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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the tiles of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 18, 1953 (Monday)
Medlord wrapped up its
first Southern Oregon confer-
' ence basketball title since
. 1046 with Friday night vic
' tory over the Grants Pass
" Cavemen.
Medford Moose lodge was
'presented a large mounted
; moose head by Hie Elks lodge
at the second enrollment cere
' mony of the Moose on Feb. 14.
: 20 YEARS AGO
Fb. 18. 1943 (Saturday)
Registration scheduled to
ilart at Medford schools for
ration book No. 2 lor first
purchase of number of ra-
tloncd commodities.
irrtm a rllinr Pnrrv'a "Flow-
1 o .nnnrl 7:ilfa hUStlCS
. lUVVlo iv""
have started to walk off over
. night, after carefully spading
themselves up.
4 30 YEARS AGO
- s.k in 10..13 fMondav)
I Local Lions club members
request city to provide soup
kitchen for city s ncinpiojcu.
Local authorities stale that
; arrests arc near In ballot theft
ease.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 18, 1923 (Tuesday)
Residents of area of Fourth
and Peach sis. ask city coun
cil to take action to halt
"nightly cat concerts" in their
neighborhood.
West coast aviation experts
predict air mail from Chicago
to Portland in "R hours.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 18. 1913 (Thursday)
Owners Medford trolley
franchise report that they
plan to start work "within the
time limit. "
Large crowd attends mass
meeting to discuss obtaining
Irrigation for entire Rogue
valley.
Whal's Your I.Q.?
Nine fti Ian correct ii luporior;
seven or eight is eiccllent; five or
til it good.
1. You cat Sukiyaki but
what would you do with Ka
buki? 2. Docs the evaporation of
water exert a cooling or heal
ing effect?
3. What would you call an
Inflamed swelling of the se
baceous gland on the eyelid?
4. What is the command for
a horse to go to the right?
5. In the nursery talc who
kissed the maiden all forlorn?
6. A covey is a flock of part
ridges: a gaggle Is a flock of
what other fowl?
7. What does 'J4.DU3 miles
measure?
8. In what stale is Valley
Forge?
!). What Greek mythologi
cal character was so curious
that she unloosed misery and
pestilence on man?
10. How i... ly tides are
there in a 24 hour period?
Answers: 1. Dance it. 2.
Cooling. 3. Sty. 4. Goe. 5. Man
all faltered and tor s. Geese.
7. Earth circumference at
equator. 8. Pennsylvania. 9.
Pandora. 10. Two.
First Family Spends
Week End at Estate
Washington -UW- President
Kennedy and his family re
turned to the While House
Sunday night after spending
the week end at their estate
near Middlebnrg, Va.
The First Family had ex
pected to stay at Middlebnrg
until this morning, but chang
ed plans. White House Press
Secretary Pierre Salinger said
there was no special signifi
cance to their early return.
m
The Seven Ponder The Six
The meeting in Geneva today has to be view
ed as something more than a get-together of the
nations which have been barred from the exclu
sive fraternity of the European Common Market
The Council of Ministers of the European
Free Trade Association
on the problem created
derclap of Jan. 14.
At first it seemed
British entiy into the
only cement the special
ship between Britain and the united btates which
the French President scorns. But after the initial
shock, Britain looks no less European than it did
a month ago that is, just before de Gaulle read
Britain off the continent.
ment has refused to be panicked. I he British
press has offered helpful suggestions for accommodation.
COR example, the Manchester Guardian Week-
ly stresses the need for an alternative.
"The arrangement," it hazards, "would have
to be something like an industrial free trade area,
covering EFT A and EEC
North America. 1 he term tree trade area is dis
liked in Europe, but that is what it would have to
be because of GATT's (General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade) rules.
advantage of eliminating contentious agricultural
questions and of leaving Britain poised for full
membership of Europe after de Gaulle's departure."
A SIMILAR sort of arrangement has been ad
"vocated elsewhere, most recently in Cologne
on Feb. 10 by the Danish Premier, Jens Otto
Krag. "The seven EFTA nations will be well
disposed to an association request from the Com
mon Market," Krag said. "But the Common Mar
ket nations naturally would have to take the in
itiative in this matter."
Despite overtures from dc Gaulle, Krag said
that Denmark would not consider association
with EEC without Britain.
Similar solidarity has
other EFTA members
mark, Switzerland, and
Jan. 2!) said it did not
sociation with the market had deteriorated be
cause of the bar to Britain.
DRITAIN is not without strong support within
" the Common Market Six. Italy, Bcligum, the
Netherlands, and Luxembourg have reaffirmed
their desire to see Britain admitted, and with
Britain, presumably, the remainder of LI'TA.
Roger dc Stacrckc, president of the Belgian
Federation of Industries, is reported in a govern
ment economic letter reaffirming that Belgium
industrial circles are very much in favor of Brit
ish membership. West
and foreign minister have been much more un
equivocally in favor of admitting Britain to the
Common Market Six than has Chancellor Ad
enauer.
Belgium, for one, already is well pleased with
progress under the Common Market. Exports of
the Belgian - Luxembourg Economic Union
(BLEU) for the first 11
running 10 per cent ahead of the 11 rate. Ad
mission of Britain would open a vaster market
to Belgian industrialists. It would also add
sweepingly to reductions of U.S. duties on Euro
pean goods under the principal supplier clause of
the 19(52 Trade Expansion Act. E.R.R.
Col. Glenn's Orbit
A year ago Wednesday John II. Glenn, Jr.,
took what James Ueslon oi' the New York Times
described as "the greatest American ride since
Paul Revere." The whole nation watched or lis
tened from lift off to pick up as the astronaut
orbited three limes around the earth to become
the first American to make an orbital flight. The
Soviet Union's Gagarin and Titov had done it
earlier, of course, but not in front of the kleig
lights.
Later Project Mercurv flights bv Malcolm
Scott Carpenter (three orbits on May 21) and
Walter Schirra (six orbits on Oct. 15) were so
much icing on the cake.
That the United States still trails in the man
ned flight field was made clear last August. Two
Soviet cosmonauts, Maj, Andrian Nikoktycv and
Ll. Col. Pavel Popovieh, orbited simultaneously,
circling the earth (i I and -IS times, respectively,
in separate spaceships, and were able to man
euver their ships within a few miles of each
others.
MEXT on the agenda for America's space pro
. gram is the 22-orbit flight of L. Gordon Coop
er, Jr., originally scheduled for next April 2.
Troubles with the electrical sy.-tem of the Atlas
rocket vehicle have delayed the flight until at
least mid-May.
After that comes Project Gemini a rende.
ous in space between two spacecraft as a prelude
to the nioonshot.
Glenn, meanwhile, has been assigned to serve
as over-all leader and supervisor for the Apollo
Project, as the nioonshot is known. A big space
craft will be flown to the vicinity of the moon
and a small spacecraft will be launched from it
to make the actual moon landing.
The assignment does not imply that Glenn
himself will pilot the spacecraft 'involved. In
deed, the timetable seems to decree that Glenn,
now II, has made his last trip into outer space.
E.R.R. 1
is taking a fresh reading
by Gen. de Gaulle s thinv
that de Gaulle's veto of
Common Market would
"Anglo-Saxon" relation
The Macmillan govern
and perhaps eventually
It would have the great
been demonstrated by
Sweden, Norway, Den
Portugal. But Austria on
think its chances of ac-
German's vice chancellor
months of 12 were
"That' The Way
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printed in thii column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the
contrary is often the case.
Two Prime Instincts
To the Editor: Man pos
sesses two prime instincts.
First, the instinct of self pres
ervation, providing food,
clothing and shelter for him
self and dependents. Second,
the instinct for procreation,
libido" in the language of
science.
From prehistoric time on,
until our present atomic stale
mate which, for the time be
ing, is causing a lull in the
war games, the growth of the
worlds population has been
slowed down by war between
the nations. And, up to
around 100 years ago Ihc-in-fantile
death rate was tre
mendous and deaths from
pestilence and infectious di
seases was also large and held
down the population growth.
But now with the great ad
vance in the science of med
icine 'he average span of life
among the leading nations of
the world has risen at a tre
mendous rate.
It is said that in 1850. the
average span of life in the
U.S.A. was 40 years. As of
now il is belter than 70 years.
Quite a difference from the
Stone Age. Anthropologists
believe that the Stone Age
man had an average span of
life of around 20 to 25 years.
Of course there are no rec
ords to show this. Bui il is
said that records show for
India, that between 1041 and
1950 the life span was only
32 years.
And in a bonk "Man
Against Aging" by Robert Dc
Ropp "an effort was made"
to determine the average span
of life in certain districts of
Massachusetts and New
Hampshire in the year 1789,
and it gave a figure of 35. 5
years.
So that, as of now, with
the doctors saving the babies
and preventing disease every
where, the increa c in the
world's population goes on at
a very high rale and with t
missionaries going out saving
souls, they also spread the
while mail's knowledge of
medicine.
But nature is cruel, re
lentless, H knows no mercy
and its law will prevail un
less man uses the wit and
sense nature's God has given
him. In this case there is only
one remedy against the pre
dieted explosion, tha' is a uni-
versa! adopt inn ot hirth con-
I trol, by legal sterilization if
J necessary, should other means
fail.
John K. Ring
104!l West 11th st.
Medford
Ralher Myopic
To the Editor: The editorial
in the paper, wnlten by
G.H.B. - whoever he might
be in regard to the new
sign along the freeway, struck
me as being ralher mvopic
somewhat akin to a situation
in which a man smoking a
strong cigar, with garlic on
his breath
, ,.M. 01 .-M.iin-
nut ii, in,- mi iMiiiti in in.
room having eaten onions
This was on a Thursday
Thursday, the ri.iy when we
search through ,i three turn
j normal Mail Tribune lo (mil
where little pieces of news
j might be sen tied along the
margins, above, undct ncalii.
between, or a a border
around, page alter
nai:e ol
advertisim;
That sign just might Ket . 1m ' l'r Government, drop
a few people to turn off the 1 P'K all pretentions of anti
freeway and come to dow n-' Communist concern, are hap
tow n Medlord and brow.-e "ig events and situations right
: around Thev could w indovv
shop m tl'.e heart ol the town
there air so many of the
j stores lh.it hav e he uitiliil win-
: dovvs, ilisplav nig lor Lease, "
'"For Kent." and "Now l.o-
I cated Soincvv ni l e l.ise stalls
G II II. stated "Coiktiv a- 1 of John Hopkins, has ricom-
bly, the touiist. at some point mended that a plan of gradu-
in the near future, will notial surrender to the Comnni -
It Goes, Cap'n"
even be able to see down
town Medford." Now, by gol
ly, that might be just what it
takes to arouse their curiosi
ty! Like a visiting mother-in-law
pecking under the rug.
they might just get curious
as to whether there really is
anything to Medford.
Newspaper advertising is
good for local use, but, don't
you agree, that billboards arc
a good way to inform tour
ists? I know that I use them
when I go to an unfamiliar
territory. I think that I en
joy looking at an attractive
sign more than the back-side
of a laundry or clay-brick
old buildings. Keep the bill
boards away from the scen
ery, but use them freely in
the cities.
Meanwhile: Let's all put
our shoulders to the wheel,
our noses to the grindstone
and one ear to the ground.
(Those are sage old sayings
Grandma taught me. We may
not get any where, but, we
will be more round shoul
dered, have shorter noses and
longer cars than the average.)
Tim J. Horn
Box 116
White City, Ore.
Most Will Besist
To the Editor: Sen. Strom
Thurmond is about to blow
the lid off of the fact that
President Kennedy's "great
victory" did not stop the So
viet military build up in
Cuba. At the same lime De
fense Secretary McNamara
and Secretary of Stale Dean
Itusk are frantically silting
on the lid trying to keep this
information bottled up with
newscasts and even television
appearances in which they
pooh pooh Thurmond's re
ports of the rapidly mush
rooming danger in the Car
ribean. But these two worthies are
wasting their breath as far as
the entire Right Wing is con
cerned. Like Ihurmoud. we
know tlilt moti jj nol ;,,
of the original Soviet nuclear
weapons are still in Cuba;
and that the number of highly
trained Russian troops there
has grown close to 40.01111 in
stead of the 17.0(10 admitted
by our Defense Department,
a danger now far beyond
what it was when President
Kennedy scared the wits out
of the American people about
j hat.k j,, .November. l!)l2
Our source of information
is the unimpeachable Cuban
Underground, with detailed
maps of storage depots and
much other information on
this being printed in Capsule
News 357 and 358. also in
Dec , '1)2 Independent Amer
ican Seemingly the present U.S.
I'dministralion has no ob.icc -
tion to the growing Soviet
fortress ill Cuba. Its only ob
jection is to the American
people finding out about it.
The fact that our Defense
Department is trying desper
ately to keep this grisly i.cws
M,H ,-.,. CI,,,M -Oril. .1,4
tenor into the heart of ev
ery American.
The Cuban "turning point''
is now being revealed in its
true colors Respect tor the
desires of the American peo
ple is rapidly being discard
ed. Consideration for U S na
tional interests is being al-
' ' i1
bru.-hed aside.
The forces of International'
hctorc our eyes w hich tu ne-
'fit "!' the Communist World
Conspiracv
llovv far has our bctraval,
t g o n c" Quoting February, j
j 1963 American Opinion, "Mil- I
ton t isenhovvcr. as prcsic.cnl
Foreign News: Franco-German Treaty To j
Be Signed After Committee Groundwork L
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Franco-German Treaty
The Franco-German treaty
will be ratified by the West
German parliament sometime
ajaaaaaaa! in April or
in April
way, but only
after a lot of
prelimin a r y
groundwo r k
in committee.
Politicians of
I I opinion are
aaaaaaaVHaaaaal deman ding
Vewsom so,nc sort Of
a p p e ndix to
the basic treaty, making il
clear that the pact in no way
can be interpreted as the basis
for an exclusive Paris -Bonn
axis. But French President
Charles dc Gaulle, who sign
ed the treaty with West Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer, is opposed to any
formal addition. So, the West
German parliament probably
will go along with an ex-
nists be prepared. One has
been." By whom? By our De
fense Department! This shock
ing fact was uncovered by
Congressman Donald Jack
son. Gentle reader, do you un
derstand what such surrender
means? Eugene Dennis, a top
Communist party member has
stated, "Sixty million Ameri
cans must be wiped out after
we take over the U.S.A."
This is about the number of
properly owners in America.
You see, when a country goes
Communist (like Cuba) all
the people are ordered by the
Red Government to turn over
the deed to their property.
Also their bank account, sav
ings bonds, insurance poli
cies, automobile titles, every
thing. Resist and you face ex
ecution, or slow death in a
slave labor camp. And you
may be sure most of us will
resist.
L. C. Powell
316 S. East. Eighth st.
Grants Pass, Ore.
Cause for Concern
To the Editor: In regard to
your recent editorial under
the heading "Two Story Lit
ter." If we disregard the undo
note of hysteria and the ob
vious exaggerations, we nev
ertheless must agree that
there is cause for concern.
This problem effects, not
only the freeway overpass,
but the city also. Not unique
to our area, this situation is
widely recognized across the
nation.
The need for signs is fact,
and no amount of hysteria
will convince the local mer
chant that he does not have
the right to tell people what
he has to otfer.
There must and will be
signs. The problem seems to
be how can we, within fair
ness and reason, effect a real
istic control of this method
of advertising.
The problems behind the
mis-use of outdoor and elec
trical advertising arc many
and varied, not all the fault
of tlie sign companies involv
ed and not easily resolved in
many cases.
In mind of this, I still feel
that wiih intelligence and
compromise we can have a
beautiful city and allow our
merchants this vital adver
tising medium.
The sign industry has long
maintained a position of hos
tility and defense against any
efforts to regulate their pro
duct. This is not hard to un
derstand when we realize that
if the extremes of the ma
jority of various anti-sign
groups became law the sign
coinpanys would shortly be
out of business.
I believe that vvc in this iiv
dustry have matured enough
' to appreciate the concern of
iall persons interested in the
'prosperity and coordinated
: grow Ih of our city.
; We would like, very much.
! to work Willi these responsi
ble people in effecting some
.-ense of order and good taste.
Frankly vvc have never to my
i know ledue been asked and bc
I cause of lorn: standing hostili
ties on all sides we have been
reluctant to volunteer.
The problem exists Part ot
tl-e blame vvc accept. The
rest should bo accepted by
people like yourself, who cri
ticize bitterly, but make no
i suggestions other than the
'complete elimination of signs.
This .situation will not di
mimsh as our city grows m
size and competitive spirit.
E E C.upenier
Allied Nio-t Suns
i 1J4-' North Central
av e
.Medford
; .
Punicd Over Need
j To the Editor. 1 a:n puzzled
lwhy there is i need of a
hange of letters between the
wo governments which
would clarify the conditions.
Oddly enough, the pact must
be ratified by the parliament
in Bonn, but docs not have to
have a parliamentary okay in
Paris.
Pro-Americanism
Newly . elected British La
bor Party leader Harold Wil
son, often described as a left
wing intellectual, will : :ss
no opportunity in coming
weeks to stress the pro-Americanism
he started underscor
ing on the very day of his
victory. Insiders in London
say Wilson is quite worried
Washington Report
By William
(ci United Feature Syndicate
HAM-HANDED ACTION
Washington This coun
try's problem in dealing with
Castro Cuba has now been
fur t h e r be-
deviled by an
exiraoramari-
. " .U'" 'y ham-hand-
e u a c i i u n
within the
9it United Na
tions. A UN
sub organiza
tion called the
special fund
Whit. na5 c n o 5 e ii
this untimely hour in history
to award a $1,500,000 United
Nations agricultural aid proj
ect to Castro. The United
States of America provides 40
per cent of the total finan
cial support of this fund, of
which tlie managing director,
Paul F. Hoffman, is himself
an American.
This economic assistance to
Castro, though no doubt small
in the great scheme of things,
comes precisely at the mo
ment when tho highest Amer
ican policy is directed to the
economic destruction of Cuba,
as an open Soviet military
base and lodgement for So
viet Communist penetration
in this hemisphere.
IT ALSO comes precisely at
the moment when Ameri
can efforts are directed lo
explaining lo oilier nations
in Latin America thai Castro
is an outlaw and that anti
Americanism is not a useful
line to take up in this hemis
phere. In short, this project
could nol possibly have been
approved at a time more em
barrassing to the United
Stales and more suitable lo
Castro's book.
Hoffman is quoted in the
separate department lo catch
stray cats.
We called the dog pound
a short time ago abuut some
stray cats. And Ihcy came
right out after them. The cats
were so untamed that we en
ticed them into Hie enclosed
porch, and the man had lo
catch them in a snare, one by
one and carry them out the
front door. There were four
of them, and it was quite a
job. And he wouldn't take
any money for his trouble.
A few days after that I was
calling at a house in town.
While there the dog catchers
came there. This lady had a
7 month old female which
unexpectedly was the cause
of the trouble. These fellows
took her away, and would
care for her for a small board
ing fee, until she could be
brought home, if one slill
wants to keep the clog.
All these young men were
very nice and courteous.
I sec no need for another
department to take care of
this issue. It only makes more
county and city employees,
and another excuse to raise
taxes some more. Just give
more support to the present
Humane Society and dog
pound. On the whole, they
are doing a thankless job.
Mary E. Atkins
1634 Orchard Home dr.
Medford.
. '"-trlts
i. r I '
M0m
mt mm
"I believe the missiles are gone from Cuba. Anybody
who says different is undermining my faith in my gov
ernment and had better step outside!"
that his "image" in the
United States is more lcf'st
and anti - nuclear deterrent
than he likes. While the mood
of the British electorate might
be to vote Labor at the next
election, most obrervers
agree that the country would
not be too happy to choose a
man it thought might en
danger the Anglo - American
alliance. And if labor should
win, Wilson would be the
next prime minister and be
in a position to affect that al
liance. But the manin-the-street
knows where the big
punch lies if another war
should conic, and he wants
it on his side - even if he is
S. White
curious argument that any
how the money which will go
to Castro will not come "di
rectly' from American con
tributions. But this absurd
and tasteless affair mocks our
whole position that Castro
Cuba is a consistent threat
to what the UN is supposed
to be, an organization opposed
to both open and covert ag
gression. rpiIE very note of our Slate
department "regretling"
this action calls attention to
Cuba's "persistent policy of
hostility towards its neigh
bors." It declares, moreover,
that Cuba's "support of sub
version throughout the hem
isphere precludes the estab
lishment there of the normal
cooperative relations neces
sary to the implementation
of a United Nations project."
Nevertheless, the thing has
been "implemented" all the
same, and with nothing more
than a timid "objection" tiled
back in 1 QUI by the United
States delegation lo the Unit
ed Nations. State department
informants privately concede
that there was nothing in UN
procedure to have prevented
the United States from having
demanded, in 1961 or now.
that this grant to Castro be
set aside.
They add that it was "ap
parently our conclusion"
meaning the conclusion of our
UN delegation in New York
that we could not marshal the
required two-thirds vote with
in the governing council
which is supposed to direct
the policies of t h e special
fund.
But il is conceded that we
never at any point so much
as asked for a roll call or lob
bied to raise up the necessary
majority.
4
TN SHORT, it is perfectly
obvious, on the basis of
Slate department information,
that the 18 nations supposedly
running this fund are not run
ning it at all but are leaving
it to t ho managing director,
Paul Hoffman. It is no less
obvious that a mere salaried
bureaucracy in the UN is able,
in tliis instance, to flout the
central foreign policy designs
of the very country that is
carrying tlie bulk of all the
financial load for the agency
this bureaucracy administers.
Finally, it is also perfectly
plain that senior people in
the State department itself
arc chagrined by this almost
incredible episode. How long
before tile U. S. delegation
to the UN under Ambassador
Adlai Stevenson is made a
part of the United States gov
ernment? How soon will it
cease having a foreign policy
of its own?
And how long before I he
UN riaht-or-wrongers. w h o
presently will tolerate no
criticism of il at any point
for any reason, will realize
that the good in this institu
tion will not in the end sur
vive by mere passionate re
fusals to sec the follies that
arc perverting it out of all
rational shape?
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not too happy about being
dependent on Washington for
it.
Common Market Talks
President de Gaulle's gov
ernment is casting around for
ways and means to get Com
mon Market talks started
again with Britain. Even
though he vetoed British en
try at Brussels in January, de
Gaulle strongly favors asso
ciate membership as an ii.
terim solution and believes
West Germany might act as
mediator. But he wants to
make sure that Common Mar
ket agricultural policy is
firmly nailed down before
any new talks start. Agricul
ture was one of the main
stumbling blocks last time.
Tokyo Troubles
Japanese Prime Minister
Hayato Ikcda recently can
celed a get-together of lead
ers of his Conservative Party,
ostensibly on the grounds that
it would look bad for any
kind of a deal on his succes
sor to be made in a smoke
filled room. Those on the
guest list included Ikeda, his
biggest rival Eisaku Sato, and
former Prime Minister Shig.
eru Yoshida. Since Yoshirla
is the grand old man of the
parly, his word carries con
siderable weight in party
councils. And since Sato is
his current favorite lo suc
ceed Ikeda next year, it is felt
that the prime minister real
ly did not even want to hear
of any deal that would grease
the way into the job for Sato.
Strictly
Persona!
By Sydney J. Harris
(c, Field Enterprises. Inc.
HEATHENISH WAYS
The Chinese community in
Chicago - and in New York
and San Francisco, and oilier
cities that
rUC "1 have one -
i celebrated il3
iii New Year on
, Jan. 27. A lid
. what a bust it
.j was. The Chi
ncsc New
. York feslivi-
Jlies included
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the year of the rabbit, 4660.
But it wasn't anything liko
the way in which we cele
brate the Christian 'era in
1963. I guess the Chinese just
don't know any ' jtter.
There were no wild parties,
no drunkenness, no automo
bile collisions at high and er
ratic speed, '-stead, t h e
heathens had a parade, fol
lowed by special r'ovies and
a Chinese opera.
The men didn't put on
silly hats and slobber all
over a night club lable.
Instead, following an o l d
pagan tradition, they paid
off their outstanding debts
lo rr.;et the new year with
a clean slate.
And the om.j didn't
even have sense enough to
get loaded on champagn
and ruin their new parly
gowns. Instead, they made
their homes spotless, pre
paring to greet the new
year by turning a new
domestic leaf.
There were also absolute
ly no reports of Chinese
juvenile delinquents hitting
the beer bottles, filching
their parents' cars, or simi
larly celebrating the Chr
tian era's welcome to the
year 1963.
For a lonq time now, fhe
Chinese community has
teen a blot on the civic
records of Arr,?riran com
munities. They just don't
seem fo want lo participate
in our national folkways. ,
They refuse lo accept
their rightful share of our
alcoholics, our reliefers, our
prostitutes, our delinquents.
our deadbeats, our crimi
nals, our reckless drivers,
our fraudulent insurance
claimants, our whole re
splendent tapestry of urban
living.
They won't even cclcbia'e
j the new year in llie American
I Wav and in what has come to
he the ac pled Christian
spirit. The police blotter oil
! any holiday - Chinese or
j Western - is almost totally
' drv oid of their names. And
! the family eour'- and welfare)
j agencies arc shamefully snub-
bed by them.
j 1 think vvc have a sacred
ohligaiion to send more mi--,
sioiiarus to these jcnighlfl
People True, they seem to be
I backward in picking up our
iciv ili.-ed pract'-.-s. but vv it;i
I a little guidance and good
j vvill, I ain -:v we can got
i them lo take part in our com
I r.iunal activities.
And. when thev have for
saken their old - fashioned
heathenish vvavs. maybe next
ear. or the vear afu r, ll'.ev
will jinn of us in nioctanni' i
lie Chris'.i.m new vear i-s :
, cent, forward-lookir.s prop
i 'hould - hats, h, Til.-. hOOiH,
j homicide and all. We can but
I hope.
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