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4 AL jtviryoM to SHiaimOnm ' Reeds Tin Mill Tribune" l3bllshedBaUy except SaturdaTojr MEDFORD PRINTING CO. J3 NorthX",'- Mll. ROBERT W. BUHL. editor HERB GRIY Advertising Majuief GERALD T LATHAmTBu.. Mir ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mne. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHUMAN. Teleg Mlttr ' RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women a Editor DALEE RJKSpNCtrcuUUoiMir An-Independent Newspaper Entered ucond class matter at Medford. Oreioa under Act of March 3. 1S97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mill In Advene. Delly end Sunday 1 yearllf.OJ Daily and Sunday moa. 10.00 Daily and Sunday 3 moa. 9 00 Sunday Only One year 13.00 Binile Copy (Mailed) 0o By Camei And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday I year WI-SJ Dally end Sunday 1 mo. , 1.7s Sunday Only 1 mo. Mo Carrier end Vendon Copy 10a Official Paper of city of Medford Official Paper of Jackaoo County " United Press International rull Uased Wire I). P. I Teiephoto Newsplcturea 'MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" Q CIRCULATIONS MONDAY. JANUARY SI. 1111 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREOOW Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS at ASSOCI ATES Of'icea In New York. Chi cago Detroit. San ITenclsco. Los A melts. Seattle. Portland. Denver, NATIONAL EDITORIAL SJAMOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 21, 1953 (Monday) District Attorney Waller Nunley has reaffirmed his office's policy regarding en forcement of gambling laws, Including prohibition of punchboards, ilot machinei, console slot machines, me chanical clock roulette de vices and both five and three ball machines which pay off in free games. December's monthly report by the Medford police depart ment listed 173 cases handled, including one murder, accord ing to Clateous McCredle, po lice chief. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 21. liaa (Saturday) Clyde Fichtner undergoing training at gunneri mate school at Naval Training Cen ter, San Diego, can:. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Older Girls started slicing bread and thumbs the first of the week, per orders from Washington, D.C." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 21, 1933 (Monday) ' Pilot Harold R. Adams, Medford, killed when mail plane crashes at Eugene. Ben Harrell, Medford, re ceives athletic award for par ticipation on West Point foot ball team. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 21, 1923 (Tuesday) Mali Jongg, "the new Chi nese game," being demon strated by "expert" at Med ford gift shop. City police warn local mo torists to drive with caution as city streets covered with glaze of ice. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 21, 1913 (Thursday) Medford police department warns that curfew laws will be strictly enforced after many youths reported out "after 11 o'clock at night.' City schools reopen after health officials state that scarletina epidemic is over, What's Your I.Q.? Nine ot ran correct it superior: seven or eihf Is escellent; fie et lit is aood. . A man who has two wives at one time is a bigamist what is a woman in the same situation called? 2. What was moses' occupa tlon? 3. With what industry was Joseph Pulitzer connected? 1 4.. The head of which Euro penn government bears the title of Caudillo? S. Is pure air visible to the naked eye? 6. Arc the young of beavers known as pups, calves, or kits? 7. For what food product is the village of Cheddar In England famous? ft. What Is the N. M. U.T 9. Tibet is bounded on the sou Ih by Nepal, Burma, India and what other country? 10. The Transvaal Is a prov Incc of which country? Answers: 1, A bigamist. 2. Sheep-lender. 3, Newspaper, 4. Francisco Franco of Spain. 3. No. S. Kill. 7. Cheese, t. National Marilima Union. 9, Pakistan. 10. Union of South Africa. What It Costs The essential facts about President Ken nedy's budget are its size and why it is the size it i. It is huge. $98.8 billion. And what does the money go for? It goes for wars, hot and cold, past, present and future. : Of each tax dollar, 62 cents goes for national defense, international programs and space re search. Six cents goes for veterans' benefits, i carry-over cost of past military programs. Ten cents goes for interest on a debt that is so huge because of wars and attempts to keep strong so that there would be no war. a e o A DD those up. It shows that 78 cents out of each dollar goes for military or defense spending or for the consequence or those. This is necessary. No serious student of world affaire would suggest that we could cut back veiy much on this and still meet our obligations to this generation and to future generations. However, it is noteworthy that only 22 cents of the tax dol lar goes to essentially constructive government programs and 6 cents of that goes to agricul- 7 1 ,1 0 ture, largely in ine iorm oi economically ineiii' cient subsidies. Ah, for a world at peace. Eugene Register Guard. ' ' Putting It In Its Place James Roosevelt, son of the late President, Democrat, elected for the third time to represent the 26th District in the County of Los Angeles of the State of California, has, for the past several years, been one of the nation's staunchest advo cates for the abolition of the infamous House un American Activities Committee. Steadily and slowly he has won the support of a few of the Congressmen in his drive to put an end to the violations of the First Amendment which are inherent in the operations of the com mittee. Nevertheless, he has been unsuccessful. Too many people, including Congressmen, apparently feel that to speak out against a committee formed to investigate un-American activities is, or would be considered to be, un-American. TESPITE the fact that the committee, on the basis of its past performances, seems to be dedicated to the continual harassment and ex posure of law-abiding citizens and despite the fact that it seeks to limit the basic freedoms of speech and assembly, the committee seems des- . i . i ty : l i r :l- unea to strain nave sjuninessiuiiui approval oi us actions thus strengthening Chairman trancis Walter s contention that he and his committee are doing the right thing. Roosevelt was denied the opportunity of in- 4 J 1.-1-- !ii A. - TTTT A n iroaucing a resolution in opposition to uie nufto during the debate on House rules. He has, how ever, gotten Walter's support in seeing to it that it might come to the floor of the House at an early date. THE resolution, while calling for the abolishment- nf the T-TTTAf. no it i ncesent.lv con. ceived, proposes that the functions of the HUAC be given to the House Judiciary- Committee to make explicit the commitee's power to recom mend legislation dealing with the punishment of overt acts against the government such as treason, sabotage and espionage. This move, it seems to us, makes sense. It is placing the responsibility where it belongs in stead of in a committee which seems to have for gotten that its purpose in the legislative branch of our federal government is to recommend legis lation not to carry on witch hunts. Coos Bay World. Lifting the Lamp Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. This inscription for the Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, has a special pertinency in January, when all aliens in the United States must report their addresses to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Very close to 3,000, 000 aliens are expected to file address report cards this year, as against 2,948,000 last January. The increase reflects in part the influx of refugees from Communist-controlled Cuba. A Justice Department report shows 150,000 refu gees from Cuba as of the first of this year, com pared with 88,800 a year earlier. e e A ND even though the great waves of immigra- from Europe are a thing of the past, nearly 100,000 Europeans charged to quotas take up permanent residence in the United States every year. Twice that number enter this country out side their national quotas as candidates for na turalization. The expected registration of 3,000,000 is all the more remarkable when it is considered that the law docs not apply to persons in diplomatic status, those accredited to international organ izations, and pci-sons admitted temporarily as agricultural laborers. Willful non - compliance with the registration law is punishable by a 30 day jail sentence, $200 fine and deportation. But the Immigration and Naturaliziation Service reports generally full compliance. Few aliens wish to jeopardize their future in a country that has given them sanctuary and the chance for a new life. E.R.R. "Thi. Kind Of Reekie. Talk Could Take The World To The Brink Of Peace" Washington Report By William S. Whit (c) United Feature Syndicate DE GAULLE: TOO FAR Washington - The most del- leate problem in all politics, whether national or interna tional, is how If Nil- t ft to push a I tough design I of self - inter est to the pre- w m vioc (unit- u, I reaching the vHhL. k I m a x i m u m V- ZJ I d o a s ible ad vantage for it without over- whit. stepping ana bringing disaster upon the pusher himself. This is tne ancient Drinx- manship of public policy, and in this brinkmanship success and catastrophe may be sep arated by the width of an eye lash. Not in decades has a states man been so engaged in such a fateful balancing act as is now the case with President Charles De Gaulle of France. His months of playing about with the British on the ques tion of their entry into the European common market have now ended by his harsh notice that, as of now, he does not propose to let them in at all on any livable terms. If IS equally long months of "playing about with the Western military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organi zation, have been ended by equally harsh notice that, again as of now, he will not be satisfied by anything short of total French "independ ence" in an enterprise de signed to be all for one and one for all. This is the meaning of his curt rejection of President Kennedys offer to him ot what has already been accept ed by the British - that is, American help toward build ing a national nuclear force on the understanding that this force would be geared Into the common defense of all the West. This stony no-saying has momentarily cast the whole Western Association - eco nomic and military - Into dis array. General De Gaulle for the moment is riding high on his white horse of "grandeur." All the same, It is far too early for the West generally to conclude that this able, de voted - and vain - old French man will have the last word as well as the first. fTRUE, the early innings A have been his beyond ques tion. By the mere constant reasscrtion of a degree of French "power" that really does not exist, he has thus far made almost a reality of what is In fact largely a fic tion. It has been a superb act of illusion-making. Already, however, there are signs that he has gone too far and that the great balance is slowly toppling down against his excessive demands. His European associates in the common market has' thus far allowed him to lead it. But his latest thrust at Britain has been too much for them. Italy, Belgium and Holland don t like it. West Germany, the home of his old political associate. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, is not happy, either. If he persists in his deter mination to use his own sole veto against Britain's entry into the common market, there can be only one possible ultimate consequence: the col lapse of its unity and the rais ing up of some alternative arrangement, probably Initi ally between the British and the Italians, which will leave him no longer the leader of continental Europe. . e AND as to America's effort to develop a common nu clear defense within NATO, the united States government has no intention of halting this plan simply because De Gaulle will not play. If he continues to scorn our nuclear help on this basis, there is nothing to say that Italy and West Germany, not to men tion Britain, wiU do so. It is not against the law to by pass him; and of this he will surely become aware. The safer bet, therefore. still is that Western union will yet survive, by a climb-down by De Gaulle from that lofty perch which has so long been majestically successful for him, but which has not be come majestically dangerous for him. Foreign News: Italian Confidence Vote Debated; Philippine s Borneo Claims Br PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Mows Analyst Notes from the Foreign News cables: Confidence Vote Although tension between Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani's Christian Demo crats and tne left wing So- cialists of Pietro Nenni is near the breaking point, the gov ernment is ex pected to sur vive a vote of confidence 1 wewsoas vote brought by the Communists and sched uled to be decided later this week. Shortly afterwards, however, President Antonio Segni is expected to dissolve parliament and call general elections, .possibly for April 7 or 21, as the only way out of an impasse. The ruling Christian Democrats are split into a center-left faction which supports Fanfani, and a moderate faction which is cool to his pollclte. Chances of survival are debatable. The Socialists are also split into a center-left wing led by Nenni and strong pro-Communist wing which opposes him. Philippine Sovereignty The Philippines will main tain its claim to sovereignty over British North Borneo in talks with the British govern ment starting in London this Thursday. But the Filipino delegates probably will set tle for less say a lump sum payment for waiving sover eignty claims, along with guaranteed membership for the proposed Malaysia Feder ation in the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. It is not certain, however, that the British will yield anything. Berlin Tension Don't look for any lessen ing of the heat in the Berlin crisis to result in any con tacts or "deals" between the East and West Germans. This idea is in the deep freeze at present. The West , German feel that East German Red boas Walter Ulbricht Is losing ground. This, despite Soviet Premier Niklta Khrushchev' backalapplng and kissing dem onstration with Ulbricht The West Germans therefor ara dead-set against any dealings with him. The East Germans, too, arc adamant. Disarm am oat Talks The outlook for the 17-na-tlon disarmament talks ap pears dim in the wake of Pre mier Khrushchev's statement that a Berlin settlement takes precedence over a disarma ment treaty. There even it talk of recessing the Geneva conference indefinitely until the Russians five some Indi cation they arc ready to da some serious negotiating. So far it is only talk. But mem bers of delegations in Geneva are half-ready to return hom if there is more delay. e e e Communications e e Letter ie the Editor must bear th nam and address ef the writer, although undo certain circumstances the us ef a pea nam or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all lettera with a view to clarification and condensation. Latter submitted for publication must net exceed 400 words. The letter printed in ihi column do not aecassarUr represent the view of th paper; In fact th contrary is lin th ease. Big Stick Needed To the Editor: "We will not tolerate any interference from the Government. We will not abide by any recommenda tions made by any fact find ing board appointed by the United States Government. We will not settle this strike until all ot our demands have been accepted." Those were the words spoken by one ef our labor leaders, and I think they are un-American. I'd like to see the labor leader who could have said that to Theo'e Roosevelt twice. He would have cooked his goose before he could have finished his speech the first time. Everett Aeklin. Ashland, Ore. P. S. I think it's about time some of our Union leaders were hit with a big stick. Ah-Lan'i Tooth , To the Editor: Our reported visitor from space would not be so anxious to eat American glass if he knew it is etched with fluoride. Why not save and dry egg shells for him to eat? Being rich in calcium it would be so much better for his teeth. Mary E. Atkin 1634 Orchard Home dr. Medford Strictly Personal y Iy)ny J. Haiti (e) rield Enterprises, Ine. CULTURAL LAS It takes a long time for the habits and attitudes of a peo ple to catch up to their tech nology. This is what th soci ologists call "cultural lag," and nowhere Is it more evi dent than in our vacation patterns. Why should chil dren of today be out of school for nearly three months in the summer? This custom began a century ago, In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS President Kennedy sent to Congress last week the big gest budget in United States history a colossal 98 BIL LION, 802 million dollar fi nancial plan, which he said would permit the efficient and FRUGAL (yes, he used that word) conduct of the public business. WHIS proposed b u d g e t for -- next year is $499 million MORE than the previous rec ord bud Ret of $98,303,000,000 in WARTIME 1945. Which is to say: In this year of supposed oeace. we nrnnnse tn iDpnd halt a billion dollars more than we spent in the final year of the greatest war in our history which was also the greatest war In the history of the world. "Egger bearer Ireshman congressman. Wail'll hit first bill gels bogged down In committee. That'll take th bounce out el hit slepl" And At the same time ' Our President proposes lo CUT TAXES. TN ITS net results, President Kennedy's budget for the fiscal year 1964 (meaning his estimate of what we will spend and what we will take in) will look like this: Income .. $86,900,000,000 Spending 98,802,000,000 DEFICIT 11,902,000,000 pHlLLING thought: In 1940, less than two and a half decades ago. the total expenditures ot the fed eral government of the Unit ed States were only $9,062,. 032,204. in the fiscal year i4, expenditures will be $98,802,000,000. The DEFICIT In fiscal 1964 will be $2.8 BILLION MORE than the ENTIRE OPERA TING COST of the govern ment of the United States on. ly 24 years ago. INTERESTING question: WHITHER ARE WE BOUND? A NOTHER chilling thought: Back In 1940. only two and a half decades ago, the total expenditures of the fed eral government of the Unit ed States were only a trifle more than nine billion dol lars. At the end of fiscal year 1964, the national debt of the United States is expected to be $315 billion, 604 mil lion. And, by that time, interest on the national debt, it is an ticipated, will amount to more than the entire expenditures of the federal government back in 1940. IN conclusion: It's quite a world we're living in. isn't it? One can't help wondering what Benjamin Franklin would have thought of it all if he could have foreseen the fiscal situation of th 1960's. , when we were a rural nation and the children were needed to help with the important farm work in the decisive months. This necessity has long sine passed, but the vacation pattern persists, even though our public schools are over crowded, and a one-month va cation in the summer is long enough for any child. On ih adult level, new rnede i transportation ar just beginning te crack th traditional patterns of va cationing. I know a number of doctors, for instance, who now take month oft very year divided into four parieda ef 10 day ch. They hv found that a whole year is too long to wait; tension build up, fe iigu sots in, and efficiency falls off. So each spring, tall, winter and summer, they lake off for 10 days. With Jet planes, they can go farther and do more in a week than their parents could hav in whole month. Physically and mentally both, relatively short peri odic vacations ar moro re juvenating than en long on. Most people returned exhausted from protract ed summer vacation, in which they tried furiously to make up for th lassitude of the rest of th year. It is comparable to the person who starves himself all day and then eats an enormous meal at night when throe or four light meals aver the same period are met healthful. e The same cultural lag per sists In our daily working hab its. People used to go to bed at 9 p.m.; nowadays it is clos er to midnight. Yet the bulk of workers still arise at 7 a.m., and most jobs begin at 8:30 or 9 in the morning - and the first hour or so is largely wasted. It would make much more sense to begin at 10 a.m. (ex cept, perhaps, on the produc tion line), and I am convinced that just as much work would be done if not more. Most modern urban workers don't get enough sleep during the week, as attested to by the staggering amounts of coffee they must drink in the morn ing before they can function properly. Much of American society Is still geared to a rural 19th century rhythm awkward and obsolescent. Seventy per cent of the American people live in urban complexes, but our work habits and school habits remain dominated by outmod ed customs. W would not per mit our machinery to so long outlast their original purpos. Smoking To the Editor: Also to teen age boys and girls in particu lar, and to all whom it may concern: "Dr. Alton Ochaner, world's most famous lung sur geon, said: 'If there were one tenth the evidence that the Brooklyn Bridge is unsafe, that there is that smoking causes cancer, the bridge would be closed In 24 hours!"" By the way, although I don't car particularly tor comic strips, I do like Buzz Sawyer. Wanna know why? He does not smokel Other people depicted in the pC tures may smoke, but NEVER good al' Buzz! Or Christy! And I'll "betcha" Pepper never will, either! Hazel A. Nelson 1016 Stevens st. Medford Seeds To the Editor: What part of Genesis 2 or 3 could be fa ble? There is God, Adam, Eve, serpent, life, death, sin, sorrow, trees, weeds, sweat, Cherubims. Will you accept what you see and call all that you cannot see fable, and dis regard proof which God gives in scriptures; in mathematical laws of nature; and through the living Christ? Can you disregard the testimony of many who have daily fellow ship with Christ? Three hon orable witnesses could con demn a man to death in a court of law. God uses the natural things which we can see to describe spiritual things which we can not see. Adam's family tree can be traced to Christ. The written record stops there be cause God declared in Gene sis 3:15 that the seed of th woman would bruise the ser pent' head. Christ was the Seed that conquered sin, death and the devil. Many graves bear their own testimony to the reality of physical death. Would any deny that we return to dust? Yet God permitted physical death to warn us against spiritual death. Likewise, God has given us the seed to portray the resurrection. Soon innumer able seeds will be planted to die and to bring forth a more glorious type of life. "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall be made alive." I Cor. 1S:22. "But some men will say. How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest, is not quickened, except it die: And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain; But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased Him, and to every seed his own body ... So Is also the res urrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: It is sown in weak ness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there Is a spiritual body." I Cor. 15: 35 to 38 and 42 to 44. If the spiritual which we cannot see is more glorious than the natural, let us not deny these "unseen atoms of spiritual things" which give ample proof of existence. Thanking you for permit ting me to not agree with you. Thclma Malott 1691 South Peach st. Medford. Logic To the Editor: Recently in these columns (MT 1-13-63) my contributions were ridi culed as being irrelevant and a strong inference made that I hate my fellowman. Such a response from the fountain of brotherhood indicates the shallowness of It. Apparently my fellow contributor has never been able to hate the sin and love the man. If Christian people have be come so timid, complacent and self-satisfied that they no longer can rise up in righteous indignation in protest of In human and ungodly acta be cause of fear ot being judged, then we hav really reached the ebbtide of Christian in fluence. Where is the spirit which enabled the early church to survive in the face ot obstacles the like ot which present day Christian have never thought of having to face? Where is the courage that enabled the apostle Paul to say, "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of ChrU! for it is the power of God unU sal vation."1 The lack of this spirit is what makes our Christianity so pallid when compared to that of the early church. Th lack of this spirit is also evi dent in the actions ot our na tion. During the past 26 year our policies of appeasement and catering to the will of the UN have gained us noth. ing but the plaudits of our enemies and rebuffs from our friends. We have not becom the second-rate military that John F. Kennedy predicted, it now seems we were never in danger of this, but we hav certainly come out as a sec ond-rate power in diplomacy and use of common sense. A certain fellow contribu tor to this column claims to know all he needs to about communism and says he op-, poses it as much as I do but still wants to just co-exist. Our chances of co-existing with communism are like those of a patient co-existing with a deep-seated cancer. Read Senator Goldwater'a book and ask yourself, why can't we win and extend free dom to others? Have we truly become the nation of sheep as some have suggested? If so then I know one of us, who though claiming vast experi ence and scholarship has had the wool pulled over hi eyes, James K. Shafer Route 2, Box 210X Medford. TV Leg Improved To the Editor: The new set up for TV programs is a great improvement over the old on easy to pick out programs. Please keep it as it is now. This program is the main rea son for taking the paper. I like communications, or let ters to the editor, also a good section. I did not get a card to you when you asked people if ra dio programs were desirable. Better late than never to write. Thank you. Mrs. Horace Failing . Eagle Point, Ore. Woman ef the Bible To the Editor: A man in Friday, Jan. 11, Tribune thinks a letter written earlier wasn't In good taste. Perhaps he is right, but it's not imag ination, but simple truth, and truth can hardly be libelous, God, the Creator, didn't hava the faith in woman this one man has, and God created them. Proverbs, Ch. 6 24 through 34, God warns man of the evil woman, the flattery ot her tongue, the fluttering ot her eyelids, which is a useless toy to man. Proverbs, Ch. 14: I, A foolish woman will tear down a house with her hands. Ecclesiastes Ch. 21 9, God said it would better for man to dwell on a corner ot th house-top than in a wide house with a brawling wo man. This is the barking, snarling canine, vicious and snarling woman. Ecclcsiastes Ch. 7 V. 26. It is more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is a snare and trap with her hands; he who pleases God will flee from her. Here is your cheating woman. Proverbs Ch. 7 V 10 through 13, the woman with subtle heart is loud and stub born, her feet abideth not in her house, she lay in "wait for men to come by. Here is your ape-like woman. Reading on, "She caught him and kissed him with impu dence in her face. Or could this be cat - like? Proverbs, Ch. 21. V-19, It s better to live alone in the wilderness than with an angry woman. Proverbs Ch. 9 V. 13. Th foolish woman is clamcrous, and simple, and knoweth nothing. Here is the sluggard in indolence and ignorance; a lazy woman. Proverbs, Ch. 22 V-14, The mouth of wo man Is a deep pit and men fall into it. whereoy he is bought by a piece of bread. First Tim., Ch. 4 V. 3 and 4, Women who forbid to marry and will not eat meat which God hath created for them. Every creation of God is good and to be received with Thanksgiving, tor it Ij sanotified by the word of God. E. Dykes Eagle Point, Ore. i
