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4 A- taBWIUwCTlUB "ivoryona In Southern Orejon Bt.oi to. jJajijrrnW' North rir St, Ph7i-8U1 "obErT"-RUHL. Editor HE BB GREY Aoveirtng Manaie, JShaLD T LATHAM. Bus. Mr An Independent np;f" -M' Mrch 3. 1887 SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Mail In Advance- .anA illy and Sund.y-1 V"r Duly and bunaay o -r: irarCopy-IMaFedV - 10. SfTn..0O , Daily and Sunday-l mo. W Sunday Only l mo. r-. Carrie? and Vendors-Jopy too 0(rtciarpapeT"o City of Medford Official Paper ofJacli.n County Dm! International Full Leased Wire U P 1 Telephoto Newiplcturei TaTfiBER-OF-AUDIT BUREAU MEMBER ffjTipNB . NELSON ROBERTS 4. ABSOCI ATES Of'lcea n New York, Chl rajo Detroit. San Francisco, Los AngelM. Seattle. Portland. Den'-er. TUESDAY. JANUARY IS. 1113 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON NATION At E 0 1 TO RIAL ( f UtLISHERS ' ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Hiitory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. Jin. IS, 1953 (Tuesday) A dinner and meeting to re view progress toward the erection of a Jackson county auditorium will be held next week, according to Fred Rob inson, president of the Jack son County Memorial assocla- ti0Keys to the big new gro cery warehouse constructed north of Medford last year by the Mason Ehrman company were turned over to company officials at ceremonies here over the week end. 20 YEAR8 AGO Jan. IS, 1943 (Sunday) Robert Duff, Medford city water superintendent, warns local residents to take Immed iate steps to prevent water from freezing in their pipes during "bitter cold" weather. A-.U.... TJorrv'e "Ye rrom mtum Smudge Pot" column: "The prediction mere wuuiu u -short session of the legislature cheered the people almost as much as if there had been a prediction there would be none at all." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 15, 1933 (Tuesday) Heaviest snowfall In four years blankets Rogue valley; total of 4Vi inches reported on ground. Jackson county court re quests a new survey for the projected rerouting 01 uie r cific highway between Talent and Ashland. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 15, 1923 (Wednesday) American Light Opera com- pany, with Ed Andrews, Med- ford, playing lead part, gives performance in Page theater : hero. 'I Annual financial report of city of Medford shows some ' $117,577 balance In city treasury. You Can Have It 50 YEARS AGO Jan. IS. 1913 (Friday) Oliia Stccb, "the world's greatest woman pianist," s c h e dulcs performance in Medford. Editorial In the Mail Trib une points out need for pass able road between East Main st. and the new Sacred Heart hospital, What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight Is eacellent; five or 1. Arc horses Classed as bo- vines, ovlncs, or equities? 2. When Christ sent his Apostles to preach, did he be stow on them the power of doing miracles? 3. Was President William McKinley born In New York Pennsylvania or Ohio? 4. Name t h c pioneer in women's suffrage and advo cate of world peace. S. With what Congo prov ince do you associate the name Molsc Tshombe? 6. How many inches In a meter? 7. Correct the sentence, "He played a few bars of the peace on the organ. 6. Bermuda is a crown col' ony ot which foreign govern-ment? 9. Did Henry of Navarre rule France before or after the French Revolution? 10. Hollywood, Calif., is part of which large city? Answers! , Equines. 2. Yes, 3. Ohio. 4, Carrie Chapman Call. S. Katanga. (. 39.37. 7. ". . . of the niece . . ." I. Great Britain. 9. Before. 10. Los I Angeles. Put yourself in this position: , You are one of 90 persons responsible for shaping the laws which will reach into the lives of 1.8 million persons over the next two years and thereafter, including matters of ;life and death. Your decisions will influence the quality of education for over 600,000 children, the scale of living for people so poor that they cannot sur vive without help, the length of time that mental patients must wait for recovery or whether they will ever recover, the amount of wealth which each Oregonian must part with for the good of the commonwealth, and myriad other aspects of the daily lives of all the people in the state. You believe that state government should do for the people only that which they cannot do for themselves either as individuals or through small er political subdivisions such as school districts, counties, cities, or special districts. Yet you know there are many things, and there are getting to be more things all the time, which people can not do for themselves in this way; and you know that even the state cannot do some of these things and that they must be done through nationwide programs. VOU must decide which programs the state absolutely must undertake to do, and just how it must do them. Yet you will be assailed by your own doubts, by groups and individuals with spe cial interests and weapons of persuasion and force to achieve them, by conflicting opinions among the electorate which sent you to Salem to repre sent its best interest, by conflicts between what is best for all the people of the state and what i3 best for your constituents, and by differing opin ions among your fellow legislators and among the other branches of government with power to frustrate your goals. You have reasonable intelligence, enough ex perience in some areas to have first-hand knowl edge of value to you, and confidence enough in some persons to be able to depend upon their recommendations in some areas you're not knowl edgeable in. But you don't have enough time to apply your intelligence and experience to all mat ters, and there are many areas in which neither you nor people you trust have clear-cut answers. On these, you have to vote and hope you re doing the right thing. You are an Oregon state legislator, and you are not to be envied for the decisions you must make many of them based upon snap judgments during the upcoming session. Good luck. Capital rress, balem. The Rise of Secularism Historically, the United States has been a Protestant nation. Now it has entered a "plura listic" religious phase, according to theologians of Stanford University. In this new era, the pop ulation is divided among the three traditional faiths Protestantism, Roman Catholicism and Judaism with a fourth which is growing faster than any of the other three : Secularism. The rapid growth of secularism may explain the other new fact of religious life in this coun try, the fact that church attendance is leveling off at the same time that church membership is falling behind population growth for the first lime in nearly a nunaiea years. Four surveys taken at intervals last year re vealed that church attendance on a given Sunday was 49.5 million, one million below the peak of 50.5 million shown in 1958. That is to say that about 4 in 10 of those who are enrolled in any church attend church regularly. It also compares with a population growth of a million a year among adults, who are the churchgoers of the Protestant and Jewish laiths. i . THE 1963 Yearbook of American Churches 1 shows a total membership of 116,109,929, an increase of 1,660,712, or 1.4 per cent, against a population rise of 1.6 per cent. Protestants num ber 64,434,966, a gain of 766,131, or 1.2 per cent and Catholics 42,876,665, a gain of 771,765, or 1.9 per cent. That left 70 million, more than any one faith, unaffiliated, from whom the new secularism draws its adherents. The rise in secularism may be just another way of expressing dissatisfaction with the estab lished churches. This is not to be confused with dissatifaction with the established religions. IT MIGHT be caused by the way religion is presented in many of our churches; maybe unhappiness with the extra-curricular activities which make up church life in some groups; many people may resent the forced beliefs demanded in some churches. Mavbe it is none of these things. Maybe there really isn't a rise in secularism but only apathy. Or perhaps millions of modern Americans, with their new found wealth and desire for action, arc taking the only free day many of them have to participate in the recreational activities which are now available and made more accesible by the automobile. Corvallis Gazette-Times, "It's Not the Enigmatic Smile It', the Shifty Eye!" j Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name 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 printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Which Type? To the Editor: In regard to the letter of Mr. Dyke's of Jan. 9: Since "The Daughters of Men" are such a flop it is sad to think that God bothered to give us a soul! Mr. Dykes is so efficient at the types of women, I wonder if he'd tell us the different types of men? Would be very interesting if he would do so and also into what type he falls. (Name on file) Butte Falls, Ore. Nasty Things To the Editor: I read with sickening disgust the plea for saving the life of that nasty thing that's supposed to die for throwing those children over the canyon wall. There's nothing, Mister, nothing that should save that thing's life, and their mother (and I use that word lightly) should be right with that creepy thing. Can you imagine trying to reform varmints like those two? Turning them out after a year or two to start on other paths as repulsive, or taxing us for their care for the rest of the years they will live. There's no reason to look back on a childhood trail and try to blame the way "I was abused and bruised" for kill ing and torturing. If we are humans we will use it to help all children and grownups to make life what God intended it to be, just wonderful. Oh! for the governor's pow er to wipe those nasty things out of llie world. It will make all people know that children are individuals who need firm, . loving guidance, and above all the knowledge of security and safety to grow up normally, if we don't let nasty people "get by" with any cruelty. There are mil lions of words to use to plead for better protection for chil dren but "prevention," either through fear or a higher prin ciple of living, answers all questions. Thank you If you print this. 1375 South Columbus avc. Harriette Gibbs Medford. Press service report from Oxford says that more than 400 students staged a rowdy demon stration against student James Meredith, some screaming "Go home, you nigger." One can have real sympathy for Meredith suffering such abuse ; but one has mostly pity for the students who show such poor breeding. We doubt not they are the children of the elite of Mississippi, and are mere ly venting the prejudice they inherited and grew up with. Oregon Statesman, Salem. More on "Aginners" To the Editor: I Just finish ed reading Arnold Eugene Jcnney's letter in M-T 1-13 from which I quote, "My original proposition was that, 'many habitual "aginners" re flect the same spectrum of phobias' (nudism, chlo ring 1 1 o n, fluoridation, smoking, integration. Catholics, t h e UN, UN1CEF and UNESCO), and I wondered (in print) if some psychologist or social scientist perhaps could ex plain this phenomenon." I suggest that A.E.J, consult a psychologist. I think a com petent one could help him relieve his mind from won dering and worrying about those 'aginners' who do not go along him and his ideas. There always have been, there are now, and there al ways will be people on this earth who will stand for truth and righteousness, fight for it and die for it, because they love the Author of truth and righteousness who Is Jehovah God, and calling them agin ners, rightists, mental cases. Bible thumpers, etc.. Is not going lo stop them. They know about that Indi vidual who lived upon this earth 1962 years ago who also stood for truth and righteous ness, fought for It and died for it and they know the names which the emissaries of Satan heaped upon Him which in today's parlance would be liar, drunkard, blasphemer and even Beclie bub (Satan). Today, as of then, darkness hales the light and when and whore light (truth) appears, darkness disappears and the emissaries of darkness resort to name calling. Regarding the scripture references in A.E.J.'s letter -love for others including our enemies does not mean that we should love or encourage their wickedness. I Tim. 5:20 says that we should rebuke them that sin, and Eph. 5:11 says that we should have no fellowship with the unfruit ful works of darkness but rather reprove them. Jesus, during His 3'4 years of ministry upon this earth, continually rebuked the scribes and Pharisees. In Jno. 8:44 He told them, ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do. Five days before He was crucified He made a scourge of small cords and drove the money changers out of the temple because they had made God's house a house of merchandise. Mrs. Alice I. Black 812 Newtown st. Medford. Hardly Started To the Editor: The morning news: "India's dilemma in ap peasement proves failure." Now that am t nuttin , we are 19 failures ahead of them Indians and we ain't even got started yet. ; Everett Acklin , ' Ashland, Ore. Visitation To the Editor: Not long ago on one fine sun -shiny day (typical Medford weather) a space craft landed in my back yard, from which a door open ed and a red plushy carpet, which must have been Jet propelled, rolled up to my back door. Next came a tall and handsome young man dressed in flowing black vel vet robes. He twisted up the carpet to a Mars'y beat and knocked on my door. He in troduced himself as Al-lan and asked what my name was. I told him and asked him what his business was. He said he was looking for a new formula for glass for his Royal families' dinners, as the glass in Mars was so ter rible, terrible tasteless. He had tasted some of Earth's in different ones' homes and found the flavor sublime. He asked if I had any old gob lets or dishes he could sam ple. I saw him eyeing my col lection of bottles and decided my friend best be on his way. I told him I was sorry I had no old rare bits of glass and I was also fresh out of edible dishes, since he preferred glass to plastic. With that he made his way back into his craft with the gait of the funeral march. The red carpet rolled back, (he door closed and with a thump and a blow, our strange guest and plane dis appeared Into the heavens. Mrs. Otto Wirlh, 893 Shafcr Lane, Medford. Russian, Red China Quarrel May Be More Than Ideology, Newsom Writes By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst The growing dispute be tween Moscow and Peking gives rise to another line of s p e c u lation perhaps not as wild as it might appear. A couple of years ago when the i : i LV quarter 1 1 1 a i Lj'l I was coming XalLJ into the open, warnings were sounded that this might not be a quar rel at all, but rather an elab orately contrived Communist trap designed to lull the West ern World in preparation for another major move by world Communism. That theory now generally has been dropped and the dis p u t e accepted as a major struggle for leadership be tween Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Red Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung who have discovered there can be no such thing as co-equal dictators. Now to carry it forward an other step and to speculate that the quarrel' is more than one of ideology and an inter pretation of Marxism-Lenin-ism. This one would consider the possibility that there is in Moscow a growing suspicion that their Red Chinese allies have territorial ambitions ex tending beyond merely South east Asia but also against vast Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (ci Field Enterprises, Inc. Mexico Bus Trip to Begin in Portland The Western Greyhound Lines has announced an cortcd lour to Old Mexico lo originate In Portland on Fe'-. 20. The four weeks tour will include sightseeing, shopping and "exploring. Company officials noted that the tour includes extras which are not usually includ ed in the weekly tours which leave from Los Angeles. The trip will leave from Portland and continue through Sacramento, San Joa quin valley to Phoenix, Ariz., El Paso, Tex., and Into Mexi co. Areas lo be visited in Mex ico include Mexico City where the group will remain for five days, Taxco, Aeipulco, Guada lajara. Culican and llermosil lo. prior to returning to Cali fornia where .ops will be in Los Angeles. San Francisco, and Eureka. Information may be ob tained from the Greyhound depot. AMBIVALENCE , A friend of mine who did not succeed in getting a fa mous actress to attend one of her soirees during the holidays was vastly disap pointed. "I to have my friends , meet her while in tow n," she said. I mur mured some Harris politely - eva sive regret, but privately I could sympathize with the actress. She simply did hot care to be used - as we ordin airly and thoughtlessly use such people - as a trophy or a door prize to attract party guests. Some years ago, when he was performing in New York, Sir John Giclgud candidly told a reporter, "It's alarming, when you go at this rate, to be invited out." Asked why, he explained: "People want you to scintil late immediately and put on another show, when what you want is them to talk to you. But they're too shy and you're afraid of being indiscreet or too colloquial or in some way letting down the side." Marie Tempest once re marked thai "Actors should be like dolls; they should be put in tissue paper and a cardboard box after a per formance and not brought out again until the follow ing night, just before the curtain goes up again." Most performers are dis appointing to met in per son - not because they are dull or stupid, but simply because people expect so much of them, and they over - react, either by be coming withdrawn and cold or going to the other ex treme and behaving in an exhibitionislic fashion. Few celebrities of any sort can maintain a public equili brium midway between the chilly and the frantic. Psychologically, the prob lem is that the social lion wants two opposite things at the same time: he wants to be recognised and re spected for his talents, but he also wants to bt treated like an ordinary human be ing and resents it when peo ple who have not met him come up with preconceived notions of what he is "real ly,, like. This ambivalence on the part of the celebrity accounts I think, for the strained feel ings at so many gatherings, when guests have been sum moned to strike a lion's mane and examine his claws. And when the lion is also expect ed (as so often happens) to jump through his hoops, then he is likely to turn and snarl on his audience. "I want to be regarded as a person. Just like anyone else," says the actress - and she does, and she doesn't. Un til performers learn lo recon cile their contrary desires. ana until hosts and guests learn to commingle deference and casualncss. there will a! ' ways be a sticky time at those soirees to meet this seasons I Lady Macbeth. reaches of Soviet territory as wen. These would be territories once held by the Chinese but lost over the years beginning with the Opium War of 1840 when the European powers began carving up imperial China. Such a theory Would place in a new light the hundreds of thousands of soldier-farm ers Red China has been pour ing into her wild western ter ritories and Khrushchev's haste in opening up the So viet Union's virgin lands in the East. It would help explain Chi nese determination to retain its hold on Ladakh against Indian claims and it would mark as strictly temporary Chinese border agreements with Burma, Nepal, Pakistan In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Weather note as this is written: Every state in the entire western half of the country reported below zero temper atures last night except Cali fornia - and it was by no means balmy there. It was 58 below at West Yellowstone, Montana. Most of Western Eu rope shivered this morning in the grip of an arctic cold wave that sent temperatures plung ing to zero and beyond. N THESE days the papers -not to mention the ra dios and the TV's - are full of Mona Lisa. Wherever you look (or wherever you listen) it's Mona Lisa this and Mona Lisa that. So- You may ask- ' Who was this Mona Lisa? MfELL, historically she was ". the THIRD wife of a Florentine nabob named Zan- obl del Giocondo. One pre sumes that Mona Lisa was her maiden name, although the books are not very communi cative on that subject. Any way, Leonardo da Vinci, per haps the most fabulous char acter of medieval times, paint ed her portrait somewhere along in the early 1500's. He worked on it intermittently for nearly four years - using all the technical skill he pos sessed to make it a master piece. The Mona Lisa hangs nor mally in the Louvre in Paris, where at any hour of the day or night when the Louvre is open to the public you have to push your way through a crowd to get a look at it. It is now on loan from the French government to the government of the United States, and presumably hangs in tne National Art Gallery in Washington - where the crowds are flocking in to get a look at what is undoubted ly the most famous painting in the world. IT IS known generally as the Mnna T.icn ft ie Irnturn al. among the French as La Belle Joconde. Jaconde is a French word meaning merry, gay, cheerful, genial, SPORTIVE. The lady seems to have all these qualities - including the last one. It is also called La Gionconda, which is a femin ine form of her Italian hus band's last name. The painting owes its great fame, probably, to the lady's unusual smile - about which volumes have been written. More or less everybody in the world who uses a pen or a pencil or a typewriter takes a crack at Mrs. Giacondo's smile - which has been called mysterious, mocking, ques tioning, ironical - and a great many other things. Cynics have been known to remark that Da Vinci may have caught her expression at a moment when she was look ing at her husband and say ing to herself: "You don't know as much about me as you think you do." You have to admit it could express that secret thought. A CCORD1NG to one school, i the smile is a forced one, concealing some terrible tor ment. That interpretation is a little hard to take. The lady really looks anything but tor mented. Her smile Is closer to smugness than torment. She seems quite pleased with her self. There's no denying the fact, however, that her smile has a strangely fascinating quality. It seems to follow you all over the crowded room of the Lou vre in which It normally hangs. It certainly isn't just a cas ual smile expressing kindness and good nature. Looking at it, it is hard to escape the feeling that the lady is sizing you up - and that her size-up isn't one that you would be eager for everybody to know about. and Outer Mongolia. These thoughts come into being as result of perusing a map published by the India News, an organ of the Indian government information services. The map Is said to have been published in a Chinese textbook in 1954 at about the same time that Indian Premier Nehru was signing with Red China his five prin ciples of co-existence. It pre sumably is one of the maps which first aroused Indian sus picion of Chinese designs against their own borders. Included in the areas claim ed by Chiiia were huge seg ments of the present-day So viet republics of Kazakhastan, Kirghizia and Tajikistan in the West and in the East, Vladivostok, Sakhalin Island and all of Northern Siberia. Also included were Outer Mongolia, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhu tan, the whole of Burma, the whole of Malaya and Singa pore, Thailand, North and South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, Formosa and North and South Korea. Altogether the millions of square miles encompassed make paltry the thousands thus far seized from India. Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop (c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate HI-"- -"3" St Alsnp THE VAST NEW FACTOR Washington - "Heavy, heavy, what hangs over?" was the beginning of an old children's game like Twenty Questions. "Communist Chi na" would be the winning answer, in the case of the new round of Soviet - Amer ican talks about a nu clear test ban, which will soon begin in New York. The thought of Communist China naturally haunts the Soviets. The flat Chinese re fusal to abide by a test ban was one of the two main fac tors the other being So viet military pressure to re sume testing which caused Khrushchev to torpedo the Geneva negotiations in 1961, when President Kennedy went so far to secure an agreement. Today, the simmering dis cords of 1961 have boiled up to the point where an open, avowed, and final rupture be tween Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung appears to be al most unavoidable. And the seemingly inevitable break between Moscow and Peking is in itself, a vast new factor in the Soviet-American nego tiations. This is true because of the effect of a Sino-Soviet break on the problem of cheating. In 19G1, it was out of t h e question for the U.S. to ac cept a test ban without some provision for inspecting in side China, since the Chi nese would then have aided the Soviets to cheat despite their many disagreements. TF THERE is a final Sino- Soviet break, however, a test ban may seem a reason able calculated risk despite its rejection by China; since the main danger of China sheltered Soviet cheating will then have disappeared. In fact, China-sheltered Soviet cheating is already almost unimaginable, in the present embittered slate of Sino-Soviet relations, even though the rupture is not formal and avowed. This very great change in the contours of the test ban problem has of course been even more carefully weighed by the American policymak ers than by the Soviet policy makers. The U.S., after all, is the party to the bargain that will have to accept the calculated risk, if and when a test ban agreement is reached which is still high ly doubtful. But there is another, per haps even more important reason why the thought of Communist China haunts the American policy-makers quite as powerfully as it haunts the Soviets. The President and those around him have alte ly been hard at work cal culating the future effect on the general world balance of power of a Communist China divorced from Russia, on Its feet again, and possessing atomic weapons. fPHERE are two reasons why these fairly grircsoine cal culations are now being mado at the White House. On the one hand, the time is at hand which was long ago named by the American forecasters as the first moment when Chinese Communists might test their own atomic bomb. After that lower limit has been passed, there will be no telling when the first Chi nese test may occur. To be sure, the immediate effect of a Chinese test will be purely psychological. More time will be needed. after a test, before the Chi nese can be said to have an atomic arsenal. But the Chi nese problem, curiously enough is rather simpler than the trench problem. The French nuclear pro gram will only succeed il France creates an effective nuclear deterren vis-a-vis the Soviets. The Chinese program will be successful, at least in part, if China merely has enough atomic weapons to overawe Southeast Asia. Few er weapons!, and much less sophisticated weapons, will do for this purpose. HPHIS is a real danger, if you accept as valid th other reason for the White House calculations about Chi na. In brief, the President and a good many of those around him incline to take quite lit erally all that the Chinese have said, in their war of words with Moscow, about the U.S. being a "paper ti ger," about the Communist duty to use military power to bring about the Commu nist millenium, and so nn and on. i If the Chinese really mean all that they have said on these topics, then the final sino-Soviet rupture, if and when it comes, will mean that an aggressive China has cast off the last shred of mod erating influence. The possi bility that a Sino-Soviet rup ture will produce this kind of after effect certainly needs to be weighed. , 1)UT there are other poinls " to weigh as well. In the first place, the Chinese have been sounding very warlike, but the only co.ntry they have attacked is India, a self announced paper tiger, and they have left even Chiang Kaishek's offshore island se verely alone. In the second place, the picture of Communist China on its feet again and armed with atomic weapons is some thing of a scarecrow if Com munist China has little chance of getting on its feet again. The moderate improvement in this year's harvest docs not mean that Communist China is again a healthy coun try. The problem needs much more careful investigation. Yet this new White House preoccupation, even if not en tirely justified, is another proof that the Sino-Soviet' row is changing everything. . (c) 1963 New Y rk Herald Tribune Inc. ANYWAY. If you're in Wash " inglon while La Belle Ja conda is there, you'd better go around to the National Art Gallery and give it a look. "Cuba shewed nuclear war Is net unthinkable. At least it's nice to know world leaders art not guilty of dog matic thinking!" 1 1
