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History from tha files of The
M..I Trlr,r, 10. 20. 30. 40
end SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Mar IS. 1953 (Friday)
Convening members of the
Pacific Northwest Shrine as
sociation got down to the
serious business of their con
vention here today with elec
tion of association officers at
the conclave's first business
meeting.
Members of the Medford
city council voted today to
purchase a site at Ruhl Way
and Valley View dr. for $4,000
as a proposed site for an east
side fire station.
20 YEARS AGO
Ma? IS, 1943 (Saturday)
Medford High school track
team ends one of the most
successful seasons with vie
torv in Bend relays. , .
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudae Pot" column: "Some
rriore brides-elect, and grooms.
also elected, due to loon e
ureacher in the eye in June,
have shown up on the social
horizon.
30 YEARS AGO
May IS. 1933 (Monday)
Medford to be headquarters
for 18 Civilian Conservation
Corps camps in southern Ore
gon. County court refuses use of
courthouse for meeting to
form Jackson county branch
of Communist party.
40 YEARS AGO
May IS, 1923 (Tuesday)
New Playgrounds opened
opposite Medford High school.
The Valley House, Gold
Hill landmark, is torn down.
SO YEARS AGO
May IS, 1913 (Thursday)
Some 2,500,000 stcelhcad to
be released in Rogue and Ap
plegate rivers by state game
and fish commission during
coming month.
Horse driven by W. D. West,
Applegate, runs away on
Medford's Main street after
being frightened by automo
bile; West thrown from car
riage, which was smashed;
horse still missing.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is eacfilknt,' five or
sis Is good.
1. The Oilers play for
which city in the American
Football League?
2. Who was the first disciple
of Christ?
3. On April 30, 1789, George
Washington took part in what
historical events in New York
City?
4. Only one bird has eyes
which look straight ahead;
cun you name It?
S. A blanket of snow keeps
the soil wann; true or false?
1 8. Does sitccharin have any
fond value?
7. Who is known as 'he
father of medicine?
8. Is sleeping sickness !
cuusud by a virus? I
. wiiul vitamin which
U til .. l
1. uiivia iii-aiiuy glim.-, hiiu
keeps the body's glandular
network functioning is found
in citrus and other fruits?
10. What marshal of Franco
was generalissimo of the Al
lied Armies in France in
WWI?
Answtrsi 1, Houslon, Ttx.
2. Polar, 3. His lnaguralioit.
4. Owl. S. Trua. 9. No. 7. Hip
pocrates, t. No - by ( parasita
carried by lha tsatia fly. 9.
Vilamin C. 10. Ferdinand
Foch.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15. 1863
School Budget Voting
. It's probably a little late in the season to bring
the matter up, since most school budgets have
already been voted on, and because it has been
explained so many times in the past.
But it is evident that many people still do not
know why they have to vote on school budgets
each year, nor why the amounts "outside the 6
per cent limitation" sometimes seem so vast.
Answers to both are fairly simple, and can be
answered in one word: Growth.
BACK BEFORE World War II, school popula
tions were relatively stable, the number of
students was inceasing only gradually, and prices
were not going up year after year.
So most school districts were able to operate
on their fixed tax bases,
the 6 per cent increase
the state Constitution.
But after the war,
And the war stimulated
sendine uu the number of
Within a few yars,
alone: and hit the elementary schools.
Too. teachers' salaries began to rise, after
long remaining below standards
THESE FACTORS combined were so great that
the school districts' tax bases soon became
wholly inadequate. With school populations
jumping each year, the b per cent increases per
missible were nowhere near enough to keep up.
So patrons had to vote approval each year.
And this same process of growth growth in
size, growth in necessary expenditures, growth
in number of teachers. Growth in school facilities
has cone on year after
tricts. the amount outside
exceeds that within the limitation.
That, in brief, is why voters have to turn out
year after year, and why
risen, year alter year.
But. after all, isn t
youngsters about the best bargain we get? E.A.
Translating Gobbledegook
. Frank Jenkins, our editorial pace columnist
from across the mountains, was complaining
about diplomatic gobbledegook the other day.
He quoted one fhuippe de iseynes, UN under
secretary for -economic and social affairs, as
follows:
"It is true that Latin America is going through a
particularly dangerous period in which the social aspira
tions, having grown more rapidly than economic capac
ity, express themselves in impatience and sometimes in
anger. This is a period in Latin America in which certain
archaic structures resist essential reforms."
Jenkins complained: .
"Well, he was talking in official Washington gobble
degook, and as a result noboby outside Washington has
even the foggiest idea of what he was talking about."
COME, COME, Frank. It isn't that difficult.
T.nr tic rpv a small ovprpisp in oionm,anhv
j
"Social aspirations"-
of everyone for decent clothing and housing,
adequate food, an education, and a job.
Grown more rapidly
ity" These hopes increase when people see
others realizing them;
everyone is poor, there
money, or food, or education, to go around, and
hopes rise faster than living standards.
And surely, J? rank, you
and anger are.
AS FOR "certain archaic structures which
"resist essential reforms," well, he's talking
about quasi-dictatorships, situations where a very
few rich families own most of the productive re
sources and the rest of the families live at a near
subsistence level, where the rate of illiteracy is
veiy high, where political stability is non-ex
istent in short, a situation about as close to
feudalism as can be found today. It also covers
an area where population is increasing faster
than anywhere else m the
Let us grant that Mr.
clear and explicit as he might have been.
cut let us also grant
both understandable, to anyone who has observed
Latin America in recent
What he was talking about was, in large part,
responsible for Fidel Castro's success in Cuba,
and now is a clear and present danger in other
Latin lands. And it's no laughing matter. E. A.
Words of
For an inveterate smoker one who knows
that it does him no real good but who is "hooked"
on the habit one of the most cheering things
that can happen is to be on the mailing list of the
Tobacco Industry Research Committee.
For instance, a publication entitled "The
Action of Nicotine on
Functions" is reviewed
timse '
t
"This is a review of 184 scientific papers and testifies
to the many lacunae in knowledge on the neuropharma
cological effects of nicotine administered to humans and
and to animals. The pharmacology or toxicology of
tobacco-smoking and pharmacology and toxicology of
nicotine are not identical, and often are not even com
parable . , . This review covers spontr .eous activity,
conditioned reflexes, learning, higher cerebral functions,
medullary functions, cerebellar functions and spinal
functions"
And if that isn't enough to make a non-smok-
er want to grab for the
will ; K. A. .
plus, where necessary,
per year allowed under
prices began their spiral
inmigration to Oregon,
school children.
the "war babies" came
year. Now in many dis-
the 6 per cent actually
school expenses have
the education of our
... - &. r .. .
the hopes and desires
than economic capac
but in a nation where
aren't enough jobs, or
know what impatience
world.
de beynes was not as
that what he said was
years, and also true.
Comfort
Central Nervous System
in the following singing
nearest coffin nail, what
"Everybody's so concerned about how Rockefeller's
marriage might affect his political career. Mayba she
won't avan lat him run for Presidentl"
Communications
I ttr tn the FWitnr must bear tha
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. Letter
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed In this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper, In fact tha contrary is often
Transportation Policy
To the Editor: In 20 years
national transportation policy,
warped in favor of non-rail
transport, has reduced rail
roads' share of normal inter
city freight from near 100 per
cent to 43 per cent. Govern
ment regulators and dispens
ers of lavish non-rail trans
port subsidies arbitrarily de
cide who shall carry whose
freight for how much.
Only in the free movement
of mercy mission goods are
the railroads allowed to exer
cise their unsubsidized, self
reliant initiative. To date
more than 40 railroads have
hauled free over 400 carloads
of foods and drugs destined
for shipment to Cuba in co
operation with the American
Red Cross in exchange for
prisoners. This represents over
80 per cent of such snipmenis.
Our congressmen snouid re
member this when they de
liberate on the Presidential
proposal to establish equality
of opportunity in transporta
tion.
K. Fritz Schumacher,
Former Santa Fe
"Rail",
81 West Grand View
ave.,
Sierra Madre, Calif.
Whan To Sleep?
To the Editor: When peo
ple worked long hours six
days a week a little more day-
light was unders'tandably ap
preciated. Today those per
sons that work do so, as a
rule, just 40 hours or less a
week, with vacations and
holidays thrown in for good
measure, and get all the day
light needed for mowing the
lawn, going out fur a spin, or
golfing.
Under daylight time, when
do they sleep?
David Frisch
P.O. Box 292
White City, Ore.1
Human Nature
To the Editor: What is this
thing called "human nature"?
Most people think that they
know and that they under
stand it, but what they actual
ly "understand" are the traits
that human beings have devel
oped under certain social and
economic conditions.
One of these traits, for ex
ample, is acquisitiveness.
Capitalist apologists loudly
proclaim that a system that
rejects private, ownership is
"against human nature."
Actually, however, it is only
in the last few thousand years
that man has had any concep
tion of private property. Be
fore he entered on this prop
erty career man lived under
conditions of primitive com
munism and didn't even have
words in his language to ex
press mine" and "mine.
There fore, whatever else
acquisitiveness is, it positive
ly is not a quality of human
nature.
Let's take competitiveness.
Many people have the erron
eous idea that this is an aspect
of "human nature. ' But in
many human societies com
petitiveness is frowned upon
as obnoxious. Among the
Pueblo Indians of the South
west, for example, the com-
petive person is regarded as
a trouble maker. Competitive
ness, like acquisitiveness, Is
trait developed In a competi
tive society. It, too, is positive
ly not a quality of human
nature.
If society were reconstruct
ed in such a way as to make
material wants readily and
easily available, acquisitive
ness would be dropped by the
human race as completely as
in the past It dropped its taste
for human flesh and various
other barbarous traits. Simi
larly with competition. As
long as society Is organized
as it is at present, man will
behave competitively. But
when society is reconstructed
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
name and address of the writer.
tna case.
so that the individual may
benefit materially and enjoy
respect and acceptance by his
fellow men only by coopera
ting with them, competitive
ness will also become an
abandoned human trait. In its
place will develop the higher
trait of cooperation, the prop
er foundation for brother
hood.
Lydia Burnham
814 Warne st.
Prescott, Ariz.
It Was There
To the Editor:
On Mother's Day I rose at
Dawn,
Filled with Happiness
and Hope -Read
that dad-burned
Mail Tribune
Back and forth from
stem to -stern;
A lookin' fer my Horiscope!
E. N. McCann
Jacksonville, Ore.
Editor's note:
Sorry you were bothered,
Friend,
Searching through from
end to end.
It didn't really go astray:
We found it there on
Page 6A.
Be Not Distrassad
To the Editor:
We know your problem,
Be not distressed
de-
pressed.
When others tell you
Do this, do that, or some
thing else;
Tut only human nature.
Each one his say must -Have,
how'can it be other
wise?
What other means are
Devised, to carry truth, to
so many people?
The printed word is still ef
fective
To attain the main objec
tive.
Our thanks, for words,
Expressions, on the issues
of our day;
Words I know not how to
say.
(Name on file)
Phoenix, Ore.
God Have Pity
To the Editor: In the Trib
une 5-7-63 there was a letter
by Lydia Burnham all should
read. It was the best article on
tobacco and its effect upon the
human body I ever read in so
few words.
Such an article takes much
research, and not that put out
by the tobacco sponsors. Lydia
worked many hours studying
the truths learned by these
great doctors, specialists in
their field. Her article shows
she has faith in them and their
work, and she is right, that
none can honestly dispute.
However, much can be said
for tobacco and liquor, if we
don't count the cost. They
bring in billions of dollars in
revenue and labor. Think of
the thousands of police
nurses, doctors and morticians
it takes to handle the drunks,
the alcoholics, the broken and
dead bodies caused by liquor
in car wrecks and other acci
dents: the cancer-eaten ulcer
ated bodies from toe to brain,
even the unborn are infected
by the smoking, drinking
mothers. Think of the thou
sands of jails, hospitals, men
tal institutions and mortuaries
that must be built by labor to
care for all these finished
products of liquor and to
bacco.
Yes, Lydia, they bring in
billions of dollars in revenue
and labor and large profits for
their sponsors, which look
good until we count the costs.
The aggregate costs of crime
in the United States in a re
cent year was $22,000,000,000,
according to the F.B.I. Sixty
per cent of all crime is liquor
Involved. This would total
$13,200,000,000, for liquor's
part. Federal, state, county
and municipal taxes were $4,
000,000.000. Thus for each dol
lar received, $3.30 was spent
Memories
To Argentina, Now
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Bullet acars mar the metal
grill work at the entry way
to Argentina's General Con
federation of
Labor head-
quarters i n
Buenos Aires
and a patch of
concrete is a
mem ento to
I IV I a bomb. These
I 41 I are the Ieft'
sasssaasXlnasaal overs of the
revolution in
1 9 5 9 which
-Jewsom
toppled the dictatorship of
Juan Peron but left behind
more than two million of his
angry followers who contin
ue to dream of his return.
Man's Best Friend
A Constitutional Dog
By Arthur Hoppe
The growing use of vicious
dogs to discourage Negroes
from seeking their rights has
raised grave questions in the
minds of many Southern
police officers. Such as:
(1) Is there an adequate sup
ply of vicious dogs?
(2) Can they be trained
rapidly enough to meet the
ever increasing need?
For the answer to these
and other serious questions
let us turn to a recognized ex
pert, Colonel Jefferson Davis
Stonewall, director of the
Dixie Dug Develop ment
School, the leading supplier
of vicious animals to forward
looking Southern communi
ties. .
Q-Colonel, I think the basic
question today is: Can you
fill the need?
A-Well, son, our hopes are
high, thanks to our new
round-the-clock crash pro
gram. However, it still takes
time to develop a good, well-
schooled Dixie Dog. ' Some
things you just can't rush.
Q-What are some of the
obstacles you face?
A-Well, first we not to
make the dog vicious. That's
the easy part. You take' a
little old puppy dog and keep
tweaking his ears and pulling
his tail and he's going to get
pretty mean. The hard part is
teaching him about the Consti
tution.
" Q-The Constitution? Oh,
you mean States' Rights.
A-Yep, like Segregation.
Now some White folks figure
aog is just naturally for
Segregation. Like a human.
Not so. A dog, he's not awful
long on brains. Just got to
learn him right.
Q-And how do you do that?
A-framing. Now we aot
two Kinas of instructors,
White Instructors, and Black
Instructors who ...
Q-You mean Negro Instruc
tors?
A-Not on your life! This
school's not integrated and
never will be. I mean half bur
instructors got white powder
on their faces and the other
naif got burnt cork.
Q-Ingenious. ,
A-Yep. Now the Black In
structor, he goes around kick
ing the little old puppy dogs.
And the White Instructor, he
goes around a-handing them
tid bits and a-petting them.
Pretty soon, the little puppy
dog, he gets to understand the
whole inalienable principle of
States' Rights.
Q-As simple as black and
wntte.
A-Not quite. You see, son,
some of our colored folk down
here's not as black as they
might be. So's as the dog gets
older we got to make our
White Instructors a mite dark
er and our Black Instructors
a mite lighter. Why, we got
dogs who can tell an Octaroon
from a movie starlet wearing
Man Tan.
Q-An essential distinction
A-You bet. Take the time
the Mayor of Biloxi come
home from a Florida vacation
and one of our dogs . . . But
the Mayor, he shouldn't of
been holding up that catfish.
Q-Catfish?
A-Yep. You sec, son, our
to care for the crime caused
by liquor. But this Is only
costs In dollars; think of the
cost in broken bodies along
our highways, property dam
age, broken homes: hungry.
beaten children, as I expert
enccd as a boy along with
seven sisters.
May God have pity upon a
nation of people that will per
mit such. We hear much today
about the great sin of birth
control, how we can save 3.
000 lives with scat belts, and
the lives we destroy with capi
tal punishment, while Satan
blinds our eyes to the millions
destroyed by liquor and to
bacco, his two untouchables,
his greatest assets is destroy
ing the Image of God in the
human family.
F. E. Beverly
112 Geneva
Medford
of Peron
Peron drew his power from
the "shirtless ones" organized
in the General Confederation
of Labor (CGT), and although
Peron has been gone for eight
years, his followers cc.itinue
to be the decisive factor in
Argentine politics.
It was fear of their return
to power that led Argentina's
military forces to depose
President Arturo Frondizi 13
months ago, that led to two
unsuccessful military revolts
against current provisional
President Jose Maria Guido
last September and in April
and which also precipitated
the current government crisis.
These bitterly opposing ele
ments, the Peronistas on the
Black Instructors wear this
here heavy padding soaked in
catfish oil. That way, our
puppy dogs learn that colored
folks are not only against the
Constitution, but they taste
good.
Q-Coloncl, do you think
these vicious dogs really un
derstand the Constitution?
A-Son, it is the proud boast
of the Dixie Dog Development
School that our graduates un
derstand the inalienable prin
ciples of the Constitution as
well as any Southern police
officer.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
tc Field Enterprises. Inc.
THOU SHALT NOT KILL'
In any discussion of world
problems and man's fate.
somebody sooner or later
is bound to
proclain, with
sweet smug
ness, "Well, if
we only would
obey the Dec
alogue, every
thing would
be fine. After
all the Ten
Command-
nrri ments are still
the best rules to follow.
Yet, If we took such a man
seriously and questioned him
on only ONE of the Ten Com
mandments, and perhaps the
most important, what would
be the result? '
Thou shalt hot kill." A
plain, flat statement, without
qualification or modification.
What does our friend of the
Decalogue say to this? Does
he accept it, completely and
unequivocally? Or does he try
to get around it in one way
or another?
First of all, he will say
that wa have a '"light" to
kill in self-defensa - avan
though tha Decalogue does
nof say, "Thou shalt not
kill, except in self-defense."
Than ha will say that
society has a right to kill
the offenders, if their of
fense is deemed grievous
enough - even though tha
first killer. Cain, was not
executed by God but was
branded and sent into ex
ile. Next, he will insist that a
nation has tha "right" to
kill anemias in time of war;
ha may deplore such a nec
essity (and generals are the
greatest deplorers of all),
but ha does not doubt that
tha Lord is on tha side of
tha "just" nation. Ha will
also point to many Old Test
ament passages which seem
to confirm his position.
So, finally, what does the
commandment. "Thou shalt
not kill," amount to? It
amounts to whatever wa
want to make it. Nobody
but a "crank" takes tha
commandment 1 i t a r a llyt
nearly everybody believes
that under certain condi
tions it is right and proper
to kill. Hardly anyone ex
cept Socrates, Jesus and a
few saints has aver truly be
lieved that it is batter to
suffer pain than to inflict it.
The trouble with the Ten
Commandments is not that un
believers flout it; it is that
even "believers" do not be
lieve it, do not agree on it,
do not act on it. A simple sen
tence of four one-syllable
words, "Thou shalt not kill,"
has confounded Christendom
for two thousand years - for
the bloodiest wars of all have
been religious wars.
Of course, "everything
would be fine" if we followed
the Ten Commandments. It
is not even that we TRY to
follow them and fail - it is
that, confronted with these
four plain words, we interpret
them as we want to, for we
have made our Eleventh Com
mandment: "Thous shalt fol
low the Dccalougc only until
it hurts."
Revolution
in Electoral Fight
one hand and the military on
the other, now are approach
ing national elections sched
uled for July 7.
Their differences still are
unresolved and even should
Guido solve his present crisis,
there remain more reasons
than not to believe it is only
the beginning of another
series between' now and elec
tion day.
In the end, elections may
not even be held.
Outside the military, there
are at the moment in Argen
tina three political groupings.
One of these is the Peron
ista Popular Union.
Another is the intransigent
Radicals, the party of former
President Frondizi, which
hopes for Peronista support
behind the presidential can
didacy of Dr. Oscar Alende, a
former governor of Buenos
Aires.
The third is the Popular
Radical Party which backs
Dr. Arturo Illia, another phy
sician, as its presidential candidate.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
c) 1963, The
BIRMINGHAM
Once again the federal gov
ernment is being compelled
to intervene forcibly in the
struggle over
the rights of
M . a -
S GS1U"- n-a
5f ,?T?1 and in the Uni
versity of Mis
sissippi, and
now in Bir
mingham, the
c o n t r o lling
fact which has
Lippmann led to the fed
eral intervention is the open
defiance of the federal law by
state governments.
In Birmingham, a moderate
and modest accommodation
was arrived at by Assistant
Attorney General Burke Mar
shall's successful mediation
between the Negro leaders
in the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The news?
There's a lot of it - some
of it grim and tragic.
What s happening in Bir
mingham, for example.
WHAT is happening in Bir
mingham? Back In the 5th century
B.C., Euripides wrote: "The
gods visit the sins of the fa
thers upon the children."
The fathers of the present
generation in the Deep South,
which includes Alabama,
brought black men and wom
en, in chains, from Africa to
America, to be SLAVES. -
Euripides was right.
AT CAPE CANAVERAL in
Florida, as this is written,
a calm and collected Ameri
can is preparing to take off
in an attempt to orbit the
earth 22 times in a 34 hour
flight covering 600,000 miles
and soaring above more than
100 countries - and COMING
BACK TO EARTH AT A SE
LECTED SPOT in the Pacific
Ocean some 100 miles south
of Midway Island.
FROM Brisbane, Australia:
A rtptitA Amprlpon wifo
who quit the kitchen for the
air ten years ago landed in
Brisbane in a light plane, be
coming the first woman to fly
alone across the Pacific from
California.
Freckle -faced, 36-year-old
Betty Miller left Oakland on
April 30, flying alone in the
twin-engined plane that her
husband had taught her to fly.
A STUNT?
" Not exactly.
She was ferrying the plane
to its new owner in Australia.
So she regarded it as a strictly
business enterprise. Her total
elapsed flying time was 54
hours and eight minutes.
When she stepped out of the
cockpit - in a pink and white
checkered frock, she reported
that the only time she was
really worried was when she
had to make it half-way to
Honolulu or TURN BACK in
order to keep from running
out of fuel.
She had another little flur
ry of excitement when, about
half way to Brisbane, a storm
approaching cyclone propor
tions loomed in her path. She
turned back and landed in
New Caledonia to give the
storm time to blow itself out.
faUESTlON:
What would Leonardo da
Vinci, who imagined the first
airplane and made designs of
it but never built a plane be
cause in his day the internal
combustion engine had not
yet been imagined to power
an artificial bird, have
thought if someone had told
him that the time would come
when a WOMAN would fly a
plane half around the earth
TO DELIVER IT TO ITS
PURCHASER.
it
Return
Running hard for office but
without a popular following
is Gen. Pedro Aramburu, who
served as provisional presi
dent after Peron's overthrow
in 1955 until 1958. ' ' ;
Aramburu's main hope i
that differences among the
political parties will prevent
the other candidates from -receiving
a majority vote. ' '
In that case, the electoral
college could name him -as
the compromise choice.
In the elections held a little
more than a year ago and
later annulled, the Peronista
piled up more than 30 per cent
of the total vote. Argentina'
continuing economic ills have
led to forecasts that in any
free election now, they might
poll as high as 40 per cent.
Their appeal lies in a vague
program of "social justice." -
They claim to be In favor
of the U. S. sponsored Alli
ance for Progress, for eco
nomic and industrial develop
ment and a third force which
would walk between capital
ism and communism. " ''
Lippmann
Washington Poit
and the leading members of
the white community. But the
accommodation was denoun
ced by the city officials .who
are still in office and received
no support from the governor.
These authorities are morally
responsible for the bombing
which then led to the rioting.
There is no hope that reason
and sanity and good will can
prevail as long as the con
stituted authorities are op
posed to accommodation. - -
SO THE nation is defied by
a state government - at
tempting to nullify the federal
law. The United States gov
ernment cannot submit la
nullification in Alabama,
Even if the federal govern- '
ment uprp nnnrtnrinlrf
enough to be willing to look
the other way, the mounting
desperation of the Negro peo
ple, so brilliantly reported-by
Mr. Robert S. Bird in the Nsw
York Herald Tribune,- would
make it impossible. The men
tality of this generation; of
Negroes is far removed from
that of their ancestors, and
they are shedding very rapid
ly the docility ot the - slave
mentality.
We must have no illusions
that the Neffrn nrotpat .mill
subside even though the -dis
orders in Birmingham are
overcome. There are very dif
ficult issues ahead in Ala
bama. In the coming months,
there is almost certain to be
confrontation between tha.
state government of Alabama
and the federal government
over desegregation in the uni
versity. Probably before the
opening of the university in
June, the federal district murfc
will hand down an order to
admit to - the Huntsvlllo
branch of the university two
Neffro emDlnvees nf the Mar
shall Space Center. One of
tne negroes is a mathematic
ian and the other iff. nn aIap.
tronics engineer. The Hunts
ville branch of the university
was set up in order to enable
tne employees of the space
center to continue their educa
tion. ......
That is not all. There will '
probably soon be a federal
court order to admit a Negro
to the University in Tusca
loosa and also a court order to
desegregate the Birmingham
public schools. ,
ALL THIS makes not only-e
hi O Kan nf mmMMi. 1 .
o " K'wibmo, vut
a disorderly one. In a . state
like Alabama, it is unreason
able to begin the desegrega
tion Of the Dublle RrhmlB.Dnrf
of the university at the same
time, ine enforcement of the
law of the Constitution
against segreeation In n,.hn
education requires a plan; a
program and priorities. The
hodge-podge in Alabama Is
due to the fact that the en
forcement of the law is not
proceeding according to a na
tional plan, but has been left
almost entirely to litigation
initiated by the Negro organi
zations. ...
Governor Romney told ui
recently that "the bin i... ...
day is whether excess concen
tration oi federal power and
sovereignty is going to de
stroy state. Inral nrl lr,ii..i.i
ual freedom and responsibili-
ny. inai is indeed a worri
some issue. But Governor
Romney ought now tn
his theory to the facts in Ala-
oama and say what the fed
eral government should do
when the federal law is open
ly defied by a state govern
ment. He will be compelled to say'
I think, that, as the ultimate
responsibility for law and
order within the union is the
federal government tt t...
duty to use its moral InHu-
ence ano its material power
which are very considerable!
to promote gradual and peace
able achievement of equal
rights in public places and in
public life.
This is a solemn national
commitment from which it is
impossible to turn away.