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San Francisco. Lna Angeln Seattle. Portland Denver. NEWSfAPi- pUILIiHEIS ASSOCIATION RATIONAL EDITOKIAl N Memoer California Newapaper Publlihera Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County ii:... th film of Tn Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEABS AGO May 9, 1953 (Saturday) Supplies of irrigation wa ter in southern Oregon will be "good" to "excellent" this summer, it has been reported. There was an expected de crease in the number of Jack son county residents without jobs during April, but the de crease was slower than ex pected. 20 YEARS AGO May 9, 1943 (Sunday) Fire of an undetermined origin causes $150,000 dam age at motor repair shops at Camp White. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The pay-as-you-go plan Is still be fore Conitress. It has its good points and Us bad. Under the latter comes the fact that no body will be able to go any place after they pay." 30 YEARS AGO May 9, 1933 (Tuesday) Campaign opens to save scenic beauties of road to Crater lake. Jackson county Rep. Earl Day tells of sales tax advan tages to Oregon. 40 YEARS AGO May 9, 1923 (Wednesday) Two arrested in Central Point area for possession of "moonshine." Frank Perl elected Medford High school student body president. 50 YEARS AGO May 9, 1913 (Friday) Children refuse to attend school after Siskiyou county teacher tells them she will throw them in Klamath river If they don't bathe every day Bids opened on paving first mile of Grants Pass-Crescent City highway. What's Your 1.0-7 Nina er fen correct U superior; seven er elahl il eicellentf rive er tlx It good. 1. What island bears the nickname "Emerald Isle"? 2. What name Is given to the study of insects? 3. Do more persons in the world speak English, Chinese, or Russian? 4. Dalmatian dogs come from Dalmatla; true or false? S. There are U. S. Mints In two of the following cities; name them: San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Phila. delphla, Pa., Albany, Fort Knox. 6. Washington and Lee Uni versity is located in which state? 7. During World War II was Portugal a combatant? 8. What have the following names in common: Stmpton Holland and Moffat? 9. What do the letters 'pp stand for In musical compost tions? 10. What Is a glazier? Answersi 1. Ireland or Eire. 2. Entomology, 3, Chinese, 4. False (England). 5. Ban Fran Cisco. Philadelphia. 6. Vir ginia. 7. No, 9. They ire all tunnels. 9, Pianissimo (very soft). 10. Glass cutler and setter. The Sound of Protest (Editor's note: The following editorial wag written before word was received from Salem that the Jack sonville highway relocation project would be delayed pending further study.) Can you really fight . . J it -il iviarKS suggested me outer uay, can enougn pet pie be persuaded that The reference, of course, is to Jacksonville where a staunch band of citizens, aided by others who value the community, are battling to keep a highway from slashing diagonally through the town, thus damaging it in the eyes of many knowledgeable people irreparably. Thev still have a little time to: 1. Attempt to pursuade the city council to change its mind once again and reject the pro posed highway route, or: 2. Attempt to pursuade the highway com mission to permit more tive routes wnich would THE Jacksonville folk, as noted, are not alone in this effoit. The story about the threat to the historic values of the ing. Protests are mounting, not only to the com mission, but to the Governor. The Salem Capital Journal commented edi torially the other day as follows: BYPASS JACKSONVILLE "We note that the State Highway Commission pro posed to chop historic Jacksonville in Southern Ore gon down the center with a new highway. "Jacksonville Is one of the few Oregon cities which had a gold rush, complete with villainy, intrigue, murder and manhunts. It is rich in past. And it also, unlike co many gold rush towns, has retained things of value. It still has a good many of its orig inal buildings in pretty decent repair. It isn't a ghost town, for Its citizens have created something of a 'living museum.' "A highway shouldn't be dug through the center of all this if there is any alternative. "The State of Oregon has spent much effort and money bypassing other cities to speed traffic flow. "Effort and money spent in searching for a by pass route for Jacksonville would serve two worthy ends-traffic flow and preservation of a town rich in history." N PENDLETON, the East Oregonian recently reprinted a Mail Tribune editorial which pro tested the Jacksonville action, and the editor then commented thus: "There is ample precedent for this (forcing of a - route on an unwilling community), the record of Highway Commission deliberations will show. But we must express some surprise that it is occurring now. We say this because rather recently we had a conversation with the chairman of the commission, Glenn Jackson, which Indicated to us that a new approach to commission relations with communities was developing. "We commended Mr. Jackson for the very obvious effort the commission was making to acquaint Ore gonians more fully of its operations. He in turn ex plained that he felt that the commission in the past had suffered from poor public relations which were almost entirely the fault of the commission. He said he Intended to make an all-out effort to make people understand what the commission was doing and to make them understand that the commission wanted very much to be guided by the opinions of all of the citizens whom it serves. ' "In view of this we find the Jacksonville case surprising. Perhaps Mr. Jackson will clarify it for us. We hope so." X7ITH such statewide comment and support, we hope those who are battling to save the town will take heart. All thev ask is sufficient delay for more study, and for consideration of alternatives. Neither the council be forced to change their reasonable men, and if the volume of protests is substantial, and the logic of the arguments sufficient, we feel certain that a reconsideration can be obtained. There are too manv decision, and the way in for it to be allowed to stand. L.A. Leisure-for What? Much has been written in recent years con cerning the increase in it will mean to the average American. The forecasts which automation would indicate an eventual further reduction in the amount of time Americans spend at work. RUT, in the history of more apparent than is the suggestion Ronald Commonweal. First of all he points out that, since time immemorial up until the Industrial Revolution, the amount of time spent working was, on the average, tar less than it is at present. He says: ". . . We find that the Greeks of the classical period enjoyed leisure time much beyond our own by simply working only hard enough to cam their sus tenance . . . Similarly, in classical Roman and In medieval times the average man worked for hardly more than half the days of the year: the rest were pre-empted by religious or secular holidays. In short, ielsure for the masses Is NOT historically unprece dented in human experience. What we are now wit nessing is essentially only a return to a sane and normal human division of work and leisure time , . ." 1V40ST Americans have 1TA toward work vs. to look upon work as a idleness, as such, as an But it must be remembered that adequate amounts of leisure time are necessary for the thought and study which Too, it must be remembered that there are varieties of leisure, varieties of idleness. Neither is good nor bad of and that makes them good It may be true that idle hands." But it is must have time for rest, for the dreaming of dreams. E.A. city hall? Or, as Win -1 I. they Alih city hall.' time for study of alterna be less destructive. community is spread nor the commission can decisions. But they are thintrs wroner with the which it was presented, leisure time, and what eye the potentialities of the race, the change is real. Or at least that Gross, writing in The an ambivalent attitude leisure. Most of us tend positive good, and upon evil. underlie all progress, by itself. It is their use or bad. "the devil finds work for equally true that man relaxation, recreation, Great m petesipeiTiAU Communications LMr in thn EHUor must bear tha name and address of the writer. although under certain circumstances the use of e pen name or Initial for Dubllcatlon is Dermlssible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tn edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter, submitted for Dubllcatlon must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed In this column do not necessarily represent the views of t!- paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Air Force Aid To the Editor: I am most pleased for this opportunity to express my gratitude for the outf'.anding support you provide the United States Air Force recruiting program. Through your effort the Air Force story has been pre. sented to the many subscrib ers of the Medford Mail Trib une. You may be sure that your professional assistance contributed a great deal to the over-all effectiveness of our representatives and help ed to foster a better public understanding of today's Aero space Force. Your coopera tion and assistance have been most commendable. On behalf of the members of my command, I extend my grateful thanks and apprecia tion. Robert F. Layton, Colonel, USAF, Commander, HQ, 3508th USAF, Recr. Gp. (ATC), Mather Air Force Base, Calif. What Else? To the Editor: We live near South Peach St., where the lady was charged $50 for try ing to protect her property. ("Poison Food Charge Brings $50 Fine"). I do not personal ly know her but she hHs my sympathy. I would like peo ple to know just what the sit uation is around here. Dogs run in large herds, tramping down flowers, tipping over garbage cans every night and initiating every bush and shrub on the place. So far we have tied down our garbage can lid, built a fence all around the place leaving just the driveway open, and placed boxes over our bushes. Now most of our shrubs are nursery grown and were bought at no small price. The dogs have ruined quite a few of them. We figure it has cost us close to $200 counting the fence we would not other wise have built, just because people will not keep their dogs home. Why should every one else suffer just because the people who own dogs are too lazy to build f'.'itces to keep the in? I do not hate dogs, but if I should get one, I would keep it in his own yard. I have done that before and it works out rather nicely, as it tends to make your neighbors ap predate you a little better So, short of poison, just what in the world else enn we do? Mrs. D. L. Swank, 1015 Agate St., Medford. The Verities of Life To the Editor: Most of us who contemplate the advent of visitors from oilier spheres of life as possible and actual usually react in one of three ways; we are either terrified. amused or confused. If we really want to con, slder ourselves open-minded (and who dors not?) why not explore every avenue of in vestigatlon available to us In our search for truth? Since our planet and its occupants are nearlng a "place in time where only truth will be able to survive, It would pay us to be as well informed as pos. sible concerning the verities of life. We arc each conditioned by our own particular set of con. cepts and accumulated sense data, or things we have ac cepted because our senses have reported them as being true. Our senses are extreme ly unreliable; the eyes bear (alse witness, and the ears deceive. That is why Jesus warned us not to judge by ap pearances. The way we react to any new idea or theory depends upon our point of perception, Mfcutuhu Mail imauwL, Mtwonu, ontouH Debate There is no doubt in the minds of many that space craft are in our skies and that we are being observed by our Elder Brothers from more advanced worlds than our own. Those of us who are able through inner perception to discern the "signs in the heavens" are fully aware that such is the case. Theirs is a mission of mer cy, and is two-fold: (1) to bring greater enlightenment to all on Earth who are ready to re ceive it, thus preparing us for the wonderful way of life that we will know in the Golden Age into which we are so rapidly advancing, and (2) as was suggested in a recent letter, to save us from our selves. If Earth were suddenly to disintegrate, the effects would undoubtedly be felt throughout our entire Solar system, if not elsewhere in the Universe. They know "what fools we mortals be." Would it be sensible to suppose that the inhabitants of other worlds would idly sit back and let this happen, when so much is at stake? There is much recorded evi dence of interplanetary travel throughout the ages. In fact, many instances of it are con tained in our Holy Bible. Louise Wopschall Route 1, Box 408 Eagle Point, Ore. Coop Apartments To the Editor: With your kind permission, I'd like you to include this letter in your letters from the people as a sort of a reply to a letter in Monday s paper, about retire ment apartments for us old folks in the modest income bracket. My idea, from what I have read, would be a cooperative set up, with small apartments and a small patio, where we could have some flowers, and a small garden to attend too. I don t mean so luxurious it would run into 25 or 50 thous and dollars. That would let us out, and I do mean way out. These apartments are being built in other parts of the country. Why not here Medford, or Ashland? Unless perhaps, as it seems to me, they want the wealthy people. and I hope I'm wrong. Thank you for listening. Mrs. Fern Andrus, 391 South Mountain ave., Ashland, Ore. Needed Project To the Editor: Was glad to read the suggestion of E.M.C this week in regard to the building of small homes for us elderly people, widows, win- owers, and, yes, at a more reasonable rental rate. This has been discussed among the Senior Citizens Clubs to some extent. But nothing has been accomplished so far. I feel like something should be done soon, as we people are getting some social so cttrity, also some getting pen, sions. True, some would pre fer the small cottage type place, and it should be "close in, as many elderly people are not considered as saic drivers as some, and Uicre should also be some place for recreational activity near these homes or apartments. So I for one, am sure there are many others in my cate gory that would like to sec some of you builders get busy on a project of this kind. It's being done In oilier places, but we like Medford, and want to live here. Some places furnish the re frigerator and a range in the apartments and the tenant may use his own other furnish' ings as he wishes. Yes, the old armory grounds might be used tor such a place. Nothing too fancy, just comfortable and livable, as many of us only have around $100 per month as Income, some even less. Dominican But Duvalier and His Problems Remain By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Haiti's dictator -President Francois Duvalier was a little like the weather this week - everyone was talking about him but there seemed little that any one could do about him. After two weeks of crisis, the threat of war )m on the little island of His- paniola, shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, seemed to be receding. Interestingly, the very dem ocratic forces which Duvalier effectively had destroyed among Haiti's 4.2 million wretched people, were among those helping him to remain in office. One of these was the peace team dispatched by the Or ganization of American States to Port au Prince and to San to Domingo to attempt to me diate the quarrel which had led Dominican President Juan Bosch to threaten to send his troops plunging across the Hai tian border. The other was the United Nations to which Duvalier had appealed on the charge that the Dominican Republic threatened Haiti's "democrat ic institutions." Among African nations there was a sentiment that Du- Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris lc Field Enterprises. Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES The trouble with the con servative approach to society is that it wants to deal with men as they USED to be, and the trouble with the liberal approach is that it wants to deal with men as they OUGHT to be; thus, men as they ARE tend to be ignored by doc trinaires of both factions. It is easier to make his tory than to write it: the lunatic who killed Lincoln made it, but no single his torian has yet succeded in giving us the definite por trait of the Civil War and its aftermath, despite thou sands of books on tha sub ject in the last century. The author who sits down to write a certain book or play, and knows exactly what he intends to say in it, and keeps unswervingly to this original purpose - such a man cannot write a genuinely im aginative or creative work, for unless the creation takes over and guides the author to a purpose and in a direction he did not conceive in the begin ning, his work will be still born. When a person says with great finality, "I know my own mind," what he com monly means is that his feelings have ordered his mind to stop thinking on the subject. Why the country life is called "the simple life" has always baffled me-in terms of the diverse number of things one needs to know, and the multifarious activities one needs to engage in, the coun try life is the most complex of all; but its very complexity provides a personal satisfac tion not found in the automa tism of urban living. A certain amount of jeal ousy is natural and reasona ble! but the unreasonably jealous man, far from valu ing his wife or sweetheart, is really depreciating her, for his jealousy is based on the hidden assumption that she will easily capitulate to anyone attractive who comet along, that she is cheap, easy and fickle. Clarity is the enemy of prophecy; if you are going to set up shop as a prophet, you must assiduously cultivate an obscure style of expression, like the ancient oracles, whose prophecies could be interpret ed in either of two contrasting ways, depending on the course of events. The most succinct and ef fective critique of revolu tionary movements was written by Joseph Conrad long before the Russian ex periment verified his obser vations: "A violent revolu tion falls into the hands of narrow-minded fanatics and of tyrannical hypocrites at first. Afterwards comes the turn of all the pretentious intellectual failures of the time. Such are the chiefs and leaders. The scrupulous and the just, the noble, hu mane and devoted natures, may begin a movement-but it passes from them , . . they are its victims." Let's hear from some one else on this matter. Also, you house builders, what do you say? This is a needed project. (Name on file) Medford - Haitian War Threat Recedes, valier's UN charges siiould be debated. But both OAS and the pos sible UN action simply con sisted of delaying tactics. For. while Bosch agreed to hold off military action pend ing OAS findings and Haiti agreed to release "little by little" an estimated 100 ref ugees in asylum In foreign embassies, the underlying causes for violence remained within Haiti itself. From his presidential pal ace Duvalier shouted defiant- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The hot spot in the news - apart, of course, from politics, scandal and similar stand-bys of the news picture - is the big Caribbean island of His- paniola, whose eastern two- thirds is the Dominican Re public, and whose western third is the Negro republic of Haiti. As this is written, President Juan Bosch is preparing open ly for a possible invasion of Haiti to topple the regime of Haiti's autocratic president Francois Duvalier. Duvalier vows this morn ing he will NEVER step down under pressure. He tells his people: "I am a revolutionary in every sense . . . not a senti mental type, but one- of the hard kind. I have for my com panion MY RIFLE." I T C NAVAL units are stand J 3 ing off HaitL About 220 American women and chil dren have been ordered to be ready to leave at once, and all other Americans are being encouraged to leave the coun try. ACROSS the Windward Pas sage from the Island of Hispaniola is the big island of Cuba, which is in BAD trou ble. There is considerable un rest all over the West Indies -with the notable exception of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. They are American terri tory. Puerto Rico is a free com monwealth associated with the United States. The Virgin Islands are a territory of the U.S., and their people have been U.S. citizens since 1927. THAT brings up some inter esting history. The purchase of Alaska from Russia was the begin ning of a general but prema ture expansion movement that followed our War between the States. Secretary of War Sew ard, who had handled the Alaska purchase, declared he wanted to see the Union ex tended "from the Pole to the Tropics." There were some negotia tions with Denmark for the purchase of the West Indian island of St. Thomas for $7.5 million, but the senate turned it down. AN EFFORT was then made by President Grant to bring about the annexation of the Dominican Republic. In May of 1869, he sent one of his private secretaries. General Babcock, in a warship to in quire into the condition and resources of the island. Bab cock, acting without instruc tions, concluded a treaty with a Dominican named Bacz who headed what government there was there, for the an nexation of the island with the U.S. to assume the Do minican debt of $1.5 million The senate turned down the treaty, partly because it doubled the authority of Baez to make a treaty and also be cause the Negro republic was then, as now, a hot-bed of revolution. That more or less ended the expansion movement into the Caribbean area. IT MIGHT be Interesting here to sketch briefly our ac quisition of Alaska. We had always more or less had an eye on Alaska and as far back as the Polk adminis tration we had offered five million dollars for it, but nothing came of the deal. Lat er Russia (under the czar) de cided to sell it to us if he could get a fair price. In February of 1867, the czar's minister at Washington offered it to us for $10 mil lion. Secretary of State Sew ard came back with an offer of $5 million, which he later upped to $7.2 million. t BOUT a month later, while " Secretary Seward was en joying a game of whist at his home, Russia's Baron Stoeckcl called (in person, there were no phones then) to tell him cable dispatch announcing the czar's acceptance had been re ceived, and suggested that the treaty be signed the next day Seward replied: "Why wait till tomorrow, sir? Let's make the treaty tonight." So they called in the neces sary clerk:, and by 4 a.m. the treaty was all drawn up and ready to be submitted to the Senate. They worked fast back in those days. ly that he had been given pow er and that "God is the only one who will take it from me." But forces had been set in motion that would be difficult to stop. The U. S. long since naa indicated its distaste for Du valier and in proof of the ex pectation of further violence began removing its citizens from Haiti. Even if he desisted from di rect military action, Bosch himself could be expected to continue to work for Duva tier's downfall with the strong moral support of such as Pres ident Romulo Betancourt of Venezuela and Gov. Luis Mu noz Marin of Puerto Rico. In fact in the whole of the Caribbean area, Duvalier Matter of Fact c) New York Herald THE CHANGE OF COMMAND '. Washington There is more than one hidden meaning in the recently announced de cisions concerning the Joint Chiefs of Staff. To begin with, the reten tion of Gen. Curtis LeMay as Chief of Air Staff for one more year means, in part, that Secretary of Defense Robert McNa mara has been learning about politics the Aitnp hard way. McNamara warmly admires LeMay as the last truly great, battle-tested fight ing leader on active service, but their day-to-day working relations have been extremely difficult-to put it very mildly indeed. A year ago, even six months ago, the Defense Secretary would certainly have sought a replacement for LeMay in stead of extending his term. But the LeMay record that McNamara so much admires is also admired in Congress and the country. And recent harsh lessons have taught Mc Namara to be more defferen tial to Congressional and pub lic opinion. THEN too, the scars oft the TFX affair are discernible in the parallel decision to re place Adm. George W. An derson with Adm. David L. McDonald. The Navy's resist ance to the simple idea of a common fighter-aircraft de sign for both Air Force and Navy was broken only by the removal of two leading Ad mirals from the Navy staff. The retiring Chief of Naval OpeVations is also held guilty of having talked one way about the TFX in the Penta gon and quite another way be fore Sen. McClellan s special investigating committee. Yet these facts bearing on the retention of LeMay and the retirement of Anderson are only superficial and tem porary in their significance, compared to the really cen tral fact behind these two de cisions. The really central fact is that the Navy's turn has come at last. The Navy has always been the most resist ant to change and the most impervious to civilian control of the three armed services In his gigantic task of reform ing and modernizing the whole apparatus of national defense, Secretary McNa mara began with the Army and Air Force. Now, how ever, the much more difficult job of fitting the Navy into the unified design is finally being tackled. 'PHE main reason for not re- appointing Adm. Ander son, one may be quite confl dent, was the certainty that he would fight to the death against any attempts to fit the Navy into a unified de fense design. He has been USiiMfts, S, funs. ta n "You mean to tell me, with all the foreign aid we've spent down here, the average housewife can't afford an automatic ieuiili-maktr?" could look for help to no one. Duvalier s own claim to a second term clearly was fraud ulent, both by the terms on which he claimed it and by the Haitian constitution. The policy of non-interven-tlon bound both the United States and the OAS, but the spotlight of events had been placed on Haiti and now tha OAS might consider condi tions inside Haiti itself a threat to hemispheric peace. Inside Haiti, Duvalier's en emies are legion and active. Even his own private 10,000 "bogeyman" militia could not be wholly trusted. When it comes, it seems the end of Duvalier must be violent. The tragedy is for the added sufferings it must bring to the people of Haiti, By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate outspokenly Impatient of all civilian judgments of military matters, including the judg ments of the President and the Secretary of Defense. He was even critical when Secretary McNamara kept a night-and-day watch on the Cuban blockade, to make sure that the Navy heeded the careful nuances 'of the Presi dent's policy in the hair-rais- ingly dangerous days before Khrushchev gave in. Thus Anderson was drop ped, because he was so sura to resist any changes in naval plans and programs which, may later be decided upon, while LeMay was retained, in part because of Congressional feelings, but also because the Air Force has already had its turn. It must be added that the naval changes that are likely to be decided upon can not yet be defined, precisely because the Navy's turn has just begun. VVfHAT is now happening is a kind of exploratory dia logue, designed to lay out all the facts in an orderly man ner. The participants are the Navy's planners and a De partment of Defense group headed by one of the ablest McNamara staff members, Alain Enthoven. Questions are being asked that have never really been asked with authority before, about the value of the exist ing, large, immensely costly force of attack carriers, about the validity of me Navy staff's conviction that we must have a four-ocean Navy, about the balance between attack car riers, anti-submarine forces, and Polaris submarines, in short about the eventual size and composition of the Navy. Some fairly unexpected facts have already emerged, such as the fact, until recent ly not divulged to the Secre tary of Defense, that each of our attack carriers at sea is subject to pinpoint spotting from the Soviet Union by long range radio directional ap paratus. rr IS not clear yet when the final results of the Penta gon dialogue will be. It was precisely because no decisive result has been reached, in fact, that Secretary McNa mara on Sunday deferred a final answer to the Navy's request to go over to nuclear power plants for all its larger ships. Yet the dialogue's drift suggests eventual changes both in the composition and the size of the Navy. In par ticular, both the four-ocean concept and the present lion's share of investment in attack carriers appear to be in dan ger. If Secretary McNamara de-. cides such changes are in or der, he will go forward, damning the torpedoes. But even with a new Chief of Naval Operations, he can count on great numbers of torpedoes. n
