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Newspaper Page Text4 A UeofordJS&Tbibuni "EvSryona in-Southern Oregon Reada TIM UIlTrtbun2 fbiiihedafiy except Saturday by 3S North FlrJSt, PhH-eMl ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB CREV AdvertUlnj Manait r.FRALD T LATHAM. Bua Mgr rllC W ALLEN JR, Mn. Editor VARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARR CH1PMAN. Tele, Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sporu Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Women Editor DALE ERlCKSONCIrcuUUonlg AiTlndependent Newapaper Zntered aa ncond claw matter Medtord Oregon under Act 01 March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Dally and Sunday-1 year f 8 00 Daily and Sunday-8 mol 10 00 Dally and Sunday-3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Oniy-Ona year 5.00 Single Copy (Mailed) JOe By Cainei-And Motor Route Dally and Sunday 1 year 2 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1-iS Sunday Only 1 mo. Carrldi andVendor j:opy 100 oitlclaTTaper of City of Medford Slllclllaper of Jackwn County United" Preci International Full Leased Wire U p I Tclephoto Newiplcturea "MEMBER-OF AU?T-g"BEAU X?fesVASSO. ATES Of'lcea In New York. Chi cago. Detroit. San rranciKO Lo Angelea. Seattle. Portland Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL Member California Newspaper Publliheri Aaaoclatlon Flight o' Time Medford end Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Trlbun. 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 year ago. 10 "YEARS AGO March 25, 1953 (Wednesday) Two military leaders arrive here in connection with scries of appearances with a Nation al Guard inlormation pro gram. h. L. Clark appointed trust olliccr of the First National Bank of Portland, Medford branch. 20 YEARS AGO March 25, 1943 (Thursday) . Personal state Income tax returns do not have to be fil ed until April 15 and may be paid quarterly; earlier dead line was Aoril 1 and pay ments onlv annually and cpmi-annuallv. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Under mcnt rationing rules butchers will have to shade their eyes with their hands to see the meat on the scales, instead of weighing their hand too." 90 YEARS AGO March 25, 1933 (Saturday) Survey of county road up Jloxy Ann is under way; dream of Medford Lions club for many years. Testimony begins In circuit court charging sheriff with "laxity and Inefficiency." 40 YEARS AGO March 25, 1923 (Sunday) Copco advertises for labor ers on Klamalh river dam; work too far from highway; may ship In workers from south to speed work. ' First straw hat of the sta tion seen on Main St.; worn by Portland drummer. 50 YEARS AGO March 25, 1913 (Tutsday) "Let the people rule, Mr Mayor," the editor demands in an editorial; the fuss was over who would be street commissioner. Censorship of movie shown here proposed by Greater Medford club. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ton correct li superior; even or eight it excellent; five or lii it good. 1. Name Hie President of Czechoslovakia who resigned shortly after the 1938 Munich Tact. 2. Who was Gertrude Ather ton? 3. What sort of work does cooper do? 4. When the sea Is reced ing, what kind of tide is it? A. Was the Statue of Lib erty unveiled in 1BH8. 1020 or 1925? 6. What American woman poet wrote a poem about the white cllffg of Dover? 7. Who was elected Presi dent at I he first national elec tion In which women par ticipated as voters nation wide? 8. Willi what do you asso ciate the Wagner Act of the Federal Government? 0. Willi what subject does the "Elkins Act" deal In re lation to Federal regulation? 10. During World War II, what was the OW1? Answers: 1. Eduard Banci. 2. American novelist. 3. Malcea barrels, ceskt. ttc. 4. Ebb tide. 5. 1866. (. Alice Duer Millar. 7. Wsrrtn G. Harding. 8. Labor relation!. 9. Interstate Commerce. 10. Oflict of War Inlormation. tSpu,L,,HI,s Si'Al$OCIATION MONDAY. MARCH 25. 1963 Constitutional Articles The Mail Tribune today betrins publication of a series of nine articles dealing with the proposed new Constitution for the state of Oregon. They were written by of constitutional law at the University of Oregon, who was a member of the 17-member blue rib bon Constitutional Revision Commission, which drafted the proposed document. Robert W. Chandler, of the Bend Bulletin, another member of the commission, pursuaded Professor Linde to write the articles for the Bulletin, and has made them available to other newspapers in the state. ONE of these, the Eugene Register-Guard, notes a ni'orwlont for snph. nrtlYlps. Tt. RftVS: u y.s... -- "With due modesty and deference we note a precedent for articles such as those. Between the time the federal Constitution was written and the time it was ratified, 87 articles were circulated among the states. Written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison, they sought to explain what the pro posed Constitution would and would not mean. These articles remain posterity's best source for those who want to understand what the founding fathers had in mind. We know them today as the Federalist Papers. "Analysis of the proposed Oregon Constitution is a matter of great concern right now In the legislature. That body must submit the document, in whole or in part, as is, or somewhat changed, to the voters for ratification in 1964. Or it may defer action this ses sion, reconsidering it in other years. In any case, the question of constitutional revision will be a serious one and a complex one until we do get a new basic law to replace the creaking antique we have now. "Readers are urged to read Mr. Linde's pieces carefully. Those who really care about Oregon will clip and file them." WE ARE grateful to f.hanrlW fnr mnkinrr and to the Register-Guard for its comments about them, putting them into an interesting and significant context. Jt is honed they will the confusion which now sadly surrounds the pro posed document. For those who wish to have a booklet containing more detail, including the full text of the proposed Constitution, plus com ments and explanations of the various' sections provided by members of the commission, single copies are available. Your representatives in the legislature can provide them. E.A. Stop Fouling the Nest As is well known to readers of the editorial columns of the Mail Tribune and the Ashland Daily Tidings, the respective editorial writers do not always do not even usually agree. But there are some in 100 per cent agreement. One of these concerns the Rogue valley, its beauties, and the need to take action to restore and The Ashland editor 1 - 1- column wiin wmen we agree so suungiy uiu thoroughly, we reproduce it herewith. E.A, Before I had lived in this valley a year, I heard a ' man make a half-hour luncheon talk. Little Inconsequential 30-minute chamber of com merce chat. I'll never forget it. Perhaps he had used the lerin before but for me that was the first time I had heard o' "livability, our greatest asset." As I recall II, this speaker who wasn't what you would call a spell-binder, went on to warn those present against "fouling the nest" of Easy Valley. Since that time I have at the shrine of livability. Friend, this Is one of the lovliesl little valleys on the face of the earth. a And we are in desperate danger of seeing it fouled beyond description. a Our air is becoming polluted, our streams are be coming polluted, and even our scenery is becoming polluted. a All In the name of "progress." The mills of Medford and White City belch their unnecessary black clouds Into the sky to mingle with the oily careless columns rising from burning auto graveyards. Bear Creek, for the most foul, green, pulrid. And our highway between Ashland and Medford Is rapidly hemming one of the ugliest stretches of roads in Ihcse United Slates. On the outskirts of both cities we see haphazard embryo Junk yards; trailers set up helter-skelter dump ing raw sewage on the ground. And leering over all, like the handwriting on the wall, that other desecrealion of the landscape, the billboard: "Drink Old Sweatsox: member!" People who know me will admit I am Just about as Independent as the next hog on the skating rmk. Thai I dislike rules and regulations as much as the next taxpayer. But friend, here Is a situation which demands that we recognize the fact that Willi independence goes responsibility; with liberty goes an obligation for the rights ot others. Here Is a situation that demands not only regula tion bul the desire for regulation. For there are those few among us who apparently and obviously for one reason or another do not give a Big D lor themselves or the world around them. We must save Easy Valley not for posterity and our grandchildren but for ourselves We must save our Inability and stop fouling the nest. And we've also got lo slop the next guy from fouling It too. Hans Linde, professor editor and puoiisner Hans Linde and Bob ihp. articles available. do mucn to clear away topics on which they are preserve them. the other clay wrote a ' 1.. k. 1 been a devoted worshipper part, Is an open sewer, II Has A Flavor You'll Re- MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, "Look At It Thi Way, Fellows, Do We Know Of A Better Model Secretary of Defense?" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters, submitted for oublication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper. In fact the contrary is often the case. Trad Goods Warning To the Editor: I Just read the letter from the boy in Lagos, Nigeria, West Central Africa. All stamp clubs and stamp magazines advise members never to send anything of much value until you find out what kind of a person you are writing to. And never be the first to send, unless you are glady giving what ever you send as a gift. The things this boy asks for are all costly. And what he says he will send, my advice is that you ask him to send his articles first. You may never hear from mm again unless you do this. These young people in other lands do not have the money to send all the articles he mentions that he will send. So if you wish to exchange articles with him, Just write and ask him to send any of the items he has listed that you would like to have and tell him when you receive them you will send what he wishes of equal value. I have pen friends In very country In the world. I have yet to receive a letter from any one of them listing such a want list and promising to send all the things he has promised to send in his let ter. The public should be very careful when answering such letters as this one. I have a fine pen friend In Nigeria. He teaches at the University. I am sending this boy's letter to him at once, and asking him to check and give me a report about this "19 years of age, five feet, six inches in height, black and elegance in complexion". I also wonder about his name. I have yet to receive a letter from any of my pen friends that whites the way this chap docs. Our "People to People" pro gram surely helps to make a lasting friendship and let peo ple in far away lands know what we are like. I have a pen friend with the Peace Corps in Africa. He is help ing with the teaching staff in a school there. Many of his students would like pen friends in the United States. I do hope many here in Med ford will write him. He will read the letters you send and find a pen friend in his school lo wlrto to you. His address is, Charles R. Larson co Anglican Grammar School, Oraukwu via Ogldl, Eastern Nigeria, Africa. Again I say "Communcia tlon may not lead to under standing, but understanding cannot come without com- munciation." Nevertheless be very careful about the pen friend you select to commun icate with. Mrs. W. H. Walwyn Southern Oregon Philatelic Society 1138 West 10th st. Medfard Editor's note; Mrs. Wal wyn's warning is timely. The "trade goods" offer Is often little more than a racket, and was exposed some years ago In a Saturday tvcning I'ost article. It is not the Mall Trib une's usual policy to print letters of this sort, because of the possibility of fraud. The letler got Into type through an Inadvertence. Blow To Our Economy To the Editor: There is something going on that will have a terrible effect on the economy of our valley. Some of the grocers who are members of the United Grocers association are drop- ping our local dairies, and ! ed to a Joint session of Con will soon be taking delivery gress that no "secret" trea from Carnation company In ties had been made. Portland. Mr. Kennedy pledged hinv This means that our local dairies will not buy as much milk, so our local dairy farm ers suffer. When our dairies cut production, some of the plant workers and drivers will be laid off. Unemploy ment goes up, not in Portland, but Rogue Valley. United Grocers claim the milk will be bought locally. This is not true. The milk is bought and processed in Port land. Employment goes up in Portland, but not Rogue Val ley. The milk is also deliv ered from Portland which means it will already be at least two days old when it reaches our stores, and even older before the next deliv ery. There is little enough local produce in our stores as is. I say if the grocers want to sell Portland milk, to support Portland dairies, let them sell it to Portland people. We can't afford even the slight est drop in the economy of our valley, and this promises to be a great, great big drop. : Make sure your store car ries our own local dairy pro ducts, or refuse to buy your week's groceries there. What do you think of all this? Let your grocers know that we should support our local industries first. Too many things are shipped into this valley now, and with the exception of our lumber and fruit, too little shipped out. Let's take care of our own first! (Name on file) Medford We Know Itl To the Editor: This is not a "ode" that I have written, it's one I remember from a few years past. Courtesy of a Medford Mail Tribune writer no doubt. Anyway, it fits the picture about now. Winter s on the wing Soon it will be spring, So say bird and poet. Brother, don't we know it! Runny noses, broken toes (es). Acnin backs and income tax. Jean Stanton Butte Falls, Ore. Reiulli of Visits To the Editor: The headline across the top of our paper for lhursday says J. F. K, Pledges Greater Aid to Cen tral America." I do not suppose this was a pledge to give money from his own personal income or fortune, but from the pockets of the American citizens. How can a President give away the hard earned money of Americans, to foreign pow ers without the vote of Con gress? I thought Congress alone had the power to make appropriations. I think we should have a law to prohibit our president from going abroad during his lime of office. It seems to me that we have suffered enough in the last 30 years from the effects of our presidents for eign "visits." Some of the results of Roosevelt's "visits" to foreign lands (especially Yalta) arc; Russia was given three votes in the U.N. to our one; China was "sold down the river " Some ten or a dozen na tions were turned over to Sta lin and some 800 millions of people were thus turned over to the "tender mercies'" of their Communist "liberators" to kill, torture and enslave at will. All this (and much more) in spite of the fact that Roose velt on March 1. 1945. report- OREGON Foreign News: Things Quiet in Japan Seeks European Trade; Rift Stays By WILLIAM J. FOX United Press International Notes from the foreign news cables: Berlin Talks Resumption of Soviet-Amer ican talks on Berlin is not expected to change the situa tion in that divided city. The Soviets have shown no sign of concessions which would make a Berlin settlement ac ceptable to the West. And the United States appears in no mood to accept any fur ther Soviet "salami tactics" such as giving the United Na tions major responsibility for West Berlin. The United States will go right on assert ing its rights in the city, and the Communists will go right on trying to make propaganda hay out of the situation. But with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev quiescent on a vacation on the Black Sea and a West Berlin police crackdown against over - zeal ous anti-Reds who have been bombing the Communist-built city wall, things would rock along quietly for the time being. Washington Report By William (c) United Feature Syndicate MINORITY VS. MAJORITY Washington - Falling fast now Is a historic balance of voting powers in this coun- try which for a temury ana has protected, if sometimes overly - pro tected, polit ical and sec tional minor ities alike from the un- whit. just a u a in- considered and just demands of majorities. For all the life of this re public up to now the sense of the Constitution, in politi cal terms, has been to keep the Identity and wishes of the small-the small states, the small towns, the ill-organized rural people-from being swal lowed up by the identity and wishes of the large-the large states, the vast urban centers, the massive voting blocs of the metropolises of America. Steadily and irreversibly now the Supreme Court is re jecting the ancient concept of qualitative American democ racy in favor of a new con cept of quantitative democ racy. The old ideal was that while the majority must ulti mately rule, it must in the meantime overcome the deter mined resistance of a minor-ity-which might just possible, here and there, sometimes be wiser than the majority. THE new ideal being set up by the court is not only that the majority must rule but that it must rule Instantly, without real concern for the wishes of the minority and with only an absent-minded nod to the traditional princi ple that the power to check lay deep in the heart of the American system. Govern ment by stop-and-think is to be succeeded by government by hurry-hurry. The seedling for this new interpretation of proper con stituttonal government was set out last spring by the court in an unexampled ruling, claiming for itself the right self to "take up the torch where Roosevelt laid it down." So I think some law should be passed to keep him at home while he is President. We have troubles enough as it is. John C. Stille. Shady Cove, Ore. r 'Qi li CAMPAIGN Bi TOll- M FUND DIMMER RE "It wasn't worth a hundred dollars plate, and they're in a lynch-mob mood. Belter tone down your blast at the Kennedys!" Visitors to Japan Japan is looking forward to visits this month and next by British Foreign Secretary the Earl of Home and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville as more than just good will trips. Ja pan feels that Britain and France, and, in fact, all of Europe, are too remote as far as trade and tourism are con cerned. The trade figures show the difference with Eu rope compared to the heavy traffic between Japan and the United States. Americans buy $6 worth of Japanese goods per capita each year, com pared to $2 per Britisher and 35 cents per Frenchman. The Japanese frankly feel that there are unnecessary barriers involved and suspect that Eu ropean notions of the Land of the Rising Sun in the Far Pacific are quaintly out-dated. So the more visits back and forth by statesmen, business men and just plain tourists, the better. Home and Couve de Murville are both in for an eyeful and an earful when they hit the bustling island nation. 5. White to determine whether an indi vidual state had "fairly" ap portioned its legislative seats as between urban and rural voters. This seedling has now grown into a full tree in the court's decision the other day knocking out a Georgia sys tem which admittedly gave greater weight to rural than to urban votes to state-wide elections. This decision rested upon the superficially appeal ing but historically baseless notion that one vote must in each and every circumstance be precisely equal to one other vote. TT HAS, of course, been greeted with loud hurrahs by those who quite honestly believe that the issue here was only a simple one of "Justice" and that the state legislatures and congress had long been "tyrannized" by rural legislators given a math ematically undue voice by this deliberate inbalance in favor of the small against the large. Of course, on examination the question is infinitely less simple, if one believes there has been some merit in nearly two centuries of a Constitu tion which cooly and know ingly was based on the con clusion that democray can not rightly be defined as a mere momentary head count -or a postcard poll. Every free society which has thus far endured has ac cepted some check upon in stant majority rule; has never accepted it as holy writ that most of the people are neces sarily and invariably right instantly. AFTER all, the whole Bill of Rights protects the ulti mate minority of one, even if the majority be 180 mil lion to 1 against him. This columnist is deeply convinced that we are throw ing out the baby with the bath water. In order to cor rect undoubted voting injus tices here and there against the majority we are altogeth er destroying the proper right of resistance by minorities. And we are blotting out the singular glory and unique gift to the world of the Ameri can system-its capacity to let "Majority Rule" be tempered by what, sometimes at least, may surely be minority wis dom in a pluralistic, a mixed, American society. Will the end of it be some great, loutish "Democracy" which asks only one question: "Who has got the votes-right here and now?" Political Relations Observers look for the bit ter French-British rift to sim mer on. with no indication of a change for some time to come. But, conversely, they look for a gradual improve ment in relations between two members of the Commu nist camp, Bulgaria and Yu goslavia. On the London-Paris rift, British efforts to "talk it over" have been rebuffed, with the French evidently try ing to duck any direct high level contact in the near future. In the Day's News By FRANK Up in Salem the other day. Representative Clinton Haight of Baker county arose in his place in the room where the planning and development committee of the so-called lower house of the Oregon legislature was meeting and, with his tongue stowed care fully in his cheek, made what the legislative reporters de scribed as on IMPASSIONED PLEA for his bill to establish lepus townsendi as Oregon's official animal and artemisia tridentata as Oregon's state flower. It might be just as well to explain here that lepus town sendi is the scientific name of the jackrabbit and arte misia tridentata is the Sunday name of the shrub that we know as sagebrush. The beaver (castor canaden sis) is Oregon's present un official animal, and the Ore gon grape (which the books describe merely as one of the fruit-bearing flowers) is Ore gon's official state flower. REPRESENTATIVE Haight told his colleagues that Oregon's unofficial animal "cuts up fields, gnaws down trees and dams streams." And, he added, "let me remind you that many beaver coats are made of the hide of lepus townsendi." ' "Besides," he went on, "what other animal than the rabbit lays eggs on Easter?" WHAT of artemisia triden tata? Over on the east side of the mountains, at least, we'll agree that the sage is a won derful shrub. Especially along toward evening, when the sun slants low along the horizon, casting us rays across the wide flats. The colors at that hour have to be seen to be believed. We have a warm spot in our hearts for the pur ple sage and the riders there of. TJUT- 11 There's a road-block, I'm afraid, in the way of making artemisio tridentata the state flower of Oregon. Our neigh' bor state of Nevada is known as the Sagebrush State. It's ofucial tiower is the sage brush. Two sprays of the grayish-green sagebrush are shown in the upper corner of the Nevada state flag. One fears there might be an unholy ruckus if we tried to steal the sagebrush from Nevada. A WORD here as to Repre- sentntivp Haityht He just MIGHT be spoof ing. If so, he comes by it hon estly. AWAY back in 1908, his fa ther, riinlnn P Haioht fresh out of the law school of the University of Oregon landed in Canyon City with the idea in mind to hang out his shingle as a lawyer. But, unfortunately for his design to become a legal eagle, a half interest in the Blue Mountain Eagle came up for sale about that time. He bought It. Later on, he bought the whole works. He had a talent for pithy humor, and in the course of time he became one of the nation's most noted paragraphers. There were times when about half the contents of the Reader's Digest would be ex tracts from the editorial col umn of the Blue Mountain Eagle. One suspects that the Digest's editor would have liked to fill up his whole magazine with more of Editor Haight s stuff and call it day-secure in the knowledge that in such an event he would make a hit with his readers. TTERE'S a thought, Clint: 11 Your father was also known as one of the nation's leading authorities on the coyotes-which he professed to regard as the easiest and perhaps the most intelligent of the animals. If you have trouble with the legislature over lepus towns-endi. maybe you could induce the boys to switch to canis latrans, of the family of camdae. But there's possible trouble in that quarter also. South Dakota is the Coyote State. One can't just go barging around stealing one's neigh bors' emblems. That would Berlin; Canadian Politics If the indicators are correct, Canada will elect another mi nority government April 8. But the general view at this stage is that the Liberals will replace the present Conserva tive regime with a division of about 120 parliamentary seats for Lester Pearson's Lib erals to approximately 100 for Prime Minister John Die fenbaker's C o n s e r v atives, with the remainder spread among the Social Credit and new Democratic splinter par ties. JENKINS lead to trouble, and, in one way or another, there are troubles enough in the world already. ANYWAY This word in conclusion; If the sagebrush, . for rea sons already cited, is out of the question and you can't endure the Oregon Grape as the state flower of Oregon, how about the TUMBLE WEED? Over on this side of the mountains, we could go for the tumble weed. Tumble weed and jackrabbits go to gether like ham and eggs. Note for Western Oregon readers: (These words are written over in the Klamath coun try.) Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c- Field Enterprises. Inc. NAME CHANGE An electronic firm has de veloped a monitoring system for critically ill hospital pa- tients. The machine keeps track of a p a t i e nt's pulse, temper a t u r e, heart rate and blood pressure -and relays this in formation to a console in the narrt central ; nurs ng station. According to an electronics industry official, mis device is being resisted by doctors in most hospitals, oecause "tney are afraid it will infringe on their control of the patient." What most interested me in the news item about this device, however, was the com ment that it was rejected by all physicians when it was named "Medical Monitor." When the company changed the name of the device to "Nurse Alert," it was wel comed by some doctors who had previously resisted it. This seems to me a fair Indication that what the doctors resented was not so much losing "control" of the patient, bui losing his esteem and respect. A "medical monitor" dimin ishes the importance of the doctor, but a "nurse alert" merely improves the pres ent system of nursing at tention. Actually, even the nurse today has lost the impor tance she had a few years ago. before the develop ment of antibiotics. A nurse was indispensible in those days, and often did much to save the patient's life, if a doctor was not read ily available. Today, most of a nurse's duties consist of adminis trative paper work, keeping records, and performing acts that a mere nurse's aid could just as easily do with a little training. I expect to hear loud screams of pro test from the nursing asso ciations, but my physician friends all agree that this it in fact the case. During my occasional stays in hospitals, I have received better and more friendly at tention from the aides than from the nurses themselves who always seemed more in terested in the charts, the records, the rigid chain of command, and the interns, than in the patients them selves. Not all, of course just most of them. We can but hope that the new "Nurse Alert" will really alert the nurses to the needs of critical patienls. 1 know of a young woman who died in a hospital recently be cause the "right" nurse could not be found to get the "right" doctor. Bureaucracy in government or business is piddling com pared with bureaucracy in a large hospital, where the pa tient often seems the least important factor-indeed, only the necessary evil that pre vents a hospital from running "efficiently."