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4 A MONDAY. luMliedTaily except Saturday by MEDKOBD rMNTING CO. 88 Worth tit S1-, Ph77a-141 ROBERT W RUHLTEdltor HERB GREY AaverUtnt Manatet CERAI.D T LATHAMVi Mir IRIC w ALLEN JR.. Mne Editor EARL U ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPM AN. Teleg Wltor RICHARD JEWETT, Sporu Ed tor OLIVE STARCHEB Women ! Editor DALE ER1CKSON, ClrcuUaonMgr An Independent Newspaper Entered second claw matter at Medford. Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MaU In Advance Dally and Sunday 1 year I 00 Daily and Sunday- moa 1000 DalU and Sunday 3 moa S 00 Sunday Oniy One year 15.00 Smile Copy IMelledi JOo By Camel-And Motor Route Dally and Sunday 1 year J100 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1JS Sunday Only 1 mo. J Carrlei and Vendor! Copy 10c Official Paper City el'Medfe-Ji Official Paper oj Jacamn County United Prese International Full Leased Wire U P I Telephoto Newplcturee MEMBEROF AU'P'J-g,u!0 Advertlalnt Reprewntatlve: NELSON ROBERTS fc ASSOCI ATES Ol'lces In New York, Cru ra o Detroit San Francisco. Loi AnWs SeatUe. Portland Denver. NIWSfAPil PUIIISHIIS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL I0ITORIAI 51 hc8TI3N gr Umiif iib'ii'iium Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Fab. 25, 1953 (Monday) Water will start flowing to homes in the Maple Park Wa ter district for the first time this week. Leon McDougall, Medford High school student, has won the local American Legion oratorical contest. 20 YEARS AGO Fab. 25, 1943 (Saturday) Navy announces that Don ald Casebolt, Medford, was among survivors of sinking of USS Chicago in the Solomon island area. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "March will Drobably come in like a motorist with two hind-tircs ready to blow out and no gas left on his A-card. 90 YEARS AGO Feb. 25. 1953 (Monday) Jackson county relief com mittee appointed by Gov. Ju lius Meier; group includes James H. Owen, Mrs. R. E. Green and Alfred S. V. Car penter, Medford, and George Dunn, Ashland. Jackson County Chamber of Commerce announces plHns to invite retiring Army offi cers to visit In Rogue valley and enjoy fishing and hunt ing facilities. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 25, 1923 (Tuesday) William Brown, witness for the state in county's "night riding" case, tells Sheriff Tcr rill he was "advised to get out of town." George W. Wlmcr, 80, Cen tral Point, and Saruh Eliza beth Norton, 73, Ashhiiul, botli pioneers of the Rogue valley, die. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 25, 1913 (Wednesday) Medford city police round up seven juvenile boys for being out alter curfew hours Bud Anderson, 'much-tout' ed Medford lightweight," goes into training at Los Angeles for fight with Knockout Brown in Vernon, Calif. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten cortacl it superior; seven er eight is eicsllenl; five or sil is good. 1. What nation came into being on May 14. 1048? 2. For what did Prcsidcnl Theodore Roosevelt win the Nobel Peace Prize? 3. Give the word usrd to describe our radio detecting and ranging device. 4. In 1609 Galileo built a forerunner of what is now on Mt. Palomar; what is it? 5. A portion of a curved line is called what? 6. Who was the king with the golden touch? 7. What is a triangle having unequal sides and angles called? 8. Give the name for a highly accurate clock used on ships. 9. What unit docs an Army Infantry Colonel usually com mand? 10. Taught is to teach as wrought is to what? Answers: 1. Israel. 2. Medi ation in Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5. 3. Radar 4. Tele scope. 6. Arc. (. Midas. Sca lene. S. Chronometer. 9. Reg iment or baltlegroup. 10. Work. FEMUARY 2$. 1M3 The Calendar Lies The calendar tells us spring is still almost a month away. This is win ter, it says. Still When the frogs croak their sonorous chorus at night When birds set up a dawn When the grass turns from brown to green When the buds on the Japanese flowering quince open in their bright scarlet dress When the pussy willows don their little fur jackets All these prove the calendar is a genial liar. E.A. For All Outdoors The Kennedy administration is working on a new recreation bill in palatable to Congress. And why should a gram be unpalatable in have shown, already is short of recreational ta cilities but can expect the demand on them to triple in the next few decades.' One answer may be that in a nation taxing itself for defense and essential domestic serv ices, no sense of urgency attaches to recreation al programs. Yet Congress was fairly receptive to the President's program last year. It delayed action partly because of some special and spe cific objections. 1 AST year's proposal included an eight-year half-billion-dollar land conservation fund, to be used by the federal government and the states to acquire new recreational space. The fund was to be kept filled with a federal boat use tax, receipts from sale of surplus federal non-military property, user fees in recreational areas and parks, and the refundable portion (2 cents a gallon) of the federal tax on gasoline used in boating. Boating interests objected vociferous ly to the tax on boats. Consequently, the administration s new bill is expected to avoid the boat tax, and to shift the major share of the cost to the users of federal areas and of boat fuels. As to the latter, the en tire 4 cents a gallon tax into the conservation fund. fYTHERWISE the administration has not scaled down its program sharply. The treasury would advance the conservation fund $480,000, 000, rather than $500,000,000, to be repaid from the fees. The government would offer matching funds rather than outright grants to the states for recreational planning. But the long-range coal is no less ambitious than before: to spend possibly four billion dol lars, divided between federal and state expendi tures, on expanding the nation's recreational facilities in the next ten years. Is this too ambitious? More than 90 per cent of all Americans engage in some form of outdoor recreation and their total number is growing. But the land and water resources po tentially available for them are being swallowed up by industrialization and urbanization at an increasingly rapid space in 15 years as much new land has been put to such uses as in all past national history. I JRBANIZATION particularly is influencing recreational habits. For urbanization brings more leisure time, more of it and fewer readily available facilities for it. By the year 2000, the population will be living m metropolitan areas. But for most of these metropolises, open spaces will be distant, cult to reach. That snacc has vet recreational use, as a recent Rockefeller Com mission report observed, and the most urgent recreational need remains dependent upon in creasing water resources. For the nation the recreational demand can not grow while resources diminish without an eventual end to public recreation. The answer has to be a public program. an answer must be put up at. Louis Post-Dispatch. Automotive There arc more Americans than ever, and more of them get around the country than at any time in history. They can sec the beauty of the open county as they drive about. And untold numbers must have been given some pause as they reached the outskirts of city or town and were greeted first by an array of "automobile graveyards." These unsightly dump heaps of abandoned cars have been a blight on urban and occasion ally rural landscape for long years. Now a California state lawmaker rises up to suggest that abandoned automobiles should be classed as "garbage" and disposed of according ly. He offers a bill to this effect in Sacramento. We arc with him. No people with even a minimum sense of pride long with such wily housekeeping. Coos Bay I World. that the first day of mad chatter in the early hopes of making it more federal recreation pro a nation which, surveys on gasoline would go affluence for the use some 73 per cent of and water areas dun to be assured for nublic Whether there is to be to Congress once more. "Garbage" WOUld care to persist 1 MEDFORD "Only When I Laugh" mm 4s.jm ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must certain circumstances the use The Mail Tribune reserves the condensation. Letters submitted printed in this column do not contrary is often the case. Fish and Game To the Editor: We, through the Oregon Fish and Game Council, have a bill in the Senate, S.J.R.-7 by Senator Harry Boivin. This bill calls for an interim committee con sisting of seven members, to study the management 01 wildlife resources. Feb. 28 ai 7:30 p.m. in room 6, Capi tol bldg., there will be an op en meeting concerning this bill. The Council has four bus loads from around the state going, and many members in their own cars. We urge any of you here in Jackson coun ty to be at this meeting it at all possible. We of the Oregon Fish and Game Council feel this bill is a must. We started a chapter In Douglas county last Satur day, Feb. 16, and in Josephine county Wednesday, Feb. 20. We have a meeting coming up in Coos and Lake counties within the next two weeks. This Oregon Fish and Game Council is becoming very large within the state. We can and will get something done about the killing of doe deer if all of us join together. Please remember Feb. 28 at Salem. Walter Craig, President Jackson Coumy Chapter Oregon Fish ant Game Council, 1523 Bryant Medford New Stage To the Editor: I read your editorial in the Feb. 12 issue. "A World We Have Never Seen," on the subject of the problems of automation, with considerable interest. The basic cause of the prob lems is private ownership of industry and its operation for private profit. Mankind's evo lution from savagery to con temporary c i v i I i z a t ion is mainly the result of a suc cession of technical conquests. These conquests caused im portant changes in man's' mode of dealing with nature to satisfy his 'He's wants. The changes in the mode of pro duction dicialcd (and eventu ally culminated in) corres ponding changes in man's so cial way of life. This, obedient to a long scries of interacting economic and social developments, the race has moved from primi tive communion, through an cient slavery and feudalism, up to capitalism. And each stage of the evolution has been marked by the formation of institutions suitable to the prevailing mode of produc tion. Today we arc summoned to enter a new social stage- to build a modern society that will fit our modern in dustry. Why is this ncccssa. : Why have capitalist institu tions utterly ceased to fil? For the reason that these in stitutions have remained bas ically static while industry has undergone a vast trans formation. Let us consider the matter very carefully. There isn't t lie faintest re.-cniblciicc be tween early capitalist indus try and industry in our times. During early capitalism the tools of production were rela tively simple and readily at tainable by the vast malorit . Accordingly, ihc industries then were small. Under such circumstances private owner ship of the industries and the tools of production, and pro duction for prol were social ly practical and srrved the in terests of the vast majority. But then the compulsions of capitalist economics got busy, and what a diffc --nee they have made' Industry has now grown i dimension, that are glar- Innlv inrnnilMhhlA will, rani. talist ownership. Now indus try has become I social t.n- MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, bear the name and address of of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the dcrtaking in virtually every respect. It is a social in scale. Its operation involves a social effort. It produces for society wide consumption. Yet this SOCIAL industry remains private property, and our so cial production is directeJ pri marily to the amassing of profits for a parasitic owning few. Technological progress docs not by itself suffice to insure human progress. The action plainly demanded by our pres ent circumstances is a funda mental social reconstruction that will bring society's super structure into line with its modern industrial base. Long before automation came along Industrial improvements had made capitalism unmistaka bly obsolete. The Initiation of automatic industry adds a fin- I emphasis to the insanity of continuing to produce for private profit. Lydia Burnham 814 Warne St. Prcscott, Arizona Co-existence? To the Editor: Co-existence we ain't got. Whatever be came of the age-old tradition of the fighting Irish? With our Cuban neighbors shooting at our shrimp boats, surely Saint Patrick, the Patron Saint of Ireland, must be squirming in his grave as March 17, the day set aside to honor him, approaches -and he contemplates the in action of one of his best known parishioners, our Pres ident. Ireland would still be full of snakes, as the United States will soon be, if that worthy Saint had not set the pattern for the fighting Irish. Sure, and more's the pity our President seems to have forgotten the noble example he set! Bruce Y. KlcinSmid 1719 Portola dr. Grants Pass, Ore. Printing the News To the Editor: Why should the might of the Russian be stressed so much on Washing ton's birthday? It seems us though some of America's might and ability should be featured. And that disgraceful moth eaten statue of the Father of our country. Did you have to print that? Surely you could have found a better picture In the Day's News By FRANK Last Friday was Feb. 22. 1963. So let's talk about George Washington. Friday was the 23 1st anni versary of his birth. This year is the 174th anniversary of his election a. our first President. The World Book Encyclopedia says of him: "In the history of the world, no man has done more to help ANY country than Washington did to help the United States." WHAT kind of man was " Washington" The Parson Wcems cherry tree story and the Gilbert Stuart portrait perhaps over idealize the Father of His Country. The portrait of him that hangs in the old Masonic lodge hall in Alexandria pos sibly comes nearer to the actual Washington as careful historians picture him. The Washington of that picture could have been a good Ro tary or Kiwanis club member. He loved horses and dog and he had a good scat in the aaddle, as became a gentleman. Stuart Virginia reported that when Washington vaaj better political thinkers sitting for the famous portrait he had great difficulty in get - i OREGON Foreign News: Economic Troubles Plague Britain, France; Chinese Classification By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Economic Ttroubles The economic facts of life are causing some intense soul searching on the part of gov- e r n m e n t leaders in Britain and France. In Britain, t h e trouble is un employment -growing con tinually and threatening to s.wse. b.ome P litical time bomb. In France, it is the soaring cost of living-which has gone up more than five per cent in the past year and is threatening the stability of the new "hard" franc. Total unemployment in Great Britain - including Northern Ireland - was more than 932,000 in February. It the writer, although under than that to print. It was dis graceful and should not be allowed in print any more than the flag should be dis figured. And the only reference to our forces was a small article, stating that two crises at once may be too many for our air force. This kind of news will undermine the faith and con fidence of our citizens in our own government. This ought not to be. Carroll Powell Box 621 Central Point, Ore. Time and Space To the Editor: I walked and walked and walked and walked. To reach that darned cafe The sign read, "Just twelve minutes But it took me half a day I was so tired and hungry, from all of that there walkin , That I ate it all in "fifteen miles", while the waitress stood a-gawkin'. Paul F. Wilson 107 Sixth st. Ashland, Ore. The Last First To the Editor: The masters of old asserted, "The first shall be the last, and the last shall be first." We hope that applies to the editor's surplus communications too? A cheerful philosopher also adds, "there is always room for more." As one humorist noted, "All good tidings come in bunches like grapes." Thought For The Day-may the editor's volumes of the many facetious letter subjects continue through the Medford Mail Tribune columns as reg ular as the day. We enjoyed reading the Editorial of Fri day, Feb. 15, '63. Bert Kissinger 322 South Riverside avc. Medford Kennedy Commended To the Editor: Jackson County chapter, Oregon Uni ted Nations association, has sent the following wire to President Kennedy. "We commend your labors to conclude the lest ban. We believe it is step toward law and order in nuclear affairs." Jackson County Chapter Oregon United Nations Association Medford JENKINS ling him to relax and look na tural. He succeeded best, he said, when they talked of horses and farming. 1VASH1NGTON came of an " aristocratic colonial fam ily that was well-to-do but not filthy rich He inherited the lovely Mount Vernon estate from his half-brother Law rence, who hud married into the rich Fairfax family, from u.h, c-.... . whom ltnely Fairfax county ti-. ,i. . a. .1.. '. tintltv . ,11 HIV flC 1,1 27. he married a rich widow, Martha Dandridgc Custis. They lived first in dream ily beautiful old Williams burg. When Lawrence died, they moved to Mount Vernon, and the Custis money helped to make it what it was and still is. t! Washington, the sol ' it isn't necessary to s; ldicr, peak here. His military record is w ritten on the tablets of his - lory Nothing can ever erase it Of Washington the Presi dent. Hie wise administrator, one needs only to mention i that he chose tor his cabinet I two men whom he retarded than he - Thomas Jefferson 1 and Alexander Hamilton. Jet- I is the basis of growing un rest and could be a major factor in the return of the La bor Party to power in the general election which must be held before the fall of 1964. For France, the increasing cost of living is bringing de mands from the powerful la bor unions for new wage boosts. These demands have caused President Charles de Gaulle personal concern, and he has ordered the govern ment to hold the line at all costs. Family Backgrounds In most places in the world, a man can rise above his background. But in class-con scious Communist China, things are different. Accord ing to the Peking newspaper Chung-Kuo, Chaing-Nine Pau, every citizen must fill in on II registration forms and identity cards his "family background," such as "land lord or "poor peasant." This classification then is un changeable throughout the person's life time. The pur pose of this, the newspaper Mg2Jtftf,Q r;a, its Ariitis ?ms , , f UJjL 1 if- It! W "I hope the new tax cut means we can have that A-frame cabin in the mountains for 'get-away-from-it-all' week ends!" Washington Report By William lc) United Feature Syndicate G.O.P QUICKENING . Washington The Ken ncdy administration's mani fold present troubles, in a world in which it must bear ultimate re s p o risibility, arc immense ly quickening the peace of Rcpubli can p r e s i den t i a 1 politics for 1964. The reason is sim ple. For t h c first time, re alistic national politicians in both parties are beginning to see as possible what until re cently had been thought to be substantially impossible President Kennedy's defeat for reelection. The GOP nomination, in a word, is commencing to look as though it might have a practical and not merely an honorary value. 'PHIS is the undoubted ex- planatioii, an important part at any rate, of the now stepped up and quite open campaign of the front-runner for that nomination. Gov. Nel son Rockefeller of New York. The heightened tempo is manifested in Mr. Rockefel ler's insistent efforts to pro voke a running national de bate on taxes and general eco nomic matters with Mr. Ken nedy. (This is the one tield of issues in which the gover nor can with perfect logic pre sume to speak for all Republi can wings, for on this point alone there is little real dif ference as among all shades of Republicans.) It is manifested also in cur rent speculation that under sonic circumsiani i ... -ij.,, feller - Goldwat sonic circumstances a Rocke- ticket in 19K4 might not be so unthink able as it would only recent ly have appeared to be. While it would be far too much to suggest that Gover nor Rockefeller at this early date would be prepared to welcome Sen. Barry Goldwa- ferson argued that the com- nion people should be given i large share in the govern- 'uent. Hamilton wanted the 1 wealthy, highly educated pco- pic to run the country because lie believed thev were best fitted to do the job. Washington thought this combination was perfect to found the new nation that had just come into being Time proved that he was right. explains, "is to understand the influence of family on a person, ideologically and po litically, before he acnieves the status of nconomic inde pendence, so that he may be understood completely." Diplomatic Revival The word from Eonn is that there may be a revival of dip lomatic activity soon between West Germany on one hand and Hungary and Czechoslo vakia on the other. Poland finally has agreed to let Ger many establish a trade mis sion in Warsaw, and Bonn is angling for permission to do the same in Budapest and Prague. Up to now, the satel lite nations have demanded all-out diplomatic recognition or nothing. Bonn's policy has been to refuse such recogni tion since the satellites recog nize the puppet Communist East German regime. Bonn's policy is to have no diplo matic relations with any na tion - except the Soviet Un ion - that gives such recog nition. But the value of mu tual trade between Bonn and the satellites is another mat- ter, S. While ter as his running-mate, it is perfectly clear that some Rockefeller backers are not now excluding such a possi bility. CENATOR Goldwatcr him- self is not at all ready to consider the second place, es pecially since the top place is still wide ope. Moreover, he has a livelier appreciation than have many others of how odd it might look to see a ticket which joined such a thoroughgoing conservative as himself with Rockefeller. The governor himself, how ever, has long since reject ed the liberal label along with all other ideological la bels and for months in fact has been acting rather con servative himself. And it is not impossible that by t h c summer of 1964 there will be much less visible difference between the two than there used to be. But there is another, and a far stronger, reason not to consider some important Rockefeller Goldwatcr rela tionship to be out of all ques tion. Goldwatcr's people now privately declare that the Ei senhower wing of the parly and notably former Presi dent Eisenhower himself is moving toward Michigan Gov. George Romney at its prob able presidential choice for 1964. rpHlS is not only manifestly A against the interests of Rockefeller; it is also not pleasing to the Goldwatcr peo ple. They never really ap proved of Eisenhower Repub licanism, which they regard ed as only vaguely "Republi can" and so destructive of the longer interests of the par ty. And they quite definite ly do not wish to see Eisen hower control extended in'.o the party beyond 1964. All this leads in turn to the conclusion that Senator Cold water will be a most impor tant factor at the next Re publican convention. While his own nomination for the presidency may be put down as highly unlikely, it is high ly likely that his acceptance of. or at least his tolerance of whoever seeks that nomi nation may become an ab solute indispensable. Others will go to the con- vention with more delegate votes, of a somewhat iffy nature, in hand. But none will go with so great and so unshakeahlc a personal influ ence among the old guard Republicans. Emilio Aguinaldo The Philippine government is expected to heed the re. quest of the nation's grand old man for payment of back pension due him for the years 1939 to 1957. Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo has made the re quest from his bed in the Vet erans Memorial hospital in Manila, not as a matter of need but as a matter of right. Aguinaldo, now 93 and ail ing, is the man who proclaim ed - Philippine independence from Spain in 1889, and then went on to battle the United States until he was captured. A national hero, the Philip, pine legislature voted him a lifetime pension of 1,000 pesos (then worth $500) a month in 1919. He received it regular ly until 1939, when he ran for president and lost. The pension stopped and no ex planation ever was given, but the reason apparently was pol itics. At the personal inter vention of the late President Ramon Magsaysay the pension was restored in 1957. Now Aguinaldo who comes from a solid middle class fam ily and whose wife's family is wealthy doesn't need the money previously with held, but he wants it on prin ciple. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises, Inc. MALADJUSTED MAN The cult of adjustment in our time urges us to adjust to our environment and our so- c i e t y, as r5''Bi?m?i though adjust- ment were a good thing in Yjy r -f ascii. tsui II v -fi we are asked V- 4 fn "ariinst" In s o m e t h ing bad, then the better we ad adjust, the aarri worse we be. come. A persuasive a r g u ment might be made, indeed, that man should be called the Mal adjusted Animal. It is because man is basically maladjusted that he is unique in nature, and dominates the natural world. The antcatcr, the beaver, the bird, the insect - all are perfectly adjusted to their en vironment and their society. This is why animals have no history, but only a repetitive biological process. The ant is a thousand times more effi cient, and better adjusted, than we are - but no ant knows anything more, nor can do anything differently, than his grandfather. In the introduction to his interesting new Pelican book, "Personal Values in the Modern World," Prof. M.V.C. Jeffries tersely and effectively brings out this point: "If we take effici ency, pertinacity, fortitude, dexterity, as the measures of excellence, we cannot claim any natural pre-eminence for man. It is, in fact, not success but failure that marks man off from the rest of the animal cre ation." The author then goes on to say: "It is because man it maladjusted - which is evi dent in the chasm between aspiration and capacity, vis ion and performance - have there arisen all the distinc tively human activities: sci entific inquiry, artistic cre ation, philosophical specula tion, and (the supporting condition of them all), his torical experience." Historical change. Profes sor Jeffries reminds us, is peculiar to man, and lilts human life on a plane of its own. "When Caesar landed in Britain, when the Phar oahs built their tombs, when men first learnt to make fire - ants' nests were no worse and no better or ganized communities than they are now," We are concerned with ed ucation precisely because wa are a maladjusted animal, be cause we arc not determined by our structure and environ ment but arc able to change and adapt external circum stances. Rather than "adjusting" to the earth, we have adjusted it to us. This is both our glory and our despair. We have the power to learn, which other animals do not. hut also tho power to fail, while other an. imals do not. Each new plateau reached by the human race has been the result of some maladjust ment - and it is no accident that pei-onally maladjusted individuals have usually been responsioie lor our asceni to a higher level of comprehen sion and ability. Society has a right to ask that we cooper ate for the common good, but not that we acquiesce in the common beliefs. ajsw 11 ear umj-jg-, a I
