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4 A- SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON MEDFORD :.i&&TRIBUN ' "Everyone IrT'Southern OregoD Readi Tne Mall Tribune" Rbliitied Dally except Saturday by MKDFOHD PRINTING CO S3 North Fir S'.. Ph77a-814l ROBERT W" RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Adv- ting Manager GERALD T LATH'.M, Bua Mgr ERIC IV ALLEN JR.. Mn Editor EARL H ADAMS. C" Editor HARRY CHIPMAN 1 'leg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. port. Editor OLIVE STARCHER W tnena Editor DALE ERICKSON. Cfl ulalion Mgr An Independent N vapaper Entered ai,hecond cla matter at Medfold. Oregon ur . r Act o! March J 1' , J SUBSCRlPTIl cS By Mall In Advan .,-,. Dally and Sunday - ' l- 00 Daily and Sim'a) I l""0 Dallv and Sunday l .noa 3 00 Sunday Only One year $5 0 Single Copy (Malledi ito By Camel And Motoi Ki.uit Daily and Sunday 1 year HI 00 Dally and Sunday I mo L73 Sunday Only 1 mo 50c Carrlel andjfendora - Copy 10c Official" Paper of Cltv of Medford Official Paper ot Jacks".' Cnunty United Preai International Full Leaied Wire V. P I Telephoto Newsplcturea MEMBEn OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlalng R'prMentatlvei NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC). ATES Of'lcea In New York. CM raid Detroit. San rrencUco Lni Angelea. Seattle. Portland Den'-er. NtWS'AM PUBLISHtRi association uiTinuil EDITORIAL knur'"""1"' Flight o' Time Medford nd Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Trlbun. 10, 20, 30, 40 nd 50 vaari igo. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 30, 1952 (Sunday) City council concludes busi ness for year; Mayor Diamond Flynn makes recommenda -lions for new year. Pacific Portland Cement company merges with Ideal Cement company, Gold Hill; until this time Pacific was op erated as a subsidiary of the Ideal company. 20 YEARS AGO Dac. 30, 1942 (Friday) Mcdford weather bureau re ports that 1942 precipitation total was within .84 inch of all-time record jet. in 1037; to tal was 25.8 inches. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pol" column: "Fred Holmes ot Ashland was sen tenced to the legislature by the county court last week. He will take the place of Coordi nator Frank Van Dyke, who Is now coordinating with the Army." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 30, 1932 (Sunday) Total of 100,738 persons vis ited Crater Lake during 1032. according to national park of ficials. Local man escapes being wounded when bullet fired In Mcdford home during New Year's celebration Is stopped by billfold; three held in Jail. 40 YEARS AGO Dac. 30, 1922 (Monday) C. M. Thomas sworn In as Jackson county circuit Judge. Earl C. Gnddis takes otficc as mayor of Mcdford. 50 YEARS AGO Dec. 30, 1912 (Wednesday) Contractors announce they are ready to start construction of Page theater in Mcdford. Local business firms report 'acute scarcity" of 1013 cal endars In Mcdford. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten coriecf It superior even or sight if eacetlenf; five er tii ii good. 1. Name a sea mammal that never walks. 2. The art of producing pic tures from plates treated with acid Is called what? 3. What prize fighter was known as the Cinderella man? 4. What man renowned tor his wisdom, built the first temple In Jerusalem? 5. What have the following In common: Kickapoo, Dela ware, Chippcway, and Semi nole? 6. What was the name of the first women's, niaganine In the United States? 7. How does the blood reach the veins from the arteries? 8. What country did Napol eon cull a nation of shopkeep ers? 9. What miinhcr is missing from the following series: 1(1, 18. 21, -, 30? 10. Without counting, how many columns does the stand ard newspaper have to a pane Answers: 1. Whale. 2. Etch ing, 3. James J. Braddock. 4. Solomon. 5. Indian tribes. 6. Godey'i Lady's Book. I. Through the capillaries. I. England. 9. 25. 10. Eight (al though there is an increasing trend to nine-column pages). Douglas on "The curious man the dissenter the innovator one who taunts and teases or makes a caricature of prejudices, is often our salvation. Yet throughout his tory he has been burned or booed, hanged or exiled, imprisoned or tortured, for pricking the bubble of contemporary dogma." This quotation is from Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas. It is of particular interest, for it describes, in no small way, the kind of man Justice Douglas is himself. He is a curious man, a dissenter. He has been booed and derided, and only the fact of his posi tion, and the freedom we still enjoy in the United States, has saved him from sterner measures of disapproval. He is no Voltaire, no pamphleteering Tom Paine, no burster of pompous bubbles with the pen of satire like Artemus Ward or Petroleum V. Nasby. Yet often, both on and off the bench, he has spoken out vigorously for freedom, for justice, for mercy. "ORTHODOXY and conformity a certain de gree of each is necessary for an orderly so ciety. Yet if they are permitted to stifle all un orthodoxy and all non-conformity, freedom dies. The witch-hunters who would brand as "pinko" or "commie" anyone who honestly seeks the truth, no matter what its origin, and welcomes the free play of argument and controversy, ac tually are fearful men fearful of "dangerous" ideas and "subversive" doctrines. Justice Douglas has been the target of some such slings and arrows, for he has not been afraid to listen to new ideas, and to voice some of his own, which have been heretical to some of the nation's little orthodoxies. He is the kind of man this nation needs a man who is imbued with the doctrines of a free and open society, and Is not afraid to speak out for them. E.A. Henry Ford's Full Circle Who, more than any single man, has done the most to remake the face of America? A good case could be made for Henry Ford, who, through mass production, first made auto mobiles available to virtually every American family. And it has been the automobile which has changed America more than any other single factor. It is remaking cities. Witness Los Angeles, where one-third or more of the downtown area is devoted to streets, freeways, parking lots and garages. A NY American city seen from the air presents "a similar picture, with acre after acre of colored car-tops visible, in lots, on roofs any where they can be jammed. In Portland the other day, Portland State Col lege said it is asking permission to spend $885, 000 to buy areas to accommodate student and faculty cars. The University of Oregon is planning to pay a consulting firm some parking needs and solutions on and around the campus. I he shopping center automobile, due to the unwillingness of Ameri cans to walk more than a block or so, coupled with ample parking space. TP IE development is circular, rather than linear. The Oregon Statesman comments: "Our fantastic use of cars is forcing us to decen tralize Just to make room for them . . , The more we decentralize our stores, businesses, schools, the more essential the private automobile becomes, and the more difficult it is to provide a public transportation system which is convenient and inexpensive. "The more we rely on gasoline engines to curry us within our urban living areas, the more we pollute the air. As the circle swings 'round, we approach the ultimate limits in si reel capacity (in Los Angeles), the creation of a deadly atmosphere in our cities (in London) and the most expensive item in the family budget. iSalem people, for instance, pay one quarter of their income for transportation and its allied expenses. ) "It will lake drastic action to slop this vicious circle . . . "Until the true nature of this emergency is rec ognized, the present dinosaur era of transportation will force educators, businessmen and taxpayers to pay it homage In the form of larger parking lots." jWIEDFOKD is still a small city, where one can drive across town in less than 10 minutes, even tit peak traffic hours. Hut the handwriting is on the wall, and changes are going to have to be made. In some cities, notably San Francicso, a limit has been reached. Located on the tip of a crowd ed penninstila with little more room for spread ing out, San Francisco daily has four major high ways pouring into it thousands upon thousands of ears. Thus the people of the Bay Area, fed up with mounting congestion and traffic jams, vot ed to bond themselves to the tune of more than throe-quarters of a billion dollars to establish a rapid transit system. Here is the full circle back to the day of the trollv ear and commuter train, -0th Centurv style. E.A. Way to "So," the man said, "to lick Russia you'd have to catch and kill millions of people, to lick the United Stales you'd only have to turn off the electricity." Sherman County Journal. Dissenting $5,800 for a survey of is a direct child of the Victory of k "Pilot 1963 To Palm Beach We're Running Into A Little Turbulence Up Here Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann lei New York Herald Tribune Syndicate THE TROUBLES OF GOVERNING The coming controversy about the rules of the two Houses of Congress Is our own version of a problem which is troubling all the big dem ocracies. How can democrat ic government which was conceived and established in LiDDmann a very differ ent era from this one, be made fit for the crises and the tempo and the complex ities of the modern age? No big country has yet shown how to produce a satisfac tory government when there is liberty to dissent and agitate, where there is a massive electorate and the territory is big enough to comprise conflicting sectional and occupational interests. The good government which we are looking for is one which is stable though it can be voted out of office, that Is strong enough to act decisively in international affairs and strong enough to resist the hysteria of the crowd, that has enough au thority to Impose the national interest upon the conflict of special interests. WHETHER this is a Utopian dream or a description of the bare minimum that is needed for the survival of a good society, the fact is that in the big democracies of Western Europe, in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, and in the United States and Canada in North America, there is a wide concern that the governments they have been electing are inadequate to their needs. This has been the feeling which brought about Gen. dc Gaulle's return lo power and approves of, or at least con sents to, his revolutionary assault on representative par liamentary government. We cannot as yet see where Gaullism will end. But ideo logically, it is for freedom and against democracy It is for personal liberty under authoritarian rule. While it is preserving the liberties which were generated in Eu rope in the eighteenth and earlier centuries, it is host(lc lo and scornful of niuelecpili century democracy with its massive electorates, its par tics, and its parliaments. 'AULLISM is 8 rmiieul ' nuivmuMit which is biMin watched with awe and anx iety in the rest if Western Kurope, particularly in the German Federal Republic and in Italy. In Wo-t Germany the commit departure of Dr. Ade nauer, that unique Million tarian patriarch who is also anti-PriLNMNti and anti-Nazi, raises for Hie f ir.-t time since the Second World War the question of how democratic Germany can organize an ade quate government. It cannot be fornotten that the Ger niiuis afler the first World War were unable to do that. In Italv today there i be inn earned on a trial run of the only visible alternative to a Gaullist Kurope. It con sists of an alliance beivv cen IVuiocratie Socialists and Christian Democrats. To make the alliance work he Soeial it. have to get free of the totalitanans, thai is the Coin muni.sts. on their left, the Christian Pem.vrats have to Set free of the reactionary and IdseiM remiuou, on their rich. If the alliance can be I consolidated, winch will be j tested m the coming elec tions tin spring, there will bo a o!id majority for a democratic proj;resiv j;ov- eminent. This is intended to be the alternative to Gaul lism. IT is Interesting and impor tant to note that in West Germany there is a growing tendency to unite on the same formula which is now on trial in Italy. It is called in Germany the Grand Co alition - the coalition of the two largest parties, the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats. Such a gov ernment would be the suc cessor of the Christian Dem ocratic governments of Dr. Adenauer's heyday and of his unstable combinations with the smaller parties which have been used since his pow er began to decline. The Grand Coalition can not be put together under Dr. Adenauer because the parti san memories are too bitter. It is being held in reserve for his departure by the leaders both of the Christian Dem ocrats and of the Social Dem ocrats. That departure may in fact come sooner tha the of ficial date, which is Oct. 1. CONSIDERING the difficul-V- ty of modern government, considering that the alterna tive is some kind of strong man rule, these coalition ex periments will no doubt have to be made. Though we have reason to watch them with sympathy, we cannot forget that as long as the coalitions hold together, there will be no two-party system, there will be no competent demo cratic opposition which could take over the government. The bipartisan coalition gov ernments must succeed, for there is no orderly alternative to them. It should, however, be noted that in this respect Italy and Germany will be no worse off than France, where there is not now any orderly alternative to Gen. de Gaulle. HPIIE American version of A the problem arises, as I see il, out of the fact that the American form of govern ment cannot be operated at all in wartime, and cannot be operated successfully in peacetime, except under Presidential leadership. In domestic affairs, which in clude such external aflaus as tariffs, foreign aid, and the character ot Ihc defense structure, Presidential lead ership is checked and balanc ed and is often vetoed and frustrated by the rules of Congress, including particu larly the rule of seniority and the entrenched power of the standing committees. II will be a labor of Her cules to reform the system. But if the American govern nient is to be adequate to the times we live in. wo have to begin the reform. For my self, I would begin in the House Willi a concentrated as sault on the entirely arbi trary and high handed usur pation by the Rules Commit tee when it arrogates to it rlf the right to decide what lulls Congress shall vote upon. This usurpation is quite out- 1 side ttie meaning of the con stitution, j At the same time, I would inn reopen now the question I (if the limitation of debate in the Senate. There is a strong ' case lo he made tor cotHltili j ing the tr.idition which makes it necc-s.uy that legislation 'which is h.ghly controversi.il must command a consensus in toe Senate which is much hinder than one more than .one-half. 1 believe 0 t in the Moug run the preservation of : this principle in one of the I Houses of Congress is a pro Itection of our liberties. Matter of Focf B, (ci New Ytrk Herald THE ROW ABOUT DEFENSE Washington-Among the high officials of the Kennedy administration, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara has come closest to enjoying a happy immu nity from pub lic attack. But he If now likely to make up for lost time. The cancel lation of the Skybolt con tract, which Aiinp has already had such seismic effects in Britain, will also trigger a major row in the coming ses sion of Congress. Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri, for instance, has thus far more or less gone along with McNa mara, often more or less un happily. But Symington has already notified the pentagon that he cannot go along this time. The- chairmen of the two Armed Services Committees, Sen. Richard Russell o f Georgia and Rep. Carl Vinson of Georgia, have not exactly declared war. But they have emphatically declared for the fullest ventilation of this con troversial problem. Hence it may be as well to try to get the basic facts straight now. TiO begin with, Secretary McNamara and President Kennedy decided to terminate the Skybolt project not just because of technological diffi culties, but on other grounds as well. The most important was expense. With the new defense budget running close to $54 billion, and with the actual rate of next year's de fense spending forecast to ex ceed $52 billion, cutting out non-essentials was imperative. Skybolt, in turn, was held to be non-essential for a whole complex of reasons. The first reason was the one commonly cited. Development of this supersonic ballistic missile to be fired from the Strategic Air Command's B-52s has proved to be much more com plex and difficult than was at first expected. The sixth "successful test," so loudly hailed by the Air Force, has in no way altered this aspect of the problem. The success of the test was considerably exaggerated, to begin with. The tested Sky bolt, far from landing pre cisely on target, in fact burned up in the air. Calcu lations merely showed that its trajectory was such that it might have come near its target if it had not burned up. MOREOVER, none of the A' predicted difficulties of development were removed by the sixth test. Its principal practical results, in fact, were lo inflame the Skybolt con troversy in Britain, and there fore to embarrass Prime Mini ster Macmillan and to infur iate President Kennedy. In view of the predicted difficulty of development, and the consequent increase of ex pense, the central question about Skybolt was quite simply whether the missile was worth it. Afler fullest allowance for other outlays required by the Skybolt can cellation, it was calculated that the net cost of adding Skybolt to the armory would he not less than $1.3 billion. Did it give an equivalent in crease in fighting power? Here we encouter the great problem for the British. For the U. S.. in brief, Skybolt did not give an increase in fighting power proportional to its cost, because the huge U. S. nuclear armory in. Day Breaks and the (Editor's note; The lot. n.ri.in,,., , i - i (Editor's note: Tha fol lowing colun-n by Eric Sevareid on tha meaning of the Chnslmai spirit first appeared a year ago and is being released again by popular demand.) By ERIC SEVAREID To be a sensitive person is only to have the measure of both joys and sorrows in- I creased: $V J it is bee &S4 Chnstma, Vj . V sities us J creased: and sen sitizes us all ,- I 'hat adults - V 1 fear its coin- mg even as they welcome it. The glow of the soft lights, the sound of child Sf arrld voioes. in song, piercing us with their almost unendurable purity these things remind us that our first and only com inand w.is to love, and we have not truly obeyed: that men w ere so comin.uuled. not to im prove them but to save them from themselves, and we have not really understood. Christmas obliges us to ro S.iid our work, what we have iiiaile ot our livrs. our coun try and our world. Of couri-o. wo s.iv . ' Christina is really tor the children '' Sutler the hltlc children to take this bur den from us. In our middle and older years we look backward to Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate eludes large numbers of 'penetration aids." WITH Minutcm a n and Hound Dob missiles. and other means of clearing the road for the B52s, it seemed clear that the B-52s could reach their targets even with out Skybolt. But the British lack such penetration aids. For the British, therefore, Skybolt was essential to get past the increasingly power ful Soviet high and low level anti-aircraft ballistic missiles--the hundreds upon hundreds of SAM lis and SAM Ills which have been and are be ing deployed around a 1 1 significant Soviet targets. The lack of penetration aids, incidentally, also explains why the French independent deterrent must be classed as obsolete even before it is operational, even though the French Mirage bomber is a better aircraft than the B-52. Such are all the reasons for the Kenncdy-McNamara decision, plus the reasons for its impact abroad. The reasons for its expected impact on the Congress are somewhat more earthy. e e IX) begin with, the Douglas A and Northrup aviation companies have something like 15,000 persons employed on the Skybolt project, in during a fair number in Sen ator Symington's native Mis souri. And both companies do not lack friends on Capitol Hill. To go on with, the Skybolt row is supercharged with the same emotions as the B-70 row. Skybolt was a means of prolonging the fully indepen dent working life of the B-52s, just as the B-70 was a means of prolonging the life of manned bombers in the Air Force. Gen. Curtis LeMay, the brilliant, opinionated Chief of Air Staff, is a manned bomber man to the inmost fibers of his being. Hence LeMay is just as much on the warpath about Skybolt as about the B-70. And this is why the Skybolt-plus-B-70 row of the coming Congressional sessions promises to make last ses sion's bitter B-70 row look like a milk-and-water affair. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF rpHE OWNER of a picture gallery on 57th Street tells of a J- night when Pablo Picasso supposedly caught a burglar red-handed in his chateau in Southern France. The burglar tore loose from Picasso's grasp, but the artist later assured the police he could draw a rough sketch of the intruder. On the basis of the drawing, the police promptly arrested the minister of finance, a visiting lady columnist from New York, a univae machine, and a replica of the Eiffel Tower. It is reported that police officials in a Michigan re sort town have been receiv ing phone calls complaining about four nude young ladies driving helter-skelter through the community in a spanking new station wagon. It should be a simple case, the police say, but nobody to date seems to have had time to road the numbers on the license plates. QUOTABLE QUOTES: "Being a husband is a full-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it." Arnold Bennett. "There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." Ig;ui Smith. "The greatest pleasure in life is to do a good deed in secret and hava It discovered by accident." diaries Lamb. C 1W3. by Bennitt Cerf. Dutribulcd by. Kins Keaturea Syndltaia Christmases we have known more than we look forward to those that will come. Sonic were joyous for me, as for you: some were the purest pain and some both pain and joy. There was a Christmas in my early teens when I first had my own earned money to spend and spent it on ex pensive gifts for all in our family, so poor in those Cays. ! To the stalwart older brother I gave a leather bound book and a silver plated cigaret lighter. When he handed me my gift - a necktie, as I re member - his face wore a ( stricken look, and in the midst of the festivities he broke into tears. Out of pride as much as gcnero.-.ity 1 had destroyed Ins Christmas 1 ! had not yet learned thai the head must sometimes govern j the heart, ih.it it may not al- ! ways be better to give than I to receive. There was a time in the thirties witli war building up "; Europe, when Mad. one Schumann - Heinck used to sing 'Silent Night" each Chn.-.::iiHs Kve through the new dev ice 1 had Ivug ;t for my f.mv.ly known as the radio set On otic of these Decisions she finished the song and then - spontaneously. I be lieve burst into a passion ate spoken plea that people love and understand and live "Don't ba ridiculous, woman . . . it's somebody imi tating hii voica . . . avarybody's doing it . . basidei. why would Kennedy call ma?" In the Day's News By FRANK From Washingon: Assistant Secretary of State Averill Harriman predicted that differences will grow be tween Communist China and the Soviet Union in their fight for leadership of world communism. He added: "There will be continuing competition and difficulties between the two communist rivals. Which one will gain is anyone's guess. Moscow be lieves that the only true be lievers are those that will accept Moscow's leadership. "Peking has never been willing to accept that situa tion and now, I think, is bidding for leadership itself." TltR. HARRIMAN concluded: "Both want to destroy everything we believe in, but of the two the Chinese have a more dangerous point of view and may become THE MORE Shadows Flee Away ... ......... ' in peace, aiy father was a large, strong and grave man. Inhibited by his upbringing in an austere Scandinavian farm family from revealing the gentler emotions. As he listened to the woman's heavily accented words, he began to tremble and then t our own instincts and know, hurried upstairs to hide from j therefore, what we are doing, us his tears. I think perhaps i Our collectivity need not ba he knew in his heart what j less than the sum of its parts, was coming to the world, that j There are some words I in his mind's eye he was see-1 came upon years ago. sup ing ail the years of heavy pnsedly written by one Fr.t work, his few possessions, his Giovanni in 1513. but which family, including ihrce sons . someone has informed me, approaching mUitary age. I were actually written in this century. No matter - I do Like him. we turn from not know how anvlhing could these thoughts most of Ihc be added to or subtracted days in the year because we j from these words: cannot face them but Christ- ! mas fastens its grip of truth j "There is nothing I can noon us and will not let us give you which you have not; S" . . hut there is much that, while AH ot u?. in our thnstmas selves, want to love. One can j not believe that the Russian or the Chinnse people arc any different. But governments. our tribal device for pro'.ect- inn me in croun irom me out- instant. Take peace Thff croup, cannot love. At least gloom of the world is but a I have never observed a gov. shadow: behind it vet within eminent committing an act of reach, is jov Take' jv Ar.H love directed al another gov- fl. at tins Christmas time. I cr''!rr"! greet you with Ihc praver New book, like "Africn that for vou. now and for Gene. is.' 'c! us that in all ever, the day breaks and the of this pure antn-al instincts shadow s fice aw av " are ai work, inherited from; (Distributed 1962, by tht the primates i:1 the forest, i Hall Syndicate. Inc.) because, they toll us. we! (All Rights Re.erred) JENKINS DANGEROUS the free world.' THREAT to Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. That sounds faintly lika he might be suggesting that when the right time comes wa should throw In with tha Russians and help them to lick the MORE DANGEROUS Chinese. I hope he doesn't mean it that way-and if he does mean it that way I hope he finds no one in America who will ba willing to agree with him. We've mixed into too many foreign quarrels already. pEORGE Washington gava to us a lot of good advice-in cluding this wise counsel in his Farewell address back in 1796: "It is" our true policy to steer clear o f permanent alliances with any portion ot the foreign world." FROM Salem: In an inlc nor Hatfield cited TAX RE FORM as "the crux of tha 1963 Oregon legislative ses sion." He said he will have more to say about it in his address to the legislature on January 14. He said: "Oregon's present tax struc ture is a patchwork and tha need for tax reform is funda mental. Tax reform would contribute to Oregon's econo mic and industrial growth and would have an immediate as well as long range impact on our state's economy." niSCUSSlNG a trend among " "some people" to become dependent o n government welfare services, he warned: "We must not create a class of public wards. Public pro grams should be an aid to peo ple in time of crisis. They should be designed to restore people to usefulness. We hava trotted (too long) down tha trail of the narcotic of depen dency on public programs. No public program is an end in it self." And so on. It's a pretty good interview. BY THE way Tost what tav rrfnrm? SPENDING LESS is ona good answer. come not from a fallen angel but a risen ape. Perhaps then, we cannot change these in stincts by an effort of will; but we are also "nature's first brief experiment in self awareness" - we alone among animal creatures can obscrva I cannot give, you can take. No heaven can come to ik unless our hearts find ret in it today. Take heaven No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present
