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MONDAY. ilDFORDitTRIBUNI """Everyone in Southern Oregon ReadJThMailTrlbun" KTblishVd Daily except Satiirdayby MKDKOKD PRINTING CO. 33 North JTlr St.. Ph.jm-141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T un. ' ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mm Editor EARL H ftlJAMOi tny . HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor PALE jmuiaufl.KCuwiiwu An Independent Newspaper Entered af second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Daily and Sunday 1 year 118 00 Dally and Sunday B moi 10.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Only One year 15.00 Single Copy (Mailed) 300 By Camei And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year il. Daily and Sunday 1 mo. Sunday Only 1 mo. Carrier andyendori Copy 10c Olflelal' Paper of City of Mrdford Ofllclal Paper o Jackion County United" Press International Full Leased Wire U. P 1 Telepholo Newnplcturea MEMBER-OK AUDIT" BUREAU JOfC!RCULATIONS Advertising Reprejentative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Ot'icei In New York, Chl- rago Detroit, San Francisco, Los : Angeles. Seattle. Portland Denver. NEWSFAPI PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL AStSpCfrATIW mm ag5 Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 31. 1952 (Monday) Seven hundred leet of warm fog blankets Medford area; cloud-seeding plane at tempts to disperse fog over airport. Crater Lake National park officials recommend against travel in park due to icy road conditions. 20 YEARS AGO Dec, 31. 1942 (Saturday) - Medford bank announces plans to open branch for serv icemen at Camp While, From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Thou sands of years ago this neck of the woods was a vast lake, geologists say. A good start has been made towards a re turn to this condition, but it will never be as deep as the original, even if it never stops raining." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 31. 1932 (Monday) Author Edison Marshall stops In Medford while en route to Indochina. Mayor E. M. Wilson and new Medford city council schedules first regular meet ing at city hull. 1 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 31. 1922 (Tuesday) Jackson county Jail inmates put to work on county rock crusher. City employees present chair to Mcdford's retiring mayor, C. E. "Pop" Gates. SO YEARS AGO Dec. 31. 1912 (Thursday) Survey of proposed Coos Bay-Eagle Point railroad com pleted to Eagle Point, where it is to connect with Pacific and Eastern railroad. Medford High school foot ball team defeats Grants Pass, 6 to 2, in New Year's day game played at Grants Pass. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent; live oi sis is good. 1. How many acres would there be in the Northwest quarter of the Southwest quarter of a section of land'.' 2. How many square miles in a township? 3. Why are red, yellow and blue called primary colors? 4. Are pure metals general ly belter or poorer conductors of electricity than are their alloys? 5. What territory did the United States acquire from Denmark? 6. Who wrote the novel "The Last of the Mohicans"? 7. What is the scriptural at Venice for Hie duration of human life? 8. Was the British govern ment more friendly to the North or South during the War Between the Stales? 9. What is the lighest ele ment? 10. In cattle raising regions a branding iron used to draw numerous brands is called what? Answers: 1. Forty acres. 2. Thirty-six. 3. Can't be lormed by mixing other colors, 4. Bet ter. 5. Virgin Islands. 8. James Fenimore Cooper. 7. 70 years. 8. South. 9. Hydro gen, 10. A running Iron. 4 A DECEMBER 31. 1962 Emancipation Centennial It can be said, I believe, .that Abraham Lincoln emancipated the ilaves, but that, in this century aince, our Negro citizens have emancipated themselves. President Kennedy, Sept. 22, 1962. President Lincoln Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863 100 years ago to morrow. President Kennedy has asked that ap propriate observances of The true centennial Proclamation is in a sense anti-climatic. It was rendered so by ceremonies at the Lincoln 'Me morial last Sept. 22, observing the centennial of an earlier edict. But as James Truslow Adams long ago ex plained: "By common usage the term 'Emancipa tion Proclamation applies to the edict of Jan. 1, 1863, that of Sept. 22, ing." In effect the earlier document was an ulti matum. Lincoln warned that as of the following Jan. 1 all slaves in rebellious districts would be made free. But he emphasized that the restora tion of the Union was the object of the war. And he pledged further efforts to provide compensa tion to slaveholders. ADLAI Stevenson, principal speaker at that an tl! at notifonni'il nKaovironna of f a T in-ilr. LUl 111 VVllL-lliliai V UOWl Y CWl V. V Ctly lyllt; i-Jl 1 1 VJ 1 J i Memorial, recalled that Lincoln never defined his cause of freedom in terms of black and white, good and bad, excellent and evil. Yet in looking upon the Emancipation Proclamation as freeing tne slaves, we do just that. Neither proclamation was an abolition docu ment. Unhistorical tradition, as J. G. Randall has pointed out, has surrounded the proclamation with an aura of misconception and exaggeration. The preliminary September proclamation by no means applied to all slaves but only to those "persons held as slaves" within areas "in re bellion agains the United States." The definitive January proclamation specif ically designated those districts "wherein the peo ple .. . are this day in rebellion." The edict did not apply to Tennessee, nor to specifically ex cepted portions of Virginia and Louisiana, nor to the border slave states within the Union. It freed no Negroes in the North. THE proclamation, as it stated, was an act of "military necessity." This was true even of its timing. An earlier draft had been read to the Cabinet on July 22, 1862. Lincoln was not asking advice "about the main matter"; his mind was made up. Rather he was announcing his course. But Secretary of State Seward warned that if the proclamation were issued, then it would come as a "last shriek on the retreat." Lincoln ac cepted this counsel; he waited until Lee had been fought off at Antietam. The proclamation also was a political act. It was not so much a blow at slavery as a punish ment for rebellion. As a practical matter it freed few slaves at first, for the abolition applied to districts where the President's power did not extend. I INCOLN cautioned Negroes on disorderly be " havior. No domestic uprising occurred. But freedmen were extensively used in Union forces. Ultimate emancipation as a national measure came only with the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Lincoln himself sometimes spoke almost apologetically of his bold act. All this being true, the proclamation did somehow change the course of the war and its purpose. Anti-slavery became a valid reason for fratricidal war. Among conservatives in the North the edict was criticized as unwise, irrelevant to the main issue, and highly dictatorial. In the South most understandably it was damned as the voice of a fiend calling for insurrection. Despite these cloudings and . shadings of meaning, the event was historic. It was the first step in the long march still unfinished which is gradually making the Negro citizen a citizen fact and equity, as well as in name. And this is no mean thing to celebrate. E.R.R. Kashmir and India "There are no two peoples anywhere who are near than the people of India and Pakistan." The speaker, oddly enough, is Prime Minister Jawa harlal Nehru of India, the neutralist who in the past has shown himself to be neutral on every thing except Coa and Kashmir, in an interview published on Dec. 19. The Chinese invasion of India certainly brought India and Pakistan closer together than they had been in years. The Pakistani wore not slow to see that a threat to one was quite as real a threat to the other. Now exploratory lmlio Pakistani discussions opened last Wednesday in the Pakistan capital of Rawalpindi. Nehru says he hopes for "some progress" from these. THE troubles remaining are many. Indian troops can reach Ladakh only by way of Srinigar in the Vale of Kashmir. And religion will always be an issue. Kashmir has a Moslem majority, which is the base of much of Pakistan's claim to it. But India proper has a 50 million Moslem minority. Nehru speaks of confederation of India and Pakistan as "our ultimate goal." Indeed, with confederation the coming thing in Western Europe, Africa, and other areas, a similar solution for India and Pakistan would appear most logical. E.R.R. issued the Emancipation the Centennial be held. of the Emancipation 1862 being but a warn MEDFORD "You See Fint Women, Then Negroes, Now Congressmen And Senator" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the 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 p.inted in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the Daper; In fact the contrary is often Greetings To the Editor: The follow ing bit of verse in a New Year's greeting to my many logger friends of the North west. Hope they and you too will get some sort of lift from it.. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point, Ore. O TO RUSTY (A Log-trucker's wife) I punch the Jammer and skin- the-cat and grind the valves to do all that required in a Ioggin-show so long on work but short on dough. Kicking the tires of a loggin truck with a whispered prayer for real good luck. 'cause you never know leavin the shack If you'll be OK or stretchered back. For the widow-maker plays for keeps while orphaned kids and mothers weep for a raw-boned guy so quiet lav and the works are closed down for the day. I climb the cab and the diesels roar, set firm my butt, slam shut I he door ease off air-brakes as the shift- i?pars whine and wheel 'er out where the stars still shine. For miles on miles to the loiiein'-show. swell going when dry, plain hell in snow, For the big logs roll and like tn slide. so I bind 'em tight so they gotta ride. Down to the scales, hope they iinder-weiizh. then I'm in the clear and on mv way: to the wailing dump to kick the load then wheel 'er back on the homeward road. Grimy and fagged when the day is done, I phone the gang for a little fun, showered and clean In a brand new dross. O boy, O boy there is happiness. With bread and meat, the spuds back-door, hoping there's coffee a few days more yes. logger's lives are a chancy brew but what the heck else you'd want 'a do? (c) FJC Birth Control To the Editor: It seems that some persons are bent upon defiance of God's law of prop agation, which is stated this way: "ne fruitful and multi ply and replenish the earth and subdue it." (Gen. 1:2m If we attempt to disannul this edict we are virtually saying to God that the earth is too small and there Is danger of starvation by over-populating our land. Now notice the second part of the command: "Subdue it." There is no danger of .tarva tton when a man is willing to work for his living, for it is a requirement, also. God says "In the sweat of thy face shall thou ent bread, till thou return into the ground " Gen. 3:19 The needy nations, today, are sadly lacking in know how and the ambition to work, and now we, the more fortunate, would beguile them and ourselves with defiance of MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON -T-t WAM, POST name and address of the writer. the case. a just God. We would use means to thwart the very pur pose of our being here upon earth. In the masses of humanity God will attain His portion whom are trusting in Him. He says "Trust in the Lord and do good, so shall ye dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed." Ps. 37:3 David must have been vi sioning our day when he wrote the following: "It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law." (Ps 119:126) That He is displeased with thisgenern tion, is certain: "For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness," be cause a short work will the Lord make upon the earth." Rom. 9:28 How sad it is that we are unwilling to trust Him. If He wanted the wombs to be closed, He would bring that condition to pass. He did that in times past when some na tion displeased him. Gen. 20:18. He also opened the wombs of individuals or closed them, as it pleased Him. First Sam. 1:5-6 Perhaps if the question of control were put to a vote in our country, would it not be best to trust God implicitly, and let Him manage that gift, that beautiful gift, propaga tion? James Williams P. O. Box 441 Jacksonville, Ore. Denial Health To the Editor: Anna Strecd's letter on chlorine and fluorine was a very informational one, but very little of the informa tion seemed pertinent to the issue; nor did she present any connection between the fig ures she quotes and fluorida tion of the water. The only information available in her letter was that these two ex isted together in the same town at the same time. Surely Miss Streed, having possession of so much scientific knowl edge, also realizes that that scarcely connects the two. More data would be needed to prove any such thing. A question ma'am: if fluor ide (the more commonly used term for sodium fluoride) is so dangerous that it is unfit for use by humans, as you imply, why then do medical and den tal persons advocate its use? It will be difficult to convince me that such authorities would disregard any information that would indicate t lint fluor ide is injurious to the health. As for diet, I agree that sweets should not be sold where the children can easily buy them, but a dessert at lunch Is not going to harm them. As for the other sug gestions, enriched white flour is as nutritional as unprocess ed flour (though, personally, 1 think Hie latter tastes bet ter); pasteurizing does not af fect the nutritive value of milk except for the inconse quential amount of vitamin C present (indeed, for the sake of health, pasteurized milk is belter, as it is less likely to contain disease germsl; there is no difference between but ter and margarine except in unsaturated fats (margarine has the edge here, but I like butter's taste); and carefully cooked vegetables are scarcely injurious to the health as vi lamin and mineral loss is negligible 'the bulk in raw vegetables is good for elim ination, though, so should be cairn once a day). As for seeds and nuts, they are an excellent source of protein. Now, whatever all this has to do with denial caries. 1 don't know, except that a well-balanced diet, including meals, builds strong teeth and Foreign News: Khrushchev's New Year's Views Awaited; Italian Party Crisis By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Moscow Headlines Nikita Khrushchev is ex pected to make the biggest headlines out of Moscow this week by what he does or does not say at the tradi tional New Year's Eve ball for for eign diplo m a t s and the nation's elite. Expe- Newmm rienced diplo mats do not believe a crisis is in the wind but they do ex pect a reminder that the Kremlin has not forgotten Berlin especially in view M' Washington Report By William (o United Feature Syndicate LOOKING AHEAD Washington - Washing ton ends the old year wilh still lively memories of a recent tt escape from imminent and infinite peril, in the Cuban crisis, and with reason sonable confi dence that the new year may bring some easing in cold white war tensions all around the world. It would be quite wrong to present the atmosphere as one of glad, full optimism. But it would be equally wrong not to take note that 1963 approaches in the company of fewer birds of ill-omen than could be readily espied as 1962 ap proached 12 months ago. In this hemisphere, our se curity is still far from total. The Soviet backdown in Cuba has neither deposed Fidel Castro nor ended his capacity for trouble-making in Latin America. But Castroism, though not yet uprooted, has been to a large extent genu inely isolated. And an unex pected result has flowed from President Kennedy's decision to risk nuclear war as the alternative to an entrenced Soviet missile base in the Caribbean. MOST of the Latin Ameri can countries which so long had urged a soft line upon us in our efforts to deal with Castro are now more keeps them that way. That is a very important part of hav ing teeth free of caries. Another important tact, a recognized one: good dental hygiene, including regular vis its to the dentist. And still another, one that still is not accepted, is fluori dation of drinking water. (Miss) Dayle Ann Stratton 804 Bennett ave. Medford. In Good Form To the Editor: I observe the female form today is given far greater publicity and much more free and paid ad vertising than any other ar ticle in thj world mart. Ev ery art (form features her fig ure as first. Thorough re search would prove this some what mad modern enhance ment of woman as occasioning much of our awesome popu lation explosion. Advertising surely gets re sults and this plenteous pub licizing of Eve has us mildly wondering whether or no the mounting multitude of mod ern mothers are personally nursing these babes or allow ing science to usurp their natural right. We ponder on whether our millions of lit tle neighbors answer the din ner bell according to the most ancient and honorable rite of life, or whether they're all bottle babies, f r have the transgressors - our too-talented technicians come up with something in futuristic feeding we In the hinterland have not as yet heard of!? Man cannot improve on na ture and no matte- how ex cellent his public relations may become no picture will ever replace that of a babe at a mother's breast. William Thomas Cuddy V A. Domiciliary While Citv, Ore. What We Owe I To the Editor: We found out I that the Planet Venus weighs 13 septillion pounds. That ain't nuttin', vc owe that j much. I Everett Acklin j Ashland, Ore. j HAS FEEDING PROBLEM j Haddam, Conn. - OTP - Da ivid Townsend says he's in ithe market for plain, ordinary j house mice because white (mice are to expensive to feed ! his favorite Christmas pres jent. The present is a five-foot j boa constrictor from David's uncle, who bought it from I New York pet shop. t '11 S J of the upcoming East German Communist party congress. Khrushchev might also an nounce an end to the Soviet's atomic tests. This would be for propaganda purposes but would not change the West's opposition to any uncontrolled moratorium. Despite Kremlin talk after Cuba that the U.S.S.R. and the United States should seek a settlement of in ternational issues on a peace ful basis, the Russians have made no concrete proposals. Black January? Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani Is looking forward somewhat uneasily to the com ing month. Seven of Italy's 18 postwar governments in cluding three of his own fell in January or February. And there are some indica tions that the present "center- S. White nearly in the hard-line camp. They could at least under stand the harsh logic of those Soviet missiles capable of be ing pointed toward Central and South as well as North America. In Southeast Asia, 1962 has brought no victory, as such; but it has arrested Commu nism's march. Moreover, the Chinese Communist invasion of neutralist India-plus good, tough diplomacy by the Unit ed States and Britain to com pel India to deal reasonably in her old border dispute with pro-Western Pakistan - may well have signaled the end Qf neutralism as an effective force in this world. For through its own principal apostle, India, neutralism has now been proved the danger ous illusion that it always really was. T OOKING back upon the old '-'year, the transcendent fact of all is that this was the year in which President Ken nedy freed himself of those counsels of timidity within his own administration which had threatened to compro mise his leadership of the free world. Cuba was the great water shed. When at last he stood up all the way there, he not only forced a Communist withdrawal. He also came fully inlo power as a truly decisive president - decisive not alone in this country but also within the Western alli ance. It is therelore a reasonably safe prediction that in this role he will be a strong and forceful executive in 1963. Certainly he will be no less if he now rids his administra tion's foreign policy of the undue past interference of the United Nations-which, though an excellent instrument in some ways, is not and never can be capable of guarding the ultimate interests of this or any other great world power. A S TO domestic policies, there are few signs, if any, that in the year to come the President will cease pay ing so much heed to the en fevered "demands" of the Democratic left-wing for vari ous debatable domestic re forms of variously debatable kinds. The domestic politics of the administration are pretty largely run on the theory that the urban pres sure groups are its indispensa ble allies and so must be pla cated at practically every turn. In short, 1963 should be a pretty good year on the great, overmastering issue of our time, the cold war. But it is not likely to be so good a year to those who wish we could put first tilings altogether first and so forget about inno vations in this nation until its place in the world is made absolutely secure. "Woo-eee I didn't think left" cabinet might suffer the same fate. The decision is ex pected to come in a meeting of coalition party leaders Jan. 8. The socialists of Pietro Nenni, who are supporting the government from outside, have given Fanfani until that date to whip his Christian Democratic party into line or face a crisis. Nenni is pressing for laws setting up regional (state) governments before Ihe general elections scheduled sometime between April and In the Day's News By FRANK The news? Overseas, It's still the weather. Dispatches from London as this is written report that for the sixth consecutive day bitter winter weather brought havoc and death to Europe, with forecasts for more snow and cold. From Britain east to the Iron Curtain, from Lapland- south to the normally balmy Mediterranean, an un official count shows that death attributed to the weath er rose above. 400 for the week. Traffic, rail and miscellane ous accidents attributable to the weather have killed at least 130 Britons. A spokes man for the Royal Automobile Club says the roads in hard hit southern England resem ble Alpine passes. IN SPAIN, 11 persons have died and about 7,000 are homeless due to floods. Crop damages from a cold snap in Eastern Spain are estimated at $68.4 million. In Norway, there have been eight deaths. Norwegian dis patches report that at the vil lage of Hell, near the Nor wegian city of Trondheim, the temperature dropped to five above. At Paradise, near the city of Bergan, the tempera lure last night was only 28 above. Draw'your own conclusions. TJIRANCE reports 44 deaths from the cold, rrom Mice, down in the far south, comes the sad tale that low tempera tures are chilling the Bikini- clad beauties along the Rivi era. No deaths, but much shivering. Germany is having the cold est weather in years. Traffic accidents due to icy roads and snow have resulted in 66 deaths and 1500 injuries. CO FAR, here in Southern Oregon, we have been do ing very nicely in the way of weather. It has been a bit chilly around the edges for the past few days, but nothing much to complain about. Maybe the Weather Bureau, which went out on a long limb recently and foretold that for the next 90 days the Pacific Northwest will have temperatures ESSENTIALLY ABOVE NORMAL, with be. low normal rain and snow, knows whal it is talking about. INCIDENTALLY -- In response to an appeal issued bv this column several days ago, Wyatt Padgett has come across with a copy of the 1963 Farmers' Almanac. He reports regretfully that he has no copies left of the 1962 edition, and adds: "The 1962 Farmers' Alma nac predicted the Big Blow of October 12, but MISSED IT BY TWO DAYS. I am out of the 1962's but possibly could get one from the pub lisher if you should demand proof. I'll mail one to the Weather Bureau, so they can keep up to date." POR what it's worth, the esteemed Farmers Alman ac predicts for the first half of the first week in January of 11)63 "fair and colder in the West, becoming overcast and threatening." For the latter you'd erer show up!" June. Some suspicious Christ, ian Democrats tear Nenni might take that opportunity j0 ally with the Communists in key regional governments. De Gaulle again President Charles de Gaulle plans a news conference early in January, his first since last spring. He is expected to take the opportunity to spell out his position on the Polarij missile offer by President Kennedy. JENKINS half of the week, it foresees "snow in the Missouri valley and Upper Pacific States." For the second week in January, it sees "snow along the Pacific Slope," and about the same for the second week, For the third week, it pre dicts "colder in the plains and along the West Coast, with frosts in California." We'll see what we'll see -and draw our own conclu sions. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c- Field Enterprises Inc. LAZY LISTENING Not long ago, I took out nine 7-year-old boys for a birthday party given by my son. All the boys behaved well - but the din of their '?voices was Si deaf e nine. Whv rin vnnnrf c h i ldren, on i n e w n o 1 e, talk so loud ly, and seem Hams i n c apable of communicating below the level of a shout? Part of it, of course, is due to the exuber ance of youth, the superfluous energy that must be discharg ed in physical motions and ex ercise of the vocal cords. But there is another, and perhaps larger, part. Young children are not used to being listened to by adults. They have to repeat and repeat, until finally they adopt the habit of shouting to be heard at all. Few adults really "listen" to what a child is trying to say. I came home from work the other day. tired and a little cross, and my boy accosted me enthusiastical ly with a report of some chemical experiment he had been making. I nodded absent-mindedly as he told me about the chemicals he had used, and the results he had achieved. But I wasn't real ly listening - until he re peated it the third time, in sViout-language. Then I told him not to be so loud. ' Very little children, of 2 or 3, are just learning to communicate. Their words are garbled and imprecise but they know what they mean. If adults m,ake little effort lo understand this embryonic language, then the children sense a kind of "psychic deafness" in us and raise their voices lo compensate. We can see this mechan ism working more clearly when we are addressing a foreigner in our language. If he doesn't grasp what we are saying, we speak more loudly - as if the physical volume alone will get the message through. Most of us address foreigners as if they were deaf and dumb, as if sheer force of tone will pierce their minds. To children, all adults are foreigners of a sort, in that wo do not readily grasp what they are trying to say, be cause we are tired or inatten tive or worried or preoccu pied with our own problems. And since they cannot speak our "language." they quickly learn to raise their voices to command attention, to repeat, and sometimes to whine. Of the four essential hu man arls - reading, writing, speaking and listening - the art of listening is surely the most rare and difficult. Even in business and the profes sions, the great majority of executives and doctors and lawyers do not know how to listen (with the "third car") to their employees and pa tients and clients. Shouting is the way in which children criticize their parents for lazy listening. CARDINAL VISITS CIS Karachi. Pakistan - HTP - Francis Cardinal Spellman, archbishop of New York, be gan holiday visits Sunday j to American servicemen sta Itioned in nnrthern Pakistan. 'Spellman has been to Alaska, I Japan, the Philippines. Viet Nam. Okinawa and Formosa jon his annual Christmas tour I of U.S. bases overseas. ax
