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tmuAt, Jamuamy us. mi MLDr'OHD MAIL IHlBUNlS, MtDr'ORD, OHEQON P "Everyone lo Southern OreKon Rel The Mll Tribune" Published belly except Saturday by MEDKORD PRINTING CO. S3 North fir gt. Ph. 77a-61t " ROBERT-W-RUHL, Editor HERB GREY AdvertUlng Manager GERALD T LATHAM, nue. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mm. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CUIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHES Women'e Editor DALE EKtunauff. .irguieuun wfl An Independent Newspaper' Entered as eecond class matter Medlora, uregon. unw iwi " March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Du Mall In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 year 116 00 Daily and Sunday mos. 10.00 Dally and Sunday 3 nios. 9.00 Sunday Only One year $5 00 Sinlle Copy (Mailed) 300 Du rnrriMt And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year S21.00 Delly and Sunday 1 mo. 1-75 Gunriov ftnlv 1 mn. B0C Carrier and Vendors Copy loo Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper oi jacason wuunjf United Press International Full Leased Wire U. P. I. Telephoto Newsplcturee MEMBER or auuii nunwiu or win i-uLftiiuno Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS It ASSOCI-atb-9 nrriraa in New York. Chl cago. Detroit. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Dsame, r u i uu. Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL cSa6 NiwiPAPiR PUIIISHIRS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford ind Jeckson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1953 (Friday) Sherltt Howard Gault has declined to either confirm or deny the rumor that he has applied lor the position of U. S. marshall In Oregon. Medford city police said to day two cases of larceny from autos and about 10 other un reported crimes were solved when a 12-year-old boy admit ted Uie thefts. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1943 (Wednesday) George A. Codding, special attorney for department of Justice, reports most farmers who sold land to government for construction ot Camp White have received pay ments From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot'" column: "The usual unusual weather con tinues as usual. If the Ground Hog sees the sun next Tues day, so will the rest of the population." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1933 (Friday) Capt. Lee Bown, head of state police division at Med ford, elected president of Southern Oregon Peace as sociation. "Important reduction" In freight rates expected to bene fit Rogue valley nrchardlsts. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1923 (Saturday) From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column. "There are several reasons why Sixth street should not be opened. Firstly, the town might grow, and secondly, it might dis commode the Espee." Phoenix, Ariz., newspaper praises Judge Frank DcSouza who has just left that city to make his home In Mcdlord. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 25. 1913 (Monday) Rogue Valley Cooperative Fruit association discusses plans for construction of new warehouse In Mediord. Twcnty-eiRht-ycar-old By bee bridge declared unsafe for traffic: county court makes plans to replace spun. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior. seven or eight Is excellent; five er six is good. 1. During the War of 1812 who was President of the United States. 2. In which hour after his crucifixion did Jesues die? 3. Docs bread contain Vit amin A? 4. How many one inch pipes are required to convey as much water as a four inch pipe? 5. Which was the last suite admitted lo the Union, prior to Alaska and Hawaii? 6. What letter Is missing from this scrambled word meaning allow and beginning with F: Pmtri? 7. Arc Britisli and U. S. gallons the same? 8. Does the U. S. derive a large portion of Its regulatory power through Interstate or Intrastate commerce? 9. Which Is the Ugliest gas? 10. In what year did Na tlonlist China's government flee to Formosa? Answers! 1. James Madi son. 2. Sixth. 3. No. 4. 18 square of diameter). S. AH. ona. 6. E (permit). 7. No. 8. Interstate. 9. Hydrogen. 10. 1949 Capitol Punishment After two weeks in session, the Oregon leg islature appears to have accomplished little enough. A number of bills have been introduced, to be sure, but the number that have been passed is lnnnitesimal and perhaps non-existent. This appearance, of course, is deceptive. For an organization which includes 90 people, plus a number of employees, and is divided into com mittees, and must consider, at least briefly and sometimes at length, up to 1,500 separate meas ures, takes time to get itself organized, down to worK, and producing. Too, an important part' of the legislature's job is rejecting bills, as well as passing them. The simple fact of non-passage of measures doesn t mean work isn t being done. THE pressures upon a conscientious member of the legislature are tremendous enough, perhaps, to justify the term ' capitol punishment." They are fair game for a wide variety of lobbyists and special interest groups, ranging from dog racing proponents to supporters of high er appropriations for education. Some lobbyists operate honorably, openly and sincerely; others use more devious means to influence legislation, ine worK-ioad oi a legislator a conscien tious one can be fantastic, involving long hours of "homework," reading and studying, attending long committee meetings at which evidence and opinions are presented, and, finally, attendance at the sessions of House and senate. THE latter, while the most spectacular, are really a relatively minor part of a legislator's duties. Most of the serious work is done in com mittee, and most of the bills which do come to the floor of the House or Senate with a "do pass" recommendation, are enacted. There are exceptions, of course, and a "floor fight" over a bill often is the most interesting and exciting show the assembly cant put on. But even in such a case, the outcome is usually fore gone; the decision actually has been made be fore, and few votes are changed by the debates in open session. One may question whether this constitutes the best and most democratic procedure, but it is necessary. If all 90 legislators had to consider all 1,500 measures submitted, they'd never get home. e e ' THE legislators work under one severe handi- . ml. i ai f ai - cap: ine oniy oiiice space mey nave is men desk, which is not too large, and usually is shared with a secretary. Ihe secretaries have access to typing rooms, and each member has additional tiling space, but that s all. Considering the volume of their correspond ence, the fact that they are eager to greet and talk to visiting constituents from back home, and the amount of work they have to do indi vidually and in committee, one wonders, some times, why the members are willing to take the punishment. Add to this the tact that, up until the present, the amount of pay would not coie close even to covering their expenses, and the wonder of it is that we have been as well served by past leg islatures as we have. rURING the coming weeks, the tempo of actual legislation will increase. Committee discus sions will culminate in hearings, hearings in more discussions and in committee action, and a steady stream of bills will start coming to the two houses for action. The volume of measures will increase until on closing day, very likely some time in June, the lawmakers will spend a long day passing bills like mad, adjourn, and then stand around sing ing "Auld Lang byne. It is a fascinating, inefficient, disorderly way to run a state, and mistakes are bound to happen, By the same token, however, it is a system de signed to give maximum consideration to the needs and desires of the people of the state, and most of the time it works out just that way. Far better the inefficiency and disorder of a repre sentative assembly than the neat dictates of an authoritarian society. E.A. Volunteered Reading Matter One of the benefits (?) of writing editorials is that people, lots of people, bring you things to read. They may include a magazine article that someone louiul of particular interest; an old newspaper clipping; a promotional brochure; propaganda for (or against) concrete as opposed to asphalt for new highway construction; argu ments lor (or against) a bill m the legislature the list is virtually endless. At the extreme, we receive at least four peri odicals for which someone unknown subscribed to in our name. COR all this wc are duly grateful, and make an 1 honest effort to read, or at loast scan, all of the offerings. Aftentimes, they are of extreme in terest; at other times they are of passing note only. Motivations, of course, varv. Frcouentlv it is simply a friendly gesture of passing along some- tmng ot lnicrest. un other occasions someone has an ax to grind, and hopes to motivate an ecu torial. On still others, it is an attempt to prove to the editorial writer how wrong, stupid and bull-headed he is. All in all, it helpsanake life interesting. E.A. "Stop Him He'i Digging A Hole!" j Washington Report By William S. Whit. (c) United Feature Syndicate km HMMaWtbkBSI HARD-USED COUSIN Washington - A hard-used cousin of the United Slates has fallen ill. and wearily so, and now re- quires our help and un d e r standing, for the sake of ord 1 n a r y decency but most of all for the sake of ourselves.This cousin is while Great Britain. And this national illness is like that personal illness which comes as a chilling vision upon a middle-aged war veteran long, long after the guns have rusted in the silence of the yesterdays. Sud denly, as though in t..e mid dle of the night, he sees clear ly that all his old exertions and perils have ended in dust and ashes for him and that his late rivals and even ene mies are doing far better than he in the world they lately sought to destroy. He wears, along with his wound stripes and the invisi ble medals that bring no profit in the market place, the grey badge of economic fear while more fortunate men are living it up on top of that world which only his valor and honor had helped to make for them. THIS parallel between an cx snlHlar nnw snffprinir nnsl. combat fatigue and a nation suffering the same, through no fault whatever of its own, is not inexact. It is plain, giv en the smallest preception and understanding, that todays Britain has had altogether too much to bear for altogeth er too long. (And it is a petty under tone to the tragedy that the most brittle of Ti-land s young entertainers now wow them on this side of the Atlan tic by venomous commen tarics on the land of their birth.) The nation which so long stood all alone against Hitler Ism - a Hitlcrism backed for a time by Stalinist Rt ssia, too - now finds itself barred from its best hope to recover its wasted strength, the Euro pean Common Market. And by whom? By the country, France, which went to its knees before Hitler's very first blows and left that island kingdom across the channel, that England which was once forever green, naked to storm which blew not merely against England but against all free men everywhere. rrilE nation whose civilians uncomplainingly u n d e r- went, not days and weeks, but months and years of bombing from the skies and freely spent its substance and its lives, awoke at last from the nightmare of war. And to what? To an implacable pres sure (at which the United States of America stood at the very forefront) to strip from her all that she had in coloni al wealth; to tear from the living body of the old Com monwealth every overseas re source she might have had to repair her ravaged strength. But not even all this ends the tale of the hero of war who was to fare so ill in the peace which so indispensably he had helped to win. The harsh realities forced the United States to pour out treasure not uson tired and broken old England but upon those other lands - whether ex-enemy, as in Germany, or ineffectual ally, as in France - which it was now necessary to bolster against the sick appeal of Communism. We could always depend upon the British, tired and broken or not. So to Britain we gave, perforce, our sym pathy; to the others we gave our billions. So at length these others, notwithstanding their past guilt and failures, became not Britain's fair equals but Britain's subsidized superiors in the economic rat race which was one of the legacies of the war. fTHE British are sto fel lows, and very proud, too. But, to repeat, they have had altogether too much to bear for altogether too long. They would reject pity; but manly help in mutual respect they need from us. Help in the economic rat race. But beyond this a more sensitive kind of assistance, a deter mination here that no Charles de Gaulle and no dozen Charles de Gaulles shall fur ther push Britain down, eco nomically or otherwise - that storied first home of an American republic whicl was, after all, raised up by British men. What, then, is required of us? Why, simply, all that may be required by them to keep that honored place which by blood and valor and brains and historic decency they have a hundred times over - earned. If they arc no longer quite a top power in this world they have irreplaceable values to offer still. And that world without them would be poor beyond belief - for us as well as for them. Betancourt Still Miraculously Surviving Attacks by Venezuelan Reds, Castroites u- , .. ....mt Venezuela's Centra) Uni- ground It 1. amazing By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst When Venezuelans this week observed the fifth an niversary of the fall of dicta tor Marcos Pe- CWS01B r e z 'imenez, it was in a manner which almost h i be come a way of life. ' Con 8 1 1 1 u t ional guar: ntees had been sus pended since last October, and in the streets of Caracas gunfire crackled as polk; bat tled leftists intent upon bring ing down President Romulo Betancourt. As Betancourt has sought to lead Venezuela down a middle course toward prac ticing democracy and eco nomic stability, he has in curred enmities on both right and left. That he has thus far sur vived nearly four of his five elected years in office may be considered a near-miracle. Once while in office he escaped an assassination at tempt. Five military uprisings have been attempted against him. Serious riots, with scores killed and hundreds injured, have occurred at least 20 times in Caracas alone. Five times, with one action often overlapping another, he Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (ci Field Enterprises, Inc. WtL.tk-.H 11.4 "Boy, just our luck being part of the 4 million un employed when they're talking about a tax-cutl" t SMOKERS I have developed a theory about the cigaret smokers who are able to quit and those who do not seem able to kick the habit, even though they would like to. If a statistical study were made of the succ e s s f u 1 swearer - of- nirrii fers, I believe it would show that these were the persons who began smoking relatively late in life for social reasons of one sort or another. The real addicts-those who know they should quit but cannot bring themselves to -would turn out to be, I am convinced, those who began smoking at a comparatively early age for reasons of de fiance or rebellion against their parents. We know that cigaret smoking is not a physiologi cal addiction, in the way that dope is; cigarets do not set up in the body an irre sistible craving for tobacco. The addiction to cigarets is almost wholly psychologi cal; the unconscious mind is gripped by this source of gratification. The type of smoker who began at a relatively early age, as a gesture of inde pendence toward his par ents, cannot bring himself to quit because quitting would represent a return to dependency of his youth, would in some way sym bolise a retreat to ihe earlier patterns of child hood. This all may sound very fancy and far-fetched, but how else account for the psychological addiction of cigarets? If some can quit, and others cannot, there must be an unconscious re straint blocking the free will of those who would like to kick the habit but find it impossible to do. amoKing begins in many young people as a badge of adulthood; as Oscar Wilde said of war, so long as it is considered wicked it will be attractive; when It is con sidered merely vulgar it will lose its appeal. Since smoking is considered (or was con sidered) slightly wicked for children by most parents, it was Invested with great at tractiveness for them. If the child's conflict with his parents - cither on the conscious or the unconscious level - was deep and long standing, then the act of smok ing came to represent a re bellion against dependency and a continuing reassurance mat the smoker is a person in nis own right. I am as sure as I can be without any statistical proof that young people whose re lation with their parents are sound and henlthv xl'i.nr h.va To desire to smoke, or if they ao smoke, are quite rational ly able to quit when con fronted with the medical evi- aence that it Is harmful to them. Those who persist in smoking In the face of such evidence are re-enacting daily the adolescent act of defiance. and arc in bondage not so much to the nicotine as to the unresolved conflicts In their early family life. I has felt forced to suspend Venezuelans' constitu t i o n al guarantees. Even when certain liberties were restored, they did not necessarily allow full freedom of the press, radio and tele vision and the right of as sembly. Complaints have come even from members of his own party. But while Betancourt s methods may be debatable, the nature of the war being waged against him cannot be. In Caracas it is being fought by young Reds and Castroites from the privileged sanctuary versity which enjoys the un written law of autonomy giv ing Latin Americen u...... sities protection from govern ment authorities. Venezuela's estimated 35, 000 Communists know they have no immediate chance of taking over the government. Their announced objective is to create enough civil strife to throw the country into an archy, and finally goad mili tary officers into establishing a military dictatorship. "Then," they say, "the peo ple will rise in revolution.' With this in the back- 11,-1 Venezuela has been able to show a slow recovery trom the excesses and corruniin. of the Perez Jimlnez dictator, ship. The budget is balanced, pri, vate investment has Increased a new steel mill is in opera! tion and thousands of previ. ously landless farmers have been placed on land of their own. If Betancourt can complete this last year of his term and hand his office peacefully over to his successor, he will be the first In ISO years ot independence to do so. ... Communications ... I..,..,, to ihe Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under h,,Jin ilrcum.ranc th usV of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible, certain use P .. . .. w,th , .,w l0 clarification ana d.n:.tior Utter, submi ed or publ cation must not exceed 400 words. The l.it.r. Printed in this' column do not ne'cessarlly represent the ri.w. of the paper, 1 f.c, ft. contrary is oilen ine case. Modern Music To the Editor: This letter is written in response to Mon day's MT review of the Gregg Smith Singers wno appeared Sunday at Medford High School on the Civic Music Concert Series. Although the reviewer naa kind words for the choirs Quality and part of its pro gram, he went into a lengthy "expose" lambasting modern music that was almost unbe lievable coming from a music critic in 1963. The reviewer stated that the works of Billings and Charles Ives, two little known but important American com posers - particularly Ives -"gained nothing for the pro gram." He further stated that musical art would be better off If modern composers were "put into space programs. And to add authority to his thesis he quoted Pablo Casals one of the few great living musicians who refuses to ac cept anything written later than the 19th century. I feel such remarks are uncalled for and absurd. The reviewer also stated that the modernists "are still trying to thrust their experi ments onto the public." How is musical art to develop it the public is not given the chance to hear and respond to that which is new? Isn't art of all forms continually try ing to reinterpret the old and familiar through new devices, interpretations and insights? He stated that works of the Netherland contrapuntists are not heard anymore because they have no spark and are not art. Saying these works are not art is a redundant statement, but the important thing is that these works were performed at the time and people were given the opportunity to accept or re ject them. Let us not forget that Bach's music was not accepted in his time, and Mo zart and Beethoven were con sidered radical, daring and modern in their dayl Also, to this listener, the Ives setting of "Psalm 67" with its polytonality, poly rhythms and dissonant coun terpoint was one of the most forceful, meaningful and mov ing works of the evening. Considering Ives' historical importance as well as the quality of his music and the aesthetic and affective re sponses such music is capable of producing in the percep tive listener, I feel this work rates very highly - experi mental or not. Granted the modern idiom is difficult to understand and appreciate. Granted also the MT reviewer has a right to his opinions and a right to express them AS SUCH. How. ever, one would expect a mu sic critic to have an under standing of, if not an appre ciation for, all periods of com position including those of the last 60 years. Gary Lovre 722 Crater Lake ave. Medford Doe Deer Petitions To the Editor: Monday in Salem, acting in behalf of the Central Point Sportsmen's Club, I handed to the Gover nor a petition signed by 2,200 local hunters soliciting his aid in closing of the hunting sea son on doc deer and also clos ing the extended deer season in order that the deer popu lation could have a , nance to recover from Its present very low numbers, caused by the very heavy kill of doe deer. The Governor expressed sympathy for the hunters' po sition but asked for more proof of a shortage of deer as the State Game Commis sion had supplied him with proof that the deer had not declined but were on the In crease despite the heavy kill of doc deer. I pressed the point that the petitions being circulated throughout the state with some 30.000 signers, more or less, protesting the killing of doe deer was enough proof of shortage of deer to support our request and these earnest people signing these petitions should carry more weight than information gained by civil service employees work ing for the State Game Com mission. The hunters are asKin ior rhanee in management to give the deer a fair chance for survival ana increase. This mistake of the State Game Commission has been carried on for several years in the face of a declining deer population and a heavy rino deer kill. If this mistake r-annnt be remedied now it would reaulre only a few thousand dollars and a little work to make these commis sioners elective and subject to the will of the people who are carrying the cost of game management, instead of by appointment and beyond the will of the people they serve. Chauncey Florey, RFD 2, Box 441 E, Medford Wrong Again To the Editor: In your edi torial of Jan. 22 you contend that buying slave made prod ucts from the Iron Curtain countries is helping this coun try and making more labor for our workers. If you are right, let us put all American made goods out of our stores and sell slave labor goods only. Of course, I think you are, as usual, wrong about these things. John C. Stille Shady Cove, Ore. P.S. The person from Eagle Point who wrote the com munication "U.F.O." did not sign his name. I don't blame him. Mantle of Snow To the Editor: In your col umn, Flight 'O Time, an ex tract from a Medford Tribune of another age records, "A thin mantle of snow covered the ground this morning," a simple, prosaic, impersonal statement. But what a day to the pil grim of 8 about 45 years ago A new world was unfolded white, still, with columns of smoke pouring from every house. The only sounds were human voices and perhaps the taint clanging of a blacksmith shop or the wheezing of pump being coaxed to give water. It was unanimous, of course, that you had to get your sled and Join the gang in hitching rides behind the wagons. And if you were lucky, the grocery deliveryman would bring you right to the store where you could eat all the peanuts you wanted out of the barrel, if you didn't fill your pockets Then the trip down to the creek, the animal tracks, the wonder of the flowing stream in us icy canal. Yes, a lot of things hap pened that day. But that was a different world and a dif ferent era. Old Timer, (Name-on-file), White City, Ore. Contradictions To the Editor: How docs one explain the following con tradictions that have long ex- isiea in numan society? we have a world full of high ideals and low actions. We have great wealth on one hand and extreme poverty on ine otner. there is a vast ac cumulation of knowledge and yet there Is general icnorance We have peace societies and we nave war lords, proclama Hons of human brotherhood and interminable wars with their hates and cruelties: songs of love and hymns of hate. There Is a professed be lief that all men are born free and equal, but then there are Classes with special Drivileires We have petty criminals in prison and big criminals in po sitions of high rank. There is much lip service to freedom and there is slavery: loud nro. fessions of loyalty to the prin ciples oi justice, and Injustice everywncre. What Is the answer to this? Lydla Burnham, 814 Warnc st., Prescott, Ariz. Smear and Vlllliication To the Editor: Your edito rial of 12163 smearing and viiniying our House Commit tee on Un-American Activities reads like it had been lifted word for word right out of I "People's World," "The Daily Worker" (Communist mouth pieces). You should be thor. oughly ashamed. Didn't you Know mat tne drive against this committee is spearheaded by the "National Committee To Abolish HCUA," the exec utive director of which is art Identified Communist, Frank Wilkinson? Just how official and direct from Moscow the orders are to get our House Committee abolished is shown by the fact that the instruc tion to do so was published in the October, 1962, issue of the World Marxist Review, and that every left winger, Com munist sympathizer, fellow traveller, and "card packing member" in America is jum. ing to obey. Our precious House Committee on Un- American Activities MUST ba destroyed because it stands squarely in the way of Red subversion in the U. S. A. Not once have I ever heard of a loyal American complain ing about being questioned or investigated by HCUA. It is only the 5th Amendment pleaders and Communist front organizations who show their bitter resentment, invariably because their fowl (sic) deeds of subversion are exposed to the public. These "5th Amend. ment boys are using our Con stitution as an umbrella while they bore away like termites to destroy the very Constitu tion that protects them. So their extreme concern over the 1st Amendment is as pho ney as a 3 dollar bill. . There is not one daily news paper in Oregon that is telling the citizens of our state the full, unvarnished truth about the deadly and terrible danger the American people are in, On the contrary, you editors are ,-lanting the news and your editorials to the left. And you are greasing the skids un der us as we slide down into Socialism, or something far, far worse. Helping to destroy HCUA is what I call "greasing the skids" with a vengeance. Don't ever forget that it was this valiant Committee that exposed Alger Hiss and his henchmen while they were in the highest echelons of our government, awakening all America to our internal Com munist threat. Since then our Committee has stood like the rock of Gibraltar between America and a Commuist take over. All loyal Americans who would like to keep it this way should write, wire, or phone his Congressman as soon as possible (Hon. Robert B. Dun can in 4th District) requesting a larger appropriation and stronger backing than ever before for the House Commit tee on Un-American Activi ties. Copies of wires and let ters should be sent to Con gressman Francis E. Walter, Chairman of HCUA. AddresJ them both at House Office Building, Washington, D. C. Do it now, before you forget. L. C. Powell 316 S.E. Eighth st. Grants Pass, Ore. Bad Manners To the Editor: I meant to keep my opinions to myself thinking that the comments on Mr. Fry's article were go ing to die down. But I find it hard to ignore the ones who brazenly, disgustedly, and, with very bad manners make fun of and berate Mr. Fry's ar ticle and his "A-Lan." I am sure these people or most of them were not brought up this way. Of course NOT ONE of us can say for sure if it was true or not as I, like all of you, will never know for sure. But the article was interesting or it would not bring so many com ments. The point of this is the way these comments were made. You who ridiculed the inci dent In the Intolerable way you did. Indeed showed very bad manners. I would not sleep if I made fun in this ill mannered way of something out of the ordinary that can not be explained. I agre whole heartedlv with "Name-on-File, Eagle Point" in Tues day's paper. Mrs. W. H. Mesloh, P. O. Box 316, Eagle Point, Or.
