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Newspaper Page Text4 A lFMftRpJikrTMBUNS "Everyone In southern Oregon Reads The Mall TTlbune'' pUSii.hed Dally except .Saturday by uinitinn PRINTING CO. 33NorlrSPh77,i-614l " nnnFRT w RUHL. Editor ht.rr GREV AdverUtinf Manaaei GERALD T LATHAM, Bua Mir KR1C W ALLEN JR, Mn. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor RICHARD "jEWETt 'Spo'ru Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women'a Editor DALE ER1CKSUW. yircumw" a n TnnMnrtnt Newaoaner Entered a lecond claw matter t , Meaiora. urwn March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES n.. ii-ii i iituinM Daily end Sunday 1 year 118.00 Daily and Sunday mos 10.00 Dally and Sunday 3 mot. 5.00 Sunday Only-One year 5.po RinffU roov (Mailed) aoc n.. r- . A Mntir Route. Dally end Sunday 1 year S21.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. l.7 CarrtjndVendors Copy 10c Official Paper of city of Med'!j Official paper i United PreM International s-mII linked Wire U. P I Tclephqto Newiplcturei MEMBER Or AUDIT BU1U.AU M Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS ASSOC!. Kmc fMiind in Mw York. CJnl' cgo Detroit. San FranclKO. Lo Annin Seattle. PortUod Denver. NIWSMMt v MIUISHftS ASSOCIATION E0ITOIIAL Member California Newnpaper Fubllihera AisoclaUon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tho files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 31, 1953 (Tuesday) Permit issued to erect $20, 505 annex to Medford post office. Dorothy Warenskjold con cert under auspices of Jack son County Civic Music asso ciation praised; reviewer com pliments group on "successful season." 20 YEARS AGO March 31. 1943 (Wednesday) State has more than $36 million cash, the largest amount in history, In Its treas ury, State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott' says. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "April weather has started before March could make an exit either as a lion or a lamb. The month is apparently go ing out like April." 30 YEARS AGO March 31, 1933 (Friday) Two men who attempted to swindle southern Oregon res idents, including Jackson county, out of bonds are sen tenced to prison in California; much of evidence used against was collected by Oregon state police. Dramatic group of Phoenix Grange wins state champion ship in the one-act play con test in Corvallis. 40 YEARS AGO March 31. 1923 (Friday) Gypsies traveling in 20 high - powered autos pass through town. Local Legion and Elks pro- test importation of alien labor lor orchard work in valley, 50 YEARS AGO March 31, 1913 (Sunday) "Good Citizens' League" is formed and will hold first meeting next Friday. Mail Tribune comes out ed itorially for peace in city af- fairs ana closes wltn me od scrvation: "Plghearicdness has no place in civic affairs. What's Your I.Q.? Nine oi tan cornel li luperiot; even oi eight li aacallent) live or six is good. 1. What is the name of the Illinois poet and biographer of Abraham Lincoln? 2. To which President was the oath of office administered by his own father, a Justice of the Ponce? :i. What famous woman's college Is on Philadelphia's "main line"? 4. Was the chief god In Ro man mythology Zeus or Jup iter? 5. If you called a girl viva-l cious would she most likely be complimented, or Insulted? 6. In referring to Sino-Rus-sian relations, what does the term "Sino" mean? 7. Who said, "Heaven helps those who help themselves"? 8. What is the official lan guage spoken In Cuba? 9. In London, if you buy fish and chips, what will you set? . 10. If you wished lo visit Die Ivory Coast, where would von so? Answers) 1. Carl Sandburg. 2. Calvin Coolldg. 3. Bryn Mawr. 4. Jupiter (Zeus was in Greek mythology). J. Compli mented, e. Chines. 7. Benja min Franklin. . Spanish. 8. Fried fish and potatoes. 10. Ws Africa. , NATIONAL SUNDAY. MARCH 31. 1963 Semantic We have never made semantics the science ing but we've been fooling around with words long enough to know that one word can mean one thing to one person, and something altogether different to someone else. Each person, in effect, writes his own dic tionary. And the more emotional and contro versial the subject matter, the more strongly each clings to his own ing of certain words. CATCH-PHRASES are even more susceptible than single words to such manipulations and permutations of meaning. -What, for instance, is "the American Way of Life"? One group of individuals would say that it is almost impossible of precise definition, except within the broad concepts of the Declaration of Independence ( all men are created equal tne U.S. Constitution ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or pro hibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of griev ances"), or the Emancipation Proclamation, or the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inau gural ("with malice toward none, with charity for all . . ."), or the Sermon on the Mount, which is the essence of the morality of our Judeo-Chris- tian heritage. A NOTHER group of individuals might envisage the American Way of Life as one based on gadgetry, automobiles, vision sets, baseball games, cigarettes, whiskey and wild, wild women. Still another group some family groups, attending church each Sun day in togetherness, and participating through the week in good works and helpfulness. And another sees the one of an ever-rising tide of juvenile delinquency, of increasing crime, of slums and asphalt jungles, of kids roaming the streets looking for some way to alleviate their unutterable boredom. THERE is one large group in the country which views the American Way of Life as one of unequal (or no) education; of discrimination m lobs, in voting, in public services; a Way ot Life scarred by personal a Way of Lite marred by constant and miuriat ing frustration, and an inability to get ahead be cause of a million barriers some tiny, some insuperable raised against a dark skin. There is, here and there, an academic Amer ican Way of Life, where ship are pursued for their own sake, and for the sake of tne rising generations. There is also the American Way of Life which is dedicated to public service, often at consid erable sacrifice of time cause the individuals teel fR, ONE need not look too far to find an American Way of Life which is devoted to the spreading of divisiveness, fear, hatred and suspicion; a Way of Life which demands "in vestigations of the loyalty or our atate Depart ment, demands that we get out of the United Nations and stop associating with all them fur- nners ; demands that the government get out ot the business of governing, and is vocally violent against any development which promises a greater degree of health and welfare to the American people. There is the closely associated American Way "A which sjil-iuis iuucn ui us tiiiny uaiiiu- ing the kikes, wops, niggers, greasers, frogs. limeys, ciiiuks, japs cuiiers irom mem in any necks and Godless atheists. So what is "the American Wav of Life"? There isn't any one. There are dozens of them.' That is why the phrase means either many things, or nothing at all. A NOTHER phrase which is susceptible to vary- ing definitions is "anti-Communist." Now we suspect that about 911.9 per cent of Americans who have given any thought to the matter at all would class themselves as anti Communist. But there are varying degrees. Some see Commies and Reds and Pinkos behind every gooseberry bush, and do not hesi tate to let their suspicions be known, loudly and accusingly. Everything that goes wrong is a "Commie plot," part of the "international con spiracy," without bothering to remember that things have been going wrong in this old world a lot longer than the Communists have been around. A LESS red-eyed brand of anti-Communist recognizes the threat of the ideology, but even more the threat of the armed imperialism that goes under the name. It, however, refused to stoop to using the methods of the Communists lies, villif ication, smears, accusations, and such like in their opposition to the foe. Too, they are level-headed enough to recog nize that Communism the ideology, even Com munism the armed imperialism, is not the only threat to the nation's security and stability. And they remember that there was a time within living memory when Fascism was an even greater threat, and that it is one which could return if we blind ourselves with hysteria, urd with lack of confidence in ourselves as a nation. So much for semantics. E. A. . Viewpoints an academic study of of the meaning ot mean conception of the mean split - level homes, tele would see it as whole American Way of Lite and gratuitous insult; learning and scholar and money, simply be an obligation to do so. anyone, in suun, wuu way, including me rea- MEDFOBD "Thanks For The Pat On The Back, If That'. What It Wa" Today & Tomorrow By Walter (c) 1063, The THE GAMBLE ON FOREIGN AID The foreign aid program, which began with the Mar shall Plan in 1948, has always been a gam ble, has never been a sure thing. In Eu rope, it has been a bril 1 a n t success. But 15 years ago, nobody could know that it would be. In fact, Lippmann such were the poverty and paralysis of France, Italy and Germany that there was a serious possibility of a gen eral collapse into commu nism. The Marshall Plan was expensive. But because it worked, all would agree to day that it was cheap at the price. Now we are concerned with foreign aid in this hemis phere. The problem is not what it was in postwar Eu rope. There the purpose of aid was to enable advanced and highly-developed countries to recover from the world war. Our purpose in this hemis phere is more complicated and difficult. Broadly speaking, it Is to help our neighbors achieve peaceably, and with liberty if not with democracy, a revo lution out of their semi-feudal past. Our hope is that they will in fact achieve By pro gressive government what, failing that, their people will attempt to achieve by revolu tionary communism. a OUR policy is not only dif ficult to carry out, but also it is difficult to ex plain. It is rather like at tempting to explain why, In order lo protect children from polio, we inoculate them with the polio virus. Our Latin-American policy would be easier to explain if we forgot about peaceable revolution and concentrated on the simple task of giving unlimited military support to any government, indeed to any dictator, who was un qualifiedly ant i-Communist. Such a policy would earn much applause in certain quarters. The trouble is that it wouldn t last very long. For this is an age when the mass of men will no longer put up with their ancient poverty and servitude. Knowing this, we are look' Ing to the progressive govern merits, as In Mexico, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil, to carry out the progressive revolutions which are the alternative to the Castroitc kind of revolution. It is. of course, a gamble, and nothing Is easier than to think up the many reasons why it may be lost. , III ' , "Goodness, i if i a. li if i & 1 1 . i - - win ii r i-t . w I J t.'. 7 it, 7 , 1 Vi, tVI 1 V I ! 11,11 I i . Am I V7 . i J ' i lTJ 111, '77 VN i MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFQRD. OREGON lippmann Wanhington Port rTHE biggest gamble in all our foreign aid In this hemisphere is in Brazil. This is not only because Brazil is the biggest country in Latin America and the geographi cal heart of the South-American continent, but also be cause, in Brazil, there are the biggest stakes to be won or lost. If the progressive revolu tion fails in Brazil and the country descends into revolu tionary violence, the whole continent is certain to become involved. It is possible more or less effectively to contain the revolutionary influence of a small island like Cuba. It would be a wholly different thing with a continental mass like Brazil which has a com mon frontier with every country in South America ex cept two. . On the other hand, the prospects of success in Brazil are bright and alluring. For while Brazil has its desperate ly poor masses, it is not a pri mitive and undeveloped coun try. It has a certain resem blance to Italy before its bril liant recovery when there was desperate poverty and backwardness in the south and high technical progress in the north. In Brazil, there are great modern cities like Sao Paulo and Rio, and while the Brazilian west is still be ing opened, it is empty like tne American west in the 19th century. It has no resem blance to the underdeveloped and overpopulated parts of Asia and Africa. 1VHAT is more, Brazil has ' good political habits in that it has learned how to change its government with out violence. In this century, one Brazilian president has committed suicide and one has resigned. There has been none of the shooting and exil ing and imprisonment which has taken place in other coun tries. In Brazil, there is cor ruption, there is more infiltra tion, there are special privi leges and all that. But Brazil is blessed with the habit of domestic peace and of respect and obedience to the consti tuted authorities. If we study the agreement lust worked out in Washing ton between Brazilian Fi nance Minister Dantas and Mr. Bell, who now manages foreign aid, we are bound to marvel at the political cour age of the Goulart govern mcnt. To end the inflation and to re-establish its interna tional credit-worthiness, the Brazilian government has adopted a program which only a very strung govern mcnt, strong in its hold on popular support, would dare to undertake. The Goulart government is going to raise tax collections - ' . V Li you people gel so excited rbout nothing!" Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald THE EXTREMISTS Paris-The following report of a conversation with Gen. de Gaulle's Minister of Infor- mation, Alain Peyrefitte, is devoid of news but preg nant with Inv p 1 1 c a t ions. Q U'ESTION: Just what does Gen. de Gaulle mean by his famous description of AUnp a future Europe extending from "the Atlantic to the Urals"? PEYREFITTE: To begin with. Gen. de Gaulle has never accepted the division of Europe approved by the U.S. government at Yalta, which left Eastern Europe occupied by the Russians and Western Europe occupied by the Amer icans. Such a division, he be lieves, is not in the nature of things. Eventually, the occu piers must withdraw, leaving Europe for the Europeans. QUESTION: In this "Eu rope for the Europeans," are the Russians to be included? PEYREFITTE: The Rus sians, it has to be admitted, are not fully European. Rus sia, you must realize, was un der Mongol rule from the fourteenth to the Eighteenth century. The Mongols follow ed the system of killing the men and breeding with the women. There is a heavy Mon gol strain, therefore. QUESTION: Your history is not quite accurate. Russia paid tribute to the Mongols in the fourteenth and fifteenth century, but Mongol power was broken long before Ivan the Terrible. But leaving that on one side, what of Gen. de Gaulle's mention of the Urals? Does he look forward to the division of Russia in two, or has it escaped his attention that nearly half the Russian nation is now to be found be yond the Urals, in Siberia? PEYREFITTE: We must not be too exact about a mere phase. Yet in Siberia, after all, the Russians are occupy ing what is Chinese soil. Will the Chinese forever tolerate this intrusion? This is not in the nature of things, as it is not in the nature of things for me Kussian occupation of Central Asia to endue for ever. fPHIS singular galimatias of historical mysticism and bad history deserves serious study, at the moment, be cause it conveys the character of what is called "uncondi tional Gaullism." No one by 25 per cent. It has elimi nated the subsidy of wheat, which has doubled the price of bread. It has eliminated the subsidy of petroleum prod ucts, which raised the price of gasoline 80 per cent. It has increased commuter railroad fares five times. It is cutting down the expansion of bank credit to a third of what it has been. It is freezing gov ernment employment and is trying to freeze government is an astonishing pro gram. Yet it is said that the Goulart government, which is left of center, is strong enough to carry out the pro gram. We must hope that it will be, and surely the admin istration has been right in deciding to help it. For it would be hard to name any item in our whole global for eign aid program which, if it succeeds, will do so much good. Winter's Chill Dims By ERIC SEVAREID London - Nature has obey ed the calendar, a rare thing for the sceptcrcd island, and the sun broke through to il- luminate Lon- Hnn'c rtA tilp 1 roofs and new t i glass hotels pre ciscly on tiys y' :z -, -.a jS&Jj s i nuiltancnus- Serarrld l.v with the latest statistics which show a !harp drop in unemployment - the basic political barom eter in Britain - but it is clear enough that Trimc Minister Macmillan's winter of discon tent has not ended, any more than that of President Ken nedy. The ruling Conser v a 1 1 v e party will do its best to take credit for the re in jobs, if not for the sunshine, and is expected to pour money into the distressed areas of Wales and the north country for months to come In what will probably be a vain effort to regain its momentum, lost long before President Ken nedy lost his. The President is only up against Congress, a tangible, calculable opposi tion, while Mr. Macmtljan is up against the natural cycle of British politics, which would normally put an end mm aW7 By Joseph Alscp Tribune Syndicate knows whether Gen. de Gaulle is himself an unconditional Gaullist. But it is at least cer tain that the General is in creasingly surrounded by men of the stripe of Peyrefitte. To this, one must add an other related fact. Once again, the French government is in the grip of one of those mys terious, recurring crises of suspicion, like the crisis of 1957-58. Last time, large numbers of leading Frenchmen passion ately held the absurd belief that America was secretly supporting the Algerian reb els, as part of a plot to snatch the oil of the Sahara from France. This time, the theme is less well-defined, but the conviction that plots are being Hatched is even more intense, as was proven by the French reaction to the Nassau pact. . THE combination of a crisis of suspicion with the prev alence of extremism obvious ly explains certain very odd things that have been happen ing recently. No amount of friction would lead an Amen can government to inflict on a visiting allied foreign min ister the kind of public snub that was recently inflicted here on Lord Home. By the same token, no American Ambassador would make the kind of row about table placement that the French Ambassador made at the New York dinner honor ing the arrival of the Mona Lisa. Yet it can be stated on unquestioned authority that Ambassador A 1 p h a n d was only obeying the strictest in structions from Paris. The snub to the British Foreign Secretary, one may be sure, was also planned in advance. All this has a bearing, in turn, because the odd things that happen may not always be such little things. In the last report in this space, the problem was examined of Gen. de Gaulle's reaction to expected European and par ticularly German resistance to his designs for Europe. A moderate, relatively passive reaction was forecast. BUT the possibility has to be faced - and here is the point of this long excursion -that Gen. de Gaulle will in stead react immoderately. He has always refused to rec ognize any intermediate choices between exile and ab solute mastery. And if he is resisted in Europe, he may lead France out of the Eu rope of the Six. In this event, he will pro claim that he is the true Euro pean leader, that France is the true Europe, and that the oth er Europeans are not true, be ing mere "satellites" of the U.S. He will pin the banner of "Europe for the Euro peans" to the pinnacle of the Eiffel Tower, and he will wait for the rest of Europe to rally to his standard. As has been stated, such an outcome still seems im probable, but it is at least clearly possible. Hence the possibility needs to be care fully weighed. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The week's weirdest story: The $7.5 million in negotia ble Treasury Certificates that got lost in the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. It is presumed that they were dropped by error in a waste basket and were later burned along with the rest of the bas ket's contcnls. to one party's rule after so long a stretch of 12 unbroken years. This government is unpopu lar and would be even more so were it not able to point over its shoulder at President de Gaulle, who has served as lightning rod to draw away much of the natural anti Americanism around here. Opinion polls show the Labor party ahead in general esti mation, and the latest by-election, in Colne valley, shows another precipitious drop in the standing of the Conserva tives. e Britishers, like Americans, ten to vote "agin," not for, and this is not to say that La bor has suddenly acquired personalities and a positive program which have seized the imagination of the popu lace. The late Hugh Gailskell. whom this reporter always found brilliant, prickly and almost too glib, had become a personality force in his own right, which takes a fearful amount of doing for an out-of-office politician in this island. But his successor, Harold Wil son, so far neillier presents an image nor casts a shadow. The public impression of him might best be conveyed by quoting the Washington wife who once Impatiently de clared that "Economics arc men who sit about smoking pipes and mumbling." aaaaeaaaeaaitKeij -BeaaBB aaa THINGS YOU WOULDN'T KNOW IF YOU HADN'T READ THEM HERE There are two mountain ranges in South America called the Amos and the Andes . . . Cows give mjlk because Uiey're too timid to ask the farmer to pay for it . . . People who live on the moon don't know what they're missing by not being able to sit under it . . . All chipmunks in national parks have government serial numbers tattooed on their furry little chests .' . . After Ponce de Leon discovered the fountain of youth, he went back and finished the third grade . . . Horace Greeley was actually advising a nephew to go to the west side of New York to open a drive-in restaurant . . . An Orville Wright once said to a Wilbur Wright, "Boy, is dad ever going to be mad when he sees what we've done to the chicken coop." . . . Francis Scott Key couldn't remem ber the words of his hit song two days after he had written them . . . Because of the flip of a coin, you've never heard of the Clark and Lewis Expedition . . . The NBC peacock is really a stage-struck chicken with delusions of grandeur . . . The Dr. Albert Schweitzer who used to live over on Fourth Street is probably not the same one now living in Africa ... A Portland, Ore., dog by the name of Miss Hap has a man by the name of Gene Rossman . . . Some polite nut by the name of Sir Walter Raleigh had the biggest dry cleaning bill in England .... Most porcupines are really quite ticklish but won't admit it . . . Anyone who can juggle three bowling balls has quite a future in vaudeville, if it ever comes back. KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS A sally part of the Pacific ocean borders on Cres cent City, one of the few cities by that nam in North ern California. Th city, named before, was named after its harbor which is shaped like a crescent wrench. Its principal export is fog and it imports tourists and sea monsters alive. People wading to China often start from here because it's so close to the ocean. BIRD WATCHER BULLETIN If you're sometimes in doubt (and who isn't?) the ostrich can be told from our other feathered friends by the fact that both its nest and its fried egg are three feet in diameter. V5& PANIC PARAGRAPH All of the emergency evacuation arrows in Klamath Falls point right smack toward Medford. This could very easily lead to a serious congestion in our theatres if you know who every drops a you know what on we know you. SEND IT NOW ! Through a new electronic computer service, it is now possible to determine how suited you are for marriage. According to a magazine advertisement, you send in your questionnaire and only you and the machine ever see the results. If you really want to know, and if you're willing to trust the machine not to go blabbing its answers all around, send $5 to Data Technology, Inc., P.O. Box 278, Mercer Island, Wash. KIDS AND CALCIUM Here is a simple home test to determine if your children are getting enough calcium. Grasping a child (firmly by the neck) in each hand, bring the two heads smartly together. (If you have but one child, a bor rowed neighbor child will do very nicely). A pleasant ly hollow sound will set your mind at ease that your kids' aching head has plenty of calcium. But It appears No harm was done. Nobody had paid a bill with them. No body had given them-as secur ity for a loan. In that event, a debt would have been created. The debt could have been paid only with money or negotiable paper. It would then have been a horse of another color. QUESTION: Why don't we just print money enough to run the gov-ernment-instead of taking the money away from us taxpay ers? The answer, of curse, is that money is a commodity, and as such is subject to the law of Britain's Spring The test has to come fairly soon now. Earlier, the in formed scutllebut forecast a general election for next autumn, but as confidence rises that the employment rate will continue to rise, the knowledgeable now bet on an election a year from now. But it is hard to see in advance just what a change of govern ment would do for this British race, which seems caught in a remorseless downward spiral in the effort to remain a sig nificant world power. The minds lhat would occupy Whitehall in a political change-over would be fresh minds, but the problems them selves are old, tired problems, every possible escape from which has been examined a thousand times by as able and imaginative a group of civil servants as the current political world exhibits. Vast numbers of the very young, of course, would put an end to the whole, exhaust ing effort and simply take this island out of the big power game altogether. If Britain should become a kind of large, industrial Sweden. so be it, they think. It may yet come to that, and certainly will If the American nuclear shield and the American mili tary presence depart Europe, as de Gaulle seems to desire. i In the meantime, the bitter 'frustrations of apparently , having fallen among three . J.w.1. 33 3s supply and demand. If too much money is printed, its value will shrink-just as hap pens when too many potatoes are grown. Or too much grain. Or too much cotton. When that occurs, the PRICE goes down. THAT suggests another thought. Our government is spend ing a tremendous amount of money. It is putting it on the cuff-which is to say, it is adding it to the national debt. The national debt is now about $300 billion. That's a LOT of money. How will it be paid? . Presumably with paper money. stools - Europe, the United States and the Commonwealth - show up in every other ses sion of Parliament. Right now, as they get the informa tion in bits and pieces, mem bers are in a rage about all the money and effort and time lost in obsolescent or aborted weapons systems. Britons simply cannot stomach wast age on this scale, as Ameri cans do, because they simply cannot afford it; and the only pleasure they take in de Gaulle's nuclear arsenal ef forts is the perverse pleasure of knowing that the French will find out that they can't afford it, cither. The world is readjusting and moving on just too rapid ly for the British to keep up with it - so far - and the rat gnawing deep in their vitals is the thought that they are losing or have already lost control c.f their own destiny. This has produced neurotic symptoms even in this sane and steady body politic. So the charm of this won derful old city can't be quite what it was to the history- conscious visitor The sun on : the streets and rooftops helps. but indoors the chili of this winter, so disastrous for the plumbing and the Foreign Of fice, still hangs in the air and reaches the bones. (Distributed 1963, by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Reserved)