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Newspaper Page Text4 a : vaont la"SouttjjTOOfijjoir Uai TIM mM nm KSSIiiSiTfilly except Saturday by ROBERT W KUIIL, buiu HERB GREY AdvertWnl Manaier EARL H ADAMS, cfty Editor . HARRV CBIHMAN. Tl Edit?' RICHARD JEWETT Sport. Ed tor OLIVE STARCHEB Women Edlto. DALE ERiatrcuUaonMr An"too3tnt Newepei Inured u eecond clan matter at Mediord. Oreaon under Act of SUBSCRIPTION RATES Deny ana ouiiurj -r-r: Dell .nd Sundey-3 mot SAO Sunday Oiuy-pne year tSM Slnlle Copy (Mailed! 100 By cirnei And Motor Routt. Delly and Sunday-I year W1.00 Dally ano Bunoa; BunHnv Only 1 mO. WO Carrier and Venoon Copy loo Ornclal Taper or ti7 w official PapejrJanoiuity United Preae iniernanonai rull Leaaed Wire 0. r 1 Telephoto Newplcturee e'rTsU1I;a:ssocj. ATES Oflcee In New York, CrJ cato. Detroit, San rranciico, Loa Antele. Seattle. Portland Denver, H AT I O N A i EDITORIAL kf I lASubCMTlSM m Mentoer California Newipaper PubUihera Aiaoclauon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Hitory from the tllei of The Mall Trlbun. 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Mar M. 1" (Thursday) The Mail Tribune news room has been moved to the second lloor of the Mail Trib une building. All employees of the .sea son county roads department will receive a 10 cents an hour wage increase effective July 1 under a new county court order. ' 20 YEARS AGO May 14. 143 (Friday) Outpost, servicemen's rec reation center on Sixth st., to be devoted to use of young officers, their wives and Army From Arthur ' Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot column: "ura- iM ara nii(lffi bv the Antl Saloon league for the return of prohibition. It appears c wind and water campaign ia shaping up." .;v. 30 YEARS AGO May 14, 1133 (Sunday) '" Sam Jennings and Roland Hubbard battle through snow drifts to reach Diamond lake. Fish in Rogue river make way over Savage Rapids dam without trouble, according to game commission agents. 40 YEARS AGO May 14. 1923 (Monday) Government map marking airplane expected to land at Medford airport today. William Von der Hellen re ceives contract tor surfacing eight miles of Crater Lake highway between Trail and Prospect. SO YEARS AGO May 14. 1913 (Wednesday) Medford man arrested In Portland on contempt charge after becoming Intoxicated shortly before he Is scheduled to appear as witness In feder al court. Rogue valley newspapers hit by paper shortage as car load of newsprint disappears between Portland and Med ford. What's Your I.Q.? Mine ai ten correct li luaerien even w olibt ft axsllenti (We er la h toed. 1. The porta of Colombo and Trlncomalce are on which Island In the Indian Ocean? 2. Complete the proverb, "Beware the fury of a man." 3. Docs the phrase "bib and tucker" refer to the rigging of a yacht, a species of fish or clothing? 4. In what sport Is the Wightman Cup awarded? 6. How many legs do homo centipedes have? 6. From where did the Moors emigrate to Spain? 7. Paganinl was a composer of 0era, a famous violinist, or an orchestra conductor? 8. Which of these does not grow on a bush or tree: wal nut, butternut, doughnut, hazelnut? 0. Are there any roller skating events In the Olympic Games? 10. In which field of art Is Oeorge Szell famous? Answers! 1, Ceylon, 3. Pa' flent. 3. Clothing. 4, Tennis, t. 19 pairs. I. North Africa. T. Violinist. I. Doughnut. . Mo. 10. Music symphony conductor pVjJ-AIOCIAtlON TUESDAY. MAY 14. 1I3 Try Outlawing Sin We herewith encourage the Medford city council to pass an ordinance outlawing sin. It would make just as much sense as passing an ordinance to control air pollution without any realistic way in which to enforce it. Year after year the air over Medford has gotten dirtier and dirtier. Year after year the protests of outraged citizens mount. Year after year me eviuence accumulates uiu an punuuun T 1 1 1 ..A tA li.nUli A nlAnnlinaeo IS a naztUU a Jici6ouu vj e e e YEAR after year until this year the city council did nothing except make noises about "voluntary cooperation nomic harm." Well, blast it, continued air pollution IS do ing plenty of economic harm to housewives, to those with sensitive health, to anyone who owns a home and furniture, or an inventory. Voluntary cooperation has gotten just plain nowhere with the single exception of the or chardists, who saw the handwriting on the wall, knew they'd have to comply sometime, and, to their eternal credit, started a hard, five-year road to minimizing smudge. : MOW, happily, the state has new clean - up power. So, would the city council rather leave it up to the state? That is how local authority is lost. This year, for the first time, the council has shown signs of living up to its responsibility to do for ourselves what we can and should do, and not go running to the state to bail us out. An ordinance was drawn up. Then what happened? All its teeth were drawn. In effect, it says, "Please folks, don't dirty up the air." We are not suiriresting that those responsible for air pollution should forthwith be drawn and quartered. But we are morally sure that if the ordinance doesn't have sufficient enforcement clauses it will be ignored. MO ONE wants to put anyone, else out of busi- ness. No one wants to create undue economic hardship on any group or class. But there IS economic hardship, as well as other kinds, on everyone right now. And the time to start correcting it is right now. A sensible program of air pollution study, and moderate measures of control, can be started al most immediately, but only if the authorities are given the authority to do something about it. As facts and methods, are discovered, the program can and should be broadened. Anvthine less is a shruerine of responsibility. or else blind idiocy. Take City Council Roster If you have any reason to communicate with your representative on the Medford city council, and want to know now, nere s now: Ward I (North of Main and HIHcrest, East of SP tracks) William Singler (772-S780) and Robert Cun i ningham (772-9622). Ward II (South of West Main Street, West of SP tracks) Jack Edson (772-7868) and Joe H 0 s 1 c k (772-8824). Ward III (North of West Main Street, West of SP : tracks) R. L. Van Sickle (772-3780) and Robert Bac cus (772-7823). ' Ward IV (South of East Main and East of SP tracks) Dick Travis (772-4698) and Terry Green (773-6146). Mayor James Dunlevy (772-9352). ' Clip and save for future reference. E.A. Soft Answer? Just about every legislator state or national at one time or another It is never pleasant to receive, particularly by a man who is working long hours and days doing what he thinks is right. Senator Thomas Kuchel, California Kepubli- can, received so mucn aousive man irom tne crackpots of the far right that he spoke out. tiL i-ii i. ' 1 1 . j 1. i a . .- : .... nig ihik was a outer ana ntuu-imuiig muici ment of abusive letters. A RATHER more moderate approach to similar "tactics was adopted recently by one of our own legislators, State Rep. James Redden, Demo crat of Medford. In response to an abusive letter, he replied : "Dear- "Thank you for your temperate and understanding letter of (recent date). "It Is always a pleasure to correspond with one of differing vtewa who is willing to consider, even for a moment, that their personal views may not be the only possible views on the subject. "Certainly your statements and Inferences that I , am: (a) a Communist, (b) a Socialist, (c) a Union-stooge, (d) one with 'sloppy' reasoning, (e) one with a 'sloppy' sense of responsibility, (0 Ignorant, and (g) gutless, are not considered a rebuke, but merely as the con structive criticism of one who is blessed with a gentle and open mind. "Very truly yours," 11 James A. Redden It is said that "A soft answer turncth away wrath." The problem here answer or not. b.A. Which A story in the Klamath Falls paper states that the Link river, connecting Upper Klamath lake with Lake Ewauna, is "believed to be the shortest river in the U.S. . . ." Residents of north Lincoln county will tell you that the D river at DeLake is the "shortest river in the world." Let now the geonraphv buffs tret at this Dress.- ing question and settle ..!,,.." I ! ".. . coi iiyci ia til i-jjuil. jicaiui aim vicaiiuucooi e e and possibility 01 eco your pick. E. A. receives abusive mail. is whether this is a soft One? it. Presumably the "short- T..i .. . r. DUl wnicn onei a.ft. "I Wai Doing A ... Communications ... Letters io the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of pen nan 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 publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed ia this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Principles To the Editor: "We have no greater responsibility than the education of our youth," said Sen. Gaylord Nelson at Hedrick Junior High school last Saturday ngiht. Education Is indeed one of our major responsibilities, but is it the greatest? Our nation is better educated than ever in its history and our educational facilities are con stantly being improved. But according to many competent authorities the major crisis we face is not education but character. J. Edgar Hoover, FBI di rector, has repeatedly warn ed Americans of the lack of moral fibre in our national life. "Americans," he said last year, "are in danger of becoming irresolute, h a 1 f- hearted, irresponsible weak lings. Unless we meet this crisis with vigor and speed we will pay with the lite of our republic." Eugene Gilbert, president of the Gilbert Youth Re search Company, states that a majority of American youth today stress materialism and the attainment of luxuries as their goal in life. History has proved that a nation whose people are run by selfish aims ultimately perishes. Arnold Toynbee, historian, says that of 21 ma jor civilizations 19 perished not from external conquest but from the evaporation of belief and purpose within. In Boston, Elliott Norton of the Boston Record-American, considered the dean of critics, was watching a new type of play, "Music at Mid night," by Peter Howard, English author and play wright. Norton described the central theme of the play as the basic belief that the world crisis can be solved if all men submit their wills to God's will." It Is an unusual play for, as Norton says, "to say 'God' is as uncommon in the theater today as profanity and obscenity used to be. But," he said, "the proposi tion is a great one. If you can change the world in this dra matic way it would be some thing we all want." This is what the world has always needed. It is what is needed now. It is what Jesus came to teach. This change can come about only by change In individual lives -not only of our leaders but of yours and mine. We must strive for purity in our own lives and be ready to treat our fellow men with' love, honesty and unselfishness. When these principles are in effect we will be well on our way to solving crises in our own lives. In labor-management problems, and in nation al and international relation ships. A. Ray Neptune, Rogue Valley Manor, Medford From the Dog's Owner To the Editor: In reference to the article In the May i paper by Mrs. D. L. Swank: I am the owner of the little dog that was poisoned on South Peach st. 1 think there are a few facta Mrs. Swank should know before making a statement of that sort. First of all my dog was not a stray dog. She was kept Inside the house the mnjor'ty of the lime and when let out side she was confined in a six foot fence completely sur rounding the yard. There was no way In which she could have been let out as a chain was kept around tho lock on the fence. Because she was so close lo us, we protected her as we would have small child. She never barked ex cept to alert us when a strang er was at the door. She never dug holes, as she was not out. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. Little Slicing- side long enough. We also have a small flower garden in the backyard and in the three years we had her, she never once touched that gar den. I think there are a few oth er facts that should be known. Upon Investigating, the police found a hole which someone had made in our fence and a shovel, a pile of dirt, and a hamburger filled with rat poisoning on the other side. Also, one other thought' for Mrs. Swank. Summer will be here soon. There will be many little children outside, and what a tragedy if it had been a small child. I do not sympa thize with our neighbor being fined charged $50 because I would not have taken a mil lion dollars for my baby dog. Danielle Graham, Age 18, . 817 So. Peach St., Medford Happy Christians To the Editor: A friend ac costed me In a local market the other day. "Henry, did you see that letter from the lady in Prescott, Ariz.?" he said. I answered In the affirm ative and told him I had per sonally answered it. He then wanted to know what I told her. Also he added, "I be lieve everything she said." I refer here to Lydia Burn ham's letter "Pagan Fables." Now I am not going to take a lot of space to answer this letter. In fact my faith in the word of God as written in the Bible, is even stronger. What Mrs. Burnham said about Eas ter and its Pagan origin is true. However, her statement, "No one ever rose from the dead and no one ever will," I question. It has been 1963 years since Jesus Christ our Lord was here. The date on this issue of the Tribune bears this out. Either our Lord was an im poster or He was the true Messiah. This world has known some great teachers, Buddha, -Mohammed and Con fuciotts, to name a few. One can visit their tombs today. Inside those tombs He the bod ies of these men. But the tomb of .our Lord is empty. He arose and thank God He lives. How do I know He lives? Simply this. Christ Je sus lives in the hearts of His children today everywhere. True many give a false wit ness of their Saviour's love. When our Lord dwells in the heart, the life of that indi vidual will be changed. No, a Christian will not wear a halo around his head. He may make mistakes. But hi, whole being will be charged with that revitalizing influence that our Lord has made on his heart. Why shouldn't a Christian be happy? He has a hope, yes, a blessed hope. All of his ac tivities will be bent toward helping others find the Sa viour. Our Lord's resurrec tion, His intercession, and soon coming is the world's only hope. Sad to say many church members leave the impression that Christianity is a tedious, sorrowful life. Reminds me of the Utile lad who on passing a cow pasture asked, "daddy is that cow a Christian?" His shocked par ent asked why he asked such a question. "Well daddy, it has a long face like grandpa, and grandpa is a Christian " Let's be happy Christians. Henry Johnson Jr. 2315 Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. Unwed Mothers To the Editor: On May 10 Mr. Stuart R. Stimmel, state director of the Boys and Girls Aid Society of Oregon, ad MEDFORD. OREGON Rumors of May Suggest Hungarian Easing By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Back in February, 1849, i dull-eyed man in a Budapest courtroom pleaded guilty to treason against Communist Hungary. The man was Jo se f Cardinal 3' Mindszen ty To this day, there has been no c I e a r ac count as to the methods the Commun ists used to torture such a -iewaom confessions from the austere cardinal who had fought both the Nazis and the Commun ists. He himself had warned ear lier that if he should be ar rested and brought to a trumped-up trial, no one should believe him if some how such a confession should be extracted from him. The Communist court sen tenced him to life imprison- dressed a group of 17 Jackson county residents who were in Portland for a tour of child care agencies which receive support ' through the United Crusade and other united funds. During the discussion fol lowing his talk, the question was raised as to how many children were born out of wedlock in Oregon. Some of the group had seen a news paper report that the rate for the first six months of 1962 was nearly 10 per cent. Mr. Stimmel was sure this was a typographical error and prom ised to get accurate figures. In a letter to me received May 11 he states, "Actually the Oregon rate during the first six months of 1962 was 42 out-of-wedlock births for every thousand live births." As this information is of In terest to a larger group than our tour members, I am send ing it on to you. The Boys and Girls Aid So ciety is one of several volun teer agencies in Oregon help ing to solve the problems of unwed mothers. These agen cies receive help through con tributors to united fund cam paigns to supplement income from agency fees and tax sources. United fund alloca tions, based on population, use of the services, and the generosity of contributors, amount to approximately one third of the total expense of the agencies. Harold B. Cook Executive Director The United Crusade . Medford. What He Says To the Editor: I speak, I write, I tell of what I believe and what I have learned from experience. Everything I say Is not necessarily, right and I am the first to admit that I am just as prone to errors and omissions as the next fellow. However there may be here and there a point of differenti ation. This is a point I want to make clear. If I recommend something to any one, I will not lie to you about it. I will not say I tasted something if it never passed my Hps. I do not lie, for a liar must have a long memory. Mine is short. I know I don't lie for if I did I would worry about being found out. I tell the truth for it is easier and I know no other way. No man knows all the an swers, whether it be about food, health, disease, tobacco or drink. Many know some of the answers but to gulp down everything a man says would be like taking a drink of everything just because it was wet and one was thirsty. If a man Is sincere, accept his sincerity without accept ing everything said as gospel. Some of the things I say may sound ridiculous or un believable. I repeat, "I tell you only what I believe to be truth. I will not pass on or repeat a lie." I write jocular and humor ously vein is absolutely true. I enjoy fun and Joking as well as the next fellow. But when I make a serious statement they are true to the best of my knowledge. With the pro found wish you'll accept them and benefit from my knowl edge. Ersla Dykes, Central Point. Juit Lika a Mule To the Editor: My old bur ro In Colorado wuz an ahdent New Dealah. He would run around Placerville all night slngln' the New Deal Slogan: "I ain't got nuttin' to fcah but fcah itself." Now Placerville wuz just a small town of five buildings and he thinks there ain't nuttin' to get scared about. He did, until one night t Cardinal ment and, except for 120 hours of freedom during the Hungarian revolt in 1956, that was almost the last the out side world was to see of Mindszenty. As the Hungarian revolt crumpled under the weight of Russian tanks, the cardinal took sanctuary in the U. S. Legation in Budapest and has remained there since. In recent days, the name of Cardinal Mindszenty has ap peared again in the news col umns. News dispatches from Rome, Warsaw, Vienna and Buda pest have suggested that ne gotiations between the Soviet Union and the Vatican to im prove their relations already are far advanced, and tnat safe passage for Mindszenty from Hungary might be part of a package deal, For the Vatican to attempt to improve the conditions of the "silent church" behind the Iron Curtain is understand able. Kremlin reasons for reach ing or seeking such an accord seem more obscure, A first reaction must be that it is a confession of de feat, that Communist oppres sion of religion only has stif fened the determination of the oppressed, and that Minds- Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris fc Field Entensrlaea, Ine. YOU WAS A young woman of my ac quaintance who is learning English during her first year in this coun try asked me the other day, If was' Is a singular verb, and 'were' is a plural verb, why do we say 'you were' when talking about only Bam. one person? Shouldn't it be 'you was.'?" This is one of the troubles in learning so flex ible, so sprawling and so illogical a language as English.. "You was" is today considered the depth of ignorance and llllter- acy, an outrageous breach of grammar. And it would sur prise most people to learn it was not always so. . . "You were" is a matter of custom, not of grammar at all. The locution "you was' may be found in many of the best 18th century writers. Fielding's classic "Tom Jones" has all its characters lords, lawyers, preachers and teachers s a y t n g "you was. None of them ever says you were. Cowpar, 176S, begins one of his letters, "I am ex ceedingly obliged to you for tho letter with which you was so kind to favor me," And Byron, as late at the composition of "Don Juan," used the linei "You was not last year at the fair of Lugo," Most of the "purest" writers of the 18th century followed this practice Addison, Pope. Swift and Horace Walpole. What hap pened, however, was that In subsequent editions the edi tors altered "you was" to "you were" in order to eon form to modern usage. All editions of "Tom Jones" published in the last cen tury made these changes. When the pronoun "thou" began to be abandoned in faor of "you," the word "you" was considered as singular where only one person was concerned (fol lowing "thou wast"). "Was you" referred to one per son) "were you" to two or more, e e Before the 17th century, 'thou" was the singular pro noun, and "you" was the plural only. When the former was dropped, "you" came to have too much work to do, and thus was weakened by overwork. The Southern ex pression "you-all" sounds ridi culous and affected In the North but it Is psychologically understandable as a means of distinguishing between the singular and the plural "you." If English grammare were logical, for Instance, singular verbs would not end In "s" ("he looks"), while the plural would not be without the "s" ("they look"). Language will never be amenable to logic because, as someone has said, people began talking before they began thinking. he got to singin' loudah and loudah, and found out It waz a bum slogan wot he had been singin'. He got kicked into the San Miguel Rivah by an Ihon Hoss at midnight. When he got out at daylight, he quit singin' and Joined the Republicans. Everett Acklin Ashland. Ore. i Mindszenty's Release zentv's presence in Hungary serves as a rallying symbol and a continuing threat to Communist goals. Certainly, it does not mean that communism is abandon ing the atheism which was one of Lenin's basic concepts. One reason might be an ex periment in c o-e x 1 s tence which already has had signif icant results in Hungary. It began with an assertion from Hungarian Premier Jan os Kadar that henceforth he would consider "for" his re Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop (cl New YorJgeMlaJJMgijrjJndlcata BIRMINGHAM! THE UNTOLD STORY (Editor's note. The fol lowing column was written after the agreement of Negro-White accord in Birm ingham, but before bomb ings led to new outbreaks of violence.) Washlngton-The desperate ly ugly story in Birmingham, Alamaba, is ending for which every Ameii can should be fer vently thank ful. One way of celebrating is to tell the story's untold part. The un told part of the Birming ham story be gan just over two vears affo. AJanp when Attorney-General Rob ert Kennedy, newly sworn in as his brother's youngest Cab inet member, ordered a care ful Justice Department sur vey of all the potential cen ters of racial trouble in the South. The survey, for whics all the Justice Department's in- formation-collecting resources were used, pin-pointed Birm ingham as Just about the most explosive Southern city. No less than 18 months ago, therefore, an effort was fore handedly started to de-fuse the Birmingham problem in sofar as this was possible. THE Department's quiet but effective civil rights spe cialist, Burke Marshall, and the head of the Tax Division, Lou Oberdorfer. who comes from Birmingham, went there to talk with the local editors and leading Birmingham bus iness men. Attorney-General Kennedy meanwhile approached the na tional executives of the Scripps-Howard and New- house newspaper chains which own the Bir mingham papers, national executives of the chain depart ment stores doing business in the city, and certain Alabama political leaders. Kennedy, Marshall, and Oberdorfer all made the same plea, for meas ures of reform in Birming ham before things sot out of hand. Their pleas did not fall on deaf ears. The wiser business men in Birmingham were already be ginning to realize that the city's established, iron-fisted nablts of segregation could not be maintained, without grave danger and heavy losses all around. To avert the dan ger, a Senior Citizen's Com mittee was formed by the City Chamber of Commerce, under tne leadership of Sid ney W. Smyer, a lawyer and real estate excutive. N THE city election, more over, the more far-sighted white community leaders strongly supported the reform ticket headed by Mary-elect Albert Boutwell, against the incumbent, extremist city gov ernment controlled by the Po lice Commissioner, "Bull Connor. With the help of Ne gro votes, which in turn re sulted from a registration drive sponsored by leaders of the Birmingham Negro community, Boutwell won the election, During the climax of the election, the Rev. Martin Luther King three times be gan to organize anti-segrega 7$5 Is Rights S7 "Hey. gang ... the of Rule gime all those who were not actively against. One result was the release of an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 prisoners, both criminal and political, from Hungarian jails. It is possible that Commu nist leaders now feel they can extend their "humanization" to the church. If such is to bo the case, it can only be ac cepted as good. But it should not be accepted aa any' basic change in communism's intent to rule the world. tion demonstrations in Birm Ingham. Each time, the Justice Department watchers-on-tha spot relayed the word to Washington, and Attorney General Kennedy managed to dissuade King, on the ground that demonstrations would ad versely affect the election re sult. When Boutwell won, how ever, and Bull Connor began to contest the election result in the courts, Martin Luther King moved to Birmingham and began to lead demonstra tions on a small scale. After some weeks, the schoolchil dren were called out. Tha mass jailings began. And so the grim events started to un fold which every newspaper reader will remember. e AN SATURDAY a week ago, "Assistant Attorney-General Burke Marshall therefore re turned post-haste to Birming ham, to seek a peaceful settle ment. Among the Negro lead ers, there had not yet been any agreement on the reforms tho mass demonstrations were ln tended to produce. And evert the most modrate white lead; ers had no notion what tho Negro demonstrators desired, since they never sat down with the Negro leaders to dis cuss common problems. While Marshall was organ izing the difficult beginnings of a dialogue, Attorney-General Kennedy was on tho telephone to persons with some leverage In Birmingham, and especially to the national executives of the Birmingham chain department stores. Sec retary' of the Treasury Doug las Dillon, and even Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, who has friends in the Birm ingham business community, also joined the telephone cam paign. The first result was an agreement by the chain de partment stores to meet tha Negroes' demands, now clear ly formulated by Burke Mar shall's request, for desegre gation of lunch counters and other facilities. But the de partment stores did not wish to take action in isolation. fPHVS the key episode of tho A Birmingham story was a secret meeting on Wednesday, of the bankers, steel execu tives, and other chief persona in the city's economic life. The two-score and more per sons at the meeting voted with only one dissenting voice that the time for reform was now. After that meeting, which was strongly influenced by the telephone campaign al ready described, the rug was effectively, pulled out from under the last-ditch segrega tionists in Birmingham. The arrest of Rev. Martin Luther King was in fact a final, fair ly desperate attempt to in flame Negro passions, and thus to prevent the reforms already agreed on by the lead' ers of Birmingham's white community. The failure of that attempt, and the consequent beginning of an ew era in Birmingham, are now history. Of that his tory, some earlier passages are shameful to remember; yet it Is also pleasant to recall the roles played by common sense and moderation and long headed preparation. which was all the more effec tive because it was not aimed at the grandstand. dogs are eomlngl"