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Newspaper Page Text4 A - lkDFORI&&TBIBU!lt RcdiTtn Mail Tribune" published Dail.v except Saturday by MEUFOBQ PKINTLNG CO. 33 Nonh First, Ph. m-tll ' ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GRLY Advertiting Marnier CERAJLD T LATHAM, Bua Mir ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mna Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor 11AHRV CH1PMAN. Teles Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sporu Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women-! Edltoi DALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mar An Independent Newipapei Entered as second clata matter at Medford Oregon under Act of Mnrch 3. IS07 SUBSCRIPTION RATES . , By MaU In Advance Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 6 moa 10.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa 5.00 Sunday Only One year 5.0o Single Copy (Mailed) ioe By Carnei And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year til 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo 1.75 ' Sunday Only I mo. Mo Carriei and Vendora Copy 100 OHidal-Paper of .City of MeHor Ofliclal Paper of Jacjtaon County United Presa International full Leaaed Wire U. P 1 Telephoto Newnplcturea 'MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU" Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Repreenlatlv: NELSOPf ROBERTS & ASSOCl ATES Ol'icea In New York. Chi. caio. Detroit. San rranclaco. Lot Anselee Seattle. Portland Denver. NEWSPAPER IIS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOIIAl Member California Newipaper Publlahera Aaaoclatlon Flight o' Time Mcdford and Jackson County History from the files of Th Mail Trlbun. 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Mitv 19, 1953 (Tueiday) A light plane with four per sons aboard was missing to day over mountainous country on a flight from Gold Beach to Grants Pass. Medford man dies in the city jail about midnight; an autopsy will be performed. ; 20 YEARS AGO May 19, 1943 (Wednetday) Medford High school stu dents, Including June Jarmin, Francis Nordquist, Robert Pittnegcr, Harry V a n d e r Mark, and Beverly Jones, re ceive college scholarships. From Arthur Perry's ''Ye Smudge Pot column: 'A de fender of boys with, alrgun writes: 'Have you never been a bov.' We rise to ask the inquirer: 'Have you ever been a bird?' 30 YEARS AGO May 19, 1933 (Friday) Wide Interest reported In speed boat races next Sunday at Emigrant lake. Salmon fishing in Rogue river reported Improving. 40 YEARS AGO May 19. 1923 (Saturday) First delegates arrive in Medford for convention of Oregon Federation of Wom en's clubs. First grasshoppers start to hutch; experts indicate there may bo millions of the lnsocts in the valley by midsummer. SO YEARS AGO May 19, 1913 (Monday) Total of 56 out of 67 Med ford eighth grade students pass exams for one of best records in state. Southern Pacific railroad representative prom iscs to end all discrimination against Medford as gateway to Crater Lake. What's Your I.Q.? Nina ot ten correct Is superior: oven or eight It encelleal: lire or six is good. 1. Is the term Pllmscll't Line a surveying, mining, nautical, or medical term? 2. Is Perchcron the name of a breed of swine, horses, or cattle? 3. Which Is the earth's most abundant metallic clement? 4. Does a biennial plant last one, two, or three years? 9. Do more fires in the U. S result from matches and smoking, electrical troubles incendiarism or spontaneous Ignition? 6. For how long I continu. ous period must a single per son have been a lawful resi dent of the U. S. In order to obtain cillrenship? 7. Mt. Rushmore National Memorial is located in which state? I 8. Who was the first Presi dent to occupy the executive mansion? 9. Is It the male, female or both sexes of crickets that produces the chirping sound? 10. An absolute vacuum has never been produced; true or false? Answers: 1, Nautical. S. Horses. 3. Aluminum. 4, Two years. 3. Matches and smok ing. 6. Five years. 7. 8ouih Da kota. (. John Adams, I. Mala. 10. Trua. SUNDAY. MAY 18. 19(3 Nonsense Amendments Three proposed Constitutional amendments advanced in the name of best hope of success in silence, Ihey have sailed through a number of legislatures with virtually no public notice. But now that more formed on this campaign to revolutionize our form of government confederacy its chances are fortunately grow ing dimmer. "NE proposal provides the Constitution shall states to apportion their This language would permit Southern legislatures to disenfranchise Negroes by unrestrained gerry mandering and other devices. It would let other legislatures effectively limit the vote to farmers or to any special or favored group without any constitutional restraint. A second proposition is to let the state legis latures amend the Constitution in the future without the necessity of approval by Congress or any other national forum. It has been calculat ed that legislators representing a mere 15 per cent of the population of the United states would then have the power to amend the Constitution for all of us. This would be possible because of the existing unfair districts in many state legis latures. PINALLY, there is a proposal for a Court of the F Union, composed of the 50 state chief justices, to review Supreme Court decisions. This is anoth er preposterous idea to elected and lacking the tenure, above the justices ol the highest 1" ederal court. It would be a long step backward to a confederacy. These three nonsensical proposals have al ready passed too many legislatures for comfort, It is the duty of the organized bar to speak out against them. The leaders of both parties have a similar duty, for surely no responsible figure in govern ment can think that the way to.meet the problems of today is to retreat into the sectionalism of a bygone age. New York Times. Best System Tiny Kuwait, a shiekdom a little bigger than Lane County with a population smaller than Portland s, may soon be a Nations, with a full vote in Meanwhile, as Egypt, Syria and Iraq glue togeth er their United Arab Republic, they prepare to reduce their United Nations representation from three units to only one. Such examples of the rule in the General Assembly always dredge up demands for some modification of this rule. Cri tics urge that other considerations, among them population, area, gross national product and mili tary capability, be used to create a formula which would be more realistic. And such a change is first glance. HOWEVER, before we Americans get too en f Vina oat In olinnf nVi on nrit-i rr fVio cvofom woM better see how a change would affect us. Rec ently, a team of State Department researchers looked into this question. They worked out lo sys tems for weighted voting. Then they took 170 United Nations votes that they regarded as key votes since the organization was established. Ihey fed this material puter. Almost without exception, they found, the in terests of this country would have been harmed by a system, any system, of weighted votine. Al most any system would munist bloc in the United Nations from 10 per cent to 20 per cent. Population accounts country's dependable mends are relatively small Of the world's six most populous nations, no others may be safely counted upon to vote with the United States (No. other five of the six account for just about half ot the population of the Guard. To the Most Canadians will observe the Queen's birthday Monday, May 20. By a proclamation is sued six years ago, the sovereign's birthday is made to coincide with Empire Day or Victoria Day, and this is designated as the' last Monday before May 25. Elizabeth II "bv the trrace of God. of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, and Defend er of the Faith," in the style recommended by Debrett's was 37 years old on April 21 last, her truly natal day. But even in the United Kingdom she observes two birthday anniversaries, the ac tual anniversary and the "official" one. The of ficial one, when the Queen's honor list is an nounced, usally comes in June. Incidentally, it is not uncharitable, not even impolite, to mention the Queen's true age. The British affection for monarchs grows with the passing of time. Victoria was most beloved when her subjects began to speak of her as "the old guhl." E.R.R. , "states' rights" had their people are becoming in revolutionize it back to a that "no provision" of restrict the power of the legislatures as they wish. set state judges, mostly independence of life member of the United the General Assembly. "one member, one vote" an appealing idea at into an electronic com have increased the Com for this. Most of this 4 in population). The world. Lugene Register Queen "Meanwhile, Back .-4. Today & Tomorrow By Walter As) 1063, The MR. PEARSON AND MR. KENNEDY The general effect of the meeting at Hyannis Port be tween the Canadian Prime Minister and the United S t a tes Presi ripnt has been tnat oI 8 good auiuuuiiig aim a cool shower after a muddy K r a w 1 fin 3 doubt " takes sa two to start LiDomaon such a brawl, and a lot of explaining and counter-explaining would be possible. Both governments know that such brawls are intolerable. The President went as far as proud governments ever go in acknowledging a fault when he joined with Mr. Pear son in stressing "the impor tance of each country show ing regard for the view of the other where attitudes differ." The Canadian Prime Minister for his part scrubbed out the suspicious nationalism of his predecessor by his very pres ence at Hyannis Port. For Les ter Pearson docs not merely approve, after a lifetime of experience, he Incarnates, the hope of building "a true com munity of the Atlantic peo ples." a e .. ALTHOUGH he and the President promised to set tle a number of practical mat ters, such as the nasty mess about continental defense, they agreed that "the two countries will inevitably have different views on internation al issues from time to time." It is ail to the good that they should have different views. Nothing could possibly be worse for Canadian-United States relations than that Can ada would automatically agree with us. In many ways, the greatest service that Canada has done the United States in this gen eration is to produce a crop of first-quality diplomats who have been able lo give inde pendent, expert and quite can did advice. Though on funda mentals they have always been with us, they have stood away from us enough to be free of our own prejudices and excitements. Mr. Pearson is himself one of these diplo mats, and from them we have received the kind of intellec tual and moral help which can come only from a true ally, never from a sycophant or a client or a satellite. rPHIS A Unit WIS is a time when the ited States, with Its global commitments, is very specially in need of the kind of wisdom and candor which Canada, pre-eminently among all our allies, can give us. The postwar structure of our "Of course I'm against a il'a torialiitd gambllngl" '3 rr J i i J. nr--Y w w MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON At The Earth- Lippmann Wash I ni? ton Post foreign policy in Europe is profoundly shaken, and the problem of what to do and of what comes after is as much Canada's problem as our own. At the same time, the old isolationist pattern of hemi spheric relations is dissolving in the Caribbean and South America, and we shall need greater Canadian participation in hemispheric affairs and the good offices of Canada in per suading the Europeans and other countries to play their necessary part in this hemi sphere. e IT WILL be a mistake, how ever, if we concentrate our whole attention on foreign policy. There is a serious prob lem in the relations between Canada and the United States which is not referred to in the Hyannis Port communique. It broods over all our relations. It is the problem of the great United States economic pene tration of Canadian industry. It should be said at once that the United States invest ment in Canadian industry is not sinister. Canada, like the United States in its own peri od of industrial development, has had to draw capital from abroad. The problem is pri marily, perhaps wholly, one of inducing the great United States' interests in Canada to proceed with all deliberate speed to Canadianize the own ership and the direction and the operation of their compa nies. It cannot make for the kind of good relations we need to have with Canada that a total of 52 per cent of the capital invested in manufacturing and in mining is controlled in the United States. In certain key industries, the control is even greater: rubber, 90 per cent; agricultural machinery, 55 per cent; automobiles and parts, 96 per cent; electrical appara tus, 67 per cent; smelting and refining of non-ferrous ores, per cent. HAVE an impression from talking to certain Ameri cans with interests in Canada that they arc beginning to realize how undesirable and potentially dangerous is the excessive United States' con trol of Canadian industry. I hope nobody will fly off the handle at that remark. No body is talking of confiscation or nationalization. But the fact that more than half the capital of Canadian industry is controlled in the United States is a perpetual Irritant. The solution of the problem is not one for legislation or treaty, but for voluntary ac tion by the United States' in terests in cooperation with their Canadian associates. Canada is the kind of country with which this kind of prob lem can be handled unexcitcd ly In a spirit of mutually enlightened self-interest. jorernment-owned lottery V H TT Matter of Fact (c Nfw York Herald THE DEMONOLOGICAL REVOLUTION Washington - Like most ex perts, the professional stu dents of the Soviet Union sometimes go wrong; but at all times the findings of the new demonol ogists greatly influence Western poli- cy. Hence the beginning of some thing Aiinp like a demon ological revolution is well worth recording. In brief, more and more of the Soviet experts, including some who are very highly placed in the U. S. govern ment, are moving toward the view that the Soviet armed forces now play a major role in the inner politics of the Kremlin. The probably impending promotion of Dimltri F. Usti nov to membership in the rul ing Soviet Presidium is a new case in point. Before he emerged from obscurity as boss of all Soviet industrial production and one of the three Deputy Premiers, Usti nov had served the Soviet armed forces, without a day's interruption, since as long ago as 1940. ARMS production for the " armed forces was his sole job before his recent promo tion. He has had no previous party past. Hence Ustinov's nomination to the Presidium, If it occurs, will be roughly comparable to the new Air Force's persuading President Kennedy to take the head of the Boeing company as one of his principal political aides. In other words, it Is diffi cult, to dodge the conclusion that Ustinov will have the role of the Soviet Defame Ministry's representative on the Presidium. That conclu sion fits neatly with another curious fact. The Soviet Defense Minis ter, Marshal Rodion Malinov sky, who is not a Presidium member, nonthclcss attended all the Soviet leaders' meet ings with Fidel Castro, even though the most important meetings were otherwise re stricted to Nikita S. Khrush chev and two other Presidium members, Leonid I. Brezhnev and Alexei N. Kosygin. This sudden omnipresence of Mali- novsky also fits, in turn, with still another fact that is even more curious. e e WHILE in Indonesia, Malin " ovsky is known to have shown grave concern, lest he meet the fate of Marshal Gcor- gl Zhukov on his return to the Soviet Union. If Malinovsky had not been asserting himself politically, as Zhukov did be fore his downfall, why should he have feared Zhukov's fate? In truth, the weight of the facts is very heavy on the side of the new trend of dc monological thought. It is a revolutionary trend, simply because all but the tiniest mi nority of students of Soviet affairs have always believed, hitherto, that the armed forces had no political role or influ ence whatever. This was true, of course, when the Soviet military lead ers, like every other clement in Soviet society, were frozen into silent, unarguing obedi ence by Stalin's terror. A Bleak Negro Future: Rights By ERIC SEVAREID The struggle of the Ameri can Negro for full citizenship -a true, seminal, peoples revo- 1 1 u 1 1 o n is a ! dim) strinrole. Con t a 1 n e d within the ob vious black versus white showdown in t h e South is the black vcr s u s black sho w d o w n Stv.rrld within Nrgro ranks. After 50 years the Ne Rro intramural contest is no longer one between the "ac- comodationist" stratcgv school of which Booker T. Washing ton was the mentor, and the "militancy" school, led by the NAACP. The contest is now between the militancy school and the extremist school, now most loudly represented by the "Black Muslims." The militancy of the NAACP, whose work in Birm ingham before the mass riot ing began was in the direct line of the position taken at its founding meeting in 1909 "absolutc refusal to differenti ate the rights of human beings" - has never been In tended to mean violence. while recognizing that vio lence might occur. It was in tended to mean violence, while recognizing that vio lence might occur. It was In tended to mean fore, inter preted as the force of massed numbers, incessant protest, and the force of law employed mm Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate TN A loi REALITY, the demono- logical belief of the Soviet armed forces' divorce from politics ceased to be valid soon after Stalin died. In the subsequent struggle for pow er, the successive upward steps of Khrushchev were ex actly paralleled by the rise of Marshal Zhukov. While Khrushchev climbed to su preme power, Zhukov rose from Deputy Minister of De- tense (to wnicn ne returnea from exile as soon as btalin died) to Defense Minister, to candidate member of the Pre sidium, to full member of Pre sidium after he had saved Khrushchev from the anti-party group in 1057. To be sure, Khrushchev then secretly organized the destruction of Zhukov, prob ably with Malinovsky's help. But this macabre end of the story in no way dilutes the evidence that Zhukov, rep resenting the armed forces, was a major factor in Khrush chev's rise from the very out set of the succession r-isis. It seems more and more probable that there was an other inner-political crisis in the Kremlin this winter - a crisis in which the armed forces were once again a ma jor factor, temporarily sup porting the now-stricken Frol Kozlov in opposition to Khru shchev. It also seems probable that Khrushchev paid a heavy price to retain control of the situation, including agreement to the large increase in Soviet defense spending which is now generally forecast. EVEN those demonologists who have reluctantly be gun to concede a political role to the Soviet armed forces are not of course talking about the militarization of So viet society. They are merely arguing that the Soviet mili tary have considerable politi cal weight - political weight which may become decisive when the party leadership is divided, and it is cast into one side of the balance or the other. Even so, the concession now being made is both major and chilling. It is chilling, in par ticular, because each new cri sis of succession will give the Soviet military a new oppor tunity to exploit their politi cal weight by backing one of the contenders, as Zhukov backed Khrushchev. This cannot happen very often without tending toward militarization. Hence what happens when Khrushchev goes - and he is 69 and over weight - will be most inter esting to watch. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The Big News today? It's still Astronaut Cooper. WHY did he make the " flig ght? It wasn't just a stunt to see if we could do it. We KNEW barring the totally not-to-be-expected we could do it. We had done it twice before and what one has done twice before one is fairly con fident one can do again. The problem was one of WEIGHTLESSNESS and air. Especially weight lessness. The astronaut can carry his air in the form of oxygen. Lack of weight is a horse of another color. to the hilt. The aims have al ways been limited to those simple human rights common to the rest of us and shared within our common society. The Black Muslims preach hatred of the whites as a race, which is a negation of the democratic principle of the in dividuality of guilt, and total, geographical separatism, which is a practical impossi bility. For some years now, the old - line accommodationists among Ncgrcos, those humbly willing to work their way through self improvement, have been in sharp decline, and the strategy concept and staff of the NAACP have been in control of forward Negro ranks. Until Birmingham they appeared as extremists in the eyes of many whites, par ticularly in the south: now they will appear to everyone as the moderates. What they have been trying to do, in a phrase, is simply to undo the undoing of the Emancipation Proclama t i o n and the Thirteenth, Four teenth and Fifteenth Amend ments, the undoing that was I accomplished by an intricate series of laws and regulations in the South during the last 25 years ot the 19th century, culminating in the 1896 Su preme Court decision which sealed the whole package with the stamp of "separate but equal." It was the 1954 school in tegration decision which tore the package open again, in aajwi urn as I TEXAS - THE STATE WITH BIGGER VIGOR We stepped from a plane at the Dallas airport last week into 94 warm degrees, a full 50 more than where we board ed the plane. Not only docs Texas have bigger tempera ture, it seems to have bigger everything. A very long escalator and moving sidewalk carry crowding passengers between the boarding gates and the terminal areas. We resisted a strong impulse to turn around suddenly and shout, "Every body back! Everybody back!" just to see what would hap pen. In the center of the very ornate terminal stands an im pressive statue of a Texas Ranger with a plaque read ing, "One Riot - One Ranger." We considered several ways of starting one riot so we could see one Ranger but gave it up in our haste to see Big D. (Big D stands for Dallas but we suspect that it could also stand for Big Deal.) MONEY, TEXAS STYLE Wa don't know ii every one in Texas is rich but wa have reason to believe that ihey ara pretty well fixed. Wa tipped a bellboy 50 cants and ha gave us a dollar in change. Try to change a S20 bill and expect to be told. "Man in Texas that IS change." THE LANGUAGE THEY SPEAK Most Texans speak Texan, a language somewhat differ ent from Oregon talk. "Hce ah" means here, "They-ah" means there, "Braid" is bread, "Frod" is fried, "Fray-ush" is fresh and "Ee-yew" is you. 5D WIDE TEXAS-WIDE SCREEN Wa note that soma prog ress has been made in tha matter of integration be- WHAT is weightlessness? It is a measure of the amount of force with which a body is pulled toward the earth by gravity. At the cen ter of the earth, a body would have no weight at all because it would be equally attracted in all directions. The scientists tell us that the farther a body is from the center of the earth the less will be the force of gravity and therefore the less weight it will have. OO- The farther out in space man gets the less WEIGHT there is until the point arrives where there is no weight at all. If you should drop your watch out there in far distant space it won't fall to the floor and be damaged. It will just FLOAT AROUND. We need to know more about this business of weight and the lack of it. That's one of the reasons for these space flights. what Negro leaders regard with some right at the first official re-affirmation of the Emancipation Proclamation in almost a century. If, as I be lieve, we are in the presence of a true people's revolution, the history books will most probably date its combustion, if not its origin, from the 1954 decision. When the President's Com mission on National Goals, in 1960, came to the matter of the "sordid or timid tech niques of unequal treatment that still leave millions out side the circle of first-class citizenship," it added these words: "If thit means that soma man mutt renounce old privileges In order that other man may enjoy new libsrtiet, then that it tha way tha knift ol democratic aspiration will have to cut." That is the way the knife began to cut in Birmingham. All that whites there stood to lose were some old privileges, not rights; all that the Negro leadership there sought to gain were common rights and liberaties. They did not seek privileges of any kind. Until the undirected rioting began, the distant observer, at least, could not believe that lhe privileges whites stood to lose could be half so important to them as the prosaic and limit ed rights the Negroes sought, were to them. The present national Negro leadership rejects the term "gradualism." Gradualism ai " T' --r- . . j.w.s. cause there were quite a few Negroes in tha dining room of tha Sheraton-Dallas. Of course they ware all waiting on tablet. At tha next table, we heard a young man ask his father if ha expected another mil Ion dollar month. Tha la ther, between bites of a five dollar filet, assured his son that it would be - a good month. After hearing that, we chewed our cheese sand wich rather listlessly and tried to figure out how many chaata sandwiches a million dollars would buy. 5& WIDE TXAS-WIDE SCREEN Texans go to movies prob ably because they prefer the big wide screen to the dinky picture on a TV set. We no ticed that the front half of the theater was filled right down to the front row and that the rear seats were emp ty. We decided that all Texans suffer from the same visual deficiency or perhaps they just want to be up close to where the action is. During intermission, they all munch happily on "Lazaar's Kosher Red Hots". The movie, by the way, was Ian Flemming's "Dr. No," and we recommend that you not miss it. THE EYES OF TEXAS ARE UPON-LEGS Skirts in Texas are either three inches higher or knees are three inches lower. Wa never did figure out quite which. TEXAS NAMES There aren't many "Rob erts" or "Williams" in Texas but there are scads of "Bob bys and "Billys." The Dallas telephone directory lists 23 Billy Smiths and 14 Bobby Smiths. We couldn't find a single Sol Estes listed. 5D TEXAS SOCIETY NOTE Wa swear it's true that a Fort Worth paper last week carried an item in its society section about three Fort Worth sub-debs who had gone to Andover, Mass.. the previous week end to attend a prom at Phillips Academy. According to the report, the girls were flown in ONE of tha planet owned by tha family of one of tha three girls. The plane, a four engined DC-6, had been especially painted for tha flight with a sign on one tide reading, "Cowtown lo Beantown," and a sign on the other side proclaiming, "Beantown or Butt," 3s HOW BIG IS MEDFORD? We heard this question ask ed of a stewardess by a pas senger as we left Medford and her reply, we feci, opens up a whole new way of accurate ly arriving at a city's size. Her answer was, "Not very large. We found out last night that it only has one show." and Jobs a concept may be rejected, but gradualism as a fact will sure ly remain. It took 30 years of organized agitation in this" century to put an effective end to lynchings. We still have poll taxes, and extra legal voting barriers. After nine years of the school de segregation decision only about eight per cent of Negro pupils in Southern and border states have been integrated. A total and sudden overturn of racial restrictions and abuses in this country is not conceiv able to any informed person. The American Negro will go on, conquering one formid able height of legalism after another. But new and massive social obstacles rise before him. He has been excluded from the spreading suburbs and now the scythe of "urban renewal" cuts away shelters left to him. He has won some painful victories for legal equality In hiring and now the impersonal force of automa tion SweeDS awav unskilled and semi-skilled jobs by the uiousanos each week, the kind of lobs left to hi He is frightened and he ought to be. So ought all Americans, confronted by the prospect of a permanent body of unemployed of massive proportions. What the denial of ordinary rig'its brought to Birmingham will be nothing to what tne denial of liveli hood can bring to manv cities. (Distributed 1963, by Tha Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (Alt Rights Reserved)