of as the boundary between the freee states and the slave states. La ter on, it became thought of as the boundary between the North and the South. So there could be something to the con tention that Dixie was derived from the Dixon of the Mason and Dixon line. INCIDENTALLY, Mason and Dixon set up milestones to mark the boundary they were surveying. Through the years souvenir hunters h?'-e made off with a considerable num ber of these stones, using them as doorsteps and curb stones. days to President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev for their re straint in handling the Cuban crisis, although he never men tioned them by name. In his Christmas broadcast to the world Saturday, the Pope said "clear signs of deep under standing" by statesmen showed that his peace appeal at the time ot the Cuban crisis was not "wasted on the air." 'Wisdom and Prudence' I In an address to diplomats the following day, he again referred to "wisdom and pru dence" which helped over come the danger of war. "We must rejoice over this Christmas without wars." Pope John told today's audi ence. "But each of us must also contribute his prayers that peace may become ever more solid and live in the hearts of men." The Pope spoke in Italian for 20 minutes, dwelling at length on the significance of Christmas especially for trVl-dren. n Ex-Trujilloland make of It a Caribbean model which would stand in stark contrast to its nearest neigh bors, dictator-run Cuba and Haiti. Failure here would be fail ure for the United States as well, and for the Organiza tion of American States Try and Stop By BENNETT CERF- MADISON AVENUE advertising nabobs are chuckling over the story of the agitated copy writer who burstl into his top exec's office and declared, "I've figured outi eight things in this agen cy that are being done all wrong, and that I think must be remedied imme diately." The top exec beamed, "That's the most optimistic report anybody around here has given me in months. When did we get down to only eight?" George Allen, pal of three presidents, recalls the days when his father practiced law, politics, and diplomacy in Boone vi He, Miss. One day a magistrate dared to decide a case against Allen, Senior The latter waved a volume of Blackstone under the justice's nose In outrage. "Sit down," thundered the justice. "I know the law.'1 "Of course you do," jeered Mr. Allen. "I jjst wanted to read this to show you what a damn fool Blackstone was." A high school "wolf," girl crazy with a vengeance, eased him self into a barber chair. "Do you wish a haircut?" asked the barber. "No, sir, answered the wolf. "Just change the oil." Laments Alan King. "My wife has a nice chin and for her mother, that goes double." C 1962, by Bennett Cerf. Iist,nbut.eU by King Features Syndicate Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the ncme and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters D. inted in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the oaDer; In fact the contrary is often tha case. Support for the Game Commission To the Editor: I thought that the article by Milt Guy mon, of the Oregon State Game Commission, was very good, except it left out the most important part of why poor hunting was had during the deer season of 1962. Hunters have got to realize that the game department does not control the amount of deer killed in the state dur ing the season. It is the hunt ers themselves who show a good or bad take of big game animals, and should take the blame of their failure instead of shoving the blame onto someone else. I would like to relate this experience I had while hunt ing in the Klamath Falls area. I had hunted for six hours and only encountered three other hunters, while the roads were over-loaded with those hunt ers who never get out of their cars. What would be the deer killed if hunters couldn't carry loaded guns in their autos? The game commission would really get racked over the coals about the poor hunt ing conditions in the state. Leo Grandmontagne Box 14 Powers, Ore. Educated Pigs To the Editor: One of the most tragic hog episodes I shall never forget really hap pened when I planted the first crop on the homestead way back in 1913. We had only erected a fir rail fence around our much prized garden of vegetables of all early varieties. The time was early June. Our neighbor rancher in the flatlands one mile below had acquired a bunch of red stock or range shoats from Corvallis, Ore. As there was no herd law then, the shoats were soon on their own resources. Talk about speed and endurance, they developed both. And even educated too. as I watched W-fV i tit, Retired Until Next Year Step which also has been deeply involved. An aid to the new regime will be the country's relative wealth. It is the hemisphere's third largest sugar producer, and it has large deposits of bauxite ore which goes into the making of aluminum. their maneuvers. If they fail ed to slip sidewise through the rails some of the more active ones would walk up the rails until their bodies balanced over the top rail. My prolific garden I had la bored at so long was soon a mass of wreckage and only a memory of green shambles left. Bert Kissinger 322 South Riverside ave. Medford. Advertising To the Editor: Someone re marked to this writer that the advertising profession must regard most Americans as be ing below average in intelli gence. Of course it does. The advertising agencies long ago took the position that the average citizen of this fair land is no more intelligent than a 12 year old retarded child. Just whom are they fooling with their repetitious com mercials? They are wasting a lot of somebody's money. Is that what they learned in col lege? Happy New Year, David Frisch P. O. Box 292 White City, Ore. Increase Interest In Scientific Careers Washington - ll'PI' - State legislatures across the nation appropriated S1.8 billion in tax funds for higher education during 1962-1963, the Joint Office of Institutional Re search reported. The amount represents an increase of 24 per cent over a two-year period. State-by-state gains ranged from 75 per cent in New York to 5 per cent in Louisiana. Ap propriations declined in two states-Alabama (1.5 per cent) and Montana (.5 per cent), the report said. f OMIV A 4
