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4 A- MONDAY. JUNE 3. 11(3 MEOrORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON "Everyone Id Southern Oregon ' R.lo Th. Mall Tribune," Fubltihad Duly KMp Saturday by MEUruKU rumiau cu. 13 North fir St, Ph. TT-Ul noBFRT W BUHL. Idltor HTRB GRKY AdverUelnl UuiHt CEtuii T LATHAM Bu. Wr ERIC ALLEN JR. Mnr Editor EARL H ADAMP, City Editor RiCKARD JEWETT, Stporle Editor OUVI ETARCHEB Women Id I to. DALE ER1CK8QN. Circulation Mg Ao Independent NewepapeJ Entered as aecood elaaa matter as Medford Oregon unoer si os March 3, 1197 SUBSCRIPTION RATES R- u I In Advance Duly and Sunday 1 year $11 00 Daily and Sunday 4 moa 10.00 Dalit and Sunday 4 moa. &.00 Sunday Oruy Ona year I J 00 Stncla Copy (Mailed! toa By Carnal And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday I year M-00 Dally and Sunday t mo. 1.7S K:inriav Anlv I mo. 600 Carrier and Vendor- Copy I0o Official Paper of City of Mtiiord Official Papac of Jackaoa County United Pre International full Laaaad Wire Q. P 1 Tlaojwto Neweplcturee "member of audit bureau" os circulations Idvertlilng ReprewnUtlva: NELSON ROBERTS ASSOCI ATES Ofloae In New York. Chi easo. Detroit. San franclico, I-e Aneelea Seattle, Portland. Deni-er. NIWSPAMt IIISHIIS ASSOCIATION NATION A I IDITORIAl Mamnar California Newspaper Publishers AssoclaUon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Hittory from tha fllei of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yun ago. 10 YEARS AGO Juno 3. 1IS3 (Wednesday) Paul Hatton, manager of the Camn White veteran domiciliary center for the past 4Vi yeara, hai been ap pointed manager of the Veter ans Administration center, Hot Springs, S. D. Finishing touches are being put on details of the Medford airport dedication and air show, scheduled for Sunday. 20 YEARS AGO Juna 3. 143 (Thursday. Medford graduates at Ore eon State college Include Lawrence R. Swarncr, Archie F. Fanaer. Delroy F. Ryn- nlng, Lester M. Stinson, Rob ert A. Looffler. Martin u. Vorheis, and Barbara E. BIMo. From Arthur Perry' "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "North Carolina woman 103, has never seen an auto. That probably explains her long life." 30 YEARS AGO June 3, 1333 (Saturday) Gold dredge to operate on Jacksonville hill. Severe cold weather re duces strawberry crop In Rogue valley. 40 YEARS AGO June 3, 1123 (Sunday) High school bond issue de bated at meeting of Medford Chamber of Commerce. Rudolph Valentino, movie Idol, stops briefly in Medford. 0 YEARS AGO Juna 3. 1113 (Tusaday) Total of 22 Jackson county residents seek pensions from county under new law. Federal office of public roads announces plans for Im provement work on Jackson county postal roads. What's Your I.Q.? Nine Of tan carreel b lupariefi aevan ar alakt Is excellent) rive ei Hi n food. 1. Carson City Is the capital of which western state? 2. How long was Noah shut up In the Ark? 3. The Initials WCTU Iden tlfy what organization? 4. Who succeeded Will Hays as Czar of the film In dustry? S. Geographically, Is Mexico a part of North, or South America? 8. Are the young of moose called cubs or calves? 7. Catacomb It the name of special brush for grooming cats: true or false? 8. Ars there 28. 32, or 36 gills In one gallon? 9. Name the author of Rob inson Crusoe. 10. What is the meaning of the name Philip? Answers! 1. Nevada. 2. 3S0 days. 3. Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 4. Erie Johnston. 8. North. 8. Calves, 7. false. 8. Thirty-two. 8. Dan. lei Dtloe, 10. Lever of horses. FORTY YEARS LATE Oneonta, N.Y. - (UP. - Wil liam E. Paul of Schenectady pledged 8400 In 1923 when plans were made to establish Hartwick College, but cir cumstances prevented Its ful fillment. College officials said Sunday they had received (1.200 check from Paul which Included 8 per cent interest on his original pledge over 40 years.. Legislative Arrogance Barring Borne sort of legislative legerdemain, Oregon's proposed new Constitution is dead for the duration of this session of the Legislature. With three votes to spare, the Senate knocked it out, thus eliminating the one chance this Legis lature had to go down in history in a constructive way. Defeat of the Constitution can be described only as legislative arrogance. The 1961 Legislature was instructed, by the voters, to do something about a new Constitu tion. Wisely, it recognized the magnitude of the task. It realized that no Legislature, busy with tax bills and such, could possibly give constitu tional revision the time it deserved. So it called for a constitutional revision commission. The Legislature, the governor and the Supreme Court appointed a commission, as fine a commission as any state ever had working in its interests. Bi partisan, completely above political considera tions, the commission was aeen in exnerience. deep in brains, and deep in dedication. It came up with a proposed Constitution, which it pre sented to this Legislature. A two-thirds vote of each house was required to submit the proposed document to the voters in the May 1964 election. The House came through, with one vote to spare. The Senate refused, with three votes to spare. "THE legislators who scuttled the new Constitu 1 tion did so because they didn't like it. But what they thought about it was really quite beside the point. What they apparently did not realize is the voters of Oregon didn't give two hoots in a rainbarrel what the Legislature thinks of the new Constitution. That was not the issue at all. The issue was permitting the voters of Oregon to say what they thought of it. This, 13 senators were unwilling to do. And this was arroeance. pure and simple. It was also a slap in the face for a dedicated and intelligent commission. Conceivably, the people could pull this out themselves and somehow, perhaps through the initiative, get it on the ballot, the Legislature not withstanding. But this is unlikely, if for no other reason than the 45,000 signatures that would have to be obtained. It costs money to mount the kind of campaign that could bring in that many signatures. Ana who wants to pay? THERE may, however, be a silver lining in all iYila Pip f Vt a fimn tViO ium Vir.iiaaa nrrtf h.'r.i ifrVi IjIIIOs XJJ W1V DIUIV 1, 4 IV, fcn U 4IWV0wQ VIS bill, VMgtl mauling the draft version of the proposed Con stitution, it was far from the real revision its authors had provided. It was better than the present , document, by a long shot, but not nearly so good as it had been before the mauling. If it had been adopted by the Legislature, in Its altered form, the real momen tum of revision would have been spent. And we still would not have obtained the kind of real re vision the votei-s, the last Legislature and the commission had in mind. Perhaps now the next Legislature, which ought to have some shining new faces in it, will take a less arrogant view and will permit the voters to have their say about a model Constitu tion for a state that deserves it. Eugene Regis ter-Guard. What Next for Constitution? The proposed new Oregon Constitution has led an eventful life. After passing the House by the required two- thirds majority, conservative opponents and lib eral apportioned teamed up to defeat it in the Senate. Then it was revived, sent back to com mittee, modified slightly to satisfy the liberals on apportionment, and sent again into the benate arena. But its failure Tuesday to win a two-thirds maioritv. considerinc the nature of the 13 opposi tion votes, presumably kills the new document for this season. Senators rejected the constitution because more than one-third of the membership wouldn't go for sweeping reorganization of the executive department and centralization or power and re sponsibility in the hands of the governor. We assume that a similar proposal will go before the legislature two yeara hence. But it will face another uphill struggle to win two-thirds ap proval in each house. The Oregon Constitution provides for an elec tive governor, secretary of state and treasurer. It specifies that the secretary of state shall keep records, act as auditor, and handle "such other duties as shall be assigned him by law." The treasurer shall have duties and powers "such as may be prescribed by law." But the legislature could abolish the Board of Control, through which the secretary of state and treasurer share with the governor adminis tration of 8tate institutions. It could abolish the elective officers of attorney general and labor commissioner and assign these duties to depart ments under the governor. It could reorganize the entire structure of the executive department into not more than JO major departments head ed by individuals or commissions appointed by the governor. In other words, the legislature has full power to do most of the reorganizing called for in the proposed constitution. We believe the people of Oregon should have had the opportunity to debate its merits and ac cept or reject it. But we also believe that it's sig nificant that 41 representatives and 17 senators appear willing to streamline and modernize Ore gon government And that's more than enough to do bo by statute.--o.iem capital Journal. t Eclipse Foreign News Notes: Danish Premier Suddenly Cancels Visit to Moscow Bv PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Communications Letters to tha Editor must bear the name and address of the writer 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 uhfniited for oubllcallon must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed In this column do not necessarily represent the views of t! paper, in fact tna contrary IS oiten tne case. Bounces Back To the Editor: If a space man hits a nail with a ham, mer, the hammer bounces back. You can t bust your thumb, all you can do is knock your teeth out. Everett Ackhn Ashland, Ore. Typical American To the Editor: In your pa per on May 2363 you stated that you have never read "The Last Temptation of Christ" and do not intend to, yet you go all out to write an edi torial in defense of this book's presence in our public librar ies. That is typical of t h e smug, present day American. It Is quite evident that you do not know there is a well planned program now being efficiently carried out by sub versives In America to entire ly corrupt the Impressionable young minds of our children. My personal experience tells me that the buzzard and the sewer rat are two of the filth lest things on earth. But they are spotless and clean com pared to the two legged por nography books that can taint a child s mind to the point where he might as well be a dope fiend, and quite possibly may become a pervert. It is definitely known that children exposed to this type of thing lose interest in class work and their desire for learning. This was reported by Philadelphia teachers to the Phlladelphi Women's Committee. Our news stands are full of these dirty 50 cent books, and I mean dirty. And it was inevitable that the subversive Influences in America would manage to get some of them accepted into our libraries (both school and public). Brave New World" is one example. So is "The Last Temptation of Christ" which is head and shoulders above all other books of this type -a Satanic masterpiece of the enemy, showing his venom ous hate of our Lord and Sa vior. To me; the blasphemy In this book against our pre cious Redeemer is worse than spitting on our flag and stamp ing It In the dirt, something no seif respecting American would stand for. A book like this has just one purpose: to destroy every thing decent, lovely, and pure In the Christian American way of life; to destroy the very foundation upon which our nation was built, by strik ing at the roots ot our Chris tian faith. It is a Red book serving a Red purpose. And to defend Its presence in our libraries Is on par with de fending Khrushchev's right to violate our Monroe Doctrine. All my admiration goes out to Mrs. Alice I. Black who wrote the original letter which Inspired the above mentioned editorial. It took a lot of grit to stand up and be counted as she did. So many Chris tians, now days, do not care to defend their Lord, if it is going to cost them something. Thank you, Mrs. Black, for being so faithful. Mrs. Hower Mosley 717 NW Try st. Grants Pass, Ore. Sound-Off Dani-h Premier Jens O. Krag suddenly canceled a visit to Moscow which was to have started this week, using as his excuse Den mark's June 25 ref erendum on land laws. However, still on the sched ule is an ex pected visit from another guest, British v3 a iv distinguished Labor party leader Harold Wilson. Wilson, who hopes to be Britain's next prime min ister, is expected to hear Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev's views on Soviet British trade and nuclear testing. It proo ably is too soon to expect an answer from the Kremlin to the latest Kennedy Macmil- lan urgings for a test ban. But there is no indication that the Russians are willing to change their present stand Marks for Rubles Look for an increase in trade between West Germany and the Soviet Union. Such an increase would partly be the result of Krupp Manager Berthold Beitz's recent visit In the Day's News . By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Labora tory at Pasadena say they have made radar contact with Mercury, the smallest and the hottest of the planets (in the solar system, there are nine planets, including the earth.) It is believed that Mercury always keeps its sunny side toward the sun. The temper ature on its sunny side is es timated to be between 500 and 770 degrees Fahrenheit hot enough to melt lead and tin. Followed With Interest To the Editor: I have fol lowed with Interest the de velopment of friendly rela tions between the citizens of Medford and the citizens of Alba, Italy. The last cultural exchange program between the two cities is a very good idea and I am sure the paint ings will be very useful to both cities. The indignation of the Med ford citizens over the misun derstanding with the Customs Department, as discussed In the editorial of May 30, 1963 is very understandable. 1 don't know much about the customs rules of the United States, but I am sure this misunderstanding over the exchange of paintings could be amiably settled in time. The editor of the Medford Mail Tribune isn't helping much. I have been taught, not only at school and at home, but also in my personal experi ences, that a little tact and diplomacy will go much far ther than a display of temper and profane language, such as was used in the editorial of May 3.0. My family and I re sent very strongly the use of such language in a paper that is read by a large percentage of the people in the Rogue River valley. I would like to say that the part of the editorial about the Clr.rion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi was very good. I agree you were complimented by the things Mr. Hill had to say. Janice Ford, 405 North Second St., Central Point, Ore. rpKAT seems to head off any -- anv rtrnnnsale in milt a man on Mercury - whicn should be good news for the taxpay ers. Still, you never can tell. Mercury's gravity at the sur face is about one-fourth of the e arth's gravity. So ... a man weighing 150 pounds on earth would weigh only 40 pounds on Mercury. Somebody might sell the present free-spending adminis tration on the idea that Mer cury would be a fantastically attractive place to start a weight-reducing salon . . . thus increasing vastly our national physical fitness. message for his people: "Do not expect the government and ME to become Santa Claus. YOU MUST WORK HARD." The Indonesians will have to work hard to pay Sukarno's bill. A gay time among the bright lights doesn't come for free.) 'THIS Sukarno isn't dumb. For years, he has been playing the U.S. against the communists in Moscow and Peking. From us, he has re ceived somewhat more than $700 million in economic aid. His aid fram the Soviet Union is estimated at around a BIL LION dollars, along with a slew of MIGs and minor war ships to enable him to keep his Indonesian Republic go ing. This dictator racket is a pretty good one. IN JAKARTA, capital of In- donesia, President Sukarno accepts an offer from his con gress that he KEEP HIS JOB FOR LIFE. The wires add that he then took otf for a month- long vacation among the bright lights of Tokyo, Rome, Vienna and Paris. As he departed, hi left this HPHEN there's this fellow Du--1 vallier, president of Haiti. His term expired several weeks ago, but he didn't let that bother him. He seems merely to have said to his people: "OK, you guys. "I'm IT again." TIE THUS eliminated the BIG problem of holding public office - which is HOW TO GET ELECTED AGAIN. No electioneering. None of the grief of raising campaign funds. No tiresome $100 to $500 per plate dinners. It s a wonderful system. Answers Editorial To the Editor: Answering your editorial, or comments on my letter in M.M.T 52863 I will say that you did a skillful job in attempt ing to divert the reader from the kernel of my letter, how ever, for the two points on which you admittedly agree with me, namely, my sincer ity and thesis that parents should know what their chll dren are reading, I say thanks. You say, you do not be lieve that the objectionr of one or even a group of peo ple is adequate reason for cen soring books, throwing them out of the library, I say public libraries belong to the peo pie, are built and supported with the people's tax money and the people do have right to say what type of books are placed therein. Is America no longer a land with government of the peo ple, by the people and for the people? You say, the passages quot ed in my letter would not, you feel, of and by themselves serve to corrupt anyone. 1 ask, how vulgar does a quota tion need to be to, in your estimation to serve to corrupt anyone? The author of The Last Temptation of Christ spent a number of years in Russia Russia boasts of their athe ism. Lennin said it he could corrupt the youth of a n tion the Revolution would be won. The Last Temptation of Christ is the Devil's master piece, written and circulated for the express purpose of (1) corrupting the morals of our youth (it is full of lewd sex) and (2) to destroy the very foundation of our Christian heritage and Uiereby every thing that has made America great, by casting our sinless Lord and Saviour as a lustful degenerate. With these two things accomplished America will truly fall Into Russia lap like a ripe plum. The righteous loving citi zens in Santa Ana, Calif forced the removal of this book from their library and a move is now on to have it removed from the Josephine county library and I hope and pray that the taxpayers in Jackson county will demand and I mean demand, that this vile book be removed from our libraries. Sex crimes are at an all time high, pornographic lit erature is a $500 million year business, juvenile delin quency increased 9 per cent in tlu last year and the best way for good people to e courage evil is for them to do nothing about it. Alice I. Black. 812 Newtown st , Medford. "Maybe. If you had done e tiltle marching In your yeusb, yeu end the werld might be in better shape ledayl" j PUT- - It spells the end of dem ocracy. History is rather posi tive on that point. to Moscow and partly of step-ped-up efforts by Soviet dip lomats in West Germany. So viet Ambassador to Bonn An dre) Smirnov visited the sprawling Henschel locomo tive and truck factories in Kassel last week and said the Soviet Union was looking for ward to long term economic cooperation with the West Germans. "Buy Japanese" The Japanese government is considering its own version of "buy American." "Buy American" has cut into Ja pan's exports to the tune of $40 million alone in the mili tary trucks Japan used to sell every year to the United States. The government insists Its policy won't be retaliatory. It will give Japanese products no edge, but will buy them only when they are just as cheap and as good as foreign 1 be sure of that products. But the basic idea will be to help keep imports balanced with exports. Phlllippines Philippine President Dios dado Macapagal may have been 11 ill t hurt when Indo. nesian President Sukarno and Malayan Prime Minister Tengu Abdul Rahman failed to include him in their sum rnit conference In Tokyo. Macapagal has considered himself a mediator in their dispute over establishment of the Malaysian Federation and doesn't like to be left out of key decisions. Moreover, the Philippines also has an interest in the federation be cause of its own claims on British North Borneo. Maca pagal said he is confident he will get a complete fill-in on the Tokyo talks. The men around him wish they could Our (Patriotically) Revised Edition 6 Arthur Hoppe Our superintendent of Pub lic Instruction, Dr. Max Raf ferty, says we shouldn't tell our children about Mr. Wash ington's temper, Mr. Lincoln's table manners or Mr. Ben Franklin's talents with the ladies. Because, he says, "that's not the way to teach patriotism." And it certainly isn't. The way to teach patriotism is through my new revised his tory textbook: "Heroes of our Glorious Revolution." Allow me to quote. Our first Hero was Hero President George (Smiling George) Washington, the most even-tempered man who ever lived. We tell many sto ries about him. When he was little boy he stopped his father from chopping down a cherry tree. "Father," he said, "I cannot tell a lie. I am a conservationist." H i s father hit him with the axe, but lit tle Smiling George, as usual, just smiled. As you know, little Smiling George grew up to lead our glorious peoples revolution. Which we won because we were all more trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, cour teous, kind, obedient, cheer ful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent than the enemy. Just as we've been in every war ever since. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c) Field Enterprises, inc. UNION NEARS END Salisbury. Southern Rhode sia -Alt- A conference will be held at Livingstone on June 20 to set the stage for the end of the federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. the government announced Sun day. The federation was formed In Livingstone 10 yean ago. . "Enthusiasm" is, generally cited as an absolute virtue by its proponents, who rarely bother to ask themselves whether there is an optimum point beyond which enthu siasm turns into a vice. Indeed, the line between e n t h usiasm and fanati cism is a thin one; and be liefs that are Htm" too passion ately held tend to deny the rights of any other beliefs. Sometimes, in fact, enthusi asm is a substitute for rea soned belief, rather than a consequence of it. Some years ago, Bertrand Russell warned us that "The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists indeed, the passion if the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction." It is sometimes said to be a weakness of democracy that those of us who profess it do not hold our convictions as ardently or tenaciously as those who subscribe to com munist or fascist doctrines. e This is true, but I re gard it as a strength rath er than as a weakness. To be dogmatic and doctrin aire about democracy is a contradiction in terms. De mocracy cannot be pushed down people's throats: it cannot be imposed upon them "for their own good," or it becomes as diabolic as the totalitarian systems. In an interesting article en "Scientists. Seers and Strategy," in the April is sue of "Foreign Affairs." Prof. Albert Wohlstetter re minds us that. In discussing the complex political mil itary problems we face, "the primary thing is not to be positive." The basic failure of the physical scientists and en gineers in their turbulent history during the cold ar, he tells us. "is not their lack of prescience but their acting frequently as U the bad it." e e e Zealots are positive Idea logues are positive. Biots are positive. But a democratic society must be willing to give up the small psychology cal advantage engendered by that kind of positiveness; it must be tentative, flexible, open to new possibilities, con tinually questioning its own basic assumptions. This is essentially what sci ence does, when it is operat ing truly and freely, in a ra tional atmosphere. The sci entist is enthusiastic about his pursuit of truth; but he is ex tremely skeptical that he has even attained more than portion of it, or that he grasps it in exactly the right way, Not to be positive is one of the cardinal virtues of a dem ocratic society. But since po litical power is usually seized by enthusiasts of one stripe or another, the exercise of dis passionate reason in a democ racy always faces the danger of being crushed between competing passions. Hero President Washington had many friends. One was Hero Inventor Ben (A Man's Man) Franklin. He invented everything. He invented elec tricity, the troika, ire samo. var, peaceful coexistence, the bikini, the twist, the martini and the motel. He is called "Man's Benefactor." But he was never happy. He wanted to be a monk. After they had Invented ev. erything our Hero Leaders be- came liberators of the poor. The first poor people they liberated were the Indians. They liberated them from ev erything east of the Missis sippi. In 1846 they liberated Mexico. From California. Ne- vada, Arizona. New Mexico and Utah. Since then we have liberated the Panama Canal from Colombia, Puerto Rico from Spain and Hawaii from the Hawaiians. It was Hero President Ab raham (Beau Brummel Abe) Lincoln who liberated the slaves. He was an astounding- iy nanasome man and the nat- tiness of his dress and the impeccability of his manners "7 envy ot the inter national set. He was finally assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a matinee Mi n LmcoIn's fod looks. But Mr. Lincoln's many books survive. He wrote under the pseudonym of "Emily Poet." Since then, we have had niany, many other Hero Pres. laenis. In fact, a careiut cnecit of this will show we've had, all in all, 35. Ulysses S. (Old Sobersides) Grant, founder uf the Temperance Movement. William (Uncle Bill) McKinley, who helped create full-time factory jobs for our unem ployed children. Warren (Hon est Gamaliel) Harding, whoso reputation for being trust worthy, loyal, helpful, friend ly, courteous . . , e e Yes sir, that's the oniy way to teach patriotism. As Dr. Rafferty implies, ytm've got to fiddle around with the facts a little. You want your chil dren growing up under the Communists? With their ri diculously distorted revisions of history? No sir, stick with ours! The only alternative is to figure you can't teach patri otism. It just grows on you. And that this is such a won derful country, we can af ford to tell our youngsters the truth about our history and our heroes. Flaws and all. But what patriot these days thinks our country's that wonderful? Try and Stop Mc By BENNETT CERF THERE ONCE WAS a capricious tyeoon in downtown .New York whose office was overrun with dogs. Never less than thirty poodles, pugs, pomeranians, and terriers had the run of the premises. Furthermore, every ap plicant for a job had to run the gamut of these canines before being granted an audience with the boss. The reaction of the dogs was carefully noted. If they liked him, the job was his; if they growled at him, he never had a prayer. One wily applicant learned of the tycoon's idiosyncrasy in time. He carefuUy lined the cuffs of his trousers and the inner band of his hat with strips of raw liver. Of course the tycoon's dogs greeted his arrival with wild barks of ap proval and he was made office manager on the spot! The girl with the big blue eyes said, Tm troubled by a aasre little wart that I'd like to have removed." "You've made a slight error," said tha rruui in the white coat. Tm a doctor. The di-vor.-e lawyer is three doors down the ban." a a Clip Amory like to Ull about the geneticist who crossed a parrot wtth a tiger. A fnend asked what he got. "Not much," admitted the geneticist, "but when It talks I sure pay attention." C IKS. br Beuett Cert Diatriboted by XU features SradkeU
